I stole divine power in Daxia

Chapter 461: Opposing Strategists

While the emperor and his ministers were talking, the eunuchs outside were reporting.

"The Queen of Heaven, here we are."

"Here comes Feng Zikuan, the chief steward of internal affairs."

After the two of them paid their respects, His Majesty the Great Xia's eyes first fell on Feng Zikuan, "How much do you know about the Central Bank?"

It was impossible to hide the large number of Confucian officials coming in and out of the Simin Mansion last night. Although no one knew what they discussed specifically, this morning when Ke Anran came to the emperor's house, the emperor summoned himself and the Queen Mother and asked about the central bank. Feng Zikuan immediately realized that Zhou Tieyi was causing trouble again.

"Your Majesty, I will report everything I know to you. Apart from that, I dare not keep anything for myself."

Feng Zikuan knelt down quickly and answered the question in a clever way. Fortunately, he had been careful recently and wrote a report to the emperor about what he did and what he said to Zhou Tieyi every day. Regardless of whether the emperor read it or not, at least a trace was left.

Therefore, now facing the life-threatening question from the emperor, he was able to find the most appropriate answer. This is the role of leaving traces at work, especially when one is in a difficult position.

The Great Xia Emperor chuckled and asked again, "Then I'll hand over the exchange and the Chamber of Commerce to you now. Can you handle the issue of the Great Xia Chamber of Commerce issuing false banknotes?"

The biggest problem in dealing with Zhou Tieyi now is to cause panic in the stock exchange, which will cause the newly issued stocks to be implicated in the central bank's bills, and then through the central bank's bills, the bills of the Tianjing Chamber of Commerce will be implicated, causing the bills falsely issued by many chambers of commerce to explode ahead of time!
In many things, people are not afraid of losses but are afraid of audits. Zhou Tieyi seized this critical time node and took the opportunity to force the Emperor of Daxia to abdicate when the exchange not only did not generate substantial tax revenue but also buried a huge bomb.

This is much more practical than Mei Qingchen's theory of the ruler-ruler, the subject-minister, the father-father, and the son-son. After all, Mei Qingchen knelt outside the Meridian Gate only to embarrass the Emperor of Daxia.

But now Zhou Tieyi was kneeling outside the Meridian Gate. The newly established exchange, the chamber of commerce involved in the issuance of a large number of silver bills, and the Ministry of Revenue's year-end audit could not pass.

Feng Zikuan immediately knocked his head loudly, "Your Majesty has entrusted me with an important task, and I would not refuse even if I died. However, this important task concerns the country of Great Xia. Even if I have two heads, I dare not deceive Your Majesty. I have also discussed this matter with officials from the Ministry of Revenue, but I don't know how to properly handle the following issues."

After Feng Zikuan answered, the Queen suddenly interrupted and said, "I do have some ideas about this matter, but I can't touch Zhou Tieyi right now."

"Why?"

The Great Xia Emperor said this without any sadness or joy.

"public opinion."

The Queen replied, "The stock exchange is very popular right now. From the Chamber of Commerce to the stock exchange, and even to the big businessmen who buy stocks, the people all trust Zhou Tieyi's ability. If we rashly replace Zhou Tieyi at this time, we must replace him with someone else, and this person must have more public opinion than Zhou Tieyi..."

The Great Xia Emperor suddenly interrupted and asked, "What about you, the Queen?"

He asked the most crucial question, and Feng Zikuan and Ke Anran held their breath.

Ke thought to himself that it was just as he thought. No wonder the clerk from the Xiang Department presented the hexagrams with the hexagram of Water and Fire Not in Harmony to the Emperor and the hexagram of Qian on top and Qian on bottom to the Queen of Heaven.

Although the Empress gained the power to rule from behind the scenes through the Bingzhong Incident, she became more cautious after gaining the power to rule from behind the scenes. Not only did she return the power of reviewing memorials in the Imperial Study to His Majesty, but even when attending court, she only sat and watched. Unless His Majesty asked, or needed her to mediate, she would not easily speak. Today, His Majesty of Daxia mentioned that the affairs of the exchange and even the Central Bank of Daxia would be handed over to the Empress, which meant that after ruling from behind the scenes, she would completely hand over some external powers to the Empress.

If the Queen is to control the central bank, she must have the right to receive foreign officials.

This time the Queen did not decline the offer, but stood up and bowed to His Majesty, "If the name is not right, then the words will not flow. Your Majesty, please grant me the authority to receive foreign ministers."

On November 17th, there will be a court meeting.

In the Golden Palace, the Emperor and the Empress ascended the throne and all officials paid homage to them.

However, this time, the Great Xia Emperor did not wait for the officials to attend the meeting. He spoke first, which was rare. "Mr. Zhou, I have read the memorial on the inkstone case. However, you said in the memorial that there is something you dare not speak of directly. I wonder what it is?"

Zhou Tieyi stepped out and said, "Your Majesty, this matter originated from the complaint filed by Li Jianhu. This was the beginning of Tianjing's thorough investigation of the Moshi incident, and it will naturally end with this. Your Majesty needs to make a personal decision."

The thoughts of everyone present were immediately brought back to a few months ago, when Zhou Tieyi was hearing Li Jianhu's imperial petition in the Zhushen Division in front of the people of Tianjing.

Li Jianhu was initially attacked by the righteous spirit, but in the end he kept his original intention and extinguished the self-igniting righteous spirit, while at the same time filing a new complaint.

From the Wu family embezzling the miners' burial money, to the He family indulging the Wu family, to Zhou Tieyi and the Confucian faction fighting for disaster, and finally the Emperor of Daxia being unable to stop, the entire Daxia officialdom, from bottom to top, was accused.

Afterwards, Zhou Tieyi, Confucianism and Legalism went down to investigate the case. Finally, they submitted the case file of the Moshi case. All the officials involved from the bottom to the top were punished, some lightly and some severely. Only one person was not dared to be mentioned in the case file, and that was the current emperor.

Right General Yuchi Pojun's expression changed, and he suddenly stepped out of the line, clasping his hands and saying, "Your Majesty, I feel that what Zhou Tieyi said is inappropriate!"

All the civil and military officials in the court had already reacted by now. No one was surprised that the Right General, the head of the court's military strategy, suddenly got involved. Military strategy has always been about making decisions based on emergency situations.

Originally, the military family was the most involved in the Moshi case. In the previous game between the Emperor of Daxia and Zhou Tieyi, the Emperor of Daxia was willing to let it go lightly. At the same time, Zhou Tieyi also began to solve this year's fiscal deficit. Seeing that the military family was out of danger, he could also rely on Zhou Tieyi's economic means to obtain more money to deal with the war on the front line.

The military strategist certainly didn't want to create any more trouble at this time. No matter whether Li Jianhu's final lawsuit against the Emperor of Great Xia for condoning factional strife would hurt Zhou Tieyi or the Emperor of Great Xia, it would be harmful rather than helpful to the current war on the front line.

Yuchi Pojun turned his head and gave Zhou Tieyi a fierce look, then continued, "Li Jianhu is just a young boy, and although he is courageous and pleads for his father, the important affairs of the country are not just about right and wrong. The ink stone case was caused by the negligence of the court officials, and it brought disaster to the people. This has been concluded. The emperor is kind and has already made a judgment. How can we say anything more and disrupt the order of the court!"

Zhou Tieyi was not surprised by Yuchi Pojun's obstruction. When it came to suing the emperor and trying to use this matter to shackle the emperor, his opponents, the Confucianists and the Legalists, would sit back and watch him and the emperor fight. On the contrary, the military strategists' own family were unwilling to start another dispute on this matter.

Therefore, Zhou Tieyi never thought about communicating with the military strategist about this matter. As long as he opened his mouth, the case would be stopped by the military strategist before it was submitted.

The Great Xia Emperor smiled softly and looked at Zhou Tieyi. "What do you think of what the old general said?"

(End of this chapter)