Time flies, and in an instant, the corn in the field is ripe, and it is about to be harvest season.

At the same time, the year has come to an end.

Sixian Garden, Prince Manor.

More than two hundred boys, all dressed in brand new clothes, sat on the ground in a regular manner, and their eyes were full of eagerness and curiosity, and they looked intently at a man in brocade standing in the middle of the manor's meadow.

"Read with me: Cangjie writes books to teach heirs. The young son inherits the edict, and the ...... is cautious," Zhang Tang pointed to the words written on the wooden board with charcoal, and taught the children one by one.

Liu Che sat in a private apartment in the manor, looking at this qiē.

"Cangjie wrote a book to teach the heirs. The young son inherits the edict, cautiously respects the ......" In an instant, the hearty sound of reading aloud came into his ears, almost pulling Liu Che back to the world after two thousand years, as if he had returned to the school campus.

Of course, the enlightenment education at this time cannot be compared with later generations.

Basically, in the area of enlightenment, at this time, no matter how high or low, all of them started to learn from the fifty-fifth chapter of the Cangjie chapter.

The so-called Cangjie Chapter, in fact, is the calligrapher of Chang'an in the early Han Dynasty, based on the "Cangjie Chapter" written by Li Si and the "Calendar Chapter" written by Zhao Gao from the bamboo slips of the Qin Palace, plus the "Erudite Chapter" made by Hu Wujing in Taishi.

Fifty-five chapters in total.

Basically, after learning these fifty-five chapters, you can be regarded as a literate person, and you can study the works of the hundred schools of thought.

This "Cangjie Chapter" is still very interesting, especially the fifty-five chapters newly compiled after the establishment of the Han Dynasty. Each chapter is no more, no less, six crosses.

"How are these boys learning in the past ten days?" Liu Che asked the two eunuchs who were placed in this village as supervisors and logistics work: "Have you found anyone particularly smart?" ”

Liu Che is still quite interested in the Huangzhuang Enlightenment Academy that he established on a whim.

Except for not going into battle shirtless, everything else that a qiē could do was done.

Today, the entire palace is up and down the ministers. Except for the crown prince, the young master and Zhan Shi, who had just come to take office, and the three people he couldn't move, everyone else was driven by him in groups of five to ten people, and they took turns to come here to teach and enlighten the boys.

Today is the last class of the year.

Then came the autumn harvest, and then the year passed.

"Go back to the ......," a eunuch replied cautiously, "The children are very serious in their studies, and more than a dozen of them are particularly smart. Now I'm almost able to write the first chapter......"

"Oh......" Liu Che nodded, Liu Che didn't know what to say about this result.

Chinese characters, especially ancient Chinese characters, are the most difficult to understand and learn in the world.

Not one of them.

Complex structure. The perfect structure and the variety of strokes have made it several times more difficult to learn to read and write Chinese characters than in other languages since ancient times.

This is certainly not conducive to enlightenment education.

But. Once you have learned the kanji. Well, at the very least, the average IQ is the scum of the Western alphabet education.

To put it simply, Chinese characters, from design to use, are exclusive to the elite.

The design and use of Chinese characters by the ancestors was intended for the elite and even the ruling class from the beginning.

Naturally, as a price, it is inevitable that Chinese characters will be difficult to learn and understand.

Of course, these are the difficulties. The ancestors have noticed it for a long time.

From oracle bone inscriptions to small compilations, from small compilations to official books. From traditional Chinese characters to simplified Chinese characters, the history of the evolution of Chinese characters for thousands of years shows that in order to adapt to the development of the times and the needs of knowledge popularization, our ancestors have been working hard and have never given up self-renewal and evolution.

But in the end, everything remains the same.

Even in the Celestial Empire in later generations, when Omi ghost animals learned Chinese, they still shouted hard one by one.

Therefore, these children in Sixian Garden can learn sixty words in ten or twenty days, which is simply a genius!

When Liu Chemeng was studying, it took more than a month to recognize the sixty words in the first chapter of "Cangjie Chapter"!

It's no wonder that Liu Che's predecessor was stupid, but it was really that Mengxue at this time was directly in difficult mode as soon as he came up.

Will anyone in the future have to go straight to the sixth grade of elementary school when they are in kindergarten?

In Liu Che's eyes, the difficulty of "Cangjie Chapter" is almost the Chinese difficulty of the sixth grade of primary school in later generations, or even higher!

But there is no way, the enlightenment textbook at this time is a "Cangjie Chapter".

After learning Cangjie, it was directly the content of the university, and a bunch of "Shangshu", "Book of Songs" and "Han Feizi" were thrown over......

It can only be said that it is not easy to be a student in the Western Han Dynasty.

But on the other hand, once you learn it, you don't have to worry about employment.

Anyway, even the counties in Guanzhong now, the local pavilion chiefs or something, are also a bunch of illiterate.

Even the officials of the county government are very few who are literate.

Putting this question aside, Liu Che called Wang Dao over and asked, "Wang Dao, how are the preparations made by the Shaofu Yamen and the Neishi Yamen?" Are the warehouses and manpower ready for the orphans? ”

Liu Che had no choice, so he had to say hello to the two yamen of Neishi and Shaofu before the autumn harvest began.

Because, it's September soon, and when September passes, the year is over.

Similar to the Great Celestial Empire, at the end of each year, the yamen of the Han family will begin to spend money and do things in a surprise manner.

The Celestial Empire's yamen raided to spend money in order to spend the budget and save the budget allocation for the coming year.

Now the yamen of the Han family is almost the same reason.

However, the Han Dynasty Yamen is not to reach out to the head to ask for a budget.

Rather, the daily expenses and salaries of the Han family were drawn from taxes.

According to the rules set by Liu Bang, all the yamen of the Han court went up to the prime minister's mansion and down to the local county government, and every expenditure should be 'within the means'.

To put it simply, it is how much money you spent on this yamen in the previous year, and the miscellaneous taxes and forced labor that you can have a showdown with in the next year are in this framework.

As for this question, I won't be able to explain it for a while.

It can be summed up in one sentence. Probably that is, the annual repair of the yamen and the improvement of the roads in each county. The maintenance of water conservancy facilities and the salaries of officials and errands were not the responsibility of the imperial court, and the local officials were responsible for solving the problem themselves.

The so-called self-settlement, of course, is taxation, forced labor or something.

For example, the Han law stipulates that a portion of the tax can be counted as the income of the local yamen and does not need to be turned over to the central government.

Obviously, if you're spending less this year. Then next year, this part of the deduction and retention will be relatively reduced.

How could the bureaucrats allow such a mistake?

In addition, every year the imperial court will conduct performance appraisals in October at the beginning of each year.

So, like the Great Celestial Empire, at the end of every year. All the yamen of the Han Dynasty, including the Three Princes and the Nine Emperors, will begin to spend money and do things in a surprise manner.

Anyway. One word. Even if you die, you can't make the life of the yamen worse in the coming year!

Even more so, we can't put our official hats in danger.

This is the essence of the bureaucracy, which is not transformed by the will of the individual.

"Back to Your Highness, the warehouses and places on the Shaofu side have been vacated, and in addition, there are 300 ox carts and 200 horse-drawn carriages, which have also been prepared, as for the side of the Inner History Yamen. It has also been arranged, and the officials of the internal history Si Cao led by the thief Du Wei Ju Meng will assist from the side! Wang Dao bowed his head and replied.

Shaofu cooperated so actively with Neishi. Of course, it's not all about Liu Che's face as the prince.

Liu Che is just a prince, and his face is not big enough for these two behemoths to be so active and wholeheartedly assisted.

It's that this thing is good for them, spending money and doing things by surprise......

Liu Che did this, which was equivalent to giving the blame to these two yamen.

In case of performance evaluation, Liu Che could guess with his eyes closed that they would push the blame on him, the prince.

But there is no way, if you want the horse to run, how can you not give the horse grass?

"Lone knows......" Liu Che nodded, he was naturally mentally prepared for this question.

"Pass on Lone's order!" Liu Che stood up: "Let the 'unauthorized power' of the seventy-five counties of Guanzhong and the nine cities of Chang'an be alone for a while after three days, and the lonely will have fun with the people!" ”

"No!" Wang Dao nodded.

The prince of the Han dynasty often entertained local heroes and celebrities in Guanzhong and even Kanto in his palace.

This is the daily activity of the crown prince, and it is basically not too noticeable.

However, since Liu Che returned to Chang'an, he has been reading the documents of the Shaofu Yamen and the records of the Inner History Yamen, the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the Imperial History Dafu Yamen.

From the boring documents, Liu Che has a deeper understanding of the Pingjia system.

According to the records of Shaofu: Zhusi City is often held by the four o'clock and the middle moon, which is the upper, middle and lower Jia, and each is used for its city level, regardless of its place. The people sell and buy grain, cloth, and silk and cotton, and those who are in the civil use but not in the civil use have the official to examine and examine the facts, and use them to take them, and do not order them to be discounted. Everything is expensive, and if it is too much for a penny, it will be sold to the people in Pingjia. Those who are cheap and flattened, listen to the people and the city, in case of nobles.

If you look at it this way, the Pingja system seems to be a self-regulating mechanism for prices.

But in essence, the system is much more complex than it seems.

Because, in fact, many transactions are not actually transactions of money.

Farmers do not take exactly what they sell or buy.

For example, a farmer came to the market with a hundred stones of corn.

In fact, he didn't want to turn the 100 stone corn into money, but came to shop.

In this way, he first had to sell the rice to the rice shop, and then use the money to buy what he needed.

However, most farmers don't know a single word, and they usually don't bother to go through such a complicated process.

So, the farmer went directly to the shop where he wanted to buy the rice and shopped......

Then the value of his rice and the goods he buys requires a judge.

And this adjudicator is usually the 'unauthorized authority' of the market.

In order to prevent the merchants of the market from colluding, there is an official price in addition to Pingjia, and the official price will be given for all goods in each market.

But how cheating the government is, basically everyone knows how much they have run through the yamen.

Usually the yamen set the official price for one thing, and that is to benefit themselves.

For example, a county has ordered his family to grow certain cash crops, or he has a certain industry under his name, or he has been ordered to buy a certain commodity. Then the official price must be set according to the interests of this official.

Just like the charcoal seller described, a car of carbon. More than 1,000 catties and half a foot of red water chestnut is a piece of silk, which is charged with carbon to the cow's head.

Therefore, one of the most common jobs of the unauthorized authorities is to negotiate with the government and the government on behalf of the merchants.

The government pricing is outrageous. If they are in authority, they will use their privileges to negotiate with the yamen, and then negotiate a mutually acceptable price.

Doesn't it seem to be full of 'people's cooking freedom'?

However, in the actual implementation process, there is a lot of catty and outrageous in it!

Basically, there is a conscience of arbitrary power. The interests of some people will be more or less taken into account.

And those who have no conscience.

Officials and businessmen colluded and joined hands to give the peasants a scissors gap and vigorously exploit the peasants.

In the case files sealed by the Yamen of the Shaofu, the Inner History, the Prime Minister, and the Imperial Historian. There are countless local authorities and bureaucrats who have been found guilty and sentenced for such problems.

As for Liu Che's younger brother Liu Pengzu later, he painted a gourd in the same way, and personally ended up with the respect of the princes and kings, and sent people to grab food from the local government and businessmen, which naturally aroused public anger. was stabbed directly to the court. At the court meeting, even the little pig had to send a messenger to check the festival.

From this example, Liu Che could imagine that if he wanted to touch these people's cheese, these people might jump up and fight him.

It's very simple to guess an outcome.

In the face of interests, I'm afraid that few of these guys will be willing to watch their interests being snatched away, even if this person is the prince!

Because, where Liu Che is going to use the knife now. It's food!

Grain and silk are the two biggest commodities that farmers can sell.

Suppose food prices are fixed. The peasants no longer need to turn to the state for help, as they did in the past, sell their grain directly to the state, and then use the money to buy the materials they need.

Among them, it is not only the grain traders who will suffer, but the entire market will be affected. The entire food chain could be costly as a result!

Liu Che asked Wang Dao to invite the unauthorized authorities in the gate.

I want to see how many people are interested.

If you are interested, Liu Che doesn't need to lift the table, everyone is good at discussing.

If he didn't know how to do it, Liu Che could only lift the table, cut off a batch of heads, and raid the homes of a few wealthy merchants to sacrifice the flag.

"It's a sin to punish without teaching!" Liu Che thought to himself.

He felt that he was still quite disciplined, and at the very least, he would discuss it with the merchants before using the knife.

In addition, Liu Che still wants to take this opportunity to mix sand in the unauthorized power, if he can replace the unauthorized power of the seventy-five counties in Guanzhong with his people, then, what will not be done in the future?

The power of businessmen, if used well, can also be beneficial to society.

Liu Che walked to the edge of the windowsill, waved his hand, shouted Wang Dao to his side, and ordered: "After class is over, you go and talk to Zhang Tang, and let him show Gu the preparation records of these teachers and the key students they have found in the recent period!" ”

After saying this, Liu Che closed his eyes.

This lesson preparation record is a new gadget made by Liu Che, in order to prevent these horses from washing horses and giving up people, thinking that they are the pride of the sky, and playing sloppy with him.

In addition to the preparation records, Liu Che now also requires all the officials in his palace to write a record and record it for inquiry after the work is completed every day.

Anyway, the output of white paper is not bad now, and it can basically be supplied for the use of the palace and his imperial palace.

In the palace, bamboo slips are still basically used, so the consumption of white paper is small.

Only in Liu Che's womb, because Liu Che advocated the use of white paper, so now, white paper has replaced bamboo slips and become the carrier of writing and recording.

"No!" The king bowed in response. (To be continued......)

PS: Well, it's a matter of figuring out the Pingjia system, and I've got a picture, which will be uploaded to the public chapter, and if you're interested, you can take a look at it and refer to one or two.

In addition, I don't have the actual number of households in Guanzhong mentioned above, but I only got the population statistics of the late Western Han Dynasty and the number of acres of fields, so I basically made an eight-fold or six-fold discount on the basis of that for conversion! ~