With a nervous mind, Liu Che followed his father to a relatively quiet side hall.

As soon as he entered the door, Liu Che smelled a faint smell of herbs.

Liu Che's heart darkened, the affairs in the palace could not be hidden from outsiders, let alone such a major event as the emperor's health?

In fact, almost all the government and the opposition know that the Son of Heaven has not been in good health recently.

However, whether the Son of Heaven has a cold or something else, it is difficult for outsiders to know.

Even Liu Che didn't know the true situation of his father's body.

The only person who can know this qiē is probably only Lang Zhongling Zhou Ren.

Liu Che remembered the entrustment of Liu Wu, the king of Liang, at this moment, and also remembered the rumors he heard during this time, combined with the situation at this time, he felt a sigh in his heart, knowing that his father's body was probably in trouble.

Now, in front of Liu Che, there are two choices.

One is to immediately kneel down and tearfully persuade the monarch to pay attention to his body and not to overexert himself.

The benefits of this are clear.

It is also a subconscious choice of most princes after encountering this situation.

But......

The health of the emperor is undoubtedly a state secret.

Dad didn't even tell him about the mistake, and asked Zhou Ren to keep it a secret, obviously, this is not a minor illness.

If Liu Che knelt down at this time and said those routines.

There is no doubt that it will be written down by the historian who hides behind the curtain.

Then, the whole world will know that the emperor of the Han family is sick, and the problem is strict to the point of hiding it from the minister and the prince.

In this way, Wu Chu and other countries are still not happy?

What's even more terrifying. In case some of Daddy's arrangements are disrupted because of this, when the board is knocked down, it will definitely be Liu Che, the prince's pot!

Don't think that the historian's mouth is very strict?

Things in the palace. Half of it was passed on by the talkative eunuchs, and half of it was leaked by the historians......

Otherwise, how did you think that sweating, like a man's back, and not learning and not learning these idioms came from?

Liu Che remembered very well that in his previous life, when the emperor's father deposed Zhou Yafu. As soon as the front foot was ordered, various versions of the back foot all over the street came out.

And those details that are so detailed that even how the emperor was angry and how Zhou Yafu spoke back can be depicted vividly. Obviously not something that ordinary people can tell......

At least, the level of education of the eunuchs in the court is enough for them to tell such a good story.

Liu Che's second choice was to pretend that he didn't smell the medicine.

In doing so, the aforementioned drawbacks are avoided.

But there is one thing, the emperor's father is not a fool, although the taste of the herbs in this hall is very light. However. As long as the nose doesn't lose function, you can still smell it.

The monarch's father is sick, and as a son, from the perspective of morality and ethics at this time, he should kneel down immediately, and from then on, he will not untie his clothes, taste the decoction himself, and serve him day and night, just like Liu Che's imperial grandfather, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, who served the Empress Dowager Bo back then.

Not like that. It must be unfilial!

The key point is that the emperor's father will definitely have a pimple in his heart.

Back then, the first emperor had gangrene on his back. Liu Che's father was just a little reluctant to suck thick juice for the first emperor, and it was immediately a reprimand!

"What to do?" Liu Che's mind was running rapidly.

There is no doubt that these two choices are risky no matter how Liu Che chooses.

But time is running out, and he must make a decision right away!

It seems that there are a lot of things to think about, but it doesn't take much time.

After only ten breaths, Liu Che made a decision.

He immediately knelt down and said, "The son is not filial, and the father's sacrament is not safe, but he doesn't know it, capital crime and capital crime!" ”

Saying that, Liu Che shed tears, the expression on his face became solemn, and his expression began to be lonely, looking like a standard filial son.

It is clear that Liu Che chose the former.

In Liu Che's view, since both options are risky, choose the relatively safe one!

The reason is very simple, he is a son first, then a prince, and without the protection of his father, he is nothing!

What is the overall situation, what is the political zhì, to put it mildly, it has nothing to do with Liu Che now.

Liu Qi, the son of heaven, looked at Liu Che's appearance, and felt some warmth in his heart.

As soon as his heart softened, he waved his hand and said: "I'm fine, Lang Zhongling has prescribed a prescription, just take a few doses of medicine, don't worry too much, prince!" ”

"Look at you like this......" Liu Qi, the son of heaven, shook his head, let a eunuch help Liu Che up, and said softly: "The reason why I hide it from the prince is that I am afraid that the prince will think blindly, don't worry, I'm fine!" ”

Liu Che wiped his tears at this time, tried his best to make himself like a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy, and asked happily, "Really?" ”

Seeing Liu Che's serious and concerned look, Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, couldn't help but sneer, and scolded with a smile: "What did I lie to you!" ”

"Erchen is relieved......" Liu Che immediately nodded happily and staggered.

This cheerful and warm scene immediately brought the relationship between the father and son much closer.

The atmosphere has also become much more relaxed and no longer dull.

Waiting for Liu Che to sit down, Liu Qi, the son of heaven, chose the wording a little and asked, "What's going on?" Why are Cheng Zheng and Zhuo of Linqiong willing to spend 100,000 yuan to repair the ramp? The prince told me carefully......"

He has many sources of intelligence, though.

However, like the eyeliner he placed in the prince's womb, he will only pay attention to who the prince meets, and he can't grasp too detailed things.

As for the report of Yan Yi and others, because it is a formal occasion and will be recorded by the historian, it is naturally impossible to report it in detail.

What he knows now is that the prince used some means to make the big businessmen of Linqiong relieved and willing to contribute 100,000 yuan.

But in these things, there is a lot of fog, even if he is a genius, he can't figure it out.

When did the merchants of the world become so good at talking?

Liu Qike, the son of heaven, remembers very clearly that when he was still the prince, he had to spend most of his energy going to Chang'an to get money for the palace every year. It's just a year to make thousands of dollars in income.

What kind of magic did this Liu Che use to make those two big businessmen in Shu County so obedient?

Liu Che was slightly stunned.

That's a lot of trouble to talk about.

However, Liu Che knew very well. This matter can't be hidden, and if his prince wants to do it safely, he can't hide anything from his father.

So, he bowed slightly, typed the draft, and replied, "Returning to my father's ......."

After listening to Liu Che's narration, Liu Qi, the son of heaven, his eyes widened. The anger on his face was hard to dissipate.

"Shameless!" Liu Qi, the son of heaven, immediately slapped the armrest on the couch murderously.

The magistrate of Shu County and the eunuchs he sent to Shu County actually joined forces with the merchants to trap this emperor, and Deng Tong's assets that should have been confiscated and filled into the inner treasury were turned into the merchant's property by those guys.

This kind of thing. Liu Qi, the son of heaven, felt that he absolutely couldn't bear it!

Must be thoroughly investigated!

But......

Suddenly, Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, thought of a question.

Where did the prince know about these things?

Why did the prince let the Cheng Zheng family and the Zhuo family go together?

So, Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, asked, "Where did the prince know?" ”

Liu Che bowed his head and replied, "Return to my father." Some time ago. Didn't the sons ask their father to give the details of the accounts of the Shaofu over the years to the sons to read and study? The son found out from the accounts......"

Liu Che naturally thought about how to answer this question for a long time.

In fact, there is such a possibility as zài in theory.

Because, the entire civil affairs system of the Han dynasty was completely copied from the civil affairs system of the Qin Dynasty!

It is completely different from the system of Song Ming in later generations!

Under the policy of arranging households and people, the Han family could even proudly shout to the later Tang and Song Mings: Brother There is no zài hermit here!

Why, you ask?

Because the Western Han government's land tax and conscription policies were quite sharp, they could almost compete with the household registration policy of the Great Heavenly Empire in later generations.

Merchants have city registration, peasants have household registration, soldiers have military registration, and slaves have slave registration. There is even a palace registration in the court!

The powerful civil administration system inherited from the Qin Dynasty enabled the entire Han regime to control almost all of the registered population.

As for what you say about the hidden household?

If you know how the government of the Western Han Dynasty collects taxes. You probably wouldn't have asked that.

The Han government collected taxes by watching the people harvest in the fields on the spot, then weighed them, and then taxed them according to the output......

The apportionment of conscription, on the other hand, is a different method.

These are common sense at this time, and everyone in charge understands them, and there is also a book of "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" written by Zhang Cang, the former Prime Minister of Beiping, as a book of governance, which clearly records in the nine chapters of arithmetic, how to collect taxes and how to distribute forced labor.

At the very least, this is still the case at this time.

As for the horn pimple of the far away emperor of the mountain, the possibility of storing the vacuum of zài is naturally two words.

However, Liu Che also found traces of the same system in Hejian Kingdom in his previous life, but it was not as strict as Guanzhong.

In the two thousand years of feudal dynasties in the future, there was no such scientific and strict civil affairs system as the Qin and Han dynasties, this is because the landlords began to rise from the Eastern Han Dynasty and began to grasp the authority, and the emperor Lao Tzu also had to compromise with these guys.

It is precisely because of this that the Han government can afford the 30 tax and 1 land tax system.

Because it has a large taxing population, there are basically no zài hidden households.

Even in the case of 30 taxes and 1 tax, it also created the rule of Wenjing, not only the people's lives were relatively easy and the burden was relatively small, but even the central government's fiscal revenue has never been in short supply.

At the end of the reign of Wenjing, what was left to the little pig was a warehouse full of grain in all countries, the ropes that strung money in the treasury were rotten, and the horse farms at the border gates had more than 300,000 war horses, with a population of 50 or 60 million in the world, and 5 or 6 million registered households in the world!

After the fall of the Western Han Dynasty, but what dynasty dared to use thirty taxes to collect taxes?

The fifteen taxes are all about loving the people like children!

Thinking of these, Liu Che also sighed in his heart.

The systems created and perfected by the Qin people are incomparably close to the system of modern states.

It's a pity that because it's too advanced, it's hard to be accepted and recognized by people.

On the contrary, after the old Liu family accepted it, all kinds of Liu characteristics were introduced. After making it backward and ignorant, the whole country gradually became prosperous and powerful.

It can only be said that every ruler of the Qin Dynasty is an expert in death!

Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, listened to Liu Che's statement. After thinking about it a little, I think it's reasonable.

At this time, the ruling class still attached great importance to mathematics.

Later, among the five sons of Little Pig, three of them had good mathematical achievements, especially Liu Dan, the king of Yan, who was recognized as a master of mathematics.

As for Liu Che's brothers, Liu Pengzu and Liu Sheng are also good at mathematics.

As for officialdom. He even took a copy of "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" to worship as the truth, and basically, the magistrates had a copy in their hands......

So. Liu Che found out from Shaofu's accounts that this explanation was quite acceptable.

So, Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, asked again: "What does the prince think?" Why do you want to let Cheng Zheng and Zhuo have a horse? ”

Liu Che listened, of course he knew that he couldn't use anything, I had to keep these two guys to make steel or something.

Daddy will definitely scoff at that.

It is enough to smelt iron and make steel, and there is a small house!

How can the lifeblood of the country be in the hands of private individuals?

But Liu Che knew that Shaofu could fully meet the military demand for iron and steel. But he wanted to rely on the bureaucrats of Shaofu to popularize and promote iron tools among the people. Then don't count on it!

Only businessmen like Cheng Zhengying and Zhuo Wangsun, who are full of 'pioneering spirit' and 'market awareness', can have that motivation and patience.

Otherwise, after the little pig in the previous life set up the salt and iron official camp, why did the popularization of iron tools among the people lag all of a sudden? Do you have to wait until there is a Zhao Guo to slowly popularize those advanced technologies such as Erniu lifting poles that appeared in Guanzhong decades ago?

But these things are not correct when they are said.

Liu Che sorted out his thoughts a little and said: "Back to my father, this generation of profiteers is of course extremely cunning, but then. But it can expand thousands of miles of land for my Han family, and it has the merit of educating the southwestern Zhuyi. Therefore, the son had the courage to plead with his father, spare his life, and allow him to make meritorious service for his crimes! ”

"Thousands of miles?" The eyes of Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, lit up all of a sudden.

No Chinese emperor could resist the temptation to expand his territory!

The Son of Heaven proclaimed himself the co-lord of all directions in Kyushu, on behalf of the heavens, and was in charge of the four seas.

Naturally, every Chinese ruler will have a strong desire to expand, and as long as conditions permit, the Chinese emperor will not mind the expansion of his territory at all.

But unlike Westerners, the Chinese are expansionist, less fond of killing, preferring to use cultural aggression and slowly plot to expand their territory with color revolutions.

Therefore, what the Chinese rulers are best at is to defeat the enemy first, and then make the enemy recognize their supremacy, and then spend another hundred and ten years to wear out the culture and traditions of this enemy, and naturally, that enemy will become his own people.

During the Western Zhou Dynasty, many of the vassal states in the world had Yidi's sphere of influence.

The original Ho Kyung was even under Rong Di's nose.

But in the Warring States Period, where did Rong Di Dongyi Jing Chu go?

At the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period, the current Shu County was the territory of the Ba people, and now there are still Ba people in Shu County?

It's the southwest Zhuyi, go to the Dian Kingdom and Yelang to see, what kind of script do they use? Basically, they are all evolved from the Chu script......

As soon as Liu Che said this, Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, immediately asked with interest: "Are these two people connected with the Southwest Zhuyi?" ”

"Back to my father, yes!" Liu Che kowtowed and said: "Erchen is trying to report to his father, according to what Cheng Zheng Ying said, west of Zhuyi in the southwest, two thousand miles away from the Dian Kingdom, there is also a country called Poison!" ”

Liu Che turned into a little devil with puffed cheeks at this moment, and said in a very inflammatory tone: "Father, according to the people of the Dian Kingdom, this poisonous country has a huge land, and the people are extremely stupid, but its land is extremely fertile, it can harvest rice three times a year, and the whole country can pick up gold and jade casually, it is extremely rich!" ”

For India, Liu Che did not hesitate to praise it at all, and exaggerated it to the extent that he could exaggerate it, and Liu Che couldn't wait to tell his father, the country of India is a paradise on earth, with milk flowing in the Ganges River and gold everywhere.

Liu Che even plans to find a few novelists in the past few years to write about how rich and rich India is, anyway, YY is not guilty.

The aim was to pave the way for a few decades to come.

Liu Che learned this from Westerners.

Why did the poor ghosts of Europa want to sail in the future?

Because these turtles were fooled by the YY novel "Marco Polo's Travels", they all thought that China was full of gold. Paradise everywhere.

The early navigators and adventurers all headed for China, but accidentally circled the globe and ran to the Americas. Only then did I find out that people are stupid and have more money, and it is good to rule!

And in the whole of China, there are so many poor people.

Who doesn't want to get rich!

Wealth is a common desire of human beings.

In order to get rich, human beings can overcome all kinds of hardships and obstacles!

Later, the gold rush in the Americas and various East India companies told Liu Che that the distance was nothing, and the dead on the road were nothing.

As long as someone gets rich. Then, all the people will stretch out their necks and run towards the golden land desperately.

So. Liu Che feels that Journey to the West is not a good novel.

Why do you write so many demons and monsters?

Why don't you write about Tang Seng and his entourage on the way to India, when they go to a country, they will soak a princess and hold a bunch of gold?

Make sure that the people of the Ming Dynasty don't want to die, and they are desperately rushing towards India, like this. There is nothing to do with the British.

So. From this point of view, the Journey to the West of the Golden and Bottle Mebi is valuable......

"Is the body poison really that rich?" Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, was a little stunned, if there really was such a rich place, it would still be so fertile...... That...... Pity...... It's far away, otherwise, he really wants to send an army along the southwest direction to find out the details of the poison.

But the army can't send it. How about sending a messenger over to find out?

Chinese are naturally passionate about a qiē suitable land for farming.

In the previous life, the little pigs dared to be in Luntai Tuntian, posing as if they wanted to turn the grassland into arable land!

The land of Jingchu now. It was so difficult, the living conditions were so bad, and the pioneers from the Central Plains had already taken root there and occupied an absolute dominant position.

The so-called South Vietnam, Minyue, and Dongyue are actually all regimes established by Chinese colonizers, and even they are all vassal states that accept the canonization of the Chinese Son of Heaven!

Liu Che nodded and said: "Back to my father's words, Erchen heard that it is indeed very rich, so after Erchen asked Cheng Zheng to go back, he sent someone to go through the Dian Kingdom to see if this is really the case in that foreign country?" ”

"In addition, Erchen thinks that Cheng Zheng and Zhuo can go to the southwest Zhuyi to preach the benevolence and generosity of their father, so that these small barbarian countries, Yidi who has not been transformed into a king, know the greatness of their father and Chinese civilization, and make them pay tribute to Chang'an!" Liu Che bowed and said.

Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, listened to it and was very satisfied!

In the southwest of Zhuyi, Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, naturally knew the existence of these Yidi.

It's just that, all this time, I don't have much time to pay attention to them.

But at this moment, I heard that in addition to the southwestern Zhuyi, there is also a poisonous body, and he is so rich, which makes Liu Qi, the son of heaven, unavoidably concerned.

If the national border can be pushed hundreds or even thousands of miles to the southwest, it will be equivalent to narrowing the distance between the Han family and the country called poison.

When the time comes......

At the beginning, the Tang capital Hedong, the Yin capital Hanoi, and the Zhou capital Henan, these three rivers were the world and China.

What now?

The territory of the Han dynasty stretches for thousands of miles, and the three rivers are just a corner of the land!

For China, as long as you work hard and slowly grind your kung fu all the way, this world is naturally the coast of the land is not the king's minister, and the whole world is not the king's land!

It's just that......

"I guess I can't see it......," Liu Qi, the son of heaven, couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and then said to Liu Che: "This matter is handed over to the prince, but Cheng Zheng and Zhuo's must ensure that they will make achievements within two or three years, otherwise, I will not save face for the prince anymore!" ”

"No!" Liu Che bowed happily.

He naturally knows, what is Dad's so-called achievement?

Of course, it is not really to turn the southwest Zhuyi into counties, that is unrealistic.

Instead, let the chiefs and kings of these southwestern countries come to Chang'an to pay tribute.

Don't underestimate the tributary system of ancient China, it is true that after the Song and Ming dynasties, the tributary system was rigid.

But at this time, the tributary system played an unparalleled role.

In short, as long as the country and nation accepted the canonization of the Son of Heaven of Chang'an, it was equivalent to admitting that it was part of China, which gave the Emperor of the Han family an excuse to intervene in the internal affairs of these countries in the future.

Historically, Piggy's use of troops against South Vietnam and Korea was based on this foundation.

Xing is the upright teacher of the king.

Therefore, as long as those small countries in the southwest recognize the supreme status of the Son of Heaven in Chang'an and claim to be vassals, in name, the Han family can immediately expand its territory for thousands of miles.

Then, it will take more than ten or twenty years at most, and judging from the ability of those small countries in the southwest, I am afraid that there are few that can retain their independence!

This trick has been tried and tested many times in Chinese history.

Therefore, how can those guys in the West who only know how to fight and kill understand the vastness of Eastern civilization?

………………………………

After leaving the Weiyang Palace, Liu Che returned to his palace, and as soon as he returned to the palace with his front foot, Wang Dao came to report on the back foot: "Your Highness, the servant Yuan Si and Yuan Gong ask to see you!" ”

Liu Che hurriedly said, "Please!" ”

It didn't take long for Yuan An's familiar figure to appear in front of Liu Che.

"Minister Yuan Ang visits home!" Yuan Ang bowed and bowed: "The unknown family summoned the ministers to come, what are the orders?" ”

Liu Che smiled slightly, ordered Wang Dao to give him a seat, and when Yuan Ang sat down, Liu Che arched his hand and said: "This time, I invited Si Gong over, there is something unclear!" ”

"Speak up at home!" Yuan Ang said with a slight smile.

"Can Si Gong know the hero Ji Xin of Guanzhong?" Liu Che asked with a smile.

When Yuan Ang heard this, his heart was groaning, and his heart was not good!

He knew that Ji Xin was probably in trouble for him again.

At this moment, a multiple-choice question also appeared in front of Yuan An, should he draw a line with Ji Xin or continue to protect him?

For Yuan An, this choice is difficult!

Because Ji Xin is his eyes and ears!

After thinking about it, Yuan Ang smiled bitterly and replied: "Back to the family, the minister knows that this person is the brother of the late Hedong County Shouji Bu, and he has always been good friends with the minister, I don't know why the family asked the minister about this?" (To be continued......)

PS: It is generally believed that there are three modes of taxation in the Western Han Dynasty, one is taxation by the hectare, one is taxation by household, and the other is taxation by mu.

However, the Han Jian unearthed after the 80s, especially the "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" of the early Han Dynasty and the excavation of the Ernian Law and Tian Law, etc., overturned these assumptions, and it turned out that the taxation methods of the Western Han people were very modern, and there are many cases in the unearthed Nine Chapters of Arithmetic that show that the Han people were taxed according to the mu, and it was the actual output of the mu that was taxed! And it's so flexible that it can even be converted into money!

It's hard to imagine how they did it!

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