understood everything, and the Empress Dowager Tiejing was ashamed.

She didn't have the face to entangle at the gate of the palace anymore, hid her face and returned to the post station, and after ordering someone to pack up her things, she immediately drove away from Yanjing City.

She felt that she had stayed in Yanjing City for a quarter of an hour longer, and her face was burning in a panic.

Yang Du didn't understand his mother's shame, he had the heart to say goodbye to Meng Jinbang and others, but the Empress Dowager Tiejing didn't give him a chance.

The sullen Yang Du was stuffed into the Luan car, and the sturdy palace maid drove the horse pulling the cart and walked outside Yanjing City.

Luan drove all the way to the north gate of Yanjing City and was stopped.

The person who stopped the car was still Kou Zhun.

The Empress Dowager of Tiejing, who was driving by Luan, saw Kou Zhun with a sad face, after a few days in Yanjing City, she had already understood Kou Zhun's identity, "Lord Kou also wants to bully my mother and son?" ”

Kou Zhun put his hands behind his back and shook his head, "Frankly speaking, I really don't like your mother and son very much, but I haven't fallen to the point of bullying women and children. The reason why I stopped you was because someone asked me to send you something.

I can't afford to provoke any of the people who trust me, so I can only risk being punished by Your Majesty and come to see your mother and son. ”

Hearing that Kou Zhun didn't want to embarrass their mother and son, Empress Dowager Tiejing's face softened a little.

"What is it?"

Kou Zhun beckoned back.

Seven loaded carriages appeared at the north gate of Yanjing City.

The carriage was wrapped with a thick layer of animal skin, which was prepared to protect against heavy rains and heavy snowfall.

The thick animal skin rope is the thickness of a baby's arm, and it looks sturdy.

The Empress Dowager Tiejing looked at the carriage suspiciously, and then looked at Kou Zhun.

Kou Zhun stood with his hands crossed and said lightly: "Some food and clothing are the hearts of the children's elders. ”

Yang Du, who had been hiding in Luan's car and eavesdropping, heard Kou Zhun's words, and his eyes bent into a crescent moon with a smile.

He quickly climbed onto the carriage window and shouted at Kou Zhun, "Help me thank my mother, aunt, grandfather and grandmother." ”

A rare smile appeared on Kou Zhun's indifferent face.

"I'll bring it for you."

Empress Dowager Tiejing's heart has become more and more miserable, from entering the Yan Kingdom to the present, she has done a lot, but she has not felt a little kindness.

And Yang Du didn't do anything, but he got a lot of kindness.

After Kou Zhun told the Empress Dowager Tiejing a few more words, he drifted away.

The Empress Dowager Tiejing had a bitter face and ordered the idle palace maids to get into the other seven carriages and rush to the outside of Yanjing City together.

And it was on a small building not far from them.

Three distinguished women watched them slowly leave.

Meng Jinbang leaned on the Zhu Fence of the small building, his hands were clenched, and there was a hint of reluctance in his eyes.

"Reluctantly?"

She Saihua slowly walked in front of Meng Jinbang and held her hand tightly, looking worried.

Meng Jinbang had an ugly smile on his face, and said, "I just got acquainted with the child, and before I could fulfill my responsibility as an eldest mother, he was sent away." See you again, I don't know what year or month. ”

Yang Yanqi held her big belly and shouted indignantly behind them: "Seventh brother is too ruthless, why don't you talk about him." ”

She Saihua glanced at her, "I want to take care of my mother, but the problem is that the harem is not allowed to interfere in the government. In our eyes, the entry of their mother and son into Beijing is a private matter, but in the eyes of others, the entry of their mother and son into Beijing is a state affair.

Since it is a state affair, there is no way to intervene as a mother. For the mother, you can't break the rules of the harem and not interfere in the government. ”

"Hmph~"

Yang Yanqi snorted angrily, obviously he was very dissatisfied with Yang Qi's approach.

After humming for a long time, Yang Yanqi glanced at Meng Jinbang and said, "Fourth sister-in-law, we sent so many things to Yang Du behind our backs, does my seventh brother really not want to chase them back in the future?" ”

Meng Jinbang was stunned and laughed in a low voice: "Don't worry, even if Qilang wants to chase, he can't catch up." ”

She Saihua and Yang Yanqi looked at Meng Jinbang suspiciously, not understanding where Meng Jinbang got the confidence to pack tickets in this country dominated by Yang Qi.

Meng Jinbang smiled silently, but was full of confidence.

In the palace.

After Yang Qi got the patrol Wuhou to report the incident, he frowned and asked Chen Lin and Peng Pai to lead people to chase after him.

Chen Lin and Peng Pai selected a soldier and horse among the three guards and rushed to the outside of Yanjing City.

However.

As they crossed the streets on the edge of the Imperial City, they were stopped.

Princess Qingyu stood on the street with a bamboo cage on her back, blocking the main road they had to pass.

Chen Lin and Peng Pai looked at each other with a wry smile.

Princess Qingyu looked at the two of them and said with a pout: "Either step on my corpse and go over, or let Yang Yansi come to see me." ”

"You wait here, I'll go and inform Your Majesty."

Chen Lin really didn't dare to face Princess Qingyu, he dropped this sentence to Peng Pai, and rode back to the palace to report the news.

Only Peng Pai was left there to be tortured by Princess Qingyu.

In Yanjing City, there is one count, and anyone who can be related to the Song Dynasty was almost scolded by Princess Qingyu.

It's just that she has a special identity, and no one can help her.

When Peng Pai was in the Song Kingdom, he studied in the school set up by Zhao Guangyi, and I don't know who turned it out to let Princess Qingyu know, and every time Princess Qingyu met Peng Pai, she talked about it.

The scolded Peng Pai hugged his head and ran away.

After Chen Lin returned to the palace, she said to Yang Qi with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid we won't be able to catch up, Princess Qingyu blocked the way." ”

"What a headache! How did that girl get involved? ”

Yang Qi rubbed his eyebrows, smiled bitterly, waved his hand and said, "That's it, I have added 100,000 taels of tribute from the Liao State, and let them bring some food back, it will be my reward."

You go and recruit Peng Pai back, don't leave him there to be scolded. ”

"Can make ...... Can you let Zama Aoki go? ”

Yang Qi couldn't help but smile and nodded at Chen Lin, "Then let Aoki run." ”

Chen Lin was obviously also afraid of Princess Qingyu.

Chen Lin smiled bitterly and walked out of the imperial study and informed Zama Aoki.

Zama and Aoki straddled the horse to find Peng Pai and recalled him.

It took nearly half a year for the Liao State to send an envoy to the Yan State, and the plan was very big, but it came to naught.

After the Liao State was added to the New Year's coin, how unbearable it would become, Yang Qi was too lazy to take care of it.

He just sent someone to send a long letter to Yan Tianzi, ordering him to pay close attention to the movements of the Liao State, and at the same time prevent someone from invading the Yan State.

……

It's the end of the year.

One after another, the envoys carried cartloads of rich tributes into Yanjing City.

From the hundreds of officials to the common people, after seeing the huge contingent of envoys, they were a little confused.

Yan country is located in the Central Plains, the neighbors bow down, in the past, every New Year's Festival, there are pilgrimage teams into Yanjing City.

The people of Yanjing City have long been surprised.

The reason why they are confused this year is because the pilgrimage team this year is more than ten times larger.

The tribute transported to Yanjing City has also increased by a hundred times.

Many of the Fanbang vassal states that the people had never heard of sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

So many vassal states all at once?

Where did it come from?

It immediately aroused the curiosity of the people.

Everyone rushed to tell each other and listen to each other's news, and finally they learned the truth.

Most of these extra Fanbang vassal states were established by those wealthy families after they went to sea.

In an instant, Yanjing City was like a scoop of water poured into an oil pot, which caused a sensation.

Many wealthy families meet together to listen to each other's news.

When they learned that Yang Qi not only did not have the intention of stopping and stifling this matter, but had a kind of intention to support it, they were moved.

Almost overnight, more than half of the wealthy families in Yanjing City had the idea of going to sea to claim hegemony.

In the Imperial Study.

Kou Zhun sat opposite Yang Qi with a frown, and carefully told Yang Qi about the movements of the wealthy families in Yanjing City who wanted to go to sea to claim the king.

When Yang Qi heard this, he smiled and said, "This is a good thing, why are you worried?" ”

Kou Zhun glared and said: "These wealthy families have all gone to sea all of a sudden, and the population of the entire Yanjing City will be sharply reduced by forty percent." When the wealthy families in other places know about this, they will inevitably follow suit.

Once all these wealthy families go to sea, the population of the whole country will be drastically reduced.

The population will decline sharply, and the relative tax burden, agricultural products, merchants, etc., will also fall sharply.

Moreover, so many wealthy families go to sea, and a large amount of gold and silver will also flow out.

The prosperous era that we have managed to operate will also regress a lot. ”

"Shengshi?"

Yang Qi smiled bitterly: "What kind of prosperous age is this, it is still far from the prosperous age." Although my Great Yan Country is vast, there are still people who are hungry. Wealthy families going to sea is a bad thing in your eyes, but in my eyes, it is a good thing. ”

"They went to sea one by one, and I didn't have to do anything to them. The remaining wealthy families, after their power was weakened, were lonely. I can just take this opportunity to scrape out the acres of land in their hands and distribute them to the people.

Now the people will be rich. ”

"As for the population, you don't need to worry about it. Didn't I stop the decree to encourage the people to have children? A few days ago, didn't you tell me that the population of Yan Kingdom is growing too fast and needs to be suppressed.

If the wealthy families all go to sea, won't it just solve the trouble of the rapid population growth of Yan Kingdom? ”

Kou Zhun's eyes widened in horror, "You have already planned it?" ”

Yang Qi pouted and said, "Otherwise? I am idle and encourage the people to have children? I'm idle and eggy again to encourage them to go to sea? ”

"But the outflow of gold and silver ......"

Yang Qi glanced at Kou Zhun with disdain and said, "Your eyelids are too shallow." When have you ever seen me trade at a loss? Whether they can go to sea or not, I have the final say, if I don't give me a large sum of money, why should they go to sea.

The sage of the Confucian family, when he went to sea, he still had to give up millions of acres of fertile land to Jeju Prefecture.

Are other wealthy families harder than the bones of the Kong family?

Moreover, even if they go to sea and want to build a state, whether they can build it or not, it will have to be decided. ”

"You can also manage going out to sea?"

Kou Zhun was even more shocked.

Yang Qi casually took out a volume of documents from the bookshelf behind him and threw it to Kou Zhun, and when Kou Zhun read the documents, he said indifferently: "There are one hundred and thirty-two forces that have established a country overseas. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, I would send such a letter to them.

After agreeing to the paperwork request, I would allow them to establish a state.

If they don't agree, they will try to build a country.

Behind me, there is not only the support of the powerful Dayan, but also thousands of wealthy families waiting to replace me.

If I want to destroy them, I don't need to do it myself.

All they need to do is give the land they occupy to other wealthy families. ”

"Hiss~"

Kou Zhun listened to Yang Qi's words while looking at the paperwork in his hand, pouting and gasping.

Whether it was Yang Qi's words or the documents Yang Qi gave him, he was surprised.

Through the documents in his hand, Kou Zhun could easily judge Yang Qi's control over these newly established countries overseas.

First of all, the document issued by Yang Qi clearly stated.

To establish a country overseas, it is necessary to obtain permission from the imperial court of the Yan State.

Countries that have not received the permission of the Yan court are called wild countries, and they are among the Yan countries, and all the surrounding Yan countries can attack them in groups.

This almost isolated the countries that did not have the permission of Yan Guo.

Not only did they have to guard against the attack of the Yan Kingdom at any time, but they also had to guard against the attacks of their neighbors.

There are all enemies, and the Yan Kingdom is so strong, they can't be afraid of it.

In addition, Yang Qi would also promise other wealthy clans to replace him from time to time, and in an instant, there were a lot more enemies for them.

Therefore, all the wealthy families who can see this drawback are all vying to obtain the permission of the Yan Imperial Court.

With this means, Yang Qi set the primary and secondary status at the beginning of the establishment of overseas countries.

Later, overseas countries were asked to go to the ancestral temple to welcome the Han family incense, just to remind them of the Han family Miao descendants all the time.

And as a subject country, it has become a natural thing to pay tribute to the suzerainty every year.

Yang Qi just relied on a name, and he pushed the overseas countries to the ground and looted layer by layer.

In addition, for example, after the establishment of the country, each country must open its own country and allow Yan State merchants, Nanguo Money Bank, Yan State Money Bank, etc. to settle in, which is simply to open the door and let Yang Qi go in to collect money.

The most important thing is that the conquest and the change of throne between the vassal states must be approved by Yang Qi.

This point promoted by Yang Qi restricted the Han and Miao descendants from consuming each other overseas, and if they wanted to expand their country, they could only expand outward.

Of course, in Kou Zhun's opinion, the above are all secondary.

The most important thing is that Yang Qi told them with a tough attitude that after the establishment of each subject state, there must be enough space left for the Yan State to garrison troops and horses.

The soldiers and horses of the Yan Kingdom have undergone the previous equipment update, and their combat effectiveness has increased more than once.

Now the soldiers and horses of the Yan Kingdom are arrogant.

Artillery has been equipped with battalions, and new muskets have been equipped with the entire army.

It can be said that a thousand soldiers and horses are enough to claim the king and hegemony in an overseas island country.

synthesized the official document given by Yang Qi.

Kou Zhun could easily judge that although those vassal states that claimed kings overseas occupied large tracts of land, in fact, it was the Yan Kingdom that benefited the most.

Military, political, financial, three aspects, Yan State has control over them.

It's hard for them to listen to Yan Guo if they don't want to.

"Your Majesty...... This, you all came up with it alone? ”

Yang Qi had already crossed the Yan Kingdom and began to stretch out his hand of control overseas, and the control was still so tight, he couldn't help but be shocked.

Yang Qi didn't answer Kou Zhun's question, but said with a smile: "Seeing my arrangement, are you still worried that after those wealthy families leave the Yan Kingdom, the Yan Kingdom will be poor?" ”