In Xianwu, people evolve infinitely starting from the prince

The next morning.

Imperial Palace, Qianyuan Hall.

Yang An, dressed in a red Gon dragon robe and a Yishan crown, stood quietly in front of the officials in the court, and from time to time responded to the courtiers' worship.

This was his first time coming to the Qianyuan Palace, and it was also his first time attending a court meeting after becoming the crown prince.

As the prince of Daqian.

Yang An is naturally qualified to go to court.

In the Daqian Dynasty, court meetings were generally divided into three types: large court meetings, court meetings, and small court meetings.

Among them, the Dachao Meeting is the highest-level ceremonial ceremony. It is very large in scale and mainly shows the dignity of the country. Generally speaking, it is only held once every year at the beginning of the year.

The court meeting is an early morning court meeting in normal times. There are not many participants. Usually only the three ministers, nine ministers, and six ministers are eligible to participate. The frequency of the court meeting is usually once every ten days.

Finally, there is the Umrah meeting.

During the Xiaochao meeting, the emperor convened a meeting with three ministers, nine ministers, and others. Although the number of people was small, it often played a decisive role. Many important decisions of the court were made in the Xiaochao meeting.

As the saying goes: hold small meetings for big things, hold big meetings for small things, and don't hold meetings for important things.

These are the national conditions of our Daqian Dynasty, and I understand them all.

In fact, in addition to the big court meeting, court meeting, and small court meeting, there is another kind of meeting, which is the discussion of affairs in the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Just because there is no emperor involved.

Therefore, the meeting at the Prime Minister's Office can only be regarded as a meeting, not a court meeting.

Generally speaking, officials from the six departments of the court will give priority to the matters they want to participate in and the matters that need to be handled to the Prime Minister's Office. Only matters involving major matters in the provinces and counties, or matters that cannot be solved by the Prime Minister's Office, will be brought to the court for discussion.

And if the matter was of great importance, related to the safety of the entire Daqian Dynasty, etc., it would be reported directly to the emperor, who would convene the important ministers of the court to resolve it at a small court meeting.

What Yang An participated in today was a normal court meeting once every ten days.

This is also the first court meeting he has participated in as the prince of Daqian, which means that he has obtained the qualification to officially participate in the power political game of the Daqian dynasty.

"Your Majesty is here!"

I don't know how much time passed, but just as Yang An was standing there with his eyes closed and concentrating, a shout of "Your Majesty has arrived" suddenly came from his ears.

Yang An slowly opened his eyes and looked at the position of the dragon chair above the royal road of Qianyuan Palace.

On the gorgeous golden dragon chair that represents the supreme power, a man wearing a royal robe is already sitting. The golden strands are constantly hanging down, directly blocking the view of everyone, making it impossible for people to see clearly the appearance of Emperor Tailong. They can only I can barely see a rough outline.

have to say.

Emperor Tailong's approach undoubtedly allowed him to maintain great mystery.

Or, his purpose in doing this was to block the prying eyes of everyone in the court, so that the courtiers in the palace would not guess his true inner thoughts through the changes in his expression.

Or it could be used to isolate certain immortal secrets and martial arts secrets from prying eyes.

"I will see you, your Majesty. Your Majesty will live forever!"

The Daqian courtiers in the Qianyuan Palace were obviously not surprised by this scene. After Emperor Tailong appeared, they all shouted in unison and bowed in obeisance.

After all, this is the world of immortal martial arts.

The courtiers' etiquette towards the king is also more in line with the characteristics of martial arts, and there is no requirement to kneel down and worship anything.

no way.

All warriors are proud and should not be insulted lightly.

How can a warrior, especially a strong martial artist, accept etiquette like kneeling down and worshiping?

At this point, even the Confucian Shangyin Academy, which was famous for its etiquette, did not dare to formulate such etiquette for monarchs and ministers.

I really dare to propose such etiquette.

Even if Shangyin Academy is one of the fifteen holy places in the world of China, I am afraid it will be torn apart by the warriors of the world.

"All the ministers are of equal standing!"

Emperor Tailong's voice echoed in the hall through the golden bead curtain.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

The courtiers in the palace stood up and thanked him.

Then, Shen Qianqiu, the eunuch and eunuch in charge of the ceremony beside Emperor Tailong, took a step forward slightly and said loudly: "Your Majesty has a decree. If you have something to do, you will go to court this morning. If you have nothing to do, you will leave the court!"

This is also the practice of ordinary court meetings.

No matter what happens, no matter what happens, you need to shout like this.

After all, not every court meeting has something that needs to be discussed together.

In other words, before the emperor has spoken, the courtiers participating in the court meeting will definitely not be the first to speak and offend the emperor.

"Your Majesty, I have something to report to you, Zhao Guangyi."

As soon as Shen Qianqiu, the eunuch in charge of the ceremonial department, finished speaking, a middle-aged official wearing a crimson official robe walked out of the courtiers and bowed to Emperor Tailong.

Following Zhao Guangyi's words, Shen Qianqiu also bowed and retreated, returning behind Emperor Tailong again.

Emperor Tailong looked at Zhao Guangyi and asked calmly: "I wonder if there is anything in Zhao Qing's family that needs to be reported?"

Zhao Guangyi, the left minister of the Household Department of the Daqian Dynasty, was the third rank in the imperial court, in charge of land tax and customs duties, and came from the Zhao family in Tianjing.

The Zhao family is one of the top ten aristocratic families in Tianjing.

As early as a thousand years ago, the Zhao family was just an insignificant little family, and the strongest member of the family was only in the fourth-level Xiantian realm of martial arts. There are so many families like this in the land of China, and they are no more than the tyrants of the county government at best. The house has nothing to attract attention at all.

There is a saying that one cannot be poor for more than three generations.

The Zhao family was mediocre in the beginning, just an ordinary powerful family in the county in Qianzhou. However, in the third generation, a genius appeared and successfully joined the big clan.

This man is the ancestor of the Zhao family in Daxing, named Zhao Xuanzong.

After Zhao Xuanzong had learned his art, he did not stay in the sect to develop, but returned to his family and successfully developed his family into the sequence of county aristocratic families.

It was the time of the previous dynasty's millennium disaster. The Huangtian Sect's rebellion swept across the entire land of Shenzhou, causing the entire Zhou Dynasty to fall into the wind and rain, and went directly from the prosperous era to the end of the dynasty.

Later, the Great Qian Taizu could not bear to see the suffering of the people of Shenzhou, and was determined to save the people from the water and fire, so he rose up and became one of the many righteous armies in Shenzhou at that time.

Zhao Xuanzong of the Zhao family was one of the first ministers to surrender to the Great Qian Taizu. He made a successful bet and helped the Great Qian Taizu achieve a great cause, thus gaining the appreciation of the Great Qian Taizu.

Since then, the Zhao family has flourished in the world. In less than a hundred years, it has become one of the large aristocratic families in Tianjing City.

Now more than nine hundred years have passed.

There are not many Conglong families at the beginning of the founding of Daqian.

But the Zhao family has always been prosperous, and has been able to stand in the court without falling, and eventually became one of the top ten in Tianjing City.

From this, we can know that the Zhao family in Tianjing is not as simple as it seems.

Zhao Guangyi, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue of Daqian, is the core figure of the current Zhao family. Although he has not achieved the realm of the first-grade Tianren Grandmaster of martial arts, he is also a peak second-grade Dharma Master of martial arts.

Of course, the Zhao family can become one of the top ten families in Tianjing City, and there must be a first-grade Tianren Grandmaster in the family.

For example, Zhao Guangyi's elder brother Zhao Chengyi is a first-grade Tianren Grandmaster of martial arts. He is also the commander of the Shenhuo Camp in the three major camps of Tianjing Lantian, and a first-grade national general of the court.

In other words.

The main power of the Zhao family in Tianjing is still in the Daqian army.

For example, Zhao Guangyi, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, can only be regarded as a core figure of the Zhao family.

Yang An looked at Zhao Guangyi, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, who stood up and walked out of the line. The basic information of Zhao Guangyi and even the entire Zhao family quickly emerged in his mind.

I don't know why.

He looked at the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue in front of him, who looked righteous and majestic, and always felt that the other party was coming for him.

This was a kind of intuition in his heart.

Like a sudden impulse in martial arts, the gods can clearly predict it.

"Your Majesty."

"Today, I sorted out the land tax and customs duty cases in Tianjing City and found that many families and sects had a large number of hidden land and population, and concealed customs duties and commercial taxes, etc., and many powerful families were involved."

"After learning about this, I felt that it was a serious matter, so I dared not hide it at all."

"I hope your majesty will understand."

While speaking, Zhao Guangyi, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, did not forget to take out the written memorial and put his hands on it.

When Yang An heard this, he didn't know what Zhao Guangyi's purpose was.

The noble families and clans in Tianjing concealed their land and population, and concealed customs duties and commercial taxes.

This made it difficult for him not to think of what he had done in Haizhou before.

The only thing he didn't know now was whether it was Zhao Guangyi's personal intention or someone else's intention behind this matter.

Or maybe this was another test of him by the people in the court to see if he had the heart to reform the old and establish the new, and whether he really wanted to take action against the noble families and clans.

Nowadays, who in the world doesn't know that there are big problems with the land tax and customs duties of the Daqian court.

But how many people dare to really investigate and investigate thoroughly?

Even the people in the Ministry of Revenue would probably turn a blind eye to these problems, for fear of causing unnecessary trouble and provoking people who should not be provoked.

Now a left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue personally brought this matter to the emperor.

It would be strange if there were no problems here.

At this time, none of the Daqian court officials who could stand in the Qianyuan Hall and attend the court meeting were fools.

Although many people were shocked and angry about Zhao Guangyi's behavior, no one stood up to say anything, but all looked at Yang An and the high and mighty Emperor of Daqian calmly.

It's a pity.

There was a golden silk and pearl curtain blocking the way.

Everyone couldn't see the changes in Emperor Tailong's expression, and it was even more difficult to know what he was thinking.

For a while, the entire Qianyuan Hall fell into silence, and everyone was confused.

Only Zhao Guangyi, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, stood there, bowed his body, and held up a memorial with both hands.

"Present the memorial."

I don't know how long it took, Emperor Tailong spoke without emotion, breaking the silence in the hall.

Although everyone knows many things, and they all pretend not to know.

But if someone exposes this matter, Emperor Tailong, as the Emperor of Daqian, will definitely not be deaf and dumb.

Just like what Zhao Guangyi reported at this time, the powerful and noble families in the capital concealed the gifted population, concealed customs duties and commercial taxes, etc.

No one exposed it.

Emperor Tailong could naturally pretend that he knew nothing and was ignorant.

However, now that someone has exposed these things, he must deal with them and give answers, otherwise those powerful and noble families will become more unscrupulous and lawless.

Of course, this matter should be dealt with, but there must be a limit.

Because there are too many people doing these things.

Almost every powerful and noble, courtier, family, and even the Daqian clan, princes and princesses, have done these things.

If they are really determined to investigate them strictly.

Maybe the entire Daqian Dynasty will be destroyed.

So this matter is completely a stubborn problem that everyone knows but cannot really deal with.

What makes Emperor Tailong most angry is.

If we really investigate according to Zhao Guangyi's memorial, I'm afraid all the nobles and families in Tianjing City will not be able to escape the fate of being thoroughly investigated.

"I have read the memorial of Zhao Qing's family."

"According to what Zhao Qing's family said, this matter has involved many court officials and the nobles and royal family in the capital."

"I wonder if there is any evidence for what Zhao Qing's family reported?"

After reading Zhao Guangyi's memorial, Emperor Tailong asked expressionlessly.

Although he vaguely guessed Zhao Guangyi's purpose, he didn't know what they were going to do.

And Emperor Tailong didn't think that this matter would implicate Yang An.

After all, although Yang An was canonized as the prince, the position of the prince has a high upper limit and a low lower limit. If he doesn't want to give up power, Yang An, the prince of Daqian, will be a mascot in the court.

In addition, Yang An has just been canonized as the prince, and he has no foundation in the court and Tianjing City.

So Emperor Tailong didn't think that Zhao Guangyi could involve Yang An, the prince of Daqian, in this matter.

Before finding out the true intentions of Zhao Guangyi and others.

Emperor Tailong decided to remain unchanged in the face of all changes and wait and see!

"Reply to Your Majesty!"

"Although I have no definite evidence, the many files of the Ministry of Households cannot be false."

"Now the treasury is empty, lacking money and grain, the Ministry of Households has long been unable to make ends meet, and the main reason lies in this. If this problem cannot be solved, it may have a great impact and it will be difficult to maintain the operation of the Ministry of Households' money and grain."

"So for the sake of the people of the world, I hope Your Majesty can send someone to strictly investigate this matter."

Zhao Guangyi said sincerely, and also explained the reason why he reported this matter.

Because the current Daqian court seems bright and beautiful, with strong soldiers and horses, but the treasury has long been empty, and the Ministry of Households has been unable to make ends meet. If you can't find a way to solve this matter, it may affect the operation of the Ministry of Households' money and grain.

When Emperor Tailong heard this, he couldn't help but remain silent.

How could he not know what Zhao Guangyi said.

The key is that it is not an easy thing to really solve this problem.

In other words, no emperor in all dynasties could really solve this problem, nor did they dare to solve it.

Because if this problem is not solved, the court can barely maintain normal operation, at most it will make the lower-class people suffer and collect more taxes from the people.

But if there is a dynasty that wants to take action on land, population, tariffs, commercial taxes, etc.

What needs to be faced is not the problem of ordinary people rebelling.

We must also consider the problems of the world's noble families and clans.

The court, the noble families, and the clans share the world.

This sentence is not empty talk.

It's okay to offend the lower-class people.

If you really offend the world's noble families and clans.

I'm afraid it won't take long before the Daqian court will be completely destroyed, and even the Daqian royal family will not be able to escape the end of being liquidated.

So facing the difficult problem given by Zhao Guangyi.

Emperor Tailong was silent for a while, and then said without emotion: "I already know about this matter, and I will discuss it later!"