: Extra consensus of the monarch and minister

The Prime Minister returned to the court on behalf of the emperor. Of course, the formal interview ceremony would be very grand, because he had to offer gifts and not neglected.

However, Liu Bei obviously couldn't wait for these red tape. From some of the stamps sent back in advance, he already knew Li Su's achievements in Sanhan and Fusang in the past two years, but many rare things have not yet seen the real thing.

So the day before the official interview, he privately invited Li Su to Deyang Palace first, set up a private banquet in the side hall to invite Li Su to drink a big drink, and also opened his eyes to see the gifts first. He would wait until the next morning to formally present the ceremony.

"Don't you come here well? Well, I haven't seen you for three years, so why are you talking about the etiquette of the monarch and ministers? Go up and sit up. The weather is cold, let's have a few drinks first. What are the experiences of Fusang? Are there any extra overseas wonders?"

Liu Bei was still like that back then. He ascended the throne in the fifteenth year and the eighth year after unification. He is fifty years old this year. His spirit has become weaker, but he has not completely changed.

Of course, it is difficult to predict in front of people. I still shout and shout when I drink a lot of wine with my buddy in private.

Faced with the emperor's eagerness to see new things, Li Su couldn't hide it, so he immediately presented the bag containing Sado's natural gold nuggets, and then the palace guards brought him up the rye seeds and giant dried vegetables.

Li Su explained on the side: "Your Majesty, this rye is traded from the hands of the Rigui people who are more north than Fusang and the Hokkien. It can be planted in extremely cold places overwinter. Although the yield per mu is only three or four hundred kilograms per mu, it is better because it does not pay attention to the environment, and is not afraid of insects and does not need to be used by humans. Extremely cold places with a wide area and sparse population are very suitable.

The gold mountain on the island north of Yueshan County has a lot of output. Now Zhou Yu has sent someone to explore and it is estimated that at least hundreds of kilograms of gold and thousands of kilograms of silver can be collected every year..."

Li Su was still explaining the first two more important gains, but Liu Bei's eyes were already attracted by the dried vegetables at the last. He could hardly take his eyes off as soon as he saw them. He didn't listen to Li Su's explanation much, obviously he would have to make up for his lessons later.

There is no way, after all, the visual impact of giant dishes is too great. Even if it is dried into dried radishes, it still weighs dozens of kilograms.

Liu Bei couldn't help but interrupt Li Su's explanation and directly ordered the kitchen to arrange the dried vegetables and serve them up immediately to see if there was any difference in taste.

Then he asked, "As the dishes said in the memorial, will they grow smaller and smaller when they leave their place of origin?"

Li Su could only pour cold water on truth from facts: "I have tried it for two years. In the first year after leaving Liugui Island, those seeds will be reduced by half when planted in other places. After planting them in other places, the seeds that have been harvested will be replanted, and the second year will be reduced by half. After the third year, it will be basically the same as ordinary fruits and vegetables."

Liu Bei sighed regretfully: "It's a pity, but you can still try it in depth. What if there is another gain, it will still be valuable even if it returns to normal in three years. Zilong will continue to explore the northeast in the future. It is said that there is a fertile land there, but it is just cold.

If you can cooperate with rye as grain and find a good harbor along the coast of Goguryeo, you can enter the northeast by water and bypass Buxian Mountain. At that time, you can transport the Liuguidao vegetable seeds to the hinterland of northern Liao by sea to supply pioneering people to plant them.

Even if it is more than two-thirds smaller than the native plants on Liugui Island, and if you have to buy new plants every two or three years, it is still a good deal. Now my Han sea ship is booming, and it is no big deal to transport vegetables from the sea thousands of miles away, and it is not much more expensive than the inland rivers and thousands of miles of canal transportation."

When Liu Bei said this, he obviously saw the latest chart sent back by Li Su.

From the harbor in central and southern Sakhalin Island, sailing all the way to the sea outlet of the Tumen River in the Northeast, which is the position where the Russians bordered the border between Yanbian and North Korea in later generations, and then crossing the current into the Northeast Plain, the transportation cost is indeed controllable. As long as the transportation is transported in summer, there will be no risks.

The mileage from Sakhalin Island to Yanbian is about 1,000 kilometers, which is 2,000 miles away, but the entire journey is along the coast of the Japanese Sea, without much wind and waves. Make good use of the monsoon and run two round trips every year when the wind is good, and just be idle at other times.

According to this idea, in comparison, the slowest progress is Zhao Yun. Zhao Yun has been developing northeast for several years and has not yet advanced to the latitude of Changchun, Jilin and Yanbian in later generations.

However, Gan Ning had already helped Zhao Yun find all the future seaports in these areas early last year, and also solved the problems of grain seeds and vegetable seeds. Zhao Yun had to work hard to occupy the rivers on the land so that Gan Ning could have the advantages of sea transportation.

After all, there is no problem in this time and space where North Korea and the Russians join forces to strangle the sea outlets in the Jilin Province. As long as Zhao Yun can occupy it, he can seize the land from the remnants of the Fuyu people and the Goguryeo people, and it can be cashed out immediately.

The Fuyu King, who was killed by Zhao Yun, was mainly entrenched in the eastern part of the Beibang in later generations, but the Fuyu people were a loose tribal alliance after all. Even if they killed the king and the core ruling area, there were still many external depravities on the edge and the outer side that continued to stand independent.

The still remaining Fuyu tribe lives in Yanbian in later generations, and to the Vladivostok area of ​​later generations, which happened to block the Tumen River estuary that Zhao Yun needed. The Goguryeo people lived in the great plains from the hinterland of Liaobei to Jilin Province.

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Liu Bei was in a happy mood to make up for Li Su’s many new discoveries, which were of great help to the development of the Northeast. The bright future prospects of those places were even more eager to try, hoping to accelerate the next move to the northern border.

However, today, after all, the monarch and minister have not met again for several years, so it is not easy to come up and talk about fighting and killing. It is better to leave it until the official court meeting to discuss it.

As for the gold nuggets that Li Su showed off, although they were also valuable, Liu Bei did not realize how important this matter was. He would also delay it until the formal "Government Economic Work Conference" in the future before he would have a detailed discussion.

The main reason is that Liu Bei has no idea about the Jinshan production capacity of Sado Island. He doesn’t even know how much production capacity there will be in all the local gold mines in Dahan every year. There are also small gold mines in Shushan and the Donglai Mountains in Qingzhou.

After hundreds of years of mining, the gold stock of the Han Dynasty was still good. Liu Bei saw the stock wealth of dozens or hundreds of kilograms of gold when he was young.

After Li Su showed off so much, Liu Bei certainly had the intention to show off in reverse. He was unwilling to be surprised, but the other party did not respond much, so he interrupted the topic and chased Li Suwen:

"Does my good brother look quite different when he returns to Beijing this time? Isn't it true that my good brother has been around for the past few years? I'm not here, and I'm so confident and successful in governing the country.

The new city in Chenggao and the tribute courtyard in the south of the city are much more magnificent than when I left. There is also the Yique Longmen, where I can go and visit it if I have time."

This kind of show-off is also a natural person. It is like two old classmates who haven't seen each other for many years. One of them has become a success after showing off. The other party must be outdone. Even if the achievements are not that great, try to brag as much as possible.

It can be seen that Liu Bei and Li Su still have a competitive spirit, and subconsciously compare the achievements of governing the country. In private, this is a pure friendship.

However, in the face of the emperor's pride, Li Su must say good things and hold them. This is the only difference between the monarch and the minister:

"Your Majesty is drooping and resting with the people. The achievements of these years, before I enter the city, I have known that they are extraordinary and can be congratulated."

Li Su is not proud of it, and he still wants basic polite compliments.

Liu Bei did not be polite to him and waved his hand, as if he had accepted this realistic seeking truth from facts.

Liu Bei did not think he was a monarch who liked to listen to others' flattery, but he also liked to listen to his subordinates truthfully stated his achievements.

Li Su took the opportunity to escort Yang Hong to inspect him and analyzed it with Liu Bei. He gradually talked about the general principle of "facing the virtuous and staying away from the slander". He sighed at the huge difference between the effects of today's large-scale construction and the large-scale construction decades ago on the people.

Liu Bei didn't think so much, but recalling the tragic situation of Emperor Ling of Han when he made a series of major projects around Yinzhou, Henan, more than 20 years ago, he was also deeply moved and was inspired to remember the bitterness and sweetness.

There are some things that no one reminds me not to think about in that direction. Only after thinking about them carefully can I realize the gap.

It’s like a person who makes a little progress every day. He doesn’t feel that he has made progress himself. However, if an old friend hasn’t seen him for several years and suddenly comes back to gather together, he will be inspired and realize that “a scholar should be treated with admiration for three days after separation”, but this “scholar” is actually him.

Liu Bei sighed with emotion: "Indeed, more than 20 years of war and plague and famine have halved the population of the world, but it has also cleared the accumulated problems. If we had not won the world immediately, we would not have been so domineering in force and the unrestrained intention of local families to do their own things.

I still remember that when I was a young man, the nursery rhyme of the Ling Dynasty: The prefectures and counties were like thunder, but they were hanged on the wall. At that time, local officials were nominally appointed by the imperial court, but in fact, before Emperor Ling sold his official positions, they were already recommended and supported by the local government.

The local government orders were issued, and no longer passed through the three public officials. The return of the salt and iron industrial and commercial taxes was even more useless as early as the time of Emperor He and the emperor, and they were intercepted by various counties. Looking back now, in the Zhongping period, before Zhang Jiao rebelled, the world was mainly in the center, and in fact, all other powers had been eroded.

But no matter what, it was always wrong for Huan Ling, a foreign relative, and an eunuch, to try to turn the tables. In the world, only a strong king who was looking forward to knowing the army and fighting, would personally respect the world! The destiny of heaven is in me, and it is not me who wanted to force it myself."

Many of Liu Bei's feelings were about reminiscing about the bitterness and sweetness, and remembering the social contradictions in his childhood, but some of them were the experiences that he gained when he became an emperor, humble and eager to study in order to govern the country, and the historians and scholars around him taught him to read history.

For example, those historical materials that are more inclined toward economic and fiscal policy, such as the destruction of the central system during the Han Dynasty and Emperors, Liu Bei only learned about it after reading history.

But when he saw these materials, he felt resentful and realized in his heart that this was indeed the case.

From this perspective, the timetable of the phased collapse of the central powers of the Eastern Han Dynasty is actually very clear:

As early as the end of Emperor He of Han, that is, the fourth emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, around 100 AD, the "industrial and commercial tax" or "salt and iron monopoly interests" in the central government of the Eastern Han Dynasty were abolished and turned into local governments.

Of course, this abolition is not considered a local challenge to the central government, because there was another reason at that time, that is, in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Ming of Han, Emperor Zhang of Han tried to follow the route of "the emperor himself should be a Confucian saint and ideological leader", which was a bit of a combination of political and ideological beliefs in order to govern the country.

Once the emperor becomes an ideological leader at the same time, the emperor can continue to implement a series of ideas of "our Han family will be a tyrannical and tyrannical" since Emperor Wu of Han and Emperor Xuan of Han, and continue to use some of the Legalists' ideas that are conducive to centralization.

However, this route must be completed if "the saints only last for three generations", and the backlash is very serious. It is impossible for the monarch to always be a wise monarch and a moral role model.

During the reign of Emperor Ming of Han, he relied on self-discipline. Once the fourth generation of Emperor He of Han did not discipline himself, the "Confucian literature" that was suppressed from the reign of Emperor Xuan of the Western Han Dynasty began to counterattack. Moreover, he could take advantage of the reasons that the young master was in power many times. The young master could not be a moral model, and there were traitors around him, and other reasons, which eliminated many centralized policies of the Legalists.

The "industrial and commercial tax return to the central government" represented by "salt and iron monopoly" was achieved under the banner of "liquidating the legacy of Sang Hongyang Lejia a hundred years ago".

The flag is the banner of anti-French, but what it does is to intercept financial and tax sources for local families who cultivate Confucianism. The first step in the independent operation of local governments was to make solid efforts at that time.

Later, when Emperor An was in Emperor An, the county-level personnel power was lost. Officials who were elected by the county magistrates could be directly appointed as county officials, and the local personnel power was further lost.

Of course, the loss is only the power of "the county magistrate/county magistrate/county magistrate/county magistrate" and the county magistrate himself has not yet been lost, the court can still appoint.

This power was only in the early years of Emperor Huan's reversal. Later, until Emperor Ling sold his official position, the local prefect was not completely controlled by the court, and some places even "supported" the prefects on their own.

Therefore, finance, personnel appointments, and local legislation, these powers were actually gradually eroded by the local governments for eighty years. In the end, the Yellow Turban Rebellion only completely localized the last trump card military command power.

Even if Zhang Jiao did not come, the bulk man was only left to unify military power in one last breath.

The other breaths were cut off in batches as early as 80 to 20 years ago. Moreover, the total breaths of five breaths were spent on the Han Dynasty, and basically every generation passed, one more breath was cut off.

Liu Bei and Li Su were separated for several years now, and they talked about this issue because they were "eyed with admiration" and were worried. Of course, they were not just about placing the gantry formation for simply dropping the book bag.

But Liu Bei truly felt a sense of fear.

For him, when reading history, if you want to "see the past, you have the resources to govern the law", the most valuable "learning" is of course how to learn from the lessons of the Han Dynasty during the last rejuvenation of the Han Dynasty.

After all, Emperor Guangwu once successfully revived once, but in the end it only lasted for more than 60 years. The first three emperors were the normal rule of the first three emperors. The fourth emperor strictly followed the rhythm of "breaking off every twenty years" and watched the demise. How could Liu Bei not be afraid?

No matter how strong he is now, can he protect his descendants from centralization in economic, finance and personnel, and will he not be eroded by local governments and become bulk?

Li Su designed a good system for him, and with the blessing of the palace prosperity, it will be difficult for people in the future to rebel. However, the palace prosperity may not ensure that there will be no chaos.

Even if "every two hundred years of civil war, then Liu Bei's descendants will have the most promising one among his descendants, inheriting his ancestral property and reviving it again", Liu Bei is still very unbearable. What he hopes most in his heart is of course not to even have these twists and turns.

Li Su's method of renting and mediocre transfer and industrial and commercial tax citation method took back financial separatism;

The local military power released by the Liu Yan period was also revoked by the "destroying history and establishing pastoral masters" through the division of the three envoys at the local state-level chiefs;

The final reform of the imperial examination and election of officials was to support the prefectures and county chiefs, and then appointed personnel divisions of county-level subordinates, and took them back.

Now Liu Bei is not worried about how to take it back. What he has to worry about is whether his descendants can keep this "ancestor's law" from being slowly eroded after they have no military authority.

If you can't do it, you can only expect the founding generation to do all the reforms, try to do it thoroughly, and leave a better stall for your descendants.
Chapter completed!