The next morning, not long after he got up, Liu Che heard that Zhou Yafu's son had knelt down to Empress Dowager Dou and Empress Dowager Bo in the East Palace last night to beg for the 20,700 hectares of land that would be given to their old Zhou family through this grace order.
The land was divided equally among the sons of his eldest uncle and second uncle.￠￡,
This is a reasonable and absolutely positive request.
Of course the two empress dowagers agreed on the spot and issued an edict to reward Zhou Yafu with five hundred gold pieces and ten pieces of Sichuan brocade.
The ministers, government and public opinion also gave thirty-two praises to the Prime Minister, saying that this kind of noble and upright behavior of supporting relatives is really worth learning from the people of the world.
After Liu Che heard this, he was stunned for a moment.
I admire Zhou Yafu for his decisiveness.
Twenty-seven hundred hectares of land,
According to the Han system, six small feet were one step per step. A field in Guandong was divided into one hundred and twenty steps per mu, and in Guanzhong was two hundred and forty steps per mu. The width was one step in width. This was the division between large and small acres in the Han Dynasty.
Of course, when the Prime Minister's Office counted the number of acres in the country, in order to facilitate calculations, Han Dynasty officials converted the acres of land in the world, that is, regardless of the size of the acres, they were uniformly registered in terms of hundreds of acres (that is, 41.7 large acres are equal to 100 small acres).
This is a tradition that has been implemented since the Warring States Period (Shang Jun Shu. Lai Min).
In other words, in fact, the land granted this time will be calculated according to the unified national standards, that is, one hundred steps is an mu and one hundred acres is an hectare.
An acre of land is six hundred steps long and one step wide.
In the Han Dynasty, a ruler was .1 centimeter (an official ruler, as evidenced by the unearthed official wooden rulers made in the Han Dynasty).
In other words, the land Zhou Yafu gave up was a huge territory of 16,992 square kilometers.
It is almost equivalent to two-thirds of the land of Zhou Yafu and Changping Hou combined. It may even be more.
Such a large piece of land is still hereditary. If you say give up, give up.
Such courage is not something ordinary people can have.
At that time, in order to save his life, King Liu Fei of Qi offered Chengyang County, the land of Tang Mu, to Princess Lu Yuan, but it was only three times the size.
In other words, Zhou Yafu gave up Liu Fei worth one third of his money...
No one can say anything more about Zhou Yafu.
All we can do is praise the Jianghou family for their good family tradition and respectful brothers and sisters. They are indeed role models in the world!
Liu Che naturally knew what Zhou Yafu's nephews were planning in the past two years.
Before today, to be honest, there was nothing Liu Che could do to stop the thoughts of those sycophants.
But after today, in the future, when Zhou Tao ascends the throne, Liu Che can openly and honestly combine Tiaohou and Changpinghou into one, allowing Zhou Tao to take the throne.
As usual, Liu Che did some morning exercises near Shiqu Pavilion in Weiyang Palace, and then ran to Shiqu Pavilion to inspect the work of the calendar calculation committee led by Sima Tan and Sima Ji, two old gentlemen.
Obviously, this is a boring, long, hard and challenging job.
At present, they are only at the beginning.
To completely recalculate the four seasons of the year and the orbits of the sun, the moon, and the stars would take more than ten or twenty years and two generations to relay the work. It is impossible to even think about it.
Therefore, Liu Che's visit to Shiqu Pavilion is not so much to supervise, but rather to increase his reputation.
After briefly asking about the progress, Liu Che immediately left Shiqu Pavilion and turned east, arriving near Zhifang.
This place has been cleared.
All the eunuchs and maids working in the Zhifang were asked to leave.
In the huge Zhifang, apart from Liu Che, there were only Huben guards responsible for guarding and patrolling.
"Your Majesty!" When Ju Meng saw Liu Che's carriage arriving, he had already appeared at the door of Zhifang to greet him.
"Have everyone brought them?" Liu Che asked after getting off the car.
"Your Majesty, they have all been placed in Room A of the Zhifang!" Ju Meng replied.
"Lead the way!" Liu Che waved his hand and said.
Zhifang, as the name suggests, is a place where mushrooms and Ganoderma lucidum are grown.
The Liu family, since Taizong, has been accustomed to eating various fruits and vegetables grown by themselves.
Even during the Taizong period, the emperor's concubines and the clothes they wore were made by the concubines and their maids and eunuchs themselves, raising silkworms and spinning silk!
Although, Liu Che and his father were obviously not as diligent and frugal as Emperor Taizong.
But he is not a prodigal, a boy who wastes his wealth.
In general, the original rules and systems of the palace have been retained.
Nowadays, Liu Che's concubines often raise some silkworms themselves, and when they have nothing to do, they take the maids and eunuchs to spin silk.
In this house, concubines often come here to find a piece of land to grow mushrooms and the like.
It's not that they are thrifty and love working, it's just that life in the palace is too boring and they have to find something to do for themselves.
This room is located deep in Zifang and belongs to a mushroom garden that has been abandoned for several years.
The space inside is very spacious, making it a suitable meeting place.
Under the guidance of Ju Meng, Liu Che walked into it and met the two protagonists he was going to meet this time.
Of course, these two men were both wearing prison uniforms and no longer had the majesty of the past.
Chu Da and Liu Che had seen this once or twice.
He often attended court meetings with Dong Zhongshu during the lunar calendar.
But this was the first time for Liu Che to meet Xu Jiu.
This feudal lord with a settlement of 540 households is probably the one with the smallest number of households in the Han Dynasty.
In the entire history of the Han Dynasty, only Yang Chengyan, a carpenter and civil engineer, was granted fewer titles of Wu Hou than his Song Zi Hou.
But Wuhou has already suffered a tragedy. The last Wuhou murdered Ji's father and was executed. The feudal state was abolished.
This Song Zihou became the last among the Han princes.
Although he was ranked last, Xu Jiu's grandfather was awarded the title of marquis based on his solid military exploits.
Moreover, his grandfather was also a warrior who was proficient in cavalry.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to capture the Lieutenant, and a Guannei Marquis would be great.
Xu Jiu looks like he is in his thirties this year. He has fair skin and a bloated figure. He has obviously lost his ancestors' cooking skills and has become one of the many playboys in Chang'an.
but……
Liu Che pinched the piece of paper in his arms. The identity background investigation and past records of Xu Jiu reported by the embroidered clothes guard and the imperial censor's office showed that this seemingly maverick, unconventional and unconventional prince,
But it's not as simple as imagined.
Ten years ago, when Emperor Taizong Xiaowen was still on the throne, he began to introduce Bo slaves from Shu County.
And popularized this kind of special slaves that are now widely praised in the homes of nobles, ministers and officials in the Han Dynasty.
A conservative estimate is that this guy made millions of dollars just from the great business of slave trading!
Compared with Song Zihou, who had an annual income of less than 100,000 yuan, he was able to make a lot of money.
If we talk about the Bo slaves, we can say that this guy just happened to find such a way to make a fortune by accident.
Then what happened next was not that simple.
The Hou Kingdom of Song Dynasty was in Julu County.
In the history of the Han Dynasty, Julu County was assigned to the State of Zhao three times and became an independent county.
The situation is rather complicated, and there are a mixed bag of forces from all sides.
Among them were a large number of teams that smuggled items to the Huns.
Guess what the Xiuyiwei found in Song Zihou's country?
A large bronze smelting factory.
This guy is re-melting a large number of discarded or worn-out bronze vessels from China and casting them into bronze castings.
Although there is still a market for bronze products in China, bulky bronze castings have obviously been eliminated long ago.
There is no doubt who these things are sold to!
Not to mention, in this feudal country, there are slaves who don’t look like Chinese no matter how you look at them, and there are cattle, horses and other livestock that don’t look like they were produced in China.
In other words, this Song Zihou, the guy ranked last among the Han Dynasty princes, this guy is a funny guy in the eyes of others.
In fact, he is the boss of a transnational and transregional smuggling group.
Mainly engaged in the export and smuggling of various contrabands, as well as the great slave trade.
In addition, the investigation found that from last year to this year, Xu Jiu provided at least a thousand slaves to princes and wealthy merchants in Chang'an, Henan, and Hedong.
All the evidence shows that this guy's slave smuggling and trading network is very large.
It is even very likely that he has a huge underground smuggling network involving the Xiongnu, China, Southwest Barbarians and even the Mitsukoshi region.
Obviously, according to the law, Liu Che's execution was more than enough. (To be continued.)
ps: I am not in good health today, so I just wrote this much, please forgive me~
