Not only does she have to conquer the world, but she also has to learn to pacify the world. The latter is more difficult and more important than the former.
She has sat on the position of queen, but this is not the end, but the starting point. Ruling the country does not rely on magic weapons or divine punishment. If she wants to sit in this position for a long time, she must learn these things.
Li Yi walked to a hall and sat down. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Yang Liuqing standing there. He was startled and said, "Sit down."
Yang Liuqing shook his head and said, "Uncle, I just need to stand and listen to your instructions."
What Li Yi was about to say was actually meant to be a warning, but her attitude was so correct that he couldn't say it out loud.
After all, she is no longer Ruyi's little apprentice, but the emperor of a country. Although he has not been polite to the emperors of Jingguo and Qiguo, she is one of his own no matter what, and Li Yi feels a little softer.
He coughed lightly and said, "You..., please sit down first."
Yang Liuqing sat down opposite him, raised her head, and looked at him seriously.
He didn't feel it just now, but now that she was looking at him like this, Li Yi felt a little uncomfortable, and for a moment he didn't know what he wanted to say...
I remembered.
As the capital of the Kingdom of Wu, the infrastructure construction of the imperial capital must be focused on. The streets of any imperial capital are full of stinking ditches and potholes. Sitting on a carriage and circling the city can kill you...
Also, is a crowded street a place where horses can ride? What if they hit someone? Even if they can’t hit people, it’s wrong to hit flowers and plants...
Also, the officials in Jingxian County colluded with the big families in the city, confused right and wrong, and judged cases in a confused manner. Is this the style that an imperial capital should have?
If this was the case in the imperial capital, let alone other places, how did she become the emperor?
Li Yi thought about this and looked at her, seeing her looking at him sincerely.
Li Yi looked at her, thought for a while, and asked: "The emperor is different from the princess. They have to worry about big and small things. This is your first time coming into contact with this. Are you still used to it these days?"
Yang Liuqing lowered his head and said, "I was a little uncomfortable at first, but then I gradually got used to it."
"Nothing can be accomplished overnight." Li Yi stood up, patted her shoulder, and comforted her: "Proceed step by step. Take these things step by step and slowly."
Yang Liuqing looked up at him and asked, "Uncle, what should I do?"
Li Yi is not a good teacher, but when his nephew looks at him like this and regards him as his backbone or someone to rely on, he still feels a little satisfied.
The first impression the imperial capital gave him was that it was dirty and messy, which not only affected the face of a country, but could also easily lead to more problems.
If you want to get rich, you must first build roads. If you want to govern a country, you must first build roads. For the people of Ruyi City and Shuzhou, this concept has been integrated into their bones.
Li Yi thought for a moment and said, "Let's repair the roads in the imperial capital first."
"It's easy to say." An old voice came from outside the palace. An old man named Yang Wanli walked in from the outside, looked at him, and said: "The savings in the national treasury have long been consumed by the traitor. The imperial court has even hundreds of officials.
If I can’t even pay out my salary, how can I have the free money to do those things? Will you give it to me?”
Why didn't Li Yi realize before that this old guy Yang Wanli was so shameless?
The Wu Kingdom belongs to the Yang family, not the Li family. Why should he give money?
His shameless energy has given him a third of Li Xuan's demeanor.
"Uncle Huang..." Yang Liuqing walked in front of Li Yi and shook his head at Yang Wanli.
Li Yi has always felt that problems that can be solved with money are not problems, because making money is not a problem at all.
The same method was used by both Jing and Qi, so there is no reason why it would not work in Wu.
Yang Wanli looked at Li Yi's expression and felt happy, and immediately said: "Do you have any bad ideas again?"
…
Zhang family.
The head of the Zhang family had just been fined a large sum of money by the court because his youngest son rode a horse in the street.
Money is small, but face is big. The head of the Zhang family was sitting in the hall with a gloomy expression. Before finishing a cup of tea, someone hurried in from outside.
"Brother, something bad is going to happen!"
The head of the Zhang family looked at the middle-aged man who ran in from outside with a hurried expression, and frowned: "Why are you so flustered?"
The middle-aged man said in a panic: "Brother, the imperial court just sent people over and took away all the account books of the Ministry of Revenue!"
The head of the Zhang family glanced at him and said calmly: "Take it away with you. The accounts of the Household Department are checked several times a year. Can they find anything this time?"
The Zhang family's ability to stand tall in the Wu Kingdom relies not only on the family heritage accumulated over decades. In addition to the ministers, a small number of the officials in the Ministry of Households are all disciples of the Zhang family. All kinds of money and grain inputs to the national treasury are provided by the Zhang family.
Controlled.
Seeing the indifferent look on his face, the middle-aged man felt a little relieved, but he still said hesitantly: "I don't know why, but I always feel that this time, there is something different."
"What difference could it make?"
The middle-aged man thought for a while and asked: "What if they really find out what we have done in the account books over the years?"
"Okay, don't scare yourself." The head of the Zhang family waved his hand and said: "The people I hire to do the accounts every year are all accountants who are good at arithmetic. Their skills are extremely clever. There are so many account books in the household department. They check
We won’t be able to find out until next year.”
…
Only five days after Zhang Chen, the youngest son of the Zhang family, rode a horse in the street, the Zhang family was raided by the court, and nearly a hundred members of the family, including the head of the Zhang family, were imprisoned.
It is said that the Zhang family has been in charge of the household department for many years and embezzled millions of taels of silver from the state treasury. The property confiscated from the Zhang family is of unknown value.
A generation of wealthy families collapsed overnight.
In the next half month, countless families, big and small, were raided within the imperial city.
These families often do evil things on a daily basis, and are no better than the children of the Zhang family who ride horses in the street. However, no one has ever punished them, and the people have suffered greatly.
For a time, everyone in the imperial city clapped their hands and cheered.
The major families, who have been peaceful for the time being, are also in panic.
For the first time, they discovered that the queen who had just ascended the throne was not as weak and weak as ordinary women. She acted vigorously and without mercy.
The families that were inspected were all official residences that had been found guilty of corruption. Those who had not been found out did not dare to completely rest assured.
Even a family like the Zhang family was destroyed at the drop of a hat. General Wei Liangwei personally led the people to investigate. Whether the Zhang family really deserved what they deserved, or whether Her Majesty the Queen, who had ascended the throne, was ready to deal with all the birds and her good bows.
No matter how big families like them do it, it casts a dark cloud over the entire imperial capital.
…
Li Yi had actually discovered a long time ago that although Yang Liuqing has high martial arts skills, high status, and looks very strong on the outside, she still has the weakness of a woman in her heart.
She holds military power and can suppress the disobedient wealthy families in the imperial capital with force without any reason. What else needs to be checked?
Of course, the former is an unpopular approach, and Li Yi does not advocate it.
If it weren't for the purpose of spending time with Ruyi this time, bringing Mingzhu would have been a good choice.
Today's Yangliuqing, except that it has one more queen's crown than the Pearl of the past, is actually in a similar situation.
The path Mingzhu has walked is the path she is going to take now.
Of course, she was much luckier than Mingzhu, and she didn't have to make any detours. Everything was done step by step. The current Jingguo would be the future Wuguo.
When Yang Wanli walked in from outside, his face looked a little ugly.
He looked at Li Yi and asked, "Do you know the emperor of Qi?"
Li Yi nodded and said, "He is a good friend."
"That friend of yours has already destroyed half of the small country in the west." Yang Wanli said with a dark face, "What exactly does he want to do?"
"The common master of the world."
Li Yi said casually and continued to help Yang Liuqing write the Queen's Strategy.
"What?" Yang Wanli's face showed a look of shock: "This person actually has such great ambitions?"
Li Yi raised his head and said: "Otherwise, he destroyed Zhao and the Western countries so quickly because he was full?"
Yang Wanli looked at Li Yi and asked, "What about Wu Kingdom?"
"Wu Guo..." Li Yi put down his pen and said, "Maybe after we destroy the countries to the west and have some time, it will be Wu Guo's turn."
Yang Wanli showed a worried look on his face and murmured: "If he really destroys those countries, how powerful will the Qi State become? Even if there is a punishment, we will not be Qi State's opponent."
Li Yi said nothing.
Yang Wanli looked at him for a long time, then suddenly smiled and said, "Boy, you won't just sit back and do nothing, right?"
Li Yi looked at him and said in surprise: "Isn't this something that your Wu Kingdom should worry about?"
Yang Wanli looked at him and sneered: "Don't think that I don't know what your plans are. It's now this time, so just admit it!"
Li Yi was stunned and asked: "What do I admit?"
"There are no young men left in our Yang family. You asked Qing'er to be the queen just so that one day..."
"Don't slander anyone!" Li Yi stood up suddenly and pointed at him.
Yang Wanli looked at him and said, "I haven't finished speaking yet!"
"No?" Li Yi was stunned, and then said: "Then you go ahead."
