The great man will live forever

Chapter 273 Preparing to Conquer the Fields

In the Jiaofang Hall,

"What do you want? Do you want to make your mother angry to death?"

"Are you satisfied with this, but not satisfied with that?"

"The portraits I gave you last year are already a year old, right? You haven't looked at any of them, right?"

"Always saying that there are many things to do, helping your father complete the restructuring. Now the system has been changed, the imperial edict has been issued, and the imperial examination will be held next year. Are you not busy?"

Guo Shengtong sat high on it, her already abnormally large breasts rising and falling with anger. She had just given birth to a baby two months ago, and now she was breastfeeding, so it seemed extra large.

"Tell me, you want to say something? Aren't you usually eloquent?"

Faced with her accusation, Liu Han remained motionless and didn't say a word.

"What do you mean you don't say it?"

……

Seeing that Guo Shengtong had said the same thing, Liu Han saluted unhurriedly and said, "My son, I would like to obey the teachings of my mother."

"If you really listen to me, I will laugh to death. Next month, no, three days later, I will see the girl you choose that you are satisfied with. If you can't choose, I will help you choose..."

Guo Shengtong wanted to say something else. At this time, Liu Han's personal servant Lu Yuan came in. Liu Han felt that his savior had come, and he quickly stepped forward to pull him. It was the same as all the mothers in the world urging him to get married.

"What's wrong, but my father has something important to do with me?"

"Go, go, don't delay father's business."

Liu Han didn't give him a chance to speak, and pulled the confused Lu Yuan outside.

"Come back here." Guo Shengtong shouted later.

"Mother, don't worry, I will definitely choose a suitable Crown Princess as soon as possible, and it's still early. My father only got married in his early thirties..."

After Liu Han finished speaking, he ran faster.

In the main hall, Guo Shengtong laughed angrily, "This treacherous son, can your Majesty's situation back then be compared with now? He will perfunctory me, go and call Xuelan over, let me see what he is busy with?"

"promise!"

When he came out of the main hall, Liu Han looked at Lu Yuan, "Tell me, what's the matter? It's not my father who is looking for me, right?"

"Your Highness, Marquis Qingfeng would like to see you."

"How many times this month?"

"Twenty-five times."

Liu Han was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "Is there any gossip in the court?"

At this moment, Lu Yuan hesitated. He wanted to speak several times but stopped.

"Why, is there anything else that Gu can't know?"

Seeing Liu Han's expression turn cold, he quickly said, "I told you, Your Highness, don't be angry."

"Tell me, what else can make Gu angry?"

"There are indeed rumors. Some people say that the old cow of Qingfeng Marquis eats young grass, that she loves His Highness, that she is shameless, that she is already an old lady, and can be His Highness's mother, and still like this..."

Seemingly seeing that Liu Han's expression had not changed, he was no longer so cautious. He continued: "They also said that she was attached to the dragon and the phoenix. She has not married anyone in these years. She probably wanted to marry your majesty. But your majesty didn't like it and pestered you again." …”

Liu Han never spoke, but listened quietly until Lu Yuan's voice became smaller and smaller.

"Prince, did I say something wrong?"

"No, tell me, can a broken mirror be reunited?" Liu Han said, looking far away into the distance.

"This, of course, is impossible."

Seeing that Liu Han seemed to be in a very low mood, he quickly asked, "Your Highness, what's wrong with you?"

"Nothing, let's go and see her?"

"alone?"

"Correct!"

"This is not good."

As Liu Han glanced at him, he could only nod.

On the other side, in the Queen's palace,

"Tell me, what has the prince been doing lately? Did His Majesty really call him just now?"

Guo Shengtong looked at Liu Han's personal maid Chang Xuelan.

"No, just now Marquis Qingfeng said he wanted to see the prince." Chang Xuelan's voice was soft and pleasant.

"What did she do when she saw the prince?"

"I don't know, it's been like this almost every day this month."

"This month, what about last month?"

Chang Xuelan hesitated and said, "It's almost the same."

Guo Shengtong was startled, feeling as if his treasure was about to be snatched away, "What is she going to do? Why didn't anyone report it to me?"

"Crack!" She smashed a bowl into pieces.

"Queen calm down."

A large number of people knelt down around them, and everyone was shivering.

"What is he going to do? Tell me everything."

As Chang Xuelan told, Guo Shengtong was happy at first, then frowned, "Okay, I know, this Qiang'er is real, is he very proud of being liked by an old woman?

I'll give this shameless woman a message soon, saying that I asked her not to pester the prince anymore, otherwise, the title may not be guaranteed..."

"promise!"

……

"What? Are you willing to come see me?" Ayimei looked at Liu Han with resentful eyes.

"Don't act like a harem. Is it necessary to do this? Come here almost every day?"

"It's necessary, who told you not to see me?"

"A broken mirror is hard to round."

"But we are not mirrors? And you can be reincarnated."

"..."

It made sense, and Liu Han was speechless for a moment.

"Betrayal only happens once and countless times."

"Time will tell."

"Okay, I won't argue with you anymore. You'd better come less often and see what other people say about you outside. They say you are an old cow eating young grass, and they say you are shameless."

"Just say it, do I need to explain? Does the explanation make sense? Do their rumors change me? I am praised and I am still me. Even when I am ignored and insulted, am I not me? There are some things , others don’t understand it, and don’t understand it, no matter what they say.”

Liu Han spread his hands and said, "Okay, as long as you are happy, it's not me who is being criticized anyway."

"You are not afraid of rumors when you see me alone?"

"If I don't see you, why don't you come here every day?"

Ayimei said nothing and handed Liu Han a box from her arms.

"What is this?" Liu Han opened it. It was dark, like lumps, and the smell was very strange. The smell was mixed with the smell of green leaves in early spring.

"Elixir of life."

"Does it look like this?" "Yes, this is all. It is probably made from Wang Mang's body. The first generation one is not a black jade unicorn."

"Give it all to me."

"Yes, from now on, I will grow old slowly. I will accompany you in this life. If you succeed, you probably won't live forever, okay?"

At this moment, her tone actually contained a hint of pleading.

"does it worth?"

Ayimei laughed at herself, "It's not worth it. It's not worth it. I'm lucky to have lived for more than 100 years, but I haven't been happy in these years. The happiest days were still in the Hou Mansion. Time is not about being happy as long as you live a long time. A tree can live for a hundred years, a thousand years, or even longer, but no one wants to be a tree.

Don’t you also choose not to live forever? You clearly know that you can live a long time by following history, and that change is extremely dangerous, but you still choose to change. "

"Maybe. In two years, I'll marry you. It's a fair match and it's fair and square."

At this moment, Ayimei's eyes were filled with tears. Only when she loses can she cherish. She has lived enough for more than 100 years. Now she just wants to stay by his side and finish this life.

"Okay!"

She smiled as brightly as before.

……

After the two talked, Ayimei was stopped by Chang Xuelan and others before she could leave the palace.

"What's the matter?"

Chang Xuelan observed her carefully. She didn't look old, even though she was about 40 years old, she looked about 30 years old, with a special temperament.

"If he were younger, he would be a good match for His Highness the Crown Prince." She thought silently in her heart.

"Why are you stopping me? I'll just leave if it's okay?"

"Oh." Chang Xuelan came back to her senses and said quickly: "The Queen has heard about you, Lord Marquis, and asked you to stay away from the Crown Prince, otherwise... otherwise..."

"What else?" Ayimei stared at her and stepped forward. Chang Xuelan kept retreating until she hit a pillar and could no longer retreat.

"Otherwise, your title as Marquis will not be guaranteed."

"If you don't want to protect it, then don't protect it." Ayimei said, turned and left, leaving Chang Xuelan stunned.

After a while, Chang Xuelan patted her chest with a look of fear on her face, "Oh my god, it's so scary. She is worthy of being a woman with thousands of troops and a noble title on the battlefield."

Immediately, she went back to report to the queen.

"What is she doing?" Guo Shengtong was extremely angry when he learned the news. "I'm not afraid of thieves, but I'm afraid that thieves will miss me. At Qiang'er's age, it's the time when he's in love. Don't be fooled by her. It seems like you should marry him early."

……

In AD 40, the 16th year of Jianwu, because he was busy with the system and the implementation of the three provinces and six ministries system, Liu Xiu issued an order one year later than in history, which required a nationwide land and census.

The data of this census mainly include three aspects:

The first is the cultivated land area across the country;

Next is the number of households in the country and the number of people in each household;

Lastly is the specific age of each family member.

The records in the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" are very limited and only mention one sentence: "The county was ordered to inspect the acres of cultivated land and the age of the household registration." However, this order was actually a major event in the history of China at that time.

Although today, it does not seem like a big deal for an emperor to order the statistics of the country's population and cultivated land, because we can now go directly to the National Bureau of Statistics to query these data.

However, when Liu Xiu ordered the statistics, this incident had a profound impact on the history of the time.

"Your Majesty, it is a laborious and laborious matter to cultivate the land, and it may be difficult to implement it. Please take back the edict, your Majesty."

"Your Majesty, please take back the edict."

"Your Majesty, please take back the edict."

All the officials knelt down and bowed aggressively. Liu Xiu sat on the dragon chair, feeling like he was sitting on pins and needles, with thorns piercing his back. He had a cold face and said helplessly: "We will discuss this matter later, and withdraw from the court!"

Liu Han looked at the officials coldly. He felt the pressure, let alone Liu Xiu.

One morning,

At this time, in the Jiaofang Hall, Guo Shengtong, her mother Guo Zhu, and his brother Guo Kuang were discussing the matter of conferring land.

Guo Kuang was the first to speak: "As I said before, we don't need to intervene in Dutian's affairs at all. Those powerful people alone are enough to give His Majesty a headache."

Lord Guo on the side also said: "Your Majesty thinks that the foundation of the country lies in the people, but he does not know that the foundation of the country lies in the noble surnames. The emperor has dug a hole for himself. Not to mention the powerful people this time, even the Yin family probably will not turn to the people. Him."

Master Guo shook her head as she spoke. She saw clearly that as the mistress of a powerful force in Hebei back then, she had a very clear understanding of the power of the powerful.

It is no joke that the emperor and powerful scholar-bureaucrats share the world.

Guo Shengtong on the side spoke, "But mother, if Du Tian is forcibly postponed, there will be many rebellions, and His Majesty will definitely lose a large number of supporters. Then His Majesty's throne will be..."

Guo Kuang looked at her and asked, "Sister, are you worried about your position as queen?"

Master Guo comforted him, "Don't worry, Your Majesty and the Yin family have lost their supporters. They will be Qiang'er's supporters from now on. I want to see this good show. How will the emperor end it?"

Guo Shengtong on the side shook his head, "I don't think so. I'm afraid that Qiang'er will follow His Majesty whole-heartedly, and your Majesty will even use him to take the lead in promoting Dutian. Then all the anger will be on Qiang'er."

"Indeed, you have to persuade Qiang'er carefully. You must not interfere in this matter."

"Okay, hurry up, send someone to call the prince over."

At this time, Liu Han met Ayi Mei again after going to court, "It seems that my father has been cruel this time, but it will probably cause a lot of turmoil. If he fails, the throne may be unstable. Look." Come on, I have to be the leader, holding a knife in my left hand and a knife in my right hand, will you accompany me?"

"it is good!"

"Create a bright future!" Liu Han thought that this was just to save the land. If a gentry came to collect food as one, imitating the gentry of the Qing Dynasty, the world would be in chaos immediately.

It doesn't matter. If it gets messed up, we'll fight again. Why did the prince rebel? He just wants to fight the world again. When it comes to fighting, he has no one to fear.

Liu Xiu was in an extremely low mood after going to court. He came to Yin Lihua's room and sat upright for a long time before he slowly said: "During the war, the land and household registration management was chaotic, but now, I just ordered the states and counties to check the number of fields. , household registration number, household registration age, why are they so opposed?”

Yin Lihua said: "Your Majesty, these aristocratic families are in charge of nearly half of the world's population and land. Now your Majesty has asked people to find out. Isn't that cutting off their flesh? How can they agree? If this is not done well, the world will be in chaos. .”

Yin Lihua was also born into a wealthy family, and she knew very well the terror of being powerful.

Her ancestor is Guan Zhong, a famous prime minister in the Spring and Autumn Period who once assisted Duke Huan of Qi to achieve a generation of hegemony.

When the seventh generation descendants of the Yin family moved to the state of Chu, they moved from the state of Qi to the state of Chu and were granted the title of Doctor Yin. From then on, they took the surname "Yin". At the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the Yin family moved to Xinye.

The Yin family was a wealthy family in Xinye, Nanyang at that time. The Yin family occupied more than 700 hectares of land, and the number of chariots, horses and servants was comparable to that of the feudal princes and kings at that time.

1顷等于6.66公顷，700顷等于4662公顷。故宫占地72公顷，这一算，阴丽华家的土地相当于64个故宫。

There is also a population dependent on them, which may number in the tens of thousands or even more. Thousands of strong soldiers can be organized at any time.

Moreover, there are many wealthy families like them in the whole country, such as the Ma family, the Dou family, the Geng family, the Liang family, and the Deng family.

When Liu Xiu and his eldest brother rebelled, his brother-in-law Deng Chen directly led thousands of people to defect, and even provided thousands of people with equipment and food to support them.

It can be seen that these powerful men are very powerful.

Many of Liu Xiu's generals were from powerful backgrounds, not to mention the other princes of the Liu clan.

"Yes, I also know that it is very difficult. The fundamental reason for me to implement the land transfer order is to understand the land and population situation in the country. Only after knowing the wealth of these families can we understand how much food there is in the country and how much tax revenue should be, and formulate realistic policies to ensure The country is peaceful and the people are safe.

If this is not checked, these powerful families will often conceal the amount of land and population in order to reduce tax payments.

The specific amount of land depends on what they say. This one is underreported by half, that one is underreported by half. In this way, the national tax revenue may be reduced by more than half. They are full, but what about the people? "

Liu Xiu had attended Imperial College in his early years and was born in a powerful family in Nanyang. Naturally, he knew the reasons why powerful families concealed information.

He knew that the reason why powerful families concealed and omitted reports was to pay less taxes.

At the same time, Liu Xiu deeply realized that if every powerful family did this, the country's tax revenue would be directly reduced by half!

Therefore, he needs to take measures to ensure that powerful families do not conceal or omit reporting in order to protect the country's tax revenue, so he must continue to implement this policy.

"No matter what Your Majesty does, I will support you." Yin Lihua said, stepping forward to hold his hand.

"If you have a wife, Lihua, what more can you ask for?" Liu Xiu looked at her, their eyes facing each other, everything was unspoken.

(End of this chapter)