Seeing Xiao He bow down in front of him with a frightened expression, Liu Bang's face was only filled with endless complexity.

Once upon a time, Liu Bang also imagined: If there was an idiot who didn't open his eyes, he would be in the mood of pointing at the three-baht money in the court.

Thunder Fury?

Or is it a big prison?

In the past, Liu Bang probably expected it this way, or it was planned to do so.

But now, when Xiao He, the old prime minister who was nearly seventy years old, solemnly bowed in front of him, and said this sentence without subtlety, 'Please abolish the three baht coins and prohibit the people from minting money privately', Liu Bang found strangely: He didn't seem to have any signs of anger.

On the contrary, when he heard the last sentence of 'waste money and three baht, forbidding people to cast privately', Liu Bang only felt that a corner in his heart, a corner that Liu Bang had been forcing himself to forget, a big stone landed safely······

"Whew~"

With a slightly gloomy face, he exhaled a breath of turbidity, Liu Bang couldn't help but loosen his clothes, it seemed that only in this way could he make his stuffy chest feel better.

After thinking about it for a long time, Liu Bang finally understood where the strange emotional changes in his body came from at that moment.

"Lead money 3 baht ······"

"Alas······"

"Arson, Qin, has never had such a 'tyranny'······"

Full of self-shame, and with a long sigh of relief, Liu Bang finally settled down.

Because it was only now that Liu Bang finally clearly realized what kind of dangerous situation the lead money and three baht that he named 'Han Ban Liang' by himself put Liu Han Sheji, which Liu Bang built single-handedly!

Nowadays, if there is anything catchy that can be said to be known to women and children in the whole world, it is undoubtedly 'the tyrannical Qin went against the sky, brutalized the people, fortunately Pei Gong obeyed the heavens, established the Han Dynasty, and gave the people Tianjue, and the world was peaceful'.

But now, Liu Bang has an unprecedented trace of ······ in front of this obvious praise of himself

Guilty!

'Violent Qin', has he ever exchanged more than half or even more than ninety percent of the lead into copper coins?

Can you ever have a lead coin with a diameter of half an inch, the inner hole diagonally and only a little smaller than the outer diameter, weighing only three baht, and completely glowing with silver light, on the word "half two"?

The 'tyrant' who is spurned by all the people today has ever issued an edict: If you refuse to accept such a lead coin of three baht, you will be fined four taels?

There is no ······

None of the above appalling and even unimaginable 'feats' came from 'Violent Qin', but from Liu Han, who is now singing praises to all the people in the world······

What made Liu Bang embarrassed the most and couldn't face the praise of 'Xingpei Gong obeyed the heavens, defeated Qin and established Han Zuo', was the word 'Hanxing' engraved on the back of the hundreds of lead coins and three baht in front of him······

"Huh·······"

"Hanxing ·······"

With a sarcastic face, he picked up a three-baht coin from his face, and gently stroked the word 'Hanxing' on the money with his thumb, and Liu Bang's face only swelled with endless self-deprecation.

"What's the interest?"

"The people are fat, the people are anointed?"

"Bones are exposed?!"

With a wry smile and two questions in his heart, Liu Bang shook his head lonely.

In the past, Liu Bang had never thought so carefully about what the appearance of the three-baht coin would bring.

Even just half an hour ago, Liu Bang was still as usual, with a hint of luck for the 'three baht money'.

——The benefits of the three baht coins are not owned by the only Shaofu, but by all the people in the world······

- I minted three baht coins, but the government and treasury were empty, and the world was undecided, so there was this expedient measure······

"What the Marquis said······"

He opened his lips with a complicated expression, and hesitated to pause the conversation, and in the end, Liu Bang still gritted his teeth and squeezed out two words from between his dry lips.

"Justified ······"

Almost with all his strength, these two words were squeezed out of his mouth, and Liu Bang sat down on the couch as if his soul had been drained in an instant.

And at the foot of the imperial stairs, hearing Liu Bang finally say these two words, and seeing Liu Bang like this, Xiao He couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"Alas~"

"Your Majesty has always been strong, but now he is willing to admit the disadvantages of three baht money······"

"Rare."

"It's rare······"

With a long sigh full of nostalgia and a slight smile, Xiao He sat up straight for a while, and looked up at Liu Bang, the old son of heaven with a haggard face on the imperial couch.

"Your Majesty."

"The prince is in charge of the official government of grain and rice, and at this age, he can still not be affected by the disadvantages of the Han Dynasty and half a tael for the time being."

"However, when the autumn harvest is due, Shaofu is afraid that he will not be able to return home in the tenth month, and he will be exhausted and worried about this matter."

"And the prince is out on the expedition, and the old minister has no good strategy, if he is not careful, the good governance done by the prince himself is afraid that he will be still······born."

Hearing Xiao He's remarks, Liu Bang only forced himself to adjust his emotions and sat up straighter again.

But after sitting up straight, Liu Bang looked at the imperial case in front of him with a gloomy expression, and was stunned for half a bowl of tea, but he didn't speak.

If it weren't for Xiao He talking about the grain and rice official camp, Liu Bang would still be secretly complaining about Xiao He in his heart.

- Three baht is not good, I know!

But the people, don't they already don't charge three baht?

Couldn't the three baht money before Shaofu be spent?

What is the difference between this situation and the abolition of the three-baht coin?

Do you have to open my mouth and admit my mistakes?

As for the reason why Liu Bang has such thoughts, and even complains about Xiao He because of this, it is not because Liu Bang is narrow-minded.

However, in the case of the 'three baht coin', in addition to the practical problem of the unequal face value and value, there is also a key political issue.

- The majesty of the Son of Heaven!

To be precise, as the founding monarch of the country, the 'culprit' who allowed the issuance of three-baht coins, Liu Bang is likely to suffer a great loss of prestige!

The reason couldn't be simpler: Shaofu melted the three-baht coin, which was ordered by Liu Bang himself; Shaofu spent three baht to buy materials on the market, and Liu Bang also supported him behind his back.

Shaofu wrote the word 'half tael' on the front of each three-baht coin, which was also an order from Liu Bang!

In order to make this three-baht weight 'Han half tael' legally have a face value of twelve baht, Liu Bang even personally issued an edict to endorse the face value of three baht coins!

This also means that whether the three-baht coin exists is almost completely equated with 'whether Liu Bang made a mistake or not'.

Nowadays, although the three-baht coin has completely lost its purchasing power, as long as he still exists and the court has not officially abolished it, then Liu Bang has not said 'wrong' on the issue of 'three-baht coin'.

However, if the court comes to the conclusion that 'the three-baht coin should be abolished' after deliberation, and even the Son of Heaven Liu Bang himself ordered the abolition of the three-baht coin, then the political significance implied by this move is not trivial.

The conclusion that 'the three-baht coin should be abolished' means that the Chang'an center unanimously agreed through deliberation: Liu Bang, the son of heaven, should not have issued the three-baht coin in the first place!

If Liu Bang ordered it himself, it would be even more serious.

- The Son of Heaven admits that he made a mistake!

In the Hereafter······

To be precise, it was in the later years of the Han Wu Emperor Liu Che who promulgated the edict of sin, and in the next two thousand years, the Son of Heaven admitted his mistakes, which may be a virtue worthy of praise and praise.

But at the moment when Liu Heng, the grandfather of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che, was only a seven-year-old child, the Son of Heaven must not make mistakes!

Or: No matter what, the Son of Heaven must not admit his mistakes!

Especially as the founding emperor of Liu Han and the ancestor of a dynasty, Liu Bang must not have any suspected of 'admitting his mistakes' no matter what!

As for the current Han family, why there is such a political background of 'the Son of Heaven cannot make mistakes, let alone admit that he has made mistakes', it actually dates back to ancient times, and it happened between several holy kings.

- Wen Shun's sage, Yao married Empress E, Nu Ying was Shun's wife, and he was able to watch Shun for 28 years, Fang Chan and Shun;

——Wen Yu's talent, Shun is not selfish and evil, and will die and Zen and Yu.

This is a good story that has been passed down by the Chinese nation even in later generations: Yao Shun Chan Rang.

Nowadays, although the world has long bid farewell to the ancient era where Yao and Shun were located, experienced the Xia, Yin Shang, Ji Zhou, and even the short-lived Ying Qin, and ushered in the feudal civilization ruled by Liu Han, the huge inertia of history is still in all aspects of society, affecting the path of progress of the Chinese nation.

Especially the closer the pyramid is to the top, the more powerful the influence of these popular ancient tales becomes.

And in this era when officials open their mouths to say 'to the monarch Yao Shun', even though 'the hereditary throne' has become a consensus, the characteristics of the Chan Rang system of 'people-oriented, appointing people as virtuous' are still exuding their own light.

Let's take a very simple example.

The current crown prince Liu Ying has been made the crown prince as early as when Liu Bangshang was the king of Han; After Liu Bang established Hanzuo, that is, the emperor's throne, Liu Ying also naturally completed the transformation from 'crown prince' to 'crown prince'.

'A hundred years after the Son of Heaven, the crown prince will inherit Sheji' is also the consensus of the people of the world.

But even so, when Liu Bang is seriously ill and bedridden and is about to die, according to the current political background, he will still pretend to say: Although I am not as good as a holy king like Yao Shun, I am willing to follow the measures of the holy king; Now that I am dying, if there is a sage who can inherit the throne and can be elected to me by the ministers of the hundred officials, I will give him the Shejizen.

Hearing this, the courtiers and officials will naturally not be stupid enough to take it seriously, but will be 'extremely sincere' to persuade: Your Majesty, looking at the whole world, there is no one more virtuous than the crown prince, and only by letting the crown prince inherit the throne can the world become better.

At this time, Liu Bang was shocked and asked, 'Really?' After the hundred officials nodded a little more, they would 'reluctantly' say: Since everyone thinks that the prince is the most virtuous person in the world, let the prince inherit the country left by me.

Perhaps in the eyes of future generations, such a political show will seem very hypocritical.

But with such a layer of 'democratic recommendation' procedures, the prince who is obviously inherited to the throne by hereditary inheritance will leave an impression of 'the most virtuous man today' in the hearts of people who do not know the truth.

The mythical aura of the 'Son of Heaven', coupled with the moral aura of 'being the most idle person today', can succeed the prince of the Ninth Five-Year Plan and ensure that the society is safe.

As for the Han Dynasty, 'the apology of the Son of Heaven became a trend', but it was just because Sejong Liu Che made an edict of sin and pierced the window paper of Chan Rang, and disclosed the truth that 'the emperor is also a mortal in the flesh, not a sage', in front of the people of the world without reservation.

And now, in the early Han Dynasty, when the Son of Heaven had never seen the edict of sin, and still acquiesced to 'the Son of Heaven, the most virtuous man in the world', the Son of Heaven made mistakes, and it was still not allowed by the political environment.

It's not okay to make mistakes, and it's even more impossible to admit that you've made mistakes.

Even exaggerated: Liu Han Tianzi, even if he makes a mistake, he must learn from Boss Cao in later generations, and put on a posture of 'knowing mistakes, correcting mistakes, and not admitting mistakes'.

This is the reason why Liu Bang complained to Xiao He when he heard Xiao Heming say, 'Please abolish the three baht and prohibit the people from casting privately'.

Because the waste of three baht means that Liu Bang personally admitted: I made a mistake in issuing three baht coins······

And 'the Son of Heaven admits his mistake', in the current political background of the Han family, will only lead to two consequences.

The first is that those who are self-righteous deliberately make more serious mistakes in order to show that 'I have absolutely no wise sons' attitude, so as to maintain the stability of the regime.

If this is the case, then it is better to say - in history, Emperor Wu's guilty edict was basically caused by this result.

But if it's the second consequence, then things will be complicated.

- The Son of Heaven himself admits his mistakes, that is, he has made mistakes; I've never made a mistake, so am I wiser than the Son of Heaven?

Since I am wiser than the Son of Heaven, then according to the 'appointing people to be virtuous', am I not more worthy of the position of the Son of Heaven?

Once such a thought appears in someone's mind, then the whole world will immediately fall into an extremely dangerous situation!

- Today's Han family is not the Song and Ming dynasties of later generations!

It is basically impossible for the literati class, who have not even pointed out the basic skills of 'raising hope', to be a scumbag, but think of themselves as sages!

That is to say: in this generation, once someone has the idea of 'I have not made a mistake, so I am wiser than the Son of Heaven', then this person is 10% of the people who have really never made a mistake, and there is a probability of more than 80% of people who are 'more virtuous than the Son of Heaven'!

If you really want to let such a person come to the front and say to the emperor: You have made mistakes, I have not made mistakes, you are not as virtuous as me, you should give me the throne, what should the emperor do?

Is it to tear apart the only remaining fig leaf of the 'Zen concession system', and to be stained with the stigma of 'not following the actions of the Holy King of Yao Shun', or is it really to give up the throne?

Obviously, no.

Therefore, in order to avoid this situation, Liu Bang cannot admit his mistake no matter what.

Especially in the matter of 'three baht money', which is directly related to social stability, people's livelihood and people's livelihood, and directly damages the interests of the people, and the direct beneficiary is the court, Liu Bang must not open the mouth of 'admitting mistakes'!

Not by default!

But when Xiao He still ignored it and continued to say the sentence 'If the three-baht money is not abolished, there will be problems in the grain and rice official camp', Liu Bang's face finally appeared with a knowing smile.

——As an old superior, an old buddy, and an 'old partner' after the establishment of the Han family, it is impossible for Xiao He not to know what Liu Bang is thinking in his heart at this moment.

And Xiao He knew it, but he still said the latter sentence to emphasize the necessity of abolishing the three-baht coin······

This means·········

"If the Marquis has a good strategy, why should I talk about him in front of me?"

said this with deep meaning, and a meaningful smile finally hung on the corner of Liu Bang's mouth······