After cleaning up the Cao family, the officials had complete control of the right to speak in the court.

The Queen Mother was helpless. She was now in the harem and could do nothing but eat, drink and have fun every day.

My head hurts every time I move my head, and I have consulted many so-called miracle doctors to no avail.

The old lady of the Cao family felt that this time she was just accidentally plotted.

What if we find an opportunity to fight with the officials again?

It doesn't matter if you go back on your word anyway.

But Uncle Cao Guo was like a mirror in his heart.

The reason why Princess Huan didn't hide it was to tell herself.

If she wanted to fight with the Cao family, no one could.

Nowadays, just using an ink stick can make the Cao family breathless.

What if the methods were more ruthless?

At that time, the Cao family is afraid that their family will be destroyed, and they will not be able to fight back.

Sheng Hong was really powerful. He gave birth to several children, all of whom were extraordinary.

Uncle Cao Guo didn't want to fight with this kind of person anymore. He might as well bow his head now and still retain his dignity as an uncle.

Therefore, the Cao family faction completely bowed its head.

After the Cao family was dealt with, the officials began to sharpen their swords and go to the government.

The biggest problem of the Song Dynasty was three redundancies and two accumulations.

The three redundancies are redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant expenses.

The two accumulations are poverty and weakness.

The so-called redundancy means bloated and excessive.

Therefore, redundant officials are caused by too many officials due to favors and too many candidates from the imperial examination.

When there are more officials, there will be more inaction.

Moreover, many of them relied on favors to become officials, so they behaved wildly and there were many incompetent people.

Because many second-generation officials know that even if they are uneducated and have no skills, they can still be officials by virtue of their kindness.

If this is the case, then why do they bother to study so hard?

The more such officials there are, one can imagine how many unlearned and unskilled people there were in the government of the Song Dynasty.

In order to deal with the Xia, Liao and peasant uprisings.

The Song Dynasty recruited too many Jin and Xiang troops.

In addition, whenever there is a peasant uprising, the Song Dynasty will often recruit troops, so there are too many soldiers, which is redundant troops.

The huge expenses of redundant officials and redundant soldiers, coupled with the large amount of annual coins sent to Liao and Xia, led to redundant expenses.

Three redundancies have led to the fiscal inability to make ends meet for many years, resulting in poverty.

The strategy of defending the inside and leaving the outside weak made the Song Dynasty weak.

This is the most important political issue in the Song Dynasty.

There is also a lack of restraint on land annexation, which has led to intense conflicts between the landlord class and the peasant class.

Issues such as the tax system have all contributed to the current situation in the Song Dynasty.

If you want to reform, you cannot eat a big fat meal in one go.

Therefore, after Mo Lan gave Zhao Ceying some advice, Zhao Ceying planned to start by solving the problem of redundant soldiers.

To solve this problem, manpower is needed.

Because the late emperor also tried to reform the law a few years ago.

The people in charge were Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi and Fu Bi.

These people once presided over the Qingli New Deal, whose purpose was to solve problems such as redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant expenses.

But unfortunately, it failed.

Because the interests of the scholar-bureaucrats were touched, and various slanderous methods were used, the late emperor did not trust the reformists enough, which led to failure.

And Han Qi has also become the smooth character he is now.

If we change the law again, we must not repeat the same mistakes again.

The reason why redundant troops are solved first is because it is the best solution and can also alleviate some financial problems.

After all, the Song Dynasty valued culture over military affairs, so the resistance to cutting redundant soldiers was definitely not as great as the resistance to cutting redundant officials.

Zhao Ceying found Han Qi and proposed his idea of ​​​​solving the redundant soldiers.

Han Qi was very tactful at first, playing tricks on Zhao Ceying.

Later, I discovered that Zhao Ceying really wanted to change the current situation, and she was finally moved.

After all, the failure of the Qingli New Deal was also a hurdle in his heart.

So with the support of Han Qi, Gu Tingye, Ying Gong and a series of others.

The vigorous campaign to reduce redundant troops officially began.

The purpose this time is to get rid of those soldiers who are just pretending to be in the army.

Of course, we won’t just cut down the troops and leave them alone.

Corresponding measures are also given, such as how to resettle them and grant various preferential policies.

In order to prevent accidents, Zhao Ceying also sent various officials who supported redundant troops to inspect various places.

Of course, he himself was not idle either.

This journey lasted for more than half a year.

And when he came back, Mo Lan was about to give birth.

That's right, Mo Lan became pregnant again before Zhao Ceying left.

But this time when she was pregnant, she hesitated for a long time before asking the system if there was any pill that could determine the talent of the fetus.

In fact, Mo Lan has always been educating her children based on their talents and interests, supplemented by guidance.

Except for instilling in him the idea of ​​how to be an emperor when he was his first child in The Legend of Zhen Huan, Mo Lan did not force his other children to be who they wanted to be.

He will only provide the best conditions for his children within his own capabilities.

But this time, Mo Lan hesitated.

The Song Dynasty really needed a general, such as a natural god general like Huo Qubing and Bai Qi.

Today's Song Dynasty still has a general Wang Shao.

This is also a famous general, but unfortunately, he is old.

Wang Shao will die in more than ten years.

After Wang Shao passed away, there would be no particularly famous generals. Yue Fei would not be born for another forty years!

So there is a break in the middle.

But Di Qing has passed away.

If Di Qing was still alive, there was no way Mo Lan would have let him end up like that, dying unjustly in vain.

So Mo Lan thought for a long time and finally bought a God General Talent Pill based on the recommendation of the system.

People's hearts are fickle, and she can't guarantee that when the military system is reformed in the future, those generals will support their troops and respect themselves.

But if she gave birth to it, it would be different.

What she bought was the God General Talent Pill, which meant that no matter whether she gave birth to a boy or a girl, the talent points were all devoted to the God General aspect, not politics.

And her beauty was fully developed after taking systemic elixirs.

She believed that Zhuer could completely suppress her younger siblings except Miaoer.

If she can't suppress it, she will complain to the system mall for selling fake and shoddy products.

The reason why she did not give Miao'er the Divine General's Talent Pill was because this pill could only exert its full effect during the fetal period.

If you take it the day after tomorrow, you will not be able to reach the level of a divine general.

Therefore, when Zhao Ceying came back from dealing with redundant soldiers, he happened to catch up with Mo Lan giving birth to a son.

This time around, there was not much movement.

But on the way back, Zhao Ceying had a dream.

I dreamed that a painted halberd descending from the sky landed at Prince Huan's Mansion, and then I heard the sound of a baby crying.

Zhao Ceying initially thought that she had this weird dream because she missed Mo Lan too much.

Unexpectedly, Mo Lan was about to give birth just after returning to Prince Huan's Mansion.

The moment Mo Lan gave birth to the child, Zhao Ceying seemed to hear a crisp sound of weapons.

But he was the only one who heard it.

Zhao Ceying's eyes widened as she held her newborn second son, feeling an indescribable feeling in her heart.

Fang Tian Hua Ji... Could it be that his son was born to be a general?


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