Chapter 1626 Untitled
Early the next morning, Ye Mingsheng slowly woke up from his sleep and saw Shen Yutong, who had already dressed up, standing in front of him.

Looking at the tall and beautiful Shen Yutong, Ye Mingsheng felt a little emotional. Among the women in his harem, Shen Yutong’s age was relatively moderate. She was two or three years younger than An Miaoyi and Murong Qingwu, but seven or eight years older than Chen Rouer and Murong Xinyun.

Therefore, Shen Yutong, who was only thirty years old at this time, could be said to have both the purity of a girl and the charm of a woman. If she was not too resentful sometimes, she would truly be a rare partner.

Just when Ye Mingsheng was secretly sighing in his heart, Shen Yutong saw Ye Mingsheng looking straight at her, and felt secretly happy in her heart.

In order to show her most perfect side to Ye Mingsheng, she asked the palace maid beside her to wake her up at the hour of Yin in the morning last night, and then she started to bathe and dress up. In order to make herself more radiant, she even put on her favorite sapphire necklace!

Although this series of actions made Shen Yutong a little tired, and she got up at Yinshi and was still a little sleepy, but when she looked at Ye Mingsheng’s expression at this moment, Shen Yutong felt secretly happy and also felt that all her preparations were worth it.

Although she knew that Ye Mingsheng was looking at her, Shen Yutong still pretended not to know and asked:
“Your Majesty, what are you staring at so intently?”

Ye Mingsheng shook his head instinctively, and then was about to get up. As the emperor, Ye Mingsheng had palace maids to serve him when he got up to change clothes. So when they saw Ye Mingsheng was about to change clothes, two palace maids were about to come over, but Shen Yutong directly took Ye Mingsheng’s clothes and wanted to help Ye Mingsheng change clothes herself.

Seeing this, Ye Mingsheng looked at Shen Yutong with some doubts, and Shen Yutong said softly:

“I usually don’t have the blessing to serve Your Majesty. Today, Your Majesty has finally come. I hope Your Majesty will give me a chance…”

Although Shen Yutong was not experienced in helping people get dressed, and even seemed a little clumsy, seeing how pitifully she spoke, Ye Mingsheng did not say anything, thus tacitly approving of Shen Yutong’s behavior.

After getting Ye Mingsheng’s permission, Shen Yutong continued to help Ye Mingsheng put on clothes. However, as a noble concubine, she was usually served by palace maids, nannies, and eunuchs. She had never served others before and seemed particularly clumsy in the process.

On weekdays, Ye Mingsheng would take half a cup of tea to get dressed, and after another cup of tea with her help, he could barely get dressed. After getting dressed, Ye Mingsheng wanted to go out for morning exercise, but at this moment, Shen Yutong spoke up;
“Your Majesty! I have asked the imperial kitchen to prepare breakfast. Would you like to have some?”

Hearing what Shen Yutong said, Ye Mingsheng was a little hesitant. At this time, Jingcheng came out from nowhere. Shen Yutong took Jingcheng’s hand and continued to say to Ye Mingsheng:

“Your Majesty, Sister Pei said that you must eat breakfast every day. I specially asked the imperial kitchen to make millet porridge for you, Your Majesty!”

After hearing this, Ye Mingsheng looked at Jing Cheng’s expectant expression and felt a little softened, then nodded.

Seeing Ye Mingsheng nodding, a strange look flashed in Shen Yutong’s eyes.

When having breakfast with Shen Yutong and Jingcheng, Ye Mingsheng also reminded Jingcheng to study hard, focus on his studies, and not always think about eating and playing.

Jingcheng agreed neatly, but looking at his second son’s nonchalant expression, Ye Mingsheng understood clearly that Jingcheng did not take his words to heart. Ye Mingsheng could only sigh in his heart, and then comfort himself that Jingcheng’s playfulness might not be a bad thing for him…
After finishing the meal, Ye Mingsheng was ready to go to the imperial study. Seeing that Ye Mingsheng was leaving with some determination, as if he had no attachment to himself and the child, Shen Yutong could not help herself and immediately hugged Ye Mingsheng from behind and said with some grievance:
“Your Majesty, when will you come?”

Feeling the affection in Shen Yutong’s words, Ye Mingsheng calmly untied Shen Yutong’s hands from hugging him, and said with a smile:
“I’ll be back as soon as I have time! Don’t worry, it won’t be long!”

“Then I will be waiting for you!”

“it is good!”

After saying this, Ye Mingsheng comforted Shen Yutong with a few more words, and then walked towards the imperial study.

Shen Yutong stood at the gate of the yard, watching Ye Mingsheng leave. She watched Ye Mingsheng’s figure gradually get smaller in her sight, turn into a small black dot, and finally disappear around the corner. Shen Yutong looked a little lonely.

In the past, Ye Mingsheng would go for morning exercises, run a lap in the Imperial Garden or do some boxing, and then go to the Imperial Study for breakfast. However, because he had already had breakfast at Shen Yutong’s place today, when Ye Mingsheng arrived at the Imperial Study, he went straight into office mode.

As usual, Ye Cheng brought the memorials that Ye Mingsheng needed to deal with to Ye Mingsheng, then picked up the memorial on top and reported to Ye Mingsheng:

“Your Majesty, Xun Kegaoshen has sent back some news. Apart from this memorial, the rest are not too important…”

After saying this, Ye Mingsheng looked at Ye Cheng. Ye Cheng immediately handed the memorial to Ye Mingsheng, then quietly left the room to give Ye Mingsheng some alone space.

After carefully reading the contents of the memorial, Ye Mingsheng couldn’t help but fall into deep thought.

Ye Mingsheng originally thought that Dari Achi would be a staunch conservative within the Luobi tribe and would oppose Luobi’s submission to Daqian.

But now it seems that Dari Achi’s attitude is not as firm as expected. At least according to the descriptions of Gao Shen and Xun Ke, he is not so averse to surrendering to Daqian!

After all, this may be related to his current situation of internal and external troubles. The Luo Bi accepted by Dari Achi is a Luo Bi who is troubled by both internal and external troubles. Not only is there the old enemy, the Cumans, but he is also being threatened and bribed by himself. Internally, the father and son, Urgenbayar and Jirigel, are not easy to deal with either. In a short period of time, Dari Achi cannot grasp all of Luo Bi’s power!

The condition he proposed was quite interesting. He would only be willing to come to Yijing to meet me if the Daqian army helped him attack the Golden Horde.

Gao Shen and Xun Ke both gave their thoughts on Darachi’s suggestion in their memorials. They both believed that the reason why the Golden Horde chose to withdraw its troops at this time was because they calculated that the Daqian army was limited by logistical supplies and could not stay on the grassland for a long time…
Therefore, the Golden Horde chose to temporarily avoid the attack of Daqian and temporarily led its troops to retreat. If Daqian thought that the war on the grassland was over and peace had been restored on the grassland at this time and withdrew its troops, it would be a big mistake!

As soon as the Daqian troops withdraw, the Cuman troops will surely come back. When the Luobi people ask for help again, the Daqian army will be exhausted and caught in a dilemma!
So instead of withdrawing troops, it is better to agree to Darachi’s conditions, attack the Golden Horde, severely strike a blow to Habib’s arrogance, eliminate part of the Golden Horde’s manpower, and let the situation on the grassland return to a balance again!

Ye Mingsheng agreed with Gao Shen and Xun Ke’s idea in principle! The wolfish ambitions of the Golden Horde were well known to everyone, so instead of letting them negotiate without any pain like now, it would be better to teach them a lesson and let them know the pain!
These Cumans worshipped wolves and regarded them as their totems and spiritual symbols. Their personalities also had many similarities with wolves. They were equally brutal, violent and bloodthirsty. When faced with such people, even if you try to talk to them nicely, they will still think you are easy to bully. You must beat them so that they will remember their lesson and never dare to cross the line again.

Thinking of this, Ye Mingsheng also signed his approval on the memorial, and then ordered the General Staff to report immediately if there was any news about the grassland…

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While Ye Mingsheng was working in the imperial study, in a school in the palace.

Gu Sansi looked at Jingren who was sitting upright, organized his words and said:

“Jingren, the Queen asked me to tell you about the reforms led by His Majesty. In order to explain it better, Jingren, you might as well tell me, what do you think the reforms of Daqian are like?”

Facing Gu Sansi’s question, Jing Ren thought for a moment before saying:
“In my opinion, the reforms I am pushing for are to make our Daqian more prosperous and powerful!”

Hearing Jingren’s answer, Gu Sansi hesitated for a moment and said:
“Jingren, your answer is correct, but it is a bit too general. Can you summarize it in more specific terms?”

Jingren blinked when he heard that, then shook his head under Gu Sansi’s gaze, indicating that he couldn’t summarize it.

Gu Sansi was not too surprised by Jingren’s reaction and continued to guide him:

“Jingren, I’ll give you some ideas. You can tell me what you think the purpose of His Majesty’s reform is, why the reform is needed, what the content of the reform is, and what results the reform has achieved. Talk about your thoughts!”

Jingren thought for a moment and said:
“My father’s reforms included layoffs. He drove thousands of officials out of the government office and smashed their jobs! So many people outside are scolding my father, saying that my father can’t distinguish between loyalty and treachery, persecutes loyal people, and makes his relatives sad and his enemies happy!”

Listening to what Jingren said, Gu Sansi continued without changing his expression:
“Layoffs are part of the reform, but what about other aspects?”

Jingren thought about it and said:
“Give land to farmers, reduce taxes for merchants, and encourage them to produce!”

“Go on! Tell me everything you know!”

Jingren scratched his head awkwardly, and then said a little embarrassedly:

“Mr. Gu, that’s all I know!”

Gu Sansi did not get angry when he heard this and began to speak:
“Jingren, if we want to talk about reform, we must understand why His Majesty is reforming!”

“Our Daqian was born out of the Dazhou, so we have inherited many of the problems of the Dazhou. Among them, the problems of official administration are corruption, bloated troops, etc!”

“The problem of land annexation is also very serious. The gentry don’t pay taxes, so they desperately buy land. The court’s taxes are all placed on the self-cultivating farmers, and these people have very weak risk resistance. Faced with the increasingly stringent taxes of the court, most of them have no choice but to sell their land to the gentry landlords and become tenants for them!”

“At the military officer level, the TF has no fewer problems than the civilian officers. The problems of taking empty salaries, reselling military equipment, and buying and selling G are very serious!”

“Therefore, in my opinion, your majesty’s initial reforms were intended to solve these problems!”

“Jingren, the layoffs you just mentioned are a way for your majesty to rectify the administration of officials. Your majesty uses this method to streamline the team and improve the efficiency of the government’s operations. At the same time, it also reduces the pressure on the treasury!”

“But layoffs are not the only measure your majesty has taken to rectify the administration of officials. In addition to layoffs, your majesty has also used other means to rectify the administration of officials…”

Under Jingren’s gaze, Gu Sansi continued to talk:
“Your Majesty rose from humble beginnings, so you know exactly what the people at the bottom think!”

“In your opinion, the reason why the Great Zhou court has serious TF problems is not a moral issue but a problem with the Great Zhou’s organizational structure. This is the root cause of the corruption of the Great Zhou’s government!”

“To be specific, Your Majesty believes that when these mechanisms of the Great Zhou were established, they were too idealistic, emphasizing punishment and neglecting rewards, and the salaries were low. They wanted all the members of the Great Zhou to be saints who worry about the world before they worry about themselves, and enjoy themselves after the world enjoys itself!”

“Last time I told you, Jingren, that His Majesty believes that the reason why most of the Great Zhou GLs studied hard for ten years and worked hard to become GLs is not because they want to serve the country and the people, repay the country, etc., but because GLs are the masters of the Great Zhou and have more power than others!”

“Under such circumstances, the power of the Great Zhou officials is only accountable to their superiors and the emperor, and there is a lack of effective supervision. Secondly, the salary they can get from the court is seriously inconsistent with the power in their hands. This is also the crux of the contradiction!”

“Such contradictions will cause many G members to feel very unbalanced, thus leading them to TF!”

“So the solution that your majesty has given is, in your majesty’s words, eight words: high salaries to maintain integrity and improve supervision!”

“Increase the salaries of G staff, improve their treatment, and strengthen supervision so that they dare not and cannot F!”

“Under such a background, layoffs are an inevitable choice, because the court cannot provide such good benefits to so many employees, which will drag down the court’s finances. The fact that the Great Zhou gives such low salaries to employees is actually due to financial considerations!”

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