Destiny Only Han

Chapter 592 Liu Ying: The empire that perished because of two hundred coins...

Chang'an City.

The summer is so hot that even cicadas are too hot, and the sound of cicadas has become weak.

On the covered bridge leading to Changle Palace, Liu Ying flicked her sleeves and walked forward cursingly. Many soldiers and court maids saw it from a distance, and they all chose to turn around and leave...

And Liu Ying's anger is actually easy to understand.

He lives happily in Jiuyuan County, holding Huang on the left and Qingcang on the right, hunting yellow sheep and hares on the grassland every day with a flintlock gun on his back. If he doesn’t want to move, he can also find a shaded river valley to fish, although You may not be able to catch fish, but you can learn from Su Dongpo and stew a casserole of Dongpo meat in advance...

The important thing is that the temperature in Jiuyuan County at this time is more than five degrees lower than that in Guanzhong!
Although it is unbearably hot in an unshaded place, if you are in the shade of a tree, if there is running water and the cool breeze is blowing, you can wear long-sleeved clothes even at noon.

So, this is why Liu Ying went north to escape the summer heat under the guise of industrial inspections...

Well, although there is Linguang Palace in Yunyang County, which is later known as Ganquan Palace, as a summer resort, after all, the latitude and altitude are here, and it’s really not cool in the mountains during the dog days.

As for Liu Ying, who never came to the Yang Palace, the reason is very simple. He was captured by Lu Zhi as soon as he returned to Chang'an City, and poured out his mother's love...

One thing forced my father, plus such a mother, my life is so tender... Liu Ying sighed, stood at the gate of the Changting Hall, took a silk handkerchief soaked in ice water from the hand of Wei Wuzhi who came up, and wiped it Sweat on face.

"Reminder! Reminder! Reminder! I knew it! What's the big deal, my legs are almost worn out by the saddle..."

Amidst Liu Ying's complaints, Wei Wuzhi smiled wryly and said nothing.

What can he say?
The urging letter every day is because His Majesty the Emperor is full of jealousy because he can't go out to play, so he found an excuse to pull you back?

But Liu Ying didn't bother to argue with Wei Wuzhi, the person in charge of specific affairs. His anger was all on that old guy in the hall!
So he pushed open the door of the palace, and walked straight in, but the cold air on his face dissipated a lot of the heat on his body, so he saw Liu Bang sitting on the top of the altar, and a few people who had an audience with Liu Bang.

And on the outside of those people were the soldiers of the Huben Army holding halberds and wearing iron armor.

The Huben Army, this is a system that continues from the Xia Dynasty. The Xia Dynasty set up the post of "Hu Benshi", which is responsible for commanding 800 soldiers who are as brave as tigers. When the emperor goes out to fight, the Huben Army goes out with the army; the emperor lives outside, The Huben Army is responsible for guarding, and belongs to the Imperial Forest Army in the Imperial Forest Army.

According to the information that a group of Confucian scholars led by Shu Suntong dug out from the "pile of old papers", about a year ago, Liu Bang also selected from the knights of the frontier army and the soldiers who came to Chang'an City to "shangfan", that is, the soldiers who served in the military. 800 people, rebuild the Huben Army.

The task of the Huben army is to hold a long halberd, and when a foreign minister meets the emperor, he will use the long halberd to press against his ribs, so that whether he has the act of assassinating the king or the emperor wants to kill him, They could have pierced his body with a long halberd at the first moment, picked it up and thrown it outside the palace, lest the blood drip in the palace and stain the emperor's eyes...

It is said that when Cao Cao saw Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, he received such treatment once, and he was covered in cold sweat when he came back. Then, in order to avoid the danger of life and death hanging in the hands of others again, he added a "sword on the temple, praise and no name" to himself. Privileged, no longer need to be stabbed in the ribs by the tiger guards.

Because of this, although Liu Bang had a friendly face and a smile on his face, the Taohou Liu Xiang standing under Majesty Dan seemed trembling, as if he was on thin ice.

After all, at this time of summer, Liu Xiang is wearing relatively thin clothes, so he can clearly feel the edge of the sharp blade...

However, even though his face was covered with sweat, he didn't dare to raise his hand to wipe it, for fear that if he was not careful, he would be designated as the king of assassins and his head would be decapitated!

Liu Xiang is actually Xiang Xiang, the son of Xiang Liang. After surrendering to Liu Bang, he was named Taohou and given the surname Liu.

Although changing his surname sounds a bit shameful, he didn't lose money. After all, his cousin Xiang Yu didn't give him the title of marquis. What's more, Liu Ying knew that Liu Xiang had a son named Liu She. Succeed Zhou Yafu and be the prime minister of the Han Empire for five years!

So, last year when Liu She drew lots for [-] days, Liu Ying wandered over and gave a congratulatory gift on behalf of Liu Bang. By the way, she promised in public that when this milk baby grows up, she can come to be a guard by his side...

Well, although Liu Xiang has no real power, his status is not low. After all, he is the son of Xiang Liang, and Xiang Liang not only has Xiang Yan's legacy, but also has the merits of rebuilding the state of Chu.

After Xiang Bo passed away, Liu Xiang undoubtedly became the leader of the Xiang clan who changed his surname to Liu, and at the same time succeeded Xiang Bo, becoming a big boss in the surrender faction.

Therefore, it is not shameful for Liu Ying to run over to lick Liu Xiang in person as a prince. After all, a certain librarian said well that the so-called politics is to make more of one's own people and make fewer enemies!
When she saw Liu Ying's carefree sword shoes go up to the hall and sit down beside Liu Bang, Liu Xiang's uneasiness eased a little, as if she had a backbone, she lowered her head and said:

"After the minister returns, he will conduct a thorough investigation immediately. If it is as the censor said, he will not be spared lightly..."

Liu Bang nodded lightly:

"Tao Houzhen is still very relieved, but the forest is big and there are all kinds of birds! If it is a good bird, keep it, if it is a bad bird, hehe..."

"Yes, yes, what His Majesty said is very true..." Liu Xiang became more respectful, but his heart was filled with murderous aura, and he would start killing when he was about to go back, even if those old guys were his uncles and grandparents!
Well, the members of the Xiang family sent followers to forcefully buy good land from the common people, and they were sued to the Yushifu, so Liu Bang recruited Liu Xiang to beat him.

Liu Ying casually flipped through the file, and saw that Liu Bang had dealt with those murderous dog legs, she didn't say a word, quietly waited for the admonition in front of her to end, and then settled the score with the old guy beside her!

A moment later, Liu Xiang retreated and disappeared outside the palace gate. Liu Bang heaved a sigh of relief, pulled off his collar, and changed from sitting upright to a disheveled appearance.

Then, he saw Liu Ying who tilted his head and was furious.

Under Liu Ying's eyes full of accusations, Liu Bang became a little resentful, and reached out to bring a fruit plate from the side: "The freshly picked watermelon is even sweeter!"

"Is this melon safe?"

"what?"

"It's nothing."

Liu Ying shook her head lightly, and the sound of sucking watermelon was heard one after another in the hall.

After a while, under the relaxation of the iced watermelon, most of the anger in Liu Ying's heart dissipated, she just looked at Liu Bang and asked:

"It is impossible to reduce taxes. At most, the reward for childbirth will be extended, and childbirth will continue to be encouraged, and childbirth will be exempted from labor and poll tax..."

Liu Bang has no objection to the latter. After all, although the Han Kingdom has gone through these seven or eight years of recuperation, the population of the Han Dynasty is less than 3000 million, which is too small !

Well, this refers to civilians with official household registration, slaves are not included, but the number of slaves registered in the country is only more than 200 million, even if the slaves hidden by big families are included, the total number does not exceed 400 Ten thousand.

Therefore, it is necessary to have more births and tax exemption.

In fact, at the earliest time, Liu Bang wanted to learn from Goujian, King of Yue, and give another subsidy to the households who gave birth, but Liu Ying said that all the money is equal to no money, so this decision was shelved...

But regarding tax cuts, Liu Bang has listened to the opinions of many people these days, and he has thought about it for a long time, and he thinks it is not impossible.

After all, this is a very simple truth.

With less land rent, the more land you own, the more income you will get. This is called hiding wealth from the people!

"Tell me your reasons."

Liu Bang wiped off the watermelon seeds from his beard, looked at Liu Ying who was still showing off the watermelon, and said, "Okay, eat less cold food, don't spoil your stomach..."

Liu Ying put down the watermelon unwillingly, wiped her mouth, and regretted not transporting the watermelon seeds to Jiuyuan County early, so that she missed the first crop of melons this year...

"Tax cuts sound like a good thing, but they are actually a disaster!"

After Liu Ying talked endlessly in surprise, Liu Bang was stunned and explained:

"If there are no major events, such as the invasion of the Huns and the flooding of rivers, the country's annual expenditure will be similar to that of the previous year. Therefore, there will be a lot of surplus under the tax of [-]."

"Thus, after calculation, they came to the conclusion that based on the existing land, even a [-]-[-] tax is enough to meet the government's daily expenses. Therefore, in order to encourage reclamation, they decided to lower the land rent again."

"More land has been reclaimed, and the temporarily reduced land rent income will slowly rise back. People will have money in their hands, and the development of industry and commerce will also accelerate."

"Hiding wealth to the people sounds good. But the key problem is that there are not many normal years, and there is not much food in official warehouses in many places, not to mention the lack of money to repair water conservancy roads, and even officials need Lumi. Transferred from Lin County."

"Then if the land rent is lowered again, the local government will need to borrow money to survive... My father was once the head of the pavilion in Surabaya, so I naturally know what the government will do at this time."

Liu Bang nodded lightly. He knew very well that when Pei County was going to build roads for the First Emperor, but the grain and rice promised by the court were delayed, and the Qin law was strict, and the day when the project was completed was considered dead, so the Qin County Ling chose to levy additional taxes in the whole county, and first used the money to build roads.

To be precise, it is to forcibly borrow money from the people in the form of poll tax!

Two hundred dollars per person, even Liu Ying, who was born two months away at the time, did not let go...

The important thing is that the money borrowed by the government was not returned as agreed, and another two hundred dollars was borrowed the next year!
But this time, the poor who had their pockets emptied and unable to pay could only be reduced to servants and sent to Xianyang City to repair the tomb of the first emperor...

That was the year he went to Mount Mangdang...

(End of this chapter)