Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 504 Treat it with sincerity
Chen Ping's hair was gray and white, and his beard was a little white.

However, his figure is still tall, without the slightest rickety.

He never used crutches, even though he was old enough to use a cane, but he still didn't.

His arrival made the whole temple silent for a moment. Whether it was Zhang Buyi who was reprimanding others loudly, or the ministers who were blushing and questioning loudly, this thin and tall old man with a different look Oppressive force, his oppressive force is different from Liu Chang's. Compared with Liu Chang's ferocity, he looks colder and more serious. His eyes are very bright and shone with a slight chill. Under his gaze, All the ministers lowered their heads.

Seeing Chen Ping walking in, Liu Chang's eyes also flashed with astonishment.

He obviously didn't expect that Chen Ping would come over.

With his grandson by his side, shouldn't he spend his old age happily?
For these founding ministers, Liu Chang still has some respect in his heart. He couldn't bear to see Zhou Bo being humiliated, and he couldn't bear to force Liuhou to stay. Even if Zhou Bo made mistakes repeatedly, even if he needed Liuhou so much, it was the same for Chen Ping. At this age after he had worked hard all his life, Liu Chang couldn't bear to let him continue to take the blame. There are so many ministers, it is not difficult to find someone who takes the blame, why bother to embarrass a gray-haired old man?

Chen Ping walked in unhurriedly, and greeted Liu Changxing.

"His Majesty."

"Please, please, please sit down!"

The Han Dynasty had detailed regulations on the etiquette of the officials, and of course there were some rules for the old officials. The older they were, the better the treatment. At Chen Ping’s age, when seeing the emperor, he could kneel down and salute. He could sit down and talk to the emperor. Without slippers, it is not necessary to walk. Chen Ping sat on the left hand side of the emperor. Zhang Cang lowered his head and did not express any dissatisfaction with Chen Ping's behavior of sitting on top of him. Zhang Cang was a very peaceful king. Phase, don't care much about these things.

Chen Ping looked at the silent group of officials, and said: "I heard that His Majesty is going to set up a food store, and I came here specially for this matter."

"Oh?"

Liu Chang was taken aback for a moment, this guy didn't come here to persuade him, did he?No, with his personality, he shouldn't care about these things in the court. He has already left his official position at home, so why is there any need to participate in these things?

But the ministers just felt a little uneasy. In the debate, the ministers still had the upper hand.

Although Liu Chang is brutal, it doesn't mean that others are not allowed to speak. Liu Chang must also fully consider the doubts of the officials. He seems reckless, but he is careful. He will not rashly implement such a big policy. Consider all the risks before deciding whether to do it or not, and he is usually very straightforward. If he feels that the benefits outweigh the risks, he will immediately implement it without any twitching. This is the most similar thing between him and Emperor Gao.

Once a decision is made, it will not be changed easily and must be completed.

The questioning of the ministers just now made Liu Chang think a lot. As they said, merchants can play a huge role, and of course they can also play a huge role in destruction. There are advantages and disadvantages, how can there be a perfect government?Just as there is no perfect person in the world except yourself.

The ministers are also like a mirror in their hearts. What policy the elder wants to implement does not need the consent of the ministers at all. He can order directly, but he still has to hold a court meeting. This proves that the elder does not fully believe in it. As for starting a business, he still needs to listen to more ideas before making a decision.

The arrival of Chen Ping will break this situation.

"That's right, I don't know what advice Qu Nihou has?"

"Thanks to His Majesty's care, I have been resting in the mansion for a long time, and now my condition has improved. If Your Majesty does not give up, I am willing to take up the post of food and goods order to be in charge of business development."

"what?!!"

This was the first time Liu Chang lost his composure in the court meeting. He stared wide-eyed and looked at Chen Ping, unbelievable. In terms of protecting himself, although this person is not up to the level of a teacher, he can be regarded as a master. What's the situation?It wasn't just Liu Chang who lost his composure, but so did the officials. They didn't understand at all that this old man had given up his retirement life and came to mess around in the temple. Who would dare to intervene in business matters? ?
Lu Jia stood up first, and hurriedly said, "No, Chen Xiangqu Nihou is old, how can I make him work hard? If he becomes sick from hard work."

Before he finished speaking, Chen Ping interrupted him, "I heard that you studied with Xunzi, did you study medicine with him? Are you more aware of my health than me?!"

Chen Ping frowned, raised his hand and scolded the head of the Jiuqing.

But none of the ministers felt that there was anything wrong with this, and this was the biggest problem.

Well, this food and goods order is lawless in the court, Zhang Cang may not even dare to say anything, is it okay? ? ?

Luan Bu, who is an internal historian, could only stand up at such a time. He bowed to Chen Ping, "Qu Nihou, this business has many disadvantages. A little carelessness will be a catastrophe."

"It's a little tricky."

Chen Ping nodded, "I can handle it."

If you think that Chen Ping only knows how to intrigue but not how to govern the country, you are very wrong. In fact, Chen Ping also held a very important position in the development of the great man. During the period when he was the Prime Minister In the past few days, Wang Ling was irritable and repeatedly contradicted the Queen Mother with aggressive methods. It was Chen Ping who had been calming the situation in the temple, being courteous to the Queen Mother, and at the same time making arrangements in secret to improve his relationship with the ministers and stabilize the entire Han Dynasty. balance.

Therefore, in history, after the death of the queen mother, Chen Ping, together with many founding ministers, killed the Lu family as quickly as possible, supported the fourth child, and finally retreated. The fourth brother couldn't find him if he wanted to deal with him. For what reason, everything has something to do with him, but everything seems to have nothing to do with him. Zhou Bo led the army, Xia Houying murdered, and Guan Ying turned his back. What does all this have to do with Chen Ping?

But now that Chen Ping said that he could solve it, what else could the ministers say?

Are you going to point to his nose and say you can't? ?
Isn't this fatal? ?
Liu Chang suddenly laughed. He knew that his Zhongfu was definitely not a person who just talked about it. If others swore that he could solve many problems and start business at the same time, he would not believe it, but if Chen Ping said so Said, Thaksin, he believed very much, these old monsters at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liu Chang would believe everything they said, because the success rate of these people's work has always been [-]%, and they have never failed once.

"Okay! Let Qu Nihou be the order of food and goods, the same rank as Jiuqing!"

"From now on, it will be Shiqing!"

Liu Chang waved his hand and made his own decision.

The ministers were at a loss.

The court meeting ended in this way, and the officials left separately, but Liu Chang held Chen Ping's hand with a smile, and his face was full of flattery. Zhang Cang, who usually enjoyed this treatment, was left behind. However, Zhang Cang fell He was also used to the dog's face, and didn't think there was anything wrong. Liu Chang dragged him into Houde Hall, and carefully asked him to sit in front of him.

"Father Zhong, I'm flattered, flattered!"

"On weekdays, I have always come to you to do things, but this is the first time you have asked for things on my own initiative!"

"Father Zhong really deserves to be the number one virtuous minister of the Han Dynasty, even Marquis Feng and Liuhou are far inferior to you!"

"You should have been crowned king when the country was founded!"

Hearing what this Zhuzi said was getting more and more outrageous, Chen Ping couldn't help but glance at him, "Your Majesty, there is no need to do that. Since I have already agreed, I won't go back on my word."

"That's fine, that's fine"

Liu Chang rubbed his hands happily, looking at the dog face in front of him, Chen Ping became more and more familiar with it, and finally, he couldn't help shaking his head.

The ministers have encountered two generations of rogue kings in a row. I hope the next generation will change.

"Then what is Father Zhong going to do?"

Chen Ping took out the papers he had prepared in advance and placed them in front of Liu Chang. Liu Chang was even happier. This thing proved that his Zhongfu didn't do it on a whim, but had serious thought about it. It will not run away halfway.

"Your Majesty wants to promote food, so it is natural to break the restrictions on merchants. While breaking the restrictions, you must also prevent merchants from doing evil."

"Merchants can be allowed to own mansions, carriages, and hire manpower, but they are prohibited from buying cultivated land. Merchants only have profit in their eyes. If they set a precedent, they will buy the most fertile land to grow some inedible crops. It will lead to merchants eating farmers. If you want to grow commodity crops on a large scale, then you have to let the merchants spend their own money to cultivate, and it can’t be good soil, which is stipulated as middle field.”

"On the issue of the descendants of merchants, I don't think it is necessary to restrict them from being officials. The big man has the law of consecutive appointments, the system that prohibits him from being an official in his hometown, and there are many supervisions. It is not so easy to seek benefits through official positions. Moreover, there will be more people staring at these ministers who are merchants. The ministers may worry about the collusion between government and businessmen, but this problem has always existed, and it will not be exacerbated by restrictions. There are also sages in the family of merchants. Ah, the officials of the world, unless they are sinners, they cannot break their way."

"As for the matter of going out to do business, strict control must be carried out. It is necessary to set up the goods that cannot be traded, and to make regulations that the whole family cannot go with the merchants who go out, and leave their wives and parents. Strict review will cut off the possibility of them betraying the country, if such a thing happens, you can punish their clan to deter the rest of the people."

"While encouraging folk food and goods, temples should also develop their own food and goods, and the food and goods cannot be completely handed over to merchants. This is not to compete with the people for profit, but to control the market and prevent merchants from acting recklessly. , to set up more restaurants, wine shops, post houses, etc. managed by the temple, what the merchants do, the temple must also be done by someone, except for the lowly activities, the temple should have the ability to change the market in various fields .”

"Then there is the issue of currency, which is also the most important thing in food."

"The problem of taxation, the business tax is too high, which is not conducive to the development of today's food and goods"

What Chen Ping said was very detailed.

The content of the dozen or so sheets covered almost every issue, and a proper arrangement was made for all the issues, as well as some follow-up methods. Liu Chang listened very carefully, and could hardly hide his heart. With joy, he kept nodding his head, agreeing to many of Chen Ping's ideas.

He can safely and boldly entrust this matter to Chen Ping. Even if there is something wrong in the policy implementation process, I believe Chen Ping can make adjustments quickly. Today, the farmers and merchants of Dahan are the top ones today. Two big bosses are here to handle it, so what else does he need to worry about?

When Chen Ping was talking about the changes in the currency system, Liu Chang suddenly asked:
"Father Zhong, do you think it would be more convenient if we made currency out of paper?"

"Ok??"

Chen Ping frowned, looked at Liu Chang, "Currency made of paper?"

"Yes, you just said that the currency is only given value by us. If we use paper money, will it be more valuable?"

"No, copper has its own value. As for paper, it is easy to be copied and damaged, and it is extremely difficult to promote. It is not realistic."

"Okay, go ahead"

After noon, Liu Chang originally wanted to stay with Chen Ping for a meal, but Chen Ping didn't want to stay longer, and he wanted to go back to accompany his grandson. To build, the people under his command can be arranged at will, but they must be able to do things and have courage.

After seeing off Chen Ping respectfully, Liu Chang looked at the neglected Zhang Cang.

"Teacher, what do you think?"

"It's empty talk, but you have to do it to know."

Chen Ping walked out of the palace, Lu Jia was waiting outside the palace, Chen Ping glanced at him, then walked towards his carriage, Lu Jia quickly followed, in the temple, Lu Jia's relationship with Chen Ping is still Very good, at least he can talk to Chen Ping. As a contemporary veteran, Lu Jia's status is obviously far inferior to that of Chen Ping, but after all, he is also a ruthless person who meets the standards in all aspects. He kept up with Chen Ping, feeling a little helpless He said: "Why should Chen Hou do this?"

"You think I can't do it?"

"I'm not worried. If you say you can do it, then you can definitely do it. However, it's hard to say what will happen in the future after setting a precedent. In a hundred years, the big man may be the world of merchants. Have you ever thought about it?"

"You overestimate yourself and underestimate future generations."

"In which period, there are no people like you and me? They will make appropriate changes. Besides, what will happen a hundred years later have anything to do with us?"

"Later generations will think that this is a disaster created by us!"

"That's for future generations."

Chen Ping didn't want to say anything more to him, so he got into the car. Lu Jia stayed in his seat, watched Chen Ping get into the car, and then asked, "When Emperor Gao was still here, how did you treat him very much?" Because of the importance, you are also in an important position, but he never asked for advice, and you never offered advice, now, why do you take the initiative to offer advice?"

Chen Ping was taken aback, looked ahead, and hesitated for a moment.

"Treat him with sincerity, what can you do?"

The carriage quickly left here, and Lu Jia stayed where he was, watching Chen Ping leave with a long sigh.

"Father, this twilight month has started to implement the New Deal again"

Liu An handed the newspaper in his hand to Jia Yi who was on the side. Jia Yi lowered his head and looked at it carefully, and saw many things about opening a business. Qing, oh, it’s Shiqing, Qu Nihou has come to serve as the order of food and goods, poor Chen Hou, at this age, Father still refuses to let him go.”

"Father kept saying that he wanted to develop agriculture, but in the blink of an eye he started to develop business. I don't even know what Father is thinking. If things go on like this, I'm afraid there will be problems in this world of great chaos."

Liu An shook his head and said with emotion: "The objections of the ministers are fruitless. When I bought the newspaper just now, those scholars couldn't understand. They were discussing this matter intensely. Instead, it was those merchants who were happy, dancing and dancing. Holy Son of Heaven, look at their appearance, my father has stolen their house now, they may not be angry. What exactly is my father trying to do?"

Jia Yi just valued the newspaper seriously and read it over and over again.

Liu Xun, who was sitting in the back seat, asked curiously, "Brother, does Father Zhong like merchants?"

Liu An was immediately stopped by the question, he hesitated and said, "I probably don't like it, I've never seen him say good things about merchants."

At this time, Jia Yi suddenly said, "Okay, not bad."

"Um???"

The two brothers were stunned, and looked at Jia Yi suspiciously.

Jia Yi put down the newspaper and said thoughtfully: "The real prosperity of the big man is about to begin."

"Sister-in-law? What do you mean?"

Jia Yi said seriously: "Which country do you think had the most developed food industry in the past?"

"Of course it's Qi!"

"No, it's Qin."

Jia Yi said earnestly: "Shang Yang's reform, the Qin State formulated a series of laws and regulations to improve the management of the market, strengthened the control of food and goods activities and merchants, and standardized the market order. A good trading environment is essential for the fair participation of private products. There are big benefits. In addition, the regulation of market order is also conducive to guiding the exchange of commodities in the market, which is in line with the development requirements of Qin State Food and Food. Food and goods are not only privately owned, but the official food and goods of Qin State are also developed by Food and Goods. An important manifestation."

"The powerful countries in the past, whether it was Qi or Chu, when they became strong, food and goods always developed rapidly, and Qin was no exception. Qin tried its best to attack merchants, but he opened a lot of government-run shops. , this is just a different form of Shihuo, not because Qin’s Shihuo is backward.”

Liu An frowned, not quite agreeing with Jia Yi's point of view.

During the conversation, they also came to Tongguan.

The construction of the canal here is about to be completed, and a large number of people are digging here, and there are loud noises from time to time in the distance.

Liu An looked at the thin young man in the distance in surprise, and then flew into a rage.

"There are clearly rules in the temple! Sixteenth to fight!! What's going on?!"

"Call me the chief officer here!!"

ps: There is no book review as a reference, it is really difficult to write, I don't know what to write.

(End of this chapter)