Although the prince canonization ceremony of Xuanyuan Chenghua is not as good as the crown prince canonization ceremony of Xuanyuan Zixun, it is also impossible to find fault. The central ruler ordered Zhang Xiaowu to be willing to spend money on the prince's ceremony, and even more willing to invest in the prince, just from the ceremony of the prince's ceremony, it can be seen that Zhang Xiaowu is very attentive to the prince. Even if someone wants to do something wrong, they can't do it, and now in the palace, the prince is Zhang Xiaowu's apprentice, Tang Guifei blindly trusts Zhang Xiaowu, and the emperor is still stupid and stupid, and there is no response.

Everyone then gradually learned that the emperor was seriously injured and now became a fool, or it can be called a walking corpse, and it was not a mistake to eat and drink Lazar every day, but he couldn't speak or think, like a puppet puppet. But although the emperor was stupid and Zhang Xiaowu was in power, the court was not in turmoil, but was more peaceful than before.

Zhang Xiaowu was in power, and there were many people who doubted his ability, and at the beginning, hundreds of officials and local officials held a joke attitude to see that Zhang Xiaowu, who was only twenty-three years old, was in power, especially Zhang Xiaowu was born a commoner, and now although he has the identity of a Hejian marquis, he can not be called a scholar. People have speculated about how long Zhang Xiaowu will be able to work in this position as the central commander, and even Long has someone who opened a handicap, betting that Zhang Xiaowu will end up in disgrace after a few months, and even be deposed by other officials.

The most outrageous thing is that there are thousands of people who have bought Zhang Xiaowu to be in power for three months.

Zhang Xiaowu naturally knew about this, but he couldn't stop it, and even asked his subordinates to buy bets on him for more than a year in power. He has his own set of methods for governing, that is, all the existence of power struggle is accumulated by the accumulation of steps, and the person in power is the last stone, and people only see the last stone, but often ignore the other stones on which the pyramids are built.

Therefore, after Zhang Xiaowu came to power, the first thing he did was to promulgate eight decrees to stabilize the government through the mouth of the left minister, and gradually stabilize the government program.

Because of the expansion of the rebellion of the Jin king, more than 80 officials and their families were raided and destroyed, and the imperial court took the opportunity to confiscate a large amount of land and money, especially 7.3 million taels of silver dug up from the families of more than 80 officials, which greatly relieved the pressure on the imperial court.

Because the palace and the imperial court did not have to worry about money for the time being, this allowed Zhang Xiaowu to let go when he was governing, and of the 7.3 million taels of silver, 500,000 taels were sent to the front line in the south of the Yangtze River, 300,000 taels were used to repair the palace, 500,000 taels were rushed to the treasury of the household, and 500,000 taels repaid the interest and part of the principal borrowed from Mu Donghou, so that there were 5.5 million taels of silver left. Of the 5,500,000 taels of silver, Zhang Xiaowu first made up all the salaries owed to the court officials, and announced that because of the meritorious work of the officials in the prevention and control of the plague last year, the officials of the Shenghan Dynasty received double salaries in the first month, February, and March, and for the court ministers who died of the plague last year, the central government ordered that the families of these officials who sacrificed their lives for the country could receive their salaries for three years as a pension.

After hearing this, the officials immediately cheered, and even talked to his wife after returning home. Everyone is naturally far more comfortable with the increase in legal income than illegal income, and they dare to talk about it casually, in fact, for so many years, if the court officials really live on their salaries, they are afraid that they will starve to death long ago. There have been many large-scale anti-corruption campaigns in the history of Shenghan, but the endless flow of corrupt officials is not only due to human greed, but also due to the low salaries of officials in Shenghan for many years.

Of course, the Holy Han Empire is still different from the Ming Empire in Zhang Xiaowu's memory, the salaries of officials in the Ming Empire are too low, and an official's salary not only has to support his family, but also his staff and guards, forcing the officials of the Ming Dynasty to be greedy. Although the Shenghan Empire was higher and did not need officials to support its staff, it also caused officials to compare with each other due to the pomp and circumstance of the scholars, and then lacked money.

Subsequently, on the 21st day of the first lunar month, the Central Government issued another order, and the national officials increased their salaries by 30%. Only used this trick, and hundreds of officials in the world immediately regained their respect, at least the officials knew that after this Zhang Xiaowu took charge of the court, it would only bring them benefits and no harm, and the biggest benefit was money.

After Zhang Xiaowu gave the officials a salary increase, the officials' attitude towards Zhang Xiaowu was different, after all, they got the actual benefits, and the voices against him were much smaller. Although this money is from the imperial court, Zhang Kuan has been in power for more than 30 years, and the salaries of officials have not risen for a penny, Zhang Xiaowu has only been in power for a few days, and the officials first have been paid double salaries for three months, and then they have increased by three percent, and anyone will make a strong contrast in their hearts.

Several students came to Zhang Kuan's house to report the incident to him, and Zhang Kuan smiled indifferently and said: "Throwing money all the way down like this is just killing chickens and taking eggs." ”

"Venerable Master, what do you mean by this?"

Zhang Kuan said: "The sky is desolate and man-made, the court has no income, he has collected so many ministers' family assets, but he has spent all the capital?" After spending all the money, he can only drink the northwest wind, but will his subordinates drink the northwest wind with him? When he was afraid of the people who supported him the most, he became the people who opposed him the most. ”

The student hurriedly asked: "Respect the teacher, are you not optimistic about Zhang Xiaowu?" So how long do you think he will be in power? ”

Zhang Kuan thought about it carefully and said cautiously: "More than three years." ”

"So long?"

Zhang Kuan said: "Because the silver in his hand is only enough for three years, and after three years, it will be when he falls." ”

At this time, Zhang Xiaowu continued to be busy for a month, and it was only a little more relaxed in February, and at this time he issued a decree here that surprised everyone, and the fields of the Jin Dynasty would be given to the orphans or families of imperial soldiers free of charge. As soon as this decree came out, the four forbidden armies and the border army were immediately ecstatic, and Zhang Xiaowu also handed over this task to Zu Gongmao, who had just returned from Jiangnan with his army.

Zu Gongmao reported to Zhang Xiaowu about the battle situation in the south of the Yangtze River, due to the strong combat effectiveness of the White Tiger Army, which repeatedly defeated the puppet Wu rebels head-on, and had no choice but to keep a few outside the city, and once again turned into pieces, and launched a guerrilla war with the imperial army. And when the puppet Wu army dispersed, the Vermilion Bird Legion could finally recuperate.

"Do you think that in the Suzaku Army, is there a ghost of pseudo-Wu?" Zhang Xiaowu asked.

Zu Gongmao said: "There must be internal ghosts, there must be internal ghosts, otherwise it is impossible for the Vermilion Bird Army to be restrained everywhere." Speaking of this, he shook his head with a wry smile and said: "The ancestral battalion of the 18th Regiment of our department has also been ambushed repeatedly, but fortunately, the more than 500 Saibei brothers I brought are desperately protected, otherwise I would have been killed by these people a long time ago." ”