Suspicion is like a poisonous seed. Once planted in the heart, it will have tenacious vitality like a weed. A little bit of nutrition will grow wildly. Even small flaws will be infinitely amplified by it to a dangerous level.

Trust is difficult to establish, but it is extremely easy to destroy trust. Perhaps a trivial matter can easily destroy the mutual trust between the two parties that have been established through endless hardships.

When Tian Fen walked out of the palace, he looked up at the night sky and sighed silently. His Majesty, his Majesty, acted decisively, and dared not do anything to ordinary people, but he was too suspicious, and he was really an exception to his unreservedness. This is probably due to the reason why he has been with him for decades. He will prosper and lose with him, right?

Cao Yun was no longer able to do it. His identity and ability were destined to be impossible for him to completely gain the trust of the emperor. This trip to the Ming Dynasty finally pulled down the last fig leaf for maintaining the relationship between them. The emperor's distrust of Cao Yun has become an undisclosed secret.

Under such circumstances, Cao Yun was able to make such sacrifices, which made Tian Fen extremely admire him. This is a truly selfless person. He is a loyal minister who will sacrifice his life for Da Qi, even if he sacrifices his life. Unfortunately, he is too pure.

Pure loyal people generally do not have a good ending because they consider more of the gains and losses of the country, so when doing things, they do not care too much about the king's feelings. Just like Cheng Wuben of Chu, they worked hard for the country and the people all their lives, but their final endings are all sighs.

Cao Yun is unlikely to lose his life because killing him is a burden that Qi State cannot bear. Even if the emperor really wants to do this, after the Luoyang incident is over, going to Yulong Mountain will be his best ending.

Cao Yun was an extremely smart person. He had long expected his final result. That was why he took the initiative to propose it, which could be regarded as giving the emperor a way out, so that the emperor could protect his dignity as much as possible without being criticized by the world. He treated his meritorious officials harshly.

This is the last thing he did for Daqi!

After leaving the palace, boarding the carriage, and moving towards his own mansion, in a short time, he had already thrown away his previous thoughts about Cao Yun's encounter. He was used to doing things according to the emperor's mind. The emperor's will is unchangeable. Since the emperor has made up his mind on this matter, there is no need to spend more time on this matter, because the emperor will never change his mind. Forcing advice will only make the emperor feel even more disgusted and thus have a counterproductive effect.

No one knows the emperor's character better than him.

Close his eyes, he had already begun to consider other issues. As the prime minister of such a large country, his schedule is always full. Even in a short time when he took a bus home, he had to use it to think about some things and find some solutions to the problem.

The emperor entrusted his political affairs to him. If he did it well, of course it was the emperor's contribution. If he couldn't do it well, it was his incompetence. In recent years, the annual harvest of the Great Qi Dynasty has been getting worse and worse. The huge army, the swollen bureaucratic system, and the increasingly corruption. Of course, more importantly, the greed of those wealthy families is dragging this huge empire down step by step.

Many people think that the emperor's determination to cut off wealthy families is crazy, because over the past hundred years, wealthy families have almost become a symbiosis with this country. Cutting them off is tantamount to suicide, but Tian Fen understands that for Daqi, it has reached the point of not being crazy about fighting and not living.

Since His Majesty the Emperor made up his mind, he has been preparing for this day.

Completely extinguishing wealthy families will of course cause Qi to lose a lot of blood and will put the empire into an extremely weak situation in a short period of time, but as long as you get through this difficult period, the empire will surely usher in a new life.

The memorials and notes that Cao Yun brought back from Ming Dynasty shocked him. Although there was a lot of information about Ming Dynasty in the past, he finally felt like watching flowers in the fog. Cao Yun's trip was like pushing away the fog in front of him, allowing him to see a fierce opponent with fangs exposed.

Now he needs a lot of money and food to pay for the desolation after the war, and he needs a lot of officials to fill the large amount of power vacuum after the war. In the latter aspect, he has quietly reserved a lot of young officials in recent years, stuffed them into various yamen to hone them, and could use them at any time, but the money was powerless. I just hope that those wealthy families had a strong foundation and that the court could get a lot of subsidies from them after this battle to make up for the huge deficit.

Tian Fen has always not quite understood how the Ming Dynasty court achieved such a situation. For Tian Fen, the treasury was empty all year round, and the court had to borrow heavily to spend Japan. In his opinion, this would lead to disorder in the national affairs and confusion in government orders, but it was a bit unfamiliar. However, the Ming people were becoming more and more prosperous under such a state.

They don’t seem to worry about the collapse of the fiscal system every year.

Qin Feng's means of uniting people's hearts were shockingly low. The farmers' taxes were abolished, and corvee labor was abolished. Wherever people were needed, the government would pay for the bill. As the chief minister, Tian Fen knew very well how much manpower and material resources would be needed in a year. This was a burden that finance could not bear. How did the Ming Dynasty do it?

He sighed, took out the copy of Cao Yun's notes from the secret compartment of the carriage, turned to one of the pages, and read the chapter that was marked by himself again.

"The farmers are the foundation of the country, and the Ming people imposed extremely low taxes on farmers, and the commercial taxes were extremely high. The tax system used to make all commercial behaviors extremely hiding. Qin Feng once said that farmers are the fundamental confidant and merchants are the skeleton of their brothers and feet. None of them is indispensable. To strengthen the farmer, the Ming court used various means to expand wealth and create various opportunities for businessmen to make money. In our Daqi, many of the affairs handled by the court were handed over to merchants to complete. It seemed that the court had lost a lot, but it greatly stabilized the merchant class, so that although merchants bear heavy taxes, they still had a lot of profits to be expected."

After closing the notes, Tian Fen has a lot of enlightenment. If he wants to take it, he must first go with it. The Ming people's method can also be borrowed in the future. In Da Qi, there are many things that the imperial court sells. In the past, the profits seemed to be good, but compared with the Ming people's income in these aspects, it was simply from heaven to earth. You should know that the population of Qi State is much more than that of Ming State. In theory, the profits of Da Qi should be higher than those of Ming people than those of Ming State.

Not to mention, in the Ming Dynasty, these things were traded by merchants. Merchants were seeking profits. If there was no profit, how could they take over? After the merchants made a profit, they still had such profits. Why couldn't Daqi do it?

Where did the money go? Do you still need to ask?

He closed the notes with a snap.

The carriage also stopped at this time, the car door was gently pulled open from the outside, and a familiar face appeared in front of Tian Fen: "Father-in-law, are you back?"

Tian Fen bowed and got out of the carriage, stood on the shaft and dusted his robe. Then, with Cao Hui's support, they got off the carriage, and the two walked side by side towards the mansion.

"Are your Majesty satisfied with Ning Zefeng?" Cao Hui asked with a slight pride. He brought Ning Zefeng to him, which was his proud work.

"This person is indeed a character." Tian Fen nodded: "Your Majesty is very satisfied, but this person is a wolf, a fierce wolf, and must have strong control over it, otherwise he may be controlled in the future."

"Don't worry, father-in-law, my son-in-law has made complete arrangements." Cao Hui nodded and said, "Not to mention that he is a wolf, even a tiger, I have a way to control him."

"That's good." Tian Fen said." You just returned to Beijing, and everything goes well with His Highness the Prince?"

"Those people kidnapped the Prince's return and were very careful. They did not go directly to Luoyang, but hid first. It seemed that they were still suspicious and wanted to test the court again. So the son-in-law also performed a big show with Xian Bisong and others there, completely reassuring those people that we really wanted to catch Cao Yun and came back. Finally, I even issued an order, regardless of life or death. When the ghost was executing this order, he was indeed spared no effort and almost succeeded several times. Only then did he finally get rid of the suspicion of those people. Now he should have entered Luoyang, right?" Cao Hui said with a smile.

Tian Fen glanced at him: "This time, there are many people you offended. Even though Xian Bisong has been cooperating with you, I am afraid that he doesn't have any good feelings for you."

"What do I want their favor?" Cao Hui smiled and said, "As long as they can complete the tasks assigned by His Majesty and complete the great cause of unification of the Great Qi, even if they hate me to the bone, I don't care."

"Your Highness the Prince slapped you in public. Do you hold a hatred for him?" Tian Fen asked suddenly.

Cao Hui was silent for a moment and shook his head and said, "I was indeed very resentful at the time, but after the incident, I calmed down and had no hatred. His Highness, the prince, is finally a person worthy of my respect. Speaking of which, he and I are both the same type of people."

"You are not the same type of people, and you have no limit on doing things!" Tian Fen said coldly. "When Cao Chong took up your position, all the officials and civil and military officials in court were respectful to him, and after you took this position, everyone was only afraid of you and no respect. If you insist on adding a little more emotion, it was hatred."

"I'll go even if there are thousands of people!" Cao Hui smiled and said, "I don't have the same people as Master, so I can only go another way."

"This road may also make you have no good results." Tian Fen sighed: "I'm here, you may be fine. If I'm away, what will you do?"

"After the Great Qi unified the world, my son-in-law can also go to Yulong Mountain." Cao Hui said with a smile.
Chapter completed!