"Hua Jinchuan, I pay my respects to His Majesty."

A handsome young man was brought up. He lowered his eyebrows and eyes, saluted obediently with standard movements.

When Xiao Li saw the other person's clothes, his eyebrows raised slightly.

Although she doesn't care about low-level officials, she still encounters them occasionally. This clothes is clearly the uniform of a small official.

Song Junzhan explained with a smile: "Your Majesty asked me to arrange their places. I thought about it for a long time and decided to follow your Majesty's example and never waste talents. Hua Jinchuan's literature is not good enough, but he is good at mathematics. I will let him work in the Ministry of Revenue."

Xiao Li laughed: "That's quite elegant. If we follow her example, we won't waste talent? Are you sure we won't enslave people?"

The arithmetician in the Ministry of Revenue would work on his abacus until smoke came out every day.

"Get up."

Xiao Li raised his hand: "Please sit down."

Hua Jinchuan was a little surprised to hear that he was being asked to sit down, but he didn't forget to thank him first: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

Then he looked up and met the pair of eyes looking at him with excitement.

Hua Jinchuan's numb face suddenly became lively, and he was extremely surprised: "Brother, why are you here?"

Hua Qichuan raised his hand to let him in. After more than three years, the two brothers finally met. Hua Jinchuan burst into tears instantly, and Hua Qichuan was also very excited.

"Don't cry. You can't be disrespectful in front of His Majesty."

Hua Qichuan suppressed his excitement, patted Hua Jinchuan comfortingly, turned around and bowed deeply: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

Hua Jinchuan is young and handsome, and was sent to Longsheng just to please the empress.

Noble ladies molested young boys, and all kinds of abuse, humiliation, and even death were common.

Hua Qichuan had already prepared for the worst, and his only prayer was that the person was still alive, nothing more.

Unexpectedly, everything took a turn for the better. He actually met the empress at the border of Yundan. The empress was such an outstanding person that his brother was not only not tortured, but looked fine.

Looking at the empress and the two people beside her, he even felt sorry for a moment because the empress didn't like his younger brother.

There is a world of difference between being toyed with by a noble lady and following such an empress.

But he could only think about these things and could never speak them out.

After the banquet, Xiao Li arranged accommodation for Hua Qichuan in the palace and gave Hua Jinchuan a token so that the two brothers could meet at any time.

Hua Qichuan felt that the empress was not simply keeping him here out of hospitality, but he couldn't guess what she was thinking, and it might not be that easy for him to take his brother away.

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In the imperial study, Song Junzhan stood in front of Xiao Li's desk.

"Hua Lin, the ruler of Yundan, is a smart but timid man. He knows how to assess the situation and is flexible. It won't take a long time for Long Sheng to capture Yundan."

Yundan is really just a tiny country, close to the sea, with not much land and only three large cities. If you really want to fight, you can take it down in ten days.

Hua Qichuan felt that Song Junzhan asked so many questions because he might have some plans for Yundan and perhaps wanted to use him.

However, Song Junzhan was simply looking for a topic to talk about. As for trying to find information about others through their conversations, it was purely instinctive and he was used to it.

It is true that the Empress has feelings for Yundan, but she really doesn't need to use anyone. Just based on what Hua Qichuan said, the Empress already knew most of it.

Besides, there is such a small area, it won’t take much effort for a large army to invade.

Next to Xiao Li hung a map of the world.

Beicang and Yue Kingdom were completely included in Longsheng's territory. The surrounding countries included Yundan, Xiqi, Chirong and Baidi. These four countries bordered Longsheng. Further out, there were more than a dozen small countries and tribes. For example, the Southern Region, which occupied a mountain range but did not become a country, was ruled by the Wu tribe.

In Xiao Li's eyes, these circles were like the conditions for her to pass the level.

As long as she passes these levels and unifies the world, perhaps she will get what she wants.

The two thought for a while and finally decided to appoint Hua Jinchuan as the envoy of Izumo to persuade Yundan to surrender.

Hua Qichuan rushed over after hearing this: "Does Her Majesty insist on Yundan?"

Xiao Li was in no hurry to explain. Instead, he handed him the plan that the six ministries had worked out together: "Read this first, then come and talk to me."

Others have an imperial mindset when conquering the world: conquer this territory, plunder its resources, enslave the people, and make me their king.

Xiao Li’s way of conquering the world is based on the mindset of a boss: his own country is a big company, and other countries are small companies. He acquires, merges, and then unifies management to make the company bigger and stronger.

The emperor lives by plundering the world, and everyone is a leek, to be harvested in wave after wave.

Xiao Li makes the company run, generates benefits, and then distributes the profits, making money from money.

Officials are in management and the people are employees.

The people and officials are rich, and she controls absolute power. With factories, gunpowder, sugar, and salt, and the business is developing, how can she be short of money?

Invest first, then profit.

Xiao Li's way of governing the world was fundamentally different from that of all other emperors.

One is to exploit the people, the other is to make the country strong and the people rich.

Anyone with a common sense can tell whether those political measures are good or bad.

Hua Qichuan is a Yundan noble. Xiao Li doesn't think he will sympathize with the people, but he is still knowledgeable and kind-hearted, and he should know what this plan means.

After reading it, Hua Qichuan was indeed speechless.

He had been in Longsheng for two months and had heard enough stories.

The fact that the people of Longsheng have not paid any taxes for three years is already far superior to other countries.

In this plan, politics, commerce, agriculture, manufacturing, and animal husbandry are all categorized, and the description is simple and clear.

As long as there is strong execution to improve it, it will definitely be a powerful and prosperous era.

Hua Qichuan stood before the empress again, his attitude now calm. "Your Majesty, my king cannot be persuaded to surrender. Even if Jinchuan goes back, it will be useless."

Xiao Li glanced at him with a smile: "Do you think I have to rely on your brother to take down Yundan?"

Song Junzhan added, "The Izumo envoy is only a leading representative. The real person in charge is the official from the Ministry of Rites. The envoy will be escorted by 500 silver-armored guards, and tens of thousands of troops will be mobilized at the border to await him."

Persuading you to surrender does not mean not fighting you, but giving you a chance first.

If you are shameless, don't blame us for using some physics.

But don’t say that Yundan didn’t provoke Long Sheng and unified the world. Don’t be too particular about details.

Besides, aren’t they trying to persuade them now?

A country of etiquette that uses courtesy before force.

Hua Qichuan: ...Is this the etiquette of bandits?

Why should he be here listening to others destroy his country?

"His Majesty."

Hua Qichuan lifted his clothes and knelt upright, pleading, "Yundan is my hometown. I cannot bear to see it destroyed. Your Majesty, please reconsider."

No matter how good the empress's way of governing the country is, Long Sheng is Long Sheng and Yun Dan is Yun Dan. He cannot betray his country because of a plan.

No matter how rich or good other people's families are, they are still other people's families. No matter how poor your own family is, it is still your own family.

Although he knew that his plea would not be able to influence the emperor, he could not stand by and watch indifferently.