Thirty people were recruited to go to the county guard to copy, and with the expenses of the subordinate officials and their families, half of the cloth and silk of the Linjiang State Treasury had been spent.

It has been two months since the edict of the trial implementation of the new policy came down, but there is still no movement, and an edict has also been sent from the imperial court to question Li Xiaofei.

Li Xiaofei was about to write a statement directly to send someone to Liu Jian about the situation in Jiangling, but Hongrui dissuaded him.

"Along with the edict, there is also a personal letter from His Majesty, which is clear and clear, and can be done cheaply. What's more, the edict is also very broad, and I guess His Majesty means to give you a vague will and let you do it boldly. If the rules are too clear, you'll get constrained! As for personnel rights, they cannot be passed at the DPRK meeting, and this situation must be broken. You're going to have to come up with hooliganism! ”

"Rogue tactics? What does my sister mean to dig a pit and set up a trap to trap all the officials in Gangneung City? ”

"Exactly! This trial of the New Deal was originally a matter of offending people. If you don't use some extraordinary means, you can't implement it! As a last resort, you have to kill someone! ”

"Kill! Kill an official appointed by the imperial court? This is a blatant confrontation with the imperial court! ”

"Things in the court, you can commit crimes and not make mistakes, you can only be ruthless, you can't be benevolent, you don't want to kill them, but once the new policy is implemented, they can't wait to kill your whole family!"

"But if you kill the court officials and turn this Linjiang country into an independent kingdom, isn't that a rebellion?"

"You are stupid, there is still the king of Linjiang here, as long as you do everything in the name of the king of Linjiang, it is difficult for the court to beat you! What's more, I guess His Majesty's intention is to raise Gu, or rather, to raise a vicious dog that eats people! If you can't become bigger and stronger here, collect the money from the nouveau riche of this Linjiang country, and train an army that can compete with Cui Ju, then your end will be miserable! The stronger you are, the safer you are! ”

is a good Gu cultivation theory, Li Xiaofei suddenly realized, Liu Jian asked him to try out the new policy, first, in order to solve the problem of the treasury being empty and unable to collect taxes, as long as the situation is broken in Linjiang State, who opposes the new policy at that time, where will Liu Jian send Li Xiaofei and his new army.

"But now I have no one to use except for the three thousand weak guards of Linjiang Country!"

"In and outside the city of Gangneung, there are many scholars from poor backgrounds, they are eager to get ahead, if you are willing to use them, they will definitely do your best for you!"

"Haven't these great families been destroyed by Pharmacist Zhu? Why can't these poor scholars still get ahead? ”

"A new family in the imperial court has begun to form again, if we can cultivate the power of the Hanmen this time, I think there is hope that this fate can be changed!"

"You think so much, it seems that this court matter is indeed too complicated! It's a pity that my sister is not a man! ”

"Being at the height of the temple, if you don't think about it too much, you will fall to pieces at any time! Women, I think that thousands of years later, there will always be saints, so that women all over the world can study and become officials like men! ”

"Recruiting talents may not be able to recruit the people you want right away, and you should be more careful in case there are traitors mixed in!"

On the second day, Li Xiaofei came to Sima Ke and others to discuss the matter of continuing to recruit people.

Liu Zhengqing was the first to object: "I am in favor of recruiting people, but we don't have enough money and cloth, since we want people to do things, we have to give people rice!" ”

Liu Zhengqing talked about everyone's sore spots, and everyone else also looked at Li Xiaofei, after all, the past two months have been very hard.

Li Xiaofei clapped his hands: "Serve it!" ”

The guard Hua Xiaoan brought a plate of gold ingots and put it on the table

"Ladies and gentlemen, there are thirty gold ingots here, which are from my house, and they will be returned to the treasury today, Lord Liu, you can collect them, believe me, after this month, we will definitely be able to have a large amount of money!"

"The Prime Minister is selfless, but this is not a long-term solution! In the following opinion, we should open up financial resources! Cangcao Gao Jingui spoke

As soon as he heard the word open source, Li Xiaofei was a little disgusted, there were many people who spoke and few people who did things, where did the source come from?

"Master Gao, dare to ask if it is open source from paper?" Li Xiaofei's words were extremely polite

"Your Excellency, you are the Minister of Linjiang, the King of Linjiang is now in the house, if the King of Linjiang wants to boil salt and make wine to make money to open a mine, the local officials have no right to intervene, as long as the tax is handed over to the imperial court!"

Everyone's eyes lit up, this Gao Jingui, who usually doesn't speak, was so shocked when he spoke for the first time.

Li Xiaofei stood up and said angrily: "Your grandfather's, why didn't you say it earlier?" ”

"Your Excellency, you didn't ask me before?" Gao Jingui had a simple face

Since it is possible to boil salt and make wine to make money and open mines, there is hope.

Liu Zhengqing said that he had no capital, and Sima Ke said that he could post a notice to recruit powerful businesses to operate in partnership.

Cao Wuxin said that there was a shortage of manpower, and the industries run by the county guard government would definitely be destroyed, Li Xiaofei waved his hand: "We still have three thousand guards!" Afraid of whom? Whoever causes sabotage, we will arrest him! ”

With a clear financial route, what are you waiting for, the announcement of recruiting talents, the announcement of attracting investment and the announcement of expanding the army were posted like snowflakes.

As soon as the proclamation was posted, some people came to the Prime Minister's Office to ask for a meeting.

However, as Hongrui expected, most of the people who came to the Zhaoxian Hall in the first five days were teachers, fortune tellers, and some people who wanted to cheat an official and a half-job to collect money.

On the sixth day, three middle-aged people in straw sandals and linen clothes came, and they seemed to have the ambition to save the world and serve the country.

Li Xiaofei called Hongrui to meet the three of them, and after some questioning, Hongrui was a little disappointed.

All three of them are nerds, and they all talk about big truths, and when asked how to deal with some official business, they can't answer.

Hongrui was about to send them away, but Li Xiaofei left these three behind: "The three gentlemen have never been officials, nor have they been on errands in the yamen, so it is normal that they don't know how to handle official business." These things can be learned first! ”

Hongrui was stunned for a moment, and immediately agreed with Li Xiaofei's words: "The three of you might as well stay first and deal with some simple official documents first!" ”

"Thank you, my husband is studying to save the world and serve the country, not to be a knife and pen clerk to copy and write!" The three of them went out without looking back

Seeing that he couldn't recruit the person he wanted, Li Xiaofei was a little anxious, and Hongrui suddenly remembered someone: "Xiaofei, what did Brother Xiang Xiaoyu do?" ”

"Brother Xiang, I was the pavilion chief at the beginning! He's a real talent! ”

"That's right, what you want to do now depends on the pavilion chief to collect money, and it also depends on the pavilion chief to recruit strong men! Didn't those officials go against the grain? Let's take a draw! ”

On the seventh day, Li Xiaofei sent someone to invite all the 134 pavilion chiefs of Linjiang State, and agreed to hold a banquet in the courtyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion to entertain these people five days later.

Of the one hundred and thirty-four pavilion chiefs, one hundred and twenty came, and the rest were unable to come.

It is unheard of for the state minister to invite the pavilion chief, and it is very rare for the pavilion chiefs to have a meal in the county government in the past.

And now the new minister actually directly feasted these little pavilion chiefs.

The pavilion chiefs all wore the best linen clothes in the house, and brought chickens, ducks, fish and other things to the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

The guards had already invited them in one by one, and the chickens and ducks they brought were scattered in the Prime Minister's Mansion, which was so lively.

Li Xiaofei bowed to them one by one on the steps, and some of these pavilion chiefs clasped their fists, some knelt, and some also bowed their hands.

After eating a meal, the plates were licked clean, not that Li Xiaofei was stingy, but that these pavilion chiefs endured for two days without eating in order to eat this meal.

Between meals,

Li Xiaofei basically figured out the population and land of this Linjiang country, and also figured out the fields and mountains and forests of big families.

Hongrui led people to write down the names of these pavilion chiefs and the places under their jurisdiction one by one.

After the meal was finished, Li Xiaofei had a rough eyebrow, and left twenty pavilion chiefs.

These twenty men were either sincere in their speech and demeanor and familiar with the situation in other people's jurisdictions, or they were generous and bold and had a little martial arts.

Li Xiaofei directly appointed these twenty people as Sima Beijia of Linjiang State to join the military and serve as Captain Cao, and rewarded them with some money to stay and assist him.

Naturally, these people were overjoyed and gladly accepted.

The investment promotion is very smooth, because Li Xiaofei is very generous, four or six shares, the palace only needs forty percent of the profits, sixty percent goes to the merchants, and the army protection is also provided, and the merchants are naturally happy to come over and operate.

After having an industry, there is also confidence in recruiting new troops.

Within a month of Gangneung, a new army of 3,000 men had been recruited, and a new barracks had been built outside Gangneung.

Of the original 3,000 Linjiang National Guards, Li Xiaofei only left 200 strong ones to stay in the palace, and the rest were sent to the Jiufang Salt Field Mine to be stationed and protected.

Li Xiaofei has already told the 28 captains of the 100-member team that anyone who comes to make trouble, regardless of the reason, will be arrested first.

In less than a month, hundreds of people were arrested, including some minor officials from various counties.

The county magistrates and the Jiangling county guards rushed to the Prime Minister's Mansion to ask Li Xiaofei to give an explanation.

Li Xiaofei didn't see anything, and even if he did, he would blow them away.

Wang Qingzhi, the warden of Jiangling County, took people away hatefully, and told Li Xiaofei before leaving that he was going to write a statement to impeach Li Xiaofei!

However, the table did report a lot, but there was no response like a stone sinking into the sea.

There are rich people and soldiers, and Li Xiaofei finally issued a proclamation requiring each family to pay taxes according to the number of acres of land and forests.

As Hongrui expected, some big families actually united to send a family tribe to fight against Li Xiaofei's tax collection team.

Li Xiaofei had already known through the pavilion chiefs the places where some big families hid their private soldiers and property, and they were waiting for them to rebel.

Although Li Xiaofei's newly trained army has a very low combat effectiveness, they all know that this Li Guoxiang is willing to be rewarded, and his words are counted.

Li Xiaofei promised them that after exterminating these big families, thirty percent of the seized property would be used to reward the new army.

Under the heavy reward, the combat power burst out, and those private armies were nothing more than a rabble, and they were all defeated in less than a month.

In order to obtain more rewards, the captains of the Forces nouvelles forced the magistrates to denounce the crimes of the great families, including those who did not rebel.

All of a sudden, the people of Linjiang were rolling, and no one dared to mention the ancestral system anymore, let alone not to pay taxes.

However, Linjiang Country is too close to Xiangyang, and such a big thing happened, which naturally shook the government and the opposition.

There was a lot of talk in the court that they wanted to kill Li Xiaofei to apologize, but fortunately, the emperor and Liu Mingge and Murong Ling insisted that Li Xiaofei did the right thing, and they overwhelmed the public opinion and saved Li Xiaofei.

At this time, they reacted that what the emperor wanted to rectify was not only the Linjiang Kingdom under his nose, but the entire Liang.

At the same time as the countless letters of impeachment of Li Xiaofei for indiscriminately killing innocents, there were also 500 carts of gold, silver, jewelry, and money that Li Xiaofei sent to escort.

Liu Jian was shocked, he didn't expect that a Linjiang country with a radius of 300 miles could find 500 carts of property, which shows how much money these big families have accumulated in the past by relying on that unrealistic ancestral system.

It is imperative to implement the new policy! Whoever opposes, kills!

But at this time, Liu Mingge began to have opinions, what he opposed was not the new policy and the way to implement the new policy, but the abolition of the ancestral system and the brutal taxation of the new policy was only a temporary policy, and if the treasury could be truly enriched, it was necessary to work hard from other aspects.