"Are you the head of the tour department?"

This news really shocked Mo Zizai, the chief minister of the dynasty, the Minister of Personnel, and also the head of intelligence work. His father must be so dedicated to collecting all this power in one person.

The Ministry of Personnel is the head of the six ministries and is in charge of personnel changes in officials. In theory, officials must be promoted and demoted by him, and their power is quite high.

Needless to say, the chief minister of the cabinet is always known as a small court, and his daily task is to help the emperor handle government affairs. It is not an exaggeration to say that the chief minister of the cabinet is the first person below the emperor.

Because the power of these two is too great, Mo Zinai's impression has never been able to enter the cabinet for successive ministers of the Ministry of Personnel, let alone serve as the chief minister of the cabinet.

As a result, my father was so good. He also felt that he was not in power in both positions and was given the responsibility of the Minister of Information. Are you really not afraid that the old man in front of him will be a powerful minister and cause his rebellion?

"Yes, I am the head of the Touring Department."

Yang Wei didn't care about the surprise and fear in Mo Zizai's eyes. He took out the token of the Chief of the Commander of the Patrol Office from his arms and placed it on the table, and then asked softly: "Does the prince know why the late emperor formed the Emperor's Imperial Office back then?"

After Mo Zizai checked the authenticity of the token, he quickly took a sip of water to suppress his shock. The intelligence organization in his hands was actually in the hands of others. This was really terrifying.

When Mo Zizai heard Yang Weishang’s question, he thought for a while and then replied: “I heard that it seems to be for the sake of dealing with the aristocratic family?”

"It's just a cover."

Yang Weishang breathed happily, and a look of remembrance flashed in his eyes, "Your Majesty, he wanted to rebel back then."

"ha???"

Mo Zizai was a little confused. He knew that the Majesty Yang Weishang was referring to his father, but what does rebellion mean? Is it the rebellion he understood?

Yang Weishang didn't care about Mo Zizai's doubts, but changed his mind and asked, "What do you think of the current situation in the Great Zhou Dynasty?"

When Mo Zizai heard Yang Weishang call him Your Highness, he was stunned for a moment, but he immediately reacted. The old man was probably trapped in his memories, so he did not correct him.

As for his question, Mo Zizai pondered for a while before slowly speaking out a word: "It's in danger."

"The aristocratic families have gained power and the number of powerful people has increased. Now, the nominal stewards in many places are court officials, but in fact, the aristocratic families have the final say."

"After these people took control of their power, they surrounded the land and concealed the land, which led to the fact that the available arable land that the Great Zhou now has on the surface is less than one-tenth of the founding of the country, which is simply ironic."

"And the most important thing is that the population of the Great Zhou Dynasty is at least ten times higher than when it was founded, but the imperial court can only use one-tenth of this land to support ten times the population, which is unrealistic."

"It would be fine if there was a good year. The people could still support themselves by relying on the little bit of leftover products in their hands. However, disasters have continued over the years, and I am afraid that the people will not be able to survive any longer."

"And if the people can't survive, hey..."

Mo Zizai said this, but just sneered and stopped talking.

"It is worthy of being your Majesty's bloodline, and you can see the problem as thoroughly as your Majesty."

Yang Weishang nodded with relief and said, "In the eight hundred years since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, countless nobles and officials have been added. These people, together with the aristocratic families, not only controlled the vast majority of the land of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but also monopolized the channels for the rise of the lower classes."

"The imperial examination system is relatively fair, which allows ordinary people to have the opportunity to jump into the dragon gate, but ordinary people can't even eat, so how can they still study?"

"What's more, most of the people who control the imperial examinations are theirs, so ordinary people will have no chance."

Hearing Yang Weishang say the imperial examination, Mo Zizai suddenly remembered something and asked subconsciously: "Old Yang, I remember you..."

"That's right."

Yang Weishang knew what Mo Zizai was thinking of asking, nodded and said, "I am indeed a civilian, and my family was quite poor when I was young. I could only make a living by herding cattle with wealthy families."

"But I am not a civilian official, because my teacher was Chen Ping, the Minister of Personnel who retired and returned to his hometown at that time. Since I became a disciple, I have been considered half a famous family."

After hearing what Yang Weishang said, Mo Zizai's face was a little solemn. If he said so, there would be no one in the court's civil and military officials who were promoted from civilians.

Apart from aristocratic families, there are only a few powerful families, and even fewer poor families.

“Classification?”

A word flashed through Mo Zi's mind and asked, "So, what exactly did my father want to do back then?"

"You... the late emperor wants to continue to reform."

Yang Weishang suddenly reacted to the wrong title, and changed the half-calling His Majesty to the late emperor, "The late emperor formed the Imperial Division, on the surface, to deal with the aristocratic family, but in fact to prepare for reform."

"reform?"

Mo Zizai was energetic when he heard this word and asked, "What are the contents?"

"a lot of."

Yang Weishang said with a little complacent look on his face: "I discussed with Your...the late emperor for many years, and finally discussed a lot of content together."

"The most important ones are to abolish the privilege of the royal family, nobles, noble families, and gentry not paying taxes, measure the land, check the population, determine the inheritance rights of the adopted son and daughter, collect taxes according to the population, and also regulate the commercial market and collect commercial taxes."

"Hiss~"

Mo Zizai couldn't help but gasp. His father was really cruel. He was a royal family, noble family, noble family, gentry, businessman, and there were only a few classes in the Zhou Dynasty except the people. As a result, his father was not going to let go. No wonder Yang Weishang said that his father was going to rebel. He did everything over. This was not rebellion. What was this?

And the most important thing is that the reform is too large. It would be almost the same if someone else could change one or two items in decades as an emperor. It would be a bit unrealistic to think about it all.

"Old Mr. Yang, isn't the reform too large?"

"This is all the plans, and I and the late emperor do not plan to implement them all at once."

Yang Weishang sighed and said, "At that time, Your Majesty abolished the lowly family was the first step to attack them. He also had the intention of testing those aristocratic families, and wanted to see if their resistance was fierce."

"As a result, they performed quite obediently. Although many ministers expressed opposition to this matter, under the tough attitude of the late emperor, this policy was still promoted, and basically no obstacles were encountered."

"It is precisely because of this that after discussing with His Majesty, I felt that the time should be almost done, so I planned to ask Yuzhiji to secretly count the land first and then carry out land measurement."
Chapter completed!