Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

Sure enough, it was impossible for Lu Chen to keep calm when such a big thing happened.

After all, this is a major event that a slight mistake will lead to turmoil in the country!

A loyal minister like Lu Chen, who is dedicated to serving the public and regards the country of Great Xia as more important than himself, sees the holy king acting so recklessly with the absolute power of the holy relics and the emperor's supreme authority, how could he be so calm down?

I'm afraid he is thinking about how to stop this now, and even wishes he could go to the palace immediately to admonish His Majesty...

You have to find a way to persuade him not to take this muddy water!

Otherwise, if he offends the Holy King, no matter how prosperous his Holy Family is or how much the Empress favors and trusts him, he will not end well...

Thinking of this, Xiao Yi couldn't help clenching his fists.

However, just when he was about to speak to persuade, Lu Chen suddenly exhaled heavily, and said in a deep voice, "How does His Royal Highness want to reform?"

Xiao Yi frowned slightly, then fell silent for a moment, and then said calmly:

"His Royal Highness is going to change the salary that was originally allocated to the clan to [-]% of the annual income of the prefecture and county where their fiefdom is located, and this [-]% is subject to tax."

After a pause, he slowly recounted the various new policies proposed by the Holy King in the early court amidst the increasingly ugly faces of the clan and officials.

Hearing all kinds of familiar measures from Xiao Yi's mouth, Lu Chen's heart gradually sank.

The performance system...strengthens supervision...binds the interests of the clan with the people...

Isn't this fucking a suggestion I made to the empress during this period of time?Why did the memorial just handed in yesterday become the claim of the Holy King today?

Thinking of this, he felt an indescribable tingling pain in his back.

But after calming down a bit, he figured out the key to this matter in a flash.

Before, the Empress specifically told him to sort out his thoughts first, write the memorial and hand it directly to her, not to the cabinet.

Then after he handed over the memorial, he immediately ordered him to rest for a day and asked him not to go to court today...

Finally... the Holy King of Cangming, who is aloof and possesses absolute strength that makes it difficult for people to resist, proposed this proposition in the early dynasty that touches the fundamental interests of all parties.

In this way, all the resentment was concentrated on Saint King Cangming and had nothing to do with him...

Thoughts flashed through Lu Chen's mind quickly, and not long after, a complex look flashed in his eyes.

The empress is protecting him and letting the Holy King Cangming come out to withstand the thunder...

As soon as he thought of this, he instantly felt mixed feelings in his heart, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

Not long after, Xiao Yi told Lu Chen everything that happened in the morning, and then said seriously: "Huaiyu, you must listen to me this time. The Holy King Cangming is extremely powerful and domineering. There is no way he can do it." People can control it. As long as it is what he wants to do, no one can stop him. He can only find ways to deal with him..."

However, before he could finish speaking, Lu Chen shook his head and said calmly, "Don't worry, Brother Ruoyu, I won't stop His Royal Highness the Holy King."

Hearing this, Xiao Yi couldn't help being slightly startled, and then looked carefully as if he knew Lu Chen again.

That good friend, who was as smelly and hard as a stone in a latrine, followed his persuasion so easily, which made him feel very unreal.

"really?"

"Well, really."

Lu Chen replied without hesitation.

Immediately afterwards, without waiting for Xiao Yi to ask again, Lu Chen paused word by word under his surprised gaze: "After all, I planned to ask His Majesty about this matter at court tomorrow morning."

The moment the words fell, Xiao Yi's pupils shrank suddenly.

.............

Just when Luo Jing was about to change.

Yuzhou City, in a luxurious mansion with five entrances.

Hundreds of wealthy gentry from all over the Yu and Sui prefectures sat together.

"Everyone, the situation is already clear."

An old man with white beard and hair and a stooped figure stood up, and said in a hoarse voice: "The Lu thief will not fall, all of us here, and even all the gentry in the two states will no longer have a peaceful life, let those dog officials continue to behave mischievously, our ancestors The family business that has been passed down for hundreds of years will be destroyed!"

As soon as the words fell, an old man with white hair and childlike face sitting beside him also stood up.

"Old Li is right. Although we have a big family and a great business, we have no way out."

As soon as the two opened their mouths, the others immediately echoed.

"That's right, that Fang Yu is so vile, he even colluded with outsiders to suppress good local businessmen and messed up our family's business. No matter how things go on, our Xiao family will be forced to ruin sooner or later by him!"

"The same thing happened to our new dog official from Qinghe County. For a few untouchables, he beat my child until he couldn't get out of bed for half a month..."

"What is this? Do you know what the new dog official in our Ping County did? He even ordered the land to be cleared! This thief is so bold and doesn't abide by official rules at all. If this kind of dog thief is not eliminated as soon as possible, we still have Is there a way out?"

"......"

They kept berating Fang Yu and others for their various "crimes" since they took office, as if they hated them to the bone.

"Ugh."

Mr. Wu sighed, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone here, who is not hurt by these thieves and wished to tear their corpses into thousands of pieces to gather here, but the thieves surnamed Lu are deeply favored by His Majesty. , there are so many masters around, and he is far away in the capital, how can we get him?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone fell silent.

After a while, the old man spoke again.

"To be honest, this old man has a lot of connections with Mr. Zheng Zhong, the left servant of the Ministry of Justice. If you all have a clever plan to bring down that land thief, this old man will write a book, and ask Mr. Zheng to eradicate the traitors for us and shape the world."

Hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up immediately, but soon dimmed again.

A high-ranking official at the level of a minister may not be enough...

And just when they were thinking this way, in an inconspicuous corner, a man with an unremarkable appearance suddenly stood up.

"I have some personal friendship with Mr. Chen Cangchen, the censor of the right capital. If you have a good plan, I would like to do my best."

As soon as these words came out, everyone immediately showed joy.

Youdu Yushi, that's a second-rank official!

Moreover, he is still a senior official in charge of the censor who has the right to hear the wind and tell the story. If he is willing to take action, the matter will be mostly settled.

After the two expressed their views, some people stepped up to Ali one after another, saying that they had some relationship with the court, but it was not very reliable.

"So..."

After everyone said what they were capable of, the old man with white hair and childlike face stroked his long beard and said softly: "Everything is ready, only Dongfeng owes it. What is missing now is the means to bring down that land thief."

"Ha ha..."

As soon as the old man finished speaking, a chuckle suddenly sounded from the crowd.

"What a coincidence, in my hands, maybe there is just what you need."

Chapter 157 Yan Song

Facts have proved that, as far as today is concerned, the prestige of the Holy King Cangming is far greater than that of the Empress.

Just like what Xiao Yi said yesterday, no one can stop what the Holy King is determined to do.

In terms of strength, the Holy King itself is the most powerful existence in the world.

In terms of power, the Cangming army controls the entire Sili, anyone who dares to disobey will be punished!

Facing this kind of absolute existence with the ability to change the world, how can they resist?

What's the point of resisting?

Of course, there are not no people who oppose the festival of righteousness and death.

After all, the Yongchu Dynasty was not the Shenghe Dynasty, and it was not that it could not tolerate Taoists.

Naturally, few of the clans that are greedy for pleasure have the courage to stand up to the Holy King of Cangming, but the censors are not without tough bones.

However, in addition to his absolute force, the Holy King Cangming is also quite eloquent. While forcing the law of change, he also constantly complained about the harm of the ancestral system of supporting the clan, which is serious enough to threaten the survival of Great Xia. If there is no change, the national treasury will be in short supply every year, and the court will have no money, which will inevitably lead to chaos in the world.

If he disagrees with his method of reform, he will come up with an effective method to cure the damage and make up for the deficit of the national treasury.

Faced with the questions raised by the Holy King Cangming, the censors were only talking about some big truths, and they had nothing to say at all.

After all, although they are proficient in the laws of Great Xia, they are too conservative. They only know how to maintain the laws of their ancestors, and their ability to solve specific problems is extremely limited.

If you ask them to distinguish right from wrong by citing scriptures, they can speak clearly and logically, but if you ask them to do things, they will become stretched. How can they come up with a way to get the best of both worlds?

When the Holy King of Cangming told them the data, the future, and the plan, they would only talk about filial piety and the law of their ancestors.

As for changing the ancestral system, is it unfilial to Emperor Taizu?

What a joke, the greatest unfiliality is to lose this one hundred thousand miles!

And if you really want to talk about the ancestral system, the Emperor Taizu also formulated the death penalty for embezzling more than ten taels of silver. If you really want to maintain the ancestral system, then restore it together.

As the saying goes, hooligans are not to be feared, but educated hooligans are to be feared.

The Holy King Cangming is obviously a cultured hooligan.

Although these arguments were not what he thought of, but when he said them, the power was extremely terrifying.

For another person, there is absolutely no such effect as him.

In the end, under the circumstances of being unable to fight and distinguishing but not winning, the reform of the system of supporting the clan was passed, and the corresponding supporting policies began to enter a state of preparation.

Goals and plans are in place, and after the decision is passed, the rest is implementation and supervision.

Who to send to do this, who is responsible for following up the progress and supervising the relevant personnel, has become a problem to be solved at present.

So, when going to court the next day, Lu Chen felt a very oppressive atmosphere as soon as he passed the Xuanji Gate and walked along the red wall towards the Taiji Hall.

The court officials who usually gather in twos and threes to talk about the world, are now more and more gloomy, as if they have lost the interest in talking with their companions, and their faces are extremely heavy.

Lu Chen didn't bother to care about them, so he just walked towards the Tai Chi Hall, as if nothing happened, no different from usual.

And just as he walked around a corner——

"Servant Lu."

Suddenly, a strange call came from beside him.

Hearing someone calling him, Lu Chen stopped and turned his head to look.

But he saw an old man with white beard and hair, dressed in a robe with red background and purple pattern, looking kindly, looking at him with a smile on his face.

Behind the old man, several officials in purple robes accompanied him.