Dahan first prince

Chapter 340 What does the mother mean?

Liu Ying knew nothing about Yang Chengyan's inner activities.

To be precise, it's not paying attention.

——In the past period of time, there were too many things that Liu Ying needed to worry about...
First it was the missions of the Han Dynasty, then the court meeting at the beginning of the year, and the preparations for the emperor's crown ceremony, the wedding ceremony, and even the complicated affairs such as Xiao He's death and the excavation of the canal, etc., all of which made Liu Ying feel very busy. I always feel that the first prerequisite for being a good emperor is probably how many heads you have...

For now, Liu Ying clearly remembered that Yang Li was involved, and she really planned to summon Yang Li after returning to Chang'an and make arrangements for him, but in fact, even after returning to Chang'an, there are still a lot of things waiting Liu Ying handles it.

Strictly speaking, Liu Ying came out of Chang'an to inspect the construction site of the 'Feng Canal'. From a certain point of view, there is also the meaning of 'going out to get some fresh air and relax'.

But no matter what, Liu Ying is still the emperor after all.

Since she is the Son of Heaven, it is difficult for Liu Ying to take her vacation as she pleases like ordinary people, princes of meritorious officials and officials...

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"My son sees my mother."

Half a day later, Liu Ying, who rushed back to Chang'an non-stop, didn't even have time to go back to Weiyang Palace, so she came to Changle Palace where her mother Lu Zhi lived.

And when Liu Ying walked into the hall and bowed to the Empress Dowager Lu Zhi, two figures stood up in the hall in response.

"Inner History Anguo Houchen Mausoleum, please refer to Your Majesty."

"An Guohou."

Nodding to Wang Ling who got up to salute, Liu Ying cheered up, turned sideways with a smile, and cast her eyes on Wang Ling's side, the figure that Liu Ying was very familiar with.

"Prime Minister Pingyang Marquis attends, see Your Majesty..."

Seeing the radiant Cao Shen singing praises in the Changxin Hall, Liu Ying did not dare to be sloppy at all, and hurriedly straightened her body and bowed slightly to Cao Shen.

"Prime Minister Cao..."

This is also one of the "complicated government affairs" that made Liu Ying feel exhausted in the past period of time.

——In November of winter, Cao Can, the Marquis of Pingyang, the royal censor, was officially worshiped by Liu Ying as Prime Minister of Han!
Although Cao Shen succeeded Xiao He and served as the second prime minister of the Han Dynasty, he was selected several years ago, but when it comes to the official appointment, the etiquette and procedures that should be there are also indispensable.

Although the three requests and three speeches of the later generations of Rotten Street have not yet appeared in today's Han Dynasty, but don't forget: when the court served Changqing, it was Shusun Tong!
——From scratch, he came up with a whole set of "Han Rituals" entirely by his brain, and let Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty wear clothes, and he couldn't help sighing, "I only know how honorable the emperor is today." The old Confucian uncle Sun Tong !
There is Uncle Sun Tong sitting in the town to worship, let alone worshiping the prime minister, even the royal family's sacrifices to Taimiao and Gaomiao on festivals and festivals are not sloppy at all.

Naturally, as the "successor of the prime minister" who was appointed by default a few years ago, the process of Liu Ying worshiping Cao Shen as the prime minister also failed to escape the "destruction" of Shu Suntong.

Specifically, the procedure is too complicated, just a little bit is enough to make Liu Ying's life worse than death.

——According to the worship ceremony invented by Shu Suntong, it took 21 days from Liu Ying officially promulgated the imperial edict to Cao Shen officially took over the seal, and officially went to the prime minister's office as a "Han prime minister" as long as!
During these 21 days, there were no less than dozens of "monarch orders", which were sent to Weiyang Palace in the form of edicts and oral instructions;
During this period, the emperor Liu Ying, as well as the internal history under Wang Ling, and Fengchang under the command of Shu Suntong, almost did nothing, and put all their energy on Liu Ying's worship of Cao Shen. phase this matter.

For this visit to the Prime Minister, even the internal funds of the Shaofu, on behalf of Liu Ying, spent millions of dollars worth of supplies to show Liu Ying's respect for the new Prime Minister Cao Can...

"570 forty-nine thousand and 680 money..."

"Cao Shen, Cao Shen..."

Secretly shaking the tooth socket, Liu Ying smiled and invited Cao Shen to sit down at any time, but every time Liu Ying thought of this string of numbers with odd parts and whole numbers, Liu Ying's heart would always bleed uncontrollably... ···
——This is nearly 600 million yuan, converted into grain at the current market price, but it is a full [-] shi of corn!
——Enough food for [-] border guards for a month!

If you take Cao Shen's rank and salary of [-] shi and the actual annual salary of [-] shi, the cost of worshiping Cao Shen as a chancellor is enough to give Cao Shen seven years' salary!

But now, the food that would have been enough to feed [-] frontier guards for a month, or to give Cao Shen seven years' salary, was all used up by that prodigal son, Shu Suntong, on some nonsense 'greetings'... ··
In this regard, Liu Ying just wants to say: Image engineering is really a bad thing...
Although Liu Ying knew in her heart that these millions of dollars were nothing to Cao Shen, the Marquis of Pingyang, who had [-] households in the city, but Liu Ying still couldn't help but feel a little bit of "this prime minister is really good." Expensive' weird idea.

If Liu Ying didn't understand herself, such an idea would not be understood by this era. I'm afraid Liu Ying would really pull a few confidants and complain a few words, "Cao Shen couldn't live for seven years, but I spent seven years of salary worshiping Cao Shen." For phase' and the like.

Even now, the uncooked rice has been cooked into cooked rice, and the trees have been made into boats. When Liu Ying faces Cao Shen, she can't help but bring some mentality of "must find a chance to earn back this money".

But obviously: this is all just Liu Ying's wishful thinking.

For the calculations in Liu Ying's mind, the Queen Mother Lu Zhi, the Imperial Tomb of Internal History, and even Cao Shen himself are not interested in Liu Ying's calculations...
"My son looked at it immediately, and then he knew what happened to Feng Qu. Where has it gone?"

When Liu Ying was still thinking about Cao Shen, a "loser", and Shusun Tong, a "prodigal bastard", Queen Mother Lu Zhi's gentle words finally brought Liu Ying's thoughts back to her eyes.

After recalling the old woman's question for a while, and pondering for a while, Liu Ying finally temporarily put aside her "dissatisfaction" with Cao Shen, turned around with a smile, and nodded slightly to her mother Lu Zhi.

"Ask after returning to mother."

"——Thanks to Emperor Taizu Gao Hongfu, and the blessings of our ancestors of the Liu family, everything about Fengqu will go smoothly."

"When I looked at it, the canal had already taken shape, but the bottom of the canal was not smooth;"

"According to what the Shaofu said, at the latest in spring and February, the canal can be filled with water, and then it will be used by the people..."

Hearing Liu Ying's words, Lu Zhi only nodded with a gratified smile, and immediately turned sideways, looking at Cao Can and Wang Ling in the hall with a slightly ostentatious look.

Those vivid eyes seemed to be saying to Cao Can and Wang Ling: Look, this is my son!Dear son! ! !
As for Liu Ying, who was sitting beside Lv Zhi, she quietly thought about the soon-to-be-drilled 'Qin Canal' by taking advantage of her mother and her subordinates to show off her skills.

The Feng Qu did not exist in the history of China; in the original history, there was never an emperor who specially built a canal for this Marquis Feng Wen;

But from a geographical point of view, Feng Qu actually existed in real history.

——Gain because today, the Fengqu Canal being excavated by Master Yanli of Shaofu Yangcheng is actually the "White Canal" dug in the reign of Emperor Wu in history.

The historical Baiqu was built in the second year of Emperor Taishi of Emperor Xiaowu of the Han Dynasty. Its geographical location is the same as that of today's "Bingqu". The first valley mouth flows down the southeast direction.

Moreover, the Zhengguo Canal running east-west flows straight eastward, and finally flows into Luoshui River at a nearly right angle; while the Baiqu Canal running northwest-southeast flows through Jingyang, Sanyuan, Gaoling and other counties, and flows obliquely into Weishui River in Xiagui.

According to the records in "Han Shu Gou Shi Zhi", it starts from the mouth of the valley, enters Liyang at the end, pours into the Weihe River for [-] miles, and irrigates more than [-] hectares of land;

At the same time, in history, Emperor Wu ordered the construction of Baiqu, just like the "Baiqu" named after Binghou Xiaohe, it was named Baiqu because of the suggestion of Baigong, the doctor of Zhao Zhong.

So for the Baiqu, or the "Bingqu" in the current timeline, even if Liu Ying doesn't have much hydraulic instructions, she can roughly draw the location of the river on the blueprint according to the memory of her previous life.

The biggest difficulty of water conservancy projects in the feudal era is undoubtedly to detect the geo-topography and plan a reasonable route;
But after Liu Ying personally gave the specific route, Shaofu dug the Fengqu, which is almost equivalent to an open-book exam.

——The answer is there naked, and the respondent does not need to think at all, just fill it in.

It is precisely for this reason that the "Baiqu" that took three winters in the Han Dynasty in the original history has become four months in the hands of Yangchengyan, the Shaofu Qing, that is, it can be completed in one winter. of 'minor engineering'.

Perhaps because of this, Chao Tang did not pay much attention to this 'small project' of Feng Qu.

After all, compared with the Zhengguo Canal, which has a total length of more than [-] miles and can irrigate more than [-] hectares of fields on both sides, it is only [-] kilometers long. The Baiqu, which is only half as deep as the Zhengguoqu, cannot be regarded as an overly difficult water conservancy project.

——Decades ago, Qin, who built the Zhengguo Canal, was still just "Qin State"!
For the "Qin State", a [-]-mile-long Zhengguo Canal is indeed a big canal for betting on the country's fortune;
But for the wealthy Han Dynasty, a canal two hundred miles long, more than two feet deep, and no more than seven feet wide at the top is really not a "gamble on the fate of the country".

For today's Han Dynasty, there is only one problem to be solved in the construction of water conservancy.

— money and food!
With money and food, and enough people, it is enough for today's Han Dynasty to cope with most of the water conservancy projects in the feudal era.

Liu Ying also understood in her heart: when she first returned to Chang'an, her mother called her to Changle Palace in a hurry, and it was definitely not because of the "small micro-engineering" of Feng Qu.

At best, Lu Zhi used "what is the result of the inspection" as an opening remark.

Sure enough, after briefly asking about Bing Qu's situation, Lu Zhi naturally raised his head, and handed the conversation to Cao Can and Wang Ling who were kneeling in the hall.

Seeing Cao Can and Wang Ling look at each other for a while, they stood up together and bowed to Liu Yingqi solemnly.

"His Majesty."

"At the beginning of the Yuanshuo Dynasty, the Empress Dowager had ordered that all subordinates and divisions of the court work together to prepare for the crowning ceremony of Your Majesty;"

"And when Emperor Taizu Gao passed away, he said: "When I passed away, the new ruler was weak, so he should have an old minister to assist him, so he would be an envoy, the Marquis of An Guo, and so Bing Wen was the final prince, and he thought that the new ruler had only arms... "..."

With a serious expression on his face, Wang Ling turned his head slightly to one side, and Cao Shen took over the Huatou.

"Your Majesty the Empress respects Fengwen Zhonghou as the Grand Master, and everyone in the world says: This is the day to bless my great man, and I will gain another Mingjun and Xiongzhu!"

"Ranchen and others all think that: the way of the monarch and the minister, and the difference between superiority and inferiority, are actually important matters related to the ancestral temple and the country..."

Speaking of this, Cao Shen did not forget to raise his eyelids a little, and inquired about the changes in the expressions of Liu Ying, Lu Zhi's mother and son.

After confirming that Liu Ying was not angry, Lu Zhi nodded slowly to himself, and Cao Shen breathed a sigh of relief, and continued: "Feng Wen died at the end of the day. Your Majesty cannot help mourning. Although this is slightly against the system, it is still reasonable.”

"However, now that the grand master is gone, the minister and the Marquis of Anguo each take on the duties of prime minister and internal history, but they still hold the post of grand master."

As he spoke, Cao Shen turned his body slightly, looked at Wang Ling and nodded.

"Nowadays, there are rumors in the market that Yanchen and An Guohou entered the palace to have an audience. His Majesty first held his disciples to pay respects to the ministers, and then the ministers waited to hold the servants to pay respects to His Majesty."

"If things go on like this for a long time, the ministers and others are worried about the public, and there may be even more unimaginable opinions..."

Listening to Cao Shen's words to express his attitude in a slow manner, Liu Ying's expression remained the same, and he grinned again.

"The Marquis of Pingyang has been a chancellor not long ago, and it is rumored that he may be a little allergic..."

"Xu Zhi knew that in the past, Marquis Fengwen Zhong was also slandered by others, calling him a 'rebellious minister'; but Marquis Feng remained unmoved, and stayed in the court firmly, and ruled Guanzhong in place of Emperor Taizu Gao."

"The Marquis of Pingyang succeeds the position of Marquis of the end of Bing Wen, and the rumors in the market should also follow the actions of Marquis of the end of Bing Wen..."

The words that were so relaxed that they were even a little joking, made Cao Shen's face more serious, so he straightened up quickly, and bowed his hands heavily to Liu Ying again.

"I don't think so."

"The minister Tong An Guohou appointed the post of Taifu for Emperor Taizu Gao, because Emperor Taizu Gao was worried that His Majesty was not crowned and came to the court at a young age."

"However, since His Majesty's coronation is imminent, I think that it is convenient for me to let go of the post of Grand Tutor that I share with the Marquis of An Guo."

"If this is not the case, I am afraid that everyone in the world will think that the minister and the Marquis of Anguo maintain his meritorious service, and control Liu Han Sheji, so that the country will be destroyed..."

As soon as Cao Shen finished speaking, without waiting for Liu Ying to react, he knelt down and solemnly bowed Wang Ling.

"Minister, attach the prime minister's proposal."

"Please Your Majesty, after the coronation ceremony, remove the minister and the post of Tai Tuo, so as not to cause a lot of discussion, and the country will be ruined..."

Seeing that Wang Ling also stood up and said, "I also think Cao Shen is right", Liu Ying already had an idea in her heart, and she did not forget to turn her head with a slight hesitation on the surface.

"Since that's the case..."

"According to my mother's wishes...?"

(End of this chapter)