After taking care of the money matters, Liu Che walked out of the Gaomiao temple like a normal person. Then he led his ministers to the next ancestral temple: Hui Temple of Emperor Hui.
To be honest, Emperor Hui's existence is already very embarrassing nowadays.
Although the Liu family officials still recognized Emperor Hui's status as emperor, they did not recognize their emperor's status like the prince Hui who was imprisoned and died by Empress Lu and the young emperor's brothers who were killed by the princes and ministers.
However, because of Empress Lu's relationship, Emperor Hui's historical positioning was somewhat problematic.
The Gaodi Temple of the Han Dynasty has dances of Wude, Wenshi, and the Five Elements, and the Taizong Temple has the dance of Zhaode. Even the exclusive memorial music of the ancestral temple of Emperor Renzong Xiaojing, who died last year, is tense among the musician departments of Taichang and Shaofu.
However, Huidi Temple could only take advantage of Liu Bang and use Wen Shi and Five Elements to worship.
However, Emperor Hui should be thankful that the Liu family's Han Dynasty Sheji Shanzhai Qin system had gone too far.
Even the ancestral temple system was copied from the Qin system, not the Zhou system.
Therefore, Huidi Temple receives certain sacrifices every year.
But compared with Liu Bang's high temple, Hui Temple is undoubtedly shabby.
Even Emperor Hui's clothes hanging high in the temple and enjoying incense and sacrifices were a bit old - in comparison, Taizu's clothes in Gaomiao were still brand new.
Emperor Hui's embarrassment can also be seen from the sacrifices.
The offerings on the incense table were pitiful, with only a few glasses of wine and three or five underworld utensils offered as offerings.
Even Liu Che made a hasty appearance with his ministers.
Emperor Hui had no heirs, and all political achievements were wiped out. At one point, someone even suggested moving the Hui Temple out of Chang'an.
After the memorial text was recited, Liu Che raised his head and glanced at Emperor Hui's clothes hanging high in the temple.
There was no wind or rain in the temple, and the clothes were silent.
But Liu Che always felt a little depressed.
After a while, he realized that this was called the death of a rabbit and the grief of a fox hurting its own kind.
The misery of Emperor Hui serves as a warning to every generation of Han emperors who come here to offer sacrifices, not to forget to hold on to the power in their hands, and not to forget to stab the world and spread it across the world.
An emperor who cannot grasp power and retain heirs will be destined to end up like this if he commits any of these crimes.
However, Emperor Hui was guilty of both, but he could still keep the ancestral temple clothes and enjoy the incense and sacrifices. In fact, Emperor Hui had a good brother, and Emperor Taizong Xiaowen thought of the brotherhood and brotherhood, so he gave him such a good treatment.
After leaving Hui Temple, the next place of worship, Taizong Temple, is a bit far away.
The Han Dynasty had only three temples in Chang'an, namely the Taishang Imperial Temple of the Supreme Emperor Liu Taigong, the Gao Temple of the Taizu Gao Emperor Liu Bang and the Hui Temple of Emperor Hui.
Next, starting from Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, ancestral temples were erected beside the mausoleum.
This is because starting from Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, the mausoleum system of the Han Dynasty formally took shape.
The emperor moved the world's most powerful people, local famous families, and powerful merchants to the mausoleum of the capital to enrich the foundation and strengthen the foundation.
The temple of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen stands on the Ba Mausoleum.
Liu Che led hundreds of civil and military officials, drove over and walked up the steps.
The rocks and trees in Taizong's mausoleum are lush and green, and the temples and halls stand side by side.
Along the way, what Liu Che saw with his eyes were the tombstones and epitaphs of famous figures one after another.
These are all Taizong ministers who were buried with Ba Ling.
The shape of Ba Mausoleum, or the shape of the emperor's mausoleum in the early and middle Han Dynasty, is also very distinctive.
From a distance, it looks a bit like the pyramids of Egypt.
But when you climb up to the mausoleum, you will find that it is not the case at all. The shape of the entire mausoleum is completely natural, square and square, resembling the structure of a pyramid.
Taizong's imperial edict also explicitly ordered that the Baling mountains and rivers should not be changed for their own sake.
As Liu Che's direct grandfather and the source of legal authority for his line of government, the sacrificial standards of Taizong Temple are directly on par with those of Liu Bang's Gao Temple, and even exceed them!
Not only when we were going up the mountain, there were musicians playing and eight hundred people dancing in the temple.
The size of its temple is directly comparable to that of the Xuanshi Palace in Weiyang Palace.
In fact, after Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, the ancestral temple of the emperors of the Han Dynasty was directly copied from the Xuanshi Hall.
In the ancestral temple, on top of the throne of the head, a set of clothes and crowns sits high on it.
It was Emperor Taizong Xiaowen's favorite Ge Ti clothes, leather shoes and a red ribbon tied around his waist. The most expensive thing in the whole set of clothes was probably the pearl on the emperor's crown hanging on the throne.
Liu Che looked at this and felt a little blushing.
The clothes he is wearing now are made of Shu brocade, and he also added a fox fur to keep out the cold. His shoes are leather boots made by Shaofu's top craftsmen, and the red ribbon around his waist is inlaid with many precious stones. gem.
Compared with his grandfather, he was indeed an extremely extravagant emperor.
No wonder even the later peasant rebels who came to Ba Ling and saw Taizong's clothes immediately covered their faces and retreated, and they did not commit any crime against Ba Lingqiu.
Even if such an emperor dies, his legacy and personality are still as dazzling as a star.
Liu Che led the ministers to kneel down respectfully and kowtow three times to pay homage to the emperor who had connected the past and the future in the history of the Han Dynasty and established the prosperity of the Han Dynasty today.
After worshiping at Taizong Temple, Liu Che went to the ancestral temple of his father, Emperor Renzong Xiaojing, to worship.
As Liu Che's biological father, Emperor Renzong's temple was naturally more grand, and all the utensils and ritual utensils were brand new.
Following the established procedure, after paying homage to his father's clothes, Liu Che walked out of the Renzong Xiaojing Temple and issued an edict: He ordered all the counties and counties in the world to build the Renzong Xiaojing Emperor Temple, with a priest to perform sacrifices at all times, just like the Gaomiao Temple and Taizong Temple!
This is what it should mean.
It is also the treatment that every emperor with a temple title should enjoy.
However, this move brought the total number of ancestral temples in the world to a peak of 204.
There is no doubt that this will increase the burden on farmers.
An ancestral temple may require hundreds of workers to work for several months to complete in terms of labor alone.
The sacrifices and sacrifices made during the four seasons must be shared among the farmers.
Even though the tax rate of the Han Dynasty was very low, Liu Che also ordered that "taxes will never be increased."
But local bureaucrats, landlords and nobles will never pay for these money and labor themselves.
Therefore, the next day, Liu Che once again issued an edict, clearly stating that "Ding Nan's fourth year is a matter". At the same time, he announced that families with a household income of less than 10,000 yuan in the world would have their calculations reduced from 120 yuan per person to 40 yuan per person. standards. In addition, those who have male members of the family who are guarding the border or who are affected by the king's affairs also enjoy this treatment.
The impact of Ding Nan's four-year-old life is not that big.
After all, as early as the period of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, the Han Dynasty had already ordered that "Ding men should serve once in three years", that is, the men of the First Fu should serve in corvée once every three years.
When Liu Che changed his service to four years, it could only be regarded as limited care for the farmers, and it was of little significance - among the rich and powerful landlords and bureaucrats these days, who would be stupid enough to serve? It was all copper money that paved the way, coercion and inducement. Sharecroppers and poor people serve for them, and some iron roosters do not even pay a penny to the farmers.
However, he ordered that the tax (capitation tax) for families with a household income of less than 10,000 yuan in the world be directly reduced from 120 yuan per person to 40 yuan per person. However, it was Liu Che, the new king, who was giving real distribution to the people of the world.
The benefits are here.
In today's Han Dynasty, an adult cattle was worth 7,000 yen. In rural areas of the Guandong region, 100 acres of land was basically worth 10,000 yen.
Therefore, the standard set by Liu Che basically covers the lowest level of Guizhou leaders who are already so poor that they cannot even keep their land.
These people can't even keep their land. Where can they find the money to pay the 120 yuan tax per person?
Liu Che didn't even need to think about what would happen to farmers who couldn't pay their dues.
If they sell their land and sell their wives, if they sell their wives and sell their children, and if they sell their children and sell themselves, they will inevitably fall into such a vicious cycle.
The small peasant class and the small landlord class were the Han Dynasty's largest source of financial resources and its best source of soldiers.
Protecting their survival and growth is actually protecting the Liu family itself.
More importantly, after the new king takes the throne, he will provide benefits and reduce burdens to the people of the world. This is the tradition of the Han Dynasty.
During the reign of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, the land tax was reduced to 30 qian per year, and a male was paid every three years. At the same time, the calculated tax for all common people was reduced to 40 qian per year.
Although the late emperor's reign was short, he also made changes such as the twenty-three-year-old male priest and the system of thirty-one land tax and one tax.
When Liu Che ascends the throne, he must of course be on par with the two previous emperors.
Of course, each family can only enjoy this benefit of 40 yuan per person for a maximum of five years. After five years, if they still cannot get up, there is nothing they can do.
Even God only helps those who help themselves, let alone Liu Che, the largest landlord in the Han Dynasty?
As for the families of the border guards and the immediate relatives of those who were affected by the king's affairs, enjoying this treatment, this was a means used by Liu Che to win over the army and win people's hearts.
At the same time, it can be regarded as a policy to increase the enthusiasm of ordinary people to enlist in the army.
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As soon as Liu Che's edict came out, the world was naturally filled with joy.
Even the people in the land of Wu and Chu were extremely grateful to the new king for his edict.
After all, there had just been a military disaster last year, a large number of men died in the war, and social production in Wuchu and other places was greatly damaged.
At this time, the new emperor's edict came, which naturally gave the farmers a breather.
The common people are very simple, and as long as they can survive, they will never rebel. In fact, most people are not even willing to do business as long as they can survive.
The Chinese people's idea of homeland and homesickness are the strongest among all ethnic groups.
Therefore, wherever the edict passed, even Mitsukoshi and the southwestern barbarians, who were independent of the Han Dynasty, were alarmed.
Many landless farmers who originally wanted to avoid taxes resolutely gave up their local life, sold their assets, and traveled thousands of miles back home.
Of course, these are things for later.
The day after Liu Che issued the edict, the Shaofu Ling Cen Mai came to complain.
The reason is that after the death of the late emperor, he left behind a million yuan in savings in the inner treasury.
After Liu Che came to the throne, he spread money everywhere, and now, the Shaofu only has 800,000 yuan in savings.
This made Cen Mai feel very scared.
The Shaofu's political achievements come from the savings in his inner treasury.
Nowadays, the coins stored in the inner treasury are constantly flowing out, but there is no increase. It is strange that Cen Mai is not in a hurry!
After Liu Che listened to Cen Mai's complaint, he laughed.
Are you panicking now?
This is just the beginning!
Liu Che thinks that the sooner the young man’s existing coins are spent, the better!
Because, it will soon be the era of five baht coins.
The coins currently in the Shaofu's treasury will inevitably depreciate rapidly as the five-baht coins continue to circulate.
At that time, the junk goods that the young master has in his hands are either mixed with iron or lead, and their weight and currency value are far less than five baht coins. There is no other way except to re-melt them and use them to mint five baht coins.
You can go.
Before the money depreciates, how much you can spend is equal to how much you earn!
Of course, the young master still needs to be appeased.
Therefore, Liu Che entrusted all the casting tasks of five-baht coins to the Shaofu, together with the several five-baht coin casting workshops that were originally controlled by Liu Che and the new iron mold for casting coins improved by the Mohists.
Handed over to the Shaofu.
The biggest achievement of Moyuan last year was that in addition to soil fertilizers, it changed the clay molds used by the Han Dynasty to cast coins into iron molds.
Compared with clay fans, iron fans can cast money faster and at lower cost. More importantly, iron fans are different from clay fans and have an appallingly short service life. An iron fan can cast tens of thousands of coins, while a clay fan can cast money.
Fan can only mint a few hundred coins at most.
The efficiency and gap between this can be imagined.
After Cen Mai received all the power and authorization to mint five baht coins, he naturally shouted long live happily.
For the Shaofu, making money is its life, nothing else!
The emperor had been holding the five-baht coin in his hand before. It had already made the young man's house tremble with fear.
Being able to get back the right to mint five baht coins this time is the greatest reassurance for the young master!
After seeing off Cen Mai, Liu Che asked Wang Dao to summon Prime Minister Zhou Yafu and Imperial Censor Chao Cuo to the palace to discuss matters.
The issue of course is how to spend money.
Now that North Korea has been captured, the land of Liaodong can basically farm with peace of mind. There is no need to worry about any more external threats.
Then immigration to Liaodong and western Liaoning will be put on the agenda.
How to specifically resettle the immigrants, how to resettle the immigrants, and how to distribute land seeds and agricultural tools are all things that need to be considered in temple calculations.
As the emperor, Liu Che only needed to set the tone and distribute money and food, and his ministers would take care of it for him.
Liu Che still trusted the administrative and mobilizing abilities of the Han Dynasty!
In the history of previous lives, Xiaozhu first built Canghai County, then Jiaozhi County, and finally Shuofang County and Luntai City. There were nearly a million immigrants before and after, and even to Yunnan, Xiaozhu sent tens of thousands of immigrants.
In the process, Xiaozhu defeated the Xiongnu and defeated North Korea and Mitsukoshi.
Still nothing wrong!
The Han Dynasty during the Yuan Guang to Yuanding years was extremely powerful and could almost travel sideways in East Asia.
If the piglet hadn't been kicked in the head by a donkey, and after the Yuan Shou Year, he was obsessed with cultivating immortals, spending a lot of money, repairing palaces and attics, and building large-scale construction projects, I am afraid that the Han Dynasty's finances would not have been dragged down by these wars and immigrants.
Even so, after the Yuan Dynasty, Xiaozhu still hanged Dayuan, took the head of King Dayuan home as a souvenir, destroyed several countries in the Western Region, and fought many battles with the Xiongnu.
From these facts, Liu Che saw the powerful mobilization and organizational capabilities hidden under the current militaristic regime of the Han Dynasty.
Of course, in ancient China, any immigration policy required a strong financial system to support it.
Now, the young master's savings are only 800,000 yuan.
Of course, the sooner this money is spent, the better.
But correspondingly, Liu Che also had to find a new source of income.
Otherwise, in the end, the treasury will be so poor that even rats can escape, and he, the emperor, will be treated as a puppet by others.
In this world, not only ordinary people need money, landlords and bureaucrats need money, even the emperor must have money!
Liu Che knew how miserable the emperor was without money.
Apart from anything else, Chongzhen is a very good example.
In today's world, what is the fastest way to make money?
The answer is salt and iron.
There is no more profitable business than salt and iron!
Of course, if the Romans in Europe were willing to eat a million bolts of silk every year, that would be another matter.
Unfortunately, in this era, the land Silk Road is extremely bumpy, and the so-called Maritime Silk Road does not even have a shadow.
The South Vietnamese fleet, which had the strongest navigation capabilities, reached the farthest places in Thailand and Malaysia in later generations.
The silk that can now reach Europe through various channels, Liu Che thinks, may not even reach a hundred pieces a year...
The rarity of things makes them valuable, which is why silk was so expensive in the history of ancient Rome.
Therefore, salt and iron, a necessary daily consumable that is closely related to ordinary people, have naturally become the biggest new source of wealth in Liu Che's eyes.
However, for the Yantie official camp, Liu Che had to get Zhou Yafu's absolute support, and also had to convince the two empress dowagers of the East Palace and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.
Each of these tasks is more difficult than the last!
Because the current policy of the Han Dynasty is that Huang Lao is quiet and inactive. The Huang Lao sect, which is in charge of government, emphasizes that the people do not break the law and the officials do not investigate. To put it simply, as long as the people do not violate the law, let alone stay at home and mint money.
, Boil the salt, even if you bring out artillery and fire it at the top of the mountain, they will turn a blind eye, listen or not hear.
This was reflected in economic activities, which led to the prosperity of merchants and wealthy merchants everywhere.
From Guanzhong to Wu and Chu. From Qilu to Yanzhao, there are almost no places without big merchants, and there are almost nothing that merchants dare not sell.
But Liu Che remembered clearly that in the granary case in Hedong the year before last, 200,000 shi of stored grain fell into the hands of Dao Jian, a big businessman in Qi State. Who knows where else this Dao Jian bought stored grain and resold it to Liu Che?
Something like that.
Moreover, Liu Bi had so many armies with armor, swords, guns, and even crossbows that were key controlled weapons. Where did the heavy armor come from?
The Kingdom of Wu only covers three counties, and it is not an iron-producing area. Where did so many iron weapons come from?
Anyway, after the Guanjin system was abolished, God knows what those merchants were carrying on their carriages and boats.
Liu Che wanted to take action against this and steal food from the merchants, which would undoubtedly be a nightmare level of difficulty.
But instead of taking food from the mouths of big businessmen, big landowners and big bureaucrats, we must take food from the mouths of peasants and small landowners.
For the sake of the common people in the world, Liu Che had no choice but to bite the bullet and come to meet them for a while.
At this first level, Liu Che needed to convince Zhou Yafu, and only with Zhou Yafu's support could Liu Che guarantee that even if the worst happened, he could rely on the army to make a comeback.
Then there is the East Palace. Only with the support of the East Palace can Liu Che have no worries.
Finally, most of the courtiers.
With the support of the courtiers, Liu Che could concentrate all the power of the Han Dynasty into one fist, use an iron fist to deal with all possible opponents, and use blood and fire to frighten all potential enemies.
Without these three, Liu Che would not be able to establish the Salt and Iron Government.
And if you want to convince these three, strategy is undoubtedly very important.
Liu Che is very skilled at talking to people and talking to ghosts.
As for Zhou Yafu, Liu Che is now about 70% sure that he can convince him.
As for the East Palace, with the help of Chen Ajiao and Guantao, Liu Che had at most less than 40% certainty in persuading the Empress Dowager and Empress Dowager Bo to support him.
As for the remaining courtiers, as long as Zhou Yafu and the East Palace support him, Liu Che feels that more than 90% of them will shout long live without hesitation and join his camp.
As for the rest, there is no doubt that they will be crushed mercilessly by the wheels of history.
"The salt and iron government camp will not be more difficult and dangerous than the late emperor's reduction of vassals, right?" Liu Che thought in his mind.
The late emperor cut off vassal vassals. In the history without him, seven countries rebelled, nine countries participated, and eighteen counties were involved. Tens of millions of people raised the flag of rebellion. The result was determined by the March 19th Anniversary, and all opponents were killed.
Grinded into powder.
How much strength can Yantie's official camp accumulate against the enemies it needs to face today?
The power of businessmen has always been a joke in China!
In the face of the dictatorial iron fist of the ruler, no matter what capital, no matter how wealthy the country, no matter what transnational groups, they are all paperless.
Therefore, Liu Che was extremely convinced that as long as he persuaded Zhou Yafu, gained the support of the military, and then received the support and affirmation of the East Palace, then the ministers who were just on the wall would have no other choice but to shout that the Holy Ming has no fault, Your Majesty.
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As for the businessmen?
Obey or die! (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
ps: Note: The ancestral temple system of the Western Han Dynasty copied the Qin system.
The biggest difference between the Qin system and the Zhou system is that if Zhaomu is not established, it will not be destroyed.
The so-called Zhao Mu means father Zhao and son Mu, and there will always be gaps in the order of the divine cards.
As for Yi Rui, the Ze of Gentlemen will be killed in three generations and will decline in seven generations. This will be reflected in the ancestral temple, that is, some guys' God Master Cards will be kicked out.
This was not the case in the Western Han and Qin Dynasties.
In both cases, all ancestors worshiped together, and seven temples coexisted. When the emperor ascended the throne, he built a mausoleum and temple for himself.
The Baling Tomb of Emperor Taizong of the Han Dynasty is located on Bailuyuan in Xi'an and is shaped like a pyramid.
Emperor Wu's Maoling Mausoleum also had this shape.
However, the Han people do not have the tradition and cultural habit of building pyramids. The clearest words recorded in the history books are Emperor Wen’s edict: Baling Mountains and Rivers are what they are and should not be changed!
Therefore, it is certain that these mausoleums resemble pyramids, which is the original shape of the landform.
In addition, Ge Diyi is a black linen and silk woven clothing. Leather shoes are a type of leather shoes, but they are also worn by the general public, similar to today's Xtep and Adidas.
Also, according to the old records of the Han Dynasty, in the sixth year of the Zhongyuan period of Emperor Jing, Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty, the total number of Taizong temples and prefectures including Guanzhong was one hundred and thirty-six, including the main temple, the original temple, and the prefecture and state temples. In the book, pig trotters are given to himself.
The number of ancestral temples that Dad added should be sixty-eight, including one original temple and two original temples.
The so-called main temple was built by the emperor himself during his lifetime.
