Mortal Mage

He looked up at the old man Liu Lizheng who was standing upright in front of him. After thinking for a while, he said to Liu Lizheng with a serious face, "The Ministry of Revenue will set up three new subordinate departments from now on. One department is called the Ministry of Land and Resources, one department is called the State-owned Assets Supervision Department, and one department is called the Ministry of Revenue Bank. All operations will be carried out according to the article Capital in the National Dynasty on my imperial examination paper."

"Do you understand?"

Zhang Mingxuan asked the dazed Liu Lizheng, if this happened, the entire empire would inevitably point its spearhead at the Ministry of Revenue, and Wang Mingde was now the hands-off boss, and he had no other choice but to do whatever he wanted.

"Sir, the article Das Kapital in this dynasty shocked the world, and I cannot fully understand it."

Liu Lizheng was a little confused.

"If you don't understand, feel free to ask me."

Zhang Mingxuan knocked on the table, stood up and stared at the old man Liu Lizheng. "You can withdraw the 600 million taels of silver that have been confiscated at will."

Liu Lizheng had a sad face. "Sir Zhang, these six hundred million taels are used for disaster relief, temple construction, ritual sacrifices, the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Personnel, officials' fire signals, and funerals." He shook his head, pouted, stared at Zhang Mingxuan's serious eyes and continued, "If it is misappropriated, I am afraid it will be difficult for me to explain to Your Majesty."

"Also, if we follow the article Capital in the Dynasty, it will be impossible to acquire mineral resources, merchants, and banks. These are all controlled by the prince's party. I'm afraid it will be difficult to move forward..."

Liu Lizheng looked embarrassed and his tone was full of helplessness.

"You draft the document first and distribute it to the various ministries. If any department works according to the document, you just allocate funds according to the note and don't worry about anything else."

Zhang Mingxuan threw the account book in his hand onto the table. Whether it would work or not, he had to take action. Otherwise, Li Si would come to trouble him.

When the matter was over, it was already late at night.

Zhang Mingxuan did not go home, but asked Wang Han to help clean up the bodies in his house. He then put together a table in the Zhenghe Hall and used it as a bed to live in the Ministry of Revenue. If someone tried to assassinate him, he would run to Li Si's bedroom.

He fished out the book on breathing techniques that Li Si had given him from his chest and took out a look at it.

Zhang Mingxuan roughly flipped through the book in his hand that was about breathing techniques that ordinary people could practice.

This book is not for cultivation at all, but a secret technique that can make useless spiritual roots grow into mixed spiritual roots.

He stared at the row of small words on the first page and thought for a long time.

The small characters read: "Nourishment from a large amount of spiritual stones."

--

"Bang, bang, bang."

The sound of gongs rang out one after another in the palace.

"The autumn wind brings coolness, the bright moon rises over the river, midnight, the beginning of summer heat."

Then came the endless sound of night watchmen beating the drums, which was too much to keep up with and continued in the palace.

Rows of young eunuchs holding lanterns and chanting passed by the outside of the Zhenghe Hall. Soon, they walked farther and farther away and could no longer be heard.

Zhang Mingxuan sat cross-legged with his eyes closed on several tables placed close together in the Zhenghe Hall, practicing the breathing method step by step.

"This breathing method requires the spiritual power in the spiritual stone to continuously nourish the whole body. If you practice like this, it will probably take thirty to fifty years to grow spiritual roots."

"I have only practiced for two hours, and this half of the spirit stone has already lost its luster. If I continue to practice, it will not be as simple as nourishing it with a large number of spirit stones. I am afraid that even a huge amount of spirit stones will barely be enough."

"Now the only spiritual vein in Taicang Empire has been sold to that immortal from the upper realm, and the remaining spiritual stones are in the hands of Emperor Li Si. If he ascends to the upper realm in ten years, the Canglang Continent without spiritual veins will surely become a dead end for immortal cultivators."