After traveling through time, I was spotted by the new emperor

Ye Wuwei slept until the afternoon, which was the longest sleep he had had in the more than two years since he came to Qi Dynasty.

Perhaps because the crisis was over, he slept very soundly.

Ye Wuwei lay in bed, not wanting to get up, until he heard Qi Wushuang's voice, "Awake?", and was suddenly startled.

Ye Wuwei looked towards the direction where the sound came from, and Qi Wushuang was sitting on a chair looking at him.

Ye Wuwei's first reaction was to sense his body. He didn't notice anything unusual before he sat up, hugging the thin blanket.

"when did you come?"

"I've been here for a while, but I didn't wake you up because you were sleeping so soundly."

Ye Wuwei thought to himself: When did his alertness drop so low? He didn't even wake up when there was another person in the room.

"Aren't you supposed to be busy today? How come you still have time to come to me?"

Qi Wushuang looked at Ye Wuwei.

The quilt completely covered Ye Wuwei's lower body, but her upper body was covered with a white silk robe without buttons or belts (a modern bathrobe), which exposed the middle of Ye Wuwei's chest.

Qi Wushuang stared at Ye Wuwei's well-defined, firm and powerful chest muscles for a few seconds, then turned his gaze back to Ye Wuwei's face.

Because he had just woken up, Ye Wuwei exuded a lazy air and his eyes were a little hazy.

Qi Wushuang's Adam's apple rolled unconsciously twice.

It seemed that he was right to resist the urge to "harass" Ye Wuwei just now, otherwise he was not sure whether he could have controlled himself.

"I just came from the palace. I came here because I have something to ask you."

"Wait for me in the living room. We can talk after I change into my robe."

If Ye Wuwei didn't know that Qi Wushuang was interested in him, he would have changed into his pajamas in front of Qi Wushuang. But he knew that Qi Wushuang was coveting him, and he was not a fool, so how could he come to her on his own initiative?

Qi Wushuang stood up and walked out of the room.

Ye Wuwei got out of bed and put on a robe. He brushed his teeth and washed his face before going to the living room.

There was a large food box on the table in the living room.

Ye Wuwei opened the food box, which contained several of his favorite dishes.

"Did you bring it?"

"When I arrived, I found you still asleep. I thought you must have not eaten, so I asked someone to bring you some food."

Ye Wuwei was indeed hungry.

He took the food out of the lunch box, picked up his chopsticks and started eating.

After taking two bites, Ye Wuwei asked symbolically, "Have you eaten yet?"

"have eaten."

After eating half full, Ye Wuwei asked while picking up some food: "Do you have any questions?"

"You know everything about Qi Chao, right?"

"learn."

"Then what do you think is Qi Chao's biggest problem now?"

Ye Wuwei looked at Qi Wushuang: "Do you really want to change the current situation?"

"I don't want to see the Qi Dynasty decay and rot under my rule. I want the Qi Dynasty to prosper, the country to be rich and the people to be strong, and the people from all over the world to come to pay tribute."

After hearing Qi Wushuang's words, Ye Wuwei said:

"The biggest problem facing the Qi Dynasty was that resources, including land, knowledge, and technology, were monopolized by aristocratic families, leading to an empty treasury and a miserable life for the people."

"So how do you think we can change the current situation?"

Ye Wuwei recalled ancient history.

In a certain dynasty, "the Wang family of Langya and the Sima family shared the world" was a classic example of the co-governance of aristocratic families and imperial power, but later, the power of the aristocratic families gradually declined.

But this process was long and brutal, involving several large-scale wars and the deaths of many people.

Ye Wuwei didn't want Qi Chao to follow the same path.

Ye Wuwei stopped eating and put down his chopsticks.

“The simplest, most direct and crude way to change the status quo is to impose taxes.

Places like Ledu where the Zhuang family lived and Fengdu where the Yuwen family lived were no longer taxed by themselves, but were collected by the imperial court.

But let's not talk about whether Zhuang and Yuwen families will agree to this. Even if they do, I'm afraid they will only pretend to obey and pass the tax burden on to the people.

If this continues, the people who are already living in poverty will inevitably rebel and the country will become unstable.

So this method is not feasible.”

Qi Wushuang also thought about levying taxes on the aristocratic families, but the consequences he thought of were the same as what Ye Wuwei said now.

Qi Wushuang took out a silk handkerchief from his pocket and handed it to Ye Wuwei: "If you say so, then we are helpless, right?"

Ye Wuwei took the silk towel and wiped his mouth, then threw it on the table.

“Of course there is a way.

But this is not something that can be accomplished overnight, you have to take it slowly and don't be impatient.

Also, we have to take a roundabout route and cut off the aristocratic family's advantage from the very beginning."

At this point, Ye Wuwei asked Qi Wushuang: "Why do you think aristocratic families can become aristocratic families?"

Qi Wushuang thought for a moment and said, "It's just what you said before, the aristocratic families control the land, knowledge, and technology."

“There are still talented people!”

“Yes, there are also talented people.”

"Then we'll dismantle them one by one.

For example, the Yuwen clan's important source of income is porcelain. Although we cannot force them to hand over the technology, we have glass.

This will not only seize part of the porcelain market and reduce the income of the Yuwen family, but also bring you huge wealth.

For example, the Zhuang family, whose main income comes from silk and sea salt, is now affected by the implementation of the Andu salt-drying method, which has affected the Zhuang family's sea salt income.

In the future, you should do the same thing and launch economic sieges or attacks on them.

In the long run, he will lose you and you will grow.

You can use the huge wealth brought by glass, salt, etc. to build canals and encourage people to reclaim wasteland.

After the common people had their own land, the land owned by the aristocratic families no longer had such a great advantage.

You can also lead the people in building new cities, commercial streets, and residential areas, and encourage them to move in.

Anyone who moves into or does business in the new city will be exempt from taxes for several years.

As a result, all free people would go to the new city, and the people of Ledu and Fengdu were no exception.

This further undermined the power of the Zhuang and Yuwen families.

besides……"

"You can talk about it later."

Qi Wushuang interrupted Ye Wuwei.

"Yu Shen came to Qamdo. He understands economics. I asked him to listen with Fu Chi."

Qi Wushuang came to see Ye Wuwei mainly because he wanted to get along with him, and asking Ye Wuwei for his opinion was more of a deliberate topic.

But he didn't expect that Ye Wuwei even understood people's livelihood and economy.

In this case, national affairs are more important at the moment.

Ye Wuwei thought about it.

Talking about economics with Qi Wushuang might be like talking to a cow.

Ye Wuwei was not a professional economics student, but he came from a modern society with extremely developed economy and trade, and he had lived in modern times for twenty-seven years, so he still understood the general economic concepts.

Although Ye Wuwei did not witness with his own eyes the transformation of a city from a fishing village into a super large special economic zone, he had seen relevant historical materials.

Moreover, a new district in Shanghai was also built from scratch.

When the new district was being developed, people were saying, "I would rather have a bed in the west than a room in the east." But with national policy support and economic backing, what can't be developed?

Of course, we can't build randomly, and there are many ghost towns in modern times.

However, the economy of the Qi Dynasty is currently underdeveloped, with only five economically developed cities in the country, one of which is the capital, one is Qi Wushuang's previous fiefdom, and two are occupied by aristocratic families. There is still much room for development.