At night, Kong Yuan found Yao Kaishan, bowed and begged: "We have been friends for so many years, and things have become like this, and I have not reported it. Please give me the antidote! My son is really dying."
Yao Kaishan sighed and said: "I am a civil servant, and the other party is a ruthless person. If he is ruthless, he will even kill me. It is only right that you did not report the crime, otherwise they will definitely kill your whole family."
"But what about my son?"
Yao Kaishan took out a small box from the drawer, handed it to Kong Yuan and said: "The medicine inside can suppress your son's toxicity for a month. As long as you keep quiet, you can give your son the antidote in one month."
Kong Yuan took the box and said again: "How can I believe your words?"
"This is not up to you. If you don't believe it, then your son will definitely die."
Yao Kaishan sighed again and said: "Actually, Pei Qiushan doesn't believe you either, so he can only use this trick. It's a good idea, otherwise he will definitely try his best to kill your whole family and silence them."
"The maid's body is still in the well, what do you do with it?"
"It's no longer here!"
Yao Kaishan said calmly: "Don't forget that I am a county captain. It is a trivial matter to deal with a corpse. I advise you to buy corn quickly! The court will soon discover this loophole."
"If my son dies, what's the point of having this honorable officer?"
Kong Yuan angrily dropped a word, turned around and strode away.
Yao Kaishan walked to the door and watched Kong Yuan's walking back. He was really worried. If Kong Yuan's son died, Kong Yuan would definitely report him. Pei Qiushan's words made sense! Kill Kong Yuan's family to silence him.
That's the safest way.
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This time the interior defenders learned the lessons from last year and were no longer eager to take action. Last year, they took action too early and too hastily, missing the big fish of Yao Kaishan.
This time Zhonghuan decided to close the net at the end.
The emperor Chen Qing had a lot of things going on in the past two days. In the morning, Chen Qing received two messages. One was from Gaoding. He once again defeated the 30,000 coalition forces of the Xiliao and Naiman tribes in Jinshan, and 30,000 enemies.
The entire army was wiped out, and the Man tribe nobles collectively surrendered to Yong's army.
Another piece of news was a specific implementation plan for the Tweeting Order sent by Niu Gao.
Chen Qing immediately convened an emergency military-state meeting, and all seven prime ministers were in place. Yang Zaixing also served as privy envoy and prime minister, and there was a military-state meeting for the first time.
"I have just received two important news about the grassland. The first news is that General Gaoding led the army to defeat the 30,000 coalition forces of Xiliao and Naiman tribes north of Jinshan. The 30,000 coalition forces were completely destroyed. Xiliao has been completely destroyed.
After withdrawing from the grassland, the nobles of the Naiman tribe surrendered collectively to General Gaoding. I would like to discuss with you how to deal with the Naiman tribe?"
Zhou Kuan smiled and said: "Your Majesty, can you also tell us about the second news? Maybe the two will be related."
“Really relevant!”
Chen Qing smiled and said: "The second news is the implementation details of the push order sent by General Niu, which is the push order we discussed and passed last time. The push order we discussed was relatively rough, just a framework.
, General Niu made it into detailed rules. I originally discussed it with you tomorrow. Since Zhou Xiangguo asked, I will briefly talk to you. The most important ones are the three systems, the canonization system, the liaison system and mediation.
The system, the canonization system means that every tribe is canonized by us, which means we give them protection. We have discussed it before, so I won’t go into details here.
The liaison system is that each small tribe sets up a trading company in Jincheng, which was the former Ketun City, and is now renamed Jincheng. On the one hand, it is for trade, and on the other hand, it is a liaison, which is equivalent to our Jinzou
The hospital system has strengthened the relationship between us and various small tribes. If there is any danger, we can be reported to us in time.
Then there is the mediation system. If there are conflicts between tribes, we will intervene. This is mainly to prevent one tribe from annexing other tribes and becoming more powerful. It also provides us with sufficient excuses to send troops. The implementation of these three systems can basically guarantee
The long-term stability and peace of the grassland can also nip the unstable grassland heroes in the bud."
Jiang Yanxian smiled and said: "The three systems are indeed very clever. I suggest that they be implemented in the Naiman tribe first and used as a test. If it goes well, then they can be implemented in other ministries."
Chen Qing said happily: "I agree with Jiang Xiangguo's suggestion. Do you have anything to add?"
Zhou Kuan raised his hand and said: "Wei Chen, add something more!"
"Please tell me, Prime Minister Zhou!"
"Wei Chen suggested implementing an elders' discussion system in the main tribe of the Naiman tribe and distributing the power of the khan to various nobles. I believe they will welcome it. Then the elders will elect a highly respected person as the khan, which is just a symbolic representation of the Naiman tribe.
This will make the tribal system of the Naiman tribe more loose, and the ministers of other tribes think that it can be implemented in the same way."
"This is a plan to pull out all the firepower!"
Chen Qing glanced at Yang Zaixing, who was hesitant to speak, and said with a smile: "What does the Privy Council want to say?"
Yang Zaixing bowed and said: "Wei Chen wants to say that this big plan means blood and fire!"
Chen Qing nodded, "This is actually a power change. The new nobles want to gain power, but the old rulers do not want to lose power. Then it is up to us to send troops and eliminate the old rulers, because we are the ones who rule."
Framers.”
Chen Qing then said: "I would like to ask the Internal Affairs Hall to improve the grace system for grassland tribes and send it to the grassland in three days!"
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After the military and political discussions were over, the prime ministers left. Yang Zaixing followed Chen Qing to the imperial study. Chen Qing waved his hand and smiled and said: "Sit down!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Yang Zaixing sat down, and Chen Qing took an application from the drawer and said with a smile: "Yang Aiqing is putting me in a difficult position!"
What Chen Qing took was an application for Yang Zaixing to change his title. Yang Zaixing was granted the title of Duke Wei, which could be passed down to three generations. However, Yang Zaixing applied for a non-passable title, which meant that it would not be passed on to future generations until he was born. The Yong Dynasty also inherited the title of the Song Dynasty.
Generally speaking, the title is not passed down from generation to generation, but the title of a person with meritorious service can be passed down to three generations. Yang Zaixing belongs to the person with meritorious service.
But Yang Zaixing had no choice. The eldest son's stupidity and incompetence made him extremely disappointed, but the title must be passed on to the eldest son. Yang Zaixing was really afraid that the eldest son would ruin his reputation. He would rather pass it on to the second son who is sensible and capable, but he couldn't.
With no choice, he had no choice but to choose not to pass the title on to his successor.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, I really don't want that stupid scoundrel to inherit the title. Please forgive me!"
Chen Qing smiled slightly and said, "You have to give your child a chance to repent!"
Yang Zaixing sighed and said sadly: "It's a dog's nature to eat shit and it can't be changed. Not only did that bastard not repent, he was still gnashing his teeth and cursing. He thought it was his brother who was suing him behind his back. Wei Chen could no longer accuse him, so he had to let him go.
, but he can’t even hope to get the status of the eldest son.”
Chen Qing nodded, cursing his brother behind his back and his father knew about it. Yang Zaixing, the eldest son, was indeed stupid. Chen Qing thought for a while and said: "Let's do it! Don't make a decision now. Let's wait for a few years. If it still doesn't work after more than ten years, then
I promise you that your title will be divided into three counts and divided among your three sons."
That's fine. We've taken care of the second son and the eldest son, and we can't give that bastard an advantage in vain.
Chen Qing returned the application form to Yang Zaixing and asked with a smile: "Yang Aiqing's second son is not bad. What is he doing at home?"
"Weichen has some property. He is responsible for taking care of it and is very busy. Yesterday he also advised Weichen that the land at home is too much, far exceeding the upper limit of twenty hectares. He advised Weichen to return the hot spring manor and not let it go.
People criticize it, but to be honest, I am very touched."
Chen Qing nodded. He stipulated that each family in the Yong Dynasty could not own more than twenty hectares of land, but meritorious fields were not among them. Even the land that had been rewarded for meritorious service would also have the seal of meritorious fields on the land deed, but he had previously awarded it to Yang Zaixing.
Hot Spring Villa is not, strictly speaking, a place of meritorious deeds.
Therefore, the imperial court has a rule that those who own meritorious fields exceeding twenty hectares are not allowed to own other fields.
This rule was drawn up by Chen Qing himself, but he forgot about it when he presented it to Yang Zaixing Hot Spring Villa.
"How much land does Yang Aiqing have now?"
"Weichen now has three manors, all of which are meritorious fields, about two hundred hectares, so according to regulations, Weichen can no longer own other land, so Weichen cannot own Hot Spring Villa, and will be impeached by the censor."
"Your son is very shrewd and rational. Although he does not go out to fight and perform meritorious service like the third son, he is a very good defender. With a son like this, Yang Aiqing will not have to worry about anything."
"Your Majesty is right, this is why I am deeply gratified."
Yang Zaixing said goodbye and left. Chen Qing paced back and forth with his hands behind his hands. Every family had a hard time reciting the scriptures. Yang Zaixing was the eldest son and failed to live up to his expectations. But what about himself? He was the wife of his family. The power was too strong. The power of the Lu family was also too great.
A hidden thorn in Chen Qing's heart.
Of course, he did not plan to change the queen. He and his wife Lu Xiu had a close relationship with each other and had a deep relationship, but he did not want to see the Lu family become powerful. He could imagine that once his son took over the throne, the Lu family would definitely gain all the power.
So after Lu Wei was demoted, Chen Qing had been thinking about this matter. He needed to establish a system to limit the power of his relatives.