Slightly inferior.

The ghost knows how desperate Yuan An's heart was when Jia Gui's word 'slightly inferior' came out.

- A horse bought for 1,500 gold is 'slightly inferior' compared to the stallions in the Lishan stable;

And each of these horses was worth fifteen hundred gold—at least a stallion of more than a thousand gold, and it was a full seventy-five, but it was sold for only one hundred and seventy gold, which was converted into one hundred and seventy gold.

Is this still digging the foot of the national wall?

I'm afraid this can already be regarded as prieing the foundation of the sect society.

Why?

First of all, I have to mention one point: why is Jia Gui's Hu horse so expensive?

As the saying goes: scarce things are expensive.

Perhaps on the steppe, among the nomads, although the horse is also majestic, it is by no means worth a thousand gold, at most it is worth three or four ordinary stallions.

But in today's Han family, where there is a shortage of horses, especially high-quality stallions, any stallion - any stallion that can be used as a stallion - has a very high value.

The reason is simple: a stallion means that a certain group of mare will live happily ever after.

To put it more bluntly, it is to reproduce.

A well-bred stallion can greatly increase the reproduction rate of a mare population.

Many well-bred stallions can ensure the genetic diversity of the population, greatly reducing the number of foals born with disabilities due to 'inbreeding'.

From this point of view, the price of a stallion is not a simple addition and subtraction, or multiplication and division.

If a stallion is worth a thousand dollars, it is because it allows a large herd of mares to give birth to foals;

If two stallions are worth 3,000 gold together, it is because they can try to ensure that their third generation has a chance of not breeding with their inbreds.

This is an exponential increase until the number of stallions, i.e. more than ten, will be a qualitative change.

- Ten stallions, almost reducing the probability of inbreeding of the third generation of blood relatives to negligible!

And starting with ten, with each additional stallion, this already negligible chance will be reduced by a large margin.

In other words: a good enough number of stallions, enough quality, is the key to whether a herd can snowball in quantity without compromising – at least not so much – the quality.

And Yuan An's servant actually let such a herd of seventy-nine stallions lose seventy-five of them.

According to Liu Sheng's bold speculation, the remaining four stallions, I was afraid that they would be picked and no one wanted them, so they were lucky enough to stay in the Lishan stable.

In this way, the facts are very clear and clear.

The loss of the Lishan stable must not be measured by the more than seventy stallions, or all the stallions, or more than half of the mares.

The loss of the Lishan Stable is not only the seventy-five stallions with an average value of more than 1,000 gold, but also the future of the entire Lishan Stable.

- If there are seventy-nine stallions, no more than twenty years at most, the Lishan stable can complete the accumulation of the population base, and continue to slaughter horses for many years, and even slaughter war horses in batches!

But now, the only four stallions that survive in the Lishan stable, especially the old horses that are most likely to be 'useless', even make it difficult for Liu Sheng to make up his mind to allocate funds from the Shaofu to maintain the Lishan stable, so that the Lishan stable can continue to exist.

Those more than 70 stallions are the foundation of the Lishan stable.

The Lishan stable, as well as every horse garden that is the same as the Lishan stable, was the foundation of the Liu Han Dynasty's external struggle, especially the northward enemy······

Yuan An's servant is destroying the foundation of the Liu family······

"If a Lishan stable is like this, what should the situation be like in other outer stables in Guanzhong?"

"Since Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, has the horse government money allocated to the imperial servant over the years been used for the horse administration of my Han family, rather than on the personal relations of the imperial servant?"

"If I really go to investigate, can there be more than ten officials in the entire imperial servant who can walk out of the court with a clean ????"

For Liu Sheng's series of questions, Yuan Ang couldn't give an answer, and he didn't dare to give an answer at all.

This is the case in the Lishan stables, but what about the rest of the outer stables?

Yuan Ang can only say that when a system comes out, the eldest brother should not laugh at the second brother.

Those closer to Chang'an, such as Lantian and Xinfeng, are okay - after all, they are closer to Chang'an, and there are always people who are worried about things being exposed, so they restrain a little.

But in the 'remote area' of Lishan Stable, where you can't wait for a Shangguan or an imperial historian to inspect it for ten or eight years, the appearance of the servant officials is really difficult to see and outrageous.

And for these situations, Yuan An, who is nominally responsible for Ma Zheng in the world, is actually mainly responsible for driving the royal chariot for Tianzisheng, and occasionally symbolically asks Ma Zheng, and really feels that he is suffering and can't say it······

What the hell is going on?

In fact, it is very simple: after Yuan Ang sat on the servant, some old friends who had been in contact with him over the years came to the door with their own gifts, and shyly said that they had something to ask Yuan Ang.

After asking, I learned that these boys had joined forces to set up a caravan, and if they didn't do business, they were specifically responsible for helping merchants transport goods;

From Guanzhong to Kanto, one round trip a year, everyone can earn food and drink without worry, and even have enough food and clothing.

For these old guys, especially the old friends who have a marketable atmosphere and a chivalrous atmosphere, Yuan Ang certainly has the intention to let them get back on the right path and do something serious.

Hearing that the old guys started the express delivery, Yuan Ang was immediately overjoyed, so he slapped his chest with a pop: Say it! How can I help!

As long as I can help, I will definitely help you!

Then, one of them stood up a little shyly, saying that the newly established courier company wanted to rent some horses from Yuan An's servant to haul goods to and from Kanto.

At the beginning, Yuan Ang was still wary of this: how can public weapons be used privately?

But under the persuasion of the man's clever tongue, Yuan Ang finally chose to write a letter to the officials under his command, and borrowed some horses from the servants to the old guys.

- No one else can refuse their offer!

According to them, the servant's colt is also put away, not to mention wasting feed, and it cannot create any value.

Rather than this, it is better to rent out, not only to make an extra income, but also to let the tenant bear the feed, and reduce the expenditure for the servant.

In this comparison, there is no difficulty in choosing.

- No rent, that is, these horses are raised for nothing, bearing the cost of feed, but there is no income;

- If you rent it out, you can save not only the cost of feed, but also earn a daily rent!

The most important thing is that if there is a problem such as death or injury of a horse, the family will compensate three times the market price.

That's it, who is not tempted?

Yuan Ang thought of precisely this plan of 'renting for a win-win situation for all parties', so he acquiesced in some of the actions of his subordinate officials.

It's just that I didn't expect that a momentary mistake would cause such a catastrophe······

"Alas······"

"I knew it was ······"

"—Yuan An, Yuan An;"

"—I knew this was the case, so why bother in the first place?"

Almost at the same time, Yuan An, who was kneeling on the ground, and Liu Shengjunchen, who had a gloomy face, both had such a sentence in their hearts at the same time.

If you knew this was the case, why bother in the first place?

It's just that since all this has happened, no matter how much Yuan Ang regrets it, no matter how much Liu Sheng regrets it, he can't go back after all······

·

"Yuan An, I'm old."

In the early morning of the next day, Liu Sheng unexpectedly appeared in the Changxin Hall of Changle Palace to report yesterday's events to his grandmother, the Empress Dowager Dou.

As for the reason why Liu Sheng did this, the reason why he came to make a report so early in the morning, it is actually very simple.

The Lishan stable who sold seventy-five stallions, but only recorded 'income of 1.7 million yuan', surnamed Dou······

"Dou Wan ······"

"Emperor, what are you going to do?"

Sure enough, as Liu Sheng expected, after she said the news of 'Yuan Ang suing the elderly', the attention of the Empress Dowager Dou still did not shift from her own sons and nephews to other places.

Even if Yuan Ang is an old friend and old friend of the Empress Dowager Dou, he has not been able to change this reality.

In this regard, Liu Shengzi also has his own set of arguments.

——A set of argumentation system tailored to the audience of the Empress Dowager Dou.

"The imperial grandmother should remember that back then, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen wanted to build a pavilion in Weiyang Palace, right?"

As soon as these words came out, the tentative look on the face of the Empress Dowager Dou suddenly disappeared, and her eyebrows were instantly filled with a burst of sorrow.

"Remember~"

"Remember ······"

Seeing that his grandmother was really attracted by the memories, Liu Sheng also bowed his head slightly, and continued: "Back then, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen wanted to build a pavilion, so he asked the officials and craftsmen of Shaofu: How much grain does it cost to build such a pavilion? ”

"The craftsman replied: 100 gold."

"So, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen was shocked, and hurriedly said left and right: One hundred gold, that is all the money of ten middle-class families, but do you want to use it to build a pavilion for me, a faint monarch who has no merit or fame, but is supported by the people of the world?"

"This incident caused a lot of material arguments back then, and there were different opinions on the streets and alleys, and there was even no shortage of malicious slanderous remarks against Emperor Taizong."

"But Emperor Taizong said: The people are ignorant and have not read, so what they want to say, let them go."

"So in addition to the "Slander Order", the common people in the world who do not have official positions are allowed to talk about all the things they want to talk about spontaneously.

"Up to now, whether it is the pavilion that has not been built, or in addition to the "Slander Order", it is the evidence of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen's benevolence and holiness."

"Grandmother Huang shouldn't know these things······"

Of course, the Empress Dowager Dou knew.

You must know that the reason why the Empress Dowager Dou is the Empress Dowager is precisely because Emperor Taizong Xiaowen is the husband of the Empress Dowager Dou, and Emperor Xian Xiaojing is the son of the Empress Dowager Dou.

Regarding the legal source of her identity as the 'Empress Dowager', Empress Dowager Dou regards herself more than anything else.

It's just that at this moment, the Empress Dowager Dou really didn't understand: she was obviously talking about the imperial servant, and she was talking about the Lishan stable ordering Dou Wan, and Liu Sheng didn't mention what to do with these past events.

"When my grandson said this, I wanted to remind my grandmother: The pavilion that was evaluated by Emperor Taizong Xiaowen as 'too expensive, and how extravagant people will spend 100 gold to repair this thing' is just 100 gold."

"And every stallion left in the Lishan stable is the successive servants of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen and Emperor Xianxiaojing, through the road of Chang'an Hou and the border pass market, after a lot of hardships and thousands of gold."

——A pavilion worth 100 gold, Emperor Taizong would rather be scolded for being "a little family", "never seen the world", and "a country horseman" who was not willing to repair it; ”

"—Each stallion in the Lishan Stable is worth more than ten such pavilions."

"And like this, each stallion is worth at least ten pavilions, and the Lishan Stable Order has sold seventy-five horses······"

ruthlessly debunked the lies made up by Dou Wan - left and right, but 'I was greedy for a little money, Your Majesty seemed to be going to kill me' and so on, Liu Sheng didn't forget to turn sideways a little and look at Dou Wan, who was sitting on the side of the hall and lowered his head when he heard the words.

When Liu Sheng was about to become the crown prince, when Emperor Xianxiaojing used the matter of stabilizing grain prices as the final test before Liu Sheng became the prince, Liu Sheng and Dou Wan also had a short experience of working together.

Speaking of which, it can be regarded as half an acquaintance.

But no matter how familiar he is, Liu Sheng can't tolerate anyone to squander himself like this - squander the accumulation of years of hard work of the two generations of Wenjing emperors.

My father and my father planted a tree for me, and it was about to bear fruit, and one of your distant relatives wanted to cut down the tree and sell wood?

I'm going to fuck you!!

"Oh······"

"The stallions of the ten pavilions, the stables, sold seventy-five horses······"

Empress Dowager Dou's cold words provoked Dou Wan to break into a cold sweat, and she was about to get up and say something, but she was hit by a mending knife from the eunuch Ling Xia Que in the main artery, completely losing the last trace of vitality.

"The old slave palace is a person, he shouldn't have said anything, and His Majesty has also explained several times, asking the old slave not to tell the queen mother."

"But the old slave, I really can't stand it······"

"—Not only seventy-five stallions, but also nearly a thousand mares in the Lishan stable, most of which were also sold by the stable;

"Thousands of horses have also been rented out at the price of one penny a day, but they still have Lishan stables in charge of feeding."

"And those who rented the horses from the Lishan stable, who had just brought the horses out of the Lishan stable, sublet them to others on the way before they even left the Lishan stable."

"The rent is one hundred and fifty dollars a day, and the feed is ······ separately."

Under Liu Sheng's acquiescence intentionally or unintentionally, Xia Que finally tore off the last fig leaf of Dou Wan.

And the consequences of this are undoubtedly very serious······

"Originally, I thought that it was the emperor who added the crown and kissed the government, so he was going to take my Dou family."

"Don't you think that my Dou clan has such a stupid worm to ruin the reputation of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen?"

As she spoke, the Empress Dowager Dou got up leisurely and took one last look at Dou Wan.

"Go to the ancestral hall and kneel."

"When will the horses in the Lishan stable be found, and when will they get up."

After saying that, the Empress Dowager Dou walked to the back of the palace by herself, and as she walked, she did not forget to greet behind her: "The emperor comes with me." ”

"Our ancestors and grandchildren, I haven't spoken well for a long time······

(End of chapter)