Although Chen Ling knew that the Eight-Nation Alliance had gathered 600,000 troops to attack him, he did not know where exactly they had logged in.
Anyway, it was definitely not in Tianjin Port. No matter how stupid a person was, they would not jump into a pit just because they saw it.
"Forget it. It doesn't matter which direction we attack from.”
Chen Ling thought about it for a long time and was too lazy to think about it.
In any case, he had nothing to fear.
Ten minutes later, Wu Pingquan and a group of people walked into the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
Although there was no need to attend court, Wu Pingquan and the others had to come to Taihe Palace every day to report to Chen Ling.
"Your Majesty, the capital's hygiene and modernisation are progressing steadily.
The engineering team dispatched by His Majesty was very efficient. They had already completed the renovation of two main roads and built 30 public toilets.
The renovation of the entire capital was expected to be completed within three months.”An official from the City Construction Bureau reported.
"Your Majesty, the tax reform notice has been issued. From next month onwards, salt tax, tea tax, tooth tax, lijin, pawn tax, and other eleven types of taxes will be abolished.
It was changed to business tax, corporate income tax, and personal income tax.”The officials from the tax department immediately reported.
"Your Majesty, the preliminary framework of the government of the Imperium has been established, and the recruitment process for civil servants has been drafted. Your Majesty, please review it.”
"Your Majesty, half of the first draft of the revised laws of the Empire has been completed. It is estimated that the first draft will be completed in half a month.”
" Your Majesty, the Empire's finances…"
The officials reported one after another. They basically reported all the government matters that were currently in progress.
Chen Ling listened carefully. He wanted to find out the problem.
It wasn't that Chen Ling didn't want to give up his authority. He had the military in his hands and with the help of the system, he wasn't afraid of any problems with the officials.
However, he was afraid that these officials would not be able to do their job well, especially during this critical period.
If the government's framework was not done well in the early stages, it would be very troublesome to change it later.
Furthermore, he had to set the tone for the empire's development and control the overall situation, so Chen Ling was very busy right now.
There was nothing he could do about it. He was a transmigrator and stood at a different height. He saw problems on a completely different level from these officials.
No matter how talented these people were, if you didn't teach them or tell them what to do, they wouldn't be able to do it.
Although the things they came up with were better than feudal and decadent things like the Qing Dynasty, they were still outdated.
"Mm, not bad. The work of each department is still okay, but the problem of the expansion of personnel in each department needs to be properly closed. Otherwise, if any department has a problem because of recruitment, I will punish you all.
As for the financial problem, there was no need to worry about it. The tax reform was a must. There were still more than 100 million taels of silver in the national treasury, which was enough to tide them through this period of time.”
After Chen Ling heard the reports from the various departments, he expressed his satisfaction.
These talents that he had drawn out from the card had performed well. At the very least, their abilities were not a problem.
After the officials from the various departments left, Chen Ling brought Wu Pingquan to Yangxin Palace Hall.
"Tell me, how are the statistics on the landlord class?”Chen Ling asked.
"Your Majesty, after a few days of statistics, we have already obtained the number and proportion of the landlord class in the surrounding areas of the capital and Zhili.”Wu Pingquan immediately replied.
"How many households are there in total? What is the ratio of Manchu to Han landowners?”Chen Ling continued to ask.
"Your Majesty, there are currently 37,000 landowners under the jurisdiction of the Empire. The ratio of Manchu landowners to Han landowners is 6:4.”
Chen Ling nodded after hearing this. This number was not beyond his expectations.
After all, it was normal for Manchu landlords to have a high proportion in the areas around the capital and Zhili.
If it was in the areas of the two rivers and Guangdong and Guangxi, the proportion of Manchu landowners was estimated to be less than 1%.
Of course, if it was Fengtian or JiLin, the data would be reversed.
"Did you find anything else in the investigation of the landlord class?”Chen Ling said with a smile.
"Your Majesty, this subject has discovered some problems.
Previously, His Majesty always said that the people were rich and the country was strong. Although I understood it, I did not understand it thoroughly.
This time, when I investigated the data of the landlord class, I really found some problems.
The more concentrated the landlord class, the poorer the area, but the richer the local landlord.
On the other hand, in areas where there were few landowners and were not concentrated, the richer the people were, the better their lives were.”
Wu Pingquan said. He was also very emotional because of this data.
"Land is always distributed equally to everyone and then concentrated on a small number of people.
When the land was concentrated on a small number of people, it was basically the time when every dynasty perished and the dynasty changed.
It was the same now. The dynasty had changed, and the land had to be reformed.
Wu Pingquan, I will give you 5000 people. I want you to distribute the land controlled by the landlord class equally to the local farmers within three days.”
After Chen Ling finished speaking, he immediately gave the order.
"Yes, Your Majesty. I promise to do it.”
"Go ahead."
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