Entering late May, the weather in Chang'an is getting hotter and hotter. During the day, people who are exposed to the sun dare not go out. Only at night does it get a little better.
In view of the fact that the weather was too hot, the leaders of Jiuqing Yamen all found an excuse and ran to Ganquan Palace. They said they were paying respects to the emperor, but in fact they were just to escape the heat.
But Liu De could not go to Ganquan to escape the summer heat and enjoy the moisture of the hot springs.
The weather was so hot that he had to stay in Chang'an.
"How many mung beans did you buy?" Liu De asked Wang Dao.
The weather is so hot. If the scholars staying in Chang'an are well off, they will naturally have a place to cool off. Like the Chehou family, they usually have a manor outside Chang'an city. There are all kinds of mountains, forests and pools in the manor.
Rich people can also spend a lot of money and naturally find a good place to cool off.
But those scholars who came from ordinary families and could only live in some residential houses or even slums in Chang'an did not receive such good treatment.
In such hot weather, it would not be good if two people died of heatstroke.
In this day and age, there are not many things that can cool you down!
The only good news is that mung beans have taken root in China and are also cultivated in Guanzhong. Therefore, Liu De asked Wang Dao to go to the market to buy as many mung beans as possible and prepare to distribute them to people who were living in Chang'an and who were inconvenient to cool off from the heat.
Taxi guys.
Wang Dao said with a bitter face: "There are very few mung beans on the market. I have tried my best, but I still only bought a few hundred kilograms..." After that, he knelt down and said: "My servant is not doing things well, please punish me..."
"Get up..." Liu De said lightly: "I can't blame you for this..."
Although mung beans have been introduced to China during the Warring States Period, and there are records of cultivation in Guanzhong. The cultivation techniques of mung beans are also recorded in "Lu Shi Chun Qiu".
However, at this time, even wheat was a heresy and was not accepted by the people in Guanzhong. Mung beans, an imported product, was even more a heresy among heretics, and compared to soybeans, mung beans also had a disadvantage in terms of yield. Wrong, in mung beans
After it was introduced to China, it was discovered that it has the effect of relieving summer heat. It is estimated that it has been eliminated by the people of Guanzhong.
Even so, its planting area is not very large. Generally, only small landowners or wealthy families will plant some small areas of mung beans as a summer soup every summer. Therefore, it is rare to see mung beans on the market.
Mung beans for sale.
"Take my command talisman and go to the Shaofu Mansion to bring back three thousand kilograms of mung beans..." Liu De said helplessly.
Now, Liu De is no longer willing to poach the Shaofu's foundation unless it is absolutely necessary.
As the saying goes, the butt determines the head.
Now, his status is completely different from what it was at the beginning. The Young Mansion will be his money bag in the future. He also wants to carry out a certain degree of reform on the Young Mansion after he ascends the throne in the future to make it as less intrusive as possible.
It's easy to be poached.
As the saying goes, if the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked, if he himself keeps digging at the Shaofu's walls, how can he ask others not to dig at it?
Therefore, if there was no other way, Liu De would not want to go to the Shaofu to catch the autumn wind.
"No!" When Wang Dao heard this, he immediately became happy and went to the Shaofu. Isn't this a chance for him to get together with his brother? He immediately happily went to the Shaofu with Liu De's order talisman.
As for whether Shaofu doesn’t have so many mung beans?
Liu De never worried about this problem.
Because Shaofu and private businessmen and farmers are two different concepts.
The Shaofu is equivalent to the emperor of the Han Dynasty's own large-scale state-owned enterprise. The goal of this organization never considers profit, let alone whether it is useful.
This institution exists for only one purpose: to serve the Han emperor.
Therefore, the Shaofu's reserves of supplies are overwhelming. Basically, they are only available on the land of China. They must have stored a certain amount to prepare for the emperor's unexpected needs.
It is no exaggeration to say that the young master of the Han Dynasty, to a certain extent, assumed some responsibilities of the state-owned enterprises of the later dynasties.
For example, the weapons of the Han army were all made by Shaofu.
The Shaofu was also responsible for the maintenance and repair of the straight roads and the Great Wall in the Qin Dynasty.
The Shaofu is also responsible for maintaining and digging the rivers and channels in Guanzhong.
The palaces of the Han family and the tombs of emperors of all dynasties were also built and maintained by the Shaofu.
And every one of these things is undoubtedly a loss-making business, and the majority of the Shaofu's expenditures are on these things every year.
Because of this, even though the Young Mansion has become a black hole of supervision and is constantly being harassed and poached by the emperor's relatives, the emperors of all dynasties have tolerated it.
However, Liu De felt that the reform of the Shaofu was inevitable!
Although at present, the contribution of the Shaofu organization to the country and society still outweighs the disadvantages, the decades of connivance and acquiescence of such a huge organization have greatly affected the functions of the Shaofu.
All kinds of hollowing out of the country, corruption and fraud are almost becoming common practice.
Just like how later Chinese dynasties reformed the Ministry of Railways.
There must be merit and contribution, but merit is merit and fault is fault. If we don't reform, big problems will arise.
"When I become the emperor, I will divide the Shaofu into three parts..." Liu De thought: "Ordnance manufacturing and weapons research and development will become an independent department, engineering construction and royal affairs will become an independent department, and then the tax, official land and
Revenue is a separate department..."
The advantage of doing this is of course that it improves efficiency, reduces waste, and can also promote a large number of officials to the rank of nobility, allowing many officials who have spent their entire lives to be officials with eight hundred dan to become officials with a thousand dan rank in one fell swoop.
But the downside...
Of course there are.
The most direct impact is to cut off the financial resources of many nobles and relatives, and it is inevitable that some people will try to jump in.
Moreover, the Shaofu itself will resist reform.
Therefore, even if Liu De becomes the emperor, if he wants to reform the Shaofu, he will need courage and courage, but also wisdom and strategy.
Just come up like a fool and say you want to split it up?
How can the relatives just let it go?
Even Guantao would probably go to Empress Dowager Dou to cry.
Thinking about these things, Liu De said: "Governing a big country is like cooking small delicacies, remember it, remember it!"
His ambition is great, and so is his ambition.
But he will never forget the bloody examples seen by later generations.
For example, Yang Guang...
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In the afternoon, Wang Dao led dozens of people and drove a dozen carriages back carrying mung beans.
When Liu De saw this, he immediately ordered Wang Dao to call Ju Meng, and asked Ju Meng to take his men to distribute all the mung beans equally to the scholars in trouble in Chang'an based on their head count.
This kind of thing is most suitable for Ju Meng to do.
He has been the ranger leader in Luoyang for so long, and he is best at infecting people's hearts.
Watching the show, Meng led his men to work.
Liu De laughed: "It's a pity that I can't go door-to-door to express condolences in person..."
In later generations, every time he watched the news broadcast, Liu De would be envious of those who were consoled by the big bosses who went deep into the grassroots to express condolences. Of course, he later learned that all the recipients of condolences were selected...
But this does not hinder it at all. After watching the news, the people were so moved that they were stunned...
