When taking stock of Ming Taizong at the beginning, Lao Zhu was stunned!

Chapter 134: Never forget about the people of the world for the sake of personal gain.

[On the other hand, there are the side effects of Liu Heng’s economic policies. 】

[Although his reduction of taxes, corvees, and land rents has the benefit of promoting economic development and encouraging farming, the reduction of tax revenue and the empty treasury are unavoidable side effects. 】

[Of course, Liu Heng would rather implement such a policy despite the difficulty of an empty national treasury. He just wants to quickly restore the people's economy, even if the national treasury is always empty. 】

[This kind of idea is obviously out of consideration for the people, and the final result is obviously implemented. 】

[During Liu Heng’s reign, the population recovery of the Han Dynasty was the greatest manifestation of the recovery of the private economy and the best indisputable evidence. 】

[But when such a policy that benefits the people and the country is combined with another policy, it has a slightly different flavor. 】

[Relax restrictions on merchants, allowing them to mint coins privately and mine mineral resources. 】

[Under such a policy, a large number of wealthy people were born in the Han Dynasty. They strengthened themselves through business, and then established relationships with officials of the central court through bribery, marriage, etc. 】

[Not only has it expanded its own power, but it has also become a dominant local power, completely controlling local politics and economy. 】

[Therefore, the effect of "hiding wealth among the people" that Liu Heng originally expected was greatly discounted by these businessmen, and wealth began to gather in a few people again. Similarly, when these economic policies reached the princes and kings, they were allowed to own it. The right to mine minerals and mint coins privately. 】

[They also made countless profits, and their power developed extremely rapidly. 】
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Han Dynasty, the first year before Emperor Wen.

Liu Heng was a little silent. After Miracle said this, he obviously realized his problem.

After "wealth is hidden among the people", even if the wealth does not flow to the national treasury, the people will be rich. After the national treasury survives that period of time, there will inevitably be a bumper harvest.

But as the powerful people in those places continue to exploit their subordinates, wealth is once again moving towards the upper class.

In the end, not only did the wealth not flow to the central government, but it ended up in the hands of individuals in most places.

The central power may not have retreated, but the strength of local tyrants is a crisis for the central government.

The problem now is to find a method as soon as possible that will not affect the flow of business, and at the same time effectively restrict local forces from influencing the policies of local courts and even the central government.

The method is not difficult. The key is how to indicate the degree.

While ensuring the economic development of the people all over the world, it also limits the power of princes, kings and localities so that they will no longer grow wantonly.

At the same time, it should not be too restrictive, otherwise the economic recovery of the Han Dynasty will not only be reduced, but may also go backwards. That's all. The most serious thing is that they may be unable to bear it and launch a rebellion.

By then, the scale may be far greater than the two childish rebellions I had back then.
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Han Dynasty, the first year of Emperor Jing's reign.

At this time, Liu Qi was already very old. During this period, he kept giving various instructions to his best heir, Liu Che.

Looking forward to the big man's complete glory in his hands.

When he saw that the miracles mentioned the princes, kings and local issues left behind by his father, he just smiled bitterly.

I don't have the late emperor's political skills of attacking and undermining, and I don't deal with the princes and kings as perfectly as my father.

But at least those princes and kings also failed to make many waves when they were in power.

He turned to look at Liu Che: "I hope you can handle things more calmly. The problem needs to be solved, but it also needs time to ferment." When Liu Heng restored his reputation during his reign, didn't he notice the power of the princes and kings? Growth?

Of course not.

But there was no way. At that time, the Xiongnu had not yet declined, and they were still eyeing the Han Dynasty. Internal growth was indispensable. He could not restrict the princes and kings just because they were worried that they might have backlash after they grew stronger. Otherwise, the Xiongnu would not just watch. On fire.

Therefore, measures must be taken to restrict it, but the development of the Han Dynasty cannot be completely stopped.

Since Liu Qi ascended the throne, the power of the central government has been accumulated, and the Huns are no longer the sword of Damocles above their heads.

As for Liu Che's son, Liu Qi saw it clearly.

He is enterprising and has an extremely cold and tough side. Although he is completely different from his grandfather Liu Heng, he is exactly in line with the external style of the future Han Dynasty, and he will definitely be an excellent emperor in the future.

Moreover, Liu Che is full of confidence and full of youthful vigor, which is his best guarantee.
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Han Dynasty, the fourth year of Yuanshou.

Liu Che no longer cared about the princes and kings. The implementation of the Tuien Order had made them unable to escape the control of the central government. Instead, he paid more attention to the local wealthy families.

Most of them rose up through local military exploits in the early Han Dynasty, or as the miracle said, the powerful and wealthy businessmen continued to collude.

In fact, most of these people have exchanges of interests and handovers of relationships. They are a major stumbling block for the Han to control the grassroots in various places.

If many officials from the central government do not compromise with them, they will be targeted and find it difficult to get along well with the local governments. At this time, many central government instructions are often difficult to implement.

Officials appointed by the imperial court had little power in the local area.

[The Han Dynasty has been working hard to eliminate the local powerful families since the founding of the country, allowing land, population, technology and other resources to return to the central government, returning them to the hands of the emperor, and strengthening the central power. This undoubtedly violated the interests of the local powerful families. 】

[Compared with the imperial court, a local wealthy family is like a firefly competing for the brightness of the bright moon, which is insignificant. 】

[But the territory of the Han Dynasty was so vast, and the wealthy families from all over the country were like grains of rice, scattered on the Central Plains. 】

[Cleaning them one by one is probably not as fast as adding new ones. 】

[Therefore, either we don’t clean up, or we have to start cleaning up comprehensively. 】
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Ming Dynasty, Hongwu period.

Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang once again repeated the old saying: "Our Ming Dynasty was, is, and will be in the future. We must not forget about the people of the world for personal gain."

Many generals nodded, expressing their absolute agreement and support for Zhu Yuanzhang's words.

Some civil servants were a little embarrassed. After all, most of the generals followed Zhu Yuanzhang and rose from humble beginnings. Most of them were from poor families or even civilians, and they always sided with Zhu Yuanzhang's civilian side.

But their civil servants were different. Many of them came from aristocratic families. Although Zhu Yuanzhang did not mention his names by name, he was obviously hinting at the wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River.

In the previous stories about Ming Taizong, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to deal with these people not once or twice.

Don’t you see, even in the ten days or so between miracles, many people from Jiangnan have been criticized openly and covertly by Zhu Yuanzhang many times to express their dissatisfaction?

(End of this chapter)