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"Your Majesty, the subject is not clear."

The door of the Hall of Martial Arts opened wide, and all the ministers filed out, but Li Congyuan stayed behind.

Standing in the hall, he looked up at the young monarch sitting on the throne.

"Your Majesty, you are in a hurry."

The broken snow was blown in from the open palace door in the wind. Li Congyuan lowered his eyes and arched his hands in front of him.

If it is said that His Majesty checked the tributes and paid the old accounts of the Taipu Temple before, he, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, tried his best to promote it. When His Majesty uses female officials, he is happy to see the success. I think His Majesty is really hasty.

Now there are only a few hundred female officials in the imperial court, and most of them are older female officials from the former palace. His Majesty assigned the Duanji Hall to the female officials to check the accounts, which has already shown some shortcomings. Talented and learned edicts also go out to serve.Today, in Li Congyuan's eyes, His Majesty is already rushing ducks to the shelves. It just so happens that there are not many ducks, and there are still many wolves, tigers and leopards on the shelves.

"Your Majesty, Taizu set up six subjects to supervise the six departments..."

"Why don't I know? Jinshi, Hanlin, and the Sixth Division will be used in the affairs, and then they will be released to the outside world, or they will be promoted in order in the Sixth Division. Now that the Sixth Division has become a place where women can go, those Hanlin are afraid. It's gone."

Li Congyuan was silent.

He himself entered the imperial examination, so he naturally understood the twists and turns. Just because he understood, he also knew how angry and crazy those Hanlin people would be when they saw their future being taken over by women.

"Dayong has been in the dynasty for 200 years." Shen Shiqing sighed, "Study to start a career, and you can be exempted from tax if you win the Juren, so someone came with a land deed to vote... the ancestors studied, the descendants studied, the ancestors got the land, and the descendants guarded the land Li Shangshu, if I ask these people to hand over the fields, will they agree?"

Li Congyuan was clearly talking about female officials, but Li Congyuan didn't understand why His Majesty would suddenly mention the fields. The matter of officials and gentry's crops is of great importance. He could only ponder for a moment before responding:
"Your Majesty, scholars in the world are naturally unwilling to do this."

"Yes, they won't, so what will they do?"

His Majesty's tone was very light, as if he was just asking Li Congyuan if he would like a cup of tea and a snack.

Li Congyuan felt a gust of wind blowing in from outside the hall, and it condensed into a snake made of ice, winding up his spine.

"His Majesty."

Lifting the hem of his robe, he knelt down on his knees.

"Why did Li Shangshu kneel down?" Shen Shiqing stood up with a smile, and quickly walked down to help him up.

"His Majesty……"

"Dayong ruled the country with officials and gentry. The officials were in the court and the gentry were in the field. They were favored by the emperor, holding power in their hands, and stepping on the ground under their feet. Just because they didn't need to pay taxes, they were able to dominate the people."

Dragging Li Congyuan's shoulder with one hand, Shen Shiqing smiled.

"They thought that I couldn't leave them, and Dayong couldn't leave them."

As one of "them", Li Congyuan has nothing to say.

Shen Shiqing looked closely at his drooping eyebrows, and spoke softly:
"Li Shangshu, Dayong's annual land tax is lower than that of Chengzu. If I want to go north and west, I have to fatten up Zhang Wan first, and then kill him. What if I want to send troops south? Want to put down the pirates? Who will I support?"

"Should I raise another eunuch? Or raise another treacherous minister? Is it the chickens, dogs, cats and mice around me? Or the elders in the cabinet? Yang Zhai, or you, Li Congyuan?"

In an instant, Li Congyuan's face turned pale.

"If you have fattened up a huge greed, you have to sharpen another knife. This is going to be a party struggle. In such a big court, everyone wants to form a party and everyone wants to fight. My people in Dayong, who would think about them When will the Duqin and Duerben in the northwest make a comeback? Are the Jurchens in the northeast really only willing to live in the white mountains and black waters? Careful thinking about the purpose, I still have to support the defenders everywhere to guard against them. Under the exorbitant taxation and exploitation, the people of the Central Plains, which can be called the paradise of the Celestial Dynasty in the officials' books, have emerged one after another."

Turning the corner of the robe, Shen Shiqing quickly walked to the back of the throne, where she had ordered a map of Dayong to hang up there before.

"Li Shangshu, my ancestors ruled the world of Dayong and shared the world with the officials and gentry. For 200 years, they have forgotten who owns the world."

The slender and powerful hand firmly patted the map.

Li Congyuan never thought that he originally wanted to persuade His Majesty to draw it slowly, but His Majesty lifted his skull and poured a spoonful of boiling oil into it.

"Your Majesty, can, can... Dayong is now stable, although there are some inconsistencies, after all..."

"You also said, that's now." Shen Shiqing folded her hands behind her back, and she was also looking at the map.

"Dayong, is there another 200 years?"

These words were earth-shattering, Li Congyuan opened his mouth and closed it again.

He has always been a modest gentleman, but at this moment, some dark and dark thoughts arose in his heart.

It's time to bring back all the courtiers who just quit!Let them hear these words of His Majesty!There is probably no one who can still stand like him.

He raised his head slightly and looked at the young figure from behind.

Before His Majesty was established as the crown prince by the first emperor, he was a bachelor of the Eastern Palace. Although he was not as good as Shen Shao, he also watched the stubborn King Zhaoqin step by step to today.

But today, he felt that the young emperor's figure was a little blurry.

when?
When did his Majesty, who had been looking forward to becoming a Mingjun, have such deep thoughts, he sat on the top and looked at them, the officials, and the officials were also looking at him, and since when did he start Abandoning those tricks to manipulate power, putting Dayong in his heart, and looking at the far future with his eyes?

Mingzong Jingzong is the master of success, and he just sits idly by the party disputes between the court and China. He thought that although His Majesty has the desire to be aggressive externally, it is nothing more than that internally.

Now, he is convinced that His Majesty is going to take a completely different path from the previous emperors.

No, it should be said that the past few months' Majesty has parted ways with the former Majesty.

"Li Shangshu, you just told me that I let the female officer enter the sixth department too quickly."

Shen Shiqing turned around.

"I think it's too slow. Taizu set up Jinyiwei, Duchayuan, various censors, and six departments. Chengzu set up the East Factory, Suzong supported the eunuchs, Shenzong set up the West Factory, and so on. It's just that they want to beat the world's officials and gentry. But now the procuratorate can't be reused, the six departments have become a place for the Qingliu to raise their reputation, and there are many censors who have corpses and vegetarian meals. After the eunuchs took power, they have shaken the country several times. Officials and gentry They have lived a comfortable life for too long, and someone should knock a gong in their ears to let them know that they are not the only ones in this world. Is there anything closer to them than women?"

"The more the officials and gentry are hostile to the female officials, the more loyal the female officials are to Dayong. The more they suppress the female officials, the more women who are trampled into the mud will try their best to climb up. I just gave them a ladder ... When one day, women who can no longer be suppressed start to ask for their fields and land, they will naturally kick down those officials and gentry who are useless to the country for me, and ask for the land tax that those officials and gentry should pay return."

Shen Shiqing smiled.

Li Congyuan was trembling.

Yes, it will take a long time to get there.

Compared with that moment, everything at this moment is just the beginning.

"His Majesty."

"Li Shangshu, you think women don't know anything, they have to be raised up first, and they have to be raised before they can take the next step, so you think I'm too fast."

"I just feel that those women haven't come to me so far. It's really, really slow."

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