The next day, before dawn, Zhou Wan'er woke up early. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

While she was asleep, she had been pillowing Wang Yu's left arm, snuggling sideways in his arms, and her white, smooth and boneless left hand was placed on his chest.

She opened her eyes and saw that Wang Yu was turning her head to look at her, her eyes full of tender love.

"You've already woken up?" asked Zhou Wan'er in a low voice.

Wang Yu nodded and said with a smile: "If you don't wake up after a while, I'm going to wake you up, you asked me three times in a row last night, I thought that on the first day after you ascended the throne, the spring night will be bitter and short, and the king will not be early from now on!"

Zhou Wan'er's face flushed, she sat up from his arms, and said coquettishly: "I slept until I woke up naturally just now, and now I feel surprisingly good, how can I not go to court early? You told me so many good ideas for governing the country last night, I will announce it in public this morning and implement it immediately!"

After saying that, she got out of bed, began to wash and groom, and prepared to go to the morning court.

Wang Yu smiled and quickly got up.

The two of them washed up, put on court clothes, and left the dormitory with several palace maids.

Out of the door of the dormitory, the two of them saw at a glance that Youjiuniang was already waiting in the courtyard.

The three of them left the harem together and walked towards the main hall in front.

Along the way, Zhou Wan'er told You Jiuniang some of the statecraft that Wang Yu said last night, and You Jiuniang couldn't stop nodding while listening.

The three of them came to the palace hall.

At this time, the morning dawn was beginning to appear, and Zhou Wen was already waiting outside the main hall with hundreds of civil and military officials.

Hundreds of people, together with Wang Yu and You Jiuniang, followed Zhou Wan'er into the main hall.

Zhou Wan'er sat down on the throne, and everyone bowed down to worship together.

After the ceremony, Zhou Wan'er said: "Everyone, the Xuanhuang Empire has just been established, this is my first early dynasty, I want to say some long-brewing statecraft strategies, and they will be promulgated and implemented from now on!"

Hundreds of people immediately bowed down and said, "Obey Your Majesty's order!"

Zhou Wan'er said: "The whole world is not the king's land, and the coast of the land is not the king's minister, the first strategy is to collect all the land in the Xuanhuang Continent into the possession of the empire, to avoid the powerful and powerful to seize the people's land, and after the land is owned by the empire, the land is managed by the empire and directly leased to the people for cultivation." ”

As soon as these words came out, the hundreds of civil and military officials present immediately made a big uproar and shook their heads one after another.

Most of them owned considerable land, and in addition to the taxes paid to the Empire, they received a large annual rent from the tenant farmers.

Confiscating the land to the Empire, while beneficial to the vast majority of the people, is undoubtedly cutting their flesh!

Last night, the reason why Wang Yu proposed this strategy to Zhou Wan'er was because when he was in Zulong Village, he witnessed the bully Wu Chenglong stealing almost the entire land of Zulong Village by stealing and grabbing it.

Later, he went to many empires and found that the phenomenon of occupying a large amount of land by the powerful was widespread in the Xuanhuang Continent, which was the fundamental reason for the inequality between the rich and the poor in the Xuanhuang Continent, the poor livelihood of the people, and the dire situation, and also an important reason for the poverty and weakness of the Xuanhuang Continent.

Zhou Wan'er first proposed this strategy of governing the country in the early dynasty, because when she lived in Zulong Village, she had also witnessed the evil deeds of Wu Chenglong's family and had the same feelings as Wang Yu.

Hundreds of civil and military officials saw that Zhou Wan'er was serious, and there seemed to be no room for negotiation, and Wang Yu was also present, looking at everyone coldly, his eyes were like torches, and Zhou's body was murderous.

Although there was a strong dissatisfaction in his heart, and he kept whispering and complaining, no one dared to stand up and express his opposition.

Finally, a high-ranking official who had tens of thousands of acres of land at home stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, the land that originally belonged to other empires was collected by our Xuanhuang Empire, and the land that originally belonged to the Great Zhou Empire was in the hands of our people, and it was also accumulated for generations, Your Majesty should not take it back to the empire!"

Zhou Wan'er was stunned and set her eyes on Wang Yu.

Wang Yu immediately said coldly: "Your Majesty, this matter must not be done! Once this happens, it will make the nobles of the original Great Zhou Empire superior to others and become the privileged class of the Xuanhuang Empire, which will definitely lead to the dissatisfaction of the nobles who originally belonged to the major empires, and eventually endanger the rule of the Xuanhuang Empire!"

Zhou Wan'er nodded, and said with a straight face: "Yes, the entire Xuanhuang Empire is unified, I will never allow the division within the empire, and all the land within the empire will be owned by the empire!"

The high-ranking official's face turned pale and he retreated abruptly.

Zhou Wan'er continued: "The Xuanhuang Continent is vast, with a radius of more than 20 million li and a large population, no less than billions, which can easily form a powerful separatist force and threaten the unity of the empire. ”

"Castle Lordship?"

Hundreds of officials immediately exchanged heads and discussions.

Among them, dozens of generals of the former Great Zhou Empire had fought with Wang Yu, and they had seen Wang Yu appoint city lords in some of the cities he had captured, they thought it was just an expedient measure, but they didn't expect the empress to decide to implement the city lord system in the entire Xuanhuang Continent.

Zhou Wan'er cleared her throat, and the scene suddenly fell silent.

She explained unhurriedly: "There are tens of thousands of cities in the entire Xuanhuang Empire, and the empire will appoint a city lord in each city to manage the city and the attached land for me, regardless of the size of the city, the city lord is equal, and only one person is responsible to me, and every ten years, I will evaluate the governance performance of each city lord, and continue to stay in office if the performance is qualified, and remove if the performance is not qualified." ”

A minister stepped forward and bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, there is a huge disparity in the size of the tens of thousands of cities in the empire, especially the capitals of the original major empires, which are tens or hundreds of times larger than some small cities, how should these tens of thousands of city lords be appointed?"

Zhou Wan'er said: "Of course, it is appointed according to the merits and loyalty to the empire and personal ability, and the list of tens of thousands of people is drawn up by the Duke of Lao Huguo, the General of the Patriotic Monarch and the Prime Minister. ”

After speaking, she glanced at Wang Yu, You Jiuniang and Zhou Wen.

Wang Yu is the commander of the Great Zhou Empire, You Jiuniang was originally his deputy general, because of her outstanding achievements in the process of unifying the Xuanhuang Continent, she was crowned as the general of the country by Zhou Wan'er at yesterday's enthronement ceremony, and when Wang Yu was away, she was responsible for commanding all the soldiers and horses of the Xuanhuang Empire.

Wang Yu, You Jiuniang and Zhou Wen stepped forward together, bowed down and said, "Obey!"

Zhou Wan'er said: "The mainland money bank is also owned by the empire, and the shortfall in each semicolon is made up, and then the semicolon is extended to every city of the empire, and the golden tickets issued are deposited and exchanged in the semicolon of each city, so as to facilitate the development of the empire's commercial trade and promote the prosperity of the empire. ”