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The next meeting began to discuss the issue of money.

The current burden of the empire is very heavy. This year's economy is worse than last year's, and the world's economy is in recession. Those guys on the Western Continent who were particularly fond of investing in wars have all fallen into a huge economic crisis and can't take care of themselves.

Since losing control of the Baie Grand Canal, the empire's foreign trade has been almost entirely by sea.

Since the outbreak of the economic crisis in the Western Continent, shipping has shrunk dramatically, and the impact on the empire is even worse.

The two sudden wars have greatly increased the consumption of the empire. Coupled with the ongoing battle for the Bayi Grand Canal, the empire is maintaining three wars at the same time, and the economy is already stretched.

Last time, the compulsory fundraising initiated by Emperor Li Longxing finally received 10.2 billion, but today it is almost used up, and the war is still like a bottomless pit that cannot be filled.

Where does the money come from?

The director of the Imperial General Directorate of Finance gave three options.

First, printing money.

Second, issue war bonds.

Third, tax collection.

This is the fifth time this year that money has been printed, and the empire has printed money four times, reaching its theoretical limit long ago.

Printing again is bound to lead to a sharp devaluation of the currency, and the economy is bound to be worse next year.

However, printing money still has great temptation, it is the easiest and fastest solution to the crisis, and the benefits of war may offset the harm of currency over-issue.

But after a heated argument, this one was rejected.

The key vote came from the Emperor of the Empire.

Li Longxing knew very well that the upper echelons of the empire, chaebols, clans, groups, financial tycoons and senior officials of the empire, had countless ways to resist inflation and pass on harm and losses.

Printing money actually harvests the wealth of the people at the bottom.

Now the downward pressure of the empire's economy is almost entirely on the bottom, and if they go to harvest the only property of the common people, I don't know how many tragedies will be caused.

The second option, the issuance of war bonds, was rejected outright.

The agony of the last war bond issue that resulted in the defeat of the war has not yet faded from the memories of the elders.

There is only one last item left, tax.

But how to collect this tax has been a huge problem over the years.

The political entities and interest groups represented by the elders are different, and the party that suffers losses no matter what, can only be put on hold for the time being.

The last topic: the economy and internal affairs of the empire.

This is the longest and most important issue.

Li Longxing originally slept every time, because due to the serious differences between the elders, no matter how much noise there was, there would be no result.

But this time something was different.

When Elder Lin Yabo once again proposed his system of aristocracy, civic hierarchy and legal slavery, he won the support of many people.

It is not surprising that Yu Zhongxian and Moxili are allies themselves, but why would the leader of the Capital Party, Elder Ren Zhengqing and his die-hard Mingzhou Governor Ge Guanglin also support it?

When growing old, Elder Luo and Elder Xu Chengguo did not express their opposition.

This situation is very bad. When Li Longxing originally planned to pay a high price to block this proposal, Elder Wang Wengong fiercely expressed his opposition.

He believed that slaves and civic hierarchies were a huge disruption to reform, a backward system that only a backward and barbaric country like the Papal States of Adriano would implement.

"The empire is noble!"

He concluded his speech at the end.

"The nobility of the empire does not come from the nobility of the upper class, but from the nobility of being born equal after the reform of Shenwu 180 years ago."

"A person's inferiority and nobility are not determined by innateness and blood, but by acquired character and ability."

"Otherwise, wouldn't the traitor Wu Jingtang also be born noble and noble?"

Li Longxing knew that Wang Wengong was the leader of the reform faction and the most staunch opponent of imperial power. He had repeatedly obstructed the expansion plan of the imperial faction, and the people of the imperial faction hated him to the core.

Li Longxing didn't like this person very much either. Many of his reform ideas were too ideal to be implemented in the empire.

However, Wang Wengong has many supporters in the middle and lower classes of the empire, and many people of insight and imperial talents are attracted to him, and he is the undisputed leader of the imperial reformers.

However, in the upper echelons of the empire, he is isolated and helpless, and his ideas are unattractive to the upper echelons, which is also his biggest weakness.

Li Longxing decided to help him secretly.

He coughed and said, "I don't think he's right. Humans are born with rank order, and the emperor is born noble."

He said a word of supreme authority and supreme power, and sure enough, in the next vote, no one supported Lin Yabo's proposal.

Every elder is very clear that the reason why they can have the power they have today is obtained from the imperial power. The more imperial power, the less power they have.

This is the most irreconcilable contradiction.

Only the elders are different. They are both elders and the senate. The fundamental meaning of their existence is to eliminate differences, maintain balance, and maintain the stability of the empire.

After that, the Supreme Council discussed the economic situation in various places, as well as the implementation of imperial policies and institutional reforms.

Despite being criticized by many parties, the Great Elder still affirmed Yaojing's achievements and promised to give a certain tilt to the policy.

Subsequently, the focus was on the reform of East Qinzhou. Yu Zhongxian and a large number of Sheng Huaixuan's opponents strongly criticized his reform system, believing that he maliciously changed labor relations and made the dynamic social organizations in the middle useless, and was directly organized by the government. Management substantially increases administrative costs.

The establishment of minimum weekly and basic wages without authorization is equivalent to malicious competition, setting a very bad example for the various regions of the empire,

"If the civilians in various places who were originally safe and guarded, it is all his responsibility!" A political supervisor concluded.

There are also restrictions such as restricting government officials from doing business, not allowing the military to intervene in economic affairs, forcing the acquisition of private enterprises, and selling imperial enterprises without authorization.

They all attacked it all round.

In their mouths, Sheng Huaixuan quickly became a thief and a ruthless ruler.

And all of this was due to the fact that he had too much power as the governor-general, and demanded that the empire take back his "commander-in-chief" powers and implement democratic reforms in Eastern Qinzhou.

Li Longxing nodded: "I think the empire also needs democratic reform."

This topic was too big, and no one dared to take it up. The political supervisors who were responsible for the attack wisely bypassed it and only attacked Sheng Huaixuan for being cruel and evil.

In the end, at the suggestion of Li Longxing, the Great Elder reached a resolution, Sheng Huaixuan immediately paid a fine of 670 million yuan, and wrote a letter of guarantee, admitting his mistake and promising to never do it again.

After the decision was made, the atmosphere at the meeting suddenly changed, as if a door to a new world had silently opened in front of them.

The imperial-level officials exchanged secret glances, as if they had discovered some unspeakable secret.

After that, the highest meeting suddenly became a fine meeting, and any criticism of any state was finally resolved with a fine.

As a result, some political supervisors who were loyal to the emperor climbed wildly, and the elders whose interests were damaged were not reconciled that only themselves were damaged.

In the end, the 29 states of the empire, except for Zezhou after the rebellion, were all fined, with a total amount exceeding 10 billion, and even the elders had smiles on their faces.

Before the meeting ended, Yan Gao, director of the Imperial Taxation Administration, suddenly jumped out and claimed that Changshan County was illegally smuggling gold, with an amount of billions.

Although there was no evidence for a while, Yu Zhongxian took advantage of the situation to shake out a lot of black material in Changshan County, and tried his best to exaggerate how pure and pure the squires and rich people who were killed by Changshan County were, and how sad their relatives and family members were, and they got nothing for nothing. How the mob builds happiness on the pain of others.

Although it was an old account, there were too many people offended in Changshan County some time ago, and it was immediately besieged.

Li Longxing took advantage of the process of their verbal scolding and handed the Changshan County production value report to the four elders and whispered.

"Production and construction in Changshan County has grown rapidly, and it has absorbed a large number of laborers, the number has approached half a million, which is one-third of the county's population."

"The stability of the empire has its share of credit. If you rashly impose sanctions on it, once the economy of Changshan County collapses, and the empire will suddenly have 500,000 unstable factors, what should we do?"

Li Longxing especially understands the thoughts of the Great Elder, and their core is stability and balance.

At present, small civil unrest in various parts of the empire continues, and even large-scale civil unrest broke out in Shizhou. Although the governor of Shizhou, Chang Shengkai, has repeatedly claimed to have been wiped out, it always resurfaces all of a sudden, and the bandit leader he executed repeatedly died. And resurrection.

There are also people in the market who nicknamed Chang Shengkai the Necromancer in order to laugh at his absurd behavior.

When the news reached the Supreme Council of Elders, the four elders were very angry, thinking that they had hurt the face of the empire.

They immediately dispatched political supervisors and inspectors to investigate and ordered them to quickly suppress the rebellion.

Not only that, there has always been a high incidence of civil unrest in the western part of the empire, but because most areas are poor and underdeveloped, and the news is blocked, it generally has no impact.

But now, even the once prosperous eastern region has some signs of instability, with a large number of corporate sector layoffs, unemployment in the empire hitting record highs, and law and order rapidly deteriorating.

The elders are very worried that the order of the empire has been destroyed. More than half of the troops of the empire are stationed in various places, and they have not gone to aid the war. That is why.

Therefore, the elders quickly agreed with Li Longxing's words.

Thus, the decision on Jangsan County was formed without interference.

"Changshan County has been a chronic disease of the empire for many years. Its new county chief Lin Wen used some drastic means to complete the reform, which is understandable."

"However, the golden tax is the fundamental tax of the empire, and Changshan County needs to pay at least 360 million in tax."

"The director of the State Administration of Taxation, Yan Gao, was ordered to supervise this matter. The evidence must be conclusive and the notarization must be strict. It is forbidden to embezzle stolen goods and bend the law or evade taxes."

"I hope Chief Lin can make persistent efforts to sweep away the stagnation and bring a healthy, stable and well-developed Changshan County to the empire."

As soon as the summit meeting ended, Li Longxing immediately returned to the palace, contacted Sheng Huaixuan through an encrypted phone, and informed him of the content of the meeting.

"The plan is about to intensify."

Li Longxing warned.

"Lin Yabo and Yu Zhongxian are already one step ahead of us. They don't know the core of your reform yet. If they do, the Great Elder will never tolerate it."

"I understand."

Sheng Huaixuan's low voice came from the phone.

Li Longxing was silent for a while, and said, "It's not my intention to let Changshan County break away from East Qinzhou."

On the phone, Sheng Huaixuan suddenly smiled: "Long Xing, I understand now, this is a good thing."

Li Longxing understood the meaning of his old friend in an instant: "So you deliberately didn't contact the official Changshan County?"

"right."

The two were silent for a moment.

Li Longxing sighed: "Is Yuchen okay with you?"

"He's fine, he's running his own company now and doing it well."

Li Longxing nodded slightly and changed the subject: "I plan to send someone to support Yang Jiewei and Feili, who do you think is better?"

"Li Linyue."

Li Longxing was silent for a while: "Why?"

"It will make Double Star fall to her completely."

"But it only makes her more arrogant and she'll never see where her roots lie and what to do."

"This is the best result."

"But what about the child? This emperor's tower is my prison. I want to break it and destroy it. I want to be free and get everything. She has grown up freely outside the prison since she was a child, but she wants to get in!"

"I think you can marry her to Lin Wen."

"what?"

"Lin Wen has an incredible belief that he will change the people around him. After Li Yuchen came back from him, he has changed a lot. I believe he can change Li Linyue."

Li Longxing was silent for a while~www.readwn.com~ Okay, but that girl may not accept it. Once she chooses a husband, the princess pie will have at least half of the core. And I want to see that kid, Mad, the first princess of the empire, the most dazzling pearl of the empire, I didn't want to sleep, so I let him sleep. "

The voice of Li Huaixiu, the governor's wife, came from the phone: "Sister, sister! Come on, His Majesty is going crazy again!"

A tiger-like low voice: "What did he say again?"

A small whisper.

Then came a huge roar: "Li Longxing, are you itchy again?"

bang.

Li Longxing wisely hung up the phone.

He turned to the royal guards beside him and said, "You guys, these days, you said that I occasionally feel a cold, I am sick, I am resting in bed, and no one has seen me."

"Yes! Your Majesty!"