Tianqi met Shang Haibo in his small study to show his importance to him. The people present included Tianqi's most core team, Qu Yongjie, the general who commanded the world's troops, Yuan Fang, the leader of the Fangsi, and Xiang Ping and others. The small study was filled with attention, all of them were Shang Haibo, who was the first in the year of the Apocalypse.

This is the highly recommended by the late Princess Qingcheng. Chen Xiyan, the now seriously ill chief minister, also attaches great importance to the people who are extremely concerned about Tianqi. They were one of the most dangerous enemies in the past. When they thought that they would stand together in the court from now on, and even be above themselves, they had a very strange feeling in their hearts.

Shang Haibo's talent is beyond doubt. In just a few years, in the west of Great Chu, a small camp will become the most dangerous enemy of Great Chu, and the poor Dingzhou will look down on the continent. This person's talent has been fully reflected. Everyone now has an indescribable feeling for him, both hatred and expectation.

"Mr. Shang!" Tianqi smiled, "Qingcheng once said in his letter that Li Qing has always respected you as Mr., so, is it good for me to call you that the same name?"

Shang Haibo sat on the brocade kick and bowed slightly, "I don't dare to take it!"

Tianqi laughed, "Sir, please. I have always been eager for you. Now that I have come back, it is a long time to get drought and rain. I have high hopes for you."

"Planning is up to others, and success is up to heaven." Shang Haibo was not as grateful as everyone imagined, and his expression was also faint. "Since the ministers decided to submit to Your Majesty, they will definitely devote themselves to their work until they die. In order to help the Great Chu regain its glory and rule the world again."

"Okay, okay!" Tianqi laughed, "This is exactly what I expected."

Xiang Ping interrupted, "Mr. Shang, I have always had something I don't understand. Please help Master Shang solve my doubts."

Shang Haibo said: "Mr. Hou, please speak."

"Dingzhou is in the western front. What is Li Qing's extraordinary ability? He can pacify the barbarians within a few years and develop a huge force? Lord Shang has been following Li Qing and participated in the formulation of various policies. So, can these policies be transplanted to our Great Chu, and can they be effective quickly as Dingzhou?" Xiang Ping asked, and everyone in the room immediately raised their ears. The core of this question was also the policy program for Li Qing to survive. It can be said that it is the foundation of the rise of Dingzhou. Over the years, the Luoyang court has also put a lot of effort to analyze the various policies of Dingzhou, but most of them are inappropriate.

Shang Haibo smiled slightly, knowing that everyone in the room was a little impatient, so he cleared his throat and said, "The sage says that the people are the most important, and the country is the next. You again, you must be familiar with this sentence?"

"Of course!" Xiang Ping said dissatisfiedly: "We all understand these great principles. We don't need Lord Shang to explain them."

"Okay!" Shang Haibo asked, "Then may I ask Mr. Xiang Hou, did Da Chu really do it?"

Xiang Ping couldn't help but speak, so he could have some high-sounding words to make excuses. But since today it was a small-scale high-level meeting, there was no need to say some false words and clichés. In the past, the Great Chu regime was based on the rule of the wealthy families. Until the great families and the great families were too big and began to threaten the rule of the Great Chu, the Tianqi could not continue to survive. But even so, the current Luoyang regime still relies heavily on these great people who are entrenched in various places, just to make these people more restrained than before.

"Everyone understands the truth, but it is extremely difficult to do it!" Shang Haibo sighed, "To put it bluntly, this is to truly put it into practice. It is to have a house, wear and clothing, have food, have food, have a support for the elderly, have a small support, and have a widow, widowed, orphans and orphans have gains. The reason why Li Qing, Dingzhou, called for a hundred responses within the area under Dingzhou, was so high that he was extremely proud of because he received the full support of all the people at the bottom."

"That's all?" Qu Yongjie was a little unbelievable, "But the Dingzhou power now spans half of the Great Chu. Under the jurisdiction, aristocratic families still exist, and countless emerging nobles have emerged. How can Li Qing balance the relationship between the two?"

Shang Haibo said it very simply, but it is extremely difficult to do it. Whether it is old aristocratic families or emerging aristocrats, they all want to accumulate wealth. To put it bluntly, it is to plunder. Whoever plunders is naturally the one who fights against the common people.

"Looking at the wealthy families of Dachu, most of them occupy countless fertile land, either buying or robbing it. In short, they are aimed at robbing land to accumulate wealth. However, under the jurisdiction of Dingzhou, you cannot see this. Dingzhou has an extremely important measure, which is to return the land to the people. Li Qing once joked with me that under his rule, he would defeat the local tyrants and divide the land, so that every ordinary person has his own share of his own land. Those who have constant property have perseverance. Only when each person has his own share of his own assets can he have a sense of identity and responsibility for the government."

"Where does the land come from? Is it a trick to seize the land of those aristocratic families or landlords? Wouldn't this stir up civil unrest?" asked Tianqi.

Shang Haibo smiled slightly, "Your Majesty doesn't know that the initial implementation of these policies was in Dingzhou. Dingzhou was invaded by barbarians, and it was fragmented. The wealthy families either fled or destroyed their families, and a large number of homeless fields were abandoned. This cleared the biggest obstacle for Dingzhou to implement this policy. At first, this policy was implemented very smoothly. At the beginning, Li Qing was extremely distressed because he was too small, and a large amount of land could not be distributed, and no one was able to cultivate it."

"Later, with the increasing prosperity of Dingzhou, the population increased significantly every day, and the land began to show a tense trend. But at this time, Dingzhou won a huge military victory against the barbarians and seized the vast territory of the grassland. Therefore, the forest as the center, almost the same as the land of a prefecture in Dachu was developed, which greatly alleviated the difficulties in continuing to implement this policy."

"In the end, Li Qing successively obtained the states such as Bing, Lu, Wei, Quan, and Jin. Among these states, Dingzhou adopted a policy of redemption, purchasing land from the landlords with silver money, making it return to public ownership, and then distributing it."

"Will those landlords and wealthy families?" Tianqi said in surprise.

Shang Haibo smiled and said, "With the military power of Dingzhou, who dares not want to do so, who can do so? Besides, these landlords are not without gains. Dingzhou pays them a lot of money."

"This is also a trick to take advantage of the robbery. How can it be convinced?" Tianqi shook his head, "But why did those aristocratic families be so obedient to Li Qing under the rule of Dingzhou? Are they really afraid of his swords and guns?"

"No!" Shang Haibo shook his head, "Li Qing said that if you close a door of a person, you must open another window for him, otherwise it will be objected. Therefore, after Li Qing acquired a large amount of land from these landlords and wealthy families, he began to plan to make these people another way to make money, and it would come faster and easier than the money they operate the land. This led to the birth of various chambers of commerce in Dingzhou. These wealthy families had a lot of money in their hands, so Li Qing asked them to devote themselves to industry and commerce and use this money to bring greater profits."

"Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce! The business is the last, and most of these wealthy families are scholarly disciples, and they are willing to go to have a low career from now on?" Xiang Ping asked in confusion.

Shang Haibo snorted, "Business is a cheap business, but business can earn a lot of money. Li Qing knew that the world had the intention of belittlement of business, and vigorously improved the status of merchants in Dingzhou. He could tell Mr. Hou that there is a commerce department in Dingzhou. The director is a serious senior official in Dingzhou and has the right to participate in the formulation of various policies in Dingzhou. How did this director come about? Mr. Hou know?"

"Isn't it appointed by Li Qing?"

Shang Haibo shook his head, "This director was elected by the chambers of commerce under Dingzhou. The Dingzhou government did not interfere in this and chose once a year. Therefore, in order to win re-election, the director of the Commerce Department worked hard to earn profits for the subordinate chambers of commerce during his reign, hoping that merchants could make greater profits. It can be said that the merchants in Dingzhou are now a force that cannot be ignored in the political arena of Dingzhou. They can even control where Dingzhou will fight in the next step."

Everyone in the room couldn't help but lose their lust. "Think about it, although these wealthy families have lost their land, they have gained more money and have a political say. Can they not support Li Qing! Li Qing's iron hooves have stepped on it, and their commercial tentacles have reached there. Moreover, Dingzhou business has also changed the production of family workshops, replaced by huge factories, with extremely low production costs. You probably are wearing cotton underwear produced in Dingzhou?"

Shang Haibo asked with a smile. Although he implemented economic *** for Dingzhou, the Central Plains still need a lot of things that are luxury goods at present and cannot be made public. So let's smuggle them. Everyone here has these things. When they heard Shang Haibo's question, everyone's faces turned red and they looked at the Apocalypse.

Tianqi smiled, "Dear friends, don't worry, this kind of underwear is indeed comfortable to wear, and now I am wearing it in Dingzhou."

Listening to everyone's breath, Shang Haibo smiled and said, "A piece of cotton underwear is sold at a price of up to five taels of silver in Luoyang, but you know, how much is the cost in Dingzhou?"

Shang Haibo raised a palm and said, "Fifty cents!"

Everyone in the room was gasping for a breath, which was a hundred times the profit.

"This is such a high profit, so merchants are rushing to it. The Central Plains implements economic *** to Dingzhou, clamoring to fight the Central Plains to those people, these merchants. With this commerce director, he raised his arms and shouted that the subordinate chambers of commerce donated up to millions of taels of silver to Li Qing. Can you tell me?"

"It is precisely with these policies that Li Qing tied all the civilians, officials, and merchants under Dingzhou to his chariots, and was united. Can Dingzhou not prosper?"

Shang Haibo said so much in one breath, and felt a little dry. He subconsciously touched the tables beside him and wanted to drink a sip of water. Seeing this, Tianqi hurriedly shouted: "Eunuch Huang, serve tea for Lord Shang!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Shang Haibo bowed. "Your Majesty, can these policies in Luoyang implement in Dingzhou?"

Tianqi looked embarrassed, "It's not that it can't be done, but I'm afraid I'll have to slowly draw it."

Shang Haibo nodded. Of course, he knew that the great Chu was hard to return now. Imagining that as drastic as Dingzhou would only accelerate his collapse.

Qu Yongjie said: "Mr. Shang, these internal affairs are difficult to achieve results in a short period of time and require long-term implementation. I want to know why the Dingzhou army can form combat power in a very short period of time, the Dingzhou military system, and the Dingzhou army's command system!"

Shang Haibo took a sip of fragrant tea and slowly said: "At the beginning of the Dingzhou uprising, there were not many soldiers and horses, but the army had extremely strong combat power. This is the power of Li Qing and Li Dacheng alone. His training methods are indeed unique, and these training methods are probably no longer a secret. Didn't General Qu's Xingzhou soldiers also practice based on this?"

Qu Yongjie nodded, "That's true, but if you have a physical form and lose your spirit, and intersect with the Dingzhou soldiers, the Xingzhou soldiers and the current new army are still inferior. Someone wants to know, where is the difference between me?"

"This is not that the general is worse than Li Qing, but a system problem." Shang Haibo closed the cover bowl and said, "Dingzhou implemented a recruiting system, which is what Li Qing said. The military silence that the soldiers took. It is no exaggeration to say that the military silence of their ordinary soldiers is enough to be comparable to the officers of the army under Luoyang. The higher the official rank, the higher the military silence. Not only that, the soldiers' families can also enjoy various subsidies and discounts given by the government in the local area, which makes the soldiers have no worries at all. Moreover, once they are injured, they cannot engage in labor. Dingzhou will bear the living expenses in the future. Once they are killed, the pensions given by Dingzhou are even more generous. Based on this, Dingzhou soldiers have always been brave enough to move forward bravely and are not afraid of death, which is of course difficult to resist."

Qu Yongjie shook his head repeatedly, "How much money does this cost?"

"Of course, Dingzhou's military expenditure has always been the largest expenditure of Dingzhou and the largest financial burden of Dingzhou. But these are nothing compared to the victory on the battlefield. Dingzhou's recruitment and retirement system has reserved a large number of reserve soldiers for Dingzhou. It is no exaggeration to say that Dingzhou now has about 200,000 soldiers in Dingzhou, but when the war is really fought, once the whole mobilizes, Dingzhou can gather a reserve army with combat power that is no less than regular troops within a few years, and the number can reach more than 200,000."

Everyone was shocked. Once Dingzhou mobilized, 400,000 troops rushed in, what could the Central Plains resist?

"But it is precisely because Dingzhou spent too much on the army that it restricted him from forming an army on a large scale. He could only recruit new soldiers while retiring veterans so that the military expenditure could be stabilized at a level. Unless it was critically critical, Dingzhou would not establish a large-scale army." Shang Haibo said: "In addition to the combat power of the army, everyone in Dingzhou's military level must have passed. This involves another policy of Li Qing, vigorously promoting the theory of studying things and regulating the status of craftsmen and improving the status of craftsmen. Ren Ruqing, the current Minister of Works, is a craftsman. If a craftsman invents a powerful ordnance, he will be promoted immediately. The great craftsman is equivalent to a seventh-rank official in Dingzhou. This has also made Li Qing's military ordnance constantly improve, such as a strong assembling catapult, four-shot eight-cow crossbow, armor-breaking arrow, first-rank bow, hundred-shot crossbow, etc."

Qu Yongjie was deeply moved by this, "The army equipment of Dingzhou is indeed incomparable. Compared with it, our imperial guards can only be equal to it, and we are concerned about other armies. But this requires a huge amount of money, and we are really powerless to equip ordinary soldiers like Dingzhou with full body of iron armor."

Shang Haibo nodded, "In terms of iron smelting, steel training, and equipment making, Da Chu lags behind Dingzhou too much, and this is also impossible. But everything starts from scratch and is already behind, so you have to catch up. For example, you can improve the status of a craftsman to stimulate the inventive creativity of the craftsman, and then you can implement it immediately."

Tianqi nodded and said, "Time is endless, I have to seize the day. With Mr. Shang in charge of political affairs, I think we will catch up quickly with the absolute resource advantages and absolute talent advantages of Da Chu. These things can indeed be done immediately."

"When it comes to the military system!" Shang Haibo said again: "Li Qing has one advantage, that is, he will never interfere with how his subordinates fight. He just formulates a general strategic policy. Under this big strategy, how the generals fight is the generals' business. He only looks at the result. Dingzhou is now divided into five major armies, among which the legion Chen Zeyue is in charge of is still being formed. The generals of the five major armies are the mountain wind, Lu Dalin, Yang Yidao, Tian Feng and Zhen Zeyue. Now the biggest threat to us is the mountain wind group."

"Above the five armies, Gao has the Governor's Office of the Five Army, and the Governor is Li Qing's father Li Muzhi. The Governor's Office of the Five Army has personnel to serve the army but no military power, while the command of the five armies has military power but no military power, which restricts each other. As for the specific direction of responsibility, General Qu knows."

"So can Mr. Shang know that once Li Qing takes action, where will it start?"

"From Li Qing's layout, you can see that Li Qing returned in the land of Liaoshunshen. After the strategic bankruptcy of the outer edge of the country, he supported the Ning King of the South to form a three-way staggering force. He laid nearly 100,000 heavy troops in Qinzhou, accounting for almost half of the active soldiers in Dingzhou. The commander general was the first to use mountain wind under Li Qing. He put up horses to manage the soldiers and dismounted horses to manage the people. He knew that once he took action, Li Qing would definitely break through Xingzhou with the thunder and evenly to tear the Central Plains from it, and move forward, fight to the beach, and then use the navy as a supporter and advance land and water."

Everyone was silent, just as everyone thought, just to prove it by Shang Haibo. "In the Xingzhou Zhou Tong, the military reform must be carried out immediately. Zhou Tong must be allowed to quickly integrate his subordinates, otherwise it will be difficult to resist!" Tianqi gritted his teeth and said, "Tell Zhou Tong that if necessary, you can take ruthless measures and I will support him!"

"Yes, my subordinates understand!" Qu Yongjie nodded.

Turning back to Shang Haibo, "I have some context in my mind after listening to Mr. Shang's analysis. So, sir, who is more advantageous to Luoyang or Dingzhou?"

Shang Haibo said sternly and seriously: "I know that the strategy formulated by Your Majesty was to drag down Dingzhou economically, but I am frankly speaking, if the Great Chu did not make drastic reforms, the longer the time it took, the more beneficial it would be to Dingzhou. Whether it is the efficiency of the government, the combat power of the army, or the vitality of the economy, Dingzhou has an advantage. What is stronger than Li Qing is the only resource and talent, but if these are not effectively utilized, they will not play any role at all."
Chapter completed!