Happy Little Scholar

Li Yi did have a lot to say to Yang Liuqing.

Not only did she have to conquer the world, she also had to learn how to keep it safe. The latter was more difficult and more important than the former.

She had already taken the position of empress, but this was not the end, but the starting point. Governing a country was not based on magic weapons or heavenly punishment. If she wanted to stay in this position for a long time, she had to learn these.

Li Yi walked into a hall and sat down. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Yang Liuqing standing there. He was stunned and said, "You sit down."

Yang Liuqing shook his head and said, "Master, I will just stand and listen."

What Li Yi was about to say actually meant to be a reprimand, but she was so upright that he couldn't say it.

After all, she was no longer Ruyi's little apprentice, but the emperor of a country. Although he had not been polite to the emperors of Jingguo and Qiguo, she was still his own people after all, and Li Yi's heart softened a little.

He coughed lightly and said, "You..., you sit down first."

Yang Liuqing sat down opposite him, raised her head, and looked at him seriously.

I didn't feel anything just now, but now that she was looking at me 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 Wu State, the infrastructure of the imperial capital must be strengthened. Whose imperial capital has streets full of stinking ditches and potholes? Riding in a carriage around the city will make you die...

Also, is it a place to ride a horse on a crowded street? What if you hit someone? Even if you don't hit anyone, it's wrong to hit flowers and plants...

Also, the parents of Jing County colluded with the big families in the city, reversed black and white, and made muddled judgments. Is this the style that an emperor should have?

The imperial capital is like this, let alone other places. How can she be an emperor?

Li Yi thought of this and looked at her, and saw that she was looking at him sincerely.

Li Yi looked at her, thought for a while, and asked: "Emperors and princesses are different. They have to worry about big and small things. This is your first time to deal with these things. Are you used to it these days?"

Yang Liuqing lowered her head and said: "I was a little uncomfortable at first, but I got used to it slowly later."

"Nothing can be done overnight." Li Yi stood up, patted her shoulder, and comforted her: "Step by step, these things, take it step by step."

Yang Liuqing looked up at him and asked: "Master, what should I do?"

Li Yi is not good at being a teacher, but when his nephew looks at him like this and regards him as the backbone or support, he still feels a little satisfied.

The first impression that the imperial capital gave him was that it was dirty and messy. This not only concerns the face of a country, but also easily breeds more problems.

To get rich, build roads first, and to govern the country, build roads first. 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."

"That's easy to say." An old voice came from outside the palace. An old man named Yang Wanli walked in from outside, looked at him, and said, "The savings of the national treasury have long been consumed by the traitor. The court can't even pay the salaries of the officials. Where is the spare money to do those things? Will you give it?"

Why didn't Li Yi realize before that Yang Wanli was so shameless.

Wuguo is the Wuguo of the Yang family, not the Wuguo of the Li family. Why should he give money?

His shameless spirit has already had three points of Li Xuan's style.

"Uncle..." 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 has been used by Jingguo and Qiguo before, and there is no reason why it won't work in Wuguo.

Yang Wanli looked at Li Yi's expression, and was delighted. He immediately asked, "Do you have any bad ideas again?"

...

Zhang Family.

The head of the Zhang family had just been fined a large sum of silver by the court because his youngest son rode a horse in the street.

Silver is small, but face is big. The head of the Zhang family sat in the hall with a gloomy face. Before he finished his cup of tea, a figure hurriedly ran in from outside.

"Brother, something bad has happened!"

The head of the Zhang family looked at the middle-aged man who ran in from outside in a hurry and frowned, "What's the hurry?"

The middle-aged man said in a panic, "Brother, the court just sent someone to take 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 if you want. The accounts of the Ministry of Revenue have to be checked several times a year. Can they find anything this time?"

The Zhang family can stand in Wu State not only because of the family foundation accumulated over decades. Except for the Shangshu, a small half of the officials of the Ministry of Revenue are all disciples of the Zhang family. All kinds of money and grain income of the national treasury are controlled by the Zhang family.

Seeing the calm look of the head of the family, the middle-aged man felt relieved, but still said hesitantly: "I don't know why, I always feel that this time, something is different."

"What can be different?"

The middle-aged man thought for a while and asked: "If they really find out what we have done in the account books over the years, what should we do?"

"Okay, don't scare yourself." The head of the Zhang family waved his hand and said: "The accountants I hire every year are all accountants who are proficient in mathematics. Their methods are extremely sophisticated. There are so many account books in the Ministry of Revenue, and they won't be able to find out until next year."

……

Just five days after Zhang Chen, the young master of the Zhang family, rode his horse in the street, the Zhang family was raided by the imperial court. Nearly a hundred people, including the head of the Zhang family, were imprisoned.

It is said that the Zhang family has been in charge of the Ministry of Revenue for many years and embezzled millions of taels of silver from the national treasury. The value of the property seized from the Zhang family is unknown.

A generation of powerful families collapsed overnight.

In the following half a month, countless families of all sizes were raided in the imperial city.

These families did a lot of evil things on weekdays, and they were not much better than the children of the Zhang family who rode their horses in the street, but no one had disciplined them, and the people suffered greatly.

For a time, everyone in the imperial city applauded.

The major families that had been at peace for the time being were also panicked.

For the first time, they discovered that the empress who had just ascended the throne was not as weak as ordinary women, but was swift and resolute, without any mercy.

The families that were confiscated were all the residences of officials who were found to have committed corruption. Those who were not found could not rest assured.

Even a family like the Zhang family was destroyed at any time. General Wei Liangwei personally led people to conduct the confiscated family. Whether the Zhang family really deserved the punishment or the Empress who had ascended the throne was ready to attack these big families, it made the whole imperial capital covered with a layer of dark clouds.

…

Li Yi actually discovered a long time ago that although Yang Liuqing was highly skilled in martial arts, had a high status, and looked very strong on the outside, she was still weak in her heart.

She held military power and could suppress those disobedient big families in the imperial capital with force and violence without any reason. What else was there to check?

Of course, the former was an unpopular approach, and Li Yi did not advocate it.

If it was not for the purpose of spending time with Ruyi, bringing Mingzhu would have been a good choice.

Yang Liuqing is now in a similar situation, except that she has one more empress's crown than Mingzhu back then.

The path Mingzhu once took is the path she is going to take now.

Of course, she is much luckier than Mingzhu, and she doesn't have to take any detours. Everything goes according to plan. The current Jing Kingdom is the future Wu Kingdom.

When Yang Wanli walked in from outside, his face was 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."

"Your friend has destroyed half of the small countries in the west." Yang Wanli said with a dark face, "What does he want to do?"

"The common ruler of the world."

Li Yi said casually and continued to help Yang Liuqing write the empress strategy.

"What?" Yang Wanli was shocked: "This man has such great ambitions?"

Li Yi raised his head and said: "Otherwise, he destroyed Zhao and the western countries so quickly, is he bored?"

Yang Wanli looked at Li Yi and asked: "What about Wu?"

"Wu..." Li Yi put down his pen and said: "Maybe after destroying those western countries and having some free time, it will be Wu's turn."

Yang Wanli's face showed worry, and he murmured: "If he really destroyed those countries, how powerful Qi would become. Even with the punishment of heaven, we are not Qi's opponents."

Li Yi did not speak.

Yang Wanli looked at him for a long time, then suddenly smiled and said, "Boy, you won't sit back and do nothing, right?"

Li Yi looked at him and said in surprise, "Shouldn't this be something that you Wu country should worry about?"

Yang Wanli looked at him and sneered, "Don't think I don't know what you are up to. It's time to admit it!"

Li Yi was stunned and asked, "What should I admit?"

"There are no young men in my Yang family. You let Qing'er be the empress just so that one day..."

"Don't spit blood!" Li Yi stood up suddenly and pointed at him.

Yang Wanli looked at him and said, "I haven't finished my words yet!"

"No?" Li Yi was stunned, then said, "Then continue."