Taiping Inn

Most divine beasts are born with great supernatural powers, just like humans are born with the highest spiritual power. Both have a common shortcoming, which is that they cannot completely control themselves. For example, humans can control their limbs, but cannot freely control their internal organs, blood, skin, and bones. It is somewhat similar to the fact that the imperial power has not been extended to the countryside since ancient times. The court can only control the prefectures and counties, and it is unable to control it further. So there is the path of human immortals to explore the secrets of the human body. After reaching the great perfection of human immortals, all the 120,000 acupoints in the body are condensed and spread to every corner of the body, just like the imperial power has been extended to the countryside, and there is nothing that is not under control. Especially those body gods in the tiny acupoints are not as good as the "main gods" in the 1,200 large acupoints, but they are more meticulous, making the acupoints a small world in themselves. If you punch and exert force, the depth of control over the force has reached the level that there will be no dissipation or waste, and there will be no dissipation of blood and qi between breaths, so it is also called flawless and comparable to celestial immortals.

Although earthly immortals do not dig out their own secrets, and are not as subtle as human immortals who condense each acupoint, they are more grand. The ultimate is heavenly immortals, who have undergone another transformation, so they can also control themselves and release freely. When they release, they are just like ordinary people, and when they release, they are like gods appearing in the world.

In fact, it is not just Ding Ce. Other great masters in the heavenly realm have also noticed some abnormalities, but because Ding Ce was the first to bear the brunt, he was hit the hardest.

At this time, Ding Ce could not move, and naturally could not move his sight. The visitor stood side by side with him, but faced different directions. Ding Ce faced Li Yuanying, Chen Mian, Liu Yi and others, while the visitor had his back to Li Yuanying and others, and faced Lu Yanbing and others instead.

Under such circumstances, it was Lu Yanbing who first saw the face of the visitor, and was surprised and happy, "Brother!"

Everyone knows that the fifth master of Qingwei Sect has four senior brothers, the eldest brother Situ Xuance, the second brother Zhang Haishi, the third brother Li Yuanying, and the fourth brother Li Xuandu. However, the eldest master Situ Xuance has been dead for many years, and the third master Li Yuanying is right in front of him. Considering the recent rumors in the Imperial Capital, the identity of the visitor is self-evident.

Mr. Qingping, Li Xuandu.

In an instant, a pin drop can be heard.

Whether it is Huang Shiyuan, the chief priest of the Sheji Academy, Qi Foyan of Jinling Academy, or Liu Yi, the chief pen of the Silijian, or even a group of pseudo-immortals, their faces became solemn.

After all, Mr. Qingping's reputation is too great.

It is said that a person's reputation is like a tree's shadow. "Famous all over the world" is easy to say, but it is so difficult to do it. Anyone who can reach this step almost does not live up to the reputation. In other words, Li Xuandu has come to this point today, and the name of "Mr. Qingping" has resounded throughout the temple and the world. He has experienced countless tests, from the chaotic battle of "Xuandu Zifu" to the sword fight of Yuxu, to the change of the Great Immortal Mansion, and the battle with Tan Taiyun on Taibai Mountain. Among the immortals in the world, only Li Daoxu and Qin Qing have never fought with Li Daoxu. Looking at Li Xuandu's record, except for the big loss at the hands of the earth master Xu Wugui, the rest of the battles ended with victory.

Song Zheng and Tan Taiyun were unable to do anything to Li Xuandu, so what can they do?

How can they not be afraid?

Li Xuandu patted Ding Ce's shoulder lightly and turned around.

Shangguan Wan and Lan Xuanshuang, who were originally facing a great enemy, immediately relaxed, and even smiled on their faces, and saluted together: "Hello, sir."

Although Ning Yi's expression did not change, he still nodded to Li Xuandu.

Li Xuandu was not arrogant. He clasped his fists to the three people and said "thank you for your hard work".

Chen Mian saw this scene, and his expression changed slightly. He said to Nalanxu beside him: "This Mr. Qingping... is very different from Lu Wushen."

Nalanxu nodded gently.

At this time, Liu Yi smiled and said: "I didn't expect that Mr. Qingping would come to visit."

"You must be Eunuch Liu." Li Xuandu glanced at him. Although he had never seen Liu Yi, he already knew Liu Yi's general appearance from the information in the inn. In addition, Liu Yi was wearing a bright red official uniform, so he immediately judged Liu Yi's identity.

Liu Yi bowed slightly, "Liu Yi greets Mr. Qingping."

Li Xuandu smiled faintly and said, "Eunuch Liu, I have heard of your name for a long time, but I have never met you. Today we finally meet. I heard that the former leader of Zaoge Sect, Old Man Zang, was good friends with Eunuch Liu. Is this true?"

Liu Yi kept smiling and said, "We do have some friendship, but we are not close friends. We are just ordinary friends."

"Ordinary friends?" Li Xuandu said, "Then what about the treasury silver of Jiangnan Maritime Customs and Weaving Bureau? I heard that a lot of official silver was found in Beimang Mountain? Madam Lan, you are the new leader of Zaoge Sect, is this true?"

The so-called official silver is used for storage, that is, the tax revenue of each state must be engraved with the words or patterns of the official silver logo to facilitate the management of the national treasury. The public is not allowed to use the official silver privately. This is a capital crime, also known as "treasury silver".

The main purpose of official silver is to pay for military pay, official salaries, palace expenses, dam projects, disaster relief and other expenses. After the court allocated official silver to local prefectures, local prefectures had to melt the official silver again to refine new silver ingots or silver blocks. This is the main source of broken silver. This process is also known as "fire consumption", which refers to the loss of broken silver when it is melted and recast into silver ingots, or the loss of silver ingots when they are melted into broken silver. Fire consumption is also the main means of corruption in local government offices at all levels. The "fire consumption to the public" proposed in the New Deal of the Four Ministers at that time was to cut off the financial resources of most officials, which made the implementation of the new deal doubly difficult.

As for the people, most of the silver used is broken silver, and most of the time it is mainly copper coins.

When he captured Beimang Mountain, there was indeed some gold and silver, but there was no official silver. The reason why Li Xuandu knew about official silver was also traced back to his first trip to Dongshan where he and Yan Feiqing broke through the old man Tibetan's corpse. Lan Xuanshuang didn't know the inside story, but she was not a naughty girl like Zhang Baizhou. She immediately understood and replied, "This is indeed the case."

"This is an article." Li Xuandu said, "I remember that the Jiangnan Maritime Department and the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau were both under the charge of Eunuch Liu. I reported that the official silver was stolen several times. How could these official silver appear in the Zaoge? Where is the sect?”

The smile on Liu Yi's face gradually froze, "This... it must be that the servants below deceived the superiors and concealed the subordinates and colluded with outsiders to greed for Kuyin."

Li Xuandu asked, "Eunuch Liu, such a big thing has lasted for so many years, haven't you noticed it at all?"

Although this place is not a court, there are people from the Confucian sect present, and there are so many people related to the court. Cold sweat oozed out from Liu Yi's forehead. He no longer bowed slightly, but leaned forward and replied: "Our family... I have also checked the accounts of the Weaver Bureau and the Maritime Bureau, but failed to discover hidden dangers in time and was guilty of missed supervision."

"The teacher and his students value the most rules and regulations, and they must pay attention to rules in everything." Li Xuan looked at Liu Yi, "Is it just a mistake?"

Liu Yi felt as if he was facing the late emperor at this time, and replied respectfully: "Mr. Qingping is naturally not just a simple matter of missed supervision, but also a crime of dereliction of duty."

Li Xuan smiled, "It's great to know that you can correct your mistakes. Nowadays, the state affairs are like this. Eunuch Liu can't help but careless. After all, I'm not a person from the court, and I have no official position. I'm a commoner, even if I'm a father-in-law, I'm a man. I can’t argue with any crime. My father-in-law should apologize to the Empress Dowager and His Majesty the Emperor.”

"Yes, yes." Liu Yi was beaten by Li Xuan, and he could no longer say the words he had prepared, so he could only retreat with timidity.

On the boat in the distance, someone had already dived underwater and salvaged "Qianliwang" and wiped it clean and returned to Emperor Tianbao.

Emperor Tianbao saw the famous Mr. Qingping for the first time through "Thousand Miles Looking", and his face was dark.

Mr. Bai Lu sighed: "When you live in a high temple, you worry about your people; when you live in a far away world, you worry about your king."

Emperor Tianbao asked in a low voice: "Do you know what Li Xuandu said... do you know?"

Mr. Bai Lu replied, "I heard something."

Emperor Tianbao turned his head to look at him, his eyes completely devoid of his usual respect, and his loneliness and deep coldness were revealed. "I don't know any of these things at all. Why didn't you tell me?"

Mr. Bai Lu sighed, "This is a stubborn disease. Not to mention that we do not have any real evidence, even if we tell Your Majesty, your Majesty will not be able to solve it immediately. How can Your Majesty take care of the things in the world? It's just a matter of increasing your worries. Therefore, Your Majesty’s top priority is to take charge of the rule, and then appoint wise ministers, the monarch and ministers to work together to completely eradicate these stubborn diseases.”

Emperor Tianbao refused to comment and said, "These borers have such difficulties in state affairs. Even outsiders Li Xuandu understands, but why don't they understand?"

"It's not that they don't understand." Mr. Bai Lu said lightly, "They understand better than anyone else, but they understand another thing."

"What's the matter?" Emperor Tianbao asked immediately.

Mr. Bai Lu waved his sleeves to set up a ban and said softly: "Since Your Majesty asked this, I said bluntly that the key lies in the land. In ancient times, dynasties, ruled by the rulers and ministers, and ancient scholars had three identities, namely, land. Master, the person who participates in political affairs and military affairs, the emperor is not the master, but the leader of the alliance. This is also because ancient families could manage one party without having to concentrate all on the imperial capital. Therefore, at this time, the families often died of a century-legged insect. . This is called "those who have constant property have perseverance."

"But in this dynasty and the previous dynasty, the imperial examinations were improved, and there was no longer any saying that the aristocratic family was. The big landlords became countless small and medium-sized landlords, and the aristocratic family became gentry. The result was that the imperial power was dominant, and these landlords did not They were no longer participants in political affairs and military affairs, but were no longer ally of the emperor, but became the emperor's subordinates. They changed from masters of the court to guests of the court, and seemed to be in a high position in the court, but the prime minister was gone. The rise and fall are just a matter of the emperor's thoughts, and they can be kicked out at any time, so they will instinctively dig out the corners of the court, evade taxes, and hide their population. In short, they will try every means to oppose the court and consume the interests of the court to satisfy their own interests. This is It is the one who has no constant property and has no perseverance.”

"I said before that they originally had three identities, but now they have no identities in politics and military affairs, but they also have another identity. The owner of the land, and the taxes in the world all come from the land, so they are still in the bag of money. This kind of misalignment is the misalignment. This made it extremely difficult for the court to collect taxes, and raising troops was even more expensive. Only hundreds of thousands of people would have to exhaust the court's treasury. This also led to the court's repeated defeats and repeated battles when facing the gold tent."

"But this move also has its benefits, that is, internal stability, no more powerful ministers seize the throne, and no more separatist vassal states. Why can the local governors, led by Liaodong, quickly quell the rebellion and suppress refugees? Liaodong is even a country The country of the Middle? It is precisely because of the military farming system in Liaodong, the owner of the land, the participants of political affairs, and the participants of military affairs, and everyone has constant property, so everyone has perseverance. The system of thousands of households with the gold account is actually Different paths lead to the same destination.”

"Great rebellion!" Emperor Tianbao was shocked and angry, and never expected Mr. Bai Lu to say such a thing.

Mr. Bai Lu said calmly: "Your Majesty doesn't like listening, but I still have to say it. If you want to solve the current dilemma, either imitate the ancient system and delegate power to make the family tyrants. Or you can completely withdraw power and take advantage of the chaos today. At that time, we used the hands of refugees to eliminate local gentry and truly achieved imperial power in the countryside. The officials of the government replaced the landlords and gentry to complete the last step, so that the dilemma between military affairs and finance can be solved. In my opinion, Qin Qing Although the military farming system is now implemented, it has a great intention to go further."

After a long time, Emperor Tianbao said slowly, "Sir, is digging the foundations of Confucianism and Taoism."

Mr. Bai Lu shook his head and said, "The Taoist Sect has long given up on land, and the four sea routes and all kinds of commerce. What is the Taoist Sect's teacher? Only the Confucian Sect still holds on to the land. The Confucian Sect has reached a time when it must change. Maybe I can The last big thing he did was precisely the first big thing His Majesty did. "