Section 470 Salt and Iron Official Camp (1)
After dealing with the matter of drinking money, Liu Che stepped out of the temple of the high temple like a nobody. Then take the ministers and continue to the next ancestral temple: Emperor Hui's Hui Temple.
To be honest, Emperor Hui's existence is already a very embarrassing thing now.
Although the Liu family still recognized Emperor Hui's status as the Son of Heaven, it did not recognize their status as the Son of Heaven like the crown prince of Emperor Hui who was imprisoned and died by Empress Lu and the young emperor's brother who was killed by the princes and ministers.
However, because of the relationship between Empress Lu, Emperor Hui's historical positioning is quite problematic.
The Han Gaodi Temple has the dance of martial arts, Wenshi, and the Five Elements, and the Taizong Temple has the dance of Zhaode, and even the exclusive sacrificial music of the Zongmiao of Emperor Xiaojing, who died last year, is also nervously arranged in the musician department of Taichang and Shaofu, but the Huidi Temple can only pick up Liu Bang's cheapness and use Wenshi and the five elements to sacrifice.
However, Emperor Hui should be glad that Liu's Han Sheji cottage Qin system has reached the point of going mad.
Even the Zongmiao system is copied from the Qin system, not the Zhou system.
Therefore, the Huidi Temple will receive a certain amount of sacrifice every year.
But compared with Liu Banggao Temple, there is no doubt that Huimiao is shabby and I don't know how much.
Even Emperor Hui hangs high above the temple and enjoys the incense sacrifice on the crown, which is a little old - compared with it, the Taizu crown of the high temple is still brand new.
From the sacrifices, you can also see Emperor Hui's embarrassment.
Which one is stronger to read novels on mobile phones? The offerings on the incense platform on the mobile phone reading network are pitiful, only a few glasses of wine and three or five pieces of spiritual utensils to worship.
Even Liu Che hastily took the ministers to make a look.
Emperor Hui had no heirs, and all the achievements of Yiqiē Zheng were wiped out, and some people even once asked whether they moved Hui Temple out of Chang'an?
The memorial was recited. Liu Che glanced up at Emperor Hui's clothes hanging high in the temple.
There was no wind or rain in the temple, and the clothes were silent.
But Liu Che always felt a little depressed.
After a while. Only then did he understand that this was called the death of a rabbit and a fox.
Emperor Hui's misery. It warns the emperor of the Han family who comes here to worship every generation, don't forget to grasp the authority in your hands, and don't forget to stab the world and insert it all over the world.
The emperor, who can't grasp the authority and can't keep the heirs, is destined to end up like this if he commits any crime.
And Emperor Hui committed both, and he could still keep the temple clothes and enjoy the incense sacrifice. It is really Emperor Hui who has a good brother, and Emperor Taizong Xiaowen thought of the brotherhood and brotherhood, so he gave him such a good treatment.
Out of the Hui Temple, the next sacrificial location, Taizong Temple is a little far away.
In the Han Dynasty, there were only three temples in Chang'an, namely the Taishang Emperor Temple of Emperor Liu Taigong, the Gao Temple of Emperor Taizu Gao Liu Bang and the Hui Temple of Emperor Hui.
Next, since Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, the temples are all standing on the side of the mausoleum.
This is because. Since Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, the mausoleum system of the Han family has been formally formed.
The Son of Heaven moved to the world's powerful and local famous families, and the wealthy merchants settled in the Jingshi Mausoleum, enriching the fundamentals. Strong and weak.
The temple of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen stands on the top of the tomb.
Liu Che led hundreds of civil and military officials, drove over, and walked up the steps.
Rocks and trees in Taizong's mausoleum. Lush and green, the temples and palaces stand side by side.
Along. What Liu Che saw with his eyes was the tombstones and epitaphs of one after another famous people.
These are the ministers of Taizong who accompanied the burial of Baling.
The shape of the tomb of the Tomb of the Son of Heaven or the shape of the Mausoleum of the Son of Heaven in the early and middle Han Dynasty. They are also very distinctive.
From a distance, it looks somewhat similar to the pyramids of Egypt.
But when you go to the mausoleum, you will find that it is not the case at all. The shape of the whole mausoleum is completely natural, square, similar to the structure of a pyramid.
Taizong's edict also made it clear that the mountains and rivers of Baling should not be changed because of this.
As Liu Che's direct grandfather, the source of the legal system of his regime, the sacrificial specifications of Taizong Temple are directly after Liu Bang's high temple, and even surpassed!
Not only when going up the mountain, there are musicians preaching, and the eight dances in the temple.
The specifications of its temple are even more direct to the Xuanshu Hall of Weiyang Palace.
In fact, after Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, the temple of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty was directly copied based on the Xuanshu Palace.
In the Jongmyo Temple, on the throne of the head, a set of crowns and crowns are placed on it.
It is Emperor Taizong Xiaowen's favorite Ge Yi robe, leather shoes and a red ribbon tied around his waist, and the most expensive of the whole set of clothes may be the beads on the crown of the Son of Heaven hanging on the throne.
This made Liu Che look at it and feel a little blushing.
The clothes he is wearing now are made of Shu brocade, and in order to keep out the cold, he also added a fox fur, and the shoes are leather boots made by the top craftsmen of Shaofu, and the red ribbon around his waist is inlaid with many precious gems.
Compared to his grandfather, he was indeed an emperor who was too extravagant.
It is no wonder that even the later peasant rebels fought in Baling and saw Taizong's clothes, and immediately hid their faces and retreated, and they did not commit any offense against Balingqiu.
Such a son of heaven, even if he dies, his legacy and personality are still as dazzling as stars.
Liu Che led the ministers to kneel down respectfully and kowtow three times to pay homage to the emperor who inherited the past and the future in the history of the Han family and determined the current prosperity of the Han family.
After sacrificing to Taizong Temple, Liu Che came to the temple of his father, Emperor Xiaojing, Renzong, to worship.
As Liu Che's biological father, Emperor Renzong's temple is naturally more magnificent, and all the utensils and rituals are very new.
In accordance with the established procedures, after worshipping his father's clothes, Liu Che walked out of Renzong Xiaojing Temple, and issued an edict: He ordered the National Renzong Xiaojing Emperor Temple in Tianxia County to worship at four o'clock, just like Gao Temple and Taizong Temple!
That's what it means.
It is also the treatment that every emperor with a temple number should enjoy.
However, this move has brought the total number of temples in the world to a peak of 204.
There is no doubt that this will increase the burden on farmers.
A temple can be built by hundreds of workers for months and months.
And the four o'clock sacrifices and sacrifices had to be shared from the peasants.
Although the Han tax rate was very low, Liu Che also ordered that 'no additional taxes' would be given.
But this money and labor, the local bureaucracy, landlords and aristocrats will never pay for it out of their own pockets.
So, the next day. Liu Che issued an edict again, clearly ordering the world to 'Ding Nan's four-year affair'. At the same time, it was announced that families with less than 10,000 yuan in the world. The standard of arithmetic was lowered from 120 yuan per person to 40 yuan per person. In addition, those who have men in the family who are on the border or who are plagued by the king also enjoy this treatment.
Ding Nan's four-year incident did not have a big impact.
After all, as early as the time of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, the Han family had already ordered 'Ding Nan three years', that is, the first Fu man to serve once every three years.
Changing to once every four years to Liu Che can only be regarded as limited care for the peasants, and it is of little significance - who is stupid to serve the rich and powerful landlords and bureaucrats in these years? It's all copper coins to open the way. Coercion and inducement lured tenant farmers and the poor to serve them, and some iron roosters did not even compensate the peasants.
However, it was Liu Che, the new monarch, who ordered the calculation (poll tax) to be directly reduced from 120 yuan per person to 40 yuan per person for families with less than 10,000 yuan in the world.
In today's Han Dynasty, an adult ploughing ox costs 7,000 yuan, and in the countryside of the Kanto region, 100 acres of land is basically worth 10,000 yuan.
is based on the standard set by Liu Che, and the objects basically included are probably the lowest Qianshou who are already poor and can't even keep their land.
These people can't even keep their land. Where is there any money to pay a hundred and twenty cents per person?
What will happen to the peasants who can't pay the calculations, Liu Che doesn't even need to think about it.
After selling the land, sell the wife, sell the wife and sell the children. After selling their children and selling themselves, they will inevitably fall into such a vicious circle.
The small peasant yeoman class and the small landlord class were the greatest source of wealth and the best source of soldiers for the Han regime.
Protect their survival and growth. In fact, it is to protect the Liu family itself.
More importantly, after the new monarch ascended the throne, he gave benefits to the people of the world. Reducing the burden is a tradition of the Han family.
Emperor Taizong Xiaowen reigned. The land tax was reduced to 30 taxes and 3 years for men, and at the same time, all the people's taxes were reduced to 40 yuan per dollar.
Although the reign of the first emperor was short, he also made changes such as the twenty-three first masters of men and the establishment of a system of thirty taxes and one tax on land.
Liu Che ascended the throne, of course, he had to be on par with the two previous emperors.
Of course, each family can only enjoy the treatment of forty yuan per person for a maximum of five years, and after five years, if they still can't get up, then there is no way.
Even God only helps those who help themselves, not to mention Liu Che, the biggest landlord in the Han family?
As for the families of the soldiers on the border and the immediate family members of those who were affected by the king's affairs, it was a means used by Liu Che to win over the army and buy people's hearts.
At the same time, it can also be regarded as a policy to increase the enthusiasm of the people to join the army.
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As soon as Liu Che's edict came out, it was naturally jubilant from all over the world.
Even the people of Wu Chu were extremely grateful to the new monarch's edict.
After all, last year just suffered a military disaster, a large number of men died in the war, and the social production in Wuchu and other places was greatly damaged.
At this time, the edict of the new monarch came, which naturally allowed the peasants to take a breath.
The people are very simple, but if they can get by, they will never rebel, and even, most of the people, as long as they can live a life, they are not even willing to do business.
The Chinese's homeland thinking and homesickness are the strongest among all ethnic groups.
Therefore, where the edict passed, even Sanyue and Nanxiyi, who were independent of the Han family, were alarmed.
Many landless peasants who had lost their land in order to avoid paying taxes resolutely gave up their local life, sold their assets, and traveled thousands of miles to return home.
Of course, these are later words.
The day after Liu Che issued the edict, the Shaofu Ling Cen Mai came to complain.
The reason is that after the death of the first emperor, he left behind the inner treasury to save 1 million yuan.
After Liu Che ascended the throne, he threw money around, and now, Shaofu only has a deposit of 800,000 yuan.
This made Cen Mai feel very frightened.
Shaofu's political achievements come from his savings in the inner treasury.
Nowadays, the coins in the inner treasury are flowing out in a steady stream, but they cannot be increased, so it is no wonder that Cen Mai is not in a hurry!
After listening to Cen Mai's complaints, Liu Che laughed.
Is this panicking?
And that's just the beginning!
The existing coins in Shaofu, Liu Che thinks, the sooner they are spent, the better!
Because, soon, it will be the era of the five-baht coin.
Now the coins stored in the treasury of the Shaofu Prefecture are in circulation with the continuous circulation of the five-baht coin. It is bound to depreciate rapidly.
When the time comes, those in Shaofu's hands now are either mixed with iron or lead. And the weight and currency value are far less than the five-baht tattered, except that they are remelted and used to mint the five-baht coin. There is simply no second way to go.
Before the depreciation of this money, how much can be spent is equal to how much is earned!
Of course, Shaofu still needs to be appeased.
Therefore, Liu Che entrusted all the minting tasks of the five-baht coins to the Shaofu to be responsible, along with the foundry workshops that had been in Liu Che's hands and the new coin-casting iron model improved by the Mo family, all of which were handed over to the Shaofu.
Moyuan's biggest achievement last year was the clay model used to cast money in the Han family in addition to soil and chemical fertilizers. Changed to Iron Fan.
Compared with the clay fan, the iron fan casts money faster, the cost is lower, and more importantly, the iron fan is different from the clay fan, the service life is outrageously low, an iron fan, can mint tens of thousands of money, and a clay fan can only mint a few hundred coins at most.
Efficiency and disparity in this. It's conceivable.
After Cen Mai received all the power and authorization to mint the five-baht coin, he naturally shouted long live with joy.
For Shaofu, minting money is its life, and there is no one!
The five-baht coin has been pinched by the Son of Heaven before. It has already made Shaofu's heart tremble.
This time, I can get back the minting right of five baht coins, which is the biggest reassurance for Shaofu!
After sending Cen Mai away. Liu Che asked Wang Dao to summon Prime Minister Zhou Yafu and Imperial Doctor Chao to enter the palace to discuss matters.
The issue, of course, is how to spend money.
North Korea has now taken it, and the land of Liaodong can basically be farmed with peace of mind. There is no need for any more external threats.
Then immigrating to Liaodong and Liaoxi will be on the agenda.
Exactly how to immigrate. How to resettle the migrants, how to distribute the land, seeds and farm tools, these are all things that need to be considered in the temple calculation.
As the Son of Heaven, Liu Che only needs to set the tone, send money and food, and his own ministers will do it for him.
Liu Che still trusts the administrative ability and mobilization ability of the Han family!
In the history of the previous life, Xiaozhu first built Canghai County, then Jiaozhi County, and finally built Shuofang County and Luntai City, with nearly one million immigrants before and after, and even, even in Yunnan, Xiaozhu sent tens of thousands of immigrants.
In the process, the little pig beat the Huns, and it was the turn of Joseon and Mitsukoshi.
Still no!
The Han dynasty from Yuanguang to Yuan Ding was extremely powerful, and it was almost able to walk sideways in East Asia.
If it weren't for the little pig's head being kicked by a donkey, and after the Yuan Hunt year, he was obsessed with cultivating immortals and asked, throwing a lot of money, repairing the palace attic, and building a lot of buildings, I'm afraid that the Han family's finances might not be dragged down by these wars and immigrants.
Even so, after the Yuan seal, the little pig still beat Dawan, took the head of King Dawan and went home as a souvenir, destroyed several countries in the Western Regions, and fought with the Xiongnu many times.
From these facts, Liu Che saw the strong mobilization and organizational capabilities hidden under the current militarist regime of the Han Dynasty.
Of course, in ancient China, any immigration policy needed to be supported by a strong fiscal system.
Now, Shaofu's savings are only 800,000 yuan.
Of course, the sooner the money is spent, the better.
But correspondingly, Liu Che also has to find a new source of wealth.
Otherwise, in the end, the treasury will be so poor that he can run a mouse, and he, the emperor, will be used as a puppet.
In this world, not only ordinary people need money, but also landlords and bureaucrats need money, and even the emperor must have money!
How miserable the emperor who has no money is, Liu Che is clear.
Not to mention, Chongzhen is a good example.
And today, what is the fastest thing to get money?
The answer is salt iron.
There is no more profitable trade than salt and iron!
Of course, if the Romans in Europa were willing to eat a million horses of silk a year, that would be a different story.
It is a pity that in this era, the land Silk Road is extremely bumpy, and the so-called maritime Silk Road has no shadow.
The farthest place that the South Vietnamese Fleet, which had the strongest seafaring ability, was still in the area of Thailand and Malaysia in later generations.
Now that the silk can reach Europa through various channels, Liu Che thinks that it may not even be a hundred horses a year......
Scarcity is expensive, which created the sky-high price of silk in ancient Roman history.
Therefore, salt and iron, which are closely related to ordinary people and necessary consumables, have naturally become the biggest new source of wealth in Liu Che's eyes.
It's just, the words of the salt and iron official camp. Liu Che must get Zhou Yafu's absolute support, and also persuade the two queen mothers of the East Palace. Persuade the Manchu civil and military.
Each of these tasks is more difficult than the other!
Because, the current policy of the Han family is that Huang Lao is quiet and inactive. The old Huang faction of the ruling government pays attention to the fact that the people do not break the law and the officials do not hold them accountable, which is simple and easy, that is, as long as the common people do not violate the law, let alone stay at home to mint money and boil salt, they will turn a blind eye and turn a deaf ear if they make artillery aimed at the mountain.
This is reflected in economic activities, which have become prosperous merchants and wealthy businessmen everywhere.
From Guanzhong to Wu Chu. From Qilu to Yanzhao, there is hardly a place where there are no big merchants, and there is almost nothing that merchants dare not sell.
Liu Che remembers it clearly, in the granary case in Hedong the year before last, 200,000 stone of stored grain fell into the hands of the big businessman of Qi State, and the ghost knows where else this knife shop bought stored grain and sold it to Liu Bi or something.
Moreover, where did the armor, knives, guns, and even crossbow machines and heavy armor of so many armies under Liu Bi's command come from?
Wu is only a land of three counties, and it is not an iron-producing area. Where did so many iron weapons come from?
Anyway, after the Guanjin system was abolished, God knows what those merchants' carriages and boats were transporting?
Liu Che wanted to do something about it, snatching food from the mouths of the merchants, and the difficulty was undoubtedly nightmare.
But do not snatch food from the mouths of big businessmen, big landlords, and big bureaucrats. It is necessary to snatch food from the mouths of peasants and small landlords.
For the sake of the common people in the world, Liu Che had no choice but to bite the bullet and come to meet them for a while.
And this is the first level. Liu Che needed to convince Zhou Yafu, and only Zhou Yafu supported it. Liu Che can guarantee that even if the worst happens. He can also rely on the army to turn the tables.
Then there is the East Palace, only with the support of the East Palace, Liu Che can have no worries.
Finally, most of the courtiers.
With the support of his courtiers, Liu Che was able to concentrate all the forces of the Han family into a single fist, dealing with all possible opponents with an iron fist and intimidating all potential enemies with blood and fire.
If you don't get these three, Liu Che won't want to engage in salt and iron official camps.
And if you want to convince all three, strategy is undoubtedly a very important thing.
Seeing people and talking about people, and talking about ghosts, Liu Che is still very skilled in this kind of method.
Zhou Yafu's words, Liu Che is now about seventy percent sure that he can convince him.
As for the East Palace, with the help of Chen Ajiao and Guan Tao, Liu Che was only less than forty percent sure at most to persuade the Empress Dowager and Empress Dowager Bo to support him.
However, the remaining courtiers, as long as Zhou Yafu and the East Palace support him, Liu Che feels that there should probably be more than 90% of the ministers who will shout long live without hesitation and join his camp.
As for the rest, there is no doubt that it will be mercilessly crushed by the wheels of history.
"The salt and iron official camp will not be more difficult and dangerous than the first emperor cutting the domain, right?" Liu Che thought in his heart.
In the history of the first emperor cutting the domain, there were seven countries rebelling, nine countries participated, there were eighteen counties before and after, and tens of millions of people raised the anti-flag, but the result was still in March, and all the opponents were crushed into powder.
How much strength can the enemy that the Yantie official camp need to face today?
The power of businessmen, in China, has always been a joke!
In the face of the iron fist of the dictatorship of the rulers, what capital, what rich countries can rival, what multinational groups, are all paper paste.
Therefore, Liu Che is extremely sure that as long as he convinces Zhou Yafu, obtains the support of the military, and then gets the support and affirmation of the East Palace, then the ministers like the grass on the wall have no second way to choose except for shouting that Shengming has no fault with His Majesty.
As for the merchants?
Obey, or die! (To be continued......)
ps: Note: The temple system of the Western Han Dynasty was copied from the Qin system.
The biggest difference between the Qin system and the Zhou system is that it does not stand up and is not definitely destroyed.
The so-called Zhao Mu is the father Zhao Zi Mu, who will always keep the order of the god card vacant.
And the destruction is the third generation of the gentleman Ze and the decline, and the seventh generation declines, which is reflected in the temple, that is, some guys' god cards will be kicked out.
This was not the case with the Western Han and Qin dynasties.
Both are sacrificed by all the ancestors, and the seven temples coexist, and the Son of Heaven set up a mausoleum for himself and built a temple when he ascended the throne.
The tomb of Emperor Taizong of the Han Dynasty, located on the Bailu Plain in Xi'an, resembles a pyramid in shape.
Emperor Wu's Maoling is also shaped like this.
However, the Han people do not have the tradition and cultural habit of building pyramids, and the clearest words recorded in the history books are the edict of Emperor Wen: the mountains and rivers of Baling do not change because of this!
Therefore, it is certain that these mausoleums resemble pyramids, and that the terrain is inherently so.
In addition, the Ge Yi is a black coarse linen silk woven garment, and the leather shoes are a kind of leather shoes, but they belong to the general public, similar to today's Xtep and Adidas.
In addition, the old Han Yi recorded that in the sixth year of Emperor Jing, the total number of Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty and Taizong Temple, including Guanzhong, was one hundred and thirty-six, including the temple, the original temple, and the county temple.
The so-called temple was built by the emperor himself during his lifetime.
As for the original temple, it was invented by Emperor Hui.
Later emperors followed this system. R1292