Liu Bang instructed the eunuch to tell Liu Jing to go back first, choose a day to enter the palace, and then go to Longxi County accompanied by the baby. Longxi County is far away from Chang'an, with eight counties under its jurisdiction, namely Didao, Shangtai, Xiangwu, Jixian, Xiafen, Lintao, Xixian and Lingdao, and governs Didao. Didao runs through the Great Wall of Qin from southwest to northeast, and is an important military town in the early Han Dynasty and even the entire feudal society. Therefore, after Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, immediately set up a military administration here after seizing the world, and let the military generals guard here.

In the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang moved the capital to Chang'an after ascending the throne, and once visited Longxi County with Zhang Liang, the marquis. At that time, Liuhou looked at the gentle and undulating Longxi County of a vein of mountains and mountains and was quite shocked, the area was open, the mountains and rivers were majestic, the scenery was charming, the fertile soil was abundant, and the Weishui River flowed through the whole territory. The people are fierce but dexterous, and the Longxi culture that has been nurtured is thick and deep, and the local colored porcelain and faience pottery is a necessary utensil for the rich families in Guanzhong. The more you go west, the more you will feel that the folk customs are fierce, although in recent years it has been trying to integrate with the Chang'an border area, but the folk customs have existed for a long time. Since the pre-Qin period, until after the Shang monarch changed the law during the filial piety period, the folk customs were fierce and profitable, and they have continued but weakened.

Along the way, Liu Bang's car drove through a number of dilapidated villages, the most noble family sacrifice places in the village have been dilapidated and unformed, except for a few homesteaders and rich families with fields, the rest of the houses are rammed earth walls, barren grass roofs, from a distance to see some people dressed in coarse cloth plain clothes, head wrapped in a sheep's belly white scarf, gray face full of vicissitudes, on the road sometimes see such poor people, or husband and wife or farmer behind the child with drooping hair or the old man and the little grandson rely on each other to carry a basket from the field, Staring intently at the emperor's car as if looking at a treasure jade weapon, the adults who had gone through the world hurriedly pulled the child to urge him to go quickly, and the child was nostalgic but still interested and was forced to go home. Liu Bang understood that the eight years from the peasant uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty to the Chu-Han War caused the land to be barren, the population to decline sharply, the economy to be depressed, and the country's financial resources to be empty.

Pull up the curtain and look at the road on both sides, the passing pedestrians don't know who is sitting in the car, some people just look at the passing cars around them with doubtful eyes, and then they still leave silently with disdain and doubt, I am afraid that I know in my heart that he must be a big official, but I don't know that it is the emperor, so I didn't stop to make a big salute. These, Liu Bang is also exempt from the bottom of his heart, he originally came to check the people's feelings, if others know that they are coming, then what effect will there be.

But Liu Bang saw some people gathered at a so-called street stall in twos and threes, their clothes were worn out and white, and some old-fashioned faded faience was placed in front of the stall, hoping that the rich would look at it and buy it back. All of them were faces that had experienced the vicissitudes of life, and there were only holes and frost in their eyes, as if the hardships of life had polished them into joy without knowing what joy was, and their faces were numb and cold, and there was no smile at all. Occasionally, I saw an old woman with a wrinkled face carrying a baby waiting to be fed on her back, and her thin hand was holding a ploughing ox with yellow skin and bones, and she walked slowly towards her own village with difficult steps, leaving a rickety and vicissitudes of life.

After walking for a short time, I heard a low, almost broken voice from ahead, 'Poor and pathetic, good man,' intermittently.

Liu Bangfang closed his eyes and rested in the car, heard the voice, and asked who was shouting to Xiahouying who was driving the car, Xiahouying said that it was a pair of beggar mother and son, who were curled up on the side of the road and begged passers-by to give them something to eat.

Liu Bang pulled up the curtain again and didn't see the figure of the passer-by, rode over with a sword on the waist of the high-headed horse, bent over and asked Liu Bang, "The more you go forward, the more you will meet such a person, and the situation encountered when General Li Shang ruled Longxi was even worse than this." Your Majesty, do we want relief? ”

Liu Bang waved his hand and told Guan Ying to retreat a little, and saw the pair of beggar mother and son clearly, leaning against the dead tree, with unkempt hair and almost no face, a pair of gray and white clothes, and a pair of sleeves were only half rotten, and the child was listless and fell into his mother's arms with numb eyes, motionless. Liu Bang's face was full of apologies again, and he couldn't help but nodded, his eyes were deep and solemn, "Treat the symptoms but not the root cause, give them to them first." ”

Guan Ying gestured to the lieutenant next to him, and the lieutenant rode to Guan Ying and gave him a bag of gold. The mother and son received the gold and felt like a fairy descending, and was busy kowtowing to the baby, and the baby helped them up and told them to go home first, and then turned over and returned to Liu Bang's car to accompany him.

In the constant gratitude of the beggar's mother and son, Liu Bang's car continued to drive. Although Qin Shi Huang built straight roads and gallop roads from Xianyang to the whole country, it seems that the road to Longxi County is particularly difficult to walk, and it is up the high mountain and down the steep slope and crosses the river and through the grassland, which even bumps Liu Bang very much.

Along the way, Liu Bang saw, heard, thought and felt, his heart fluctuated and his expression was extremely serious, he had not patrolled Longxi for a long time, but he did not find that Longxi was a fertile land that the Marquis said back then, and he did not see much colored pottery processing factory, and he felt that Longxi County was very far from what he expected in his heart. Simply tied the curtain, leaned his elbows against the railing, and looked at the villages along the road with his cheeks.

I suddenly remembered Youyun in "Ancestral Music in the Room" written by Mrs. Tangshan: "...... The sea is swept by the water, and the virtuous and happy people are bosom. Dashan Cui, Baihui Breeding. What is the value of the people? Noble and virtuous. So, he blurted out this sentence, "The sea is swept by the water, and the virtuous and happy people are bosom." Dashan Cui, Baihui Breeding. What is the value of the people? Noble and virtuous. Settle down and be happy to produce. Happy to produce, the world is ......"

Guan Ying and Xiahou Ying, who followed Liu Bang's car, heard Liu Bang's words, Guan Ying and Xiahou Ying drove side by side, looked at each other, and the two understood in their hearts that the emperor's words were quoted from the sixth and seventh paragraphs of the "Ancestral Music in the Room" by the talented lady Tangshan, which briefly means that the water returns to the sea, and the people are virtuous. Thinking that the emperor read these words, did he think that his virtue and politics were not enough? After winning the world, in order to quickly restore and develop the economy, the emperor has made great efforts and implemented a series of policies, such as issuing an edict to demobilize the army and return to the peasants, appeasing the exiles, such as reducing the tax to 15 taxes and one, such as the 7th year of the Han Dynasty's 'people's production of children, resumption of affairs in the second year' ordered the exemption of slaves and maids, and the suppression of merchants from disrupting the market, etc., in general, it is necessary to reinforce the basics and suppress the last.

Guan Ying pulled the reins of the horse, slowed down the horse's walking, followed next to Liu Bang's car, bowed slightly, and said, "The water returns to the sea, and the people have virtue, and the emperor has done it." ”

Liu Bang looked up stunned, rubbed his nose and looked along the way, he didn't care about the words of the baby at all, and asked with an unconfident smile, "Really?" ”

"Yes." Guan Ying said, "At the beginning, the world was fierce, and the people waited for the situation and did not dare to easily cling to it. His Majesty proclaimed himself emperor, implemented favors, demobilized the army and returned to the peasants, appeased the exiles, exempted slaves and maids, suppressed merchants, for the rest and recuperation of the people in the world, married to the Huns, etc., Your Majesty All these are virtuous politics, and there is no one in the world who does not obey. Collecting the hearts of the people of the world, how can it not be said that the water returns to the sea, and the people are virtuous? ”

Liu Bang listened comfortably, and he didn't feel that he had done so many things to restore production and implement moral politics, and laughed and praised that the baby fruit was the enemy of Wenneng and Wuneng. Xiahou Ying, who was driving the car, also half-twisted his head from time to time to echo the baby, "What General Guan Ying said is very good, and the people of the world should attach themselves to Your Majesty." "Speaking of which, Liu Bang's virtue and politics can be regarded as exhaustive.

After traveling all the way, I finally arrived at the political, military, cultural and economic center of Longxi County - Di Dao. Di Dao is indeed different from the villages seen along the road, the population is concentrated, although most of the houses are also rammed earth, but it looks much better than the dilapidated villages seen along the way, much cleaner, it is an important town, so there are a lot of soldiers stationed. I saw a lot of pottery workshops along the way, but it seemed that they had not been used for a long time, which made Liu Bang quite strange.

As soon as they got out of the car when they arrived at the place, they came over to meet them, and before Liu Bang could see who it was, they immediately bowed and knelt down and said, "Your Majesty the Emperor has been happy for thousands of years, and I don't know that the emperor is coming, and the sin of the ministers is also." ”

The leader was a young general, followed by an old man in his fifties who was Wen Zou Zou, and the two knelt side by side.

Liu Bang was stunned for a moment, then looked at Guan Ying and Xiahou Ying beside him suspiciously, scratched the corners of his mouth with his fingers, squinted his eyes, tilted his head with one hand on his waist, and asked condescendingly, "How do you know that I am here?" ”

The young general and the old man beside him looked at each other nervously in fright, and they couldn't say why. Of course, the important town of Di Dao has to send people to stand guard at the county boundary, and who else can sit in a more ornate car except the emperor today, even if he can't recognize the emperor's car, he can also recognize Xiahou Ying, who often drives for the emperor, and some soldiers often see Xiahou Ying in the Chu-Han War.

"This ......," the young general froze.

Seeing that he couldn't answer, Liu Bang didn't have the heart to ask him the answer, he was just curious, he didn't convey to the outside world that he came to Longxi today, so he pulled up the general and the old man on the ground, and also asked the others to get up. Take a closer look at General Xiao Li, this Xiao Li is a descendant of Li Chong in the Qin period, who stayed in Longxi to inherit the business of his ancestors. Seeing the young and promising General Xiao Li, Liu Bang had a pleased smile on his face, and he beat General Xiao Li's shoulders with heroic brothers with both hands, and said with a smile, "General Xiao Li is not harmed, is it difficult to govern Longxi?" What about the folk customs? What about the economy? ”

General Xiao Li took a step back and bowed his hand, bowed his head and said majestically, "The folk customs are still gradually changing from fierce to simple, and it still takes time." The people are committed to production, and the economy is gradually recovering, but in the event of natural disasters, there will still be no grains. In recent months, the development of painted pottery has not been good, and the nearby pottery workshops of Majiayao, Shilingxia, Banshan and Machang have been closed for several months. This year's harvest was not good, and there was a major drought, and although there were a few rains in September, it was far past the crop season. ”

Liu Bang nodded slightly when he listened, these should be something that Liu Bang could imagine, and what he saw along the road could already be seen. General Xiao Li invited Liu Bang into the inner courtyard to speak, and it was cold outside.