Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 438 This is called the long way
In the Xuan chamber hall, the young Liu Chang reluctantly sat in Liu Bang's arms.

Liu Bang held the bamboo slip in his hand tightly with one hand and looked at it seriously, while the other hand was tightly wrapped around Liu Chang's body. Even so, Liu Chang still rammed forward from time to time, just to break it apart. After his father's imprisonment and freedom, Liu Bang looked at the bamboo slip very calmly, and tapped Liu Chang on the head with the bamboo slip.

"Move what?!"

"Be honest, I'm going to beat you up after reading it!"

"Why don't you tear down your stone horse? I'll just pay my father! Why bother?"

"Can you afford it? Do you have that money?"

"I don't have it now, but I will have it when I grow up."

"Oh, with your virtue, can you make money when you grow up?"

"Of course, I have already thought about it. When I grow up, I will pull down the black flag at the west gate of the city, cover my face, and go with my brother to the mountain of Zhao Guo, and I will be able to kill the family. When Ben's business is done, our brothers will eat meat in big bowls."

Listening to Shuzi's nonsense, Liu Bang still focused his attention on the bamboo slip in his hand. After reading it for a long time, he couldn't help laughing.

"Hahaha, Zhou Chang's fellow scolded me for being a fool like Jie Zhou all day long. Looking at this bamboo slip, a large number of people have escaped from the mountains and forests and surrendered to the great Han. Chang'an has not starved to death for more than a year. Human, how can you say that I am a fool?"

After Liu Bang finished speaking, he couldn't help but look at Liu Chang.

"What do you think?"

"If I praise my father as a model of a wise and wise man, can you let me go?"

"No."

"Then I know what to say and still rule the world. When I went to various places with my mother, do you know what the scene was? The people's faces were bloodless, the dead were walking, and there were graves everywhere. There are some places in Chang'an that I dare not dare. Go, it's like a ghost town, you still say that you are a virtuous gentleman, Zhou Chang is right."

"Fuck! What do you know? It's good to be alive! Do you know what governance is?"

"Of course I know!"

"I've seen that prosperity in my dreams, where every household can afford meat, three meals a day, full of oil, no corvée, all dressed in splendid, is it better than splendid, and there are cars when going out, And there is no need for cattle and horses to pull, hundreds of miles can be reached in half an hour, there are medical centers everywhere, and every child can be enlightened. The corn in the farmland is very large, and it can fly around. What? have fun”

Young Liu Chang didn't know how to describe it, but just danced and explained his prosperity.

"You Shuzi started to talk nonsense again. There has never been such a prosperous world in the world. If there is a kingdom of gods, it may not be like this."

"I didn't lie! What I said was true! You are a fool!! You can't do it yourself!!"

At that moment, Liu Bang's expression seemed to grow old, and the whole person became weak, as if he was dying.

"Long? That prosperous age, have you done it?"

"Did you do it?"

When Liu Chang suddenly woke up from his sleep, Cao Shu and Fan Qing were both frightened by him. Fan Qing hurriedly lit the fire, Cao Shu was dressed, and Liu Chang was dazed by the faint candlelight. Looking ahead, he kept mumbling in his mouth.

"Every family can afford meat, three meals a day, full of food."

"Your Majesty?? What are you talking about?"

Cao Shu asked eagerly.

Only then did Liu Chang wake up, looking at Cao Shu in front of him, "Father gave me a dream"

"what??"

"What did Emperor Gao say?"

"This stingy asked me to pay him a stone horse!"

"what???"

"When I was young, I smashed a stone horse outside the Hall of Oaths, took its head off and wanted to be my mount, and then beat him up. In my dream today, he talked about it again. Okay. , no problem, no problem, sleep! Sleep peacefully!"

Liu Chang waved his hand and let Cao Shu and Fan Qing fall asleep.

He himself was lying on the bed, frowning.

The prosperous world in the dream, no matter how you look at it, this prosperous world of yours is just an appearance. Have the people eaten?Twice a day, meat once a month, that's enough to eat, have the people put on their shirts?If the rags that were weaved at random were used as clothes, they would indeed be worn.

Although today's life has changed compared to Qin Mo's painting style, but in concrete terms, this change is most manifested in the city, which is entertainment activities. Who is playing it?That is also the owner of the bottom title.

Dahan's most famous football fan is called Xiangchu.The famous doctor Chunyu Yi asked Xiang Chu to see a doctor and told him not to overwork him. However, Xiang Chu refused to listen and went out to play football. As a result, he vomited blood and died. Are the fanatical fans in China ordinary people?

His title is public.

Now that Chang'an is so prosperous and prosperous, the people are laughing and laughing, but if you carefully observe the people gathered in Chang'an and look at their crowns, you will understand that the title of the "life is higher than football" fan Xiangchu seems to be in front of them. Some are not enough.

Even the family where Liu An lives now, is this a portrayal of the bottom of the big Han?

The old man's title is not changed. He has a large area of ​​land that can be cultivated and can support four sons. No one died of starvation. Become the candidate of the three elders of the township.

As for those at the lower level who wanted to farm but had no land, who raised four sons but starved to death for three, and those who froze their toes and fingers during corvée, these people just now occupied the vast majority of the big men.

There seems to be a huge gap between this and the prosperous world that Liu Chang thought.

Therefore, the ministers always wondered why his Majesty, after achieving such impressive results, was still not satisfied and wanted to get something.

But if the ministers asked, Liu Chang could not answer.

Because he didn't know how to create the kind of prosperity in his dream.

He can only continue to test and try, and all of this is just a manifestation of the great joy in the eyes of others.

After waking up the next day, Liu Chang ordered four stone horses to be placed around Changling.

Lu Lulai is in charge of this.

When Liu Chang came to Zhang Cang's mansion, the big man looked a little dazed.

Zhang Cang's mansion is as lively as ever, with people coming and going, but there are no men to be seen. More than 100 concubines make his mansion even more lively than Chang'an South Street, and these concubines have their own The maids and the like, which made this road seem to have entered the country of daughters. There are women talking everywhere, and even doing business in the mansion. This is because the maids are exchanging needs. Of course, when Liu When they grow up, these people still have to be avoided.

Zhang Cang looked ruddy and in good spirits in the inner room.

If it weren't for the three women who came out of his house, Chang Liu almost thought he was reading the Analects in the house!

If nothing else, the strength of this body, in some respects, is probably stronger than Chang Liu. Xiang Yu is ashamed. If he hadn't followed Xunzi to study and practice some physical fitness, he might have been a fierce general. .

"His Majesty!!"

"I am asking for advice as a disciple, please don't be so polite."

Zhang Cang pondered for a moment, then bowed slightly, "Your Majesty."

Liu Chang sat in front of Zhang Cang, and as soon as he sat down, he couldn't help but start complaining before Zhang Cang's family could serve tea and food.

"Master, you said back then that as long as I exercise benevolent governance, I can create a prosperous world, right?"

"yes."

"In the past few years, I have lowered taxes to such a low level, provided rations for corvée and servitors, and did not affect the farming and mulberry fields. Every battle was won, and a large amount of land and population were obtained. But why hasn't this prosperous world come yet? , Zhao Guo, Yan Guo, a total of more than [-] people were frozen to death. Tang Guo should be accurate, Zhao Guo and Yan Guo did not hide it, I do not know, teacher, you said that I have done everything I can do Why is it still like this?"

Looking at Liu Chang with a blank face, Zhang Cang hesitated for a moment.

"Long, accumulating soil to form mountains, accumulating water to form abyss, this is not a day's work."

"Master, they are all against me going out to fight"

"I'm against it too."

"The big man has no population, so do we have to wait for them to give birth? Why not just grab them and turn them into his own people? The big man doesn't have enough arable land, so why not grab other land? How can this be? Is it wrong?"

"So, you are fighting everywhere, and the years of war are all to create the prosperous world you once told me?"

"Yeah, I think, maybe this can be achieved. Master, I believe I remember correctly, there are real treasures overseas. Fortunately, I have worked hard to build ships, not in vain, and the areas I have captured now are all treasures. , I did nothing wrong, what I said was true!"

Hearing Liu Chang's explanation, Zhang Cang was not in a hurry to refute.

Liu Chang said seriously: "Chen Ping's approach is to fish with water! In this way, there is no need to send officials and soldiers from temples to rule, but what is the difference between this and robbery? My big Han is not a Xiongnu, and I also do it. No robbers, even that Ji porridge knows the truth of the fusion of education and education, can’t I even compare to Ji porridge?!”

"It's quick to get money from robbery. What about later? We have to be vigilant at all times for them to bite back! Now they are doing things for us, but they can learn the strengths of my big man. When the big man falls one day, just wait for them to take revenge!"

"The ministers who implement the king's way persuade me to let me send people to pay tribute to these countries, protect them, and make them become worthy kings who accept the worship of all countries like the emperor of Zhou!"

"It's just that no matter how much tribute is paid, the outside is still outside. There will always be a day when we will meet with a sword, so I don't need it!"

"The ministers who implement the domineering persuade me that we should kill all those who resist, turn them into slaves, provide food and minerals for the Han, and enslave them like the Qin State enslaves the nations!"

"It's just that such an approach is not much better than paying tribute. There is endless turmoil and water is pumped to fish. Therefore, I don't need it!"

"I sent officials to take over these places regardless of the cost, and turned them into the prefectures of the Han, let the people migrate there, educate the people here, and let them take me as the emperor and become the people of the Han, and so on for a hundred years, even if they Rebellion is nothing but the battle of the summers, this is what I call the long way!!”

"I can't stop talking!"

Listening to the disciple's words, Zhang Cang was not surprised at all.

He is different from the other ministers. He knew Liu Chang when he was very young, and until now, he is "upright and humble, but skillful as clumsy", which is most clearly reflected in Liu Chang. A man full of scheming and extremely smart, but he seems to be a complete reckless man, with a full stomach of knowledge, and what he says is the big truth, but the allusions sound like illiterate.

"The so-called conquest is just a prerequisite for creating a prosperous world. The more land and the more manpower, the prosperous world I want will probably come sooner!"

"My sacrifice in the expedition, the sacrifice in Shangfang, and the sacrifice in the shipbuilding will one day, the ministers will understand that this is their own stupidity, and they have never understood it!"

Looking at the excited Liu Chang, Zhang Cang just sighed softly.

Speaking of which, Zhang Cang couldn't understand Liu Chang's prosperous times. In his opinion, the disciple in front of him had set himself an impossible goal, but Zhang Cang couldn't reprimand him, because over the years , This disciple has been striving for this illusory goal.

He is a person who only cares about happiness and does not want to make progress, what qualifications does he have to laugh at such a person?
Even Zhang Cang could see the teacher's appearance on the disciple in front of him.

He clearly remembered the teacher who was so excited every time he talked about his magnificent and prosperous times.

The prosperous world and the army envisaged by Xunzi were also not understood by anyone at the time. They were just regarded as a member of the grand blueprint conceived by Confucianism, but Xunzi actually wanted to realize it. It is simply a dream.

Looking at the disciple in front of him, Zhang Cang suddenly laughed.

"I didn't accept the wrong disciple"

Liu Chang's face was stern, and he felt a huge sense of frustration in his heart. The expeditions over the years have not had any effect. Shang Fang has not given any decent results. Shipbuilding, the ship has not been built well, even his mother can't understand him. behavior, and several times persuaded him to reduce his investment in Shang Fang.

Even a series of policies he made in the internal affairs, ministers are also at a loss.

I don't know why, this emperor just got on with the peasants, and granted the lower-level titles in the name of various things, which made the lower-level titles flood, and the distinction between the top and bottom of the titles quickly shortened between places. Everyone has titles, so don't talk about it. Who is riding on whose head.
If it’s just messing around with the title, it’s fine. Everywhere you need to organize farmers who don’t have or lack land to reclaim land. They also need to intervene in private prices and strictly control the prices of agricultural products. This is simply all-round messing up.

As for always saying that people should eat meat, they domesticate a large number of animals on the frontier pastures, lowering the price of meat, and encouraging the people to raise livestock and poultry at home, exempting the tax on domestically-feeding livestock and poultry, and even every year There are also many operations such as transporting a large number of livestock from Tang, Hexi and other regions to the homes of ordinary people for free.

As for the ministers asking why the emperor was so persistent in letting the people eat meat, Liu Chang replied in an illiterate way: the people under the rule of the ancient sages could eat meat every day, and my credit today is less than that. I must think about it. Ways to make them eat meat!

The ministers were very afraid that in order for the common people to eat meat, the faint-hearted ruler stipulated that the people of the world could only eat meat and not millet in the future.

Finally, the people at the bottom of the Han Dynasty can finally taste the taste of meat outside of sacrifices, even if it only takes a few months. When the name was long, Liu Chang was still very lost.

In the real prosperous world, meat is not a luxury that everyone is crying to eat! ! !
Not only the price of meat, he also adjusted the prices of other products. At first, the ministers persuaded him to lower the price so deliberately. Those who raised livestock, mined, planted tea, and mined salt at home. Are you going to lose money?What do they do?His Majesty's kind actions may harm these people who make a living from it.

Liu Chang thought it was reasonable at first, but he later found out that the common people of Dahan would not go to herd, dig, grow tea, or sell salt. All these things were done by the ministers who persuaded him. They were outside the Great Wall. There are thousands of sheep, their own salt farms, their own mines, and a large number of tenants grow tea for them hungry! !

As a result, Chang Liu ignored these persuasion.

"Master, I don't believe in ghosts and gods. The patriarch said that God will not change because of Yao Jie, but he will really change because of me!"

"I still don't understand why I am the only one who has such a dream. I don't want to create a prosperous world. I just eat meat and drink alcohol. But, gradually, I couldn't help sitting in this position. At the time, I finally understood that God wanted to give me the inspiration of Liu Chang."

"It just wants me to create this prosperous world with my own hands!"

"But. It should tell me how to do it. I still have no results. Today, the world is too far, too far. Maybe you are right, teacher, accumulating soil into mountains and accumulating water into abyss in my life. , I probably won't see you anymore!"

At this moment, Zhang Cang stood up abruptly and said angrily, "What is this?!"

"If you don't accumulate a few steps, you can't reach a thousand miles! If you don't accumulate a small stream, you can't make a river or sea! You can't take ten steps with one leap! If you ride ten horses, you can't give up! engrave!!!"

Zhang Cang put his hands behind his back and stared into the distance. The wind was blowing and his robes fluttered.

In the wild, a white and fat little guy picked the fruit from the tree, and then he couldn't wait to stuff it into his mouth and took a few bites. As soon as he turned around, he saw a tall old man wearing an ordinary Confucian robe. , even if he is old, but standing there, people don't dare to look at him sideways, he stares at the little fat man angrily.

Fatty was stunned for a while, before he timidly handed him the fruit in his hand.

"Teacher, do you want to eat?"

"Cang, have I ever told you the truth of learning? As a gentleman, how can you not learn it?! I am explaining the truth to your senior brothers, and your senior brothers are humbly asking me for advice, how can you come here? What about stealing?!"

"What you said, teacher, is impossible to achieve. What can I learn from it for something that cannot be achieved?"

The old man put his hand behind his back and stared into the distance, the wind was blowing and the robe was fluttering.

"The principles of the world are common."

"If you don't accumulate a few steps, you can't go a thousand miles. If you don't accumulate a small stream, you can't make a river or sea, and you can make a leap."

ps: For the first time, I tried to insert things from the past, and finally used dreams to substitute into the current plot. Shouldn’t it be too abrupt? ?

(End of this chapter)