"I am here to see Your Majesty!" Li Gang was naturally extremely happy when he saw Zhao Chen!

He first looked at Zhao Chen carefully for a while before sitting down.

"What are the teacher looking at?" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty is in charge of the army. I am always worried about Your Majesty in Hanzhong. Now I see that Your Majesty is in good health, so I feel relieved!" Li Gang said.

"Thank you for your concern!" Zhao Chen said.

He felt a little emotional. It has been so many years since Li Gang still cared about himself! Perhaps in Li Gang's heart, he will always be the child who never grows up! Li Gang truly treats himself as his nephew!

"Your Majesty personally led the army to fight for such a great victory, and the people of the world are excited about it! I want to congratulate Your Majesty here!" Li Gang said.

"There is nothing to celebrate, and we were also extremely injured! And we only defeated Wanyan Huo. Wanyan Huo is just a Jurchen general in less than twenty years. It is much worse than Wanyan Loushi, Wanyan Wushu, Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Zonghan and others! Our overall strength is still not as good as the Jurchens. On the plains, we are not the opponents of the Jurchens! Fortunately, we have now obtained Tongguan. As long as we guard Tongguan, it is enough to prevent the Jurchens from moving west!" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty is right! When Your Majesty had not ascended the throne, I once said that future strategy was to take over Guanshan! Owning Guanshan, Sichuan and Shu, this is where Qin Shihuang and Emperor Gaozu of Han established their foundation! I believe that Your Majesty will definitely not lose to Qin Shihuang and Emperor Gaozu of Han, and he will definitely be able to establish hegemony in this territory until he unified the world!" Li Gang said.

"I have this confidence! However, the gap between us and the Qin and Han dynasties was still very large. At that time, the Qin State had only more than one million men, but its military strength reached 600,000! By the time Emperor Gaozu of Han, he had a lot of troops in his hands. Han Xin used a stumbling ambush to defeat Xiang Yu, and the ambush was set up on that day. Now we have only more than one hundred thousand troops, and this amount of troops would not work if we wanted to conquer the world!" Zhao Chen said.

"We should recruit soldiers, but the people in the world are unwilling to join the army, and there is nothing we can do about it for the time being." Li Gang said.

"I leave this matter to Wang Shu, and I believe he can do this well! In addition, I have another thing to leave to the teacher and Wang Shu." Zhao Chen said.

At this moment, Zhao Chen told the story of the rent reduction, and Li Gang stayed there directly.

With Li Gang's political wisdom, he naturally knew that the rent reduction was of great importance. It involved almost all officials of all sizes and big and small in the world, countless wealthy families, countless temples and Taoist temples, which could be said to have a single move and a whole body. If it is handled improperly, chaos in the world is extremely likely!

"Your Majesty, you must be cautious in this matter!" Li Gang said.

"Wang Shu also advised me to proceed step by step. We can now implement rent reduction in Guanshan and Hanzhong. I am planning to implement this matter as soon as possible! When I came down from Dasanguan, I saw that the people in various places were indeed suffering from difficulties and felt very uneasy! The people were not doing well, which is why we did not do well!" Zhao Chen said.

Li Gang frowned. After a long time, Li Gang suddenly said, "Your Majesty, let me do this alone! Your Majesty and Lord Wang don't care about this matter!"

Zhao Chen was stunned and said, "How do you say this?"

Li Gang said: "The rent reduction will offend the officials and gentry in the world. If Your Majesty does it, I am afraid that the officials and gentry in the world will oppose Your Majesty, which will be unfavorable to the world! This matter will be done by the old minister. Tomorrow, the old minister will write a letter to the old minister, and then the old minister will do it alone. The officials and gentry in the world will hate the old minister at most! In the future, Your Majesty can remove the positions of the old minister to appease the hearts of the officials and gentry in the world!"

Zhao Chen stayed there and said, "How can this be done?"

Li Gang said: "Your Majesty, don't hesitate, this matter is settled! I am dedicated to the Song Dynasty until I die. If it is really beneficial to the Song Dynasty, even if it is criticized by thousands of men, it is nothing! Your Majesty, as a monarch, is related to the country and the country, and you cannot do such a thing at present! With the plan of the country and the country, it is the best way to come forward!"

Zhao Chen thought for a long time, but he was unwilling to let Li Gang become a thorn in the eyes of the officials and gentry in the world, but Li Gang's words moved him! He is now the emperor of the Song Dynasty, and it is not the time to oppose the officials and gentry in the world. Even for the benefit of the vast majority of the people, he cannot do this! It is best to let Li Gang come forward to do this!

"I'll bother the teacher!" Zhao Chen said.

"These are just the duties of the Wei minister! The Wei minister is the prime minister. Who will do this if I don't do such a thing?" Li Gang said with a smile.

*******

The next morning court, the ministers arrived one after another!

After Zhao Chen arrived, Li Gang indeed stood up and proposed the rent reduction!

As soon as Li Gang said the words, the officials in the court were in an uproar, and there were voices of opposition everywhere!

"Your Majesty, the people in the world have a difficult life and must do this!" Li Gang said loudly.

"Your Majesty, I will never agree!" This is the new Minister of Rites!

"Your Majesty, I don't agree!" This is the new Minister of Works.

"Your Majesty, I also think it's inappropriate to do this!" Another person stood up, and this person turned out to be the Privy Councilor Qu Duan!

It turned out that after Qu Duan came to Hanzhong, he felt that he could no longer take power. Since this was the case, it would be better to be a rich man. So in just a few months, Qu Duan had purchased thousands of acres of land. He had been in Jingyuan City for many years, and later served as a strategic envoy and saved a lot of money. At this moment, all the money was spent on the land. He was originally counting on this land to support his old age, but he did not expect that Li Gang actually proposed the so-called "rental reduction". At this moment, he was angry and angry.

"Qu Aiqing tells you why it is inappropriate?" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, since ancient times, the king has been governing the world with officials and literati! Officials and literati have relied on some of the land in their homes to survive! Now Lord Li wants to reduce the rent. How can officials and literati survive?" Qu Duan said coldly.

"Sir Qu, do you know how much land there is in Li's family?" Li Gang said.

"This... I don't know." Qu Duan said. He really didn't know how much land Li Gang had. He just heard that Li Gang was frugal.

"I don't have a mu of land in my family. I rely on the salary of the court and have never accepted a slight bribe. Didn't I survive like this? Many land in my family, even 30% of the rent is enough to live much better than most people! I don't understand why Lord Qu must oppose this rent reduction order!" Li Gang said.

"Anyway, Qu must not agree!"

The ministers below stood up one after another and expressed their dissatisfaction. Only Li Ruoshui, Wang Shu and others did not speak! Since Li Gang decided to bear all the accusations, Li Ruoshui, Wang Shu and others had already received hints before, so they were silent and did not agree!

"Your Majesty's Holy Referee for this matter!" Qu Duan said.

"My ministers have different opinions, and I don't know what to do! I don't think so. The rent reduction order cannot be implemented nationwide. Let's find some places to implement it first! Just implement it in Guanshan, Hanzhong and other places!" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, no!" Qu Duan said anxiously.

"I will think about this matter carefully...Li Gang, let this matter be done for the time being. You should do it cheaply! If there is nothing else, then leave the court!" Zhao Chen said.

Zhao Chen had already left the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and Li Gang was still arguing with Qu Duan and others! Qu Duan and others tried their best to convince Li Gang, and some even promised to share part of the land in their home to Li Gang, but Li Gang still refused! This made the ministers in the court very angry!

*******

From the next day, Li Gang really implemented a rent reduction order in Hanzhong!

He sent all the officials of the Secretariat to do this!

Officials from the Secretariat conveyed the court's orders in various parts of Hanzhong, meaning that the rent of all landlords would be reduced to 30%! If someone refuses to follow, it is openly opposing the court, and the yamen should capture it immediately!

However, many officials in the yamen in various places are landlords, and these yamen officials are unwilling to reduce the rent!

Therefore, it is difficult to implement rent reduction!

Li Gang was in a state of great anxiety. On the evening of March 10, Li Gang came to the palace again and asked Zhao Chen for support!

"Your Majesty, officials from all over Hanzhong are unwilling to implement this rent reduction order. It is impossible to rely on them. Now it seems that they can only rely on the army!" Li Gang said.

"Rely on the army?" Zhao Chen was shocked.

"Not bad! Let the troops in various places implement this rent reduction order. If someone is unwilling to implement the rent reduction order, capture it immediately! Your Majesty, didn't you say you want to improve the status of soldiers? Soldiers help to implement the rent reduction order. People in the world are grateful to soldiers. The views on the army will inevitably change. Do you think?" Li Gang said.

"Not bad! Then let the army do this! I immediately issued an order to Huanqing Army to let Liu Qi lead troops into Hanzhong! Liu Qi is from Jingyuan, and Huanqing Army is also Jingyuan people. They have no land in Hanzhong and will not be in mingling with those officials!" Zhao Chen said.

"It's the best!" Li Gang said happily.

To mobilize the army, we must have the will of the Military Affairs Office, that is, we must have Zhao Chen’s personal order! At the moment, Zhao Chen wrote a letter to Liu Qi, so I won’t mention this!

Li Gang was busy reducing rent, so he did not stay in the palace for too long. He immediately went to contact Liu Qi, not to mention this.

During this period, Huanqing Army was under intense training. They did what the infantry training said. In addition, Wang Shu’s Propaganda Department also arranged a lot of propaganda personnel to enter the army and conduct publicity and education work on soldiers! Sure enough, in just one or two months, Huanqing Army also changed a lot! Liu Qi praised the book "Infantry Training" written by Zhao Chen!

When Li Gang arrived in person and brought Zhao Chen's order, Liu Qi naturally did not dare to neglect and immediately led 10,000 troops to follow Li Gang into Hanzhong!

After the Huanqing Army entered Hanzhong, the rent reduction order could finally be implemented smoothly!

Although the landlords in Hanzhong were very dissatisfied, no one dared to resist the army! Someone who resisted would be arrested immediately, and later their land would still be subject to a rent reduction order!

Of course, as soon as the rent reduction order was launched, the people of Hanzhong were very happy!

The people of Hanzhong did not understand the struggles in the court. In their opinion, any government decrees in the court came from Zhao Chen's will, and they were all implemented by Zhao Chen!

Everyone is grateful to the emperor, so there is no need to say more!

At this moment, Wang Shu's Propaganda Department once again entered villages in Hanzhong to promote it!

Originally, according to Zhao Chen's intention, the Propaganda Department mainly promoted crazy nationalism and the huge threat from the Jurchens to the Han people. In the end, it could force conscription, so that the country's politics, economy and culture could serve all aspects of the country to expand military preparations and foreign wars. That is, to transform Hanzhong, Sichuan, Shu, Guan and Shaanxi into a "militarization" transformation, so as to achieve the rapid development of the country's military power in a short period of time, so that the country's military power would reach ten or even dozens of times the previous one within five to ten years, form millions of regular troops and suicide squads, and then sweep the world, completely eliminate other foreign forces such as the Jin Dynasty, Xixia, Tubo, and even eliminate the Mongolian tribes that had not yet risen, so that the Song Dynasty would not have destroyed the country and the race.

Wang Shuzhi was wise and thought that the people may not be able to accept these ideas for the time being! From the beginning of this year to now, Zhao Chen has done two major things. The first is naturally to defeat the Jurchens and break the myth of Jurchens being invincible. The people in the world are excited. The second is to implement the rent reduction order, and the people are grateful! Now Zhao Chen has a very high position in the hearts of the people among the people! In this case, he feels that the people will continue to promote Zhao Chen's achievements and promote personality worship, and finally make the people form an idea "What the emperor said is absolutely correct", "every word the emperor said is truth", "one word the emperor said is worth ten thousand words of others". After such concepts are formed in the hearts of the people, the Military Affairs Office and the Propaganda Department will promote "militarization" in the name of Zhao Chen, which will be much smoother!

In fact, many of the later countries first promoted the personality cult of leaders and then promoted the war of expansion to the outside world! For example, Germany in later generations, Japan was a typical example! Germany's Hitler and the Japanese emperor were completely deified. Later, when Japan was defeated, the Allies even had to force the Emperor to issue the "Declaration on the World", indicating that "the emperor is a man, not a god", so that the Japanese army can put down their weapons and surrender. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Allies to surrender.

Therefore, the Propaganda Department is now implementing such ideas, and Hanzhong has formed a trend of personality worship that Zhao Chen had never thought of before!
Chapter completed!