My Wife is Unbeatable in the Whole World, Touch Me If You Dare!-Chapter 642 - 390: Opportunity of the Semi-Saint

This time returning to Chang’an, Li Nuo stayed for a few more days.

Involved in establishing the new inspection system, improving papermaking and printing techniques, and promoting basic education, there were many details that needed to be agreed upon with the Left Prime Minister in advance.

A year ago, the court could not manage these matters.

But now the National Treasury is more abundant than ever, enough to take out silver to do these things.

Last year’s tax reform recovered a lot of taxes from local gentry.

This year, Li Nuo conducted inspections in various places, confiscating numerous corrupt officials’ properties, all of which were ultimately added to the National Treasury. Since the establishment of Daxia, this should be the most abundant period for the National Treasury.

Zhou Yu is no longer in the Secretariat.

A month ago, he was transferred to the Ministry of Revenue, serving as an Assistant Minister.

Being able to transfer from the Secretariat to the Six Departments and be promoted two levels is generally a sign of being a focus of cultivation by the three provinces.

Li Nuo visited the Song Family yesterday and learned that Song Yu’s development in the army is also quite promising. Two months ago, he was promoted again, and those two previously notorious young generals now each have promising futures.

In a certain government office within the Secretariat, the Left Prime Minister looked at Li Nuo and asked, "You really won’t personally inspect the local areas anymore?"

Li Nuo nodded and said, "Without a comprehensive inspection system, relying on me alone cannot complete the patrols. Implementing the new inspection system as soon as possible is the long-term solution..."

The Left Prime Minister said no more; indeed, the Daxia court cannot rely on him alone.

He patted Li Nuo on the shoulder and said, "With your achievements this year, you should be promoted again, but your promotion speed over the past two years has been too fast, and there is temporarily no position available above the fourth rank..."

Li Nuo was not concerned about promotion; third rank or fourth rank made little difference to him.

He was more concerned about the improvement of cultivation.

Both the Confucian and Legalism cultivation have reached a bottleneck. Whether it’s handling cases for the Ministry of Justice or inspecting local areas, executing corrupt officials and punishing troublesome citizens, the bottleneck in cultivation remains unmoved.

In the past, casually eliminating nobles could enter a realm, and if that didn’t work, he could get through with numbers.

Now, the next step forward is Semi-Saint, and to break through, stacking numbers is no longer a solution.

The identity or the power of those slain must have a qualitative improvement.

According to the Legalism Classics, the bottleneck of Semi-Saint can be broken by a Semi-Saint.

In other words, he must, according to the Law, execute a Sixth Realm Semi-Saint who has committed a capital crime, or someone with a status equivalent to a Semi-Saint...

Relatively speaking, the latter is easier to achieve.

The lords of small countries, although only in the Fifth Realm, bear the fate of a nation, which can elevate their status to some extent, barely enough.

The problem is that those small countries have already entered constitutional monarchy, with emperors becoming symbolic, seemingly unsuitable for a breakthrough, and besides, even though they are small, they are sovereign states. Even the emperors of the Five Great Dynasties technically cannot judge them.

Relying purely on stacking numbers is not impossible.

But here, the numbers also need to have a certain quality, such as high-ranking officials of the first and second rank, nobles like kings and commandery princes, such individuals have become extinct in Daxia now.

The ones truly holding Second Rank Real power are just the Left and Right Prime Ministers.

As for commandery princes, most were slain by the father, the remaining are all the Emperor’s own sons, no one can act against them unless the Emperor dies.

There are not many nobles left in other countries either.

According to intelligence from the Green Bird Society, even the nobles of major powers like Wei Chu and Qi could not escape the fate of being assassinated. Since the rumor began that the blood of nobles could be refined into Lifespan Extension Pills, a catastrophe for nobles has commenced.

Emperors of small countries can abdicate to preserve the Imperial Family.

It is impossible for emperors of major powers to abdicate, making the Imperial Family the prey of others. Even if they hide in the capital, they cannot completely escape slaughter; how can any guard stop a Sixth Realm expert who wants their life?

Some even say that the ones who most desire longevity are the emperors of various countries. Just as with the deaths of Daxia’s nobles, the deaths of nobles in other nations are very likely orchestrated by their own emperors.

Li Nuo was not aware of the emperors of Wei, Chu, and Qi, but he was sure the Empress would never do such things.

As Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Justice, Li Nuo took time to visit the Ministry of Justice.

Having too many and varied official positions, as Scheeren of the Secretariat he needed to handle court affairs, as Vice Director of the Imperial College he needed to manage the academy and teach students, as Imperial Censor he needed to supervise and inspect local areas, and the primary duties for the Ministry of Justice were neglected instead.

Fortunately, the court understood him—originally, there was only one Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Justice, now an additional position has been established, so even in Li Nuo’s absence, it does not affect the daily operation of the Ministry of Justice.

He handled some accumulated case files in the Ministry of Justice and opened a court session to adjudicate a few cases.

Solving cases has become a very simple matter for Li Nuo nowadays.

He doesn’t even need the defendants’ confessions; he can obtain the information he wants.

However, there are cases where a conclusion cannot be drawn on site.

In the government office of the Ministry of Justice, Li Nuo held the case file of a missing person.

This missing person case was reported to the Chang’an County Government, but no result was found for a long time, so it was reported to the Ministry of Justice.

Missing person cases are generally quite tricky and difficult to investigate without leads, but that was in the past.

Li Nuo summoned a government official from the Ministry of Justice and said, "Go to the missing person’s home and ask for his birth information."

Although the government official from the Ministry of Justice didn’t understand why, he dutifully complied.

A little over an hour later, he walked into Li Nuo’s government office holding a piece of paper, saying, "Lord Li, this is that person’s birth information."

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