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"It's just a bug."

Yiwen glanced at him unexpectedly, and explained with all his heart:

"A few of them alone can't threaten me. If they want to threaten me, they have to rescue Elleme first, and then use her power to challenge me. Not only that, they will definitely find ways to help her increase her strength... because There is no other choice. Now that I know how they do it, I have a way to deal with it, so go down."

"As ordered!"

Delru was finally relieved, and after bowing again, he exited the candlelit lounge.

The moment he stepped on the stone steps again, he relaxed, and his whole body was filled with an indescribable sense of comfort.Judging from His Majesty's attitude towards himself today, it seems that he has already begun to trust himself, so it is impossible to worry about future liquidation.

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Wang Ting, Quan Wang Palace.

"My fellow ministers, the Demon Hunting War is imminent, but the Audit Court cannot allocate enough military expenditures. It really gives me a headache." Ivan sat on the Sun Throne like someone who didn't know, and vomited bitterness to the nobles on the political seats. :

"There is always a way to raise this money, and the sooner the better, please let me know what you think."

"Go back to Your Majesty."

A nobleman from the Accounting and Inspection Institute stood up, bowed and saluted, and said:

"Since there is no military expenditure and we are in a hurry to spend money, we can only increase taxation to fill the treasury."

"Add taxes? To whom?" Ivan asked with a frown.

"Of course, the farmers will be paid more according to their heads." He replied loudly.

"No, no, no, the farmers only have a little money. Wouldn't it be empty for them to pay more taxes? Besides, the current labor force is already small, and taxing by the head will force the farmers to hide the amount?" Yi Wen directly veto.

"Then...the subject has nothing to do." The nobleman suddenly had no choice.

"You can't help it?"

Ivan looked around for a week, and his eyes swept over the chief officials of the Sixth Hall, and finally stopped on Mrs. Diani of the Planning and Investigation Institute: "I have an idea, do you want to hear it?"

"Please speak, Your Majesty!" The latter hurriedly stood up.

"From now on, salt, iron, and spices are prohibited from being privately owned, and the Bureau of Planning and Investigation will set up branches to specialize in them. Land and water monitoring will be set up in major waterways and passes across the country to collect taxes for vehicles and boats passing by." Yiwen paused at this point. Looking at the other person's eyes, he exhorted:

"I've given you the solution, you can decide how to operate it yourself."

"Your Majesty...this..." Mrs. Diane was dumbfounded for a while, she didn't know what to do for a while, she hesitated and couldn't speak.

To be honest, the solution given by Yiwen is indeed a solution, and it is also conducive to the expansion of the family's power.But in this way, there will be too many people offended. The salt and iron monopoly alone is enough, and with the addition of a vehicle and boat tax, I really may not be able to withstand it.

"What? Are you trying to say that you can't do it?" His eyes suddenly turned cold.

"Can...can be done!" At this point, she could only bite the bullet and agree.

"That's fine."

Ivan turned his anger into joy, looked away from her, and said to everyone:

"There is another important thing to announce to your ministers. In order to stabilize prices, balance income and expenditure, and subsidize your salaries, I plan to establish a royal bank, which is open to all subjects of the empire. Every savings deposited in the bank will have Interest, and also undertake loan services...You should all understand the interest, I don't believe that everyone here has let usurers off. In the future, whenever I have rewards, I will distribute them through the Royal Bank channel, and you take the reward slips to get them that is."

Hearing his words, the aristocratic gentlemen in the seats were a little dazed, feeling that something was wrong, but they couldn't find anything wrong.

Seeing the blank faces of the people on the seats, Yiwen resorted to his trump card:

"I forgot to tell you, I have already discussed with the outsiders, and the empire's compensation will also go through the Royal Bank. In my bank, convert from the empire's Deben to their currency, and then exchange various Resources. If you want to buy things from beyond the sky, you have to go to the Royal Bank to exchange currency."

This attack can be described as a blockbuster. No matter how you look at it, the gold content of the fake Royal Bank has increased countless levels in an instant.

Why?Because there you can exchange the currency of the aliens and buy the things they own!

Chapter No.16 Future elders

It's messy, it's starting to be messy.

This feeling is the consensus of almost all the nobles in the Palace of King Quan.

Ever since the members of the Demon Hunt Squad and the royal family entered Ekhtadun, King Yiwen, who was usually stable and like a repeater, seemed to have taken the wrong medicine and started to make troubles in an uncharacteristically high-profile manner.

First, let the people in the Bureau of Planning and Inspection engage in salt and iron franchises and vehicle and boat taxes, and shamelessly compete with the people for profit.He also set up a royal bank that is unrestrained and unconstrained, amassing wealth with insatiable greed, and even persuaded the outsiders to turn that royal bank into the only foreign exchange department of the empire.

The matter here has not stopped, and more important news came again:

After careful consideration, King Yiwen announced the establishment of a cabinet office, saying that it would serve as the monarch's staff team and secretarial body to convey the monarch's decree and publish proclamations.

In fact, it is not uncommon to set up a staff team, what is unusual is the recruitment method - the post of cabinet senator is open to all nobles, there are certain resume requirements, and you need to pass written examinations and interviews.And do not reveal the exam questions, just tell them an ambiguous focus on "pragmatic" and "reform".

If the recruitment method is rather special, then the specific functions of the senators are jaw-dropping!

As confirmed by King Yiwen himself, the function of the senator is to read the reported documents on behalf of the monarch, make preliminary handling opinions, help the monarch handle confidential government affairs, and record central and local historical materials.

On the surface, this cabinet is the Sun King's highest staff and decision-making body, but to those who know a little bit, this so-called cabinet office looks like a decentralized version of Grand Visil (Prime Minister).

That day, after receiving the news, the head of the sixth hall finally recalled the horror of being dominated by the prime minister, as well as the humiliation they endured during the Ozymandis era.There was rebellion in the first place, coupled with the imminent threat, and Yiwen deliberately fueled the flames.They finally united in good faith and accelerated the incomparably large but lucrative plan to kill God!

Everything has pros and cons.

The establishment of the cabinet office is undoubtedly a wake-up call for the six major families, but for the small and medium-sized nobles, especially the low-level nobles who are underappreciated, it is a good opportunity to reach the sky in one step.

In order to pass the exam, many of them formed social circles and fought all night, specializing in "pragmatic" and "reform" content.

However, Ivan did not give them too much time. On the third day after the announcement of the establishment of the Cabinet Office, the first Enke was held in the Hall of King Quan.Personally invigilate, review, and rank yourself, and never give cheaters an opportunity.

Because education for all has not yet been popularized, we can only raise the taller ones from the dwarfs.The exam questions are not very difficult (relatively speaking). In addition to literature and mathematics questions, they are questions about the state of affairs, economic status, internal and external conflicts, camps between ourselves and the enemy, reform and error correction, etc. They are encouraged to answer boldly.

After numerous selections through written examinations and interviews, Ivan finally selected 17 candidates from among the candidates with clean backgrounds, seven official senators, and ten as temporary senators to form the first cabinet of the Ivan dynasty.It is worth noting that one of the ten provisional senators was named Ptolemy Andieb Amenemkhet.

This man is a true royal.

This year was 1457, and it also marked the initial formation of the cabinet system of the Menes Empire.

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After the elites were selected from the nobles to form a cabinet, Ivan was not in a hurry to let them suppress the six halls.Instead, he took them with him day and night, and usually let them participate in the work of the Sixth Hall, and took them to the Space Fortress to see Xiaoxi to improve his knowledge whenever he was free.

Although Xiaoxi has been known as a comedian so far, how can the amount of knowledge stored in the networked artificial intelligence be child's play!With a little show of her hand, she trained this group of self-sufficient and talented people to be docile, and even secretly called her the goddess of wisdom.

By the way, even Yiwen's image in their hearts has been raised a lot, because this group of people can clearly see that the goddess of wisdom, Xiaoxi, is very respectful to their king.And not only the goddess of wisdom, but all the outsiders who have met seem to respect King Yiwen.

Although he didn't know what was going on, but after vaguely grasping this feeling, the senator's inferiority complex undoubtedly diluted a lot invisibly when facing the outsiders.

The reason why the senators don't understand why people from outside the sky respect Yiwen is because they don't know that Yiwen is actually the boss of the consortium.