"Wu Daoqi's financial and military powers that were given to the cabinet must be taken back!"
Gu Jinzhi's slightly tired face had a very serious expression as he gave final instructions to Li Wei, who was eager to try.
"Also, try to use your intimidation power to propose the idea of combining taxes and labor service and collecting taxes based on acreage. I want to see what their attitude is."
Li Wei nonchalantly scratched her ears, "How dare they have such an attitude?"
She curled her lips and didn't care.
"You want to implement a unified system? I think we should just make all the gentry pay taxes together..."
Hearing Li Wei lightly mention the "One Whip Law" and "Gentry and Scholars Pay Tax Together", Gu Jinzhi's eyes suddenly lit up with a bit of surprise.
"You still understand this?"
Li Wei raised her chin proudly: "How fresh?"
Seeing the faint dark circles under Gu Jinzhi's eyes, she changed the subject.
"I say, you don't really want to complete the test of the Sky Mirror, do you?"
"In my opinion, I should just lie down for three years and take a long vacation."
As she spoke, she rolled up her wide sleeves, revealing her entire snow-white and tender arms, and bent them hard, trying to show off her non-existent biceps.
"With me here, is it possible that there are still enemies that can break into the capital?"
Upon hearing this, Gu Jinzhi did not respond directly, but said calmly: "Do you remember what I said ten days ago?"
"Try not to reveal your sixth-level strength, especially after Min Zimo and Su Mo are here."
Li Wei still felt that he was worrying too much and worrying about nothing.
So what if the upper limit of the power of the mirror world is broken?
As the chosen one of God, isn't Li Wei specifically here to break all kinds of limits and create all kinds of miracles?
However, considering that Gu Jinzhi was so serious, Li Wei decided to give him some face and keep it secret for the time being.
Think about it from another angle. Can we say that she has degenerated from a new-age protagonist who would chop and chop at the slightest disagreement to an old-fashioned protagonist who pretends to be a pig and eats the tiger and develops in a wretched manner?
Although he has degenerated, he is still the protagonist, right?
At this moment, the argument in the front hall suddenly became intense.
At first, only the four ministers in the cabinet expressed their opinions, and their words were relatively restrained.
But gradually, Wei Xun and Chu Hong from the Imperial Household Department were somehow involved.
The focus of the debate gradually shifted from the details of government affairs to the evaluation of the strategy of Xu Yuncheng, the governor of four provinces, to suppress bandits.
Supporters believed that Xu Yuncheng's strategy was very effective and greatly compressed the space for bandits to operate. As long as the court could continue to persevere, the bandits would be wiped out in the near future.
The opposing side believed that Xu Yuncheng's mobilization of troops had wasted countless national treasury funds over the past two years, forcing the court to levy additional "suppression pay" to meet military needs, which was unbearable for the people.
More importantly, in terms of implementation, they only knew how to suppress violently without any intention of appeasing the people, resulting in more and more people being coerced into following the bandits. If this continues, sooner or later a huge mess will be caused.
Each side held their own view, citing classics, and argued until their faces turned red and saliva flew everywhere.
The four members of the cabinet were clearly divided into two groups and were arguing with each other.
Even the two dead eunuchs from the Imperial Household Department chose sides, making it a three-on-three situation.
At this point in the argument, both sides no longer cared about their camaraderie as colleagues or their misconduct in front of the king.
He almost pointed at the other person's nose, scolding him as a traitor who was bringing disaster to the country and the people, and he wished he could have a real fight with him on the spot.
Gu Jinzhi listened to the movement in the front hall and felt that the time was almost right.
He gently pushed Li Wei beside him.
"Go ahead."
Li Wei grinned, revealing a bit of cunning, but did not immediately move towards the front hall. Instead, she posed in various postures on the spot with great interest.
Gu Jinzhi looked at her behavior and was confused.
"You are..."
Li Wei changed to a classic action of a hero's appearance in a model opera and answered confidently, "I have to think carefully about what pose I should use to show off later!"
Gu Jinzhi: “…”
He wanted to reach out and cover his face.
However, years of good education and ingrained cultivation allowed him to suppress this impulse.
After a while, Li Wei gave up in frustration.
She is a feudal landlord, and the way she appears in these postures is really too incongruous.
But if she just walked out like this, it would destroy her status as the protagonist...
So, she began to search for "good teachers and helpful friends" in her memory bank again.
Soon, because the sense of déjà vu of the "cabinet + Silijian meeting" in the front hall was too strong, Li Wei had a flash of inspiration in her mind, and she really thought of a perfect way to make her debut.
“Ahem!”
She cleared her throat solemnly, then imitated the appearance of a certain master in her memory, walking towards the front hall slowly and gracefully.
As she walked, she shook her head and chanted:
"I have practiced to the point where my body resembles a crane, holding two boxes of scriptures beneath a thousand pine trees..."
As soon as her voice, which was clear, melodious, and with a deliberately created ethereal and otherworldly feeling, came out.
In the front hall, the four cabinet ministers who were arguing so loudly that their faces turned red and their necks became thick, together with the two eunuch leaders who were jumping up and down and fanning the flames, stopped all sounds and movements almost at the same time.
They stood up suddenly, straightened their clothes, and looked solemn.
Without even waiting to see Li Wei's figure clearly, he knelt respectfully on the ground, with his forehead pressed against the cold gold brick.
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