Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 454 But that's it
"Ugh"

Liu Xiang took a sip of wine, only to feel that the wine was so bitter.

"Your Majesty. These are six newly built cities, and I intend to set up a school here."

Liu Jing sat in front of Liu Xiang and talked about his thoughts seriously. Zhou Bo sat not far away, his face full of indifference, just listening to Liu Jing's report.

"Okay, let's do as you say."

Liu Xiang just nodded casually, but Liu Jing frowned.

"Your Majesty takes you as the King of Hexi, and has a heavy responsibility with you! Is this how you want to treat state affairs?!"

Liu Xiang shook his head bitterly, "Liu Xiang, you don't know something"

Liu Xiang immediately talked about his tragic first love to the two big men in front of him. After Liu Xiang came to Hexi, he quickly showed his advantages. His few advantages are that he has the same ability as Liu Chang. He has a strong affinity, and he gets along very friendly with the ministers. Zhongfu is a sip, and he goes to their house from time to time to eat and drink. He talks about everything. The ministers like this sincere and friendly king.

Of course, compared with the advantages, his shortcomings are also obvious. His ability to handle state affairs is too weak to keep up with the rhythm of several big bosses. If Liu Chang is a wise man, then he is a idiot and retarded. He can't even read the chapters. , can only be a mascot, responsible for nodding in support of the decisions of the bigwigs.

At this moment, hearing Liu Xiang talk about the reason for his sadness, Liu Jing was furious.

"The dignified princes of the Han Dynasty!! To be sad because of a woman?! How unreasonable?!"

Liu Jing angrily turned and left.

Liu Xiang's face was full of grievances, and he drank bitter wine again.

In the era of heroism that is widely praised for dying for the king, Liu Xiang's behavior is simply absurd in the eyes of people like Liu Jing, and it is the greatest shame, just like Liu Hui who committed suicide to favor his concubine in history. When Empress Lv heard this, she was furious. She thought that a great Han prince and prince actually sacrificed his love for a woman. He directly ordered him not to enter the temple, not to inherit his son for him, and to kill his sacrifice.

It was not until the fourth brother ascended the throne that he was posthumously named Prince Gong.

Zhou Bo also stood up, Liu Xiang glanced at him, in Hexi Kingdom, Liu Xiang got along very well with many ministers, but Zhou Bo, Zhou Bo was a very indifferent person, and he always had feelings for Liu Xiang on weekdays. With a deep sense of resistance, Liu Xiang did not dare to say anything to him, so the relationship was not very close.

But Zhou Bo did not leave, instead he knelt down in front of Liu Xiang.

He picked up the wine cup in front of him and took a sip.

"Drinking and suffering is not what a man does, after all, you can make merit first, and then marry her as a wife."

Liu Xiang was taken aback, "Ah? But she's already married to someone else."

"So you have to do meritorious deeds."

"why?"

"When the king takes her away, you can use merit to avoid punishment."

Zhou Bo said calmly.

Liu Xiang coughed violently, rubbing the tears that came out of him, he looked at Zhou Bo blankly, "Master, is it appropriate to do this?"

"Then it depends on the king. If the king thinks it is suitable, then it is suitable."

Liu Xiang pursed his lips, "But a widow has no talent, how can one build meritorious service?"

"You are the king, you only need to leave the war to the ministers and the governance to Liu Jing, that's enough. Your Majesty, you have heard what Liu Jing said just now, building cities and roads in Hexi. They all require a lot of manpower, and this cultivation also requires manpower. There are many Qiang barbarians in the west of Hexi. If you can make them the people of Hexi, won’t you be able to solve a lot of problems?”

Liu Xiang nodded, "Yes, then call Duke Liu quickly."

Zhou Bo said calmly: "How come, the ministers in the court now feel disgusted when they hear about the military affairs. If Hexi sends troops rashly, I'm afraid they will reprimand them."

Liu Xiang waved his hand displeasedly, "What are you worried about the ministers in the DPRK and China doing? Can they still reprimand the widow?"

"I'm afraid that they will harass Your Majesty. If this angers Your Majesty, I'm afraid it is."

Liu Xiang pondered for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "It's okay! Arrest! If Father Zhong asks the crime, the widow has something to say!"

"good."

Zhou Bo nodded, then stood up slowly, and moved his head, like a tiger unchained, he glanced at Liu Xiang and said, "It is what a man does to make meritorious deeds. Your Majesty doesn't need to care too much. Intimacy, now that Qin Tong refuses to give you his daughter, then the king will govern Hexi with peace of mind, and after he becomes famous, he will call this fellow and humiliate him face to face."

"Here!"

In the West Court, Liu Qizheng was reading the letter, glanced at it quickly, and put it aside.

Ji Tong and Zhi Du were sitting beside Liu Qi, Ji Tong asked suspiciously, "The king of Hexi sent a letter, is there something big happened?"

Liu Qi shook his head disdainfully, "It's just a personal matter, not worth mentioning."

"Prince Ji, how's it going with the invitation of the kings?"

"I have already sent someone to tell me that the banquet will be held on the [-]th of next month."

"Very good, now the Marquis of Huaiyin is in the north, fighting bloody battles, Marquis Huaiyin is fighting for the Western Regions to pacify the foreign enemies, how can we look at it like this? Help the Marquis Huaiyin as we can, and obey his orders. The kings of the Western Regions Now, under the same name of His Majesty, you should be one and the same, and let go of your previous prejudices."

Liu Qi said, then said with a smile: "Ji Xiang is responsible for contacting the princes. In addition, we must ensure the safety of the food route to the Huaiyin Hou army."

"only!!"

After Ji Tong left, Liu Qi suddenly looked at Zhi Du, but his face was no longer as soft as before.

"Everything in the country is rambling. The grain grown in one year is not enough to feed yourself, and you have to borrow grain from the temple. This is really inappropriate. From now on, you are responsible for domestic farming, and each county stipulates this year's The land that should be reclaimed, the amount of grain that should be produced this year, and the amount of food that should be produced this year, make every effort to promote cultivation, let officials in various places organize the people to cultivate, and manage them in the way of managing soldiers. !"

"To reward the meritorious with titles, distribute land, ministers, and money"

Zhi Du was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "Your Majesty has just come, if you are strict"

"No problem! Now there are not [-] people in the whole country, and there are only a few thousand in each county. If you follow the steps, how to govern Hexi, it is not as good as a county. The current method can follow the Qin State's government. It is the fastest and most powerful country. Just do what the widow said, don't worry about the temple!"

"only!!"

When the court session ended, Ji Bu's face was not very good-looking.

He originally had not many food towns, which was reduced by three hundred.

Of course, Ji Bu was not a minister who cared much about Shiyi, and it was mainly the issue of official management that gave him some headaches.It is not difficult to supervise hundreds of officials, but to supervise the officials of the world, it is a little difficult, even if there are embroidered clothes to cooperate, the number of embroidered clothes is quite large, but the problem is that this big man is not small.

In fact, many problems in the administration of officials are at the bottom, and Ji Bu is currently heartbroken because of this issue of administration of officials.

In the end how to do it?
Some ministers thought that they should return to Qin's severe punishment, otherwise the officials would not know the fear.

Some ministers believe that the supervision should be increased and more supervision officials should be appointed.

But these two methods, Ji Bu felt that it was not feasible.

Just as Ji Bu pondered this question and walked out of the palace, Zhang Budo stopped him with a smile.

"Bu. You just took my place, why did you do such a thing?"

"It's not easy to be a censor, you have to be careful!"

Hearing this shameless remark, Ji Bu didn't know what to say for a while. How long has he been a censor? This is clearly a problem left by you when you were in power, right? ?

However, Ji Bu didn't take him seriously and asked, "What can you do?"

Zhang Budoubt would not stop himself for no reason, he must have some ideas.

Zhang Buhan hesitated for a moment, "I have a preliminary idea, go to your house to chat?"

"it is good."

In the study, Zhang Bu questioned: "You said, who was the first to detect the traitor?"

"Naturally the people."

Ji Bu answered without hesitation.

"Yes, it is the common people. I have heard that in the Zhou Dynasty, there was a lung stone outside the department. If the people were wronged, they would drum up the stone, and the officials would not correct it. The stone was erected for three days, and there were scholars who asked."

"You said, if we let the people directly file a letter with the palace to sue the officials, or set up a special agency to be responsible for such things, would it be more useful than increasing the number of supervisory officials?"

Ji Bu stroked his beard and pondered for a long time, "Do you mean to set up Jinshanjing, slander the wood, and dare to remonstrate?"

"How can the crude methods of Yao and Shun be used today?"

"But you can learn from this set of practices. I think it is possible to set up a government, which is called the Koufufu, and change the position of the bus driver to be responsible."

"Arrange the officials in the county, do not communicate with the local officials, only with the people. If the people have grievances, they will seek them out. The officials are not allowed to check, and they will be sent directly to the government. The supervision in the past was the official supervision. You might as well change your thinking and make The people are monitoring it. The Han has few officials and the territory is large, but the territory of the Han is full of common people. Now there is a mansion newspaper, we can use the mansion to report this matter continuously, and let the officials from all over the country spread the matter to the common people. ."

"Even if the people did not dare to submit a letter, the local officials would be more or less afraid when they learned about this, and would not dare to oppress them arbitrarily."

Ji Bu quickly began to discuss this matter with Zhang Budo, from the scale of officials, salaries, the process of accepting cases, how to identify, how to deal with them, and so on.

Ji Bu asked suspiciously: "You have such an idea, why didn't you tell His Majesty when the court was discussing it?"

Zhang Budo said disdainfully: "I don't have full confidence, so how dare you tell Your Majesty? Your Majesty loves the people, and whenever you hear about the people, you will be very anxious. If something goes wrong, wouldn't your Majesty bear a bad name? ? This is impossible. You still have to be sure. After you have a specific implementation method, you will implement it. In this way, even if there is a fault, it is your or my problem, and you don't have to bear it."

"This kind of thing, you think very well."

"It must be comprehensive!!"

"This is His Majesty's act of loving the people, but there must be no mistake!"

Every time Zhang Budo mentioned the word "His Majesty", his tone even became more intense and his expression became a little frantic. Ji Bu shook his head, "Okay, I understand, you should go back quickly."

After sending Zhang Budo away, Ji Bu's disciple said with a smile, "Mr. Zhang is a worthy minister."

Ji Bu shook his head, "Whether he is a worthy minister or not depends on whether His Majesty is a virtuous monarch. Now that His Majesty loves the people, he can come up with a plan to love the people. If His Majesty wants to do harm to the people, this fellow will definitely continue. He offered advice, not for the country, not for the people, but only for His Majesty's ear."

"Besides, this fellow is still young, I can only hope that His Majesty will not change, and continue to maintain the heart of a child, the heart of benevolence and righteousness, otherwise, this fellow will become the biggest scourge in the world."

"You will call all the officials of the censor's office now. Let's discuss this matter together!"

"only!!"

"Teacher, we have been implementing the strategy of re-agriculture for a long time. Why is this still not effective?? The people in this world still can't get enough to eat?"

Liu Chang sat worriedly beside Zhang Cang, his face full of sorrow.

Zhang Cang pursed his lips and said, "Your Majesty. If the minister will serve as the prime minister of the country within three months and three months, if he can feed everyone in the world, then the minister will not be the prime minister and go to Penglai Island to become an immortal."

"Then how long do I have to wait?"

"30."

"This is still under the circumstance that there are no flaws in many policies and everything is going smoothly. If something happens, it will only last longer."

Liu Chang shook his head, and asked again, "Then what is the solution that I came up with?"

"Very good, I will start to implement it now."

Zhang Cang said seriously: "If we can manage the farm work well within a year, we can save 400 million shi of grain consumption, and the current grain production can be more than doubled. It has too much influence, but within ten years, Dahan will have several more important granaries. Many new machines of Shangfang have been promoted in various places, especially spinning wheels, and a large number of spinning wheels have been sent to the people."

"I have built hydro-spinning factories in Chang'an, Handan, Jinyang, Pengcheng and other counties, and recruited a large number of women to work."

"The price of the spinning wheel is already affordable by the Chinese family. Next, I will find a way to increase the price of raw materials, so that the bottom mulberry family can also benefit. At least, Your Majesty doesn't have to worry about the people having nothing to wear."

"In the past three months, all the [-] spinning wheels accumulated by various countries have been put into the private sector."

"More than [-] waterwheels have been built in Guanzhong, and [-] ploughs have been built in various countries and are also being put into the public in large numbers."

"The minister released a large amount of iron tools, which suppressed the price of iron tools, and will continue to suppress them in the future. I would rather lose money and make it affordable for the people."

"In addition, the Jiatian technology that has been developed, as well as Qi Mifan's technology have been extended to other countries, so that they can follow suit."

"According to the minister's current calculations, at this time next year, Dahan's grain production capacity will triple this year!!"

"three times???"

Liu Chang was stunned, and hurriedly asked: "Then how many times the current grain production is needed to feed everyone in the world?"

Zhang Cang pursed his lips, "Your Majesty, it's not easy to calculate, Your Majesty just wait with peace of mind."

But Liu Chang grinned and shook his head, "Teacher, please don't hide it from me. I heard that you have entangled a large number of people who are good at numbers in the mansion. They calculate all day long. If others say you can't calculate it, I still believe it. If you say you can't calculate it, I will believe it." Come out, I don't believe it, you even calculated the income and expenditure of various places clearly, and you helped Tingwei capture more than 30 local officials who were greedy for taxes and taxes. What else can you not figure out? Woolen cloth?"

This big man who uses mathematics to govern the country has applied mathematics to all aspects of Dahan, from demographic statistics, to production statistics, tax statistics, and has made a very detailed assessment of today's Dahan. All aspects of the information can be seen at a glance. See clearly, shocking.

Zhang Cang hesitated for a moment, then said: "If you want to eat enough, you have to increase grain production, and increasing grain production requires a lot of manpower. People need food. After 30 years, if the grain output of the big man can reach Today's 47 times, the people of the world can have enough to eat."

"47 times."

Liu Chang murmured the number.

Zhang Cang didn't dare to say it, because he was afraid that Shuzi would be frightened. Seeing Liu Chang, he was immediately stunned, and he explained: "Actually, some of Shangfang's things can double the grain output in an instant, but you don't need to care that much."

"Hahaha~~~~"

Liu Chang raised his head and laughed.

"I thought how much it would cost, so it only costs 47 times?"

"Master, we have tripled in one year, and it only takes more than [-] years to make it happen!"

With a smile on his face, Liu Chang looked at Zhang Cang with great confidence.

The strong sense of self-confidence that was almost overflowing from him immediately infected Zhang Cang, and Zhang Cang also stroked his beard and laughed, "Yeah, besides, we have completed twice the number now, and only 45 is left." doubled!"

"Our master and apprentice work together, the remaining 45 times, sooner or later he will be able to do it!"

Liu Chang slapped his hand and said seriously.

"By the way, Your Majesty, I heard that you brought the captured foreign king to the palace to humiliate??"

"Ah? How could I humiliate them? I'm just following Duke Fuqiu's advice, educating them, helping them realize their own mistakes and change their own mistakes!"

In Tingwei's prison, King Ma Han and King Fuyu looked at the case in front of them and began to doubt life.

Five thousand words, the Tao Te Ching does not have five thousand words!
The king of Ma Han is not bad. The nobles of Ma Han are all educated in the Central Plains. No matter it is elegant language or wenfu, he can't be difficult for him, but this one from Fuyu is self-taught, and his education level is second only to Liu. Long, can speak and write, but not much.

King Mahan has written all the words he can think of to admit his mistakes, and he has even used them several times, but no matter how he admits his mistakes and how he regrets it, he is not enough for these [-] words.

King Fuyu looked at his dozen or so words with despair on his face.

With only a dozen or so words, he had already said what he could say, so what else could he say? ?
King Fuyu dropped the pen in despair.

"Let Your Majesty execute me directly!!!"

(End of this chapter)