"What right do you have to divide my family's land? I bought all this land and I have the title deed.”
A landlord shouted angrily.
"There's a title deed? Come, give me the title deed."
The official in charge of distributing the fields said with a smile.
Soon, the landlord took out the title deed.
The official looked at the title deed and pointed at the words on it. He smiled and said,"Can you read? Read it to me."
"Land transaction contract, Qing Xianfeng 8th year Baoding magistrate seal.”the landlord immediately read.
"Is this the Qing Dynasty?" the official asked.
"Of course…No, won't the government recognize the title deed?”The landlord was a little confused.
"Admit it? Why should he admit it? Could it be that he could use the imperial sword of the Ming Dynasty to kill the officials of the Qing Dynasty?”
The landlord was speechless.
Chen Ling didn't just snatch the land.
If you take the title deed from the Qing Dynasty, our Chinese Empire will not recognize it.
What was that?
You said that the Chinese Empire is unreasonable.
What a joke. If the Chinese Empire recognized the title deed of the Qing Dynasty, then if you took the title deed of the palace, would His Majesty give the palace to you?
Therefore, without the title deed of the Chinese Empire, the title deed in your hands is useless.
As for the hard-line faction, it didn't matter. Not only could they be reasonable, but they could also talk about physics.
Just like that, in the area under the jurisdiction of the Chinese Empire, a vigorous movement to divide the land began.
No matter how much the landlord class shouted, it was useless.
After all, the number of commoners was much higher than the number of landowners.
With the support of the common people, the landlord class could not cause any waves at all.
The distribution of the land also completely consolidated Chen Ling's rule.
Before this, the common people did not care about who became the emperor because it had nothing to do with them.
However, things were different now. Chen Ling had become the Emperor, and they had obtained tangible benefits.
If someone wanted to overthrow Chen Ling's rule, the people would be the first to disagree.
Although the land in the hands of the commoners was only given to them by the country and not their own, the country had also admitted that as long as one did not rebel and abide by the law, the country would not take back the land.
For the land in their hands, whoever went against the Chinese Empire was going against the people of the Chinese Empire.
Defeat the western powers, abolish the agricultural tax, and divide the land.
With these three steps, Chen Ling's prestige rose.
The commoners had a future in their lives. They were energetic and looked different.
Facing Chen Ling's gun, the landlord class could not resist, but they did something.
Although they couldn't directly resist, they could raise the price of the grain.
"Raising the grain price, that's a good idea."
After Chen Ling received the news, he smiled disdainfully.
These landowners might still be living in the Manchurian Qing Dynasty. They used to live too comfortably with the identity of the Manchurian people and did not understand the current situation.
"In the future, private individuals are not allowed to purchase grain. The empire will establish a grain supervision department to control the price of grain. It is illegal to raise the price of grain without permission.”Chen Ling ordered.
"Yes, Your Majesty, but what if those landowners don't sell their food?”Wu Pingquan asked.
"It's okay. You can have as much food as you want. You don't have to operate this. Zhen will get someone to do it.”Chen Ling waved his hand and said.
Food was considered military supplies. Chen Ling could purchase it from the system without a limit.
In other words, as long as Chen Ling was willing, he could feed the entire world.
There was no need for that before. Now that the landlord class wanted to play with him, he would play with them.
Suppressing them with force would eventually give them a bad reputation in history. In any case, he had as much food as he wanted. Wouldn't it be better to play them to death?
Chen Ling directly purchased 100 million tons of grain and white flour and had the Bio-Human soldiers transport them to various counties and cities. He directly stabilized the grain prices and even reduced the grain prices to one-fifth of the original price.
At this price, even the grain could not be collected. Those landowners would lose as much as they sold.
As for setting the grain price so low, what would the common people do?
Of course, it was to encourage the common people to grow cash crops. They should plant more fruits and vegetables and less food.
If they had to grow grain, they could introduce a grain subsidy policy next year.
In any case, the rules were set by Chen Ling. He could play however he wanted.
In the blink of an eye, half a month had passed.
The development of the territories under the jurisdiction of the Chinese Empire could be said to be changing every day.
The modernisation was still ongoing, and more than 180 kilometers of roads were built every day.
Chen Ling had specially recruited 100,000 engineering soldiers for this purpose. Coupled with modern equipment, the speed of transformation could be said to be changing with each passing day.
After reaching Level 20, Chen Ling could have a total of 500,000 troops before Level 30.
However, there was no need for him to recruit so many combat troops directly. With the modern military strength, as long as there were 100,000 people, it would be enough to sweep through the entire country and defeat the western countries.
Therefore, Chen Ling spent most of the recruitment quota on medical, logistics, engineering, and so on.
What was limiting Chen Ling's development now was industrial technology, talent reserve, and electricity.
There was no industrial foundation, insufficient talent reserves, and insufficient power generation.
Currently, the electricity in Beijing was supplied by Chen Ling using military field power generators. There was no power plant at all.
As for the remaining two restrictions, they still needed time to accumulate. They could not be completed in a short period of time.
However, after Chen Ling's efforts, the Chinese Empire had stabilized internally. All the departments were operating smoothly and could now perform their functions.
Next, Chen Ling's focus shifted to offense.
One day, while Chen Ling was studying the map and thinking about the route of attack, the young eunuch brought a telegram.
"Your Majesty, Li Hongzhang sent a telegram.”
"Hmm, Li Hongzhang?"
Chen Ling was a little surprised. He didn't have much interaction with Li Hongzhang, so why would he send him a telegram?
Chen Ling took the telegram and read it.
"Hehe…that's a good idea. The regions will be autonomous and form the Huaxia Alliance.”
Chen Ling said disdainfully after reading the telegram.
Those governors had spies around the capital and the Zhili region, so they had seen the development during this period of time.
They also knew that they could not defeat Chen Ling with their strength, but it was not good to continue to be in a stalemate.
No matter how ambitious a person was, they did not want the western powers to divide their country.
Therefore, a few governors joined forces and prepared to form a country.
They were all higher-ups of this country, but they didn't care about each other internally, but they had to help each other externally.
Originally, Li Hongzhang and the others had already contacted each other half a month ago when Chen Ling declared war on the Eight-Nation Alliance.
After Chen Ling was defeated by the Eight-Nation Alliance, they would join forces to fight against the foreigners.
However, they had not expected that Chen Ling would actually annihilate the allied forces of the western powers.
The reason Li Hongzhang sent a telegram to Chen Ling was because they knew that the 600,000 troops formed by the Western powers had already set off.
They thought that Chen Ling's strength would not be able to stop an army of 600,000.
When Chen Ling was finished, they would not have an easy time either.
As long as Chen Ling agreed to remove the name of the Chinese Empire and join the Huaxia Alliance, they would send out all their elite soldiers to help Chen Ling resist the allied forces of the western powers.
"We don't have enough experience points to share, yet we still want to join forces to fight against the enemy.”
Chen Ling looked down on their elite army and did not want to play with them.
The situation was so small, and they still wanted to split China. Who would play with them?
"Call back and tell Li Hongzhang that you guys can go play in the mud.”Chen Ling threw the telegram aside and said to the young eunuch.
"Yes, Your Majesty." The young eunuch immediately left.
After the eunuch left, Chen Ling looked at the map in front of him.
Originally, he had not thought of where to fight, but now the western powers had already helped him choose.
"Since you've gathered from Lushun, you should first take back the three eastern provinces.”
When Chen Ling thought of this, he had already decided to send troops to Fengtian.
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