[Vol. 1] Section 182: Downhill Road

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Liu Che traveled in the mountains and rivers, built a large number of buildings, rewarded excessively, and often misfired at the border, so the treasury was in a hurry.

This made his finance minister Sang Hongyang very sad, but Sang Hongyang is indeed extraordinary, and he has repeatedly come up with strange strategies in financial management to resolve the economic dilemma.

Sang Hongyang, born in a merchant family, has a smart brain since he was a child, and his mental arithmetic ability is particularly powerful. At the age of thirteen, he served as a servant, and in the next twenty years, because of the political clarity and the full treasury, Sang Hongyang had no room to play. Until the third year of Yuanzhen, Sang Hongyang served as the chief farmer Zhongcheng, and since then, he has become Liu Che's cornucopia.

He successively served as the Great Si Nong, the Imperial Historian, and participated in the formulation and implementation of important economic strategies during the Liu Che period. ”

Such a high praise, in the long history, there is no ancient, no one after.

Although Sang Hongyang is powerful, it is not the focus of introduction, Sang Hongyang's work is behind the scenes, and his strong financial management ability provides a guarantee for Liu Che's martial arts and squandering.

Over the years, Liu Che has never stopped training.

Successive years of invasion of Hungary, the Xiongnu to Mobei, the north is relatively calm, but do not want to Xiqiang, South Vietnam rebelled one after another, and then sent troops to the southwest, Korea. In addition, thieves from all over the world, envoys, patrols, Zen sealing, seeking immortals, natural disasters, which does not cost a lot of money?

If there was no Sang Hong sheep, Liu Che would have eaten up the old books left by his ancestors.

The victory on the battlefield brought face to the Han Dynasty, but it increased the burden on the common people, although it was not enough to eat, but the standard of living did not improve is an indisputable fact, many poor places, thieves have risen.

They occupy the mountains as kings and rob for a living.

Not only is law and order deteriorating, but so is the rule of law.

At this time, Liu Che appointed a large number of cool officials, and compared with others, Zhang Tang, the chief leader of the cool officials, and Zhao Yu were quite benevolent.

Such as the cool official Wang Wen Shu, successively served as the imperial history, Quang Binh Governor, Hanoi Taishou. This person's hands, without exaggeration, can be described as a river of blood.

When he was young, Wang Wenshu often robbed and killed people on dark and windy nights, and the murderous hammer in his hand made people shudder at first sight. He later mixed into the civil service, because of his skill in handling cases, he was slowly promoted to the imperial history, and because of his meritorious service in supervising and killing thieves, he was appointed as the governor of Guangping. Wang Wenshu is indeed ruthless enough, in order to let these ruthless characters under his command work for him, he secretly collects the handles of his minions. Whoever is disobedient will wait to lose his head.

The thieves in Guangping under Wang Wenshu were extinct, and no one dared to set foot in Guangping among the thieves near Shizai, and they took a detour when they went out.

Guangping can be said to be unfounded. When the imperial court heard about it, he was promoted to the Taishou of Hanoi. When the new official took office, Wang Wenshu inevitably had three fires, and his first fire made Hanoi bleed for more than ten miles. He listed the lawless heroes in Hanoi one by one, and played them to the imperial court, and the heavy ones were punished by the clan, and the light ones were killed, and the court also approved his recitals. For a time, Hanoi County was full of mourning and blood. In just two or three days, no one in Honei County dared to make noise at night, let alone walk at night, let alone thieves. Because it was winter, the prison was overcrowded, and it was not allowed to kill prisoners in the spring, so they had to be killed in December. Seeing that the prisoners ushered in the hope of living for a few more months, Wang Wenshu's words almost made everyone hit the wall, "You have to order the winter to be extended for a month, otherwise you won't be able to finish killing." ”

Wang Wenshu is just a very representative member of Liu Che's team, and others such as Ning Cheng, Du Zhou, Yi Zong, Yin Qi and the like, none of them are fuel-efficient lamps.

Cool officials are in charge, and in some places they don't close their doors at night, but they still can't stop people from committing crimes one after another.

The private minting of five baht coins alone killed 100,000 people, but it still cannot be completely banned.

At the same time that civil law was rampant, Liu Che intensified his crackdown on local princes and senior cadres.

In order to cater to Liu Che's preferences, Zhang Tang created an unprecedented crime of "belly slander", and with this crime, some people will be labeled as belly slander if they don't like it horizontally and vertically.

"Your Majesty, this guy glared at Weiyang Palace. He was guilty of belly libel! ”

In this way, officials should be more cautious and careful, and those with stiff expressions, will not engage in relationships, and will not laugh and practice their expressions.

In addition, Liu Che also created the crime of drinking gold, if the gold you pay is not of good quality, you will die. And the lack of color is up to Liu Che, he said that your lack is insufficient, even if it is actually more than a few times, it is insufficient.

What crimes of money, leftist officials, and out-of-bounds crimes are sharp weapons to crack down on disobedient princes and high-ranking cadres. Liu Che was very happy with it. There is evidence that during the Gaozu period, there were 143 meritorious princes, and by the time of Liu Che, the number of lost marquis and officials reached eighty percent, the big marquis had no more than 10,000 households, and the small marquis had 5 or 600 households.

All of this is the credit of Liu Che. Of course, from another point of view, in this way, it is not a bad thing to crack down on these powerful elites, the confiscation of property can replenish the state treasury, and the confiscation of land can be distributed to the peasants and increase taxes.

On the border, the Xiongnu behaved a lot, and there had been no war for many years. But they're also on the move.

In the fifth year of Yuan Ding (112 BC), South Vietnam was opposed.

At the end of the same year, Xiqiang rebelled, united with the Xiongnu, and killed Taishou.

At the beginning of the first year of Yuan Feng (110 BC), Nanyue and Xiqiang were pacified.

Liu Che doesn't seem to be able to toss in China, and he has the itch of tossing abroad.

In the second year of Yuanfeng (109 years ago), Liu Che was forty-seven years old, he sent Shi He to envoy to North Korea, and ordered the Korean king Wei Youqu to come to Chang'an to call the ministers to see the driver.

Wei Youqu found all kinds of reasons to shirk, look, brother, my leg hurts, look, brother, this road is far away, and North Korea can't be left without an owner for a day.

Shi He saw that he couldn't say that Wei Youqu killed the Korean chief (deputy king and chief of the guard) who saw him off when he returned to the dynasty. Shi He figured out Liu Che's thoughts, and sent him to North Korea to find fault with North Korea. Therefore, after returning to the DPRK, he vividly explained the attitude of the DPRK side and the killing of the DPRK general.

Liu Che not only did not blame Shi He for killing the North Korean generals without authorization, but also specially commended Shi He and crowned him as the governor of eastern Liaodong.

When the Koreans arrived at Sheho, they sent troops to kill him.

When the news reached Chang'an, Liu Che was furious, so he issued an edict, calling on the world to join the army enthusiastically and prepare for the eastward expedition to Korea.

On the border of Liaodong, the war was stimulated.