Section 156 Slaughtering of fattened sheep
In the blink of an eye, half of June was over, and Liu De walked on the city tower and sighed.
The huge Weiyang Palace became much deserted in an instant.
Three days ago, the Son of Heaven issued an edict to canonize the eldest son Liu Rong as the king of Changshan, Liu Fei as the king of Zhongshan, Liu Yan as the king of Hejian, Liu Yu as the king of Guangchuan, Liu Fa as the king of Changsha, Liu Duan as the king of Runan, Liu Sheng as the king of Huaiyang, and Liu Pengzu as the king of Linjiang.
As a result, eight of Liu De's ten brothers left in an instant, except for Liu Yu, who was still in infancy, and the rest were all in the country.
The huge Weiyang Palace suddenly became a lot less angry and more discrete.
"Yangyi, your mother is crying again?" Liu De looked down and saw Tang Ji's daughter Yang Yi sitting alone on a bluestone in the imperial garden, throwing the stone sullenly, so he walked over with a smile, picked up this crying little girl, and asked.
Yang Yi nodded, and said in Liu De's arms: "Since Brother Leave, the mother concubine has been sobbing every day, and Yang Yi has seen it uncomfortable......"
She pulled Liu De's shirt and asked, "Why is Brother leaving?" Brother is gone, and there is no one to play with Yang Yi! ”
Liu De touched her head with a smile and said, "You are still young and don't understand the affairs of adults, if you are bored in the future, come to the imperial brother, and the imperial brother will definitely accompany you!" ”
"Hmm!" Yang Yi nodded heavily.
"Okay, Yang Yi has to be obedient, hurry up and go back to accompany your mother......" Liu De smiled and pinched her little face, and said, "Your mother needs you to accompany her!" ”
"Hmm!" Yang Yi nodded very obediently, born in the emperor's family. is destined to be more precocious than other people's children, although Yang Yi is small, but he also vaguely understands some things.
looked at the back of Yang Yi far away. Liu De laughed self-deprecatingly: "My love, sure enough, only those who are harmless to humans and animals have ......"
For brothers like Liu Yan, Liu Yu, and Liu Fa, who are completely unthreatening and cannot pose any impact on him, he can always be magnanimous, and no matter what mistakes they make, he can always find a reason to excuse them.
But for Liu Fei and Liu Rong, he can't be generous at all.
There is even a faint desire to punish these two brothers in the future.
Yang Yi just left. Wang Dao came over, and as soon as he saw Liu De, Wang Dao immediately knelt down. Respectfully reported: "Your Highness, Zhang Tang and Ji Di have entered the palace!" ”
As the brothers have taken up the country, Liu De's status in this Weiyang Palace has also risen. Almost everyone regarded him as a prince.
The eunuchs were the first to react to the change in Liu De's status.
Now the royal road is whether it is to report things or to see it every day. When meeting, it must be a solemn kneeling, bowing to the worship, and then talking back.
As for the other eunuchs and maids who served Liu De, it was the same as seeing him as seeing a tiger, and they didn't even dare to look up.
What Liu De ordered in the past, the eunuchs and maids didn't pay much attention to it.
But in these two days, it was a 180-degree change at once.
For example, Liu De used to order to plant some vegetables and dig some vegetable fields in his palace. At the beginning, Liu De had to give an order. Inspector Wang Dao, these guys reluctantly went to do it, loosen the soil hastily, sprinkle some seeds casually, water a little, and complete the task.
But in the past two days, everything has changed.
Every day before dawn, the eunuchs who carry buckets to the palace canal to carry water begin to line up, as for all kinds of busyness, the open space in front of Liu De's palace and the places that can be used to plant some vegetables and fruits, then not too much.
Anyway, now as long as Liu De goes back to his palace of the prince, he can see the eunuchs who are busy in front of the palace every moment, and some people even hollow out their minds and deliberately carry buckets to work in the courtyard when Liu De goes back.
This hasn't been a prince yet, and there are countless ways to get closer to each other with all kinds of stammers and hollowing out!
At this time, Liu De realized the feeling of a national leader in later generations!
In short, he only needs a word or even a look now, and immediately countless people will kneel and lick over to help him get things done properly.
This is the case in the palace, and it is similar outside the palace.
Liushi, which is managed by Zhang Tang, is now in order, and before Liu De said anything, the merchants of Liushi stuffed more than 1,000 gold into the 'investment'.
Although the straight market is a little harder, there are also hundreds of gold 'investment'.
As for the usury merchant in Huai City, that is a big dog household, in just three days, there are 1 million coins, 3,000 pieces of cloth, and 2,000 gold, such a huge amount of dedication, which fully shows that the big merchants of the Han family are not bad at all!
But Liu De didn't ask for any of this money, and gave it all to the cheap dad.
In this world, as long as you have power, are you afraid of running out of money?
Liu De is no longer the poor at the beginning, if the merchants' money is sent at the beginning, he may gladly accept it, but now that it is sent again, he can only hehe.
Of course, Liu De knew that the businessmen sent him so much money, of course, it was not free.
If you take people's money, you have to eliminate disasters for others, and even if you can't do it, at least you have to be convenient with others.
What do merchants want for convenience?
Liu De couldn't know it too well!
In and out of the Hangu Pass and Xiao Pass!
Hangu Guan said that the emperor of the Han family is basically not very demanding, but Xiao Pass is different, out of Xiao Pass is Taiyuan, and further north is the long Great Wall defense line of Daiguo and Shangjun.
The person who figured out what Xiao Guan wanted to do, he could guess it with his ass!
Businessmen are profit-seeking, and there is no motherland, Liu De doesn't want to give them this convenience!
"How is Sima Xiangru's Changfu written?" Liu De asked Wang Dao as he walked.
"Back to His Royal Highness, the slave maid just went to see Mr. Xiangru this morning, Mr. Xiangru has not been sensitive to literature for the past two days, so it is a little difficult to write, he said to the slave maid, I want to go to the forest garden to see, to find some inspiration......" Wang Dao carefully replied: "Your Highness, you see? ”
"Just let him go......" Liu De smiled, literati are this stinky problem, if they want to go out to travel, just say it, they have to find some excuse to say that they are not inspired.
"No!" Wang Dao immediately agreed: "After the slave and maid go back, I will arrange someone to accompany Mr. Xiangru to Shanglin Yuan!" ”
"What I ordered Ning Cheng to write, how did he write?" Liu De asked again.
"Back to Your Highness, Mr. Ning has already handed over the draft to the slave maid this morning, and you can review it after you go back!" The king immediately reported it.
"Hmm!" Liu De nodded and said appreciatively: "Yes, reward him with fifty gold and ten silks!" ”
"No!"
What Ning Cheng wrote is what Liu De urgently needs now—a new law specifically aimed at big businessmen who are rampant, monopolizing the market, forcibly buying and selling, and shoddy.
Of course, it's just a draft, and Liu De still needs to make targeted deletions and changes, and then send it to Cheap Daddy for review, and finally it will become a law, at least the law of the four cities under the jurisdiction of Liu De in Chang'an.
The Han dynasty is different from later dynasties, although it is said that merchants are the most humble profession in the world, but in fact, there are special commercial laws in the Han law, which restricts the behavior of merchants and clarifies the boundary between illegal and legal transactions.
Although the emperor of the Han family did not attach importance to industry and commerce, as a pragmatist emperor of the Han family, he was always wary of the growing wealth of merchants.
However, due to the limitations of the times, there is no good way to restrict and rectify business.
So, Liu Che, who was annoyed by the military spending, simply and rudely slaughtered the merchants as fat sheep, and under the policy, blood flowed like a river, and finally inevitably under the expansion of the magistrates, the scope of the attack covered from the merchants to the small and medium-sized landlords, and instantly made the world's middle-class and above families fall into a situation of family ruin.
As a traverser, Liu De knows that if he doesn't crack down on businessmen, the world will be ruined by these guys sooner or later.
However, if one size fits all, it is brain-dead, which will not only solidify the fish, but also damage the national strength and hurt the vitality of the society.
As for businessmen, as long as we crack down on lawlessness, especially the illegal acts of big businessmen and usury businessmen, but open the net to small and medium-sized businessmen, it will be fine.
At the same time, Liu De is planning to collect commercial taxes!
Of course, this is not in a hurry, you can take your time, and you can change it with a vest, for example, Liu Che later put on a vest for the commercial tax called the car and ship calculation and calculation.
In addition, Liu De also had the idea of nationalizing the sale of salt and iron, implementing state coinage, and prohibiting private coinage.
But these are unlikely to be done now, and they can only be done after becoming the emperor, holding the power and controlling the world.
At present, it is Liu De's goal to first regulate the merchants of Chang'an, let them see the iron fist of the Han family, and sweep away a group of profiteers and evil businessmen under the slogan of 'Shangnong and Eliminate the End', and it is also the purpose of Zhang Tang and Ji Di, who have been ordered to conduct research and investigation in Chang'an these days.
Anyway, the merchants were slaughtered as fat sheep by the rulers in all dynasties, and they should also have this awareness! (To be continued......)
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