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On May 3 of the first year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, June 141 BC, Chang'an City of the Han Empire, Weiyang Palace. ｛{x}

Fifteen meters long, ten meters wide giant Guanzhong sand table, the center of the sand table is the huge Chang'an City, there are seventy-five county towns dotted around the left and right, as well as Changling, Anling, Nanling, Baling, Yangling, these five major tombs.

"Maoling! This is the mausoleum chosen for me? It can be scaled down a little more, and it can be modeled after my father's standards. Liu Che's face was expressionless, and he didn't care that a stone tower-like building on the sand table would be his burial place a hundred years later.

The three generations of ancient times have always worshiped gods and witches, and the Shang Dynasty culture is to light life and death and pay attention to the customs of ghosts and gods, pay attention to the custom of living even though they die, and what people enjoy before death must be brought into the ground to continue to enjoy, so there are a large number of funerary goods and martyred slaves and cattle and horses.

Cao Shi proposed that in the new era, we should pursue thin burials, try to concentrate financial resources on economic development, stimulate consumption, and gradually improve the military level to prepare for the Xiongnu.

Liu Che accepted.

He single-handedly concocted the unwarranted edict, and no one questioned the authenticity of the edict in the emperor's hands, not to mention that the content of the edict did not involve changes in national policy, nor did it include personnel arrangements and changes. There isn't even any superfluous hint of politics.

Perhaps this will be the cleanest edict ever written.

"Lowered to Yangling's standards? It will be difficult to change your mind in the future, and it will be discredited to waste money and money, so the minister wants to build a bigger one and repair it slowly, so that you don't have to change it to get into trouble later. ”

"Haha, my brother-in-law is also afraid of getting into trouble." Liu Che laughed and said, "Since I want to be a Gongbi Taizu." The good emperor of Debi Taizong, what are you afraid of repairing a small mausoleum? Later, when the empire became rich, let the children and grandchildren renovate and expand the mausoleum. Why should I bear the bad reputation of extravagance, didn't my brother-in-law say that good steel is used on the blade, and if you have money, you have to invest it in fine management is the right way. ”

The little emperor has recently run a racecourse and is addicted to playing, and he has to inquire about the operation of the racecourse every day, and almost single-handedly operates the daily horse racing and polo game arrangements, I have to say that he is a very smart person, limited to the age of the city, experience and insight slightly lacking. The rest of the tables are early beyond the peer stage.

If there was no monster-like Cao Shi, Liu Che would inevitably be the best boy in the Han Empire, and no one at the same age could match his intelligence. At the age of sixteen, the little emperor only needed half an hour of spare time to keep the 200,000-person racecourse in order, from the racecourse management system to the water level floating system of horse ticket guessing.

It often only takes a little mention to figure it out right away. The ability to react sharply and draw inferences is breathtaking. Cao Shi also secretly admired his talent, if he hadn't had decades of memories and insights in another world, he really couldn't compare to the brilliant mind of Liu Che, the son of heaven.

Cao Shi didn't want to talk to him about how to do business.

His level is less than half a bottle, and it is okay to rely on his vision to come up with a few unexpected good ideas, so that he can discuss business knowledge with Liu Che, who is becoming more and more professional, it is purely uncomfortable to find nothing.

"His Majesty is wise and decisive, and the minister will do it according to His Majesty's will."

In order to save money and narrow the standard of Maoling, Cao Shile's Liu Che levied tens of thousands of conscripts every year to build slowly, and there was no hurry. Anyway, Liu Che has a long life.

At the beginning of each month, the implementation of monetary reform for that month is reported as usual.

The minting efficiency of the five-baht coin has dropped significantly. From the very beginning, the Luoyang Mint tried to increase its production capacity everywhere to now about half of it is under construction, and the five baht money of the imperial court bank has exceeded 3 trillion yuan, and there will be a steady increase of about 5oo billion yuan every month, and it is expected that the increase rate will gradually narrow to less than 5o billion yuan at the top of the year, until the amount of money basically coincides with the annual copper mining volume.

Liu Che paced silently: "You will transfer all the tasks of copper smelting to the Luoyang Mint!" The copper half and two turned around together, and gave a few more sips of soup to other workshops to drink, so as not to create unnecessary contradictions with gossip. ”

"Thank you for the reminder, the minister almost ignored it." Cao Shi was slightly surprised, and secretly looked at the observation of Liu Che, the Son of Heaven.

The amount of gold and silver currency is limited, and the circulation is also very small, 50,000 silver coins are minted every month, and gold coins are only 3ooo to 5ooo, fortunately, the market remains stable, and there is no excessive bullish or bearish on a small amount of currency.

There are also many advantages to minting less, and the gold and silver coins minted are more delicate and beautiful.

Leave Weiyang Palace and go to the Wei Qihou Mansion located in Beique Jiadi.

Dou Ying strode out and smiled: "I said how can there be birds on the eaves today, it turns out that Pingyang Hou is coming, please!" ”

"Wei Qihou is polite, I took the liberty to visit the farmer's house, I should apologize a lot."

An old man and a young man exchanged a few polite words before entering the house and taking their respective seats.

He didn't know these three people, but at least he knew that there were three Confucian students opposite, and only the young Confucian was a little familiar, and his eyebrows and eyes were a little similar to Kong Anguo.

"The old Qi people are Gu Sheng, and they were doctors in the imperial court for a few years earlier."

"Dong Zhongshu in Xiaguangchuan also worked as a doctor in the imperial court for several years."

"In Xialu, Kong Wu has not yet been able to raise filial piety."

Cao Shi was speechless.

The old, middle and young trio is a bull and a bull, but Kong Wu is the least famous, and he is also the leader of the young Confucian students.

"Pingyang Hou, we want to exchange academic views with you, please don't hesitate to give advice."

The three of them were well prepared and full of confidence, and they opened their posture early to show off their combination punches, which seemed to be to bring back the reputation of Confucianism that had been hit twice before.

Dou Ying smiled slightly, he was very confident in the academic level of the three people, Yuan Gusheng's argumentation talent did not hinder his experience, Dong Zhongshu had a unique vision, even the youngest Kong Wu had a foundation and should not be underestimated.

The three of them joined forces to attack, even if the pipe was resurrected. Yan Zi is reincarnated and careless, and he has to plant a big heel.

Unexpectedly, Cao Shi suddenly smiled and said: "The three of you don't have to be like this, I didn't come today to listen to a few people's opinions, but to ask if you have thought it through?" ”

"What do you want to make clear?"

The three of them were stunned. Before I realized it, the initiative of the words was quietly handed over.

"I admire you very much, and I admire Confucius very much, but the world of the country we live in, the supreme Son of Heaven above our heads, I don't like your stubbornness and paranoia, the etiquette of the Shang Dynasty cannot be used in the Zhou Dynasty, and the system of King Zhou when he founded the country cannot be used in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. At that time, Confucius studied under Lao Tzu, and learned the essence of "Zhou Li" before there was a "Book of Rites", from which the etiquette in Confucius's flaunted benevolence and etiquette came from. Do you know Lao Tzu's evaluation back then? ”

The three men were silent with their mouths closed.

"What era was the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period? What era is the Han family? Even the statecraft of "Guanzi" can't be quoted in its entirety, can you govern the country with the rolling melons studied by the Six Classics? ”

"Yes! The old decay is very sure that it will be possible! Just ......"

Cao Shi laughed out loud.

Yuan Gu Pig Tie said with a blue face: "Pingyang Hou is so rude, why is he laughing in court?" ”

"You just said that you can govern the country by studying the Six Classics hard, so how can you govern the country? Today, there are 1.19 billion mu (827 million mu) of cultivated land. Among them, there are more than 400 million acres of thin fields. There are more than 400 million acres in Zhongtian, only 300 million acres in Shangtian, and there are more than 36oo million mouths. If there are 650,000 people after 5o years of reproduction, how should the land be allocated for reasonable cultivation? ”

"You ......"

"If the Xiongnu invade the Great War is about to start, the imperial court will use 3o thousand troops to guard the frontier, and 10,000 people will need to build the Great Wall to send grain and grass, how should you govern the country?"

Yuan Gusheng was furious: "Pingyang Hou is so arrogant and domineering. It's too much of a deception! ”

"Then what do you think governing is?"

"The old man is not talented, but he still knows Ming Renli. As long as the Son of Heaven abides by benevolence and courtesy, and treats the people kindly more than the danger of fire and water, even if the treasury is empty of a grain of grain, the people will never resent the court, the Son of Heaven is kind and courteous, the people dare not be disrespectful, the etiquette is not bad, the system does not collapse, the people will not be hungry and thirsty even if they are poor, and the Hun invasion is even more ridiculous, and now my Han family and the Huns have been reconciled and married for generations, and the Huns have only tasted the Son of Heaven to live in person, how can they enter the Kou in a big way? As long as the Son of Heaven repairs a letter and sends it to Longcheng, wouldn't it be wonderful that the two sides will never stop repairing the sword soldiers from generation to generation. ”

Cao Shi sneered: "What kind of opinion do I have, it turns out that it is a policy of reconciliation with the Huns for generations, and it is pedantic!" ”

"What?"

"It's a good courtesy! However, benevolence can not control the hunger in the stomach of the people, people are born with the instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm, Xunzi once said, good profit and evil, people are born and have! Guan Zi once said, Cang Liao is solid and knows etiquette, food and clothing are sufficient and knows honor and disgrace, in a hundred years, the good season of the wind and rain accounts for one-third, the ordinary season of the year occupies one-third, the frequent occurrence of floods, droughts and locust plagues occupy one-third, and the people have struggled for 30 years for at least ten years to encounter disasters, do you say that the people are hungry in their stomachs? King Zhou Mu, who has not collapsed, why did the country decline greatly? Is it because he is unkind? ”

Cao Shi was aggressive, forcing Yuan Gusheng into a dilemma.

He should say that King Mu of Zhou is not benevolent, but King Mu of Zhou is conquering the world in the east and west, "The Biography of Mu Tianzi" is just after Confucius Xie Shi, the early Warring States period was a famous legend, to say that he is not benevolent needs to take a big risk, even Confucius in the "Book of Shang" did not dare to point out that King Mu of Zhou did not admit it, not to mention Yuan Gusheng, a Confucian student of the Han family.

"You only know one and don't know the other, only know that the Son of Heaven and the Hun barbarian chieftain are married, how do you know that several generations of the Son of Heaven are deeply ashamed, thinking about the Northern Expedition to the Huns before the snow shame, since the end of the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu, the first emperor deeply felt that the Huns watched the artifact and slept and ate uncomfortably, set up five horse farms to raise good horses and horses to supply the military, if the Han army has no strong army for a day, it will be oppressed by the Hun soldiers for a day, and he will emerge again a Mao Dun Shan Yu is the master of such eloquence, the soldiers pointed to the south and broke through the pass in an instant, drinking the horse and the Yellow River looking down on the Central Plains, do you bear the responsibility?"

"You...... How can you be justified? ”

Yuan Gu was very angry, he had never seen such an unreasonable person, constantly digging pits for him to induce him to jump, or digging pits in front of him to let him jump, he was not a fool, he used to only dig pits for others, but today he encountered a difficult enemy.

In terms of momentum, Cao Shi has already taken the advantage, but the actual situation is that Yuan Gusheng does not admit defeat.

The two of them knew very well that each other was a strong-willed person, and ordinary words could not move their will at all, even if Yuan Gu gave someone a handle, as long as he came back to his senses, he could still fight endlessly.

Yuan Gusheng is not Ram Shou, Hu Wusheng, Dong Zhongshu, the people of the Ram School can only compile books, and the actual combat effectiveness of the tongue debate is very weak.

Not to mention the inexperienced Kong Anguo, the pedantic and incompetent Wang Zang and Zhao Juan's generation, they will never be scolded by a Confucian thief, and the fierce dispute makes him more and more frustrated.

He is a senior master in the quarrel world, and he has participated in no less than 500 tongue debates in his life, and once argued with Huang Sheng about the topic of the "Tangwu Revolution" in the court debate, forcing Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty to forcibly stop on the grounds of eating horse meat and horse liver, claiming that an iron tooth and copper tooth is not afraid of anyone, and as a result, he was really planted in this broken gong's mouth.

Because he spoke indiscriminately, he offended the Empress Dowager Dou Yifang, and was thrown into a cage and almost fed wild boars.

"Yuan Gusheng, I have seen your ability, the methods of the Zongheng family are good!"

"Pingyang Hou, I also see your ability, what is the Zongheng family, I use authentic Confucianism!"

"Okay, okay, don't quarrel because of different ideas." Dou Ying came out to play a round and finally stopped the endless quarrel.

If it weren't for Dou Ying's pulling, Cao Shi would almost have brushed his sleeves away, he had never seen an old Confucian with such a thick skin, and he was unwilling to retreat in shame when he talked about his face, and he was arguing with him about whether Confucius's benevolence could govern the country, and almost used the means of the Zongheng family to deal with him, and almost didn't disgust him to death.

Kong Wu was dumbfounded, he had never seen such a fierce debate scene, he remembered that everyone in the debate he met sat upright, listened attentively to each other's words and then answered, and there was nothing impeccable about each other's etiquette, but the situation in front of him made him very surprised, it turned out that the argument could also be like this.

Dong Zhongshu wiped the cold sweat on his head and felt concerned, he was afraid that he would lose if he couldn't walk a few times, and the only thing he could get his hands on was "Ram Spring and Autumn" and a little private goods induced by heaven and man, the former Ram Shou and Hu Wusheng's research was more thorough, and the latter belonged to the Yin and Yang family's forte.

Xu was annoyed by the quarrel, Cao Shi snorted coldly: "No wonder everyone says that you have the ability to solidify the iron teeth and copper teeth, even the tiger whiskers of the Empress Dowager dare to touch it, and you don't have a long memory until now. ”

"You threaten me?"

"I asked you to take out the art of governing the country, you said that there is only the word benevolence, I let you govern the country with benevolence and courtesy, you don't have a down-to-earth strategy when you talk about it, I say you are pedantic, you scold me for being ridiculous, who is more ridiculous? Am I here to make small talk with you, an old Confucian student? If you can't come up with real evidence to govern the country, please shut up, I don't want to talk to empty talkers anymore, tired! ”

Yuan Gusheng trembled as if he had been struck by electricity, his rickety body trembled with a violent wheezing sound, and he was angry.

"You ......"

"If I had you packed up your things as soon as possible and returned to Qi Country to recuperate, you wouldn't have to swagger and deceive the people in Chang'an City, and if the Son of Heaven hates it the most, your governing skills are too vain to govern the country, so go back and govern yourself."

Yuan Gusheng's eyes were black and he fainted to the ground. (To be continued!)

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