Picked up a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 468
After examining Liu Mastiff's recent studies, Yuan Shu asked him to return to the house to rest first. Yuan Shu was still very satisfied with Liu Mastiff's studies. It seemed that he did not relax after he left. His character is still somewhat helpless, he knows that it is difficult for a weak person to govern such a huge country well.

He sat in the study, pondered for a long time, and found out the letter Yuan Shao gave him from the package. After meeting Yuan Shao in Youzhou, Yuan Shao handed the letter to him and told him to read it. Afterwards, it was destroyed immediately. Yuan Shu didn't understand why Yuan Shao couldn't tell himself what was going on, and made it so mysterious. When he took out the letter, Yuan Shu casually read it.

After only reading for a moment, Yuan Shu slapped the letter on the copybook with a gloomy expression.

He frowned, thought for a long time, and finally recovered, picked up the letter in front of him, tore it into pieces, stood up, opened the door, walked out of the study, and came to the courtyard. Cold wind, sat down, the wind blew away the sweat on his forehead, Yuan Shu turned his head, looked at the room where Liu Mastiff was, and fell silent.

Hongdumen School was established during the period of Emperor Xiaokang, and it cannot be called a school. Emperor Xiaokang loved poetry and Fu so much, so he set up Hongdumen School. Most scholars gathered here to write prose and fu, which can be regarded as The literary style of Jianning began, and in the later period, Emperor Xiaokang set up new calligraphy and painting here, and this place became the place where the literary style was bred.

But in the Xiping period, today's emperor didn't like poetry, and he wasn't even very interested in calligraphy and painting. Tables and the like have become the most common things in the palace. Of course, no one dares to call them that in the palace.

Just because the emperor gave them new titles, Xiping Chair and Xiping Table.

However, the scholars of the Han Dynasty do not think highly of these new things that are born out of the body and the barbarians. The Han Dynasty is not very opposed to these things. The culture of the Han Dynasty has a strong spirit of tolerance. The big man tolerates, let alone these things?However, toleration is one thing, and they are not willing to give up their old habits and use these things.

Although the Son of Heaven did not force the scholars, he still ordered the officials to get used to these things, no matter where they came from, as long as they are beneficial to the family and the country, they must be promoted. Dare to defy, but in private, most of them are still unwilling to change, just pretending in front of the emperor.

Among the temples, Cao Cao was the only one who decorated the house with chairs and tables, and completely obeyed the emperor's orders. Therefore, some officials were not ashamed, and said: "This is a farmer's style", and satirized Cao Cao in this way, Everyone knows that since Cao Song, the Cao family has been an imperial party through and through, completely different from the other ministers. No matter what the emperor's decree is, whether it is wrong or not, they all fully support it.

Therefore, they believed that Cao Cao was no different from his father Cao Song, and even used this as a satire. However, Cao Cao didn't mind these remarks at all. Now, Cao Cao is still busy with more important things, and the court is gradually focusing on In the south, compared with the northern states, the development of the south is still backward, and there is only one Yangzhou, which can be compared with the north after several years of governance.

However, not all counties in Yangzhou are like this. Some of the counties near Jiaozhou still lack enough manpower, and there are wild beasts and forests everywhere. Compared with Yangzhou, Jingzhou is even worse. In Jingzhou, life There are a large number of barbarians, and most of them are the same as the mountain people in Yangzhou. They live in the mountains and forests, but their speech habits are not much different from the people in the county.

The same is true for Yizhou and Jiaozhou, with insufficient population and insufficient arable land.

Since the reign of Emperor Xiaokang, the Han Dynasty has always wanted to carry out large-scale governance of the south. Among them, he also sent capable ministers like Wang Fu, which made the south develop to a certain extent. However, it was limited by its own shortcomings, so Unable to continue to develop, but now, Cao Cao wants to complete the major events that Wang Fu failed to complete for him.

However, Cao Cao is probably the only one who has this kind of thinking. The rest of them are still staring at Nanfang Shipping, hoping to get more profits from Yangzhou to support the expenditure of the national treasury. Almost every minister thinks in his heart As Situ, Lu Zhi should be able to represent the opinions of all officials.

However, it is a pity that he played repeatedly, hoping that the emperor can strengthen the construction of the four prefectures of He, Xin, Ning, and You, and asked to send a large number of idle officials here and invest a lot of money. He himself came from Hezhou , he hoped that the wealth of these areas could reach the same level as that of the Central Plains as soon as possible.

All the officials did not agree with his opinion, even if he was Situ.

First of all, the war has just subsided, and the treasury has just breathed a sigh of relief. It is obviously inappropriate to spend the financial resources of the four frontier states. Sikong and Yuan Shu are firmly opposed to it. For this reason, he even did not hesitate to be hostile to Lu Zhi in the court. , almost got into a fight, and in addition, to send officials and ministers, they must be selected from Taixue and Menzixue, and here, most of them are the children of hundreds of officials.
To let their children go to such a remote place, like exile, they will naturally not allow it.

Sikong Yuan Shu, after discussing with the emperor, he also put forward his own ideas.

After Ma Jun’s departure, Hongdu School did not stop improving and manufacturing old objects, and the silk weaving machine that the emperor had observed, after Ma Jun’s reply, the craftsmen made improvements at the cost of sacrificing the quality of the finished product. The biggest reduction in the cost of manufacturing, and the reuse of the size of the weaving machine, and then, the emperor ordered them to manufacture on a large scale, and prepared to promote this thing to the people.

Yuan Shu is very supportive of this matter, and he hopes to add a new tax, which is to separately collect the business tax of silk brocade and the use tax of silk weaving machines. A silk weaving machine needs to pay more taxes accordingly. Yuan Shu's meaning is very clear. He wants to increase some new sources of finance, not to mention that the people are rich now, and most of the families with more silk weaving machines are from aristocratic families. It will not bother the people.

Taiwei Jia Xu is no longer as calm as before, he is still working hard on the matter of the old soldier, as an important part of Xiping's benevolent government, he can't make any mistakes, and he has to supervise whether there are corrupt ink relief in various places The situation, but also carefully check whether the situation of the aided old soldier is true, and he is so busy that he does not relax for a moment all day long.

What's more, at the side, there are Yu Shi Cai Yong, and Cui Gong's proud disciple Zhang Yide, watching closely, so that the officials dare not relax in the slightest.

Among the hundreds of officials, there seemed to be huge differences, and there was endless competition for the next main direction. Even Xing Ziang, who had been unknown to the public, was not idle. Since the death of Emperor Xiaokang, this late emperor's confidant It seems that he became silent in the temple, rarely speaking, and he never participated in some battles in the court.

However, he is still playing an important role. This point, even today's emperor dare not deny that all the policies and measures formulated by the court are implemented by the minister in silence. No matter how difficult the measures are, Xing Ziang It can always be completed smoothly, even the method of garrisoning the army proposed by Cui Gong before was implemented and completed by the minister himself.

Except for him, it seems that no minister in the court can complete it.

Up to now, Xing Ziang is also giving a performance to the emperor, hoping to restart the construction of the Chidao during the Jianning period. Back then, Emperor Xiaokang was ambitious and discussed with Xing Ziang to overhaul the Chidao road. Xing Ziang has always been responsible for the construction of the Dao Canal. At that time, Emperor Xiaokang's ambition was to connect the entire Han Dynasty into a single iron plate through these transportation hubs! !
It's a pity that Emperor Xiaokang collapsed halfway, so this brilliant blueprint was also destroyed.

Chidao and canals have also remained at the same scale as the Jianning period, and even shrank a little. This is because the roads have been damaged due to lack of maintenance. Xing Ziang has always firmly implemented the policies of Emperor Xiaokang, even if Emperor Xiaokang is so No, he still believes that since Emperor Xiaokang had such an idea back then, there must be nothing wrong with continuing to implement it! !

Xing Ziang has such a firm belief, which is also the reason why today's emperor doesn't love him very much. During the period of Emperor Xiaokang, Xing Ziang made countless performances, followed He Zi, Wang Fu, Wen Renxi and other ministers successively, whether it was governing the local area or You are good at handling internal affairs, but when you come here, you stop talking and stay silent all day long, what is this?

Are you a courtier of Emperor Xiaokang, or a courtier of this great man?

If it weren't for Xing Ziang's strong ability to do things, he might have been driven back to Raoyang by the emperor long ago!
However, after seeing everyone's performance, the emperor was a little happy. Xing Ziang performed, even though he still misses Emperor Xiaokang, but it also shows that he can accomplish what Emperor Xiaokang could not. This is a happy event. What's more, people like Lu Zhi, Cao Cao, and Yuan Shu all gave the emperor a great surprise.

The little fat man is very tired. He has been very tired since he ascended the throne. It is true that he did not encounter the dangers that Emperor Xiaokang encountered when he ascended the throne. All the officials didn't like such a wise old man, only Wang Jiexin, whom all officials hated, stood beside him with difficulty and drew his sword towards everyone.

However, soon, Wang Jiexin could no longer be by his side. He still trembles in anger when he thinks of that line.

There seems to be a lot of talents around me, but these are all talents who have not matured, most of them have not yet reached their thirties, and there are even weak crowns. They can help me, but the help is not as great as I imagined. Big, gritted his teeth, and persisted for so long, finally, today's temple also has a great talent available to him!
The emperor looked at the inscription in front of him, and he did not know how many times he read it. Every time he read it, the corner of his mouth could not help but smile, which was incompatible with his usual tyrannical expression, and he read it over and over again.

When Hanmen came in and was about to exchange candles,
The Son of Heaven buried his head on his arms, smiling, snoring slightly, sound asleep.

Perhaps, this is 11 years,

The most peaceful time he slept.

(End of this chapter)