Now the rented-Yongyuan was in a mess! The rented-Yongyuan Wang Zhengyan was unable to take over Kong Qian's work. Looking at the thick books and official documents, he felt his scalp numb and had no idea to start. He was so scared that he claimed that he was in a trance and took leave and went home to hide.

Li Cunxu was furious when he heard the news. Guo Chongtao also suggested that such officials who ignored the overall situation and gave up their positions should be severely punished to be respectful and effective! So Li Cunxu ordered the arrest of Kong Qian, the culprit who caused the crisis, and prepared to behead him! At this moment, Jing Jin stepped forward. He secretly met Li Cunxu and told the whole story of the matter. Jing Jin said that the real culprit was Guo Chongtao, which was because he was jealous of the talented people and randomly used people, which led to such a situation. Kong Qian was bullied by Guo Chongtao, but in fact he was loyal to His Majesty, but he had no way to serve, so he had to resign.

Jing Jin's secret memorial changed Kong Qian's life, and Li Cunxu began to pay attention to Kong Qian. So Li Cunxu introduced him into his own circle of confidants and became a real person in the future. Kong Qian was appreciated by the emperor and was naturally reinstated as a director. A month after the incident of Kong Qian's resignation, Li Cunxu, despite Guo Chongtao's opposition, directly issued an order to remove Wang Zhengyan from his position as a resident of the Ministry of Rites.

Kong Qian finally removed the word "deputy" in his position and was promoted to the entrusted envoy; Kong Xun, the former surrendered minister of the Later Liang Dynasty, was appointed as the deputy entrusted envoy of the entrusted envoy. Ten days later, Li Cunxu gave Kong Qian an honorary title: "A hero who has enriched wealth and supported the country"! In front of the people in the world, he personally expressed his high affirmation of Kong Qian's talents and achievements. At the same time, it meant that Guo Chongtao's suppression of Kong Qian was completely failed.

The reason why Guo Chongtao could easily exclude Li Cunshen was because Li Cunxu had actually wanted to let these veterans with high qualifications, great contributions and high prestige stand aside. Unfortunately, the wars continued before, and Li Cunxu could not cut off his arms during the war and weaken his military strength. Now that the Later Liang Dynasty is dead, the Liang Gong can of course be collected, so Li Cunxu put the work of seizing the power of the veteran on the agenda.

In terms of excluding veterans, Guo Chongtao's wishes are exactly in line with Li Cunxu's plan, so that Li Cunxu can achieve his goals through Guo Chongtao's hands without having to bear the reputation of being ruthless and kind. Why not do it? Therefore, Li Cunxu gave 100% support to Guo Chongtao's actions, so Li Cunshen was easily excluded.

As for Kong Qian, he had never received attention from Li Cunxu. Li Cunxu neither supported nor opposed Guo Chongtao's behavior of suppressing Kong Qian. As Kong Qian passed through Jingjin and squeezed into Li Cunxu's confidant circle, the situation was completely different. Kong Qian let Li Cunxu realize his value, so he became the person that Li Cunxu must keep. So rather than saying that Guo Chongtao was defeated by Kong Qian's camp, he was defeated by Li Cunxu's intention.

After all, Guo Chongtao is only a member of Li Cunxu's confidant circle, but is just an alternative member. His power comes from Li Cunxu. When his approach is consistent with Li Cunxu's intentions, Li Cunxu often hides behind the scenes, making people seem to be Guo Chongtao's power that can do whatever he wants. But if Guo Chongtao's approach is inconsistent with Li Cunxu's ideas, or even deviates from each other, the amount of power of Guo Chongtao only depends on Li Cunxu's self-discipline and tolerance for Guo Chongtao. Guo Chongtao has never been

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In order to win people's hearts, Li Cunxu issued an imperial edict to please the people of the world just a few days after entering Bianliang. The imperial edict said: "There is no better way to govern the country than to calm the people; the rules for persuading teaching should follow the slightest taxes." The following are three specific measures: First, suspend the corvee labor of each road, and the people who are still in labor labor will be allowed to go home to farm; second, the people in the former territory of Houliang have previously accumulated unpaid taxes and debts owed to the public, and will be exempted from all the taxes that occurred before the restoration of Bianliang and will not be collected; third, the matters that were originally distributed to the people in order to collect war horses, but now if there is no money from the government and those who cannot get the horses in difficulties will be exempted from the levy and will not be collected.

The people who were oppressed by heavy taxes would naturally be happy and grateful for the emperor's grace after learning the imperial edict of the new emperor. However, a few days later, the new dynasty's yamen broke into their homes and recovered the taxes and various corvee labor that had been exempted from the imperial edict and were levied. The burden on the people was not reduced by Li Cunxu's imperial edict, or even heavier than it was.

It turns out that in the view of Kong Qian of the Later Tang Renyuan Academy, this imperial edict is just a statement and there is no need to take it seriously. The more taxes we receive, the stronger the treasury financial resources, the emperor will naturally be happy and will not care whether the imperial edict he issued has been strictly implemented. If the imperial edict is really handled according to the imperial edict, it will lead to insufficient tax revenue, so that the emperor and the people around him will donate the proceeds of bribery to subsidize the treasury, don’t expect them to praise you for adhering to the principle!

As a result, Kong Qian did not implement the good policies announced by Li Cunxu at all, and became a piece of paper. In this way, it would undoubtedly lose people's hearts than not declaring good policies! So in a very short time, Li Cunxu's popularity among the people of the world was greatly reduced. After that, no matter what beautiful promises he made or what good policies he issued, few people believed it.

In addition to grasping the agricultural tax, Kong Qian did not ignore the commercial tax. At that time, the government used the method of collecting commercial tax to set up checkpoints on major traffic roads, checking past business trips, and placing hairs by geese. However, in order to reduce costs, merchants often search for remote roads and bypass the checkpoints. Although you may encounter bandits when walking on the road, merchants have calculated that this is acceptable than meeting official bandits on the road and encountering bandits.

Kong Qian was very annoyed by this, so he submitted a memorial to Li Cunxu, proposing to increase the personnel of each checkpoint. Let them separate personnel and inspect all paths outside the checkpoints. Check out merchants who dare to detour and pass the checkpoints. Once arrested, they will be rigorous and strict, and see who will still evade taxes! Li Cunxu attached great importance to Kong Qian's memorial that could increase income, and immediately approved it and urged all localities to strictly implement it according to Kong Qian's plan, and must not relax or be perfunctory!

Despite this, the state's income was diverted in large quantities due to the enshrined treasury of the vassal state; it also used to manage the Yellow River and prepare for the war with the Khitan and Former Shu; and in those years, there was no good weather and good times. The financial situation of the Later Tang Dynasty was never really good. Therefore, Kong Qian had to make a lot of efforts in "reducing expenses".

When he was just a resident of the rent, Kong Qian submitted a report to Li Cunxu: "There is now insufficient national expenses. One of the reasons is that there are too many officials, especially the judges of various ancestry. There is too many numbers, and it is really unnecessary. It should be streamlined long ago. It is recommended that from now on, each vassal state can set up a military governor, an observer, a judge, and a book.

Note: Each of the officials is promoted. Each of them has a judge. In addition, the other three capitals can have another judge or a judge. It is okay for each of them to retain the extra officials outside this standard, but the country is no longer responsible for their salary."

As soon as Kong Qian's memorial was published, a large number of officials from all over the country were unemployed or reduced their wages. Kong Qian also proposed a very unpleasant reality to Li Cunxu: "The salaries of officials are very high now, but because the country's cash is insufficient, they can only pay off the payment, and the officials' actual income is very small."

Kong Qian proposed: All officials will be given a halved salary and will find money in the future and will no longer be discounted.

At this time, Li Cunxu responded to Kong Qian's suggestions and the new policy was implemented immediately. But the officials soon discovered that only half of them were implemented: the salary was cut by half, and the immediate pole was achieved; the cancellation of the remnants was just empty talk! Kong Qian's policy not only aroused great resentment among the common people, but also in the officialdom. Although the number of damaged officials is far less than that of the injured people, in most cases, their anger is naturally more powerful than the anger of the people. But Kong Qian didn't care at all. He felt that as long as Li Cunxu appreciated him and protected him, what were these people?

Besides, the person Guo Chongtao wanted to suppress but could not suppress was not just Kong Qian. Although Li Cunxu showed his grace to the generals and generals who surrendered to the Later Liang Dynasty, he was actually wary of them and was slowly replacing them step by step. However, there is an exception here. A surrendered general with a lot of weight was deeply favored by Li Cunxu, and this person was Duan Ning.

Although Duan Ning served as the commander of the Liang army, his talent was mediocre, his military achievements were bleak, and his prestige in the Liang army was not high. The last command of Duan Ning was the 60,000 to 70,000 elite troops of the Liang army, Zhu Youzhen recruited and reunited from various places and then assigned him to command, not his direct troops. If Duan Ning wanted to incite these troops who were not close to him, he even looked down on him as the commander, and rebelled with him, there was almost no possibility. Therefore, in Li Cunxu's view, Duan Ning's danger was very small and he could use it with confidence.

After surrender, Duan Ning's unscathing skills became more perfect. The four most important people in Li Cunxu's confidant circle: concubine Liu Yuniang, court official Guo Chongtao, eunuch Li Shaohong, and actor Jing Jin. Except for Guo Chongtao who couldn't handle it, the other three were taken down by Duan Ning's sugar-coated shells, becoming his solid backer in Li Cunxu's group. In this regard, Kong Qian was only worthy of being Duan Ning's apprentice.

Duan Ning got a new name Li Shaoqin and served as the governor of Taining. Only a month after Li Shaoqin took office in Yanzhou, a major case occurred in Yanzhou: hundreds of thousands of public funds deposited in Yanzhou's treasury were misappropriated by the new governor for unknown reasons! The Later Tang Dynasty was shocked. Kong Qian, who was still the deputy envoy of renting the mere slaughter, immediately issued a message, ordering Li Shaoqin to return the misappropriated money immediately. However, money is easy to use, but it is difficult to return it back. Duan Ning showed that he had no money and was a scoundrel, facing the accusations from all directions, supported his thick skin, and stood for help.

Duan Ning's reinforcements were extremely powerful, and they were the Emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty himself. Li Cunxu personally inquired about the handling of the case and instructed him that he would pretend that this matter had never happened and should not be investigated again! After Guo Chongtao learned of Li Cunxu's instructions, he was very unwilling to accept it.

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