The Ten Articles, the Inn and the Talks.
Word of this matter has spread thoroughly, and the people of Great Wei are very excited and thrilled.
Each of these ten articles is incomparably harsh, especially the last one, a provisional treaty, depending on the situation of each country, thus negotiating slowly.
The meaning is very simple, if one day I see that you are not happy, and add another article to you in the past, then I will be happy, as for whether you are happy or not, regardless of what happened in Great Wei.
Xu Qingnian this inn peace talks, let the people of Great Wei simply spring ah.
Since the Northern Expedition, when had Wei ever been so tough? And when had it ever been this good?
The battle, which no one wanted to fight at first, was won in less than a month with Xu Qingnian turning corruption into magic.
This is a rare battle result.
Great Wei won this time, not only did they win, but they also collected the money standing up.
Of course, the terms this time, Xu Qingnian was also treated differently.
For those foreign countries that did not participate in the war at all, or those that responded positively to the war, Xu Qingnian was not too harsh, and gave certain benefits.
But these benefits were not in terms of silver, but in terms of the development of the country, such as dividing up certain areas for these countries to increase their land area, and at the same time suppressing the strength of the enemy countries.
In order to seek a state of balance.
But there are three things that Xu Qingnian treats equally.
The merchants, the military, and the privileges and privileges.
These three points require all foreign countries to treat each other equally.
It is the same as directly controlling every move of the foreign countries. If you dare to make trouble, you don’t even need to send troops from the Great Wei, the garrison will directly take action and kill these people.
What Xu Qingnian really cares about is the merchants.
After all, Wei’s enemy is not the foreign kingdom, but the Sudden Evil Dynasty and the First Yuan Dynasty.
Even if you are stationed in a foreign country, if you really want to rebel, you can sneak around and maybe you will really succeed.
The merchants are the real killer, from the smallest necessities of life, such as rice, oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar, to the largest, all of which are contracted by the merchants of the Great Wei.
Once the war starts, the merchants will be evacuated, but you don’t care about the clothes, do you? Do you want to eat the food?
I don’t even need to send troops to fight you, I’ll just surround you and send food to you, right?
I won’t stop you, just eat every day, sit inside the city, don’t dare to eat anything, just eat, just eat, eat hard.
If you eat for a year, will the Tusi dynasty still give you food and provisions? Help you feed your people? Do you eat Sh*t?
And it’s not just that simple, because it’s based on a facepalm.
What if they don’t?
The foreign countries are all working for the Great Wei.
The merchants earn silver from the people of the foreign countries, the money circulates in Great Wei, and the people of the foreign countries have to work honestly for the Great Wei merchants to earn new silver.
And the merchants must have been given preferential treatment when they went to the foreign countries, plus 30% of the foreign countries’ tribute.
Tsk.
This is no longer blood-sucking, but skin-picking, proper skin-picking.
Of course there is a degree of skin picking, Xu Qingnian will control it to a reasonable amount, to ensure that the people of the foreign country can eat well and have that little bit of money, the limit is moderate prosperity.
But want to get rich, want to show off your power?
Impossible.
As a defeated country, Great Wei allows them to think about it, just think about it.
As for the privileged treatment, it is purely to raise the country’s national confidence, which is also of great significance, so that the people can really straighten their backs from now on, and see the foreign states without any falsehood.
No? Fight if you don’t!
These three points must be implemented in every foreign country.
When Xu Qingnian returned, the main thing was to set a few goals and guidelines.
The economy of Great Wei will develop qualitatively after this battle.
It was not so much the amount of money that could be received, but the emergence of the Dragon of Public Opinion.
This means that the people of Great Wei will have a new boom in their hair, and the whole nation will be united in building, so that the productivity of the Great Wei dynasty will be greatly increased.
It will not be obvious in the next two years, but in the next three to five years, it will be possible to return to its heyday.
And in a high position, one should never plan for the present, but for the future, and one should have a long term vision, not limited to the present.
The great Wei era will come sooner or later, and what has happened in recent years, one only needs to fine-tune it, one need not concern oneself too much, because there are many things that the people will do themselves.
What one has to prepare for now is the future, the longer-term future.
Inside the Shouren Academy.
Xu Qingnian puts pen to paper.
[Five guidelines for the prosperity of the Great Wei]
En, Xu Qingnian is conceiving five future guidelines for the future of the Great Wei Dynasty.
Xu Qingnian began to write in earnest, putting all his ideas and plans on the rice paper.
Page after page was written out by Xu Qingnian.
Time also pa*sed little by little.
In the blink of an eye, three days had pa*sed.
Seventy percent of the foreign countries of Great Wei had resigned to their fate, and the rulers of the countries had rushed to Great Wei, while the civil and military officials of the countries had also gone home to prepare for the aftermath.
Great Wei’s orders were there, whoever ran would die together, there was no chance of even peace talks.
The sacrifice of a small number of people in exchange for the survival of the majority of people, as long as normal people know how to choose.
In the final analysis, it was just a matter of losing the war.
If they had won, it would have been Wei’s officials who died, but now they have lost.
We can cry or make a fuss, but nothing will change.
Those with a bit of backbone gave their lives in order to save the people and gained a good reputation, while those without backbone begged for their lives and were willing to agree to all sorts of demands, desperate to give the country to Wei.
But such begging was beaten back before it could be sent to Great Wei.
Xu Qingnian’s meaning and attitude was very straightforward; at this point, the point of killing was to deter, and without substantial punishment, no one would fear Great Wei.
These kings were afraid, not of Wei, but of facing the fear of death.
Xu Qingnian is not considered ruthless, but rather the ideology of the general trend.
Still, if Great Wei loses this battle, it will be Xu Qingnian, the empress and all the officials of Great Wei who will die.
It’s like after the defeat of the Northern Expedition, have you ever seen anyone help Great Wei? If Xu Qingnian hadn’t come, Great Wei would only have become more and more decadent, and once it waited until the First Grade Martial Artist had reached the end of his life.
Then the end of Great Wei would have come.
So, kill, for the sake of not killing! To not kill for the sake of future generations.
But this act, in the eyes of the readers, became unkind, and there was impeachment after impeachment and scolding from everywhere, except that Xu Qingnian, now, was like the sun.
The lack of an organisation and a leader has left this group of scholars with no place to vent their anger.
The remaining 30% of the foreign nations rejected the clause, wanting to fight to the death, wanting to rebel, unwilling to accept such a clause.
When news of this reached Great Wei, the Ministry of War did not even let the Great Wei army take the field, but directly asked the surrounding foreign nations to take action, and the terms were very simple, a yang plot and a conspiracy all together.
That foreign nation dared to make trouble, its imperial son was righteous, or the prince’s royal family, or even the common people, whoever destroyed it, whoever was in charge, would just listen to Great Wei in future.
This is the Yang plot, the insoluble Yang plot.
And the conspiracy is also simple: the surrounding countries, whoever destroys the gang, gets the other side’s territory.
It is also an insurmountable conspiracy, knowing what Great Wei has in mind, not spending a single soldier, letting the foreign countries fight on their own, consuming the foreign countries’ troops, and it doesn’t matter to Great Wei who is in charge of the foreign countries.
It didn’t matter to Great Wei who was in charge. They had to pay 30% of the tribute to Great Wei anyway, and the ten terms had to be agreed to, that was all.
Indeed, when the imperial decree was issued, the foreign nations began to fight internally, and all sides raised armies to crush the rebels. These foreign nations that were clamouring for rebellion were destroyed before they could even shout for a few days.
Some of the foreign nations were even worse, as some of their princes were so righteous that the rest joined in the infighting, and when the next foreign nation saw the opportunity to take advantage of it, it began to raise an army again.
This went on for seven days before Great Wei finally called a halt to it.
Great Wei did not need them to be too internally consumed, not that they were afraid that they would not be able to defend themselves, but the people were the ones who must be sacrificed in the war.
And these people are the foundation of Great Wei’s future rise, even if they are of foreign origin.
Great Wei called a halt, and the foreign nations stopped in droves. Now for the foreign nations to come over and say, Great Wei is the father, and they will do whatever they are told.
And after this trip, all the foreign nations are completely honest, and the ones that are not are gone.
The only thing to say is about one place, the Si Long Kingdom.
The king of Si Long killed himself, to the extent that he did, no matter where he ran to, it was useless, but the whole Si Long Kingdom knew that they were the ones who had led this matter, and the death of the king was not enough at all, nor was the death of the civil and military officials, the idea of the Great Wei was simple.
The entire SiLong clan had to die, except for the people, and the royal family was implicated in the death of nine clans, which was the downfall of the SiLong Kingdom.
So the royal line of the Si Long clan, fled to the land of the barbarians, and according to the intelligence, the barbarians were hesitant to accept them, but in the end, for some unknown reason, the barbarians chose to accept them.
After all, it was only some of the royal nobles of the Si Lung Kingdom, the main ones had already killed themselves and died, but even so, Great Wei warned the barbarians a bit, while allowing the surrounding countries to occupy the Si Lung Kingdom and eat it together.
Great Wei also got its share of the benefits.
At this juncture, there was no need for further conquests with the barbarians; Great Wei had already gained everything and was not afraid of what the royal family of Si Lung Kingdom could do.
What Great Wei needs to do now is to end this war once and for all, and then begin to go back to developing the country. There is no way that the advancement of the country will be delayed because of a Si Long Kingdom.
[The 25th day of the 11th month in the first year of Wu Chang]
The peace talks between the Great Wei Dynasty and the Tusi Dynasty ended, and the two dynasties came to an agreement that the Tusi Dynasty, having been deceived by the foreign kingdom and having misunderstandings, would aid Great Wei with 100,000,000 taels of silver to cut down the scourge of the va*sal state.
The 27th day of the 11th month of the first year of Wu Chang]
All the va*sal states in the territory of Great Wei sign a treaty at the capital of Great Wei.
This ended the war.
[The 15th day of the 12th month of the first year of Wu Chang]
His Majesty decreed that the war was brought to an end because of the concerted efforts of all the officials of the court and because the people of Great Wei made common cause and worked together to put down the rebellion.
Xu Qingnian, the Young Secretary of the Imperial Household, has saved the country from falling, and has helped the building to fall.
Therefore, he was ennobled to be the Marquis of Greater Wei, with the title of “Pingxing”, and was entitled to an annual salary of 100,000 koku, and was ennobled on the 30th of December.
The Ministry of Rites and Ceremonies made him a marquis of the Great Wei, with seven white horses, a residence for the marquis, and an extension of the school.
Shouren’s school of mind is to be regarded as the orthodox academic discipline of the Great Wei, and is to be included in the examination for the imperial examinations.
I hereby respect this!
The 30th of November, the first year of Wuchang.
With the announcement of a decree, the end of November was a time of shock and amazement in Great Wei.
It was not a shocking event that Xu Qingnian was crowned marquis, after all, this battle, although Xu Qingnian did not do so exaggeratedly to save the Great Wei from the fire.
But the fact that Xu Qingnian had built up the national prestige of Great Wei was something that any emperor or subject would want to do, both in ancient times and in modern times.
Therefore, it is reasonable for the people and the nobles of Wei to have a marquis.
But what really shook the people and the powerful was two things.
Hereditary recklessness and the study of respect for the heart.
These two areas were the truly terrifying ones.
Hereditary recklessness means that Xu Qingnian’s title can be inherited indefinitely for generations, even if there are nine state princes today, only three of them are hereditary reckless.
Xu Qingnian is so young, he has become a Marquis of the Pindicator, but he is also a hereditary marquis.
In the future, there will be a Xu family among the powerful people of Wei.
As long as the Wei dynasty is not destroyed, this title will continue to be inherited.
But this is nothing if you compare it to the second.
What is the concept of the Great Wei’s respect for the study of the heart and its inclusion in the examination for the imperial examinations? It means that in the future, if a scholar wants to become an official, he or she must read books on theology of the heart.
You don’t read it, do you? If you don’t read it, you can go home if you don’t know anything about it.
Are you not convinced? If you don’t, you can go home. When the Great Wei is in danger again, you can take command.
Of course at this time you will also have to complete a few achievements.
[Civil and Military Unity
[The Emperor’s Trust]
[Public opinion is like a dragon]
“To speak for the people
The Great Scholar of Writing
But any lack of one condition will not work. If all the above conditions are not met, the copy cannot be activated.
So this act of the Empress almost pushed Xu Qingnian to a new level, not only in terms of status by granting him the position of Marquis.
More to the point, the Empress had taken sides, and in front of the Palace of Literature and Xu Qingnian, the Empress chose Xu Qingnian.
This was a great blow to the Palace of Literature.
What do the scholars of the world study for? Justice in their hearts? The people of the world? Whatever the reason, how many of them did not want to become officials? Even if you don’t want to be an official, you still want to work for the good of the people of the world, right?
If you can’t be an official, how can you work for the welfare of the people of the world?
But one of the requirements for becoming an official is that you have to study mindfulness, and it can be said that within half a year, Xu Qingnian will be able to enter the realm of the great scholars of heaven and earth.
He would also be close to being crowned a saint.
This is the reason why the Great Wei is so shocked.
If Wei was the biggest winner this time, then Xu Qingnian was the second winner.
Sealed as a marquis and worshipped as a minister, and the righteousness of heart learning.
This ……. The benefits are truly endless.
The people were shocked, and word of mouth spread, and the readers of Great Wei were the first to collect Xu Qingnian’s famous quotes and sayings.
The Shouren Academy was almost crowded with people coming to enroll.
But all of this had nothing to do with Xu Qingnian.
It was close to a month long.
Xu Qingnian studied the five guidelines and wrote hundreds of sheets of policy.
Define the goal, develop the goal, achieve the goal.
This was the theme of the policy.
It was only a first draft, and Xu Qingnian had not finished writing it by now, because there was just too much to write.
Ten days pa*sed, and it was the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the first year of Wuchang.
There were still five days to go before Xu Qingnian’s enthronement of the Great Hall.
The war in the va*sal states had been over for more than a month and the whole of Wei had been busy during this period of time, just settling the profits.
The various spoils of war and benefits from the subsidiary states, including mountain ranges and land, as well as some important resources, all needed to be carefully liquidated and incorporated into the Great Wei treasury.
And it was on this day.
Dawn.
Xu Qingnian finally put his pen down.
Whew!
For the past few months, apart from eating and sleeping, Xu Qingnian had been writing the five guidelines for the future of Great Wei with all his heart and soul.
Now, these five guidelines had been thoroughly determined.
Soon, Xu Qingnian had put together a draft of all the guidelines and walked out of the academy with a thick stack of drafts.
It was already dawn, the sky was still dull, and as winter approached, the cold wind stung the bones and swept up some fallen leaves.
As a seventh-grade martial artist, Xu Qingnian was naturally not afraid of the cold.
Still dressed in plain clothes, he walked towards the Great Wei Imperial Palace.
Once the plan was written, it was time to discuss it with His Majesty, and it was best to implement these things a day sooner.
If people are lazy for one day, it is just less silver.
But for the country, any one thing will affect countless people.
Walking through the familiar streets.
Everything seems to be incredibly quiet.
Except for a few people who have woken up to light their lamps, most of the people are still asleep.
The sky was dark and the wind was biting.
The court of the Great Wei had already burned a ground dragon, and outside the court, there was also a ground dragon official road to keep the civil servants and scholars warm.
The generals on either side even carried torches to light up the official road.
And with the appearance of Xu Qingnian, the generals on both sides immediately revealed their surprise and spoke towards Xu Qingnian.
“We have met Marquis Xu.”
They opened their mouths, shouting from the bottom of their hearts, normally these guardsmen did not need to salute, just do their jobs.
But Xu Qingnian, nowadays, was more than just a marquis, the battle of the affiliated countries, Xu Qingnian’s prestige in the army, had been greatly enhanced.
These generals, all know Xu Qingnian’s iron-blooded methods, attacking cities, killing and slaughtering cities, they do not know whether it is benevolent or not, what they do know is that Xu Qingnian respects his soldiers and recognises them.
He was a scholar with backbone and bloodlust, and for those who had no backbone and no bloodlust, they liked people like Xu Qingnian even more.
So when they saw Xu Qingnian appear, the guardsmen opened their mouths and bowed towards Xu Qingnian, a respect that came from their hearts.
“You are all welcome, generals.”
Xu Qingnian smiled faintly and nodded towards the guard troops on both sides, before walking quickly towards the outside of the palace.
And at this moment.
Not many civil and military officials had come, with the six ministers and several state princes being the first to arrive.
Originally, they were gossiping about something, but when they suddenly saw Xu Qingnian’s figure, for a moment, all eyes fell on Xu Qingnian.
“Shouren, what brings you here?”
“Tsk, it’s rare, it’s rare.”
“What’s Shouren doing here today?”
“Hahahahaha, Shouren, the old man just mentioned it, I didn’t expect you to come, Shouren, what are you doing here today?”
When they saw Xu Qingnian appear, the crowd spoke out, Duke An even laughed brightly, while the six ministers were also filled with curiosity.
Chen Zhengru’s eyes were even curious, falling on the rice paper in Xu Qingnian’s hand.
“Shouren, what have you been doing for the past few months?”
Chen Zhengru opened his mouth to inquire.
As soon as he said this, the gazes of the crowd fell on Xu Qingnian’s hands.
“Shouren, don’t say anything yet, let me guess, is it a new money making scheme?”
Gu Yan followed and spoke, looking at the thick stack of rice paper and couldn’t help but look very excited.
“Gu Shang Shu, you are so full of money, can’t you say something else? Shouren, old man also guessed that this should be a new workpiece, right?”
“Using so much Xuan paper, it must not be something simple, it should be a type of drawing, right?”
Li Yanlong, the Minister of Works, spoke up, his eyes also filled with a look of anticipation.
“You all think wrongly, according to my opinion, this should be a northern expedition strategy, right? Shouren.”
Lord An Guo also spoke up.
The crowd was really looking forward to the Xuan paper in Xu Qingnian’s hand, very curious ah.
Hearing the crowd say this, Xu Qingnian let out a bitter smile and said.
“My humble servant does not know how to answer, this thing, to be more precise, is the future development plan of Great Wei, right?”
Xu Qingnian said with a somewhat bitter smile.
At that moment, the Minister of the Six Ministries and the two State Princes directly revealed their shock.
“The future development of Great Wei?”
Chen Zhengru was the first to want to watch it, only to be preempted by Gu Yan, but Duke An was quick on the uptake and stopped the two.
“Two Shang Shu, this Shou Ren is brought here today to present to His Majesty, everything will be known at the court meeting later, so why fight for it now.”
“In case it gets messed up or scattered, we will need to rearrange it when we go back to the court, is it troublesome?”
An Guo opened his mouth, somewhat unpleasantly.
The two Shang Shu didn’t think anything of it, but it was Wang Xin Zhi, the Minister of Rites, who spoke up.
“Shouren, you are really a treasure of our Great Wei, these days we are discussing the development of Great Wei every day.”
“I don’t think you know clearly yet.”
“The war in the subsidiary countries has increased the treasury of Great Wei to three million taels of silver, including war swords, war armour, war horses, and countless other benefits.
“This time we actually have silver, but Gu Yan, this miserly man, won’t give out any silver, so it is reasonable to say that with silver in the treasury, the state should be improved, right?”
“He asked him to give out some silver as a reward, but he still refuses to do so, three million taels of silver, not to mention ten million taels of silver, even ten million taels of silver, he still won’t give it out.”
“He insists that Wei wants to develop, Wei wants to develop, but when he is asked how to develop, he can’t tell us, Shouren, please judge, is there something wrong with Minister Gu?”
Wang Xinzhi spoke up, he was a bit angry.
Since the spoils of war had been liquidated, the whole of Wei was happy, and the civil and military officials were extremely happy, Wei had money, which was a good thing for whoever it was.
The six ministries thought they would finally be able to have a few days of good times, but to their surprise, Gu Yan continued to do as he pleased, and no matter who approached him for the silver, he wouldn’t take it out.
In the past, when there was no money, people could understand, but now that there is money, people find that Gu Yan, the old B*****d, is really stingy.
The Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Penalties, the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of War, not to mention the Ministry of Rites, must give some money, right? The first thing you need to do is to pay for the sealing of Xu Qingnian, all the marquises plus the state dukes, as well as the victory of the Great Wei over the queen, you have to do something, right?
The government has also discussed with the empress to repair the palace, right? If you don’t repair the palace now that the country’s prestige has been raised, when people come back to Wei in a few years, they’ll find this?
Wouldn’t that be a disgrace?
When Wang Xinzhi said this, all the officials nodded their heads, even Chen Zhengru nodded his head.
There is nothing wrong with this statement, Gu Yan is stingy to the extreme.
The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public.
But when this was said, Gu Yan couldn’t help but speak up.
“Hmph, don’t know the price of wood, rice, oil and salt when you’re not in charge, don’t look at the treasury has so much silver, if you really count it, how many years can it stand to be tossed?”
“In this great war, should we give military pensions? Is there money for rewarding the three armies? Wei still needs to develop, there is no way to give you that much money to toss around.”
“Shouren, old man is holding on to the money to death, it is left for you to arrange, old man has nothing else, can’t earn money, but can keep it for you.”
Gu Yan didn’t care what the crowd said about him.
Anyway, silver was something that he had to keep, it was not that he was afraid of being poor, it was that Great Wei was afraid of being poor, and when it was easy to have silver, then it was all the more important to cherish it and remember the bitterness.
When he saw that the Shang Shu were arguing, Xu Qingnian hurriedly made a roundabout statement.
“Gentlemen, just don’t argue.”
“My humble servant has actually been thinking about this matter these days, so how about we discuss it slowly after the court meeting?”
Xu Qingnian stepped in to round things up, and the hundred officials didn’t say anything else, anyone’s face could be disregarded, but Xu Qingnian’s face, they had to give it.
The silver was earned by Xu Qingnian after all.
“Fine, old man, I’ll give Shouren a face.”
“Shouren, if anyone else had said this, old man would have ignored it, but if you say this, old man acknowledges it.”
The crowd spoke up and sort of agreed.
And so it was.
After about two quarters of an hour, the civil and military officials had long since arrived.
And at that moment, as the eunuch’s voice rang out, after declaring the hundred officials into the hall.
Xu Qingnian followed the hundred officials into the hall.
He was still standing beside the Minister of Household. Now that the battle was over, the post of the young minister of the state was not removed, but Xu Qingnian would not take a chicken feather as an arrow.
The company is still the minister of the household department, as for the marquis position, has not yet completed the enthronement, everyone shouted a marquis, in fact, is also polite and polite, when the enthronement is finished, afterwards the court will have to go left.
When walking towards the main hall, Gu Yan suppressed his voice and pulled Xu Qingnian and said.
“Shouren, the old man is telling you.”
“This time the national treasury, not three hundred, to be more precise, is four hundred and two, but a part of it is all precious things that need to be slowly sold.”
“And I’ve had the Ministry of the Household already do an actuarial calculation, according to the income from the treasury of the va*sal states, it can bring Great Wei sixty thousand thousand taels of silver per year, counting the ten thousand thousand taels of income from Great Wei itself, plus other miscellaneous income, Great Wei now has a fixed income of eighty thousand taels per year.”
“If the water chariot project can bring good news, the annual income of the Great Wei treasury, can reach one hundred thousand thousand taels of silver, this position of Minister of Household, I also intend to retire from the old age, so that you can come.”
Gu Yan opened his mouth, only with Xu Qingnian he would tell the truth, of course these amounts, the empress also already knew.
Four hundred and two?
Xu Qingnian herself could not help but smack her lips, before the war, the Great Wei treasury had about one million taels, and this was still the amount obtained from selling officials, after the war, it had directly quadrupled.
Four million taels.
This is really a bit exaggerated, at least enough for Great Wei to spend casually for twenty years, of course, it can not be invested in some important things, such as the nine-year compulsory education, really smashing nine-year compulsory education, four million taels is enough, but can not afford to spend twenty years.
However, when he heard that Gu Yan wanted to abdicate, Xu Qingnian hurriedly spoke up.
“I would rather be an idle marquis than a minister of households.”
Xu Qingnian opened his mouth, he was not being pretentious, if he was the Minister of Household, wouldn’t he have to come to the morning court every day?
Wouldn’t it be better to be an idle marquis?
When he heard this, Gu Yan was slightly stunned, but soon he nodded and said, “I understand, you don’t like being the Household Minister enough, and yes, with your talent, being the Household Minister is not too good.”
“Fine, after the court, I will go and talk to the other Shang Shu, and also talk to Shang Shu Chen, and ask him to abdicate his position to you, if he is not willing, a few of us will impeach him.”
“Don’t worry, Shouren, leave everything to the old man.”
Gu Yan said so, mistakenly thinking that Xu Qingnian could not see the Household Minister.
But when he said this, Xu Qingnian was even more frozen.
The Prime Minister of Wei?
He didn’t want this position.
He was just about to explain when a voice rang out.
“All officials enter the hall.”
As this voice rang out, the crowd quieted down, and Xu Qingnian could only reluctantly go in first and say more, and then explain when he came out.
The next moment.
The crowd stepped into the hall.
“Long live my emperor.”
As the familiar opening words rang out.
The hundred officials bowed towards the empress on the dragon chair.
And just then, on top of the dragon chair, the Empress’s gaze, could not help but fall on Xu Qingnian.
Indeed, the Empress had not expected that Xu Qingnian would be at the court today.
However, the empress’ gaze was instantly withdrawn and replaced by calmness.
The court meeting began.
As every day, the hundred officials began to discuss matters of state.
While Xu Qingnian mulled over her words.
For some reason, today’s court meeting was a little faster than usual, as the state affairs were finished in half an hour.
Perhaps it was because of what was in Xu Qingnian’s hands.
All the officials were looking forward to seeing what Xu Qingnian had tossed out this month.
However, the general content and meaning of this half-hour court meeting revolved around these three things.
How to spend money!
How to develop the country!
What we do next!
These were the three main points.
After the talk on national affairs was over, everyone quieted down, and many eyes fell on Xu Qingnian.
At this moment, Xu Qingnian did not delay anything, but stepped out and bowed towards the empress.
“Your Majesty, I, Xu Qingnian, offer a strategy.”
Xu Qingnian opened his mouth and presented the manuscript in his hand.
“Oh? Xu Aiqing, what is your strategy?”
The empress was somewhat curious, while giving a glance to Zhao Wan’er, who instantly came in front of Xu Qingnian, took the manuscript and handed it to the empress.
“In reply to Your Majesty, the strategy for the unification of the Central State by the Great Wei.”
Xu Qingnian spoke indifferently.
Only as soon as she said this, the entire court froze.
Even the empress froze.
Good guys, knowing that Xu Qingnian was not an idle person, and knowing that Xu Qingnian had been tossing around for months, he must be a good thing.
But he opened his mouth and asked for a strategy to unify Central China?
Should it be so formidable?
But what shocked the crowd even more was that when Xu Qingnian said this, no one questioned it, nor did anyone have a snort of laughter, instead, they were curious and inexplicably excited.
This moment.
The Empress received the curatorial treatise, and with just a glance, the Empress’ beautiful eyes flashed with shock, and then the hall was silent.
The Empress read it very quickly, but she read every word carefully.
After she had finished reading the entire treatise, the Empress’ voice rang out.
“Good.”
“This policy should be a national policy.”
The Empress’ voice resounded through the Great Hall.
This made the crowd even more curious.
This Empress, had never been like this before, what exactly was the policy theory that made the Empress of Great Wei think so highly of it?
If it weren’t for the high status of the other party, they would want to snatch it up and read it right now.
Sensing the curiosity of the officials, the empress didn’t say a word, she threw the treatise out and it floated in the air in a flash.
In a flash, it floated in the air for all the officials to see.
[Strategy for the Strengthening of the Great Wei Dynasty
I. Vigorously develop the strength of the military
Two, vigorously develop agricultural production
Third, vigorously promote merchant trade
4. Vigorously promote national public opinion
V. Vigorously select outstanding talents
This is the content of the first page, and the content that follows is so detailed that the officials were enthralled, and even at the end, their eyes were filled with excitement and excitement.
Yes.
This is the policy that Xu Qingnian has written this month.
The focus is on developing the strength of the military, and this development of the strength of the military, leaving aside the basic recruitment and training of soldiers, the focus is on the ‘weapon’.
In this battle, Xu Qingnian realised that the war machine had to be brought out earlier. Although the Great Wei generals were brave and fierce, the price they paid in the face of the battle to defend the city was still too high.
Had it not been for the use of stratagems, this battle would definitely have cost more than just 200,000 men, possibly millions.
Moreover, this was a fight against a va*sal state, not a northern expedition, nor was it a fight against the Sudden Evil Dynasty or the First Yuan Dynasty.
What’s the point of relying on numbers alone? The usefulness of a war machine is far better than numbers.
One artillery piece is far better than three thousand dead soldiers.
Therefore, Xu Qingnian focused on weapons, so the Minister of Works was extremely excited.
For agricultural production, Xu Qingnian focused on the ‘seeds’, the Great Wei needs new seeds, and these seeds, that is, the Great Wei needs to do everything possible to find, cross the ocean to find, of course, the country’s internal basic production can not stop, the court funding, buy seeds to buy cattle, free for the people of Great Wei, and also need to recruit all kinds of It was also necessary to recruit all kinds of talents for research and training.
The future war will not be a sword fight, but an economic one, using the economy to blockade the lifeline of the other side.
As for raising public opinion, this requires the joint efforts of the six ministries of Wei. Xu Qingnian’s intention is simple: increase the manpower, with the Ministry of Penalties and the Ministry of Officials being the most crucial.
The Ministry of Penalty is used to stabilise the country’s security and to enable the people to live in peace. The Ministry of Justice is used to crack down on all lawless elements and petty criminals, punishing them severely and uprooting them to give Wei a clear and clean sky.
As for the final selection of outstanding talents, it is not the imperial examinations.
This selection of talents is not the imperial examinations, but all kinds of talents, as long as they have talent, no matter what they are.
For example, we need to select talents for agriculture, for crafts, for intelligence, for economics, and so on.
Pay them a salary and give them an official position.
To break up the unchanging and solidified cla*ses.
In this way, the Great Wei will be able to blossom and be truly strong, otherwise what is the use of having only military and ideological talents?
A long speech on state policy.
The civil and military officials were shocked to see it.
A full half hour pa*sed.
It took half an hour for everyone to read it all.
The Great Hall was quiet.
It was deadly quiet.
This national policy of Xu Qingnian was simply carrying Great Wei towards greatness.
As long as Xu Qingnian’s plan is followed, don’t be foolish and don’t die, it will be difficult for Wei not to become strong.
The officials were shocked.
They really didn’t know what to say.
Eventually, the empress spoke up.
“All the loving ministers!”
“I, the emperor, wish to make this policy, the national policy of Great Wei.”
“What do you all think?”
The Empress spoke.
Faced with these five directions of development, where was the Empress to be choosy?
For the past month, the civil and military officials had all been arguing, and the argument was really only about one thing after all.
Whether it’s the six ministries or the military officials, they all want to be involved in the development.
No one wants to be left behind.
But there is only so much silver and so much manpower, so how can we do it all?
But what is unexpected is this.
Xu Qingnian has done it.
This national policy of his involves six ministries!
The strategy for strengthening the country required the unity of the whole nation, and the plan was extremely detailed and clear.
As the Empress of Wei.
How could she not see it?
So she hardly hesitated at all.
She wanted to make this policy, the national policy of Great Wei.
Everything that Great Wei would do in the future would be based on this national policy.
At this moment.
As the empress opened her mouth to ask questions.
The hundred officials also gradually came back to their senses.
“My subjects!”
“No objections.”
The hundred officials opened their mouths, and they did not have any objections.
It was because there was not a single problem with Xu Qingnian’s piece of strategy.
Anyone who dared to object could go home.
At that moment.
The Empress looked towards Xu Qingnian and said.
“Aiqing Xu!”
“This strategy, still needs details to be added, so I’m sorry for your trouble, Xu Aiqing.”
“You continue to hold the position of Supervising Young Secretary.”
“Also, as the imperial examinations are approaching, you will be the chief examiner of this Great Wei imperial examination.”
“Selecting talents for Great Wei.”
The empress continued to speak.
Another matter was given to Xu Qingnian.
During the Wuchang period, the first imperial examination was held.
For a moment, the court full of civil servants could not help but show a hint of surprise.
