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Inside Bianjing City.

Since Zhou Cheng ascended the throne, it has been more than four years.

When he ascended the throne that year, Zhou Cheng was only over 16 years old and married the daughter of the Duke of Qingguo.

At that time, under the recommendation of Qingguo Gong and others, Han Ying, a protégé of Qing Guogong, became the Pingzhang of Tongzhongshu, and the eldest son of Qing Guogong became the governor of the government;

In addition, the privy envoy of the Privy Council, Zhou Cheng originally intended to let Lang Shiping, the original secretary of the Criminal Department, serve as the position, but in the end, under the interference of Qingguogong, he was replaced by Han Jiang, another protégé of Qingguogong, and Lang Shiping could only be subservient to the privy deputy envoy.

In addition, the province that is related to the entire Yunguo treasury, Tian Fu and Ding tax has also fallen into the control of the Qingguo Gong henchmen.

Everyone thought that the power-leaning Qingguo Gong would control the government for a long time, at least until Zhou grew up and Qingguo Gong grew old, and Zhou Cheng would have the opportunity to really get into power.

In the first year of Zhou Cheng's ascension to the throne, everything was indeed as everyone expected, and everything in the court and China was decided by Qingguo Gong and his henchmen. Zhou Cheng also seems to be willing to hand over the government to Qingguo Gong, almost ignoring political affairs, although there are only two queens and concubines in the harem, the beauty of the two is enough to make people addicted and unable to extricate themselves.

There is a rumor in Bianjing City that the emperor uses one night as two nights, sleeping in the queen's palace in the first half of the night, and in the palace of the concubine in the second half of the night.

However, in the third year of his accession to the throne, on an ordinary morning.

The people of the secret cabinet suddenly launched an action, and arrested the three envoys on their way to the court, and the three envoys were respectively on their way to the court; and in the early court that followed, Du Kuan, the secretary of the criminal department, personally revealed the three people's crimes of corruption and perversion of the law in the past three years.

Due to the conclusive evidence, Qing Guogong was unable to defend and clear the charge for the three at all.

On that day, Qingguo Gong realized that Zhou Cheng had been pretending to be in disguise for the past two years, not ignoring the government and politics, but while recuperating his energy, he deliberately connived at him and his henchmen to do misdeeds, so that he could collect criminal evidence and wipe out all their people.

Two days later, Zhou Cheng abolished the empress on the grounds of interfering in the harem and fornicating with foreign ministers, arrested and imprisoned Qingguogong and more than 20 of his henchmen, and listed all the crimes committed by Qingguogong over the years.

After being imprisoned, the most regrettable thing for Qingguo Gong is that he did not control the secret pavilion and the forbidden army in the past two years, thinking that his people would be able to have nothing to fear if they controlled the government;

In addition, because of the arrogance of the henchmen, the other courtiers were dissatisfied, which is why when Zhou Cheng wanted to attack them, the other courtiers not only interceded for them, but fell into the ground.

In that short period of ten days, with the help of the secret pavilion, the forbidden army, and some Jianghu forces in Bianjing, Zhou Cheng was able to maintain the stability of Bianjing and the court after Lianwo eliminated Qingguo Gong and his henchmen.

Later, Du Kuan, the secretary of the Criminal Department, personally tried the case and beheaded Qingguo Gong and others within a few days. After that, Zhou Cheng, who was nearly eighteen years old, took control of the entire Yunguo court and began to govern himself.

After two years of pro-government, with the severance of diplomatic relations between Yun and Western Shu and the resumption of exchanges, Yun temporarily avoided the external attack of Western Shu and Northern Liao.

However, because of natural and man-made disasters such as locust plagues, floods, and corrupt officials, the state treasury was empty, and many people could not eat enough to eat, and there were many complaints, which made Zhou Cheng feel a headache; in addition, the Northern Liao in the north had been eyeing the border of Yun and constantly harassing the borders of Yun State, so I was afraid that it would not be many years later, and I was afraid that I would not even be able to afford military salaries.

So in the fourth year of his ascension to the throne, under the temporary easing of the situation of internal and external troubles, Zhou Cheng began to reform drastically.

His first and most important reform was the introduction of the Wangtian system. The so-called royal land system means that all the land in this world is owned by the imperial court. Everyone has access to land, and land cannot be resold or mortgaged to others;

Zhou Cheng's second reform is that the people are all the people of the Son of Heaven, everyone is equal, there is no such thing as subordinates and slaves, and there is no longer a monopoly on selling the deed, whether it is a prince or a nobleman, he is not allowed to dispose of his subordinates without authorization, and if there is a life, it will be dealt with as a crime of homage;

Zhou Cheng's third reform was the reform of the official system, one of which was to abolish the hereditary title, and the second was to streamline the official positions in the court and the central government, and to abolish many official positions and titles in name only;

In addition to the above three items, Zhou Cheng also had many reforms, such as the private borrowing of silver should not exceed two cents of interest, otherwise it will be regarded as invalid, and the production of salt, iron, ceramics and other products should be returned to the imperial court, etc.

Zhou Cheng's more than a dozen reforms were like a thunderbolt, causing a sensation in the imperial court and even the entire Yunguo.

Except for a few ministers who relied on him more seriously, the other ministers were all opposed, and the entire Bianjing City could be described as a mess.

Even Jiangnan, which is thousands of miles away, has caused quite a stir.

Shaoxing Shen family.

After learning of the new policy promulgated by Zhou Cheng, Shen Yu hurriedly recruited the two masters of the second and third rooms, as well as the young masters of the Shen family, among which Ye Fei and Shen Xiaoqing were also among them.

The Shen family has a lot of fields and farms, and according to the new policy, at least seven transactions must be returned to the government, so that the Shen family will have to pay at least tens of thousands of taels less taxes every year;

In addition, the Shen family has a lot of shops in many places in the south of the Yangtze River, and from now on, they will pay nearly 10,000 taels of taxes every year.

Moreover, there are nearly 100 subordinates in Shen Zhuang, and all the deeds of sale have to be torn up, and each subordinate has to pay a few taels of silver every year.

After hearing what Shen Yu said, everyone in the Shen family was silent.

"Let's talk about it, what should we do next?" Shen Yu said with a worried face.

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Shen Yu looked at Ye Fei, "Ye Fei, you have also met the official family, and you have close contacts with the secret pavilion, what do you think?"

Ye Fei shrugged his shoulders, "Father-in-law, although the money is a lot less every year, our Shen family doesn't seem to be short of money." ”

"This, but if it goes on like this, sooner or later you will have to sit and eat empty. Shen Yu looked helpless

"There are so many subordinates in our Shen family, there is no need, in my opinion, or we should dismiss some subordinates. Ye Fei suggested.

Shen Yu glanced at Ye Fei, he could see that Ye Fei should support Zhou Cheng's approach.

"Second brother, third brother, you have something to say. Shen Yu looked at Shen Bian and Shen Zhuo again.

"Big brother, this has been decreed from above, what can we do? Is it possible that you still want to rebel?" Shen Bian said helplessly.

Shen Zhuo nodded, "Big brother, Ye Fei is right, our Shen family's silver is enough to spend, let's earn less every year." ”