Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 566 Gifted and Intelligent Xia Houci

"Your Highness, why don't you go to Tingwei by yourself?"

Although Zhou Sheng is considered the little leader of these people, his memory is really not very good. This time he also faltered, and he couldn't say a single thing that Chao Cuo explained. He watched his brothers chattering , None of what he said was reliable, he asked helplessly.

Liu An was taken aback, and wanted to say something, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Now I am different from the past. As a prince, it is not appropriate to go to Tingwei."

"What's wrong with this? Doesn't Your Majesty go to Tingwei every day? I have seen Your Majesty several times in Tingwei. Your Majesty knows Tingwei better than us!"

Zhou Zuoche elbowed Zhou Sheng, and scolded angrily: "Your Highness is unwilling to go? Your Highness is afraid to go! Zhang Shizhi has a grudge against His Highness, and His Highness's car is walking in Chang'an If you see Zhang Shizhi, you will avoid him, let alone go directly to Ting Wei, isn’t that asking for trouble?”

Zhou Sheng came to his senses immediately, and shouted: "Zhang Shizhi is a traitor, really hateful, we can't let this guy be so proud, we have to find a chance to kill this guy, let Xuan Ping's father come to be the court lieutenant, When the Ting Wei soldiers come to arrest us, we can hold Xuan Ping hostage!"

Liu An's face turned dark, and he said displeasedly: "Nonsense, who said I dare not go to Tingwei? What about Zhang Shizhi? I just hate this person and don't want to see him!"

"Don't talk about anything else, just tell me everything Chao Cuo ordered!"

Everyone continued to talk, but what they said was a bit outrageous.

"Chao Cuo said, let those scholars raise pigs!"

Liu An looked at Xia Houci in disbelief, "Are you sure Chao Cuoshi said that???"

Xia Houci's face was full of confidence, "Of course, I heard him say that those who don't raise pigs will not be accepted!"

"He said he didn't accept those who raised pigs?"

Several people discussed again, but they were all sure that Chao Cuo had indeed said something about raising pigs. Liu An was a little dazed, and he looked blankly at Feng Tang, who was also frowning at this moment. What does it have to do with raising pigs? ?
Feng Tang hesitated and asked: "Your Highness, why don't you send someone to investigate again?"

Liu An was silent for a moment, then suddenly said in a low voice: "This time we are conducting an assessment in the county government. The small officials in the county government usually have the most contact with these ordinary people and those children of high-ranking dignitaries. They have always been Those who disdain to be with the common people, Chao Cuo's meaning may be to let us recruit some low-status people."

As Liu An talked, he even convinced himself, "That's right, Chao Cuo just wants to weed out those rich and powerful children who don't want to do dirty work and participate in the assessment just for gilding. These powerful children come to participate in the assessment. There is no way for children from poor families to compete, but if it is an assessment of raising pigs, those powerful people will definitely give up."

"In this way, we can find a lot of folks who can endure hardships and stand hard work!!"

Liu An clapped his hands abruptly, and shouted: "As expected of Mr. Chao!! You are so serious! No wonder this Lu Jia always disagrees with my letter. Sure enough, my thinking is still a bit too one-sided."

Soon, Liu An lowered his head and specified in his letter the assessment content on raising pigs in detail, including arranging a seven-day pig raising process to see who can raise the best pigs. In fact, he took the opportunity Get rid of some dignitaries who come to gild, after all, raising pigs is a humiliation to the dignitaries.

Liu An was in a good mood, and looked at the group of sages again, "Come on, come on, keep talking!"

Xia Houci said again at this moment: "Chao Cuo also said that participating in the assessment requires the scholars to pay for it! We must rob them of their money!"

Liu An was about to pick up the pen and was about to familiarize himself with it, but suddenly he was dazed again, looking at Xia Houci, "Are you sure???"

Seeing that the crown prince was suspicious, Zhou Sheng quit immediately, slapped his chest, and vouched for Xiahouci, he said: "Your Highness, Xiahouci is a talented and intelligent boy, even among our group of sages, he is well-known. Yes, he has the best memory, and what he said must be right!"

"Yes, yes, I also remember what Mr. Chao said about robbing his property. Yes, Mr. Chao said so. He said that it depends on who has the money, and then robs the richest person, and even in front of everyone. Go grab it so that many people can see it, and it will have a very good effect!"

Liu An looked at Feng Tang blankly, Feng Tang couldn't sit still at all.

"Your Highness, this is not right. Raising pigs is justified. Why is this robbing property? When someone comes to participate in the assessment and is an official, we go to rob other people's property. How is this decent? Let everyone in the world know. Isn’t this nonsense? I’m sure Mr. Chao would not say such a thing, if it’s not possible, I’d better send someone to ask Chao Cuo, don’t listen to these people’s nonsense.”

Zhou Sheng was furious, "Old man! We have worked so hard to get out from Tingwei and deliver the news, but do you think we are talking nonsense? Everything we say is the truth!! If half of us To tell a lie, you asked His Highness to execute me directly!"

Liu An hurriedly said: "Don't be rude to Duke Feng!"

Liu An frowned and pondered again, "The purpose of raising pigs is to weed out the rich and powerful, so what is the purpose of robbing? Yes! I understand, now that the world is doing business, merchants from all over the world are doing business in order to earn more money. He is doing his best to support his own children to become officials!"

"But their reputation is not good. Therefore, there is no way to become an official through other means. Could it be that Mr. Chao's move is to eliminate those merchants' families? The rich and powerful are not willing to raise pigs, but merchants may not be willing. The world is revealed, this is to give more opportunities to those scholars who are born in poverty and have no family property?"

"Do you want to warn those merchants not to participate?"

Mao Chang couldn't sit still anymore, "Your Highness, this time the assessment is to call for scholars from all over the world. Your Majesty has already lifted the restrictions on merchants. Why don't you recruit their disciples? It's unfair!"

Liu An shook his head, "Mr. Chao is a capable person, so he may not be so superficial. I think he must have deeper thoughts, but I can't figure it out. However, my brothers can be trusted, and they will not lie , Mr. Chao will not be wrong."

"I see!!!"

Liu An slapped his thigh violently, and shouted: "Mr. Chao said he wanted to rob the richest. This is not to eliminate all merchants, just like the rich and powerful, but to eliminate those big merchants. Big merchants are just like the rich and powerful, even more so. Evil, those big merchants in the Liang Kingdom have already done a lot of things that harm the people!"

"These people subsidize their children to enter the county government just for their own personal gain and to make things more convenient. My father has said many times that these big businessmen have no family and country, and even thought about selling them secretly when they were poisoned in business. Prohibited ordnance monk square blueprint!"

"Chao Gong is also unwilling to make the assessment a place for these people to seek personal gain! No wonder the richest one is added!"

"As expected of Mr. Chao!!"

Liu An became more and more excited as he talked, and he convinced himself once again. He looked at the servants around him excitedly, "Gong Chao is my father's servant, and even my father appreciates his talent. Comparable to him, now it seems that this statement is true!"

"It's a pity, this person has a bad personality, otherwise, he will really be my virtuous prime minister in the future!"

Liu An quickly wrote out the policy of weeding out dignitaries and big merchants, and favoring ordinary people and scholars as much as possible, and asked Mao Chang to explain in detail, classify various situations, and do a good job for the children of big merchants. There are many restrictions, for example, if they want to participate in the assessment, they have to spend a lot of money, and the money will be used for enlightenment studies, etc.
The sages were overjoyed, and Zhou Sheng looked at Feng Tang provocatively, and asked, "How is it? Are we still talking nonsense? Do you know how many times we were beaten by Tingwei in order to pass on this news? No matter how they fight, we have not given our mission!"

Zhou Zuoche also wiped his tears and said: "In order to be able to enter the imperial court, we even bear a bad reputation. We love and respect General Xiahou so much, we even offended him!!"

Looking at this group of sanctimonious things, Feng Tang took a deep breath and ignored them.

"Raising pigs, robbing, what else, keep talking! Keep talking! Xia Houci, tell me!"

"Then comes the formulation of the assessment."

Xia Houci was very confident. He said without hesitation: "When we came out, Mr. Chao said that when drafting the content of the assessment, we must marry them, let them form a couple, grow old together, and live together."

Feng Tang stood up abruptly, "Your Highness!!!"

Liu An frowned again, "What's the meaning of this? Could it be to test their ability to cooperate? Let them get along with each other? No, Mr. Chao must have other deep meanings."

The sages stayed with Liu An until the evening, and several of them lived here directly. Liu An also quickly perfected his letter. After the words of the sages, Liu An's letter has become completely different from the last time. Different, completely different, this thing, Liu An did not believe that he could write it.

Because this is so different. The various assessment contents and assessment methods are completely unheard of, and I have never heard of them. This advanced one is a bit too advanced. The more Liu An looks at it, the more satisfied he is. This is probably why he is not as good as Chao Cuo. Well, this Chao Cuo is really powerful!

After thinking about it for so many days, I only thought about it a little bit. Chao Cuo is good. The things he proposed are really unprecedented, and there will be no one in the future, and no one can match them.

A virtuous person like him cannot be compared with his own family. Why do good virtuous talents belong to my father?
Liu An didn't understand why, but, this thing should have passed through Lu Jia, right?

Liu An didn't dare to procrastinate any longer. After the plan was completed, he led his servants to Lu Jia's mansion in a hurry, intending to teach Lu Jia all these things for review.

Ju Meng followed behind Liu An and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, we will preside over this assessment. This is a good opportunity to increase our reputation and must not be missed. Now that Chao Cuo is in prison, no one knows What he played to us, why not just say that this is our own idea."

When Liu An heard this, he frowned immediately.

"Bullshit!"

"As the prince of a great man, how can I do such a thing? As a king, can I still swallow the credit of the ministers? Is this something a king can do? That is something a tyrant can't do!! "

Mao Chang's face changed drastically, and he began to cough crazily.

His meaning is very clear, Your Highness, you should be careful what you say, someone has heard that something will happen!
But Liu An didn't care. He waved his hand and said, "I just want to let the people in the world know that I am a person who can use talents, and I won't swallow the merits of ministers. If you go around, just say it's not Chao Cuo. Thanks to that, I absolutely can’t do this!!”

"In the future, ministers from all over the world can tell me their good ideas. If they are wrong, I will not blame them. If they are right, I will definitely reward them!"

"only!!"

When Liu An handed over his new plan to Lu Jia, Lu Jia, the fierce man who beat Xiang Yu, went to South Vietnam, fought against the Huns, and overthrew the Western Regions, was a little confused, and his expression became more and more serious. Complicated, he began to pull his beard, and his expression became more serious the more he looked at it.

Liu An sat in front of him confidently, waiting for his evaluation.

Lu Jia murmured: "Your Highness is a great talent, I have never heard of these assessment methods, it is really strange, but the strangeness is definitely a great talent of Your Highness with miraculous effects, I admire it!"

Liu An said with some shame: "Actually, these are not my thoughts. Chao Cuo sent someone from prison to send them to me. I'm still not as good as Chao Gong."

"Ah??? Chao wrong idea?? Impossible!!"

Lu Jia vetoed it, and he shook his head firmly, "This is definitely not what Chao Cuo came up with. Chao Cuo's proposed government has always been radical, and it is correct, not strange. It doesn't seem like something he can draw up. .”

"Mr. Lu, I am not cheating. This is indeed what Chao Cuo himself drew up. This is what I heard with my own ears. Maybe he has different ideas in prison. Chao Cuo has been in prison for many years. , and progress has been considerable.”

"But this change is too big."

Lu Jia hesitated for a moment, then said: "Chao Cuo is a man of great talent. Unfortunately, if he can change, he may not be able to reach the level of Marquis Feng and Marquis Beiping. However, this person is too impatient, so he is not suitable. Your Highness, it can only be used by His Majesty."

"Such a person is like a sharp sword. If you don't use it well, you will hurt yourself."

Liu An said seriously, "Don't worry, I have learned swordsmanship from my father since I was a child. Even if I can't learn all of my father's swordsmanship, I will definitely learn [-]% of it!"

Lu Jia laughed, and this was the first time he smiled at Liu An, "Your Highness has ambition! Well, I didn't agree with Your Highness, but the content of Your Highness mostly refers to various ancient books. It seems perfect, but It’s empty, without an accurate idea.”

"Now it seems that His Royal Highness has found an idea. The so-called assessment is actually for the selection of talents. To be precise, it is to select talents from the bottom and break the monopoly of the rich and powerful. It is for the prosperity of the country. Now His Highness has seen through it and made a decision. A lot of responses, this is enough, the old minister agreed, His Highness can carry it out!!"

Liu An was shocked, and hurriedly asked: "Since you have already discovered my shortcomings, why didn't you tell me?"

Lu Jia smiled wryly, "I'm old, and I can still remind Your Highness now, but if I'm not here in the future, who should remind me? There are some things that His Highness should think about by himself, but what's wrong with you, Chao Cuo?" However, Chao Cuo is still young, he can still remind His Highness for a long time, but His Highness still needs to learn to analyze by himself."

Liu An got up very sincerely, and saluted Lu Jia again.

"There were many offenses before, please don't be offended."

"It's okay, Your Highness, let's go to work quickly!"

Liu An got Lu Jia's permission, and immediately started to act. First, he wanted to pass Lu Jia here and publish the assessment in the newspapers. Today's newspapers are still very busy, and they are all reporting about the giant bandits in Longxi. matter.

After Liu Chang made the decision, because he suffered too much opposition from the ministers, he asked the Fengchang Mansion to publish this matter in the newspaper for everyone in the world to see, especially explaining that Guo Xie had escaped the criminal law several times. , The matter of harming the common people in various places.

Sure enough, after the news spread to various places, the ministers did not dare to object to Xu negative.

After learning of Guo Xie's crimes, the people everywhere were very satisfied with the results of their family's treatment. Such a villain, it is not a pity to die. Those who shielded him committed even greater crimes. Hundreds of lives were lost. their share! !

The people not only demanded the disposal of his clan, but also hoped that the officials who colluded with them would be disposed of together.

When people all over the world began to condemn Guo Xie, the ministers became more cautious. They didn't want their reputation to be stained, especially when the Tai students began to demand punishment. Those lunatics from Taixue will be targeted.

Liu An mobilized all his family members and sages, and began to handle this matter. The news of the assessment quickly spread, and scholars from all over the place started to get up and go to Chang'an, and Liu An also became busy.

At this time, Ting Wei finally found out the problem of water management. Chao Cuo did have excessive power. The number of people he reported did not match the number of migrants. This is a felony, but he did not cause any casualties. This guy actually pays for the subsidy out of his own pocket. In order to make things happen, he also worked hard.

After various investigations, Ting Wei made a verdict on Chao Cuo, fined him twenty armors, and demoted him to one rank.

Chao Cuo didn't care about this kind of punishment. When Zhang Shizhi came to let him go, he was full of complacency, "Oh, I told you a long time ago, you will let me out, how about it?"

"Even if I'm in prison, the assessment is still done according to my orders!"

Zhang Shizhi nodded, "You have a good idea, and I've read about it in the newspaper, but why do you let talented people raise pigs?"

"Ah?? Who told them to raise pigs??"

"Uh, didn't you say that you sent someone to tell the prince to let the talented people raise pigs?"

"I'm talking about Yang Zhu!! Yang Zhu School!! Yang Zhu School of Taoism!!"

"Then robbing property??"

"What is robbing property!! I'm talking about strong talent!! If someone has outstanding talent in a certain area, you can directly use it. It's a strong talent!!"

"So joining the team in pairs, cooking by yourself, putting on a tough coat, hunting wild boars in the wild, are all different from what you said?"

Chao Cuo was dumbfounded, confused for a long time, what are these things? ? ?
Finally, he looked at Zhang Shizhi dully, and murmured:
"I've thought about it. I have committed a heinous crime. If I really can't be released, I'd better go back to prison."

ps: I arrived in Tianjin the day before yesterday, and was successfully hospitalized yesterday. I can finally code today, so everyone has been waiting for a long time. The main reason is that it is not easy to come to Tianjin for medical treatment from us. I have been busy these days, and Fengyi was a child last night. The hospital accompanied me until four o'clock in the middle of the night. I'm really sorry readers, alas, I will try my best to update.

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