Lu Yuanliang looked at Yang Yi in surprise, the idea of controlling a country with economy and culture is too shocking.

Yang Yi said: "And you may not believe it when you say it, there are many good things in Da Yue Kingdom, and if these things are used well, they can also change our current situation." Therefore, these more than 1,000 greedy merchants, if we control it well, can be worth 100,000 troops! ”

"So what's in our interest? You gave half of the tax to Sugree, and we got very little. ”

"Giving half of the tax to Sugree is just a measure of equity, didn't you see Sugree show his laughing teeth when he saw the tax book that Liu Wenzheng called him?

On the surface, it seems that he has taken advantage of it, but in fact, he doesn't know that these merchants are maggots attached to Da Yueguo's body, and they are sucking up Da Yueguo's own blood little by little, and then replacing it with the blood of our Shu. How does the abundance of a royal family prevent the transformation of a country?

On the contrary, those merchants, who can't let these vampire-like merchants get too carried away, in order to let them know that they can't do anything without the protection of the Shu army, I came up with something called insurance services, so that the merchants have protection, and at the same time, I definitely dare not forget who is the master of their wealth. ”

Lu Yuanliang slowed down for a while before digesting Yang Yi's remarks, he is not a fool, but an extremely smart person, Yang Yi's simple words have already given him a great impact, but since Yang Yi has decided on the policy, he, as a subordinate, will only spare no effort to help Yang Yi complete his purpose.

Lu Yuanliang put down the wine jug and said: "Since you have such an idea, then you let me recommend it to you, and I will have a candidate for the Shuzhong officials who are stationed in the Dayue Kingdom." ”

Yang Yi straightened his body and motioned for Lu Yuanliang to continue.

If Yang Yi wants to control the Great Yue Kingdom, he must place his own people in the core of the Great Yue Kingdom, which is absolutely undoubted, but Yang Yi has made a difficult situation in the matter of who to use to enter the Great Yue Kingdom, so before coming to the Great Yue Kingdom, he had already written to ask Lu Yuanliang.

Lu Yuanliang said: "Before I came to Shuzhong, you carried out a very good general examination and recommendation, and selected a lot of usable talents. “

"Tell me your reasoning."

"First, the older generation of officials is too conservative and it is difficult for them to show their actual talent as officials in a foreign country, while the younger generation of officials is easy to control, they have a broader mind, and they can adapt to your strange thinking to the greatest extent.

Secondly, as you said, the officials we send to the Great Viet Kingdom must not be too conspicuous, and the official position must not be too large, but the position must be important, and this kind of official position is generally the real power officials in the middle of the stream, and it is very suitable to use it to polish these young officials. ”

Yang Yi nodded thoughtfully when he heard this, and said, "Well, I agree with your opinion, in the past two days, you and Lao Liu will write a detailed list of appointments to me." ”

Lu Yuanliang thought for a while and asked, "What should you do with those old ministers of the Great Yue Kingdom?" ”

Yang Yi shook his head and smiled: "Don't ask me about this matter, go ask Shama Naigu, he is in charge of purging matters." ”

Lu Yuanliang smiled bitterly when he heard this, and did not speak again. If Yang Yi handed over this matter to Lu Yuanliang or Liu Wenzheng to deal with, these two were literati, and they might carefully screen the officials of the Great Yue Kingdom, and if they were killed, they would be killed, and if they were not killed, they would naturally not be wronged.

However, Yang Yi handed over the matter to Shama Naigu, a military general, which means that Yang Yi does not want to be too entangled in this matter, military generals usually don't ask too much about killing, and would rather kill a thousand, not wrong One is the basic principle of their behavior, and the bureaucracy of Dayue will definitely usher in a bloody storm.

Yang Yi's biggest purpose in coming to Shuzhong this time is to correct the position of Shuzhong in the hearts of the people of Dayue and eliminate the sense of resistance in their hearts.

Although the profession of merchants did not have a good reputation in ancient times, they were also an indispensable and important factor in the stability of the people.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the sense of crisis of merchants is far greater than that of ordinary people, and when a large number of caravans appear in a place, it means that the place is already safe.

Therefore, when the huge Shuzhong caravans blossomed everywhere in the Dayue Kingdom, the tense atmosphere in the Dayue Kingdom gradually eased, and when the people of the Dayue Kingdom found that these caravans had an extremely fair price whether they were sold or purchased, they were suddenly like a fried pot.

There are more and more people on the streets, and the local shops in Da Viet have basically begun to open their doors to do business, and the original nervous and frightened faces on people's faces have gradually been replaced by smiles. The people of the Great Viet Kingdom were surprised to find that the depression that had followed the war had not happened, but had given them the illusion that after the war, the Great Viet Kingdom had become more prosperous.

A peaceful and stable life is the easiest way to forget pain and hatred, and in this "thriving" national situation, those killings hidden in the dark seem to be so insignificant, and they are more concerned about whether they can eat enough and how much money they can earn today than the news of a minister's disappearance for no reason.

At the same time that Yang Yi came to Da Yue Kingdom, he also brought several sets of printing equipment, and set up a branch newspaper of "Shuzhong Newspaper", "Yue Bao", and in just three days, the "Yue Bao" edited by Liu Wenzheng issued the first issue.

The content of the first issue of "Yue Pao" is roughly divided into several categories, one is the military bulletin, the Shu army of the division of benevolence and righteousness, helping Sugree defeat the cruel Sukha rebels, after a group of Shu Chinese people beautify the language, rearranged and written. Among them, there are many stories that will describe some of the Shu and Vietnamese armies fighting together to fight the enemy, and a heroic figure fighting to the death against the rebels.

The other type is the commercial sentiment, which exaggerates the fair trade of the Shuzhong caravan, does not make the country difficult to make money, and helps the economy of Dayue to recover, so that these businessmen from foreign countries have improved their status in the hearts of the people of Dayue by several grades.

The third large section is a whole piece of rendering the establishment of friendly and mutually helpful diplomatic relations between Shu and Vietnam, and the soldiers and civilians of the two places have become the incarnation of fish and water, and they are full of each other, and there are also one or two typical stories of the Shu army helping the people of Dayue to get out of danger.

On the one hand, the official government of Dayue sent it to various cities in the form of a newspaper, and on the other hand, it was brought to all corners of Dayue by the all-pervasive Shuzhong caravans.

If you are a traveler, you will find that no matter where you go, you will always see people standing on the side of the street, in a teahouse, in a tavern, holding a copy of "Yue Pao" and reading it aloud, and there will be a large crowd of people around you listening attentively.

Maybe some people can't read at all, or maybe they don't care about things that have nothing to do with them, but in times of lack of leisure activities, even to pass the time, passers-by will stop and listen.

Under word of mouth, Shuzhong's good reputation in the Great Yue Kingdom spread far and wide, which greatly weakened the resistance of the military and people of the Great Yue Kingdom to the Shu people.

Yang Yi struck while the iron was hot, and in January, he published three issues of newspapers and periodicals in a row, using the powerful power of public opinion to turn his identity as an aggressor into a savior.