Qingliang Hall was originally an inconspicuous one of the thousands of palaces in the imperial capital of Dayu, and it was not until today that the son raised love, and this place gradually became the center of power of the entire Dayu.

Li Xu was wearing a Taoist robe, his hair was pulled into a bun, and a crane-headed hosta was inserted in the middle, sitting quietly on the futon, his hands quietly on his knees, and the incense burner in front of him was burning with calming spices.

Under the mist, the emperor breathed a long sigh of relief.

The method of refining the heart in the "Yellow Sky Dafa" is really different, and after a little cultivation, Li Xu felt that the seven-point starlight in his dantian that almost continuously provided true qi had sensed.

These seven small dots that seem to be real but not virtual have always provided Li Xu with almost endless true qi, which is quite wonderful, much like the "Dao Seed Qi Root" described in "Huangtian Dafa". Through some Zhou Tian transportation, Li Xu has some grasp and understanding of these seven stars.

These seven points are like extra organs in Li Xu's body, attached to the existence of the dantian qi sea, and their nature is similar to that of an entity, which can provide the emperor with a steady stream of true qi.

At the same time, they themselves are exuding wonderful fluctuations according to a certain frequency. Li Xu guessed that this should be one of the applications of Cardinal Wanhua, and the emperor suspected that Cardinal Wanhua was probably a kind of prop used to mass-produce masters or improve martial arts.

Of course, these inferences are only conjectures, and more evidence is needed to prove them.

Just seven or eight steps away from the emperor's futon, Chen Chaoen stood aside respectfully, looking at his nose and his heart, quietly waiting for the emperor to finish his work.

With Cheng Qili and Lang Dama's heads doing publicity, now everyone today knows that the emperor is one of the best martial arts masters in the world, and the palace attendants are a little more careful when the emperor is practicing, for fear that he will anger His Majesty if he is not careful.

Chen Chaoen has now become the veritable first person in the palace, although some people say that he once had a secret relationship with Yu Fuguo, but the emperor still favors him very much. Just such a holy grace is enough to make many people stop thinking about waiting for an opportunity, and Gonggong Chen has been very careful with Wen Meiren recently, which makes this lady who is currently the only favorite in the pepper room very satisfied with him.

With such two caretakers, Chen Chaoen can certainly sit firmly in Diaoyutai.

"What?" the emperor stood up from the futon with a long sigh of relief, patted the Taoist robe on his body, and the attendants who had been waiting for a long time hurriedly came over to change the Taoist robe for the emperor and put on the yellow dragon pattern gauze again.

"The small banquet has been almost arranged, and Li Yuanjun and Master Yuan are waiting outside. Chen Chaoen replied respectfully, a year ago, his deference was essentially a performance to appease the puppet emperor, but today it is completely out of awe.

The emperor's strong image has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people with victory, and all the small ones must be carefully considered. As far as Chen Chaoen knew, less than ten days after the victory over Tibet, there were nearly 1,000 officers and soldiers under the control of Yufu Guo who fled back from Hedong. Gonggong Chen felt that if his godfather did not show his skills, he would not have to wait for the emperor or the Uighurs to exert his strength, and the Hedong side would collapse himself.

Li Xu stood up and walked out, and the outer hall was full of the emperor's henchmen.

Li Congxian, the general who controlled the power of the Shence Army and the Jinwu Guard, Li Deyu and Yuan Zhen, the freshly baked Hanlin scholars, and Li Shen, the prison envoy who was in charge of the capital's security and intelligence collection, these four people are Li Xu's minions who are now cited as the heart of the humerus.

"You're all here. Li Xu looked at the courtiers who were sitting scattered and nodded with satisfaction.

"See Your Majesty. Although the emperor did not like such a daily prostration, it was also part of the imperial court, and Li Xu stood there and ordered them to get up quickly after they finished prostrating.

"I invite you to come over today, except for having some tea and dinner with me, mainly for three things. Li Xu turned around and picked up a letter from the imperial case behind him and stretched out his arm to Li Deyu, and Li Deyu, the Hanlin scholar closest to the emperor, hurriedly took it.

"Tian Hongzheng is officially on the table this time, and he has applied for the court, which means that he is not only iron-hearted this time, but also really not ready to go back. Li Xu shook his head: "Lao Tiantou's matter is actually quite disgusting, I really want him to rebel like this." Tell everyone about the situation. ”

Li Deyu had already finished reading Tian Hongzheng's recital and sent it to Li Congxian beside him, turned his head and looked at Li Shen shaking his robe and standing up from the seat.

"Tian Hongzheng received the news of the imperial court's destruction of Tibet about five days ago. "Li Shen is on the emperor's orders to scatter the eyes and ears of the prison envoy, but for now it is still confined to Bai Yujing. Fortunately, Baiyujing is the largest city in the world today, and more than a million people need a lot of supplies, and along with the supplies, there are also news from all over the world.

The news that Tian Hongzheng is preparing to enter the DPRK is one of them.

"This time, we judged that this Wei Bo's Tian Linggong had made up his mind to enter the court. It is estimated that he will apply to stay in Bai Yujing and gradually transition Wei Bozhen into the hands of his own heirs. ”

Li Shen paused for a moment, and asked everyone in front of him to think about the direction of the wind represented by Tian Hongzheng's entry into the court.

Tian Hongzheng's move would undoubtedly arouse the dissatisfaction of the Chengde army, the Pinglu army, the Henghai army and other non-subordinate feudal towns, and it is said that Li Sixuan, the envoy of the Pinglu army, had sent his henchmen to Beijing to prepare to assassinate Tian Hongzheng and the court's ministers who advocated strong suppression of the feudal towns. ”

Li Shen smiled and nodded at the three colleagues around him: "The rankings are all on Li Sixuan's assassination list." ”

"The person in charge of this matter should also be familiar with it, it is Gong Hanzhang, the mastermind of the traitor Cheng Qili, this person caught up with Li Sixuan, colluded with a group of gangsters, and prepared to enter Beijing to commit crimes. ”

The prison envoy gave a general introduction to the situation, and the faces of the four people in the hall couldn't help but have a hint of gloom.

Among the four people, Li Congxian's martial arts are also first-class in the rivers and lakes, needless to say, the remaining three have also raised some masters to act as guards during this time. But after all, if you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves, Gong Hanzhang is a poisonous man with a good reputation, and he is the head snake of the capital, if he brings people back, it will really add a lot of disgust to everyone.

"I am going to give my ministers a guard as is customary. Li Xu proposed a policy of psychological comfort, which was also the old policy after the assassination of Pei Du when the God Emperor was in place, to increase the forbidden army as a guard for the ministers, but in fact, everyone knew that with the combat power of the forbidden army, no one could protect it.

"Putting this matter aside, these Assassins will take care of it, you don't have to worry about it. Li Xu then asked these people a new problem: "Shang Dongzan went straight to Luo, or it won't be long before a new Zampu will succeed him in Tibet." The Tubo Scripture was defeated by this, and it was not possible to recover in four or five years, so I was ready to take this opportunity to cut off redundant troops. ”

It seems that this second thing is to eliminate the redundant troops in the Shence army.

The emperor's policy did not cause much uproar, in fact, there was already a consensus on this matter between the government and the opposition, that is, the emperor would soon reduce the strength of the forbidden army.

Because the colors of Yu Fuguo and Cheng Qili in the forbidden army are too heavy, the emperor does not trust them. Second, the emperor repeatedly mentioned that he wanted to reduce the expenses of the imperial court, and considering that the forbidden army was not favored by the emperor, it was almost certain that they would be stabbed this time.

"Now there are more than 100,000 sergeants on the list of the Shence Army," the emperor shook his head: "The grain, silk, and cloth allocated to the Shence Army every year, even if the imperial court is dry and fishing, it has also emptied the imperial treasury, and this situation must not continue." ”

Everyone understands what the emperor said, but the problem is that in the past hundred years, these hundreds of thousands of Shence troops have formed a complex interest group, which cannot be moved casually.

"Your Majesty is reasonable, but the whole army of the Shence Army is more than 100,000 people, and how to cut and withdraw it should be done step by step. It's not that the minister is worried that they will cause some mutiny, but more than 100,000 sergeants are suddenly without food and clothing, and there are 500,000 or 600,000 people with their families, but they are afraid that they will add a lot of trouble to the market. ”

Li Deyu looked at Li Congxian, Li Shen, and Yuan Zhen, who were silent, and knew that none of them had the courage to advise the emperor, so they simply came by themselves.

Li Xu nodded, the truth that Li Deyu said, the emperor didn't understand, it's just that tens of millions of people are in Dayu, and there is no reason to knock out tens of millions of people for these hundreds of thousands of people.

What's more, the Shence Army is really useless.

"I plan to reduce the strength of the Shence Army to about 20,000 people, and a total of sixteen capitals will be trained. The emperor's idea has been discussed with Li Congxian, and Li Congxian thinks that this plan is still more feasible.

All of them are a unit formed by the Yu Army in the military practice of several hundred years, and they are generally named with names such as "Black Cloud Capital" and "Golden Gun Capital", and their number is about 1,000 people and is not fixed, so many that there may be several thousand, and some may be less than 1,000.

"Of these sixteen capitals, I am going to transfer eight of them to the vicinity of Luoyang. Li Xu said. "There are only four troops left in Bai Yujing's forbidden army camp. ”

The four people below looked at each other and didn't say much, although strong cadres and weak branches are the fundamental skills of controlling the army, and the transfer of troops out of the country is definitely not conducive to the imperial court's control of the Shence army. But there is a ready-made advantage of getting the Shence Army over, that is, it is convenient for transportation.

The land near Luoyang is rich, and it is also the largest node for Caoyun to transport materials to Guanzhong, and placing the troops there can at least ensure the supply of military food, and there is no need to worry about those Qiu Ba not having enough to eat and making trouble.

"After reducing the strength of the Shence Army, starting next year, the imperial court will drastically reduce the taxes of the twenty-one counties under the jurisdiction of Jingzhao Prefecture. After a pause, the Emperor continued, "In the meantime, I am ready to enforce the law of money. ”

This new term made the four henchmen confused, and they didn't know what the emperor meant at all.

Li Xu smiled slightly and began to explain to them the banknote system he was going to implement.

This banknote method is actually that Li Xu is preparing to get the national food stamps after thinking about it, and the emperor is going to use this thing to pay the salaries of the officials and masters.