Chapter Seventy-Five: Liu Bang: Where is my Bole?
The contradictions of society will never go away.
But is there really such a big contradiction between the First Emperor, and even the Great Qin, and thousands of Qiantou and even low-level scholars?
Not necessarily.
The root contradiction between the first emperor and Li Shu lies in the excessive taxation and forced labor, but this contradiction can be dissolved and reduced.
A large part of the reason why the leaders of the six kingdoms regarded the First Emperor as an enemy and created a situation where water and fire were incompatible was because of the artificial transfer of contradictions.
Anyway, the First Emperor is not a good thing, the local officials can pretend to be corrupt and can pretend to be the king's order, and the local nobles can also blame the First Emperor for exploiting the people.
Qianshou had nowhere to vent, and all his anger was directed at the First Emperor.
There was no way before, and the battlefield of public opinion in Daqin was inherently at a disadvantage.
Now, by posting notices, it is only the first step for Daqin to issue a manifesto to show his attitude.
Regardless of whether it can be carried out or not, at least you must tell the people that the exploitation you have suffered because of this does not come from the Great Qin or from the First Emperor.
From then on, the credibility of Daqin lost in the local administration was recovered step by step.
It's just that the current Zhao Si only has a vague idea, and he can't come up with the charter for a while, and he still needs to continue to think about specific strategies.
And Li Si acted very quickly after getting Zhao Si's advice, after all, it was a matter of people's livelihood, and the most important thing was that Great Qin and the First Emperor could no longer help the remnants of the Six Kingdoms.
It is no longer tolerable for the remnants of the Six Nations and local officials to hoard goods and guide public opinion at the same time.
Soon, a large number of notices printed from Xianyang were sent directly to all counties and townships in the world.
Need a lot of paper? Then stop the supply of official paper and the printing of Qin Law first.
Not printing fast enough? Then print and copy by hand.
In short, be sure to put up the notice as soon as possible!
Later, Li Si also began to use his power as the head of the three princes, and ordered local officials to publicize the issue of promoting the cultivation of immortal grain at a reasonable price, and at the same time sent officials to supervise the implementation.
The First Emperor's speed of action slowed down once again.
It was impossible to put an end to hoarding and the greed of the nobility, and the price of grain remained high everywhere, but because of various actions, the object of contradiction had quietly shifted, and the anger and complaints of the people were no longer directed at the First Emperor alone.
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"What the dog enters, King Qin rarely has a kind heart!"
On the empty cultivated field, Liu Bang was busy for most of the day and finally completed the reclamation and cultivation, and threw the hoe on the ground and said angrily.
Naturally, Pei County also posted a notice announcing the promotion of seed parity.
Liu Bang is literate and naturally understands it.
I still thought in my heart that King Qin had finally done a job.
He didn't have much grain in his hands last year, and although the yield was very high, it was not enough to sow seeds, and if he wanted to sow seeds, he had to find a way to buy some more grain seeds.
It is rare for Liu Bang to praise the First Emperor once when he ordered to push grain at a low price, after all, this is closely related to his interests.
Mei Zizi took the money and planned to buy sweet potatoes and corn seeds through the government, but was told that they had been sold out.
Where is it sold out, it is clear that there is no profit, and it is directly sold to merchants by officials at a higher price.
There was no way, and the relationship between Xiao He and Xiao He doubled the price to buy enough grain to cultivate.
"We're pretty good, with Xiao He's relationship, we can buy it at twice the price, and the grain in the hands of those merchants is now five or six times higher than the official price." Fan spread his hands.
Fan Xu naturally bought sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn seeds this year.
No way, the yield is too high.
The most important thing is that the big brother Liu Bang is really planted, and Fan Hao has seen the yield with his own eyes.
Regardless of what wet food and cheap food, the first factor that most people at the bottom consider is always to fill their stomachs.
Only on the basis of filling your stomach can you talk about other things.
More food can be harvested, more people can be fed, and the more children can be fed, the more prosperous the family will be.
Fan Hao was also purchased through Xiao He's channel at double the price.
Not only Fan Xu, but also Xiao He, Cao Shen, Zhou Bo, Xiahou Ying, Wang Ling and others also bought immortal grain seeds.
However, depending on the family situation, the amount of purchase is not consistent.
The best life is the little official who eats public food, what family still dares to think that food is cheap?
Wet food? What happened to wet food?
The yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes was 2,000 catties, and he died of poisoning after eating it, so he had to say that he was not in good health.
"The businessman who entered the dog, the toad used to have to take out the urine." Liu Bang opened the kettle, drank a large sip of fruit wine, and handed it to Fan Xu.
Inferior fruit wine, sour taste, but Liu Bang's family can't afford to drink grain wine.
"If you don't say it, the officials of Pei County don't do anything." Fan Xu raised his head and took the wine jug and poured it into his mouth.
Seeing this, Liu Bang hurriedly grabbed Fan Xu's arm, broke Fan Xu's head, and snatched the wine bottle back.
"That's all I have left."
After retrieving the wine jug, Liu Bang put the wine jug in his arms and said: "You said that this sweet potato potato is also a grain, and I don't know if it can be used to make wine?" ”
"How do I know, even if I can, I won't, what does my eldest brother want to do with this?" Fan Xue asked with his head open.
"These three kinds of immortal grains, the yield is high, but everyone grows immortal grain, everyone's output is high, where can the price be sold? If I only rely on a few acres of land, I probably won't be able to make a living. Liu Bang sighed.
"That seems to be the case?" Fan scratched his head.
"It's really not possible, the eldest brother is just a little widow in the tavern." Fan Hao smiled, in exchange for Liu Bang's big foot.
Fan Hao had rough skin and thick flesh, got up from the ground and patted his buttocks, looked at Liu Bang, but found that Liu Bang showed a rare melancholy on his face.
"Why is the eldest brother acting like this? But unhappy? Fan Hao suppressed a smile and sat beside Liu Bang.
"I'm nearly fifty years old now......," Liu Bang sighed.
"The years have passed, mediocrity, and the family business has not been completed, and the old man is coming......"
Liu Bang is not young.
In fact, Liu Bang is three years younger than the dying first emperor, and now Liu Bang is forty-six years old, in this era, he can already be called an old man, or even an elder.
"I thought before, if the output of this immortal grain is really a few thousand catties, and the eldest brother divides me with a few acres of thin fields, I can also support myself and ask for a daughter-in-law, but this grain is cheap......
I am in my forties, and I have no work and no family, and I can only fill my stomach at most by counting on this food, and I can no longer do anything else. Liu Bang raised the flask, smashed it but stopped.
"Big brother, where are you talking about this!" Fan Hao hurriedly denied it when he heard this.
"The eldest brother has great ambitions, he is a person who does big things, and the eldest brother doesn't often say, what is the ...... for a hundred miles" Fan Xu scratched his head.
"Baili Xi is in the ...... of the city," Liu Bang was amused by Fan Xu.
"But even these things were told to me by Xiao He." Liu Bang was silent for a long time.
"Fan?"
"Hey!" Fan Xu smiled and moved closer.
"Can people like me really accomplish great things?"
Liu Bang, he's not young anymore.
Beneath the prodigal exterior is the desire to recognize, the desire to get ahead, and the ambition to achieve something.
However, he has no family background, no way, and he doesn't even read a lot of books, and sometimes Liu Bang himself doubts himself.
"What's that......" Fan Xu scratched his head.
"There will always be Bole to come out, big brother, this thousand-mile horse!" Fan Hao thought about it for a long time, and finally came up with an appropriate analogy.
"Big brother must be Maxima!" Fan Xu said seriously.
"But where is my Bole?" Liu Bang shook his head, his chest full of suspicion.
In these years, even the grain seeds for farming can be hoarded, and it is really possible to make a living on a few acres of land?
"Sure!" Fan Hao grabbed Liu Bang's arm.
"Then you have to hurry up, I'll be an old man later." Liu Bang smiled and patted Fan Xu's shoulder.
"Alright, help me farm!"
In Liu Bang's original plan, he planned to ask his eldest brother for a few acres of land this year and plant immortal grain to be self-reliant.
But if you think about it carefully, these few acres of land are not enough to support yourself to start a family, so you just give up.
Divide these acres of land and still have to manage, and Liu Bang really can't do it.
Anyway, after planting immortal food, the grain yield is high, and the eldest brother and father can't miss a mouthful of food for themselves.
As for starting a family?
Let's start a business......
Although he eats the soft rice of the little widow above board, as a principled hooligan, if he can't start a business, Liu Bang really can't pull down his face and let a woman take care of everything for himself.
Although it looks shameless, in fact, Liu Bang wants to be faceless.
After plowing the remaining few acres of land, Liu Bang took his good brother who helped him to farm and went to the little widow's tavern to prostitute again.
The group was dizzy from drinking, and after the relationship, the little widow invited Liu Bang to spend the night as always, but Liu Bang refused.
lifted his pants and was about to leave with Fan Xu's support, and the full wine pot that was poured by the little widow was quietly poured back into the little widow's wine vat by Liu Bang.
The little widow got angry and hid in the house without looking at Liu Bang again, Liu Bang closed the door with one foot, hummed a song and helped Fan Hao to leave by himself.
"This King Qin is different after all."
Liu Bang vaguely realized something, raised his head and looked at the sky where the bright moon was high.
I can't say clearly, I can't see it, but Liu Bang just realized that something seemed to have changed around him.
"When Xiao He refused the recommendation of the county order, he told me privately that the Qin State was doomed."
"But now it doesn't seem like that's the case."
Liu Bang scratched his head.
At the very least, if the price of grain was so high in the past, and the officials colluded with the smuggling of grain, he would have already begun to greet the ancestors of the First Emperor with all his firepower.
But now, the notice is clearly pasted there, and it really can't be scolded on the head of the first emperor.
How to describe it?
Liu Bang threw Fan Hao on the bed, and he sat on the edge of the bed.
Oh!
The man was finally willing to look down at him.
(End of chapter)