I am not a deposed emperor of Han Dynasty

Chapter 26 How Dare To Covet The Widow's Money?
Liu He opened the door of the main hall and saw Yu Wuyou.

The latter dressed neatly and meticulously, but Liu He himself was barefoot, with his clothes uncovered, and he didn't look like a prince at all.

"Master said: If a gentleman is not serious, he is not powerful. Your Highness's current dress is not so dignified, so how can he deter Tian Busting?" Yu Wuyou looked Liu He up and down, and said very dissatisfied.

Liu He didn't care about this verbal dispute this time, and now all his thoughts are on Tian Buxie.

"What did Tian not hesitate to say?"

"He only said that he brought the accounts of Changyi Kingdom last year, but he didn't say anything else."

"What's his expression like?"

"The look is normal, nothing unusual." Yu Wuyou thought for a while and continued, "It's just as annoying as usual."

"Although Yu Qing's words are suspected of judging people by their appearance, they also speak to the heart of the widow."

"Let's go, let's meet him for a while." After Liu He finished speaking proudly, he was about to rush out of the hall.

Yu Wuyou stopped Liu He, frowned and said, "Your Highness, your shoes and clothes."

Liu He was taken aback for a moment, then smiled, and retreated into the hall.

After a while of noise, Liu He came out fully dressed.

"Yu Langzhong, let's go and get back the widow's money."

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the princes and kings could enjoy all the taxes in the feudal country.

However, Emperor Gaozu once issued an edict requiring each feudal state to pay the central court according to the number of people, 63 yuan per mouth. Although the specific amount of donations has changed since then, the system of donations has always been retained.

Later, donations gradually became a system, and eventually evolved into today's gold system.

At that time, the income of the vassal states was mainly divided into three parts.

The first part is the regular taxes such as land rent, oral tax, and counting money, which are uniformly taxed by the central court.This part of the regular tax is specially used to provide the salaries of officials in the country, the salaries of soldiers, and the daily expenses of various government offices.

The second part is to seal the income from domestic development of landscape gardens and commercial taxes collected between the market.This part is also known as private support, which is specially used for the use of the royal family.In order to increase their income, princes and kings often set up clever names on this item, and sometimes the private support they received even exceeded the regular tax.

The third part is the wealth obtained by smelting iron, boiling salt and minting coins.This part can also be regarded as the private expenses of the princes and kings.

These three parts of income add up to a huge amount of wealth. After deducting the public and private expenses in the feudal country, the princes and kings can still accumulate a lot of money.

It is precisely because of this huge income that the princes and kings with different surnames in the early Han Dynasty and the princes and kings with the surname Liu during the reign of Emperor Xiaojing were able to launch frequent rebellions.

After the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion, from Emperor Xiaojing to Emperor Xiaowu, they not only suppressed the princes and kings in terms of political rights, but also restricted their economic power.

The central court restricted the types of taxes paid by the vassal states.Only the princes and kings are allowed to collect land rent through the prime minister's mansion, and the rest of the taxes are the same as in the counties. A small part is reserved for local use, and most of them have to be separately handed over to the central court's Dasinong and Shaofu.

In this way, although the vassal states can still obtain income comparable to ordinary wealthy and powerful families every year, it is no longer possible to support the military supplies of an army.

What's more, it is unknown whether more than half of the income that has been cut off can be used on the kings.

The princes and kings with money but no power are like a big piece of fat, stared at by countless mosquitoes and bugs, trying to suck a big tube of blood from them.

And this Tian Buxie is the biggest bedbug in Changyi Kingdom.He didn't know how much blood he had sucked from the Changyi palace.

Tian Buyu's official position is the Shaofu of the Prime Minister's Mansion, which is a position that replaces his duties after the imperial court reduced the official position of the Shaofu of the princes and states.

Cowards, ordinary farmers.

So don't look at the name with the word Shaofu, but from the point of view of rank, the two are completely different.

It used to be that the young mansions of the vassal states all had a rank of a thousand stones, but the rank of this young mansion was only a hundred stones, which was the same as the rank of a young doctor in the palace, and in the Xiangfu, he was just like Zhu Cao Shi. The ranks of 掾 are the same.

However, judging whether an official position is fat or poor, we should not only look at the rank, but also look at the power.

Some official ranks are scary high, but the power is very little, and they are just mascots in the court, such as Tai Tuo.

Some official positions are extremely low-ranking, but the power is real, and they are fat people who can be squeezed out with a pinch, such as a miser.

The names of stingers are slightly different, and it is not clear how many kinds of stingers there are in all the bureaus of the big man.

But these cowards have one thing in common, that is, they all have to deal with money and food, or they are responsible for the collection of taxes for a kiosk and a mile, or they are responsible for managing the money and food expenditure of a county and a country.

And this Shaofu stingy man is a petty official who replaces the Shaofu and specializes in managing the money and food income of the palace.

It is impossible to move all the money and food collected by the Xiangfu for the princes and kings into the palace for storage, but to put it in the official warehouse together with other money and food received by the middle school.

How much food is needed in the palace every month, they send people directly to apply for it from the stingy man of the Shaofu, and then take the official document issued by the stingy man of the Shaofu to the official warehouse to withdraw.

In short, this young miser is the real housekeeper and accountant of the royal palace.

Manage the accounts with one hand, and manage the income and expenditure with the other. No one restricts it. It is difficult not to be greedy.

Tian Bushi's family has held this position for two consecutive generations.When the king of Changyi was Liu Wei, it was Tian Buxie's father who was the poor man of the young mansion, and when Liu He became the king of Changyi, it was Tian Buxie who took over.

After all, the two generations of Changyi kings were all teenagers, and they didn't care much about money and food items. In addition, the several successors in the palace didn't dare to offend them, so Tian Buxie naturally had an opportunity to take advantage of.

It was only a year ago that Liu He thought of checking the family background of the palace, because money is a good thing, without money, it is impossible to accomplish great things.

But what he didn't expect was that he sent Yu Wuyou many times to ask Tian Bing for the account, but every time Tian Bing pushed him back with various excuses.

Regardless of whether Liu He asked for money or food, Tian Buyu readily agreed, but as soon as he mentioned looking at the accounts, Tian Buyu pushed back and forth, so that five or six months had passed, and Liu He hadn't seen the accounts yet.

If it was the Liu He from before, he would naturally have forgotten it, but the current Liu He can tell there is something tricky in it at a glance.

Liu He needs a lot of money, so he must find out the family background of the palace.

Therefore, Liu He first replaced the original stupid Jiacheng, and then let Yu Wuyou personally take charge of the income and expenditure of the palace's money and food, and even looked for opportunities to be ready to do anything to Tian Tian at any time.

Last month, Liu He once again asked Yu Wuyou to issue an edict to Tian Bushi, asking him to bring last year's accounts to the palace in the middle of this month, otherwise Xiang An Le would ask him for it.

Under the tough attitudes of Liu He and Yu Wuyou, Tian Buyi reluctantly agreed.

But what I didn't expect was that Tian Bingzhi still delayed coming to the palace to meet Liu He for another day-I don't know if it was just a guilty conscience, or he wanted to avoid other colleagues in the prime minister's mansion.

Liu He took Yu Wuyou hurriedly towards the Changyi Hall, but when he was halfway there, he hurriedly stopped his footsteps.

Because Liu He stood up in such a hurry that Yu Wuyou who was behind almost bumped into him.

"Your Highness, why stop?"

Liu He turned around and said, "How is my face? Is there any panic?"

Yu Wuyou took a closer look and said, "It's really a little flustered."

Liu He took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down.

He had been staring at Tian Buyi for a long time, and this matter was a little different from the usual ones.

The usual things are for the sake of grace, but this time the things are for the sake of standing up.

Because there is less to do, it is easier to panic.

If you panic, it's easy to make mistakes.

Liu He naturally did not allow mistakes to occur.

After adjusting for a few breaths, Liu He gradually calmed down, and then asked Yu Wuyou again: "Now, do you still look panicked?"

Yu Wuyou shook his head and said, "You look as usual."

"Okay, let's go!"

"only!"

(End of this chapter)