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Section 23 Hot Potato (2/3)


Liu De smiled, as if he didn't care about Chao's wrong attitude at all, and found a position on the left side, knelt down unceremoniously, and then smiled and greeted the officials on the left and right.

Chao Cuo looked at it in his eyes, and couldn't help but raise his evaluation of Liu De to a higher level in his heart.

If you don't jump into the trap he set, it means that Liu De is either a cautious person, or he comes prepared. does not eat his agitation method, which shows that Liu De's mind and thoughts are mature, and he is not the kind of noble son who is easy to move and irritable and has eyes on the top of his head.

But it doesn't matter.

Fang Cai's two pits were just dug by him, and it was gratifying to be able to pit Liu De, but there was no loss if he didn't get the pit.

After all the subordinate officials and Liu De sat down, Chao sat on the seat of the chief official, and said to Liu De: "Your Majesty ordered the ministers to assist His Royal Highness and rectify Chang'an, the old ministers are old, and they thought hard all night last night, and they didn't come up with any countermeasures, Your Highness is wise, presumably with countermeasures, the old ministers are not talented, and dare to ask Your Highness to teach them" Although the words were polite, the tone was not respectful, and not fools could hear the taste of the false story.

Liu De still bowed his hand quietly and replied: "The boy is thin, why dare to teach the pillars of the Principality, the father often praises the great talent of the Duke in front of the boy, so he asked for the consent of the Father, and came to study under the Prince, and the boy is the only one who looks forward to it."

"Then the old minister is presumptuous" Chao said unscrupulously: "Gyeonggi things, everything has a precedent, each department Cao observes his duties, since the old minister took office, it is just a small rule Cao Sui, hanging arch" Liu De knew that the drama was coming, so he pricked up his ears, put on a modest appearance, sat upright, and listened to Chao Cuo's next words.

I only heard Chao Cuo sigh: "For a while, I really can't find any place for His Highness to practice, there is only one place, the subordinate officials have 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 in the middle of the night after receiving the order of the Son of Heaven to go home last night.

Originally, the good side of the internal history yamen was his own one-word hall, and all policies, laws, systems, and judgments were decided by him.

The Son of Heaven didn't know what to think, so he forced a prince in.

In the name of assisting and learning.

And this prince still seems to be Liu De, who is different from him in terms of political stance and political tendencies.

If possible, Chao Cuo really wants to hang Liu De as a mascot and pay tribute, so that Liu De can occasionally come out to sell cuteness.

But how dare Chao Cuo really put aside a prince who had received the edict of the Son of Heaven In that case, even if Liu De does not complain, let Prime Minister Shen Tujia, Lieutenant Zhou Yafu and other traditional conservative ministers who are full of humility and humility know, it will not make a fuss Therefore, he really could only give some of the authority that originally belonged to him to Liu De.

It's just that how to divide this authority is learned.

If a prince who is pleasing to the eye that he mistakes to look at comes, then there is no need to think about it, he will definitely hand over the arsenal and Baqiao, which are comfortable and comfortable, and it is easy to mix political achievements, and he will also mention some points from time to time at twelve o'clock a day, so as to leave some incense for the future.

Since it is Liu De, the prince he doesn't like to see, he must find a place full of pits, and he can't climb up if he falls into it.

Thinking about it, a place that had long been forgotten by Chao was remembered by him from the pile of old papers in the Inner History Mansion.

Therefore, Chao Cuo was afraid that Liu De would refuse, so he didn't even wait for Liu De to answer: "Chang'an City's nine city orders, there are four of them, the old minister was forced to manage it in person, His Royal Highness is coming, you might as well take care of it temporarily on behalf of the old minister."

As he spoke, a soap official presented four sealed letters printed with a city order in Chang'an to Liu De, obviously not allowing him to refuse.

Liu De grinned, accepted the four orders, and arched his hand: "Elder order, how dare you quit the boy, I am afraid that I am young and thin, and I don't know the world, and I hope that the wrong man will mention more."

In the nine cities of Chang'an, Liu De has been famous for a long time.

The so-called city of the Han Dynasty refers to the commercial area.

As a feudal dynasty, the Han Dynasty's heavy agriculture and suppression of business ideas are not much different from the later Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, so from Liu Bang, the merchant's household registration is separated from other people, called the city registration, if the person without the city registration is in business, or the person with the city registration does not do business in the designated city, then he will face the severe punishment of the law, and the punishment given by the Han law is: the fine and the gold are all stolen.

This means that in addition to fines, the proceeds of illegal business operations and goods must be confiscated as stolen goods.

Therefore, all the merchants and their handicraft workshops in Chang'an are concentrated in nine government-designated cities.

Many people may not be clear about the nine cities.

But many people know the alias of these nine cities, that is, East City and West City.

It is the East City and West City referred to by the Mulan poem Middle City Buy Horses, and the West Market Buy Saddle Shackles, the reason why they are called East City and West City is because these cities are distributed in the northeast and northwest edges of Chang'an City.

Therefore, someone once said that the problem of Chang'an City lies in the nine cities, and if the nine cities are solved, most of the problems of Chang'an City can be solved.

There is a point in that.

Because, as rangers similar to the old boys of later generations, they are certainly not superhumans, and they also have to eat to fill their stomachs, but to eat well and be full, whether it is more than 2,000 years later or now, the rangers have to collect protection money In Chang'an City, in addition to the nine cities, the life is either the powerful and powerful ministers of the Marquis of Che, these people can strangle those rangers with their fingers, and if they want to collect protection money, they must be looking for death.

If there really be any arrogant person who runs to the house of a certain nobleman and shouts for protection money, there is no need for the government, and the nobleman's own family and the dogleg he has raised can teach the ranger how to be a man in a matter of minutes.

The rest are poorer than the rangers, relying on the poor people who sell their coolies and blood and sweat in Chang'an City, most of these people don't know where the next meal is, and it is definitely hopeless to collect protection money to find them.

Therefore, the merchants and handicraft workshop owners living in the nine cities of Chang'an are the real parents of the rangers, and most of the fights and fights in Chang'an City every year are caused by the territory of the nine cities.

And the descendants of the gentlemen and nobles who have been fighting in Chang'an City for a long time, if they want to cause trouble and do evil, they will definitely not kill each other, and the poor people will not kill each other if they are bullied, and there is no benefit, and they are more likely to get into trouble, or the businessmen in the nine cities are good at bullying, and the vast majority of the things that the children of the lords and nobles make trouble every year to buy and sell, and bully men and women also occur in the nine cities.

It's just that everyone knows the truth, but if you really want to implement it, where is it so simple.

A simple example, Liu De found a nobleman in a certain city who was forced to buy and sell, so he went up to stop it, and then found that the other party turned out to be the heir of the Dou family How to deal with this After taking the four seals, Liu De knew that the mistake was to throw a hot potato to him.

The subtext is probably this: Your Highness, you, retreat as soon as possible But how could Liu De retreat How hard to retreat This is related to whether he can be the prince or not In front of the crown prince, all the difficulties and obstacles cannot stop Liu De from climbing upward The second shift is about 1 o'clock to be able to code out the third watch, and the brothers who can't wait can sleep first t1706231537: