Hearing Liu Ji take the initiative to mention Nanyang County and Nanjun, but he was obviously noncommittal to Nanyue, Lu Pheasant lowered his eyes and only pretended to be strange,

"Hey, every time I mentioned South Vietnam a while ago, His Majesty always scolded that Zhao Tuo was too arrogant.

Why are you not angry again? ”

"Oh, it's nothing," Liu Ji scratched his head,

"It's just that I think of the saying 'If you go outside, you must first settle inside', and I think it makes a lot of sense.

It is still necessary to concentrate forces first and eliminate those who are in the way of the eyes of the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China. ”

Who are the people Liu Jiyan refers to, they have a tacit understanding and have a tacit understanding.

It's just that the biggest difference between the emperor and the queen is that, in Liu Ji's view, they need to be treated in vain rather than indulged, and they must be cut to the roots.

However, Lu Pheasant believes that not everyone in the king with a different surname wants to rebel, and he forces those who don't want to rebel, killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 himself, which is really worth the loss.

However, at the moment she is just the queen, after all, the government is out of her own hands, and it doesn't seem to matter what she thinks.

Fortunately, what he has is patience, Lu Pheasant smiled and turned the conversation around,

"Your Majesty's court meeting today is dispersed early."

Liu Ji also smiled,

"I knew that you would leave tomorrow, and I thought I would come and have a look again. was supposed to come yesterday, but who expected it to be delayed at Qi Ji's. ”

It seems that it was probably through Qi Ji's persuasion and hints from the side that the emperor returned to the old road of "being outside must first be inside".

"Oh, I was just about to say to Your Majesty that during the time I was away, all the affairs of the harem would be handed over to Qi Ji."

"Well, I won't tell you, she actually has this intention, but I'm afraid that you won't allow it, and she chattered with me until midnight yesterday.

I didn't expect you to be so generous, but you saved me a lot of tongues, hehe. ”

Liu Ji sat down, obviously much more relaxed.

***

It was a fine and clear day, and the sun shone through the lattices of the window lattices, and although the hall was cleaned, there were still particles of dust dancing gently in the air.

In the previous life, she always listened to the old Zen master's lectures, Sumeru hides mustard seeds, mustard seeds Na Sumeru, people who are destined, between square inches, you can see the universe, and people's words and deeds, every move, can reveal the heart.

She took a rare look at the emperor in front of her in the daylight.

Liu Ji is still the same old look, he doesn't pay attention to his posture, he leans on the couch, he has only been in Luoyang for a year, the lines between his eyebrows are much deeper, and his temples are almost white.

At this time, he was leisurely peeling a citrus in his hand, and his face was silent, but Lu Pheasant knew that the anxiety in his heart had never been relieved for a moment.

This dragon chair urges people to grow old, but there are so many heroes and heroes who have spent their lives for it without regrets.

She tugged at the corners of her mouth, thinking that although Liu Ji was not yet sixty years old, he was obviously old and tired, and he was not as good as his mother Mrs. Yang in his previous life, who only married his father Wu Shitong at the age of forty-four, and then gave birth to three children in a row, and was full of energy.

and the self in the previous life, who waited until he was nearly seventy years old to become the emperor, still ambitious and indomitable.

If a person recognizes and serves old age, he will always unconsciously withdraw and be conservative, but he will be surprisingly paranoid and indiscriminate in inappropriate places.

It was only because they felt that they had little time left, and they had no leisure to sort out the mess one by one, so they had to cut it off quickly, and eradicate all their worries simply and rudely.

It is certainly a method to settle the outside before the inside, but with the current situation of wolf smoke, if the inside and outside continue to collude, how can there be a day of peace from the inside out?

If you are in a hurry, you will repeat the mistake of six of the seven countries with different surnames in the early Han Dynasty.

With the generosity and dignity of high-ranking officials, their suspicions were dispelled;

restricting and collecting power, money, and people at all levels with the system, cutting off their power;

Then with the tranquility of the borders and the harmony of all nations, they disintegrated their foreign aid and cut off their back roads.

By the way, the old emperor also has a common problem, that is, he cherishes his young son, her eyes flashed suddenly, full of coldness.

That's another story.

***

"Since Your Majesty wants to be in peace, let's sort out a charter for peace first, so that we can patrol according to it." Lu Pheasant said word by word,

"Nanyang County and Nanjun have been highly valued since the first emperor.

These two counties are two completely different situations at the moment, which change with the times and are made according to the situation, so this time, I am also prepared to use two completely different methods. ”

Nanyang County has 36 counties under its jurisdiction, densely populated, business all over the world, extending in all directions, rich businessmen, the first house faces each other, and also has rich iron ore and the most advanced iron smelting technology in the whole Han Dynasty.

Iron tools are related to the national economy and people's livelihood, armaments and national defense, and even the country's financial revenue, so all dynasties have attached great importance to the national iron industry.

However, at this time, the imperial court was in a state of devastation, tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall, piecing together everything and allowing it to be free in all affairs, whether it was mining, salt boiling or iron smelting, all of which were privately owned, small in scale, low in production, and very chaotic [1].

Moreover, these lucrative private industries have long been in the hands of a handful of large and wealthy families in various localities, and if they are not controlled as soon as possible, they will connive at the growth of local separatism and the emergence of cliques and private interests.

Therefore, the method of Nanyang County is mainly based on "management", supplemented by "migration", and in addition, it is necessary to make the merchants willingly give up profits.

"The imperial court needs money, and the merchants of Nanyang have money, but what does Your Majesty exchange it for?"

Lu Pheasant stared at Liu Ji and asked one after another,

"If they donate money, can they join the court? Can you ride a horse in silk?

If the Jia people have city registration, can their children and grandchildren be elected to the office? ”【2】

***

The meaning of her words is very straightforward, at the moment, she is poor and white, the economy is ruined, and those who can barely exchange with businessmen are actually all false names:

Improve their status and status, no longer be humiliated everywhere, and open up a path for their descendants to enter the government on the same level as the sons of good families.

It's just that there is an insurmountable obstacle here -

Liu Jisu is a bad businessman.

He inherited the various systems of the Qin Dynasty, believed in great unification, believed in the policy of cultivating the country, and greatly agreed with Qin's idea of "going to the peasants and dividing the last".

The upper peasants, that is, the encouragement of agriculture, except for the last, are the suppression of the most insignificant merchants.

Fortunately, while inheriting, he and the elders learned the lesson of the death of the second emperor, and tried to avoid the stormy governance like Qin, and everything was rested with the people.

But from 900 years later, Lu Pheasant watched coldly, and Liu Ji's preference for the Qin system and Legalism was deeply rooted in the bone marrow.

Sure enough, before she finished asking, Liu Ji's brows were tightly twisted, and he sneered,

"Those slick and cunning people who forget their interests and righteousness, and they still want to enter the ranks?"

"In the past, the management of the middle was the same, and the four people, Shinong, industry and commerce, treated everyone equally, and governed their own industries, so that the Qi country quickly became rich and strong and became a hegemon.

Merchants go out early and return late, accumulate money, and earn the same hard-working money, how can they be inferior? ”

In her previous life, her father, Wu Shitong, was a large timber merchant and had a prosperous trade in the Tang Dynasty, and she understood the huge income that trade could bring to the imperial court since she was a child, and she never thought that there was any difference between merchants and other professions.

Hearing the queen's disrespectful words, Liu Ji was a little anxious, and threw half of the orange in his hand to the ground, and said sharply,

"Everybody goes to do that profitable business, who goes to farm? Who pays the field tax?

Does food grow out of thin air?

Are you and I waiting to starve to death? ”