Your Majesty, please draw the card

Jiahe's autumn Fu in the third year has increased a lot compared to the previous two years, Dayan's treasury is no longer empty at last, even Lu Su, the Minister of the Ministry of household affairs, has stood up, and gradually restored the status of the rich man in Jiangdong. style.

The country is rich, and Liu Xi has made a lot of money in the past six months.In addition to the original business, he also invested part of the money in Fan Li.Doing business with Shang Sheng, you don't have to worry about anything, just count the money, it's really very comfortable.

When October entered, Liu Xi began to plan a major event - measuring the land of the whole country.This is actually the first step in a series of land reforms, including equalization of land ownership, suppression of large landlords, reduction of feudal lords, replacement of fiefdoms with a unified fief tax, control of land sales, diversified cultivation, and environmental protection, etc.Because of the expected resistance, Zhou Yu suggested that Liu Xi implement it slowly and complete the idea of ​​reform in four years, and measuring the land is the first step.Fortunately, Liu Xi has already mastered many advanced surveying techniques, and it won't take too long to measure all kinds of land in the entire Dayan.

The emperor announced that he would conduct a unified survey of the land of the whole country, which really caused an uproar in the court.The ministers knew very well that each land measurement was bound to be accompanied by reforms, and reforms often meant the redistribution of rights and interests, which was extremely detrimental to the existing profit grabbers, so the sharp-eyed courtiers began to stumbling the emperor , One after another moved out the ancestral teachings as weapons to prevent the measurement from being carried out.

Faced with these things, Liu Xi wasn't too worried.He has the patience to fight wits and courage with these "courtiers" who protect the food. He is still young, standing at the top of the ruling class, holding public opinion in his hands, and has card characters to help him. As long as he persists, there is nothing he cannot do .

When the issue of land measurement was pushed to the cusp, the emperor announced that he would establish a "Tai Xue" and conduct a "unified examination" across the country, and take the top [-] people in the unified examination to enter Tai Xue to study as reserve talents.Taixue is divided into six subjects, which correspond to the six professional skills of officials. Students with high scores in the unified examination can give priority to study in departments and classes.The emperor also announced that the first "big exam" of Dayan will be held one year later, and only students of Taixue can take it, and those with the highest rankings in various subjects and comprehensive rankings will be promoted to officials.The longest schooling period of Taixue is eight years. In addition to taking the "big exam", you can also apply for civil servants in various places.If you still fail to achieve anything in eight years, you will be treated as a dropout.

As soon as this order came out, scholars all over the world were boiling.Although some people said, "How can I sharpen my head to become an official? I will become a famous scholar in the mountains and wait for the emperor to ask me to be an official." But most people saw the opportunity and planned to show their talents in the unified examination.Scholars are all gearing up, and for a while, they really can't care about measuring the land.Only some evil slaves were left to stop the officials, and the emperor ordered to clean up a few, and no one dared to jump out.

In fact, Liu Xi has long been dissatisfied with the current election system, and he was very happy to see so many people beating around the bush to ask him about the exam questions.There are two kinds of people who are most likely to be recommended in the past.One is the low-end goods that cost money, not to mention the fact that there is no guarantee, and the mind is full of how to "recover the cost", so how can people feel at ease when they use it?There is also a so-called famous person who thinks about his own reputation first in everything he does. He will cry, make trouble and hang himself when he is invited out of the mountain, as if not showing his indifference to fame and fortune.This kind of people is even worse. Many of them sit in the yamen and try cases without even reading the criminal law. How many places have long-standing disadvantages are caused by this kind of people.

Liu Xi hopes to use the new system to unearth a group of motivated talents, let them master certain professional knowledge through learning, strengthen their understanding of official favoritism, malpractice and corruption, and cultivate relatively competent officials.

After a successful distraction, the surveying of the land went well.The vassal king whose interests are most affected, because Liu Xi spared no effort to appease him, can't figure out any tricks for the time being.Liu Xi was proud of the spring breeze, and pestered Zhao Yun to "practice" all day long.His internal strength has grown rapidly, and he is almost catching up with Zhao Yun now. I believe that in the near future, he will not need to use broken jade beads to pretend to be a tiger.

Since Zhao Yun knew what kind of kung fu the emperor was practicing, his perception of the entire Great Yan Dynasty was overturned. (Liu Xi didn't have the nerve to tell Zhao Yun that this set of exercises was obtained from the Queen Mother. He only said that it was an ancestral martial art that could only be practiced by the emperors of all dynasties. The first emperor passed away early, so the Queen Mother handed it over to him.) In this way, Zhao Yun He couldn't refuse Liu Xi's hard work on "family inheritance". In fact, he felt that Liu Xi's setting was quite reasonable.The emperor didn't have so much time to practice martial arts, but naturally there were many concubines, so it was perfect for practicing this kind of martial arts.

Although Zhao Yun tried his best to persuade the emperor to put state affairs first, he must pay more attention to state affairs, even if it is good to read a few more memorials, but the weather is good, and the six departments are running efficiently under the leadership of Zhou Yu, there is really nothing important. Liu Xi went to make a decision.It made Zhao Yun feel that every morning when he woke up, his footsteps were vain.

On this day, Liu Xi heard that the imperial cook Zhang San was going to make ham, and he happened to have nothing to do, so he dragged Zhao Yun to the imperial dining room to "guidance work".The last time Liu Xi watched people make ham was in "A Bite of X Country", and he was very excited to witness this stunt again.

When I entered the imperial dining room, I saw hundreds of pork legs on the long table. Because I knew the emperor was coming, I couldn't let the bloody light hit the emperor, so these pork legs had been processed in advance, and they were plump and shiny. There is no bloody feeling at all.The imperial chef Zhang San brought about twenty young apprentices to make ham together.They were rubbing salt on their side, and the rice balls came in to report that King Hengyang had arrived.

Liu Xi proclaimed King Hengyang to enter the imperial dining room.The latter shook his head repeatedly when he saw this scene: "Your Majesty, why did you come to the Imperial Dining Room to see the slaughter of pigs?"

"Uncle Huang doesn't know, this is not killing pigs, this is making ham!"

"Aren't they all the same! Gentlemen stay away from the kitchen, and the emperor is the emperor, how can he come to such a place?"

Liu Xi said sternly: "It is precisely because he is the emperor that he needs to know more about the people's livelihood. Didn't the emperor also go to see how the people in the fief planted rice seedlings? I am here to observe the imperial chef making ham, just to understand Dayan's diet Culture, to prepare for the promotion of our country's prestige. By the way, the emperor came to see me, but do you have something important to tell?"

Liu Duan was stupefied by the emperor, and then remembered that he really had something important to say.He saw that there were people everywhere, besides people there were hundreds of pig legs, it was really not a place to talk.

"Your Majesty, here..."

"Uncle Emperor, those who look down on ham will cry one day because they can't eat ham. That's all, Zhang San, you go ahead and rub the salt. I'm leaving first. I'm waiting to eat your ham next year!"

Zhang San: "Yes, Your Majesty."

After leaving the imperial dining room, Liu Xi couldn't help laughing secretly when he saw King Hengyang's appearance as if he wanted to change his clothes inside and out.

"What's the matter, uncle?"

This time, the environment was changed to a clean and tidy environment, and only Zhao Yun was around. Liu Duan suddenly felt that his breathing became much easier, and immediately said seriously: "Your Majesty, some vassal kings quietly sent people to Chang'an and arrived in Pingyuan. The emperor's mansion has not left for several days. I suspect that they are dissatisfied with the emperor and are trying to stir up the relationship between Lord Pingyuan and the emperor."

Liu Xi frowned, he knew that King Hengyang's statement was actually more euphemistic.If you want to say who is most dissatisfied with him recently, Queen Mother Cao can definitely be ranked first.After all, the reform has not yet started, and the vassal kings from all over the country are at most a little uneasy now, and most of them went to the Empress Dowager Cao to inquire about some news.

But the relationship between Liu Xi and Queen Mother Cao is more delicate.Ever since Cao Minrou made a marriage arrangement under the arrangement of the Empress Dowager, the dream of the Empress Dowager Cao to "be more intimate" has been completely shattered.The Cao family could not have a queen, but Liu Xi's love for Zhao Yun could be seen by anyone with a discerning eye, so the Empress Dowager Cao became jealous of Zhao Yun.

In fact, Liu Xi doesn't have much airs of an emperor, and he won't punish anyone who offends him to death.But there is only one thing, he will never allow anyone to touch the person he cares about.At the beginning, he showed his bloody side because Wang Juchen instigated the imperial physician and court lady to frame Zhou Yu. Now if someone wants to touch the person he cares about, it is no different from courting death.

The grandparent and grandson fought several times, and the arrogance of Empress Dowager Cao was severely suppressed.At the beginning of the land measurement, Liu Xi also deliberately chose the Cao family as the first object to be measured. The Cao family appeared to be very honored on the surface, but the Queen Mother Cao did not know how many valuable decorations were broken behind her back.

It would be a little troublesome if the only foreign relative of the dynasty colluded with the vassal king at this time.

"Is the news true?"

"It's absolutely true. Although the people who came here don't seem to have much to do with the feudal lords at first glance, they are all real confidantes of the feudal lords from all over the world. As for the Empress Dowager Cao, the emperor should know better than the minister what he wants to investigate."

Liu Xi nodded: "Zilong, help me call Eunuch Gao and ask him to bring the latest information about the Cao family."

"According to the order!"

Gao Lishi had first-hand information about Jiahewei, and the people King Hengyang mentioned really became the guests of Pingyuan Junfu.

"In the past few days, Wang Juchen paid a visit to Lord Pingyuan in the name of discussing marriage, and Cao Zizhen also had frequent contact with these vassal confidants. The emperor, according to my opinion, I have to guard against it!" Gao Lishi didn't care whether the Queen Mother Cao was the emperor's relative or not. Grandma, seeing that the other party seems to have a heart of disobedience, she wished she could be caught and killed immediately.

After pondering for a moment, Liu Xi said: "Add more people to watch over the Pingyuan Mansion. As for the vassal king, please ask the emperor's uncle to help to comfort him. First arrest Cao Zizhen, and let's talk about it after two days in prison!"

Anyway, Cao Zi can be caught and the evidence can be beaten one by one, so it is very easy to lock him in.This is Liu Xi's last chance for the Cao family. If such a warning can't make the Cao family turn back, then he will be serious.