"You, come here," Liu Che called the horse breeder in front of him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The horse boy turned his head, hesitated for a moment, and then walked up to Liu Che. Then Liu Che asked, and the other party answered. The person who answered was dignified and meticulous; The person who asked the question was very strange, and found that the horse boy in front of him was indeed a genius. In the end, Liu Che said, "You go back to bathe and change your clothes, I want to worship you as a horse supervisor" From then on, this horse breeder came to work at this time, and was pulled to another magical sky by the wind of fate...

This horse breeder, of course, is preparing to give birth to a litter of children, so that the children and grandchildren are ready to raise horses for a living.

After that, Jin Riyan was worshiped as a waiter, a captain of the horse, and a doctor of Guanglu, and his daily work was to accompany the emperor to go out in the car and return to the palace to serve. The work can be described in one word: the future is limitless!

Jin Riyan is developed, and some people will be depressed immediately: Chang'an nobles are also. They can't believe it: a high-level captive like Jin Riyan, who has been reduced to a low-level horse breeder, is so unreasonably rising under their noses...

These noble relatives complained at first, but they didn't expect that more and more people would complain, and finally condensed into an angry cry "Your Majesty is vain, but it is precious"

These Chang'an nobles still scolded too tactfully. Maybe they should be a little more splashy, run to the streets of Chang'an, pull a brick to pad their buttocks, and scold the emperor and Jin Riyan "It's so unreasonable, those who raise horses can be with the emperor, get promoted and make a fortune, and beauties revolve around." We are full of food and bragging, why is it so difficult to meet the emperor once? Was the emperor's head kicked by a donkey, or trampled by a horse?" the grumbling of the nobles of Chang'an made a sour smell waft over the entire capital. Soon, however, they all regretted it.

Because they suddenly found that they had made such a big complaint, but they were all advertising for others. The horse boy who was cursed by them a thousand times actually jumped higher and higher in their scolding, and his ass was almost up to the sky. What a reason!

In May of the 3rd year of Yuanjia (BC120), Liu Che granted amnesty to the world. At the same time, he opened up to Liu Jiwang, the king of Jiaodong who died of illness last year and did not dare to put it behind, and made his eldest son Liu Xian succeed him as the king of Jiaodong. He also named his young son Liu Qing as the king of Lu'an.

The battle of Hexi was beyond the imagination of the Xiongnu Yizhi. Because he listened to Zhao Xin's words, he moved to Mobei. Therefore, in the battle of Hexi, he had more than enough strength but could not do it, so he could only watch the evil king defect to the Han Dynasty. Of course, Yi Zhi is not eating for nothing. In the autumn, he suddenly launched a retaliatory action, divided his troops into two routes to attack Youbeiping and Dingxiang, with tens of thousands of cavalry each, killing and plundering more than 1,000 people.

When the news came, Liu Che did not react. He didn't move because he had several things to do. At the same time, he felt that if he wanted to play, he would play ruthlessly, and the time for the final battle between Han and Hungary had arrived! And if you want to fight a big battle, Liu Che must recuperate and brew strength. To put it bluntly, the emperor has no money again and is trying to find a way to raise military expenses.

Previously, Liu Che raised a sum of money by selling the knight. Now Jue is almost sold, and there is nothing to sell. So I had to think of something else.

But there are still many places to use money! In autumn, Shandong is flooded. Although Liu Che urgently sent envoys to various counties and states to urge local officials to open warehouses to help the poor people, it was like a drop in the bucket and it was of no avail. Liu Che again ordered to give false loans to the local poor and rich people to help them, but they still couldn't save them. As a last resort, Liu Che resorted to the last resort: to move all the more than 700,000 poor people to Kansai for food. The cost of the road is provided by the county officials in various places, which costs hundreds of millions of dollars, which is innumerable.

Another place to burn money is that Liu Che's eyes are not only staring at the Xiongnu at this time, because he is superstitious about the grand blueprint of the Western Regions that Zhang Qian described to him, Liu Che's eyes are always staring at the direction of Southwest Yi. He heard that there was a Dianchi Lake in the Dian Kingdom with a radius of 300 miles, and there, the Southwest Yi trained a strong naval army. If he wanted to conquer the Xiongnu, Liu Che had to rely on cavalry; If he wants to conquer Southwest Yi, Liu Che has to rely on the navy. So Liu Che ordered the conscription of labor throughout the country, and excavated a large lake of the same scale as Dianchi Lake 15 kilometers southwest of Chang'an City, and named it Kunming Pond!

But if you continue to burn money like this, Liu Che, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, will have to save enough money for the final decisive battle with the Xiongnu in the year of the monkey? Since the land of Hexi has entered the Han Dynasty, the adjacent Longxi, Beidi, and Shang 3 counties are no longer directly bordered by the Xiongnu. But in order to save enough money, Liu Che also needs the help of a well-known financial expert in the history of the Han Dynasty!

This year, Liu Che got a 'magic horse' from Wuwa water. But how did the emperor know: this was completely a scam carefully designed by a well-intentioned person called Profiteering. The profiteering chief first made a clay figure identical to himself and placed it by the river, making an action to drive wild horses to drink.

At first, when the wild horse saw the mud man, he naturally did not dare to approach, and then saw that the mud man did not move, and a few brave wild horses came forward to drink, and slowly left after drinking the water, and the mud man did not move in the whole process. After going back and forth like this a few times, the wild horses got used to it. Seeing that the plan had succeeded, the profiteering chief moved the clay figurine, pretended to be a clay figurine himself, and stood by the river. The wild horses were accustomed to seeing this, so they were unprepared and went to the river to drink. As soon as it was too late, the profiteering chief leaped up and pounced on the extraordinary wild horse that he had already taken a fancy to. After a fight, the wild horse was finally tamed by the profiteering chief.

After taming the wild horse, the profiteering chief went to coax the magistrate that it was a divine horse, and came out of the water. The magistrate went to inspect it, and saw that this horse fruit was a good horse, so he believed in the profiteering long's 'Shenma theory' and reported it to the central court, Liu Che was also overjoyed and ordered the horse to be sent to Chang'an.

In this year, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che established Yuefu and appointed the eunuch Li Yannian as the commander of the Xielu Commander, wearing an official seal of 2,000 stones. Shenma has it, Liu Che ordered Sima Xiangru to compose the fu, Li Yannian to arrange the music, and eulogize the matter. Ji Di sighed, "The kings make music, all inherit the ancestors and descend to the people." Now Your Majesty is a horse and a song, and he is in the Zongmiao, whether it is the first emperor or the people of the world, what will they think of Your Majesty" Liu Che was silently displeased.

In the winter of the 4th year of Yuanjia (BC120), Liu Che accepted the advice of Youji and ordered to make leather coins from white deer skin, worth 400,000 yuan. The three products of platinum were made of silver and tin, which were worth 3,000, 500, and 300 respectively. Then he ordered the destruction of half a tael of coins nationwide and the recasting of three baht coins. Whoever steals a forger is sentenced to death. However, the people and the thieves are still innumerable.

This is just the second step of Liu Che's thirst quenching after selling the knighthood. In order to collect more money, Liu Che also needs someone to help. At this time, the Han government's chief Si Nong Zheng, who was in charge of finance, had to appear at that time, and he thought of a way to find money for Liu Che. This method is to keep an eye on those rich people in the country.

Zheng found out at that time: There were two types of people in the Han Dynasty who were relatively wealthy. One is the mine owner, and the other is the salt merchant. For a long time, because the government did not manage the mines and salt pans, the mine owners and salt bosses worked hard and made a fortune. So these people all became the rich men of the Han Dynasty. What made Zheng unhappy at that time was not the boss who made a fortune. It's that they got rich, but they saw that the country burned a lot of money to fight the Huns, but they didn't donate even a single child. Seriously, that's not true!

Zheng offered Liu Che a strategy at that time, "If the bosses don't donate money, it is better to nationalize the private enterprises such as mines and boiling salt" Zheng was very vicious at that time, and he was backed by the state's ruling organs to rob money!

Zheng recommended two wealthy bosses to the emperor at that time: one was named Dongguo Xianyang and the other was Kong Wei. The former became rich by boiling salt, and the latter was the king of smelting. Immediately, Liu Che appointed these two people as Da Nongcheng to specifically manage the affairs of the salt and iron official camp.

In fact, it was not these two people, let alone Zheng Shi, who implemented the monopoly of salt and iron, collected commercial taxes, and kept the Han Dynasty's finances in order. It's another financial expert who is famous in the history of the Han Dynasty: Sang Hongyang!

Perhaps it is the tradition of emphasizing agriculture over commerce in China's feudal society since ancient times, and Sang Hongyang, a well-known financial expert, whether Sima Qian or Ban Gu, is reluctant to set up a small biography for him. To understand Sang Hongyang, we can only piece it together from the biographies of other people in the "Historical Records" and "Hanshu". His life resume is roughly as follows:

Sang Hongyang, the son of a merchant in Luoyang. At a young age, he was influenced by the family business culture and was good at calculations. At the age of 13, he entered the palace as a waiter, which is a kind of retinue officer. In general, it is only the wealthy or talented people who have the opportunity to get this job. If he guessed correctly, it should have been a good errand that his father had bought with money. At the age of 34, Sang Hongyang was appointed by Liu Che as the assistant of Dong Guo Xianyang and Kong Zhi, two big farmers, to assist in the work.

Therefore, with the support of the emperor and the joint efforts of his colleagues, Sang Hongyang initially did two major things: 1. to collect commercial taxes and 2. to implement the monopoly of salt and iron.

There are two main types of business taxes: reckoning and suing. The so-called reckoning means that all industrialists and businessmen must truthfully report their property to the government. 2. Extract a tax (1 = 1000 money, 1 calculation = 120 money, that is, 6% commercial tax); The tax on small businessmen is halved. Whoever rides in a carriage (except for officials and soldiers) is counted as 1 tax for one ride, 2 for carriages transporting goods, and 1 for ships of more than five zhang; The so-called accusation means that those who do not truthfully report their property are encouraged to denounce it, and after investigation, all the property of the defendant and the defendant is confiscated, and the defendant is assigned to the frontier for one year. The whistleblower is rewarded with half of the confiscated property.

However, when the government decreed that a commercial tax was imposed, it was met with stubborn resistance from the industrialists and merchants. They use a variety of methods to transfer and conceal property and do not report or underreport their property. In fact, the tricks of industrialists and businessmen have long been seen by one person in advance: Zhang Tang, the imperial historian.

Sang Hongyang is a financial expert, but Zhang Tang is a legal expert. Therefore, if Sang Hongyang wants to collect more money, he must rely on Zhang Tang. Because Zhang Tang knows better than him how to use the law to block the back door of tax evasion by industrialists and businessmen.

Sure enough, the taxation and related policies to prevent tax evasion and tax evasion, as well as the implementation of the salt and iron monopoly (the people dared to privately cast iron and boil salt, all titanium left toes, and did not enter their utensils), Zhang Tang participated in it. And the industrial and commercial owners in the people heard that Zhang Tang had cut off his financial route, and they all itched his hateful teeth.

Of course, not all bosses are unkind to the rich. One man gave away all his possessions. It is this person who has set an example for the world: Bu Shi!

In his early years, Bu Shi made a living from farming and animal husbandry, and he had a younger brother. When they grew up, the two separated. Bu Shi divided all the fields in the family to the younger brother, and drove a hundred sheep to the mountains to graze. More than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye. The flock breeds in a geometric shape, and before you know it, there are more than 1,000 of them.

Bu Shi became a livestock tycoon of the Han Dynasty. However, at this time, his younger brother had been reduced to a broken household due to poor management. So Bu generously gave a batch of sheep to the younger brother. As for the rest of the sheep, Bu Shi decided to sell half of them and donate them to the state.

At that time, no one donated money for no reason. It was not easy to make money in those years, and if you didn't try to do something, it really couldn't be said. When the idea of Bu Shi wanting to donate money spread, Liu Che sent someone to ask him, "Do you want to be an official when you donate so much money?" People are really noble, not pretending. He replied like this: "I have been herding sheep for a living since I was a child, and I don't know a few words, so what kind of official should I be?" No," the messenger was puzzled. Continue to ask, "Do you have grievances in your family, and want to ask Your Majesty to make the decision for you?" Bu Shi smiled and replied, "I am very popular, and I have no grudges with others, so how can I have grievances", then the envoy was even more puzzled, and then asked, "Then you donate money, what are you trying to do?" Bu Shi replied very honestly, "The country fought against the Xiongnu and burned a lot of money." I just want to donate some money and do my part. That's it."

The envoy had no choice but to go back and report to Liu Che truthfully. At that time, Prime Minister Sun Hong was still alive. Gongsun Hong spends the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. He believes that donating money is by no means human, and there must be a plan. Your Majesty still don't agree, otherwise you will fall into the trap of the small people... Hearing what Gongsun Hong said, Liu Che rejected the divination style.

But Bu Shi still did not give up his dream of donating money. After the Hun Evil King surrendered to the Han Dynasty, Liu Che apportioned the funds to the local government. At this time, Bu Shi donated 200,000 yuan to Henan Taishou to solve the urgent need. This news came to Chang'an again.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che was really short of money this time, he didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, and immediately cordially praised Bu Shi for his enthusiasm for national public welfare. Call on the rich people in the world to learn from the divination style, don't pick the door, and donate more money.

More than two years later, when Liu Che named his son Liu Hong as the king of Qi, he promoted Bu Shi to the prince of Qi.