Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 611
"In the past, the ancestors moved to the foundation of the ancestors, cherished the generals of Hu, joined the righteousness of the countries, took advantage of the origin of Xinling, made the agreement between Ming, Su and Qin, and stern the prestige of Jingke, and made every effort to prepare for Qin. What is it for the six kingdoms to destroy their communities and unite the world?"

"It is said that the emperor is not wise, and he loses his land. It is not because the generals are bad, but because the ministers are not virtuous. It is not because of the ability of the herdsmen that he can serve the ruler, but because of the evil of the king, he can control the great government. Zhao is the name, and Qin is laughing. Depending on the growth of the land, there are sages who are as friendly as they are, and their talents are powerful enough to prestige the world, and they cannot match Zhao's ambitions."

Liu Chang smiled and looked at the Fu in his hand, the more he looked at it, the more satisfied he became.

Lang Zhongmeicheng stood aside respectfully and presented his latest prose to His Majesty. The whole prose was about Zhao Wangqian. Even if he scolded Zhao Wangqian and used a metaphor for the current state of Zhao, there was nothing Mei Cheng could do about it. King Zhao was not rebellious, and he couldn't write too straightforwardly, but His Majesty asked him to write, and he had to write. , so I can only dig out some black material about King Zhao and use it as a metaphor!
Fortunately, King Zhao has a lot of black material, such as donating money and making fakes, not coming to serve the emperor on time, leaving Handan privately, and forcing away virtuous ministers.

The more Liu Chang watched, the more satisfied he was, "Not bad! Not bad!"

"This is the second article!"

Mei Cheng presented his second article, and Liu Chang hurriedly picked it up to read.

"A woodcutter entered the mountain and saw the benevolent beast in the lake. He said: In the past, Emperor Xiaogao was alive, but he never saw the benevolent beast alive. Why is he drinking here now? Pure and good, it is only mixed with blood and energy, so it cannot be drunk. Now the water is suddenly clear, not complicated, and there is a holy son of heaven in the world."

"Qiao said: I don't know."

"The benevolent beast asked: Why did you see me here when the mountain was not opened?"

"Qiao said: The Son of Heaven opened a mountain for the people to use. If there is a need, report it to the government, and you can take it yourself."

"The benevolent beast asked: During the great cold, the mountains are covered with ice and snow, why are you here?"

"Qiao said: The Son of Heaven distributes winter clothes for the people. The widows, the old and the weak don't fear the cold of winter. Children play in the street, and the poor women work in the market."

This prose is called "Benevolent Beast". It tells the story of a woodcutter who goes up the mountain and meets Qi to drink water. The whole prose is two people asking and answering. He is not considered a benevolent king, but following Qi's inquiry and his answer, people can see an emperor who cares about the people, a prosperous age where the people are rich and live in peace and contentment. How to put it, if flattering the emperor has a rank, this At least one level higher than Zhang Buyi's.

"OK!!!"

After Liu Chang read the whole article, he was already so excited that he couldn't help jumping up.

It turns out that these writing prose are so easy to use? !
Lu Lu stood aside, and he had listened to Mei Cheng's prose in its entirety. In order for the emperor to understand, this fellow even used the simplest words on purpose. This is completely wrong!

Seeing the emperor so happy, Mei Cheng also lowered his head, with a humble smile all over his face.

"Lu! Reward a hundred gold!!!"

Liu Chang waved his hand and rewarded Mei Cheng.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Look, since you followed me, your writing skills have started to improve. What you wrote in the past was not very pertinent. Now this is so good. I will write like this in the future. I will write an insulting one in the morning and one in the evening. How about an article about me, Lu! Meicheng?"

"good very good."

"Then send someone to send this article to Lu Jia right now! Let him publish it in the newspaper immediately, so that everyone in the world will know about Mei Cheng's talents!"

Lu Lu naturally started to make arrangements in a hurry, but Liu Chang took Mei Cheng's hand, "The new mansion is under construction, you can write out those theories first. I have a few things I want to tell you. I heard that Wei Huo And charcoal can kill poison. I also know a method called distillation. Using this method to condense can get the essence of wine, which can kill poison. Poison cannot be seen with eyes, but water and fire can stop it. Most of your articles on weekdays are It is mainly the rich and powerful, I can see from your article that you are very disgusted with the luxury and corruption of the rich and powerful, and advocate your own way of keeping in good health."

"I hope that you can write from the perspective of the common people this time. The common people are not qualified to be extravagant. They are different from the rich and powerful."

"When you come across a mountain spring, it is better to boil it with fire first than to drink it dry."

"Wash yourself often with water, and that person will not get sick."

"Clean up the mansion so that there is no smell around, then the family will not get sick"

"When giving birth, if you can use fire and water to kill the poison first, then the lives of women and children can be saved."

Mei Cheng listened very seriously. Mei Cheng often hinted or expressed his point of view in the text. He was very disgusted with the lifestyle of the rich and powerful. He thought that all the nobles in a country began to indulge in enjoyment. If he is drunk every day, smells all over his body, and does not take a bath before eating meat, then the country will perish. But many of his ideas are not only not recognized by others, but also aroused ridicule. They don’t understand what this health preservation has to do with governing the country Doesn't matter, if you don't clean up, you will destroy the country? ?Isn't this nonsense?

It wasn't until Mei Cheng changed his thinking and focused on attacking the corrupt life of the rich and powerful that he got a lot of consensus.

Liu Chang is probably the first person who fully agrees with him. Liu Chang not only agrees with his attack on the nobles, but also agrees with his health preservation techniques. He believes that not only the rich and powerful, but also the people at the bottom should develop healthy living habits. They can also enjoy music, board the Wangyuan, go for outings in distant places, and go to exercise. After Mei Cheng found out that he could realize his grand ambitions under the command of this majesty, he was completely impressed. Such an emperor is really So worth following!
Liu Chang told him a lot, but His Majesty himself was not sure, so he left his article and asked him to go back and write his own theory, and by the way, study with those doctors whether it was correct or not.

Mei Cheng's article quickly spread in Chang'an.

Mei Cheng was already well-known in Chang'an, and many people bought the newspaper to read when they learned that he had written a new article, but they were stunned when they saw it.

Aren't you still mocking His Majesty in the early days?what happened? ?

Knowing that Mei Cheng has become the emperor's doctor, everyone said that they were fooled. Could it be that you wrote so many articles criticizing the temple just to get an official position? ?

Even Mei Cheng's reputation began to deteriorate rapidly, but Mei Cheng obviously ignored this. He wrote articles not to save his name, but to realize his ambition. What about these?

Liu Chang gave him a new mansion not far from Weiyang Palace. The mansion is still very good, not very luxurious, but it has everything you need, so that he can do business and write here. After the mansion was located, five or six people came to his mansion that night.

When they walked into the courtyard aggressively, Mei Cheng sensed that the visitors were not good.

The leader is an old friend he met in Qi State, and also a prose writer, surnamed Xu.

Xu Sheng neither paid homage to Mei Cheng nor exchanged pleasantries.

"At the beginning, I made friends with you because I admired your courage, but today, you have abandoned your character for the sake of your official title. I came here today to tell you that from now on, we will no longer be friends .”

Mei Cheng was not angry, he looked up and said with emotion: "Those who I regard as friends cannot see my ambitions, but those who I criticize all day can see my thoughts from the articles. If you think I am not worthy to re-enter Be your friend, then please leave!"

Meicheng did not continue to confront these people, and did not even confess.

This makes these people who have prepared a lot of words to argue with them feel embarrassed, and can only leave angrily in the end.

This quickly caused a literary war in Chang'an. Many literati began to write prose to insult Mei Cheng's behavior, but in terms of quality, it was far inferior to Mei Cheng's, and those in Chang'an who were really good at prose, such as Lu Jia, Jia Yi, Chao Cuo and the like didn't bother to write this kind of thing, because Mei Cheng didn't answer, and the scolding battle ended without a problem.

"Your Majesty, this"

The big man's servant stood in front of Liu Chang, hesitating, as Liu Chang's close friend for many years, the servant knew His Majesty very well, so when His Majesty entrusted him with this basically impossible task, he I couldn't help but start to reflect, did I offend His Majesty somewhere?

The big man's eunuch is not a Han, but a member of the Yue family. He is probably the first Hu man to hold an official title in a big man, and he even took the position of Jiuqing. The position of a big servant is really high and powerful. Non-confidantes cannot be appointed or dismissed. The last servant was Xia Houying!
And he really did a good job. He set up a large number of horse farms in Beidi, Shuofang and other places, which solved the problem of lack of horses for the big man. Today's big man not only has no shortage of horses, but even has a surplus of horses. Back then, Emperor Gao When four horses of the same color cannot be found, an excellent war horse can be exchanged for a large courtyard of six houses in Chang'an. The price of ordinary horses is also around 20 yuan, and a farm ox at that time was only [-] yuan. The same money can buy more than a dozen cows. Today, the price of cattle is around [-] yuan, while the price of horses has plummeted to [-] yuan.
The eunuch also personally drew up a set of horse training, which described how to raise and treat horses. He even led the officials to come up with a set of special animal medicine books, which effectively guaranteed the interests of the herdsmen.

Because of his meritorious service, he was granted the title of Marquis, and now he is the Marquis of Muhun.

The lords of the Han Dynasty are based on food towns. If there are few food towns and only the size of a pavilion, then they are Tinghou; if they have the size of a township, they are Xianghou; It was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty that the different levels of Marquis and different etiquette were officially divided.

Even though everyone is a lord, the gap between them is huge. For example, those lords in Shangfang, the scale of these people's food towns is not large, only the size of a pavilion or a township, but these lords in the temple , Those are all county lords with thousands of households.

The servant was full of helplessness, and said: "I know your majesty's grand plans and great achievements, and I also know your great ambition to let everyone in the world eat. But this does not mean that the more livestock you raise, the more common people will be able to eat meat. The Huns have tens of millions of livestock, but not everyone can eat meat. Besides, if His Majesty wants to expand animal husbandry, it will inevitably seize arable land, which will affect the development of agriculture. It is developed, but it still needs to be dominated by agriculture. There is not enough food for livestock alone, and a disease may cause hundreds of thousands of people to lose their livelihoods. The risk is huge.”

Liu Chang has two ambitions, one is to make clothes available to everyone.

Since the opening of the business route with Shendu, various countries in Shendu have begun to pay tribute. They have a large amount of textiles and raw materials, which have continuously flowed into the treasury of the Han Dynasty. Liu Chang dared to wave his hand to help the poor all over the world. People who don’t have winter clothes are rewarded with clothes, so that they can all wear clothes. This goal seems to be very close. With the development of trade routes and the improvement of weaving machines, Liu Chang should be able to see that everyone has clothes to wear. In recent years, the price of textiles has dropped again and again, which is the best proof. Many merchants have started to sell textiles outside in order to make profits because domestic profits are getting lower and lower.

But it is still far away to let everyone have enough food.

With the implementation of various systems, Dahan's household registration has ushered in explosive growth, and he is about to start sprinting towards the 3000 million barrier.

The output of food can't keep up with the growth of the people. There are already cases of starvation in various places. Although Liu Chang has repeatedly expanded the welfare institutions, there are food reserves in various places for relief, but the relief cannot be exhausted.

In the eyes of the ministers, this is an unprecedented prosperous age. The temples can deal with any sudden disasters, and the people in the whole world can basically eat half full, and they can eat something every day. What is there to be dissatisfied with? Woolen cloth?

But Liu Chang naturally didn't think so, he not only wanted the people to eat, but also let them eat meat!

When farming was deadlocked, Liu Chang came up with the idea of ​​animal husbandry.

The Huns were overthrown several times at the beginning, but they were able to rise rapidly because of their highly developed animal husbandry. Animal husbandry is not like farming. In fact, an eight or nine-year-old child can herd a flock of sheep, although a flock of cattle has to pay a lot The energy is much simpler than the meticulous farming, and the Huns have already retreated, leaving a large number of grasslands in the north. It may take 30 to [-] years to cultivate and cultivate here, but if you raise livestock here .That's different.

Tang Guo has been going out to win over the grassland ministries over the years, and is also constantly building cities to complete the expansion of the grassland.

Liu Chang wanted to go one step further, annexing all the spheres of influence left by the Huns, building several huge animal husbandry areas, centering on the city, and completely controlling this grassland with countless resources.

He specially called the servant here just for this matter.

But the servant was a little embarrassed.

It is easier said than done to develop grasslands.

This thing is more difficult than developing the southern country, and it is easy to cause some conflicts.

Listening to the eunuch's advice, Liu Chang was a little angry, "Could it be that the purpose of defeating the Huns so hard was to benefit those other tribes? If the Huns were defeated by me, then his territory should also belong to us. Yes! Can I still lead the way for others? This grassland must belong to me! There is no king like Maodun at this moment. If the big man gives up governing the grassland, then one day, another Maodun will appear and be active in the grassland again Come on, start looting."

The eunuch hesitated, "If you want to do this, you can't rely on the Tang Kingdom. This requires Beiting Kingdom, Longxi County, Tang Kingdom, Dai Kingdom, and Yan Kingdom to work together. If Your Majesty really wants to govern the grassland, To develop the animal husbandry of the Great Han, it is best to send a competent official to the frontier to investigate the local situation and ask the local officials. After the investigation is clear, a lot of national power can be spent on this matter. I will not agree to it, and please consider it carefully."

"A competent minister, then I will know who to send over."

Liu Chang narrowed his eyes.

From Chang'an to Hanoi or Hedong, you can reach Tang State, and you can even go directly to Beidi.

The Tang State has lost its rapid development in these years, but this is also normal. In governing the country, the breakthroughs that can be made in the early stage are always the greatest. Today's Tang State is ushering in a period of steady development. This is probably a big man The most special place is where Hu and Han live together. You can see herdsmen driving their livestock in the distance, and you can also see the cultivated land beside the road.

Zhang Buyi got off the carriage and looked around calmly.

This is a small county town, calm but spacious.

The road is very spacious, there are not many people coming and going, and the city is not very lively, but it has a different exotic style.

The officials didn't understand why Zhang Buyi got off the car here.

This is not the destination of this trip at all, they are going to Shuofang, this place is not very far from Chang'an, it's just an unknown small county.

However, they did not have the guts to question the current prime minister.

When the local county magistrate learned that the left minister of the court came here, he was so frightened that he came to see him. He originally planned to let the people of the whole city come to welcome him, but Zhang Buyi refused. Yes, Zhang Buyi walked in this county town, looking around, looking excited.

The county magistrate followed him with a smile on his face.

"I never thought that Prime Minister Zhang would come to our county. This really makes us very excited. This is a blessing for the whole city. I will definitely let people record this event and record it in our county history. Inside the city My good family was very excited when they heard that you came to inspect the people, and they proposed to build a stone tablet for you in the city to record your merits."

Zhang Buyi, who had never paid any attention to the county magistrate, suddenly stopped and scolded: "I am just assisting the king and doing something within my power. What kind of merit is this? If a stone monument is to be erected, it should also be a tribute to your majesty." Yes! Now that the Holy Son of Heaven is alive and the world is in great order, isn’t his contribution worthy of praise?!”

Just when Zhang Buyi was questioning, someone shouted in the distance.

"Zhang Buyi!! You traitor! What do you want to do?!"

Zhang Buyi replied instinctively: "Don't get me wrong, I just think"

Zhang Buyi suddenly stopped and looked up. He saw an old man carrying a hoe in the distance. The old man put down the hoe and laughed.

Zhang Buyi also laughed.

The county magistrate was so frightened that his scalp went numb.

ps: Ladies and gentlemen, it’s the end of the month, please ask for a ticket. This year is coming to an end. It’s been a year of ups and downs. Fortunately, I’ve resisted it. I hope that in the new year, my family and my Readers are in good health, all the unhappiness and unhappiness will stay in this year, and all the best will be in the next year.

(End of this chapter)