Taking the initiative to remarry! The crazy prince is obsessed with me

The Imperial Observatory quickly selected a date, which was set on September 18th, three months later.

Emperor You'an wrote the edict seriously and handed over all government affairs to the crown prince. From then on, he had no more worries. He took a pill every day and summoned a beauty every night, and he was extremely happy.

I just drink tea and play with birds during the day, it’s so relaxing.

Here, Murong Xuan handled state affairs step by step. On September 18th, he sat on the throne peacefully, changed the reign title to Qianyuan, and honored Emperor You'an as the Supreme Emperor.

Murong Xuan issued an edict, naming Shen Xiyue as the empress, honoring Queen Qin as the empress dowager, and Queen Dowager Jiang as the grand empress dowager. As for those people from Emperor You'an's former concubines... according to Emperor You'an's wishes, they were all named concubines dowagers.

After Murong Xuan became emperor, he realized that what Emperor You'an had left him was a huge mess that looked bright and beautiful on the surface but was actually empty on the inside.

The total amount of money owed by local governments to the national treasury in recent years is as much as 30 million taels!

Emperor You'an...is such a good father.

Fortunately, Shen Xiyue was not idle over there either. She handed over all the good strategies for governing the country condensed from dozens of later-generation experiences compiled by Gu Zhilan to Murong Xuan.

After Murong Xuan summoned several trusted ministers headed by Song Xiang to discuss the matter, he gave the order to start executing.

The first thing Gu Zhilan wrote was, if you want to be rich, build roads first.

Shen Xiyue felt that this was simply the most essential of all the strategies.

Whether by land or water, as long as there are convenient transportation in all directions, the trade between merchants will naturally flourish, and the taxes that merchants can pay will naturally increase. Why worry about not filling the national treasury?

Therefore, the task of road construction was handed over to her eldest cousin Song Cang, and her second cousin Song Lian was responsible for assisting... After all, the second cousin was the biggest businessman in Dashun, and he had stepped on almost every inch of land in Dashun.

The task of building the canal was given to Tan Yichun, the Minister of Works, who was already an expert in water conservancy.

The second suggestion made by Gu Zhilan was to open ports for foreign trade.

At that time, Gu Zhilan talked about the history of their later generations' isolation from the outside world, saying that sticking to the old ways would lead to a dead end. Shen Xiyue remembered the phrase "learn from the barbarians in order to defeat them" very clearly, so she proposed to hold a special examination, sending the new scholars to the other side of the ocean to study for a year, and then entrusting them with important tasks when they come back.

At the same time, merchants from Dashun were also encouraged to try to sell silk, tea, etc. to the West.

But to do these things, the first thing you need is money for everything.

So when Minister Zhao of the Ministry of Revenue opened his eyes and saw a bunch of people coming to him to ask for money, he was about to cry!

Where does he get the money? The Ministry of Revenue is in charge of money, not in producing money!

Last time, two new ministries were set up and another one million taels of silver were spent. Not to mention that the Ministry of Education made money, but the Ministry of Commerce, none of the money it earned has been handed over to the national treasury!

Is it something he can solve if he has no money?

Minister Zhao is just doing his job for a monthly salary!

Then Shen Xiyue had a flash of inspiration. Since she could borrow Gu Zhilan's future brain to study good policies for governing the country, why couldn't she borrow future money to solve the current predicament?

She even specifically asked Gu Zhilan: "Has anyone in your later generations used this method?"

Gu Zhilan was shocked when she heard this. Isn't this the national debt of their time? Shen Xiyue actually figured it out? Is she a monster? She has improved so fast?

Is this the extraordinary talent that a true girl of destiny possesses?

After a while, she resigned herself to her fate and said, "Yes, in our time, it was called national debt."

In simple terms, it means that the people are asked to lend money to the court at high interest, and the rich use their idle silver to buy bonds issued by the court. After the maturity, the court will return the principal and interest to the people.

This method is simply amazing. The most amazing thing is that in this way, almost all the silver of Dashun is controlled by the court. Although the interest rate of the national debt is not high, it is stable and legal!

So instead of letting the silver gather dust in the warehouse, it is better to make money from it!

But new policies always need someone to take the lead, so Shen Xiyue sold the two million taels of silver she earned from her bookstore and incense shop for national debt. Qin Guogong followed closely and also bought one million taels, then Song Xiang, and then all the civil and military officials bought more or less...

When the common people saw that even the officials were so enthusiastic, they also rushed to lend money to the court.

Minister Zhao was so moved that he almost cried. No matter how much the emperor suppressed him when he was the crown prince, and how he divided his power and suppressed his influence, once something happened, he would really solve the problem!

So he took the opportunity to do something serious and surrender to Murong Xuan.

That is, in today's Dashun, taxes are levied on the land owned by the common people, but no taxes are levied on the land owned by officials, even if there are thousands of acres of fertile land.

As a result, many people registered their land under the names of officials...to evade taxes!

Murong Xuan smiled slightly, waved his hand, and got inspiration from the national debt method. He directly announced that all the land in the world belonged to the court and private trading was not allowed.

Secondly, the people were no longer employed by landlords to farm the land, but were directly employed by the government, which distributed land to the people.

In places with plenty of land, people make a living by farming, and each household divides the land according to the number of people, so each person can get an additional five or six acres.

In places where land is scarce, there must be other production activities besides farming, so less land will be allocated.

After the harvest every year, except for the 30% public grain that was paid to the court, the rest belonged to them.

In this way, wealth will not be too concentrated in the hands of the rich and powerful, while the common people at the bottom will have difficulty making a living.

Normally this is not an easy task, after all, it directly infringes upon the rights of some people, so Murong Xuan simply grabbed the group of people who were jumping the most happily, looked at their heads, and then raided their homes.

Tell everyone, you can't occupy this land just because you want to.

At first, some court officials were somewhat dissatisfied with Murong Xuan's series of thundering reforms, but by the end of the year, when the finances were counted, no one said anything.

Because the silver recovered by the Ministry of Revenue was not only used to make up for the previous bad debt of 30 million taels and repay the issued six-month national debt, but also had a surplus of 50 million taels... Although it was not much, it was just the beginning after all!

Shen Xiyue specially published this financial report to the people of Dashun in the newspaper.

Not only did the whole country celebrate, but it was also full of trust in the future court.

Now that the treasury had money, the next thing to do was to reorganize the military.

Gu Zhilan said she could make steel.

Then practice!

The entire Ministry of War cooperated, mining, smelting steel, and designing and forging new weapons for Gu Zhilan... The knives, swords, and spear heads that could cut through iron like mud, as well as the fire tubes brought back from the West, were also remodeled.

Shen Xiyue promised Gu Zhilan that her name would go down in history, and wanted to publicize the matter in the newspaper, but she didn't expect that in the end, Gu Zhilan refused.

She seemed to have finally let it go: "Forget it... I didn't come up with these things. I'm just teaching you the experience of later generations... My existence was an accident. There's no need to leave a name in history."

Shen Xiyue didn't force her anymore.

However, Dashun's military strength was increasing rapidly, and it was no longer Dashun that was responsible for guarding the border.

So Murong Xuan reorganized the Shen family army that was originally stationed in Western Xinjiang, leaving a part of it stationed where it was, and dispersing some to various cities along the border of Western Xinjiang. He also promoted a number of young generals trained by Lord Shen, and assigned these generals to a unified position with the generals of the Qin family army, rotating the garrisons every three years.

In this way, Lord Shen and his wife were finally able to return to the capital with peace of mind.

Everything is ready, and Shen Xiyue has begun looking forward to the New Year.

Dashun’s annual holiday is very long. After finishing a year’s work, various departments began to take holidays one after another. For a time, the whole capital was filled with a relaxed and happy atmosphere.

In such a pleasant situation, I can’t help but think that such days are really nice, and it would be best if they could always be like this!

No, with such an emperor and queen around, things will definitely be better in the future.