Although this avoided waste, it also caused another consequence: the construction of horse administration was extremely slow.

Historically, the cavalry development of the Han army almost came to a standstill before Liu Che came to power.

The doctrine of large infantry and invincibility of bows and crossbows pervades the military.

This is certainly conservatism at work, but it does not mean that the government is ineffective and the country has no horses at all.

It wasn't until Father Liu Che came to power that he vigorously built Ma Yuan.

According to historical records, during the reign of Emperor Jing, a total of 36 new horse parks were built, and the country raised hundreds of thousands of horses.

Before this, the Han family's war horses had always been a big problem.

Today, Liu Che's father died early. His main political achievement, only four of the thirty-six horse parks, have been built, and the total number of horses raised is only thirty to forty thousand.

In the three years since Liu Che took the throne, he has accelerated his horse breeding.

However, the number of horses in stock is only about 100,000, and it can only supply about 10,000 war horses to the army every year.

This is undoubtedly not possible.

Moreover, the Shaofu's bureaucracy is deeply entrenched, making it difficult to respond quickly, which also poses constraints to the development of horse administration.

Therefore, Liu Che decided to reform Ma Zheng and allocate more resources to Taipu so that it would have greater autonomy and flexibility.

But the Shaofu will never give up his power, and Liu Che himself will not go so far as to transfer the right to use the funds from the Shaofu to the outer dynasty. An emperor without money is worse than a puppet.

Therefore, Liu Che called the Shaofu and Taipu Yamen together and asked them to organize a committee-like organization to review and approve the funds of the Ma government and accept Liu Che's territory.

With the authority of the emperor, Liu Che personally went to the throne and reluctantly agreed to this request with the help of the young master and the imperial servant.

But what happened next was not that simple.

The servant said, since we are responsible for the country's political affairs, then we should be the ones in charge of this organization. Young Master, you just need to provide the money.

The young man replied with four words: I will do your best to your mother.

Then the fight started.

The meeting was then suspended by force.

For three days in a row, the meeting started with a fight and ended with a fight.

The servant Yuan Ang and the young master Liu She were both beaten in the fight, with their noses bruised and their faces swollen, and their clothes were disheveled.

After watching the show for three days, Liu Che finally understood it.

Neither the young master nor the imperial servants wanted reform.

Why?

Because reform will destroy the existing order and cause damage to the interests of many people, especially a system as large and complex as the Ma government system, where various interest groups are intertwined.

No aristocratic bureaucrat dares to single-handedly fight against the interest groups at the top and bottom of the entire system.

Therefore, they simply use this method to delay it until it can no longer be delayed and people have nothing to say. Then they will push the boat along and reach a compromise.

In this way, they perfectly passed the blame to Liu Che, the emperor. It's not that we didn't do our best, but His Majesty was under too much pressure and had to do this.

Well, this is just the beginning, and we haven’t gotten into the sensitive areas and core issues of Ma Zheng yet!

The young master and the servant have already used this method to delay.

"If I want to use the 'Returning Horse Order', why don't you jump up?" Liu Che thought in disbelief.

According to the current progress, Liu Che feels that if these bureaucrats continue to waffle, it may not be possible to discuss specific horse administration measures and system innovations by this time next year.

Therefore, Liu Che decided to get rid of these bureaucrats.

"Prepare the chariots, horses and ceremonial guards. Tomorrow I will patrol the horseback and Chenghua stables, and send a letter to the prime minister, the imperial censor, and Zhi Jinwu. Order them to accompany me tomorrow to inspect the horse administration of the Han Dynasty!" Liu Che said to Wang Dao

Order: "I order the Prime Minister to do so. Do not reveal the place where my general is patrolling!"

"No!" Wang Dao followed the order.

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The next day, Liu Che's emperor's car drove out of Weiyang Palace for the first time on the New Year's Day of the third year of Yuan De.

Subsequently, the prime minister, the imperial censor, and Zhi Jinwu successively led their main officials and subordinate officials, each with subordinate officials of Cao Qianshi or above.

The mighty ceremonial guard appeared on the royal road and immediately attracted the attention of the whole city.

The emperor's first inspection tour after the imperial ceremonial ceremony held a connotation that made everyone dare not relax.

After the emperor's guard of honor left the imperial street, he immediately went straight to the riding stables, causing countless people to immediately smell a strange smell.

Since the Han Dynasty established Ding, the entire horse administration system has been divided into two parts.

One is the inner stable dedicated to serving the emperor, empress, queen mother, princes and officials.

The inner stables are in Chang'an City. The horses raised in the inner stables are basically public horses or royal horses that serve the emperor and ministers.

It has always received the most attention and the most inspections from superiors.

In history, the famous allusion, clever words to explain away sins, happened in the Weiyang stable in the inner stable.

Shangguan Jie, the commander of Weiyang stable, perfectly used his wit and cunning to teach everyone a lesson. The name of this lesson is 'How to reverse the negative impression of the leader on you'.

In comparison, poor Yi Zong had his whole family killed by Xiaozhu for the same reason: "You thought I would never do this again", which only shows that Yi Zong is too honest...

In sharp contrast to the inner stables are the outer stables.

According to tradition, the horses in the outer stables are mainly used as war horses for the army.

Except for the military, few people pay attention to it.

Even if you want to pay attention, you need time and energy.

Because the outer stables are basically outside Chang'an City, the nearest riding stable is half a day's journey from Chang'an City.

It would be good if the prime minister and the imperial censor occasionally think of it and send an official or representative to check it out.

As for the emperor?

Then it would be even rarer to go on a patrol.

For a long time, the three external stables, including horse riding, Chenghua and Lu, have always been controlled by the servants, lacking supervision and full of problems.

It took Liu Che three hours. When he arrived at the riding stable, the riding stable was already in a state of chaos.

Obviously, everyone in the stable did not expect that the emperor would launch a sudden attack, and he also brought three giants, the prime minister, the imperial censor, and Zhi Jinwu, to accompany the patrol.

This immediately made the riding stable Ling He Cheng and the stable warden below so scared that they wet their pants.

Almost all of them thought that someone had discovered what they had done secretly in the past!

Fortunately, they were not frightened into silence, and they immediately realized that if that were the case, those who came would not be the emperor's guard of honor, but the officials of Ting Wei and Si Cao.

Even so, these guys all trembled and crawled to both sides of the road in front of the riding stable door, praying in their hearts that the emperor and the prime minister were just here for a casual look and would not examine them carefully.

But, they never expected it.

As soon as the emperor's imperial driver stopped, a group of Lantai ministers immediately came to see the pastor responsible for supervising the operation of the riding stables with their abacus and various pens.

Please cooperate with me regarding the number of horses and entry and exit documents..."

Riding the stable order, he fainted and fell to the ground on the spot.

For no other reason than because the number of horses registered in the riding stable is 5,071, but in fact, there are only 4,000 at most in the entire ranch.

Liu Che saw this situation from the imperial edict.

This was not unexpected at all.

In fact, Liu Che had already investigated it before coming.

The archives of Weiyang Palace are filled with files from Xiu Yiwei's spies and reports on Ma Zheng's situation.

Liu Che knew better, what was the purpose of his trip?

Following the ancient wisdom of Emperor Taizong of the Celestial Dynasty, he patrolled the south to pacify the world's discussion.

If you don't prick the pus out of something and put it in front of the world, then the bureaucracy will definitely delay it and block it if it can.

"The country raises horses, and it costs tens of millions of money and grain every year. The common people in the world are given a hundred and twenty coins as a tax, and the common people use their acreage to produce grass to feed the country and raise horses. The poem goes: Worrying about misery, thinking about the country

"Sorry, as a parent of the common people, I should ask for my people: The country collects custard every year to calculate the tax, which is calculated in hundreds of thousands. Are all these money and custard used for horse administration?" Liu Che

He said to Zhou Yafu, Chao Cuo, and Zhidu who were accompanying the inspection, and then slowly stepped off the cart, straightened his hat, held the Emperor's Sword in his hand, looked at the guys kneeling on both sides of the road, shivering, and then ordered

: "Pass my order, count all the horses on the register, and check all official documents and records!"

Liu Che turned around and said to Zhijinwu Zhidu: "Zhijinwu, I have authorized you to investigate to the end. The minister will cooperate with you. You must not slack off or shirk the blame!"

"Nuo!" Zhidu and Ji An immediately bowed down.

As for Chao Cuo, the imperial censor, his eyebrows were almost flying with laughter at this moment.

In any case, I'm afraid that my servant Yuan An will be in trouble this time.

And Yuan Si is in trouble, which is the best news for Chao Cuo! (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!