The big man is on the run

Chapter 22 Things Across Era
In the palace room, red candles flickered.

Sister Fu Yu rolled up the sleeves of the palace dress, revealing her delicate white wrists. On her wrists was a string of crystal clear jade bracelets, shining brightly under the candlelight and shining charmingly.

Liu Yi, who was kneeling and writing in front of the desk, was slightly taken aback, and looked at Sister Fu Yu, who seemed extraordinarily charming tonight.

Ice bones and jade muscles, peerless elegance.

Liu Yi's gaze fell into the milky white abyss, where there was also a string of jade, ah, so big, no, ah, so deep.

"cough!"

She will be a queen in about two days, sister Fu Yu is in a great mood, instead of being shy, she sits upright.

Difficult to look away from the trembling abyss, looking up along the swan-like elegant neck, Liu Yi clearly saw that Fu Yu's earlobes were already red.

Putting down the pen, Liu Yi smiled and pinned the strands of blue hair scattered around her ears back to her, grabbed her hand and asked, "What's the matter? My queen's wife?"

"The steamed buns His Majesty talked about that day, my concubine made them tonight."

Mantou, round and raised, is a common food fermented and steamed with flour.

Later generations of barnyard officials said in the novels: Zhuge Wuhou conquered Menghuo, and people said: "There are many sorcerers in the barbaric land, you must pray to God, and the fake Yin soldiers will help them."However, barbarians must kill people, and sacrifice their heads to them, and the gods will go to them, which is also a way to send troops. ” Wuhou refused, because he used the meat of mutton and hog, and wrapped it with noodles, like a human head, and used it as a shrine.Later generations thus became steamed buns.

Liu Yi told Fushou how to make it, and within two days, she tried to make it.

This also means that Liu Yi once again made a small change to this world of time and space.

"have a look."

Sister Fu Yu brought it up, and there were freshly baked steamed buns in the steamer, which seemed to have added some goat milk.

"Very talented, not bad."

After a few sips, Liu Yi thought the taste was pretty good, with a bit of milky aroma.

It's a pity that the production cost of this version should be relatively high, and the common people cannot afford refined noodles.

"Have you tasted it?"

"The concubine has tasted it."

"That's it." Liu Yi took Sister Fu Yu's little hand, "You send someone to deliver some to Da Siong Zhu Gong (Zhu Jun), I heard that his condition is recovering, and eating some soft sweets will make me happy. Then, share the rest with the guards on duty."

Sister Fu Yu had no regrets, and agreed gently.

The maid sent it out, and the atmosphere in the air was warm and peaceful.

"Your Majesty, this calligraphy?"

What caught Fu Yujie's attention was not something on the silk script, but a font he had never seen before.

Fengshen eight faces, elegant posture.

"This font is called Xingkai. After discussing with Zhong Yao, I plan to promote it when the situation settles down a little bit. It can be regarded as making some insignificant contributions to the culture and elegance of the big man."

"It's so beautiful? Your Majesty, what are gunpowder and artillery?"

"Uh"

Faced with questions that would be unclear for a while, such as the gunpowder artillery, stirrups and horseshoes, and counterweight trebuchets that he wrote down on the silk book, he casually fooled them and only said that they were some of his own ideas.

As for the Fubing system and the imperial examination system, they didn't even mention it.

Just kidding, he wants to realize the cross-age military technology, but to the uncontrolled Xiliang army?

Well, with the stirrup and horseshoe, Li Jue and Guo Si took off directly on the spot, so he didn't kill himself.

These good things must wait for him to overthrow Li Guo and take control of the army before getting them. Now he just writes them down to prevent him from forgetting.

After all, as time goes by, his memory of his previous life will definitely become more and more blurred.

"In the past few days, I have been looking through the internal history, and I have asked many people to ask. I have been thinking about a question. You said that the Han Empire has come to this point. The center is weak and the counties are independent. Why?"

Without waiting for Sister Fu Yu's answer, Liu Yi seemed to just want to say something and let himself think along this line.

"In today's world, there are 105 prefectures, 1587 counties, 1000 million households, and 5000 million people. How did such a large empire become like this?"

Sister Fu Yu pressed her seductive cherry lips tightly and asked carefully.

"Maybe it's because the governor changed state shepherd to make trouble?"

"wrong."

Liu Yi answered affirmatively. He recalled the historical materials and continued.

"In fact, the governor who took the responsibility of supervision became the state shepherd who was caught by the military and government. This kind of thing is not new. In the former Han Dynasty, the prefects and state ministers of the prefectures were like this."

"The conflict between Chu and Han ended, and Emperor Taizu Gao established Dahan. At that time, the county was the supervision area. It was not responsible for the specific military and political affairs of the counties below. It was only responsible for statistics and assessment. The central government was directly responsible for docking more than 1000 counties.

Why do you think that the prefect of the county and the prime minister of the country, who originally only had a supervisory role, became the chief officials of the military and government?Doesn't this current governor look like a state shepherd? "

Liu Yi stroked her slightly cold bare hands, and said softly: "It's okay, let's talk, since we husband and wife want to break the situation, we must know why the world is in chaos."

A touch of pink rose on Fushou's pretty face, she struggled, but was pressed even tighter, so she had to lower her head and say.

"Is it because of the war, the population has dropped sharply, so at the beginning, only counties were needed in the local area, and the central government could manage it. Later, after Wenjing's rule, the population began to resume growth, and the central government could not take care of it, so the county was needed. The prefect and the prime minister began to manage the counties below."

"My queen is so smart."

"Your Majesty~"

Seeing that he couldn't free his hands, Fu Shou took the initiative to put his two small hands in Liu Yi's palms, warmed up and continued.

"Then the change of the governor to the governor of the state is a replay of the prefect and prime minister of the former Han (Western Han) county controlling the real military and political power of a county?"

"Yes!" Liu Yi affirmed.

"It is precisely because of the stability of the world and the prosperity of the people after Guangwu that the population of Runan County can even reach 210 million, and there are not a few large counties with a population of over one million.

There are more than 100 counties, and the Shangshutai in the capital really can't take care of it. It is necessary for the state shepherd to actually undertake the affairs of a state to reduce the pressure on the central government. "

"such a pity"

Liu Yi smiled wryly: "Under the county-state system, the prefect of the county and the prime minister of the country are the kings of the same place. The imperial court gives them talismans, and the scholars serve the county guards as if they were emperors. When troubled times come, the centrifugal force with the central government will increase."

"What do you mean by centrifugal force?"

"That's what it means." Liu Yi wrapped his other hand around Sister Fu Yu's slender waist, and breathed into his ear: "I wanted to separate but was dragged back."

Fu Shou groaned, almost collapsing on Liu Yi's shoulder, his face flushed.

"Your Majesty~ I don't know if I should say something or not."

"Tell me, what can't you and my wife say."

Sister Fu Yu lay down on Liu Yi's lap, looked into his eyes, and spoke slowly.

(End of this chapter)