I stole divine power in Daxia

Chapter 463 Plan
Inside the carriage, Yuchi Pojun pretended to be angry and took out some wine from the cabinet next to him.

"Bronze mirror? This is much more appropriate than the whetstone metaphor. I am confused."

He said with a smile as he poured the wine.

If it is a whetstone, it means that Zhou Tieyi and the Emperor of Daxia are still in a state of confrontation, and the so-called sharpening comes from the whetstone, while the bronze mirror shows that the two people reflect each other's gains and losses, and there is much less confrontation.

From the perspective of the Great Xia Dynasty and his own perspective, bronze mirrors are indeed much better than whetstones.

Zhou Tieyi smiled without saying anything, raised the wine poured by Yuchi Pojun and took a sip.

The bronze mirror he mentioned was not the same as the bronze mirror that Yuchi Pojun understood. However, this was just one of his guesses and he could not tell it to outsiders.

Seeing Zhou Tieyi drinking, Yuchi Pojun sighed, "Originally, I invited you to get on the car today to let you be careful about your distance, so as to avoid fighting in the future. But after hearing what you said in the bronze mirror, I know that you have always been better at keeping a distance than us."

Although Yuchi Pojun spoke the heartfelt words in a slightly tired tone, Zhou Tieyi's expression became more serious. This was the first warning from the military strategist to him.

As the legitimate son of a general's mansion, the military strategist has always been extremely tolerant of his own behavior. In many cases, even when he was against the Confucianists and the emperor, the military strategist was willing to protect him.

But today in the car, Yuchi Pojun talked to me in a tone of equals, and even admitted that I was better at knowing the limits than him, which meant that he would no longer treat me as a junior, and his previous protective attitude had disappeared.

Ultimately it is a matter of war on the front line. Now the world is about to fall into chaos and military strategists are risking their lives. It is impossible for Yuchi Pojun to put Zhou Tieyi's life above that of millions of soldiers.

Internal strife within the imperial court has always been the biggest worry for those on the front line.

Therefore, even for the sake of stabilizing the front line, the military strategist can only sacrifice Zhou Tieyi's interests, because the military strategist cannot sacrifice the interests of the Emperor of Daxia at all.

Zhou Tieyi smiled and said, "If I didn't know how to make money, I'm afraid we wouldn't be talking to the Right General in the car, but in the prison cell of the military family."

To eliminate danger in its infancy and rather kill the wrong person than let him go, this is the famous saying of military strategists.

If Zhou Tieyi was still just the director of the Inspection Office of the God-Slaying Division, even if he held the power of public opinion in the world, this power would be a threat to Confucianism and Legalism. Among all the schools of thought, it posed the least threat to the Military School, so the Military School could be so ruthless.

But after Zhou Tieyi returned to Beijing, he immediately changed his course, not only handing over the power of the Supervisory Office to Mei Juncang, who had "surrendered" to the Emperor of Daxia, and in disguised form handed it over to the Emperor, Confucianists and Legalists, but he also seized on Daxia's biggest crisis point today, the financial crisis, and proposed a feasible solution.

Therefore, for military strategists, Zhou Tieyi, who is now able to solve the problem of food and grass, is far more important than a director of the Inspection Institute, and is irreplaceable. That is why Yuchi Pojun gave some advice on the carriage today instead of using drastic measures.

Seeing that Zhou Tieyi had guessed his thoughts again, Yuchi Pojun snorted coldly, picked up the wine glass and drank it all.

People all say that he is enjoying a good life in Tianjing, so he cannot lift a sword. That's because no one has seen him lift a sword. Military strategists have never liked to talk too much. As a second-rank general in the military strategists, when it comes to assessing the situation and making decisive moves, Yuchi Pojun is still above the Confucian and Legalist schools. It's just that Zhou Tieyi's changes are too fast, like a gust of wind and wildfire. Not only his strength, but also his importance to Daxia is growing day by day. Killing Zhou Tieyi now is not as simple as cutting off one's arm. From the hundreds of Taoist schools, who consumes the two holy powers, to the peace of the people, all are gathered in one person.

Although the two holy powers are Zhou Tieyi's life-saving talisman, Daxia has been established for so many years, and the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and even the strongest military strategists and legalists, all have some means to deal with the holy powers. The only problem is who will make the sacrifice. At the same time, even if Zhou Tieyi is solved, it must not be silent. Before that, Zhou Tieyi will definitely make a big fuss.

The next day, Zhou Tieyi, who had finally had some free time at home and was waiting for the stock market boom to continue, saw Zhou Tiege walking in in a hurry. He was processing some paperwork and put it aside.

"Is something wrong?"

Zhou Tiege nodded seriously, "The palace opened the north gate today, and Kunning Palace summoned the newly admitted fellow Jinshi and students from the Imperial Academy to come to the palace to compile the Agricultural Code, which they want to publish in the Sacred Edict."

After hearing this, Zhou Tieyi paused and continued to ask, "News came from the palace. Is this an exception or a common practice?"

Zhou Tiege smiled bitterly, "Although it is a special case, I think it is almost the same as the usual case. It takes more than one day to compile a book. After writing the Agricultural Code, we can write the Taoist Code, the Buddhist Code, the Women's Code and so on. Moreover, they are all newcomers this time. I took a look and most of them are around 25 years old. They are Jinshi or students of the Imperial Academy. The key is that they are young enough, have few burdens, and can accept new things!"

"The Queen Mother is looking for scholars."

Zhou Tieyi picked up the document again. On it was the official system currently established by the central bank. All of this had to be reviewed and decided by him. He was afraid that after he put pen to paper today, this document would be taken to Kunning Palace for study first.

Governing a country is never a one-person job, even for Zhou Tieyi. While he is spreading these advanced knowledge, he will inevitably let these advanced knowledge be mastered by the enemy.

Just like her last fight with Confucianism, the seemingly silent Queen Mother also gained the greatest benefit in this confrontation with the Emperor of Great Xia.

Although the Empress Dowager had previously ruled the country from behind the scenes, on the one hand she did so out of respect for the imperial power, and on the other hand she was worried about opposition from the officials outside the court. Therefore, from the beginning, the Empress Dowager was like a symbolic mascot.

Even if she spoke, she mostly did so to reconcile the conflicts between the parties, and even spoke for Zhou Tieyi a few times. This made the original outer court relax its vigilance against the Queen Mother, so this time the Queen Mother also gained the greatest benefit.

When Zhou Tieyi became more and more powerful, just like the military strategists wanted to use Zhou Tieyi to restrain the Queen Mother, now although the various schools of thought are happy that Zhou Tieyi can restrain the imperial power, they also need someone to restrain Zhou Tieyi.

So when the Great Xia Saint issued the "Ming Ji Edict" and at the same time gave the Queen Mother the power to receive foreign ministers, the various schools of thought and foreign ministers who should have been making a big fuss were silent this time, just wanting to see how Zhou Tieyi would respond.

"This is changing really fast. I originally thought that the central bank's position could at least stabilize the situation for one or two years. It seems that it is lucky that it can stabilize the situation for half a year this time."

Zhou Tieyi smiled with a hint of self-mockery. The Emperor of Great Xia was able to allow the Queen Mother to receive foreign ministers and granted her such great power. The Queen Mother must have also issued a "military order" just like he did in the beginning.

The so-called military order is naturally something that can do things that ordinary people cannot do. His biggest "threat" or "achievement" to Daxia now is the central bank that is being established. Even if ordinary people want to figure out the operation and procedures of the central bank, it will take at least three years, which is already considered to be talented.

However, the Queen of Heaven cannot be viewed from the perspective of an ordinary person. In half a year or even shorter, as long as the framework of the central bank is established, the Queen of Heaven will be able to understand the truth that she did not explain. At the same time, for a country, the operation of a thing does not need to be the best, but it needs to be the safest.

Therefore, the requirements of the Emperor of Great Xia and his ministers for the central bank in the hands of the Queen Mother must be different from those in their own hands. The Queen Mother has room for trial and error, and does not need to do it as perfectly as in her own hands. She only needs to avoid causing major chaos as a whole and develop slowly. Then everyone will encourage power to flow from their hands to the Queen Mother.

What the Queen Mother needs most now is to train these newly summoned scholars under her, make them accept her own theories, and make them capable of taking over the central bank in its entirety after dismissing herself and her faction.

The world can function without anyone, and this principle also applies to Zhou Tieyi.

Zhou Tieyi turned to look at his brother, "Brother, how is your fifth-grade 'Forging Weapons' training going?"

Zhou Tiege, who had a slightly worried look on his face, stretched out his hand and rolled up his sleeves when he heard Zhou Tieyi's question. He exerted a little force on his arms, and the exposed muscles glowed like jade. Within the glow of jade, there were bones glowing with golden light. The whole person was like a mine hidden in gold and stone.

The practice of forging weapons is divided into two steps. The first step is to forge oneself and make one's flesh and blood strong, like a magic weapon. There is jade rice to help. As Tao Du Weng's strength increases, Zhou Tieyi obtains a large amount of top-level flesh and blood fruits. The effects of these fruits are not much less than jade rice.

With the accumulation of resources, Zhou Tiege has completed the inner training in the past six months, and it is the most perfect inner training. If it were in the past, it would be something to be proud of. Completing the fifth level of practice in half a year is a sign of talent for anyone.

However, compared with Zhou Tieyi, Zhou Tiege's progress seemed mediocre. Even if someone knew that Zhou Tiege had broken through to the fifth level in half a year, they would think it was natural, and might even be secretly regarded as not working hard enough.

This was of course what Zhou Tieyi had originally planned. He didn't want Zhou Tiege to walk slowly and hide himself, as that would not help the current situation. He needed to walk fast himself to cover up Zhou Tiege's brilliance, so that he could exchange the king and the rook at the most critical moment.

"The inner forging has been completed, and the outer forging has already had a foundation because of the involvement of your weapon. Although it is not perfect, it will not be a big problem if you want to break through."

Zhou Tieyi placed his palm on the case file and tapped it. "At the next court meeting, you will resign from the position of deputy commander of the Yulin Army on the grounds that the Zhou family is implicated in the Moshi case."

Zhou Tiege put down his sleeves and sighed in his heart. It really has come to this.

As the emperor's confidant, the Yulin Army is in charge of the power to mobilize the imperial guards. Before, the Great Xia Emperor was invincible in Tianjing, so the Yulin Army's main function was to select the backbone of the army, and they were also the emperor's guard of honor. Now that the Great Xia Emperor has fallen from the throne, and the conflict between Zhou Tieyi and the Great Xia Emperor is known to all the ministers, the Zhou family will definitely not be able to keep the position of deputy commander-in-chief of the Yulin Army. Rather than being driven down by others, it is better for them to resign.

"Why can't you let go?"

Zhou Tieyi smiled.

"It's not that I'm reluctant, but I didn't expect the world to change so quickly. Half a year ago, we had to compete with the Queen for this position, which led to your change. I didn't expect that half a year later, you would be so powerful that we still couldn't keep this position."

Zhou Tiege said with emotion.

"Not being able to keep it is one reason, but at the same time I can't let you continue to waste time in this position. The fourth-grade military spirit cannot be cultivated in the Yulin Army."

The way to forge soldiers can be achieved through one's own hard training and the accumulation of resources, but the way to forge a military spirit must be forged through one war after another on the front lines.

Zhou Tiege asked curiously, "Will the court allow me to lead the troops?"

Nowadays, the power that the Zhou family is most difficult to get is the military power. The head of the Zhou family, Zhou Qinlong, is outside the borders of Daxia and has seized Miaoshan City. He can barely keep his military power by relying on the relics of the foolish monk. As long as he is in the country, even on the front line, and there are troops around to replace him, the military strategists will definitely begin to weaken the military power of the Zhou family.

This is to prevent trouble before it happens. Compared with a third-rank general, the struggle between Zhou Tieyi and the Emperor of Daxia is more serious, so the military strategist must restrain Zhou Tieyi's hands and feet.

"It's just leading an army on my own. There will be opportunities."

Zhou Tieyi smiled confidently.

If the Queen could use him to gain power, he could naturally use others to gain power, just like Buddhism which couldn't bear the cold winter.

The rebellion in the Western Buddhist country is imminent, and when the time comes, a large army will naturally be sent to quell the rebellion. However, the allocation of money and food for the army this time will still depend on Zhou Tieyi's central bank for transit.

At the same time, although Zhou Tieyi and the Emperor of Daxia have had differences on many issues, they have always had the same attitude on the issue of Buddhism, so the monarch and his subject can still work together on this matter.

When Zhou Tieyi, who was in charge of money and grain, was suppressing the rebellion, he placed his elder brother, who had experience in front-line combat, in the position of deputy general. It was natural for him to be a general.

On the roads in the western provinces, cold winds were howling and heavy snow was falling.

Because of the reduced production caused by drought in the summer and the invasion of Yuan Meng from the north in the autumn, a large amount of grain needed to be mobilized to the front line before disaster relief could be considered, so the number of refugees this year was naturally several times that of previous years.

In the cold wind, the refugees shivered in their cloth clothes filled with rice wool, while waiting in front of the government office for relief grain.

In the rear prefecture, the chief clerk of finance and grain said to the county magistrate, "This year's disaster is too serious. If the court does not mobilize grain, the grain in the prefecture will soon run out."

The magistrate was also worried. "Everywhere has suffered from disasters this year. Even if the relief grain is approved, I'm afraid it will take until the beginning of next spring to arrive with the grain seeds. What should we do now?"

Upon hearing the question, the chief accountant of finance and grain told the plan in his mind, "There is a Hanshan Temple next to our county. It has always been very popular and the people have donated a lot of good farmland. Even if there is a severe drought this year, the monks will still have a good harvest. Why don't you write a letter to the Hanshan Temple and ask the monks to show mercy and help the victims first?"

(End of this chapter)