Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 660

Liu Chang never thought of cutting the feudal clan.

Because he doesn't need it.

He didn't think that any vassal king would harbor evil intentions against him and would rebel against him while he was still alive.

Even if it was King Yan who failed to rebel in his dream, Liu Chang had great trust in him, and it was impossible for King Yan to rebel.

As for the future, what do you care about yourself? ?
Even if a feudal king came to power and overthrew his lineage, how dare he dig his own grave?Do you dare to worship yourself?
The more improper the position, the more he likes to do something. If the vassal king takes the position, he will pay homage to himself more solemnly because it was Liu Chang who gave them this way, and Liu Chang was the first vassal king. High king.

Liu Chang didn't care about these at all, and sometimes he even felt that if his descendants were useless, he would let those other capable youngsters destroy them and replace them! !

Counties and counties were enshrined in parallel, Liu Chang did not believe that his father could not see the hidden dangers in it, although Liu Chang kept saying how stupid his father was, but this old man still had something, he definitely knew it , but why doesn't he change?Because he doesn't care, anyway, whoever is in the top position is his own family, and he is gone, so who cares about him?Do they dare to demolish their own graves after they are in power? ?

Liu Chang also has absolute confidence in himself, and has enough trust in the princes.

Instead of being afraid of these vassal kings, he gave them the opportunity to show their talents, fully subsidizing these vassal kings so that they can display their full strength.The enfeoffment system is really important to today's big man. If there is no enfeoffment system, Liu Chang's current achievements will be at least half. Maybe more.

To give a very simple example, if the three vassal states in the northwest were not sealed, it would be impossible for the Han army to reach Shendu, and they would starve to death when they arrived. If they did not starve to death, the Han people would starve to death.

Moreover, Liu Chang never had that kind of narrow geographical concept in his heart. From the Spring and Autumn Period to the end of Han Dynasty, and even the future, China has a very strong regional concept. In today's era, the regional concept even surpasses the national and national concepts. They don’t have the concept that we are all Han people, and they directly massacre cities in other regions, and basically they will not receive any moral condemnation. In their view, we are outsiders because of our different regions. In King Yan's eyes, the Zhao people were probably not his own clan. If the two countries were at war, he could even slaughter Handan directly without any pressure.

The emperor also had this kind of narrowness. During Liu Bang's period, he cared more about the territories under his own direct control, and didn't care much about the situation of the princes.

But in Liu Chang's place, there are no such regional differences. From the Western Regions to the Yan Kingdom, from Nanyue to the Xia Kingdom, they are all his own family, and they should all develop, and the people living here should live a good life.

Of course, this kind of enfeoffment system is not perfect, and its hidden dangers are very serious. Even if it is a Tuen Ling, it will take a long time to see the results, and if it does not limit the power of the princes and kings, it will cause a series of problems sooner or later. It was during Liu An's time, or it might be during Liu Qian's time, or maybe even further later.

But Liu Chang doesn't care about these things. Nai Gong has done well enough. Although Nai Gong is a saint, it is impossible to solve all the problems that have been going on for thousands of years, right?Then what is the use for future generations?

When Chao Cuo proposed cutting the vassal several times, Liu Chang ignored it.

But at this moment, Liu An seems to be joining forces with Chao Cuo, one in the open and the other in the dark, to promote restrictions on the princes and kings.

Liu Chang also ignored it.

It's Liu An's own business that he doesn't stand aside. Of course, Liu Chang won't let the matter get out of control. There is still a bottom line for this matter.

Liu Bi saw that Liu Chang didn't care. His Majesty didn't care how powerful he was, and he didn't care whether Chao Cuo and the others wanted to cut down the feudal clan.

Your Majesty is so powerful that you don't even need to care about the power of the princes and kings. Your Majesty is so powerful that you don't need to care about whether the princes and kings are restricted.

Whether it is the outer king or the inner minister, there is no way to threaten the current one at all.

Although Liu Bi didn't get the result he wanted, it was already very good. If His Majesty also participated, they would have no possibility of rebuttal. Since His Majesty would not help, it means that they still have a chance.

Chao Cuo is not invincible.

Liu Bi bid farewell to Liu Chang in a hurry, not knowing who he was looking for.

Lu Lu looked at this scene with some concern, "Your Majesty, is there really no big trouble like this? Is Your Highness going to tear yourself apart with the princes and kings? What should I do?"

Liu Chang grinned, "These are trivial things, I can't care about them."

"I have crusaded the body poison, but the follow-up management problem has not been solved. Apart from the problem of body poison, there is also the matter of wiping Ann's ass. In addition, there are so many important things in the medical office, county school, Shangfang, and going to sea. Compared with these things, the affairs of the princes and kings are not important at all, but they may be more important to An. This is also necessary. Of course, the emperor has to fight with the princes and kings, let's see what An, a scorpion, will do."

"I'm afraid that this move will cause discord within the clan."

"You don't have to worry about that, the clan is not of one mind"

Liu Chang really didn't care about this, because before he finished these words, he set his sights on a prey, and stopped talking, picked up his bow and arrow and went to shoot. In the evening, Liu Chang returned with a full load, holding a strong bow, and followed Lu Lu asked about something important.

"Why do I feel like I'm missing a strong bow? Why is the strong bow I stole from Guanhou missing??"

"Probably put it in the arsenal and didn't take it out."

"Isn't it? Could it be that he was given to steal?"

"Oh, why is your majesty targeting King Xia so much? Although King Xia is a bit stubborn, he won't steal your precious bow."

"Heh, if you can't find it in the arsenal, [-]% of it has been stolen by him. Do you want to make a bet?"

Liu Chang and Lu Lu were talking, and as soon as they approached Houde Hall, they saw someone waiting outside the hall.

"teacher??"

Liu Chang was taken aback, looking at the old man standing trembling in the wind, Liu Chang frowned suddenly, he took off his fur coat, jumped to Zhang Cang's side in a few steps, put his fur coat on directly On Zhang Cang's body, Liu Chang was tall and the clothes were already big. Now that they were draped on Zhang Cang's body, they almost enveloped his whole body. Pulled into Houde Hall, Zhang Cang didn't even have time to say anything before being pushed into the hall by Liu Chang.

Liu Chang looked at the two officials at the door with a very unfriendly expression.

"Who told you to hang my teacher here?!"

The doctor was shocked, did not explain, and hurriedly apologized.

Liu Chang was about to say something, but Zhang Cang said hastily: "Don't talk about them, it's because I don't want to go in, just blowing the air, don't make a fuss about it."

Liu Chang was a little displeased, so he brought hot tea, looked at Zhang Cang, and scolded: "Master, you are too old, it is so cold, why wait outside the hall? If you fall ill, my state affairs Who will do it? Why are you so ignorant?"

"It's not cold, it's not that cold. There's no reason for the prime minister to live in the palace and wait for the emperor. Okay, sit down, I have something very important to discuss with you."

Zhang Cang's face became serious.

Liu Chang dare not take it lightly.

For Liu Chang, Han Xin is his biggest military pillar, and Zhang Cang is his political pillar.

The two are Liu Chang's iron backers, and they are indispensable.

In these years, Liu Chang went around hunting, hunting and having fun, and the big man is still developing steadily. Liu Chang doesn't believe it's because of some kind of blessing from Tai Yi. Of course, it's because of his master. Minister No. 1. However, I can’t help but be able to do it. All the big and small things fall into Zhang Cang’s hands, and everything will not be postponed until the next morning. No matter how big the problem is, he can always do it Well-organized, logical, almost impossible to find mistakes.

He doesn't like the power struggle in the temple, and he doesn't like being a scholar leader, the head of a hundred officials. He spares a little time every day to help his disciples, and the rest of the time is his own.

The big man can withstand Liu Chang's toss, Zhang Cang's hard work and hard work are not inferior to Han Xin's.

Of course, Liu Chang also gave him a great honor. He was the first Marquis of Ten Thousand Households in Liu Chang's era.

Liu Chang also knows that the teacher has never been a character who likes government affairs, and the reason why he sticks to the position of Prime Minister at such an age is purely for himself.

At this moment, Zhang Cang talked about the reason why he suddenly came to Liu Chang.

"The grain income and expenditure of the previous year have been calculated. The grain production has decreased, and I have investigated the reasons for it. Part of it is because of your expedition, but there is also a big reason for the ownership of the cultivated land. The large amount of cultivated land that was originally reclaimed They all fell into the hands of the same type of people. The number of tenants increased on a large scale again, and as soon as we made achievements, they couldn't wait to start repairing the imperial mausoleum."

Zhang Cang's tone was a little cold, no longer the gentleness of the past.

In these years, Dahan has carried out a large-scale reclamation campaign and resumed production, which has greatly increased the grain output and the area of ​​cultivated land. When the country is developing rapidly, the problem of land annexation has come back. The main reason is that Dahan is developing too fast. And the first ones to rise in development are often not those low-level people. The powerful and powerful families have accumulated a lot of wealth and started the snowball mode to crazily squeeze the bottom-level people.

This will affect the oppression of temples. Of course, feudal temples also oppress and exploit common people, but the model is different. Temples need them to live to pay taxes, but big clans don't seem to need it.
Zhang Cang came here this time to remind Liu Chang that the land is too fertile and the leeks grow too fast, which affects the crops, and it is time to harvest another wave of leeks.

The leeks in the Western Han Dynasty did not refer to the low-level people, but to the powerful and powerful families in these places.

Liu Chang sneered, his expression looked like a ghost.

He tapped the case in front of him lightly, and looked at Lu Lu who was beside him, "Lu, now you know why they should all follow your example, right?"

"It took only one year for them to successfully stop the progress of the big man. The food production has decreased. These people cannot be killed, and they cannot be killed, so they can only be forced to find another way out."

As Liu Chang said, he looked at Zhang Cang suddenly, "Teacher, leave this matter to Chao Cuo."

"Isn't he busy cutting down the feudal clan?"

"Cutting, while cutting the vassal, we must not forget to cut leeks. I have been away for two years, and Liu An has supported many low-level people. Although it has hit the powerful, the powerful are happy. This time, I want to cut it hard. I It's not Father, I don't need to be afraid of their counterattack, I will never allow these moths to eat away my hard work for so many years, it just so happens that An also paved the way, this time, whether they want to or not, they have to go and give me honestly To build a factory and do business”

Liu Chang gritted his teeth and said.

Hidden in Liu Chang's fur coat, Zhang Cang poked his head out stubbornly, and said indignantly, "They should all be killed!"

The governance of the big man in these years is the painstaking effort of the master and the apprentice, and the trampling of others is something they cannot tolerate.

Zhang Cang said again: "It just so happens that the problems of Yu Ding and tenants in various places have become more and more serious. After this migration, they left a large vacancy that is enough to accommodate many, many people. Oh, you don't know, these moths, in a short period of time Within a few days, they occupied countless fertile fields, with tens of thousands of tenants, ostentatiously passing through the market, and there were even more than a thousand people serving them. I can't imagine that they lived a more prosperous life than me, the great man of the Han Dynasty. The mansion was built, It’s almost catching up with our Jiancheng Hou!!”

Hearing Zhang Cang's complaint, Lu Lu's face darkened, can you stop pointing the topic at me when you talk about arrogance?
I have never invaded people's homes, it's all normal business!

The master and the apprentice talked for a long time, and finally Liu Chang sent several doctors to take Zhang Cang back in his own carriage.

The next day, the court meeting was held as scheduled.

What the ministers care about and what Liu Chang cares about are obviously not the same thing.

Chao Cuo lived up to everyone's high expectations. As soon as the court meeting started, he started his own performance.

Of course, Chao Cuo was not a fool, and he didn't directly stand up and say that the princes and kings should be restricted.

He adopted a roundabout tactic and did not cut down the banner of the vassal, but proposed many things about limiting the royal power.

First of all, of course, is the military cuts.

Chao Cuo pointed out that the quality of the current kingdom's soldiers is low, and they are useless, and they are wasting money from the temple for no reason. The number of people is commanded by the county lieutenant, who obeys the orders of the temple, knows the local thieves, and maintains law and order. It probably means to abolish the private soldiers of the princes and kings. Of course, the princes and kings can still mobilize the soldiers of the county and county, but this is no longer theirs. The army in name, they are not the leader, but the mobilizer.

They want to transfer military power from the hands of the princes and kings to the hands of the Prime Minister and the Taiwei.

As soon as this proposal came out, it immediately aroused intense discussions among the ministers.

There are many supporters. It can be seen that the group of ministers is relatively unified on the issue of restricting royal power. Although Chao Cuo proposed it, because Liu An used the princes and kings to deal with them, they realized the necessity of reducing the vassal. Therefore, , after Chao Cuo took the lead, he quickly sided with Chao Cuo.

This matter has not yet been discussed, and Chao Cuo played again.

The second time is to work hard on financial power. Liu Chang previously forbade the princes and kings to mint coins privately, but Chao Cuo has to go one step further, that is, not allowing the princes and kings to collect miscellaneous taxes. The princes and kings can no longer collect taxes, and their main income From Yu Fu, if you need money urgently, then add some Fu.
Chao Cuo not only wants to start with these basic powers, he even wants to take back the official learning and Chinese studies in the temple. He believes that the princes and kings cannot interfere with the enlightenment. Chao Cuo believes that this is the most important thing, what the princes and kings taught Obviously, the scholars will become the scholars of the vassal states, not the scholars of the Han Empire. He wants to reverse this situation, let the scholars agree with the Han, and prevent the vassal states from becoming their masters, so he wants to ban The power of princes and kings to recommend and recruit scholars
All the ministers closely related to these positions also stood up and played, becoming Chao Cuo's shuriken.

When Xia Wuhe got up slowly, Liu Chang's eyes lit up who was yawning above him.

He looked suspiciously at the old man in front of him, and an indescribable smile suddenly appeared on his face.

"Duke Xia??? When did you come back??"

"It's been a long time since I came back. I was unwell before, so I was recuperating in the mansion."

Liu Chang nodded with eager eyes.

"Okay, okay, it's good to be back, I can come to Houde Hall later, I haven't seen you for a long time, I miss you very much this time, we have to catch up on the past!"

Xia Wuqi showed an ugly smile, "Wei!!!"

Xia Wuqi's appearance, of course, means that the medical officer will be in charge of the temple's medical office in the future, and will not be subject to local jurisdiction.

And this place refers specifically to princes and kings.

It can be seen that Chao Cuo has been planning for a long time, and he has used all the means he can think of. He can't wait to raise the princes and kings as domestic pigs. It's better not to do anything, but to have children and eat meat every day.

Of course, Liu An was also present at this court meeting, and he sat beside Liu Chang, with his head bowed, without saying a word.

However, when Chao Cuo played, it was his people who came to advocate and support.

Liu An's influence is not small. After these years of development, Liu An's status in the hearts of scholars is getting higher and higher, and there are many of him among the officials.

His will is still very influential in the court.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is Chao Cuo and the prince fighting together.

Compared with these excited people, the voices of those opponents are not very loud.

The opponents were headed by Shen Tujia of Shaofu.

Although Shentujia is a minister, his buttocks have always been crooked when it comes to the issue of vassal kings. Shentujia thinks that the current system is the best and most suitable for big men. If the princes and kings are weak, then it will be difficult When it comes to governing the place for the great Han and guarding the Quartet, what do the vassal states do?If the princes and kings have no real power, how can they undertake their own mission?In his view, these ministers wanted to weaken the princes and kings because they were afraid of being targeted by the emperor with the princes and kings for their own benefit.

Therefore, he was very eager to object.

But Liu Chang didn't care about this at all, he sat on the top seat and yawned.

How come no one fights? ?

"Dog thief!!"

Shen Tujia, who couldn't speak clearly and couldn't say Chao Cuo, flew up angrily.

ps: I am about to have an operation today. I feel restless and always in a daze. I hope everything goes well.

(End of this chapter)