"I don't need this bow and arrow, what I need is food!
”
When Liu Chang pinched the neck of the messenger Sushen and raised him up and shook him hard, the messenger Sushen felt dizzy and his eyes turned black. The deputy messenger knew some elegant words, and he hurriedly shouted: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty."
!
Sushen has no food either!
We have always dedicated our bows and arrows to the wise king...”
Before he could finish his words, he was thrown to the ground by Liu Chang.
"My wiseness doesn't need a few broken bows and arrows to prove it!"
"If you want to pay tribute, take out something that will satisfy me. Otherwise, the King of Yan will send troops tomorrow and chop off your king the next day and hang his head on the city wall!"
Liu Chang's face looked a little fierce. Lu Lu stood aside and looked at this scene, feeling a little worried. If His Majesty's behavior was recorded by the historian, it would really surpass Jie and Zhou.
Jie and Zhou had never heard of beating the envoys who came to pay tribute and forced them to hand over more things. Not to mention Jie and Zhou, even in Qin State, the King of Qin was polite to the foreign countries who contributed tribute to Longxi.
He also gave him a title and reused his tribe members.
What's more, it's such auspiciousness??
For people of this era, this is simply a tyrant among tyrants. There is no bottom line, and Jie and Zhou are not worthy of comparison.
But Lu Lu admires His Majesty very much.
He was different from the ministers outside who shouted Jie and Zhou. He knew very well what his Majesty wanted to do. The Han Dynasty always implemented ethics, that is, it was shameless. This even affected thousands of years, but sometimes it was a must.
The face is about to go too far, commonly known as: to make people fat. When facing the tribute from these small countries, they have to reward seven or eight times the amount, saying that they want to show the style of the great Han Dynasty. Of course, the small countries are happy to pay tribute and pay tribute every year.
It's great that you can earn a lot of things.
The Han Dynasty could not "compete with the people for profit" or "compete with the small country for profit".
Lu Lu couldn't quite understand it. Since he was strong and could protect others, why did he have to do such a thing?
Anyway, Your Majesty is trying to change this trend. In order to change this trend, he can even do something extremely cruel in the eyes of others. He does not care about his reputation at all and is willing to bear such a bad reputation.
Liu Chang was still asking.
“No food??”
"Then there must be cows and sheep, right?"
The messenger shook his head bitterly, and the place where Sushen lives was not well developed in farming and animal husbandry.
"There must be copper and iron?"
The messenger shook his head again.
Chang Liu was a little anxious now.
Lu Lu sighed, Your Majesty's intention is for the Han Dynasty. Such a person is not called a saint emperor. What kind of person can be called a saint emperor? Such a king is really admirable. He really did not follow the wrong one at the beginning...
.Lu Lu even felt a little tears in his eyes when he thought of His Majesty carrying so much, and he was very moved. Who said His Majesty is a foolish king?
"There are always beauties, right? Are there any one with a pretty face and a slender figure?"
Liu Chang asked again.
At that moment, Lu Lu was stunned, and the emotion in his heart disappeared. He looked at the emperor in surprise.
The messenger hesitated for a moment and nodded quickly, "Yes! Yes!"
Liu Chang was overjoyed and clapped his hands and shouted, "Hahaha, okay, then I'll give me three hundred every year..."
"Ahem!
”
Lu Lu quickly interrupted Liu Chang's speech and said in horror: "Your Majesty, no, you want to set a precedent, how can you set such a precedent?!"
Liu Chang woke up, nodded, and then asked, "That's a hundred?"
"No one can be asked!"
Liu Chang looked at the messenger in front of him helplessly, "What else do you have besides this bow and arrow?"
"Your Majesty, we have wood suitable for bows. By the way, we still have pigs, a lot of pigs..."
Liu Chang ordered the tributes he would give every year, so he asked him to leave and go back to rest. Walking on the road, an envoy looked at the deputy envoy and asked, "How can you promise them to give four thousand pigs every year."
Where can we have four thousand pigs? We are all fishing and hunting for a living..."
"We don't have one, but there is Yiluo around us!"
The Yiluo people like to raise pigs, eating meat and wearing skin, are quite famous in history.
"But that's the pig from the Yiluo people, not ours, what about that..."
The deputy envoy sneered, "The Han Dynasty needs it, they dare not give it to you? Besides, we are the Han Dynasty's tribute country now. If he doesn't give it, then we will do it... The cavalry of Yan State can arrive from Fuyu at any time.
Go over there..."
The man immediately understood, and his eyes lit up, "You are preparing..."
"Yes, with the power of the Han Dynasty, perhaps we will soon be able to annex the surrounding tribes and become a powerful country... In this way, it seems that the tribute is also worth it!"
In the Houde Hall, Lu Lu was still chatting about the truth to Liu Chang.
"Your Majesty, when you deal with such a big thing in the future, you must not do things with your own desires. How can you do this? How can you do this..."
"Ahem, actually, I want a population, not a beauty, just like Xu Fu, let them offer 300 boys and girls every year to supplement the frontier population..."
"You are not He Bo, do you still want to eat 300 boys and girls every year?"
"By the way, what about that guy Chao Cuo? Have you ever pleaded guilty?"
Liu Chang stubbornly put aside the topic. Lu Lu hesitated for a moment, "It should be possible to get up, but he has never written a letter to apologize..."
Liu Chang has a lot of opinions about Chao Cuo. This person is easy to use, but some shortcomings are too obvious and they don’t have eyes, and they always anger themselves on unnecessary issues.
Just as the king and his ministers complained about this indifferent guy and used all kinds of words to curse him, Liu Bo's voice heard from his father interrupted the conversation.
Liu Bo jumped into the Houde Hall. Now he even wore a Confucian robe, which looked very cute.
Chang Liu laughed and immediately stretched out his hands, allowing Liu Bo to pounce into his arms.
"Why did you come back so early today?"
"There is a debate in the Imperial Academy today. The teacher is busy treating the wounded, so I asked me to come back first."
"Oh, then what did you learn today?"
"The Analects of Confucius!"
"Hahaha, not bad, not bad."
Liu Chang was very satisfied with Fu Qiubo's teaching method. This person knew that Confucianism's knowledge was difficult for children, so he specially compiled many Confucian ideas into stories to instill Liu Bo and let him understand.
Under Fu Qiubo's teaching, Liu Bo really learned a lot, and sometimes he could tell a few stories to amuse Liu Chang and the others.
Liu Bo is well-behaved by nature and never causes trouble. He is different from A-father. Fu Qiubo was initially worried that this would be a smaller version of the elder, who would make the Taixue uneasy, but later he found out that this was simply an old man.
The rare honest man in the Liu family is exactly the same as his second uncle.
Liu Ying has been well-behaved since childhood and treats others politely. Apart from some special hobbies, she really has no shortcomings.
It is very common for the old Liu family to be a father, such as Emperor Gao's son Liu Ying is like the King of Chu, and his son Liu Chang is like the King of Chu. Of course, the two Kings of Chu are not the same, and then Liu An is like the King of Wu and Liu Bo is like the King of Wu.
The Supreme Emperor, Liu Xiang from Liu Ying's family is like Liu Chang, Liu Qi from Liu Heng's family is like Liu Chang, Liu Fei's family is like Liu Chang, Liu Xian from Liu Bi's family is like Liu Chang...
The royal family's length content is still very high.
Fortunately, Liu Chang's two older sons look pretty good. It's not a bad thing for the princes to be like Liu Ying. In fact, Liu Ying's personality is the safest and safest to be the prince. Liu Bo is also
It's not the eldest son, but there is no problem like the second uncle.
Fu Qiubo also liked this well-behaved disciple more and more. Not only Fu Qiubo, but the disciples of the entire Imperial Academy knew about the fact that Dai Wang learned from Fu Qiubo. They often brought snacks to visit Dai Wang, and some were curious.
Some people want to be an official in the country in the future, and of course some people just like this well-behaved child.
"Father, I have learned the principle of filial piety!"
"Oh? Filial piety? You said, how should I be filial to me?"
"When my father is about to die of illness, I will travel all over the world myself and invite the best famous doctor for my father!"
Liu Bo said confidently.
The smile on Liu Chang's face gradually solidified, and then he turned his head and whispered to Lu Lu beside him: "Let's delay the expansion of the Imperial Academy for a few days."
"only!
”
............
Tang State, Jinyang.
Liu An suddenly looked at the majestic and lively city in front of him, and he felt like he was returning to Chang'an.
Liu An led the people to the Tang Kingdom without stopping, first of all, to have a long knowledge, and secondly, to have a lot of things outside the border.
Tang Kingdom has a unique scenery. Not to mention anything else, it is the person with words on his face, bare head and no beard on his face, which is beyond the sight of other places. Liu An stopped and stopped along the way.
, Many post stations were rested, and there were even officials who were corporal punishment in these post stations, which made Liu An unable to understand.
Why can you still become an official after being punished?
Walking forward from Hanoi, the style of painting suddenly changed. It was no longer the flat arable land. You could see Han people dressed up in Hu people and Hu people wearing Hanfu everywhere. Sometimes, Liu An couldn't tell the difference in front of him.
Who is this? In terms of integration, the Tang Kingdom has done a very thorough job. A large number of Yuezhi people entered the Tang Kingdom and then went to various counties to get married and have children here. Some simply gave up the nomadic and started their duty.
Farming, even studying, becoming an official.
As a result, many Yuezhi people who could not ride horses appeared in the Tang Dynasty. Whenever they talked about this topic, these people always shook their heads and said nothing.
Not only the Yuezhi people, the Xiongnu, the Dingling people, the Donghu people, the people from all over the country settled in various parts of the Tang Dynasty, and exchanged cultures with each other and blended blood, resulting in a brand new Tang Dynasty culture. The people here dressed differently from the Central Plains.
They all like to wear convenient Hu clothes, which is a bit similar to the clothing of Zhao State, but if you tell the people of Tang this is Zhao State, they will come to beat you, this is the clothing of our Tang State!
In terms of diet, the people of Tang also like to eat meat more. Every household basically raises some poultry and livestock, and their language has become thicker and has a tone.
Here, basically you can't tell who is the Hu people and who is the Han people. If you ask, they will tell you that everyone here is the Tang people!
This situation will still have a great blow to Confucian scholars like Mao Chang.
"I didn't expect that in such a prosperous era, the people of the Han Dynasty were actually given a left-sided dress!
”
Mao Chang was not very acceptable to this situation. In his opinion, the Tang Kingdom had become savage. They all ate the fruits and vegetables of Hu people, liked to wear Hu people's clothes, play Hu people's music, and even had accent.
With the Hu accent, this is what Confucius said, "I'm going to have my hair left and right lapel"!
But Feng Tang didn't think so. He believed that this kind of integration was a good thing. It was because of its tolerance that the country could greatly govern the country and enrich the population in the short term. Moreover, what they said was all about elegant language, how could it be the Hu people.
What about the sound of the word? According to this statement, isn’t the more difficult dialect of Chu and Wu the more difficult to understand?
Liu An was just curious, and he was observing the country along the way.
Fierce, barbaric, but particularly enthusiastic, unrestrained and heroic.
Liu An suddenly realized that the characteristics of this country were somewhat similar to his father's personality. Perhaps the monarch could really shape the atmosphere of a country?
The people of Tang I saw along the way were rebellious and talkative, and never restrained, even when facing the prince. And when talking about Zhao, I was very disdainful. Isn’t this my father?
??
Anyway, Liu An was in Tang State, and everyone looked like Ah Father. It seemed that this whole country was Liu Chang.
When he arrived in Jinyang, the third prince came out to greet him in person.
The Prime Minister Zhang Xiangru, the Grand Marshal Li Zuoche, and the Censor Zhu Jian.
These three people still respect the prince very much, and they did not despise the prince just because they were Elder Liu.
Liu An also hurriedly replied the gift.
Zhang Xiangru smiled and said, "Crown Prince, this looks exactly the same as Your Majesty..."
Liu An was stunned. In fact, he looked a little like his mother, his eyes and nose were a bit like his father Cao Shen, and his face looked like his father. He smiled and said, "My father often said that you are steady in your work and can entrust your major affairs.
The virtuous minister, I saw him today, it turns out to be so!"
When Liu An said something, several ministers were a little surprised. They had heard that Liu An had a reputation, but they didn't really believe it. Because they had been in contact with Chang Liu for too long, they naturally wouldn't believe that he would have it.
A gentleman-like son, but now seeing such a gentle and polite gentleman, they finally believe it. It is rare to have someone who can speak human language!
Liu An then started a warm conversation with this person, with sincere words and cited the classics.
Several people took Liu An back to the capital, and Liu An asked them to ride on the carriage with him and were very respectful to them.
Zhang Xiangru, the Marquis of Dongyang, was barely considered to be among the founding ministers. He was uprising very early, but he did not defect to Liu Bang at the beginning. He followed Liu Bang during the Battle of Chu and Han, and was relatively young, so he was not appointed as a marquis.
It was not until later that Chen Xi's rebellion was suppressed and he made great contributions that he was granted the title of Marquis of Dongyang and had 1,300 households.
In the later battles of the Huns, he also made many military achievements and his fief reached 3,800 households.
He is cautious, calm and motivated, so he was valued by Liu Chang and became the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. As for Li Zuoche, he was a defeated general under Han Xin, but he was the first-class strategy and currently commanding the Tang Dynasty's army. Zhu Jianbi
They have to be much lower-key, but now the Tang Dynasty is in charge of his contribution.
Liu An was drooling at these people.
He had no idea how his foolish father could have been supported by so many talented people?
Why don’t there be so many strong people under my command?
The problems that once plagued Liu Chang for more than 20 years have now begun to plague Liu An.
Accompanied by them, Liu An walked around Jinyang curiously and had a more full understanding of this place. On the road, you can see someone fighting at any time when you disagree. The soldier soon appeared
, their law enforcement is different from Chang'an, usually it starts by punching and kicking. Liu An feels that if he throws his wise men here, they will definitely be very obedient and obedient. The people here are like robbers.
The soldiers are like robbers.
"What is your Highness thinking?"
"I'm wondering what the robbers in Tang State look like."
"There are no robbers in the Tang Dynasty..."
Liu An just smiled and returned to the Tang Palace. It was much more luxurious than he thought. At that time, Liu Chang built it completely in the shape of the Weiyang Palace. It was quite overwhelming, and even Liu An was afraid to stay.
, Look at the name given by Afu, Xiao Weiyang Palace, Xiao Suo Hall, Xiao Jiaofang Hall, Xiao Changxin Hall... This is completely a replica of Weiyang Palace. Sure enough, Afu kept the rebellion from the beginning
I was preparing for this matter for a long time.
Liu An became even more convinced.
Sitting in the upper position of the small oath hall, Liu An felt so uncomfortable.
The surroundings are similar to Afu’s oath hall. Even Liu An sat here, and felt that Afu had ascended to heaven.
The ministers of the Tang State did not say much, it seemed that they were used to it.
"I came this time mainly for things outside the border."
"Yan State defeated Fuyu, North Korea, and obtained a large amount of land. Nanyue and Wu also expanded their territory in the south. Only Tang State is the strongest, but there is no action. How can this be done? I have decided that I must
Open the land outside the border and build cities there, turning the Tang Kingdom into a larger country than the Han Dynasty... than Yan Kingdom!"
Listening to this familiar change of words, the ministers of the Tang Kingdom were particularly excited.
Yes, yes, that's the taste!
It is the king's own son!
Liu An thought that if he said this, he would definitely be opposed by the ministers, but he did not expect that Li Zuoche stood up and said, "Please send me troops now, I am willing to take charge of this matter!
”
Zhang Xiangru also stood up and said seriously: "The outside of the Tang Kingdom is mostly fields, and they are all good pastures. We can build roads, build stations along the road, and build cities at a distance, including the entire outside of the Tang Kingdom.
Within the territory!
By then, no one can match the territory of my Tang Dynasty!”
"The Tang Kingdom also needs a large number of high-quality ranches, just for these people to use for us!"
The censor stood up, "Yes, there are also a large number of herders in our country, and they also need pastures. We can adopt the method of farming and nomadic advances to completely turn the outside of the Great Tang Dynasty!
!”
Looking at these belligerents who were more excited than him, Liu An couldn't help but pat his thigh.