Middle Palace.

The yellowed candlelight shone on Wu Meiniang's bewitching face, and it was even more obvious that the blow could be broken, and it was completely impossible to see that the years seemed to pass on her face.

With a pair of slender hands, she held a book that seemed a little old in her hand as a treasure, and she was extremely fascinated by it, and even the palace lady outside the screen shouted a few times "Queen", but she didn't hear it.

"Queen, are you in there?"

That Gong'e raised her voice slightly.

Wu Meiniang woke up in shock, her eyebrows furrowed slightly, and she said lightly: "Come in." ”

But he was reluctant to take his eyes off the book.

The palace lady came to the screen, saluted, and said, "Empress Qiyu, the things have been sent to Your Majesty." ”

Wu Meiniang asked, "Did Your Majesty say anything?" ”

"Your Majesty just asked why, but didn't say much else."

"Hmm."

Wu Meiniang nodded lightly, and said: "Pass on my order, now that the treasury is in debt, some expenses of the harem will be halved." ”

"The slave obeys."

"Go down."

That Gong'e glanced at Wu Meiniang, saw that she was looking at the book with relish, and said, "Queen, you have been reading books for a day, and now it's not early, it's time to rest." ”

Wu Meiniang glanced at it.

Nagong E was frightened, and hurriedly said: "The slave and maid retreat." ”

Then he hurried back.

Wu Meiniang shook her head and set her eyes on the book again.

After another half an hour, Wu Meiniang felt a little tired, put down the book, and saw the words "Economics of the Six Learnings of the Sage" written on the paper. She pinched her eyes slightly, and soon, her phoenix eyes bloomed with excitement again, and she muttered to herself: "He is right, he really has no possibility of being my enemy, and our interests are so aligned." ”

Speaking of this, the corners of her mouth curled up slightly, "Han Yi." I haven't lost yet. ”

At this time, where is Han Yi in the mood to take care of Wu Meiniang, he will devote all his energy to promoting the new policy, as for the specific policies, all of them are revised by Changsun Yan, Di Renjie, and Cui Jijian, Han Yi really won't revise these laws, he asked these people to revise them first, and then modify them slightly according to their own ideas, this is his office process.

His main energy is still devoted to publicity, and if this step is not taken well, the following process cannot be carried out at all.

Of course, Han Yi didn't mean that like those politicians in later generations, he went to various states and counties to give speeches, not that he didn't want to, but he really wanted to go, but without such time, it was not easy to go out this year.

The weapon in his hand is Datang Daily.

In order to intensify the propaganda, he was responsible for formulating the content, and then ordered people to write the article, and sent people to print it in various places with printed plates, so that the people could know the direction of the imperial court's policies as quickly as possible.

Since ancient times, the imperial court has not had such a big propaganda offensive, in the past, no matter what policy the imperial court propagated, it would ultimately have to rely on the gentry class, there is a good saying, this imperial power is not lower than the county, but this time, Han Yi directly skipped the gentry class and used newspapers to publicize.

A strange phenomenon has emerged, in the midst of that crisis, the more chaotic the place, the more support for the new policy, such as the people of the canal generation after learning the news, they are looking forward to the arrival of the new policy every day, let's not say next year, you can enact it tomorrow. Moreover, there is also minimal resistance in these places, and there is basically no opposition.

The people support that, it should be, anyway, they don't have any land, they have been annexed, if there is stamp duty, then they don't have to pay taxes, of course they support it.

But those landlords are silent, this is because they are in the crisis, annexed a lot of land, coupled with the previous summary of the Tang Daily, the people have grievances against them, if they make trouble again, it may cause a riot against them, and they have annexed so much land, many of which are divided into fields, these fields belong to the imperial court, the imperial court granted to the people, and the people have to return after their deaths.

This is an illegal act, the court has a reason to take back these fields, usually they are not worried, because they are also the ruling class, but now that the court wants to liquidate, will it be liquidated on their heads, they are also beating drums in their hearts.

But I didn't expect that the imperial court not only did not settle accounts with them, but wanted to legalize these lands, the reason is very simple, if you don't privatize, you can't collect taxes, and this land is not mine, why should I pay taxes, if you want them to pay taxes, you must first admit that these lands are theirs.

At present, in fact, stamp duty is beneficial to these landlords, so they are silent, they are also making their own calculations, temporarily agreeing to belong to themselves, rich and powerful, there will always be a way to avoid taxes.

But there is still opposition, the biggest opposition is the land of Bashu, followed by the land of Shandong, the business of the land of Bashu has not yet developed, where agriculture is very developed, once the ancient emperor ran away, the first choice is Yizhou, because there is a lot of food, so the power of the local landlords is great, and in Shandong, although commerce is also developing, but the Shandong scholars are all squire class, and their influence in the local area is too great.

This is also what Han Yi expected, he specially sent people to lobby those gentry and landlords, and at the same time sent a large number of Datang Daily to the local area to promote the new deal.

However, the politics and military strength are in Guanzhong, and the wealth is in Jiangnan, and these two places agreed, so things will be much easier.

Although Shandong has a relatively large influence, the problem is that Wang Xuandao, Cui Jijian, Lu Shigua, Zheng Shanxing they support the new policy, and participated in the revision, these four people represent the backbone of the four major families in Shandong, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Shandong scholars have never said that the four major families are among the prime ministers, this is really perfect, the Shandong scholars weigh the pros and cons, a little tax, in exchange for supreme power, this is very cost-effective.

At the same time, Han Yi also popularized education on a large scale in Datang Daily, and said that teachers should be included in the system, which is equivalent to the state paying salaries, but they must obtain teacher qualification certificates. The teacher was a rare animal in ancient times, and in today's literacy rate, there are few people who can read. But now the imperial court has just laid off a large number of officials, and at the same time, the imperial court wants to comprehensively popularize education, which means that these officials can go home and work.

This also alleviates the contradictions caused by the downsizing of officials.

Because there is a shortage of talent in all walks of life, thousands of officials, as long as they want to, can quickly be absorbed by this society that is poised to develop.

Han Yi attributed the teacher to the system, first of all, in order to promote universal education, and make it stable, this can only be stabilized by the imperial court, businessmen can only donate, can not participate in the construction of education, businessmen are always mercenary, once the business will not, he will choose to close, this has to be led by the imperial court. Secondly, it is to absorb these young scholars.

After several waves of publicity, basically the obstacles of the new deal are about to be removed, and they are waiting for the promulgation of the new deal.

......

Inside the Royal Palace.

"Your Majesty, it's all ready!."

Zhang Desheng said to Li Zhi with a flattering face.

Li Zhi carefully looked at the "dragon chair" made of sandalwood in front of him, and said in surprise: "This --- this is the magical toilet that the ministers of the DPRK and China have been talking about recently?" ”

Wonder toilet? Han Yi almost didn't laugh out loud, nodded and said, "This is designed by the clay himself for His Majesty, it is unique. ”

After many years, the toilet is finally on fire!

The princes and nobles of Chang'an are scrambling to go to the clay workshop to buy, although there is a lot of clay in stock, but it is still not supplied!

Once there is no supply, the goods will inevitably become more popular, which has reached Li Zhi's ears.

Li Zhi said: "Then how to use this?" ”

Han Yi said: "Just pull this rope." ”

"I'll try, I'll try."

Li Zhi hurriedly stepped forward, grabbed the rope, and glanced at Han Yi uncertainly.

Han Yi nodded.

Li Zhi pulled down hard, only to hear a loud noise, which frightened Li Zhi, fixed his eyes, and said in surprise: "Where did this --- and this water come from?" ”

Zhang Desheng hurriedly said: "Back to Your Majesty, there is a water tank on it, and the water comes down through this pipe." ”

Li Zhi said: "Why pull this rope and water will rush out?" ”

Han Yi said with a smile: "This involves the knowledge of the six sages, does Your Majesty want to hear it?" ”

Li Zhi hesitated for a moment and said, "That's free." By the way, I heard that you also invented this toilet? ”

Han Yi smiled and nodded.

Li Zhi said: "Han has Xiao He and Zhang Liang, and now there are Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, but there has never been a Han Yi!" ”

Han Yi smiled: "Your Majesty has won the award." This was not possible before, but there will be a lot of Korean art in the future. ”

Li Zhi was curious: "Where did you start with this?" ”

Han Yi said: "The talent of the minister is based on the open and free civilization culture of my Tang Dynasty, if it were not for His Majesty's exceptional promotion, where would the minister be today, and today's people have never felt a little strange about a prime minister's invention of the toilet, it can be seen that the openness of my Tang Dynasty has not been as good as that of all dynasties, so it could not have before, but in the future, it will only be more and more." ”

Li Zhi said: "You can really speak, if this is the case, then my Datang will only become stronger and stronger." ”

That's for sure. Han Yi said secretly and asked, "Didn't Your Majesty think so originally?" ”

"I ---!"

Li Zhi glared at Han Yi.

Han Yi smiled.

Li Zhi said again: "I wonder where those filth will be washed away?" ”

Zhang Desheng hurriedly replied: "Back to Your Majesty, there is a manure tank behind here, it will rush there." ”

Han Yi added: "This is convenient and managed, it will not make Chang'an stinky, it only needs to be cleaned up regularly, then it will be fine, and it will also be managed to make the people in the city live better." ”

Li Zhi nodded with a smile and said, "The appearance of this toilet is indeed conducive to urban management!" The more he looked at the toilet, the more satisfied he became, and waved his hand, "Go and wait outside." ”

Han Yi was stunned for a moment, then came over and said, "Weichen retreats." ”

He and Zhang Desheng got out of the house and came outside to wait.

After a while, a soldier of the forbidden army came to Han Yi, hugged his fists and said, "Qi Shang Shuling, just now came the news that several wives of Shang Shuling have arrived home." ”

When Han Yi heard this, he couldn't help but be happy, and without saying a word, he ran outside the palace.

"Shang Shu Ling, Shang Shu Ling, Your Majesty is still ......!"

Zhang Desheng hurriedly shouted, but where could he stop shouting, and after a while, Han Yi ran away.

At this moment, Li Zhi, who had just finished refreshing, walked out of the house, "Han Yi, your flush toilet is really amazing, huh?" What about Han Ye? ”

Zhang Desheng sneered: "When Fang Cai Shangshuling heard the news of his wife's return, he asked the villain to tell His Majesty that he would go home first. ”

Li Zhi smiled: "I'm afraid he didn't let you tell me." ”

Zhang Desheng was stunned and said, "How does Your Majesty know?" ”

Li Zhi smiled: "He is my courtier, don't I know him yet?" ”