Steel Dynasty - Chapter 676

[Chapter 675 Xiao Ming’s counterattack]

“Chang’an!”

All the generals in the camp had complicated expressions.

Chang’an is the capital of the Great Chongqing Kingdom. As long as Chang’an is not captured, the Great Chongqing Kingdom will always be in the shadow of King Zhao.

“King Zhao has been in Chang’an for more than two years. Now it’s time to let him get out of Chang’an.” King Huainan said.

Niu Ben nodded and said: “This time Zhao’s army was defeated and it was no longer able to stop us from marching to Chang’an. After a few days’ rest, we will drive King Zhao out of Chang’an and regain Kyoto.”

“Yes, general.” Everyone. The generals said in unison.

King Huainan showed a smile. King Zhao also lost this time, which made him more convinced of his choice this time. King Yan and King Liang are dead, and King Zhao is just a trapped beast in a cage, and he will eventually become a great leader. The most glorious vassal king in Chongqing.

Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but think of his daughter, and he didn’t know if she would have to enter the palace now.

…

Qingzhou.

The debate against the abolition of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, and the unification of the people of Chongqing into civilians continues, and seems to be getting more intense.

Due to the successive conquests of Wei, Yan, and Liang, most of the land in the north is now under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

As a result, scholars from these three places flocked to Qingzhou. After all, Qingzhou is now the Kyoto of the Great Chongqing Kingdom and the political and commercial center. The prosperity and prosperity of Chang’an will be destined to be transferred here.

“Yu Ming is still kneeling in the Council Hall?”

In the study room of Xingyuan, Xiao Ming was eating melon seeds and reading the memorial. Since he became the throne, he felt that he was not as busy as before.

Although the scope of the imperial court’s jurisdiction was getting larger and larger, government offices in various states and counties were also established amidst the busy work of Fiji and Pang Yukun.

Now everyone in the imperial court is performing their respective duties, and it seems to be prosperous. The only shortcoming is probably the conflict between the old system and old ideas and the new system and new ideas.

In contemporary times, the reforms of feudal dynasties often end in failure for no other reason than that the reforms offend the interests of the powerful.

Even if a powerful person appeared in his lifetime and pushed forward reforms vigorously, he would immediately return to his previous appearance after his death.

Even when the Qing Dynasty faced the invasion of Western powers, it failed to complete its reforms under humiliation and was eventually overthrown.

Therefore, in Xiao Ming’s opinion, the only reason why reforms are blocked is that it offends the interests of those in power.

This time he abolished the gentry, peasants, industry and commerce, and the people whose interests were most harmed were the literati class. The literati class included officials, wealthy families, and scholars among the common people. Because of this, he encountered fierce opposition this time.

It’s very simple. Now the court is filled with representatives of the scholar-bureaucrat class, and the agricultural, industrial and commercial classes have no say in the court. This has also led to the popular applause of this decree, but not the crowd in the court.

“Your Majesty, Yu Shangshu is still kneeling. It has been seven days, and he has not gone back to deal with government affairs every day. Alas!” Qian Dafu sighed.

Xiao Ming looked indifferent, “Then let me continue to kneel.”

Qian Dafu smiled bitterly, “Your Majesty, it’s nothing for Shangshu Yu to kneel, but there is no one to deal with the government affairs in this official office, and there is a backlog.”

Hearing this ,

, Xiao Ming frowned, Yu Ming should go to court now, and bring up the matter of taking back his life when he goes to court. If Xiao Ming doesn’t agree, he will kneel down.

However, Yu Ming couldn’t see Xiao Ming while he was kneeling, so he was naturally too lazy to pay attention to it. However, his behavior itself was a strike behavior, and the government affairs in his hands could not be handled by anyone.

“We can’t let Yu Ming continue to make trouble, otherwise where is my majesty?” Xiao Ming stood up, his tone was firm, “These old ministers of Chang’an are really hateful, in this case I will remove him.”

If the country of Chongqing is compared to For Xiao Ming, a company, whether it is Pang Yukun, Fiji or Yu Ming, is just a wage earner to him.

He is the chairman, while Pang Yukun and Fiji belong to the board of directors, and Yu Ming belongs to the top management at the next level.

One problem now is that he is very aware of the shortcomings of the company in Dayu, and he wants to reform these shortcomings so that this company can compete with companies from Western powers.

However, the management headed by Yu Ming still opposed him with methods that would cause the company to lose money. In this way, he had no choice but to scare the monkeys and tell him to get out.

Four-legged chickens are hard to find, but two-legged officials can catch a lot.

Qian Dafu was shocked. He knew that Xiao Ming was really angry this time, but Yu Ming really didn’t have the eyesight to see it, so he hit the knife edge himself.

“The edict! Yu Ming, the Minister of the Ministry of Hubu, does not care about government affairs and disrupts the government. His behavior is not worthy of the responsibilities of the Minister of the Ministry of Hubu. From today on, he will be dismissed from his post.” Xiao Ming said one word at a time.

Qian Dafu immediately took pen, ink, paper and inkstone and wrote down the edict according to Xiao Ming’s words. After Xiao Ming reviewed it, he put a big seal on the edict.

“Go to the Yizheng Hall for rice paper. I want to kill this evil trend.”

“Yes, Your Highness,” Qian Dafu took the imperial edict and went to the Yizheng Hall.

After Qian Dafu left, Xiao Ming frowned. Now he doubted whether these Chang’an officials in Fiji really accepted the New Deal ideas in Bowen College.

In other words, they have only learned the methods of government affairs, but have not kept pace with the times ideologically, and it is precisely the thinking that is most difficult for them to control.

If this is the case, he must increase the ideological education of Bowen College and cultivate a group of officials who are ideologically synchronized with him, otherwise such conservative officials will become an obstacle to his reforms.

Although he was able to kill all these officials, without them there would be no one to work for him, so now he has to continue to live with these officials.

For him, this situation will obviously continue for some time, and he does not want to take too big a step. After all, reform is a double-edged sword.

When he suppressed the scholar-bureaucrat class, the capitalist class would inevitably rise, and the experience of later generations told him that if the capitalist class really took power, it would not be a reform, but a revolution.

To prevent this, he decided to reform without focusing on any one party.

While he was thinking, a eunuch reported: “Your Majesty, the secret guard commander Wang Xuan wants to see you.”

“Let him in!” Xiao Ming said.

The eunuch left, and Wang Xuan came in after a while.

Xiao Ming said with a smile: “You must have no good news when you come to see me.”

“Your Majesty, your subordinates have really become disgusting crows now.” Wang Xuan said with a bitter smile.

Xiao Ming shook his head, “But what I need is your crow, let’s talk about it.”

Wang Xuan nodded, his expression solemn, “The barbarians and the Japanese fought in Goryeo for several months, and both sides won and lost. The lower official received the news that Beishan was ready to cede two counties in the south of Goryeo to the Japanese in exchange for the Japanese not continuing to go north and concentrate on dealing with us.”

(End of this chapter)