After a solemn question about this article, Liu Ying couldn't help but sigh secretly.

In fact, today, Liu Ying came uninvited and specially came to find Xiao He, just to ask the teacher for his guilt......

The reason is also very simple: since the establishment of the Han Dynasty, in five years, the average grain yield per mu in Guanzhong has been nearly halved!

If it is placed in the future generations, it is equivalent to that under the governance of Prime Minister Xiao He, the world's GDP will not rise but fall in five years, with an annual rate of more than 10%, falling for five consecutive years!

It stands to reason that with such a conclusive 'evidence' in hand, if Liu Ying investigates it exhaustively, not to mention that it can make the court vibrate, at least it can use it to temporarily divert the attention of the court.

But looking at the shame in Xiao He's eyes, which did not contain any impurities, Liu Ying really couldn't bear to be too harsh.

As for the reason, after a while, Xiao He, who was ashamed but did not shirk his responsibility at all, was all placed in front of Liu Ying.

"Honored by the family."

Sure that Liu Ying had no intention of asking the teacher to ask for the guilt, Xiao He had no choice but to groan a little and tell the truth of the matter.

"In the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, the yield per mu in Guanzhong was indeed more than four stones; In the area of Zhengguo Canal in Weibei, there are nearly five stones of grain per acre, which is regarded as auspicious by His Majesty......"

"At that time, the Han Zuo was prosperous, the treasury was empty, and the policy of light taxation should have been implemented, allowing the people to recuperate, and being lenient to support the people, so that all kinds of waste could be prosperous."

"However, since the establishment of the Han Dynasty, there have been many princes with different surnames for the chaos of the Guandong, the fifth year of the Han Dynasty is the Yan King Zang Di, and the sixth year is the Linjiang King Gongwei; Seven years is Han Wang Xin, eight years, for the Han and Hun Pingcheng battles ......"

Speaking of this, on Xiao He's face, a faint grievance finally appeared.

"At the age of five, the minister was emaciated with all his strength, and the agricultural taxes and taxes of millions of people in Guanzhong were not more than a million households, so as to raise food and wages for the army to quell the rebellion."

"and the hundred officials of the court, the officials of the counties and counties in Guanzhong, and the officials of the officials, half of them are temporarily issued to be four years old; Only last year, there is no chaos in Kanto, and all the distributions are distributed. ”

"This year's autumn harvest has not yet arrived, and the matter of the acting prime minister Chen Feng will be chaotic has also been heard by the court; The minister's return to Chang'an this time was also to raise food and pay for the army to quell the rebellion. ”

Speaking of these 'old stories' with a little feeling, Xiao He finally sighed and brought the topic back to the topic.

"The family asked the minister: Guanzhong Tianmu, the Han Dynasty can still produce more than four stones per mu in five years, but now it is only five years, why did it fall to a land with a yield of less than three stones per mu?"

"This is the disadvantage of Huang Lao's inaction!"

Speaking of this, Xiao He's emotions couldn't help but become a little excited.

"Huang Lao does nothing, and he does everything; Those who rule by inaction have the original intention of being lawless, and if there is no prohibition in the law, there is no blame. ”

"However, now, the treasury of the court is empty, and even the courtiers are unable to give (jǐ) all, and they govern without doing anything, so they are misinterpreted by county officials and officials, thinking that they are lazy and lazy."

"The ministers summoned the county officials of Guanzhong County, but before they could ask each other, they heard the local governor say: The government has no money and grain, and the road to the county and township cannot be repaired, and there is no way to talk about water conservancy and channels in various places......

"The minister wants to go abroad to treasury money to dredge the canals in various parts of the country, but every time the autumn tax arrives, it is the war in the Kwantung region."

"The minister's financing of the army is also insufficient, and the dredging and repair of water conservancy and canals in Guanzhong have been extended since the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, and there is no money and grain to ...... it."

Listening to Xiao He's sad face pouring bitter water, Yang Chengyan on the side couldn't help but nod.

"What Xiao Xiangguo said is indeed not the slightest fallacy."

"The family must know that His Majesty has entrusted the construction of Chang'an City with five years ago, but the four walls of Chang'an City are still not only turning, and the tiles are ......."

Hearing that Xiao He was talking about the current financial predicament of the Han family, Liu Ying's face sank, and when he heard Yang Chengyan's kind addition, even his brows were subconsciously wrinkled by Liu Ying.

——In her previous life, Liu Ying had a certain understanding of the matter of 'the central poverty of the Han family', but she never thought of the situation, and it was so serious!

The construction of the capital city of Chang'an was ordered to start as early as the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, but so far, Chang'an still has the sense of a large village!

The fact that the central government is unable to build a capital is already telling.

In the past five years, the answer to the deteriorating grain production in Guanzhong has finally been placed in front of Liu Ying without reservation.

- Water conservancy!

Prior to this, Liu Ying only relied on the superficial historical cognition of his previous life, and naively thought: Qin Shi Huang built the Zhengguo Canal, but the Qin State was greatly powerful and pacified the entire Central Plains in one fell swoop!

The Han family, which also has Zheng Guoqu and is also dominant in Sanqin, should also be fertile soil.

But now, Liu Ying has finally reacted: the water conservancy projects of this era are not plastic bags with no service life and degradation cycle......

Even the world-famous Three Gorges Dam in later generations still needs a huge number of maintenance personnel to guard alternately, and tens of thousands of funds have to be smashed into it every year, not to mention that now, the Zhengguo Canal, which is no more than 300 miles long and is made of rammed earth by manpower, is not more than 300 miles long?

The central government has no money, and the local government naturally has no money, and without money, it is impossible to maintain and repair the canal, so that the Zhengguo Canal, which has no longer been artificially repaired and maintained since Qin II, will naturally decline its irrigation function year by year.

The famous Zhengguo Canal in history is like this, and the small water conservancy projects in various local counties and counties, from reservoirs and rivers to small canals in rural fields, will naturally gradually depreciate.

In addition, the people in the Guandong region have to shoulder heavy obligations such as military service and conscription almost every year, and they are even more unable to repair and maintain these water conservancy.

At this point, the purpose of Liu Ying's trip has actually been achieved.

——Put on a posture of 'not worrying about the instability of the storage position', confuse the court audition, especially attract Liu Bang's attention, and by the way, figure out the reasons for the decline in grain production in Guanzhong, and prepare for the future!

But in the end, Liu Ying still couldn't hold back and asked the confusion in her heart.

"Even if Guanzhong is like this, why does my father insist on minting three baht?"

"The prime minister must know that since his father minted three baht, the people of Guanzhong have complained a lot, and they have bartered for copper coins, and they don't do copper money......"

Hearing this, Xiao He sighed again and shook his head helplessly.

"Your Majesty's move will leave endless disasters for you, but if you don't do it, I am afraid that back then, when King Yan Zang Di was chaotic in the eastern part of the country, the court would not be able to send troops to the east to suppress the rebellious ......"

"This matter is known to the ministers, the courtiers and officials to know it, and Your Majesty also knows it............"

Hearing this, Liu Ying finally gave up instigating Xiao He and proposed to Liu Bang the plan of 'deposing the three baht coins', and suddenly fell into a long contemplation.

The more she thought about it, the more difficult Liu Ying's face became.

Before the anger in her heart swelled up, Liu Ying slowly got up, bowed to Xiao He and Yang Chengyan for a while, stopped speaking, and walked straight out of the guest hall.

- In the matter here, Liu Ying, there is no need to speak......