Early the next morning, Meng Qi got up to go to the court meeting and heard the good news.

An official wrote: "Report to Your Majesty, just this morning, nearly 20 noble forces in the three counties of the country took the initiative to hand over the ownership of the land under their rule to the central government, in addition, many families also donated silver for the military needs of the war, according to statistics, a total of 1.53 million taels. ”

"Oh? How did they all wake up overnight? Meng Qi said strangely.

Obviously, yesterday's counterinsurgency battle completely woke up these stubborn big families, and now that Meng Qi has firmly held all the military strength of the country in his hands, it can be said that even if these families are assembled, they are not the enemies of the royal family, and the families who can see the situation clearly will choose to submit to the imperial family, because they know that even if they do not give in, they will be beaten to their knees one day in the future.

"Your Majesty, several families jointly wrote a letter, suggesting that Your Majesty contract the land to the nobles, and in the future, the land will still be planted by the nobles, and the amount of taxes will be paid to the court every year." The official continued.

Meng Qi scratched his head and said, "If this is the case, then there is no point in taking back the land, I want to distribute the land to each free man according to the capitation, so that they can have land to cultivate, and they can rely on their own labor in exchange for food and clothing." ”

"Your Majesty is wise." An official immediately chimed in.

Meng Qi saw that it was indeed Lord Zhu, who was famous for hating nobles.

"How's the progress of my decree to free the slaves?" Meng Qi asked again.

"Back to Your Majesty, this decree was implemented throughout the country yesterday afternoon, and now there is no longer a single slave in Hirata Country, and the inhabitants are all free people." The official replied.

Meng Qi nodded with satisfaction, in this way, the problem of the division of feudal towns and towns in the Hirata Kingdom since ancient times, and the problem of the powerful oppressing the people has been completely solved, and the country's military power has been completely returned to the central government, so that the imperial family can return to its supreme position, it can be said that the peace has been basically completed, and the next measure is to recuperate and prepare for the upcoming war.

Meng Qi looked at Zhang Dagen of Dazhuguo and said, "Zhang Dagen, have you sent back any news about the eyeliner I asked you to arrange?" ”

Zhang Dagen stood up and said, "Back to Your Majesty, according to the eyeliner's report, Qu Yuguo has not moved recently. ”

Meng Qi nodded, it seems that this Qu Yuguo is still forbearing, or secretly planning something, if Qu Yuguo gives up this great opportunity to attack Pingtian Kingdom, Meng Qi will never believe it.

"Notify me as soon as there is news." Meng Qi commanded.

"Yes." Zhang Dagen received the order.

"Lord Zhao Qian Zhao was unfortunately killed, the post of the head of the Ministry of Household was vacant, and after the killing of Guo Da and Sun Qingchun, the vacant Ministry of War Book and the Imperial Doctor, the selection of these positions was handed over to Liu Neng of Xiangguo, if the rest of the ministers have a suitable candidate in their hearts, they can communicate with Xiangguo in private."

"By the way, there are also some local officials who were killed in the counterinsurgency war, and they have also been selected to succeed in recent days." Meng Qi added.

"Yes." Xiangguo Liu Neng received the order.

Without Meng Qi saying it, Liu Neng knew who to appoint to fill the vacancy.

"Anything else? If there is something to play, there is nothing to retreat. Meng Qi looked around at the ministers.

At this time, a middle-aged official stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the subordinate has something to do." ”

According to the map of the hundred officials, Meng Qi remembered that this was the great Si Nong of Pingtian State, an official in charge of the country's economy, finance, and treasury revenue and expenditure, named Feng Feng.

According to Xiangguo Liu Neng, although this Feng Feng looks obscene and ugly, he is loyal to the royal family, and he has been in charge of the treasury for many years, and there has never been a slight mistake, nor has there been any rumors of embezzlement or corruption.

Meng Qi looked this Feng Feng up and down, this person was less than one meter six, slightly hunchbacked, with his neck stretched all the time, his head leaning forward, as if he was always looking to see if there were copper coins on the ground, and his face was covered with freckles, which was indeed ugly.

Meng Qi asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Feng Feng said: "Report to Your Majesty, the treasury has been full recently, and the silver reserves are nearly eight million taels, Your Majesty can consider repairing the palace." ”

"Huh? So much money? Meng Qi didn't have a very specific concept of money in this era, but he still knew that eight million taels was indeed a huge number.

Because he is in a restaurant, he can eat a large table of delicacies and a few bottles of fine wine for five taels of silver.

He recalled that the mansions of those big families were very luxurious, and the place where he lived as an emperor was really shabby, not much better than that of commoners, so he was somewhat inclined to repair the palace.

He asked tentatively, "If so, how much will it cost?" ”

Feng Feng turned his head to look at Qin Zhi and said, "You have to ask the Ministry of Industry Shangshu, Lord Qin." ”

Qin Zhi was stunned for a moment, and replied: "If Your Majesty builds the Great Hall, the cost will be more, and if it is to build a dormitory and imperial study, the cost will be less, the former is one million silver, the latter is five hundred thousand, and if the levy is levied, the cost will be reduced by about half." ”

Meng Qi frowned, and was a little shaken, at this time, if he used a lot of financial resources and manpower to build a palace, he would be forcing Pingtian Kingdom to a dead end.

No, I remember that in ancient times, when recuperation was practiced, palaces would not be built on a large scale, and this was a matter of labor and money. Meng Qi recalled the history lesson he had spent in his previous distraction, and seemed to say so.

He looked at Feng Feng and said, "No need, it's a special period, don't consider building a palace for the time being, let's use this money as a military reserve." ”

Xiangguo Liu Neng said excitedly: "Your Majesty Shengming, you are worthy of being an emperor with great virtue." "Liu Neng was still worried just now, if Meng Qi really couldn't help but build a palace, the situation in Pingtian Country would definitely be worse.

"Alright, retreat." Meng Qi went down to the main hall.

Back in the dormitory, Meng Qi located the satellite monitoring machine to Qu Yuguo's border, where he saw Qu Yuguo's border defense line and the soldiers guarding it.

"Wow, there is even a Great Wall in this Quyu Country, no, it doesn't seem to be the Great Wall." Meng Qi saw that there were defensive fortresses and city walls on the border of Quyu Kingdom, and at first glance he thought it was the Great Wall, but after a closer look, he found that compared to the Great Wall, the walls of this Quyu Kingdom were much shorter, and they were much rougher than the Great Wall.

He zoomed out the camera and saw the soldiers of the Blue Candle Kingdom outside the city walls.

The Green Candle Country, located in the northeast of the Quyu Country, is bounded by the Songdian Prairie, and over the years, the Green Candle Country has often crossed the border and harassed the border towns of the Quyu Country.

'Hey, is this Blue Candle Country a nomad? Meng Qi found that the soldiers of the Blue Candle Kingdom were dressed similarly to the Khitan Hu people in ancient China, and they also liked to use scimitars and were good at riding and shooting.

'No wonder it gives this Qu Yu country a headache, this Qing Candle Country's combat effectiveness should be very strong, if it weren't for Qu Yu Guo building that defensive border pass in the border town, this Hu Ma would have entered the Qu Yu country. Meng Qi saw the well-trained formation of the soldiers of the Blue Candle Country and exclaimed.