For the spring and summer of the eleventh year of the Han Dynasty, there were only two impressions of the ministers and officials of the Chang'an court.

——The prince took out the stone bricks of Shaofu, transferred Lu's private grain, sent Shaofu officials and slaves, introduced the people from the people, and thoroughly repaired Zheng Guoqu.

——The crown prince was assassinated in Changling, and then the grain merchants in Guanzhong were eliminated and the grain and rice monopoly was implemented!

Except for these two events, no one knows what the crown prince Liu Ying experienced in Weibei this spring.

It's just that since the spring of this year, the crown prince Liu Ying, who has always shown himself as a 'gentle' and 'benevolent' person, has changed his previous cautious and cautious attitude, not seeking no merit, but seeking no fault, and has become more and more powerful in the court.

Especially in matters related to people's livelihood, such as water conservancy, taxes, conscription, etc., Liu Ying's stubbornness and strength are even worse than that of his father Liu Bang!

In the summer and April of the 11th year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Ying, who completely ended the renovation of Zheng Guoqu and returned to Chang'an from Sanyuan, held the first court ceremony presided over by Liu Ying himself after the supervision of the country.

At the same time, Handan, the capital of Zhao thousands of miles away, finally waited for the figure of Chen Ping, the Marquis of Qu Rebellion, to appear outside the palace where Liu Bang was temporarily stationed······

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"Ahem!"

"Ahem, ahem, ahem!!"

"Heh~~~ Spit out!"

When Chen Ping came to the outside of the palace, before he had time to pay his respects, he heard a violent coughing sound coming from inside the palace.

Hearing the sound in the hall, Chen Ping's brows furrowed, and his face suddenly became anxious.

But for a moment, a figure slowly walked out of the hall, which finally made Chen Ping's heart feel at ease.

"Qu Shunhou, Your Majesty has a ······ please"

Listening to this slightly feminine and hoarse voice, Chen Ping did not step into the hall door in response, but quickly took two steps forward, and arched his hand with a solemn face.

"Dare to ask Ling Gong!"

"Your Majesty, this is ······"

Meaningfully stopped talking, seeing the posture of the eunuch Ling in front of him not opening his mouth, Chen Ping seemed to suddenly realize, and took out a piece of broken gold from his arms, and stuffed it into the sleeve of the old eunuch Ling without a trace.

Seeing Chen Ping's move, the old eunuch Ling only hesitated for a moment, then lowered his head and smiled, took the broken gold back into his sleeve, and bowed indifferently.

"Your Majesty is fine."

"Only today, at the turn of spring and autumn, Your Majesty is occasionally caught with the wind and cold······

Hearing this, Chen Ping finally made a look of relief and gave up his hand to the old eunuch.

- In fact, no matter what the old eunuch in front of him said, the worry in Chen Ping's heart had disappeared in a moment.

The reason is very simple: the old eunuch received the gold he handed out.

If Liu Bang really has any big problems, then at the delicate time point of 'the Son of Heaven is critically ill', the maidservants and temple people around Liu Bang will definitely make a posture of covering the sky per capita!

Therefore, Chen Ping's focus is not on the words of the old eunuch.

As long as the gold can be sent, it is enough to show that even if Liu Bang is sick, there is no big problem.

"Hmmm······"

"Even though it's okay now, it's not a good omen······

Worried and worried, Chen Ping finally took off his cloth shoes outside the hall, untied his sword, and walked into the hall where Liu Bang was under the guidance of the old eunuch order.

It's just that just a moment after entering the hall, Chen Ping felt an irritating heat, and rushed towards him without warning!

Raising his head a little puzzled, he saw that in the huge hall, there were five feet long and wide, and nearly four feet high stoves; One after another, the fine wood was thrown into the raging fire in the furnace by the temple eunuch by the fireside, and there was a 'crackling' sound from time to time.

Continuing to walk forward, Chen Ping saw that on the north side of the hall, on the high platform that seemed to rise from the ground, Liu Bang, the son of heaven, was wearing a thick quilt, looking at himself condescendingly.

"Qu Wei Hou Chenping, worship Your Majesty~"

After bowing down the rules, Chen Ping raised his head again when there was an extremely weak 'no courtesy' in his ears.

At this stage, Chen Ping finally saw clearly: around the soft couch where Liu Bang, the Son of Heaven, was sitting, there were more than a dozen stoves!

Liu Bang, the Son of Heaven, was draped in a thick quilt and sat cross-legged on the soft couch, his brows slightly furrowed, and his face was slightly pale.

Almost every three or five breaths, the temple people on the side will change a piece of silk cloth soaked in water to wipe off the sweat on Liu Bang's forehead and cheeks.

After a full half a moment, when Chen Ping felt that the clothes on his back were already soaked with sweat, Liu Bang finally opened his eyes slowly.

"Whew~"

"Let it be so today······"

With a leisurely whisper, I saw Liu Bang slowly turn his head sideways, looked at the eunuch Ling who was standing quietly on the side, and pouted around the soft couch.

"These, stay."

"The rest are gone······"

The Son of Heaven gave an order, and the temple people and Lang officials in the hall did not dare to slack off, and after a moment's effort, two or three people joined forces to remove all the dozen or so stoves in the hall.

Feeling the heat on his side disappear, Chen Ping also secretly wiped his forehead and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, Liu Bang raised his head with a slightly weak face and looked at the eunuch order at the palace gate again.

"Waiting outside the hall."

"No one is allowed to enter unless he is called."

There was another slight, but unquestionable command, and in the huge main hall, only Chen Ping, who was kneeling, and Liu Bang, who was sitting upright, were left.

I saw Liu Bang slowly raise his weak arm and waved at Chen Pingwei.

"How?"

"What did the prince say to me?"

When Chen Ping bowed forward, Liu Bang motioned for Chen Ping to sit next to the couch, asked indifferently, and closed his eyes again.

Seeing Liu Bang asking about business, Chen Ping had no choice but to let go of his worries first, and with a little wording, he gave Liu Bang a little hand.

"No, I can't do it."

"The minister was ordered by His Majesty to return to Chang'an, and on the day he arrived in Chang'an, he went straight to Weiyang and met the prince in person!"

"What Your Majesty entrusts, the minister also ······"

Halfway through his words, Chen Ping suddenly stopped talking, and finally gritted his teeth secretly.

"Your Majesty's entrustment, minister, do most of the ······"

"Huh?"

As soon as Chen Ping's slightly weak-hearted words came out, he saw Liu Bang suddenly open his eyes and look at Chen Ping beside him with a frown.

staring at Chen Ping with dark eyes for a while, Liu Bang finally closed his eyes again.

"Tell me about ······"

Hearing this, Chen Ping hurriedly breathed a sigh of relief, and quietly wiped the sweat from his forehead, before he put all the things about this trip in front of Liu Bang.

"The minister will meet the prince in Weiyang, and immediately announce His Majesty's edict to stabilize the price of grain, and give Chixiao Sword and the prince on behalf of His Majesty."

"The prince was terrified when he saw the Chixiao sword, and repeatedly excused himself, saying that he 'didn't dare to accept it';

"However, even if you accept it, the prince has never been in Chixiao, but bathed and changed clothes that night, and served the Chixiao sword on the couch of Changxin Palace, saying: Although His Majesty is away from Chang'an, the emperor is still ······."

Listening to Chen Ping's words in a steady tone, Liu Bang did not open his eyes, only tightened his back, and immediately snorted.

"Hey ······"

"It's worthy of the queen's ear to mention her face, and she has personally admonished her for more than ten years······"

Hearing Liu Bang's unprovoked whisper, Chen Ping only groaned slightly, and then continued: "When the prince receives the sword, the minister will go to the palace guest hall with the marquis, and ask the prince face to face with the things entrusted by His Majesty. ”

"The first person to ask, when the prince was in front of the prince, the prime minister's government issued a decree to eliminate the grain merchant Mi Jia in Guanzhong, and to monopolize rice and grain affairs······"

As he spoke, Chen Ping couldn't help but raise his head slightly tentatively, and saw that Liu Bang was still in the posture of an old monk, so he had to lower his head again.

"In the matter of the grain and rice official camp, the prince said: Farmers are the foundation of the country; The grain is the foundation of agriculture. ”

"Although the matter of grain and rice may seem small, it is related to the livelihood of the people and the consumption of requisition!"

"Those who are businessmen are also the last businessmen; With the end of the business, the matter of grain and rice farming, this reality is reversed, and the disaster will be ······ for all generations."

Hearing Chen Ping say this, Liu Bang finally bowed slightly, but he didn't open his eyes, nor did he speak.

Seeing Chen Ping continued: "The prince wills, agriculture is the foundation of the country, and grain is the foundation of agriculture. ”

"Now that the Kanto region is not peaceful, the internal history has not been placed, so the grain and rice monopoly should be in the hands of the Shaofu ······"

Hearing this, Liu Bang finally opened his eyes with a smile on his face, and his sickly face a moment ago seemed to be a little bloody.

"Kanto is not peaceful······ The history of the house is not ······"

"Shaofu's main grain and rice official camp ······"

Murmuring lightly, Liu Bang sighed with a smile, straightened his waist slightly, and looked outside the temple gate.

Liu Bang naturally understands the saying that 'agriculture is the foundation of the country and grain is the foundation of agriculture', and there is no problem in accepting it.

As for Liu Ying's statement that 'grain and rice are related to the stability of the society, and should be personally watched by the court, and one of the Jiuqing should be in charge', although Liu Bang felt that it was a little exaggerated, it was not unacceptable.

-- According to Liu Ying, grain, to be precise, 'grain price', is directly related to whether the people can eat enough, and it is also related to the logistics supply of the army.

To put it more simply, food prices are directly linked to 'people's livelihood' and 'levy'.

And the importance of 'people's livelihood' and 'conquest', throughout ancient and modern times, I am afraid that there is no second king who can understand Liu Bang so thoroughly!

How did the Han family come to be?

How did Liu Bang dominate the world and become the Taizu of the Han Dynasty?

——Confer the title of the people's field to calm the hearts of the people in the world; Crusade against the Kanto region, get rid of the world!

'Loving the people' and 'martial arts' are almost the core keys in the process of Liu Bangding's establishment of Hanzuo!

If it is said that the major affairs of the country are only Rong and worship, then the major affairs of the Han Dynasty should be 'Wei Rong and the people'!

In this way, the importance of food, even if it has not reached the point where Liu Ying said, 'It must be directly controlled by the Chang'an Center, and the subordinates of the Jiuqing level are fully responsible', it is definitely not much worse.

In Liu Ying's reply, what really made Liu Bang feel bright was the choice Liu Ying made for Jiuqing, who was 'in charge of the grain and rice franchise'.

- Shaofu.

Among Han Jiuqing, what is the status of Shaofu?

If according to the current situation, the real power and political capital of Jiuqing's Ya, aside from the idle internal history and Zongzheng, the remaining seven, Shaofu is almost firmly in the penultimate place!

The other six, although there are unlucky people like Taifu who theoretically have 'in charge of the world and horse politics', but can only drive horses for Liu Bang at the moment, and there are also Qingshui Yamen who are theoretically 'the head of Jiuqing' like Fengchang, but in fact they can only be responsible for the sacrifice, but no matter what, these subordinate yamen also have some real power.

For example, although there are not enough horses in today's Han family, so that the Taifu Xing' horse politics', the stables in the two palaces of Weiyang and Changle also have hundreds of horses dedicated to driving.

All parts of the world, at least all over Guanzhong, the post station communication system every dozens of miles is theoretically under the jurisdiction of the servant.

To put it more bluntly: no matter how miserable the servant is, he at least has the power to make the distribution and dispatch of official horses.

And Shaofu, since the establishment of the Han Dynasty, in the past six years, the only political achievement that can be achieved is a Changle Palace, a Weiyang Palace.

- Even the two palaces of Changle and Weiyang are actually named by Prime Minister Xiao He, and Shaofu is specifically responsible for the construction!

In addition, Liu Bang had no choice but to order Shaofu to melt Qin and half a tael and mint three baht of Han, which made Shaofu's already small savings rush in the direction of 'nothing'.

It is no exaggeration to say: If you look at the actual authority, today's Shaofu is the younger brother in Jiuqing!

Even the lieutenant generals and thieves who are two levels lower in theoretical rank than the Shaofu are probably above the Shaofu

But as the Son of Heaven, Liu Bang also knows very well in his heart: among Jiuqing, Shaofu is a special existence······

"The craftsman is a young man, and the tax of the mountains, seas, and ponds is in charge of the offerings; He is in charge of the east and west weaving rooms, and the chief official is ······"

"In the other army, the armor shield, sword halberd, Ge arrow, and the copper coins of the people are all minted by the Shaofu; The ordnance is in the arsenal, and the money and cloth are stored in the ······"

"The entrance of the year is at least the palace money, thinking that the palace is the use of the Son of Heaven; All the weapons of the arsenal and the wealth of the internal treasury cannot be asked by the outside court······"

"Don't ask ······ foreign courts"

"Hey······ hey"

Looking out of the palace gate with a sloppy gaze, he silently recited in his heart the 'Shaofu authority' that he had personally demarcated, and a meaningful smile quietly hung on the corner of Liu Bang's mouth.

"Some time ago, Chang'an came to report: The prince seems to say that the young mansion Yangcheng Yan, should be a little respectful and far away from Xiao He?"

asked such a question without warning, and saw Liu Bang slowly turn his head sideways, looking meaningfully at Chen Ping beside him.

"Qu Shunhou is returning to Chang'an, have you heard of this matter?"

Hearing Liu Bang's inexplicable question, Chen Ping didn't think about it, so he hurriedly gave it up.

"Yes."

"In this matter, there is a slight rumor in the Chang'an court, but it is said that the prince does not like to have too close personal relations with the Shaofu."

As he spoke, Chen Ping couldn't help frowning slightly.

"Ranchen arrived in Chang'an, and when he faced the prince, Xiao Xiangguo was also on his side."

"Looking at Xiao Xiangguo's face, I don't see Xiao Xiang's estrangement from the prince because of this incident?"

When Chen Ping said this with confusion, Liu Bang finally smiled again, shook his head with emotion, and let out a leisurely sigh.

"Yu Xi (he) has ······"

"Prince, Yu Xi is here······"

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