The eunuchs were the victors in this battle. According to their ideas, they should share in the fruits of victory, so they have been excluding dissidents all this time.

And Liu Hong is now throwing all the big and small affairs to Liu Qian. He doesn't care about any political affairs himself, he only knows how to eat, drink and be merry all day long.

Now everyone doesn't understand why Liu Hong did this. They all know that Liu Hong must not be regarded as an ordinary child, and his thinking is that they are not comparable to adults.

But people can't figure out why Liu Hong, after he has already grasped power, is less concerned about government affairs than when he was not in power. So much so that those eunuchs completely grasped the power.

This is completely Liu Hong's intention, if he wants to take it, he must give it first. He just wants to make the eunuchs angry and resentful, so that the eunuch profession can be permanently abolished.

If the eunuchs were not allowed to make a little trouble, these ministers would definitely not allow Liu Hong to cancel the eunuchs. What they mean is not to let the eunuchs interfere with political affairs, and let them concentrate on serving the emperor in the palace. Cancel the eunuch forever, except for Liu Hong, no one really dares to think so.

During this period of time, Liu Hong experienced the feeling of sleeping until he woke up naturally, which was quite comfortable. But Liu Qian, seeing him too comfortable, all went to the palace to let him get his opinion, and Liu Hong was very helpless about this.

Liu Qian is very content now, he has long known that Liu Hong will not forget him, after all, he is a great contributor to Liu Hong's ascension. But he didn't expect that the return would be so fast and so big, and Liu Hong directly made him the de facto prime minister.

However, Liu Qian is very smart and cautious. Especially when he saw the fate of Chen Fan, the last Lu Shang scholar, he was even more cautious. If it is a big or small matter, as long as he is not sure, he will definitely go to the palace to find Liu Hong to get an idea.

He knew that Liu Hong attached great importance to the affairs of the homeless people, and he had been dealing with this matter since he was the Great Si Nong, but he really had nothing to do. No, he ran to the palace again to see what good ideas Liu Hong had.

"Uncle Huang, I have left all the political affairs to you, you can do it boldly, you don't need to come to me all the time. If you really can't make up your mind, there are so many people in the Three Princes and Nine Princes, you can go to them to discuss. Seeing that Liu Qian came to annoy him again, Liu Hong complained directly.

"Your Majesty, it's not that you don't know that this matter of the homeless people has been going on for so long, and if the Three Princes and Nine Princes could solve it, they would have solved it a long time ago. It's not that there is no way, Weichen came to you to get an idea. ”

Looking at the scoundrel Liu Qian, Liu Hong had no way at all.

"Forget it, if there is a problem, solve it. Anyway, I have a way to solve the problem of the displaced people. Thinking of this, Liu Hong said: "Uncle Huang, the matter of the displaced people is actually not difficult to solve. Those old, weak, sick and disabled, let's raise them all. For the rest of the able-bodied, we can work for relief and let them work to support themselves. Anyway, there is a lot of work that can be done now, building bridges and paving roads, water conservancy projects, including digging canals or something, and as many people can use it. ”

"I knew that Your Majesty should have a way, but I didn't expect it to really make me guess." There was hope that the matter would be resolved, and Liu Qian seemed very excited.

However, Liu Hong knows that this method only treats the symptoms and not the root cause. If you want to solve such a thing fundamentally, you have to make a law, and if something like this happens in the future, you can just follow the law.

"Such a law, if I don't make it. The kings of the future generations, unless they catch up with a cross-passing, should not be formulated. Forget it, I'm going to do the good thing to the end, and I'll make this law together. Thinking of this, Liu Hong said: "Uncle Huang, if you want to fundamentally solve a similar situation, you must have a law to follow. ”

"The Making of the Law is indeed a good way to deal with similar things. If there is something similar in the future, just do it in accordance with the law, and there is no need to bother at all. Liu Qian agreed with Liu Hong's statement and said, "Your Majesty, you tell me what you think, and Weichen will help you with your staff." ”

"Since it is to help the victims, I call this law the Emergency Relief Law. Basically, it means that the methods I have just described are determined in the form of laws. The unemployed and impoverished can go to the emergency point to receive free relief materials such as food and clothing by virtue of their identity identification. After three months, people between the ages of 18 and 50 who are in good health are not eligible for free relief. Rather, it requires them to work in order to get the goods. As for what kind of work, it must be determined according to the situation at that time. ”

"Your Majesty, if there is such a thing as the law, it is difficult to see the loopholes in it without concrete implementation. Anyway, we are about to give relief to the victims, so let's test what loopholes there are in this law. ”

Liu Hong thought for a while and felt that it made sense, so he nodded in agreement. Then I felt that since I had to let the displaced people work. Take advantage of this opportunity to simply dig out the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in later generations. With such a canal, it will be able to connect the north and the south and accelerate the development of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Hong just described this project to Liu Qian, and Liu Qian directly played tricks.

"Your Majesty, even if you kill Weichen, with the little money in our treasury, you can't do such a big project, even if it's a cash for work."

The treasury has no money, and Liu Hong can't do anything, so he can't let him send his money to the treasury.

However, the canal matter is also a major event, not only related to disaster relief, but also related to the future development of the Han Dynasty. So after Liu Hong thought about it, he put his idea on the salt tax.

Who in the world doesn't eat salt, if this thing is done well, it will definitely be an astronomical amount. Moreover, the current salt tax is still mortgaged in his hands, and the resistance to reform it is relatively small.

In the Han Dynasty, almost all salt wells were used, and the cost of this thing was too high. Liu Hong pondered that he had to change the boiling salt to the dried salt first.

The technique of drying salt is not difficult, and Liu Hong has several salt farms on the seaside. The salt he eats is all dried in his salt farm, and the quality is much better than well salt.

The salt industry was taken over by the imperial court during the time of Emperor Wu, and the purchase and sale required the approval of the imperial court, which caused the current situation of private salt everywhere. Especially now that the imperial court is weak, almost all major families have their own salt wells, and they don't take the imperial decrees seriously at all. Don't talk about others, even Liu Hong, before he became the emperor, it was the same.

In the past, if you wanted to run the salt industry, you had to get the approval of the imperial court, and in Liu Hong's view, this policy was very undesirable. Anyway, in the future, the imperial court will mainly dry salt, Liu Hong thinks that as long as the imperial court controls the salt farm, and then the price is unified, as for who wants to buy salt and who wants to sell salt, he doesn't have to worry about him at all.

The salt drying field, except for Liu Hong's ones, is newly opened and has nothing to do with others. Liu Hong's few can be regarded as imperial villages, and the other salt drying fields are all owned by the imperial court.

The salt wells before the imperial court, with the increase in the number of salt drying fields, slowly shut down. People who used to boil salt could let them go to the salt drying field to process refined salt. Anyway, the process is almost the same, and I am not afraid that they will not be able to learn, so that they are not in danger of losing their jobs.

As for the salt wells stolen by various families, Liu Hong did not go out of his way to ban him. Anyway, the imperial court is drying salt, the cost is very low, and the salt well will definitely not be able to compete, and the business that loses money will not be long before they close it themselves. In the future, as long as it is strictly controlled, the family will not be allowed to secretly build a salt drying plant, and the private salt industry will basically be extinct.

The reform of the salt industry is, in Liu Hong's view, a win-win situation. Not only can it bring a lot of money to the imperial court, but it can also greatly reduce the price of salt and bring benefits to the people. Moreover, the people who used to cook salt, Liu Hong asked them to make refined salt, not only did they not have to lose their jobs, but the family could also use good salt.

"Your Majesty, although your idea is good, the reform of the salt industry is imperative. But far water can't quench the thirst of the near, and the court must have a large amount of money now. ”

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