I wanted to leave it alone, but I can be the mother of others, but I can't give up this heart after all.

In fact, in Geng's heart, the biggest wish is that his son can go to the fiefdom safely in the future and be a king of the free county.

And she can also follow her son to be an idle imperial concubine and spend the rest of her life in peace.

It's a pity that he can't help his mother, he already has his own ideas, and he no longer needs her ideas.

Since the marriage moved out of the palace, it has been a new world for Liu Wei.

According to the rules, the county king's mansion can have its own long history, subordinate officials and guards, and these will be the people who will help him plan in the future.

It's a pity that there are no reliable people in his mother family, and he has only been accompanied by some chamberlains in the palace over the years.

Therefore, it is not easy to recruit a group of capable and loyal people.

After all, who is willing to do some low-level positions in a capable person, unless he is a serious crown prince, he can also gamble on the future.

The average prince relies on two kinds of people, one is the mother family and the other is the wife family.

Since Liu Wei had no one from his mother's clan to use, he had no choice but to beat his wife's clan, which was also his original intention of marrying a famous girl.

In desperation, he married the daughter of a six-rank civil official, sent someone to inquire carefully, and found that her family was originally a declining family, and the most prominent person in the whole family was his wife's father.

In other words, there are no great people at all.

In desperation, he still chose a few children from the Wen family who were a little talented, but the only thing that made him feel relieved was that Princess Wen was indeed talented and beautiful, and her personality was gentle and quiet.

Such a woman, her family background is not very good, she will not care if she finds a few more concubines in the future, and when the time comes, in this way, she can also win over some talented and learned children.

So these days, he is very active in various official and literary gatherings.

Liu Zhi has always sent people to pay attention to his behavior, but he has not interfered too much, in his heart, he does not value the difference between concubines and concubines, wasn't he a concubine in the first place.

The key is to look at talent and character, now they are still young, give some free space to grow, and only then can we know who is the most suitable for the future.

At the end of spring, he continued to start his thunderous summer trip, going to Chang'an the year before last and Zhuojun last year.

And this year's destination, which had been discussed as early as last year, is still going along the canal, but this time not to the north but to the south to Yangzhou.

Since the successful completion of the Grand Canal, the transportation of water connecting maritime trade has flourished, making the already relatively wealthy Yangzhou and Xuzhou areas more prosperous.

Now Yangzhou is already the cultural and economic center of the entire Jiangnan area, forming a unique style and charm.

After the completion of the Grand Canal in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Yangzhou became the envy of the people of the world.

It means that several of the biggest wishes in a person's life have been fulfilled at the same time, which shows how prosperous Yangzhou is.

The smoke and rain in the south of the Yangtze River are also a different style, the most loved by those literati, and many famous sentences in ancient times were born from here.

Of course, the purpose of Liu Zhi's tour is not just for fun, but also for specific political purposes.

I went to Xi'an to complete the ancestral mausoleum and discover the western economy by the way, and to Zhuojun to strengthen the development of the northeast.

The purpose of going to Yangzhou is to inspect and regulate the trade situation of the Han Dynasty.

After more than ten years of rapid development, although Dahan still has local small disasters, it can no longer fundamentally affect people's livelihood.

With the rapid progress of agriculture, industry has also developed rapidly in recent years, and commercial trade has become increasingly prosperous.

A large number of rural laborers began to flock to the cities to work as handicraftsmen or to do small trade, especially in a commercially developed city like Yangzhou.

The intersection of light transportation and sea transportation brings unlimited business opportunities, as long as the mind is a little flexible, you can make a lot of money.

Under such circumstances, the phenomenon of rural abandonment that the old lady Huang Qiong was worried about has begun to appear.

In some remote villages, the people dislike the lack of money by digging in the soil, and would rather abandon the fields and go to the city to work as men.

Although there has not yet been a large-scale abandonment, the situation still makes local officials who value agriculture very uneasy.

Liu Zhi also asked people to investigate the data, and it still looks serious when summed up, although so far, there are only a few particularly prosperous big cities nearby.

But with the development of the whole society, no one knows whether it will become more and more intense.

During the Western Han Dynasty, a similar situation occurred, after the rule of Wenjing, coupled with the early development of Emperor Wu, a large number of farmers began to switch to business.

In the end, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in response to this situation, adopted a severe policy of repression against the merchants.

He separated the household registration of all merchants and imposed a high property tax.

It is important to know that this tax is not a commercial sales tax, but a tax on all the property of the merchant, and in the event of concealment of the property, the punishment is very severe, and all the family property is directly confiscated.

In addition, he also cracked down on businessmen in terms of social status and did not allow them to enter the official career, which is a fatal blow, if you have money but no power, isn't that meat on the chopping board, let others slaughter.

Finally, he also stipulated that merchants were not allowed to wear silk or face severe punishment.

These fatal three rules, from money to birth and dignity, are all attacked without dead ends.

In a short period of time, it dealt a heavy blow to the merchants, and the atmosphere of doing business has since faded.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, these regulations were not abolished on the surface, and the actual implementation was much lax.

First of all, the third prohibition on wearing silk was broken, but there was a division in color and size, and the first was changed to mainly levy a high transaction tax.

Speaking of which, the second article is still being implemented, but those who are really rich also have ways to take advantage of loopholes.

Whenever there was a natural disaster, the imperial court would openly buy and sell some official positions, and this was a good opportunity for merchants to change their backgrounds.

If you can't buy a high-level position, you can buy a low-level one, as long as you enter the official career and use money to smash the relationship, it is not a problem to be promoted slowly.

This purpose can also be achieved by subsidizing the children of down-and-out families, as long as their sponsored people are promoted and rich, they can be dismissed from business status and changed their courts.

After Liu Zhi succeeded to the throne, he went through several reforms of the household registration system, and finally abolished the business registration, and at the same time carefully divided various commercial taxes.

As long as the children of merchant families are indignant and strong, they can achieve class leapfrogging through the imperial examination.

They have money in their hands, they can afford to hire famous teachers, and they urgently need to change their fate through the imperial examination, so in recent years, many children of merchants have emerged in the imperial examination.

As for land abandonment, the Han Dynasty has also formulated a countermeasure in history, that is, under normal circumstances, farmers are not allowed to leave their household registration areas.

Moreover, the land is not allowed to be barren, otherwise the punishment will be staggering.

Since the Han Dynasty did not prohibit the sale of land, when the peasants were not highly motivated about land, they preferred to sell the land, which also indirectly exacerbated the land annexation situation.

After Liu Zhi took office, in order to solve the problem of land annexation, the household registration restrictions were relaxed, which was to better promote the immigration policy.

But now new problems have arisen, so whether the previous land policy is still suitable is also a big question.

This problem has arisen in all dynasties, but the solution is not the same, after all, each dynasty has its own special circumstances, and it is not feasible to copy it completely.

Some policies seem to work, but the test of time has revealed that there are many problems.

Therefore, in the past year, there have been frequent discussions in the imperial court about this policy, but so far, there has been no unified result.

Therefore, Liu Zhi's trip to Yangzhou this time is precisely for this purpose.

He brought with him the relevant officials of the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Commerce, and the Ministry of Industry, and of course when it came to policy reform, and the people of the Ministry of Secretaries were also indispensable.

Even the Hanlin Academy sent some bachelors to participate in the investigation and research.

The eldest princess of Anyang and his wife will also be on the tour, who will assist in investigating the specific data of Yangzhou and other places along the way.

The dragon boat that the emperor rode departed from Luoyang, passed through Yanzhou and Xuzhou all the way down, and the coast belonged to a prosperous and rich land.

However, the Central Plains civilization has always attached importance to agricultural production, and Xuzhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou and other places are not at the intersection of shipping and transportation like Yangzhou.

Therefore, along the way, it was found that the situation in the Central Plains was not bad, and a delicate balance was maintained between agriculture and commerce.

When I arrived in Jiangnan, the atmosphere was noticeably different, with cargo ships weaving on the canal and merchant ships of all sizes parked on the harbor.

The city is bustling with markets, with countless warehouses and a considerable number of handicraft workshops of all kinds, especially textile workshops, almost everywhere.

Even in the suburbs, it is relatively rare for farmers to grow grain directly, and most of them grow cash crops such as flowers, fruits, trees, and vegetables.

Further outskirts are large mulberry fields and cotton fields, which are used to supply the increasingly prosperous textile industry.

It is said that throughout Yangzhou, three-four out of ten fields have begun to be planted with cotton and mulberry trees.

It stands to reason that the south of the Yangtze River has serious insect pests, and the temperature difference between day and night is small, which is not suitable for planting cotton in large quantities, but now the planting area of cotton here has already greatly exceeded that of other places.

It is in itself an irrational phenomenon that a place that is best suited for growing rice is used to grow cotton.

It is no wonder that the local peasant officials were deeply depressed and repeatedly wrote to the imperial court, hoping to attract attention.

In order not to cause trouble to the local government, Liu Zhi lived directly in the suburbs, and the officials who accompanied him immediately began to work separately.

In fact, it doesn't matter if the statistics are not counted, seeing the situation in Yangzhou with his own eyes, Liu Zhi already has a number in his heart.

It seems that the highly developed commercial economy has indeed produced irreconcilable contradictions with the national policy of taking agriculture as the foundation.

Affirming this point also affirms that new policies must be introduced, but how to revise the new policies is the most critical issue.

A correct new policy should not only be able to correct the mistakes that have already occurred, but also be able to predict what will happen in the next few years and intervene in a timely manner.

Therefore, this is a very difficult thing to do, and it takes a lot of brainstorming, discussion and revision to choose the most suitable policy.

The development of society to the present day is no longer the appearance of any dynasty in history.

According to the law of the development of the whole society, the Han Dynasty has not even reached the heyday of the feudal era, and is still in the early stage of the development of feudal society.

However, the arrival of Liu Zhi, a traverser, broke the normal development process and made a dynasty that had just entered the feudal society begin to develop towards industrial civilization.

In order to balance the contradictions between the two systems, Liu Zhi copied many classic policies of later generations.

This played a very important role in the beginning, but now the Han Dynasty is developing too fast, and the collision between various systems and ideas is becoming more and more intense.

All kinds of contradictions have gradually become apparent, and even more and more acute, and by this time, the policies of any era can no longer be copied.

The reason is simple, because the situation is completely different and simply does not fit.

Therefore, Liu Zhi is becoming more and more cautious in policy making, recalling that he made drastic reforms at the beginning, and he really had the courage of an ignorant person who was fearless.

Fortunately, this country is in his hands and has not been destroyed, which can be regarded as very lucky.

The longer he was the emperor, the more deeply Liu Zhicai realized that every inadvertent decision he made would affect the lives of thousands of people, so he was not qualified to act willfully at all.

When I arrived in Yangzhou, it was the end of May, and it was already July when all the data were collected, and the statistics and classification behind it were also very cumbersome.

And Yangzhou is not a good place to escape the summer, the summer climate here is very hot, and humid and rainy, Liu Zhi, who has been used to living in the north, is not used to it.

At the end of July, when the statistics came to an end, Liu Zhi convened a meeting of local officials to listen to their opinions.

As a magistrate in Yangzhou, of course, he did not want to stifle commercial development, after all, it brought countless employment opportunities to the local area and made the whole region rich.

But the almost one-sided hopes of the court officials could not allow the out-of-control commercial policy to cool down and continue to develop rapidly.

Nowadays, this situation is only in a few particularly prosperous cities, but if this development continues, it is difficult to say whether it will sweep the country in the future.

For the sake of the overall situation, it is indeed detrimental to the country.

This adjustment will not only involve commercial policy, but also industrial policy, land policy, agricultural policy and household registration policy.

It basically covers all aspects of the country, and this is another major reform since his major reform more than ten years ago.

Before coming to Yangzhou, he had already assigned some professionals to Chengdu, Guangzhou and Fuzhou to conduct research and research.

Because just one Yangzhou cannot represent the whole country, and Chengdu and other places have also prospered unprecedentedly because of the rise of the Silk Road.

Therefore, the formulation of policies must be aimed at the balanced development of the whole country, which is the long-term way.

In the meeting, Liu Zhi focused on finding problems, and it is always easier to find problems than to solve them.

As magistrates, they do not have a far-sighted view of the big picture, they are most familiar with local affairs, and they know best what the problems are.

Sure enough, these people did not disappoint him, and they summed up dozens of articles in half a day.