"The minister is guilty, please punish His Majesty." Li Chongjin finally didn't get home, and after seeing the conclusive incriminating evidence, he quickly knelt down and pleaded guilty to Chai Rong.

Chai Rong sighed and said, "You and I are brothers of flesh and blood, why is this so? You only have to return the extra land to the sufferer, and that's it. ”

"This ......" Li Chongjin had already taken the fat in his mouth, and he was about to spit it out, and he couldn't help but feel extremely painful.

"What? You don't want to? Chai Rong looked at Li Chongjin with a smile.

Li Chongjin knocked his head heavily, and said helplessly: "The minister is edicted." ”

Li Zhongyi really didn't expect that Chai Rong would take advantage of Li Chongjin's provocative behavior in front of the public to reveal all the things occupied by the ministers.

Sure enough, it is a generation of male masters, and the means of dealing with the problem are not only killing chickens, but also setting an example for monkeys.

Chai Rong took out the killer weapon and shocked Li Chongjin, everyone in the group was in danger, and no one dared to come out and shoot at Li Zhongyi.

"The weight of the prince is related to the thousands of generations of the country, Li Zhongyi ......" Chai Rong changed his words, suddenly stared at Li Zhongyi's body, and said coldly, "If the prince doesn't know the crops, I am the only one who asks." ”

Li Qiong, who was standing on the side, looked at the ground with both eyes, but secretly sighed, Li Zhongyi's luck as a little fox was really envious!

Chai Rong asked Li Zhongyi to teach Chai Zongxun to learn agriculture, but in fact, in addition to Confucianism, the most important thing for the royal family was agricultural production and taxation.

In today's Great Zhou Empire, agricultural taxes still account for the majority, but. The major changes in the business model led by Li Zhongyi have promoted the continuous rise of commercial taxes.

In less than five years. The proportion of commercial tax in Kaifeng alone has exceeded more than 30% of the tax revenue of the entire empire. Definitely not to be underestimated.

Only when the common people have their full stomachs will they not gather to rebel and tear open the big mouth for the careerists to subvert the old order.

However, after the change of dynasty, resting with the people and lightly paying off the meager endowment will become the basic national policy of the imperial court.

The grain is piled up, and the treasury is extremely abundant, so that we can expand the territory and conquer the west. Raise officials and raise the army, and suppress the popular uprising.

The annexation of land led the propertied to become proletarians, and the proletarians to become homeless, which was the most fearful and worrying event for the imperial court.

The crisis of imperial rule began as a result of the growing strain of fiscal revenues, which has been proven by the history books.

With the increase of proletarians, the financial resources of the imperial court were increasingly depleted, and it was exhausted to cope with the uprisings of displaced people in various places. The rule of the empire is in jeopardy.

Shinong industry and commerce, four major classes. Those who can be called scholars and officials are all scholars, and the monarch needs the assistance of scholars. in order to better rule the entire empire.

The court let the fart people not starve to death, they didn't eat too much, and the hope of getting rich still existed. It will not be reckless and uncovered, and the cost of ruling will be the lowest. This is the secret of the Confucian system of rule.

In other words, this is called the outer saint and the inner king. Confucianism!

"The minister is not knowledgeable, I am afraid it will be difficult to take on this important responsibility, and I ask Your Majesty to take back your life." Li Zhongyi got cheap, but he didn't dare to be proud, he hurried out of work, and showed his humble attitude with sincere fear.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that what Li said is also somewhat reasonable."

What Li Zhongyi didn't expect was that the second prime minister, Li Gu, once again took the initiative to stand up and pick his nose and eyes at him.

However, a bigger accident happened suddenly, which surprised everyone in the palace!

Li Qiong, the king of Kaiping County, who had long since taken a back seat and was recuperating for a long time, suddenly stood up and said coldly: "Since ancient times, heroes have come out of youth, Li Weizhen, you are already Zaifu before you are in your forties, could it be that the first emperor has lost his eyes?" ”

The head of the dignified old Xungui group, the king of Kaiping County, who was personally crowned by Chai Rong, actually pinched him fiercely in public with the second minister of the imperial court.

This is an unprecedented rarity in the Great Zhou Empire since its founding.

Alas, hey, for a while, the ministers looked sideways. Everyone has a premonition that a big storm that is likely to sweep the government and the opposition will suddenly strike!

Li Gu, Li Weizhen, in his early twenties, was admitted to the Jinshi, less than forty years old, and was already a Chinese scholar.

Zhou followed the Tang system, and did not add the title of Pingzhangshi, although the power is far inferior to that of the ministers in the political hall, he is also one of the righteous ministers in terms of status.

Li Qiong's counterattack was unusually tricky, and Li Gu was very uncomfortable. Li Gu's face was blue and white for a while, but he couldn't refute the facts that Li Qiong said.

Li Gu was less than forty years old, and was promoted into the prime minister's train by Zhou Taizu Guo Wei, and in that year, it really caused a sensation in the entire government and the opposition, and this fact is almost well known.

Although Li Zhongyi is not good at squeaking, he secretly wonders in his heart, although Li Qiong has handed over the military power, after all, there are many henchmen and deep roots, and he has a huge influence on the old forbidden army that has not been organized in the imperial court.

Such a big army leader who is not dead actually openly supports Li Zhongyi in front of the ministers, isn't he afraid of arousing Chai Rong's suspicion?

Based on Li Zhongyi's understanding of Li Qiong's temper and character, this old fox is definitely not a brainless and reckless person, and he is so open to fight with Li Gu, there must be hidden secrets in it.

"Gong Li, in the grace of Emperor Xianmeng, he was included in the list of Zaifu, I am really grateful." Li Gu is by no means an idle person, and his counterattack is also unusually sharp, "The Son of Heaven has a wide range of seas, wins the world with martial arts, and governs the people with literature. ”

In just the blink of an eye, Li Gu deliberately avoided Li Qiong's accusation, and pointed the finger at Li Zhongyi, a vulgar "military general" with little seniority.

Li Qiong nodded secretly in her heart, Li Weizhen is worthy of being a good person, and the means of transferring contradictions are indeed very clever.

Li Zhongyi pursed his lips secretly, Li Gu was eyeing him, and the pain he grabbed was also very real.

Li Gu is a jinshi in the former dynasty, and under the strong social atmosphere of the Confucian scholars and the scholars, Li Weizhen's reputation among the scholars is naturally higher than that of many people.

Although Li Zhongyi has great military exploits, it is true that as Li Gu said, he has a little knowledge of Confucian classics such as the Four Books and the Five Classics, at most, he knows a little about one or two, three, four, five or six, and he almost knows nothing.

If it only stays at the literal meaning, Li Gu's statement can also stand.

It's just that Li Zhongyi understands very well in his heart that Li Gu deliberately pushed him into the ranks of "military generals", and his purpose was extremely sinister.

Li Qiong was born as a military general, so was Zhao Laoer, and Murong Yanzhao was a famous general who played a majestic role very early.

With so many generals, if they join forces and advance and retreat together, the threat to Chai Rong's throne must be extremely huge.

Just when Li Zhongyi quickly figured out the countermeasures and was about to launch a severe counterattack against Li Gu, a prominent minister suddenly came out of class and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the sky is auspicious, and it is a sign that the day of my Great Zhou Dynasty is destined to complete a good story." (To be continued......)

ps: I didn't go home until three o'clock, I took a nap for three and a half hours, and I worked hard to code a watch, and Cikong was very hard! R1292