My life is like walking on thin ice

Chapter 71 Father, I’m confused!

When the brothers Emperor Qi and Liang Wang Liu Wu briefly left the meeting, Liu Rong naturally became the focus of the audience.

——The negative kind.

He exchanged cups with everyone in the gathering and whispered to each other. From time to time he glanced at Liu Rong secretly, then covered his mouth and muttered a few words.

Even if he didn't hear it, Liu Rong could roughly guess the content of these words. It was nothing more than "the eldest son of the emperor has annoyed your majesty, and the king of Liang will have more opportunities."

Regarding these remarks, Liu De, the second son of the emperor, looked complicated, but he only glanced at Liu Rong from a distance and continued to talk with several old doctors with smiles.

On the other hand, Young Master Yu, who was sitting at the same table as Liu Rong, had his eyes widened as he glanced at everyone in the hall viciously, as if he wished he could choose someone to devour.

Liu Rong just smiled at this and took a sip of Juezhong wine.

No one could have expected that at this moment, the emperor’s eldest son’s focus would be on the wine baron in his hand...

"I still want to make springs, machine tools, and play with the industrial system;"

"In the end, getting alcohol is so troublesome."

During the past period of time, although Liu Rong did not go to the porcelain kiln again, he took the opportunity of the young master Ling Cenmai to ask him for advice and tentatively brought up the matter of refining alcohol.

The process was not smooth.

Although he didn't understand why Liu Rong wanted to "brew wine" and what the brewed wine was used for, Shaofu Ling Cenmai still said firmly: This matter has basically not been solved.

As for the reason, it was a raw material problem that Liu Rong never expected.

——Although the Han Dynasty has completely entered what historians call the "Government of Wen and Jing", from a macro perspective, the food produced in the world is still not enough for everyone in the world.

According to the information Liu Rong learned from Cen Mai, there are now more than one million households in Guanzhong of the Han family, with a population of nearly seven million;

There are about 2 million households in Guandong and more than 11.1 million people.

Counting Bashu, Hanzhong, as well as Shang, Dai, Longyou and other counties in the north, there are hundreds of thousands of households with a population of six million.

In total, the Han family now has more than 4 million households and a population of nearly 25 million.

Based on the standard ration of twenty dan per person per year, these 25 million people would need an annual grain production value of at least 50 million dan to ensure that each person has enough to eat.

But now the grain output of the Han Dynasty is about 20 million shi in Guanzhong, more than 10 million shi in Guandong, and nearly 10 million shi in Bashu Tianfu - a total of just over 40 million shi.

The food gap of nearly ten million shi means that the current food supply and demand relationship of the Han family is basically '80% full per capita'.

This does not include the loss during transportation of the grain transported from Bashu to Guanzhong, the grain transported from Guanzhong to Guandong, and the military grain transported by the court to the north.

Combining everything here, Cen Mai also spoke very straightforwardly about Liu Rong's plan to "make alcohol".

——Fruit wine is okay, but grain wine is not.

This made Liu Rong very embarrassed.

The brewing technology of this era was already backward and the alcohol content was not high;
Compared with wine made from grain, fruit wine has lower alcohol content, more fusel alcohols, and is more difficult to purify.

In this era, I don’t know if there is any fruit wine with an alcohol content of 3 to 5 degrees to extract alcohol. I am afraid that it does not take the fruits of an orchard to make wine, but in the end only a hundred or so kilograms of alcohol are extracted...

"take it easy."

"Even if it cannot be popularized, at least it should be prepared for senior officers and generals."

"The rest will wait until the future, when food production is increased."

As several "projects" hit a wall due to various reasons, Liu Rong gradually got used to this feeling of frustration.

But setbacks were setbacks, and Liu Rong did not completely give up on any project, but shelved it as appropriate.

——As a prince, especially the eldest son who has not yet been established as the crown prince, Liu Rong has too many taboos to pay attention to and too little power to use.

Very helpless, but also very realistic.

The only thing Liu Rong can do is to move into the crown prince's palace as soon as possible, and then rely on the privileges of the crown prince to do what he wants to do...

"Big brother."

While he was thinking about it, his younger brother Liu Yi's low-volume voice sounded, bringing Liu Rong's scattered thoughts back to his eyes.

Xun Sheng raised his head and saw Liang Wang Liu Wu, who had just been sitting on the royal couch with the Emperor Qi, now holding the wine baron and swaying towards him.

Taking a deep breath and making a cold face that said, "Don't let strangers in", Liu Rong pretended not to see Liang Wang Liu Wu and turned his body directly towards the palace door;

He propped his elbow on the dining table in front of him with one hand, and held the wine glass in his other hand, drinking alone while facing the door of the palace.

"We haven't seen each other for a year, but the emperor's eldest son has already become quite alienated from me?"

The expected calm voice reached his ears, and Liu Rong turned around, but he still looked very unhappy with Liu Wu, and looked at Liu Wu with eyes full of hostility. He raised the wine jue extremely perfunctorily towards Liang Wang Liu Wu. Before Liu Wu could react, he raised his head and drank the wine in one gulp.

"Whoo~"

Putting down the wine baron, he wiped his mouth carelessly and turned sideways towards the palace door again;

After a while, he suddenly turned around as if he noticed something.

"how?"

"Could it be that Uncle Wang really wants to chat with me?"

With such a sarcastic question, Liu Rong did not forget to turn his head to the side with a sarcastic face, and raised his head in the direction of the royal couch.

"Father has already seen it~"

"——I have seen that Uncle Wang can live in harmony with me, the eldest son of the emperor, and that uncle and nephew get along well~"

"The greetings were given, and the wine was toasted;"

"Uncle Wang, please come back soon?"

With that said, Liu Rong raised his hands again and made a 'please' gesture in the direction of the imperial couch;

The look on his face is as sarcastic as he wants to be...

"The eldest son of the emperor, why do you speak so sarcastically to me?"

"My uncle and nephew, why don't you..."

"——Did Prince Liang come to show off to me?!"

Before Liu Wu could finish his words, he heard Liu Rong's call without warning, which caused a sudden silence in the hall!
Everyone in the hall looked sideways, instinctively wanting to look away from Liu Rong, but they couldn't resist the spirit of gossip, so they looked over steadily.

On the imperial couch, Emperor Qi, who was still looking up at his uncle and nephew with a gentle smile, his face suddenly darkened!
boom!
But Liu Rong suddenly slapped the table, glared at Liu Wu fiercely, and immediately raised his foot to step over the short table in front of him;
Very deliberately, he bumped into Liang Wang Liu Wu's shoulder and swayed to the center of the palace.

He held his head high and looked up at the imperial couch.

"Father, I am confused..."

"——Father, I am confused!!!"

···
"Throughout the ages, in which dynasties and generations has there been an emperor who has not yet exterminated his heirs and who opposed the principle of establishing brothers as heirs?!"

"After doing such a stupid thing, how can my father face the late emperor and the great emperor Gao when he goes underground!!!"

A few roars full of rage only caused Emperor Qiye's chest to rise and fall, and he suddenly stood up from the imperial couch!

Just as he was about to scold, Liu Rong sneered inexplicably again.

"No need to trouble Father."

"——My son, go get the board now."

"It's better to be beaten to death and save the father from the headache of his son!"

After saying this angrily, Liu Rong turned back coldly and faced the direction of the palace door;

With the skill of "fluttering his sleeves and turning around", he put his hands behind his back, turned his head slightly, and looked at Liang Wang Liu Wu, who was still holding the wine cup in his hand and standing blankly at the side of the palace.

"Uncle Liang Wang, are you really the only one favored by the Imperial Grandmother?"

"Can you even get the storage space of my Han family so easily?"

"Ah!"

"Let's see;"

"Let's see if the saliva of the people in the world will drown me, the crown prince of the Han family, to death..."

"--presumptuous!!!"

On the imperial couch, Emperor Qi was furious, pointing his finger at Liu Rong's resolute back, his body trembling uncontrollably!
But in the center of the hall, Liu Rong only glanced at Emperor Qi's eyes filled with overwhelming rage from afar.

Immediately, he snorted coldly and walked towards the door of the palace without looking back.

"The third one!"

"gone!!"

(End of this chapter)