Just when Chen Hongyi couldn't figure it out, Cui Ju came, Chen Hongyi hurriedly went out to greet him, in the family, there are very few people Chen Hongyi can look down on, Cui Ju is one of them. First, Cui Ju is resourceful, and secondly, the Cui family and the Chen family are also in-laws, so Chen Hongyi changed his past frugality and entertained Cui Ju.

At the banquet, it was nothing more than the two reminiscing about the old relationship, looking back on the past, and looking forward to a better future, all of which were false. In the evening, the two of them talked about business. Chen Hongyi went straight in: "The virtuous brother has already received the land of Yongzhou, why do you have to enter the court as an official?" ”

Chen Hongyi meant to ask Cui Ju why he didn't do it well, and he had to go to Jinling to line up behind Xiaoshan and others. Cui Ju was also surprised: "Doesn't Old Linggong Chen know that the imperial court is going to change and restructure?" Didn't the court consult you? ”

Chen Hongyi was also taken aback, thirty percent of the soldiers and horses of the imperial court were under his command, and even Cui Ju knew the news that the imperial court was going to be restructured, but he, the hussar general, didn't know it yet. But he also pretended to be calm: "Maybe this restructuring has nothing to do with the military system, so there is no need to alarm the old man"

"Hey, Lao Linggong, they must be afraid of your opposition, and they didn't even know you, I didn't want to be an official in Jinling this time, I wanted to go to a remote place in Jingzhou to be a magistrate. For example, after Lao Linggong stayed in Xiangguo for a year, he had to go to Fanyang or Chang'an to bring local soldiers and horses, and the original headquarters soldiers and horses were not allowed to take away. And when I go to a remote place in Jingzhou, I can set up a group training according to the new law, so I asked Lao Linggong to help me ask for a county guard."

Chen Hongyi didn't understand even more: "I said that Brother Xian, you want to be an official, go to Jinling to find the prime minister, I can't protect myself, but you came to beg me, didn't you mean to make fun of me?" ”

Cui Ju hurriedly explained: "Lao Linggong misunderstood, if I go to Jinling, they will not let me go abroad, and if Lao Linggong protects me first, let me divide part of Lao Linggong's army, so that I will go to them and ask for a county guard, it will naturally become."

Chen Hongyi smiled: "It is worthy of being a virtuous brother who is known as a fox, and he really plays a good abacus, taking retreat as advance, giving up the big and seeking the small, what if I don't want to?" ”

Cui Ju sighed: "Alas, don't hide it from Lao Linggong, since my cousin and many clansmen were killed, many of the Cui family's properties have been looted again, and now I am no longer the first family in the north back then, otherwise how could I let go of the history of a state assassin and go to the wilderness." What's more, Cui's move is also to leave a back hand for Lao Linggong, with these thousands of people here, if there is an accident in the future, Cui must be ordered by the public, and Linggong can send his henchmen to go with me. ”

Chen Hongyi saw that Cui Ju was so serious and sad, and nodded: "Okay, if it is peaceful today, the old man has expected this day, but I didn't expect it to come so quickly, I have a subordinate named Shen De, who has resigned from the military and returned to his hometown in Chenzhou, and is within the jurisdiction of Jingzhou, if you can invite this person out of the mountain, it is far better than others." You met him in Yecheng, and it was he who defeated foreign enemies in Yecheng and kept Yecheng. ”

Cui Ju thanked Chen Hongyi: "But with the arrangement of Lao Linggong, Cui will definitely pay a heavy salute to invite General Shen out of the mountain, but I don't know anything about military affairs, and I also ask Lao Linggong to tell all the soldiers on the way to march."

Chen Hongyi thought that since the imperial court didn't even inform him of such a big thing as the restructuring, he would also mobilize the troops and horses before the restructuring to keep his back hand, so he touched Cui Ju's back: "Brother Xian, you remember, treat the soldiers well, the rewards and punishments are clear, and you don't have to be ashamed to ask, just do these three points, it's a good thing to not understand, let those who understand fight hard."

The two talked at night, and all the defenses west of Taihang Mountain changed. The imperial court is still discussing the new military system and the land tax system, etc., here Chen Hongyi transferred 3,000 tens of thousands of people under his command to Cui Ju, sent 5,000 to Chang'an, Luoyang, Yecheng, Yangzhai, Nanyang, Yunzhong, Shuozhou 3,000 each, some small cities sent 2,000, leaving only 1,000 people in Xiangguo, the original defenders in these places were all recalled by Chen Hongyi to Xiangguo for training, and waited for the imperial court to implement the change of law.

Let's say that in Jinling City, Xiao Shan and others led the officials to discuss restructuring matters day and night. Because of the complexity of the matter, this time it is no longer a few important ministers to decide, and the officials who can go to the court are here.

The first item to discuss is to change the yuan, because the world has been unified, and the name of Xianchu is still used by the two emperors, and it must be changed. Zongzheng Liu Qian looked through the history books, and first proposed that the era name be changed to "Changqing", and everyone agreed. But Yuan Kang disagreed, Yuan Kang said that Changqing sounded like a rune written by ordinary people during the New Year. Yuan Kang himself drafted a Longchang era name, but was vetoed by Dahonglu Xie Bi, Xie Bi laughed and said that Situ did not allow the people to write runes, but used the shop plaque as the era name, Yuan Kang was very annoyed and was persuaded by Xiao Shan, and everyone mentioned many era names were refuted. In the end, it was Taishi Ling Liu Xin who proposed to change the era name to "Yanchang", and everyone also tentatively decided on the era name of Yanchang because of the quarrel from morning to evening.

After the discussion of the era name, the second day was the military system, and many of the people who participated in the military system were also children of families with the name of generals, but they had never been to the barracks on the battlefield. Chen Hongyi, Wang Xian, Zhong Zhiming, and others, who really led the troops, did not come. The first important thing in the change of military system is that the generals must change their garrisons for two years, and the soldiers must be rotated every year, which is to prevent the generals from turning the soldiers of the imperial court into private soldiers, separating the localities and even rebelling. The second article of the law is horse administration, the core of horse politics is that the imperial court set up horse farms in Youzhou Shuozhou Yunzhong all over the place, managed by the imperial court officials, the military generals must be approved by the horse farm captain, more than 500 war horses must be reported to the imperial court. Article 3 of the law is that the imperial court will set up transshipment envoys in each county, and the military needs of various localities must be verified by the transshipment envoy before the military rations can be allocated. As soon as these three came out, it can be said that the generals were restricted to death, the soldiers were not familiar, the horses could not be used casually, and the grain and grass could not be taken casually, so it was naturally difficult to rebel. In addition to changing the military system, Xiao Shan also proposed the training method, which is called training young generals, which is actually to insert the children of the family into the army and control the military power.

Everyone agreed on the military system, and the only thing was that they were worried that Wang Xian and Chen Hongyi would disobey. Xie Rui smiled: "According to the secret envoy of Xiangguo, Chen Hongyi has already distributed his Chen family army to various places, and now no matter which way west of Taihang Mountain, I am afraid that they have already eaten in the same pot with Chen Hongyi." “

Xiao Shan also smiled: "In this way, this old fox will definitely not oppose the change of military law and the new military system, and he also has a nephew who wants to prepare for training, how can he oppose it." Wang Xian is afraid that it will be difficult to speak alone, and this new military system will be successful."

After the military was formulated, it was to discuss the tax system, and this tax system was discussed endlessly, because the Xiao family's business names were all over the world, and the Xie family had the most acres, while the Yuan family, the Wang family, and the Chen family had half of the acres. Xiaoshan's meaning is to reduce the tax cards in various places, increase the mutual market at the border, and add a poll tax; The Xie family insisted on reducing the land tax, and asked the imperial court to take money to encourage the family to go to the southwest to reclaim the land. The Chen family asked to build a wharf shipyard in Quanzhou and open a maritime trade; The Yuan family asked the imperial court to send a force to open up the trade routes in the Western Regions; What the Wang family wanted was that merchant ships on the Yangtze River and in the Yellow River would not be taxed. They argue with each other and don't give in to each other.

The tax system quarreled for five days, and finally Xiao Shan gave in first: "Since all the families have their own opinions, it is better for us to divide this tax system into commercial tax and field tax, and those who pay commercial tax do not pay field tax, and those who pay field tax do not need to pay commercial tax." The commercial tax is divided into land tax, river tax, and sea tax, and you can propose to build a wharf and shipyard."

Everyone thought about it for a while, and they also felt that there was only that, but Huang Zhou, the ruler of Su Nei, objected loudly: "Prime Minister Zuo's move, the imperial treasury will lose most of it!" The new tax system should benefit the country and the people, and it cannot be used by individual families to avoid taxes. At that time, the people are poor and the country is weak, and once there is a war in the frontier, there will be no money and food, and the consequences will be unimaginable! ”

Xiao Shan snorted: "What do you know, I have been founding the country for hundreds of years, and it is all thanks to the support of the clan to have today, and the clan has money and food in their hands, are they afraid that they will not have money and food when they fight?" How many people have died for Daliang in the past few decades, how many soldiers, horses, money, and food have been paid, and only our clan has contributed the most in this world, what are you? There is no family anymore, where do these three princes and nine kings come from? How does this whole country work, the selection of officials, the dispatch of troops, the collection of taxes, and the governance of localities, which is not dependent on the world! ”

Xiao Shan's words, everyone agreed. "This Xiao Xie Wang Chen Cui Lu Li Yang, from the south to the north, there are countless people who have donated their lives for the beam, and there are also many people who have destroyed their families and relieved the suffering.

"My family raised 500,000 yuan for military rations!"

"All 500 parts of my family were killed in battle!"

All of a sudden, everyone in the Prime Minister's Mansion was talking endlessly about how much manpower, material and financial resources they had sacrificed in order to dominate the world, as if they had fought hundreds of battles in the past few decades, and Huang Zhouren was powerless to refute at all. After a tearful performance by the officials, the new tax system was finally decided, and the family could profit, but the ordinary people and the state could not.

With such a tax system, it is another bargain when it comes to the matter of land breaks. There is no other reason, it is nothing more than that the Xie family has newly obtained a thousand miles of fertile fields in Huainan, and each family is dissatisfied, so they propose to verify the land and population. Xie Rui was very interested, and sued his father Xie Qian for hiding 300 fugitive slaves and concealing 2,000 acres of land, and asked the court to investigate thoroughly. Everyone was moved and praised Xie Rui for understanding the righteousness. After that, the land was decided to target those who were not the family's grange families and rich households, and each family made a show of releasing a few hundred slaves to hand over thousands of acres of land, and then the court issued an order to reward them back.

After everything was agreed, Liu Xuan, the son of heaven, was played, Liu Xuan knew that the officials had already completed the transaction, and he readily agreed to the tax system, but he was very dissatisfied with the military system. Xiao Shan and the others were very surprised, after all, this son of heaven was also supported by their family, not the military generals, and even agreed to the tax system, but they did not agree to the new military system.

Liu Xuan threw the new military system on the ground: "Are you waiting for such nonsense, do you want my Liang to die in my hands?" ”

Xiao Shan thought that Liu Xuan was worried about Chen Hongyi and Wang Xian's rebellion: "Your Majesty is angry, the general and the hussar general are loyal ministers, and they will be followed!" ”

Liu Xuan sneered: "I hope they will make chaos and abolish this new military system!" You people who have never led troops to fight, do you want my Daliang soldiers to resist the cavalry of Mobei empty-handed hungry when they encounter a war? ”

Liu Xuanlongwei was furious, but the court was full of courtiers who adhered to the new military system, and in the end, in desperation, the ministers said that the new military system would be tried out in Youzhou and Jizhou first, and then it would be extended to the whole country, which was considered to give Liu Xuan a step, and Liu Xuan had to agree.