Emperor Liu Hong

() The eunuchs are the winners of this battle.According to their thinking, they should share the fruits of victory, so they have been excluding dissidents during this period of time.

And Liu Hong, now throws all matters, big and small, to Liu Shu.He doesn't care about any political affairs, he only knows how to eat, drink and have fun all day long.

Now everyone doesn't understand why Liu Hong did this.They all know that Liu Hong must not be regarded as an ordinary child. His thinking is that adults like them cannot compare.

But people can't figure out why Liu Hong cares less about government affairs after he has taken power than when he didn't take power.So much so that those eunuchs completely took control of the power.

This is entirely Liu Hong's intention. If you want to take it, you must give it first.He just wants to let the eunuchs get angry and complain, so that they can permanently cancel the eunuch profession.

If the eunuch was not allowed to be more violent, these ministers would never allow Liu Hong to cancel the eunuch.What they meant was not to let the eunuchs meddle in political affairs, and let them concentrate on serving the emperor in the palace.To cancel the eunuch forever, except for Liu Hong, no one really dared to think so.

During this period of time, Liu Hong experienced the feeling of sleeping until he woke up naturally again, which was quite pleasant.But Liu Shu, seeing that he was too comfortable, all the big and small things went to the palace to let him get opinions, Liu Hong was very helpless about this.

Liu Su is very content now, he already knew that Liu Hong would not forget him, after all, he is a great contributor to Liu Hong's superior position.But he didn't expect that the reward would be so fast and so big, Liu Hong directly made him the de facto prime minister.

But Liu Shu is very smart and cautious.Especially when he saw the fate of Chen Fan, the previous record minister, he became more cautious.For big and small matters, as long as he is not sure, he will definitely go to the palace to find Liu Hong to make up his mind.

He knew that Liu Hong attached great importance to the affairs of refugees, and he had been dealing with this matter since he was the chief minister, but he really had no good way.No, he came to the palace again to see if Liu Hong had any good ideas.

"Uncle Emperor, I'll leave the political affairs to you. You can do it boldly. You don't need to come to me all the time. If you're really undecided, you can go to Talk to them." Seeing Liu Shu bothering him again, Liu Hong immediately complained.

"Your Majesty, it's not that you don't know that the refugee matter has been going on for so long. If the Sangong Jiuqing could solve it, they would have solved it a long time ago. It's not that there is no way, the humble minister came to you for an idea."

Looking at Liu Shu who was playing a rogue, Liu Hong had nothing to do.

"Forget it, solve the problem. Anyway, I have a lot of ways to solve the problem of the refugees." Thinking of this, Liu Hong said: "Uncle Emperor, the problem of the refugees is actually not difficult to solve. Those who are old, weak, sick, etc. Let's raise them all. For the rest of the strong ones, we can give them work for relief and let them work to support themselves. Anyway, there are a lot of jobs that we can do now, such as building bridges and paving roads, water conservancy projects, including digging canals and so on. , how many people can use it."

"I knew His Majesty should have a solution, but I didn't expect it to really make me guess." The matter is hopeful to be resolved, and Liu Shu looks very excited.

But Liu Hong knows that this method only treats the symptoms but not the root cause.If we want to fundamentally solve this kind of thing, we have to formulate laws, and if things like this happen again in the future, we can just follow the laws.

"If I don't formulate such a law, the kings of future generations will not be enacted unless they catch up with another time traveler. Forget it, I'll just do my best and formulate this law together." I have." Thinking of this, Liu Hong said, "Uncle Huang, if you want to fundamentally solve a similar situation, you must have a law to follow. I have thought of a few things, and you can see if there is anything else to add."

"Promulgating laws is indeed a good way to solve similar matters. If there are similar matters in the future, just follow the law directly, without any trouble at all." Liu Shu agreed with Liu Hong's statement very much, and said: "Your Majesty, Tell me what you think, and Weichen will give you advice."

"Since it is to help the victims of disasters, I call this law the Emergency Relief Law. In general, it is to determine the methods I just mentioned in the form of laws. Unemployed and poor people can rely on their status It proves that you can receive relief supplies such as food and clothing for free at the emergency point. After three months, healthy people aged 50 to [-] will not receive free relief. Instead, they need to work hard to get the supplies. As for what kind of labor, It has to be formulated according to the situation at that time.”

"Your Majesty, it's hard to see the loopholes in something like the law without specific implementation. Anyway, we're about to give relief to the victims, why don't we test the loopholes in this law together."

Liu Hong thought for a while, and felt that it made sense, so he nodded in agreement.Then I felt that since the refugees were going to work.Taking advantage of this opportunity, simply excavate the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal for later generations.With such a canal, the north and the south can be connected and the development of the Han Dynasty can be accelerated.

Liu Honggang described the project to Liu Wei, and Liu Wei just played it wrong.

"Your Majesty, even if you kill the humble official, with the little money in our treasury, you can't do such a big project, even if you use work as a relief."

The national treasury has no money, and Liu Hong has no choice but to let him send his money to the national treasury.

But the matter of the canal is another major event, not only related to disaster relief, but also related to the future development of Dahan, so it has to be done.So after Liu Hong thought about it, he put his idea on the salt tax.

Who doesn't eat salt in the world, if this thing is done well, it will definitely be an astronomical figure.Moreover, the current salt tax is still mortgaged in his hands. To reform it, the resistance is relatively small.

In the Han Dynasty, almost all salt wells were used, and the cost of this thing was too high.Liu Hong thought, he had to change boiled salt to sun-dried salt first.

The technique of drying salt is not difficult. Liu Hong has several salt farms by the sea.The salt he ate was dried in his saltworks, which was much better than well salt.

The salt industry was taken over by the imperial court during Emperor Wu, and the sale and purchase required the approval of the imperial court, which has caused the current situation of illegal salt everywhere.Especially now that the imperial court is weak, and almost all the major families have their own salt wells, so they don't pay attention to the imperial court's decrees at all.Don't talk about others, even Liu Hong, before he became emperor, was the same.

In the past, if you wanted to operate the salt industry, you had to be approved by the imperial court. In Liu Hong's view, this policy was very undesirable.Anyway, in the future, the imperial court will focus on sun-drying salt. Liu Hong feels that as long as the imperial court controls the salt farms and sets prices uniformly, it will be fine.

Except for those owned by Liu Hong, the salt farms are newly opened and have nothing to do with others.Those of Liu Hong can be regarded as Huangzhuang, and the other salt farms are all owned by the imperial court.

Those salt wells before the imperial court, with the increase in the number of salt farms, will be closed down slowly.People who used to cook salt can let them go to the salt farm to process fine salt.Anyway, the procedures are similar, so there is no fear that they will not be able to learn, so that they will not be in danger of losing their jobs.

As for the salt wells that were stolen by various families, Liu Hong didn't go out of his way to ban them.Anyway, the imperial court is drying salt, and the cost is very low. The salt wells will definitely not be able to compete, and the business that loses money will close down by itself in a short time.In the future, as long as strict control is required to prevent the aristocratic family from secretly building salt farms, the private salt industry will basically disappear.

In Liu Hong's view, the reform of the salt industry is a win-win situation.Not only can it bring a lot of money to the court, but it can also greatly reduce the price of salt and bring benefits to the people.Moreover, Liu Hong asked the people who used to cook salt to make fine salt. Not only did they not have to lose their jobs, but they could also use good salt for aristocratic families.

"Your Majesty, although your idea is good, the reform of the salt industry is imperative. However, the long-distance water cannot quench the near-thirst. The imperial court must have a large sum of money now."