Gou Shen heard that Wei Heyi's daughter Wei Yan had come to find him again, so he instructed Lianxi: "You tell her that Chang'an is so big, and there are so many ministers and relatives, why are you looking for Bendu to protect her?" ”

Pixi replied: "Master, Pixi also said the same, let her not come to do too much, Pixi also said that the old man is busy every day, and she wants her to feel that her father has been wronged, so she will go to the imperial history to complain, what do you want our master to do?" ”

"If everyone comes to the lord to beg the lord to release people from the court bureau, my lord will be incarnated into thousands of people, and he can't be busy, can he still do his own business?"

This woman surnamed Wei replied, Chang'an people say that they are all righteous and righteous, saving people and saving emergencies, and they have the reputation of Qingtian when they were in Yingchuan County, why are they so ruthless to the Wei family now?"

Gou Shen frowned when he heard this, and Lianxi looked at Gou Shen unpleasantly, and said: "The maid said, my lord told you in the afternoon, it was the lord who arrested the person, and now your father has neither meritorious service and atonement, nor can he fight for his innocence and overturn the case, why should my lord plead for your father?" ”

"Is it easy to let people go? The old man is anxious for justice and righteousness, and he is also for those kind people, how can he save the evil and suppress the good? Your father was in trouble in Wusun, and now if he comes to Chang'an to help you, won't he admit that it is wrong to arrest your father in the Western Regions? ”

"Since your father is guilty, and the lord comes to beg because you are a woman, if you let your father go, is this aiding and abetting? You might as well go directly to the people from the Imperial Lieutenant's Office and come directly. ”

Gou Shen listened and looked at Pixi, and as Pixi spoke, he suddenly fell silent. Gou Shen smiled: "Mercy." Do you recognize words? ”

"Sir. Mercy recognized a few. ”

"Okay, from now on, Lianxi will be watching from the porter, if you encounter such a person or thing, you will deal with it."

When she heard this, she was terrified: "Master, did Lianxi say something wrong?" I won't dare to do it again. ”

Gou Shen pulled the knife in his hand and shook his head with a smile: "No, the master said that you did a good job." Unexpectedly, our family Lianxi looks weak, touching, and has a clever heart. ”

"Well, in the future, when you meet such people, you will record their origins, identities, and everything, okay?"

When she heard this, she smiled. Agreed: "Then Lianxi will let the woman leave?" ”

"See for yourself, aren't you in charge of this?"

Hearing this, Recy left happily.

The next day. Gou Shen wanted to go to the eldest brother Wang Feng, and also to visit Xu Guanghan, but when he went out, he didn't see Wei Heyi's daughter, and when he saw that the few people sent by his sister Wang Zhengjun were in good order, she looked like the female head of the gate of the palace, and felt that this girl really had the potential of "female foreman of the gate".

In the apse of the Xuanshu Hall of Weiyang Palace, Liu Zheng, who had just become the Son of Heaven, frowned, and listened to the report of Prime Minister Yu Dingguo: "Eleven counties east of Hangu Pass are closed to the country, the river is broken, the flood is a disaster, there is a great hunger, and in some places, everyone kills each other and cooks each other's corpses, and the minister has ordered the grain from other counties to be relieved. ”

"In addition, there was an earthquake in the territory of Longxi, and countless houses in the city collapsed, crushing and crushing many people, and the ministers ordered officials from all over the country to go to comfort them."

"I was a king at the beginning, and there were so many disasters in various places, I felt uncomfortable," Liu Zheng said, knocking his fingers on the desk twice, and suddenly felt that his father always liked to do this action before, so he stretched out his hand to the pen on the desk: "I intend to let the imperial kitchen reduce the number of dishes, reduce the number of officials in the club, reduce the number of royal horses, and relieve refugees." ”

"What do you think?"

At this time, in the apse of the Xuanshu Palace, there were Shi Gao, the general of the big Sima chariot, Xiao Wangzhi, the former general, Guangluxun Xiao Wangzhi, and the Guanglu doctor Zhou Kan, these three people are today's three assistants, that is, auxiliary ministers.

In addition, there are prime ministers, Xiping waiting for Dingguo, Wei Xuancheng, Taichang, Weiwei, Taifu, Tingwei, Dahonglu, Zongzheng, Dasinong, Shaofu and other Jiuqing.

In addition, there are three officials in the Gyeonggi region of Chang'an, Jing Zhaoyin, Right Fufeng and Left Feng Yi.

Seeing that these people didn't speak, Liu Zheng continued: "I often hear that benevolent people love others, courteous people respect people, and those who love people always love them; Those who respect others, people always respect them, the family and the country in the world, I lead by example, consume my own expenses, save money, maybe I can set an example for the world, and can reduce some bad luck for the people. ”

Shi Gao said at this time: "Your Majesty's benevolence is known to the whole world, but the Son of Heaven is the king of a country, the Son of Heaven is thrifty, and the courtiers feel that they have no face." ”

"The old minister asked to reduce the rank, and asked His Majesty to take back the reduction of the degree in the palace."

Shi Gao, Liu Zheng's cousin and the first of the three auxiliary ministers, said this, and the others were silent.

Liu Zheng was very satisfied with his words, and someone echoed him: "Then, if there is a surplus in the local county governments, vassal states, and Shanglin Yuan, give priority to helping the poor, how about this?" ”

"In addition, if the poor have less than 1,000 assets, they should give away or lend to grain and seeds, cancel the monopoly on salt and iron, and the state will give up these two incomes, and the people can freely produce and sell salt and iron to reduce prices and benefit the people, how about this?"

Yu Dingguo said as soon as he heard it: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty loves the people, and the ministers all know the way, but these salt and iron are the foundation of the country, if you give up taxes and let the following operate at will, I am afraid that it will only make some profiteers profit and the people will not benefit." ”

"Please think twice."

Xiao Wangzhi frowned when he heard that Liu Zheng was going to give up the salt and iron monopoly just now, but when he saw Yu Dingguo coming forward, he didn't speak.

At this time, Zuo Feng Yi Feng Ye Wang said: "Minister, Zuo Feng Yi Feng Ye Wang Qi played His Majesty." ”

Feng Yewang's sister Feng Zhaoyi has a gentle personality and understands music, can sing and dance, and is very loved by Liu Zheng.

King Feng Ye thanked him, and then said: "The ministers think that all things in the world should not be filial piety first, the great Han Dynasty is a big country, and the Xiongnu these barbarian states are not the same, they are shameless, we rule the world with filial piety, everyone can see which is higher and which is lower." ”

As soon as King Feng Ye spoke, the people in the hall were confused, and they didn't know what he meant.

"I thought that the emperors of the past dynasties were after the heavens. The state should set up special sacrificial temples for future generations to worship. This started with Yin Shang. Inherited from the Han Dynasty, it is now a little incomprehensible. ”

"Can't add more?"

Feng Yewang will say that the Great Han Kingdom governs the country with filial piety, and then he will say that the sacrifice of temples is a bit overwhelming, which means that it is not self-contradictory?

"The minister is feeling that there is a disaster, and now there are disasters in the east of Hangu Pass and Longxi, and the Son of Heaven still has to reduce the use. The minister's words were held in his heart, and he was really unhappy. ”

"As we all know, the temple of the Han Dynasty is not to gather all the deceased emperors of this dynasty together to worship, but whoever has been an emperor, every son of heaven has a temple to worship, the minister is not saying that this is not right, nor is it not good, but this, will it cause waste?"

"Huh?" Listening to Feng Yewang's words, everyone was stunned. No one has ever thought of frugality, and it has never occurred to reduce the amount of money from the temples of the deceased emperors.

Some people think that this Feng Yewang is really daring. If it were someone else, he wouldn't dare to have this idea, and he even said it in front of the three princes and the nine emperors in the apse of the Xuanshu Palace.

This King Feng Ye is really a good relative of the Son of Heaven, and his courage is really not small.

Liu Zheng's face did not change, and King Feng Ye continued: "This is just one of them, if the emperors of the past dynasties had their own temples, it would be understandable, but the wind of comparison brought about by this has also flourished. ”

"The great Han countries, those great-grandchildren who have been named princes and kings, some of them have real filial piety to their ancestors, and some are completely comparing, just don't want to fall behind filial piety, they also set up Taizu Taizong Temple for their ancestors in their respective counties."

"Is this really necessary?"

"The minister made a calculation, now that the new emperor is on the throne, among the Han counties, there are one hundred and sixty-seven ancestral temples like the one the minister said in the sixty-eight counties!"

"Oh?"

"So many?"

Liu Zheng was also taken aback, and knocked the pen in his hand on the desk, and the pen fell on the paper.

"In Chang'an, plus the nine temples from Gaozu down to Emperor Xuandi's seven emperors, there are as many as one hundred and seventy-six in total, not counting some small sacrificial places in the palace and other places, and not counting the small temples set up for the queens and abolished princes of the past dynasties."

"Since there is a temple and the Han Dynasty governs the country with filial piety, it is necessary to carry out sacrificial activities in accordance with the ritual system, and this kind of sacrificial activities are not only very frequent, but also quite complicated."

"For example, every day you have to have a day festival in the dormitory in the garden, you have to go to the official temple every month to hold a monthly festival, and every three months you have to go to the palace of the imperial tomb to have a time festival."

"For the sacrificial objects in the dormitory, you have to make offerings four times a day, how much money will you need for this year?"

Liu Zheng frowned when he heard this, and said in his heart that this Feng Yewang seems to be really thinking about me, Shi Gao just said that he wanted to reduce his own use and echo me, but the others were indifferent, how much money does these sacrificial places cost in a year? Reducing the amount of this sacrifice, are you still worried about the lack of money?

The key thing is that except for Feng Yewang, so many people have not brought it up!

Feng Yewang's voice resounded in the apse of the Xuanshu Palace: "The minister calculated, the total number of sacrifices this year is about 1,440 times, and the fifteenth day of the first month of the month in the Chang'an Sect Temple plus the wax day is twenty-five times a year, and the rest of the imperial tombs are less frequent, and there are also four offerings a year." ”

"Every month, we also invite the dragon robes and crowns of the deceased emperors to come out and parade to pay respects, which is called the first tour of the month, so that we only spend on ancestor worship activities every year, which is simply countless."

"The minister probably counted ......"

Taichang and Shaofu looked at King Feng Ye, and said in their hearts, why are you "roughly calculated", you can really "roughly calculate".

Feng Yewang didn't look at the others, and said to Liu Zheng, "...... There were about 24,455 offerings in total, 45,129 guards were mobilized, and 12,147 people, including the staff of the ritual and the musicians! ”

"Oh!"

"So much!"

There was another burst of amazement in the apse of the Xuanshu Palace, and Liu Zheng waved his hand and said, "Zuo Fengyi continues." ”

All the bureaucrats were silent, and King Feng Ye said: "And those soldiers who are specially responsible for raising cattle, sheep, pigs, etc. for offerings are not counted among them, which is really a waste that is not needed in our dynasty." ”

"Filial piety should be stored in the heart, just a formality, and the minister thinks that it is not necessary."

Liu Zheng couldn't help but say: "What does the Qing family think?" ”

……

Gou Shen went to many places this day, such as the eldest brother Wang Feng, Xu Guanghan, Zhang Meng, Zhu Bo, Zhang Chang and Yang Yun's homes, and when he returned to the school captain's mansion in the evening, which had not had time to change the door plaque, he saw that Wei Yan standing upright on the side of the wall facing the gate. (To be continued......)