Two days after Liu Bang left, Empress Lu was ready to move, and actively pulled Liu Ying out of the palace to walk among the people. At this time, the Han Dynasty still needed time to recuperate, and now it was the rule of Huang Lao's inaction. Spring and summer are the busy farming seasons, and Liu Bang had previously issued an edict strictly prohibiting the labor force during the busy farming season, and repeatedly advised the farmers to teach the mulberry. After the crown prince Liu Ying took charge of the country, he once again issued an edict at the behest of his father, emphasizing that 'Shang Nong, the foundation of the world, the labor and peasants persuade the people, and there is no time to make a future'. The year before and last year's tax has been reduced to 10 taxes, because Liu Bang has set the world, every year to send troops to quell the rebellion, need to pay for the military expenses in the war, so once the tax tithe and tax 1 changed to 10 taxes, at the beginning of this year, in order to stabilize the national economy, in order to ease the class contradictions, in order to restore the development of national strength and issued an edict to implement the tithe and tax one. The crown prince has strengthened this tax policy.

On this day, Prime Minister Xiao He entered the court to discuss the matter of migrants with the prince. Xiao He said, "Now the famous families in the Kanto region have basically moved into the Guannei, except for the previous batch after being comforted by the emperor and the general night banquet, the rest have not been comforted, they are originally rooted in the Kanto people, and now they have moved to the Guandong There will be injustice in their hearts, and the ministers ask His Royal Highness to go out of the palace to comfort them a little." ”

Empress Lu happened to be on the side, and when she heard what the prime minister said, she felt that it was very necessary, and immediately said to the prince, "What the prime minister said is true, in the past, your father and the emperor personally went out of the palace to comfort him, in order to calm his heart, since the emperor let you supervise the country, this matter is none other than you, and a trip out of the palace is also for the stability of the Han Dynasty for a hundred years." ”

The prince thought for a while, then nodded yes, and asked Xiao He again, "This matter has always been handled by the prince, have all the Kwantung people moved here?" ”

Xiao He said, "No, there will be a batch of immigrants." ”

The prince drew a circle in front of his temple with his left hand, pondered about this matter, and Xiao He went out to arrange for comfort, preparing to leave the palace tomorrow to comfort these famous families in Kanto. Empress Lu and the prince returned to Changxin Palace to rest, three days did not go to Liyang Palace to visit the emperor, Empress Lu ate something to prepare to go to Liyang Palace with the prince, just got up, a palace person came in to report that Mrs. Guan came, Queen Lu and the prince were puzzled, at the moment did not want to see her, thinking that the emperor would take good care of Mrs. Guan before leaving, Empress Lu buried his head and muttered for a moment, or asked someone to pass Mrs. Guan.

Oh, a pregnant woman with a big belly appeared in the sunlight outside the temple gate, Mrs. Guan's belly was getting bigger, and she had a hard time walking, and she was helped in by Chanxin. When the prince saw his concubine come in, he got up and helped him, and Empress Lu was extremely displeased when he saw it, and he glanced at Mrs. Guan with slanted eyes, and turned his head to the right with disdain. Mrs. Guan said thank you to the prince, and the prince said that Mrs. Guan was a concubine and an elder, and she should support herself. Mrs. Guan was pregnant, but she simply gave a vegetarian ceremony to Empress Lu, the prince helped Mrs. Guan to sit on the mat, and the palace people brought snacks and sweet spring tea after the rain, and made them on it. Empress Lu took a sip of the sweet tea, looked at the jade teacup in her hand, and asked lightly, "Now that your belly is big, and you are not staying at home, what is the matter with coming to Changxin Palace?" ”

Mrs. Guan carefully looked at Empress Lu's face, and saw that she was not very happy or angry, and she was very indifferent, so she brushed the hair in front of her forehead, squeezed out a smile and said respectfully and cautiously, "The concubine will come to His Royal Highness's palace if she is bored." ”

Empress Lu said politely, "This palace wants to go to Liyang Palace with the prince to visit the emperor, since there is nothing to do, you go back, the emperor specially instructed the palace to take good care of you before leaving, if you are really fine, the palace left the emperor to accompany you." ”

Mrs. Guan knew that the last sentence was a complaining word, and she knew that the queen's anger was gradually appearing, and she was so frightened that she didn't dare to say a word, so she took the tea on a few cases and drank it down, her eyes blinking wildly, and panic and uneasiness suddenly appeared. Empress Lu got up and asked Mrs. Guan to go back, Mrs. Guan saw that it was not easy to say anything at this time, the queen had already gotten up to open the way for her, and she was embarrassed to continue to stay, so she got up slowly and hard under Chanxin's support, walked to the queen's side and walked out of the hall.

The prince watched Mrs. Guan come and go, and was very puzzled, so he asked Mrs. Lu what Mrs. Guan meant by coming. Empress Lu looked at the direction of Mrs. Guan with deep eyes, the corners of her mouth moved slightly, and she looked at the prince indifferently without saying a word. Knowing that she was coming to talk about Qi Ji again, first, Empress Lu didn't want to hear it, and secondly, it was not suitable to listen to it at this time.

Empress Lu took the prince to Liyang Palace to visit the emperor, and heard that the emperor's health was basically improving, and the mood of Empress Lu and the prince also improved. The crown prince personally fed the emperor something to eat, and the emperor praised Liu Ying for being extremely filial, and Empress Lu was also happy. The palace people and eunuchs of Liyang Palace said to Empress Lu that the Emperor Taishang would dislike Liyang Palace every summer and it was stuffy and hot, but he didn't talk to the emperor about it, and always said that the emperor had built Xinfeng City for himself, and he had done enough, and he didn't want to trouble the emperor. Empress Lu took this matter to heart, and immediately ordered to go down to the main hall of Liyang Palace to paint it with pepper paint on a certain day, so as to cool it in summer, and then plant weeping willows and some light-absorbing flowers and plants between the courtyards of Liyang Palace, and told the palace maids and eunuchs to take out some of the ice in the Ling room and put it into the 'Copper Ice Jian' to absorb heat and cool off. The steward of Liyang Palace received the order of the queen, saying that he would choose an auspicious day to start painting Liyang Palace, and Empress Lu said that it was good.

The next day, Xiao He and the crown prince went out of the palace to comfort the representatives of the famous families who moved from the eastern part of the country, and there were only about 100 people. The people of the Wang clan originally thought that the emperor personally comforted him, but he didn't expect to be a fourteen-year-old Guanyu boy, but he was extraordinary, graceful and luxurious, and had a hollow temperament. The prince hurriedly asked him to get up and speak, and everyone saw that the prince was humble and polite, and Dunya treated them well, and they all had admiration.

The prince beckoned everyone to sit down, and there were already dancing girls and singers coming forward to dance and sing, and the beautiful female singers in the palace had fluttering sleeves, slender waists, and vine fragrance flowing. When everyone was enjoying the song and dancing, Xiao He, the prime minister sitting under the prince, approached the prince's side and pointed to a man with extraordinary bearing and aristocratic appearance opposite, saying, "This person is the Kong family of Wanxian County, Kandong, the family is engaged in iron smelting, large-scale smelting and casting industry, and planning fish pond farming, so the carriages and horses swam in groups between the princes, and the wealth obtained is tens of thousands. Good Kong's reputation, such valuable people we must encompass in order to better stabilize them for the development of the economy. ”

The prince looked in the direction pointed by Xiao He, he was young and in his thirties, he was very delicate, there was a little bit of heroism between his eyebrows, he sat upright, his hands were politely hanging down his abdomen, his face was kind and smiling, he was singing and dancing, and sometimes whispered a few words with the people around him, which was very extraordinary. The crown prince whispered to Xiao He, "They are generous, why did my father impose a strict ban on them, forbidding them to be officials, not wearing fancy clothes on the street, not allowing their children and grandchildren to enter the official career, and raising their taxes twice as much as ordinary people?" They are an important force in the active market, and doesn't my father discourage them from doing so? It seems that the father and the emperor have done something wrong, can the palace issue an edict to open the ban on them? ”

Xiao He immediately stopped him and solemnly persuaded, "No, the emperor's ban is reasonable, since the three kings have always emphasized agriculture and suppressed business, agriculture is the end of the business, and the end of the day cannot be reversed, and Qin Xiangbang Lu Buwei's "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period" has said: The reason why the ancient sage king guided his people was to do agriculture first. The people are wise at the end of the matter, and if they are wise, they are more deceitful, and if they are more deceitful, they are clever and clever. The rules of the lowly merchants of the previous dynasties were to prevent them from annexing farmland with financial resources. Therefore, such people can only use their wealth flexibly, and must not reuse them, so as to breed their sense of power, so that they can bribe power with their talents. We are only using it for the sake of profit, and the prince must not break His Majesty's regulations. ”

The prince heard what Xiao He said quite profoundly, although he didn't understand it too much, he still nodded and said that Xiao He said very much, and after a long time of abdominal conditioning, he looked at singing and dancing again. During the period, everyone got up and the prince raised the bottle to touch, drank it all, everyone said that they lived well in the pass, served in the pass, and took root in the pass, and the prince said "good" The word "good" brought everyone to the highest tide, and it was to push the cup and hug each other. The banquet was very successful, and the prince's departure from the palace to comfort him won everyone's full support, and it also made the prince show his face in front of these so-called famous heroes in the Kanto region and won a lot of support.