Chapter 259

In the dim hall, the candlelight flickered with the remaining warmth of the day, which seemed a bit out of place in the sultry summer night.

The girl held up her wide sleeves in one hand and wrote with a pen in her other hand.

In the area not covered by the sleeves, a section of the jade-like wrist glows with a warm and moist texture like fine porcelain and jade.

She wrote with great concentration, her phoenix eyes staring at the paper in front of her unblinkingly, her thin curved eyebrows wrinkled from time to time, and her noble and delicate face was both delicate and sacred.

After Fang Tang finished writing the last word, he gently put down the brush and sighed.

"teacher."

The girl waited for a moment, but did not get the expected answer.

She pouted and had to raise her voice.

"teacher!"

"Meow!"

The Ragdoll cat suddenly woke up from the fight between its upper and lower eyelids, and the fur all over its body exploded with fear.

"what happened?"

Fang Weihan yawned widely, opened his bloodshot eyes, and his big tail drooped listlessly.

"Nothing, I just want to tell the teacher that I've finished writing."

Fang Tang put the scrolls in his hand into a pile, sorted them neatly, and patted them on the table.

"The detailed opinions on the reform of the tax system were compiled after the preliminary design of the teacher and me. I originally wanted to let the teacher take another look and add some modification suggestions..."

The girl threw the organized documents aside, turned her body and faced Fang Weihan, her eyes dim.

"The teacher seems to have no energy, so this step can be ignored."

The ragdoll cat shook his head, managed to cheer up, and licked his paws.

"No, I'm very energetic. Let me see first..."

He took two steps gracefully and stretched out his paws to touch the pile of papers that still smelled of ink.

The girl moved faster than him.

A small white hand directly took the pile of documents aside.

Fang Weihan: "..."

The ragdoll cat's outstretched paws froze in mid-air.

He turned his head and looked at Fang Tang in confusion.

"Teacher, you should rest more."

Fang Tang folded his hands on the table. He said it seriously.

"As a cat, I can see the dark circles under the teacher's eyes. I can't understand how the teacher tired himself out like this."

"Can you talk to me?"

The girl's body leaned forward slightly, her lustrous collarbone shimmering with a warm yellow tone in the candlelight, her plump breasts stretched out her palace skirt in a moving arc, and her bright eyes were full of concern and worry.

Of course Fang Weihan knew how he became like this.

It's not because of that damn meteorite.

The ragdoll cat looked up at the panel floating directly above Fang Tang in the void.

[Current progress: 3.94%]

The progress bar moved forward almost invisible to the naked eye.

I worked exhaustingly for half a night before I could barely complete 4% of the progress. This meteorite is really not a good thing.

My Yun Jiang is better...

"I did a big project today and it consumed a lot of energy."

The Ragdoll cat yawned widely and waved its paws.

"It's okay, don't worry about me, just bring the documents...let me take a look..."

As he spoke, he was about to stretch out his paws to get the documents again.

Fang Tang felt really unhappy when he saw him like this.

As a qualified king, it was her duty to care about the physical condition of her ministers. Fang Tang would never allow any minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty to damage his body due to overwork.

What's more, the teacher is not his subject, he is his teacher!

A teacher is a teacher. He is the best person in the world, besides his mother and...father.

If he treats himself well, then he should take his health into consideration.

If the teacher is tired because of his own affairs, Fang Tang will never forgive himself in his life.

This doesn't look like an emperor. The emperor should stand up and protect his subjects, instead of allowing his subjects to sacrifice for him!

The girl suddenly stood up and pulled them over before Fang Weihan's claws touched the pile of paper.

In order to prevent his teacher from stealing them again, Fang Tang looked around, trying to find a place that was out of reach of his teacher.

But she looked around and couldn't find a suitable place.

The young princess simply raised her thigh slightly, briefly separated her body from the stool, and sat directly on the pile of papers.

Maomao's eyes followed the document and finally landed on the young girl's curved waist and hips, which were already beginning to take shape.

cat plush:"……"

"The teacher is not allowed to look!"

She made some actions that were not in line with her status, making the noble girl feel a little embarrassed.

A light blush appeared on her cheeks, she gritted her teeth, and moved her delicate body to sit more firmly.

"You are my teacher, I will not allow you to destroy your body before me!"

Although he was very embarrassed, Fang Tang still poked his head seriously.

This little aunt...

Fang Weihan didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

His originally puzzled gaze suddenly softened a lot.

What a wonderful wife...grandma, she always thinks of others.

The world has not treated her gently, but she is willing to treat those who are truly good to her with kindness.

If she is a leader, this personality trait can easily win her people's following.

It's a pity...she didn't live until that time.

Fang Weihan was filled with regret.

She has done almost everything she can to the best of her ability. However, everyone is exhausted, but fate cannot be violated after all.

Fang Tang lacks almost no qualities to become a good emperor. What she lacks is just a little luck and someone who can treat her sincerely.

And Fang Weihan could find these two points for her.

The important task of saving my wife...grandma belongs to me.

"Then just listen to you, I won't read it."

Fang Weihan moved his eyes away from the girl's tempting body curves, squatted on the table, and met her eyes.

"Let's just talk about something else."

The Ragdoll cat yawned.

"What else do you want to know about governance?"

"Um……"

Fang Tang frowned his beautiful eyebrows.

"Let me think about it... Teacher has taught me how to defeat aristocratic families. Teacher has also taught me how to fill the national treasury..."

"stop!"

The ragdoll cat interrupted the girl's murmur.

"I didn't teach you this. Most of it was realized by you yourself. I just put forward two enlightening opinions at best."

Fang Weihan told the truth. He just borrowed the wisdom of countless sages in his mind, but Fang Tang, who quickly saw the powerful energy behind this plan and improved it, was truly powerful.

If she can let go and do this, the darkness and fatigue in Dazhou will be swept away.

“Then it’s considered the teacher and I came up with it together!”

Fang Tang thought for a moment, clapped his hands and smiled.

"Among the meritorious deeds that will be remembered in the future, Teacher will definitely be at the top of the list!"

The ragdoll cat waggled its tail reservedly, a little cheerfully.

"Now that you've said that... let me ask one more question."

"Teacher, tell me!"

Fang Tang quickly straightened his sitting posture and pulled his notebook from the side, looking like a good student.

"Have you noticed...that there are some problems with our current official system?"

Ragdoll Cat said slowly.

This was something he had noticed a long time ago.

The current official system of the Great Zhou Dynasty generally continued from the previous dynasty, except for some additional changes in a few places.

For example, there are a lot of redundant officials and redundant positions who are on free wages, such as Dr. Yinqing Guanglu.

These things originated from Emperor Wu Fang Ganyi, which was also a helpless and cheap move at the time.

Due to the large number of aristocratic families, it was difficult for the powerful administrative officials in the court to meet their needs for a while. The army was the foundation of the Zhou Dynasty, and the positions of generals could not be easily delegated.

In order to balance the relationship between all parties, Fang Ganyi had to compromise with the aristocratic families and fabricated many official positions that did not exist in the first place to accommodate the idle personnel of these aristocratic families.

In fact, at the triennial investiture ceremony of Qinghuo Academy, most of the conferrals awarded were official positions, which were empty positions with no name.

"What the teacher said is very true!"

When Fang Tang heard this, his beautiful eyes lit up and he instantly expressed his agreement.

"I guess the teacher must be talking about those empty-handed officials, right? If you ask me, these people should be hunted down and sent home to plant sweet potatoes!"

As soon as the girl mentioned this topic, she couldn't help but grit her teeth.

These damn moths don't want to stay in their well-off aristocratic courtyard, but they want to take a place in the court.

Every penny of taxes paid by the people should be turned into a piece of hard cast iron on a thousand-mile long wall, or into rammed earth, sand and gravel on a long river embankment, instead of flowing into the pockets of these fat guys!

"Although redundant officials have no role in issuing government orders, they cannot be eliminated."

Fang Weihan knew that Fang Tang would react like this.

My wife... my wife is good at everything, but she is a bit too strong and easy to break.

If she could learn half of Gou Jian's forbearance, then she would no longer have any shortcomings.

But it was this kind of Fang Tang that attracted Fang Weihan's appetite.

After all, he disliked Gou Jian very much.

"Even if you wipe out all the aristocratic families in the court, you still need to retain some redundant officials."

The ragdoll cat's azure vertical pupils reflected the soft candlelight.

He quietly stared at the thoughtful girl in front of him.

"You have to know that ruling a country is not a matter of one person. With your own strength, you simply cannot manage a huge empire tens of thousands of miles away. You need a group of people, a group of people who share the same goals and pursuit of common interests with you. .”

"There may be noble saints and passionate patriots among them, but such people are always in the minority. A larger proportion of those who follow you should be speculators. From you, we can see that they have advantages. A profitable person,"

"Suppressing a group of people will inevitably promote a group of people, and at the same time nail some people to the pillar of shame. This is an unchanging iron law, from ancient times to the present, without exception."

"And in order to ensure the smoothness of this power transfer process, redundant officials must exist."

Fang Tang slowly chewed everything Fang Weihan said.

When he showed his talents, but was not loved by his father; when he scolded the family, but was ostracized by the center of power. The young girl knew that the kind of unified scene she imagined in her ideal world did not exist.

All unity is based on common interests.

If people are born in this world and do not come to pursue material things, then what is the meaning of this physical existence? Such things as spiritual value are too illusory and can be seen from a distance but not played with.

She gradually understood what Fang Weihan said.

"Teacher, I understand!"

The girl nodded solemnly and wrote this down in her notebook.

"you understood?"

The ragdoll cat was stunned for a moment.

For a moment, Fang Weihan felt that another similar conversation suddenly appeared in front of him.

The more petite figure gradually stared out of the illusion, and gradually overlapped with the gorgeous and natural girl in front of him.

They all said they understood...but did they really understand?

The ragdoll cat shook its head violently, as if shaking off water drops from its body.

Impossible, impossible... This is the history of Yun Shu's organization five hundred years ago, and his position is the reality five hundred years from now.

Although one of their names is Fang Tang and the other is Tangtang, they have similar pronunciations.

But... after all, he is not a person in time and space.

There can be countless lines on a plane that do not intersect with one line, and there are even more in a space. If the time scale is added, it will be even more difficult to exhaust.

They... just have some similarities.

Fang Weihan said this to himself in his heart.

But doubt is like a seed. If it doesn't see the light of day, it will always be buried in your heart, just waiting for an opportunity to sprout.

Once buried, it can never be removed.

"Okay, teacher, do you have any questions?"

The girl tilted her head, her bun was dignified and beautiful, and the imperial princess inadvertently displayed her peerless grace.

"no problem."

Fang Weihan suppressed the annoyance and doubts in his heart and changed the topic.

"In addition to the problem of redundant officials, there is another problem: the efficiency of our current official system is somewhat too low."

"For example, the Shangshu Province has many overlapping functions among the thirty-four Shangshu Yamen below, which always results in disorganized delivery of orders. Moreover, the Shangshu Province obviously undertakes the most complex affairs, but does not have a formal official system as a calibration. "

"Below the ministers, there are thirty-four ministers. What about the thirty-four ministers? There are no more! There is no further subdivision. This official system is obviously not enough."

Fang Tang's eyes sparkled, obviously moved by Fang Weihan's words.

"Does the teacher have any good suggestions?"

"We can directly cancel the Shangshu Province and set up six ministers to be directly responsible to the emperor... At the same time, the Zhongshu sect will be restructured and merged..."

Fang Weihan told Fang Tang in detail the final form of the centralized bureaucracy.

"But these measures are not urgent. After all, they have greatly weakened the power of the minister. We can take it step by step."

He added another sentence.

"Listen to the teacher!"

Fang Weihan became more energetic as he talked, and he discussed with Fang Tang to leave through time until dawn.

The girl looked at the paper in her hand that was filled with densely written small characters, her eyes trembled slightly, and she seemed to be in a daze.

While marveling at the teacher's wealth of knowledge about managing the world and benefiting the people, Fang Tang was also thinking about another question.

"Teacher, tell me... if everyone in the world gathers together for a common goal, then what is the purpose of helping me like this...?"

The imperial princess murmured softly.

"What... do you want from me?"

The candles in Yingluan Hall had been burning all night, and there were few wicks left, making a crackling sound.

The chaotic firelight was swaying, just like the girl's mood at the moment.

(End of this chapter)

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