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The conversation between the two continued until late at night...

Li Jiong's father Li Gefei was a member of the Yuanyou Party. He was an old party and a conservative party. Li Jiong would naturally be affected. Although the reform strategy presided over by Li Hu followed the economic policy of "not suppressing annexation and allowing freedom" insisted by the Yuanyou Party, Li Hu went further and took greater steps, which was very different from the financial system insisted by the Yuanyou Party. Therefore, for today's reform, officials like Li Jiong were still conservatives, while those led by Changsun Kangning were radicals. In other words, the old bureaucracy in Zhongtu and the emerging forces represented by giant businessmen and wealthy businessmen were actually forming two opposing parties, and the tigers inevitably went to division as the reform deepened.

Li Hu heard more and said less. The two did not have much disagreement in the overall direction of the reform strategy, while Li Jiong's spearhead was directly directed at emerging forces. Li Hu also held a cautious view in this regard. Although he did not agree with everything Luo Sinan did in Chang'an, he could not object. He could only wait and see and closely monitor the development of the situation. Once the old bureaucrats in Middle-earth China fought head-on with emerging forces, he had to stop it. At present, the central and local bureaucrats were increasingly disgusted with the rise of this emerging force. From Li Jiong's angry voice, it can be estimated that the time for the two forces to collided head-on is not far away.

"Today, the Grand Marshal appointed Liu Jingyuan and Wang An as the writing instructions of the Grand Marshal's Mansion in front of Jinghu officials. This is equivalent to telling us that the Grand Marshal is vigorously supporting and helping them rise rapidly in the court, which has a great impact."

Li Hu pondered for a while and said slowly: "You know my difficulties."

"I know, so I can understand, but the impact of this is too great, and the consequences are much worse than you think."

Li Hu smiled and asked, "Liu Jingyuan and Wang An have great influence in the Jinghu area?"

"Of course, they are a wealthy man from Jinghu and Jingxi respectively. They have close ties with officials from both places, especially with Mao Shuai, Dao Shuai and Long Shuai."

Li Hu immediately heard the hidden meaning in this sentence, and his brows frowned slightly, "What do you know?"

Li Jiong realized that he had lost his words. Because he was too angry, he spoke without saying anything, and said something angry that he shouldn't have said. He shook his hand awkwardly, "It's nothing, it's a normal relationship, the general doesn't need to worry."

"Do you think I don't know?" Li Hu smiled, "I have received all kinds of reports. Did Mao Shuai, Dao Shuai and Long Shuai make a lot of money in Jinghu? I heard that they bought a lot of land, workshops, manors, and also participated in smuggling back to Yi, right? I remember that there was a report that Mao Shuai and Dao Shuai had a very unhappy fight for a beautiful little lady. In the end, you came forward to solve the problem, right?"

Li Jiong's face changed slightly, and his expression was even more awkward, "It's normal for their status to have three wives and four concubines. Besides, if someone is willing to give it away, they have no reason to refuse, so they have to accept it reluctantly."

Li Hu shook his head, the smile on his face became a little cold, "Since you know, why can't you tell me in detail?"

"This, this..." Li Jiong hesitated for a long time before he hesitating and stammeringly talked about the matter of the tiger generals and local merchants and wealthy businessmen joining forces to make money. These matters can be said to be using power for personal gain, but they are not considered corrupt and abuse of power. They did not seriously damage the interests of the government and the people. If they really wanted to pursue it, it would be difficult to find the blame.

Li Hu breathed a little relieved. He was most afraid of Mao Jun. Zhang Guanyu, Wu Caitian and others who publicly violated the law, so it would be difficult for him to deal with it. Fortunately, the wealthy merchants and wealthy merchants are all cunning people. They finally got along with the tiger harem, and of course they were unwilling to let their investment go away. Therefore, they all focused on the future and the longer-term greater interests. Therefore, the matter is still within controllable range, and this is why Li Jiong was angry. Li Jiong did not dare to offend the tiger harem, so he naturally took his anger on the local wealthy merchants and wealthy merchants, and hated their despicable behaviors of adversity and shamelessness. Therefore, he was extremely dissatisfied with Li Hu's actions today, believing that this encouraged the arrogance of the wealthy merchants and wealthy merchants in Jinghu.

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The two talked until the early morning when Li Jiong saw Li Hu yawning, and then realized that he had been sitting for too long and should say goodbye.

Li Hu personally sent Li Jiong outside the courtyard gate, and then asked Zhu Xia to send Li Jiong back to the government office on his behalf.

Roland was in the side room and heard some conversations between Li Hu and Li Jiong intermittently. So Roland appeared just after Li Jiong left, worried that his sister's approach in Chang'an would be too fierce. Once the political situation was turbulent, it would inevitably endanger the southern expedition and affect the process of unification.

"In my opinion, you must persuade your sister to be stable for the time being. Before our army pacified the southeast, don't do anything that will endanger the stability of the North Korean bureau."

"Your sister has her own qualities." Li Hu comforted with a smile, "In addition, Dong Shuai, Huang Xianggong, Chai Zhongshu and Mr. Wuyan are all by her side, and they will dissuade them at the appropriate time. What I am most worried about now is the safety of the Changsun family."

"Changsun Family?" Roland asked in surprise, "Where are people in the court who want to deal with the Changsun Family?"

"It's not someone, but a large group of people want to eat him." Li Hu frowned and said worriedly, "The ministers in the court are all harsh. If one or two ministers are determined to kill him, then methods will emerge one after another. Changsun Kangning will be unable to defend himself and will surely die."

Roland was a little scared and stared at Li Hu in a daze. Li Hu was walking back and forth in the house with his hands on his back, anxious and uneasy.

Under the auspices of Luo Sinan, the reform of the financial system is being steadily implemented. The speed of monetary unification is progressing very quickly. It is estimated that it will be basically announced by the end of this year. Then the next step is to promote the monetization of salaries of officials and the monetization of expenses of government agencies. The reform of these two systems has directly touched the interests of officials, especially the losses of local officials' interests, and the income from official fields has become the focus of competition between the central and local governments.

Changsun Kangning intends to privatize the official land, which means selling the official land directly, so the income from these fields will naturally enter the national treasury. The central and local governments firmly disagree that the income of official land not only maintains the expenses of the local government offices, but also solves the salary of the officials and officials hired by the local government offices, and is also a treasury for officials to openly engage in corruption. This can help to monetize the expenses of the government offices and the salaries of officials.

Changsun Kangning's reform policies were beneficial to the country and the people, but they harmed the entire bureaucratic class. His opponent was too powerful, strong enough to kill him like crushing an ant. This is probably an important reason why Luo Sinan was eager to push Changsun Kangning to the decision-making level and to support emerging forces in order to join forces with them and directly compete with the entire old bureaucratic class.

"I want to write a letter to your sister and ask her to find ways to protect Changsun Kangning's safety."

Li Hu stopped in front of Roland and sighed in a low voice, "The reform has just begun, and it is still far from the revitalization of China and Turkey. We need people like Changsun Kangning very much. If he is killed at this moment, not only will the reform be severely defeated, but even the emerging forces that have just risen will be implicated, and it is very likely to be bloodbathed."

Roland didn't expect Li Hu to say this, and from this, we can guess that the situation in Chang'an is very tense. Thinking of Li Hu just talked with Li Jiong, the matter became serious. It can be seen that the Li family is very likely to be involved, so Roland asked worriedly: "Will the Li family be implicated?"

Li Hu shook his head, suddenly thought of something, and said anxiously to Roland: "Go and invite Li Jiong back, I want to talk to him."

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Li Jiong hurried back, not knowing what happened, and was secretly nervous. Today he said a lot of things he shouldn't say, and he didn't know if it would affect his destiny.

Li Hu asked him to sit down and asked immediately: "What do you think about Guantian?"

Guantian? When Li Jiong heard this, his anger suddenly came up. The anxiety just now disappeared, and there was only a cloud of resentment left in his heart. He immediately talked about the close relationship between the interests of Guantian and the local government offices, and explained in detail the close relationship between the interests of bureaucrats.

"I got news from Chang'an that it is said that the court considered that the northwest currency had been unified and planned to choose one or two prefectures and counties in the northwest to take the lead in implementing the policy of monetizing the government's expenditure and official salaries. It can be seen that this matter has been put on the agenda of change. However, Grandmaster, I can tell you that this policy must have failed, because when the court formulated this strategy, it did not consider local interests at all, the contradictions were irreconcilable, and this policy had no basis for implementation."

Li Hu nodded and asked again: "Where is the Central Government Office?"

"Of course I object. Official fields are the jobs that bureaucrats rely on for survival. If you ruin their jobs, how can they give up?"

"So, Chang'an will not be calm this year." Li Hu sighed.

"Master, I told you before that Changsun Kangning is a very important person. This reform plan was proposed by him. If the Master suppresses him, Chang'an will naturally be calm. But now that he has entered the Imperial Front Office and becomes one of the decision-makers, it is equivalent to telling the people of the world that the court must resolutely implement Changsun Kangning's financial reform policy. The waves caused by the waves are of course earth-shaking. How could Chang'an be calm?"

Li Hu sighed bitterly, shook his hand, and signaled Li Jiong not to say anything more.

After thinking for a long time, Li Hu asked, "Do you believe me?"

"Of course." Li Jiong said without hesitation.

"You and your sir are my relatives." Li Hu said solemnly, "In the future, Middle Earth will be our world, so many times, I must start from our own interests and sacrifice the interests of others."

Li Jiong seemed to be thinking, concentrating and contemplating.

"We are a family, we must support and help each other." Li Hu said word by word, "A family must not be divided, never."
Chapter completed!