Hearing that it was the deacon from Lei Xiao Pavilion who wanted to teach the battle array monks how to cooperate, these young monks who were born in Jiangnan and had never seen much of the battlefield couldn't help but feel excited and curious.

Just listen to Zhao Ran's introduction: "Du Yangchen is a Taoist leader, a cultivator in the realm of refiners, and he is from Zhejiang Lingxu Pavilion. He once participated in the Battle of Dajinchuan, the Battle of Heishui City, and the Battle of Yulin, and then fought in the front line of Baima Mountain for a long time. The specific results of the battle are classified and will not be detailed here. In the next twenty days, Daoist Du will specially guide you on how to fight together, how to gather forces together, and how to use our spells to the extreme in the fighting method, which will be an extremely important skill for us to be a good architectural monk and complete engineering miracles. Please applaud. ”

Zhao Ran gave the podium to Du Yangchen, and after Du Yangchen went up, he looked around the hall and said, "Time is limited, let's go straight to the point." This morning, I would like to explain to you a common way for my Daomen monks to work together in the battle formation, the Small Five Elements Battle Group. ”

As he spoke, Du Yangchen turned around, and on the whiteboard hanging on the wall, he directly drew the correspondence of the five elements with charcoal, pointed to the direction of the five elements and said: "The formation of the small five elements battle group is a golden pill and four yellow crowns. If you change to an archmage with four Jin Dan, we call it the big five elements battle group, of course, this is actually a waste of manpower, if you need the big five elements battle group to fight, we usually use another model: five small five elements battle group in the direction of the big five elements ......"

Du Yangchen's professionalism made Zhao Ran appreciate it very much, because there were too many affairs in his hands, and he didn't have time to listen to them all, so he turned his wheelchair and walked out of the lecture hall.

Lu Xixing was waiting for him outside the door, and went to Jingyang Tower with him to rest, Zhao Ran said: "Thank you Senior Brother Lu, it is really not easy to invite Daoist Du Yangchen to give a lecture to everyone." ”

Lu Xixing said with a smile: "Whatever happens, where do I have the truth of not being unsatisfied? Besides, you don't need to thank me, if you want to thank Du Tianshi." As soon as Du Tianshi heard that it was your business, he was very concerned, if it wasn't for Du Tianshi's personal order, Du Yangchen would not have had time to come. ”

Zhao Ran asked, "What is the relationship between this Du Yangchen Dao Master and our Thunder Pavilion Du Heavenly Master?"

Lu Xixing said: "It is the little junior brother of Du Tianshi who accepted the apprentice on behalf of the teacher, just past the year of the Mandate of Heaven, he is already a cultivator in the realm of refiners, he is very prestigious in the Lingxu Pavilion, and everyone is optimistic about it in the Thunder Xiao Pavilion." ”

When he arrived at Jingyang Tower, Zhao Ran said: "Senior Brother Lu's "The Complete Biography of the Shang and Zhou Kingdoms", readers have been looking forward to it for a long time, when will it be updated?"

Lu Xixing said with a smile: "I'm really ashamed, I have been in retreat for half a year, and I immediately took office in Chaotian Palace after leaving the customs, where is there time to write? By the way, Zhiran, I came here today to inquire about something. ”

"Senior Brother Lu, please speak. ”

"I heard that the day before yesterday, the cabinet university Shi Ganshu also proposed a bill to change the current clan system of succession. I also heard that I discussed it with my junior brother? I am in charge of the clan monks in the Heavenly Palace, and these clan monks in the palace have found me together, and they are arguing, so I have come to ask. ”

Zhao Ran said: "Gan Shutong's proposal was indeed negotiated with me. The clan's Yulu has now become a heavy burden on the imperial court, and my Ming clan routinely inherits the throne of the eldest son, and the sons descend to the throne, the prince, the prince of the county, the general of the Zhenguo, the general of the auxiliary country, the general of Fengguo, the lieutenant of the Zhenguo, the lieutenant of the auxiliary state, the lieutenant of Fengguo, the eighth generation, and the end of the lieutenant of Fengguo, hereditary replacement. Since the founding of the country, according to the investigation of the Zongren Mansion, how many children of the clan are there, does Senior Brother Lu know?"

"But I don't know, isn't there tens of thousands?"

"It's 310,000! The majority of them are the third lieutenants, of which there are more than 20,000 lieutenants in Zhenguo, more than 60,000 lieutenants in auxiliary countries, and 220,000 lieutenants in Fengguo. Does Senior Brother Lu know how much they have to pay for them?"

Hearing this number, Lu Xixing was very surprised: "There are so many? I heard that the prince has 10,000 stones, the prince of the county has 2,000 stones, and the general of Zhenguo has 1,000 stones, but the latter ones are not very clear." ”

Zhao Ran replied, "Eight hundred stones for the auxiliary general, six hundred stones for the Fengguo general, four hundred stones for the lieutenant of Zhenguo, three hundred stones for the lieutenant of the auxiliary state, and two hundred stones for the lieutenant of Fengguo." A simple calculation shows that the third lieutenant alone spends 70 million stone lumi rice per year. The price of rice varies from place to place, but if you take the median value, it is 32 million taels of silver per stone. ”

After a pause, Zhao Ran continued: "Of course, in fact, not so much, during the Xuanzong period, the envy was folded into it, and the envy was consumed by thirty percent at that time. In the twentieth year of Zhengde, the reduction of 50% was issued, which has continued to this day. Therefore, together with the fifth-class lords, a total of 19 million taels! What kind of concept is this? Last year, the annual income of the household department was 17 million, that is to say, the amount of clan income withheld in various places has already exceeded the annual income of the imperial court!

Lu Xixing was stunned and muttered, "It's so ......"

Zhao Ran nodded: "It's not that I don't know, it's a surprise, Senior Brother Lu." ”

This is the most headache of the household department, after obtaining Zhao Ran's approval, Gan Shutong proposed a plan in the court discussion mainly on four points.

One is to reduce the title of the clan to the fifth rank, the so-called gentleman's Ze, and the fifth generation. Five generations is enough, eight generations are too many, and in the future, no more money will be issued to the new third lieutenant Zongjue, and those who have Lu rice will only reach the level of General Fengguo.

Second, the hereditary replacement system of the last lord will be abolished. Among the current clansmen, after all the clans were demoted to the last rank of Fengguo lieutenant, they were no longer demoted, and finally fixed on this title, and received the state salary according to the standard of 200 stone per year, which was the main reason for the huge number of sects.

For this reason, Gan Shutong proposed that after becoming a lieutenant in Fengguo, he should be removed from the Zongren Mansion, no longer enjoy the privileges brought by the title, and his descendants should no longer take the title.

Third, the system of hereditary princes with the eldest son of the prince was also abolished at the same time. This article is really too pitiful, the prince's title has only increased but not decreased, and there will never be a head, and now dozens of princes have come from this way. The bill proposes that the eldest son can be a third hereditary prince, but from the fourth generation onwards, he must be demoted to a knighthood.

Fourth, whenever the clan of the third lieutenant is attacked, the imperial court has released the ban on them, allowing them to engage in agriculture and commerce, so that they can fend for themselves.

Fifth, this policy should be implemented in accordance with the principle of old methods for the elderly and new methods for new people. Taking the first day of the fourth month as the time node, the clans born before will be implemented according to the original method, and they will continue to be knighted at the age of 10 and continue to receive the knighthood, and the clans born after that will be implemented according to the new method. In this way, the resistance of the existing clan to the reform will be minimized.

According to the estimates made by the household department and the clan government in three months, after the implementation of this policy, the annual scale of 19 million taels of clan income will not immediately decrease, but the trend of reduction will be a long-term process.

In the estimate, there will be 4,000 to 5,000 clan deaths every year, minus the number of new titles, there will be a reduction of about 4,000 three lieutenants who can receive Yulu every year, saving 300,000 taels of expenses for the court in the first year, 600,000 taels in the second year, 900,000 taels in the third year, and so on, and so on, after sixty or seventy years, there will be no more lieutenants and lords who can receive Yulu in the Ming Dynasty.

After listening to Zhao Ran's detailed introduction, Lu Xixing sighed with emotion: "It's really a hundred-year plan." ”

Zhao Ran agreed: "Yes, this is not an overnight thing, but a long process. Gan Shutong originally wanted to solve the problem in a gentle way, but I don't think it is necessary, now is the best time to solve the problem of the lord, only ten years later, the household can be an extra three million taels a year, twenty years later, it will be six million taels. As the initiators, Gan Shutong and I both know that we will inevitably become a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh of some clans, but we both have the determination to carry it out. I want to see if those beam-jumping clowns dare to come out, and I will cut one by one, so that they can try whether the knife of my Dao Sect is sharp or not. ”