Royal Palace.

Emperor Xiang Yanran looked through the memorials reported from various places.

The Great Chu Dynasty was too big, with three or four thousand miles east, west, south, north and north, and famines everywhere, and hungry people everywhere.

County magistrates from all over the country often report, asking the court to allocate money and food to help disaster relief.

In addition, there are new embankments built in the Yellow River, various places renovate ditches to irrigate farmland, and build new schools...

The treasury spends money like flowing water.

It's a headache.

Xiang Yanran rubbed his forehead.

Money and food!

There is a shortage of money and food everywhere.

However, there is only so much money and food in the treasury every year.

He also had to save money and leave a large part of it, form an extremely large cavalry of Great Chu, a cavalry of 200,000 to 300,000 cavalry, and prepare for war - to eliminate the princes and conquer the Huns in the north.

Preparing for war was the top priority he had prepared for more than ten years.

Only by solving more than a dozen arrogant and domineering princes in the Great Chu, and destroying the Huns, the great trouble in the north with hundreds of thousands of cavalry, could the Great Chu Dynasty enjoy a few days of real peace.

The prince Xiang Tiange doesn’t have to be as troubled as his father.

...

Cai and the eunuch were serving each other, watching the emperor reviewing the memorials.

"By the way, what has Xiao Hunhou been tinkering with him recently? How has the prince's academic performance been?"

Xiang Yanran asked casually.

The emperor asked casually, and Cai and the eunuch dared not deal with it at will.

Cai and the eunuch knew the emperor's thoughts, and looked at the prince and Xiaohunhou tightly, and immediately took a book from his sleeve.

"The emperor, Xiao Hunhou is at Wanghou Academy, and he is working on new knowledge with a group of Jinshi and students, studying new arithmetic, triangle, light, and buoyancy. This is the textbook of Wanghou Academy!

The prince worked very hard to learn... but he was enjoying it. These days, he ran to Wanghou Academy before dawn."

The emperor was quite interested and took it over and took a look.

On this thick textbook, there are a bunch of ghost drawing talismans, 1~10,-*=... various calculation formulas.

Without a teacher's explanation of these things, it is difficult to understand what happened.

"What a broken thing?"

The emperor glanced at it a few times and frowned.

I couldn't understand it at all, so I quickly lost interest and threw it aside.

These things are useful, but they are slow to work.

Without decades of deep cultivation or even decades of accumulation, there will be no great results.

"These things that the young Hunhou invented are incredible, and their vision is quite similar to that of ordinary people... He is not like a playboy... Could it be..."

Cai and the eunuch said in confusion.

Ambition?

But he didn't dare to say it clearly.

After all, no evidence was found, which would be suspected of being sowed.

However, he had to say this, otherwise the emperor would feel that he was useless and monitored the princes and nobles.

Xiang Yanran said lightly: "Although Xiao Hunhou is a playboy, he has been passed down for 800 years, has a profound family knowledge, and is still very capable. Compared with the Confucianism of the Confucius family in Shandong, it is probably even better than that of the Confucianism.

However, the scholar rebelled for three years... As long as he had no swords or soldiers in his hands for a day, I would have nothing to worry about."

Li Rong, the father-in-law of Xiaohunhou, was able to mobilize the troops of the world as a Grand Marshal.

But it also requires the tiger talisman given by the emperor to mobilize troops. There are only a few hundred Li's personal guards on weekdays, so it is impossible to rebel.

Moreover, the Li family was loyal to the Xiang family and enjoyed the royal salary of the Great Chu, which had little to do with the Chu family.

If the Li family really has a different intention, they will only rebel for the Li family and will never rebel for the Chu family.

Therefore, although the Li and Chu families are in-laws, they cannot go together.

If Xiao Hunhou wanted to rebel, he would definitely raise more than tens of thousands of soldiers and war horses, and also build swords, leather armor needed for tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

And the thousands of soldiers and horses and huge food consumption cannot be hidden, and they will definitely be noticed before this.

At the foot of the emperor in Jinling City, no powerful family can be so hidden.

In contrast, the more than ten princes and kings who had tens of thousands of troops in the separatist areas and had financial powers in the county and each had more threats.

The princes and kings combined had at least hundreds of thousands of troops, which was more than the Central Army of Dachu.

The problem that is the one that solves these princes and kings is the one that is in charge.

Now the new policy of the Great Chu Dynasty's Gengzi is being implemented. The reform of the imperial examination for selecting court officials has been basically completed, and the results of the selection are still very good.

Just keep going every year.

Those mediocre and unpromising family members who do not seek to improve will rarely be able to pass the Jinshi if they do not study hard.

Not even many Confucian scholars.

The group of Jinshi who passed the exam were all extremely pragmatic and practical talents.

It was also time to start preparing to depose these princes and kings who were separatist.

If you want to abolish the princes, you must first cut off your wealth.

Only with money can you support a large army.

"The "Plan forbidden for Private Crushing of Coins" is that Xiao Hunhou was able to offer this strategy in the palace examination, which shows that he is loyal and sincere and has no ambitions!

Let Xiaohunhou write this plan in the morning court and leave it to the ministers for discussion.

It cut off the wealth path of the princes and kings, and also cut off the road of those ambitious people."

The emperor smiled and said.

This strategy is a good thing.

The princes were all rich because they had minted a lot of copper coins in their fiefdoms, and they could hardly use up all the money.

It is estimated that one-third of the money of the princes came from the minting of copper coins.

Another third is from the profitable transactions such as salt, iron, and wine.

Finally, the grain collection from commercial taxes and the people paid.

If you have more money and raise your soldiers, you will be too big to lose your tail.

This strategy is a method of removing firewood from the cauldron, and can poach 20 to 30% of the finances of the princes and kings at once. If the princes and kings dare not rebel, they can only reduce their troops and policies.

"yes!"

Cai He and the eunuch were shocked.

A fierce move!

It's finally coming!

Let Xiaohunhou publicly offer this policy in the morning court.

This will greatly impact the princes and kings.

By the way, it can also attack the financial resources of the families, princes, nobles, and powerful families in the world, greatly increasing the financial resources of the Chu central court.

It is not only the princes who cast copper coins privately.

Those royal grandsons, princesses, princesses, clans, and powerful families. Anyone who has a fiefdom or a mountain ore in the fiefdom will mine and cast copper coins.

The copper coins minted by the imperial court were less than half of the world's copper coins. This income alone would at least double the finances.

Once this strategy is made, it will cause the angrily scolding of the princes and powerful people in the world.

The emperor must not take this big blame for being scolded.

I can only let the ministers recite it.

Since it is Xiao Hunhou’s palace examination strategy, Xiao Hunhou’s carries it.

All the infamous people in the world are aimed at Xiaohunhou.

In this way, Xiaohunhou is even less likely to have the possibility of rebellion. The world's powerful people are so angry that they are so angry that they can support Xiaohunhou?

Thinking of this, Cai and the eunuch couldn't help but feel a little sympathy for Xiaohunhou.

After all, the emperor is so skillful. He has managed the world in an orderly manner through the ups and downs.
Chapter completed!