The Great Han Dynasty: From Feng Lang Juxu to the Eternal Emperor

Chapter 475 Cutting off South Vietnam’s grain trade
Liu Huan was sitting in front of the document and reading the memorial seriously.

These days, he has become more proficient in handling memorials and is more comfortable with them.

Under the dim light, Liu Huan frowned slightly. This was a memorandum sent from Tian Qianqiu in Nanyue. It stated that the economy of the Han Dynasty was growing day by day and the price of food was rising. Queen Zhengxi therefore requested that the price of food cooperation with the Han Dynasty be reduced from the previous price. Twenty coins increased to thirty coins per bucket.

This request is very reasonable. The price of grain within the Han Dynasty has reached thirty-six cents per bucket, so the request for the Western Expedition is not excessive.

South Vietnam wants to maintain its domestic economy, and food is their main industry. Now that the price of food within the Han Dynasty has increased, she will naturally increase the amount of food sold to the Han Dynasty to increase the economic income of her own people.

However, Liu Huan directly rejected the memorial and rejected Tian Qianqiu's request.

The memorials reviewed these days made Liu Huan very clear that Dahan's internal agriculture was completely self-sufficient, and there was no need to spend more money to purchase food from South Vietnam.

You can do other things if you have some money left, so Liu Huan rejected it.

……

Early the next morning, there will be a Umrah meeting.

The left minister of the Household Department immediately said: "Your Majesty! I dare to ask your Majesty why you rejected South Vietnam's grain?"

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty: "?"

The officers of the three provinces and six ministries felt a slight thump in their hearts when they saw this scene.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's expression proved that he did not know these things.

Then who approved this rejected memorial? Prince?
impossible!
Gongsun He is very shrewd. He knows the abilities of his nephew and prince and will never make such a stupid judgment.

South Vietnam is the blood-producing country of the Han Dynasty. All the grain reserves of the Han Dynasty come from South Vietnam. The grain reserves of the country are not entirely for fiscal revenue. A large part is to deal with natural and man-made disasters.

Any war requires huge amounts of food support, so South Vietnam's food trade cannot be stopped no matter what.

Although South Vietnam has increased money, these price increases are not unreasonable and completely acceptable. Gongsun He doesn’t know who approved such a stupid decision!

However, as the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Gongsun He naturally had no way to interfere in the affairs of the Ministry of Finance and could only listen quietly.

At the same time, he had a bold guess in his mind that these recent memorials were probably approved by Liu Huan!

If this matter is true... Gongsun He couldn't help but take a breath.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was silent for a moment, took the memorial from the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and said: "I was too tired last night, so give me the memorial to read."

The implication is that his approval was careless.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty read Nanyue's memorial for a while and said indifferently: "Let's discuss this later."

……

After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty returned to Yaomu Palace and found Liu Huan, he took the memorial and asked, "Did you approve this memorial?"

Liu Huan glanced at it, hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "Back to my father, yes, is there anything wrong?"

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty stared at Liu Huan and asked: "What do you think and why do you want to reject this memorial? Tell me what you think."

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sat down, Liu Huan poured tea and handed the elixir to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and then said slowly: "Father, we have reserved a certain amount of food."

"Although the private grain industry is not as large as before, it is still enough to feed the people in the country."

"Previously, it was quite cost-effective for us to purchase grain from South Vietnam at low prices. Now South Vietnam is raising prices again. What are we doing with wasting this money? This money can be saved for a lot of infrastructure construction."

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was silent for a moment and said: "If something unexpected happens, such as war or natural disaster, how should we deal with it?"

Liu Huan smiled and said: "Father, we will not have the threat of war in the short term. If there is a natural disaster, will our food reserves be enough?" "If it is really not enough, we can also use the food from North Korea and the Japanese slave islands. "

"This has never happened, but now we have to add at least half the money to buy South Vietnamese grain. I feel it is not worth it."

"Um, this is all my son's and my family's words. I hope my father will be wise to this."

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty took the elixir, sat on the futon behind the writing, and thought seriously.

Although Liu Huan's explanation has shortcomings and dangers, it can be used as a knife against the left and right ministers of the Ministry of Finance.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty suddenly opened his eyes and said to Liu Huan: "Order the memorial to be sent to the Ministry of Household Affairs for execution!"

"Tell the right minister of the household department again that if the commercial tax revenue does not increase this month, he, the right minister of the household department, will resign himself!"

He just wants to make things difficult for the household department. Don’t you guys like to make the household department chaotic? Do you like users to force me?
Then I will wait until the Ministry of Household Affairs is completely in chaos and completely replace the Ministry of Household Affairs with a group of officials!
Liu Huan hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "I obey your order!"

……

When the Ministry of Revenue received the order to implement Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's order to cancel the grain trade with South Vietnam, the Minister of Revenue, Zuo Shilang, immediately became angry!

He insisted on resolutely implementing the decisions of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and insisted on implementing the grain trade with South Vietnam.

The right minister of the Ministry of Revenue was also angry when he heard that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had asked for an increase in taxes within this month.

Without saying anything, the two men immediately slammed the table and angrily submitted a letter of resignation to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was also very happy. Since you can't do it, let's find a new group of people to do it. He immediately agreed to the resignation of the left and right minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

With so many people in the court, who wouldn’t want to climb up? If you go down, more people below will have a chance!
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty immediately agreed to the resignation of the left and right ministers of the Hubu, and then immediately promoted the left and right ministers of the Hubu to move, and all the officials of the Hubu were promoted upward.

But the strange thing is that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty really made a mistake this time, and now most of the officials in the court have been brainwashed by Confucianism.

The official promotion system of the Han Dynasty requires the approval of the three provinces and the emperor to issue an official edict before promotion can be official.

There is no approval from the three senior officials or the Ministry of Personnel. Those who are promoted are not regular officials, and others will look down upon them.

Therefore, no one in the Ministry of Household Affairs dared to agree to the appointment of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

This made Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty furious and furious in the harem!

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Ministry of official affairs.

When Gongsun He heard that the ministers of the household department on his left and right had resigned angrily, he seemed very angry. You were happy, but have you considered the overall situation?

There are fewer and fewer bureaucrats who support the prince. Now that you are gone, how many people are left in the court?
After Gongsun He went to court, he immediately went to Wei Qing's mansion to discuss with Wei Qing.

When Wei Qing saw Gongsun He arriving, he knew something important had happened in the court again.

However, he was not in a hurry to ask Gongsun He. He just said: "There are more people from the detective department monitoring outside recently. It is really inappropriate for you to come here. Don't come here easily next time."

Gongsun He was stunned for a moment and said with a sad look on his face: "What's wrong with your Majesty? He has actually begun to re-employ hundreds of supervisory officials in the Detective Department!"

Wei Qing pressed his hands and congratulated Gongsun: "If you don't talk about this, has something happened in the court?"

Gongsun He said seriously: "Yes! Something happened!"

(End of this chapter)