NFBE Chapter 297 Achihai Girl is Here
Chapter 297 Achihai Girl is Here
If the emperor does this, wars will break out everywhere! We will either force you to kill the people who proposed measuring the land, or we will overthrow you and become emperor ourselves.
But apparently...
Li Jize was not the emperor! His ruling area was only Qingzhou.
It didn't matter to him that the gentry in other places wanted to rebel, but the gentry in Qingzhou wanted to rebel...
Oh! It’s a deal, double happiness.
Now I have some "land acquisition fees" left over, and I can hire a group of cattle and horses to build bridges and roads.
Even the wicked Li Jize didn't need to mobilize his Qin army to deal with these "landlord armies".
To put it bluntly, killing these guys is a waste of gunpowder and bullets.
Didn’t we capture a large number of Erqi soldiers before?
These people have no other skills. They can't fight, but they can just use their hands to oppress the people, right?
Li Jize directly assigned them tasks. Now there is a group of gentry trying to rebel somewhere. You all should pick up your big knives and suppress them for me.
If you can catch them alive, that's great! They'll take your places, and you won't have to go through labor reform.
If I can't catch you, I'm sorry! That means you're useless. I can only mobilize the Qin army to capture you and the rebels together.
I grass!
These people are going crazy doing hard labor every day, okay?
As soon as they heard Li Jize say that as long as these people were apprehended and captured, they would not have to work anymore.
This is simply a gift from God, okay?
Therefore, these captured soldiers worked even harder and more ferociously than when they were in the hands of the barbarians.
It is often these "landlord armies" who build a family ancestral hall like a castle, and they can break it down overnight regardless of their lives.
then……
When they rush in, they either start killing people or plundering!
This is their main business, isn't it?
Li Jize did not stop them and just watched them do it.
A kind person cannot keep wealth, and a benevolent person cannot command an army. If Li Jize does not use the most brutal means to suppress this evil trend when it arises, won't everyone in Qingzhou rebel?
Can any family or clan come together to do something like this?
Just like this, for several days in a row, it is said that several families were killed and no one was left!
The landlords in Qingzhou began to get scared. They either ran towards the areas ruled by the barbarians or rushed to sign contracts and give up all their land.
If the empress had such courage, how could she have fallen to this point?
Of course, it is a bit easy to say this. If the empress dared to do this, the Great Qi would perish even faster.
Because at that time, the people were rebelling and becoming bandits, and only these gentry still reluctantly stood by her side.
If the empress really followed Li Jize's example and the gentry also rose up in rebellion, wouldn't she die even faster?
But Li Jize was different. The people were on his side. He had his own armed forces and even a group of captured soldiers to help him kill people.
Qingzhou is just a province, so it is easy for Li Jize to control it.
Just like that, through the thunderous bloodbath, Qingzhou became completely quiet.
After measuring the land, the next step was to check the population. You wouldn't know the population until you checked it, and once you did, Li Jize felt like vomiting.
It’s these damn landlords and gentry again. Not only do they hide their land and don’t pay taxes, but the key is that they also hide their population.
Because the taxation in this era included a "head tax", the amount of tax you had to pay was determined by the number of people you had.
Therefore, there were many "hidden households" in Da Qi. This is also the strange reason why after entering the later period of the dynasty, Da Qi conducted several population censuses and found that there were no such people.
Since Li Jize had taken back the land and was going to distribute it to the poor, these hidden households naturally emerged one after another.
Simply...
Li Jize once again made everyone start to do something extremely shocking. He issued another decree to distribute the tax based on the amount of land!
All citizens must be registered before you can get land. Moreover, taxes will no longer be calculated based on population, but based on the land you control.
In other words, you have to pay taxes based on the amount of land allocated to you by the Qin Palace.
As for how many people your family has, that is your family’s business.
In this way, the existence of hidden households is completely unnecessary, and because of the iron-blooded tactics shown by Li Jize, no one stopped him when he introduced this policy.
Why stop it?
Because the Qin army and its staff came from poor families themselves, and they were also the vested interests under Li Jize's policies, so these policies could be implemented directly and smoothly.
When Qingzhou was undergoing vigorous reforms, A'chihai, who had escaped, finally arrived here after many twists and turns.
It’s not easy for her!
After learning more about it, I realized that it would be almost impossible to come here through Qingzhou and the main front line of the barbarians.
All kinds of traps and mechanisms were set up on the front lines of both sides, fearing that the other side would attack. If they went directly over, they would be seeking death.
How did you get here in the end?
Pass through the upper reaches of the barbarian-controlled area, then take a boat at a high price to reach the lower reaches of Tianjiang.
Finally?
Of course, he had to pay a high price to buy an identity from the captain of the ship, and then he could enter Tianjiang smoothly.
As a result, you won’t know until you come to Qingzhou. You will be shocked once you enter Qingzhou.
Look at the towering water wheels by the river that day, and the huge stone roads and houses in Qingzhou.
A'cihai and his younger brothers were all stunned and dumbfounded.
Ah this...
Isn’t that a bit too exaggerated?
"Just how extravagant is Li Jize? He actually used so much stone to build a Qingzhou city?"
You have to know that emperors in the past liked to use granite for large-scale construction projects, which basically emptied the entire treasury.
However extravagant he was, the emperor only used granite to build his own palace. How could Li Jize be so generous as to use these huge stones to build houses for ordinary people?
"Gudong! Beji, you... look at those houses. Are the windows made of colored glaze from the West?"
Ok?
Suddenly, one of his subordinates said something that surprised Acihai. Building a house with huge stones was already outrageous enough.
What?
The common people here in Li Jize can actually use colored glaze?
A'cihai looked back in disbelief, and after this glance, she was also stunned!
What else could that window sparkling in the sun be but glass?
At least we can't see the window paper, but we can tell that Qingzhou really has a gold mine.