[comprehensive] mother instrument world
Chapter 88: Chen Ajiao
On the empress dowager's birthday, Shu Yun directly presented several editions of the annotated "Tao Te Ching". The empress dowager touched the "Tao Te Ching" specially printed for her with dented handwriting, and she was astonished.
Dongfang Shuo was able to brag all his life because he had read books with [-] characters, and the several editions of the Tao Te Ching presented by Shu Yun added up to tens of thousands of characters. It is thicker, printed on one side, and held in the hand, that is, a thin book. Compared with a roll of bamboo slips, I don’t know how convenient it is, but anyone with a little knowledge knows that in knowledge inheritance , a new era has come.
The Empress Dowager smiled very happily, she grabbed Shu Yun's hand: "Okay, okay, thanks to Gillian's contribution, my grandmother will have the face to meet Emperor Tai Zong when she turns around to the Nine Springs!"
Liu Che's face was ugly, he didn't know anything at all, he gave the Shaofu Ling a hard look, and then secretly ground his teeth.
The Shaofu Order was also wronged. It stands to reason that this matter cannot be bypassed. The problem is that Shu Yun directly took those workshops under his own name. In order to prevent leaks, those workshops were all It was blocked, and those craftsmen still belonged to the Shaofu in name, but in fact they would only obey the orders of the queen, Shu Yun.This is also because the bloated structure of Shaofu, a behemoth, has caused the current result. Shaofu is too big and has too many departments. It is almost a country within a country. The old Liu family and foreign relatives like to do it most. When they went to the Shaofu to dig the foot of the wall, the unit of digging was the workshop. The emperor never cared about these things.After these workshops were poached, they still belonged to the Shaofu in name, but in fact they had changed owners.
As for the Queen, she was originally one of the masters of the Shaofu. She asked several workshops in the Shaofu to do things for her.Shu Yun wanted to leave a few workshops, so the Shaofu order naturally didn't dare to intervene, and didn't dare to inquire about it. They didn't use the Shaofu's money anyway, and what could they say without delaying the Shaofu's achievements.And the only one who might know something, Cen Xiu, directly took refuge in Shu Yun, the queen. His goal was the Shaofu Ling.
Liu Che was so angry that he watched Shu Yun and the Empress Dowager express affectionately that she was going to order someone to print all the classics in Shiqu Pavilion, and as for the original bamboo slips, they would be directly stored.And those bamboo slips that have not been sorted out can also be sorted out slowly by someone. As for the empress dowager, she immediately opened her mouth to give Shu Yun a reputation: "How about Shiqu Pavilion alone? Now that we have this technology, just pass it on later I command the world that all books collected by each family can be sent to at least the government to publish and print, so as to pass on to future generations." The Empress Dowager endured it, and finally said nothing, except for Confucianism.
Immediately, the eyes of many ministers in the court brightened. These days, even those schools with thousands of disciples only read one or two books seriously. Who is orthodox, can't wait to beat out the dog's brains, but, correspondingly, some schools inevitably need to introduce some essence of other schools in order to strengthen themselves, and in addition, they have to find ways to add flesh and blood to their own schools of thought.
The problem is that in this era, knowledge is monopolized. Compared with later years, I don’t know how expensive it is. If you want to quote things from other schools, you will be known, unless you can beat the other party to death with a stick. Otherwise, this is inextricable hatred!
In the war at the end of Qin Dynasty, I don’t know how many books were destroyed by the war, and many were hidden in various corners. The inheritors of these bamboo slips are mostly self-preserved things. They will only use these to teach their nephews and nephews. Hey, so even the leaders of those schools can't figure out whether those disciples under their own hands are hiding something in private.
If the people below can be mobilized to contribute their own letters and print them into volumes, then it will actually be a beneficial supplement to all schools of thought.
As soon as the empress dowager finished speaking, someone immediately came out and flattered: "The empress dowager's holy candlelight, this move is to continue the sage's learning, life and death are interrupted, the ministers are all grateful, and there is no repayment! I hope the empress dowager The Empress Dowager is blessed forever, the sun and the moon will shine forever!"
At the moment, everyone else started cursing inwardly. You stood up too quickly, but everyone sang praises. Of course, some people did not ignore Liu Che, the emperor, and they also praised Liu Che and Shu Yun. Flattering, Liu Che forced a smile, and had to be humble, this is the virtue of the East Palace.
Shu Yun didn't want to show too much face to Liu Che, lest this one would be shameless by putting his nose on the face. As an emperor, few would be shameless. Therefore, there was no need to be too polite to him. He used When he has you, he will hold you. When you are no longer needed, even if you kneel in front of him and lick his toes, he will just kick him away.
Of course, Liu Che still got the sweet spot. After all, the printing of such things still needs to be presided over by the Shaofu. This, of course, needs to be passed through him as the emperor. Naturally, Liu Che can do some private things when printing various books.In fact, he was also stimulated. The queens that he originally looked down upon, actually made big news one after another. Then, he can't be too far behind!Attacking the Xiongnu is not a matter of a day or two, and it is not known when it will be fruitful.The Huns are not the rabbits and elks in Shanglin Garden, they can be hit casually. They have been able to wrestle with the Han Dynasty for so many years, so they naturally have enough strength, but now, the Han Dynasty doesn’t have many cavalry here!Therefore, soon, Liu Che announced at the Dachao meeting that the Zhuanxu calendar could no longer meet the current production activities, and the calendar should be re-established.
Everyone has no opinion on the formulation of the calendar. Indeed, everyone has felt that the Zhuanxu calendar has begun to be out of date, not to mention the people below, even the scholar-bureaucrats and military nobles in the court think about the Zhuanxu calendar. It's too complicated, so just change one for another!
And when Liu Che mobilized the crowd, mobilized a lot of officials with expertise in astronomy and geography, and borrowed a large amount of paper from the Shaofu, almost day and night to calculate and formulate the new calendar, Shu Yun's birth was considered ripe.
To the satisfaction of the Dou family, the Chen family, and those who have joined the Queen's faction, Shu Yun's birth was a son, and he was very strong. In this era, there are not many reliable doctors at all. Therefore, the infant mortality rate is very high. It is also very high. If the child is born healthy, even if the possibility of premature death is naturally not too high.
As for the line of the Queen Mother, and the other concubines in the palace, naturally they are not in a good mood. In this era, the eldest son is naturally orthodox, which cannot be shaken by ordinary people.
As for Wei Zifu, she hasn't dared to have too much ambition yet, Liu Che is different from that timeline, he doesn't love Wei Zifu that much.In fact, in that period of history, Wei Zifu was very favored. One of the reasons was out of rebellious psychology. Chen Ajiao was very strong in that timeline, and with the suppression of Liu Che by Changle Palace, Wei Zifu was naturally favored. Chen Ajiao was so overwhelmed that she couldn't breathe. Under such circumstances, Liu Che inevitably developed a kind of sympathy with Wei Zifu, and would naturally protect Wei Zifu.
But now, Shu Yun doesn't bother to care about Liu Che's concubines. In Liu Che's harem, there are all kinds of beauties who are fat and thin, and they are all charming, each with its own merits. Even at Shanglin Garden, Shu Yun also gave some of them later. The beautiful court ladies used to be, in this era, those concubines could rely on the emperor Liu Che, and for Shu Yun, Liu Che was just a borrowed object for her. When she got a stable foothold and could control the court, You can just leave Liu Che aside.
In this case, the more women around Liu Che, the better. If Wei Zifu is the only one who favors him alone, wouldn't it be too boring!As for whether Liu Che will give birth to more children because of this, Shu Yun is not worried. If she can't even protect her own children, then don't say anything about leaving Liu Che alone.
Therefore, there is a lot of room to choose around, and when there are many beauties with the same style as Wei Zifu, it is naturally impossible for Liu Che, an emperor who has no special quality to speak of, to have much love for Wei Zifu. Extra pampering.
Therefore, although Wei Zifu is pregnant, he does not dare to have too many extravagant hopes for the time being.Such things as ambition never come out of thin air. Wei Zifu's biggest wish now is to give birth to a prince, and in the future he can follow his children to the fiefdom to be the queen mother!In that period of history, Wei Zifu's real ambition was because she had been favored all the time, gave birth continuously, and her younger brother was competitive. After that, she was enthroned for several years without a son. Those princes and kings who were ready to move gave birth to Liu Che's eldest son. It can be said that her hand was full of good cards. At that time, she had extra ambitions.But now, just to protect the child in her stomach, she is already exhausted enough.
However, to Wei Zifu's disappointment, she gave birth to only a royal daughter. While the concubines who were envious of her good luck because of her pregnancy were relieved one by one, at the same time, in private, they expressed their concern for Wei Zifu. I can't stop ridiculing, so what if the tricks are exhausted, it's just a princess!
For Wei Zifu's princess, even if she is the first princess of this generation, she didn't get much extra attention. First, Wei Zifu's identity is not enough. It's also huge.Like the first emperor, there were more than a dozen princes, Liu Che was able to be the emperor, Liu Rong was the prince for two years at least, and the other princes, several fiefdoms were not very good, so that Liu Che died of illness before he was enthroned After the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion was put down, except for a few of the Seven Kingdoms, they could continue to pass on, and the others were directly taken back to the central government. In order to compete for a better fiefdom, these princes and kings almost didn't fight.
Even if the prince is like this, the difference between the princesses is even greater. Like the princesses of the late emperor, except for the three born to the queen mother, there are seven or eight others in total. In the palace banquet, even if they marry, most of them are Liehou, but because their brothers are not emperors, they can only be reduced to little transparency.
Liu Che is not very interested in this daughter. He has a lot of things to do now, so how can he have time to take care of these things? Now that he is sure that he can have children, sons and daughters, then Liu Che is not very enthusiastic about such things. All he wanted was to make some achievements, so as not to be suppressed by his own queen, which made him unbearable at all.
In particular, there is still a fear in Liu Che's heart. If he can't make any more political achievements, will the Changle Palace directly put him under house arrest or even depose him, and let the empress's child succeed him?After all, an ignorant child is easier to be manipulated!
This made Liu Che not in the mood to pursue pleasure at all. He used to like to run around, but now he doesn't leave Chang'an at all. Who knows if someone will jump over the wall in a hurry and directly assassinate him?
Shu Yun naturally found that Liu Che's psychological pressure had become very heavy, but Shu Yun had no intention of helping him relieve it at all. It's good that she didn't add fuel to the fire!Liu Che is busy doing things now, Shu Yun wished this was the case, she could just cultivate her body, and then see if she could do something big.
Liu Che, the eldest son, was named Liu Yan. It was a very good name, and it fit the empress dowager's wishes. The Empress Dowager also had a very gentle expression when facing her first grandson.
As for the Empress Dowager, seeing that Shu Yun had given birth to a prince, she had already begun to hand over some of her power to Shu Yun. In addition, she began to teach Shu Yun how to survive in the palace more carefully.Shu Yun also listened attentively. After all, the system of the Han Palace was quite different from those later dynasties. The Han Palace had always been a two-house system, and it was only natural for the harem to interfere in politics. It was only after the Eastern Han Dynasty that the harem lost this A share of power, most of the time can only rely on means such as pillow wind.
Therefore, as a queen, Shu Yun actually has a lot of privileges. With her son and meritorious service, she is already invincible. Since this is the case, the Empress Dowager simply began to teach her some political experience.This is what the Empress Dowager learned from her husband, Emperor Wen.It can be said that compared to Emperor Wen, Liu Che is a younger brother at the level of an emperor.Emperor Wen was brought to Chang'an as the emperor almost alone at the beginning, because he had always been very low-key and honest, and he didn't have any strong mother and wife families, so he didn't have to worry about another Empress Lu. As soon as Lu's heroes and nobles made up their minds, they ran to Daiguo, a place that can be said to be a place where birds don't shit, and invited Emperor Wen over.
As a result, Emperor Wen was a born movie king. At the Daiguo side, he deceived the shrewd Empress Lu. After a year or two, he drove Zhou Boxian back to the fief to eat himself, and Chen Ping was quickly marginalized by him. He was at the top of the court, and it didn't take long for those heroes who thought they had worked hard for the emperor and relied on their elders to sell their elders. They disappeared into the court hall one after another.
Compared with Emperor Wen, many of Liu Che's actions after he came to power are simply horrible. A mother-in-law who can speak for him has to kneel as soon as he comes on stage!
Emperor Wen was very good at being an emperor, and the Empress Dowager was impressed by it. Although in the eyes of many people, the Empress Dowager is a soft-hearted, narrow-minded old lady, in fact, this is a person with a lot of artifice, just wait for her to do it. After becoming the empress dowager, there were not many things that required her to play tricks. The big man ruled the world with filial piety, and even if she was playing a rogue, she could force the emperor to give in.Just like before, for Liu Wu, the Empress Dowager directly threatened the first emperor with a hunger strike.
And when Liu Che ascended the throne, the Empress Dowager would not need to play tricks with Liu Che. Although Liu Che had been the prince for a long time, like the first emperor, he had been the prince for 20 years before becoming the emperor, and he already had his own His team also has enough influence in the court, and after he ascends to the position, he can find a reason to kick out the former emperor's people, and then fill the vacancy with the old man from his womb, like Chao Cuo ascended in this way.But Liu Che, who has been the prince for more than ten years, spent most of his time studying. It was not until the late emperor's body couldn't bear it that Liu Che began to help supervise the country's administration.
Those people in the imperial womb have no seniority at all in the imperial court, such as Zhao Wan and Wang Zang who are of Confucian background, and there are people behind them. After they come up, regardless of the actual situation, they want to give Changle Palace the influence. Completely lifted, and then they were tragic.As soon as the empress dowager made a move, those who were barely qualified and who could be Jiuqing were immediately cleaned up, and the rest were the first-class companions in the dowager's womb, all of them were like Liu Che, saying Hairless and insecure, if you want to give them a good position, the people below will not be convinced.
The most important thing is that there are not many really talented people among these people. Han Yan is one of them. Before the heels, you will not stand in line immediately.Therefore, Han Yan didn't have much strength to use, so it was naturally difficult to give Liu Che much support.
Under such circumstances, Liu Che was hardly available in the military, but the Empress Dowager was able to use many generals in the military.Even part of the Tiger Talisman was in the hands of the Empress Dowager, so Liu Che could only continue to feel aggrieved.
Many people only saw the old lady's nonsense over the years, and inevitably ignored her political wisdom and insight. Living a long time is really an advantage. Those things that cannot be resorted to by historians in the old My wife has experienced it herself. Now that she is old, seeing that her granddaughter can stand up, she naturally does not intend to bring these things into the grave, and directly tells Shu Yun one by one.
It was only from the mouth of the Empress Dowager that Shu Yun had a deep enough understanding of some political characteristics of the Han Dynasty.In fact, this is also unavoidable. Before the first emperor, everyone did not think that the entire Central Plains would be unified. In the Han Dynasty, many systems inherited the Qin law, but it was slightly changed and became much more relaxed. Repeatedly lowering the land tax and reducing the burden on the people can be regarded as completely calming down the world.Therefore, many policies at this time are really crossing the river by feeling the stones and trying to research bit by bit.Everyone didn't have much resistance to the New Deal, which is why Liu Che wanted to come up with a Jianyuan New Deal as soon as he came to the throne. Unfortunately, his so-called New Deal was entirely for the purpose of grabbing power, so he made a start. , and the text is gone.
Shu Yun immediately had a preliminary idea about some of his future measures. In a sense, many systems in the Han Dynasty at this time were just a rough white paper with outlines, and they had not really solidified. Therefore, if you want to reform or something , the resistance is relatively small.
Especially in the court, it is not the Confucian scholars who occupy the mainstream, even those scholar-bureaucrats, if they want to achieve the position above the Jiuqing, they must have military merits, so, the court, be aggressive It is the mainstream, as long as they can see the benefits, they can accept any reform.
Of course, Shu Yun would not tell the Empress Dowager these words. The Empress Dowager is a stubborn old school. At this age, it is not easy to change her beliefs. Therefore, many things, Shu Yun only needs to plan these things first.When the empress dowager passes away, the queen dowager, hehe, she is fine when it comes to palace fights and seizing power, and she can even be said to have superior combat effectiveness, but when it comes to political wisdom, this is a primary school student who only wants to use filial piety to suppress Liu Che, for the benefit of himself and his natal family, but the whole family is selfish. In order to protect his own country from being flooded, Tian Fu ordered the embankment of the Yellow River across the river to be scraped. The breach was blocked, so that there were floods there for more than ten years. Do you dare to believe such things?But when it came to her natal family, the Queen Mother seemed to be bewitched by oil, otherwise, the trouble would not have turned into a mere display in the end.
The empress dowager is old now, and she has begun to think about things behind her. Seeing Shu Yun becoming calmer and calmer day by day, finally one day, the empress dowager held Shu Yun's hand and sighed: "A-Jiao, I will go to the empress dowager." , the most worrying thing is your mother. She is smart, but she is too greedy. It’s okay to have me take care of her now. In the future, the emperor may not be able to tolerate her, so ah, ah Jiao, on your mother's side, it's up to you!"
When mentioning Mrs. Dou, Shu Yun was also a little bit agitated. This person calmed down a little before, but after Shu Yun gave birth to a son, she became arrogant again. As long as others give enough money, she will take care of everything and agree to anything. Let alone Liu Che, even Shu Yun, a daughter, can't bear it!In Shu Yun's heart, he already regarded the big man as his own responsibility. It's fine for him to poach the corner of the Shaofu. It's right for Shu Yun to pay her pension money. The rich and wealthy merchants pleaded for mercy, which caused Shu Yun a headache!This is totally killing me!
However, in front of the Empress Dowager, Shu Yun nodded and said: "Mother, I will take care of it!" Dou Taizhu is a person who knows current affairs. Useless, she stopped immediately, and did not do other excessive things except raising noodles, after all, she couldn't do it either.But now, how to make her really calm down, I have to think of other ideas.
Shu Yun felt even more troubled when he thought of the two older brothers from his natal family. These two cockfighting lackeys were top-notch among the Liehou's children, but when it came to other things, they simply couldn't see the slightest sparkle.Shu Yun has already begun to ponder whether to let these two go to the army to polish it. After all, in a sense, the army is a big melting pot!Of course, it’s best not to be an army of that kind of battle order. Don’t these two get rid of their helmets and armor first, turn around and run away when they see the enemy coming!
Liu Che seemed to have been involved in land reclamation before, and when he had a chance, he asked the two of them to join a similar construction corps, so as not to stay in Beijing and toss around, jumping back and forth desperately on the verge of death.
Shu Yun was full of ambitions, and suddenly felt that Liu Che was becoming more and more an eyesore.
However, the Empress Dowager immediately said: "It's not safe just to have the eldest son of the emperor. Gillian, my grandmother is so old, and she has seen too many children who died young. Children are very fragile creatures. If you are not careful, you will be gone, so at least you have to have another son to have enough protection!"
What the empress dowager said means that one son is not enough, at least one more son should be used as a spare tire. In this case, if the big one is useless, you can get another small one!This is the lesson learned from Empress Lu. Although Empress Lu has been discredited in the history books of the Han family, in fact, many of the policies promulgated by Empress Lu were changed in appearance and continued under different names during the reign of Emperor Wen and Emperor Xian. After that, even Liu Che's later implementation of the vehicle and boat tax continued the business policy of Empress Lu back then.Empress Lu's greatest sorrow is that she has a completely unreliable son on the table. Emperor Hui is really full of good cards. In order to maintain his position as the crown prince, Empress Lu, as a queen, almost gave Zhang Liang knelt down and asked for Zhang Liang's guidance, and invited Shangshan Sihao to stabilize Liu Ying's crown prince.
As a result, this one was not only ungrateful, but also sympathetic to Empress Lu and her enemies and competitors, Mrs. Qi and Liu Ruyi's mother and son. At the critical moment, Empress Lu's mother and son were pushed off the carriage, but Mrs. Qi had never experienced such treatment.If Liu Bang replaced Liu Ruyi, hehe, Empress Lu's mother and son would end up no better than Ren Yi, and they might really die without a burial.
Liu Ying has nothing to do with others all his life, so he will only cause trouble for Empress Lu. In the end, when Empress Lu died, his son was directly deposed, and was said to be not a son of the Liu family. It wasn't that Emperor Wen still had some brotherhood, he couldn't even keep the ancestral temple.
To put it bluntly, Empress Lu only had Liu Ying as a choice, so she had to hang herself on this tree branch. Her son was unreliable, and Empress Lu could only rely on her natal family. In the end, all members of the Lu family joined in. The pulse also broke.As long as Empress Lu still has a son, Liu Ying dies, and the youngest son is replaced, it will not cause those things that happened later.The empress dowager couldn't talk about Empress Lu explicitly, but she directly persuaded Shu Yun to have at least one more child, even if it was to prevent the eldest son from dying, there should be an extra spare.
Shu Yun naturally listened to the Empress Dowager's words, that's right, in case a son was born with char siu and was taught badly by someone with ulterior motives, he would also follow the example of the Prince Huidi who adopted Empress Zhang and shouted Why am I still young, when I grow up, I must do something!At that time, maybe Shu Yun can still kill this son!Of course, if there is really no other way, he can only let this son concentrate on helping the old Liu family and teach his grandson well!
As for being a queen, Shu Yun has never thought about it. The main reason is that Shu Yun doesn't have many reliable people. As for the Dou family, the older generation has begun to retreat to the second line, and the new generation of children has few successful ones. , the Chen family, not to mention it!Besides, the Liu family still had a high reputation in Guanzhong, and a lot of princes and kings would make a scene, and the world would be in chaos again. Shu Yun didn't want to cause the people to fall into war again because of his own selfishness.
In any case, Shu Yun still took the plan of having another son into his heart. The problem now is that, out of his ridiculous self-esteem, Liu Che doesn't go to Jiaofang Hall very often. In Shanglin Garden, either Chengming Hall or Xuanshi Hall in Weiyang Palace, even if there is a physical need, that is, to favor court ladies or low-level concubines there, unless it is to greet the Empress Dowager and the Queen Mother, Almost no longer come to Changle Palace.
It's time to make some news. After Liu Che came to power, he spent money like water. The Shaofu had a lot of headaches. After all, for the Shaofu, their political achievement was to make money. If their income is not enough every year, it is dereliction of duty.On the one hand, Dou's family, Chen's family, Tian's family, and Wang's family are all digging corners of Shaofu's wall. On the other hand, Liu Che wants to build Maoling, Shanglin Garden, and Zhang Palace. In short, there is no time to stop.
Paper making and printing is a business that earns money, but this thing has obviously been regarded by the queen as her own pocket, and the money earned has also become the queen's income and cannot enter the treasury of the Shaofu.Liu Che is well aware of this, he has always wanted to open up a new source of income, but unfortunately, he does not understand economics, and it is not wise to contact those businessmen when his foothold is unstable, Shu Yun She felt that she could give Liu Che some benefits in this regard, anyway, these things would still fall into her hands in the future, so she didn't mind giving Liu Che a little bit of sweetness.
Therefore, on a rare occasion, Shu Yun asked the elder Changqiu Li Jia to find Liu Che. Liu Che was a little stunned, and at first he was a little happy, feeling that the queen could not hold back at last. Lack of confidence!Liu Che originally wanted to make a fuss, but thinking of Shu Yun's reputation in and out of the palace, he still held his nose and followed Da Changqiu over.
After waiting for Liu Che to arrive, Shu Yun asked someone to bring a jar with a smile: "Your Majesty, guess what's in it?"
When Liu Che saw that the palace man opened the lid of the jar, took a paint spoon, and kilned a spoonful of snow-white crystal particles out of the jar, he suddenly became a little puzzled. He looked carefully for a long time, and finally stretched out his finger hesitantly, dipped it in I tasted it a bit, and then my eyes lit up: "This is salt? Why is it so white? And it doesn't taste bitter at all!"
That's right, what Shu Yun took out was refined salt. There is no such thing as salt refining technology these days. There are two main sources of table salt, one is the mineral salt collected from the salt mine, and the other is the salt from places in Qi State and Wu State. The sea salt boiled in the sea water has not been further processed.Therefore, even the salt used in the palace is only slightly ground to remove the sand, which looks finer, but actually still has a little bitter taste. As for the folks, they use coarse salt that has not been processed at all. , For this, poor people can't afford it.It can be said that this kind of refined salt is unique.
Shu Yun said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this is refined salt. You only need to dissolve the coarse salt into water, and then cook and filter it several times to get it. Apart from some labor, there is almost no other cost!" In this era when there were a large number of slaves in Shaofu, what was artificial labor?
Liu Che's heart suddenly moved. It's not that he doesn't understand anything. People who grew up in the hands of women in deep palaces are like this kind of refined salt. I'm afraid that once they quit, those wealthy households will flock to them. This is money. !As for ordinary people, it will not affect their livelihood, because they can't even afford coarse salt.
With such an additional source of income, Liu Che suddenly felt a lot easier. He could do nothing without money. The common people would go bankrupt if they had no money. Liehou had no money. He couldn’t afford to prepare funeral objects just for the burial of his ancestors. Zhou Yafu was How unlucky, the family has no money, and in order to prepare more funeral objects for him, and to be more decent after the burial, the son secretly resells ordnance.At that time, death was like life, and filial piety was emphasized. Some officials and officials sold their houses and land in order to buy more funeral objects for their ancestors, and they were on the verge of bankruptcy.The emperor had no money, and he was not harsh in his words. Why were the emperors of the Western Han Dynasty more powerful? Because most of the annual taxes went to the Shaofu, but the treasury was a minority. Therefore, when the army was deployed, most of the money had to be paid by the Shaofu. This is the emperor. The key to being able to control military power, if you have no money, who cares about you!
Liu Che is very practical and has enough advantages, so he can talk about anything, just like when Wei Qinghuo Qubing was around, even if Wei Zifu was old and frail, the position of Jiaofangdian was very stable. , In the harem, it immediately changed its appearance.
Now that Shu Yun gave him a large amount of money for nothing, and it was still a steady stream of money, Liu Che reciprocated, and for the next one or two months, he would almost rest in the Jiaofang Hall until Shu Yun passed on the money again. It's not over until after the birth letter.
Liu Che didn't feel that he was selling himself. After all, the child born by the empress was also a child of the old Liu's family, so he was very proud of it.You know, in the past two months alone, the Shaofu has already made a lot of money selling refined salt in the market. Liu Che told the Shaofu that no one is allowed to intervene in the matter of refined salt, and no one can casually dig refined salt. In the corner, we have to wait until Liu Che has made enough money first.
As a result, Taizhu Dou watched a large sum of money fall into Liu Che's hands, and felt very itchy in his heart. Taizhu Dou's ability to collect money is first-class, and his ability to spend money is also very powerful. It can be said that if it hadn't been for so many years She has been accumulating money tirelessly since then, and she can squander all the output of her fiefdom!
After inquiring that his own daughter was responsible for this matter, Taizhu Dou went directly to Jiaofang Hall Xingshi to inquire about the crime: "A-Jiao, don't think about mother and me first for such a good thing, now it has fallen into the hands of the emperor." Inside, mother wants to share some money, but he won't let it, which is too stingy!"
Listening to Mrs. Dou's angry words, Shu Yun rubbed her belly and said with a smile: "Salt or something, in fact, it's just like that. The technical content is not high, and it is impossible for Shaofu to maintain profits for a long time! So, Mom, don't think too much about it!"
Mrs. Dou looked at Shu Yun's slightly bulging belly, and felt a little better in her heart, but, thinking of those golden gold and the large strings of copper coins flying past her like this, she was still a little unwilling, and complained there Said: "You, don't just focus on having a child, you should pay more attention to the outside things. The emperor is not a conscientious one. Our mother and I helped him so much at the beginning. In the end, you want a child. You have to give him enough benefits first! I asked him for more money, but he refused to agree, but the Wang family and the Tian family have become more prestigious now!"
The more Mrs. Dou talked, the more unwilling she felt, and then she asked with a little expectation: "Ah Jiao, you should have other ways to get rich. If you earn money later, mother will give you a bonus? "
In fact, Shu Yun really did have it. In the past dynasties, salt profit was almost the biggest income. In the Han Dynasty, there is no salt and iron monopoly. That is to say, private individuals can also cook salt. Qi and Wu
Dongfang Shuo was able to brag all his life because he had read books with [-] characters, and the several editions of the Tao Te Ching presented by Shu Yun added up to tens of thousands of characters. It is thicker, printed on one side, and held in the hand, that is, a thin book. Compared with a roll of bamboo slips, I don’t know how convenient it is, but anyone with a little knowledge knows that in knowledge inheritance , a new era has come.
The Empress Dowager smiled very happily, she grabbed Shu Yun's hand: "Okay, okay, thanks to Gillian's contribution, my grandmother will have the face to meet Emperor Tai Zong when she turns around to the Nine Springs!"
Liu Che's face was ugly, he didn't know anything at all, he gave the Shaofu Ling a hard look, and then secretly ground his teeth.
The Shaofu Order was also wronged. It stands to reason that this matter cannot be bypassed. The problem is that Shu Yun directly took those workshops under his own name. In order to prevent leaks, those workshops were all It was blocked, and those craftsmen still belonged to the Shaofu in name, but in fact they would only obey the orders of the queen, Shu Yun.This is also because the bloated structure of Shaofu, a behemoth, has caused the current result. Shaofu is too big and has too many departments. It is almost a country within a country. The old Liu family and foreign relatives like to do it most. When they went to the Shaofu to dig the foot of the wall, the unit of digging was the workshop. The emperor never cared about these things.After these workshops were poached, they still belonged to the Shaofu in name, but in fact they had changed owners.
As for the Queen, she was originally one of the masters of the Shaofu. She asked several workshops in the Shaofu to do things for her.Shu Yun wanted to leave a few workshops, so the Shaofu order naturally didn't dare to intervene, and didn't dare to inquire about it. They didn't use the Shaofu's money anyway, and what could they say without delaying the Shaofu's achievements.And the only one who might know something, Cen Xiu, directly took refuge in Shu Yun, the queen. His goal was the Shaofu Ling.
Liu Che was so angry that he watched Shu Yun and the Empress Dowager express affectionately that she was going to order someone to print all the classics in Shiqu Pavilion, and as for the original bamboo slips, they would be directly stored.And those bamboo slips that have not been sorted out can also be sorted out slowly by someone. As for the empress dowager, she immediately opened her mouth to give Shu Yun a reputation: "How about Shiqu Pavilion alone? Now that we have this technology, just pass it on later I command the world that all books collected by each family can be sent to at least the government to publish and print, so as to pass on to future generations." The Empress Dowager endured it, and finally said nothing, except for Confucianism.
Immediately, the eyes of many ministers in the court brightened. These days, even those schools with thousands of disciples only read one or two books seriously. Who is orthodox, can't wait to beat out the dog's brains, but, correspondingly, some schools inevitably need to introduce some essence of other schools in order to strengthen themselves, and in addition, they have to find ways to add flesh and blood to their own schools of thought.
The problem is that in this era, knowledge is monopolized. Compared with later years, I don’t know how expensive it is. If you want to quote things from other schools, you will be known, unless you can beat the other party to death with a stick. Otherwise, this is inextricable hatred!
In the war at the end of Qin Dynasty, I don’t know how many books were destroyed by the war, and many were hidden in various corners. The inheritors of these bamboo slips are mostly self-preserved things. They will only use these to teach their nephews and nephews. Hey, so even the leaders of those schools can't figure out whether those disciples under their own hands are hiding something in private.
If the people below can be mobilized to contribute their own letters and print them into volumes, then it will actually be a beneficial supplement to all schools of thought.
As soon as the empress dowager finished speaking, someone immediately came out and flattered: "The empress dowager's holy candlelight, this move is to continue the sage's learning, life and death are interrupted, the ministers are all grateful, and there is no repayment! I hope the empress dowager The Empress Dowager is blessed forever, the sun and the moon will shine forever!"
At the moment, everyone else started cursing inwardly. You stood up too quickly, but everyone sang praises. Of course, some people did not ignore Liu Che, the emperor, and they also praised Liu Che and Shu Yun. Flattering, Liu Che forced a smile, and had to be humble, this is the virtue of the East Palace.
Shu Yun didn't want to show too much face to Liu Che, lest this one would be shameless by putting his nose on the face. As an emperor, few would be shameless. Therefore, there was no need to be too polite to him. He used When he has you, he will hold you. When you are no longer needed, even if you kneel in front of him and lick his toes, he will just kick him away.
Of course, Liu Che still got the sweet spot. After all, the printing of such things still needs to be presided over by the Shaofu. This, of course, needs to be passed through him as the emperor. Naturally, Liu Che can do some private things when printing various books.In fact, he was also stimulated. The queens that he originally looked down upon, actually made big news one after another. Then, he can't be too far behind!Attacking the Xiongnu is not a matter of a day or two, and it is not known when it will be fruitful.The Huns are not the rabbits and elks in Shanglin Garden, they can be hit casually. They have been able to wrestle with the Han Dynasty for so many years, so they naturally have enough strength, but now, the Han Dynasty doesn’t have many cavalry here!Therefore, soon, Liu Che announced at the Dachao meeting that the Zhuanxu calendar could no longer meet the current production activities, and the calendar should be re-established.
Everyone has no opinion on the formulation of the calendar. Indeed, everyone has felt that the Zhuanxu calendar has begun to be out of date, not to mention the people below, even the scholar-bureaucrats and military nobles in the court think about the Zhuanxu calendar. It's too complicated, so just change one for another!
And when Liu Che mobilized the crowd, mobilized a lot of officials with expertise in astronomy and geography, and borrowed a large amount of paper from the Shaofu, almost day and night to calculate and formulate the new calendar, Shu Yun's birth was considered ripe.
To the satisfaction of the Dou family, the Chen family, and those who have joined the Queen's faction, Shu Yun's birth was a son, and he was very strong. In this era, there are not many reliable doctors at all. Therefore, the infant mortality rate is very high. It is also very high. If the child is born healthy, even if the possibility of premature death is naturally not too high.
As for the line of the Queen Mother, and the other concubines in the palace, naturally they are not in a good mood. In this era, the eldest son is naturally orthodox, which cannot be shaken by ordinary people.
As for Wei Zifu, she hasn't dared to have too much ambition yet, Liu Che is different from that timeline, he doesn't love Wei Zifu that much.In fact, in that period of history, Wei Zifu was very favored. One of the reasons was out of rebellious psychology. Chen Ajiao was very strong in that timeline, and with the suppression of Liu Che by Changle Palace, Wei Zifu was naturally favored. Chen Ajiao was so overwhelmed that she couldn't breathe. Under such circumstances, Liu Che inevitably developed a kind of sympathy with Wei Zifu, and would naturally protect Wei Zifu.
But now, Shu Yun doesn't bother to care about Liu Che's concubines. In Liu Che's harem, there are all kinds of beauties who are fat and thin, and they are all charming, each with its own merits. Even at Shanglin Garden, Shu Yun also gave some of them later. The beautiful court ladies used to be, in this era, those concubines could rely on the emperor Liu Che, and for Shu Yun, Liu Che was just a borrowed object for her. When she got a stable foothold and could control the court, You can just leave Liu Che aside.
In this case, the more women around Liu Che, the better. If Wei Zifu is the only one who favors him alone, wouldn't it be too boring!As for whether Liu Che will give birth to more children because of this, Shu Yun is not worried. If she can't even protect her own children, then don't say anything about leaving Liu Che alone.
Therefore, there is a lot of room to choose around, and when there are many beauties with the same style as Wei Zifu, it is naturally impossible for Liu Che, an emperor who has no special quality to speak of, to have much love for Wei Zifu. Extra pampering.
Therefore, although Wei Zifu is pregnant, he does not dare to have too many extravagant hopes for the time being.Such things as ambition never come out of thin air. Wei Zifu's biggest wish now is to give birth to a prince, and in the future he can follow his children to the fiefdom to be the queen mother!In that period of history, Wei Zifu's real ambition was because she had been favored all the time, gave birth continuously, and her younger brother was competitive. After that, she was enthroned for several years without a son. Those princes and kings who were ready to move gave birth to Liu Che's eldest son. It can be said that her hand was full of good cards. At that time, she had extra ambitions.But now, just to protect the child in her stomach, she is already exhausted enough.
However, to Wei Zifu's disappointment, she gave birth to only a royal daughter. While the concubines who were envious of her good luck because of her pregnancy were relieved one by one, at the same time, in private, they expressed their concern for Wei Zifu. I can't stop ridiculing, so what if the tricks are exhausted, it's just a princess!
For Wei Zifu's princess, even if she is the first princess of this generation, she didn't get much extra attention. First, Wei Zifu's identity is not enough. It's also huge.Like the first emperor, there were more than a dozen princes, Liu Che was able to be the emperor, Liu Rong was the prince for two years at least, and the other princes, several fiefdoms were not very good, so that Liu Che died of illness before he was enthroned After the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion was put down, except for a few of the Seven Kingdoms, they could continue to pass on, and the others were directly taken back to the central government. In order to compete for a better fiefdom, these princes and kings almost didn't fight.
Even if the prince is like this, the difference between the princesses is even greater. Like the princesses of the late emperor, except for the three born to the queen mother, there are seven or eight others in total. In the palace banquet, even if they marry, most of them are Liehou, but because their brothers are not emperors, they can only be reduced to little transparency.
Liu Che is not very interested in this daughter. He has a lot of things to do now, so how can he have time to take care of these things? Now that he is sure that he can have children, sons and daughters, then Liu Che is not very enthusiastic about such things. All he wanted was to make some achievements, so as not to be suppressed by his own queen, which made him unbearable at all.
In particular, there is still a fear in Liu Che's heart. If he can't make any more political achievements, will the Changle Palace directly put him under house arrest or even depose him, and let the empress's child succeed him?After all, an ignorant child is easier to be manipulated!
This made Liu Che not in the mood to pursue pleasure at all. He used to like to run around, but now he doesn't leave Chang'an at all. Who knows if someone will jump over the wall in a hurry and directly assassinate him?
Shu Yun naturally found that Liu Che's psychological pressure had become very heavy, but Shu Yun had no intention of helping him relieve it at all. It's good that she didn't add fuel to the fire!Liu Che is busy doing things now, Shu Yun wished this was the case, she could just cultivate her body, and then see if she could do something big.
Liu Che, the eldest son, was named Liu Yan. It was a very good name, and it fit the empress dowager's wishes. The Empress Dowager also had a very gentle expression when facing her first grandson.
As for the Empress Dowager, seeing that Shu Yun had given birth to a prince, she had already begun to hand over some of her power to Shu Yun. In addition, she began to teach Shu Yun how to survive in the palace more carefully.Shu Yun also listened attentively. After all, the system of the Han Palace was quite different from those later dynasties. The Han Palace had always been a two-house system, and it was only natural for the harem to interfere in politics. It was only after the Eastern Han Dynasty that the harem lost this A share of power, most of the time can only rely on means such as pillow wind.
Therefore, as a queen, Shu Yun actually has a lot of privileges. With her son and meritorious service, she is already invincible. Since this is the case, the Empress Dowager simply began to teach her some political experience.This is what the Empress Dowager learned from her husband, Emperor Wen.It can be said that compared to Emperor Wen, Liu Che is a younger brother at the level of an emperor.Emperor Wen was brought to Chang'an as the emperor almost alone at the beginning, because he had always been very low-key and honest, and he didn't have any strong mother and wife families, so he didn't have to worry about another Empress Lu. As soon as Lu's heroes and nobles made up their minds, they ran to Daiguo, a place that can be said to be a place where birds don't shit, and invited Emperor Wen over.
As a result, Emperor Wen was a born movie king. At the Daiguo side, he deceived the shrewd Empress Lu. After a year or two, he drove Zhou Boxian back to the fief to eat himself, and Chen Ping was quickly marginalized by him. He was at the top of the court, and it didn't take long for those heroes who thought they had worked hard for the emperor and relied on their elders to sell their elders. They disappeared into the court hall one after another.
Compared with Emperor Wen, many of Liu Che's actions after he came to power are simply horrible. A mother-in-law who can speak for him has to kneel as soon as he comes on stage!
Emperor Wen was very good at being an emperor, and the Empress Dowager was impressed by it. Although in the eyes of many people, the Empress Dowager is a soft-hearted, narrow-minded old lady, in fact, this is a person with a lot of artifice, just wait for her to do it. After becoming the empress dowager, there were not many things that required her to play tricks. The big man ruled the world with filial piety, and even if she was playing a rogue, she could force the emperor to give in.Just like before, for Liu Wu, the Empress Dowager directly threatened the first emperor with a hunger strike.
And when Liu Che ascended the throne, the Empress Dowager would not need to play tricks with Liu Che. Although Liu Che had been the prince for a long time, like the first emperor, he had been the prince for 20 years before becoming the emperor, and he already had his own His team also has enough influence in the court, and after he ascends to the position, he can find a reason to kick out the former emperor's people, and then fill the vacancy with the old man from his womb, like Chao Cuo ascended in this way.But Liu Che, who has been the prince for more than ten years, spent most of his time studying. It was not until the late emperor's body couldn't bear it that Liu Che began to help supervise the country's administration.
Those people in the imperial womb have no seniority at all in the imperial court, such as Zhao Wan and Wang Zang who are of Confucian background, and there are people behind them. After they come up, regardless of the actual situation, they want to give Changle Palace the influence. Completely lifted, and then they were tragic.As soon as the empress dowager made a move, those who were barely qualified and who could be Jiuqing were immediately cleaned up, and the rest were the first-class companions in the dowager's womb, all of them were like Liu Che, saying Hairless and insecure, if you want to give them a good position, the people below will not be convinced.
The most important thing is that there are not many really talented people among these people. Han Yan is one of them. Before the heels, you will not stand in line immediately.Therefore, Han Yan didn't have much strength to use, so it was naturally difficult to give Liu Che much support.
Under such circumstances, Liu Che was hardly available in the military, but the Empress Dowager was able to use many generals in the military.Even part of the Tiger Talisman was in the hands of the Empress Dowager, so Liu Che could only continue to feel aggrieved.
Many people only saw the old lady's nonsense over the years, and inevitably ignored her political wisdom and insight. Living a long time is really an advantage. Those things that cannot be resorted to by historians in the old My wife has experienced it herself. Now that she is old, seeing that her granddaughter can stand up, she naturally does not intend to bring these things into the grave, and directly tells Shu Yun one by one.
It was only from the mouth of the Empress Dowager that Shu Yun had a deep enough understanding of some political characteristics of the Han Dynasty.In fact, this is also unavoidable. Before the first emperor, everyone did not think that the entire Central Plains would be unified. In the Han Dynasty, many systems inherited the Qin law, but it was slightly changed and became much more relaxed. Repeatedly lowering the land tax and reducing the burden on the people can be regarded as completely calming down the world.Therefore, many policies at this time are really crossing the river by feeling the stones and trying to research bit by bit.Everyone didn't have much resistance to the New Deal, which is why Liu Che wanted to come up with a Jianyuan New Deal as soon as he came to the throne. Unfortunately, his so-called New Deal was entirely for the purpose of grabbing power, so he made a start. , and the text is gone.
Shu Yun immediately had a preliminary idea about some of his future measures. In a sense, many systems in the Han Dynasty at this time were just a rough white paper with outlines, and they had not really solidified. Therefore, if you want to reform or something , the resistance is relatively small.
Especially in the court, it is not the Confucian scholars who occupy the mainstream, even those scholar-bureaucrats, if they want to achieve the position above the Jiuqing, they must have military merits, so, the court, be aggressive It is the mainstream, as long as they can see the benefits, they can accept any reform.
Of course, Shu Yun would not tell the Empress Dowager these words. The Empress Dowager is a stubborn old school. At this age, it is not easy to change her beliefs. Therefore, many things, Shu Yun only needs to plan these things first.When the empress dowager passes away, the queen dowager, hehe, she is fine when it comes to palace fights and seizing power, and she can even be said to have superior combat effectiveness, but when it comes to political wisdom, this is a primary school student who only wants to use filial piety to suppress Liu Che, for the benefit of himself and his natal family, but the whole family is selfish. In order to protect his own country from being flooded, Tian Fu ordered the embankment of the Yellow River across the river to be scraped. The breach was blocked, so that there were floods there for more than ten years. Do you dare to believe such things?But when it came to her natal family, the Queen Mother seemed to be bewitched by oil, otherwise, the trouble would not have turned into a mere display in the end.
The empress dowager is old now, and she has begun to think about things behind her. Seeing Shu Yun becoming calmer and calmer day by day, finally one day, the empress dowager held Shu Yun's hand and sighed: "A-Jiao, I will go to the empress dowager." , the most worrying thing is your mother. She is smart, but she is too greedy. It’s okay to have me take care of her now. In the future, the emperor may not be able to tolerate her, so ah, ah Jiao, on your mother's side, it's up to you!"
When mentioning Mrs. Dou, Shu Yun was also a little bit agitated. This person calmed down a little before, but after Shu Yun gave birth to a son, she became arrogant again. As long as others give enough money, she will take care of everything and agree to anything. Let alone Liu Che, even Shu Yun, a daughter, can't bear it!In Shu Yun's heart, he already regarded the big man as his own responsibility. It's fine for him to poach the corner of the Shaofu. It's right for Shu Yun to pay her pension money. The rich and wealthy merchants pleaded for mercy, which caused Shu Yun a headache!This is totally killing me!
However, in front of the Empress Dowager, Shu Yun nodded and said: "Mother, I will take care of it!" Dou Taizhu is a person who knows current affairs. Useless, she stopped immediately, and did not do other excessive things except raising noodles, after all, she couldn't do it either.But now, how to make her really calm down, I have to think of other ideas.
Shu Yun felt even more troubled when he thought of the two older brothers from his natal family. These two cockfighting lackeys were top-notch among the Liehou's children, but when it came to other things, they simply couldn't see the slightest sparkle.Shu Yun has already begun to ponder whether to let these two go to the army to polish it. After all, in a sense, the army is a big melting pot!Of course, it’s best not to be an army of that kind of battle order. Don’t these two get rid of their helmets and armor first, turn around and run away when they see the enemy coming!
Liu Che seemed to have been involved in land reclamation before, and when he had a chance, he asked the two of them to join a similar construction corps, so as not to stay in Beijing and toss around, jumping back and forth desperately on the verge of death.
Shu Yun was full of ambitions, and suddenly felt that Liu Che was becoming more and more an eyesore.
However, the Empress Dowager immediately said: "It's not safe just to have the eldest son of the emperor. Gillian, my grandmother is so old, and she has seen too many children who died young. Children are very fragile creatures. If you are not careful, you will be gone, so at least you have to have another son to have enough protection!"
What the empress dowager said means that one son is not enough, at least one more son should be used as a spare tire. In this case, if the big one is useless, you can get another small one!This is the lesson learned from Empress Lu. Although Empress Lu has been discredited in the history books of the Han family, in fact, many of the policies promulgated by Empress Lu were changed in appearance and continued under different names during the reign of Emperor Wen and Emperor Xian. After that, even Liu Che's later implementation of the vehicle and boat tax continued the business policy of Empress Lu back then.Empress Lu's greatest sorrow is that she has a completely unreliable son on the table. Emperor Hui is really full of good cards. In order to maintain his position as the crown prince, Empress Lu, as a queen, almost gave Zhang Liang knelt down and asked for Zhang Liang's guidance, and invited Shangshan Sihao to stabilize Liu Ying's crown prince.
As a result, this one was not only ungrateful, but also sympathetic to Empress Lu and her enemies and competitors, Mrs. Qi and Liu Ruyi's mother and son. At the critical moment, Empress Lu's mother and son were pushed off the carriage, but Mrs. Qi had never experienced such treatment.If Liu Bang replaced Liu Ruyi, hehe, Empress Lu's mother and son would end up no better than Ren Yi, and they might really die without a burial.
Liu Ying has nothing to do with others all his life, so he will only cause trouble for Empress Lu. In the end, when Empress Lu died, his son was directly deposed, and was said to be not a son of the Liu family. It wasn't that Emperor Wen still had some brotherhood, he couldn't even keep the ancestral temple.
To put it bluntly, Empress Lu only had Liu Ying as a choice, so she had to hang herself on this tree branch. Her son was unreliable, and Empress Lu could only rely on her natal family. In the end, all members of the Lu family joined in. The pulse also broke.As long as Empress Lu still has a son, Liu Ying dies, and the youngest son is replaced, it will not cause those things that happened later.The empress dowager couldn't talk about Empress Lu explicitly, but she directly persuaded Shu Yun to have at least one more child, even if it was to prevent the eldest son from dying, there should be an extra spare.
Shu Yun naturally listened to the Empress Dowager's words, that's right, in case a son was born with char siu and was taught badly by someone with ulterior motives, he would also follow the example of the Prince Huidi who adopted Empress Zhang and shouted Why am I still young, when I grow up, I must do something!At that time, maybe Shu Yun can still kill this son!Of course, if there is really no other way, he can only let this son concentrate on helping the old Liu family and teach his grandson well!
As for being a queen, Shu Yun has never thought about it. The main reason is that Shu Yun doesn't have many reliable people. As for the Dou family, the older generation has begun to retreat to the second line, and the new generation of children has few successful ones. , the Chen family, not to mention it!Besides, the Liu family still had a high reputation in Guanzhong, and a lot of princes and kings would make a scene, and the world would be in chaos again. Shu Yun didn't want to cause the people to fall into war again because of his own selfishness.
In any case, Shu Yun still took the plan of having another son into his heart. The problem now is that, out of his ridiculous self-esteem, Liu Che doesn't go to Jiaofang Hall very often. In Shanglin Garden, either Chengming Hall or Xuanshi Hall in Weiyang Palace, even if there is a physical need, that is, to favor court ladies or low-level concubines there, unless it is to greet the Empress Dowager and the Queen Mother, Almost no longer come to Changle Palace.
It's time to make some news. After Liu Che came to power, he spent money like water. The Shaofu had a lot of headaches. After all, for the Shaofu, their political achievement was to make money. If their income is not enough every year, it is dereliction of duty.On the one hand, Dou's family, Chen's family, Tian's family, and Wang's family are all digging corners of Shaofu's wall. On the other hand, Liu Che wants to build Maoling, Shanglin Garden, and Zhang Palace. In short, there is no time to stop.
Paper making and printing is a business that earns money, but this thing has obviously been regarded by the queen as her own pocket, and the money earned has also become the queen's income and cannot enter the treasury of the Shaofu.Liu Che is well aware of this, he has always wanted to open up a new source of income, but unfortunately, he does not understand economics, and it is not wise to contact those businessmen when his foothold is unstable, Shu Yun She felt that she could give Liu Che some benefits in this regard, anyway, these things would still fall into her hands in the future, so she didn't mind giving Liu Che a little bit of sweetness.
Therefore, on a rare occasion, Shu Yun asked the elder Changqiu Li Jia to find Liu Che. Liu Che was a little stunned, and at first he was a little happy, feeling that the queen could not hold back at last. Lack of confidence!Liu Che originally wanted to make a fuss, but thinking of Shu Yun's reputation in and out of the palace, he still held his nose and followed Da Changqiu over.
After waiting for Liu Che to arrive, Shu Yun asked someone to bring a jar with a smile: "Your Majesty, guess what's in it?"
When Liu Che saw that the palace man opened the lid of the jar, took a paint spoon, and kilned a spoonful of snow-white crystal particles out of the jar, he suddenly became a little puzzled. He looked carefully for a long time, and finally stretched out his finger hesitantly, dipped it in I tasted it a bit, and then my eyes lit up: "This is salt? Why is it so white? And it doesn't taste bitter at all!"
That's right, what Shu Yun took out was refined salt. There is no such thing as salt refining technology these days. There are two main sources of table salt, one is the mineral salt collected from the salt mine, and the other is the salt from places in Qi State and Wu State. The sea salt boiled in the sea water has not been further processed.Therefore, even the salt used in the palace is only slightly ground to remove the sand, which looks finer, but actually still has a little bitter taste. As for the folks, they use coarse salt that has not been processed at all. , For this, poor people can't afford it.It can be said that this kind of refined salt is unique.
Shu Yun said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this is refined salt. You only need to dissolve the coarse salt into water, and then cook and filter it several times to get it. Apart from some labor, there is almost no other cost!" In this era when there were a large number of slaves in Shaofu, what was artificial labor?
Liu Che's heart suddenly moved. It's not that he doesn't understand anything. People who grew up in the hands of women in deep palaces are like this kind of refined salt. I'm afraid that once they quit, those wealthy households will flock to them. This is money. !As for ordinary people, it will not affect their livelihood, because they can't even afford coarse salt.
With such an additional source of income, Liu Che suddenly felt a lot easier. He could do nothing without money. The common people would go bankrupt if they had no money. Liehou had no money. He couldn’t afford to prepare funeral objects just for the burial of his ancestors. Zhou Yafu was How unlucky, the family has no money, and in order to prepare more funeral objects for him, and to be more decent after the burial, the son secretly resells ordnance.At that time, death was like life, and filial piety was emphasized. Some officials and officials sold their houses and land in order to buy more funeral objects for their ancestors, and they were on the verge of bankruptcy.The emperor had no money, and he was not harsh in his words. Why were the emperors of the Western Han Dynasty more powerful? Because most of the annual taxes went to the Shaofu, but the treasury was a minority. Therefore, when the army was deployed, most of the money had to be paid by the Shaofu. This is the emperor. The key to being able to control military power, if you have no money, who cares about you!
Liu Che is very practical and has enough advantages, so he can talk about anything, just like when Wei Qinghuo Qubing was around, even if Wei Zifu was old and frail, the position of Jiaofangdian was very stable. , In the harem, it immediately changed its appearance.
Now that Shu Yun gave him a large amount of money for nothing, and it was still a steady stream of money, Liu Che reciprocated, and for the next one or two months, he would almost rest in the Jiaofang Hall until Shu Yun passed on the money again. It's not over until after the birth letter.
Liu Che didn't feel that he was selling himself. After all, the child born by the empress was also a child of the old Liu's family, so he was very proud of it.You know, in the past two months alone, the Shaofu has already made a lot of money selling refined salt in the market. Liu Che told the Shaofu that no one is allowed to intervene in the matter of refined salt, and no one can casually dig refined salt. In the corner, we have to wait until Liu Che has made enough money first.
As a result, Taizhu Dou watched a large sum of money fall into Liu Che's hands, and felt very itchy in his heart. Taizhu Dou's ability to collect money is first-class, and his ability to spend money is also very powerful. It can be said that if it hadn't been for so many years She has been accumulating money tirelessly since then, and she can squander all the output of her fiefdom!
After inquiring that his own daughter was responsible for this matter, Taizhu Dou went directly to Jiaofang Hall Xingshi to inquire about the crime: "A-Jiao, don't think about mother and me first for such a good thing, now it has fallen into the hands of the emperor." Inside, mother wants to share some money, but he won't let it, which is too stingy!"
Listening to Mrs. Dou's angry words, Shu Yun rubbed her belly and said with a smile: "Salt or something, in fact, it's just like that. The technical content is not high, and it is impossible for Shaofu to maintain profits for a long time! So, Mom, don't think too much about it!"
Mrs. Dou looked at Shu Yun's slightly bulging belly, and felt a little better in her heart, but, thinking of those golden gold and the large strings of copper coins flying past her like this, she was still a little unwilling, and complained there Said: "You, don't just focus on having a child, you should pay more attention to the outside things. The emperor is not a conscientious one. Our mother and I helped him so much at the beginning. In the end, you want a child. You have to give him enough benefits first! I asked him for more money, but he refused to agree, but the Wang family and the Tian family have become more prestigious now!"
The more Mrs. Dou talked, the more unwilling she felt, and then she asked with a little expectation: "Ah Jiao, you should have other ways to get rich. If you earn money later, mother will give you a bonus? "
In fact, Shu Yun really did have it. In the past dynasties, salt profit was almost the biggest income. In the Han Dynasty, there is no salt and iron monopoly. That is to say, private individuals can also cook salt. Qi and Wu
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