Liu De smiled broadly, as if he didn't care about Chao Cuo's attitude at all. He found a seat on the left side and knelt down unceremoniously, and then followed the officials on the left and right to say hello with a smile.
Chao Cuo saw this and couldn't help but rate Liu De to a higher level.
Not jumping into the trap he set shows that Liu De is either a cautious person or he is prepared.
Not being able to resist his aggressive tactics shows that Liu De's mind and thoughts have matured, and he is not the kind of noble son who is prone to irritability and has eyes on the top of his head.
But it doesn't matter.
The two pits he just dug were nothing more than random ones. It would be gratifying to be able to pit Liu De, but there would be no loss if he couldn't.
After all the subordinate officials and Liu De sat down, Chao Cuo sat on the chief officer's seat, cupped his hands to Liu De and said: "Your Majesty ordered me to assist Your Highness in regulating Chang'an. I am old and decrepit. I thought hard all night last night, but I didn't think about it."
What countermeasures have you come up with... His Highness is wise, so he must have some countermeasures, but the old minister is incompetent, so I dare to ask His Highness to teach me!" Although the words were polite, there was no respect in his tone, and not even a fool could hear the flavor of this false story.
Liu De still calmly raised his hands and said in return: "You have such a weak moral character, how dare you teach the wrong duke? He is the pillar of the principality, and his father often praises the duke's talents in front of the boy, so he asked his father's permission to come and study under the duke.
, experience... the boy will only follow the lead of the male horse in everything!"
"Then the old minister is so presumptuous!" Chao Cuo said unscrupulously: "Everything in the capital has its own rules and regulations. Each department is responsible for its duties. Since the old minister took office, he has only followed the rules and regulations..."
Liu De knew that the drama was coming, so he pricked his ears, put on a modest look, sat upright, and listened to Chao Cuo's next words.
I only heard Chao Cuo sighing: "For a while, I really can't find any place for your highness to practice. There is only one place. The official position has been vacant for a long time. If your highness doesn't dislike it, you might as well take care of it on behalf of the old minister!"
Chao Cuo was angry for half the night after receiving the emperor's order to go home last night.
Originally, the good thing about the Internal History Yamen was that he had the final say on all policies, laws, systems and judgments.
The emperor didn't know what he was thinking, so he forced a prince in.
The name is to assist and learn.
Moreover, this prince is still Liu De, who seems to be different from Chao Cuo in terms of political stance and political orientation.
If possible, Chao Cuo really wants to put Liu De aside as a mascot and let Liu De show off his cuteness occasionally.
But how dare Chao Cuo really leave a prince who has received the emperor's decree aside?
Even if Liu De doesn't file a complaint and lets Prime Minister Shen Tujia, Lieutenant Zhou Yafu and other traditional and conservative ministers with a mind full of superiority and inferiority know about it, wouldn't it cause a huge stir?
Therefore, he really can only give some of the authority that originally belonged to him to Liu De.
It's just that there is knowledge in how to divide this authority.
If a prince he likes comes over, it goes without saying that he will definitely hand over the arsenal and Baqiao, places that are both comfortable and comfortable and easy to mix with political achievements, and he will also mention it from time to time at twelve o'clock a day, so as to leave it for the future.
Some incense and passion.
Since it was Liu De, a prince he didn't like, he must find a place full of pits that would make it impossible to climb out if he fell in.
After much deliberation, he remembered a place that Chao Cuo had long forgotten from the pile of old papers in Neishi Mansion.
Therefore, Chao Cuo was afraid that Liu De would refuse, so he said without even waiting for Liu De's reply: "There are four shortcomings among the nine city magistrates in Chang'an City. In the past, I had no choice but to manage it myself. Your Highness is coming soon, so I might as well take charge of it for the time being."
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As he said this, an official presented four seals with the decree of a city in Chang'an to Liu De, obviously not allowing him to refuse.
Liu De chuckled, accepted the four orders, and said with cupped hands: "How dare you refuse the order of the elders? I'm just afraid that I'm young and virtuous, and I'm inexperienced in the world, and I hope that I'll give you more advice!"
Liu De has been famous for the nine cities in Chang'an for a long time. The so-called cities in the Han Dynasty refer to the commercial areas. As a feudal dynasty, the Han Dynasty's thinking of focusing on agriculture and suppressing business was not much different from that of the later generations of the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Therefore, from then on,
Starting from Liu Bang, merchants' household registrations were separated from those of other people, called city registrations. If people without city registrations do business, or people with city registrations do not do business in the designated market, they will face legal action.
Severe punishment, the punishment given by Han law is: two gold fines will be treated as stolen goods. This means that in addition to the fine, illegal business income and goods will be confiscated as stolen goods.
Therefore, all merchants and handicraft workshops in Chang'an are concentrated in nine government-designated cities.
Many people may not be aware of the nine cities.
Many people know the nicknames of these nine cities, namely East City and West City.
It is the East Market and the West Market that "Buy horses in the East Market, buy saddles in the West Market" in Mulan's poem refer to them. The reason why they are called East Market and West Market is because these cities are located in the northeast and northwest of Chang'an City.
The edge of the land.
Therefore, someone once said that the problem of Chang'an City lies in the nine cities. If the nine cities are solved, most of the problems of Chang'an City can be solved.
This makes sense.
Because, as the rangers who are similar to Young and Dangerous in later generations, they are certainly not supermen. They also need to eat to fill their stomachs, but to eat well. Whether it is more than two thousand years later or now, the rangers have to collect protection fees!
In addition to the nine cities in Chang'an City, the most important people in life are the powerful ministers and relatives of Marquis Che. These people can strangle those rangers to death with just their fingers. If you want to collect protection money from these people, you will definitely be looking for death.
If there were any arrogant person who went to a noble's house and demanded protection money, the noble's own servants and petty thugs would be able to teach the ranger how to behave in a matter of minutes without the need for government officials.
The rest are even poorer than the rangers. They rely on the poor people who sell their hard work and sweat in Chang'an City. Most of these people don't know where their next meal will be after one meal. There is definitely no way to collect protection fees from them.
hopefully.
Therefore, the businessmen and handicraft workshop owners living in the nine cities of Chang'an are the real food and clothing parents of the rangers. Most of the fights and killings in Chang'an every year are caused by the territory of the nine cities.
As for the dandy boys and the descendants of noble nobles who have been hanging out in Chang'an City for a long time, if they want to cause trouble and do evil, they will definitely not kill each other. As for the poor, if they are bullied, their prices will be reduced, and there is no benefit. They are more likely to get into trouble, or will they?
Businessmen in the Nine Cities are easy to bully. Every year, most of the incidents of forced buying and selling, bullying of men and women caused by nobles and nobles' descendants also occur in the Nine Cities.
It's just that everyone knows the principle, but when it comes to implementation, it's not that simple.
A simple example: Liu De discovered that a nobleman was buying and selling by force in a certain city, so he went to stop him, and then found out that the other person was actually a descendant of the Dou family...
How to deal with this?
After taking the four seals, Liu De knew that Chao Cuo wanted to throw a hot potato to him.
The subtext is probably: Your Highness, please retreat as soon as possible!
But how could Liu De retreat?
Why is it so difficult to retreat?
This is related to whether he can be the crown prince!
In front of the crown prince position, all difficulties and obstacles cannot stop Liu De from climbing up!
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