Probably realizing that his expression was too obscene just now, Yao Ruoyu coughed, hurriedly sat upright, and then said solemnly: "Although these two expenditures are temporarily paid by the Leader's Mansion, the household department also needs to refuel itself and work hard for the economic construction of the city-state!"

Bai Qiuyu hurriedly got up and said solemnly: "The subordinates will definitely go all out and live up to the leader's trust." ”

"This is natural, by the way, I have another policy here to increase fiscal revenue, which I just want to discuss with you. Yao Ruoyu said with a smile.

Bai Qiuyu already had a comprehension of this leader's unbridled thinking, so he didn't dare to agree at the moment, and replied hesitantly: "This, leader, please speak, it just so happens that my father is also here, and we can sum it up together." ”

Seeing his worried look, Yao Ruo was stupid, but then he was annoyed, thinking that he was the kind of person who was messing around in the other party's mind, the previous tax exemption policy could attract a large number of merchants to come, and the only trouble was solved by himself, the other party not only did not appreciate it, but also looked like a thief against himself, which was simply unreasonable.

Annoyed and annoyed, Yao Ruoyu would not show it on his face, and after organizing the language, he said: "The buildings in the city have not been named yet, right?"

"Naming?" Bai Qiuyu was slightly stunned and said blankly, "According to the original plan, isn't it named after a building by numbers?"

Waving his hand, Yao Ruoyu sneered: "That's just temporary, can't someone else come to the city-state in the future, and when they ask for directions, they will still call Building No. 1, Building No. 2, Bridge No. 1, and Bridge No. 2 like this, right?"

Bai Qiuyu thought about it and found that it was the same truth, so he asked, "Then what does the leader think?"

Smiling, Yao Ruoyu pretended to be profound: "I plan to promulgate an exclusive sponsorship law, as long as a merchant pays fifty percent of the construction cost of the building, it can name the building." ”

"Exclusive Sponsorship Law?" Bai Qiuyu blinked, and it took a long time to react, frowning, "Is it feasible?"

"Of course!" glanced at him, Yao Ruoyu replied, "People only live for a hundred years, and what they want is either high-ranking officials, or rich in the world, or famous in history, or immortal, these rich people have money, it is not easy to live a long life, it is also difficult to be an official, and the only easiest thing to do is to leave a name in history." ”

Hearing this, Bai Qiuyu gradually understood, and said happily: "As long as they name the building after themselves, it means that they will also pass it on with Hezhou City in the future." ”

Bai Junru also understood, and said with his head bowed: "Clever plan, wonderful plan." ”

Bai Qiuyu thought for a while, and said: "It's better to set up a stone tablet next to the building, and after a hundred years of sponsorship, you can write down this person's life experience on it, which must be more attractive." ”

"That's good!" Yao Ruoyu was overjoyed when he heard this, and after thinking about it carefully, he said, "The sponsor only has the right to name the building, and as for the stele, the cost is calculated separately, and the scale of the stele is all fixed, and they are not allowed to choose." ”

Without waiting for Bai Qiuyu to object, Yao Ruoyu had already waved his hand and sneered: "Don't worry, just follow my method." ”

Although the latter is not as important as the former, it is also extremely important, and since these businessmen are willing to bear the construction cost of the building, most of them will naturally not care about the cost of the stele.

Seeing that Yao Ruoyu was resolute, Bai Qiuyu didn't say anything more, and said yes.

Seeing that the matter was almost over, Yao Ruoyu had no intention of staying, got up and planned to leave, not wanting Bai Qiuyu to suddenly say: "By the way, Qiuyu has something to play." ”

Say. Yao Ruoyu sat down again when he heard this, intending to hear what else Bai Qiuyu had to do.

"It's about the Elder's Mansion," Bai Qiuyu thought for a while, and then muttered, "The Elder's Mansion and the Imperial Historical Observatory have almost similar responsibilities, but the power is far superior to the Imperial Historical Observatory.

Yao Ruoyu frowned slightly, to be honest, the matter of building the Elder's Mansion was indeed thought up by his own brain, mainly because he had read a novel before crossing over, and the protagonist in it had set up such an institution to balance the situation of the dynasty, so that the grievances of all families could be resolved on the surface, and would not create hidden contradictions.

However, with the construction of the city-state for a long time, he gradually realized that this move was really inappropriate, although they have now established a city-state, but there are actually only two cities of Hezhou and Diaoyu inside, and the power is not complicated, so the existence of the Elder's Mansion is too redundant, and the power given to the Elder's Mansion is indeed too great, so he is a person who does not like to be restrained, and he has already had a little remorse.

After thinking about it, Yao Ruoyu said calmly: "To be honest, I do have some regrets, but this matter has been announced to the public at the city-state ceremony, and if it is revoked, I am afraid it will not be good." ”

"There's no need to revoke the Elder's Mansion, you only need to change one or two," Bai Qiuyu smiled slightly and said, "Changing the name of the Elder's Mansion to the Senate Mansion has the right to discuss the situation of the court, and can directly write to the leader, without going through other departments." ”

Yao Ruoyu thought for a long time when he heard this, and finally said, "This method is good. ”

Seeing Yao Ruoyu's approval, Bai Qiuyu looked happy and said, "And the functions of the Civil Affairs Department of the Criminal Department overlap with the People's Voice Department of the Leader's Mansion, and they are similar to the Senate Mansion, so why don't they be combined into one place?"

"It's fine. Nodding, Yao Ruoyu agreed.

After briefly discussing for a while, Yao Ruoyu got up and left, intending to go to the Leader's Mansion to prepare the announcement, while Bai Junru stayed behind and prepared the preparations for the two policies proposed by Yao Ruoyu with Bai Qiuyu.

Yao Ruoyu has always done things when he thinks of it, so in the afternoon of the same day, the Leader's Mansion issued an announcement to merge the Elders Mansion, the People's Voice Department of the Leader's Mansion and the Civil Affairs Department of the Criminal Department, and renamed it the Senate Office, with Wu Xue as the Senate Chairman, and Zhao Wen, the former Director of the Civil Affairs Department, as the Deputy Senate Chairman, and at the same time officially recruited senators from the outside world.

A few days later, Zhao Wen submitted the compiled list of senators to the leader's mansion, most of them were local respected old people, or young scholars with good moral character, as well as Luo Cheng, Duan Chong, Li Tianyang, and other people who had connections with the city-state's high-level officials.

After looking through it carefully, Yao Ruoyu crossed out the names of several people, and returned the list to the Senate, so far, the system of two governments and five ministries of the city-state was officially established.

At the same time, with the introduction of the policy of tax exemption for one year, Hezhou City and Diaoyu City suddenly attracted the attention of a large number of chambers of commerce, and in the next few days, there were caravans from time to time to inspect, and Bai Qiuyu had already arranged a special person to be responsible for receiving at the gate of the city.

In this era, the status of merchants was not high, and the status of merchants was actually lower than that of workers and peasants. Now, however, these merchants were treated almost like gods in the city-state.

Of course, they also knew that these preferential treatments were actually due to the city-state's high-level desire to let them build shops here, but the advantages of the two markets in Hezhou City were indeed great, and the one-year tax exemption policy made these merchants tempted to buy shops in the city one after another.

Subsequently, the city-state, which was gradually prospering, suddenly became a sensation because of the introduction of the exclusive sponsorship law.

As Yao Ruoyu said, what people want to live for a lifetime is nothing more than the four of official wealth and longevity, these businessmen are wealthy, not short of money, with their status, it is naturally extremely difficult to be an official, although longevity is very hopeful, but they also know that it is more difficult than being an official, and the only thing that can be asked for is fame.

However, in this era, it is too difficult to leave a name in history in terms of the status of businessmen, and the emergence of the exclusive sponsorship law has made these businessmen find some opportunities to leave their names in history.

At Song Kai's suggestion, Bai Qiuyu specially held an auction to auction the naming rights of various buildings in the city-state, and more than 30 merchants who heard the news were bidding frantically, but in one afternoon, the city-state directly received nearly 30,000 taels of gold, which made Bai Qiuyu so happy that his mouth almost smiled.

Because these chambers of commerce have come here to invest, the economy of Hezhou City and Diaoyu City has naturally risen, attracting many people to come and join, especially the people who are in exile near Hezhou because of the war, and they have heard the news and rushed to sign up to join the city-state.

Of course, Yao Ruoyu naturally didn't need to worry about these things, and after discussing them with the Bai family's father and son, he went to the Disha Tongyuan Hall in the old site of the Xu family and practiced in retreat.

The original Xu Mansion has been occupied by the Leader's Mansion and changed to the exclusive martial arts hall of the Leader's Mansion, and only Fu Feng and Ren Jiasheng, who are from the Ministry of Literature and Art, can enter and exit it on weekdays, such as Luo He and Li Huo, who can't step into half a step at all.

Someone would bring food to Yao Ruoyu every day, Xu Xuanrong would occasionally come over to report with him on the recent operation of the city-state, and Yang Renjie, Fu Feng, Fu Chaozan, Jiang Siyu and others would come over to practice from time to time, but most of the time was spent on managing the army.

In just seven days, Yao Ruoyu has completely stabilized his body in the three realms and eight realms, the spiritual power in the spring is more and more pure, and the heart and soul are becoming more and more condensed, and the five senses can already be seen faintly, obviously because Yao Ruoyu is about to step into the four realms, and the soul is gradually condensed and formed.

However, as Yao Ruoyu gradually approached the Four Realms, his spiritual sense felt a little sluggish from time to time, not because his cultivation had declined, but because he had gradually touched the bottleneck called the human barrier between the Three Realms and the Four Realms.

If the spirit master wants to break through to the Four Realms, he must condense his own first soul rune, and then use the power of the soul rune to break through the human barrier, but Yao Ruoyu has not been able to decide which soul rune he has condensed so far, and he is still some distance away from the Four Realms after all, so he also put this idea aside for the time being.

Of course, Yao Ruoyu didn't want to break through too fast, after all, every time he broke through, he would burn part of his Shouyuan, so for the sake of his own life, after he completely stabilized the realm, he also ended the retreat, returned to the leader's mansion to freshen up, and went out for a stroll.