The imperial court made a lot of money from the liquor tax and tobacco tax. They tasted the sweetness and were determined to spread the model.

Some succeeded, but most failed.

For example, the salt tax and the medicine tax were successful, because these things were necessary and the quantity was small; Others, such as grain tax and cloth tax, failed, because these things were everywhere and the imperial court could not control them at all.

But over the months, the policy became less and less effective. Because the imperial court could only collect taxes in Gyeonggi, cigarettes, alcohol, salt, and medicine from Gyeonggi became more and more expensive, and illicit cigarettes, illicit wine, illicit salt, and illicit medicines from other places were smuggled into Gyeonggi in large quantities. In other words, the legal private gang has slowly become an illegal private gang, the same as before.

The army and officials of the imperial court arrested them everywhere, and soon these gangs, who had been loyal to the emperor a few months ago, became traitors with knives and guns.

Zhang Qiangsheng came up with the idea of dividing the private gang. So the court declared that certain private gangs were legitimate, and these private gangs gave the court more money and got concessions. The private gang was divided into two groups of rival gangs. One faction was loyal to the imperial court, and the other faction rebelled against the imperial court.

The court said, it's good, let them beat themselves.

The idea is good, but the result is still a failure. Because those who oppose the court are always the victors. They don't pay taxes, so items are cheap and they make a lot of money; Because they make a lot of money, they have good weapons; Because their stuff is cheap, people support them.

Now there are no people inside and outside the court. People say, is this Li Hongsi different from the previous emperor?

Emperor Li Hongsi is considering abolishing this policy.

During the quarrel among the ministers, Zhang Qiangsheng shouted: "Stop arguing!" ”

The ministers looked at him.

Zhang Qiangsheng said: "The imperial court should stop making such a small fight. Do you think you're smart? Wrong. Everything we do is what is written in the Book of the Patriarchs, but we don't do it enough. One thing, either don't do it, or do it absolutely. Article 2 of the Book of Ruling in the Book of the Elders clearly stipulates that 'rule' must be carried out in the whole country and cannot be carried out in a single locality. ”

Yang Mingyang: "You can tell me what to do." ”

Zhang Qiangsheng: "We must use the money to establish an invincible forbidden army, first to unify the world, and then to establish the Ministry of Ideology and the Ministry of Labor, and control the world." At that time, a system of dark taxes will be introduced. ”

There was a burst of boos.

The emperor's face was full of displeasure.

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Zhang Qiangsheng convened an inner court meeting.

At the meeting, Zhao Yuyang said unhappily: "First, damn, I am the head of the inner court, I have the final say in the affairs of the inner court, and I can only convene the inner court meeting!" Second, there is no inner court now! Zhang Qiangsheng, don't make trouble. It's okay to pretend to be a grandson, don't let the emperor and the foreign dynasty seize the handle. ”

Zhang Qiangsheng: "We are all from the inner court, and we are all dead eunuchs in their eyes." We are people on a boat, what a noise! ”

Zhao Yuyang: "Then what are you going to do now?" ”

Zhang Qiangsheng: "Rebuild the Senate." ”

People looked left and right.

Zhao Yuyang: "Damn! This is a capital offense! The laws of the Tang Dynasty clearly stipulate that there is no senate in the Tang Dynasty. Moreover, now that the emperor and the foreign court are keeping an eye on it, you don't hit the muzzle of the gun. ”

Zhang Qiangsheng: "The emperor can't leave us." We're just going to set up a preparatory council and wait until the opportunity is ripe before we take back power. ”

Zhao Yuyang: "It's really a newborn calf that is not afraid of tigers." ”

He glanced at me and asked Zhang Qiangsheng, "Do you know how the patriarch will die?" ”

Zhang Qiangsheng also glanced at me: "I was killed by you and Chen Ju." ”

Zhao Yuyang: "It doesn't matter who killed you, what matters is why you were killed!" ”

Zhang Qiangsheng: "That meeting of the elders will not work. ”

Zhao Yuyang: "It's not no! It's they who are self-righteous, always messing around, and treating the inner court, the outer court, and the emperor as monkeys! ”

Zhang Qiangsheng: "What are people killing the emperor for?" It's to be an emperor. Didn't you kill the Senate to be a Senate? ”

Zhao Yuyang sighed and did not speak.

Zhang Qiangsheng continued: "Are you scared? ”

Zhao Yuyang: "That's because you haven't been scared yet." ”

Zhang Qiangsheng: "I want to try." The emperor had to need the senate. Without a strong senatorate, the emperor is nothing. Sooner or later, he'll understand. Let's get ready. When the emperor changes his mind, we will immediately rebuild the senate. ”

There was silence for a while.

Zhang Qiangsheng said: "The first step is to rebuild the Patriarchal Library. Zhu Zhao must have a batch of books, but they are far from enough. I know that there are people here who know more than I do, so I need your help. The second step is to rebuild the Royal Department of Statistics. Information is power, and power is information. We must have information about the world. ”

After a bit of an argument, it was decided to follow this step first. As for what the emperor will do in the future, it will depend on the future.

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The Book of Rulers of the Senate clearly states how to rule.

Any court that rules in this way will last forever. For example, Article 3 of the Book of Domination says that there can be only one organization in the world: imperial power. It's a pity that Da Ming didn't do a good job at this point, its warrior clan was too powerful, and it finally died at this point.

The Book of Domination is not a few simple sentences, nor is it an ethereal idea, but "truth" or "science". I've read that book, and it's full of formulas. As soon as you substitute the data into the formula, you will get the specific details of how to rule. These calculations were too complicated for even the Wenju people of the imperial court to calculate. That's when the Royal Computer comes in. Otherwise, what do you think the royal computer does?

People first fed these formulas into the royal computer, and then entered various information, and they got a specific method of rule. For example, the specific ruling strategy of the imperial court over the provinces, counties, counties, townships, and villages, the control of every item, the control of thoughts, and the control of imperial officials, scholars, and commoners. These reigns are not sketchy, but extremely detailed, down to the actions of each person every second. The Book of Domination is the crystallization of ancient civilizations, the result of millions of years, and it is a real miracle.

But the premise of these is: information. Information is truth, it's data. Without data, the Book of Domination cannot be strong.

As a result, the Royal Department of Statistics, which had been abandoned for ten years, was rebuilt.

In the previous Ming Dynasty, the Royal Statistics Department was not taken seriously. After all, the world was peaceful at that time, and even if the imperial court and the inner court did not do anything, there was no problem in the world. In the past, when it was still the Ming Dynasty, the Royal Statistics Department had two sets of data: one set was absolutely true, which was entered into the royal computer to control all the activities of four billion people; A set that has not changed for 10,000 years, purely deceiving, in order to prove that Da Ming is always right.

The actual head of the Royal Statistics Department is Zhang Qiangsheng.

He said to his men, "Go ahead." The ones who sent you. Do the most with the least amount of money. This is a major matter concerning the future of our inner court. If you do it well, the inner court will be above all else. If you can't do it, we will be what people call 'dead eunuchs'." Go to various places, collect people, history, land, relations, will, public opinion, tendencies, sects, nobles, output, and so on. I'll give each of you a piece of paper to fill in all the hundreds of data on it – and not blindly. Whether you are from the harem, or the intelligence department, the secret department, the east factory, the west factory, or various ministries, we are all in this together. Now, go for it! ”

As a result, countless people went out to gather information, and their excuse was: to re-investigate the household registration.

I looked at their checklist and found this Book of Dominion to be simply amazing. For example, there are dozens of children in the "willingness" option alone, including real willingness, practical willingness, theoretical willingness, development willingness, instantaneous willingness, memory willingness, family willingness, local willingness, etc.

In fact, a lot of this information they count is fake. Subjects are not stupid, they will not tell their true things. For example, many people's domicile and criminal records are gone. For example, he is Li San, he calls himself Li Si, no one knows about this, and no one cares.

The strategy of the Book of Dominions is to fill the subjects with hundreds of options. These options are all designed to corroborate and falsify each other. When you fill in these hundreds of options, the court will have your information. Even if you fill in all these hundreds of options, the court will be able to grasp the dynamics of your thoughts. That's the horror of the Book of Rule.

When this information is aggregated in Chang'an, it must also be correlated with the information from ten years ago. Through comparison, the imperial court basically has an understanding of the world.

Information is power. Now that the information is in the hands of the imperial court, the power is within reach.

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Now the four giants of the "inner court" - Zhao Yuyang, Zhang Qiangsheng, Lu Ziluo, and Zhao Pumin - are recompiling the new "Book of the Patriarchs".

The so-called "Book of the Patriarchs" is not a specific book, but a collection of prehistoric books, that is, a collection of former Patriarchal Libraries. The books were either burned by Liu Xingchao or transported by him. The only ones who have read these books are me, Zhao Yuyang, Lu Ziluo, and Zhao Pumin. Zhang Qiangsheng saw what Zhu Zhaoding showed him, not only was it not complete, but many places were wrong.

Zhao Yuyang said: "Chen Ju sees the most. Hurry up and make it up. ”

I said unhappily: "I forgot everything, I have a bad memory!" ”

Zhao Yuyang: "Didn't you have a lot of people under you before?" ”

He was referring to the champions of our time.

Me: "They are crossing the apocalypse and giving Liaodong man-made warships." ”

Zhang Qiangsheng: "What? You're spreading technology! This is the bottom line of the inner court! ”

But now that the world is in chaos, what can you do?

Everyone was quiet for a while.

I said to myself, "What are we killing the Senate for?" ”

Zhao Yuyang thought for a while and said, "Because they want to kill us." So what are you for? ”

Me: "That's why I killed them, just because they could be killed." That's all. ”

Zhang Qiangsheng looked at me with an incredible expression. He said: "If I kill the Senate, it must be to become the Senate." ”

Me: "Then you're going to be killed by the New Senate." ”

Zhang Qiangsheng looked into the distance: "I know." ”

He had a quiet look on his face.