Han Ruzi left the East China Sea Kingdom and handed over all the follow-up affairs to Qu Zixi and Yu Shitai, he always had to rely on a force in the court, and it was impossible to do everything himself, but he walked slowly all the way, and he could receive news from the East China Sea Kingdom at any time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Just after crossing the border of the East China Sea Kingdom, the patrol team stopped, nominally to inspect the local army for the last time, but in fact to help Qu Zixi.

It was here that Han Ruzi made the next step of his plan and issued a series of holy decrees, the most important of which were two.

One is to retire and return to agriculture, requiring the garrisons in various places to carry out a thorough clean-up, allowing soldiers to return to their hometowns or settle in newly opened areas, exempting them from rents for a certain number of years, and having the government lend them seeds, farming tools, and other things.

The other way is to borrow slaves to reclaim the famine, "borrow" slaves from the nobles and wealthy families in the world, and give compensation for the title according to the number.

In short, everything is based on agriculture.

Han Ruzi can't treat all the nobles according to the Yan family, they must be treated with grace and power, these two holy decrees are "grace", give the nobles the opportunity to release slaves, and then it is "Wei", one is to take the East China Sea Country as an example, and deal with it severely, not only the Yan family was arrested, but other private slave keepers were arrested, not only did they not get the title, but they also had to take money to the government to redeem the excess domestic slaves.

The holy decrees were issued one after another, and Prime Minister Zhuo Ruhe received the order to prepare immediately, and in three months a nationwide inventory was conducted, and any more private slaves were to be dealt with according to the methods of the East China Sea State.

Jiang Juying, the secretary of the military department, received the order and wanted to go to Luoyang to meet him.

When the news broke, the world shook.

Private slaves do not enter the household registration, do not have to pay taxes, and do not need to serve as soldiers, for Da Chu, this is a group of people who do not exist, but it is an important wealth of many big families, naturally it will not be handed over easily, even if the emperor "grace and power", most people still choose to wait and see.

But Han Ruzi's retreat ended here, and he didn't want to make any more compromises, so in order to ensure success, he secretly made some preparations.

As early as more than ten days ago, when Han Ruzi first arrived in the East China Sea, he issued a decree to the capital, under the pretext that the Huns had a change, the southern army was transferred to the Broken Iron City, and the northern army was transferred to Mayi City to jointly defend the northern frontier, and the vast majority of the Su Guard army left Beijing to join the emperor.

At that time, everyone thought that this was another manifestation of the emperor's great joy, but now they understand that the emperor deliberately hollowed out the capital, leaving only a group of civil officials, no soldiers in their hands, and thousands of miles away from the emperor, unable to resist.

Han Ruzi was indeed nervous for a while, such a large-scale military transfer, in case of an accident, Dachu would fall into a civil war again.

He stayed on the border of the East China Sea Kingdom to observe the situation as it changed.

On the morning of that day, several officials from the Imperial Historical Observatory came to the emperor's military camp and brought an order from Qu Zixi, the right patrol of the Imperial Palace, to take away Wang Pingyang, the former envoy of the patrol.

Wang Pingyang is a native of Linzi, but since he became the emperor, he has added a large number of industries in the East China Sea and has many private slaves.

Wang Pingyang was paralyzed by fright, crying and screaming in public, shouting to see the emperor, and was directly taken away by the guards.

An imperial historian was ordered to stay in the camp and settle the situation with the emperor.

Nan Zhijin was caught off guard, and he didn't slow down after a few days. In the afternoon of the same day, he was summoned by the emperor.

The emperor was working with several young advisors to draw up the holy decree, and several close ministers such as the king of the East China Sea and Cui Teng were guarding the periphery, offering advice at any time, and there were many people in the tent, but the voices were very soft, and the occasional disputes were quickly resolved, and they would not be endless.

Nan Zhijin stood at the door, watching this scene, knowing that this was the small court created by the emperor, which was completely different from the style of the Qinzheng Palace, and the people here only served the emperor alone.

He could recognize most of the people, and found that there were very few noble children among them, and there was no one who was normally recommended by the officials, and all of them were selected by the emperor himself.

The rules are all broken, Nan Zhijin thought to himself.

After a whole hour, the people dispersed to deliver the written decree to the officials who accompanied them, and to distribute it to all the places.

The imperial court lost its most important decision-making power and became a mere executor.

Everyone passed by Nan Zhijin, and they all glanced at the old official curiously, Nan Zhijin didn't look at anyone, and when everyone was gone, only two eunuchs and two guards were left, he took a few steps forward and kowtowed to the emperor.

Han Ruzi was very tired, but also very excited, sat behind the table, and said, "Flat." ”

Nan Zhijin got up and arched his hand: "My cousin Wang Pingyang illegally kept slaves, and Yu Shitai was ordered to arrest and bring them to justice. ”

"The prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people, and the same is true for his relatives, so he doesn't need to ask for instructions, just enforce the law as usual."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Nan Zhijin understood that the emperor had other reasons for leaving him.

Han Ruzi motioned for the eunuch and the guards to leave, and the four of them glanced at each other and exited one after another, but they all stayed outside the door, and if there was anything abnormal, they could come in immediately.

Han Ruzi is not worried that Nan Zhijin will do something out of the ordinary, just like he is not worried that a Confucian who is full of poetry and books will suddenly pick up a sword and become an assassin, Confucian students have a pen in their hands, that is their most powerful weapon, and Nan Zhijin's weapon is the rules and conventions of the imperial court.

"Nan Zhijin, have you seen all the decrees I have promulgated in the past few days?"

"Yes, Your Majesty." Nan Zhijin didn't want to lie, he was now an ordinary imperial history of the Imperial History Tower, and he was not qualified to check all the holy decrees, but he had indeed read them all, and not a single one of them was lost, not a word for word.

"Do you speculate for me, will the ministers of the court and the great families of the world obey their will?"

"Wechen was once convicted for speculation, and he didn't dare to do it again."

"I forgive you for your innocence."

Nan Zhijin glanced up at the emperor, "Your Majesty is asking everyone to hand over their own 'orders', and they probably won't be obeyed too much." ”

"I think so too, so I have to ask, according to the rules of the imperial court, how should this kind of thing be solved? Let things take their own course? Or do you want everyone to wake up? ”

Nan Zhijin was speechless, silent for a long time, and replied: "Weichen understands His Majesty's hard work to turn the tide, Your Majesty doesn't want to see Da Chu slowly decay, but it hurts his muscles and bones so much, I'm afraid that Da Chu ...... Declines faster. ”

"Why is that?" Han Ruzi is sincerely asking for advice, and from the "enemy", he can get more help.

Nan Zhijin turned his heart sideways and arched his hand: "The people are a rabble, their preferences and support are meaningless to Your Majesty, the so-called people-oriented, should be based on 'governing the people', the people are not chaotic, the court is worry-free, and Your Majesty is even more worry-free." But by what means of 'governing the people'? It is certainly not something that Your Majesty can do alone, Your Majesty has chosen some people on his own, they are the prototype of the imperial court, but there is no stability and experience of the imperial court, relying on them, Your Majesty can govern a county, but cannot govern the world. In the end, His Majesty still has to use the imperial court, the imperial court in the capital, the imperial court that is being beaten to pieces by His Majesty. His Majesty will definitely be able to defeat the imperial court, but he has also defeated his own right-hand man, His Majesty's strong man has broken his wrist, and when he has no hands to use, he will regret it. ”

"Even if your hands are no longer listening, you have to endure it?"

Nan Zhijin sighed lightly, "The corruption of the powerful family is indeed beyond the expectations of Wei Chen, but the bad hand is better than no hand, Your Majesty...... It's been done in a hurry. ”

"I have to worry, you are right just now, the number of these people I chose by myself is too small, and the power is too small to govern the world, only one county." Han Ruzi paused for a moment, "There are forty-seven counties in Great Chu, and it will take about four years for me to govern one place and one place." ”

Nan Zhijin was stunned and couldn't say a word.

"Of course, I understand that this is not in line with the rules of the imperial court, and the emperor should be high above and govern the world through the imperial court, so that he can get twice the result with half the effort. But I don't understand, the founding ancestor spent his whole life right away, even after being called emperor, it was non-stop, but the emperors of later generations lived in the palace, why didn't they follow the ancestors? ”

"At the beginning of the Great Chu Dingding, the world was unstable, and there were often rebellions in various places, and Taizu had to go everywhere to quell the chaos, which was not what he wanted."

Han Ruzi leaned over and asked, "Nan Zhijin, do you think that Da Chu's situation today is more stable than at the beginning of Dingding?" Qi rebellion, bandits, Xiongnu invasion, palace changes, all these are not asking the emperor to leave the palace? ”

Nan Zhijin was speechless again.

Han Ruzi stepped forward, "The Han family has been sitting firmly in the country for more than 20 years, it has been long enough, and I want to 'win' the world again." ”

Nan Zhijin knelt down and was extremely surprised, "Your Majesty, this is going to ...... It's going to be ......"

"Well, I'm going to rebel against myself."

Nan Zhijin couldn't believe his ears.

Han Ruzi said with a smile: "It's not so exaggerated, the court will be retained, I believe that not all officials are all in cahoots, and the court will still be saved." For example, Prime Minister, I really want to keep it, hoping that Zhuo Ruhe can understand my intentions. ”

Nan Zhijin finally understood why he was not punished, and why he was summoned by the emperor.

Through him, the emperor wanted to bring a message to his ministers.

Nan Zhijin didn't know how to answer.

Someone outside suddenly said: "Your Majesty, Wang He, the deputy captain of the Sword Halberd Battalion, asked to see him and said that he had something important." ”

"Announce him in."

Wang He hurriedly entered the tent, glanced at Nan Zhijin, and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, five assassins have been caught outside." ”

"Hmm."

"The assassin is from the sea, and the leader is named Wu You, who is Luan Kai...... After a preliminary trial, it was learned that there were more assassins, but a large number of them dispersed halfway, and it was said that the sea bandits decided to release General Huang only on conditions. ”

"Unless he sees General Huang himself, Da Chu will not negotiate with anyone."

"Yes, Your Majesty, the lowly position understands, and the lowly position is retired."

Wang He withdrew, and Han Ruzi said straight to the south: "My situation is much better than that of the original Taizu, at least I can keep my safety within ten steps, someone said to me that the imperial power is only ten steps away, within a thousand miles, in this case, I should be closer to the world." ”

"With all due respect, the emperor is not like this."

"I will not sit idly by and watch the decline of Great Chu." Han Ruzi said coldly, and then softened his tone, "It's better like this, let's make a bet." ”

Nan Zhijin was stunned, he once thought he had figured out the emperor, but now he found that he couldn't even guess the emperor's simplest thoughts.

"In addition to Zhao Ruosu, there are people who inform you of my every move, no matter how many others, within five days, I will find them out, and when the time comes, you will pass the word to the minister on behalf of me, if you can't find it, you go back to Yushitai, and I won't punish you."

Nan Zhijin thought for a while, "There is another one, if Your Majesty can find out, Weichen will be defeated, and it will be arranged by Your Majesty." ”

(Tomorrow's update, released in the afternoon, December's QQ chat postponed to next month, and when the book is finished, I will communicate with you, and I hope you know.) (To be continued.) )