Xu Shuxin said: A girl is a girl, and she will care about the superficial kung fu of whether she is beautiful or not. The apprentice is a girl, and some petty people should tolerate her.

Liu Yan seemed to see through his thoughts, and snorted lightly: "Actually, this has nothing to do with what clothes and jewelry to wear, there are few people who really want me to be this Shuhou at this time! Those people gritted their teeth behind their backs, and they hated to eat me alive!"

"Your Highness!" Xu Shu frowned and interrupted her: "Your Highness, don't have this thought, the people are looking forward to it, and the subordinates are all sincere, all hoping that you can go further......!"

"Oh my good, stop talking. I've come to you to discuss something. Liu Yan interrupted him impatiently. The teacher always has a big truth, but she doesn't want to hear it anymore, and none of those truths are put in her shoes and speak to her heart. He would never say what she wanted to hear.

Xu Shu bowed: "Your Highness, please command." ”

"I want to draw manpower from your deployment and supplement it to Zhang Song. Liu Yan said.

Zhang Song was presiding over the rebuilding of the Shu Road, and at first he used prisoners of war and ethnic minority coolies. Later, the plate became bigger and bigger, and the troops responsible for urban construction had to be transferred from Pang Tong's side. Now, he came to Liu Yan again to ask for help, and Liu Yan had to use the teacher's troops to save the emergency.

You must know that whether it is a prisoner of war or a minority coolie, Liu Yan will not feel distressed how much she uses, but Xu Shu's troops are all from Jingzhou, and they are all old people who followed her all the way into Sichuan, and they are Liu Yan's heart.

When Xu Shu heard that it was to rebuild the Shu Dao, he immediately nodded and promised: "But according to His Highness's orders." ”

"Well, Mr. Zhang didn't dare to open his mouth to you, I didn't expect this plate to be so big......" Liu Yan was suddenly a little deflated, and the person softened, supporting her forehead with one hand and tapping the fingers of the other hand on several cases.

"In this matter, I think I understand the First Emperor a little, it is obviously a good thing for the benefit of the people, but it is such a posture of working hard for the people and hurting money, if something goes wrong...... "Speaking of this, she deliberately glanced at Xu Shu, and then showed a resentful expression: "I am ready to leave a stench for 10,000 years." ”

"Your Highness, Your Highness doesn't have to worry too much, his subordinates and others will definitely learn from history and will never repeat the mistakes of the past. Xu Shu assured solemnly, his tone firm. But Liu Yan didn't see any joy at all, and still had a sad face:

"Teacher, don't comfort me, this matter is my willfulness, and everyone is still following me. When I first came here, when Xu Jing and Wu Yi were still there, they ...... Hey, speaking of which, they're all gone! They told me that the starting point of Qin Zhidao was in Ganquan Palace, and I was ashamed to ask them a chance to take a look!"

Speaking of this, she laughed again: "Hehehe, they think I am a fool's dream, I just want to show them! Even if I will be whipped in the future, it will be in the future." ”

"Your Highness!" Xu Shu heard her say the word "whip corpse", and intuitively interrupted her: "There is no such thing!"

"I hope you can do it slowly, as long as I can do it in my lifetime, if it is really so unfortunate, I will not be blessed to live to see it...... And that's okay......

You'll always see it......" Liu Yan whispered softly, no longer laughing.

Xu Shu wanted to say something more, but Liu Yan interrupted him first: "Okay, let's go here today, you can go back." Someone! Please invite Mr. Jiang and Mr. Mi to come and see you!"

After finishing speaking, he stopped paying attention to Xu Shu, closed his eyes and recuperated.

Xu Shu sighed in his heart, but he couldn't say anything, so he had to bow down and quit and find Zhang Song to understand the situation.

As a result, Zhang Song also sighed at him: "Your Highness has repeatedly ordered five times, this matter of opening the Shu Road must not be in a hurry, it is not a matter if it is not repaired in thirty or fifty years, she is ready to repair for three or five hundred years." She cultivated this when she was there, and if she was ......... in the future We will also prepare in advance...... Hey, you said that she is only in her teenage years, but she can say what she will say a hundred years later, and I want to rush the progress, but she has already put the example of the First Emperor in front of her, I don't dare!"

Zhang Song actually said the words "I don't dare", which made Xu Shu's heart shake. As a person who has a history of selling out and seeking glory, he will hesitate to protect the reputation of his new master and say "I don't dare". It can be seen that Liu Yan has the weight in his heart.

It's really gratifying that Yeona is so popular. But after being happy, Xu Shu sighed again, she said that it didn't matter if she couldn't see Shu Dao cultivation alive, she would always see it. But she is a surviving person who keeps the festival, and there can be no descendants, so has she already planned to take a child from which family to be the heir?

Thinking of this, Xu Shu's brows knotted. As far as he knows, Liu Yan likes several children of her brother Kou Feng's family, especially the only girl in their family, Kou Xue, who loves her like his own, and he is very worried that she will be hot one day, so he announced that he would choose this girl as her heir.

However, if you don't choose the Kou family, who can you choose? Liu Yan will definitely not agree, and others may not be convinced. With his surname Liu, can he pick up the vast country for nothing? The prestige of the Han family is no longer what it used to be.

That's it, starting from the problem of cultivating Shu Dao, Xu Shu silently worried about Liu Yan again. How did he know that Liu Yan hadn't thought about who to choose as his heir.

First, because she is only in her early twenties, although she has prepared for the worst, she is not completely dead set on the teacher.

Second, although she has touched the minds of her nephews and nieces, her brother's experience as a stepson is too shocking, and she has not seen the benefits of the heir, but she has seen the risks she faces. I and my brother finally jumped out of the fire pit, how can I let my brother's child jump into it again?

Being in a high position but not feeling the benefits, only feeling hard and lonely. This made Liu Yan not pay attention to the matter of choosing an heir, in her opinion, whoever takes her position is here to suffer.

And let Xu Shu worry silently, Liu Yan sent the teacher away and immediately put on the face of a superior person, waiting for Jiang Wan and Mi Zhu to come to see him.

When the two came, she didn't say much, just ordered a few things that had been thought of a long time ago.

The first thing is the matter of the marquis ceremony, and the subordinates mean to be grand, to be grand, and how to do it. After all, gongs and drums are noisy, and firecrackers are easy to do.

However, Liu Yan rejected this proposal, she asked her to take the iron-blooded route of the marquis ceremony, how short and how to do the marquis, and the highlight after the end was the military parade, and she wanted to review the army as the real highlight of the marquis ceremony.

As soon as this proposal came out, Jiang Wanzhu was stupid, and the proposals they had prepared before didn't need to be mentioned, and all of them were vetoed. This ceremony has become a military parade, so what are you going to discuss with the two of us? You can directly discuss with the two generals!

In addition to the Marquis Ceremony, another thing also made Mi Zhu and Jiang Wan feel bitter, that is, Liu Yan announced that she would raise taxes.

It is said that this is good news for Finance Minister Mi Zhu, because since he took office, he has only heard of tax cuts, rest and other orders, and has never heard of tax increases. Now that the government needs to spend more and more money, the fiscal constraints are not a day or two.

However, the key is that the taxes that Liu Yan wants to collect this time are called Tongyan Tax and Tongjin Tax. She wants to sell Shu salt and Shu brocade, not only to her own sphere of influence, but also to the north and even beyond.

As long as a merchant dares to come and buy it, and gives a sufficient price, they can sell these two things wherever they want.

You must know that the world is not peaceful at the moment, even if it is cloth, silk and satin, salt is a strategic resource like rice and iron, and ordinary rulers will only allow their own internal circulation, and will never allow it to be sold to hostile forces. But Liu Yan wanted to break this routine and open a salt ban.

Mi Zhu wanted to persuade Liu Yan to change her mind, but Liu Yan said that the salt ban was only the first step, and her ultimate goal was to get all the businessmen in the world to run errands for her, and she would collect business taxes.

When Liu Yan was in Changsha, she saw a lot of hard work in farming but it was difficult to be self-sufficient because of the unfavorable weather, but in this case, the government still had to collect taxes from the peasants, and the landlords had to collect the rents of the tenants, and the peasants' hardships can be imagined.

Therefore, she believes that the government should collect less taxes from the peasants, and even reduce them appropriately, and it is the businessmen who should really be exploited.

All the merchants did was to move bricks, sell the goods of the owner to the west, and make a profit from the difference, which was much easier than facing the loess with their backs to the sky, and it was natural to draw their taxes.

In the face of Liu Yan's theory, Mi Zhu, who was born as a businessman, was speechless and asked Cangtian for a while.

In this era of war, as long as you need to travel south and north to make a living, it is extremely dangerous. Who said that businessmen don't work hard? Shinong businessmen, businessmen accompany the last seat, and they are not treated by the superstructure, Liu Yan's current practice makes Mi Zhu tear tears of sympathy for the businessmen.

It's just that neither of these two people will talk about the mental activity of the bitterness. After each of them received the order to withdraw, they wiped the sweat that did not exist on their heads, and smiled bitterly, with such a boss who did not take the usual path, they really didn't need to bother to prepare any opinions and suggestions, people's brain circuits were different from those of ordinary people.

So, at the regular meeting of the princess's mansion, when Jiang Wan told you about these two things, the matter of the military exercise made Xu Shu and Pang Tong, the two unsuspecting parties, almost lose their temper on the spot, Nima didn't have any news in advance! We all thought that what you wanted was gongs, drums, and firecrackers!

Pang Tong looked at Xu Shu, thinking that as the princess Xixi, he would know more about the inside story, but who knew that the other party was also confused at a glance, which immediately made him discouraged, this was probably the boss's temporary idea.

The two of them were confused, but Mi Zhu and Jiang Wan understood why Liu Yan told them about it.

Because although the military exercise is the highlight, it is after the military exercise that the gongs, drums, and firecrackers that these courtiers want are loud and loud. Liu Yan wants to reward the three armies with the dual identity of the eldest princess and the marquis of Shu!

Therefore, the pressure is on the two military divisions and the generals and captains. Jiang Wan, Mi Zhu, and the others, who were engaged in logistics, applauded Liu Yan's decision after clarifying her true intentions.

In this way, the preparations for the marquis ceremony were carried out in an orderly manner. Jingzhou, Yizhou, Xinyangzhou, Jiaozhou, overseas Yizhou...... Wherever the power of the eldest princess radiates, people are all looking forward to it, waiting for this historic day.

In September of the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an, Liu Yan sacrificed to the sky in Chengdu, proclaimed himself the Marquis of Shu, and set the capital in Chengdu. As soon as the news came out, the world shook.

Cao Cao was so angry that he had a headache, Li Dian of Hefei, Cao Hong of Xiliang, and Cao Zhang successively received intensified preparations for war and were ready to attack at any time.

However, everyone knows that this is just a show, and there is no thunder and rain. Now, no one can change the fixed situation of the two-way world, Liu Yan, the Marquis of Shu, has done a solid and steady job.

It's just that after establishing the Hou State and establishing herself as the main one, Liu Yan immediately encountered new and more serious problems.

It's a question she's been thinking about all along, but she's never really taken to heart. I used to think it was too early, but now it is too early to delay.

This issue is a matter of inheritance, and it is time to find and nurture an heir for yourself.

Liu Yan has always had this problem in her heart, but she has never mentioned it publicly. In order to open the Shu Dao, she revealed to Zhang Song and other main responsible persons that she had already chosen a successor, but in fact, she didn't think about the successor or anything at all.

Who would want to help her fill such a big hole, and who would be able to fill this hole instead of digging a bigger one?

Although she can now compete with Cao Cao in terms of land area, Cao Cao has countless concubines, and there is no shortage of children. But what about Liu Yan, there are no children, no inheritance, how to solve the matter of the heir?

Xu Shu Pang Tong and others thought of this question, but they were anxious but never showed it on their faces, and they never mentioned this question to Liu Yan. Because they all know that this is a problem that Liu Yan can't solve or even can't start at present.

But other officials with more distant ties could not sit still. Seeing that the master has established a country, but he has not established an heir for a long time, how can it make people feel unsteady!

According to the rules handed down by the ancestors, the country has no heirs to be eliminated by the country. Liu Yan is now twenty-four years old, and she is about to cross the threshold of twenty-five, but she has no heirs when she reaches middle age, how similar is this to her father's situation back then! If this is replaced by a male master, I am afraid that the persuasion of marrying a wife and having children will already bury Liu Yan at this time.

It's just that Liu Yan withstood the pressure of obeying the festival, and no one dared to persuade her to choose a husband and have children, so she had to retreat and persuade her to quickly find a few candidates, change her surname Liu, and observe and cultivate first.

This is the simplest and most immediate method, and it is the only method that Liu Yan can use at present. So, she just became the Marquis of Shu in September, and in the first month of the next year, she has already begun to have a headache for the heir.