Zheng Fei went all the way south, inspecting the prefectures and counties along the way, listening to the voices of the people, and he also deliberately made a big turn to go to the Lianghuai area, which was suffering from a severe drought, to personally inspect the disaster, especially to check the resettlement of the victims.

Through this inspection, Zheng Fei found two current problems,

First, the officials and generals in various places can generally ensure honesty and integrity, but the black sheep still inevitably appear some, through the secret reports of the "shadows", the secret visits of people in various places and the reports of the people, Zheng Fei investigated and handled two major cases involving danger and corruption along the way, and more than a dozen small cases, especially in Shezhou, there were officials who dared to embezzle disaster relief materials, including even the old subordinates of the original Liang Shanbo, Zheng Fei was furious, and was originally ready to kill, but remembering that he had made great contributions, and Deng Yuanjue, Wu Song and others interceded on their behalf, and even Pei Xuan, who had always been iron-faced and selfless, couldn't bear to attack his old comrades-in-arms, and now Zheng Fei couldn't make up his mind, so he had to temporarily put them in prison.

Second, although most of the officials are honest and honest, many of them have changed from military generals to become magistrates, and those who want them to go into battle to kill the enemy are all good hands, and if they are asked to manage the place, they will be blind, and some people can even only write their own names, and they have to stretch out their fingers and count the arithmetic within a hundred, how can such people manage local government affairs well? And those who can manage government affairs are mainly Song officials who surrendered in the past, but they don't even dare to let out a fart in the face of this group of "military" officials, if the opinions are the same as these "military" officials, it is fine, and the slightest objection will attract a reprimand, and the logic and rhetoric of the "military" officials are basically the same, if you people really know how to manage the country, how can you be defeated by us?

In the face of these two problems, Zheng Fei wanted to take care of it, but he couldn't make up his mind, because now it is different from what it used to be, and it is not used on the battlefield, there are too many things involved in all aspects, and all this is also seen by Li Gang, who has always been by Zheng Fei's side,

Li Gang unceremoniously ridiculed Zheng Fei, saying that you still claim to be the master and have the world in mind, but in fact you are no different from most of the powerful heroes throughout the ages, there is no law to follow, nepotism, in the long run, your people will know that as long as you have military merits, you can be exempted, as long as you can make military merits, you can be mixed with a local official, what is the essential difference between this phenomenon and the corruption of the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty? With these two points, you still want to plot the world, dream about it!

Zheng Fei was angry when he heard this, and then his heart moved again, and then he completely made up his mind, and he immediately ordered Pei Xuan to seriously investigate and deal with crimes in accordance with the law and discipline, kill those who should be killed, remove those who should be dismissed, and those who should be imprisoned will be punished together.

As soon as this order came out, within two days, dozens of heads fell to the ground at the same time, and the entire officialdom was shocked, because this was the first time that Zheng Fei had used a knife on "his own people" on such a large scale.

Zheng Fei also took this opportunity to announce the importance of law and discipline, military law on the battlefield is ruthless, and local politics and law are also ruthless, don't think that having military merit is equivalent to having a talisman, how great the military merit is, how much treatment there is, no one will be less, but whoever dares to be proud and lawless, then no matter what crime is committed, the punishment will not be less!

But the second problem made Zheng Fei difficult, if the large-scale removal of local officials, the shock to the whole country can be imagined, and Zheng Fei did not trust those former Song officials who surrendered,

On this problem, Zheng Fei and Zhu Wu, Wu Yong and others discussed continuously but could not come up with a solution.

At this time, Li Gang spoke again, Li Gang once again ridiculed Zheng Fei for being so short-sighted, the Great Song Dynasty Chongwen, there are many folk talents cultivated, but after so many years, you are still clinging to the same set of fighting the world before, the people who use it are either old subordinates or prisoners, and you don't even have any creativity, just by virtue of this, you can only stand still, and you still want to plot the world, dream about you!

Li Gang's words were only half spoken, but Zheng Fei still understood, he only felt that Daigo was empowered and immediately came to his senses, and immediately summoned Zhu Wu and others to announce to them one of his ideas, he was going to prepare to open a department.

Zhu Wu and others are also very pleased, opening a branch to recruit talents, not only can recruit the people's talents, gather the world's talents for our use, but also can play a role in stabilizing the people's hearts, establish a goal for the people to strive for, increase the people's sense of belonging to the country, and the recruited talents can also be immediately supplemented to the local peace of mind and bold appointment.

Everyone praised Zheng Fei for his wisdom in unison, but Zheng Fei smiled bitterly, wanting to explain but not knowing how to speak, but Li Gang's face full of sarcastic expressions kept flashing in front of him, as well as his eyes that were getting brighter and brighter.

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It has been decided to open a department to take a doctor, and the first problem to be solved is what "department" to open and what "to take".

Zheng Fei is not ready to completely copy the imperial examination method of the Great Song Dynasty, his idea is to "reduce talents without sticking to one pattern", in the craft, agricultural business, water conservancy, arithmetic, language and other aspects of the person who has a skill can sign up for the examination, under his idea, Zhu Wu and others only took a few days to divide more than a dozen new subjects that have never appeared since ancient times, each subject is also the same as the traditional imperial examination to set the ranking, on the basis of results,

Of course, the traditional imperial examination of Confucian classics still accounts for a large proportion, because since the Sui Dynasty began the imperial examination is based on it, the world's scholars are currently only taking it as the learning goal, if the imperial examination is completely denied, then basically no one in the world can take the exam, it will take a long time to change this, however, Zheng Fei also decided to make a little change to it, that is, to reduce the content of rote memorization, increase the investigation of policy theory and social knowledge, and strive to comprehensively examine the knowledge and thoughts of a scholar, Instead of recruiting a bunch of nerds.

A few days later, the new imperial examination plan was completely determined, Zheng Fei wanted to send the plan to Jiangning Mansion as soon as possible, so that Zhao Kai could announce it after approval, but he always felt that something didn't seem to be good enough, and then ordered Li Sangen to send this plan to Li Gang first.

Not long after, Li Sangen came back, and Zheng Fei hurriedly asked him what Li Gang's reaction was.

Li Sangen said with an angry face, "Then Li Gang is really rude, after reading it, he threw it on the table at once, and scolded a ......,"

"What did you swear?"

"He scolded...... 'What the hell, take it, don't stain my eyes!' ”

Li Sangen thought that Zheng Fei would be furious,

Unexpectedly, Zheng Fei was not only not angry when he heard this, but was happy, and then sent someone to send this plan to Jiangning Mansion quickly.

Li Saneven looked at the commander who was still stupid from time to time, and felt helpless, since the commander of the secret path caught that Li Gang, this temper has become more and more weird, and he can still be so happy after being scolded.

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It took Zheng Fei more than two months to complete the road, and finally arrived in Jiangning Mansion in March of the following year.

At this time, the disaster situation in various places has been greatly alleviated, and the most difficult period for Zheng Fei has actually passed.

Although Zhao Kai is just an ornament, Zheng Fei still has to go to the palace to "meet" him first, and in order to welcome Zheng Fei's return, Zhao Kai also specially convened the court and summoned the "Manchu Dynasty civil and military" to wait for Zheng Fei together.

Zheng Fei "reported" the brief process of this trip to Zhao Kai, and presented a list of people with meritorious service, "requesting" Zhao Kai to send a decree to reward everyone, and Zhao Kai naturally agreed.

At this time, although Zheng Fei was here, his heart had already flown back to the home of the Commander's Mansion, and flew to Li Qingzhao, Li Luoling, Hu Sanniang and the three children, just looking forward to ending this nutritious going through the motions as soon as possible, so that he could go out of the palace immediately to reunite with the whole family, but he didn't expect Zhao Kai to get up endlessly.

Zhao Kai first praised Zheng Fei's dedication to the country without thinking about hard work, he is really the pillar of the country and the pillar of the country!

Zheng Fei said that this is what you should do as a courtier, Your Majesty is really Miaozan, the minister is a little tired, and wants to ......,

Zhao Kai completely ignored Zheng Fei's retreat, and continued to be grateful to him for rescuing his own brother and sister from Zhao Huan.

Zheng Fei rolled his eyes, and said anxiously that this is also what a courtier should do, and the minister wants to ......,

Zhao Kai said again, King Qi, you see that you are dedicated to the country, the world knows, you are highly respected, the people are loved, I uphold the will of heaven, and now I will give you this throne.

Zheng Fei was extremely annoyed by Zhao Kai's "chatter", at this moment Zhao Kai's words did not pass through his brain at all, just nodded mechanically and modestly said yes, as soon as Zhao Kai finished speaking, Zheng Fei replied mechanically, "This is what a courtier should do!" ”

As soon as he blurted out the words, Zheng Fei suddenly reacted,

What the?! Abdicate?!

Zhao Kai seemed to be stunned for a moment by Zheng Fei's promise, although he said this today after the "persuasion" of Zhu Wu and others in advance, he also thought that this was what Zheng Fei meant, but according to his understanding, even if Zheng Fei wanted to be the emperor immediately, he should be humble like his ancestor Zhao Kuangyin, and finally was "forced" to be added to the yellow robe before he accepted the Zen concession, who knew that Zheng Fei agreed in one bite, but so be it, the result is the same anyway,

Zhao Kai immediately got up from the throne and said to Zheng Fei, who had not fully recovered his senses, "Since the King of Qi has agreed, then this Zen ceremony should be held as soon as possible, so that the four seas can return to their hearts and the world will be peaceful!" ”

Hula suddenly, the "Manchu Dynasty" Wenwu under the leadership of Zhu Wu suddenly shouted long live to Zheng Fei,

Zheng Fei looked back at this scene, but he didn't feel excited at all, he looked back at the throne again, and said in his heart, is that seat really what he wants......?

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On the eighth day of the first month of March, Zheng Fei officially accepted Chan Rang in Jiangning Mansion to ascend the throne and claim the emperor, changed the country name to "Hua", changed Jiangning Mansion to Shangjing, and became the national capital, named Li Qingzhao as the queen, Li Luoling, Hu Sanniang, and Yelu Caijie as concubines, and Zhu Wu, Wu Yong, Pang Wanchun, Wang Jin, etc. each had knighted official positions. Feng Zhao Kai is a peaceful candidate.

A day later, according to Zhu Wu's suggestion, Zheng Fei issued a decree announcing the abolition of the original Song State's division of administrative regions into various places, abolishing the original names, and renaming the abandoned roads as provinces, such as the merger of Jingdong West Road and Jingdong East Road, renamed Qilu Province, and the merger of Huainan West Road and part of Huainan East Road into two Huai Provinces, dividing the existing land area into ten new provinces. Officially distinguished from the Song Dynasty, it became an independent country to enhance the people's sense of belonging to their country.

A day later, Zheng Fei issued an edict, announcing that the whole country would be exempted from forced labor, reduce taxes and taxes for three years, and greatly build water conservancy, roads and other infrastructure construction, so that the people could recuperate and accumulate national strength and people's livelihood.

A day later, Zheng Fei issued an edict, announcing that the course would be officially opened this autumn, and announced ten independent subjects and examination methods, so that all citizens, as long as they are innocent, regardless of their nobility or poverty, can register for the examination. Try it every three years in the future.

A day later, Zheng Fei issued an edict announcing the implementation of the policy of elite soldiers, not including the Fan army and the independent army in Nanjing Province, on the basis of the existing army of one million, the 300,000 old, weak, sick and disabled army, and the disbursed army was divided into land and severance pay, and each of them was returned to the local government to live and work in peace and contentment. As a result, the pressure on the central government's finances has been sharply reduced, but the overall combat effectiveness of the Heavenly Dao Army has not been affected in the slightest, but has been improved.

A day later, Zheng Fei issued an order to streamline the country's government institutions, dismiss nearly forty percent of the country's officials, and set up a national policy that at any time in the future, future generations will not be allowed to "redundant officials", and the ratio of officials to the public will never exceed 1:500.