After Gu Yongshan said this, the court fell silent. The crown prince was originally the next heir to the throne, and there was no problem in passing the throne to Gu Yuan.

It's just that the Shengwu Dynasty has never had such a precedent, and for a while, many ministers can't accept it.

At this time, Taifu stood up, as Gu Yongshan's henchman, he naturally wanted to speak at this time.

"Your Majesty thinks about the future of our Shengwu Dynasty, and doesn't want the court to fall into the chaos of the transfer of power, this is exactly Mingjun. And the person who inherits the throne is the crown prince. He was already qualified to take over the throne, what could he not do. I think Your Majesty is holy. ”

Taifu knelt down and praised Gu Yongshan Shengming.

At this time, Zhang Cheng also spoke: "The emperor is thinking about the future of the Shengwu Dynasty, and he is indeed Shengming. I'm in favor of this. ”

The ministers of the court all knew that Taifu and Zhang Cheng were Gu Yongshan's henchmen, and once these two opened their mouths, it meant that this matter was irreversible.

So they said one after another: "The ministers are ignorant, and they don't know Your Majesty's holy will, Your Majesty's holy wisdom. ”

The ministers fell to their knees.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this matter is settled, after my death, the crown prince will be the new emperor. Where is the Book of Rites? ”

"The minister is here." The Ministry of Rites replied.

"The new emperor ascended the throne, what year name did he use?"

This matter was also discussed yesterday, and the Ministry of Rites Shangshu directly said the year name.

"Back to Your Majesty, I established the country with martial arts, and the name of Chengwu is very suitable for the new emperor to use after he ascends the throne."

"Okay, then the new year name will be Chengwu."

The new era name was also set, and Gu Yongshan successfully covered up his serious illness in the past, and used a bigger thing for the ministers of the court to think about.

"The third thing today is that I am going to ask the Taifu and the national teacher to entrust Gu, and pass on my will to the Taifu and the national teacher to exercise the right to correct government affairs before the prince is 18 years old. When the crown prince came of age, the prince was cleared. ”

"Your Majesty." The ministers of the court all understood that they didn't need to do anything today, Gu Yongshan was ready for everything, and they were just witnesses.

After a series of things were announced, Sun Wuyan knew that it was time for him to speak: "If there is something to start, there is nothing to retreat." ”

Hubu stood up: "Your Majesty, the family property of the former prime minister and several Shangshu has been liquidated. ”

Oh, how many? ”

"Your Majesty, a total of 300 million taels of silver and 1 million taels of gold, and other real estate has not been counted in it."

"Three hundred million taels, what an exaggerated number, the annual tax revenue of the Shengwu Dynasty is only 100 million taels of silver, and the few of them have a family property of 300 million taels, and there is so much gold. I will always remember when they said that the treasury was less than 20 million taels of silver. ”

Gu Yongshan patted the dragon chair, this number is really exaggerated.

I still remember that when Nanzhou was in disaster relief, the silver taels of the treasury were really miserable, and in the end, Gu Yongshan opened the inner treasury of the royal family to make up enough 10 million taels of silver.

"Your Majesty, will all this silver be put into the treasury or will it be divided into the royal treasury?"

"Put it all in the treasury to prevent the treasury from being unable to take out the silver again in the future."

"Yes." Tobe Shangshu replied.

"In addition, all the real estate in their names will be recovered from the state, and they will be rewarded to other meritorious officials in the future."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Anything else? All of them came up. Gu Yongshan said.

"Your Majesty, the results of the census every 10 years have come out."

"Oh, how many people does my Shengwu Dynasty have now?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the Shengwu Dynasty now has

It has a population of 43,300 people. There are 50 million households. ”

"There are so many people, my human race is about to prosper, very good, very good."

Gu Yongshan was a little happy, because Gu Yuan's next face was a war between races, the more human population, the greater the potential for war, and the human race would not easily lose.

At this time, the new criminal department Shangshu walked out: "Your Majesty, the minister has something to report." ”

"Aiqing, please speak."

"The last time the ancient secret realm was opened, there were three sects because of private fighting, destroyed a small town, and killed more than 20 innocent people, the minister sent people to the sect to catch the murderer, but these sects, did not respect the ban of the court, and also injured the arrester sent by the minister. I ask Your Majesty to send a beacon tower to exterminate the three sects. ”

"Exactly. Leave this matter to the national teacher, who is now in charge of the beacon tower. ”

Zhang Cheng walked out and said, "In a while, you will come with me in the Criminal Department." ”

"Yes."

In the last secret realm, although the imperial court also sent some people, the best things did not fall into the hands of the imperial court, and the secret realm was all up to luck.

Moreover, after all, the imperial court is an official organization, and it is impossible to rob what its own people have obtained.

Several sects fought for these treasures, destroying a small town, and killing more than 20 innocent people in the melee.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I don't need to be buried with a living person for my funeral, and the women of the appropriate age in the harem should be dismissed by the Sect Division and let them go out of the palace to get married."

The master of the Sect Division stood up: "Yes, Your Majesty. ”

As for the issue of concubines in the harem, this is a matter of the harem, and it will not be discussed in the court.

"Where is the Ministry of Works?"

The Ministry of Industry Shangshu walked out: "The minister is here." ”

"My mausoleum doesn't have to be too extravagant, just make an ordinary emperor's tomb and bury it next to my father."

"Yes." The Ministry of Industry replied.

At this time, Gu Yongshan gestured to Sun Wuyan.

Sun Wuyan understood: "If there is something to start, there is nothing to retreat." ”

Seeing that no one spoke anymore, Gu Yongshan said: "Retreat." ”

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live."

After Gu Yongshan left, the ministers walked to their office positions.

And Zhang Cheng walked to the palace that belonged to the office of the beacon tower, the beacon palace.

The Shangshu of the Criminal Department followed Zhang Cheng to the Beacon Fire Palace.

There are not many things about the beacon, but there are a lot of them. However, there are relatively few major events, and Zhang Cheng generally does not need to deal with them personally, so Zhang Cheng has time to teach Gu Yuan.

The new criminal department is surnamed Zhang and is called Zhang Baiqing.

There are not many guards guarding the Beacon Fire Palace, and it looks like there are only about 20 of them.

That's because most people in the beacon tower are hidden in the shadows, and they usually don't see people easily.

As soon as Zhang Cheng entered, the guards of the Beacon Fire Palace saluted Zhang Cheng. Because Zhang Cheng said before, they are not allowed to kneel, and they generally nod their heads.

In the Beacon Fire Palace, there is a map of Jiuzhou, but this map is not very detailed, generally only the city and the famous mountains and rivers, and there is nothing else.

"Which sects killed innocent people this time?"

"It's the Iron Fist Gate, the Blue Wolf Gate, and the Righteous Qi Gang."

"Point out their location on a map." Zhang Cheng said.

The Shangshu of the Criminal Department pointed out three positions: "This is where their sect is located." ”

"Okay, I see, you can go back first. These sects will no longer exist within a month. ”

"Yes." After saying this, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department left.

Zhang Cheng ruled out the elite of the beacon tower to deal with this problem.

Over the years, the imperial court has rarely done this kind of thing to destroy the faction, and some people have forgotten how terrible the imperial court used to be.

Since this is the case, it is necessary for the beacon to remind them of the past achievements of the imperial court.

At the same time, a meeting was also being held among the sea tribes.

Nu Haiming looked at the Sea Clan masters standing in the main hall and said the agreement between him and Zhang Cheng.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think we need to do to get the most out of us?"

"My emperor, is that Terran national teacher trustworthy?" Whale Tide asked.

"He can be trusted, and if he wasn't worthy of a new appointment, I wouldn't have discussed it with him at all."

"My Emperor, we Sea Clan are indeed short of a lot of supplies, but will humans really let us profit?" The merfolk patriarch said.

"So, it's up to you to come up with a way to get the most out of us."

"My emperor, I think the treaty port can be opened, and only through the treaty port can we know what the sea clan lacks. At the moment, all we're missing is weapons and fabric, but we're definitely not just short of these things. The merfolk high priest said.

"In that case, then we will build this treaty port, so that we can have a platform for communication with the human race. But remember, the Terrans are our opponents, and we will fight with them, so don't divulge the secrets of our Sea Clan. ”

The angry sea told all the strong people of the Sea Clan.

The people of the Sea Clan did not know the cost of weapons, and because the Sea Clan had accumulated iron ore for countless years and had a large amount of ore, they could accept Zhang Cheng's conditions.

Have a bunch of useless stones in exchange for some weapons that you can use in battle.

"Yes, my emperor."

"Well, you all go back to your own tribe first, remember that you have divided the fishing grounds, you can't kill each other, the future war will be cruel, we must not fight among ourselves."

"Yes."

"Okay, stand down."

After the other sea tribes retreated, the merfolk high priest spoke: "My emperor, we can buy some waterproof books from humans, there has been no paper among the sea tribes, many things cannot be recorded, paper must be needed." ”

"Actually, I've thought about it too, but humans don't sell us paper."

"Why, weapons can be sold, but paper won't be sold to us?"

"With paper, we can pass on a lot of things from the Sea Clan. If you were the wise man of mankind, would you be willing to face an opponent with countless secret methods? ”

"This." The merfolk high priest hesitated.

"If you say that this opponent's secret method is still shaped with your own things, are you willing?"

"My emperor, I understand."

"It's good that you understand, weapons are not resistant to seawater corrosion, so humans can sell them to us, but paper, which is related to inheritance, humans will definitely not sell it to us."

"My emperor, what should I do then?"

"It's very simple, there are always some people in the human race who are not strong-minded, we can buy them at a high price and let them teach us the methods of making paper from the Sea Clan, so that we no longer have to be subject to the Terrans."

"What a plan. I am wise. ”

"I'll leave this matter to you. Remember, don't let the superfluous know, the more people who know, the easier it is to be exposed. ”

"Yes."

Next, Nu Hai Ming looked at the mermaid patriarch again: "The treaty port needs to be guarded by a strong man, and I plan to send you." There must also be strong people guarding the Terran side, and you have been in charge of the Merfolk for so many years, I believe you will not make a mistake. ”

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