Everyone was talking, and they heard a person outside the door shouting, "Is Master Xiao here?" Then I saw a Wudang disciple leading a man in black and said, "He said that he was a subordinate of Bi Nuxia and came to deliver the letter." The disciple saw Xiao Han and took out a letter and said, "My master can't wait for the son in Moling if he has something, so he sent a small one to deliver the letter."www.biquge.info Then he handed over a letter.

Xiao Han thanked someone for coming over, and he had someone to send him out. Everyone looked at the letter he pulled out, and after reading it, he smiled and said: "There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, it takes no effort to get it, the white lady is really fine, everyone will go to Moling Qingxin Nunnery tomorrow to meet the second largest beauty in the world." ”

Everyone looked at each other and smiled, and Sunan Xing said with slight displeasure: "A monk or nun is bothering us to make a big move. Everyone laughed knowingly, Xiao Han smiled: "That's it, now the number one beauty in the world is my Senior Sister Su, don't talk about those old beauties." ”

Everyone laughed, and Li Yueying pouted: "Don't say anything about beauty or beauty, I don't like to hear it." Xiao Han hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, yes, we will only talk about ugly women in the future, not about beautiful women." Everyone laughed again, and Meng Wanxi said dissatisfiedly: "You are a soft bone, where do you look like a master? ”

Xiao Han said dissatisfiedly: "Who said I didn't dare to let it go? I secretly let it go, and you don't know." Everyone laughed wildly, and even Su Nanxing couldn't help but say: "Flim tongue, I really can't stand you." ”

Everyone talked and laughed, and then listened to Xiao Han arrange the itinerary. Suzaku Hall was almost disabled, naturally could not fight again, Xiao Han ordered Zhuang Tianyou and the four helmsmen to pick up the injured brothers in the barracks tomorrow and return to Wudang together, and sent Qinglongtang Xing Anping and his four helmsmen to come.

The rest of the people will pack up tomorrow and set off in two days. The people knew that he had something to do, so they listened. Everyone went back to the room to rest, and their own Wudang disciples were on duty at night.

When he woke up the next day, Li Congshan really sent Wang Yanan and others outside, saying that he had to ask him to discuss something else. Xiao Han followed him into the palace again, the court meeting had been dispersed, and Li Congshan stood in front of the side hall in a light yellow robe and talked to a middle-aged man.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, the two turned their heads together and laughed: "I knew he hadn't left yet." Xiao Han was also pleasantly surprised, bowed down to the two and bowed: "I have seen the lord of the country and Zhang Ge Lao." The three of them looked at each other and smiled, that person was Zhang Quanyue, the former Chizhou assassin who came from the constellation and Cheng Cheng, and had been promoted to cabinet minister and minister of justice at this time.

Seeing Xiao Han saluting, Zhang Quanyue hurriedly came up to help him up and said, "You and my brother don't have to be polite. Li Congshan smiled and said, "Lord Zhang is right, hurry up and enter the hall to speak." ”

The three of them entered the palace, and Li Congshan told Xiao Han that the court would discuss matters today, but it was the clan that wiped out the Long Shouzheng family who were in battle against the water, killed Miao Chengxun, the commander of the Tianxing Army, and Gui Yuanzhen, the commander of the exiled Crane Army, and replaced them with Li Congshan's cronies. The new commander of the Tianxing Army, Gao Jingtang, and the commander of the Crane Army, Xue Dingfang, became famous in a battle and suddenly became upstarts.

Last night, the first meeting of the Cabinet went straight to the ugly hour, and discussed the various reform measures proposed by Xiao Han one by one.

The first decision passed by the cabinet was to raise wages, and the Ministry of Finance drew up a budget overnight, and the amount almost scared Li Congshan to death.

In the 108 counties of the 19 prefectures of the Southern Tang Dynasty, according to the calculation of the new implementation department, each county has a county magistrate, one director of the Bureau of Finance, Education, Civil Affairs, Public Security, Justice, Personnel, Taxation, Supervision, Industry and Commerce, and Water Conservancy, and each bureau is equipped with five staff members as standard, and 20 people are added to the public security and judicial departments, according to the average of ten townships in each county, each township has ten people, and each county has a total of 201 people, and 108 counties are 21,708 people. The number of people in various prefectures has doubled, and there are 5,000 people in 19 prefectures, plus more than 2,000 people in various departments of the central government, and 30,000 people eat Jiangnan financial food.

If these 30,000 people are paid a high salary, they will need to spend 500,000 to 800,000 yuan a month, and 6 million to 9.6 million yuan a year. Wine, tea, salt, grain, and poll tax totaled more than 17 million yuan a year, and the army would have to account for most of the expenditure, and the remaining money would not be enough for the normal work of the various departments, not to mention that Li Congshan wanted to enjoy the luxury.

Li Congshan was so anxious that he didn't sleep all night, and when he saw that the first reform in charge of his administration had encountered problems, he sighed that it was not easy to be in charge. He also knew that when Li Yu was in power in the past, official corruption was almost open, and even if the official income was low, he lived quite well. Now that he wants to reform, he is facing the great danger of a financial deficit, and if the officials do something but are not paid, it will be a matter of time before they rebel.

Xiao Han had already thought that there would be such a result, remembering that when the Tang Dynasty was prosperous, there was a fiscal income of 50 million yuan a year, and at this time, the world was divided, Jiangnan was rich, and the annual financial income was only 10 million yuan.

Xiao Han pondered for a moment and gave them three ideas. The first is to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, stop all unnecessary construction and expenditure projects, and spend money on the best possible terms. The second is to issue treasury bonds and borrow money from ordinary people. The third is to try paper money, using gold and silver as the local currency in exchange for circulation space.

Xiao Han said very carefully, the two listened naturally and carefully, and asked about the operation process, and this conversation was an hour. Following Zheng Yanhua's request to see, Xiao Han and Zhang Quanyue retired together, and the two returned to the Yamen of the Ministry of Justice to talk at noon, Zhang Quanyue invited him to the most prosperous restaurant in Jinling for dinner. Zhang Quanyue laughed and said that thanks to Xiao Han, in the future, no one will be allowed to enter the building, club, hotel, restaurant or restaurant during working hours, and if it is discovered by the Ministry of Supervision, he will be dismissed from the office at least and exiled at worst.

Xiao Han laughed, and the two ate and drank and talked in the private room for a long time, and left with each other's cherishes. Xiao Han heard Zhang Quanyue say that the transition in the palace was smooth, the original palace maids and eunuchs were mostly retained except for some Li Yu's irons that were removed, the new forbidden army and the Shenwu army had taken on the security of the palace guards, and the yamen of each ministry had begun to be transformed on the original basis, and all the staff of the various departments were assigned in place.

The new cabinet office is located 100 meters outside the imperial city, which was originally the office of the Ministry of Rites, and after a slight transformation, it became the office of the cabinet ministers, and it is also convenient to meet the lord at any time.

Political, military, economic, land, science and technology, educational, and other reform measures are being discussed and formulated, and will soon be distributed to the state capitals for implementation. Because of the need for a large number of inspectors and military political commissars, the Jiangnan Ministry of Education, under the auspices of Chen Qiao, is preparing to open Enke, and is formulating a new method for taking the first place in the department.

The textbooks produced by Xiao Han have been handed over to the merchants to work overtime to make them, but unfortunately there is no copyright in this era, otherwise Xiao Han will make a lot of money.

The officialdom of the Southern Tang Dynasty has a new atmosphere, and everyone is very busy. Li Yu was placed under house arrest in the Qinghui Palace, and Li Congshan's wife and nephew were assigned to take care of him, and in addition to Li Yu and his wife, only two elderly palace maids were left in the entire hall.

As long as it does not directly offend the interests of the landlord class, it will not provoke major changes, which Xiao Han reiterated many times, and Li Congshan is also from the landlord class, so he naturally understands.

Seeing that everything was going according to plan, Xiao Han knew that it would be useless for him to stay any longer, and after returning to the inn, he ordered Li Yueying and Murong Qiuyu to enter the palace to say goodbye to the queen, and also told Li Congshan in disguise that he was leaving.

Needless to say, Murong Qiuyu is also very popular with the queen, and she intended to give her the title of princess, but was rejected by Xiao Han, and Murong Qiuyu also took the princess title very lightly, with an indifferent attitude.

The two of them were leaving, the queen was very sorry, and rewarded a lot of things, and the two of them came back, bending Xiao Han's eyes with joy, and even praised the two of them for their ability.

Everyone was ready to stop, because they were going to leave tomorrow, so they went back early to rest. Zhuang Tianyou wanted to follow him to Moling, but his subordinates suffered heavy casualties and really needed to recuperate, so he had to go back.

Getting up early the next morning, Zhuang Tianyou took all his disciples to say goodbye to Xiao Han and others, Xiao Han sent them away, and took Chu Tianshu and Tianshan to send all the young heroes and four girls to ride out of the city together and go to Moling.

Moling is only 60 miles away from Jinling, Moling is a famous town in Jiangsu with a history of more than 2,000 years, Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries after the Moling County, Qin and Han have been the political, economic and cultural center of the south of the Yangtze River. It was not until the Three Kingdoms that Sun Quan moved the center to Jinling, so there is a saying that "there is Moling first, and then Jinling".

The small city is quaint, the environment is beautiful, the green peaks are stacked, the folk customs are simple, everyone is tired of walking, seeing the city wall is towering, the moling is in front of them, everyone breathes a sigh of relief, and under the leadership of Xiao Han, he went to a tea shop on the side of the road to rest and sharpen.

After lunch, Li Yueying looked at the elegant scenery and tried her best to encourage Murong Qiuyu, Meng Wanxi and others to go out to play together. Xiao Han thought that there was nothing to do, and the white concubine couldn't run anywhere else, so she agreed, and the six girls, led by Sunan Xing, immediately turned their horses' heads and pounced on the surrounding mountains.

Xiao Han took Chu Tianshu and the four brothers of the valley crane to follow behind, and everyone first played on the Fang Mountain in Moling County, and then watched the scenery of several streams and rivers, talking and laughing, and it was evening in the blink of an eye. On a whim, Xiao Han invited Luo Beihong, Duan Xiliu and Chu Tianshu to go into the city to buy meat snacks and charcoal, and decided to have a picnic on the mountain.

At this time, the sky is high and clear, the wind is harmonious, the stars are bright, everyone sits on the square mountain, the flowers around are fragrant, the flowing water is murmuring, and it feels extremely comfortable.

Luo Beihong's brothers lit a bonfire, and everyone began to eat barbecue, which everyone was used to when they were on Wudang Mountain, and it was rare to be idle at this time, so they were all smiling, and even Sunan Xing took off his face towel and talked and laughed with Tu Yuxuan beside him, tempting Xiao Han to peek from time to time.

Duan Xiliu sat next to Xiao Han, nibbling on a string of chicken chops and said with a smile: "Although Moling City is small, it is quite prosperous, I was using money to buy meat at the butcher shop, and a thief wanted to steal my money, and was pulled out by a tall man in green clothes." When I came out after buying meat, I wanted to look for the man to thank him, but I was nowhere to be found, and I asked everyone around me, and they all said that they had never seen this person. ”

Luo Beihong frowned and said: "Senior brother is so careless, you have to be careful in everything." Xiao Han's heart moved, and he subconsciously felt that something was wrong, and his face changed slightly: "What does that man look like and what clothes are he wearing?"

Duan Xiliu was stunned for a moment, put down the chicken chop and said: "That man is dressed in green cloth, tall, with a big long face, a scar on the left side of his face, and a mole on his chin. ”

Xiao Handen jumped up and shouted, "Not good. As soon as the words fell, I heard a voice in the weeds around me say gloomily: "Master Xiao, it's been a long time." ”