In order to pay the military expenses for the attack on the Huns, Emperor Wu of Han tried his best to make money by scoring all his energy. The salt and iron monopoly was born under that background.

People cannot avoid eating salt, but they don’t need to eat so much salt. Whether it’s crude or lacking a pound, as long as they can eat a little salt, they will never die.

So the salt and iron franchise store at that time was a pitfall.

It's almost impossible to sell untreated poisonous salt for people to eat in exchange for high military expenses.

If you spend an expensive price to buy shoddy salt, the profit is naturally unimaginable.

But at the same time, the reputation of the specialty of salt and iron has also become bad.

The reputation of the salt and iron monopoly is so poor that it is obviously corrupted since the reign of Emperor Wu of Han.

For higher profits, there is no need to worry about market competition. The quality of goods can be imagined, and it is also conceivable how bad people's living conditions were at that time.

Guo Peng's salt and iron monopoly was to plunder the whole people, and also to plunder wealth from them to expand military strength to pacify the world, which was similar to Emperor Wu of Han.

In order to unify the world, he did not do less than Emperor Wu of Han. He had done most of the things Emperor Wu of Han had done.

But to be honest, from all perspectives, he is really not as fierce as Emperor Wu of Han, and he does much more kindly than Emperor Wu of Han.

In order to win the Huns, Liu Che did everything he could to plunder wealth. That is, in that era, the common people and princes and nobles were treated equally in the eyes of the emperor.

In his opinion, princes, nobles, common people, you are all a piece of meat on my lips. As long as I tear it, you will be obediently into my stomach.

He made white deer coins for princes and nobles, used deer skin to search their wealth, scraped the oil on their bodies layer by layer, making the princes and nobles miserable and burst into tears.

For ordinary people, they use salt and iron monopoly to plunder wealth, and they also pay heavy taxes. The more property the more tax they pay, the more tax they pay.

In order to deal with the problem of hidden wealth, the people are encouraged to inform each other. Those who successfully inform the emperor share the property of the defendants' property evenly, and the people are in chaos and have no idea how many families are destroyed.

Then he started a specialty for salt and iron, using inferior necessities to plunder the wealth of the whole world, and took the wealth of the whole world into his own wallet bit by bit, which made him look extremely ugly.

This is not enough. In order to pay for the huge military expenditure of the bottomless pit, he also sold official positions, not only betrayed the position of an official, but finally betrayed the position of an official, making the administration of the middle and late Emperor Wu's period extremely shattered and corrupt.

With his productivity level more than 300 years ago, he did something that Guo Peng felt extremely difficult to do three hundred years later.

It is conceivable how much wealth he had plundered the country at that time.

Without the decades of accumulation and rest assurance of Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing, the Han Empire really could not withstand Liu Che's troubles.

Of course, at this price, he won the Huns War, stood up to the backbone of a country and a nation, preventing the Han Empire from being extorted and military deterred by the Huns, and exerting the mentality of being the only one in the country in the Celestial Empire.

Compared with him, Mr. Guo, who enjoyed the dividends of productivity improvement, is indeed much more kind, at least at the level of salt and iron monopoly, the quality is strictly controlled.

Coastal people eat sea salt, while inland people eat well salt, mineral salt, and lake salt.

There are professional salt-making workshops in salt-producing areas, all of which have special departments responsible for production, professionals are responsible for control, and the Ministry of Finance and the inner court respectively sent people to check and guard them strictly, so there will be no problems with the quality of salt.

Not to mention iron, it will not cause problems such as lack of weight or poor quality, so that people can't even turn the ground.

Moreover, with the stability of production, technological innovation, and output, the pricing of the salt and iron franchise has been continuously lowered over the years, which is much cheaper than when it was used to squeeze the people for the sake of unification.

This is also the determination made by Mr. Guo back then.

No matter how hard or tiring you are now, or how much the price you pay, as long as you can unify, regain peace, and people are still alive, then what you have paid back then will be recovered sooner or later.

Mr. Guo said that he did it. In the later period of his rule, he continued to reduce the burden on ordinary people, abolished the cap tax, distributed the voting tax to a mu, measured the land, reduced the proportion of agricultural tax, increased the corresponding scope of the conditions for reducing and exempting agricultural tax, etc.

In short, he did everything he could do. As a feudal emperor, he felt that the concessions he had made to the people of the world were already quite considerable.

So he had a sense of peace of mind when eating this barbecue.

He sat upright on a small chair, flipped the skewers and constantly applied oil and seasonings to it. Guo Chengzhi, Cao Lan and other five sat next to him and helped him skew vegetables and meat.

He sent people to buy a lot of pork, mutton, donkey meat, horse meat, fish meat, chicken, etc., and then he handled it himself and barbecued it himself.

Others just need to help him skewers and wait for him to eat.

The high temperature generated by the raging charcoal fire forced the aroma of oil out of the meat, and the aroma around the grill was everywhere.

Guo Chengzhi is young and has a strong appetite. When he smells the fragrance, he saliva flows.

The five women were not young, but they kept sucking their noses and swallowing their saliva, looking forward to the skewers that were constantly flipping in Guo Peng's hand.

Not to mention them, even the eunuchs in the inner court on the side held back their appetite, swallowing their saliva while secretly sucking the fragrance, which was so greedy.

But they didn't dare to ask the emperor for meat to eat.

Guo Peng happily enjoyed the process of making delicious food and enjoyed the moment of great spiritual relaxation. He felt that he had never lived so relaxed and happy.

After a while, the first batch of meat skewers were grilled. Guo Peng bit a skewer of chicken skewers in his mouth, passed a large handful of grilled meat to Cao Lan, and asked Cao Lan to share it with others.

Cao Lan loved Guo Chengzhi and gave him half of it, and the remaining half was separated with the four sisters.

As a result, everyone divided the pitiful strings.

However, Guo Peng's barbecue speed is also very fast, and he handed it over hand by hand, and he would not be hungry.

The five people shared the delicious kebabs, laughing and laughing.

Guo Chengzhi was so hungry that he took the meat skewers and started eating them in big mouthfuls, biting one by one. The food was like he had been hungry for three days and three nights and hadn't eaten anything.

Seeing his voracious look, Guo Peng couldn't help but think of himself who was the same age as him more than 30 years ago.

When I received the education of Lu Zhi as a ghost, I also made a living like this.

It's like eating endlessly.

Lu Zhiyun was a civil and military man, and he could control the army and dismount and herdsmen. He was a typical figure who was a general and a minister. He studied with him and became his student. At that time, Guo Peng not only studied, but also practiced martial arts, constantly working hard to prepare for the future of going to the battlefield.

Lu Zhi was merciless in treating Guo Peng. He had heavy and fixed tasks every day. Whenever he had time, he would stare at Guo Peng with a stick with a stern face. When he saw the dissatisfied, he directly whipped it up with a stick. He used the pain to make Guo Peng remember where he made a mistake and what he could not do.

From studying with Lu Zhi at the age of thirteen to becoming a palace officer at the age of thirteen, Guo Peng was beaten countless times.

Of course, I should receive a lot of treatment and eat a lot of food.

Chicken, mutton, donkey meat, and even horse meat, occasionally there will be beef from somewhere that I don’t know - that is a contraindicated product, but as long as there is meat, Lu Zhi will try every means to come for Guo Peng to eat, staring at him and eating it in big mouthfuls.

Lu Zhi pays great attention to nutritional supplements for Guo Peng and personally formulates Guo Peng's recipes. They can only be full and taste not very good, but as long as they eat some, they will be very happy.

To be honest, at that time, when I was studying and training, I felt like I was lost. I couldn’t feel that I was a human being, like a machine without emotions.

Only when eating can the temperature of the food help Guo Peng regain his presence as a human being, so every time he eats, Guo Peng feels very happy.

But thanks to Lu Zhi's strict education, Guo Peng has laid the capital to fight for the world in the future.

He personally led the troops to fight for many years and charged forward, relying on the foundation he had built at that time.

He could not even imagine that he could not think of the Yellow Turban Army, the Xianbei people, the Wuwan people, Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, and even face-to-face Lu Bu in the end without the foundation he had built at this time.

Times have changed, and more than 30 years have passed. Lu Zhi has long passed, and the world has changed. The heroes at the end of the Han Dynasty are scattered like smoke, and what remains is the prosperous era of the Wei Empire.

It was Guo himself who created the prosperity, and it was these young children who decided when the prosperity could last.

Guo Peng was very happy when he saw Guo Chengzhi eating meat in big mouthfuls and eating it all over his mouth.

Eat more and eat more. The more you eat, the more you have, the more you have a stronger appetite and the better your health.

The better the body, the longer it can continue my will.

Guo Peng grilled while eating, and in a while, he grilled skewers one after another, handful after handful, making Guo Chengzhi and the five women full of oil.

Women have little appetite after all. Although everyone is an old couple, there is nothing to be embarrassed about, but if they can't eat it, they can't eat it.

In the end, Guo Peng couldn't eat it himself, and only Guo Chengzhi was left with a whole handful of meat skewers and kept eating.

"The barbecue made by my father is so delicious. I'm full, but I still want to eat it in my mouth."

He said while eating.

"Hahahahaha!"

Guo Peng laughed loudly and gave Guo Chengzhi more than ten skewers. Then, seeing that there was still left, he called over to the eunuch leader Mao Wen and the imperial guard Qin Wu who came with him.

Guo Peng gave the remaining meat skewers to them, one half of them, and asked them to eat them by themselves, and also gave some to their subordinates.

"The Supreme Emperor! This is the food roasted by the Supreme Emperor. How dare I overthrow it?"

The two of them were shocked and dared not ask for it.

"What you rewarded is yours. I will take it to divide it. The amount is not large. It's just a matter of meaning. I'll give you some points."

Guo Peng waved his hand and happily cut the fruits after meals. After cutting them, he distributed them to his family members around him to understand the food.

"Abide by the order."

The two had to endure the panic and joy and took the skewers made by Guo Peng and left.

After eating a few pieces of melons, Guo Peng lay on the recliner he brought, shaking comfortably.

The sound of wind was heard, the ethereal bird songs from the jungle not far away, the chirping of women in close proximity, and the sound of Guo Chengzhi creaking and gnawing melons.

After abdicating, Guo Peng, who left the center of power, seemed to have entered a subtle situation.

He was in the Luoyang Palace, but he seemed to live the life of an ordinary wealthy family.

All the contradictions in the past seem to end with Guo Peng's abdication and Guo Jin's advance. All disputes came to an end, just like they never existed.

All the conflicts that arise for the throne, for the children's situation, for the future seem to disappear.

When Guo Peng discussed with them and wanted to take them to tour the world far away from Luoyang, their unsightly eyes suddenly shone with dazzling light.

It was as if a clear spring water was suddenly introduced into a long-dried pond. It came alive. The lotus leaves in the pond opened again, and there were insects and frogs roaring, and vitality.

Guo Peng didn’t know if this could be called the second spring of their lives.

But as he saw, the women sat together, chirping and talking about these things that he couldn't understand at all, and was very excited, as if he suddenly became twenty years younger and returned to that carefree time.
Chapter completed!