On the morning of March 14th, the tenth year of Emperor Xin, Chaosong and the Political Consultative Hall.

It was still dark outside the hall, but the ministers in the hall had arrived. However, they did not rush to line up, but discussed things in groups of three or three. The contents could be finalized in such a discussion. After that, just a report would be fine. Only the content that needed to be discussed in person would be reported to the king at the court meeting.

"Prince Qi, has Your Majesty been too radical recently? You can clearly take it slowly. Such drastic reforms may cause the rebound of the surrounding vassal states!" The Minister of Rites complained to Wei Ziqi, who is the Minister of Rites. Wei Ziqi could only smile bitterly at this, but Huang Feihu on the side glared at him and said:

"What are you afraid of? We have steam tanks, steam guns, and steam cannons developed by the Academy of Engineering. Even if they come, they will shoot back any number of them!"

"It has never been a good thing to be a military military force!" The Minister of Rites immediately retorted, but the Minister of War retorted:

"Are you poor?"

“…”

As soon as the three words "State of the Ministry of Revenue" were released, the Ministry of Revenue immediately shut up.

Nowadays, the workshops of the Da Shang are open all over the Jiuzhou. The human race and the vassal states are proud to use Da Shang’s goods. Even some demon states secretly smuggled goods from the border, and the Emperor Xin emphasizes commercial taxes but ignores agricultural taxes. The national treasury is full and the farmers are rich. It is impossible to say that the word "poverty" is poor.

"But your Majesty is not a solution to work so hard." Seeing that the atmosphere was a little stiff, Bigan immediately spoke and said smoothly, "A dozen or so decrees were issued in a day, and we and the officials were too busy. Besides, Your Majesty made a decision alone. After a year, Your Majesty has not yet had any children born. I am afraid that it is suspected of overworking."

Speaking of offspring, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue have also shut up. In fact, military strategists attach more importance to offspring because this is a kind of inheritance. Soldiers are weapons. If there is no user, the weapon will lose its meaning. If a country does not have an heir, the people's hearts will be unstable after all.

"Didn't the Ministry of Rites ask the Ministry of Rites to prepare for the election of concubines last year? Why haven't it been done yet?"

As soon as these words came out, the finger pointed at the Ministry of Rites again.

"We have sent the documents to the provinces and vassal states, requiring them to select women of their age to choose concubines. However, the population of each state is large, and sending them all is too exhausting to cause money. Therefore, we have decided to first conduct the preliminary selection from the perspectives of talent, appearance, art, etc. under the supervision of the local city god and the Three Emperors Temple. After screening, the winner will be sent to Chaoge, which will also facilitate His Majesty's selection."

Wei Ziqi was helpless about this. Under the rule of the Great Shang Dynasty, including the vassal states, there were more than a billion people. Even if they were selected from one in a million, it would be a huge number. If all of them were brought to Chaoge, now we would not say whether His Majesty could choose or whether Chaoge could hold it. First of all, the food would not be available.

"How long will it take?" The Grand Master Wen Zhong asked a key question directly, and Wei Ziqi immediately said:

"Now we have entered the final selection stage, and each one is a talented woman who chooses one of a million people. Even so, there are nearly 10,000 candidates. We secretly put observations to conduct moral education exams, and we plan to reduce it to about 500 people. This will take about a month."

“That’s good…”

After a topic ended, everyone began to discuss the original topic again. After another half an hour, Emperor Xin finally slowly walked into the hall. When the ministers saw the stack of white paper held by the eunuch beside him, they felt ache.

Your Majesty, aren’t your hands so sore when you write so many things a day?

"Of course it's not sour, I have spiritual treasures!" Feng Xue knew what they were thinking when she saw the expressions of the ministers. She was proud of her heart, but on the surface she still maintained her usual expressions. She waved her hand to signal the eunuch to distribute the documents to each minister, and then said:

"These are sixteen proposals I summarized yesterday, including amendments to the Criminal Law, changes to the conditions for pardon, disaster handling plans, warehouse investigation procedures, and further plans for land reform..."

Feng Xue issued a series of decrees like a dish name, and the relevant ministers looked bitter. Although they were all small details, such changes have been going on for a year!

One year!

At the beginning, those small changes that did not repeat for dozens of days did not attract attention, but in the fourth month, everyone found that the details that had just been revised for three months had been upgraded and renovated. They originally thought it was just a coincidence, but then, as if everything had been replicated three months ago, a round of small changes was refreshed. In the sixth month, another round of small changes, this change only lasted for one month, and then another round.

This round of changes has turned the entire Da Shang capital into a new place in one year, and even the land is almost state-owned. If Emperor Xin hadn't been really full of majesty, someone would have rebelled long ago-

Well, there were indeed several small vassal states rebelling because they touched their own interests, but then they were easily suppressed by the Grand Tutor Wen Zhong and a steam force.

The whole process was less than seven days, six of which were on the road, and one day was to relieve the discomfort caused by the Qixiang Car...

It can be seen from this that any reform requires consistent determination and sufficient strength to complete it, and Feng Xue happens to have strength and determination.

but……

"Your Majesty, are you slowing down?" After hesitating for a while, Wen Zhong, the Grand Master who stood firmly on Feng Xue's side, couldn't help but persuade him.

"Slow down? Why should I slow down?" Feng Xue looked at the Grand Master in surprise, as if I don't know what you are talking about.

"You are twenty-four and have no children yet..."

"Didn't we let the Ministry of Rites choose a concubine?" Feng Xue rolled her eyes and planned to continue explaining the new policy.

He also wanted to slowly draw it, but the superiors did not allow it! Then... Oh, tomorrow, after tomorrow, the superiors should send people down. At that time, I will be a foolish monarch and a tyrant. So before that, I will finalize all the reforms in one go, leaving at least a record that "the first half of my life is the best in the world, and I am the first-class wise ruler in history. In the second half of my life, I had to marry many wives because of the forced marriage of the ministers, and finally became stupid and incompetent." In this way, he also had reason to make a living in the next time.

"Your Majesty means that after taking the new concubine (exactly) will relax the reform?" The ministers' eyes lit up, and Feng Xue nodded casually:

"Nonsense, who will stay in the study after marrying a new wife?"

Although this was casual, the ministers flashed with raging fire in their eyes. Wei Ziqi was even more depressed by many colleagues. He decided to go to the City God Temple later. Although there were three levels of supervision of the Three Emperors Temple, the Ancestral Temple and the Underworld, it was not possible to detain the beautiful ones at 25?

You must send the best ones and make Your Majesty obsessed for a while, otherwise all the civil and military officials in the court would be exhausted and paralyzed!

...

And at the same time, Xibo Hou Jichang secretly came to Jizhou and met Su Hu.

"Brother Su (well...), I haven't seen you for many days, have you ever been safe?" Ji Chang walked into the study and saw Hou Suhu in Jizhou sitting there, and immediately spoke.

"Brother Ji (Uh...) You're welcome. You've come from afar, don't know what's important?" Su Hu felt secretly moved when he saw Ji Chang, but pretended not to know anything and asked.

"Have they looked for you?" Ji Chang said nothing nonsense, pointed at the sky and his eyes were flickering.

Su Hu nodded and said nothing more. The two looked at each other for a moment, and Ji Chang suddenly said:
Chapter completed!