Time passed in the blink of an eye, and a month passed very quickly.
It was winter in the Otherworld. The weather in Yunnan and Guizhou had become abnormally cold. Although it did not snow heavily, it was still so cold that Qin Jun doubted his life.
Gulp, gulp, gulp.
Mutton soup was boiling over the charcoal fire. Qin Jun, who was wearing a woolen military coat, leaned against the chair and listened to Zhou Wan and Niu Yi's report.
"Qin Wang, after a month of sorting out, all the unqualified officials in the two provinces have been eliminated. According to your administrative system plan, all the prefectures have been renamed as cities. Below the cities, there are counties, and below the counties, there are towns. The area of each town has also been adjusted.”
"In terms of laws, after the new Qin laws were announced, the people cheered and expressed their support for King Qin's residence.”
" Of course, there are also people who oppose it and secretly instigate a rebellion…"
Zhou Wan, who was dressed in a black tunic suit and black leather shoes with a buzz cut, carefully raised her head and glanced at Qin Jun.
When it came to rebellion, he was a little afraid.
With Qin Jun's decisive personality, there was a 100% chance that blood would flow like a river.
As expected, Qin Jun opened his eyes the next second. A strong aura of a superior frightened him and Niu Yi so much that they lowered their heads and did not dare to breathe.
"The people you are talking about should be the rich and powerful landowners. If the land state continues to implement the household system, they will be the ones who will suffer the most.”
"Yes, 90% of the rich and powerful landowners are against it. They don't even accept the compensation measures that you've given them.”
Haha.
Qin Jun smiled.
Land nationalization was a national policy that had to be implemented, and no one could oppose it.
For thousands of years, how many empires that had flourished for a time were not destroyed by land annexation?
For example, the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The rich and powerful landlord class took 90% of the country's land as their own, and the common people could only work for them as tenants. They worked hard for a year, and most of the harvest went to the main family. Was this fair?
To put it bluntly, those marquises of ten thousand households were rewarded by the emperor with ten thousand households, and the fruits of labor of ten thousand households were used to raise them until they were fat and white.
They might be able to survive if the weather was good, but if they encountered an era of natural disasters.
For example, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a peasant uprising could cause a powerful empire to be unable to recover. In the end, the noble class would rebel again. Whoever won would sit on the throne and start the next cycle.
For example, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, various natural disasters caused farmers to be unable to survive, but the rich and powerful did not have to worry. Their families had tens of millions of silver, and their food was piled up into mountains that could not be eaten.
Dog meat stinks at the vermilion gate, and frozen bones lie on the road.
Under such an extreme gap between the rich and the poor, what else could farmers do?
Other than rebellion, it was rebellion. If they did not fight, they would die.
After thinking for a moment, Qin Jun did not answer Zhou Wan. Instead, he turned to look at Niu Yi, who was wearing a black military uniform and the rank of major general.
"Niu Yi, how's the recruitment going?”
"According to your military expansion plan, we recruited new soldiers from Yunnan and Guizhou provinces on a large scale. Attracted by various military policies and benefits, nearly 1.4 million young men and women signed up in the past month. Finally, after many rounds of screening, 120,000 people met the recruitment criteria for the regular army, and 230,000 people met the recruitment criteria for the second-class garrison. Among them, 4271 people were literate. All of them have been sent to the southern camp for officer training.”
"120,000 regular army recruits and 230,000 Grade 2 Garrison Unit recruits are currently undergoing training in the South City Camp.”
120,000…230,000…
His plan was still the same.
The regular army, which was the Qin army in charge of the war, carried out the policy of elite soldiers. They all wore iron-gray military uniforms and were equipped with rifles, machine guns, and artillery.
The Level 2 Garrison Force could also be called the Armed Police Force. They were mainly stationed in various cities, counties, and towns. They were responsible for maintaining law and order. All of them wore coffee-colored military uniforms and were equipped with Qin swords, shields, spears, and handcuffs that were mass-produced with modern technology. They were both the city guarding force and the police. Their treatment was different from the Qin army's, and it was reduced by half!
"Hurry up and train the new recruits. After the new year, we will officially start to suppress the aristocrats by force. We will recover the land and distribute it equally to the people without compensation.”
Scared!
Suppress by force?
As soon as Qin Jun finished speaking, Zhou Wan and Niu Yi were both shocked.
" Qin Wang, there are too many rich and powerful landowners, and the scope of influence is very wide. If we suppress them with force, all the nobles in the country will lean towards the Man Qing. This…"
Zhou Wan's meaning was self-evident. If Qin Jun insisted on his own way, he would become the mortal enemy of the entire Manqing Dynasty's nobility.
Qin Jun didn't think of this outcome?
He had already thought of it!
"Do you think there are more rich and powerful landowners or commoners in the Land of the Nine Prefectures?”
"There are many commoners, 90% of them…"
Speaking up to this point, Zhou Wan suddenly understood what Qin Jun meant, and her eyes suddenly widened.
"King Qin, you want to start a war between the people?”
"Haha, of course. The people are the water, and the monarch is the boat. Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it! Throughout history, many empires had perished because of peasant uprisings. The thinking of the people of the Celestial Empire had been very simple since ancient times. It was good to be able to eat and wear warm clothes. Therefore, we had to stand firmly with the people and narrow the gap between the rich and the poor to ensure the stability of our rule. Understand?”
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