Dahan first prince

Chapter 218 It's still a bit of an adventure...
"——I heard that the ancient sage kings did many acts of kindness to the people.

Yao saw that the people were not able to farm at the right time, and they could not achieve enough harvests, so he ordered Xihe, who looked like the sky, and whose calendar was like the sun, moon and stars, to respect and teach people the time;

When Shun came to the throne and made the people suffer, he ordered Yu to control the waters, appoint the virtuous and promote the talents, clarify the administration of officials, cultivate private virtues within, and make peace with the world;

Yu got Shun's appointment to control the floods, and he passed the house three times without entering, so that the floods could be relieved and the people could live in peace.

I am originally a commoner, full of potential, and I am the people of Chu. Afterwards, the world will suffer from Qin for a long time, and I will obey the order of heaven to raise up righteous soldiers, and rely on the common hope of the world to fight against the tyranny of Qin.

Although my virtue is not as good as the eleventh of the holy kings of Yao and Shun, I dare not forget for a moment the plan of the people.

Fortunately, Tai's family is blessed, the ancestors are blessed, and the court ministers serve the orders, and hundreds of officials help, so that I can implement benevolent and benevolent governance, so that I can rest and live with the people.

Although the folk dolls have rice to feed their stomachs and clothes to keep out the cold, their parents can live in a house, their wives and sons can work in their fields, and each enjoys his own happiness, so as to enjoy a little peace in the world.

It has been nearly seven years since I established myself in the Han Dynasty, and I am always trembling, fearing that my views will be wrong, my actions will be wrong, or my accidental government will harm the people of the world.

In order to ensure that the people have enough food and clothing, and a safe house, I have even given them land and nobility, set a tax of one out of fifteen, and a tax of one per household income, so that Fang feels a little more at ease.

After seeing the miscellaneous money system in the world, it is inconvenient for the living and the people to use it, and the ministers of the court compete with each other to advise and discuss it, and get the general approval of the court meeting. We ordered the Shaofu to cast half of the money of the Han Dynasty and it is cheaper for the people, and even allowed the people to cast it privately. So that the people can get a little profit from making money.

However, I didn't investigate for a while, and the good governance that was originally for the benefit of the people has now been stolen by two or three rebellious officials and thieves as weapons for the disabled people.

What's more, I want to let the people get the benefit of making money, but this is also hindered by the two or three thieves, so that the people will change their faces when they hear the money, but they will not smile.

"Shangshu" says: It is the training of Yi, and the training of the emperor. ; All Jue common people are extremely perfunctory, and they are training and doing, so as to get close to the light of the Son of Heaven.Said: The son of heaven is the parent of the people, and he thinks he is the king of the world.

I obeyed the destiny to eradicate the tyrant Qin, and established Hanzuo according to the destiny. I was the parent of the people of the world, and I thought of it as the king of the world.

Order: It is forbidden for people to mint money privately; anyone who has not been hired by the Shaofu to mint money privately will have all the money minted and unused copper;
The mastermind sits dead, and the sidelines are followed by the planner; the craftsman and force who make money for the servants are completed as the city;
Wherever it is governed, the people mint money privately, if it is less than a hundred coins, the county magistrate will be exempted from the post; , from felony; more than [-] yuan, Tingwei, internal history, and prime ministers will check and introspect. I should also take a bath and fast, and think for three days to reflect my own immorality.

And today, the money that has been minted varies in weight and weight, so the money of various countries is very mixed.

Order: All money should be round on the outside and square on the inside, copper-yellow in color, half an inch in diameter, and the diameter of the hole should not exceed half the diameter of the money; the weight of the money should be the face of the foot.

Anyone who does not follow this order is not money; it cannot be sold in the market, and it cannot be used as a verbal gift, and it is not allowed to enter the Shaofu.

Where there are divisions and local counties in the court, they are not allowed to collect or use bad money that is not in accordance with this order; those who violate it will be deprived of half a year of labor, and their positions will be moved to the left by one level.

In the past, the Three Emperors and Five Emperors came to this world, and the world was safe and peaceful, and the people lived in peace and happiness; now I have to establish Han Zuo, although I know that I have no virtue, I also save my insufficiency at the time, and imitate the actions of the holy king..."

······
After silently reading the edict copied from the bamboo slips in her hand, Liu Ying was stunned for a long time, unable to recover from her thoughts for a long time.

But in front of Liu Ying, Lu Shizhi had an excited look of joy on his face, he could only force Zian to bear the excitement in his heart, and fixed his slightly probing eyes on Liu Ying's face.

"Whoo~"

I don't know how long it took before Liu Ying let out a breath of turbid air, and managed to bring her thoughts back to her eyes.

Liu Ying knew in her heart that such a well-written edict, with nearly one-third of its content in the "quoting scriptures and classics", must not be original by the old man.

If there is no accident, it should be that Liu Bang drafted a few central ideas, such as prohibiting people from privately casting money, and the criteria for judging "money", and then threw it to the ministers in the palace for polishing.

When Liu Bang's plain and straightforward words took on some seriousness in the pens of the Shang Shulangs, it was regarded as a preliminary "draft", which was taken to Prime Minister Xiao He for review.

After Xiao He made some revisions and supplements, he took it to Liu Bang for review, and after both the monarch and his ministers said that it could be promulgated, he took the final version of the imperial edict and copied it in triplicate.

Then, Liu Bang and Xiao He affixed the emperor's seal and the prime minister's seal on the three identical edicts respectively, and this was declared complete.

Of these three edicts, one will be kept in Shiqu Pavilion as a backup, and the other will be kept in the Prime Minister's Mansion as a second insurance for 'prevention of false edicts'.

After the first two edicts were kept in Shiqu Pavilion and the Prime Minister's Mansion respectively as a backup, the third edict would be officially promulgated.

With these three procedures, the possibility of 'correction' can be minimized.

If someone took out a piece of silk from his arms and said it was an edict from the emperor, it would be easy to tell.

——Take this edict whose authenticity is difficult to distinguish, and see if there are any backups in Shiqu Pavilion and the Prime Minister's Mansion.

If there are all, it means that this is indeed the emperor's edict; but if one of them is missing, it can be judged as: Jiaozhao.

If Shiqu Pavilion had a backup and the Prime Minister's Mansion did not, then the legitimacy of this imperial edict would not be recognized by the foreign court.

It would be even more serious if the Prime Minister's Mansion had a backup but Shiqu Pavilion did not.

——An imperial edict, there is a backup in the hands of the prime minister, but not in the hands of the emperor?

If such a horrific political incident really happened, then the entire central court, the Sangong and Jiuqing would not kill a dozen or so people, and it would be impossible for this matter to end!
Among the three such edicts, the least important one is undoubtedly the third one, which is the one officially released.

If it is an edict aimed at individuals, such as rewards, transfers, etc., then the edict will naturally be handed over to the recipient;

If, like this edict, the decree of the world is issued, the original edict will be posted in Chang'an, and the rubbings will be copied by the court officials for distribution to all parts of the world.

At this moment, the bamboo slips that Liu Ying held in her hand was a copy of the imperial edict specially copied by the imperial court, and with the "agreement" of the emperor Liu Bang and the prime minister Xiao He, it was quickly delivered to Liu Ying.

However, looking at the seemingly random words and sentences on the bamboo slips, Liu Ying only felt a little ashamed in her heart.

——It stands to reason that if Liu Ying hadn't opened his mouth and even half-begged and half-forced Xiao He to discuss with the emperor Liu Bang, then such an edict that might damage Liu Bang's prestige would not be necessary.

The reason is simple: there are policies above and countermeasures below.

Liu Bangneng issued an edict to force the three baht coins to be given half taels, that is, the face value of twelve bahts, but it was impossible for Liu Bang to forcibly maintain the three baht coins in circulation in the market by any means.

Just like in the past few years, the people in Guanzhong knew that the emperor had an order: not to reject the Han Banliang, but the Shaofu piled up like a mountain of money, and they still didn't spend a penny.

why?
Hey!
——Is it okay if I don’t sell it?

What the emperor said was 'not to refuse', not to say that it must be accepted; if I don't want to sell it to you, can you still buy and sell it by force?

As for the reasons for refusing to trade, there are plenty of rhetoric—you are in a bad mood, you are in a good mood, it is sold out, you don’t want to sell it, and so on.

Even if Liu Bang is the emperor, it is impossible to issue a special edict, stipulating that when the people see a person holding three baht coins, they must ask him for anything.

This makes the previous, even though the three baht coins still exist, in fact, they have already been naturally eliminated by the market.

Under such circumstances, instead of taking the risk of damaging his popularity, Liu Bang, as the emperor, promulgated such an edict that was vaguely suspected of "admitting his own mistakes", and it was obviously safer to deal with it coldly.

Anyway, no matter whether it is banned or not, the three baht coins can no longer be circulated. If there is no such thing, the three baht coins will naturally withdraw from the stage of history.

Even take a step back: Even if the three baht coins are to be abolished and the common people are prohibited from casting coins privately, it is entirely possible to wait two years after Liu Bang's death and Liu Ying's succession, and let the then Queen Mother Lu Zhi stand up and euphemistically use a similar name. repeal.

In Liu Ying's previous life, the problem of the three baht money was finally resolved after going through such a procedure.

——Liu Bang was alive, and the court turned a blind eye to the three baht coins, as if there had never been such a thing in the world.

When Liu Bang passed away, Lu Zhi, who was temporarily in charge of the government as the empress dowager, stood up and mentioned something cryptically: It seems that the legacy of the former emperor was corrupted by some thieves?
With just such a sentence, the ministers of the court changed their previous style, and they fired all their firepower, and with jaw-dropping efficiency, they explained the disadvantages of the three baht money.

Then, the Empress Dowager Lu Zhi stood up and threw out the words that were impossible to refute: The late emperor passed away. As the late emperor's widow, I must protect the late emperor's name!

But now, the three baht coins issued by the first emperor have been changed by the thief demon into a government for the disabled, and the legacy of the first emperor has been corrupted. This is something I absolutely cannot bear!

With such a political procedure, and the solid stand of "the empress dowager safeguarding the legacy of the former emperor", the abolition of the three baht coin and the publicization of the right to coinage can be regarded as a matter of course and a matter of course.

In this life, if it was safe, Liu Ying could have followed the route of her previous life and waited until her father closed her eyes before thinking about the three baht coins and the right to mint coins.

But there are some things that can be dragged on if you don't want to procrastinate...
"At home!"

Just as Liu Ying was thinking with a sigh, Lu Shizhi finally couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, and bowed his hands heavily to Liu Ying.

And Liu Ying's reason for "can only take risks, abolish the three baht coins in advance and take back the minting rights to the central government" was also fully explained by the beaming Lu Shizhi.

"Your Majesty's edict, three baht worth of pods from the past, shall be wiped out in the world!"

"In this way, when the autumn harvest comes, the Shaofu will buy the grain from Guanzhong, and sell the grain to the people next year..."

In the middle of speaking, Lu Shizhi couldn't articulate what he was excited about, he only swallowed his saliva with anticipation, and then started giggling to himself.

Seeing Lu Shizhi's expression, Liu Ying just shook her head and smiled, then lowered her head.

This is why Liu Ying took the risk to encourage Xiao He to promote the abolition of the three baht coin and the common ownership of the minting rights.

——Autumn Harvest is not far away...

In the past, Liu Ying was troubled by the existence of three baht coins, which might make the "grain and rice official camp" in Shaofu, in exchange for inexhaustible three baht coins, piled up in the internal funds, so she came up with the "reserve for the people" Grain' method, as a stopgap measure.

However, the lack of actual governance experience made Liu Ying forget a crucial issue.

——Not all the food grown by the common people is eaten...
In the past, the reason why the people in Guanzhong worked for a year, but their income could only be used to feed their hunger, was because of the existence of the group of "grain merchants", who ate more than half of the grain harvested by the people!
One hundred acres of fertile farmland yields two or three hundred shi of grain, and once bought and sold by the grain merchants, there is less than [-] shi left, which naturally can only be used for food.

However, after Liu Ying banned the "grain merchant group" in Guanzhong and promoted the Shaofu officials to manage grain and rice, most of the grain harvested by the people can still be kept.

In addition, at the beginning of the year, Liu Ying majored in the Zhengguo Canal, which will make the hundreds of thousands of hectares of farmland in Weibei usher in the best harvest in the past ten years!
In this way, the food for the common people will not be eaten up...

Take Weibei as an example.

In the past, Weibei produced about three shi per mu, and a farmer had [-] mu of land, and could grow three hundred shi of grain every year.

Of the 280 shi of grain, [-] shi will be paid as agricultural tax, and of the remaining [-] shi, [-] shi will be kept by the people as winter grain; the remaining [-] shi will be sold to grain merchants after the autumn harvest.

But in the spring of the next year, the price of grain will rise, and the common people can only buy back about [-] shi of grain with the money they get from selling [-] shi of grain.

As a result, although the family earns 180 shi of grain a year, they actually only get [-] shi. If there are a little more people in the family, they can barely eat enough.

And this year when Weibei is about to have a bumper harvest, the same [-]-acre field is likely to harvest more than [-] shi of grain!

And among the four hundred shi grains, after removing the agricultural tax of less than 370 shi, the remaining [-] shi, even if they were deposited by the common people into the Shaofu for three hundred shi, according to the standard of "one out of ten" set by Liu Ying, The Shaofu will only charge a fee of thirty shi for 'reservation'.

In this way, out of the 340 shi of grain harvested by this farmer this year, at least [-] shi will become 'actual income'.

This is the crux of the problem.

In the past, 180 shi of grain was enough to feed the family;

But this year, the family has 340 shi of grain in their hands.

What should the extra 100 stones be used for?
But any normal person will inevitably sell it in exchange for other materials, or as a savings for a rainy day.

At the moment when the group of "grain merchants" is completely extinct, the only people who can eat this batch of grain are the "government-run grain and rice" Shaofu.

This made Liu Ying know that even if he knew that the three baht coins and the minting rights could have been done slowly, he could only take the risk of pushing through the prime minister Xiao He to prevent Shaofu from using Qin Banliang to buy grain and sell it the next year. When it was out, it was changed back to Han Banliang'. The tragedy happened.

Thinking of this, Liu Ying lowered her head involuntarily, and took out a fine-quality coin almost entirely made of copper from her bosom.

And on the front of this coin...
"Han five baht..."

With a soft murmur, a slightly joyful smile finally appeared on the corner of Liu Ying's mouth...
(End of this chapter)