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126. In charge of the government(1/2)

Li Yongxuan just wanted to make a sum of money in Lin'an to support the huge expenses. By the way, he warned the Song Emperor not to be too arrogant. If he was pushed into a hurry, big trouble would happen.

Who would have thought that someone in Lin'an City would open the city gate and warmly welcome Li Yongxuan and his army into the city.

In any case, this is the voice of the soldiers and the people, and Li Yongxuan cannot just sit idly by and turn a blind eye.

Anyway, he doesn't care about his reputation. If he can save tens of millions of people, then the rebellious ministers and traitors will be the rebellious ministers and traitors!

Li Yongxuan first asked people to wake up the frightened Emperor Song, and then made three requests to him.

Finally, Emperor Song recovered from his shock.

After hearing the three requests made by Li Yongxuan, he agreed without even thinking about it.

The first one gave Li Yongxuan, Meng Gong, Fan Yongji, Liu Zheng, Li Tingzhi, Wang Jian, Guo Jing, Yelu Qi, etc. to receive official promotions and titles. Among them, Li Yongxuan was the Minister of the Ministry of War, in charge of the world's soldiers and horses, and Meng Gong was the pacifier of the East and West Roads of Lu.

The army regained the various state capitals in eastern Shandong, and everyone else also settled in their own towns...

The second one implemented donation and payment. Emperor Song took the lead and donated 80% of all the wealth in the inner treasury. He also drastically reduced the palace expenses and let most of the palace maids and guards leave the palace...

The third one implements the public land system, which uniformly stipulates that the land should be taken back, distributed according to population, and paid taxes...

Although Emperor Song was very reluctant to be coerced by others, he had to bow his head when he was under the eaves.

From the beginning, he was prepared for the worst.

I never thought that Li Yongxuan did not kill the king to seize the throne, he just wanted to monopolize power.

What else could Emperor Song hope for? No matter what, his life was saved and his throne was still there.

If he refuses to cooperate, he may not even have a chance to survive.

Otherwise, Li Yongxuan would not have been able to lead his army to directly attack Lin'an Prefecture.

Thinking of this, Emperor Song had to bow to reality.

As Emperor Song promulgated three decrees in the court, Lin'an City temporarily became calm.

The two decrees promulgated previously have little to do with the ministers in the court, and have little to do with the soldiers and the common people.

Only this third will is of great importance and has something to do with almost everyone.

In fact, Li Yongxuan led his army into Lin'an City, which once caused panic among the landlord class, bureaucrats, and wealthy households in the Song Dynasty.

They were worried that when Li Yongxuan came to power, he would also promote equal land distribution and tax exemption in the south for the first three years.

These people control most of the fields in the south. If the fields are divided, wouldn't it be equivalent to confiscating their homes?

In other words, Li Yongxuan's soldiers and horses were too brave, otherwise there would have been chaos in Lin'an City.

On the contrary, those who have little or no land especially hope that Li Yongxuan will distribute the land equally to everyone.

Unexpectedly, Li Yongxuan did not do that, but proposed to take back the excess fields, distribute them again, and pay taxes.

The vast majority of landowners, corrupt bureaucrats, and wealthy households all breathed a sigh of relief and no longer had to worry about having their homes raided.

They did not dare to be too happy because they were worried that Li Yongxuan's purchase price of the land would be too discounted.

Although those who have little or no land are disappointed, they are also full of expectations.

In any case, Li Yongxuan purchased the extra land and distributed it to everyone, and the tax he paid must be much lower than usual.

Li Yongxuan did not directly confiscate the land of the vast landlord class, corrupt bureaucrats, and wealthy households, because he was worried that it would cause civil strife and waste his strength.

He divided the fields equally in the north mainly to win over people's hearts and restore production under the rule of the Mongols.

Also, those places are vast and sparsely populated, and most of the population has migrated to the south in order to attract the return flow of people.

At the same time, Li Yongxuan reorganized the Imperial City Department, renamed it Jinyiwei, and set up a supervisory bureau to supervise officials in various places.

This time he was promoted to Minister of War, promoted several levels in a row, and acquired the skill of [Shipbuilding], as well as an enhanced skill.

Li Yongxuan immediately strengthened his super perception and forging skills, making his perception ability stronger and forging technology more advanced.

He banned all factories that produced various luxury goods for the royal family, and instead focused on the production of artillery, muskets, and warships.

In order to alleviate the severe financial crisis of the Song Dynasty, Li Yongxuan used his super perception to find several resource-rich mineral deposits.

The development of a large number of gold, silver, copper, and coal mines not only allowed the public land law to be implemented smoothly, but also made the national treasury quickly full.

Concubine Yan received a secret letter from Mongolia, asking her to find ways to find opportunities to get close to Li Yongxuan. She must gain his trust and secretly undermine the relationship between the monarch and his ministers in the Song Dynasty.

After much thought, Concubine Yan decided to be honest with her.

She admired Li Yongxuan's ability and character very much. He was not only strong in ability, but also brave. He actually dared to lead his army to Lin'an and take charge of the government.

It happened that the Mongols wanted Concubine Yan to get close to Li Yongxuan, so she desperately wanted to try to see if the plain girl's charm technique really didn't work.

Facing the temptation of Concubine Yan, Li Yongxuan fell in like a cadre who could not stand the test.

Concubine Yan's martial arts is not very high, similar to that of Huang Rong and Li Mochou, but she is best at using charm skills and can make men fascinated.

But against Li Yongxuan, whose martial arts was far stronger than hers and who also learned the soul-moving technique from the Nine Yin Manual, it had no effect at all.

As expected, Concubine Yan is from the Sunu Palace and is still a virgin.

Although she was very favored by Emperor Song, in order to preserve her own strength, she used charm techniques to make her maids cope with Emperor Song's favor.

After competing with Li Yongxuan, Concubine Yan realized that her strength was really far behind.

Li Yongxuan was very fond of the charming and unusually beautiful Concubine Yan, and he communicated with her from time to time and competed in martial arts.

Concubine Yan Guifei and Xiao Longnu are two extremes, one is like frost and the other is like heat. Li Yongxuan can occasionally experience the feeling of the Nine Heavens of Ice and Fire.

After Li Yongxuan took control of the political power of the Song Dynasty, he was free and could leave everything to his subordinates. As long as he had a good grasp of the overall direction, there would be no problem.

Perhaps because she had seen too many bloody killings outside, Xiao Longnu preferred to live in a deserted and quiet ancient tomb.

In the past few years, the women who have helped Li Yongxuan the most are Cheng Ying and Lu Wushuang. They helped manage things in Jincheng, so that Li Yongxuan had no worries and his power could develop so smoothly.

There are also Wanyanping and Yeluyan, they also helped Li Yongxuan a lot.

Wanyanping's father's relatives and old men helped win many Jin people to surrender to Li Yongxuan, as did Yeluyan and her eldest brother Yeluqi, who also helped defend the city.

In addition, Gongsun Lu'e of Jueqing Valley was also good to Li Yongxuan and helped to stockpile a large amount of artillery, muskets, and grain.

Finally, there is Concubine Yan who often secretly helps Li Yongxuan spread news.

If she hadn't passed on the information, Li Yongxuan would have been in a lot of trouble, or at least it wouldn't have developed so smoothly.

After Li Yongxuan took control of the government, Wanyanping and Yeluyan followed him to Lin'an Mansion and settled in a new home by the West Lake.

Wanyanping and Yeluyan have known each other for so many years, and they both know the relationship between each other and Li Yongxuan.

In the first two years, they were still a little uncomfortable.

As time goes by, it slowly becomes a habit.

Li Yongxuan was afraid of a fire in the backyard and tried his best to prevent them from touching each other. But sometimes, he had no choice but to try to maintain a balance.

He actually wanted to sleep with his wife, but the problem was that Xiao Longnu and the others would definitely not be happy with it.

In this way, Li Yongxuan was exposed to both rain and dew, and no one was left out.

Fortunately, he has the ability to teleport at any time, and can teleport anywhere in the world.

Li Yongxuan thought that Xiao Longnu would be bored alone in the ancient tomb, so he doubled his sows.

Finally, Huang Tian paid off. Three months ago, Xiao Longnu finally had Li Yongxuan's flesh and blood in her belly.

Two months later, Li Yongxuan had the first warship built, installed artillery on the warship, and equipped the crew with a large number of muskets.

Not long after, Li Yongxuan sent the navy and the Meng Communist Party to advance by land and water to recapture the entire Ludong. Yu Jie, Li Tingzhi, and Liu Zheng made full use of the firepower advantage of artillery and muskets to recapture the various state capitals of Daiming, Hedong, and Hebei.

Most of these places are mountainous, which is not conducive to Mongolian cavalry operations, but is more conducive to the use of artillery and muskets.

With Kublai Khan and Wu Liang united, Chahan and Zhang Rou were finally unable to withstand the enemy and had no choice but to lead their troops to withdraw from the Central Plains.

A few months later, Li Yongxuan led his army to regain the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty and formed a confrontation with the Mongolian army.

In the blink of an eye, the time came to August 26, 1246.

Queen Naimazhen of Mongolia had everything ready, so she sent envoys to summon the kings and nobles to the capital and forest to attend a meeting to elect the Great Khan!

Among the kings, the eldest son, Batu, the commander-in-chief of the Western Expedition, had the highest prestige. He heard that Guyou was to be elected as the Khan. Because of his disagreement with him, he was dissatisfied. He excused his illness and refused to attend the meeting, so he entrusted his younger brother Orda to Xiban and Biel.

Brother represented himself at the Hulitai Conference.

The kings of the Eastern and Western Dao as well as ministers and generals from various places have arrived at Helin, and Queen Naimazhen held a Khan election meeting in Dalandapa, a summer camp near Helin.

Since all the kings and officials present at the meeting had already been won over by the queen, the meeting unanimously elected Guiyou as the Great Khan.

Even though Guyuk ascended the throne as Khan, Queen Naimazhen continued to interfere in political affairs. After Queen Naimazhen died a few months later, Guyuk took charge.

At this time, it had been nearly five years since the death of Ogedei, the second great Khan of the Mongol Empire.

Prior to this, Queen Naimazhen had controlled the government for a long time, abused rewards and abolished the legal system, which resulted in inconsistent government orders and a situation full of contradictions. Politics had become increasingly corrupt.

After Guyuk continued to be the Khan, he not only failed to act diligently in government affairs and rectify palace restrictions based on reality, but instead opened up his treasury and rewarded the kings, ministers and generals who elected him as the Great Khan with gold and silver treasures to show off his power.

Feelings of happiness and gratitude.

What's even more outrageous is that he himself has a weak constitution and suffers from contractures in his hands and feet. However, after he came to power, he indulged in drinking and sex day and night like his father did in his later years. This made Mongolia's laws inconsistent and the situation of internal and external centrifugal decline intensified.

, increasingly serious.
To be continued...
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