After I die, my wife becomes a tyrant

Wu State, capital of the country, Jiangning Mansion.

The 29-year-old Xu Congguang hid in the banquet hall of the deep palace all the year round. Together with Feng Yansi and other literati, he drank and chatted, read and wrote poems, and avoided suffering due to the struggle for the throne.

He didn't have that kind of thought either, he just wanted to concentrate on reading, to compete with literati reciting poems, and to feel the joy of life in books.

His elder brother Xu Congji fought with his father on the battlefield all the year round. With his military exploits, he first sent troops to take advantage of the internal turmoil in Chu and annexed the entire territory of Chu, more than doubling the territory of Wu in one fell swoop. The seven prefectures of the Yue Kingdom have great prestige in the army.

But the father made the emperor's uncle the emperor's younger brother. Although the emperor's uncle also had military exploits, his reputation was not as good as him, so Xu Congji secretly poisoned the emperor's uncle with poisoned wine.

After the death of the emperor's uncle, Xu Congji was successfully registered as the crown prince, but he was still wary of the unstable position in the East Palace. He tested Xu Congguang many times, and if he had any doubts, he would secretly poison him.

As a result, one day, after Xu Congji fell asleep, he never woke up again.

Xu Congguang was promoted to the crown prince in such a muddleheaded way. What's even more muddled is that the father didn't feel sad because of the sudden death of his eldest son, but was very happy that Xu Congguang was in charge of the East Palace.

Later, due to the rising power of the Zhou State, the father cut himself the throne, changed his title to the Lord of the Kingdom, and proclaimed himself a minister to the Zhou State.

One year later, when his father passed away, Xu Congguang became the head of the Wu Kingdom in a daze, but he was strongly supported by all the officials, and he had to take over the deteriorating mess of the Wu Kingdom, whose strength was not as good as before.

In the hall, Xu Congguang raised his arms, accepted the palace attendant to change into the court clothes for him, and then walked to the main hall to participate in the Chang Dynasty.

"Your Majesty is a thousand years old."

After Baiguanshan called, Xu Congguang got up and stepped down from the throne, and walked to the side of Zuo Pushe (Left Prime Minister) Feng Yansi:

"How did you read your poem yesterday?"

"A spring feast, a cup of green wine and a song, and three wishes to pay respects to Chen. First, I wish my husband a thousand years old. Second, I wish my concubine a long life. Third, I wish that I will be like Liang Shangyan, and see you again every year."

Feng Yansi stood tall and straight, and replied loudly.

"Good words, I also have a poem, I wonder if Your Highness has the elegance to listen to it?" You Pushe (right minister) Sun Sheng narrowed his eyes coldly, staring at Feng Yansi.

"Let's read it and listen to it." Xu Congguang waited quietly for Sun Sheng's masterpiece.

Feng Yansi frowned, avoiding looking at Sun Sheng.

"Golden cups and jade bowls, how can they be used to hold dog shit." Sun Sheng didn't like Feng Yansi as a sycophant, and even had an aspect with him, so he often ridiculed Feng Yansi.

"Puff haha." Baiguan suddenly laughed.

"Vulgar," Xu Congguang chuckled, not guilty:

"If you don't have any good words, let's go to court. The king is going to the spring banquet."

"Your Highness, the Yue Kingdom has publicly declared Zhou to be its superior state. This is a good time to negotiate peace with Yue..."

Before Sun Sheng finished speaking, he was interrupted by Xu Congguang:

"Okay, okay, you decide."

Seeing that the lord had led the ministers to the spring banquet, Sun Sheng frowned and shouted:

"Your Highness succeeds to the throne, so you should report to Shangguo and the neighboring countries to congratulate you on the peace talks, right?"

"Okay, you can figure it out."

"Zhou Guo has built a thousand ships on the north bank of the Yangtze River! I, Wu Guo, have lost the six states in the north of the Yangtze River! It is time to drill more naval forces for defense!"

With this roar, Xu Congguang's figure had disappeared outside the hall, and half of the courtiers were still standing there, frowning worriedly.

……

Yue State, Xifu.

The Taifu Temple and the Military Weapons Supervisor are busy due to the continuous arrival of overseas minerals.

The military inspector is busy all year round with smelting gold, silver, copper and iron, and casting military weapons. Taifu Temple transports the minerals to the local iron inspector or iron factory respectively, ordering the locals to be busy with this matter.

The State of Yue needs to cast 170 million shi (about 9 tons) of copper coins to circulate in the city every year.

[About 297 billion copper coins, equivalent to 297 million taels of gold, equivalent to 784.08 billion yuan in modern times. ]

One thousand copper coins are equal to one gold, and ten coins are equal to one tael of gold.

Farmers' income from farming, after paying taxes and rents, the surplus grain production was purchased by the state-run grain supervision department at a price of 2000 yuan per liter to encourage farming and mulberry, so that there would be no wasteland in the territory, with a total of about [-] million mu of cultivated land.

The Department of Grain Supervision opened grain shops in the localities, and sold them for one yuan per liter to ensure the basic food and clothing of the people in the territory. The surplus was used to fill grain depots, animal husbandry, and foreign traders.

Therefore, scholars, farmers, businessmen, and farmers have a higher status. If there is no disaster year, the people are more willing to do farming and earn more than working. ≈26.4 yuan).

The Nine Temples and Five Supervisors are located on the west and east sides of the Chaotian Gate (South Gate) of the Royal Palace. Ye Qiufeng came to the vicinity of Taifu Temple, took off the plaque of "Daibanyuan" next to Taifu Temple, and hung the plaque of "Shiship Supervisor". In the future, the city ship supervisor will work in this courtyard.

A group of local officials who took care of her private business in Juzhang were also summoned. After passing the examination by the Ministry of Officials, they were admitted to the Municipal Ship Supervision according to the law, and went to the various departments of the Municipal Ship Supervision.

Liang Nanling had just been released from the palace, not even a month later, and was summoned to the palace again. Together with Ying Wenjun, after passing the examination by the Ministry of Officials and Hua Muyu's appointment, he went to serve as the young superintendent and prime minister of the city ship supervisor. .

From the seventh rank and above, the official position needs to be directly ordered by the state leader to take office. The supervisor is the fourth rank.

"The Municipal Ship Supervision will be formally established. I will also be the head of the Municipal Ship Supervision Department. There will be three young supervisors, a supervisor, and a chief secretary, Sasuke. Under the jurisdiction, there will be a Shipping Department, a Shipping Department, a Shipping Department, a Post Road Department, and a Supervision Department. They are respectively in charge of matters such as domestic shipping yards, trading yards, private cargo transshipment, and the establishment of foreign currency supervision departments.”

"Each department has a department order, and the department chief is in charge of each department, in charge of the history, code affairs, and supervisory work assigned to the local government. Each department is responsible for setting up a city shipping department in each locality, and recruiting senior officials, minor officials, and dispatch officials. Perform duties in the department and supervise the local departments and fields."

"A new shipping yard will be established in each of the six coastal states, and fixed routes will be opened, such as to Silla, to Dongying, to Khitan, to the countries of the Nanyang Islands, and to the countries of the Indochina Peninsula."

"Fuzhou has newly established two venues for Jizhou and Hongzhou, Xinzhou has newly established two venues for Raozhou and Shezhou, and Tingzhou has newly established two venues for Chaozhou and Qianzhou."

"In addition, each business and shipping yard will set up a post station and a new shipping station to accept private cargo transfer, personnel migration, private caravan foreign trade, cargo transfer, etc."

"All the departments will go to various places immediately, and all the people, money, and things needed will be handed over in a document, and all matters will be implemented as soon as possible."

After the order was given, dozens of people in the Shibo prison digested it for a while, and then hurriedly got busy.

Thinking that there are more than a thousand responsibilities in the inner palace, Ye Qiufeng has one head and two big ones, but he can only bite the bullet and go forward.

……

Hua Muyu was dealing with matters in the inner hall, and looked up from time to time to look outside the hall, but the guy hadn't come yet, and he might not even come all day today.

I had no choice but to keep bowing my head and continue processing.

Most cases come from the Ministry of Households and localities. After the tribute incident, the border prefectures have asked for a large number of customer registrations from the Ministry of Households. Earlier, it was not enough to issue [-] customer registrations to each state, and approval was required almost every day. Tens of thousands were issued, but the country of Yue had little arable land, so it could not accommodate too many tourists.

It is reported that the Han, Qi, and Wu countries, in order to pay the tribute, imposed taxes and taxes of various names every ten days or so, and continued to plunder the surplus money of the local people almost in a manner of plundering.

After the New Year’s Tribute, an average of three or four thousand yuan was confiscated from each household. People who really had no money were sentenced to amputation for avoiding tax arrears and crimes of hiding land and household, and had to be reduced to fugitives. Households, or go to the mountains to hide from the world, or gather outside the city gates of Zhubianzhou, hoping to get some relief in the city as refugees.

After nearly a month of approval, more than [-] customer registries, the Ministry of Households has been unable to make ends meet, and the urgent production is not enough to distribute, and the requests for approval are still coming in a steady stream.

The tooth plate for the guest's identity (identity verification) is made of twelve bamboo strips to prevent counterfeiting.

After the dental plaque is compiled, it will be stamped with the official seal of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and it will be issued together with the one thousand dollars of relief. After the settlement is obtained, the surname, date of birth, occupation, residence, etc. will be written on the dental plaque. The content must be recorded with the local government. The agreement is for household registration management, which is checked every three years.

Without a tooth card, it is impossible to get local settlement. Even if you sneak across the border, you are still an illegal citizen. If there are too many illegal citizens, it often causes local chaos.

If there is no resettlement, there will be chaos, and the resettlement will involve the coordination of six departments, nine temples and five supervisors.

Hua Muyu rubbed the aching eyebrows, no one wants to be the king of troubled times.

Ye Qiufeng walked around to Hua Muyu's back side poking his hands and feet, and while she was not paying attention to her surroundings because of her concentration, she stretched out her arms and hugged her, which surprised Hua Muyu.

After the shock settled down, Hua Muyu sighed heavily:

"I still know that I'm coming, I'm about to die suddenly."

"Bah, don't talk nonsense," Ye Qiufeng sat next to her, took her hand, and squeezed it with his left hand as usual:

"Take a break when you're tired, and I'll take care of it. I've just finished my work with the City Ship Supervisor, and I'll be here as soon as I'm done."

Hua Muyu didn't care about the presence of a permanent servant, and lay down on Ye Qiufeng's lap as a pillow, with her head buried in her lower abdomen:

"Press the shoulders and necks for me."

"Do not."

"?" Hua Muyu narrowed her eyes, staring at Ye Qiufeng.

"Be nice, I'll press it for you." Ye Qiufeng blinked at her with a smile.

"I see that your skin is itchy..."

Hua Muyu's hand was already stretched out to her ear, the closer the hand was to the ear, Ye Qiufeng's crying became more intense, the moment he touched the ear, his eye sockets were ready to burst into tears, and the cry was about to break through his throat.

She had no choice but to withdraw her hand, the farther her hand was from her ear, the less crying she saw, until the hand fell back in front of her, Ye Qiufeng's expression returned to a smiling face.

After probing back and forth twice, Ye Qiufeng's expression seemed to be controlled by her hand, sometimes crying, sometimes smiling.

"Pfft, you are a showman." Hua Muyu was amused.

"It's just acting like a baby, come on." Ye Qiufeng coaxed again and again.

"Think beautifully."

Hua Muyu buried her head in her soft belly, and immediately fell asleep. Ye Qiufeng sighed regretfully, and honestly raised his hand, while kneading the back of her neck, he handled things with his right hand.

The incidents on Zhu's case have been roughly classified into categories, and the stack of dozens of incidents in front of him are all related to Hakka.

There is a shortage of tooth cards for the body, and the average grain of the Sinong Temple is fine, but there is no more land. The Taifu Temple needs to allocate funds, and it will be used as a supervisor to supervise the construction of resettlement houses.

"Mu Yu, how about using satin cloth as a dental plaque? Liuqiu shipped a lot of golden gourd stones containing five cents of gold. The slag after metallurgy is still golden. Use golden gourd stone ore as a dye to dye the satin cloth into gold. The dyed satin The cloth is slightly hard, thick and does not fade, so how about using it as a dental plaque? It is difficult to fake the satin cloth dyed by gold mines, and it is even more difficult to fake it if it is printed with official seals."

"Well, good, let's do it quickly."

"Then get up, and I'll do it right away."

Hua Muyu groaned and struggled for a moment:

"I'll do it quickly when I wake up."

Ye Qiufeng smiled dotingly, raised his hand and called a permanent attendant:

"Zhao, Minister of the Household Department, Shaoqing of the Taipu Temple, Young Supervisor of the Military Weapons Supervisor, Young Supervisor of the Municipal Ship Supervisor, and Jian Cheng."

About a quarter of an hour later, the five trotted over from Chaotianmen.

"Liangzi, Wenjun, take people to the Military Weapons Supervision together with the young supervisor of the Military Weapons Supervision, transport the slag of Jinguashi to Juzhang, use the slag to dye the satin cloth returned from the annual tribute into gold, and follow the regulations of the Ministry of Households. According to the requirements, it is made into a customer dental plaque."

"Da Ling, I still have a lot of debts to settle..." Ying Wenjun went to the post of supervisor, so busy that she didn't touch the ground, she was so exhausted that she was going to spend all the money, so she bit the bullet and said boldly.

"I still have a lot of things to do, I don't have time." Liang Nanling gritted her teeth, wanting to open so many meetings and meetings in one go, you're done talking, and she has to arrange everything.

"My military supervisor is also very busy, Taipusi Shaoqing, you can arrange a carriage to go there, we really can't get away, and you have to find someone to load the slag by yourself."

"Oh, tooth cards are for resettling refugees. When you finish your work, the refugees will starve to death. Be good, go quickly."

Ye Qiufeng spoke in a good voice, and the few people nodded reluctantly, and went to do the queue jumping first.

Continuing to reverse the incident, Taifu Temple puts 8000 million copper coins and 500 gold coins into the warehouse every day from the Military Weapons Supervisor, which is 500 million yuan (2.244 taels of gold ≈ [-] million).

Basically, as soon as it is put into the warehouse, more than half of the items handed over by various state-run State Supervision Departments are withdrawn in various directories, or earned by ordinary people working, or used to buy food and shopping, set up State Supervision Departments, etc., and the rest The lesser half has to be "saved" for monthly military expenses, as well as expenses for the operation of the DPRK.

The balance of taxes and rents is zero, and there will be no "profit" balance until the business and salt courses in various places are put into storage in March, and the difficulties will be basically over.

"There is no land to spare, so we should open up more fishing grounds or breeding farms to trade with the inland areas. However, iron coins are mostly used in the inland areas, and copper coins are used in Vietnam..."

The state of Zhou used copper coins, but the state of Yue did not border on the state of Zhou.

Ye Qiufeng asked Chang Shiguan to bring the map, and waited for the gap between the maps to look down at Hua Muyu who was sleeping soundly, and touched her face.

His face was a little itchy, Hua Muyu smacked his small mouth in his sleep, and raised his hand to open her hand like chasing flies, Ye Qiufeng shrugged his mouth, and gently touched her lips again, Hua Muyu was impatient He slightly opened a slit in his eyes, and it turned out that it wasn't a fly, so Heng Chi bit her finger, causing her facial features to twist into a ball immediately due to the pain.

"Shut up, it hurts to death."

Hua Muyu smiled lazily, not only didn't say anything, but even used more force, the tip of her tongue flicked past, Ye Qiufeng was about to go crazy, the touch from her fingertips felt like her soul was being teased, and her soul was smashed to pieces .

Trying to concentrate on staring at the map, Hua Muyu gradually fell asleep again, holding Ye Qiufeng's arm as a pillow, she really became a sleeping king.

Since she was five years old, she has practiced martial arts at the beginning of Chen (7 o'clock), Wenchu ​​at the beginning of Si (9 o'clock), and until the beginning of Hai (21 o'clock). She has changed dozens of teachers, and the student is still her.

He started supervising the country at the age of 16, and has been in the inner hall for 14 years (7-23 o'clock), and seems to want to sleep all the sleep he lost since childhood.

It is not easy to be a king in troubled times, and a little carelessness will cause chaos.

The state of Wu originally owned the fourteen prefectures in Jiangbei, but now it has lost six prefectures. If Zhou Guo wants to take all the fourteen prefectures in Jiangbei...

We should try to take advantage of the opportunity to eat the eight southern states of Wu State. In this way, Yue State will be bordered by Zhou State across the river, so that Wu State will occupy Jingchu and Hunan, and Yue State will occupy the southeast of the Yangtze River.

In any case, even if the State of Yue is sincere, the State of Yue will be the final goal of the State of Zhou. Before that, only the strength to resist can continue to protect the country and the people, but the gap is too great.

"Under the mansion, Ye Gong, please see the envoy of the state of Wu." While thinking, Lang Jiang, who was guarding the palace, came in a hurry.

"Send an envoy from the State of Wu? Take it to the Great Inner Hall."

Lang Jiang nodded and left, Ye Qiufeng shook the sleeping Hua Muyu twice, she shook her head sleepily and sat up.

"Go to the Great Inner Hall to meet the guests, Wu Guo sent an envoy over here."

……

In the inner hall, Sun Sheng wore an indigo crown and stood reverently near the inner gate of the hall.

Ye Qiufeng and Hua Muyu came out from the inside, and bowed slightly to salute each other.

"I, the right servant of the state of Wu, Sun Sheng, came here for two reasons," after saying these few words, Sun Sheng bowed and saluted more respectfully:

"Congratulations to Yulu, the Hua clan of Yue Kingdom, on succeeding to the throne."

After finishing speaking, he turned back straight, picked up the red lacquered wooden box on the table, and presented it as a congratulatory gift:

"This is a congratulatory gift from my country Wu."

Hearing the sound, both of them chuckled and nodded and took it. He didn't feel embarrassed by the hypocrisy and friendliness deliberately shown, and he didn't feel embarrassed at all.

"Convey my thanks to Yue Guo." Hua Muyu smiled.

Sun Sheng bowed again, and then handed over a letter with both hands:

"Secondly, it is to deliver the "Accession Form" on behalf of the country's lord."

Hua Muyu took the letter and opened it face to face. There were nearly a thousand words in it. Simply put, it was——

The former ruler died, and the new ruler succeeded him. The new ruler intends to make friends with Yue, so as to change the confrontation in the past 30 years.

Hua Muyu said a few polite words, then left the inner hall on the pretext of preparing a gift, and asked Ye Qiufeng to wait for him.

After dismissing the others, the two faced each other, and put aside their politeness when speaking.

"The state of Wu has a close relationship with the Khitan. In the past few decades, they have offered gifts to the Khitan many times every year. They wanted to use the Khitan to restrain the state of Zhou from going south. As a result, they accidentally lost the six states in the north of the river. If they can't keep the Yangtze River, we, the country of Yue, will guard it. It seems more appropriate." Ye Qiufeng smiled.

"Heh, you have lost seven prefectures in a row, and your territory has moved southward again and again. You can't even defend your own city, but you still guard the Yangtze River." Sun Sheng said it rudely.

"Fuzhou is as big as the three prefectures of Run, Chang, and Su, and Xinzhou is as big as three and a half Jiangning prefectures, and Jianzhou, Fuzhou, and Tingzhou are so big. After 30 years, fighting and peace, I am getting more and more Although the country has suffered repeated defeats, it is getting bigger and bigger. The people in the territory are rich, but most of the people who escaped from their households came from your country of Wu and Han. The country is sweating."

"Your lips are dead and your teeth are cold. If you don't restrain Zhou Guo from going south, your Yue Kingdom will be gone long ago."

"Using Khitan to contain Zhou State for so many decades, they repeatedly sent troops to our Yue Kingdom and plotted tricks, but they still haven't seen my Yue Kingdom disappear."

"It's useless to say these things, let's talk about something useful. You have to be able to protect yourself if you go beyond the country and sacrifice it to the country. You can save it and use it to make alliances with Wu and Han. Only in this way can you Confront Zhou Guoqiang."

"Good proposal, return Suzhou and Changzhou to me. When your country of Wu is invaded, our navy from the country of Yue can go west to the Yangtze River estuary in Suzhou to help."

"A idiot talks about a dream."

On the eve of the spat and quarrel, Sun Sheng suddenly changed the subject:

"Do you know how the former emperor of Zhou State came to power?"

"of course."

"The former emperor was originally a military general in the previous dynasty. He was suspected because of his outstanding achievements, and he was almost killed in secret. Ling, all the heirs of the family are dead, and babies and children are inevitable. The current emperor is just the adopted son of the former emperor. Your situation is quite similar to that of the emperor of Zhou. The only difference is that the emperor is the adopted son of the former emperor, and you are the former lord of Yue. son-in-law."

"Since the Tai | ancestors of your Wu Kingdom, the two generations of rulers are not good at governing the country, but they are very good at sowing dissension, defeating the national power, and empty skins. There is no need to talk nonsense." Ye Qiufeng stood up and was ready to see off the guests at any time. , in fact, it is fine to detain and kill, whether you want it or not.

"When you were suspected back then, you could obviously be 'forced to rebel', but you were willing to be a minister and choose to protect you, instead of sitting on the back of the tiger and reaping the benefits. Women and the country are contradictory."

"No contradiction, I choose, both."

"What if you can only choose one of the two?"

"The country belongs to her, she belongs to me, the country belongs to me, and I belong to her."