Destiny Only Han

Pepper House.

Two teams of singers stepped on the ground and sang.

"The katydid feathers, groaning. Yier's descendants, vibrate."

"The katydid feathers, the scorpions are the scorpions. The descendants of Yier are the ropes."

"The katydid feathers, bow to each other. Yier's descendants, sting to sting."

This is a song "The Book of Songs · Zhou Nan · Katydid", the first two sentences describe it, and the last two sentences praise it, aiming to congratulate you on having many children and grandchildren.

In the sound of singing and dancing.

Liu Ying led Liu Yan, Liu Qi, Liu De, Liu Hong, and Liu Wu slowly forward and bowed their hands: "I wish my mother a long life, good health, and longevity!"

Behind him, Liu Yan and others were busy kneeling on the ground, loudly saying auspicious words that had been rehearsed long ago.

On the other side, Lu Yu hugged Liu Ye'er, who was still having trouble walking, and led Liu Xuan to prostrate himself to the ground, loudly reading congratulatory messages such as wishing Lu Pheasant good luck as long as the East China Sea and longevity as the Nanshan Mountain.

Lu Pheasant smiled from ear to ear.

The scene in front of her with her grandson wrapped around her knees was a scene she had dreamed of.

When Liu Yan and others stood up, Lu Pheasant said seriously: "Qi'er, you are the eldest among the princes, you must set an example..."

Liu Qi frowned slightly.

Liu Ying put her hand on her forehead.

When all the ministers looked at Lu Zhi with doubts on their faces, Lu Zhi said calmly: "It depends on you whether I, an old woman, can hold my great-grandson in my arms before I die!"

Liu Ying had a look on her face that I had expected.

After Liu Qi was stunned for a moment, he blushed and said, "My grandson will definitely try his best..."

Lu Pheasant smiled broadly.

Liu Le, who was sitting next to her, pouted and said, "It's so unlucky to talk about life and death at the birthday banquet! Mom, hurry up!"

Lu Pheasant followed the advice and turned his head: "Bah, bah, bah!"

Liu Le only felt that his face was wet, and his whole body was like a lightning strike.

Liu Ying felt secretly happy.

Liu Yan got up, quickly ran to Lu Pheasant, opened his mouth like a nestling bird waiting for feeding: "Mom, are you hungry? Let's eat!"

Now, with Zhang Liang's advice, he successfully reached a reconciliation with Lu Pheasant, and both parties made concessions.

He fulfilled Lu Pheasant's wish to feed a fat grandson with his own hands, but Lu Pheasant could not force him to eat food that Lu Pheasant thought was delicious.

Liu Ying shook her head invisibly.

Without him, the two of them could live in harmony, and he would have one less person to enjoy...

So he slowly sat back down in his seat, but instead of eating or drinking, he took a memorial from his side and read it.

Although the Han Dynasty changed the Yuan Dynasty to Zhengshuo, from October as the beginning of the year to January as the beginning of the new year, the rules of calculating people in October have not changed. The local calculations include the financial report, assessment, and evaluation of the year. The budget for the coming year will be sent to Chang'an City one after another in October.

Therefore, starting from this month until the twelfth lunar month are Liu Ying's busiest two months every year.

After all, whether it is as small as a company or as large as an entire country, the most important things are nothing more than two points.

financial.

personnel.

With money, anything is possible, and with the right people, tomorrow can be a better place.

Amidst the banquets, singing and dancing, Liu Ying frowned slightly.

The memorial he is reading now is the "Shangji" document from the Neishi Mansion.

Well, just a summary.

After a month of research, according to the statistics of the officials, the total population of Nei Shifu has exceeded 4000 million, of which the combined population of the counties near Chang'an City alone is nearly 2000 million!
The population growth rate really exceeded Liu Ying's expectations.

He clearly remembered that there was a large-scale census in the fourth year of the Great Sage. At that time, the total population of Guanzhong was only a little over 2000 million. Now, less than five years later, the population has doubled!
Of course, only a small part of the growing population is "bred in the prosperous times", and the vast majority are migrant workers who moved into Guanzhong from other places.

This is normal.

Today's Guanzhong siphon attracts not only the wealthy households from other counties in the Han Dynasty, but also the people of the feudal states of the princes and kings.

One of the prohibitions that Liu Ying originally enacted was that the princely kingdoms were not allowed to develop industry, whether it was metallurgy or electricity. Even if they built railways, they would bypass their fiefdoms...

Therefore, there is such a grand event that millions of households move into Guanzhong every year.

But the problem is that the population carrying capacity of the Guanzhong land is limited.

Well, it’s not that there’s not enough food to eat.

Now that Liu Ying has built the railway to Guandong, all steam trains going to Guanzhong must be loaded with rice, wheat, pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese and other fresh grains and oils.

It's just a little more expensive.

But there is still not much problem in keeping most people fed and well fed.After all, today's Han Dynasty is different from any feudal dynasty in history.

In a closed dynasty, if the upper-class dignitaries wanted to eat and drink well, they had to get food from the lower-class people. This was true in the Tang and Song Dynasties, as well as in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Over time, civil unrest will be provoked and large-scale social unrest will occur until another founding monarch leads his relatively clean management team to take over this land of China with ten rooms and nine empty rooms.

Naive foreigners call this dynastic cycle the 'Malthusian Trap'. However, they do not understand ancient China and do not know that this is actually a rebellion between the government and the people due to uneven distribution.

Liu Ying was an emperor of a feudal dynasty. He thought that he could not become a saint, so he chose to apply the magic of colonialism to today's Han Dynasty.

Therefore, the dignitaries of the Han Dynasty ate meat in large gulps, and the common people drank soup in sips, and both parties lived in peace.

As for how many people starved to death from Nanyang monkeys and poisonous Vaishyas, what does that have to do with Liu Ying?
Therefore, what Liu Ying calls population carrying capacity actually refers to public resources such as medical care, education, road construction, water networks, and power grids.

There is only one way to expand these resources.

Throw money.

The key to the problem is that this is a bottomless pit!

Therefore, Liu Ying looked at Liu Yan who was very well-behaved sitting next to Lu Fei, and then looked at Liu Bang who was arm-in-arm with Fan Kuai, Lu Ze and others, and she felt a desire in her heart to believe in the wisdom of future generations and at the same time go against the decision of her ancestors. .

That is, instead of letting everyone drink soup, it would be better to let some people eat meat!
For example, the Neishi Mansion was divided into three parts, following what the Western Han Dynasty did in history, dividing the west of Chang'an City into You Fufeng, and the north of the Weishui River into Zuofeng Yi (zuǒ píng yì).

As for the most elite counties around Chang'an City, they were merged into Jingzhao Yin!

As a result, Chang'an City, which is the imperial capital of the Emperor, has a moat composed of the counties of You Fufeng, Zuo Fengyi, Hanzhong County, and Sanchuan County!

Liu Ying praised her wit!

What's important is that Chang'an City is currently undergoing major construction projects, and a new industry is booming.

real estate!
Liu Ying believes that if Guanzhong is cut off and only the best parts of Jingzhaoyin, where Chang'an City is located, are retained, another situation will inevitably form.

Zuo Fengyi and You Fufeng siphon the entire Han Dynasty, while Jing Zhaoyin siphons Zuo Fengyi and Right Fufeng...

If the policy of buying a house and settling in is used to collect the city entry tax from those high-value people who have been siphoned in, then Jingzhao Yin will not lack the money to build infrastructure and improve public resources such as medical care and education, so that every household can They all live a life with upstairs and downstairs, electric lights and telephones, and tap water when you turn on the faucet!
I am really smart... Liu Ying happily put down the memorandum in her hand and picked up a pen to write down her previous thoughts.

Then, he raised his head and saw Lu Pheasant, Liu Bang and others all looking at him.

"What happened?" Liu Ying asked.

"Today is your mother's birthday banquet..." Liu Bang frowned: "Is it possible that the sky will fall if you don't deal with it? You have to work at the banquet, disturbing everyone's enjoyment?"

Just now Liu Ying was staring at the memorial in her hand, and when Cao Shen and others saw it, they unconsciously lowered their voices. This effect spread from ten to ten, causing everyone to speak at the top of their voices.

Gradually, even the singers and musicians became more relaxed.

It's just that Liu Ying was so absorbed that she didn't realize that while he was writing furiously, the hall was already completely silent, and you could hear a pin drop.

Liu Ying smiled and shook her head: "Dad, you drink yours, don't worry about me..."

"Don't worry about you?" Liu Bang snorted: "You are the emperor of the Han Dynasty. If you don't take the lead in having fun, who dares to drink freely? Which musician dares to make a sound? Which dancer dares to dance?"

After all, Liu Ying has succeeded to the throne for almost nine years.

If at the beginning of Liu Ying's accession to the throne, there were still some heroes and vassal kings who dared to rely on their own merits or bloodline to be arrogant and domineering, but now, especially after experiencing the previous purges, it is no exaggeration to say that Liu Ying can even cough. It scared most of them into a cold sweat!
Liu Ying laughed and waved her hands vigorously: "Keep playing music and dance!"

After he finished speaking, he stood up and walked straight to Lu Pheasant, who was sitting in the main seat. He pushed Liu Le aside and sat down next to Lu Pheasant with a smile on his face: "Mom, how about I tell a joke?"

Lu Pheasant nodded somewhat reservedly.

Liu Le, who was about to get angry, also put away his fists, walked around to the other side, held Liu Yan in his arms, and raised his ears.

Liu Ying began to edit.

"By the way, it was the Warring States Period."

"There was a down-and-out scholar named Zhang Yi. He once sneaked into a birthday party at a stranger's house, but was discovered by his master. When the master was about to beat him out, he said that everyone who came was a guest. How could the master's family favor one over another? reason?"

Lu Zhi nodded slightly.

After all, this custom of keeping guests as guests has been passed down from the Spring and Autumn Period and has continued to the present Han Dynasty. The host entertains guests warmly, and the guests express gratitude for their kindness. In the end, many people die for the host.

"The master said that if you say a few auspicious words, I will not care about your meal."

"Zhang Yi is overjoyed. He is a political strategist, and his job is to talk the talk. But it is just a few compliments, which does not reflect his reputation and will not make it convenient for him to go to more places to make money in the future."

"Therefore, he pointed at the old mother of the host and said, this old woman is not a human being..."

Liu Le said "ah".

Lu Pheasant also has his eyebrows standing straight up.

After all, there is no master to provide him with food and drink, and he still insults the principle of family members!

"Zhang Yi saw the diners around him drawing their swords and said calmly, the Nine Heavens Fairy descended to the mortal world! In an instant, all the diners turned from anger to joy and praised him!"

After Liu Ying finished speaking, she looked at Lu Pheasant with bright eyes.

Liu Le pouted and said, "I thought my brother was really telling a story! It turns out he was praising my mother in a different way! Okay, you are the best! Then let me ask you, what birthday did you prepare for your mother? Where are the congratulatory gifts?"

ps: This kind of speech technique of suppressing first and then promoting is one of the speech techniques that politicians are good at. Now it is called PUA...