In the plan of Baili Wuji, he greatly reduced taxes, tried to win the support of the people as much as possible, and then swept away the officialdom of Chu State with a thunderous force.

But Xu Shiming blocked it back with a sentence that the treasury was empty, if he really lowered the salaries of the Black Flag Army and the officials according to what he said, although there would be no rebellion, but chaos would definitely be inevitable for a while. defeated the state of Chu with his life, and in the end, he reduced his salary by half. This kind of thing can't be done sincerely.

Although Baili Wuji usually doesn't care about money, he always has points in his heart, not to mention whether there is a surplus in Gyeongju, just from the capture of several states and the capital of Chu State, how much surplus there is in the confiscated official warehouse and treasury is also a little bottom.

This old man made it clear today that he wanted to reason with me. But this matter really has to be persuaded first, otherwise it will be difficult to carry out the follow-up planning.

"Sir, I remember that after the offensive and defensive battle in Zhongxian County, I asked you what your dreams were, and Mr. replied that he wanted to be a loyal minister, a minister, and a cadre. Today, I want to ask Mr. again, is your dream to be a loyal minister, a minister, and a minister? ”

"Exactly." Xu Shiming naturally remembered, no, are you doing this now?

"That's good, what does Mr. think a minister, a loyal minister, and a cadre should do to be conscientious?"

"Those who advise the ministers dare to point out the mistakes of the Lord, so that the Lord is close to the virtuous and far from the less. Those who are loyal to the lord will not die if they are in trouble, and they will not be sent away. The ministers are like the humerus, supporting the court for the Lord. Xu Shiming was so unhappy.

"The gentleman has a point. Then, according to what Mr. said, Mr. and Mr. will govern the Chu State well and be a king of Chu for the rest of his life. Baili Wuji was not in a hurry, and said slowly.

"What do you mean by that?"

"If Mr. thinks that as long as he helps a certain general to govern the Chu State to make the country strong and the people rich, he will be regarded as a minister, a loyal minister, and a cadre, then Mr. will have fulfilled his wish."

"I still don't understand what the lord means?" Xu Shiming really didn't understand, in his heart, he wanted to help Baili Wuji govern the Chu State into the richest and most powerful country among the countries.

"Mr. has always been by Wuji's side, from Padang County to the present. Wuji first ordered Badong County, attacked the land of Shu Sanzhou to establish Qingzhou, and then attacked Chu as the king of Chu, Mr. Wuji thought that Wuji was a native of Nanping or a Shu or a Chu person? ”

"Uh......."

Baili Wuji smiled, who has the concept of a country in this era? The so-called state is nothing more than a state established by a prince.

"Sir seems to have forgotten who he is."

"It's ......."

"Actually, you and I are both descendants of Yan and Huang, Shu people, Chu people, Jin people, Nanping, Southern Tang, Southern Han, Wu Yue, and Min people, but Khitan and Dangxiang people are not. Do you understand, sir? ”

Xu Shiming understood a little, it seems that the picture of the lord is not only the Central Plains, he wants to reproduce the glory of the Han Dynasty.

Baili Wuji pointed to the map and said: "Sir, please see, it is imperative to crusade against the Southern Han Dynasty, an expanded territory of the Chu State, and at the same time control the mouth of the sea." The second is to develop the shipbuilding industry, not only with the foreign trade is lucrative, but also Wu Yue, Fujian, Jin, and Liao are all within the scope of attack. What does the gentleman think? ”

"It's nice to be young......." Xu Shiming looked at the map, and the people who were nearly half a hundred years old were also enthusiastic.

It's just that I don't know if I can see the day when the path is realized?

I'm really looking forward to .......

The second day of June.

A fold was spread out in front of Baili Wuji.

It reads, "The husband and the farmer are the people's foundation, the food is the people's heaven, and now the leather is widely taken, the cattle are hoarded in the void, and the cultivators flee and turn into robbers...... The giant wood was sold in foreign countries, and the envoys made profits, and it was especially difficult to hire and recruit them by land and water, and the cost of a wood was more than one million, and the roads were ....... ”

On the one hand, the government will build a large number of buildings and loot the people's fat, which will make the cultivators impoverished and fall into the flow of robbers. On the one hand, he reprimanded the state officials for being corrupt and endangering the foundation of Chu.

The excerpt came from Shi Wende, the deputy envoy of Rongzhou.

Shi Wende is a talented but ugly person, which is quite comparable to Xu Shiming's experience.

Erudite and self-taught since childhood. In the third year of the Later Jin Dynasty, the King of Chu granted the water department a member of the Wailang, and was later demoted because of his direct advice, and was the deputy envoy of Rongzhou.

When he was 20 years old, he read Fan Ye's "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", excerpted hundreds of language diseases, and dialectically dialectically one by one. The Book of the Later Han Dynasty was a classic recognized by the scholars at that time, and Shi Wende dared to objectively judge the shortcomings of his predecessors at a young age, and was called a genius by the readers at that time.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, Shi Wende endowed the long poem "Ai Hu", and Liu Shaoyu, a bachelor of Tiance Mansion, praised after reading it: "Wende should be the hero of Wenyuan!" ”

Shi Wende is unwilling to be empty of his worldly talents. In order to show his lifelong ambitions, he went north to Tanzhou again, felt the strong atmosphere of "heavy scholars" and "Chongwen" in Tanzhou, and stayed to fight for the opportunity to realize his ambitions.

At that time, Tanzhou was governed by Ma Xifan, who was different from his father who was born as a carpenter, and liked to be vassally elegant, imitating Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, to set up the Tiance Mansion Literature Museum, and recruited a large number of talents, intending to assist him in revitalizing the great cause of "Ma Chu". Therefore, Shi Wende submitted books many times and offered poems and essays to see. Ma Xifan thought that Shi Wende was humble and "ugly and short", and impatiently turned him away.

The down-and-out Shi Wende lived on the streets of Tanzhou, hungry and cold. Ma Xiguang, the younger brother of Ma Xifan, the king of Chu, valued scholars with knowledge and talent, and learned about what happened to Shi Wende and kept him at home. After Ma Xifan knew it, he chased after his younger brother and scolded: "Am I not as good as you know talents?" "I also want to humiliate Shi Wende in front of the public, and then drive him away.

But gold will always shine, and Mrs. Qin, who was favored by Ma Xifan, was red-faced and died. In addition to being sad, Ma Xifan collected elegiac couplets among the scholars to express his condolences and expressed his appreciation for those who wrote the elegiac couplets well. Shi Wende finally stood out with a pair of "The moon sinks in Xiangpu Leng, and the flowers thank the Han Palace in autumn", and was awarded the Wailang of the Water Department of Chu State.

But the country is easy to change, and the temperament is difficult to change. The king of Chu built a luxurious palace, Shi Wende resolutely wrote six admonitions, angered Ma Xifan, and greatly hurt the face of the king of Chu, he almost killed Shi Wende in a fit of anger, fortunately Liu Shaoyu helped to say a lot of good things, and only after the last did Shi Wende be demoted to Rongzhou as a deputy envoy.

The fifth day of June.

The palace of the king of Chu gave Shi Wende the post of acting as an official and supervised the administration of various states. At the same time, the Black Flag Army stationed in various places was ordered to cooperate with its actions.

So, with Shi Wende's excerpt as the fuse, the vigorous "Qingguan Movement" in Chu State began.

At the same time, Baili Wuji carried out a drastic reform of the agriculture of the Chu State.

In view of the advantages of tea, cotton and water towns, which are the specialties of Chu State, Baili Wuji has implemented multi-level breeding combining planting, breeding and fishery throughout the Chu State, raising chickens under tea trees, and then using chicken manure to feed fish.