At dawn, it is light.

Under the walls of the Great Zhou Palace, civil and military officials stood.

This time was the first court meeting after Zhao Yan returned from Shuzhou, so the officials came relatively well.

Some officials even learned that Zhao Yan had left Changdan City and headed for Shuzhou after hearing that the Xue family's rebellion was exposed.

In the past, if the king dared to leave the imperial city for a month, the officials' notes would have been filled with the Chugong Hall.

However, no one dared to advise Zhao Yan to do this.

It was just because Zhao Yan defeated the Northern Meng and created achievements that had not been achieved by previous emperors.

After a while, the palace gate opened, and the officials lined up in a long line, walking towards the Daqing Palace one after another.

In the Daqing Hall, after the officials finished their tribute, Zhao Yan sat on the dragon throne, looked around, and then said, "My dear friends, I miss you very much. During these days when I am away, you are diligent in political affairs and diligent, and I am very pleased!"

Hearing this, the ministers below looked at each other and laughed at each other. When the emperor praised it, everyone was naturally happy.

Shangguan below was unhappy, but his beard raised and looked at Zhao Yan vigilantly. He knew Zhao Yan's style of speaking. Generally, after saying such scenes, Zhao Yan would start to tell something that no one could imagine.

Zhao Yan coughed dryly and said, "I have been in Shuzhou for a month and I feel deeply. The people are in dire straits, and our officials are in a state of corpse, do not cultivate moral politics, and do not do things in their positions. Everyone should know that after the war with Northern Mongolia, the treasury was almost empty. If it were not for the private business tax, the court would not be able to pay your salary."

"I think it's time for my Great Zhou to implement the new policy reform. The first thing we need to solve is three problems: redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant systems.

There was a quiet area below the court.

The redundant officials and soldiers are redundant, that is, there are many officials, many soldiers, and the system is complicated and the expenses are more complicated.

This is a problem that existed since the beginning of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

The officials knew it well, but no one mentioned it because it was destroying their own jobs.

After ten years of hard study, they pursued the noble privilege of being a scholar-official class.

Zhao Yan continued: "I plan to rectify the bureaucratic system from now on, lay off redundant institutions, merge responsibilities, significantly reduce the number of officials and soldiers, and increase the court's fiscal revenue from now on."

The meaning of Zhao Yan's sentence is to explain it bluntly that the Great Zhou Dynasty could not afford so many officials and soldiers.

After saying that, Zhao Yan glanced at Xizi beside him.

Xizi immediately understood and immediately distributed hundreds of "Two Hundred Articles of the New Deal" that had been prepared long ago.

The reason why Zhao Yan chose to distribute it in the court was because if he chose to distribute it last night, it is estimated that the content of the "Two Hundred Articles of the New Deal" would have spread throughout the people this morning.

By then, the resentment of scholars from various states will definitely be in full swing.

What kind of petitions from ten thousand people, swearing to show their ambitions to the death, awakening the dignity of scholars and officials with their own blood, and so on will happen.

Therefore, Zhao Yan chose to solve all the matters in Daqing Hall.

When the court officials heard the words "Two Hundred New Policies", their faces became deeper. After reading "Two Hundred New Policies", except for Xiao Jingye, Liu Chaotong, Pan Wenyue and others who had already read it, everyone was stunned.

"The first is to appoint people based on their merits, and abolish the practice of promoting civil servants every three years and promoting military officers every five years, with political achievements as the only criterion."

"Article 2: Abolish the system of grace and embellishment, abolish the policy of enfeoffment of the children of officials as officials, and those who have more than three generations of titles without any political achievements will be demoted to civilians."

"Article 3: Reform the tribute and examination system, and those who are good at writing and poor in their arguments will not be recorded."

"Article 4: Change from the recruiting system to the government system, cultivate elite troops, abandon the army's three-time farming system, and train strategies for the moment."

"Article 5: Reduce private taxes, reduce official salaries, and cancel all kinds of local taxes."

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In a nutshell, the core of the new policy is: to let the people go with profits, to compete with scholars and merchants, so as to achieve the goal of enriching the country and strengthening the people.

In the Daqing Hall, only the sound of flipping the pages and heavy breathing were heard.

Everyone frowned tightly, and some people's hands and feet couldn't even help but tremble.

After the officials finished reading it, they had only one feeling.

This is not the new policy reform.

It was clearly overturned most institutional norms before the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Even the founding kings who changed dynasties did not dare to act like this!

The 200 new policies target the literati class represented by these people in the court.

If all 200 new policies are implemented, it will not be so easy for officials to become officials in the future. It will no longer happen that officials want to get a job by seeking a job and then spending their lives. It will be even more difficult for those scholars who want to obtain official positions by reciting the Four Books and Five Classics.

This is completely to crush the bones and peel the literati class to increase the finances of the court.

But the final result of the reform is still unknown.

Seeing that all the ministers had finished reading, Zhao Yan stood up and spoke, "This new policy has been done by me for more than a month. If all my beloved ministers have any ideas, they can express their opinions."

Swish! Swish! Swish!

As soon as Zhao Yan finished speaking, more than thirty court officials stood up.

"Your Majesty, please report!"

"Your Majesty, please report!"

"Your Majesty, please report!"

"Your Majesty, please report!"

...

The officials walked to the center of the hall with a loud sound like a bell.

Zhao Yan looked down and was stunned. All six ministers and ministers from the Secretariat of the Secretariat stood up.

In the Censorate, there were ten people in the Censorate led by the above-mentioned officials, four people in the Sansi, and three generals also stood up.

As for the Minister of Wen Xiao Jingye, Deputy Minister Liu Chaotong, Pan Wenyue, Military Commander Yang Xinghuai, Shen Ce Army Commander Yang Hong, Imperial Army Commander Shen Tuyi, and the Third Division Commander Kong Moshan were all silent.

According to convention, these people usually only show their attitudes in the end.

Zhao Yan had a premonition that this would happen because he wanted to move the foundation of the Great Zhou court and harmed the interests of countless scholars and officials.

Before Zhao Yan could name the name, Shangguan was unhappy and walked to the front with an unhappy look on his face.

Shangguan Buyue had long known Zhao Yan's determination to reform, but when he saw the "Two Hundred New Deals", he felt that Zhao Yan was not trying to reform the law, but was taking risks.

But the consequences of this failure were simply unbearable by Da Zhou, so he stood up.

"Your Majesty, if my Great Zhou changes the law according to this regulation, within five years, the Great Zhou will be destroyed! Your Majesty will become the king of the country, and we will become a slander for eternal eternal ministers!"

Zhao Yan gave Shangguan an unhappy look. This person is good everywhere, but he always likes to exaggerate when speaking.

In one sentence, you define yourself as the king of the devastated country.
Chapter completed!