Perhaps he had a look that he was too vulgar just now. Yao Ruoyu coughed, quickly sat upright, and then said solemnly, "Although these two expenses are temporarily paid by the Leader's Office, the Ministry of Revenue also needs to cheer on itself and work hard for the economic construction of the city-state!"

Bai Qiuyu hurriedly stood up and bowed solemnly, "The subordinates must do their best to live up to the leader's trust."

"This is natural. By the way, I have another policy on increasing fiscal revenue, which is just right to discuss with you." Yao Ruoyu said with a smile.

Bai Qiuyu had already experienced the leader's wild thinking, so he didn't dare to agree at this moment, and he stammered and replied, "This, leader, please tell me, my father is here, so I can make a total of all together."

Seeing his worried look, Yao Ruoyu smiled without realizing it, but then he was annoyed, thinking that he was the kind of nonsense in the other party's mind. The previous tax exemption policy could attract a large number of merchants, and the only trouble was solved by himself. Not only did the other party not appreciate it, but he also looked as if he was warding off the thief. This was simply outrageous.

Even if he was annoyed, Yao Ruoyu would not show it on his face. After organizing the language, he said, "The buildings in the city have not been named yet, right?"

"Name?" Bai Qiuyu was slightly stunned and said blankly, "According to the original plan, isn't the buildings named by numbers?"

Waving his hand, Yao Ruoyu sneered, "That's only temporary. You can't come to the city-state in the future. When you ask for directions, you will get the name of Building 1, Building 2, Bridge 1, and Bridge 2?"

Bai Qiuyu thought about it and found that the same reason was true, so she asked, "What do the leader thinks?"

After smiling, Yao Ruoyu pretended to be profound and said, "I plan to promulgate an exclusive sponsorship law. As long as a merchant pays 50% of the construction cost of the building, he can name the building."

"Exclusive sponsorship method?" Bai Qiuyu blinked her eyes, and after a while, she reacted and frowned, "Is it feasible?"

"Of course!" said Yao Ruoyu, "A person only lives for a hundred years. He is either a high-ranking official or a rich salary, or a rich man in the world, or a famous person in history, or a permanent life. If these rich people have money, it is not easy to live long and become an official, and the only easiest thing to do is to keep him in history."

Hearing this, Bai Qiuyu gradually understood and said happily, "As long as they name the building with their own name, it means that they will continue to be passed down with Hezhou City in the future."

Bai Junru also understood and nodded, "Smart plan, a brilliant plan."

Bai Qiuyu thought for a moment and bowed, "It's better to set up a stone tablet next to the building. After the sponsor is a hundred years old, you can write down the life experience of this person on it, which is definitely more attractive."

"Not bad!" Yao Ruoyu was happy when he heard this. After thinking carefully, he said, "The sponsor has the only right to name the building. As for the stone tablet, the cost is calculated separately. The scale of the stone tablet is all fixed and they cannot be selected."

Without waiting for Bai Qiuyu to object, Yao Ruoyu waved his hand and sneered, "Don't worry, just follow my method."

The other way to calculate the stone tablet is almost the same as when buying a house and a parking space in later generations. Although the latter is not as important as the former, it is also extremely important. Since these merchants are willing to bear the construction costs of the construction, most of them will not care about the cost of the stone tablet.

Seeing Yao Ruoyu being determined, Bai Qiuyu stopped talking and bowed to him.

Seeing that the matter was almost done, Yao Ruoyu had no intention of staying, so he got up and planned to leave. Unexpectedly, Bai Qiuyu suddenly bowed and said, "By the way, Qiuyu has something to do."

"Say." Yao Ruoyu sat down again when he heard this, intending to hear what else Bai Qiuyu had to do.

"It's about the Elders' Mansion," Bai Qiuyu pondered for a while, and said in a deep voice, "The Elders' Mansion and the Censorate have similar responsibilities, but their power is far superior to the Censorate. My subordinates don't know why the leader wants to set up such an institution, which comes from the limits of hands and feet?"

Yao Ruoyu frowned slightly. To be honest, the construction of the Elders' Mansion was indeed something he thought of when he was in a hurry. The main reason was that he read a novel before traveling through time. The protagonist in it set up such an institution to balance the situation so that the grievances of each family can be resolved openly and will not create secret conflicts.

However, as the city-state was built over time, he gradually realized that this action was not appropriate. Although they have established a city-state, there are only Hezhou and Diaoyu within, and their power is not complicated. Therefore, the existence of the Elders' Mansion seems too redundant, and the power given to the Elders' Mansion is indeed too great. Therefore, people like him who do not like to restrain themselves have already felt a little regretful.

After thinking about it, Yao Ruoyu said frankly, "To be honest, I do regret it, but this matter was announced to the public at the city-state ceremony. If it was cancelled, it would be a bad idea."

"There is no need to cancel the Elders' Mansion, just change one or two," Bai Qiuyu smiled slightly and said, "The Elders' Mansion is renamed the Senate, and has the right to discuss the court, and can write directly to the leader without passing through other departments."

Yao Ruoyu thought for a long time after hearing this, and finally nodded, "This method is good."

Seeing Yao Ruoyu agreeing, Bai Qiuyu showed joy and bowed, "The functions of the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Leaders' Office overlap, and they are similar to the Senate Office. Why not combine them into one place?"

"Okay." Nodded, Yao Ruoyu agreed immediately.

After briefly discussing for a while, Yao Ruoyu got up and left, intending to go to the Leader's Office to prepare for the announcement, while Bai Junru stayed and prepared with Bai Qiuyu for the preparations for the two policies proposed by Yao Ruoyu.

Yao Ruoyu always did things when he thought about it, so in the afternoon of that day, the Leader's Office issued an announcement, renamed the Elders' Office, the People's Voice Department of the Leader's Office and the People's Consent Department of the Ministry of Justice, and Wu Xue was appointed as the Senate, and Zhao Wen, the former Director of the Civil Affairs Department, served as the Deputy Senate, and at the same time, formally recruited the Senate.

A few days later, Zhao Wen submitted the compiled list of senators to the Leader's Mansion, most of whom were respected local old men or young scholars with good moral character, as well as Luo Cheng, Duan Chong, and Li Tianyang, who were related to the top leaders of the city-state.

After carefully reading, Yao Ruoyu cut off several names and returned the list to the Senate. At this point, the two governments and five ministries of the city-state were officially established.

At the same time, with the introduction of a one-year tax exemption policy, Hezhou City and Diaoyu City immediately attracted the attention of a large number of chambers of commerce. In the next few days, caravans came to inspect from time to time, and Bai Qiuyu had already arranged a dedicated person to be responsible for the reception at the city gate.

In this era, the status of merchants was not high. As the saying goes, scholars, peasants, industry and commerce, merchants were actually lower than that of workers and farmers. But now, these merchants have received almost God-like preferential treatment in the city-state.

Of course, they also knew that these preferential treatments were actually due to the desire of the city-state's senior management to let them build shops here. However, the advantages of the markets in Hezhou City and the one-year duty-free policy made these merchants excited and purchased shops in the city one after another.

Subsequently, the city-state, which was gradually flourishing, suddenly caused a sensation due to the introduction of the exclusive sponsorship law.

As Yao Ruoyu said, what people want for life is nothing more than official, wealth, longevity and reputation. These businessmen are rich and do not lack money. With their status, it is naturally very difficult to become officials. Although they all hope for longevity, they all know that it is more difficult than being an official. The only thing they can ask for is reputation.

However, in this era, in terms of the status of merchants, it is really too difficult to keep names in history, and the emergence of the exclusive sponsorship law has given these merchants some chance to keep names in history.

At the suggestion of Song Kai, Bai Qiuyu held an auction to auction the naming rights of various larger buildings in the city-state. More than 30 merchants who came to hear the news made a frantically. However, in one afternoon, the city-state directly earned nearly 30,000 taels of gold, which made Bai Qiuyu so happy that his mouth almost laughed.

Because these chambers of commerce came here to invest, the economy of Hezhou City and Diaoyu City naturally rose, attracting many people to come and join, especially those who were exiled near Hezhou due to the war, rushed to the news and signed up to join the city-state.

Of course, Yao Ruoyu naturally didn't need to worry about these things. After discussing with the father and son of the Bai family, he went to the Earth Demon Tongyuan Hall in the former site of the Xu family and started to practice in seclusion.

The original Xu Mansion was occupied by the Leader's Mansion and changed to a martial arts hall exclusive to the Leader's Mansion. On weekdays, only Fu Feng, Ren Jiasheng and others who came from the Literature and Art Department, such as Luo He and Li Huo, could not take a step at all.

Every day, someone would deliver food to Yao Ruoyu, and Xu Xuanrong would occasionally come to report to him about the recent city-state operation. Yang Renjie, Fu Feng, Fu Zan, Jiang Siyu and others would come to practice from time to time, but most of their time was spent managing the army.

In just seven days, Yao Ruoyu had completely stabilized his cultivation at the eighth level of the third level. The spiritual power in the spring was purer, and the heart and soul were more solid. The facial features could be seen vaguely. It was obvious that Yao Ruoyu was about to enter the fourth level, and his heart and soul gradually condensed and formed.

However, as Yao Ruoyu gradually approached the fourth realm, his spiritual consciousness felt a little slow from time to time, not because his cultivation level declined, but because he had gradually touched the bottleneck called human obstacles between the third realm and the fourth realm.

If the spirit master wants to break through to the fourth realm, he must condense his first soul talisman and then use the power of the soul talisman to break through the human barrier. However, Yao Ruoyu has not yet been able to decide which soul talisman he condenses. In addition, he is still a little far from the fourth realm, so he temporarily puts this idea aside.

Of course, Yao Ruoyu was unwilling to break through too quickly. After all, every time he broke through, he would burn part of his life. So for his life, after he completely stabilized his realm, he also ended his retreat, returned to the leader's mansion and washed it up, and then went out to wander around.
Chapter completed!