Great Zhou Empress

Let go of the responsibility of thousands of miles?

If anyone had talked to Yuan Hanzhang like this before, needless to say, Yuan Hanzhang would have sent him to prison long ago. This is a proper rebellion.But at this moment, under such a state of mind, such words came out of Ayila's mouth, but Yuan Hanzhang was a little shaken.

Things like the throne and the country have always been the most desired by those who have not obtained it.Just like in the Liao Kingdom, Xiao Liege was tired of having to deal with government affairs every day, but the nobleman Yelu Mengnan tried every means, even went to war to win the throne. In Yelu Mengnan's eyes, the throne is glory , is the medal of his life, he desires to the extreme.

But for a person like Yuan Hanzhang, who has devoted all his energy and vitality to the group represented by the throne for decades, the throne is nothing but a habitual burden.

If you eat delicacies from mountains and seas every day, you will get tired of it.

A brand new way of life and some unknown things seem to interest Yuan Hanzhang even more.

But these thousands of miles of land are not fat on the body, they can be thrown away if they want, who will take over?

The more serious question is, will the person who takes over the offer hurt himself?

Because it was difficult to make a choice, Yuan Hanzhang acted as if the words Ayila said did not exist anymore, how to live the next day or how to live, and only acted as a shopkeeper every day, playing chess and chatting with Ayila .

At the Military Aircraft Department, Xue Zhijing, Li Jing and the others were almost too busy. The Military Aircraft Department didn't have a fixed number of people. With the two of them now, there are about fifteen military aircraft offices. These fifteen people make up the Dacheng The cabinet in the actual sense of the dynasty, the oldest among them is only 30 years old, and they are all vigorous young people.

Xue Zhijing is Zhou Guogong, with the highest status, and the other 14 people all got the seventh-rank Pin Yi, so Xue Zhijing naturally became the first among the 15 people.

Xue Zhijing was used to this kind of working method, where the top management held meetings to discuss matters, and the leaders made decisions.

The recent affairs are mainly the reconstruction of the North Central Plains and the western region, and the arrangements for officials from various departments in various places.

The Dacheng Dynasty is too big, and there will always be various situations in various places every day. Every day, there will be documents submitted from various places that need to be processed, some urgent and some troublesome.

After several people discussed their daily work, Li Jing said, "Zhou Guogong, I think I should tell you about this matter, but I don't have direct evidence, but I just noticed the clues from various information I saw recently."

"You said."

Li Jing, "Some time ago, the clans and officials in the Northern Central Plains area that were related to the Liao State, the clans that colluded with Liu Mian, Duke of Qin, and the clans and officials that were connected to the Chen clan who rebelled in Jiankang some time ago were cleaned up. Now About [-]% of the remaining clans in the imperial court are left. Most of them are high-ranking clans who were sealed in the affluent areas in the south of the Yangtze River, and I suspect that there is a change in them."

"What kind of change?"

"The specifics of them have not yet been fully revealed. I just saw the recent appointment of officials from various regions. A considerable proportion of them are Juren from the Jiangnan region. Because there is a shortage of officials in various places, many of them have been elected in their early years. Juren who have been waiting for official vacancies to take up positions in various places. But I found that many people are related to several clans in the Jiangnan area, either by relatives or connections."

Now the entire dynasty is not considered to have been completely cleaned up and rebuilt, at most it can be regarded as being damaged and then repaired. The most affluent Jiangnan area has never experienced any wars. There are many clans and related people. They fall into various places. , it might really cause trouble for Xue Zhijing and the others.

The Liu family's clan has multiplied to tens of 10 people over the past few hundred years, and they simply don't know how to clean it up.

It's just that Xue Zhijing's manpower is tight now, and it will take time to train more of his own people.

When they arrived in Bianjing, the comprehensive university under their control was to be rebuilt to recruit more students, and the previously envisaged plan that all officials would be supported by the state's finances would also be implemented.

When I came back to Bianjing again, the mountains and rivers remained the same, but the city always seemed to have a gloomy atmosphere.Especially in that huge court, at this time, Yuan Hanzhang was the only master, not counting the baby who was still nursing.The rest are some maids and a few eunuchs.

Yuan Hanzhang didn't think about adding more waiters around him, and locked most of the houses in the harem, and distributed the rest to various departments. The fifteen walkers in the military aircraft department all had their own small courtyard in the palace. It is used as a dormitory for the staff, so that they can get up early and go to work at the Military Aircraft Department.

Before Bianjing City, there were only a few civilians left, barely maintaining the life of the city, and all industries began to wither. Now the ministers and nobles are slowly returning, and the whole city is slowly rejuvenating.

That day, after reporting on the work, Yuan Hanzhang left Xue Zhijing behind, and greeted all the maids, leaving only Ayila by his side.

"Xiaojing, I have an idea today, what do you think?"

"My lady, tell me."

Yuan Hanzhang said calmly, "You are a very talented person. You have been very capable since you were a child. You have successfully completed the difficult tasks I entrusted to you at a young age. In the past few months, military aircraft With you as the leader, the government affairs you handle are very clean and beautiful, and I dare say that even if I handle it myself, it will only go to this level, and you are a natural leader."

Naturally happy to be praised, Xue Zhijing said with a smile, "Thank you for your compliment, but I think, if your body feels better, you should work harder on these government affairs, I actually have something I want to apply to your mother. "

Xue Zhijing felt that if he didn't mention to Yuan Hanzhang that he wanted to be an ambassador to the Liao Kingdom, Yuan Hanzhang would probably let him work in the military aircraft department all the time.

The border trade with the Liao Kingdom is now on the right track, and the business on both sides is doing well. It is said that the Liao Kingdom has also stabilized a lot. At this time, Xiao Liege's anger should have calmed down. It is the right time. .

Unexpectedly, Yuan Hanzhang pressed his hand, "Don't worry, my matter is more important. I think, I am getting old, and I always feel that my old eyes are dim and I can't bear to deal with those government affairs. But now the little emperor, He was only a few months old, and it would take ten or even twenty years for him to take charge. How could I have waited so long. So I thought, how about letting you be the little emperor's adoptive mother and serve as the empress dowager? I also want to take care of my life."

Xue Zhijing was stunned.

What?Old eyesight?

What else, foster mother?

What the hell is taking care of your life?

Xue Zhijing looked at Yuan Hanzhang with a weird face, no, this one has a ruddy complexion, thick hair, not even a trace of white hair, sharp eyes, and a slender and well-proportioned figure.

She really wanted to ask, are you bound by the title of empress dowager? At your age and physical condition, you will be the backbone of the group company. Why do you feel like you are about to retire early? It's over.

After thinking for a while, I remembered the last sentence, Yuan Hanzhang wants her to be the queen mother?

Xue Zhijing felt that he really had goose bumps all over his body.

There was no need to think too much, Xue Zhijing directly rejected the proposal, but Yuan Hanzhang asked her to go back and think about it slowly.

Xue Zhijing is not Yuan Hanzhang, Yuan Hanzhang is a person of this era, although she knows very well that in this era she has the least constraints on how to do things, but she is still trapped by this era.For example, although she has been regent for so many years, she never thought of becoming an empress. The solutions she could think of did not escape the constraints of this era. That's why she proposed to make Xue Zhijing the empress before, and now she proposes to make her an empress. Queen Mother's suggestion.

But Xue Zhijing is different, Xue Zhijing knows that there is not only one road like this.

As her power became more and more powerful and the power in her hands became stronger, Xue Zhijing found that most of the things that she was worried about before, she didn't need to worry too much about them.

For example, if Xue Zhijing wants to do something, will the entire court object collectively?Now that she has found that half of the court has been cleaned up by force, if the rest wants to object, then just find a reason to clean it up.If it weren't for the anger and grievances of the sky, the opposing forces would really not be able to make a climate.

Another example is whether the clan of the Liu family will raise troops or cause turmoil.After confiscating the titles of so many Liu family clans and taking away a lot of their assets and land, they have not seen any effective resistance organized by them.The rest of these estimates are even more unlikely.

For the rest of her life, she didn't want to be shrouded in the halo of a man, lose all her names, and become a small symbol in the history books.

Yuan Hanzhang's proposal doesn't fit her values.

With this in mind, she mounted her horse and took a few attendants to the construction site outside the city.

That was the site of a comprehensive university under construction, and it suddenly occurred to me that the university hadn't been named yet.

This land is hers, so she designated a large area for the college. Although such a large area may not be used for the time being, in the future, she estimates that the school will accommodate tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people. , like a modern comprehensive university, I'm afraid it's not big enough.

The school building is very simple. The construction team assembled the most superb craftsmen of this era, and built three-storey houses with masonry and wood structures. Each building is probably in the style of sitting upright and surrounded.Each floor of the building is divided into large classrooms, with open corridors and balconies on the front and large windows on the back.

Around a huge open space in the center, such teaching buildings are gradually distributed. According to the plan, each teaching building is a college, and some open spaces are reserved around it. It is also possible to build more teachers' offices in the future.

Farther away, there are student dormitories one after another. Xue Zhijing is planning to build a modern student dormitory model. Men and women are separated. Each room is not too big and can accommodate two to four people.

In this era, in cities like Beijing, the living area of ​​each unit is very limited.When Xue Zhijing went to recruit members of the Shenji Battalion before, she went to the low-level living area of ​​Bianjing City. She once saw someone living in a loft built by herself in a house. The loft was probably half the height of a person. The feeling of living in it should be It's the same feeling as people in later generations feel when they take a sleeper on a train.What shocked her even more was that some people couldn't even build an attic, so they built some ropes and slept in it.

Therefore, this kind of dormitory area and the way of living with many people, I believe no one will mind except some masters and ladies.

Xue Zhijing's plan is to expand the number of students enrolled in the School of Economics and History in the future, so that each of them can basically be admitted to Juren after graduation, and it is best to cultivate talents who can occupy half of the Jinshi quota. They are inclined, so that within a few years, officials from all over the dynasty will be her protégés, and many things will be much easier to handle.

As for other colleges, such as engineering colleges, economic colleges, agricultural colleges, and military colleges, the students who have completed their studies will be provided with suitable jobs, and the number of colleges can be continuously increased in the future.These colleges can cultivate talents suitable for all walks of life, and these talents can promote the development of all walks of life.

As long as you are willing to invest and give the whole society more room for free development, the huge population will bring endless potential, and time will witness the changes of the entire dynasty.

Thinking about the future, Xue Zhijing strengthened his inner plan.