One thousand three hundred and ninety-first festival painting flat cake 1 Happy New Year's Eve
"The Prime Minister understands the righteousness, and I am very relieved!" Liu Che sighed. In this world, it is always difficult for the monarch and his ministers to be harmonious, and for generals and prime ministers to be harmonious.?
As for his cooperation with Zhou Yafu, although there were bumps and even conflicts between the monarch and his ministers, in the end, both of them knew that the other party was not the kind of person who would corrupt state affairs for personal gain.
So, in the end, there will always be someone who compromises and gives in.
The empire's court has been able to be stable for a long time, and Zhou Yafu's role is indispensable.
Liu Che was even a little reluctant to let Zhou Yafu retire from office.
However, since the system has been established, it should be followed!
Liu Che will not destroy his own system because of his personal feelings, which is no different from digging his own grave.
"What does Your Majesty plan to do?" Zhou Yafu asked with piercing eyes. He couldn't wait to participate in this huge gamble.
Liu Che smiled slightly and said: "Prime Minister, please go to the screen and wait a moment..."
"No..." Zhou Yafu nodded, stood up with a smile.
He suddenly remembered that afternoon seven years ago, when the late emperor ordered him to hide behind the screen and observe today...
History seems to have gone through a reincarnation. Seven years later, he was now ordered to hide behind a screen and watch the changes.
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Not long after Zhou Yafu hid, a noble lady rushed into the Qingliang Palace. Several attendants and eunuchs could not stop her.
Liu Che looked up, waved his hand and said: "You all, please step back..."
"No..." The attendants and eunuchs quickly and consciously retreated to both sides. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, feeling like they had walked away from the gate of hell for once!
Because the background of this noble lady is really great!
The eldest daughter of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, the sweetheart of the Empress Dowager, the eldest daughter of the Han Empire, the biological mother of the current empress, the mother-in-law of the emperor...
So many titles are based on her.
This made her one of the most noble women in Chang'an City.
Basically, except for the Empress Dowager Donggong and Empress Dowager Bo, no woman can be more powerful than her!
Liu Che stood up and said with a smile: "What's wrong with my aunt? She's so angry..." As he said that, Liu Che ordered the eunuch beside him: "Why don't you prepare a seat for the princess?"
"Humph!" Guantao held up his skirt angrily and said, "Emperor, you have to give me an explanation today..."
Liu Che looked at Guantao, and of course he knew why she came?
However, he pretended to be confused, and after Guan Tao sat down, he asked in surprise: "What kind of explanation does Auntie want me to give?" There was a slight chill in his tone.
Guantao said angrily: "Emperor, my aunt heard that the emperor wants to rebuild the nine cities of Chang'an? Is this true?"
"Well, it does happen!" Liu Che nodded and replied calmly.
"Then why did my aunt want to buy several shops, but the young master's office didn't sell them?" Guan Tao asked angrily: "Does the young master not want to do this?"
At this moment, the princess of the empire is the domineering master of the pottery.
"Young Master Shaofu acted on my orders..." Liu Che said calmly: "Auntie, do you think what I did was right or wrong?"
This sentence immediately blocked all Guantao's words in his mouth.
"Aunt..." Liu Che stood up and said, "You are my elder and the princess of Sheji... If you rashly interfere in the affairs of merchants, I am afraid that Emperor Taizong and Emperor Renzong will lose their face. I will be ashamed of the world and my ancestors..."
"Emperor..." Guantao heard this and wanted to refute, but in the end, he could not say anything.
Indeed, she is one of the most powerful and noble women in Chang'an City and even in the world.
but……
The person in front of her now is the Emperor of Han Dynasty!
The Son of Heaven, who has received orders from Heaven, has a long and prosperous life, speaks the Constitution of Heaven, and exercises the power of life and death!
As for the Emperor Liu, every generation has the tradition of killing his own relatives!
Taizong killed his younger brother and uncle, and the late Emperor killed the King of Wu and the King of Chu.
And the son-in-law in front of him killed four cousins, imprisoned one, and deposed one.
According to rumors, even the death of King Yan Liu Dingguo not long ago was inseparable from him.
Guantao, on the other hand, is just a woman.
Moreover, she is a woman whose power and wealth all come from others.
A large part of this was given by the man in front of me.
To put it bluntly, if the son-in-law no longer gets close to and dotes on the queen, she, the so-called eldest princess, will probably be no different from her younger sisters.
She is nothing more than a princess who can bully her husband at home.
Where did today’s scenery come from?
There is no doubt that Guantao is a smart man.
And she is a smart woman without moral integrity!
When the late emperor was in power, she could help pimp her husband and pay tribute to singers and beauties regardless of propriety to please the emperor's younger brother.
And in history, in her later years, in order to make Emperor Wu smile.
This princess, at the age of sixty, cooked for Emperor Wu herself, wearing the clothes of a cook.
In order to make Emperor Wu happy, he even gave his house to Emperor Wu as a palace.
It can be said that there is no bottom line!
In recent years, Liu Che has not done much to manage Guantao.
But this does not mean that Liu Che has not attacked and restrained her.
Otherwise, how could Guantao be so good?
Although Guantao was not a smart woman, she was a qualified politician. As soon as she saw that Liu Che's face was wrong, she immediately put her anger and dissatisfaction aside and said quickly: "Since it is the emperor's wish, why didn't the emperor earlier?"
explain……"
She giggled, slightly embarrassed and found a way for herself: "Auntie, it's not because she wants to make some money to support the family..."
In Guantao's life, there are two things that she has always pursued diligently and greedily for.
One is money. In order to make money, she will do anything.
At that time, everyone in Chang'an City and even in the officialdom of the world knew that the signboard of Princess Guantao was made of gold.
After receiving the money, we will definitely do the work, and we will be honest!
Two years ago, Guantao could no longer do this kind of business.
Because Liu Che cut off all her tentacles that could manipulate government affairs and personnel.
The Eastern Palace also withdrew from power and stopped providing power to her.
This made her really uncomfortable.
It is precisely for this reason that as soon as the reconstruction plan for the nine cities in Chang'an came out, she jumped up and down to try to occupy the territory.
There is no doubt that Guantao values power more than money.
This is related to her childhood and teenage experiences!
At the beginning, during the Dai Kingdom period, she suffered from poverty, poverty and powerlessness.
It is precisely because she has suffered so much that she desperately wants to seize it after she has power and wealth.
"Auntie is short of money?" Liu Che seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the world!
"I remember that when Emperor Taizong was still alive, he bestowed gold every year. On his deathbed, he even gave three thousand gold, twenty million in money, and one thousand pieces of cloth..." Liu Che counted the accounts for Guan Tao with his fingers.
There is no doubt that Liu Che's grandfather doted on and loved his eldest daughter very much.
Various rewards have never been cut off.
When he was dying, the emperor gave most of the property he had accumulated to his eldest daughter.
such a pity……
Guantao never knew how to use money sparingly.
As far as Liu Che knew, the wealth given by Taizong had been spent by her long before Liu Che came to the throne.
It is said that the construction cost of just one Nagamen Garden has exceeded 20 million!
However, Guan Taotian's life was good, and after Taizong's death, Empress Dowager Dou pampered her far more than Taizong.
In addition, the late emperor was also very close to his sister.
The King of Liang also needed his sister to help him move around and speak in Chang'an.
The world's bureaucrats need Her Royal Highness the Princess' kind words even more...
"During the time of the late emperor, I heard that my aunt earned thousands of gold, tens of millions of money, cloth and silk every year, and the manor was useless..." Looking at the palace pottery, Liu Che said softly: "And after I came to the throne, the rewards and payments every year have always been the same. I have never treated you badly...Chen Xu, Chen Jiao, Aunt Sui Gong, thousands of ginseng beads, hundreds of pearls, thousands of gold, countless furs, Long Yanxiang is measured in stones..."
Liu Che sighed softly and looked at his mother-in-law: "My aunt is still short of money... Then I don't know who is rich in this world..."
According to Xiu Yiwei's speculation and report, Guantao's gold inventory is likely to be between 40,000 and 50,000 gold.
Even now, this is an exaggerated figure.
You must know that Liu Che spent six years deceiving and swindling everywhere to find gold reserves in his internal treasury, and tried every means to search for gold.
But so far, the gold reserves are only more than 300,000 gold.
Of course, the fact that the Han Dynasty has so much gold today is largely due to Anton's gold rush.
Since the fourth year of Yuande, Anton's gold output has reached 50,000 gold per year!
This is still an open transaction, and there is still a lot of gold flowing to various places privately.
Such a large amount of gold poured into the market without causing any fluctuations.
Because, a large amount of gold eventually entered Liu Che's inner treasury or the cellars of princes, nobles, princes and kings.
Although now, the Shaofu conservatively estimates that the total gold reserves in the world are likely to be as high as 1.5 million gold.
But in the market, the gold in circulation, including five baht gold, is only about 100,000 gold at most.
And this gold that is not in circulation is either lying in the cellar molding, or is being prepared to be cast into underworld vessels and used as funerary objects.
The Han Empire's annual gold consumption on funerary objects exceeded 100,000 gold!
For example, King Yan Liu Dingguo passed away not long ago.
Among the objects he was buried with, there were one thousand gold cakes and more than three hundred other gold objects, totaling more than three thousand gold.
And his wealth is only the lowest among the princes and kings of the Han family.
Like Liang Wang Liu Wu, once he dies one day, the value of gold and gold objects buried with him is likely to exceed 50,000 gold!
And the princes were no less generous.
The influx of gold from Anton is constantly pushing up the level of funeral luxury among the princes.
Not long ago, Chaoyang Hou died, and the gold he buried with him was worth more than two thousand gold! And Chaoyang Hou's family only had a thousand households...
A few years ago, Beiping Wenhou Zhang Cang passed away and was buried with only one thousand gold coins.
Even the late Anwen Marquis Shen Tujia, whom Liu Che respected, was buried with only fifteen hundred gold.
The princes and kings are like this, let alone the people.
The powerful, landlords, and scholar-bureaucrats competed with each other.
If the owner of a family dies and there is not enough gold among the funeral objects, he will be laughed at!
Their descendants may even be accused of being 'unfilial'.
The family was buried in lavish burials and the family was destroyed, which gradually became more and more serious.
Liu Che wanted to reform, but couldn't find a good way.
After all, the tradition of the Han Dynasty is to "serve death as one serves life."
How a person lives when he is alive must be the same after death.
Even if Liu Che's grandfather and father took the lead in giving a sparse burial and used only ceramics instead of gold and silver as burial objects, they could not stop the world's opinions at all.
With no other choice, Liu Che could only try his best to recover gold from the private sector.
The transformation of Chang'an City and the operation of the nine cities are an effort and an attempt.
At least, let's move the private gold from the cellars to the treasury first.
Liu Che has been coveting Guantao's gold for a long, long time.
However, Guantao didn't know about this, and her body trembled a little when she listened to the emperor's son-in-law's words.
For a money addict, the most terrifying thing is for someone else to know your background - especially when that person has the ability to take money away from your pocket.
She shook her head quickly and said: "The emperor is joking, where did my aunt get so much money?"
"Haha..." Liu Che shook his head.
Guantao is sometimes too shrewd, but sometimes he is horribly stupid!
In fact, want to find out how much gold Guantao has? It’s easy!
Just count how many gold cellars there are in Guantao's mansion!
This is not difficult! What’s more, Guantao’s house has long been infiltrated into a sieve by Xiu Yiwei!
Liu Che even knew how long Guan Tao spent in that cellar every day!
"Okay..." Liu Che smacked his lips: "Since my aunt doesn't have so much money, then I won't force it... I'll go to King Liang and King Jiangdu to discuss the royal shops in the nine cities of Chang'an..."
"Imperial shop?" Upon hearing this, Guan Tao jumped up as if his butt was on fire.
"Well..." Liu Che nodded and said: "I plan to separate the Salt and Iron Yamen and the Money Making Yamen from the Shaofu and establish an organization jointly controlled by the royal family, relatives, and princes to operate related shops and industries.
...Originally, I planned to find my aunt to form a joint venture. Now, since my aunt doesn’t have so much money, I will go to the King of Liang and the King of Jiangdu to discuss the deal first!”
As soon as these words came out, not only Guantao, but also Zhou Yafu behind the screen almost jumped up.
Fortunately, Zhou Yafu knew that Liu Che would not be so impatient, and since the matter was not yet understood, he reluctantly held back.
But all Guantao's thoughts were attracted by Yantie Yamen and Zhuqian Yamen.
Everyone in the world knows that today, relying on the profits of salt and iron and the making of money, the wealth can be used to benefit the people in Guanzhong and use the wealth in the inner treasury to fight against the Huns.
From this we can see how much profit there is from salt, iron and coinage?
"Emperor..." Guantao swallowed hard and asked, "What on earth is going on? Tell my aunt quickly..."
Liu Che chuckled, he had known for a long time that Guantao would bite the hook!
