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Chapter 370 Formal establishment of the country

The capital of Xu Guoxin is undergoing rapid rectification. It is impossible to complete all construction in a hurry, but at least the urban planning and the construction of various government departments must be completed, especially the palace. Although Xiao Hao rejected the ancient palace that had no idea how much dirty and dirty it was, as a symbol of the feudal era and a symbol of power, Xiao Hao had to move into the palace.

In this era and in this context, Xiao Hao had to bow to tradition. To be honest, no modern person would like to have a place like the magnificent appearance of the palace. Under the magnificent appearance of the palace, there are dim inner halls, and the lighting of the ancient buildings is so poor. Not to mention that there are many unjust souls in these palaces, Xiao Hao feels that living in such a place will be haunted.

In another world, the most haunted palaces are those ancient palaces, and these places are precisely places that refuse scientific inspections! Those houses and other places are haunted, and there can be various scientists to inspect, and the government supports them; but those places such as palaces and other places are haunted, which will definitely prevent inspections! This makes Xiao Hao invisibly have a little psychological shadow on the palace.

Just to gain a foothold in this world, sometimes it is necessary to respect tradition, and Xiao Hao can only temporarily surrender to the power of tradition.

However, because allocating everything and under the guidance of the rule of law, Xiao Hao is very relaxed and relaxed, and he will go around when he is idle. Xiao Hao will not do anything to private visits to a brain-dead person. If things really cannot be done like this, it will shake the foundation of the country. As an emperor, it is a symbol of openness. Every time Xiao Hao goes out, he will go out openly, and is afraid that others will not know.

Today, Xiao Hao took Yun'er and the others to stroll in the market, following behind him with the protection of loyal masters provided by Han Zongfa and Mo's family, and the two soul masters provided by Shushan to protect Shushan, but they also took their original foundation. Now Xiao Hao is the most important "investment" of the three companies, and this investment has now brought rich profits to the three companies!

Not only did the Han Zongfa and Mo families complement each other, but they also obtained new ideas and futures in Xu Kingdom. The explosion of ideas has given the two families a new growth. Not to mention Shushan, let alone Shushan. A good mountain area was directly taken from the Yingzhou Secret Realm. The entire mountain gate had been moved, and some old people were left to guard the original place.

Along the way, Xiao Hao greeted the people around him familiarly. Many of the people here were from Haizhou at the beginning, and there were many people who knew Xiao Hao. Yun'er grabbed Xiao Hao's sleeve and looked around calmly. The entire Xu Kingdom was full of prosperity. People had a smile from the bottom of their hearts on their faces.

At this moment, someone chased after Xiao Hao. This person was the new minister beside Xiao Hao. This was a young man of about the same age as Xiao Hao. Under Xiao Hao's strong opinion, Xu Guo canceled the strange setting of eunuchs. Xiao Hao was not going to create a big harem, which was causing trouble. On the other hand, Xiao Hao began to use female officials to make up for some management loopholes caused by the eunuchs' vacancy.

In fact, the reason why eunuchs were so popular in ancient times was not just for managing the inner palace. The most important thing was to have a buffer between emperors and ministers, so that everyone could save face from each other; when the conflict was really serious, they would... kill eunuchs. Therefore, the court needed eunuchs, and even between dignitaries, a certain eunuch was needed as lubricant.

But the existence of eunuchs itself is a deformed world. Xiao Hao used two methods to replace the existence of eunuchs. First, he used female officials to let women manage some things and took the opportunity to make women stand out. Second, he used some inspected officials at all levels who were about to become officials to be ministers for a period of time. Generally, it only took a few months, which was an alternative commendation. And because of governing the country according to law, he was not afraid of these people pretending to be powerful in the future. After all, if there were only one in a few months, it would be worth more if there were too many things. At present, there were five ministers around Xiao Hao, who were helping with different matters.

"What's the matter?" Xiao Hao's majesty has been initially revealed.

"Your Majesty. I have problems with the renovation of the capital. Please go back and discuss it."

"Oh, okay." Xiao Hao had to turn around and pull the pouting Yun'er back. Today, the opportunity to play alone was ruined!

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"What's the matter?" After Xiao Hao came back, he was surprised to find that all the officials of the Shangshu Province and most of the officials of the Ministry of Rites gathered here. In addition to these, there are many related officials. Most of the senior officials of the Xu Kingdom are here. This situation really surprised Xiao Hao, very surprised.

"Your Majesty, there is something wrong with the transformation of the capital." The representative of the merchant in charge of the transformation of the capital stood up. Yes, Xiao Hao actually handed over the transformation of the capital to the merchants! But it must be said that in the face of the transformation of the capital, the merchants were united. All the merchants knew that if this matter was ruined, Xu Guo would not know how to treat the merchants in the future. At least, there would be countless such terms and restrictions!

"Tell me. It would be impossible to alarm most officials and the entire Shangshu Province and the Ministry of Rites." Xiao Hao rubbed his eyebrows, and the more things he had been worried about recently.

"Your Majesty, as required, we expanded the city area. However, problems arose when building the temple. Because according to regulations, Ditan needs to be built three miles outside the city. Now that we have demolished the city wall, the landmark of "City" is gone; in addition, because of the expansion of the city, there is a swamp in the south of the city, and Ditan cannot be built.

Ditan symbolizes the strong destiny of the country, and must be built in a solid place and have strict requirements."

Xiao Hao was so surprised that he couldn't speak. There were so many things to pay attention to? It really made Xiao Hao very angry. But he had to pay attention to it. This is already a different world, and it really paid attention to these things here. This is no wonder that so many people were alarmed by the construction of the small Ditan.

"Can't you use magical powers to change the terrain?" Xiao Hao was speechless.

"No!" Tu Yong stood up at this time, "anything related to sacrifice must be natural, otherwise it will be a source of no root."

"Well. Do you have to go three miles away from the city? Can you go further and cross that swamp?"

"No! This swamp is very wide, and it is an unlucky representation that it is separated by a swamp in the middle. Because the swamp means that the road is blocked!"

"Or why," Xiao Hao suddenly heard a joke from another world. "Since we have to call three miles, we will specifically name a street, and the name is 'Sanli' or 'Sanli' or 'Sanli'. Is this feasible? If necessary, you can also bless the name with supernatural powers."

"Ah?" Such a ridiculous idea not only makes people disgusted here, but instead makes people start to think carefully!

"This idea is good, maybe it can be really done." Lan Hai actually spoke first. You can't say anything, but many people agreed!

"Then let's try! I'll make arrangements." After Tu Yong finished speaking, he led his own people and businessmen to leave, so Xiao Hao didn't have to worry about the following matters. Since there was a feasible method, Xiao Hao could continue playing.

As a result, before Xiao Hao could speak, Yun'er pulled Xiao Hao outward and dragged him away. The little girl was so angry that she said she would play with me today, so you can't be unreasonable.

"Haha..." Han Changling and others could only smile when they saw this situation. If it were before, these people would definitely scold Xiao Hao for not doing their jobs; but seeing that Xiao Hao has managed Haizhou in an orderly manner, they began to slowly think about and accept Xiao Hao's many small problems. As long as they don't make big mistakes, there is nothing to do if they keep small mistakes.

Xiao Hao and Yun'er continued to play, but they didn't know that the famous "Sanli 'long' Street" in the future had already set a street that was actually only one mile long, but was named "Sanli". Such a thing was actually accepted by the entire Xu Kingdom; and the function of the altar has not been weakened!

The New Year finally came, and everyone began to celebrate in Xishan Town. In less than three years, Haizhou developed into the Xu Kingdom, and a small gentry from the Xiao family developed the royal family. It even received the full support of the Han Zongfa and Mo families. In addition to these, there are also doctors who have gradually begun to think about the Xu Kingdom, and the rest of the business-based tentacles are beginning to move closer to the Xu Kingdom.

The most representative of the craftsmen, Linglong Pavilion, officially established its foundation in Xu Kingdom. The Ye Bao Pavilion of Linglong Pavilion represents Linglong Pavilion to manage Xu Kingdom. The military strategists have opinions on Xu Kingdom. But the military strategists have no objection! The military strategists and the military strategists are no longer the relationship between them. The military strategists have hundreds of large and small. Now the military strategists where Wu Dingyue is located have extended an olive branch to Xu Kingdom. The establishment of the General Staff of Xu Kingdom has made many military strategists very moved. Maybe they can also completely get rid of the big hat on the military strategists in this way. This is the second reason why military strategists do not like Xu Kingdom.

In general, Xiao Hao and Xu Kingdom have received a lot of support and offended many schools; there is no way to do this, even if the gods come, they cannot fully understand everything. Sometimes if you want to get some, you will inevitably lose some.

But no matter what, Xu Kingdom has had a good year this year. People cheered, and merchants could walk freely on the earth. The broad roads connected every city in Xu Kingdom. Civilians also had money to buy some new things. In addition to these, there were people from various genres to watch. For this rapidly rising Xu Kingdom, all genres wanted to learn about it; see what secrets there are here that can unite the Han Zongfa and Mo families and support the growth of this country without any barriers.

But compared to Xu's joy, the surrounding countries were not so happy! Just before the end of the New Year, Song lost one state again. After only one month of war, Song lost two states! In the north, Cai also lost two states! The most important thing is that almost the area lost by the two countries was the shadow of merchants and civilians.

"Rebel!" The king of Song State was furious, "Detain all the merchants for me and search the house! In addition, all civilians are not allowed to leave their villages, otherwise they will be killed on the spot!"

Unsurprisingly, the Cai State in the north also adopted the same method.

Only Chen State in the south, Nangong Zhi specially sent a special envoy to report his discovery to the emperor and made suggestions. As a result, Chen State actually opened up business! It was also seen that the explosive growth of his neighbors, which made Chen State think for a long time and finally began to reform.

They also began to encourage business, agriculture, restrict aristocrats, and began to learn from Xu Kingdom. At the same time, many people from the Miscellaneous and Li Zongfa family passed on the information they found in Xu Kingdom to their family schools. Later, in the West, Feng Kingdom, under the leadership of Li Ziyu, also wanted to learn reforms and so on. Many colleagues from faraway countries were more or less influenced by Xu Kingdom.

Most of them use the simplest and most direct method to suppress businessmen! But the smart ones start to learn reforms, or at least imitate them; of course, there are also a large number of countries who sit and watch the changes.

In a word, the political environment here in Xu Kingdom caused changes in the entire human world; but more people don’t know what this change represents!

"Come on. General Nangong, please sit down, don't be polite." Lan Hai brought Nangong Zhi into the lobby. Many senior officials from Xuguo have arrived here. This is the first day of "going to work" after the New Year. Everyone is preparing to discuss their political ideals and other issues in a relaxed banquet atmosphere. This is also something Xiao Hao specially prepared, allowing everyone to communicate with each other, understand each other, and even resolve grievances. It is inevitable that everyone will be in charge of being an official in the same court, and Xiao Hao must try his best to solve this problem.

As the representative of Chen State, Nangong Zhi, the first representative of Chen State who was preparing to formally establish diplomacy with Xu State, was also invited to sit side by side with Lan Hai. In fact, this is an easy environment for communication. Here, everyone is sitting on a stool of the same height, drinking the same wine and eating the same dishes, even Xiao Hao is no exception.

Today, thousands of representatives of civilian businessmen came to participate in this grand event.

Xiao Hao picked up the wine glass and signaled to the surroundings: "Everyone can speak freely, don't worry about anything. Even if you point at my nose and scold me today, I won't care! There is no need to say nonsense today. Just talk about things directly, and you don't feel tired if you beat around the bush every day."

"Ha..." The atmosphere became hot for a moment.

"Your Majesty, the foreign minister congratulates you. However, if you have a little doubt, please give me some advice." Nangong Zhi, the old fox, will find an opportunity.

"Tell me." Xiao Hao was very rational about these old foxes and did not go around the other party. Otherwise, he would be very likely to turn himself in. The best way is to be straightforward.

"Thank you. Foreign ministers have been thinking about a question recently, that is, why does Your Majesty prohibit outsiders from learning various political policies, methods and measures of Xuguo? Even in schools, various things are open to allow many people to easily obtain those secrets?"

"Oh... there are many problems. Let's talk about politics first. Commander Nangong, do you think you, Chen Guo, can you really become stronger with a complete imitation?"

"Yes!" Nangong Zhi did not hesitate at this point.

"Okay, then my most fundamental question is to ask you. You, the king of Chen State, and all the officials of Chen State, and so on, are really willing to see that the merchants are strong and the civilians are rich?"

"This...at least I am willing, and our king is willing." Nangong Zhi hesitated a little. He also avoided the important ones in his answer.

"Then I will ask you the second question. Which class does your king represent? Are they nobles? or civilians?"

"Noble!" Nangong Zhi did not hesitate. Anyone who does politics cannot even understand his position. He is definitely not a qualified politician.

"But Commander Nangong, you must be clear. Merchants, civilians and nobles are not the same system. To say a very rude thing, your butt determines your head! The words are rough but not rough. No matter how you change, your natural political status has already determined that you will not be completely considering the level of civilians and merchants! All of you, the ultimate consideration, is yourselves!

For any decision or policy, the first thing you need to think about is your own profit situation, followed by merchants and civilians. And you will not disclose the so-called abolition of slavery laws, because it involves too many noble interests, and you cannot do it, nor can you do it."

"I..." Nangong Zhi got stuck for a moment. What Xiao Hao said was really deeply rooted in people's hearts, making Nangong Zhi, a smart man, really unable to refute it.

"Let's talk about our Xu Kingdom. In Xu Kingdom, except for a few surrendered nobles, our entire political system is a representative of civilians. As we all know, our Xiao family can be said to have originated from a small and even a lowly person because Haizhou was a well-known hometown of bandits! And now, many of our departments, except for the Han Zongfa and Mo families, are basically all selected talents from civilians.

Fundamentally, we are a political system represented by civilians. We don’t even need to deliberately consider civilians, merchants, etc.; because while we consider ourselves, we will naturally consider the people of the world! If we want to increase taxes, we must get more taxes from merchants and farmers; and the best way to avoid fishing through exhaustion is to make merchants and farmers rich. This is one and there is no contradiction at all.

But you are different. Your subject is aristocrat. If you want to go beyond the nobles and directly manage the common people, it will harm the interests of the nobles. This will fundamentally shake the foundation of your rule.

So I dare to assert that your changes will either end in fruitlessness or national turmoil.

I believe your king can also understand this. But he is still powerless to change anything! Because a little change means shaking the foundation of the entire country.

Our country of Xu has achieved such development in a sentence: If you don’t destroy it, you won’t establish it, and if you break it, you will establish it!

If you want to truly complete the reform, there are two ways to go. The first way is to establish a new regime like us and overthrow the corrupt rule of the nobles. I think you will never do this, and you have begun to defend against merchants, civilians, and people from the world. The second way is to remove the bones! You will complete the complete change yourself; the royal family gave up everything in the past, and even took the initiative to raise the butcher knife. Completely lock the nobles in the country into a cage, and surrendered the royal power.

Then, Commander-in-Chief Nangong, do you think what I said is right?”

Nangong Zhi's expression became increasingly ugly as Xiao Hao's words, and finally turned pale. He suddenly looked up at Xiao Hao, his eyes filled with fear, unprecedented fear, "You did it on purpose!"

"Yes. Deliberately! As long as you learn from Xu Kingdom, your foundation will be shaken! If you don't learn from Xu Kingdom, your slaves, civilians, merchants, etc. will learn from us!

This is a fire, a fire that has been burning! A spark can start a prairie fire, but now it has a prairie fire posture! The moment when Xu Guo really stood up, it is time for you to make a choice.

So, I am not afraid of you learning, because this is a poison! For any aristocratic politics, the politics of Xuguo are poisons. And it is an inevitable poison.

Either you scrape your bones yourself. Or let the civilians roar and overthrow you, and let the nobles become a symbol of history. Don’t think you are very powerful. I can tell you that the Feng Kingdom in the West has burned the same flames under the support of the Zajia and the Li Zongfa family, and we are in the East!

There are four powerful schools of Confucianism, Legalism, and Mohism. Among these four schools, even Confucianism is starting a new attempt. The politics of the aristocratic people is about to end."

Nangong Zhi's hands had already started to tremble, but he was still trying hard to remain calm, "Then isn't the Fengguo in the West learning from you? And it's developing very well, and it will definitely be your enemy in the future."

Xiao Hao was confident: "No, since I let him learn, how could there be no way? To put it bluntly, Xu Guo is a teacher, Feng Guo is a student. Students want to make a big deal? It's difficult! Since he is learning with me, he can only follow me and eat dust. In the end, they will understand that everything they do is just for my wedding dress!

And I'm not afraid that they will know these words, because they can no longer look back."

Nangong Zhi lowered his head and thought, while the representatives of the merchants and civilians in the yard, as well as a large number of officials from Xu Kingdom, were cheering and celebrating. Xiao Hao looked around with a smile. The words just now were not only for Nangong Zhi, but also for his own people. So, after listening to Xiao Hao's words, the atmosphere around him suddenly became active.

The banquet ended in a joyful atmosphere. Xiao Hao's speech at the banquet quickly spread out and attracted countless support in Xu Country. However, when these words were spread, they became nightmare for the surrounding countries. They suddenly discovered that they seemed to have really reached the edge of the cliff.

Either you pick your bones yourself or let others overthrow the rule completely! When this problem is placed in front of the top leaders of every country, some sneer, some don’t care, some panic, and some even say they want to destroy Xu Kingdom.

However, as long as the rulers with some knowledge heard Xiao Hao's words, they all expressed their consent. Nangong Zhi was even more prepared to recruit a group of talents from Chen State in Xu and return to China to try reforms.

Time passed day by day, and finally in the late first lunar month, Xu Kingdom officially moved the capital to Li Guangcheng, Dali Wangting became history, and Xu Kingdom was officially established. Then, a series of things such as sacrifices to heaven and earth, marriage, and establishment of a queen were busy. Xiao Hao was not touched by the ground.

In February, Xiao Hao hugged the green moon with his hair tied up, listened to the national anthem in the rising sun and looked at the slowly rising national flag, Xu Guo began to flourish.

The national flag and national anthem also appeared in this world for the first time. As soon as it was revealed, it burst out with powerful power; it made the entire Xu Kingdom unite. The national flag is a burning sun in the blue sea and blue sky. The national anthem is adapted from folk materials.
Chapter completed!
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