The night breeze in the lotus pond was fragrant and refreshing. Sikotian Heng put his hands behind his back and looked at the slowly flowing water, not knowing where his mind was wandering. txt download
Suddenly, the servant Tian Jian came over in a hurry and reported urgently: Your Majesty, the Yangcheng Prime Minister heard that Su Mo was the Great Situ, and he changed his recommendation to selection, and has already defected.
Yangcheng Zai refers to Tian Kuo. After he came of age, his brother Tian Guang became a senior official, so he served as the official of his own fiefdom of Yangcheng.
Tian Heng suddenly raised his head, his eyes widened, as if anger was rising in his heart, but he immediately took a breath, and his expression remained unchanged.
Let him be. He said in an indifferent voice.
Tian Jian was surprised: Your Majesty, how can this happen
The Lord means to give up Yang Chengzai
Tian Heng glanced at him without any emotion and emphasized: Let him go.
Tian Jian did not dare to express doubts anymore, bowed and left the pavilion.
After looking at the living water of the lotus pond again for a while, Tian Heng suddenly sighed and whispered to himself:
fair enough
In King Chen's palace, Meng Qi, Jiang Zhiwei and others, who were waiting for the first court meeting, were actively discussing what to do next.
For more than a month, they had repeatedly deliberated and rehearsed what to say when they met with King Chen, so much so that they could not concentrate on how King Chen would implement his own strategy to save the country after he accepted the advice. Even after deliberating through the night, they still had many problems.
King Chen himself is a master, and he has the support of non-fiefdom officials and scholars. There are many powerful people under his command. As long as he can strengthen his determination and strong enough to implement the national policy of abolishing the Guanjin tax and promoting meritocracy, at least no noble will. If there is a violent reaction in the upper camp, I am afraid that the good national policy will be distorted and the implementation will not achieve good results. Instead, it offended the Chu and Tang kingdoms or wasted money.
As the emperor's younger brother, Zhao Heng had the best say in similar situations. In the past, when the majesty of the royal family still existed. Top aristocratic families love to do this.
Qi Zhengyan, who had always been taciturn, took turns giving lectures and became a little more active in expressing his opinions: the scope of promoting talents and talents can be temporarily limited to several key officials in the palace and the army directly under King Chen. Do not overly infringe on the interests of the nobles, so there will be fewer obstacles.
These are the places where King Chen has the strongest control, and the nobles cannot interfere with them even if they want to use small means.
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Well, at the beginning, we must try our best to avoid intensifying conflicts and attracting interference from the Chu State and the hidden Taoist sects, and wait until the advantages and uses are revealed. With the acquiescence of the forces that have tasted the sweetness, they can take drastic measures. Meng Qi confirmed Qi Zhengyan's method before the meeting began. They will report the results of their deliberations to King Chen again.
Jiang Zhi slightly frowned: "The use of energy for the virtuous and economical burials only involve King Chen and a small group of people for the time being. We are not afraid of interference. The abolition of the Guanjin tax requires the cooperation of the feudal nobles. Otherwise, it will be withdrawn today, set up tomorrow, or used Other methods will muddy the waters and there is no way to implement them.
If the customs tax cannot be abolished, merchants will not be attracted. If merchants cannot be attracted. It’s hard to see the benefits, and it’s rare to achieve anything that’s not beneficial
Convincing King Chen is the beginning. The real difficulty is yet to come
Intensifying inspections, Ruan Yushu said something to scare the monkeys.
Jiang Zhiwei nodded and said: This is a way. As long as we can temporarily scare the monkeys so that they dare not cause trouble for a while, we can implement it smoothly and things will be much easier.
As long as the new national policy shows attractive benefits, the monkeys who are temporarily afraid of causing trouble will become less willing to cause trouble.
Although Meng Qi can just leave after a month, no matter what happens next, they still have compassion and intolerance. King Chen respects and values himself and others so much, how can he leave a mess
Why kill a chicken to scare a monkey? Hearing the opinions of the two girls, Zhao Heng chuckled. Most of the gatekeepers at most levels only have nine orifices. What's the point of killing them? The nobles have already cleaned up all their connections. They would even help the guards abscond so that we could not get evidence to launch an attack, and the majesty of King Chen would be lost.
Moreover, there are too many similar checkpoints. How can we have so many manpower to monitor them? As long as such checkpoints exist for a few more days and the merchants suffer losses, they will doubt King Chen’s determination to abolish the customs tax and no longer believe in it, even if In the future, all the checkpoints can be cleared, and merchants will no longer be able to automatically consciously go to Chen State in a short period of time.
And if we don’t see any benefits in a short period of time, why does King Chen still believe in us
This kind of implementation problem is the most troublesome. For a while, Meng Qi and others were thinking hard and couldn't find a solution. It is true that the king of hell is easy to kill, but the kid is difficult to deal with.
Suddenly, Meng Qi remembered a certain book he had read in the past, and an idea flashed in his mind, and he clasped his palms together: I have a solution
Jiang Zhiwei and others all looked at him.
Meng Qi regained his mood, pretended to be serious and smiled and said: "This is not difficult to hear."
Stop showing off and show off in front of us. Jiang Zhi smiled and cursed.
Meng Qi coughed: The fortresses at the border with other countries are all under the control of King Chen. This part of the Guanjin tax is the easiest to abolish.
Zhao Heng and others nodded lightly. This is the easiest part. As long as they subsidize the defensive masters or replace them with selected ones, it is not difficult to do.
Therefore, it is only necessary to issue an order from King Chen to the merchants when they pass through these fortresses, and most of the remaining checkpoints will not be a problem. Meng Qi still smiled enigmatically.
What order aroused Ruan Yushu's curiosity, just like the delicious food placed in front of him that he couldn't enjoy.
Meng Qi chuckled at first, then turned solemn and solemn: Anyone who collects taxes from Guanjin will be killed without guilt.
Zhao Heng lost his voice.
Such an order was beyond his imagination.
Jiang Zhiwei was confused at first, and then smiled: This is very good. There are many masters of merchants who can travel between countries. It is only because of the intimidation of the strong men in various countries that they obediently pay the customs tax. When the time comes, the guards who are not on location will not be able to stop them. them
The countries are in chaos. How can the merchants who dare to travel among the countries not have some masters and some backers? As long as the order proposed by Meng Qi is implemented, they can use their power to alleviate the crisis of insufficient manpower and help Chen Guo monitor various checkpoints.
It was a clever plan and King Chen's determination to abolish the Guanjin tax was clearly conveyed to the merchants. Zhao Heng praised the festival.
Meng Qi enjoyed their praise and continued with a smile: If the nobles used outdoor scenes or troops with formations, they would be able to escape but the monks would not be able to escape from the temple. This would be enough for us to scare the monkeys.
He paused and said: We can even take the initiative to do this. When the time comes, we will divide our manpower and mix it with the caravans of average strength. When we encounter strong people in the field or troops with formations to impose tariffs, we can directly attack and follow the clues. , kill chickens to scare monkeys, but killing is not a crime anyway.
However, for the time being, do not force the nobles behind the scenes too much. You can punish them severely, but do not completely intensify the conflict. This will make other nobles miserable, contact each other, and start a civil war. This will give the Chu State an excuse to intervene and make the new national policy weak. Died young.
Qi Zhengyan had no expression on his face but said in tacit agreement: So, you have to choose a good chicken.
Meng Qi nodded and said: Chen Guo is a small country, and there are not many powerful nobles other than King Chen. In the past, the three families represented by Da Situ Wang Dan, Da Si Kou Tian Heng, and Da Sikong Gongyang were the most powerful. Not only did they have top masters, but they also controlled In the court, the fiefdom is not small and there are many checkpoints. If you want to scare the monkeys, you have to choose between them.
The words were plain but murderous.
Sikotian Heng has been in the family for many generations and has inextricable connections with some nobles of Chu State, so he is not a suitable candidate. Zhao Heng first denied it.
Ruan Yushu's voice was neither high nor low and said: Sikong Gongyang Zeng is said to have a son learning martial arts in Jinguang Cave in Wudang Mountain.
From this point of view, only the former Situ King who was robbed of his position by me, Meng Qi, mused, "His family is the oldest noble in the Chen Kingdom, and was the retainer of the first generation Chen Bo. There are many masters in the family, and relatives and friends are spread all over the country. But there is no strong support outside, so it is a good time to take action. When you mix with ordinary caravans, the best route is through his fiefdom.
good. Jiang Zhiwei and others said.
After the calculation was over, Meng Qi and others met with King Chen again before the court meeting to explain their conspiracy.
Compared with previous court meetings, because King Chen began to follow Mohism, this time it became clean and smooth, with no more red tape. Everyone quickly returned to their seats, waiting for King Chen to speak.
The only thing that made Meng Qi dissatisfied was that his mustard ring and sword were placed outside and guarded by the guards, just like when he met King Chen before.
Because this is a world with strange and powerful secret treasures, even though King Chen is a master, he has to beware of dangers. Not only Meng Qi, but also other ministers and doctors' treasures and items similar to mustard rings were removed.
There are unformed Dinghai beads from the Huangquan hand bones in my mustard seed ring. My treasures are high-grade and medium-grade respectively. Don’t lose them to me. Meng Qi thought in his heart, if he lost them, how much good deeds would he gain? ah
King Chen looked around and announced the first thing, that Meng Qi would be in charge of the affairs of the Great Situ, and Jiang Zhiwei and others would be the assistants of the Young Situ.
When the announcement was made, many eyes were cast on Meng Qi, all of them were as if they were real, but one of them was quite indifferent, which surprised Meng Qi a little.
Upon sensing, he saw that this was a young-looking man with a tall crown and ancient robes, a jade tree facing the wind, and an outstanding temperament.
Tian Guang, the eldest son of Siko Tian Heng, was promoted to a field officer at the age of thirty and became a senior doctor.
Meng Qi quickly recognized the man's identity, and everything about him quickly flashed through his mind.