Chapter 4: The Great Treacherous Ruo Ruo

Although Lu Chengqi has never been the emperor, he has never eaten pork and seen pigs run, in the Celestial Empire drama, there are many people who play the emperor, and they just follow the script. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

I saw him sitting in a precarious position, coldly glanced at Yang Taishi's old face that looked concerned, and said lightly: "Taishi has a heart, I am fine, but I can't remember some things in the past." Come on, reward the master with a hundred taels of gold and three brocades! ”

Taishi Yang immediately knelt on the ground: "Thank you for the reward." ”

Lu Chengqi said: "Taishi, please get up quickly, come here, give the Taishi a seat." ”

The two little eunuchs brought a Taishi chair, and Taishi Yang sat on it unceremoniously and said, "Since the emperor is in good health, the old minister is also relieved." However, the emperor should still rest more, and the ministers and others will definitely share their worries about the emperor. He also added in his heart: "Anyway, you don't like to go to court, so the old man will serve you on your behalf." Otherwise, Dashun will end up in your hands for a hundred years! ”

Looking at Taishi Yang's appearance of a loyal and loyal minister, Lu Chengqi remained silent and said in his heart: "Even if I want to seize power now, I can't fight this cunning old fox." In that case, it is better to completely decentralize power and see when the tail of this old fox will be revealed. ”

After making up his mind, Lu Chengqi said slowly: "Then there is Master Lao." ”

Master Yang's little trick succeeded, and he couldn't help but feel a burst of pride on his old face, and said: "The old minister will definitely do his best and die to repay the emperor!" ”

Lu Chengqi said: "The Taishi is serious, and I hope to pay attention to the body, the world of the Great Shun Dynasty is indispensable." This sentence is not wrong, Yang Taishi is ambitious, and the forces in the court and China are intertwined, if he rashly seizes power, it will definitely shake the officialdom, and maybe it will cause greater turmoil. Based on this, Lu Chengqi knew that this matter was not in a hurry, and he needed to fight wits and courage with this old fox and circle around in order to snatch food from the old fox's mouth. The safest way is to cut off Yang Taishi's right-hand man first, and then slowly abolish his power in order to regain power.

"Alas, it's difficult!" Lu Chengqi sighed secretly in his heart, it was all the original wretchedness, and the emperor didn't do it, so that the power fell aside, and the huge court didn't even have a cronies. When the emperor is like this, it is also a strange thing.

Lu Chengqi and Yang Taishi made a false accusation to each other, and Yang Taishi withdrew from the Heart Cultivation Hall in the name of not disturbing Lu Chengqi's rest. But Lu Chengqi sat still for a long time, and it wasn't until Zhou Zhiruo came out from behind the screen that he came back from his contemplation.

Zhou Zhiruo said softly: "Your Majesty, Zitong has heard it, Taishi Yang is so hateful, why does the first emperor have to let him be the emperor's husband?" ”

Lu Chengqi smiled bitterly: "Even if you don't use Old Thief Yang, won't there be Old Thief Zhang and Old Thief Li?" Yang Taishi is still very capable, and the first emperor may have known that I was not of great use, so he chose Yang Taishi to assist me. ”

I have to say that Taishi Yang really has a good way of handling political affairs, and after worshipping Zaifu, he exerted one hundred and twenty energy, and devoted himself wholeheartedly to fighting for power and suppressing dissidents, but in terms of political affairs, there is really nothing to blame.

Lu Chengqi is quite troubled by the fact that if the Taishi line is suppressed, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no other party. If it falls into a party dispute, this Great Shun Dynasty will be over.

The best way is to cultivate his own henchmen, but now that Lu Chengqi has no money and no power, even if he wants to contact the minister, he has to wait for this turmoil to pass and go to the early dynasty before he can be determined to be loyal and traitorous.

Headache, how can it be such a big mess, can't you enjoy the rotten life of the feudal class? Lu Chengqi pressed his head, and Zhou Zhiruo was so frightened that he said repeatedly: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, what's wrong, do you want to call the Imperial Doctor?" ”

Lu Chengqi waved his hand and said, "I'm just upset, isn't there a courtier loyal to me in the great Shun Dynasty?" ”

Zhou Zhiruo put her mind at ease and said softly: "Don't think too much about it, take a good rest, and only after you are healthy can you have the energy to deal with the government." ”

Lu Chengqi suddenly remembered something: "Zitong, do you know how many assets I have?" ”

Zhou Zhiruo couldn't react for a while, and Lu Chengqi said: "How much money do I have?" ”

Zhou Zhiruo said with a smile: "Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister." Your Majesty, the whole world is yours! ”

Lu Chengqi said seriously: "What I said is not this, but how much money can I use?" ”

Zhou Zhiruo also reacted: "The emperor is saying, how much money does the inner treasury have?" The concubine had just taken over the inner treasury and checked that there was only a thousand pieces of money left on the bill. If it is after the autumn harvest, it is estimated that the Huangzhuang can collect about 10,000 yuan. Coupled with the income of the royal shops, there should be more than 30,000 guan. ”

Lu Chengqi frowned and asked, "This has always been worth geometric silver?" In Lu Chengqi's memory, silver was used in ancient times. I didn't expect that this Dashun Dynasty actually used copper coins. Zhou Zhiruo replied: "When it is straight, it is a tael of silver, but silver is expensive and copper is cheap, and it may not be able to exchange for one tael." ”

In fact, Lu Chengqi's concept is wrong, the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties all used copper coins as the most important currency, and a large amount of silver was used in the Qing Dynasty. Because copper was relatively scarce in ancient times, it was expensive. And there is a lack of large silver-producing mines in the country, so it is natural to use copper coins as the currency in circulation. The situation of the Dashun Dynasty is similar, although the founding emperor started with business, but did not vigorously develop commerce, but was afraid that someone would follow suit, and were deliberately suppressing merchants, so the status of merchants in the Dashun Dynasty was extremely low, and business taxes were almost not collected. The state has a monopoly on salt and iron, and merchants are not allowed to touch it in many places, so that the tax revenue depends entirely on the land.

But how much output can be produced in an acre of land? It is the treasury of the Great Shun Dynasty that has a negative income every year, and it is all eating the old capital of the previous dynasty. This is an internal trouble, and the external trouble is that the surrounding nomads have risen again in the past 50 years, raiding the border from time to time.

Thinking of such a domestic and external difficulty in the Dashun Dynasty, Lu Chengqi was big for a while.

After sorting out his thoughts, Lu Chengqi continued to ask about the basic situation of the Dashun Dynasty and political and military matters. Fortunately, although Zhou Zhiruo is not very proficient in these, she has been an official family for generations, and she has been exposed to it a lot. Even if he couldn't get to the point, under Lu Chengqi's side knocks, he still said a lot, which also made Lu Chengqi more or less understand this Great Shun Dynasty.

After a few days like this, in addition to the daily consultation of the imperial doctor and the daily visit of Queen Zhou Zhiruo, Lu Chengqi was reading in the Palace of Nourishing the Heart. He found that in this world, there are also doctrines similar to Confucianism, all of which speak of the principle of governing the country. And just like in ancient times, this Confucianism also suppressed other doctrines, so that there was a phenomenon of dominance.

Although Lu Chengqi didn't like the Confucian set of Compendium and Etiquette, out of the need for rule, he still honestly read all the classics of this era. After a general understanding, Lu Chengqi already knew where to start governing the country.

Perhaps it was because the Great Shun Dynasty had been stable for a hundred years, and this huge and increasingly bloated machine had been overwhelmed and showed the smell of decay. Those literati also became less iron-clad, but sincerely yearned for the erosive life of singing day and night. The words in his mouth are all words of wind and snow, and what he does is indignant to people and gods. In the DPRK, he does not ask for the people's lives, but he is fighting for power; In the locality, they will only talk about it, but they will not do things.

The armament is relaxed, but the surrounding barbarians have shown their minions; The soldiers were weak and could only watch as the rangers who came and went like the wind burned and looted above the border.

The bloated political system, lax armaments, and repeated natural disasters have made the people complain about the Dashun Dynasty. The bandits, grass bandits, and pirates in the country who are poor and grassy threaten the rule of the Great Shun Dynasty all the time. In this way, this court is already stormy, with internal and external troubles, and the wind and rain are coming.

Lu Chengqi's brows tightened, at this moment, he would even think that he had crossed over to be a substitute for the dead ghost.

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