For now, Liu Hong has not had the energy to consider the big problem of 'curbing land annexation', which has spanned tens of hundreds of years and has hardly been solved in history.

If you want to become the first emperor in history to effectively stop land annexation and slavery, the first obstacle in front of Liu Hong is Chen Ping and Zhou Bo, who have stood on the opposite side of Liu Hong from the beginning to the end.

If Liu Hong was still unable to understand Zhou Bo's reason for asking for war several times because of lack of energy, now, Liu Hong is very sure of Zhou Bo's idea - do everything he can, do everything he can, no matter what name or way, he must strive to lead troops to the battle!

In other words, Zhou Bo wanted to shake Liu Hong's now more and more stable throne by leading troops outside.

This made Liu Hong's patience to see the bottom and completely move closer to below the zero line; The attitude towards Chen Ping and Zhou Bo and the party has also changed from the previous boiled frog in warm water to the current radical situation of leaving no room for room and no face.

"Captain, can you hear me?"

A cold inquiry provoked the courtiers in the palace to subconsciously shrink their necks, and hurriedly withdrew their eyes from Zhou Bo's back, making a look of bowing their heads and thinking.

But Liu Hong knows very well: Ninety percent of the bureaucrats and nobles in the palace are probably pricking up their ears, waiting for the outcome of this major event related to the prosperity of the family.

With regard to the policy of protecting grain prices, Liu Hong's attitude can be described as unprecedentedly tough.

- If Zhou Bo only mentions leading the troops to the battle, then Liu Hong will inevitably have to spend some time talking and try to express his conservative opinion on the northern strategy in euphemistic and even strong terms.

But Zhou Bo didn't blink, and he started with the grain protection price policy that had just planted seeds and had not even sprouted, which undoubtedly stepped on Liu Hong's bottom line.

- The people are Liu Hong's final bottom line!

Historically, whether it is the Qin and Han dynasties, or the Sui, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties, the essence of the rise and fall of every feudal regime cannot avoid one question: how are the people living?

In particular, what is the proportion of the people at the bottom who account for the highest proportion of the economic and social composition of small peasants, that is, the yeoman peasant class in the popular sense, in the social class composition, and whether it can guarantee the most basic daily life?

At the beginning of the establishment of the regime, there will be a description in the history books that 'the world is withered, ten rooms and nine emptiness, and a hundred ruins are waiting to be rebuilt'; in the last years of the dynasty, there will also be a picture of 'life in distress, hunger everywhere, and ruins and broken walls' presented to the eyes of later generations.

Even in the prosperous era of the dynasty, historians are always accustomed to describe the scenery of the Chinese land in the prosperous era with 'the abundance of the warehouse, the prosperity of the people, the people's roads are not forgotten, the night is not closed, the country is strong and rich, and the people are safe and sufficient'.

From these records, it is not difficult to find that the most accurate reference for whether the world is in ruins, vigorous and upward, or the end of the road, is the people at the bottom.

The reason why the people at the bottom, who are mainly yeoman farmers, can become the greatest reference in the stage of political power in the feudal era is because almost every feudal regime, its largest and most stable supporters, will always be the people at the bottom, and will always be the yeoman peasant class.

The country's finances need to be supported by the agricultural taxes paid by yeoman farmers, and the country's army needs the young and strong men of yeoman farmers to serve in the military.

Even the emperor's personal life and court expenses were covered by the 'oral endowment' contributed by the yeoman peasant class.

Compared with the yeoman peasant class, which generally accounted for more than ninety percent of the population in the feudal dynasties, the contribution to the regime was quite limited, whether it was a merchant or a scholar or nobleman.

If the main mission of a feudal emperor is summed up in the most popular language, it is one sentence: so that the majority of the yeoman peasant class in the world can barely eat their stomachs.

As long as this can be done, it can already be regarded as a middle-class posture among feudal emperors.

Because the majority of yeoman farmers have enough to eat, it means that the social situation tends to be stable, and more than 90 percent of the people are in a state of support for the government.

Such a solid foundation of popular support is enough to strangle all unstable factors in the cradle.

The policy of grain protection price is a major decision made by Liu Hong in order to achieve the great goal of 'the yeoman peasant class with enough food and clothing'.

If the measures are taken appropriately and the policy of protecting grain prices is steadily implemented for 50 years, forming a huge historical inertia, then it is no exaggeration to say that Liu Hong's policy of protecting grain prices alone will extend the life of the Liu Han regime for at least another 100 years!

What's more, the grain protection price policy will also bring new revenue to the impoverished Han central government, and achieve the result of 'doubling agricultural taxes' in the short term.

Therefore, whether it is out of the protection of the people at the bottom, or the determination to change the country's financial situation in order to achieve centralized power, Liu Hong will brazenly guard the policy of grain protection price, and bear fruit in this pre-AD China land.

As long as there is a breath between the mouth and nose, Liu Hong will not allow any person or force to extend his evil hand to the grain protection price policy!

Thinking of this, Liu Hong's originally indifferent gaze uncontrollably took on a hint of gloom; Zhou Bo, who had already knotted his tongue, was speechless and didn't know how to answer.

"Humph!"

An unsuppressed cold snort provoked the courtiers in the hall to look sideways for a moment, and they saw Liu Hong's slightly short and thin figure, snatching the halberd in the hand of the squire next to him, holding it horizontally, and scanning everyone in the hall with a tigerish eye.

"When I heard the words of the Taiwei, it seems that I blame the Shaofu for doing it, and the lord of the Lord Du Wei is the evil government of the country!"

Saying that, Liu Hong glanced at Zhou Bo quite contemptuously, and said with a face as usual: "The captain has been in the army for a long time, and he has a lot of knowledge in the court. ”

"The so-called art industry has a specialization, and the strength of the captain is to lead the army to fight outside, not to govern the country and the people inside, so I don't blame myself."

Saying that, Liu Hong ignored Zhou Bo's obviously condensed face on the side, and reprimanded coldly: "In addition to the Tai Lieutenant, which other prince should be the Lord Captain?" ”

Seeing that the young son of heaven was angry, as if he was about to swing his halberd to split if he didn't agree with each other, everyone in the hall was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly bowed in unison under the leadership of Zhang Cang, the imperial historian: "Even if the ministers die, they dare not say anything about Your Majesty's sin..."

In the final analysis, this is not the pseudo-feudal era of the monarch and the ministers of the later generations, the pseudo-feudal era of the father and son - the Western Han Dynasty, is the only period in history in the absolute dictatorship of the monarch in the *******-afterglow!

There is no Confucian rules and regulations for the emperor, there is no public opinion that 'the Son of Heaven and xxx rule the world together', and there is no background of the times for bureaucrats to point fingers at the emperor's decision-making.

——The emperor of the Western Han Dynasty is the only ruler other than Qin Shi Huang who has absolute autocratic power, and who speaks the law in a real sense and has a heavenly constitution in his mouth!

Unlike the Pojiao Emperor, who was complained about his personal morality by the imperial historians and the daily duties and measures of the old ministers in the court, the emperors of the Western Han Dynasty would not be wrong at all!

In later generations, a solar and lunar eclipse is the emperor's immorality, and an earthquake meteorite is the emperor's fault; But in the Western Han Dynasty, everything including but not limited to heaven and earth had to operate according to the emperor's will.

Even the trajectory of the stars is within the scope of the Western Han Emperor's 'order'!

In this context, no courtier dares to accuse the 'emperor of being at fault' - if there is really something wrong, it is the courtiers' fault, the world's fault, and even the world's fault!

As a descendant of Liu Bang, the emperor of the Western Han Dynasty never knew what cheekiness was, and he would never do the act of slapping a swollen face and becoming fat: what the emperor of the Western Han Dynasty believed in was that the whole world was not the king's land, and the shore of the land was not the king's minister!

It is not rigorous to say: the hundred countries in the Tang Dynasty will almost certainly not appear in the Western Han Dynasty!

Because the emperors of the Western Han Dynasty have never taken simple benevolence, righteousness, courtesy and faith as a diplomatic criterion - almost every emperor of the Western Han Dynasty has a violent temper of 'if you don't accept it, you will be beaten until you obey'.

The emperors of later generations, if they want to achieve absolute rule over the world and absolute control over the political power, they must do many things, such as internal kings and external tyrants, corporal etiquette, moral greatness, and so on.

But in the Western Han Dynasty, if the emperor wants to become the master in the true sense, it is actually very simple - the jade seal of the Son of Heaven, the tiger talisman of the army, and the seal of the prime minister, all three are enough!

The jade seal is in hand, and the rewards and punishments are all from the mouth of the emperor; The talisman is in hand, and the crusade is all out of the emperor's thoughts; If the prime minister is printed, the decree will be unimpeded.

This is also the reason why Emperor Wu in history set up the prime minister, and killed his mother and son - in theory, the emperor only has the control of the jade seal of the Son of Heaven, and the transfer of troops and tiger talisman is one of the queen mothers and one of the captains.

In order to block the mouths of the crooked old guys in the court, Emperor Wu chose the most direct path: to kill the queen mother to control the military power, and to set aside the prime minister to get the prime minister's seal, so as to achieve the political procedure of what he said and what he said.

Compared with the dark ages when Confucianism gradually grew in power and the academic atmosphere was generally based on the main goal of 'making a cage for the emperor', Liu Hong's present can be described as the time when the emperor of the Western Han Dynasty was the freest and the freshest air he could breathe.

Therefore, the biggest loophole mentioned by Zhou Bo is precisely the sentence that the emperors of later generations gritted their teeth, but never dared to slap the table: compete with the people for profit.

The hall fell into a long silence, whether it was the courtiers and ministers on the left, or the military generals and marquis on the right, or Zhou Bo in the center of the hall who was angry but didn't say a word, and even Chen Ping, who glanced at Zhang Cang with a ruthless gaze, they didn't dare to say a word again.

Because of Liu Hong's words, it belongs to the absolute political correctness of the early Western Han Dynasty: water can carry a boat, or it can overturn a boat.

As a low-level Liu Bang's regime, one of the most basic principles of political ideology in the early Han Dynasty was to 'avoid the second Pei Gong from being reckless'.

The most infallible point of the Liu Emperor in history is that the Western Han Dynasty never thought of using Qin's high-pressure policy as a means of 'suppressing reckless heroes'.

In public opinion at this time, the most recognized concept for the demise of Qin is that 'Qin treats the people with violence, and the people will do the opposite'.

Therefore, the Han family can be said to protect the people at the bottom, especially the yeoman peasant class who pay taxes and serve the state.

Historically, since Liu Bang conferred the title of Mintian Jue, the successive emperors of Liu and Han have alternately presented a picture that dwarfs the rulers of later generations - the royal garden Shanglin Yuan has become the regulating valve for the Han family to contain bankrupt farmers; The emperor's small treasury has become the capital guarantee of the national strategic armament.

Even Emperor Wu Liu Che, who was extremely poor and extravagant in history, extorted expropriation, and did everything to make up for military expenses, also had the experience of riding a horse and trampling on the crops of the peasant uncle, so he was scolded and fled.

In such an era when the emperor is said to be at fault and belongs to the category of 'disloyalty' of the accusers, expelling the people at the bottom from the ranks of the 'people' is tantamount to political suicide.

All of this can be seen from the faces of the courtiers and officials who were reprimanded by Liu Hong in person, but did not dare to refute them at all.

"The Taiwei doesn't know, but he also asks the prime minister to solve his doubts: What is the basis for the establishment of the Han family?"

"Emperor Taizu Gao's decision to move the world's heroes to the real Lingyi, to the real Guanzhong, to consolidate the country's policy, what is the purpose?"

As he spoke, Liu Hong slammed the halberd in his hand to the ground, and said with a full sigh: "Emperor Taizu Gao awarded the people Tianjue, in order to settle the Li Shu, what is the reason?!! ”

Listening to Liu Hongzhen's deafening questioning, Chen Ping only broke out in a cold sweat, not caring about being resentful of Zhou Bo's stupidity, only lowered his head and remained silent.

I saw Liu Hong laughing angrily, but two lines of tears quietly flowed down his cheeks: "At the beginning of my dynasty, the prime minister said that I was young, and the administration should be mostly based on the views of the old ministers. ”

Without any awkwardness, Chen Ping pressed an unprecedented black history, Liu Hong rushed before Chen Ping reacted, and sobbed with emotion: "The price of grain in Guanzhong is boiling, I asked Cheng Ping how to solve it, and the prime minister said that if the law is not prohibited, there is no blame, although the wealthy businessmen are evil, but the law cannot be stopped, and the law cannot be cured!" ”

"When I summon the Flying Fox Lieutenant to punish the wealthy merchants and evil gentry, in order to level the price of grain, the prime minister will make the internal history levy and extort tyranny, and the people will not be able to be satisfied if they are counted as stones!"

Under Chen Ping's shocked gaze, Liu Hong sadly took out a piece of white silk from his arms: "Don't you hear Erlu, the people's fat and people's ointment..."

"And at least the taxes collected by the government will be taken in the name of Ma Zheng when they are not enough to enter the treasury."

"I don't ask the prime minister, this tens of millions of money is good for the Ma Zheng of my Han family, and I don't ask the prime minister's family to be rich."

Speaking of this, Liu Hong was already crying out of breath, and sat weakly on the imperial steps, and the white silk in his hand also slipped to the ground.

"The pillars of the country and the founding ministers mentioned by the prime minister don't even know that I have good intentions and use evil to calm the people."

"I only asked: This is the pillar of the prime minister's words, the humerus evil of the world?"

When the last question was asked, Liu Hong's tone was full of grief, and his already feminine face was even more pale.

After a few intermittent sobs, the temple returned to tranquility.

Before the courtiers could find out, there was an anxious call from under the imperial stairs.

"Your Majesty!"

When everyone in the hall stepped forward in a panic to check on Liu Hong, who had passed out, Chen Ping was at the front of the left side of the court, but he shook back and forth strangely.

"Poof!!"

A mouthful of blood spurted out, and Chen Ping's dry lips trembled for a moment, and then the blood stains on the wooden floor were immediately pasted.

Zhou Bo's face was blank, and he stood helplessly on the periphery of the crowd; Liu Jie was even more squeezed to the front by the crowd, and had to make an anxious appearance, watching the imperial historian Zhang Cang pinch Liu Hongren.

For the prime minister's vomiting blood and fainting, none of the people in the palace noticed...

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