Chapter 336: Peace
February of the third year of Taiping in the Great Wei Dynasty, February is the busiest month in the Great Wei, the annual tribute to the Tianlan Sect must be ordered in this month, and the annual spring ploughing must also be prepared in this month.
This month is also a busy month for Li Hongsleeve, although the major affairs of the court and the central government have been handed over to Jiang Ning and Liu Qing and other ministers, but she also has to show up from time to time, otherwise others will think that the emperor is gone.
In Li Hongsleeve's study, Liu Qing and Jiang Ning were reporting on their work and planning this year's work plan, mainly to use the budget and spend the court's money, which was proposed by Jiang Cheng before.
"This year, the imperial court continued to implement infrastructure construction, or mainly roads and water conservancy, and the household department decided to invest 10 million taels of silver·····"
Jiang Ning took the plan and read the contents according to the book, his focus was still on infrastructure construction, which was a habit brought from Songshan.
In Songshan back then, Cheng Qingsong was like this, but whenever he had money, he invested in infrastructure construction, building roads, repairing canals, and building large-scale facilities.
Now Jiangning has ascended to a high position, the same is true, in recent years, it has invested a lot of money to engage in infrastructure construction, and the effect is also very good, first of all, it is to create jobs, and secondly, the benefits of water conservancy roads are also self-evident.
Moreover, it can also temper the ability of officials, and the construction of a large-scale facility can easily cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver and mobilize tens of thousands of personnel.
"I agreed"
When Jiang Ning finally finished reading the content, Li Hongsleeve quickly agreed, and she had already seen the benefits of infrastructure construction in the past few years.
The most direct is the increase in grain income, and grain is the most important thing in Dawei, there is no one, even if it is a tribute to Xianmen, it is closely related to food.
"Yoo Sang, it's your turn"
Li Hongsleeve immediately said to Liu Qing that the prime minister who stayed before had retired and gone home, Liu Qing and Jiang Ning were Li Hongsleeve's left and right prime ministers, and the two were tied.
"Yes, Holy Lord, the minister's proposal this year is still to add a civil and military academy..."
Liu Qing took out his own plan and read it out one by one, Jiangning's work focus is on infrastructure construction, while Liu Qing is strengthening the construction of officials.
The foundation of official construction lies in the school, and in recent years, Liu Qing has continued to exert force in the DPRK and China to increase the number of schools, in fact, this is also the competition between him and the officials of the Songshan lineage.
Over the years, the share of people from the Songshan lineage has been too large in the central government and local officials, and Liu Qing has been extremely worried, so he wants to control the school, or rather control education, so his people are full of people in the academy.
"Accurate"
Li Hongsleeve also agreed, Wenzhi and martial arts are naturally parallel, which is also the most direct manifestation of the prosperity of the Great Wei, especially martial arts, which is what Li Hongsleeve is most concerned about.
Because of the problem of inertia, the martial arts cultivation of the Great Wei is far beyond the law cultivation, the more people who practice martial arts, the more geniuses they will excavate, Li Hongsleeve has excavated a lot of people in the past two years, and a few of the talents are still terrifying, although they are not as good as Wu Song back then, but they are also too much more than ordinary people.
Now there are more than 700 warriors registered in Yipintang, which is more than 700 innate warriors, and the prosperity of martial arts far exceeds that of previous dynasties.
And now the entire Great Wei Dynasty is also an era of peace and prosperity, the imperial court lightly distributes the meager endowment, so that the people are getting richer and richer, and the anti-corruption action has never been relaxed, and the degree of integrity of officials is far greater than in the past.
"Jiang Xiang, this year's tribute is ready"
"Back to the Holy Lord, it's ready, all the tributes have arrived, just waiting to be sent to Tianlan Sect"
Jiang Ning replied, in the past two years, the spiritual energy has become more and more abundant, and there are more and more wild elixirs in Great Wei, and the minerals have not stopped, coupled with the construction of the elixir garden and the spiritual field, it is more than enough to cope with the tribute of the Tianlan Sect.
"That's good, how much did you have left over from last year?"
"According to the price of the Xianmen, it should be about 500,000, and some things are not convenient to estimate, otherwise it will be more."
Jiang Ning said, Da Wei is also smart now, and he is no longer stupid, such as the things on the treasure list, they all know that they are good things, and if they can not take them out, they will not take them out, but replace them with some low-level elixirs, which are all to be hidden.
"Jiang Cheng's side, you can give more support, thanks to them all these years"
Li Hongsleeve said, Jiang Cheng and Zhang Datong have given them great help in the immortal cultivation world, and many things that Tianlan Sect is unwilling to give are Zhang Datong and them help to collect, and those minerals and the like are also sold by Zhang Datong, and then exchanged for the things they need, such as pills.
Now the pills used by Li Hongsleeve were all bought for her by Zhang Datong in the immortal cultivation realm, otherwise with the strength of the Immortal Pavilion, she would not be able to refine it at all.
"Holy Lord, I'm afraid our private vault was discovered by Li Changsheng"
Jiang Ning thought about it, but decided to say that Great Wei had always been unwilling to be exploited by the Xianmen, there was no doubt about it, so outside the treasury, they privately set up a private treasury.
Zhang Datong's things are all from the private treasury, including the people and horses they cultivate privately, and the scope of these private warehouses is very large, including some minerals, elixir gardens, and spiritual fields.
And these things have been discovered by Li Changsheng, although Li Changsheng has not interfered in political affairs over the years, but he is extremely coveted by the wealth of Great Wei, and has privately controlled a group of people to benefit him.
"Regardless of him, Li Changsheng's status is not as good as Jiang Cheng's now, he doesn't dare to attack us openly, if he plays yin, in Great Wei, I am not afraid of him"
Speaking of Li Changsheng, Li Hongsleeve was very disappointed, because he didn't say a good word to Da Wei and do a good deed, and he didn't regard himself as a child of the Li family at all.
Now he covets the resources of Da Wei, if he can stand here with Da Wei a little, Li Hongsleeve will not be so protective of him, but Li Changsheng doesn't pay anything, Li Hongsleeve is unwilling to let him take advantage.
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"This Great Wei is in Li Hongsleeve's hands, it is not bad, creating a prosperous era"
"I don't feel anything"
Chen Shiyue replied that he came from a family of immortals, and he didn't know anything about the mortal world, so he couldn't see that it was a prosperous era at all, because where he saw it, there were still mostly poor people.
"You haven't experienced it, of course you don't understand"
Li Changsheng said that he had experienced prosperous times and troubled times, and when Daxuan was in the past, it was known as the prosperous era, and it was the most prosperous era in the hundred years since the founding of Daxuan.
But it is still not as good as now, although today's Great Wei, although there are still poor people everywhere, but he knows that in the several famines that broke out in Great Wei in the past two years, almost no one died, or very few people died.
This is something he couldn't imagine before, there is so much grain in the government's warehouse that he can't put it down, and those officials, many of them are not aiming to get promoted and make a fortune, this is not what a prosperous era is.
As for the years compared with the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty, it is even more incomparable, at that time there were wars everywhere, and now it is singing and dancing.
"I don't understand, it doesn't matter, the key is whether this prosperous world can give us some benefits, Senior Brother Changsheng, if you and I live on that little month, it will be miserable"
"It's already being planned, we have to get a piece of Dawei's resources"
Li Changsheng said, although he is considered a cave mystery, but the monthly example is only a little, and Dawei has so many opportunities, let him watch it lose in vain like this, it is too cruel, he can't stand it himself.
"As soon as possible, I can only use one pill a month now, it's really more human than human, it's infuriating, it is said that Jiang Cheng got twenty top-grade Zengyuan Pills in the Seven Peerless Gate at one time, that's the best pills, I have never used it, and the medicinal power of one is two or three times more than ours' Zengyuan Pill."
"The best Zengyuan Pill is a 20,000 spirit jade, it is indeed very tempting"
Li Changsheng said that their net worth is comparable to Jiang Cheng's, it is like a flower child, they have an income of tens of thousands of spirit jade a year, because here, except for the monthly case, they have almost no income, and they can still get a lot of benefits by asking the Immortal Pavilion before, but now they have also been cut down.
"Senior Brother Changsheng, how did you plan, let's listen to it and see if I can help"
"No, your relationship is not needed here"
"That's not necessarily, Dawei's resources are all raw materials, even if you get the spirit jade, you have to exchange it for pills and weapons, isn't it?"
"That's right, then you have to rely on Senior Brother Chen's help"
Li Changsheng said that he didn't want Chen Shiyue to interfere because he wanted to swallow most of the benefits.
Li Changsheng coveted the resources of the Great Wei, and actually mentioned it to Li Hongsleeve a few times, asking Li Hongsleeve to support him Li Changsheng, as long as he broke through to the True Monarch, he would have enough right to speak in the Tianlan Sect, and when the time came, he would naturally be able to speak for the Great Wei, such as paying tribute, and he could be exempted.
But Li Hongsleeve didn't like him at all, and later Li Changsheng went to find the rest of the Li family's disciples, but although those people respected Li Changsheng, they didn't dare to disobey Li Hongsleeve's order, because the Li family's disciples knew that Li Changsheng could only be in the Great Wei for ten years, and Li Hongsleeve could be the emperor for at least a few decades.
Li Changsheng couldn't get support from the imperial court, so he had to do it himself, and in the past two years, Li Changsheng recruited a group of warriors and tempted them with means such as Xianmen and Changsheng, so that they could obey him.
These people have the support of Li Changsheng, occupy some territory in the local area, open mines by themselves, do business, etc., with his support, they have developed rapidly.
Things like gold and silver are useless in the immortal cultivation world, but they are still useful here, and they can be exchanged for some immortal cultivation resources.
Now the power of this group of people is not very large, and they only brought him more than a thousand spirit jade last year, but it is still developing, this year Li Changsheng decided to increase their support, at least a few tens of thousands of spirit jade for him a year, so as to barely meet his cultivation needs.