Destiny Only Han

Chapter 640 Liu Ying: For the sake of the past, continue to learn~
On the first day of October in the 15th year of the Han Dynasty, the New Year's Grand Court Meeting.

Changle Palace, Xuanshi Palace.

As in previous years, this year's New Year's meeting was full of people, all the princes and vassals entrusted by the Han Empire were present, and foreign envoys and foreign vassals from foreign countries also arrived in Chang'an half a month in advance.

While Liu Ying suppressed her yawn, the nobles of meritorious service, civil and military officials came forward to toast the new year in order according to the number of food towns and food salary, and then it was the turn of foreigners.

Among the foreign vassals, the most eye-catching ones are the Xianbei King and Wuhuan King who are dressed in red.

This is Liu Ying's suggestion, and Liu Bang granted the honor to the two of them by special permission!

After all, as the Donghu people no longer need to pay tribute to the Huns, and almost empty their homes every year in exchange for peace, the tribes of the Donghu are getting richer day by day, and their accumulation finally showed results in September last year, when autumn was high and horses were fat.

When King Xianbei and King Wuhuan came to pay homage to Liu Bang, they drove [-] horses through the pass!
Afterwards, they went all the way to Guanzhong. Although most of their horses were accepted by the official horse farms in Hebei, Henan and other places, when they entered Chang'an City, there were still tens of thousands of good horses in the team!
You know, this is a meadow horse raised in the woods by Donghu people. Although it is not as violent and fast as the hot-blooded horses from the Western Regions, it is better than big enough, tolerant of rough feeding and has a good temper.

An analogy would be the difference between a muscle car and a dirt bike.

Therefore, before the internal combustion engine was successfully developed and the oil refinery did not bloom everywhere, horse-drawn carriages were still the mainstream of short-distance freight. This kind of meadow horse with a shoulder height of more than 1.6 meters and a weight of nearly one ton can effectively boost the economy and improve people's livelihood.

For example, farmers sell grain.

The price given by the grain merchants in Lin County is one yuan higher per stone than the grain merchants in this county. If it used to be carried by people on their shoulders, it would be very uneconomical. One stone of grain is [-] kilograms, and it is all carried by manpower to Lin County for sale. , not only can't make money, but will lose money.

After all, it takes ten steamed buns to travel a hundred kilometers...

But if you have this kind of mud-headed horse-drawn four-wheeled carriage at home, everything will be different.

On the paved road, two mud-headed horses can easily pull three or four tons of cargo, and if you start in the morning and go home in the evening, you can earn more than 100 yuan at least!
It is equivalent to earning a person's poll tax for nothing!

Moreover, in the years when the per capita arable land is tens of acres, it is very cost-effective for farmers to keep a few horses in their families. When the farming is busy, they can help plow the land, pull seeds, and pull grains to dry. Do some odd jobs here.

One person, one car, both 'Didi' and 'Huo Lala'...

Therefore, for such sensible Donghu King and Xianbei King, Liu Ying felt that it was not enough to just wear red and hanging colors. He planned to give them two hundred sets of the latest version of "The Essence of Confucianism and Legalism" to study hard. Subtlety', 'Emperor's ministers die and ministers have to die' and other subtle words and righteousness...

Well, it's not that Liu Ying is fooling people. In fact, this is something Donghu people have been asking for. After all, there is no written language among the various departments of Donghu, and sometimes they even don't understand the language...

So it was beheaded by the Huns in a wave, and it was impossible to start again. A grassland kingdom that was much stronger than the Huns in terms of population, territory, and military resources, has since become a vassal of others, and it did not rise again until a hundred years later. leak.

After all, the Han Dynasty planned to fight the Huns since Liu Bang, and fought with the Huns since Han Wu, until they were completely maimed and torn apart.

This gave the Xianbei people the opportunity to take advantage of the situation and sweep the grassland.

But now Donghu people have no chance. After all, Liaodong and Liaoxi counties accept at least 5 immigrants from Qi every year. The Han people go north to settle Siberia just around the corner...

At this moment, Liu Bang's smile of eating honey shit was not only for the one hundred thousand horses, but after the court was dispersed, Minister of Finance Zhang Cang was going to give him a report on last year's "upper calculation".

The so-called "Shangji" is a method of year-end assessment of local officials that has continued since the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.

The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, and October was the beginning of the year. Therefore, starting from August every year, local officials had to sort out the household registration, land reclamation, taxation and other data in the areas under their jurisdiction, and dispatched special "officials" to Chang'an City. accept the assessment.

Nowadays, with the recuperation of the Han Empire, the most important thing is the soaring productivity caused by the popularization of ironware. Starting from Guanzhong, the business exchanges boosted by the comprehensive hardening of the road connecting the world have led to earth-shaking changes in the entire Han Empire all the time. There will be surprises every year when the plan is made, so Liu Bang is looking forward to this year's surprises with all his heart!
But some people are happy and others are sad.

For example, Yong Chi has the expression of a dead father.

In fact, his deprivation of three hundred households is not enough to make him like this. The important thing is that the people sitting next to him at the moment are Zhou Bo, Fan Kuai, Lu Wan, Xia Houying, etc. who did not deal with him when they were in Pei County. Guys who look at each other with disgust...

These people are definitely here to gloat!

After a while, the pilgrimage was completely over. According to the practice of previous years, Liu Bang would give a New Year's speech at this time, and issue an edict of rewarding and punishing deeds.

This year is no exception.

For example, the edict to enshrine Shan Father as Marquis of Zhongmou, such as the edict to cut Minzhong County into three, and another example is to cut off the title of Yingbu Huainan King and pass it on to the world, and to divide Huainan Kingdom into three, Canonize the edicts of Hengshan King and Lujiang King, and so on.

However, the person who is granted the title can only wait until the summer solstice, when he officially "cuts the seal and seals it" at the Summer Welcome Ceremony, that is, Liu Bang personally issued a letter with the words "Make the river like a belt, Mount Tai like a sharpening, the country will be Yongning, and love will reach the Miao people." Only the "Dan Shu Iron Coupon" written in the text will officially become a prince.

After all, even a small marquis at this time has independent law enforcement and financial powers, and it is a real land-cracking and border-breaking.

Therefore, formalism is necessary.

After a while, under the guidance of the officials, Liu Hui, King of Hengshan, and Liu You, King of Lujiang, who wore royal clothes but were not crowned because of their young age, sat down at the head of Liu Fei, Liu Ruyi, and Liu Heng.

It's just that unlike the three of Liu Fei who are used to big scenes, Liu Hui and Liu You, who have just been weaned for two years, look nervous, and they will cry every minute if they are stimulated a little more... …

Among the courtiers, Shu Suntong looked at Liu Hui and Liu You who were trembling, and shook his head slightly.

Although Yuan Gu is well-educated and has a clear personality, he is not good at educating students. He blindly preaches the sages and sages' words and righteousness, rules and etiquette, which makes the two children afraid that they will do something wrong, embarrass the emperor, and embarrass the teacher. .

It's not like me, although I have taught Liu Fei and Liu Ruyi two scumbags, but at least they are very courageous, full of self-confidence, and never show timidity in any big scene.

As for Liu Heng, that is his favorite student, gentle and elegant, diligent in learning and inquiring, a good student now, and a good vassal king in the future!

Well, he had already expelled Liu Ying from the school in his heart. Every time the old man dreamed back at midnight, thinking of Liu Ying's stubbornness, he felt a pain in his liver. He was ashamed of both Liu Bang and the sage...

Especially ashamed of the sages!
After all, Shu Suntong also read "The Essence of Confucianism and Legalism" edited by Liu Ying, and the old man almost failed to recite it...

Heretics, sometimes worse than heretics!

Just as Uncle Sun Tongqi was glaring at Liu Ying, Minister Wei Wuzhi held the edict in his hand and stood under Majesty Dan and read it aloud:
"The first emperor of Qin, the king of Yin of Chu, Chen She, the king of Wei Anli, the king of Qi, and the king of Zhao Yuxiang all had no heirs. There were ten families in each of the tombs, twenty families for the emperor of Qin, and five families for Prince Wuji of Wei. Its tomb, recovery, and death have nothing to do with it."

This edict is to send people to guard the tombs of the last few emperors, and the tomb guards will enjoy the policy of exemption from taxes and corvees for generations.

Of course, there is no such thing as a free lunch.

The price for the mausoleum guards to be exempted from taxation and corvee is that they need to buy blood and food for the emperors in the mausoleum at their own expense and hold sacrificial activities in addition to national celebrations.

After all, the emperor's mausoleum is not just a tomb, and the several miles around the underground palace are also within the scope of the mausoleum. Except for the officials sent by the government or the mausoleum guards, the rest of the common people are not allowed to approach.

Therefore, the dead emperor under the ground belongs to the mausoleum guards above the ground. The reason why the state tacitly allows them to graze and farm here and not pay taxes is that most of these outputs are used for sacrificial activities. funding.

It is another thing for the food for the offering to be taken home by the mausoleum guards after the sacrificial activities are over.

Waste is always bad.

As for this edict, it was not read out by the audience, but by Wei Wuzhi, mainly because Wei Wuzhi was a descendant of Lord Xinling. .

In fact, at the earliest time, Xiao He and others did not agree that the state should send someone to the leader of Lord Xinling. After all, Lord Xinling was just a "Fengjun". In that case, if all the capable ministers of the same level of the former court sent special personnel to guard the tomb, I am afraid that at least a thousand families would be needed...

It's just that Liu Bang is a loyal fan of Lord Xinling, and although Liu Bang didn't say it clearly, Xiao He knew very well that Liu Bang was actually preparing for the funeral.

After all, at their age, no one knows who will come first, tomorrow or death.

In the past, all the expenses for Lord Xinling's Shouling were all paid out of Liu Bang's personal coffers. Liu Bang was worried that after his death, Liu Ying would cut off the expenses because he was not a loyal fan of Lord Xinling...

Therefore, it is necessary to set it as the ancestral system early...

On this point, Liu Bang has always been very accurate!
Because Liu Ying suggested more than once to open Lord Xinling's mausoleum as a garden for the public, it is best to set up two markets nearby, and the business tax collected is just used to maintain the mausoleum, killing two birds with one stone.

After all, the descendants of that land are called Daxiangguo Temple, where not only business is thriving, but also part-time loan sharks...

(End of this chapter)