How dare you use it lightly, tsk!"

In his heart, Li Mengxi wanted to shout, (Liu Xuande is awesome!) This Liu Xuande is really shocking. Liu Xuande actually sold the national debt of the Han Dynasty in Luoyang, and even persuaded Emperor Ling to divide the land into equal shares, and he is still there.

Luoyang opened the imperial examination, so awesome!

After doing a lot of terrible things, Liu Bei actually came back alive, which is incredible.

Liu Bei's expression changed slightly, he opened his mouth a few times, frowned, and asked with an ugly face, "I don't understand, what are the harms of national debts, imperial examinations and other laws?"

Li Mengxi seriously analyzed with Liu Bei how many good strategies for governing the country could be harmful.

“The first policy is the national debt policy.

Duke Xuande must be aware of the policy of national debt. This method is to borrow money from the people based on the court's trustworthiness, and to use tomorrow's money to solve today's urgent needs.

Since it is a loan, it must be repaid.

However, I am not looking down on the imperial court. I estimate that the imperial court has the ability to borrow money, but it has no ability to repay it!

Borrowing money from the world, if you borrow something and then repay it, is a good way to accumulate wealth, but if you borrow something and fail to repay it, it becomes a method of exploiting the world. I think," Li Mengxi stretched himself fiercely and said calmly, "Because

With this method, the power of the imperial court to exploit and exploit will increase a hundred times in an instant, and the people's livelihood will be a hundred times poorer. When the imperial court ruins credit and loans, everyone from the aristocratic family to the powerful to the common people will lose their hearts.

"

"Haha, this big man is in danger. He will die a few years ago because of the national debt." Li Mengxi said calmly.

Liu Bei's expression changed drastically, "How could it be possible, how could it be..." He quickly asked in a panic, "Xi'er, but you have never wanted to borrow money from all directions..."

"That's true." Li Mengxi nodded, "But I borrowed it and got it back. But the court can't pay it back."

"Why can't the imperial court?" Liu Bei frowned and chased after him.

Li Mengxi stared into Liu Bei's eyes and replied calmly, "I can afford to pay back because I have the art of papermaking, printing, and steel filling. When my Julu paper, books, and weapons are sold all over the world, hundreds of millions of

Even huge debts can be repaid easily.

Dare I ask, how can the imperial court repay it?"

Liu Bei's face calmed down slightly, and he nodded, "If the imperial court has papermaking technology..." Subconsciously, Liu Bei thought of handing over papermaking technology to the imperial court to repay the national debt, to offset the terrible negative impact of overdue national debt.

But then, Liu Bei came to his senses. He quickly looked towards Li Mengxi and saw Li Mengxi staring and fuming. Liu Bei knew he had made a mistake. He looked embarrassed and scratched his head. He cautiously smiled and asked Li Mengxi tentatively.

, "Xi'er, this papermaking technique..."

"No!" Li Mengxi knew what Liu Bei wanted to ask and refused. Papermaking is a key technology and cannot be given to the imperial court.

Liu Bei looked disappointed.

Seeing Liu Bei's disappointed look, Li Mengxi opened his mouth and sighed, "Well, I say Mr. Xuande, as mentioned before, the treasury is empty, not because of the cause, but because of the effect. It is not due to the lack of taxation, and the imperial court does not lack papermaking skills.

The imperial court had a monopoly on salt and iron, making huge profits especially in papermaking.

The reason why the court loan cannot be repaid is that it is wasted endlessly.

Even if the papermaking technology is dedicated to the court, what will happen even if the court collects hundreds of millions of money? Even if there are hundreds of millions of money, and Emperor Ling uses it to overhaul the palace, the treasury will still be empty. Even if the money is ten billions more, it will be empty.

Hundreds of trillions, the Emperor Ling still spent it to overhaul the palace.

The waste is endless, no matter how much money is collected, the state will never be able to meet its needs."

What Li Mengxi said was absolutely correct. He profoundly explained the root cause of the emptiness of the Han Dynasty's treasury. Liu Bei recalled that when he was in Luoyang, the emperor's palaces and pavilions were like forests and clouds, and he did not know how much people's money was consumed.

Liu Bei laughed at himself and said that he had the Midas touch and all the money was used to repair the attic. He did not use it at all on state affairs. The state affairs would never go smoothly.

Liu Bei has completely understood that the national debt is really going to be repaid. After the imperial court has learned how to make money from the national debt and borrowed money all over the world, it is really going to repay it, and it is really going to break the trust of everyone in the world.

Liu Bei smiled weakly.

This is not over yet, Li Mengxi's attacks on Liu Bei are still continuing.

Li Mengxi also analyzed the imperial examination method for Liu Bei.

"The imperial examination is a method for selecting talents from all over the world, regardless of family background or rank.

If Emperor Ling can make good use of this method, he can recruit countless talents and get rid of the constraints of the aristocratic family.

However, this method greatly touches the foundation of the family. If the Ling Emperor can make good use of the talents in the world, he will not be afraid of the family. But if the Ling Emperor cannot make good use of the talents in the imperial examination, then for one thing, the imperial examination will have offended the families in the world, and the Ling Emperor will

There is a big enemy. If the two of them take over the world's people without using them, don't you see what happened before?

Once the imperial court is disrespected, the prestige of the imperial court will no longer exist. When it comes to danger, no one in the world will save it. Wouldn’t the Han Dynasty be in danger?"

As a person of later generations, Li Mengxi was very aware of the power of the imperial examination. The imperial examination was of great use, but if the imperial examination was unfair, it would be very harmful. For example, Huang Chao failed in the examination many times, and Hong Xiuquan failed in the examination many times.

If there is no imperial examination and the recommendation method is still used, then a township can only recommend three to five people a year, and the whole world can only recommend three to two thousand people a year. Even if all these talents are despised, it will only be despised by three people in that year.

There are only two thousand talents, among all the talents in the world, they will never be looked down upon even once in ten lifetimes.

However, the method of imperial examination, one imperial examination affects hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of scholars. If this is unfair and unjust, if it is slighted, just once, all the scholars in the world will be slighted. Well, all the scholars in the world will be disrespected every year.

Is it okay to be slighted and insulted once a year? Is it possible to offend scholars? If you offend all the scholars in the world at once, you will offend all the scholars in the world every year!

fear!

People like Huang Chao and Hong Xiuquan would probably not have rebelled if they had been born in the Han Dynasty. Because of the method of selecting talents through the imperial examination system, ordinary people had no way to enter the official career, so they would not feel that they were being slighted.

.However, if there is an imperial examination and the people of the world have a glimmer of tangible hope, if this glimmer of hope turns into despair again and again, then people like Hong Xiuquan will inevitably rise in all directions.

Liu Bei's face turned even darker. He knew very well that the imperial court would really take talents but not use them as the military advisor said, and would even try to suppress them. If the imperial examination method was not used properly, it would really be a slight to the people of the world and really cause disaster.

endless.

Liu Bei never expected that he wanted to serve the country, but instead the country's affairs became more dangerous. Liu Bei was panicked. He looked at Li Mengxi. In the flickering candlelight, Liu Bei saw that his little military advisor looked very indifferent.

Thinking of the amazing resourcefulness of his military advisor, Liu Bei stood up suddenly. Before anyone could react, Liu Bei took a step back and knelt down with a plop. He saluted Li Mengxi with a serious look on his face and begged in an almost pleading tone.

"My strategist, I, Liu Bei, am incompetent and have mistakenly used the strategist's clever strategy. Please strategist, please try your best to save me and be prepared..."

With a plop, Li Mengxi also knelt down quickly, "No! Mr. Xuande, please get up quickly!"

Guan and Zhang, who had been listening without saying a word, quickly got up and went to help Liu Bei.

Liu Bei was determined. He pushed away Guan and Zhang who came to help him and refused to get up.

Liu Bei stared at Li Mengxi, "If the military advisor doesn't save him, Bei will never be able to kneel down!"

Across the candlelight, across the table, the candlelight flickered, and the two looked directly at each other, neither of them moving.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Suddenly, Li Mengxi smiled helplessly. He couldn't laugh or cry, "Mr. Xuande, why bother forcing me? You start first, if you can't afford it, I will

I won’t tell you how to save him.”

Liu Bei didn't move. He stared at Li Mengxi and said, "Speak first."

Li Mengxi sighed helplessly, and stared closely into Liu Bei's eyes, "Since Mr. Xuande asked for a way to rescue me, I will tell you the truth.

I am the only one in the world who knows how to use national debts, imperial examinations, and other laws. No one else can understand the essence..."

Liu Bei nodded, bowed his hand to Li Mengxi, and said seriously, "It seems that only the military advisor who personally takes charge of the national debt and the imperial examination can be stable. Bei dares to ask the military advisor to go to Luoyang in person to save the country from danger! With the ability of the military advisor, the crisis will be turned into peace."

"

Li Mengxi was suddenly stunned. He looked at Liu Bei who looked serious and smiled, "That's fine."

Upon hearing that Li Mengxi agreed to go to Luoyang, Liu Bei breathed a sigh of relief. He quickly asked, "When will the military advisor leave?"

Li Mengxi shook his head and did not answer. He said seriously, "If you go to Luoyang, Mr. Xuande needs to answer my question."

"What's the matter?" Liu Bei asked.

"If we go to Luoyang without bringing a hundred thousand soldiers and horses, without holding the emperor hostage to command the princes, and without using troops to control the government, nothing can be accomplished.

I would like to ask Duke Xuande whether he is willing to lead a hundred thousand troops and dominate the court?" Li Mengxi said in a cold tone, and he said it categorically.

Liu Bei looked at Li Mengxi in confusion, "...I went to Luoyang to save the country, why do I want to disrupt the country?"

Li Mengxi shook his head, and glanced at Liu Bei with complicated eyes, "Xuan De Gong. It's not that someone has a disobedient heart, or that he wants to disrupt the imperial court, but that it can't be done without holding the emperor to order the princes.

The treatment is successful.

Just like the National Debt Law, if someone doesn't lead a hundred thousand troops, how can he vigorously rectify the government's agenda and hunt down and kill corrupt officials?

For example, the imperial examination law and the imperial examination system conflict with the interests of all the famous families in the world, the hundreds of officials in the court, and all the old officials of the court. If there are not a hundred thousand soldiers and horses, how can we suppress the many resistances and make the imperial examination stable?

Implement?

Furthermore, it is even more difficult to divide the land into an equal share of land, and it will be even more difficult to make the land equalization system with all powerful people as enemies!

"

"National debt, imperial examinations, apportionment, and other laws are all powerful medicines for major reforms. They are all in conflict with the interests of the old forces. If you don't have a three-foot sword, how can you defeat the tiger and the wolf? How can you keep the tiger and the wolf safe?

Submit?"

"Go to Luoyang to save the world from danger, turn the tide and revive the Han Dynasty, and preserve the vitality of the Han people. That's what I wish!"

However, if we go to Luoyang without leading an army of 100,000, we will not be able to accomplish anything. If we go to Luoyang alone, we will surely die violently."

"Mr. Xuande, do you want someone to die in Luoyang, or do you want someone to hold the emperor hostage and make the princes turn the tide? How to choose?"

As soon as this dilemma was raised, Liu Bei looked dejected.

Liu Bei was reluctant to harm Li Mengxi. Liu Bei, who had repeatedly tried to take danger in Luoyang, knew how dangerous it was.
To be continued...