Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 439
"Zhang Cang!"

"You bastard!!"

Zhou Chang's hands were shaking when he pointed at Zhang Cang. Although the two were about the same age, Zhou Chang obviously looked older, while Zhang Cang looked about the same age as his son, with a gray beard and a hunched back. , Zhou Chang also lost his tall and straight posture at the beginning, he looked thin and small, but the old man's temper was getting worse and worse.

"If one day the big man perishes in our hands, you will be the culprit!"

"You don't want to dissuade Your Majesty, how can you instigate him to continue?!"

Zhang Cang just took a sip of tea and said disdainfully: "According to Zhou Xiang's intention, I should tell Your Majesty, don't pursue any prosperity, let him enjoy the fun, squeeze the people, and pursue a world like Jie Zhou?"

"Now is the prosperous world! The people are rich, what else is there to do?!"

"Yeah. My wives and concubines are in groups, and the dog in your family is about to catch up with the calf. The dignitaries and nobles in Chang'an have fun all day long and are beaming. Of course, this is a prosperous age. Those of us are doing well and there are some people we don't see each other."

"I can't see it? The world is galloping, and all of them are out of my hands. You stay in Chang'an all day, but you are not qualified to say this to me."

Zhou Chang said solemnly: "Your Majesty's original intention may be good, but the prosperity he mentioned is definitely not something that can be achieved in one day. Your Majesty is getting more and more pressing. Do you know what impact it will have?"

"I know. It will make that prosperity come earlier."

"you you!"

Zhou Chang did not expect that Zhang Cang, who has always been peaceful and did not make enemies for himself at all, would be so determined this time, Zhou Chang leaned on his cane again and said angrily, "Your Majesty is just messing around, it is impossible to complete! "

"So what if it can't be done. The important thing is to do it. As long as it is done, it is better than someone who leans on a cane and shouts that they are doomed to fail."

"What if it's wrong?"

"Once something goes wrong, the entire prosperous world will be ruined!"

"I really can't think of how your majesty can ruin this world. After your majesty came to power, everything you did made the big man become stronger and stronger. Now the people are suffering a little bit. There is no shortage of food, it can withstand all kinds of disasters, the nobles and nobles are frightened, and the Huns and other powerful enemies are fleeing, but tell me, how can Your Majesty destroy this world?"

Zhang Cang stood up slowly and looked down at Zhou Chang in front of him.

"Your Majesty is too hasty!"

"Don't say such nonsense, just tell me what your majesty does, it will destroy the big man!"

"A war?!"

"The famous generals of the great Han today are the best in the past and present. The Marquis of Huaiyin is strong and strong, and young generals are emerging in an endless stream. There are mountains of grain piled up in the granaries all over the world.

"Is there any decree issued continuously? Is there a decree of Your Majesty that is tossing the people? Why, Zhou Xiang is related to those powerful families?"

Zhang Cang approached step by step, and he frowned, "Investing in Shangfang, you will say that it is an act of destroying the country. How much salt did the salt wells last year produce this year? How many people have been saved? How important is the hydro-spinning wheel? Do you know how much paper has played a role in printing?"

"No matter what your Majesty's policy is, he always puts the people first and builds channels. Could some people die because of this?! Corrupted labor, did you ever starve the people? When you fought, did you make ten rooms and nine empty?! On the contrary, the channels nourished the road along the road. The cultivated land of the country has made it convenient for the people of various places, the cultivated land belongs to the people, and the elimination of foreign enemies also protects the people of the frontier."

"Is this drowsy lord who is about to perish the great man you're talking about, the Holy Emperor I saw who pulled the drowning people out of the water and made them eat meat?!"

"If the people don't have a good life, where can the people live without the people? Is it because of Your Majesty?!"

"Did His Majesty reduce taxes and make the people unable to live? Or did the corvée give food to make the people unable to survive? Or set up a medical center and open a county school to make the people unable to survive?"

"It's ridiculous, the dignified minister of the state of Han, according to what you said, Yao, Shun, and Yu who wanted the people to live a good life are all sinners through the ages. A true saint!"

"When did it become a mistake to want to build a prosperous world and let the people live a good life?!"

"Just because His Majesty's vision of a prosperous world is impossible to achieve, so you have to do nothing?!"

"It's a waste of people's power and national power. The duty of temples is to use people's power and national power to do something better for the people. Otherwise, what kind of temples are there? Everyone should go back to the time when they lived on trees and drank blood. !!"

"see a visitor out!!!"

Zhang Cang waved his hand and turned around to stop looking at Zhou Chang.

Zhou Chang's face was red and he was trembling with anger.

"Old...Old...Old man is not good at words, you...you sophistry villain!"

Zhou Chang stutters when he is excited. He is really not good at debating. Facing the unusually tough Zhang Cang, he can only return to the house in anger, but when he returns home, the more he thinks about it, the more angry he becomes, and he curses Zhang Cang angrily.

Liu Chang sat in the Hall of Houde, with Liu Jing, Zhang Budo, Ji Bu and other ministers beside him.

"Masters, I have seriously thought about it. If you want to create a prosperous world, the most important thing is food."

"Food is the foundation of the society, and no matter what we want to do, we cannot do without it."

The ministers were a little silent, co-authoring His Majesty still did not give up his idea of ​​prosperous times, and only Zhang Wuzhu was willing to wave the flag for Liu Chang at this time, "Your Majesty is right! It should be done like this, and the grain production of the big man must be allowed. More, to fill the newly built granary with grain!!”

The ministers did not make any comments, anyway, for Zhang Wuzhuo, no matter what His Majesty said, it was right.

They really doubted that if Liu Chang felt that Zhang Budo should be executed one day, Zhang Budo would gladly accept it and say that His Majesty was right.

"Your Majesty, in such a matter, Zhou Xiang should also come to participate."

Liu Jing said helplessly.

"I haven't seen Zhou Zhou for several days. This fellow is so arrogant that he has repeatedly written to resign!!"

Liu Chang was very angry. The dignified prime minister of a country always does Fan Qing's tricks here. When he quarrels, he wants to go back to his parents' home. What a formality!This time, I definitely can't bow my head so quickly, I have to hang him well!
Liu Jing continued: "Your Majesty, Zhou Xiang is really sick this time. The imperial physician order has been there several times."

Liu Chang pursed his lips.

Ji Bu hesitated for a moment and asked, "How about the research and development of this big ship, or put it back?"

"But I didn't affect it. Sigh."

Liu Chang shook his head and raised his head slowly, why can't these people understand him?
He did these things after careful consideration, on the basis that the national treasury had sufficient savings and was able to cope with various disasters. How could he realize his ideas by squeezing the people, and wait for the big ship to be built and go to sea. How many good things have you brought? These good things are not just good things for Liu Chang to enjoy, but good things that can benefit the world.

At the beginning, the Huns were driven out of the Western Regions, but now many crops from the Western Regions have entered the Central Plains continuously. There are various fruits and vegetables, which have greatly changed the lives of the common people of the Han Dynasty. After such crops come in, it is best to promote and sow them on a large scale in the Western Regions, because the Western Regions are semi-farming and semi-nomadic. With the support of animal husbandry and temples, the people will not starve to death, and the crops they produce will not be starved to death. Cotton can cover the cost of maintaining the rule of the temple, and even surpass it.

As for the country of Dian, there are a lot of medicinal materials here, including copper and iron. Although the manpower cannot be exploited at present, there will be more people sooner or later. Iron is also the foundation of the country. What do you do without iron?An iron farm tool can change the life of a family.

The rice produced in Nanyue is now widely popularized in Wu, Changsha, and Chu, gradually replacing the original varieties, and the yield is very high. This is the premise that Wu State is now strong. If there are no such crops, fourth brother Is it possible to have the ability to develop Wu State so quickly? ?
As for the peninsula, copper and iron needless to say, the south is suitable for farming, and there are many bitter and cold areas in the country of Yan. If this place can be used as the granary of the country in the future, how many people can it support?
Why do these people just can't see it and always fight against themselves?
Zhou Chang was really sick. After being berated by Zhang Cang, he fell ill immediately.

And if you want to cure his disease, maybe you can only reduce expenses as Ji Bu said.

It seems that none of the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty can understand him.

Even Zhang Budo, his support cannot be regarded as support, because no matter what Liu Chang said, he would support him.

Liu Chang looked at the many ministers in front of him and was silent for a long time.

"Good hold."

At this moment, Lu Lu rushed into the hall excitedly.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

"General Xu Li is here to report!!!"

As for the outcome of this war, no one doubts that they will lose. Success is inevitable. In the known world, only the Huns can exchange with the big Han, and the rest of the small countries are all exchanged with the big Han. Five, even if it is one for ten, the same is true for the Huns. They don't need to use their brains to beat them, and they directly coerce them into the battlefield as their servants.

"Win? So fast?"

Chang Liu was only surprised and triumphant, while Lu Lu nodded and handed the memorial to Chang Liu.

Liu Chang looked at it for a moment, and suddenly became a little sluggish.

The ministers saw that His Majesty's hand trembled slightly, and suddenly, Liu Chang raised his head and laughed.

"Hahaha~~~"

"Everyone!! Come on, Lu Lu, read this to the ministers! Let them listen too!!"

Lu Lu hurriedly picked up the memorial and began to read it. In the memorial, Xu Li first mentioned the war. The big man pacified Mahan without spending much, and King Mahan was taken as a prisoner. , is Zhou Shengzhi's pursuit of King Mahan.

Xu Li mentioned in the memorial that Zhou Shengzhi set off from Mahan and arrived at an unfamiliar island, just south of Mahan.

And this island is much larger than the islands along the coast of Dahan, and its size is not clear at present. There are many savages on the island. The Qin people there, there are all kinds of resources, there are plain areas suitable for farming, and even open-pit mines! ! !

According to the captive, there are many open-pit mines here, most of which are silver mines, which are located in the area where Zhou Shengzhi landed.

At the beginning, many scholars thought that silver coins were used very late in the Middle Ages. However, the silver coins unearthed in Fugou, Henan shattered this idea. Silver coins appeared in China in the Spring and Autumn Period, but they were not as popular as gold and copper. The country simply issued only gold and bronze, and cloth as an assistant.It was not until the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that the Han Dynasty issued official silver coins. This is because of the frequent foreign trade during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the denomination of gold was too large, and the copper coins were inconvenient, so silver coins were chosen.

It's not that I don't want to use silver. However, there are too few silver mines, and it is impossible to establish a "silver standard" currency system at this moment.

The ministers were dumbfounded listening to Lu Lu's remarks.

"Is it wrong that there is land, the distance is close, there are all kinds of scarce minerals, and there are enough local manpower to go to sea?!"

"Is it a ridiculous decision to go out to sea?! How many islands like this are there and how many such resources are there?! Is the cost of building a ship over the years worth it compared to a silver mine?!!"

Liu Chang's voice was very loud at the moment, not to mention the ministers, even the valet outside the hall, all heard the roar of the emperor.

"It's just that no one believes me! They all think I'm wasting my time!! What do you think now?!"

"Jibu! Do you still want to stop building ships that go out to sea?!!"

Looking at Liu Chang who was raising his eyebrows and venting his long-term grievances at the moment, Ji Bu said softly: "Don't hold back, since there is an island that is going to become the land of my big man, then it is natural to need a large ship to travel to and from the island to transport materials and help. to educate the people there."

The big ship going to the island must be to transport supplies, but it's hard to say what it will carry in the past and what it will bring back.

Liu Chang grinned.

Nowadays, with the economic development, the private currency system is becoming more and more inconvenient, and Liu Chang is also preparing to explore the world. In places that cannot be reached by cavalry, it is natural to focus on trade, and the current gold and copper coins are inconvenient. , The face value of copper coins commonly used by the people is too small. When businessmen from all over the world do business, they have to carry money with empty cars. If there is enough silver, it can form a situation of large denominations of gold, medium denominations of silver, and small denominations of copper. , with silver as the middle of gold and copper, as a unit of conversion, can the currency system be stabilized?

Liu Chang was not an expert in this regard, and he still had to let the legalists or Huang Lao take charge. Confucianism was also not good at this. Among the Baijia, only the Legalists and Huang Lao were the best at this.

In an instant, Liu Chang had already thought of a lot.

He smiled and looked at the ministers, "What do you think?!"

"If it's true, then of course it is"

The ministers also did not choose to continue to oppose the tyrant at this time.

Liu Chang's thoughts were all on the good news at the moment, and he asked the ministers to leave first, while he left Zhang Budo and Ji Bu to discuss the matter.

"Hahaha, there really are treasures overseas!"

"I was right!"

"Shipbuilding is not useless!"

"Shang Fang too, sooner or later, Shang Fang will make all the ministers shut up!"

After walking out of the palace, the ministers were sighing with emotion, is there really such a thing as destiny?His Majesty just planned to suspend the matter of the big ship, but there was such a news, this luck, the ministers shook their heads helplessly, now, they have no reason to object, but the cost of building the ship these years is not as much as The last huge open-pit silver mine, let alone the current one, is worth another ten years.

Of course, there are also many ministers who are shaken in their hearts. Could it be that in these years, His Majesty is really not very happy, but has his own ideas? ?

But he never went to sea, how could he know that there are treasures overseas? ?

It must be all coincidence! !Just a mistake! !
"Mother~~~"

When Liu Chang walked into the hall triumphantly, Empress Lu was coaxing her two little grandsons.

She glanced at Liu Chang and motioned him to shut up, so Yong'e and the palace maid took the child back to the inner room.

Liu Chang couldn't wait to sit in front of Empress Lu.

"Mum! Xu Fu found it! This guy really didn't go to any immortal island, he went to an island, Zhou Shengzhi captured his disciple, there are people on that island, there are mines, there are plains, hahaha, as long as Organized, Dahan will continuously get silver.”

After listening to her son's show, Empress Lu looked a little calm.

The more Liu Chang said, the more excited he became.

"Okay, I see."

"Mom, they don't believe me. I'm not doing it for my own credit, I really"

Looking at Liu Chang who was gesticulating but unable to express his thoughts, and looking at his aggrieved appearance, Empress Lu pursed his lips.

"I know."

"I've always known that you can do great things."

"It's not that the ministers don't trust them, they're just afraid that you will increase your investment in these things, but instead they despise the people's livelihood, which will affect the people's lives in the end."

"What about my mother. Why do you always persuade me because you are worried?"

Empress Lu was silent for a long time.

"Chang. I heard that Xun Zi's life was very unhappy. Do you know why?"

"do not know."

"Because he spent his whole life chasing an unreachable ideal."

"It's not just him, Mencius, Confucius, Han Feizi, Zhuangzi, Laozi, those who have the prosperity in their own understanding, are all like this."

"I never doubted your ability. I just hope that my children can live a little easier."

"Now, you can still complain to me. Show off to me, but I'm very old and I'm afraid that one day, there will be no one in this world who can understand you."

Empress Lu sighed. This time, she didn't pretend to be indifferent or hide her love for the child. She said it directly.

She is very old and no longer as beautiful as she was when she was young. When she looked at Liu Chang, her eyes softened, and she lost the sharpness of her youth.

"However, I am very pleased that my beloved is a hero with the ambition of the world."

"My son wants to be even better, because his ambition is more lofty, and he wants to create a kingdom of gods, so that people in the world will no longer have to worry about food and drink. When my beloved told his ambitions, everyone else I once ridiculed, but when my son talked about his ambitions, everyone couldn't even laugh at him, and there was only fear in their hearts. Because they didn't dare to have such ambitions, and they didn't even guess your ambitions."

"Mother. I."

"Okay, are you hungry?"

"Um"

"Come on, get some mutton."

"Look at how your sleeves have become so dirty again. Hey, roll up your sleeves and wipe the corners of your mouth. See how you look like a hero who wants to build a prosperous world."

Inside the Hall of Eternal Life.

In the mother's complaint, the son just lowered his head and buried his head to eat.

ps: Alas, I hope this epidemic can pass sooner.

(End of this chapter)