This may be a little strange: after all the emperors, will they still lack money?

Liu Hong also thought so in his last life!

It was only now, when the butt was really placed on the dragon chair, that Liu Hong found out that the emperor would also be short of money.

And it's a lot, a lot of money!

Especially when Shaofu is out of control, Liu Hong may not be as rich as a farmer - at least people have savings!

On the other hand, Liu Hong couldn't take out a copper coin from all over his body.

Don't think that the people before the West Yuan are stupider than the people of the later generations; If there is no benefit, even if you are the emperor, people will not hang you.

There is no need to say anything else, but if Liu Hong has a little money in his hand, he can directly exempt himself from the tax for one year?

Millions of heavily armed peasants said: Zhou Bo Chen Ping, go back to the fiefdom and pinch the mud!

No matter how bad it is, take out tens of millions of dollars and send it to the Northern Army, Liu Hong also has the confidence to sit firmly in the Diaoyutai - it's a big deal to flip the table~ Anyway, his surname is Liu.

Liu Hong's current predicament, if half of it is because he is young and has no power, the other half is because he has no money in his hands.

The reason is very simple: if Liu Hong is in charge of wealth and power, and all the appropriations of the court must go through Liu Hong's nod, then Liu Hong still needs to go to great lengths to buy and win over?

Not at all!

In order to ensure the normal operation of the unit, all the heads of the yamen will become Liu Hong's loyal horses!

Furthermore: If the military salary, grain and grass, weapons and equipment replacement, maintenance and other expenses are also needed, Liu Hong also needs to nod?

Those generals who don't want to be torn apart by their officers and soldiers will also lick their faces to find Liu Hong, and open their mouths to 'live forever'.

In the final analysis, Liu Hong's biggest dilemma now is that he has no money.

The old eunuch Wang Zhong said that he could be regarded as a 'house slave' no matter what; Qin Mu and Ji Xianke were the courtiers of the Eight Classics!

has been following Liu Hong for almost half a month, but Liu Hong has not even given them a penny.

It is true that as an established official, the Prime Minister's Office will issue them a salary according to their official rank.

But with that amount of money, I'm afraid that the two of them will not be enough to support their parents, let alone save their savings and make a fortune.

- Qin Mu, as a waiter, is worth 600 stones, and the servant of the confessor shoots and draws 1,000 stones.

What do you mean?

In one year, they only had 600 stone and 1,000 stone corn respectively.

Now the price of rice in Chang'an is nearly 100 yuan, that is to say, Qin Mu's annual salary is 60,000 yuan, and he is 100,000 yuan.

What can you do with 100,000 yuan before the Common Era?

According to Emperor Wen's view in history, if you have 100,000 yuan, you belong to the 'middle-class family', which is considered to be well-off.

But don't forget, this is Chang'an!

Although it is not to the point of the Tang Dynasty, it can also be called a sentence 'living in Chang'an, it is not easy'!

There is no need to say anything else: a stone of corn is worth a hundred dollars in Chang'an, but what about Kanto?

The maximum is not more than seventy dollars!

Chang'an casually has a two-entry house, and it will cost hundreds of thousands to move the track, what about Kanto?

Hold on to 100,000 dollars!

Assuming that the Qin Mu family has five people to raise, then the rice alone will eat a hundred stones a year.

As a person next to the emperor, Qin Mu can be regarded as a decent person, and the family can't just eat corn, right?

No matter what, you have to see meat at two ends in three days.

As a person close to the emperor, Qin Mu also has to socialize daily and drink a small bar?

Counting the two sets of new clothes for his family every year, Qin Mu's annual income is enough for a family to drink at most, and at most one to wear, there is no way to save money to buy a house!

In the eyes of later generations, this may be inconceivable: an official equivalent to the secretary of the national leader can only earn enough to survive?

This matter has to start with Liu Hong's cheap grandfather, Liu Bangshi, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty.

At that time, the world was decided, all kinds of ruins were waiting to be rebuilt, and under the war and famine, the price of grain soared, and the price of rice reached as high as 8,000 yuan a stone!

The people are not happy, they cannibalize each other, and they are starving all over the wilderness...

At that time, everyone in the world was poor, including Liu Bang!

Liu Bang's imperial chariot can't even get together eight horses of the same color; Cao Shengui is a Han minister, and he doesn't even have a horse, so he can only take an ox cart to the court...

And the official's fortune was set by Liu Bang in that era when corn was one stone and eight thousand dollars.

At that time, 2,000 stone was indeed considered a high-ranking official: leave what you want to eat at home, and sell the rest, and tens of millions of dollars will be in hand.

However, after Liu Bang's death, Empress Lu gradually recovered the world's economy through various financial, policy and other means, put the market order on the right track, and prices gradually fell back to a relatively reasonable range.

The price of food has dropped, and the people are relaxed, but the officials are going to complain...

Because the officials in the feudal era did not give money - 2,000 stones, that is, they will send you 2,000 stones of corn!

As a result, although the grain that officials get at the end of the year has not changed, its value has long been the same as when the country was founded.

But who can I tell about this?

Who dares to change the rules set by Liu Bang?

There is no way, as a high-ranking national official, he can only be able to maintain his daily life, and he can only be greedy.

In history, by the time of Emperor Wen, the wind of bribery had developed to the point where even the emperor had to bow his head and could only turn a blind eye (1)!

Liu Hong knows very well that corrupt officials and corrupt officials cannot be killed and killed; If not, Zhu Yuanzhang would not have been scolded by the scholar as 'Zhu Papi'.

Therefore, Liu Hong has already planned to comprehensively improve the treatment of officials after taking power.

It is true that greed cannot be stopped, but Liu Hong is still willing to believe that at this time, the vast majority of officials are forced by life to reach out.

After all, the Western Han Dynasty is known for its bloody nature, and it is the era of 'strong death'.

At the moment, Liu Hong naturally can't control the whole world, but even in order to ensure the passion of his subordinates, Liu Hong has to care about his subordinates every once in a while and give some rewards to improve their lives.

In short: undress, push and eat.

is also an old man who has lived to be thirty years old, Liu Hong naturally will not be naïve to think that 'ideals' and 'pursuits' can fool followers.

At the end of the day, it's still about giving money.

Thinking so, he raised his head and swept towards everyone in the hall, Liu Hong's heart was full of determination.

"If you are all right, stand aside; I have other things to do. ”

The tone was cold, his face was full of righteousness, and he showed no mercy at all.

When all the people in the hall saw this, they either bowed their heads and trembled, or they stood up through gritted teeth, bowed their hands, and withdrew together.

"A bunch of idiots!"

Liu Hong ordered them like that in the early dynasty, these guys still want to protect food?

I just don't know how to write dead words!

As for whether this will push this group of wastes to Chen Ping, Liu Hong is not worried at all - the second generation of nobles who have no political sensitivity at all, Liu Hong can't wait to stuff them all to Chen Ping and give Chen Ping a back!

The mood was suddenly ruined by these people, and Liu Hong couldn't help but be annoyed in his heart.

"How is Wang Zhong?"

As the emperor, Liu Hong naturally was inconvenient to visit a eunuch in person, so he asked Qin Mu to go over to take a look last night, but Qin Mu only returned to Liu Hong this morning, followed by the court.

I saw Qin Mu's brows furrowed slightly, and he said in a deep voice: "The imperial doctor is unwilling to treat the prince, and the last general will use some gold sore medicine to stop the bleeding." ”

"However, the prince is hot, and his subordinates are worried..."

Hearing this, Liu Hong's heart was even more irritable, and he couldn't care about his identity: "Where is Wang Zhong now?" ”

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PS: 1. When Emperor Wen, the general Zhang Wu took bribes and was known by Emperor Wen, but instead of blaming, Emperor Wen rewarded Zhang Wu with 1,000 gold, saying that it was 'raising integrity' and 'being ashamed';