Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 370 Who Says Shiro Is Not Like a Father?
Liu Heng came to Chang'an mainly for two things, King Liu Qifeng, and the affairs of the Southern Kingdom.

As for Liu Qi's affairs, Liu Heng only needs to be a witness, while the affairs of Nanguo are not as simple as Liu Chang thought.

"The main problem is the lack of manpower. The Chu country is fine, but there are too few people in Wu, Changsha, and Nanyue. A single citizen of the Liang country can stand up to the people of these three countries. In the southern country, I also tried every means to avoid corporal punishment. Encouraging fertility, opening medical clinics, and promoting new crops are not enough."

Liu Heng frowned and said seriously: "The southerners have bad habits and love to keep slaves. Among them, Bashu, Changsha, Nanyue, Wu and other places are the most serious. Rich people have hundreds of retainers and slaves, and there are children's houses. Concubine, even if you don’t count these private slaves, there are more than [-] official slaves today.”

"If it is said that the slaves of the princes and officials, it is hard to count."

Liu Heng said earnestly: "According to the laws of the Han Dynasty, there are [-] servants of the Marquis of Che, [-] of the princesses, and [-] of the lords of Guannei and the officials and the people. How many of my servants are nearly [-] servants?"

"In addition to those local nobles, there are thousands of slaves."

Liu Chang gently stroked his beard and asked, "What do you mean by fourth brother?"

"You can reduce their number step by step, turn them into commoners, and let them farm alone. This is the best way to increase the number of people in a short period of time. I think His Majesty can order that all official slaves be middle-aged first. People who have reached the age of 50 will be granted common people."

"Then clearly stipulate the number of servants and servants of officials, and finally gradually weaken the local slavery."

Liu Heng has a very refined idea, which is aimed at the current trend of slave ownership. Liu Heng believes that although the scale of slave ownership today is much smaller than before, so many slaves who are not registered in the household registration are simply wasteful. On the one hand, it is compassion for these people, and on the other hand, it pays attention to manpower.

Working for someone else's family is not the same as working for yourself.

However, Liu Heng is very cautious. If this kind of thing is not done well, the days of those retainers will not be as good as before, and even start to miss the taste of being retainers in the past, then there will be a big problem.

Listening to the fourth brother's words, Liu Chang laughed.

"Fourth brother, your thoughts coincide with mine!"

Hearing Liu Chang's words, Liu Heng pouted helplessly. He knew the virtue of this younger brother too well. Sure enough, seeing Liu Heng's expression, Liu Chang couldn't wait to argue; "Fourth brother, I'm serious! , Before you, someone told me about this matter, what he said was much more terrifying than you, he said that there are at least 200 million ministers in the big man who have not registered. "

"The Qin state registered the vassals in the master's household, but the great Han still has vassals who have been completely forgotten by the temple and are not in any household registration."

When Liu Chang said this, Liu Heng just believed him.

"Oh? This person said it well. How did you answer that?"

"I thought about it for a long time, and finally came up with a good solution, that is to dismiss all the ministers!"

"what?!"

Liu Heng almost jumped up, his eyes widened, and he shouted, "No! No! Long! No!!"

"Fourth brother, don't worry. That's what I thought, set up a new membership and put these people into the household alone. If someone uses them later, they will have to give them money. They can't kill them at will. They can appeal to you. Do you understand what I mean? I also know that it is impossible for a temple to let millions of people go out to farm alone, but as long as they are registered, they can be regarded as commoners, and they are only different from farmers in terms of duties."

Liu Chang was very laborious to explain to Liu Heng, and Liu Heng understood a little.

"Are you going to set up a special slave register?"

"Slave membership is too ugly, let's call it slave membership."

Liu Chang said seriously: "Fourth brother, think about it, is this method feasible? Today's big man, those retainers can't appeal, can't make friends, can't go out, can't drink, and the restrictions in all aspects are not even as good as businessmen, even They don’t have their own household. If they have children, they will be family members of others for life. If they set up a family, it will be different. No one can kill them. If they save enough money, they can transfer their families. Can."

"It may be a little troublesome, and it can't be done in a hurry, but it's a good way."

Liu Heng said, and asked again, "Who came up with this?"

"It's me!"

"Who first proposed that?"

Liu Chang was helpless, called Lu Lu and gave a few words in a low voice.

Liu Heng was eating tea in the Hall of Houde, and waited patiently. After waiting for a long time, he finally arrived. An old man, surrounded by several imperial physician orders, walked into the hall helplessly. It was Chen Ping. When Chen Ping walked into the hall, his eyes fell on Liu Heng. The two looked at each other and quickly looked away. Liu Heng suddenly realized that it was you, no wonder.

Seeing Chen Ping's arrival, Chang Liu hurriedly sat him down and asked about his physical condition.

"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty is fine."

The two chatted for a while, before Liu Chang just remembered something, and asked to call Liu Jing over.

When these few people sat together, the entire big Han family should tremble.

Liu Chang repeated Liu Heng's proposal, and also expressed his "own ideas". Facing this behavior of copying ideas face to face, Chen Ping did not express any dissatisfaction. In fact, Liu Chang robbed him like this. Gong, in many cases, it protects the ministers. For some proposals, Liu Chang can think that if others come up with it, it will be a bad thing. Of course, Chen Ping doesn't really care about this. Can't think of a hand with him.

In the face of Liu Chang's proposal, Liu Jing was probably the most pleasantly surprised.

This man, once he finds out that there is an opportunity to attack the wealthy family, he will become excited. Previously, he tried his best to let the "common people" relocate voluntarily, and he voluntarily relocated more than 7 households. Liu Changsheng was afraid of what he would do. As for the behavior, I even sent people to ask, all of them were voluntary, and absolutely no one was forced.

"Your Majesty, this is all right!"

"When the Han Dynasty was first established, the people had no food to eat, so they could only sell their bodies as servants in order to survive, but once they sold their bodies, they would be slaves for life and generations, and they would never have the chance to turn over again. In doing things, you can only get very little food, not to mention enough to eat. In some places, in order to prevent the servants from fleeing, they are given meals every two days. thousands"

"His Majesty wants to set up a clerical membership now, there are traces to follow, but I am afraid that those wealthy families will not want to, deliberately drive off the servants, and use their lives to persecute the temple!"

"From the minister's point of view, it is best to let the minister take charge of this matter, and the minister will make them all cooperate with your majesty's policy."

The story of Liu Jing tells us that people must know how to restrain themselves and not bully a guard too much. Otherwise, when the guard becomes Jiuqing, it will be bad luck! !

The big family of Qi who had forced Liu Jing to be a garrison and sent them to Longxi was probably remorseful at this moment.

On the way to Longxi, Liu Jing happened to meet a general from his hometown. He asked the general to inform Liu Bang that he had an important business interview with the emperor, and then persuaded Liu Bang to request that he should be in the customs, but not all. Luoyang proposed the strategy of Securing the World by choking the world and attacking his back. Later, Zhang Liang made the same suggestion as him, so Liu Bang immediately obeyed and gave his surname Liu, and placed Liu Jing in his place. stayed by my side.

Later, when Liu Bang wanted to send troops to attack the Huns, he specially sent envoys to check. After the ministers came back, they all felt that they were ready to fight.

Only Liu Jing said to Emperor Gao after seeing it: "When the two countries confront each other, they usually use force to deter each other. Now that Modun has taken the initiative to show weakness, he must have intentionally lured us to attack. If we go, we will be ambushed."

Emperor Gao was furious and scolded: "The old coward of Qi!"

Then Liu Jing was imprisoned, and Emperor Gao went to war. There is no need to say more about what happened later. Fortunately, Emperor Gao was not Yuan Shao.

Facts have proved that when Liu Heng, Chen Ping, and Liu Jing sat together, Liu Chang could only shout "Yes, yes, yes".

The three expressed their own ideas respectively, and made many changes to the original Chen Ping, oh, Liu Chang's crude proposal, first pardoning official slaves over 45 years old as common people, and then gradually passing the new law, To provide for new registration, and then to find a way to provide life security for those who voluntarily leave or change their registration. Of course, there are also laws on how to deal with disobedient wealthy families.

The three agreed that this matter has to start from the top down, starting with the emperor, in order to convince the rest of the people. As for the officials, the problem is not big, and everything can be made reasonable according to the title. , isn't the title used to do this?
Liu Chang nodded excitedly. If the fourth brother was the right minister, Chen Ping was the left minister, Liu Jing was the censor, and the master was the prefect, the strength of these three princes would probably be overwhelmed.

Liu Chang really had the idea of ​​keeping the fourth brother, but there is also a lack of a shrewd and capable prince in the south. That old man Zhao Tuo is not easy to deal with. Ruyi is like this, and he can be played alive. Besides, there are four kingdoms in the south. Well, in the future, I plan to continue to go south. It is definitely more suitable for the fourth brother to sit in the south.

As for Chen Ping, it is better to take good care of his body. The big man cannot be without Chen Ping. If there is no Chen Ping, who should take the blame in the future?

After negotiating for more than half an hour, Liu Chang just let them go back to rest.

"Father!"

"Father!!"

As soon as Liu Chang walked out of the Hall of Houde, he saw Liu An who was extremely excited. When Liu An saw his father coming out, he immediately stepped forward, grabbed his sleeve directly, and pulled it out with force. Without moving, Liu An wanted to pull his grandfather, fearing that he would have to wait for many years.As soon as Liu Chang exerted force, Liu An was dragged to his side, and Liu Chang squatted down and stared into his eyes.

"the fat is in the fire?"

"no!"

"Father, come with me to see! I have something to show you!"

Liu Chang had never seen his son so excited. He looked at Liu An suspiciously, and said, "If you are going to show me some books, I won't go."

"It's not a book! It's definitely not a book! Father will be surprised when he sees it!"

Liu Chang was helpless, rubbed his stomach, and decided to follow this Shuzi to take a look. When they reached the gate of the palace, Chen Tao was waiting here, and Liu Chang was also stunned, and said with a smile: "My minister Here, you are the least favorite to come to see me, I almost forgot that there is a minister like you!"

Chen Taoxing greeted him and said with a smile, "Your Majesty is busy with state affairs, and the minister has no major business, so how dare you disturb me?"

"Hahaha, you are right!"

Liu An said with a smile, "Father Zhong is really a great talent, a sage of the Mo family. My father knows people as well as my eldest father. How did my father discover and reuse him in the first place?"

"Uh, the main thing is to rely on the woodcutter around Chang'an. Well, don't ask about the matter of your lord. Did you call me here to see Chen Tao?"

"woodcutter??"

Liu An looked at Chen Tao curiously and said, "It turns out that Father Zhong was a fortune and a woodcutter, which is really an elegant thing."

Chen Tao cleared his throat, "Cough cough, it's not an elegant affair, Your Majesty, I invite you to come here this time to show you something, which was developed by the Crown Prince himself."

The three were sitting on the carriage. Chen Tao wanted to say more in detail, but Liu An refused. He insisted on asking his father to see it himself. Chen Tao was helpless. What did they say, they went all the way. They came to Shang Fang's old place, next to a water stream, and looked at the familiar house, Liu Chang was a little lost, and looked at Liu An with complicated eyes.

It can be seen that Liu An is not the first time to come here.

After getting off the carriage, he took a deep breath and felt the fragrance, "Father, every time I come here, I feel at ease both physically and mentally."

"I don't like it here because I came here once and caused a lot of trouble."

"Father also came here before?"

"Hehe. Tell me, what do you want to show me?"

Liu An took his father all the way to the river, and Liu Chang raised his head and saw the huge machine placed in front of him. When he saw the machine, Liu Chang was stunned, and then quickly stepped forward and looked at Ah Father was about to walk into the water, and Liu An wanted to remind father to pay attention to safety. However, Liu Chang walked directly into the water, and the water did not reach his waist. Liu Chang was even more motionless and began to grope. machine in front of you.

"This is the spinning wheel I made. It's changed to hydraulic???"

Liu Chang's eyes widened, he quickly understood the function and structure of this machine, and Liu An was not surprised, he said triumphantly: "Father once said that immortals can use wind, water, fire, Lei used it for himself. Isn't this the magic of the gods that my father said?"

Liu Chang looked at him in disbelief, "You did this?"

Liu An glanced at Chen Tao, hesitated for a while, and said, "It was made by Shang Fang."

"Of course, the prince has helped a lot. If it were not for the prince, this machine would not have been built."

Chen Tao said with a smile.

"Okay! Okay! I really despise Shang Fang too much, and I despise you too much!!"

Liu Chang said happily, if it weren't for this, he would really give up Shang Fang. Over the years, he has been improving his status as a craftsman, but Shang Fang did not give him many surprises, and Liu Chang was busy on weekdays. , and gradually gave up tossing with new things, but today's surprise gave Liu Chang another confidence in Shang Fang.

"Very well, that's it. In the future, you can tell me what you want to do and how much money you want. I will never be stingy. All the craftsmen who participated in the research and development of this machine will be rewarded with a hundred gold and two titles!"

"I thank you, Your Majesty!!!"

Chen Tao bowed and bowed, Liu Chang smiled and helped him up, but Liu An hurriedly stepped forward, "Father? What about me? Am I also promoted to two nobles?"

"You are the crown prince, what kind of rank do you want to be promoted?!"

"A level up is the emperor, and another level is the emperor"

"I'll beat you to death."

Liu Chang took off his shoes, and Liu An smiled and avoided.

Chen Tao carefully introduced the function of this machine to Liu Chang. This machine was made by transforming Liu Chang's spinning wheel. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, there were already many simple hydraulic devices, such as those in the late Han Dynasty. Craftsmen made hydraulic toys to flatter the emperor.The water moat, water drain, and water mill have all developed and are not as backward as later generations thought.

And hydraulic power replaces manpower, and the efficiency is improved many times, which makes Liu Chang very satisfied and can't help but nod his head.

"Father, from now on, we will control fire and water. This is the real magic of immortals!"

"Oh, manipulating fire and water at the same time is the real method of immortality."

Liu Chang was talking, but Chen Tao kept saying good things about the crown prince. Over the years, Liu An and Shang Fang's ministers got closer and closer, and even participated in the design and development of many machines many times. Taiwan succeeded, and others failed, but Chen Tao believed that the prince's research on Mohist knowledge had surpassed that of Qi Mo.

Looking at the cheering Liu An, Liu Chang frowned. This fellow will become an emperor in the future. He won't be obsessed with it all day long and handle government affairs properly, right?

Liu Chang returned to the palace, officially issued a reward order for the craftsmen, and quickly summoned Liu Heng, preparing to let the fourth brother also come to see the new machine. There are fewer people in the water in the south, and this thing is more effective in the south than in the north. so big.

Liu Heng walked towards the Hall of Houde quickly, turned around in the Hall of Changxin, but almost collided with a valet.

The attendant couldn't dodge in time, and fell to the ground. The whole person was frightened and hurriedly apologized.

Liu Heng had no intention of being as knowledgeable as the valet either. He waved his hand and let him leave. Just when the valet turned around and was about to go around, Liu Heng discovered that there was a big hole in the back of this servant, revealing the snow-white Liu Heng stopped him, and the valet lowered his head, not daring to look at Liu Heng.

This valet has beautiful eyes and is very attractive, and the look of fear is even more moving. Liu Heng carefully looked at it for a long time and asked, "What's your name?"

"Huangtou Lang Deng Tong pays respects to King Wu."

"Oh Tong, nice name."

"So, fourth brother, you had a dream, dreaming that you were sailing around the sky in a boat, a yellow-headed man pushed you to the sky, and the person in the dream had a hole in his clothes. Then you watched in the palace. When you arrive at a yellow-headed man, there is a hole in his clothes, called Deng Tong, for the omen in the dream, you want to take him away, right?"

Looking at Liu Chang's complicated eyes, Liu Heng's face turned red, but he nodded his head with a straight face, "Yes, that's it."

"Ha, fourth brother, have you ever wanted to write a book?"

ps: Hahaha, I have always felt that the so-called dreaming of Deng Tong in history was an excuse made up by the fourth brother when he saw his feelings.

(End of this chapter)