In the Shuowang Dynasty of Jiazi (the first day of the first month) in the spring and February, a series of rewards from the Hou and the Marquis of Guan Nei were proposed by Zhang Cang, the new imperial historian, and the court voted to pass.

Liu Jie, the internal official of Zhisu, because in the process of destroying Zhu Lu, seized the credit of the tiger talisman in the hands of Lu Lu, he was named the Marquis of Yangxin, and he ate 1,200 households.

In addition, Liu Hong also proposed: Anyone who followed Emperor Taizu Gao to fight and now ranks more than 2,000 stone will be sealed as the Marquis of Guannei to commend his merits!

In this regard, the courtiers were naturally full of approval.

- If ordinary people want to be crowned marquis, they must at least lead a captain and win a hearty victory in battle, so that they can have some permissions!

This was not an easy goal for the vast majority of courtiers.

However, this rank is 2,000 stones...

As long as you are pumped out of your brain, and you are involved in something like 'rebellion' and 'great disrespect', then you can survive for a few years at most, and you can boil out the position of 2,000 stones!

——The capital official of the thousand-stone level was released, and the starting point was the county guard and county lieutenant of the 2,000-stone!

With such a precedent of '2,000 stones are all for the marquis of Guannei', then in the future, the courtiers will have one more way to be a marquis - when the new emperor ascends the throne in the future, and suffers from the power falling into the hands of the ministers, it is natural that in order to appease the meritorious class, they can also play a play of 'filial piety x emperor meritorious heroes as marquis'!

And Liu Hong's hand was something that Chen Ping didn't expect no matter what.

——Among the veterans who followed Liu Bang to fight the world, those who are still alive and climbed to the position of 2,000 stones are basically county guards from all over the country!

With such a play, the little emperor has actually reached a woo over at least twenty county chiefs!

Moreover, these more than 20 county guards are not ordinary cats and dogs slaughtered by the Prime Minister's Mansion - the positions of these people are all killed with one knife and one shot at the end of the Qin and early Han dynasties, when Chu and Han were fighting for hegemony!

Regardless of the level of credit, the political composition of these people is no worse than Chen Ping!

The court, the locality, and even the army, the struggle for the rights of the two sides is developing little by little in a direction that is unfavorable to Chen Ping; This made Chen Ping worried.

For this reason, Chen Ping and Zhou Bo even had a little unpleasantness!

- Zhou Bo believes that when he was on Anmen, he should have done nothing, first pushed the little emperor off the city wall, and then classified the Flying Fox Army as a traitor!

Regarding Zhou Bo's afterthought, Chen Ping was quite speechless - if he really had that guts, Zhou Bo would have done it a long time ago, and he wouldn't have waited until now...

However, Liu Hong's move was not only to crack down on Chen Ping and his party and compete for control of local officials.

In fact, Liu Hong's study is still the old wisdom of Emperor Wen in history - in the name of rewarding meritorious heroes, he has mastered dozens of people who are grateful to him, loyal, and have real power and qualifications in his hands, and are qualified to enter the central government at any time and serve as the emperor of Jiuqing.

And Liu Hong's reward this time is two more than that of Emperor Wen in history: Uncle Shoutian in Hanzhong, and the servant of the confessor.

Ji Chen's reward, naturally, as early as the beginning of January, Liu Hong had already released the wind; Uncle Tian's reward can be regarded as a sudden idea from Liu Hong.

Of course, among the other twenty-four lords who were named the Marquis of Guannei and the five hundred households of the food estate, there were also familiar faces; For example - Huaiyang County Shou: Shen Tujia.

Compared with the complicated work of choosing a fief and selecting tenants, the marquis of Guan Nei only had to eat and eat, and did not have any rights to the fief.

And the Marquis of Che, in addition to not having the right to govern the people of the fiefdom and the power to control the fiefdom army, his rights are almost the same as those of the princes and kings!

Just as the princes and kings will have the princes, internal histories, and lieutenants appointed by the imperial court, the Chehou of the Western Han Dynasty will also have the marquis appointed by the imperial court to govern the fiefdom for the marquis; However, due to the fact that the fiefdom of the Marquis of Che generally does not exceed the land of one county, the authority of the Hou Xiang is roughly the same as that of the county order.

At the same time, the Marquis of Che had almost no management power over his own prime minister; Prime Minister Hou is only responsible for the governance of this piece of enclosed soil, which originally belonged to the county order, and is directly responsible for the Prime Minister's Mansion, and does not need to be a marquis.

Therefore, the Marquis of Che was also jokingly called a 'county minister' by public opinion on an informal occasion, with a rank of 600 stones.

On the fiefdom, the marquis had the power to build a mansion that corresponded to the euphore, and to recruit the people of the fief to work for him on a voluntary basis—that is, to be forced into labor; and a private guard of no more than 50 personnel, whose armament meets the standards for civilian possession of weapons.

In addition, the Marquis of Che will also have a 'family of 300 stones', which can be selected by himself and reported to the Prime Minister's Office for the record; the meaning of the existence of the Marquis Che Hou is that he is the steward who manages the fief for the Marquis of Che and is responsible for collecting the fief rent tax for the Marquis of Che.

The vast majority of the Che marquis in the Western Han Dynasty generally did not live in their own fiefdoms, but gathered in Chang'an, seeking the opportunity to enter the court as Jiuqing, or even the third duke.

Compared with it, the Marquis of Guannei is undoubtedly much worse - just like Liu Hong this time, the twenty-six lords who were named the Marquis of Guannei have a total of 500 households, so what this Marquis of Guannei can bring to these 26 people, in addition to their status, is only the rent tax of 500 households issued by the Prime Minister's Mansion, about 100,000 yuan per year.

It can be said that the Marquis of Che in the Western Han Dynasty is equivalent to the castrated version of the princes and kings; And Guan Neihou is just a hereditary long-term meal ticket.

For spending 100,000 yuan a year to buy a founding hero who is loyal to the old Liu family and has the ability to govern a county, Liu Hong said: This deal is very cost-effective.

Because whether it is the Marquis of Che or the Marquis of Guannai, when the country encounters a war, theoretically has the obligation to go out to fight and fight; In addition, all the materials consumed on the expedition, such as military rations, weapons and ordnance, salaries, etc., were borne by the Marquis of Che and the Marquis of Guannei out of their own pockets.

Therefore, in a sense, the relationship between the noble class of the Western Han Dynasty and the central government is similar to the symbiotic coexistence relationship of 'the central government honors and raises the nobles, waits for something, and the nobles go out for the country'.

Therefore, Liu Hong is not worried that as more and more heroes are made marquis, it will affect the country's finances - even if Liu Hong clearly knows in his heart that now in the Han family, at least one-tenth of the land has been given to hundreds of marquis of Che and Guannei to be used as the land of food. ①

After the end of the procedure, Liu Hong, the acting king, repeatedly resigned from the country, and Liu Hong retained him successively, and finally agreed to Liu Heng's request to return to China.

Regarding the matter of moving the Liang Kingdom, Liu Heng said, 'No great merit, dare not accept heavy favors', Liu Hong did not force too urgently, while allowing Liu Heng to return to the land, he suggested that Liu Heng listen to the views of the acting queen Bo, and then reply.

In this way, Liu Hengman walked out of the north gate of Chang'an on the fourth day of the second month with anxiety and anxiety, and headed for Daidi.

On the same day, Chai Wu, the commander of the Flying Fox Commander, took more than 3,000 people except for the strong crossbow commander and the generals who were selected as the palace attendants, officially resigned and left for the Flying Fox Army.

On the fifth day of the second month, accompanied by the new Lang Zhong Ling Lingmian, Liu Hong appeared outside Chang'an East City in casual clothes.

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In February, the weather has warmed up a bit, and there are more pedestrians on the streets.

Liu Hong, who was dressed as a noble son, followed by three or five mighty men, walked leisurely into the East Market.

As a unified feudal regime, the emperors of the Western Han Dynasty were not excessively interfered with their private lives by the imperial historians like the emperors of the later Song and Ming dynasties; The saying that "a gentleman does not stand on a dangerous wall" and "the Son of Heaven should not be out of the middle of the country" has no market at this time.

Historically, when Emperor Jing Liu Qi was the prince, he often took his younger brother Liu Wu to appear in the streets and alleys of Chang'an; There were even a few times when the two brothers who missed the palace ban and were caught by the court captain Zhang Shizhi forced Emperor Wen Liu Heng to take off his hat and apologize to Zhang Shizhi for this.

In the Wudi Dynasty, the pig master went out to parade as soon as he had spare money, either to seal Mount Tai, or to travel the world.

Therefore, Liu Hong's departure from the palace this time was not as difficult as that for later emperors to go out to breathe; It is only necessary to bring enough escort forces, and the matter will not cause opposition from the courtiers.

Liu Hong's purpose of leaving the palace this time is naturally not to learn from Kang Mazi to eat and drink with public funds, or to learn from the pig master to be a boy with scattered wealth.

The cause of this incident was a 'small incident' that happened two days ago.

Uncle Tian, the new Shaofu Ling, has not yet arrived in Chang'an due to the heavy snow closing the mountain and the road is difficult to travel; Even the edict of the Marquis of Guan Nei, Uncle Tian estimated that he received it halfway.

Therefore, at this time, Shaofu was carrying out the work of regulating and controlling grain prices in Chang'an without a leader - that is, selling grain at a fair price.

From Anling Dushi, Liu Hong not only obtained more than 100 hectares of land, tens of millions of copper coins, and tens of thousands of gold and gold, but also obtained a total of 610,000 stone of grain, mainly corn, supplemented by other kinds of grains.

Naturally, Liu Hong put the land, money, and gold into the Shaofu stockpile, along with all the money and grain that he had 'brought back' from the princes and ministers, and Liu Hong ordered the Shaofu officials to transport the grain to Dongshi and sell it wholesale at a price of 85 yuan per stone.

With the help of the Chang'an Tian brothers, the stabilization of grain prices went quite smoothly; Shaofu only released less than 100,000 stone of corn, and the price of corn in the rest of the grain shops also dropped back to the normal level; Even in order to compete with Shaofu for the market, its price was pressed below eighty-five yuan.

To achieve the goal, Liu Hong naturally ordered Shaofu to stop regulating and controlling, so that the market would naturally balance; After selling more than 100,000 stone corn, Shaofu's grain sales work also stopped.

However, just after Shaofu sold the hundreds of thousands of stone grains, Liu Hong happened to hear a very interesting rumor.

——During the period when Shaofu sold grain, there was a horse-drawn carriage that specially transported copper coins every day and drove into the Inner History Money Vault!

What's even more interesting is that as soon as Shaofu's grain sales work stopped, the number of money trucks transported to Neishi was greatly reduced, less than the previous one!

This is very worthy of Liu Hong's taste.

Internal history, although its full name is the internal history of the governance of the corn, but until now, it can be said that the authority of the internal history has long been inseparable from the grain half a dime.

——The lieutenant is responsible for the security of Chang'an, the captain of the thieves is responsible for cracking down on bandits, the city officials are responsible for Chang'an and the markets outside Chang'an, and the internal history is responsible for the acres, population, and household registration...

It can be said that as long as it is related to Guanzhong, all the internal history is done, but it does not include food!

But Shaofu has just sold 100,000 stone of grain, but the internal history has strangely increased a lot of income, and it is still a legal income that can see the light!

This made Liu Hong feel as if he was missing something.

Therefore, Liu Hong's purpose for coming to Dongshi today is very clear: to investigate the Dongshi in Shaofu, where grain is sold, and find out where the 'windfall' obtained during this period of internal history came from!

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