latelenovela Chapter 206
Chapter 206
Chapter 206: Suppress Mergers, Eliminate Stubborn Diseases, Don’t Make Today’s Troubles, Leave Your Children and Grandchildren to Worry!.
After establishing the basic political affairs team of the new dynasty, Chai Hao immediately released the seed master who was under house arrest of Zhao and Song, and let them still command the old army of the Western Army and the old army of daring soldiers.
These old marshals and veteran generals are all people who know the soldiers, and they are loyal and can be of great use.
In particular, the old seed Xianggong Seed Master Dao, the vast majority of excellent seeds of the Western Army, who had been working hard all his life, were sent to Chai Hao’s command to resist the Jin Army.
This sentiment and righteousness must not be treated badly.
Therefore, Chai Hao was ready to reserve the position of Taishi to the Seed Master.
Immediately afterwards, Chai Hao and the important ministers of the new dynasty held a simple court. Established what to do next.
The first point was to disperse the redundant soldiers who could not fight, as well as the Zhuangding captured by Zhao and Song, and so on, and each issued grain and severance pay, so that they could return to the countryside to work in agriculture.
The army that can fight will be integrated and trained for the next battle.
The second point is that the division road and the folding can be requested, and the commanders of the Western Army and the Fold Family return to the northwest to guard against Western Xia. Because Chai Hao concluded that after Jin Guo was taken over by Jin Wushu, he would inevitably unite with Western Xia to attack Chai Hao together.
Therefore, in the northwest land, it is still necessary to plant a master road and ask this kind of general, who has sufficient combat experience with Western Xia, to defend the town.
The third point is to dismiss the redundant officials left by the Zhao and Song dynasties, most of whom are the sons and nephews of the officials of the Zhao and Song dynasties, who enjoy grace and all kinds of shade, occupy an official position without examination, and are supported by the imperial court.
During the Zhao and Song dynasties, the biggest annual expenditure was not military spending, but these redundant officials.
In the 160 years since the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, the number of official officials at all levels has reached 450,000! The capital of the Great Song Prefecture is no more than four hundred, and on average to each prefecture, the number of officials has reached hundreds!
In the agricultural era, hundreds of thousands of people in a state capital, raising hundreds of high-paid officials who were out of production, and also having to bear various taxes such as conscription, raising soldiers, raising horses, etc., was already an extremely heavy burden!
And forty or fifty thousand people is just the number of officials of official rank in Zhao and Song.
If you add those official officials who are equipped and also eat the subordinates of the imperial court, it may reach hundreds of thousands! Even more than the regular forbidden army on the books of the Great Song!
Moreover, the remuneration of officials was extremely rich, far exceeding that of soldiers, so more than half of Zhao Song’s finances were used to support these redundant officials. And many official positions are simply not necessary, and even if they are in office, they will add trouble and burden to the people.
It can be said that it is a cancer parasitized on the heads of the people of the world by the Shidafu Group. This kind of mixed eating and waiting for death will be abolished.
The guilty should be beheaded, and the catch should be caught. Innocent philistine quacks are directly dismissed.
At the beginning, Renzong Shenzong and Zhezong of the Zhao and Song Dynasties also thought about changing the law and solving the problems of redundant officials in the style of stacking beds, but the opposition of the Great Song Shifu was too loud, so the weak Emperor Zhao and Song failed to do it.
Now that Chai Hao’s new dynasty has been established, there are hundreds of thousands of armored men with eagles and tigers, so naturally they have to strike while the iron is hot and quickly solve the problems and drawbacks of Zhao and Song.
In addition to solving the problem of redundant troops and officials, there is also a major problem, which is merger.
Chai Hao took the iron-faced Mu Pei Xuan as the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, united with the Shangshu of the Hubu Ouyang Xun, the right minister Li Ruoshui, the right envoy Jiang Jing of the Third Division, and the four major departments jointly investigated the people’s fields that were seized by the Xicheng Gutian in the Zhao Jiao era, and those who were still alive were returned to the bitter lord, and those who were not alive were returned to the official field.
As for Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Zhu Mian, Wu Min, Geng Nanzhong and other big traitors, their family property and field property were directly raided as official fields.
In the 160 years since the founding of the Zhao and Song dynasties, the reason why peasant uprisings have continued is because most of the fields have been annexed by the scholar class.
For Chai Hao, this saves trouble.
Those who are guilty of a great crime, those who have committed a heinous crime, those who have confiscated their homes, and those who have committed lesser crimes must also be fined and confiscated the annexed land, and fined and punished with land.
According to Chai Hao’s estimates, this alone would be able to recover more than half of the world’s land property!
Of course, in this process, it will inevitably lead to the vast majority of scholars and doctors in the world standing on the opposite side of Chai Hao and the new dynasty.
But Chai Hao is not afraid, the world has been sick for a long time, and a sharp change is needed to remove all sinks and parasites!
Just take advantage of the time when those gentlemen and gentry groups stand on the opposite side of Chai Hao, eliminate them all, and never suffer from future troubles!
It is precisely because of this that Chai Hao knew that the third prince of the Zhao family, Zhao Kai the Prince of Zhao, and the ninth prince Zhao Zhi the Prince of Kang, were in Jiangnan, but he did not immediately send troops to arrest them.
Because he wants to give some people a chance, let those scholars, doctors and gentry who hate the new dynasty gather around these two remnants of Zhao and Song, and then kill them all!
Therefore, after occupying Bianliang, Chai Hao only sent multiple light horses to appease the world and inform him of the change of dynasty. Then, just wait for the officials and doctors everywhere to make a choice.
Those who have ghosts in their hearts will definitely throw themselves at the remnants of Zhao Song and oppose the new dynasty, so that Chai Hao can be killed by then! This will also be a big project…
A project even bigger than gold extinction!
This move will cause a certain degree of shock in the world, mainly from the gentry and landlord class, but Chai Hao Sanjing is ready for everything.
He will not be terminally ill with the world, and he needs gentle means to treat it slowly, and he cannot use the reason of strong medicine to paralyze himself. Because when the new dynasty was first established, some things were not done, and in the future life, it will only make it more difficult for future generations to do!
Therefore, if Chai Hao wants to be here, he will deal with the beginning and end that should be clean, for the descendants of future generations and the world of future generations! Do not let today’s troubles leave your children and grandchildren worried!
When Zhao Song established the state, it was because of the direct yellow robe added to the body, usurped the Houzhou, and also completely received the Houzhou, without reducing the population and redistributing the land through the war, so the establishment of the Zhao and Song state was with the huge hidden danger of annexation.
Coupled with Zhao Song’s strategy of suppressing martial arts, giving preferential treatment to Shi Dafu, and not killing Shi Dafu, it also led to the serious merger! Taking Xiangzhou as an example, more than eighty percent of the entire land in Xiangzhou belonged to the family of Han Qi, the prime minister of the Renzong Dynasty.
Even Yue Fei from Tangyin County in Xiangzhou is a tenant of the Han family!
This is a serious deformity!
If Zhao Song had not been destroyed by the external enemy of the Jin State, and the internal contradictions were covered up by external contradictions, then if this development continued, in less than fifty years, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others would have appeared to destroy Zhao Song.
It is shorter than the historical cycle law of the rest of the dynasties, and the Guozao!
And Chai Hao has to do this whether it is out of 0.4 with the public heart of the world in mind, or out of selfish consideration for himself and future generations.
Only in this way will the world be peaceful for a longer time.
Maybe after all, it is still impossible to get rid of the law of historical cycles, but whether it is the people, the gentry or the emperor, the world will start with Chai Hao, have some awe, some restrictions, there is a certain hope, can get rid of the law of historical cycles.
No matter how bad it is, it can make that day come later and make the peace last longer. 10,000 years is too long, Chai Hao only competes for the day!
Just when Chai Hao ascended the throne in Bianliang and began to implement these new national policies, Jiangnan, which was far away and not far away, was a wonderful situation of chickens flying and dogs jumping.
The brothers of the Zhao family, after learning that Zhao Song was destroyed by Chai Hao and that their father and brother were killed by Chai Hao, their first move was not to stand up and denounce and carry the banner of avenging Zhao Song and his father and brother.
Instead, they each formed a faction, ready to compete for the throne of the successor…