Yu Zizhen doesn't care what other people think. The person she likes is finally willing to put aside all concerns and be with her, so of course she has to seize the opportunity.
This is the only person she has ever been moved by in her two lives. It is rare that this person is also moved by her. She would be stupid to hesitate and procrastinate.
The others had complicated thoughts, Xiao Yuanjin was so shy that he couldn't even lift his head, only Yu Zizhen was so happy that the smile on his face didn't fade the whole day.
After the wedding of Yu Zizhen and Xiao Yuanjin, Yu Zizhen officially began her journey of governing the country.
According to the agreement she had with several important ministers before ascending the throne, when Yu Zizhen was in power, he was only concerned about how to improve people's livelihood.
Reducing taxes and levies is necessary, unreasonable laws must be revised, and land reform is imperative.
In addition, Yu Zizhen also needs to improve the country's education and medical levels, increase the speed of information dissemination, open up trade routes, develop water conservancy, and introduce favorable policies to promote the development of various industries... It really is a complicated matter.
In order to speed up the progress, Yu Zizhen decisively assigned some daily affairs to her newly appointed emperor (bitter) husband (powerful) Xiao Yuanjin.
As for herself, she was much busier than Xiao Yuanjin. In order to open up trade routes, she had been exchanging information with the Little Naiyin System these days.
She has to read the exchange information, and after reading it, she has to analyze it together with the baby voice system, trying to select a few relatively safe trade routes so that she can trade with neighboring countries.
Whether this trade is profitable or not is secondary. Yu Zizhen mainly wants to enrich China's crop varieties bit by bit by opening up trade routes.
She wanted to get some high-yield crops like sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn to farm.
There are too many things to do and too few people available. Yu Zizhen is so busy every day that he even dreams about how to better develop agriculture and the economy so that the people can have enough food and clothing and live a relatively stable and happy life.
She is already so busy, let alone her important officials.
You know, Yu Zizhen is only responsible for determining the general direction and providing relevant information. The specific planning, execution, supervision, acceptance, feedback and improvement are all the responsibility of her trusted subordinates.
Everyone is competing with each other like a spinning top, but some guys who enjoy wealth and leisure to the point of being enviable are so tactless that they have to cause trouble for them when they are busy.
The first person to cause trouble for them was Concubine Zhang, the mother of the eldest princess Xiao Yuanjiu. When Lu Tong launched the palace coup, this person was very lucky not to be in the palace. She was sent to the temple by the then queen Xiao Lu to pray for the then queen mother Da Lu.
When Yu Zizhen left the capital, the eldest princess did not leave with the private soldiers she sent, but went to her biological mother, Concubine Zhang, to watch her stay in the temple obediently, so as to prevent her from causing any trouble due to her wild ideas.
Concubine Zhang was a strange person who bullied the weak and feared the strong. She was quite honest in front of the queen, powerful palace maids and even most monks and nuns, but in front of the eldest princess, she was very good at making trouble.
Ever since Yu Zizhen returned to Beijing, Concubine Zhang's heart was like a weed growing in her heart. She forced the eldest princess almost every day to make friends with Yu Zizhen and ask for benefits.
The eldest princess disagreed and had her watched openly and secretly.
Concubine Zhang was furious, and the mother and daughter quarreled and had cold wars countless times because of this. However, no matter how the eldest princess threatened or tempted her, she was unwilling to leave Huangjue Temple in person or let her go.
Unable to persuade the eldest princess who was determined to do what she wanted, Concubine Zhang was angry, but she had no choice but to find another way. She used bribery to find help from the palace maids, monks and nuns who were responsible for keeping an eye on her.
You know what, this time Concubine Zhang did a smart thing.
Among those palace maids who came to Huangjue Temple with her in the name of praying, which one would be willing to continue staying in Huangjue Temple to endure the days?
There are also the monks of Huangjue Temple. As one of the royal temples of Da Qi, their current situation is actually very embarrassing.
In particular, the current emperor Yu Zizhen did not grant certain privileges to Buddhism and Taoism like the rulers of previous dynasties.
In the Great Qi Dynasty, temples, nunneries, and Taoist temples were not only exempt from taxes, corvée labor, and military service, but they also enjoyed preferential treatment under the law. The laws of the Great Qi Dynasty explicitly stipulated that monks, nuns, Taoist priests, and women could be pardoned if they committed a crime.
As for Yu Zizhen, no one who lives under her rule can give her any privileges.
She advocated that the law was above everything else. Not to mention monks, nuns, Taoist priests and nuns, even those nobles who were awarded titles for their merits, she would not give them any other privileges besides the imperial edict.
The most important thing is that she has not yet issued a red book of honor to any meritorious official.
Of course, this is not because Yu Zizhen is stingy. She doesn't give it out mainly because no one under her command is qualified to get it.
As a powerful monarch with her own cheats, even if Yu Zizhen did not personally fight in all the important battles during the founding of the country, she definitely contributed excellent strategies and secret weapons. Only then could everyone use various unexpected methods to quickly win the battles with minimal casualties.
In addition, before the war began, she made painstaking preparations and laid a solid foundation for the founding of the country on her own.
If we take a comprehensive approach, if the total contribution of her ministers to the founding of the country is 2, then her contribution as a monarch to the founding of the country can at least be 1.
There were so many of them sharing a 2, but she was able to monopolize the entire 1. Who would dare to be proud of himself in front of her if he had any idea of success?
These people no longer dared to be proud of their achievements. How could those monks who had made no contribution to Yu Zizhen dare to compete with her when Yu Zizhen was at the peak of her power?
Yu Zizhen issued a policy to encourage monks to return to secular life, and ordered temples, nunneries, and Taoist temples across the country not to obstruct them for any reason. They endured it silently.
Yu Zizhen required temples, nunneries, and Taoist temples across the country to become part of the tax-paying army in accordance with the revised laws of the Chinese state, and required them, like everyone else, to pay food and silver to redeem themselves according to the corresponding standards if they were unwilling to perform corvée labor or military service. They were heartbroken to the point of being unable to breathe, but they still endured it silently.
Yu Zizhen asked them to abide by the law. If they violated the law, they would no longer be allowed to redeem their money by relying on their status as "monks". Although they were not very happy about it, they thought about the greater interests they had given up before, so they finally endured it silently.
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