"No need for conscription?" One of the ministers stood up and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

"Naturally, it's all about spending money on hired workers!" Liu Che replied with a smile: "For example, a certain section of the project is contracted to someone at a certain price, and after it is completed, the Shaofu will send officials to inspect the quality and then pay......"

Hearing Liu Che say this, the ministers in the hall suddenly had their eyes lit up.

There is not a single stupid person here.

What Liu Che meant, they quickly understood.

Even, even Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, sat back on the royal couch and chuckled in his heart: "It's a little interesting!" ”

Although for a while, Liu Qi still failed to understand Liu Che's train of thought.

However, a high degree of political acumen suddenly allowed Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, to capture the central idea of Liu Che's plan.

Obviously, it's a big pie.

A large painting cake with a total budget of 100,000 yuan, equivalent to a quarter of the financial income of the Han family.

The aristocrats and even relatives of the entire Guanzhong, as well as the landlords, wealthy merchants and even the big merchants of the Kanto region, will go crazy about this.

No one can give up such a good opportunity to make money above board.

Even Liu Qi himself couldn't help but be a little moved, let alone others?

Sure enough, immediately a man who had been silent suddenly came out and asked: "Family, the minister is stupid, please tell me in detail, what kind of contracting method is this contract?" Who can contract? ”

The others, especially the Marquis Che who was just making soy sauce, were also staring at Liu Che intently at the moment.

As for the chief officials of the Jiuqing-level yamen, they also let go of their reserve at this time.

No one is short of money!

Everyone knows what good it is to have money!

Now. When Liu Che threw out a cake of 100,000 yuan, even those who had an opinion on Liu Che because of the protective price of food were eager to kneel in front of Liu Che immediately. I wanted to hug this thigh tightly.

There is no other reason.

It is true that they are the umbrella and backer behind the businessmen in Guanzhong.

However, they are not businessmen, and they don't know much about business, and the reason why they have an opinion about Liu Che is just that they feel that the prince is blocking their financial path.

But, at the moment. When a big pie of 100,000 dollars smashed into the brain.

As long as you are not a fool, as long as you do it properly, it is enough to get a fortune that they will not be able to spend for a lifetime.

That being the case. Then the little filial piety of the merchants is insignificant.

Liu Che glanced at the Marquis Che and the ministers.

With a slight smile, he explained: "Those who have the title of doctor or above can participate in the contracting, and the requirements for price and qualification of different sections of the project are also different. For example, a project that costs 30 million dollars. Naturally, there must be corresponding safeguards...... For example, at least a guarantee fund equivalent to 10% of the project cost must be paid to Shaofu, and at the same time, there must be a guarantee from a marquis or a minister of 2,000 stones! ”

In fact, from the very beginning, Liu Che knew it very clearly.

If the slope project wants to be excavated in this era, technical difficulties and financial difficulties are not a problem.

As long as you make up your mind, there is nothing that the Han family can't do!

However, as a traverser. Liu Che knew very well what was the cost of large-scale construction in ancient China?

Because of the existence of the conscription system. In fact, every time the ruling class levies the people on a large scale, it is in fact an overdraft for its future.

For example, Qin Shi Huang built the Afang Palace, built the imperial mausoleum, and built the Great Wall, which overdrew the future of the entire Qin State and directly led the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprisings.

Another example is that Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty built the Grand Canal and went on an expedition to Goguryeo, which overdrew the future of the entire Sui Dynasty, leading the heroes to rise together, and the world was in chaos.

The reason for this is that the construction of large construction projects and wars will inevitably lead to an increasing burden on the people.

When the people could no longer afford it, there would be a peasant uprising, and a change of dynasty would take place.

However, at a certain period in Chinese history, no matter how the rulers used troops on a large scale and built large-scale construction projects, the people at the bottom honestly paid taxes according to the rules, obeyed the law, obeyed orders, and worked hard.

This was the Warring States Period, which lasted more than 200 years before Qin Shi Huang unified the world.

Throughout the Warring States Period, since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, the Qin people used a kind of extraordinary endurance and determination that will not appear in the next two thousand years to continue foreign wars and build water conservancy internally.

During the war of Qin, Zhao and Changping, the entire Qin State and even the whole country were mobilized, from eighty-year-old people to eight- and nine-year-old children, as long as they were able to participate in the war.

Why can the Qin people endure it?

Why can't they endure a more lenient rule than the Battle of Changping after reunification?

The answer is simple.

The hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit.

During the Warring States Period, before unification, the system of military meritorious lords and famous fields made every Qin person automatically become a part of the Qin State's war plane.

There is definitely a reward for meritorious service in war.

As long as they made a meritorious deed and returned alive, slaves could become freedmen, and yeoman farmers could become landlords.

After reunification, the whole country, from the ruling class to the people, lost its purpose, and even more so, because it could no longer rely on war to gain benefits, the whole country was at a loss.

At the beginning, the Qin people were strong and prosperous, and the invincible military merit lord name field house system in the world eventually became the culprit of destroying it.

The lesson of the Qin people is profound, but it also reminds Liu Che and his followers of a crucial enlightenment: whoever benefits the people, the people will follow whomever they want.

As for the conscription, especially the conscription of the Han Dynasty, from the perspective of the 21st century, there is no doubt that the vast majority of conscription in the Han Dynasty is basically of a public welfare nature.

For example, those two years of military service and half a year of military service, from the perspective of a modern person, are just the national military service system, if in the later Celestial Empire, if you want to be a soldier, you have to give gifts and intercede?

Another example is the repair of bridges and roads and the repair of city defenses, which are very easy to understand people's livelihood projects and national defense projects. Basically, in the later generations, the common people of the Celestial Empire liked such projects very much. Even some poor places wish there were such projects.

However, at this time, the vast majority of the peasants were very reluctant to serve, but those whose families were slightly better-off. will pay someone to serve as a servant.

Especially in the border area, as soon as the normal peasants heard that they were going to the border area, they cried and shouted that if they could not go, they would definitely not go!

Didn't they know that if there was no one to guard at the border gates, the Huns would drive straight into the country, and eventually endanger their peaceful life?

The answer is simple. The people do not see the benefits, but have to pay for it, so that happens. Fools listen to what kind of nationalism you are talking about, the country, and Huayi's great defense!

So what if there is any benefit to serving?

For example, if you can get paid for repairing bridges, you can enjoy the priority of being selected as a tour of the township, the pavilion chief, and even the county government after being discharged from the army?

Liu Che knew that the people would definitely break their heads for this!

Just like the Celestial Empire of later generations.

Of course. For now. At this time, the financial income of the Han family must not be able to support such large-scale expenditures and changes.

Liu Che used the ramp project, just to do an experiment.

As long as this method is proved to be feasible, then he will gradually change the system of free service in the future.

The reason is very simple, the free forced labor system seems to be the rulers taking advantage of the common people, but in fact it is widening the gap between the rich and the poor, speeding up land annexation, and causing far more harm to the ruling class than the benefits obtained!

Dynasties and dynasties. Why land annexation will intensify once it begins. There is no way to stop it, and it can only be purged and reset to zero through a violent revolution.

The crux of the problem lies in the conscription system.

Conscription made it impossible for the people at the bottom to compete with the landlords and the wealthy merchant class.

In the end, the embankment of thousands of miles was destroyed in the anthill, and the huge regime collapsed overnight.

Liu Che naturally knows very well how to expand government revenue.

At present, he has two ways to make the Han family's financial income surge after he ascends the throne.

The right to mint money was withdrawn and the official monopoly of salt and iron was implemented.

These two new financial resources can basically ensure that Liu Che can steadily implement some policies in the first few years after he ascends the throne, but if it involves the national issue of forced labor, then the increased financial resources are completely insufficient!

He must open up new sources of income.

"In the first ten years after I ascended the throne, if I didn't have a bad relationship with the Huns, I tried not to make a bad relationship with the Huns......" Liu Che thought to himself, he had already realized himself.

The Xiongnu and the Han, one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, and there can only be one boss in this territory of East Asia!

However, his own strength has not been accumulated, and the domestic affairs have not been handled well, like a piglet, he ran to fight with the Huns in the face of huge domestic contradictions, and the final result is undoubtedly that the Huns are half dead, but the country has become a mess.

Before the internal affairs were not cleared and the country's strength could not crush the Xiongnu, Liu Che would rather be temporarily wronged.

And Liu Che was confident that within ten years, he would create a cavalry that was enough to crush the Huns.

Then, defeat the Huns in ten years.

Of course, these are just ideas.

At this moment, Liu Che's entire mind is on this pilot of his.

The slope road project in Liu Che is just like the later Celestial Empire reopened in Shenzhen.

It can be said that it is a struggle that concentrates all of Liu Che's current political strength, and for this reason, he even did not hesitate to sacrifice the prestige and popularity he has accumulated now to push it with all his might, and even smashed out such a big pie of 100,000 yuan!

Liu Che has calculated that the entire Baochuan Road, even if the plan of employing migrant workers is adopted, will cost 30,000 yuan at most, or even one to 20,000 yuan.

But he still threw out this pie of 100,000 dollars.

The reason is very simple, it is not enough to make the bureaucrats and nobles in Guanzhong support him.

In short, Liu Che is mentally prepared to sacrifice some of his rights.

Later generations of the Celestial Empire were reopened, supporting the construction of Shenzhen with the strength of the whole country, and even taking out the benefits and interests to buy and win over the entire bureaucracy, and future generations were all dumbfounded when they read history, but facts have proved that if they did not do so, it would be impossible to have the results of the reform, and the internal strife alone was enough to make a qiē go down the drain, not to mention the glory of the G2 group in the future!

The same is true for Liu Che.

If they don't feed the current relatives and bureaucracy, why should they support Liu Che?

Of course. Liu Che knew very well that it was not enough to feed the bureaucracy and the aristocratic group, and he also had to feed his emperor father and the empress dowager of the East Palace.

Yes. The so-called 100,000 yuan and contract guarantee money were actually used by Liu Che to bribe his father!

Liu Che believes that his father should understand what he means today.

In fact, Liu Che's current behavior is tantamount to putting a big bomb on a volcano that is already about to erupt.

For his father, Liu Che naturally knows. Today, Liu Qi's entire spirit and attention are now focused on how to sweep away Wu Chu and make the Kwantung princes obedient and obedient.

And if you want to cut the feudal domain, you must have enough strength.

Military strength. The Central Committee of the Han Dynasty is still very confident.

But as soon as the army moved, the financial resources consumed ......

At present, the central government of the Han dynasty may not be able to support it.

The reason, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, who died two years ago, and the Empress Dowager, who died this summer. The funeral before and after these two and the wealth brought to the ground. Almost emptied the treasury of the Han family! - Even though the funeral rites and funeral goods of the two have been reduced again and again in accordance with the last wishes of the two supremes......

But in the process of burying Emperor Taizong Xiaowen alone, nearly 60,000 troops were mobilized, three generals were set up, and tens of thousands of people were requisitioned...... The cost alone is shockingly large, not to mention the fact that the burial of the Son of Heaven is even the most basic requirement - to meet the various necessities of the Son of Heaven's rituals. Such as the yellow intestine inscription, the golden jade clothes, and the Son of Heaven halo thin honor guard and terracotta warriors.

Otherwise, in his previous life, he would not have been so poor that he would have asked the generals and the Marquis of Che to go to the merchants to borrow usury!

Of Liu Che's 100,000 yuan, at least half of it will definitely become the army's military expenses.

Misappropriation of earmarked funds. This is a natural skill that the ruling class does not need to learn!

The marquis and most of the ministers looked at each other.

They are naturally smart people, of course they know that this 100,000 yuan may be a pie, but as long as half of the funds can be implemented, or even one-third, they may make a lot of money.

So, a Chehou came out and asked: "Home, what if the contract ......" For the word contracting, obviously he was still very uncomfortable, and after thinking about it for a while, he continued: "Who should I go to?" ”

Liu Che smiled and replied: "Lone still has to discuss with his father and ask his father to make permission, and then Lone will decide who will preside over this matter!" ”

After speaking, Liu Che glanced back at his father, and found that his father's face was calm and not angry, so he put his heart back in his stomach.

In fact, what Liu Che was most afraid of was that this incident aroused his father's disgust.

That's more than worth the loss.

Now it seems that the emperor's father does not object, at least in an acquiescing attitude.

This made Liu Che feel inspired.

But at this moment, Liu Qi, the son of heaven, has a different kind of mind in his heart.

"This stinky boy ......" Liu Qi, the son of heaven, shook his head, about Liu Che's plan, this morning, he listened to Yan Yi's report, at that time, he didn't care much, after all, Yan Yi only said that Liu Che got a huge sum of 100,000 yuan and wanted to use it to repair the ramp.

And combined with other aspects of intelligence, Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, is just whimsical and whimsical as Liu Che.

Just like when he was younger, there were always a lot of naïve and unrealistic thoughts in his head.

But at this moment, Liu Che's idea is very likely to come true!

The reason is very simple, a contracting law, although it is not yet known how it will be operated.

But Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, knew that the ones who could be contracted must be the families of the Marquis of Che and the chief officials of various yamen, as well as the related households of the court.

With such a large piece of cake flour and the union of interests, this ramp project can basically be completed.

It's just that the prince is so blatant in establishing power and winning over the government and the opposition.

I don't know why Liu Qi, the son of heaven, feels very uncomfortable in his heart.

There is not only a kind of relief that his son has grown up, but also some strange feelings mixed in.

It made him feel a little annoyed and a little sour......

Especially when he saw Liu Che's young and handsome face and his attitude when he calmly dealt with the ministers, he became jealous.

It's just that Liu Qi, the son of heaven, is very forbearant and forbearant.

On the surface, he still maintained the appearance of a loving father and a strict monarch, with his eyes half-closed, sitting on the imperial couch.

"Prince, come with me......" Liu Qi, the son of heaven, suddenly stood up, and then, he said to the ministers: "The ministers are scattered!" ”

That is, he did not express his position on Liu Che's praise ramp project, let alone have any opinions on 100,000 yuan.

As if he hadn't heard any of them.

When Liu Che saw this scene, he suddenly felt a pimple in his heart, and secretly screamed: "I'm so proud, why did I forget this?!" ”

The smooth sailing during this period of time made Liu Che too carried away.

So much so that he forgot about it, this is in the feudal dynasty, this is the Western Han Dynasty, and he has to face an emperor father!

The emperor is a creature that can be called the most elusive and fathomable creature!

Especially this daddy of his, who is known for being sensitive and suspicious!

Fortunately, fortunately it was the Western Han Dynasty, not Li Tang and not Zhu Ming, otherwise, just the table he got carried away just now would have been enough for him to drink a pot.

The relationship between the emperor of the Western Han Dynasty and his crown prince was much more harmonious than that of later dynasties.

Even if it is Liu Bang, no matter how much he dislikes Liu Ying, at least, he still sees him as a son and heir, not an enemy.

Despite this, this incident still gave Liu Che a wake-up call.

"I'm still just a prince, a prince who has just ascended the throne, his position is unstable, his foundation is not solid, and things like this will be handed over to Zhang Tang, Yan Yi and Ji Di in the future!" Liu Che admonished himself in his heart.

This is indeed a profound lesson!

In all fairness, if he can hand over this matter to Yan Yi and Zhang Tang to propose, and complete it in the shape of the above book, the effect will be the same, but he can avoid conflicts with his father, let alone let his father have any ideas.

"I'm still too tender...... Liu Che said to himself in his heart: "It's also a shame that I'm still young, only sixteen years old, otherwise, the consequences are really unimaginable!" ”

Liu Che kept up with his father's footsteps, and at the same time began to deduce in his heart, how could he calm the suspicion in his father's heart and be natural so that his father would not have more bad thoughts?

This is undoubtedly the greatest test since his rebirth! (To be continued......)

PS: Well, it's starting to be updated normally~

Ah, this month is so decadent, and in the remaining 17 days, I will try not to leave any debt for 14 years!