The days when I pretended to be a cat in the Forbidden City[Comprehensive]

What Xia Anran meant was that he planned to allocate a large part of the income from the copper coins to purchase raw materials for the construction of city walls and road paving, and not use the rest for the time being.

In addition, he wants to establish a new department, which belongs to Shaofu.

This department is responsible for counting the sales prices of goods in major shops in Zhongshan and regulating the prices.

He pointed out that after this statistics, shops can control their own fluctuations within [-]% within a year, and they need to declare in advance.

The little king said: "Above [-]% and [-]% can be decided by the county government, but if it is necessary to report to you, unless there is a special reason, it is not allowed."

"At that time, we will set a guide price, and foreign goods are not allowed to be sold at a price lower than this price."

The scope of work of this department is too cumbersome and obviously offending people.

After hearing what the little king said, the heads of the two financial institutions, Da Nongling and Shaofu, frowned. They had different reasons for their actions, but they all somewhat disapproved.

The Three Dukes, Nine Qings and Thirteen Caos of the Great Han Dynasty have already divided the tasks into very fine details. The request raised by the little king is actually in the category of price control. Shaofu.

So they don't think it is necessary to open another department. In addition, His Highness's move means that the functions of the two departments overlap?Or monitor each other?

But doing so will only make it difficult for both departments to carry out their work.

And this disapproval increased a lot after Xia Anran issued a job list.

Everyone can understand the price control, and this department is also responsible for cracking down on counterfeiting?And why is there still a spot check on product quality?Do you need to register the person in charge of the product one by one?

Now there are only a few shops in Zhongshan. Everyone is a family business with decades-old shops.People cherish feathers these days, how could they do something to ruin the reputation of their own products?

They went to check, but it was thankless, and maybe even the common people would dislike them for being troublesome.After all, who doesn't want a price cut? Now that the big discount is only allowed to drop to [-]%, ordinary people will definitely feel that they have lost money.

But the common people definitely welcome not to raise prices, but the problem is that the prices of some things are not decided by the merchants themselves. If the cost increases and the merchants cannot increase the prices, isn't that forcing people not to sell things?

But everyone didn't talk for a while. They were taken back by the gentlemen of various families to educate them about money, and they probably knew that the little king's worries before had some reasons.

The little king is only so old, but he can think of problems that they haven't paid attention to, and the timing is so delicate. I also know that this new department is to prevent the negative impact of Zhongshan's national currency on local agriculture.

But everyone in the room could feel that the little king wanted to prevent the price from skyrocketing, but it was useless to increase the price just because the country did not allow the price increase.Such crude methods will only make merchants unwilling to do these businesses, and even in the end, because no one sells this product, they all seek purchasing agents and smuggling, which instead makes its price skyrocket.

Just when someone was about to speak, Xia Anran threw out a second topic.

Open and close positions.

To put it bluntly, the role of liquidation is to use the state to carry out macro-control on grain prices by purchasing and selling grain.

When the market price of grain is low, the state buys grain and puts it in the warehouse, and there is less grain flowing in the market, so the price of grain will naturally rise.

When the price of grain in the market rises too rapidly or when there is a disaster year, the state will open warehouses to release grain, and the price of grain will naturally decrease.

Its purpose is not only to control food prices, but also to make the country's granary play a role in addition to storage.

In order not to be really like the situation of "the food is rotten because there is too much food" in the Wenjing period.

Just like money is money when it flows, and food is food when it flows, and it is meaningless other than to show off your wealth if it is old.

If Zhongshan had a good harvest of grain year after year, he would take the old grain out and sell it in other places, and then he could buy goods that were relatively scarce in Zhongshan, such as salt, from other places.

Rice is rare for northerners, and Zhongshan is one of the few rice-producing areas in the north, so it has natural advantages.As long as the rice is not husked, it can be stored for three to four years. No one in this era is entangled in the problem of new rice and old rice.

If the price of food is stable, the price of goods will also be stable. Even if a large amount of copper coins flow into the market without proper control and cause inflation, there will be a chance to recover.

"First of all, we must make sure that the people are willing to grow grain, can grow grain, and can afford to grow grain." The little king's words fell far into the ears of Liu Zhi, who woke up hungry after sleeping, and the child rubbed his eyes. , looked in the direction of the sound.

His elder brother said to the officials of Zhongshan Kingdom: "This king has been thinking about this question for several days. Farming is the foundation of the country and the foundation of the people's peace, but business is the blood. Where the blood flows, the body is soft." , Where the blood is blocked, there will be no vitality."

"Blindly oppressing businessmen is worse than supporting farmers."

"This road has never been seen before, and it is not known whether there will be anyone in the future. But this king wants to try to walk."

Liu Zhi poked his head out quietly, and saw the young king saying softly to his courtiers: "My lords, would you like to accompany me to have a try? Use our practical actions to test the truth."

"Then it will be six years."

"...here."

Six years later, when Emperor Han Jing began to reduce the power of the king in the calendar, the little king showed a sly smile.

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In the late May of the lunar calendar, the wind blowing has already brought dryness, and the rice in Zhongshan has begun to tiller and head.

At this time, the water level has been lowered to ensure that the rice roots can be stimulated by high temperature and light.

The weather at this time is the best, with many sunny days and long sunshine hours. The rainy season has begun in the south at this time, but Hebei, where Zhongshan is located, has blue sky and white clouds, with little wind blowing.

The ducks are splashing in the rice fields, and now the water level is low, which is convenient for them to find food that they usually can't see in it.When the water was released, a deep water area was left beside the rice fields, and now the fish that have been raised for more than a month are concentrated there.The little king inspected the fields, carefully counted the tilled rice stalks, and counted the corresponding harvests. He immediately burst into joy.

As soon as he was in a good mood, he directed his younger brother to scoop up a few fat rice flower fish, gutted them and fried them.Liu Zhi was a little unhappy about eating fish. Children have a keen sense of smell, so naturally they don't like to eat such fishy things.

Seeing the displeased look on his swaying little body, Xia Anran patted his little butt and promised that brother's product must be a high-quality product, Liu Xiaoshen took the ducklings and ran to catch fish empty-handed.

Little Douding, who has no tools, is as powerful as the three ducklings, and he doesn't know whether it is a man catching a fish or a fish teasing a man.

The mother duck ate one small fish happily, and at last she couldn't stand it anymore, and took duck steps to avoid the small pond where the water was splashing.

Seeing the fish flying and ducks jumping in the pool made Xia Anran happy for a long time.

Then Liu Xiaozhu caught four or five catties of small fish for him - he picked it up with his robe.

These fish are very small, Xia Anran silently looked at his younger brother's cheeks that were red from being slapped by the fish's tail, and in the end he didn't want to say anything, and praised the little man's self-confidence, then picked up the kitchen knife Up and down.

The little king personally cooked a reward meal for his younger brother.

The size of this fish is less than half a palm, and the bones and scales have not grown hard yet.

Fresh fish doesn't need much treatment, just coat it with a mixture of mung bean starch and flour, then pound a hot chicken and fry it in a frying pan.

The small fish tastes crisp after frying, and the mung bean starch has poor water absorption and oil absorption, so the batter produced in this way will have less oil content.After sprinkling some fine salt and three bites of green onion slices, Liu Zhi couldn't resist the charm of fried food and ate his belly round.

The children would go to the farm to eat and rest after eating and resting, but Xia Anran didn't have that much time. He came today to direct people to start making sauce.

In fact, they have already made a batch of sauce this winter, using the method of the Northeast soybean paste that Xia Anran saw from the gourmet show, and now they are making soy sauce.

The most important fermentation stage of soy sauce needs the temperature in midsummer, so it is just right to do it now.These are the Shumai he bought from the fief where his aunt Princess Tao was located, just in time for Xia Anran to have sufficient resources to make sauce.

Although it was the first time to do it, everything went smoothly, especially the cultivation of strains. Soybean fermentation requires the joint action of multiple strains. In the era of no strains, it can only be grown by itself.Fortunately, he has a heated kang. After fermenting over ten pots of cooked rice, only one pot produced usable Aspergillus oryzae, which was cultivated and put into the sauce tank.

Time and temperature will then energize the vat.Aspergillus oryzae is the soul character in the early stage, and it will breed rapidly to produce more enzymes.

Some of these enzymes are responsible for breaking down the proteins in soybeans and wheat, converting them into amino acids, which are the source of umami.Some are responsible for hydrolyzing the wheat's plentiful starches into sugars, which produce the sweet taste.And this sweetness called glucose is barely detectable, but the sweetness can be subtly enhanced when the tongue cannot detect this taste.

The sauce tank will be stirred almost every day in the early stage, and various enzymes in the air will also actively or passively join the big family of reactions at this time.

Yeast produces ethanol, which plays an important role in the second half of fermentation. Aspergillus produces very small metabolites such as esters, phenols, and aldehydes, but together with alcohol, they will work together to produce various complex aromas.In the rapid fermentation under the action of high temperature, glucose and amino acids will react to form melanoid, which is the source of the reddish brown color of soy sauce.

Xia Anran almost waited for the future changes of several large vats of barley with a happy and expectant expression.After playing for a while, Liu Zhi came over and saw his brother squatting on the side of the sauce jar, drooling, expressing that he really couldn't understand his brother's hobbies.

Seeing that his brother's expression was a bit dull, he rolled his eyes and casually picked up Duo Duo Ya, who was walking nearby, and put it on Xia Anran's head.

Xia Anran quickly lifted the little duck off its head.Duoduo is now in the growth period, but it is fine, after all, it is gray.Liu Zhi's three ducks have yellow lanugo, but their whole bodies are elongated a lot, which looks very weird.

If you want to describe it, it is like the difference between the Kodak duck and the creamy yellow Gotha duck.

In short, some hot eyes.

Liu Zhi, who is a face control party, has also been a little tangled recently, but fortunately, all he sees are such ducks, and he has heard Xia Anran tell the story of the ugly duckling for so long, and feels that his own duckling may also be in the ugly duckling stage. So it's still tolerable.

But what he didn't know was that the elongation he thought was the end was just the beginning of the ducks' growing season, and what awaited him was the time for the ducks to moult.

The milky-yellow fluff is replaced, and after the bristles gradually grow out, "Jiujiujiu" will turn into "Quackquack", but the duckling is not cute at all.

When the two brothers in Zhongshan country watched the ducks make trouble, Liu Qi was sitting in front of the desk, his eyes fell heavily on the letters sent by the border, his face was cloudy and uncertain.

Since the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion last year, the Huns and the Han court have entered an embarrassing situation.

One is: I already know that you have bad intentions for me.

The other is: Even if you know my plan, what can you do?You can't kill me.

However, this situation has led to a result, that is, the Xiongnu's attention to the big man has increased.Although they felt that Han Chao didn't dare to do anything, they were also afraid that Han Chao would bite them like a mad dog.

News came from the border that in recent months, during the Han-Hungarian trade, the Xiongnu had been very strict about the smuggling of silk and silk in the past, almost to the extent that every box must be opened.

Such a move quickly attracted the attention of relevant dark lines, and they quickly passed the news back to Chang'an.

This is not good news, especially now that Dahan is preparing to export porcelain.

Porcelain is of course not an embargoed commodity, but Liu Qi's original plan was to slowly invade it from the border, and at the same time send it to the court of the Huns through a dark line, and make a name for it through the official, so that even if Zhong Xingyue orders it to be banned, there will be Huns Nobles will come to take the initiative to contact you.

But now the Xiongnu's behavior is to beat them to death with sticks, and they will not let anyone go.This will be a bit troublesome.

If Liu Qi wanted to open this gap, he could only start with the official relationship between Han and Hungary, but that was too directional.Zhong Xingyue is old and cunning, and it is very likely that he will spot it.

In this way, you can only find a reason that the other party cannot criticize or play.

Marriage is very good.

But last year, the Han Dynasty just sent a princess to the past, and now the Han Dynasty proposes a marriage, and the posture is too low.

How about an excuse to give the princess a gift?No, this is also somewhat implausible.

It's a pity that the Xiongnu Shanyu was in his prime, so he shouldn't be able to die in a short period of time, and it was impossible for the princess of the Han Dynasty to marry the left and right kings of the Huns, so it was a bit difficult to handle.

He tapped his fingertips on the table, while he was meditating, someone came to report that Yuan Ang had returned from his envoy to Zhongshan.

Liu Qi immediately became interested when he thought of the bet before he left, and he hurriedly announced people to enter. After seeing the ceremony, he heard Yuan An say with a half-truth and half-false depression: "Your Majesty, it seems that the minister is going to be in Chang'an. The city has re-purchased houses."

Liu Qi laughed out loud, and he nodded at Yuan An, with genuine joy on his face: "Did you lose?"

"I am convinced, knowing a son is better than a father." Yuan An's expression of "I'm so stupid, how could I bet with someone else's father" successfully pleased Liu Qi.

"How is it? How are my children?" Although the old father has been able to receive letters from Zhongshan, he is also afraid that his son will report good news but not bad news.Now that the child is still young, as a father, he is more concerned than defensive, especially after Yuan An made it clear that he won the bet.

Then he heard Yuan Ang's series of rainbow farts, all of which were loud and melodious, which made Liu Qi feel very comfortable.

Yuan An didn't bring much stuff with him when he returned from this trip.According to the plan, they should still be in the preparation stage at this time. Unexpectedly, as soon as the things were brought out, he sensitively noticed that Liu Qi was not happy.

It made him realize something was wrong.

He didn't ask too many questions, and only talked to Liu Qi about the stories behind each piece of equipment, especially the red round paper tube he proposed, which made Liu Qi a little curious.

"What is this thing for?"

"Your Majesty, this is a gift brought to you by His Highness King Zhongshan."

"Oh?" Liu Qi stood up when he heard that it was a gift from his son. He approached with some interest, took the bamboo pole that Yuan An respectfully handed over, shook it twice, and found the cylinder underneath. Part of it is also dangling, which is a bit like a fishing rod.

He lifted the thing up and looked inside, good guy, there is a disc in the center of the bracket made of bamboo strips, and there is a candle in it, Liu Qi understood immediately.

This thing is a "light"?

"Yes, the King of Zhongshan called it a lantern," said Yuan Ang, who picked it up from Xia Anran's hand, "The advantage is that the wind will not blow the candle flame, and this thing can be used even in windy days if you carry it in your hand." For lighting, you only need to replace the candles."

"The King of Zhongshan also presented a lamp to His Majesty for lighting in the house. The paper is a new kind of paper made by the Zhongshan Kingdom."

Liu Qi chuckled a few times, and when he touched it, he found that the paper was different from the one he usually writes on, it was a bit slippery, presumably it was used to prevent fire.

My son tinkered with another useful thing, which is very good and worthy of praise.

Liu Qi asked people to put away the things, and was going to write a letter to praise his son later.But when it comes to praise... He raised his eyebrows and asked, "What did Sheng Er say when he found out that he won the copper mine? I'm afraid he was too happy?"

As an old father who cared about his son, of course he knew that Liu Sheng had used most of the working capital to build a hot spring village, and the rest was used to make farm tools.

Zhongshan Kingdom had never been established before, and all agricultural and commercial taxes were paid to the country. The little king's next Zhongshan Kingdom had no savings.

Thinking of his son's wrinkled and bitter face, the wicked father is very happy.

Who would have thought that he would hear an unexpected answer: "Return to Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Zhongshan is very distressed. He hasn't sent anyone to mine ore until I leave the country?"

"Huh?" Are there people who have taken the mine but are distressed?Liu Qi's curiosity was aroused by this unexpected answer, "Tell me."

So Yuan An told about the several disputes in Zhongshan, and by the way, helped Liu Qi to be vaccinated, and also told Xia Anran how to deal with this matter when he wrote to his brothers.

After listening to Yuan An's words, Liu Qi did not speak for a long time, his face did not show much emotion, making it difficult for people to see his mood clearly.

Liu Qi's self-cultivation skills and expression management skills are excellent, as long as he is not willing, others can't easily understand his mood.

"This kid hasn't grown up, but his mind has grown a lot." Liu Qi muttered, but he didn't linger on this sensitive topic.Liu Qi is a person who talks more than he does. He sees things the same way. Compared with what others say, he prefers to see what others do.

Xia Anran's thought opened a new window for his father, and it seemed that his son was raised to the point where he could reap a crop.

The little king naturally didn't know that he had been noticed by his father since then. In fact, not only him, but also the princes whom he wrote to were all followed by Liu Qi.Naturally, he also noticed the boxes and boxes of Changsha King's slow delivery of goods, as well as letters from Xia Anran's mother and brother almost every day.

Hearing the reactions of the other sons again, hey, this kid is very popular.

He had heard before that this little brat was dragging his brothers to unite for cargo transportation because of his young age.Liu Qi didn't express his opinion at the time, and let a few children do it by themselves, but he didn't expect that it turned out to be a good one.

Although the Han Dynasty has Chidao extending in all directions, only the emperor can walk the Chidao all over the world.

The Chidao was actually built by the first emperor. It is wide, but for the sake of safety and to protect the majesty of the emperor, the Chidao itself is surrounded by walls, and a tree is planted every three feet.

Even if some sections of the road may not be walked by the emperor once in his life, the local bureaucrats must take care of them every year.After all, no one thought that if the emperor came one day and found that the road collapsed here, or the bridge collapsed, then beheading might not be so easy to solve.

In addition to Chidao, which is actually only a symbolic function, there is also a straight road leading to the Huns in the north, but the common people usually use the road, or it can also be called the post road.

This kind of road is specially used to send letters, transport materials, and officials to take office.There are also official post stations along the way, basically every [-] miles. Officials can rest, drink, eat and change horses for free, but ordinary people need to pay.

The post road is maintained and patrolled by special personnel, and there are officials rushing to and fro. The natural safety factor is high, so most ordinary caravans will choose to take the road.

But the avenue has a shortcoming, it is the same as today's national highway, it is only responsible for the main traffic.

For example, you can take the national road from Chang'an to Zhongshan. The area of ​​Zhongshan is north-south, and basically the main counties are on the north-south belt of the straight road. But if you want to go east-west, you can only take the dirt road of Zhongshan itself. .

Zhongshan is densely populated and dominated by plains. The situation is better. If it is dominated by mountains and hills, there will inevitably be hidden bandits.

It doesn't matter if the civilians fall into the grass and turn into bandits, the most fearful thing is that the whole team of soldiers fall into the grass together. The big caravan can hire warriors, but the guards of ordinary caravans are completely invincible.

After a long time, he will become a tyrant among the people.

Therefore, the cost of transportation largely restricts the development of small caravans.

But now Xia Anran has contacted several princes and kings to establish such a logistics chain, which connects the four places of Zhongshan, Hejian, Zhao, and Lu, and Lu connects the two countries of Jiaodong and Jiaoxi to the east. To the south, Liang Guo was connected.

It is said to be four countries, but in fact there are eight or nine vassal states in the radiation circle, and several counties along the way.

This is meaningless for large caravans, but it is very useful for small caravans.

Going back and forth can greatly reduce the consumption of materials, and it can also stimulate their own country's tax revenue.The King of Liang and the Queen Mother had said this before. On the one hand, the words were to praise the little prince, and on the other hand, it was to show the Queen Mother how loving he is.

Although the crown prince is standing, Liu Rong is raised by his mother Li Ji to be soft. This kind of softness is not the same as that of his own Xiaojiu. It is soft from top to bottom.

The skin of my own Xiaojiu is soft, but the stuffing inside is hard, and it can bounce back if you poke it hard, but the prince can pierce it directly if you poke it.

Liu Rong's personality is not suitable, Liu Qi can see this, Queen Mother Dou can see it, and Liu Wu can naturally see it too.

So Liu Wu didn't take Liu Rong seriously at all.

He went in and out of Chang'an City frequently, and every time he pretended to miss his mother, he was almost on the way back or on the way back for a year.

This time he clearly ordered no one to come, but in the end he found that his younger brother was almost on his way to Chang'an.Fortunately, he responded in time so that no disaster was caused.

For this younger brother, Liu Qi felt somewhat annoyed, so when he realized that his sons were trying to pluck his younger brother's wool, he felt a little happy.

The psychology of children is transparent in the eyes of adults.

The author has something to say:

Liu Qi: My son is so good, he is so caring, and relieves his father's worries.

Liu Qi: I have already seen the future, and it must be the two sons working together to create a prosperous age of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Qi: With this alone, I can beat up many fathers. This must be my good genes! (pointing)

The stranger Zhao Zhen entered the chat room.

The stranger Cao Cao entered the chat room.

The stranger Liu Xie entered the chat room.

Zhao Zhen/Cao Cao/Liu Xie: It's okay, let's just take a look at this one who obviously took advantage of his son and didn't know it.

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The blood of infrastructure construction of the Chinese nation must have started from Zulong. Qin Shihuang’s galloping and straight roads have to be built just like highways.

In the end, it was cheaper for Xihan. ==

The macro-control of goods and prices was officially started in the Western Han Dynasty, but the pipe had already been proposed before.

The Western Han Dynasty used the leveling method, and the reason is similar.

But this method is fine in Zhongshan country, but it is a bit difficult to apply it to the whole country, because it is difficult to have standards for procurement and prices.Zhongshan country is small and easy to monitor, and if it is put in the whole big man, it is easy to have collusion between government and businessmen.Even mobilize goods to sell.

No system is perfect, it depends on who wants to go one step further.

Closing the position... is Xia Miao's wicked taste, but no one can GET.

When ducks moult...that's really ugly.

By the way, when I wrote the metaphor, I actually wanted to write about Pikachu and Uncle Pikachu, the one wearing the Pikachu headgear, but I couldn’t find that, and then I searched for Pikachu, and there came out a bunch of Pikachu anthropomorphism... oops, a bit With feeling.

Speaking of Pokemon, the author has read an article before, although it was 7 years ago, but I have not forgotten it until now, "The Definition of Happiness" is on JJ, no V, unfinished (but it can be regarded as the end, really , look at my sincere eyes)

CP is Mewtwo and the original protagonist.

It's so good-looking, you can laugh out loud after watching it.

recommend it.

It’s just No.1 saying, cough, it’s very touching at a certain time hehehe.

I promise, it will come out permanently within 3 chapters.

If he doesn't come out, Liu Che will be crooked.

Xia Miao doesn't know how to take care of cubs, forget it, it's too embarrassing for them to expect male cats to take care of their children.

Xia Miao's house has always been the one holding people back from his house.

(Every time the author feels that the plot starts to take off, he will pull out the attack, and then the world will stabilize in an instant)

No, don't guess, Gong is not the golden cudgel, nor is it the Dinghaishenzhenjing.

What is the attack so far no one has guessed hehehe.