I am the Empress Dowager!

Chapter 335: The use of relatives (Part [-])
After Liu Long heard Deng Sui's words, he couldn't help but rolled his eyes. He could see it.

The Queen Mother did not leave him any chance of survival.

It seemed like he had no choice, so what else could he say.

Seeing Liu Long's helpless look, Deng Sui couldn't help but laugh.

"Zhang Heng is good at mechanics, especially astronomy, yin and yang, and calendar calculations. He is also proficient in Yang Xiong's "Tai Xuan Jing" and even feels that Xuan Feng is strong.

I have no comment on this, and I don’t want to say whether he is right or wrong.

It's just that after I knew his reputation and past, I took Zhang Heng to the capital with the characteristics of a public car, worshiped Zhang Heng as a doctor, and was later promoted to Taishi Ling.

Taishi Ling was in charge of astronomical calculations. Starting from Emperor Guangwu, the ancestor of the emperor, he stopped writing history and specialized in matters such as weather, celestial calendar and so on.

At the end of each year, the New Year's calendar is played, and national sacrifices, funerals, weddings, good days and seasonal taboos are recorded.

After Zhang Heng became the Taishi Ling, he didn't do anything like the Taishi Ling. I didn't bother to urge him, I just asked some minor officials to help him.

During this time, he concentrated on organizing his own things. I have seen it several times and it can be said that it is so exquisitely conceived that it is really amazing.

I have decided to let Zhang Heng take charge of this matter in the position of Taishi Ling.

If he does well, I plan to recruit some people like Zhang Heng in the future.

I can finally see that it is not enough for this big man to just need Confucian scholars. These strange and obscene skills are not so useless. If used well, they can be of great use.

And although this is called a heretic and a strange skill, neither Gongshu Ban back then nor Zhang Heng today has no career path, nor does he deserve the name of a sage.

What do you think, Your Majesty? "

"I feel great!"

Liu Long did not deny Deng Sui's words, and he really didn't want to deny it.

Because he also feels that some of the Confucian scholars in recent years are too unattractive!
Not to mention anything else, the continuous natural disasters that year tormented the big man, need we say more?

Didn't Liu Long never see him again?
In order to restore the people's livelihood in the world, in order to resume production, in order to make the world and the Han people have money and food again.

Deng Sui was almost risking his life.

Just the expenses of this palace and the Queen Mother have been reduced countless times.

Ever since Liu Long first came to this world, he had heard orders coming from Weiyang Palace every now and then.

Either the queen mother ordered the royal sacrificial ceremony to be reduced and the meals to be frugal.

It directly changed everyone from fine clothes to slightly more refined meals, and then to simple meals.
Not only that, but in the end, the queen mother took matters into her own hands and started eating only one meal a day. Others in the palace couldn't eat whenever they wanted.

The emperor Liu Long could only eat one meal a day, and he was often so hungry that he howled indiscriminately.

Not to mention the others, Liu Long remembered that there was a time when everyone in the palace was weak.

Not only that, in addition to spending money on food and drink, the queen mother also directly ordered to reduce the food of the palace horses. She really changed from a human to an animal. In the end, even the animals were not spared.

After dealing with the palace, he also directly dealt with the kings in various places, and directly ordered to reduce the tax revenue of the marquis fiefdom, not to collect less, but to directly give less.All construction in the counties has been stopped, and the civil construction in the palace has been reduced and stopped altogether!
Fan Zhun then went to the palace to have a meal and said that the food in the palace was really good, much better than that among the common people, and the furnishings were also extremely exquisite, which could not be seen outside.

He made a strange speech, but the queen mother listened and directly ordered that the food in charge of senior officials, guide officials, Shang Fang, and concubines be reduced.

Well, let’s all starve together.

The remaining items, such as rice, swords, curtains, and other items that were difficult to obtain for Yuzhenshan and Meili, were all withdrawn.

Naturally, there will be no need to purchase them in the future.

If it weren't for the big man who still had to worship, then even the mausoleum for worship would be extremely shabby. I don't know what the ancestors would think if they saw that scene.

Until now, in addition to offering rice and rice to the palace, Liu Long himself can only eat meat and rice in the morning and evening.

Well, they eat much better than the common people, including meat.

It is said that this is the food eaten by the emperor and the queen mother. This is a bit truthful. Hahaha.
But Liu Long couldn't admit that the queen's troubles generated tens of millions of dollars every year from the palace alone.

In the beginning, getting through the difficulties was really a pain in the ass.

This is especially true among the people. Starting from the second year of the Yuan Dynasty, the queen mother had ordered the construction of Zhangshui River as a branch canal to irrigate people's fields.

After that, in a few years, they braved natural disasters and reorganized all the water canals in Sanfu, Hanoi, Hedong, Shangdang, Zhaoguo, Taiyuan and other counties.

Liu Long also heard that the Queen Mother was already discussing with the courtiers about conferring titles.

This caused great turmoil among the courtiers.

This title of reward was originally based on military merit, but since he had a relative, the rule of "no title without military merit" has completely disappeared.

But Deng Sui went even further this time.

This time, he actually wanted to grant knighthoods to ordinary people, which are the so-called peasant titles!

Of course, this civilian nobility was not decided by her. The Han Dynasty followed the Qin system. The Qin and Han Dynasties both implemented the twenty-level nobility, with a salary and many privileges.

In the old Qin Dynasty, there were already people who had titles because of their ability in farming and their noble virtues.

But the Han Dynasty and Lao Qin also have rules, that is, ordinary people who do not go to the battlefield, no matter how diligent they are, can only receive the first part.

To put it bluntly, it is limited to the first eight levels of the [-]th level, and cannot exceed the eighth level.

But Deng Sui wanted to go three levels higher!

When the [-]th rank reached the eighth level, they already had a full annual salary of [-] dan. To put it bluntly, it was almost catching up with the salary of Zhang Heng, the Taishi Ling.

And if you go further up, you concubine Chang will have a salary of 550 dan!
This number is already quite impressive. It is no wonder that many people in the court are unwilling to agree. Among them are the relatives of the Deng family, plus the famous scholars and scholars around them who have conquered their own mansions.

A group of people now have no effect at all except to create momentum for certain people and talk nonsense.

If Deng Sui can really promote such reforms, it will be a good thing for Liu Long, the Han emperor!

(End of this chapter)