What kind of bad thoughts can the queen have?

Outside Chengtian Hall, the officials were dressed in gorgeous yet dignified court clothes, gathered in twos and threes, talking in low voices.

As the loud and heavy bell rang, the ministers immediately suppressed their smiles, subconsciously arranged their clothes, and walked into the Chengtian Hall one by one with serious expressions and no smiles.

After a while, the ministers stood up according to their official ranks.

Because Shi Yuan, Chen Xi, and Zhang Ping went out to fight, Li Ru, Chang Yanghou and other people were dealt with by Liu Shanqing. Their vacancies have never been filled, so that the ranks of courtiers lack one piece on the left and one piece on the right. It looks sparse.

At this time, the person in charge of court etiquette shouted loudly: "The emperor is here, kneel!"

In less than two seconds, the ministers knelt down in unison.

"Mountain call~"

"We see Your Majesty, King Qin."

"Your Majesty, King Qin, ten thousand years."

The orderly and loud voice echoed in the huge Chengtian Palace, Shi Ran and Liu Shanqing walked out from the inner door on the left side by side, followed by six court ladies including Yu'er.

The court dress that Shi Ran was wearing was almost identical to the dragon robe that Liu Shanqing was wearing, the only difference was that there were some subtle differences in the lines on the clothes.

Liu Shanqing was still wearing the twelve-pronged crown today, his expression was cold and serious, and his gestures and gestures showed the majesty of the emperor.

"Call again~"

"Your Majesty, King Qin, ten thousand years."

Shi Ran and Liu Shanqing walked to the dragon chair and sat down side by side.

"Three calls~"

"Your Majesty, King Qin, ten thousand years."

Liu Shanqing raised his hand and said, "Your honor is welcome."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, King Qin."

After the ministers stood up, they did not continue to stand where they were, but went to the sides covered with cushions and knelt down.

Liu Shanqing waited for the ministers to sit down, and said straight to the point: "This court meeting is mainly to discuss the main affairs to be done by the court in the next year. I have two ideas.

[-]. The Civil War is coming to an end in a few days, and there is no need for Yue County to take care of it. Everything remains the same.Although the old land of Hexi in the north has returned to Dasui, there is no city there, and there are no people of Dasui. In order to integrate Hexi into Dasui as soon as possible, I want to set up a county in Hexi and relocate people.

[-]. The world is boundless, and the sea is endless.Although the Xiongnu is no longer a concern, it does not mean that my general will have no more troubles in the north, and I can send horses to the southern mountains. In order to prevent the Xiongnu from making a comeback, and the barbarians in the Western Regions become bigger, I am determined to manage the Western Regions and prevent the danger from the cradle . "

After finishing speaking, Liu Shanqing glanced around at the ministers with different expressions, paused intentionally for a while, and said:

"Do you have anything to add, gentlemen?"

The ministers did not stand up immediately, but whispered among themselves.After a while, the admonishing doctor Zhou Sheng came out, saluted and said:

"Your Majesty, what about the land of Monan? It would be too wasteful if left alone, and the people of the Huns will also take advantage of this opportunity to breathe."

Liu Shanqing said: "Doctor Zhou is right, what do you think?"

"There are traces of the old city in Hexi, and a city can be built on this basis. The land in Monan is too vast, and there is no old city. Building a new city will inevitably consume too much, which is not good for the country. There are not so many people in Dasui. migrated past.

The minister suggested that we could imitate the life style of the Xiongnu and build a horse farm in Monan, and use flying cavalry to control the people of the Xiongnu and let them raise horses for the generals.In this way, Da Sui can not only control Monan, but also have an additional source of war horses.

In addition, sheep and cattle can be raised in enclosures, and then the Ministry of Commerce will take the lead to nourish the common people with the operation model of Youth Hostel and Ranshan Commercial Bank. "

Liu Shanqing nodded: "Cai, Dr. Zhou will send a charter as soon as possible."

"promise."

As soon as Zhou Sheng stepped back, a Yilang came out and saluted, "May I ask Your Majesty, King Qin, whether the establishment of counties in Hexi and the management of the Western Regions should be carried out at the same time, or should the county be set up in the West of Hexi first, and then the management of the Western Regions?"

Liu Shanqing looked at Yilang, but didn't answer.So is Shi Ran.

Yilang paused for a moment and continued: "If the two events are carried out at the same time, Da Sui just fought two big battles, and the treasury was exhausted, and there may be no spare energy to support these two major events.

If this is not the case, I suggest reducing the funding for the Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Agriculture, and the Academy of Medicine. The imperial court has spent a lot of money on them over the years, but with little success. "

As soon as these words came out, the deans of the Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Agriculture, and the Academy of Medicine couldn't sit still, and stood up one after another, wanting to refute Yilang.

Shi Ran was the first to say: "All of you, like Chen Yilang, think that His Majesty's plan to explore the Western Regions is to send troops to attack them? Let them submit to me?"

Yilang hesitated to speak, and so did the other ministers.Although most of today's ministers are scholars of Confucianism, they speak benevolence, justice and morality when they open their mouths, but their first reaction when they hear that the emperor wants to conquer the Western Regions is that the Emperor wants to attack the Western Regions.

Otherwise, how to make the barbarians of the Western Regions surrender?

Really rely on Confucius' moral articles?

That's not a joke.

Shi Ran said with a smile: "Everyone, although Da Sui established his country by force, it is essentially a country of benevolence and righteousness, a country of etiquette. As a king of benevolence and righteousness, how can your majesty easily use swords to conquer a country of innocence? If your majesty How is it different from tyrannical kings such as Shang Zhou and Xia Jie?"

Some ministers couldn't help laughing when they heard Shi Ran's words.

Your Majesty is benevolent and righteous, but what is the difference between you King Qin and Shang Zhou and Xia Jie?Your Majesty has been on the throne for three years, and you have fought for three years.Throughout the history of Da Sui, there is no one who will be like you, who will fight for only a few years after taking the throne.

Shi Ran was unaware of a certain minister's slander against him, so he continued: "To manage the Western Regions, you don't necessarily have to fight wars, but you can also do business."

"Has Shi He come?"

Shi He, who was wearing court clothes, immediately came out and saluted.

Shi Ran said: "About the detailed rules for doing business with the barbarians in the Western Regions, you should come up with a charter as soon as possible after you go back."

"promise."

"With regard to the construction of the city in Hexi, you should come up with a charter as soon as possible after you go back. His Majesty Guhe means to take the new city as an example and encourage merchants from all over the world to participate."

"promise."

Shi He retreated, and Yi Lang at the side also retreated.

Liu Shanqing said, "It's always new."

Zhi Li Nai Shi Chang Xin immediately came out and saluted.

"Are the new crops and new farm tools ready?"

"Return to Your Majesty, everything has been prepared, and the words of persuasion to farmers have also been handed over."

"I've read it, and it's well written. From now on, articles about persuading farmers should be written like this. The common people are not as educated as you. Who can understand the whole article?"

Liu Shanqing picked up the article persuading farmers and handed it to Yu'er.

Yu'er immediately took it and passed it to the ministers on both sides.

Liu Shanqing said: "In the future, all government orders to be promulgated to the people will be taken as examples. You may think that the words in this article are indecent and vulgar, and it is difficult to wait for the elegant hall, but you must not forget that most of the people who follow you I don’t know how to read, and the common people can’t understand your so-called beautiful articles, so what’s the use of writing them gorgeously?”

"The decree is written in a straightforward manner, and it can be easily understood by the people."

"All in all, you have to remember that as an important minister of the court, you have to do personnel affairs when you eat people's food. Don't just talk about the people forever and don't do practical things. People who don't do practical things are even if they have great talents. What use is there for the people?"

"My ministers, please follow His Majesty's teachings."

Liu Shanqing continued: "There is one more thing, I want to recruit talented people from all over the world. This recruitment does not require your recommendation, only assessment. No matter the participants are slaves or barbarians in Yue County, as long as they are from my university Anyone who follows the people can participate."

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar.

A minister was about to stand up, but Liu Shanqing continued, "I'm not asking for your opinions, but to inform you. You just need to come up with a charter as soon as possible."

"This assessment is about the future. Anyone who dares to block it, such as not allowing their own slaves to participate in the assessment, and those who dare not cooperate wholeheartedly, don't blame me for not respecting the friendship between monarchs and ministers."

After a moment of silence, the generals echoed loudly.

Seeing this, the civil servants could only reluctantly agree, assuring Liu Shanqing that they would do their best.

The reason for the reluctance of these civil servants is very simple. Following the original official selection system, the initiative is basically in the hands of the ministers. They can use this to benefit themselves and install their cronies in the court.

Now, Liu Shanqing wants to change the official selection system, which is tantamount to depriving them of much power and digging their roots.

Although since Liu Shanqing came to the throne, they have been unable to speak about the selection and appointment of officials, and almost all the newly appointed officials are from Shi Ran's sect, but in their view, being useless and losing forever are two different things.

Once the selection system is successfully changed, they will have no chance.

But even if they didn't want to, none of them dared to stand up against Liu Shanqing and Shi Ran.

After all, Liu Shanqing had already said his ugly words before, so to stand up and object at this time is no different from courting death.

Afterwards, some other things were announced, and after listening to the suggestions of some ministers, Liu Shanqing took the initiative to end the court meeting.

Under the kneeling of the ministers, Shi Ran and Liu Shanqing stood up and walked side by side to the inner door on the left.

After the court meeting, Shi Ran and Liu Shanqing returned to the greenhouse and met with Zhi Li Nei Shi Chang Xin and Shi He respectively.

See Chang Xin, mainly to inquire about matters such as promoting new agricultural species and new agricultural tools at the Spring Festival Ceremony.

Seeing Shi He was mainly to discuss how to open up the Western Regions with trade routes.

As early as ten years ago, Shi Ran asked Shi He to send a caravan to the Western Regions to do business, and opened the way with money to control several small countries in the Western Regions, so it is not a problem to formally do business with the Western Regions now.

The main problem now is how to ensure the safety of the caravan and related legal issues.

Shi He obviously thought about these issues long ago, and immediately said a lot of eloquence, making it difficult for the female officer in charge of recording to be able to record.



During this process, neither Shi Ran nor Liu Shanqing said a word, and quietly listened to Shi He's speech.

After more than 20 minutes, Shi He was able to finish his speech. Seeing that Shi Ran and Liu Shanqing hadn't answered, Shi He felt that there was something wrong with what he said, so he stopped on purpose.

Shi Ran said: "Minister Shi thought very well. It seems that Mr. Shi has long had the idea of ​​doing business in the Western Regions. But Mr. Shi overlooked one thing."

"You are the minister of the Department of Commerce of Dasui, and your duty is to manage Dasui's business and make Dasui's business develop healthily. You should think about merchants, but you should not think about merchants everywhere, and only seek benefits for merchants .”

"Just like what you said just now, all merchants who go to the Western Regions to do business will be exempted from paying taxes for three years. Those who succeed in business will have the opportunity to enter the court as officials for their descendants, etc. These are too much.

Merchants from all over the world went to the Western Regions to do business. It was very hard work and full of dangers along the way. Since the court wanted to do business in the Western Regions, it should give them some support.

But Minister Shi must not forget that the court is not begging them to do business with the Western Regions, but to give them the opportunity to do business with the Western Regions openly and aboveboard without being sneaky. "

"The court gave them the greatest support. When they were bullied by the barbarians of the Western Regions, they would send troops to punish those barbarians of the Western Regions who dared to look down on me."

Shi Ran went on to say: "Another point, Minister Shi must remember that Chaotang supports merchants to trade with the Western Regions, just to use them as a pathfinder for the Chaotang to manage the Western Regions, and to generate income for the Chaotang. They should not think that the Chaotang Without them, it is impossible to manage the Western Regions. Sooner or later, Da Sui will take over the Western Regions."

"When you formulate relevant policies, you have to remember a rule. If they are unwilling to do something, the court can give them certain preferential treatment. If they are willing to do something, the court must set conditions for them to prevent them from doing something out of line. Let things get out of the control of the court."

Shi Ran's tone slowed down, and said: "Uncle, nephew should have told you before that merchants are a pack of hungry wolves, as long as there is enough profit, they will forget everything, even if it is to betray the big follower .”

"So this time you trade in the Western Regions, you have to let them remember that food can be eaten and money can be earned, but if they forget their parents for the sake of food and money, their family lives will be lost, and other colleagues will also be punished by them." Drag, let them go back to the past."

Before Liu Shanqing ascended the throne, Da Sui adopted a policy similar to that of the Qin and Han Dynasties emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business.

No matter how much money a businessman earns, he cannot live in a house with more than five rooms, the decoration of the house cannot be gorgeous, the number of servants in the family cannot exceed two, he cannot wear fancy clothes, he cannot wear any jewelry, he cannot travel in a carriage, and his descendants cannot enter official positions. etc.

It was Shi Ran who lifted these prohibitions, so that the money they earned would not have to be buried in the soil to rust, allowing them to live the life they wanted to live.

Merchants all over the world regard Shi Ran as a saint and are extremely grateful to Shi Ran.

Shi Ran didn't care about the gratitude of the merchants at all. He asked Liu Shanqing to lift the ban on merchants in order to develop Dasui's economy. s damage.

So now that Shi He's butt is crooked, every word is for the sake of the merchants, and if he wants to further loosen the ties for the merchants, Shi Ran naturally wants to beat Shi He well and let Shi He straighten his position.

Shi He is not a fool, he naturally heard Shi Ran's dissatisfaction with him, and immediately felt a chill in his heart, and quickly expressed his opinion to Shi Ran and Liu Shanqing.

At the same time, Shi He felt a little remorseful. If the merchants of the world knew that it was he who made His Majesty and the King of Qin want to restrict merchants, the merchants of the world would have to take his skin off.

Seeing that Shi He had listened, Shi Ran changed the subject and asked, "You are still in charge of Ranshan and the Youth Hostel?"

"Yes."

"Let's find a suitable candidate. It's okay to be greedy, as long as you have the ability. Of course, you don't want pure moths."

"promise."

After chatting for a few more words, Shi Ran asked Shi He to back down.

Liu Shanqing immediately asked in confusion: "Why did you ask Shi He to find a greedy person to manage Ranshan and the Youth Hostel?"

"Is there anyone in this world who is not greedy? It's okay to be greedy, as long as you have the ability. A person who is greedy for money and has the ability can run Ranshan and Youth Hostel better than a moral gentleman who doesn't love money."

Shi Ran laughed and said, "You don't have to worry about letting a money-greedy person manage Ranshan and Youth Hostel. There will be problems. As long as he is capable, no matter how greedy he is, he will be just a piggy bank for you and me."