Young Master Shang Rong saw that Taishi Wen Zhong was staring at his teacher coldly, and he was not angry in his heart, so he snorted coldly and stood outside the priest column, cutting off Wen Zhong's sight. Shang Rong held the jade wat in his hand, and it was not like the courtiers who would hold the jade wat high very respectfully when they had something to play, he only put the jade wat flat on his chest, and his tone was indifferent: "Three days later, it is the Zhou Sacrifice Ceremony, Your Majesty has first ascended the great treasure, it is advisable to go to the altar in person to worship, personally sacrifice the bronze god tree, and then pay tribute to the ancestors of the ghost god heaven and earth, so that the orthodoxy of the great Shang is right." ”

First ghosts and gods, then heaven and earth, and finally the ancestors.

After listening to the words that sounded rebellious to him and felt that the ministers of the priesthood department took it for granted, Di Xin did not directly express his dissatisfaction, but just waved his slender hands to make him retreat, and said, "Taishi Wen Zhong has returned from the expedition to the north, how about reporting the results of this battle first?"

Shang Rong, the young master who had eaten a closed door, wanted to be angry, and reprimanded the Son of Heaven for not taking the Zhou sacrifice to heart, but thinking that the young man in front of him was different from the Shang kings of the past dynasties, even he did not dare to comprehend it, so he had to change his previous arrogance for the first time, dare to be angry and dare not speak, shut up and retreat.

Taishi Wen Zhong is both civil and military, and he looks like a burly middle-aged man with a height of eight feet. Taishi Wenzhong has been a mainstay of the Great Shang since the Emperor Yi period, and his Qi cultivation kung fu is also first-class and profound. Wen Zhong very respectfully raised the golden whip given by the first king in his hand and saluted over the top, and did enough of the courtier's etiquette, and then slowly spoke: "Qi Qi Son of Heaven, the minister and his subordinate sons waved back the bandits, and chased eight hundred miles in one go, beheaded one enemy commander, three division commanders, eight thousand heads of desolate people, and two thousand prisoners, all of whom can be enslaved." ”

Di Xin had obviously received the secret report of the results before, but he was still very happy at this time. In all directions of the world, the Dongyi naval army is the most prosperous, the southern barbarians hide in the jungle, the Xirong is familiar with the desert, only the northern vast grassland is the most suitable for cavalry combat and is rich in high-quality horses, and the barren people are the most powerful in the four barbarians. This time, Taishi Wenzhong's great victory, not only showed the advantages of the cavalry that he strongly supported in the army, far superior to the chariots of previous dynasties in terms of mobility, but also could capture a "Tianhe" horse farm to strengthen the national strength. After coming and going, the national strength of the people of the Northern Wilderness was greatly damaged, and they could only avoid the depths of the grassland to recuperate, and the northern border should be stable for ten years.

Such a great achievement, when it is necessary to reward it well, Di Xin weighed it in his heart, and said: "Taishi Wenzhong won the Tianhe Hippodrome for my big business this time, and he killed the enemy, and made a meritorious deed, rewarding the Taishi with thousands of catties of gold, thousands of horses of silk, thousands of acres of land, and ten thousand catties of refined salt. ”

As soon as the reward was issued, Wen Zhong was not surprised, but he raised the golden whip in his hand again to thank him, and the ordinary courtiers below were just jealous, but the courtiers who could listen to Shangyi more tasted something else. As above, Doctor Fei Lian was thinking in his heart at this time, the gold silk and land were also ordinary, and it was quite contemplative to reward 10,000 catties of refined salt. In the Shang Dynasty, due to the limitations of skills, it was difficult to refine refined salt, which had always been enjoyed only by high-ranking officials and nobles. Your Majesty's reward of 10,000 catties of salt is a reward for the Taishi, but this amount is so huge, do you want to improve the reward for military merits, but also want to do it to the people who are rich in salt mines in the eastern territory?

As Fei Lian expected, Di Xin continued to say after announcing the reward: "My Dashang is now a strong country, but there are still barbarians raging in the Quartet, and I think that although the people of the outer court are far away from Gyeonggi, they are also my Dashang subjects, and they should not be disturbed by the border and have no peace." From now on, Lone will order the princes of the world to expand the borders in all directions, and each can come to ask Lone for a reward based on his military merits. ”

Di Xin pondered for a moment and said: "Alone on top of the second lord of the marquis, expand the king and the second duke, and set up sons and second barons under them, so as to reward the meritorious ministers of the great merchants." This time, the Taishi won a great victory, and he took the lead in sealing the Taishi as the Duke of Yasukuni. ”

"If you increase the rewards for the military merits of the common people, even slaves can get rid of slavery by killing the enemy's military merits, what do you think?"

As soon as Di Xin's words fell, the voices of His Royal Highness Jin Luan's ministers swarmed, and the Taishi did not change his face when he heard that Zhong Taishan had collapsed in front of him, but thanked His Majesty with a smile, and the rest of the important ministers who stood in the first place each frowned and thought about whether this move was appropriate, and the princes of the towns later were obviously happy, and the courtiers who were further back began to whisper. Some people even fought for the ground, but they tried their best to keep their voices low, so as not to leave a bad impression on His Majesty that disturbed the court.

Di Xin quietly looked at the ministers below on the golden chair, full of ambition in his heart. First, there were loyal and meritorious ministers such as Taishi Wen Zhong, Shangfu Feilian, and military marshal Huang Gon, and then there were young and promising courtiers who were selected by themselves to enter the center of the imperial court, such as Ya Bigan, Hu Ben General Yao Gao, and Da Sima Yin. From the perspective of his own cultivation and entering the fairyland, Dashang's originally withered, yellowed and crumbling national fortunes have shown signs of prosperity after his own and uncle's actions, how can he not be full of gratification?

Except for the priest lineage, like maggots on tarsal bones, they are stuck to this pillar of fortune to absorb nutrients.

Di Xin's eyes, whose face was blocked behind the crown, were cold, and sooner or later he would uproot your cancer!

However, these people who worship ghosts and gods are fanatical and self-controlled, even if he is the king of a country, it is not easy to move lightly if he can't catch these people's handles, after all, since the founding of the country, he has been infiltrating the Tao Now, if he makes a fierce move, the big merchants will inevitably bleed. Although the master father killed the priests of the Great God Zhu family, the rest of the people have always been pure-hearted, like a turtle shrunk in a shell, so that he has nowhere to start. From time to time, these people stretched out their heads to bite him, and even put the turtle shell in the middle of the avenue, blocking his pace of leading the big merchants forward.

Sure enough, the young master Shang Rong took out a turtle shell from his sleeve like a trick, and did not tell Di Xin, so he respectfully walked to the mysterious old man who seemed to be sleeping but not sleeping on the side and knelt down, holding the turtle shell in his hand: "Please ask the teacher to divinate a hexagram to show whether the Son of Heaven's move is in line with the will of heaven." ”

Perhaps under the influence of Wu Zhiqi, Di Xin's slender eyes habitually narrowed, and his power was like that of a tiger sleeping, but it was covered by the bead curtain in front of him, and no one among the ministers noticed this small action of the Son of Heaven. And as Shang Rong respectfully stepped forward and bowed, the voice in the Jinluan Hall gradually became quieter, and many courtiers were silent. By the time the old man stretched out two withered fingers and slowly clamped the turtle shell and threw it into the flames, the huge Vermilion Palace had already fallen into the needle.

"Smack!"

The swarthy tortoise shell soaked in secret medicinal juice fell into the basin, and the warm yellow flame in the basin suddenly grew into a column of fire that was one zhang long and short, and the green flame kept spewing thin!

But the strange thing is that even though the flames suddenly increased a lot, Wen Zhong, Bi Gan, and Dong Bohou Jiang Huan Chu, who were standing in the first row of the courtiers, did not feel the temperature rise. Fortunately, among the newcomers who came to the court meeting for the first time, they were startled, thinking that an assassin had come to assassinate them, and found that the important ministers in front of them were only slightly nervously staring at the brazier before they were relieved.

The rapid fire came and went quickly, and the brazier regained its warm yellowish color after a moment, but some of the courtiers close to the front row took two steps back very covertly, obviously not wanting to get too close to this strange brazier. The High Priest's fingers had already retracted into his brown sleeves, and after Shang Rong had finished kowtowing respectfully, he stretched out his hand directly to the golden basin that was still burning with fire.

Although it was not the first time that Taishi Wen Zhong had seen the High Priest and Shang Rong do this, he was still a little curious. From his Xuan Immortal Eyes, this young master is an ordinary person with no mana fluctuations in his body, under the watchful eyes of his pair of heavenly eyes, even the high priest named "A" cannot play any tricks, thinking that Shang Rong has been practicing secret art since he was a child, or that his hands as white as jade have been smeared with some potion all year round, so as not to be afraid of this demonic flame.

In Wen Zhong's opinion, although His Majesty's behavior is suspected of consuming national strength, he has been running around the outer court all the year round, and the princes of the Quartet have long given him a feeling of suspicion. His Majesty's move has four birds with one stone, the first is to be able to reward the four leaders and princes among the princes of the four directions, so that they can take the lead in showing their loyalty to the court to shock Xiaoxiao. The second is to give the small group of people who already have the Marquis in their bodies the motivation to climb up, and if they have a goal in their hearts, they will not think nonsense. The most important thing is that it can consume the national strength of the princes of all parties, and it can also make them have nothing to say. The fourth is to give hope to the lowest slaves who have long been disgruntled, knowing that having an idea in their hearts that they can get rid of slavery for future generations can dispel the rebellion of countless lowest-level slaves.

This is a righteous and bright conspiracy, which not only leaves time for the initial development of the great merchants, but also dispels the crooked thoughts of the princes. Wen Zhong looked at the newly emerging Emperor Xin Lao Huai and comforted, our son of business is really young and promising, not to be underestimated!

The tortoise shell has some cracks in the burning just now, these irregular cracks in the eyes of the layman are the will of the ghosts and gods in the eyes of the priests, Shang Rong carefully read it, and carefully touched it with his hands, only then did he confirm it, and bowed to Di Xin for the first time, and then cleared his throat and announced to the ministers: "After the worship of the ghosts and gods, the will of heaven is feasible!"

The courtiers who supported the implementation of the policy were overjoyed, and those who did not dare to show their opposition, only a slight disappointment written on their faces. After Wen Zhong secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he snorted coldly, and after scolding "pretending to be a ghost", he couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

Even if he had not received a positive answer from the priest lineage, Wen Zhongben was ready to vigorously support the implementation of the policy, but if the priest lineage insisted on putting a charge against the will of the ghosts and gods, although he was not afraid, he would be a little troublesome.

Di Xin, who did not want the first great court meeting to go wrong, was obviously very relieved that a conflict had disappeared, but he immediately issued a decree: "Yao Shuai has been the general of Huben for seven years, and such a fierce general has been on the battlefield to kill the enemy in Gyeonggi, and he has complained many times in the morning. ”

"Yao Gao. ”

The tall military general whose left eyebrow was cut off by a scar was not wearing armor in the upper court, but wearing a military attache uniform, but his burly body supported the court uniform very full, Yao Gao stood out of the military generals and saluted: "The minister is here!"

Di Xin looked at his beloved generals in the audience and said with a smile: "Lone gives you the title of hussar general, and allocates 100,000 of your armor soldiers to guard Xirong, what do you think?"

Standing in the second place in the queue of princes, Xibohou Jichang, who had been keeping his head down, changed his face suddenly and buried his head lower.