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Chapter 1529: How did you become an immortal?
[Two more chapters to come in the evening]

The twelfth year of Zhenguan.

"Your Majesty, the American Development Office has reported that 5000 of the first 1845 Chinese survivors who arrived have died from various diseases, animals, and other causes. The spirit of the survivors in the Development Office is very bad now. There have been three large-scale rebellions and eighteen small-scale rebellions in one month. Two of the Development Office's -ton ships were burned in the fighting. The soldiers in the Development Office are also in a very bad mood and request to be rotated back home in advance."

"The governor of the garrison, Cheng Zhijie, requested what to do. He admitted that he was afraid he could no longer suppress the rebellion, unless Your Majesty lifted... lifted... his ban..." The twenty-year-old Yuwen Chan sat on the dragon throne, and the person reporting to him was the cabinet secretary Li Yuan.

This is the tenth year that Li Yuan has served as cabinet secretary.

At the beginning, Li Yuan, as the current head of the Li family, did not want to sit in this position at all, because the rank of a cabinet secretary was only the seventh rank, and the rank of any official in the capital was higher than the seventh rank.

As the Duke of Tang, if he entered the officialdom, he would start directly at the fifth rank, and be promoted to the third rank in three years at most, and would definitely become a first rank official within 10 years.

But in the end, I ended up becoming a seventh-rank colonel, which really pissed me off.

At that time, Yuwen Chan was already in power and had incredible strength. Most of the fathers and brothers in the Li family had died early, so Li Yuan, a teenager, became the head of the Li family.

The situation within the family was actually very unstable, and many of the Li family's guests had plans to become independent. If they chose to reject Yuwen Chan at this time, Yuwen Chan might not take action against the Li family, but the Li family would definitely be marginalized in the court and gradually lose power.

The Li family, having lost power, will definitely not have a better ending than an ordinary wealthy family.

So in the end, Li Yuan had to hold his nose and endure it, and became the cabinet secretary. However, Li Yuan at that time never expected that for himself ten years later, even if an outsider offered him a position of the Three Dukes in exchange, Li Yuan would never leave the Secretariat and become a Three Duke.

San Gong is nothing, it is just a honorific title, and actually has no rights at all.

But the cabinet secretary is different. All the big and small events happening in the world, as well as the related memorials are first sent to various government offices, and then from various government offices to the cabinet. The cabinet secretary then analyzes and processes the matters in the memorials, and comes up with an appropriate solution to submit to the emperor. If the emperor thinks there is no problem, he will simply circle it in red.

The whole process seems that the final decision-making power lies in the hands of the emperor, but in fact most of the decision-making power lies in the hands of the cabinet secretaries.

After all, unless your proposed solution is too outrageous or goes against the emperor's ideas, the emperor will most likely circle it in red. In fact, only two or three out of 100 memorials will be rejected.

According to this ratio, in fact, about 97% of the specific matters in the world are directly handled by the cabinet secretary, especially those involving a large number of official promotions, economic distribution, land surveys, etc., which involve the interests of countless people, and are basically handled by the secretary.

Although these secretaries dare not make any outrageous decisions, they can decide which of two officials with similar qualifications and achievements will be promoted? Which of two regions with similar economic conditions will get a special project with a large amount of funding?

In the case of a 2-choice 1 situation where these conditions are equal, the choice will naturally be given to whoever the secretary gives it to.

The huge economic and political benefits involved attracted countless officials. To be frank, although Li Yuan was still a minor official of the seventh rank, his actual power was almost the same as that of the prime minister, and he was the one who could truly dominate the world. The six ministers of the reorganized ministries would bow and scrape when they saw him, just asking him to loosen up when reviewing the memorials of their departments and approve all the funds that should be given.

Otherwise, if this person withholds funding for several months, the entire department will be in trouble.

So now Li Yuan is very happy as the cabinet secretary. Moreover, looking at the entire secretariat, he, Li Yuan, is the only cabinet secretary born in a Guanlong family. The rest are either those who followed Yuwen Chan to seize power in the past or his confidants who appeared out of nowhere.

Or they could be carefully selected children from poor families with great abilities. Therefore, Li Yuan is now unique in the entire Guanlong noble group. Other nobles would give him money when they see him, and then secretly ask him about some specific things in the court, etc. This kind of spiritual value and gain is unparalleled.

But in the past two years, Li Yuan has become a little tired.

It’s not that he was exhausted because he had too many things to do, but because Li Yuan was completely caught between the emperor and the Guanlong family in the past two years and was exhausted by both sides.

Two years ago, after the Emperor’s 18th birthday banquet, a 100-year development plan began.

However, this large-scale development plan has been criticized by the court since the very beginning... First of all, it takes 100 years. Even if you, Yuwen Chan, are young enough and can live to 80 years old, it is only 60 years. Will your sons and grandsons follow your plan in the next 40 years?

In short, 100 years is too long and such a plan is meaningless.

Secondly, the large-scale development plan seriously harmed the interests of the major families, because development requires immigration, and immigration requires a large number of registered households. More than 60% of the registered households in the world are in the hands of the major families. If the emperor wants to immigrate, he has to snatch the registered households from the major families, which will naturally make the major families dissatisfied.

Moreover, the emperor has repeatedly expressed his hope that all the major families would relocate collectively and take their people to the so-called new world for large-scale development. This almost caused the major families to rebel collectively... Damn it, I just want to live a stable life, but you want me to live the most unstable life. I might as well not live this life!
During those two years, there were almost a hundred rebellions in the country, which was more than the number of rebellions in the previous ten years. However, all of the rebellions were completely suppressed by the Shenjiying without exception.

After all, once the fragmentation guns of the Shenji Camp sounded, no matter how many troops there were, they would be nothing but sandbags. That’s why all the major families have laid down recently… Well, we won’t rebel anymore. We will just lie down completely and stay on the ground without moving. If you, the emperor, have the guts, ask two people to carry me away.

When a person decides to give up, he is actually invincible. His Majesty the Emperor naturally does not have the ability to make those who give up take action, so he can only try to force some of the people to immigrate there.

Then there was the memorial submitted by Li Yuan. After the Americas Garrison had been in America for a year, nearly 30% of its population had died. Even the Shenji Camp that had been sent to suppress the rebellion began to become chaotic.

This made Li Yuan smile in his heart... This time, the wise and powerful Emperor should finally realize how unreliable his large-scale development plan is, and then give up decisively.

As a result, the next moment, Li Yuan heard Yuwen Chan sigh and said, "Never mind, twelve years have passed, and the pharmacist has returned to the realm of true immortality, which should be enough for me to suppress the world. The spiritual energy in the world has also recovered a lot, enough for hundreds of thousands of people to practice qi at the same time."

"...Hmm...Hmm?" Li Yuan raised his head blankly, looking at Yuwen Chan in confusion. He was governing the country well, why did he start practicing Taoism again?

(End of this chapter)