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In February, Li Hu arrived in Yueyang.

Li Jiong, the transfer commander of Jinghu and the Chang'an United Chamber of Commerce, Liu Jingyuan, a great merchant in Jinghu, and Wang An, a great merchant in Nanyang, brought a group of local officials in Jinghu and wealthy merchants out of the city to greet them.

Li Jiong is Li Qingzhao's brother. He was also the best friend of Li Hu's father Li Changhao, so Li Hu was very polite when he saw him and greeted him as a gift. This surprised a group of Jinghu officials and merchants, and felt extremely mysterious about the relationship between the Li family and Li Hu in Jinan.

When Li Jiong was in Chang'an, he had already learned Li Hu's true identity from Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng, and had had in-depth conversations with Li Hu. Both uncles and nephews admired each other very much. This is also an important reason why Li Hu entrusted important tasks to serve as the Jinghu two-way transshipment commander, who was fully responsible for Jinghu's administration and financial power just over a month after Li Jiong arrived in Chang'an.

Jinghu Finance and Sichuan Finance are the two major tax pillars of the Chang'an court, especially Jinghu, because it is adjacent to the southeast, and the merchants between the two places are closely connected and have maintained frequent smuggling. In order to increase tax revenue and obtain the required materials, Jinghu officials personally intervened and participated. The interests involved are extremely huge. It can be seen that the importance of Li Jiong, who is responsible for the financial power of Jinghu, can also speculate about the extraordinary relationship between Li Jiong and Li Hu.

As one of the heads of the Chang'an Federation Chamber of Commerce, Liu Jingyuan and Wang An were in charge of Jinghu and Nanyang. They worked closely with Chang'an Changsun Kangning to provide the Hu Lie Army with a steady stream of money, grain and other war supplies. This time, the secret alliance with the Southeast giant merchants and wealthy merchants was sponsored by Liu Jingyuan. Wang An was ordered to go south and work with Liu Jingyuan under Li Hu's tent to provide military supplies for the Hu Lie Army's southern expedition.

At the welcome banquet, Li Hu announced in public that he would invite Liu Jingyuan and Wang An to serve as the script of the Grand Marshal's Mansion and accompany the army to the south. Liu Jingyuan and Wang An were both surprised and happy and hurriedly thanked him. The status of the Grand Marshal's Mansion is actually Li Hu's confidential secretary, who participated in the handling of the secret matters of the General's Mansion. Li Hu was not only the Grand Marshal of the World, but also the Regent in charge of state affairs. Although his confidential secretary had low qualities, he had great power, which was equivalent to helping Li Hu handle military and national affairs. From this we can see that Liu Jingyuan and Wang An had a high status and heavy power at this moment, it was not an exaggeration to ascense with one leap.

That night, in the inn, Li Jiong carefully expressed his views on this matter, expressed concerns about Li Hu and Luo Sinan's hastily aroused the center of emerging forces represented by giant businessmen and wealthy businessmen, and expressed deep concerns about the changes in the court structure caused by this and the series of government shocks that are causing.

"I know you are eager to unify Zhongtu. For this reason, you are urgently needed a steady stream of money, grain and various war materials. For this reason, you have to rely on the credit loans of the wealthy merchants and wealthy merchants. In order to alleviate and alleviate the heavy pressure of the court repaying loans in the future, to ensure that the financial crisis of the court is quickly resolved, and to avoid harming the interests of the kingdom and the people due to the heavy pressure of repaying loans, you have taken another way to exchange power for the support of the wealthy merchants and wealthy merchants, and use great benefits in the future to win the help of the wealthy merchants and wealthy merchants. But have you considered the serious consequences of this? Have you considered how huge and far-reaching impact this will have on Zhongtu?"

Li Hu sat in the dim candlelight, holding the steaming fragrant tea, listening quietly, without saying anything, but the peaceful and gentle smile on his face undoubtedly implied Li Jiong that he was willing to listen to Li Jiong's series of opinions on this matter.

"The financial and economic system of Zhongtu has been firmly adhering to one of the most basic principles for thousands of years, that is, to emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce, and to respect the root and suppress the end. Even Wang Jinggong's reform and Cai Jing's new policy did not deviate from this principle, but the reforms presided over by the Grand Marshal are changing this principle."

Li Jiong hesitated for a long time and said what he wanted to say the most, "Master, can I understand this way that the changes in the court are not only changing the basic principles of the financial system that China-Turkish had been passed down for more than a thousand years, but also subverting or destroying the fundamental basis for survival and development of China-Turkish."

Li Hu's face was slightly calmed and his thick eyebrows frowned. His eyes suddenly opened wide, and he was obviously deeply shocked by Li Jiong's words.

My reform strategy is subverting or destroying the root cause of Middle-earth's survival and development? Is this true? Or is it Li Jiong's alarmist statement?

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The house was in a breathtaking silence. Li Jiong looked calm. Anyway, he had already said it and could not take it back. If there were any consequences, he had to bear it. However, there was a huge wave of trouble in Li Hu's heart. This was a time when someone directly suspected or criticized his own reform strategy. This made Li Hu feel a crisis that was coming, a huge crisis that was deeply unpredictable.

In Zhongtu, since the party struggles occurred in Wang Jinggong's reform, the Yuanyou party members were first purged, and then the new party system led by Cai Jing also suffered a devastating blow. At this time, the tiger steed people represented by the Han people in the north arrived in Zhongtu. They joined forces with the military people in the northwest and scholars of the northwest Guan, and once again raised the banner of reform and were determined to revitalize Zhongtu. Therefore, a new bureaucratic system appeared in Chang'an. However, in other parts of Zhongtu, except for the northwest and the north, the bureaucratic system has not changed, including the past new party, old party and centrist bureaucrats.

These old bureaucratic systems cannot be replaced for a while, and in fact they cannot be replaced quickly. Therefore, the two new and old bureaucratic systems inevitably collided fiercely. From national policies, academics to specific policies, all-round collisions are taking place. This is an inevitable process of the country turning from peace to chaos, and then from chaos to peace. If it is handled well, the country will be peaceful and the people will be safe, and the troubled times will continue.

Originally, as long as these two new and old bureaucratic systems have common academic and common governance concepts, they can gradually complete the process of integration and replacement as time continues. However, the reform strategy implemented by Li Hu does have the distinctive characteristics of subverting the survival and development of China-Turkey that has been passed down for more than a thousand years. It has added an emerging force besides the new and old bureaucratic system. This emerging force is represented by giant businessmen and wealthy businessmen, and is the object of attack and exclusion of the Middle-Turkey bureaucratic system.

With the implementation of new changes, this emerging force is entering the court at an unprecedented speed, joining the highest decision-making level, and rapidly penetrating and spreading into the local bureaucracy system. It is conceivable how fierce the struggle it caused. Moreover, because of the deep-rooted concept passed down for more than a thousand years, this struggle will inevitably be bloody, cruel, and life-and-death struggle. The scale and extent of its struggle far exceed the old and new parties in the past, and the harm and impact of its struggle on Middle-earth will inevitably be immeasurable.

Li Jiong is a local official, but because his family has a deep and strong background in the central government, he is also a central member. His ideas and views on the current situation are quite representative and universal. Li Hu therefore considered the crisis of the situation, but he was unable to change it. He must unswervingly follow the path of change he set out, and he has no way to turn back.

The old bureaucratic system of Middle-Turkishness has huge power from the central and localities. Once Middle-Turkishness is unified, the old bureaucratic system will surely be restored. In the struggle and collision with the new bureaucratic system in Chang'an, it is very likely to swallow up the new bureaucratic system, rather than being controlled, integrated, and replaced by the new bureaucratic system. As the backbone of the new bureaucratic system, the strong man and weak. The only way is to introduce the emerging forces in Middle-Turkishness, use this emerging force to fight and fight the old bureaucratic system, and finally complete the control, integration and replacement of the old bureaucratic system.

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After a long time, Li Hu asked: "So, in your opinion, the reform strategy of the court is promoting disaster in China-Turkey, right?"

"Of course not." Li Jiong said, "The core of the court's reform strategy is financial management. The ultimate goal of financial management is to increase wealth and achieve a country and strong people on the basis of the increase in total wealth. This is not a mistake. The mistake is that the court is eager for quick success and instant benefits in order to achieve this goal, and has committed the same impetuous habit as Wang Jinggong and Cai Jing. It wishes to make the change successful within ten or twenty years. In fact, this is impossible. Any change requires the efforts of several generations, and there is no result in the short term."

"Do you think it is wrong for the court to bring emerging forces represented by giant merchants and wealthy businessmen to the court, and let them participate in decision-making and implementation of national policies. It is a mistake of being eager for quick success and instant benefits, right?"

"My personal opinion is this." Li Jiong said without hesitation. "Businessmen are greedy by nature. They do not hesitate to pursue profits, and they ignore the safety of the country and the survival of the people. There are all bloody examples. Therefore, I believe that in order to resolve the contradiction between land and population, and to achieve the goal of enriching the country and strengthening the people, there is no mistake in vigorously developing industry and commerce. What is wrong is to improve the status of merchants, give them the opportunity to enter the court, influence and even control the national policy. For example, I heard that Changsun Kangning presented a plan for reforming the financial system to the princess, the focus of which is the monetization of salaries of officials, the monetization of grain, and the monetization of land taxes. These policies obviously violate the basic principles of the financial system that China and Turkey has inherited for more than a thousand years, and the consequences are even more unimaginable."

Li Jiong kept talking and criticized Changsun Kangning's proposed package of financial system reform plans for nothing.

Li Hu listened quietly, and he knew that the result must be like this. Changsun Kangning's financial system reform plan directly contacted the interests of the bureaucrats, which was unacceptable to the bureaucrats from the central to local governments. It was also intolerable.
Chapter completed!