Zhao Shide didn't dare to say more, and hurriedly shut up and sat down. Yu Zheming continued: "Your Majesty, the current problem of Yan State lies in redundant officials and fees, the annexation of land by wealthy families, the high taxation leading to the lack of business travel, high prices, corrupted water conservancy, and reduced agricultural production. These situations are particularly serious in the Yan State, but the ministers feel that the redundant officials are not curable, Emperor Wu once said that the Ming monarch does not govern the people, therefore, during the period of Emperor Wu, the country used troops all year round to expand the country, but the people's lives were basically not affected, so the minister thought that the emperor should strengthen the rule of officials and govern the country again. ”

Yu Zheming's words were all said in Lin Feng's heart, the officials of Yan State are indeed a big problem, and they must propose a solution in a short time, but Lin Feng is currently more concerned about the people's eating problem, and Yu Zheming, the chief financial secretary, should have ideas. After being silent for a while, he thought for a while and said: "Yu Aiqing, the officials will hand it over to Zhao Shide and Liu Chengfeng to handle, what good methods do you have in terms of national finances?" In particular, it is a method that can quickly raise taxes without increasing the taxes of the common people. ”

Seeing that the emperor could listen to his own advice, Yu Zheming was excited, and said that the emperor had changed, and he couldn't believe it before entering Beijing, but now it seems that the emperor has indeed changed. Yu Zheming continued: "Agriculture is the foundation of the country, related to the vitality of the people, once it is normalized, it will bring rich taxes, if the emperor wants to stabilize the people's hearts and increase the tax revenue of the national treasury, the development of agriculture is the key." But the Yan country was poor, and the emperor continued to use money to develop the army, and Weichen thought that he could improve the status of businessmen and vigorously develop commerce. Therefore, it is imperative to set up mule and horse markets in the states of Yan State, which are exclusively for merchants from the south to the north to trade, and at the same time give some preferential policies to attract merchants from neighboring countries to come to Yan to trade, at that time, silk, tea and porcelain in the south, furs in the north, cattle and sheep, and war horses will appear in Yan State. ”

Listening to Yu Zheming's suggestion, Lin Feng patted his thigh excitedly, stood up, and shouted again and again: "Okay, that's it for the financial reasons, Yu Aiqing, you are fully responsible for this matter, and after half a year, I hope to see results." ”

Lin Feng really didn't expect that the ancients would have such a long-term vision and be able to notice the importance of business, which is really commendable, and besides, it is really not easy for him to point out the disadvantages of Yan Kingdom through data.

After Yu Zheming left, Lin Feng's smiling expression immediately retracted, turned his head to look at Zhao Shide and Liu Chengfeng, and said: "Two Aiqing, Yu Aiqing's words before, the two of you should understand, Yan Guo has been a little tax in spring and autumn over the years, but I wondered, I have raised so many officials, are they really all virtuous and talented?" ”

Before Yu Zheming's data, Lin Feng didn't know that Yan Guo's officialdom was superficial and bloated, which had become a heavy burden on the society and plagued Yan Guo's finances.

In the past, it may not be easy to solve the redundant official system, the wealthy family of the Yan State has controlled the government for many years, and these people have almost seen the seams and arranged cronies everywhere, if they want to solve it, there will definitely be great resistance, and even the rebellion of the powerful family will occur. However, in the court, almost all of the family groups led by the Korean side were purged, and the redundant affairs were resolved, and the resistance was greatly reduced.

"Emperor Wu is right, the Ming monarch governs the officials and does not govern the people, and the troubled times should use heavy canons, I didn't know about the affairs of the official field before, and allowed the phenomenon of redundant officials to exist, since I know, I should start to solve it, Zhao Shide, Liu Chengfeng, you two are in charge of the rule of officials and criminal law, what are you going to do?"

Zhao Shide has always been in charge of the rule of officials, and it has never changed, so when Lin Feng asked about the rule of officials, Zhao Shide immediately broke into a cold sweat, knelt on the ground, and said: "Your Majesty, the non-ministers are incompetent, and the image of redundant officials has started since the period of Daizong, and it has developed rapidly in the past few decades. ”

This is the truth, the phenomenon of redundant officials is indeed not something that can be changed by the power of one person, and the three successive emperors are mediocre, and any capable officials cannot attack the interests of the powerful family without the support of the emperor.

Lin Feng also knew the power of the family, and some dynasties could even abolish the emperor. In this matter, he won't blame Zhao Shide, who let his predecessor and his three generations of ancestors be too cheating? "I don't blame you, what are you afraid of, in the past, you were unable to turn the situation around, today I help you back, you and Liu Chengfeng work together to do a good job for me in the governance of the officials. Promote a group, punish a group, and kill a group again, who dares to disagree, directly find Lei Jieying, and the blade warriors are waiting. ”

"By the way, the Criminal Department immediately sent people, the five states and sixteen cities are not big, each state sends two officials, a hundred blade soldiers, immediately set off, dare to resist the disrespectful people, directly cut off the head, don't be merciful." After Lin Feng finished speaking, he turned his head to An Heng and said: "Send Ji Qiong to Tongzhou in the south, there is a drought there this year, there must be a lot of problems, tell him that he must be investigated clearly." ”

An Heng and Zhao Shide received the order, "Emperor Xie, Emperor Xie, the minister has also drawn up an excerpt, please take a look at it." Zhao Shide was pardoned, got up and hurriedly took out the fold in his arms and sent it to An Heng.

Lin Feng took the excerpt and glanced at it, and there was some merit in the suggestion, and immediately said: "The idea of setting up inspection envoys is good, but the three groups of patrol envoys are too few." At present, Dayan has five states and sixteen cities, so there are five inspection envoys who go to various states every six months to inspect and never tolerate any lawbreakers. By the way, before Yu Zheming establishes Luoma City, you and Liu Aiqing must solve the redundant official matter! ”

"Command!"

With a plan for the governance and financial issues, Lin Feng discussed with the ministers for about a long time and set a basic preliminary policy, but it was still far from what he had in mind. Next, it is about the reward for military merits, whether Lin Xiao Lei Jieying thwarted the Korean plan to rebel in the capital, or Liu Xuanyuan and Feng Shihu resisted the Rong clan at the Black Flag Pass, both of them have great merits, and it is difficult to soothe the hearts of the army without rewards, especially the tiger and leopard guards, Lin Feng has neglected them for too long.

"Lin Xiao, what do you think about the rewards of the generals?" Lin Feng asked, Lin Xiao is in charge of the government, and he will not forget the generals to seal the mountain.

Lin Xiao also prepared an excerpt and sent it to An Heng, Lin Feng took it, and the excerpt said the detailed deployment plan of Dayan's military force and the reward plan of the generals, but only for himself, Bai Yisheng, and Zhao Jun did not reward the three of them.

Lin Xiao also prepared an excerpt and sent it to An Heng, Lin Feng took it, and the excerpt said the detailed deployment plan of Dayan's military force and the reward plan of the generals, but only for himself, Bai Yisheng, and Zhao Jun did not reward the three of them.

Lin Feng didn't speak, picked up the pen and added the names of Lin Xiao's three people, Lin Xiao's credit is needless to say, Bai Yisheng and Zhao Jun were defeated by the Rong clan, but the plan can be formulated by themselves, and the two of them are almost wiped out, mostly because of helping Zhang Yu and Heng Bangchang, otherwise, the 40,000 light cavalry may all be hung up, and besides, in the fierce battle, won't they also destroy the tens of thousands of Rong cavalry?

Lin Feng thought about it, exterminated Han Fang and others, almost knew that the court was moth-eaten, and recovered all the money and food embezzled by Han Fang and others over the years, these people would definitely be killed, there would be many official vacancies, and it was very important to recruit talents at the moment.

In terms of the army, in the first battle of Black Flag Pass, there were only 120,000 male soldiers left in the Yan State, in order to protect themselves, the recruitment of troops still had to continue, and it was necessary to strengthen the speed of recruitment and train early.

While the ministers were waiting, Lin Feng quickly wrote down three excerpts, dealing with the chaos of Han Fang and others, rewarding the generals in the army, increasing the troops, and absorbing the talents of various countries, sprinkled 3,000 words, and after writing, dried the ink and handed it to Lin Xiao.

The next day, the court of Yan State issued several orders in succession.

The Financial Secretary Han Fang and others plotted against each other, started an army to cause chaos, formed a party for personal gain, etc., and there were 38 charges in total, and all of them should be punished, and at three o'clock in the afternoon, they were beheaded at the noon gate, and Lin Xiao and Liu Chengfeng, as the chief judges, announced in public that Han Fang and others had committed crimes for many years.

All those involved were beheaded, the number was nearly two hundred, and in the hundreds of years of history of the Yan Kingdom, and even between the vassal states, the killing of hundreds of courtiers at one time had never happened. However, in the winter of the third year of the new opening of the Yan Kingdom, there was indeed a large-scale bloodshed in the capital of the Yan Kingdom.

Fortunately, Lin Feng was open-minded and killed all the ministers involved, but fortunately, Lin Feng did not implicate the family members of the people involved, otherwise there would be more killings, and all the men of Han Fang and other families would be reduced to slaves in the army, and the female dependents would be rewarded to meritorious officials.

When the people did not have time to digest this bloody scene, then the government issued a decree that in the next two years, the people of the five states and sixteen cities of Yan State will be exempted from agricultural taxes, and in the spring of the next year, the imperial court will give free spring ploughing seeds.

The decree was promulgated, and the notice was quickly posted all over the streets and alleys of the capital, and the people cheered and rushed to proclaim.

After all, the killing of the rebels, the people can only see the excitement, and there is some talk after dinner, but the latter really benefits the people, exempting farmers from taxes for two years, benefiting farmers across the country, and when they plough in the spring of the next year, they no longer need to worry about seed money.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately went viral, and within half an hour, almost everyone in Yanjing knew about it, and they all applauded.

Lin Feng dared to exempt the peasant households from taxes, mainly because they seized a lot of money and grain from the rebel minister's house, 130 million taels of silver, and 5 million taels of gold, which is equivalent to 30 times the tax revenue of Yan Kingdom this year, counting the valuable treasures, all of them can be exchanged for a lot of silver, nearly 200 million taels of silver, which is enough to support the expenses of Yan Kingdom in the next two years, besides, it is only exempt from agricultural taxes, and commercially, there will be some taxes.

In addition, beheading nearly two hundred ministers at one time was too bloody and violent, and it was easy to leave the impression of a tyrant on the people, and Lin Feng did this to alleviate the panic in the hearts of the people.