After hearing his sister's words, Chu Qingli said expressionlessly: "My sister also knows that he has grown up, why should she follow him." ”

"There are so many strong people around him now, and the woman surnamed Bai is stronger than her sister, and her sister is now a dispensable existence in Beiwangfu."

Hearing Chu Qingli's words, the memories in Chu Yuqin's mind dissipated instantly, she turned her head to look at Chu Qingli and said, "Qingli, it's been so long since you came to the Northern Palace, how do I feel that you still haven't given up?" ”

Chu Qingli looked at the study and said, "If my sister is not out of the sea of suffering, it is impossible for me to die." ”

Hearing Chu Qingli's words, Chu Yuqin sighed slightly, and then said: "Qingli, for me, Chen'er is my most important person, it is impossible for me to leave his side, and I don't think I am so bitter by his side." ”

Chu Qingli said lightly: "The reason why my sister has such an idea is just because she was hypnotized by him. ”

"One day, I will make my sister come to her senses and see the evil side of this man clearly."

"I believe that by that time, even if I don't say anything, my sister will leave the Beiwang Mansion herself."

Seeing that Chu Qingli was still so brainless, Chu Yuqin simply stopped continuing the topic, she felt that no matter how much she said, it was useless.

But then again, with her sister in the palace all the time, how can she serve Lu Chen?

Thinking of this, Chu Yuqin's face became a little hot.

The last time she said to let Lu Chen give her some time, so much time has passed in the blink of an eye, and she has not fulfilled her promise, she is afraid that if she continues to drag on like this, Lu Chen may think that she has broken her promise.

It seems that she has to find an opportunity to take her sister away, and only when her sister leaves the palace can she fulfill her promise and serve Lu Chen.

But how should she be taken away?

Chu Yuqin thought for a while, and then said to Chu Qingli: "Qingli, the life of the Beiwang Mansion is somewhat boring for you, a person who often runs around, so you are always cranky, or you leave the Beiwang Mansion for a while and go out for a walk, maybe you won't be cranky after a while." ”

Hearing this, Chu Qingli instantly showed a suspicious expression, and then she said, "Sister, is this planning to take me away, and then do something unseemly with that man?" ”

Seeing that her sister actually saw through her thoughts in an instant, Chu Yuqin suddenly felt that her face became hotter, and she felt extremely ashamed.

There's no suitable reason.,It's really hard to take away your sister.。

Chu Yuqin then said stiffly: "Qingli, I am Chen'er's aunt, how can you have such an idea!" ”

"Forget it, I won't say anything more to you, anyway, no matter how much I say, you won't listen."

Speaking of this, Chu Yuqin turned around and left, to be precise, she fled from this place, she felt that if she continued to stay, she was afraid that her sister would be able to see more things, and her sister's intuition was too accurate, and she actually guessed that she wanted to take her away.

At this time, Chu Yuqin regretted a little that she let Chu Qingli enter the Beiwang Mansion, it was easy to invite the gods and send the gods, and it was not easy to let her come in and let her leave.

Seeing the back of Chu Yuqin leaving, Chu Qingli always felt that Chu Yuqin and Lu Chen had done something unseemly.

However, she has no evidence, so she can only rely on speculation.

At this time, Chu Qingli turned his head again to look at the study not far away.

The man in the study is the root of all evil, as long as he gets the man in the study, maybe his sister will be able to get out of the sea of suffering.

Thinking of this, Chu Qingli walked directly towards the study, she felt that it was time for her to have a good chat with Lu Chen.

However, as soon as she walked to the door of the study, a Jinyi guard soldier hurriedly came to the study, and before she could say anything, the Jinyi guard soldier spoke first: "Lord Wang, the county guard sent someone to send hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, saying that the prince wanted to build the road, and the officials voluntarily donated money to the prince to repair the road. ”

Hearing this, Lu Chen, who was writing a reform plan in the study, was stunned for a moment, and after coming back to his senses, he immediately put down the brush in his hand, and then opened the door directly.

After opening the door of the study, Lu Chen first glanced at Chu Qingli, and then his eyes fell on the Jinyi Guard.

"Where's the silver?"

The Jinyi guard soldier replied, "The outer courtyard, just delivered." ”

Lu Chen immediately said: "Send the silver to the palace hall, this king wants to take a look." ”

Speaking of this, Lu Chen's gaze shifted to Chu Qingli again, "Qingli, do you have anything to do with me?" ”

Chu Qingli was stunned for a moment, she really planned to talk to Lu Chen just now, but after being interrupted by the Jinyi Guard, her inner thoughts instantly dissipated again.

She suddenly felt as if she was enchanted, how could she have the idea of talking to Lu Chen alone?

Chu Qingli immediately said, "It's okay, I just patrolled here." ”

Lu Chen said lightly: "Oh, that's it, then I'll go first." ”

Chu Qingli hurriedly got out of the way, "Lord Wang, go slowly." ”

Then Lu Chen came to the hall of the outer courtyard of the palace, and after a while, the subordinates of the palace carried several large boxes of silver to the palace hall.

Seeing the wooden box in the hall, Lu Chen showed a strange smile on his face, and said whether it was joy or something, he said at this time: "Open all the boxes." ”

The subordinates immediately opened the wooden boxes, and the boxes were full of white silver, looking at the silver, Lu Chen said to himself: "Seventy thousand taels of silver in exchange for hundreds of thousands of taels, this business is really not a loss at all." ”

He asked Mu Zixuan to allocate 70,000 taels of silver to the officials of Bei County to make a fortune, but before the money could be sent, the officials of Bei County handed over hundreds of thousands of taels of silver instead.

Lu Chen squatted down, picked up a silver ingot in the wooden box and looked at it, and then continued: "Li Rui, this guy is really dishonest, these officials in Yancheng can hand over hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and they actually came to me to ask for money a few days ago. ”

Speaking of this, Lu Chen turned his head and said to the subordinates of the palace: "Count and see how much silver there is." ”

After listening to Lu Chen's words, the people of the palace immediately began to count the silver.

Lu Chen didn't stay in the palace hall all the time, he asked the maid to find Mu Zixuan to deal with the silver, and then he went back to the study to continue to write the reform plan of Beijun.

When Mu Zixuan saw the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in the palace hall, she was extremely shocked, and when she inquired about the source, she was even more surprised, in such a poor place in Beijun, these officials in Yancheng could actually be greedy for four or five hundred thousand taels of silver.

However, Mu Zixuan didn't say anything to Lu Chen about this matter later, after all, this is a political matter, Lu Chen can handle it, as for the silver, all of it will be put into the treasury, and it just so happens that they are about to set up the treasury.

A few days later, the small court meeting in Beijun officially began, and Lu Chen's study must not be able to fit so many officials, because the council hall has not yet been built, so Lu Chen took the palace hall in the outer courtyard as the location of this small court meeting.

This meeting was attended not only by all the officials of the North County, but also by the generals.

In the morning, after Lu Chen got up, he simply ate something and went to the palace hall, at this time the officials and generals had already arrived.

In the face of this meeting, the officials of the northern county were very nervous, but the generals stood there one by one like no one else, and the officials discussed the meeting.

At this time, the voice of a brocade guard soldier came from the door, "The prince has arrived!" ”

Hearing this, the originally noisy palace hall instantly fell silent, and people closed their mouths and waited.

Lu Chen walked through the crowd at this time, and walked directly to the chair facing the gate and sat down.

Li Rui immediately took the lead and said: "See the prince, the prince is a thousand years old!" ”

Lu Chen said lightly: "No courtesy." ”

Then Lu Chen said: "I believe everyone has heard that this king asked you to come to the palace to discuss politics this time, mainly for the reform of Beijun." ”

"This king has been coming to Beijun for more than a year, and according to the usual practice, this king is going to form his own team, but because this king has other things to do before, plus two barbarian armies have gone south, so this king has not had time."

"After thinking about it these days, this king has decided to make some adjustments to the northern county."

Speaking of this, Lu Chen turned his head to the Jinyi guard soldiers beside him and said, "Read." ”

After hearing Lu Chen's words, the Jinyi Guard soldier took out a long scroll and began to read it.

"From now on, the official abolition of the North County, the North County is called the North Country, the North Country has the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Crime, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Education, the North Country adopts the policy of separation of military and government, the Ministry of War is managed by the King of the North alone, and at the same time, the North County Army should also be reformed, and the reform of the North County Army is divided into the following points......"

When the soldiers of the Jinyi Guard read the "reform measures", the hall was quiet, and people were listening carefully to the content that was closely related to them.

After half an hour, the Jinyi Guard soldier finished reading the contents of the scroll, and after the Jinyi Guard soldier stopped, Lu Chen spoke: "Next, if you have any questions about the reform measures, or if you think it is inappropriate, you can raise them. ”

After hearing Lu Chen's words, the civil officials, you look at me, I look at you, and they didn't stand up.

Of course, they have a lot of doubts in their hearts, but most of them are petty officials, how dare they talk nonsense about such reform measures.

At this moment, Li Rui stood up and said: "Lord, since ancient times, there have been six ministries in the imperial court, why should Beijun add a Ministry of Commerce and a Ministry of Education?" When the minister heard what the Jinyi guard had just read, he found that the Ministry of Commerce could be merged into the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Education could be merged into the Ministry of Rites, and there was no need to set up two more departments. ”

Lu Chen replied: "The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Education are the default departments, mainly for the future Beijun, and these two departments are temporarily managed by this king alone. ”

Hearing Lu Chen's words, Li Rui no longer dwelled on this issue, since it was the preset department, it had nothing to do with him.

However, there was another question that Li Rui was more concerned about, and he immediately said: "Lord Wang, there is a provision in your reform measures that the land in the north belongs to you in the north in law, and anyone only has the right to use, not ownership, which may cause protests from the common people." ”

The issue of land annexation is a matter of great concern to any dynasty, but no dynasty has dared to directly say that all the soil under heaven will be returned to the imperial court, or all will be handed over to the emperor.

Although nominally the whole country is an emperor, it is only nominal.

If the landlords take back the ownership of the land, the landlords will definitely not do it, and the common people will not agree.

Li Rui felt that Lu Chen's measure was too bold, which was likely to cause the people to be dissatisfied with Lu Chen.

Lu Chen said: "The resumption of land ownership is to avoid the problem of land annexation, and the second is to prepare for the future development and construction of North County. ”

"The reason why this king dares to do this, naturally there is a reason why this king dares to do this, first of all, there are not many big landowners in Beijun, and from today on, Beijun is exempt from all agricultural taxes, as long as the people are willing to farm, plant as much as they want, and the people can apply for land in Beiwangfu, only need to pay a small amount of land money, you can contract a large piece of land, which is the welfare that this king gives to the people after recovering the ownership of the land."

Hearing Lu Chen's words, Li Rui was stunned.

Exemption from all agricultural taxes?

That's too bold, isn't it?

In this era, agricultural taxes are the main source of a country's income!

At this time, even Mu Changtian, a military general, couldn't help but stand up and say, "Lord Wang, isn't the policy of exempting all agricultural taxes a little too radical?" If there is no agricultural tax, how can the treasury of the northern country have money in the future? ”

Lu Chen said: "The agricultural tax collected by the northern county is not enough for the officials of the northern county, what can this agricultural tax do, and the palace has a large amount of land to grow grain, and the king does not need the people to hand over the grain to the king." ”

"As for where the newly established treasury in the north should collect the money, it is naturally a new commercial tax, and any goods entering and leaving the north will need to pay commercial tax in the future, and at that time, the king will strip out part of the industries of the northern palace and hand them over to the Ministry of Commerce for management, and all the money earned from those industries will be sent to the treasury."

Hearing Lu Chen's words, the officials were stunned again, but they didn't expect the King of North to be generous.

You must know that every industry in Beiwangfu is profitable, especially the coal industry that has risen recently, and now the people in King Qi's fiefdom are frantically buying coal, and Beiwangfu doesn't know how much silver it has earned this winter.

If the Northern Prince's Mansion handed over the property to the Ministry of Commerce, then the treasury of the Northern Kingdom would not be short of money in the future.

In this way, the Ministry of Commerce is very important, after all, it is the department that makes money.

At this time, an official from Yancheng asked: "Lord Wang, will this move be suspected of competing with the people?" ”

Lu Chen was not angry with this question, he said lightly: "How can you compete with the people for profit, did the people have those industries of the Beiwang Mansion in the past?" The king will strip off those industries and hand them over to the Ministry of Commerce to manage, and then those industries will recruit workers and give food to the common people, which is a benefit to the common people, who dares to say that this king competes with the people for profit? ”

"Unless someone wants the king's inheritance, he will talk about the people fighting for profit, after all, all the money he earns goes into the treasury and not into their pockets. As far as this king knows, only those families would think so. ”

"However, there shouldn't be that family in Beijun who dares to snatch the state-owned property managed by the Ministry of Commerce under the nose of this king, right?"

Hearing Lu Chen say this, everyone in the hall fell silent.

Indeed, if the industries divided by the Beiwangfu recruit workers on a large scale, the displaced people in Beijun will have jobs and food in the future, which is to give profits to the common people, and it is not at all a competition with the people.

Of course, the common people also include the family, and the money that the family can't earn is made by the Ministry of Commerce and the Beiwangfu, and they will definitely say that the Beiwangfu competes with the people for profit.

It's just that there is a high probability that there is no such voice in North County.

Lu Chen continued at this time: "By the way, this king here wants to ask General Mo and Lord Li, can the name of this king's feudal country be changed?" You two know more about the rules of the imperial court, so you should know this. ”

As far as Lu Chen knows, the name of the feudal country cannot be changed at will, basically what kind of king the prince is, and what kind of country the feudal country is.

He is the king of the north, so his fiefdom is the northern kingdom.

But the name of the northern country made Lu Chen always feel a little uncomfortable, which seemed too informal.

At the beginning, his father was disgusted with himself, and then casually named himself a king, which had to be used for the name of other countries.

Mu Changtian replied: "Lord Wang, as far as the minister knows, it can be replaced, there is such a precedent in Great Xia, but the prince needs to write a letter to His Majesty to apply for a change of title, and then he can change the name of the northern country." ”

"But after all, the title of the prince is given by His Majesty, thunder, rain and dew, all are the grace of the king, although there is a precedent, but if the prince applies to His Majesty to change the title, His Majesty will inevitably take back something."

"And judging from the precedent, there is a high probability that the vassal king who proposed to change the title will be transferred out of the feudal state and divided elsewhere."

Hearing Mu Changtian say this, Lu Chen immediately said: "Forget it, okay, this topic will be over." ”

Lu Chen didn't think that Emperor Xia would change a fief for himself after seeing his application, but he felt that Emperor Xia would take back many of his things, such as the order to expand the army.

Since it's so troublesome, then don't change it.

The north is the north.

Sooner or later, the name will have to be changed.

"If you have any other questions, you can continue to raise them, this king has already asked his subordinates to prepare lunch, and there is plenty of time today to discuss the reform measures proposed by this king."

Li Rui continued at this time: "Lord Wang, your reform measures will be beneficial to the northern country in the long run, and there is a high probability that these reform measures will not be hindered in the northern country, but the minister believes that the biggest obstacle may not be in the northern country, but in the imperial court. ”

Let's not talk about whether Lu Chen's addition of the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Education violates the etiquette system, and the fact that the land ownership belongs to the Beiwang Mansion alone is enough for the ministers of the imperial court to criticize Lu Chen.

The land issue of the feudal dynasty has always been a relatively sensitive issue, and there are few people in Beijun now, and there are no big landlords, so Lu Chen can easily promulgate this decree with a little pressure.

But it's different in Daxia, the family, the land of officials is often the most, and you a prince actually took back all the land ownership, isn't this a bad start?

Although this matter has not yet fallen on them, they will never allow anyone to start this, today it is the vassal king who did this, then tomorrow the Xia Emperor will follow suit.

(End of chapter)