In the matter of people's hearts, Li Shi's work came to an end, but all he completed was to demarcate and outline the outline, and the detailed drawing and coloring had to be completed by all parties themselves.

In the second year of the Yinghua Yongli calendar, after the New Year, the new scholars filled the Hanlin Academy, the Hongwen Hall and the newly built Jingyi Pavilion, and began to compile all kinds of new dynasty documents, especially the "Yinghua Dictionary" and "Yinghua Dictionary" attracted everyone's attention.

At this time, the Qing court was compiling the "Kangxi Dictionary", which should have been published and widely distributed last year, but because of Li Xi's mischief, Kangxi was more wary of the Han people's hearts, and ordered the "Kangxi Dictionary" to reflect the political demands of "the heart of the north and the rebuke of the southern barbarians", so it has not yet been released, which can be regarded as another sabotage of historical details by Li Xi.

Knowing that the "Kangxi Dictionary" had not yet been born, Li Shi was overjoyed, and all the literati of the Hanlin Academy and the Hongwen Pavilion were staked into these two jobs, and they were also engaged in it as a political matter.

At this time, in the territory of Yinghua, most of the people's hearts of scholars were barely overwhelmed. After the New Year, the newspapers that had been silent for a while resumed publication one after another, sorted out Li Shi's previous speech in Xiaojin Mingchi, drew on the "Yinghua Civil Constitution" and "Yinghua Commercial Constitution" promulgated before the British Dynasty, and created the surname to crown the Heavenly Avenue mentioned by Li Xi in the name of "Yinghua Tianxian", so that Li Xi also became a veritable king who "has a heavenly constitution in his mouth".

Various newspapers have their own different interpretations of the "Yinghua Tianxian", but they are all concentrated under the Avenue of God, and what kind of face is the royal road held by Li Xian, of course, this is all with the expectations of the industrialists and scholars themselves. The annotations of the Baicheng Journal and the Yuexiu Times are more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and in a sense, the expositions of these two newspapers can be regarded as a refinement of some blank spaces in the "Yinghua Tianxian" mentioned by Li Xian.

"Baicheng Journal" said that under the Avenue of God, the royal road held by Li Shi is actually two words: moderation.

Li Xi said very early on that he, the king, wanted to uphold the middle and keep the right, reconcile yin and yang, and the Tai Chi double dragon on the Yinghua flag is also here.

This statement further calmed the hearts of the readers, Confucius and Mencius Avenue, especially the mean, although everyone has their own expression of this, but Li Xian is willing to pick up this mean, at least it also means that the way of Confucius and Mencius is not completely excluded from the king's way. With this "mean", Confucius and Mencius students always have room to speak in the royal road.

The discussion of "Yuexiu Times" is even more exciting, and the main writer Lei Zhenzi said in the first article of the edition, why did Li Tianwang want Confucius and Mencius to step down from national politics and focus on people's hearts? That's because this Anglo-Chinese country is still asking for "inner saints and outer kings".

"The inside, the heart, the cultivation of virtue and the most holy, this is a person, but also a country."

Lei Zhenzi said that the way of Confucius and Mencius to do the work of people's hearts is to make people's hearts holy, this is not just a person's business, in this country, everyone is holy, then this country is not the country of inner saints?

"Outsiders, outside the hearts of people, and outside a country, the way of God on its foreign affairs, each according to his own way, just as Zhuangzi said the royal way. Guarding the inner saint, walking outside the royal road, the inner saint and the outer king, can be achieved by this. ”

What Lei Zhenzi means by this is that there are still things in this world that are outside the human heart, and outside the human heart, things have their own reason. When Zhuangzi talked about the "inner sage and outer king", he also said that there are differences between the people, the officials, and the king, and they should be treated separately and abide by their own rules, and this principle is pushed to other things, and the same is true. And this "differential treatment" is actually what Li Shi said, the "royal way" he holds in the road of God, so Li Shi's "Yinghua Tianxian" is talking about how to specifically achieve the "inner saint and outer king".

Although this banner was first mentioned by the Taoist Zhuangzi, Confucius and Mencius picked it up and played it vigorously, and it also became the highest program of Confucius and Mencius on governance. Now Li Xi re-expounded the inner saint and the outer king from the perspective of the Avenue of God, and he was talking about how to do it specifically, although the steps during the period were to drive Confucius and Mencius from the high position of governance, but it was not what Confucius and Mencius Dao himself demanded.

Of course, there are also scholars who faintly think that if Confucius and his old man were alive at this time, he would definitely regret that he went to pick up Zhuangzi in the first place, and as a result, he buried a big hole for himself.

As soon as "The Mean" and "Inner Sage and Outer King" came out, the battle of hearts and minds in Yinghua finally drew a successful ...... Semicolon.

The battle of people's hearts has no end, Li Xianke is very sober, at least the gang of rotten Confucians gathered in "Righteousness" are still shouting "no king and no father" with their necks in their hands, and the current situation can only be said to be over.

"Is there really another war!?"

The grass hall stood on the side, looking at Li Shi, who was struggling to write instructions, Duan Yuyou asked in a low voice, his tone was full of unbearable.

"If I don't fight, Kang Mazi will call, it's as simple as that."

Li Shi already has a certain understanding of this girl's "pacifism", and I don't know whether this comes from her woman's surname or lazy person's surname.

"Can you beat it? We still have some advantages on the Yunnan-Guizhou frontline, but Hunan and Fujian only have the strength to maintain a defensive position. ”

But she didn't want Duan Yuyou to come to such a sentence, but it caused Li Xi to look at her seriously, when did this girl also care about military affairs?

"Let you hurry up to the front line to fight the war, girl, I can occupy the grass hall, it's really comfortable to read and sleep here, oh hehe......"

Miss Duan was turning around with this careful thought, and when she was stared at by Li Xian, her heart was empty, and her cheeks were suddenly dizzy, and her eyes were lowered.

"After all, it's my daughter's family, it seems that I was defeated by my wise and martial arts and penetrating heavenly temperament."

Li Shi was shy as a girl, and somewhere in her heart suddenly itched, should you talk to her now?

"That...... Rain is long, ......"

Cheeky, Li Xi went to take Duan Yuyou's hand, but it was a volume of documents.

"This is the document of Nanyang Company, according to your document classification and disposal of the charter, you have to make a reply today."

Duan Yuyou escaped the wolf's claws and returned to his room in a panic. Looking at the figure that fled like a frightened rabbit, Li Xian touched his nose, and secretly said that he really didn't expect that this girl's generosity was still pretending. Did he simply overlord the bow hard, just like Fan Jin "subdued" Guan Xiaoyu before?

His mind was drifting, and when he unfolded the document, Li Xian's eyes suddenly lit up, and with a bang, he slapped the bookcase heavily.

"Good!"

Li Xi was very happy, the layout of Nanyang Company has finally begun to bear fruit, Duan Yuyou asked casually just now, it was originally something that he was sad about, but now with the big gift from Nanyang Company, he can finally start to open meat as he wished.

This year, Yinghua's central financial revenue budget is 9 million taels of silver, including 8 million taels from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and 1 million taels from its own industry.

The reason for setting the budget so high is, on the one hand, that Yinghua has stable governance in the two provinces, and tax revenue will inevitably increase. On the other hand, it is also a practical need, this year the Qing court will definitely have to make a big move, the intensity will inevitably be stronger than the battle of Yizhang, when the time comes, it may blossom on three sides, and if it does not make financial preparations in advance, it will be dangerous.

Starting from Li Xi himself, he also wants to completely absorb the territory of the first phase of Yinghua this year, including Yunnan, Guizhou and parts of Fujian, Hunan, and Jiangxi. This is the scope of the Guangdong Economic Circle, in which he forged the core of the future Yinghua. For this reason, even if the Qing court does not act, he himself will act.

The state treasury is to collect 9 million taels of silver, of which 8 million taels from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are divided into two parts: one is the corporate tax, which is equivalent to the business tax, and the budget is 5 million taels, and the other is the customs duty, which is 3 million taels.

Since last year, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry has been changing from the surname of protection fee to the surname of state taxation in the part of business tax, and this transformation involves the establishment of a huge accounting system, a large amount of accounting, and complicated examination and approval of tax rules, and has not yet been fully completed. It is only promoted in key industries such as iron and steel, textiles, salt, machinery, rice, etc., and other industries still continue to use the surname of protection fees, and the number of tripartite negotiations between the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the directors of the industry and the Shangshu Hall and the Industrial and Commercial Department of the Shangshu Department is carried out.

In addition to Peng Xianzhong's supervision, the whole work also benefited from the rise of private ticket banks, after Sanjiang Ticket Bank stripped off the ticket bank business, it was upgraded to Yinghua Bank, which controlled the financial affairs of the whole territory and controlled the flow of silver from Yinghua.

A few years ago, Li Shi went to Guangxi, on the one hand, to integrate Guangxi's military and political affairs, and on the other hand, he also waited for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry to come up with the figures that could be effectively guaranteed this year in these two items.

As a result, Li Xi was not very satisfied, and in terms of corporate tax, only four million taels could be guaranteed, which basically maintained the level of last year's protection fee. In terms of tariffs, only 1.5 million taels can be guaranteed, and the difference is 2.5 million taels.

Peng Xianzhong continued to mobilize industry and commerce to serve the industry, but now Yinghua has broken the industrial and commercial clamps, all industries are prosperous, and the private ticket houses are open again. Almost all the industry and commerce were red-eyed to circulate the silver, and they were never willing to turn it in the direction of making no profits, so the effect was not very good, and the difference was close to two million taels.

In this way, the total revenue of the treasury this year should be seven million taels, which can barely meet Li Shi's needs, but there is not much room for maneuver. Originally, Li Xi was also ready to spend money with a limit of seven million taels of silver. But this number is tight, and it is always a little less at the bottom.

But I never thought that Nanyang Company got off to a good start and gave a big gift.

Wu Ya led the fleet to the South Seas, and the first stop was Hoi An in Quang Nam, which was a major trading place in the South Seas. Nanyang Company had already set up a commercial house in Hoi An, and Wu Ya went to further expand its territory.

At this time, the Nguyen lord of Quang Nam was a "free trader", of course, he was also forced, Hoi An as a country's trade center, the trade between Ben, Java and Europe, was controlled by all parties, including Han Chinese, Yue himself, and the Dutch. These forces have their own territory in Hoi An, and they are incognito societies that are one level higher than the underworld and the first level of the government.

The fleet led by Wu Ya united with the Han merchants in the local area and expanded the Anglo-Chinese merchant hall into a trading base, during which he secretly taught many people himself and the Dutch, and also contacted local Chinese merchants to stabilize the trade route from Guangdong to Hoi An.

This document is Nanyang Company's expectation of the trade income of the Hoi An trade route this year, which exceeds Li Shi's expectations, and this trade route alone can have nearly 2 million taels of trade in the whole year.

Calculate the next stop of Wuya, how can Nanyang Company achieve a trade volume of 5 million taels this year, which not only means that the Anglo-Chinese Customs will have 500,000 taels, but also the net profit will be more than 1 million taels, and Nanyang Company is the private property of Li Shi, An Jinzhi and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Naturally, the net profit of one million taels of Nanyang Company will not be transferred to the Yinghua treasury, but it is no problem to transfer it to half, after all, Nanyang Company itself still needs to develop. In this way, Li Shi's annual treasury revenue budget has reached 8 million taels of silver.

Under Yinghua's rule, there were only two vast lands, with a population of 15,600 million at most, and 8 million taels of silver to spend a year, and excluding the amount of local governance, Li Xian naturally felt happy. In terms of treasury revenue, Kang Mazi is now only 30 or 40 million taels a year, and he has been cut by himself, and it is estimated that he will have to lose 3 to 5 million taels.

From a financial point of view, the Anglo-Chinese country has entered the ranks of modern countries with one foot, and it is half a generation ahead of the Qing court in the north.

"We are also a rich man now, if Lao Xiao knows, his naval budget this year can be 200,000 taels more, I don't know if the front teeth will laugh off."

Li Shi thought so while revising this year's military budget items.

"I hope that kid Wu Ya won't be addicted to killing and messing up the situation in Nanyang, I don't have any extra money to start a war in Nanyang."

Then there was another trace of this worry in his heart.

(To be continued)