Destiny Only Han

Chapter 611 Liu Ying: Can this spoil him?Pump, have to pump!
Liang Guo, Ju Ye Ze.

Liu Ying stood on the boat with an angry face, holding a fishing net with both hands, turned it around twice, and then threw it to the lake.

This is a way for an angry fisherman to try to force his respect. If he can't catch a fish, he is ready to use another method.

Fried fish!

And standing behind Liu Ying was Peng Yue who wanted to smile but didn't dare to.

As a part-time fisherman and water bandit, Peng Yue is very familiar with fishing by boat. From the posture of Liu Ying throwing the net and the sinking position of the fishing net, he can easily draw a conclusion.

air force!

In a short while, when Liu Ying was about to go back and ask to go back and move to "fishing" at [-]:[-], Liu Bang, who was sitting in the stern of the boat wearing a bamboo hat, frowned and reprimanded: "What nonsense? What, eat Can you starve to death if you don’t get enough fish?”

Well, there are several big fish flopping in the fish basket beside him, and there is even a big grass carp weighing more than ten catties in the fishing net on the other side!

You can't die from hunger, but you can die from anger... Liu Ying saw the fishing line tightened again on the fishing rod in Liu Bang's hand, her eyes turned green.

This old man is so lucky!

So he grabbed Peng Yue who was beside him, and muttered in a low voice: "You must be teaching me the wrong way, or else it's all in this place, my father has caught so many fish, why am I so fart?"

Peng Yue squeezed a wry smile on his face full of fat, and said in his heart that Xuan would not save Fei, and Krypton would not change his fate. Could it be that you were punished by the heavens because you did too many inappropriate things...

However, he complained in his heart, and he still said flatteringly: "Yes, yes, maybe the humble minister didn't explain clearly... Why don't you change your place and let the humble minister explain it to His Highness?"

Ever since he pretended to be sick and was frightened once by Liu Ying's army, he never called himself "Gu" or "the King" in front of Liu Ying, but used the title of humble minister for ten years.

After all, Liu Ying is different from Liu Bang, he is stingy and holds grudges, if he says to do it, he really does it...

Liu Ying nodded slightly, trying to overwhelm Liu Bang by crooked means, so she looked at Peng Yue, who was born as a water bandit, and rolled her eyes:
"Otherwise, after I throw the pole, you can dive into the water and catch a big fish weighing more than [-] kilograms and hang it on the hook for me..."

In an instant, Liu Bang laughed out loud, and Zhang Liang, who was lying on the side of the boat basking in the sun, almost fell into the water with a smile, and Peng Yue, who was already smiling wryly, became even more miserable.

He squeezed the fat on his stomach, shook his head and said, "This humble minister is no different than back then. It's no problem for my humble minister to dive into the water now, but if I sink, I won't be able to get up..."

"No way. The density of fatty meat is lower than that of water, and it is easier to float on the surface of the water..." Liu Ying said with a serious face, full of confusion: "If you don't believe me, go down and try it, really, believe me!"

In Peng Yue's dilemma, Zhang Liang sat up from the side of the boat, walked behind Liu Ying and gave him a brainstorm: "What's the density? Risk of drowning?"

Liu Ying covered the back of her head, with a complaining expression on her face: "That's what it is! Throw a catty of wood and a catty of gold into the water, and the gold must sink!"

"And I heard from a businessman from the Western Regions that there was a great philosopher in the Far West who used this method to help the monarch catch a craftsman who stole the monarch's gold!"

"Really? I don't believe it." Zhang Liang pursed his lips pretending to be disdainful, but pricked up his ears, ready to listen to the story.

Liu Bang, who was sitting in the stern, also stood up, and showed Liu Ying the one-foot-long river carp he had just caught, and then sat shoulder to shoulder with Zhang Liang on the side of the boat. , also put on a posture of listening to the story.

Peng Yue sighed softly, and sat on the side of the boat on the other side, allowing the tilted fishing boat to rebalance.

Liu Ying cleared her throat and started to make up.

"That happened decades ago. Converted to our chronology, it's about two years after Qin Shihuang just succeeded to the throne."

"In the Far West, there is a monarch named Heron King. In order to celebrate the grand moon festival, he gave a goldsmith a piece of gold and asked him to make a pure gold crown for himself..."

"It's just that although the finished crown is as heavy as the previous gold, King Heron still suspected that the goldsmith was adulterated, so he recruited the great philosopher named Archimedes to verify whether the crown was adulterated. But the requirement is that no damage to the crown is allowed..."

"Archimedes is worried, he lost his hair in handfuls, but when he was taking a bath, he noticed that his arms would naturally float on the water, and when he stood up from the bathtub, the body of the bathtub The water level dropped again, so he had an idea and figured out how to solve the problem...

"Before the deadline given by King Heron came, Archimedes found two cups filled with water of the same weight, and put the crown and gold of the same weight respectively. There is more on the side of pure gold, so he came to the conclusion that the goldsmith really used some tricks to embezzle the king's gold..."

After Liu Ying finished speaking, in the amazement of Zhang Liang, Liu Bang, and Peng Yue, she stood with her hands behind her back, her head raised at a 45-degree angle, as if he was so proud of doing this.

Well, the earliest record of the story of Archimedes can be found in the ninth volume of the Roman architect Vitruvius' "Ten Books on Architecture", which is 200 years away from Archimedes. It is hard to believe that it is a true record.

After all, it's ridiculous to trigger 'Eureka' by taking a bath with shirtless arms...

But on the other hand, Archimedes is fully capable of making that experiment, based on Proposition [-] of his "On Floating Bodies": a solid heavier than a fluid, if placed in a fluid, will sink to the bottom of the fluid, if placed in the fluid Its weight will be less than its real weight by the weight of the displaced fluid.

Therefore, Liu Ying, who pursues the doctrine of borrowing, has another theorem named after him.

The law of hydrostatics, also known as Liu Ying No.17 theorem...

Liu Ying stood with her hands behind her back, looked at the amazed Zhang Liang, and said calmly:

"Actually, this knowledge is contained in the textbooks I wrote. The reason why the teacher doesn't know is because you have been lax these few years..."

"Therefore, a sage has no permanent teacher. Confucius taught Tanzi, Changhong, Shixiang, and Laodan. Tanzi's disciples are not as good as Confucius. Confucius said: If three people walk together, there must be my teacher. Therefore, disciples don't have to be inferior to teachers. , the teacher does not have to be more virtuous than the disciple, there is a priority in learning the truth, and there is a specialization in the art, that's all..."

Then, Zhang Liang's fist hardened.

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Jiujiang County, Shouchun County.

This is the northernmost point of Huainan Wang Yingbu's feudal kingdom. After passing the checkpoint here, it is the Sishui County directly under the jurisdiction of the Han Dynasty.

The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, and there were no barriers at all. While canceling domestic tariffs, it also forced the vassal states not to levy tariffs on business travelers passing through the borders.

Therefore, before dawn, long queues gathered inside and outside the checkpoints here. Hundreds of merchant convoys were mighty, ready to clear the customs and traffic the goods to the Han Kingdom or Huainan Kingdom.

However, the reason why there are [-]% more caravans here than usual is that those businessmen with all-hands-eyes know that the business tax will be adjusted from the original [-]-[-] tax to [-]-[-] tax soon!

Therefore, they must seize the time to sell the backlog of goods before the new law is implemented, and try their best to sell them!
After all, although the [-]th tax is not much, it is twice as high as before!
For those wealthy businessmen who are making money every day, this is going to kill them!
But businessmen have no social status, what they can do is to earn more money before the policy is implemented.

Well, although there was a warning order after Hanwu, the status of businessmen has actually improved a lot compared to before.

This all depends on the continuation of a policy of selling officials to sell titles.

To be precise, the government stepped in to legally sell titles to make money.

The reason why it is said to be a continuation is that this policy existed as early as Gaohou, that is, during the reign of Mrs. Liu Ying.

At that time, the country had no money, so it used this method to raise funds to tide over the difficulties.

Of course, not everyone can buy a title.

After all, the imperial court wanted face, so it was stipulated that only men who had gone to the north to defend the frontier could buy titles.

But the Han Dynasty had its own national conditions. As a classical empire, every adult man was basically a soldier, so he was eligible to buy a title.

For a while, the title, like the saber on a man's waist, became a must-have decoration for every man.

And this is the root cause of the crisis in the middle and late Western Han Dynasty!
The twentieth-class military merit system is not only a feudal system, but also has the ability to restrict individuals from acquiring too much land. Only with a title can one legally occupy the land and number of slaves stipulated by the title, otherwise heavy taxes will be imposed!
In the Han Dynasty, when there was a general lack of investment projects in society, merchants made money and naturally bought land to preserve their value. This policy of legally buying and selling titles just solved the problem that they had no titles and could not legally occupy more land and slaves!

As a result, the fields of the rich are connected with rice paddies, and the poor have no place to stand!

Although there is a relocation order, when these people with a lot of wealth gather at the feet of the sky, they can always use various means to mix into the ranks of bureaucrats.

Therefore, the integration of government and business, even if there is a warning order, it will not be able to hit these rich and noble families whose families are officials in the court!
Then there was Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty who pushed the Han Empire to its peak. Before he died, he still called a group of ministers to discuss a problem, that is, we big men are so awesome, but why are there still bandits and refugees in the Guanzhong area?

Of course, no one answered his question.

In other words, everyone knows the reason, but no one is willing to tell him, so there was a letter from a minister named Bao Xuan to the emperor during the Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty, which detailed the "seven deaths and seven deaths" of the people... …

Then, there was Wang Mang...

And then, there are aristocratic families that run through the Eastern Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties, and even continued from the Tang Dynasty...

(End of this chapter)