Liu Bang smiled and asked everyone to get up, and smiled and fell on Xiao He and said, "The matter of thieves still needs to be dealt with by the prime minister, and the people are oriented to find a good way to balance the interests of the marquis of Guannei, the wealthy businessmen and the common people, to ensure that the smiling farmers will be seen in the farmland next year, and to ensure that there will be less dog barking at night in Guanzhong." ”

Xiao He took the order, and went out with a farewell ceremony. Liu Bang had a conversation with the three elders of Chang'an County, asking them where they lived, who else they had, whether they had grain stored in the family for the winter, what was the annual income, what was the income, how the county and county were located, how the local people were doing, local sacrifices, and so on. The county order and the three elders were afraid of the emperor's temper, and they were also afraid of provoking some officials, so they answered the emperor's question with seven points of truth and three lies, Liu Bang couldn't hear the omission and asked the eunuch to bring a few ingots of gold to Chang'an Ling and the three elders, they shirked and did not dare to accept it, the eunuch said that the emperor's reward must not be wanted, so they happily covered the wide robe and big sleeves knelt on the ground and kowtowed and then resigned.

Guan Ying looked at the third elder and smiled happily when he took the gold, "This is what Kong Zhongni often said, 'wealth and wealth are obtained by virtue'?" ”

Wang Ling Zhou Bo looked at each other and smiled and joked, "General Guan is also like Sima Sui Tho, 'Wen can attach the crowd and the martial arts can threaten the enemy', hehe." Liu Bang laughed out loud in the palace, pointed to the baby, and said, "Yes, yes, the prince is as good as Tian Sui Tho, both civil and military." ”

The usually strong and straightforward Guan Ying also blushed at this time, lowered his head and touched the back of his neck, and said with a smile, "How dare the minister compare with the sage soldier Sima Sui Tho?" ”

Zhou Bo smiled and continued to joke, "Ah! It's not as good as Tian Sui Tho, but it's comparable to Huaiyin......" Before the words stopped, his heart lit up, and he slapped himself in the mouth with a 'pop-', glanced at Liu Bang on the couch, lowered his head and stuck out his tongue towards Wang Ling. Liu Bang smiled and answered, "Yes, yes." The smile stopped, and the hall was quiet again. Liu Bang sat on the couch with one hand supporting his forehead, and the other hand rested on a few cases, playing with the jade toad made of Lantian jade. 'Bang dang-' fell on the case, no interest in playing, got up and shook off the wide robe sleeves and walked outside the hall door, looking at the mountains in the distance behind his hands Gray patch, the cool breeze outside the hall blew in the face Xiao Su suddenly appeared. Wang Ling and Zhou Bo followed and looked at Liu Bang's line of sight, which was the direction of Xianyang Yuan in Weibei.

"I haven't been to Changling for half a year, so I should go and see it." Liu Bang looked at the distance and turned to Wang Ling and Zhou Bo beside him and said, "Is it feasible now?" Wang Ling Zhou Bo Guan Ying waved his hand and said in a majestic voice, "The ministers are ready to serve at any time." Liu Bang smiled and waved his hand and asked them to make arrangements.

The emperor wanted to cross Weishui to Xianyangyuan, Zhou Bo Guanying temporarily served as his escort, and the eunuch hurriedly told Tenggong Xiahou Ying to prepare Luan to drive and leave immediately. At the beginning of Xiahou Ying's preparations, Liu Bang specially summoned Lu Jia, the former Taifu of Liu Ruyi, and Fan Xu, the brother-in-law of the monk Gao Qi in Beijing, who hurriedly put down the things in their hands after receiving the edict, and hurried to the front hall to meet with the emperor.

The ministers hugged Liu Bang and got into the car, originally everyone prepared their own ox carts to accompany the emperor, but Liu Bang wanted to talk to them along the way to relieve their boredom, so they deliberately canceled their special ox carts, allowing them to use a car for the monarch and ministers, and Xiahou Ying drove it. The ministers were flattered and dared to disobey their orders, and they got into the emperor's special car, many of them had never sat with the emperor, except for Fan Xu, who had been his attendant, others were not used to trembling and fearful.

The car was not too big and crowded with people, all of them hunched over each other and silent, and their noses rang out one after another. Fan Xu, who was in the last seat, only pulled the curtain and looked out, and said with a smile that the end of autumn and the beginning of winter were lonely, and the people were full of red and dead trees and mountains, and they had no energy. The rest of the ministers said yes and said no more. Liu Bang saw that they were nervous and unaccustomed, and he smiled and stroked his beautiful beard and said, "Don't be nervous, I am just traveling with all the virtuous ministers, how can the ancient virtuous ministers be afraid of their monarchs?" And the confidants are spacious, just talk openly. He put his hand on the back of Wang Ling, who was sitting next to him, and patted it.

"Yes." The crowd obeyed.

Liu Bang smiled, lifted the curtain and looked into the distance, the car had traveled through the vast Weichuan Plain, the plain was vaguely yellow, the cold wind blew through like waves one after another, and the surging Weishui in the distance resounded through the plain. Liu Bang smiled and nodded, the place where the car passed by was not a fertile field and a thousand miles of fertile fields. In winter, it seems that there is no full grain of millet in the field, but it is a great scene of harvest in the coming year. The wheels passed, and the boundless field flooded into Liu Bang's eyes, thinking that the people of Chang'an finally had a field, and felt relieved to turn around and smile and said, "The people have the land, and I am worthy of it." ”

Wang Ling was the first to jump out and say, "Your Majesty is wrong, this is not the land of the common people, this is the land of the peasants who have been annexed by the nearby bureaucrats and rich merchants, and the peasants are attached to them and get very little land. ”

Liu Bang's face changed his expression in an instant, he looked at several ministers with a dark face, and his eyes wandered on several ministers in disbelief, but several ministers nodded at this. "I have issued an edict to open the garden and pond of the old Qin Dynasty to the people of Jingshi to cultivate, and they dare to deceive me and take the land of life of the people?" Liu Bang roared loudly, blew his beard and glared, and everyone was silent for a moment.

Liu Bang grabbed the arm of Wang Ling beside him with one hand, and with anger in his eyes, he firmly instructed, "After returning to the palace, the prince found Prime Minister Xiao Cheng and asked him to deal with this matter. It's irresponsible. ”

The other ministers didn't dare to say much, but even their brother-in-law Fan Xu bowed his hands, opened his mouth and said endlessly, "Your Majesty, this kind of thing cannot be eliminated from generation to generation, and there are officials, people, and officials and people coexist, and there will be such injustices forever in different ranks, but they can be reduced but eliminated." Previously, the prime minister had issued a list to warn the bureaucratic landlords to return the farmland to the people as soon as possible, but it was only a formal return, and in fact the people were still dependent on the landlord class. ”

Liu Bang's face darkened completely when he heard this, and Long Yan said angrily, "Such a shaft! Presumably, the peasants who became thieves were persecuted by them. He took a long breath and lightly pounded his eyebrows, precipitated his emotions for a long time, and then said, "But Lil can't stop it." I am a little relieved that I have the public and the people, but I still need to issue an edict to claim back the annexed land in my name, and list the deed land payment, and the government and the people do not owe each other. If those who do not return it will be thoroughly investigated, they will be severely punished, and even if they cannot return it in full, they will have to make the people have a surplus every year. Otherwise, how can we pay taxes? In the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, I read that they had a meritorious service in destroying Qin and Chu, and I had issued an edict to order them to wait for food, how dare they ask for land again. ”

Lu Jia, who was silent on the side, straightened up and said to the emperor firmly when he heard the emperor's words, "The emperor is a sage, Confucius once said, 'The politician is right, the prince is right, who dares to be wrong', the emperor has the heart to ask for the annexed field, and his intention is right." Your Majesty is the lord of the people, who dares to disobey the orders in the world? The ministers thought that it was necessary to issue a list of Suotian, and to ask the officials and the people to list the deed land, so that the people could really get their land. ”

Everyone listened to what Lu Jia said and nodded in agreement. Liu Bang also smiled slightly, his eyes were gently cast on Lu Jia's side, and said with a smile, "Lu Gong is so talented, I don't understand why Ruyi decided to quit you in the first place, Lu Gong is really a follower of Confucius, every sentence is inseparable from the way of Confucius and Mencius, and what I want to say is that every sentence is reasonable, I have Lu Gong here, and I must be worry-free." He looked at several ministers with a smile, and they also laughed with the emperor, praising Lu Jia's eloquence and wisdom, Lu Jia shirked several times and did not dare to accept the emperor's praise, but he was also happy in his heart.

Liu Bang really thought that Lu Jia was a great talent, and said with a smile, "Lu Gong is a virtuous talent, I should be treated with a lot of money, and Lu Gong's wisdom and knowledge are not inferior to the prince's uncle." ”

Lu Jia was even more flattered, and bowed his head again and again to shirk and said, "Don't dare, don't dare, Zi said, 'Respect the matter and then eat', the minister's words are his duties, and he really doesn't dare to accept heavy money." Mr. Uncle Sun is also a doctor who is very knowledgeable, integrating the ancient and modern, and the comparison between the ministers is very poor. ”

Liu Bang laughed again, and everyone also laughed and praised Lu Jia's wisdom. Liu Bang said with a smile, "Just now I said that Lu Gong is inseparable from Confucius and Mencius, and it is really true." However, it is a good 'gentleman, respect his things and then eat', I hope that the public will remember this sentence and be attentive. ”

Everyone said, 'By Order.'" Liu Bang couldn't imagine that traveling could solve a very important thing, and he felt that he should go out more to understand the people's feelings. Everyone was talking with the emperor in the car, most of them were what the emperor said, and everyone echoed him, and he laughed and everyone laughed.

The car drove another mile. Liu Bang also said, "Since I ascended the throne, I have successively issued edicts to encourage farmers to produce, and asked officials of all levels not to seize agricultural time, but now it seems that the effect is not great, but why? ”

Wang Ling also said, "The uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty and the four-year Chu-Han War cost the people and money, and Your Majesty was a devastated mess, and it was impossible to restore the economy for only one or two years. ”

Wang Ling's words probably made Liu Bang's face look displeased, pinched his forehead casually, puffed out his mouth and was silent. Seeing that there was no smile on the emperor's face again, Lu Jia said again, "Fortunately, Your Majesty has a virtuous heart, which is comparable to that of King Wen of the Western Zhou Dynasty." As much as possible, follow the rule of Huang Lao's inaction, the edict into the people, the edict to repair the channel, the edict to hold the fifteen taxes and one, the edict to open the mountains, rivers and forests to the people to cultivate, and the Han Dynasty seven years of 'the people's children, do not do two years' and so on so much to benefit the people, not Your Majesty can not do it. It's just that the achievements are made in the leisurely years, and the rest and recuperation are not overnight but relatively long-term. ”

Hearing Lu Jia's words, Liu Bang felt a little relieved, his words were always so euphemistic and not as straight as Wang Ling, which made Liu Bang unwilling to listen, and he had a smile on his face again, and nodded approvingly.

Seeing everyone expressing their opinions, Zhou Bo, who had never spoken on the side, looked ashamed, touched the back of his head and said ashamedly, "The minister is ashamed, if you don't speak for Your Majesty, your heart is as uncomfortable as an ant." The minister is stupid, and every time you finish speaking, the minister can feel that things should be like this. ”

'Poof-' Everyone laughed, and Wang Ling Lu Jia beside him each punched his shoulder with a light fist and said with a smile, "Jiang Hou is a general, guarding or crusading, we are not as good as you." ”

Liu Bang also laughed when he heard this, pointing and saying again and again that Jiang Hou was honest and dignified. Even Xiahou Ying, who was driving the car, laughed when she heard it. Suddenly, there were laughter inside and outside the car, as if there were no monarchs and ministers, only friends.

'Drive-' A sharp and piercing whip whipped on the horse's back, and Xiahou Ying drove slowly towards Changling.