After the wedding date was set, the two began to busy themselves, and at the same time put the reform on the agenda.
Today's big Chu three major problems.
The first is ideological. Metaphysics is prosperous, but the central government is unstable.
The second is about taxes. Da Chu calculates taxes according to the land. In this way, first of all, a large amount of farmland is in the hands of aristocratic families, and princes do not pay taxes, which greatly reduces the government's due tax revenue. Princes do not pay taxes, and now it is an era of wars, the military burden of the court is on the common people, so the people suffer unspeakably, this kind of suffering has created the foundation for the prosperity of metaphysics, because when it is too difficult, only This kind of belief in Buddhism and Taoism can make people strong.
The third is political. Now the Huan family is too powerful, almost forming a situation of confrontation between the north and the south, and Huan Heng's temperament is probably more wild than Huan Song. Since the first emperor wanted to cut off the food of the Huan family, Huan Heng planned to find another way out without even thinking about it. His loyalty is much lower than that of Huan Song. Wei Lan has no doubt that one day Huan Heng will come across the river, enter Shengjing, and get everything he wants. want something.
When he came back from the north, Huan Heng had said that he would come back.
When he completely pacified the north, the Huan family and the southern family would be in an inevitable sharp conflict.
Both Wei Lan and Xie Zichen tried to solve these three problems in their previous lives, but Wei Lan solved it, while Xie Zichen paid more attention to the power struggle, so the two had different endings. One became a famous prime minister, the monarch and his ministers made peace with each other and planned the Northern Expedition, and the other cut off the emperor and became the regent.
With the foundation of the previous life, before the two of them assisted Su Bai to ascend the throne, they had already prepared a reform plan and handed it in early.
On the one hand, to promote Confucianism, all the bibliographies of Taixue have become Confucian classics, and all opera troupes and teahouses are not allowed to tell stories related to metaphysics, and instead tell stories about Confucianism.
On the other hand, the land rent collection system was changed to a household tax, and the tax was collected according to the population. Princes and soldiers were exempt from tax. The princes and below were calculated as three dendrobiums per person, which was much less than before. In this way, although the princes have to pay taxes, they do not pay much, and the aristocratic family will not rebound too much, but those who have no land but are slaves in the prince's house will start to pay taxes. The income has not been reduced, but the burden on the people has been reduced, and recruitment of soldiers has also been encouraged.
On the basis of the tax burden, the government agencies are streamlined, and government officials are encouraged to do business to resettle more government officials. At the same time, the agricultural tax is reduced and the business tax is increased... A set of measures has one purpose - on the basis of the stability of the people's health and well-being. Realize the gradual improvement of the national economy.
Finally, on the issue of Huanheng, Wei Lan planned to train the army of the Marquis of Changxin, join hands with Wang Ning to fight against Huanheng, and then use political advantages to completely disintegrate the Huan family.
After all this is done, the day of the Northern Expedition can be expected.
After Wei Lan and Xie Zichen jointly handed over the reform proposals, the court was in a state of excitement. I have been arguing for several days about whether to change or not. Now that Wei Lan and Xie Zichen were identities, there was no need to stand up and argue with the officials, so they quietly watched their own people rush up and bite the officials without making a sound.
And Su Bai naturally supported it.
This matter has only advantages and no disadvantages for Su Bai. He has no problem in his mind, so he naturally supports it with all his strength. The only people who have opinions are the courtiers and conservatives with metaphysics background. Every time there is a reform, someone will stand up and say that the reform is not acceptable, and Wei Lan has already gotten used to it.
Back then, Daliang was in the same situation. Her teacher was too radical. She didn't think of another way. Instead, she solved the problem and asked the princes and above to collect taxes. At that time, which aristocratic family didn't have a large tract of land? At one point, the princes will start paying land taxes, which means that a lot of real money will be given to the country. Even Wei Lan, who is on the reformist side, is not without worries about this plan.
Later, such a plan failed under the protests of everyone, and the corpses of her teachers and sisters and sisters were hung on the city gate, and she was saved from death because of her rich family and early withdrawal.
Since then, she has understood that everything has a degree. Later, she reformed again and finally proposed a poll tax. This time the reform was finally implemented successfully, and she got a prosperous leader as she wished.
While Wei Lan and Xie Zichen were making big moves in Shengjing, the situation in the north was not stable.
Huan Heng's cousin, Huan Shu, served as governor of Jingzhou.
The Huan family has 600,000 soldiers and horses in three states, fighting against the entire southern family with the power of one family. Now if they have any enemies, the biggest enemy is probably themselves.
The young masters of the Huan family have no bad guys, which means that all of them want to pull Huan Heng down. Such a critical position in Jingzhou was originally occupied by Huan Heng's people. Who would have thought that Huan Heng's people died in the last war. Huan Heng originally planned to suppress the news and pick another person to go there. Report directly to the court. Who knew that Xie Zichen got the news from the spies in advance, and quickly found something for him to do, and asked Su Bai to issue an edict in a hurry to Huan Shu, who was on the edge of Jingzhou and wanted to get Huan Heng off his horse every day, and Huan Shu was very cooperative. He took office with the imperial decree.
When Huan Heng received the news, he was immediately annoyed, smashed the letter on the ground, and said with a sneer, "Xie Zichen is a bastard, I should have shot him to death with an arrow back then!"
Wei Hua stood next to Huan Heng wearing a mask, glanced sideways at the letter, and said, "What is your lord's plan?"
"Didn't he just want to cause trouble for me?" Huan Heng walked out with a whip in his hand: "Then come! Get rid of the Huan family's bastards, and I'll go to the south to meet Ah Lan!"
As soon as the words fell, a child's voice came from the yard. The child seemed to be unable to walk steadily, and staggered as he walked, shouting: "Father... Daddy..."
When Huan Heng went out, the little boy ran up to him, and he picked him up, with a smile on his beautiful face: "Oh, now you don't fall down when you run?"
"Don't wrestle," the other party said in a childish voice, "Lanlan ran very far."
"Alan, good boy," Huan Heng's eyes softened, and he called that name, every time he called this name, there was a kind of deep-rooted tenderness lingering on the tip of his tongue. Wei Hua's face was cold, he couldn't stand it anymore, and once again put forward his own suggestion: "My lord, the name Huan Lan is really not good."
"You know what!" Huan Heng stared at him, then remembered again: "It's been a long time since I heard from Sheng Jing, how is Ah Lan doing recently?"
"The spy was killed by Xie Zichen, and the new one hasn't come back yet." Wei Hua told the truth, starting to admire Xie Zichen from the bottom of his heart. In terms of anti-reconnaissance capabilities, he really has never seen anything stronger. Over the years, Huan Heng had already killed four waves of spies, so he had to cut off the news from time to time.
"Oh." Huan Heng was a little disappointed, put Huan Lan down, looked at the south, and said slowly: "When she left that year, I told her that I would do what she wanted, and then go south to find her."
"Three years."
Huan Heng murmured, "Why can't the north be settled?"
"Is this her wish?" Wei Hua was a little puzzled, Huan Heng turned his head and sneered, "Do you know who I'm talking about?"
Wei Hua pretended not to know: "I don't know."
Huan Heng lowered his eyes: "A person, I have loved for many years but I didn't know it, the person I pushed away because of my weakness and stupidity. She once wanted to spoil me for the rest of her life, but I thought she would leave me sooner or later, so the beast pushed her away. Let her go."
Wei Hua really wanted to ask more questions, but he was afraid that Huan Heng would suspect him. After all, his identity was only Wei Xiong's bodyguard, Lin Hua.
Huan Heng seemed to think that he didn't understand, so he smiled, with some bitterness in his eyes: "She hopes that I can restore the Han Dynasty with her, and point my sword at the North Kingdom. Huan Heng picked up his teacup and said coldly, "I'll go see her."
"I see," Wei Hua finally said, "What can my lord do?"
Huan Heng didn't speak. After a long time, he finally said: "Ah Hua, do you know that she likes me, she said that she actually wanted to spoil me for the rest of her life. But I made her sad."
"I hope she forgives me."
"When she left, she told me everything she had done for me, and told me what kind of person I should be. At that time, I was thinking desperately, what have I done for her? What can I do for her? She Why should you forgive me?"
"Then I figured it out, Ah Hua."
"When I go back full of glory, I can give her everything she wants. I will let her choose what she wants at that time. She spoiled me for six years, then I will spoil her for the rest of my life."
"What if," Wei Hua said with difficulty, "she doesn't need it anymore?"
Huan Heng was stunned, and Wei Hua continued, "If she doesn't like you anymore, or falls in love with someone else, what should you do, my lord?"
Huan Heng didn't speak. After a long time, he finally said: "I don't know..."
"If he's a woman, then I'll rob her... and probably get her. But she's a man, and I don't know what to do."
"I don't want to kill her."
Wei Hua: "..."
"Women and men..." Wei Hua couldn't help but ask, "What's the difference?"
"It's still... there is a difference." Huan Heng thought of Tang Mo, even if Tang Mo taught him such a lesson with his life, he could only change his view of women a little bit. He thought, a woman is always different.
Because they will have children. When a woman has a child, the man who lets her have the child is probably different.
Just like Tang Mo, even though she had a family feud, when Huan Lan was finally born, she still held his hand and called his name.
Wei Lan always felt that Ruoshui and her mother had no affection for his father, but the servant and Ruoshui both told him that was not the case.
Huan Heng thought about it seriously, but Wei Hua understood.
It's over.
He pondered in his heart, facing Huan Heng's mental retardation, Wei Lan is a woman, he probably won't let him know for the rest of his life.
Huan Heng was thinking about something, Huan Lan called him from the side, Huan Heng asked the nanny to carry Huan Lan out, after a while, there was a message from outside: "My lord, a letter from Shengjing."
"bring here!"
Huan Heng cried out happily, and the messenger brought up the letter. After Huan Heng read it once, his expression turned cold.
Wei Hua had a bad intuition, and said cautiously, "My lord?"
Huan Heng didn't speak, he threw the letter down, and said directly: "Have someone prepare the luggage and prepare the horse, I'm going to Shengjing."
Wei Hua was shocked, and quickly caught up with Huan Heng, anxiously said: "My lord, Huan Shu has just taken office, you just left like this, Jingzhou doesn't care?!"
"No more!" Huan Heng shouted angrily, "Wei Lan is about to get married, what Jingzhou do I want!"
Wei Hua was slightly taken aback, Huan Heng counted the people, and then ordered his cronies: "Let the people in Jingzhou keep an eye on Huan Shu, find rules to restrict him, and sharpen his spirit first. I'll be back in five days. "
No matter how impulsive he is verbally, he is not the Huan Heng who didn't care about it back then.
Hearing that Wei Lan was going to get married, Wei Hua couldn't sit still, seeing that Huan Heng had made up his mind to go to Shengjing, he hurriedly followed Huan Heng, and said anxiously, "My lord, I'll go too!"
Huan Heng nodded, didn't say much, took the luggage from the housekeeper, got up and drove out.
Wei Hua and Huan Heng drove towards Shengjing. It was very cold in Youzhou in winter, and the wind was like a knife. Huan Heng's face remained unchanged, and he spoke to Wei Hua lightly.
"After she left the north, I walked all the steps she took in the north alone. Someone told me that on the day I promised Tang Mo, she was actually rushing all the way to Youzhou."
"I thought maybe she was trying to stop me."
"But she didn't have time," Huan Heng said calmly, but for some reason, he felt that his words were more piercing than the north wind in winter, he controlled all his emotions, and said numbly: "But I hope I can make it in time. "
Wei Hua was taken aback for a moment, he actually didn't like Huan Heng very much. When Wei Lan escorted him to the north, he said that if Huan Heng dared to let her down, he would kill him. Then, he really failed her.
But I don't know why, when Huan Heng said these words, he actually felt so sympathetic for the first time.
How much he wanted to tell him, you are too late, Huan Heng.
Because a long time ago, three years ago, when she decided to leave the North, you were already disqualified.
But he couldn't say these words, he could only accompany Huan Heng to the distant Shengjing.
****
After two weeks of arguing about the New Deal, Wei Lan and Xie Zichen's wedding soon ushered in. As the pillar of the Xie family, Xie Zichen had hundreds of tables, and Wei Lan also had a very wide network of contacts. After the two of them added up, a rough calculation showed that there were about five hundred tables.
The two thought for a while. If they really put on such a big posture, they might alarm the emperor. This is not a wedding banquet, but a coup d'état that can shake the Shengjing regime. So the two cut, deleted, and subtracted, and finally only set up a hundred tables.
The night before the wedding, Xie Zichen was extremely conscious and went back to Xie's house. That night, I couldn't sleep all night, thinking about Wei Lan over and over again.
Xie Tong said impatiently, "Young master, if you want to see him, go see him."
"No, meeting is not auspicious." Xie Zichen closed his eyes and told himself to go to bed quickly, otherwise he would not be the best groom officer tomorrow.
However, he couldn't sleep no matter what, after thinking and thinking, he finally decided to see Wei Lan.
He climbed over the wall in the middle of the night and climbed to Wei Lan's window. The lights inside were on, and Wei Lan didn't seem to be asleep either. His figure landed on the window, Wei Lan was trying on a wedding dress, when she looked up and saw that shadow, she couldn't help laughing.
"Children?"
As she spoke, she gave Ran Mo a look, and was about to ask Ran Mo to open the window. As soon as Ran Mo moved, Xie Zichen said: "Don't open the window, the old man said that meeting is not good."
Xie Zichen thought that he didn't like to believe these things, but this time, he couldn't tolerate any mistakes.
Wei Lan was also very nervous. When Xie Zichen said that, she naturally didn't force her. She waved the dyed ink back, walked to the window, leaned against the window and said to Xie Zichen, "What is Zichen here for?" ?”
She pulled up the woman's hair in a bun. From the back, one can see that she is wearing a woman's clothes, her waist is fastened with a belt, and the graceful lines can be seen from the shadow.
Just looking at this shadow, Xie Zichen imagined the thrillingly beautiful scene.
He has touched and kissed every inch of this person's body, and he knows too well how perfect this person is.
He sketched her lines, couldn't help but put his hand on her, and touched the slender back of that person. Feeling the warmth of his palm, Wei Lan raised her voice, "Zichen?"
"I miss you."
He spoke hoarsely, with passion mixed in his voice, Wei Lan reacted and laughed softly: "So you can't sleep anymore?"
"I'm a little nervous, Alan," Xie Zichen said honestly, "I'm afraid I won't perform well tomorrow."
"Master Xie," this time, Wei Lan laughed out loud, "You were once the regent, and it's just a marriage. What is such a small scene?"
Even though she said this, Wei Lan understood Xie Zichen's emotions, not to mention him, she herself felt a little uneasy.
But she was used to acting normally, and Xie Zichen was already very nervous, she couldn't make him more nervous, she could only comfort him in this way.
Xie Zichen listened to her words and lowered his eyes.
"It's different," he said calmly, "Alan, you are more important than those."
He can calmly play scheming tricks and gamble his life calmly, but he can't calmly act as if nothing happened before marrying this person. He was afraid that something might go wrong.
He waited so hard for so many years, spent nearly five years by this person's side, and he was finally going to get this person. At the last moment, he couldn't tolerate any change.
Wei Lan felt warm in her heart when she heard his words, and she couldn't help but say, "Zichen, close your eyes."
"Um?"
"If you can't see me, it's not a meeting."
Xie Zichen was stunned for a moment, and then he felt the window was opened, Xie Zichen subconsciously closed his eyes, Wei Lan also closed his eyes, and then groped to get closer.
None of them opened their eyes, Wei Lan closed her eyes, stood on tiptoe, kissed his cheek, then groped freely, kissed his cool lips.
Her tongue was soft and slippery, entangled with his tongue, he couldn't help breathing, held her tight waist, lifted her up, let her sit on the window sill, let him kiss enough.
Wei Lan put her hand on his neck, and his hand on her waist. The two kissed for a long time with their eyes closed. Finally, Xie Zichen couldn't stand it any longer. He pulled him away and said in a hoarse voice, "I'll pick you up tomorrow." .”
"Yeah." Wei Lan adjusted her breathing, Xie Zichen's hand held her waist tightly, not daring to move a bit.
"Alan," he said hoarsely, "Come tomorrow, I must have you."
Wei Lan was taken aback for a moment, then realized what Xie Zichen said, and couldn't help laughing out loud.
"Okay," she said frankly, seeing her lips attached to Xie Zichen's ear, she stretched her voice and said, "Wei Lan had this idea when she first met Mr. Xie."
Xie Zichen blushed, and pushed her: "Go back, it's cold, don't catch the cold."
"The same to you."
Wei Lan kissed him, then jumped back into the house and closed the window.
Xie Zichen stood in front of the window for a while, and after feeling his body's reaction subside, he turned and left.
Probably because they met each other, the two finally did not suffer from insomnia, and after sleeping for hours, they got up separately.
Wei Lan put on a fiery red wedding dress, which was cut very uniquely, with a high waist and half-covered chest, making her appear to have big breasts, slender legs and long legs. Wei Lan is very satisfied with this, she likes this kind of clothes that can fully show her femininity.
But Xie Zichen likes Wei Lan to wear it for himself, but it doesn’t mean he also likes her to wear it for others to see, so before entering the bridal chamber, Xie Zichen specially asked Ran Mo to help Wei Lan pull up the clothes, so that the places that should not be exposed should not be exposed Show half. Ran Mo understood Xie Zichen's worries, so she kept reminding Wei Lan not to make Xie Zichen angry when they got married.
Wei Lan understood this, so she didn't pull the clothes too low, but honestly pulled up the collar, so that she couldn't see any scenery.
In order not to make people suspicious, Wei Lan refrained from bringing Daliang's customs over, so she could only watch as Mrs. Wei came to comb her hair after she put on her wedding dress and put on her makeup.
"One comb to the bottom, two combs to comb the gray hair..."
Mrs. Wei was combing her hair while muttering, and then couldn't help but her eyes were red. The same goes for Wei Shao next to him, who couldn't help crying.
Wei Lan was a little helpless, and could only comfort her: "I will still be the eldest son of the Changxinhou Mansion in the future, you don't have to do this..."
"You are going to get married!" Wei Shao reminded her: "Can't you make me sad?"
"Father," Wei Lan finally had the feeling that Wei Shao was her father this minute, and her own father was also so crying. She patiently said: "It was Xie Zichen who married here, you don't have to be so sad, his father doesn't cry."
Wei Shao didn't speak, he didn't stop his daughter from lusting.
When Wei Lan combed her hair, Xie Zichen was also getting ready.
He asked the emperor for an imperial decree, specifically clarifying the official route he will take today. Since before he left, the red carpet has rolled all the way from Xie's house to Changxinhou's Mansion, and from Changxinhou's Mansion to the mansion where they got married - a house in the suburbs.
Xie Zichen was dressed in a red dress and a gold crown, which complemented his fair complexion and deep eyes. Standing outside the gate of Xie's mansion, the sunlight fell on him. His appearance was as handsome as a demon.
There were many people around to join in the fun and come to see the appearance of Lord Shang Shuling, and seeing him suddenly at this moment, they couldn't help but gasped.
"If you can marry Master Shang Shuling," a woman exclaimed, "I will have no regrets in this life!"
Xie Zichen got on his horse, ignored the restlessness of the surrounding people, restrained his mentality of running wildly, and walked steadily towards Changxinhou's mansion.
He is going to pick up Wei Lan.
He's going to have a wife soon.
The author has something to say:
[Xie Zichen has something to say]
Xie Zichen: "I warn you, don't bully me in the future, don't speak ill of me, don't say bad things about me, I will soon have a wife."
Reader: "What do you want if I scold you?"
Xie Zichen: "My wife can beat women."
Reader: "Dimensionality reduction attack, have you tried it?"
Wei Lan: "Probably the protagonist of fantasy novels will have to try it... the heroine of my ancient channel can't do it."