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Chapter 586 Fire
Yang Zheng originally wanted to exempt the corvee and reduce the burden on the people, but after practice, he found that it was a bit idealistic.

Building bridges and repairing roads requires borrowing people's power, and building cities also needs to borrow people's power.

During the war, people's power is also needed to transport food and grass...

Under the persuasion of Lu Zhi and Suo Jing, Yang Zheng changed the term, changing corvee to mediocrity.

All young and strong men have to work for the government for one month every year, and they can use goods, money and food to offset their service period.

The system of equal land, rent and adjustment, if there is land, there will be rent, if there is a family, there will be adjustment, and if there is a body, there will be mediocrity. If you use it to enrich your life, you will not have embankments and the family business will last; If you take it as a reason, you will not be troubled by the law, but you will be educated;

Of course, this system is not perfect.

There is no perfect system in this world.

It's just that compared to the current situation, the land equalization system is the most suitable for the current state of Qin.

The Qin State directly connected with the common people, bypassing the powerful middlemen of the gentry to earn the difference.

Of course there will be loopholes in the future, which needs to test the wisdom of future generations.

Yang Zheng is not a saint, he can make the Great Qin prosper for two or three hundred years, and make the prosperous Sui and Tang Dynasties come earlier, which has done a great job to China.

The system designed by Emperor Hongwu was considered perfect at that time, and he also formulated a great edict that the laws of the ancestors cannot be changed...

The Ming Dynasty was also restricted to death.

An era has its own situation, rules, and mission.

Yang Zheng's mission is to overthrow the gentry alliance headed by the Sima family, so he must borrow the power of the poor and common people.

The common people cooperated exceptionally with the expropriation.

After all, they provide two meals a day, and they don’t need to fight, they just cut firewood, and they spend food when they are idle at home, mess with the government, maybe break the Wubao, and maybe get rewards of three melons and two dates.

Yang Zheng was famous for his decisive killings, but he was also famous for his generous shots.

The government soldiers and common people were all stained with oil and water.

So it's very cooperative this time.

Even the slaves from Tuntian rushed over.

In a blink of an eye, Nan'an gathered 10,000+ people.

Xuan Yilang and Xuan Yixuan organized the people.

Yang Zheng also ordered the construction of more than 50 catapults.

There are many people and great strength, 10,000+ can move mountains and fill the sea, and a small dock is naturally no problem.

In late autumn, there are dead trees and grass everywhere, which are cut down and piled up under the dock.

Yang Zheng didn't say a word of nonsense, and went straight to the dry stuff.

Flames rose into the sky below the city, and cans of kerosene were thrown into the dock one by one.

Soon, there was a shrill howl in these seemingly solid docks.

However, the people in Wubao were stubborn and refused to surrender.

Yang Zheng sighed in his heart, man made money and birds died for food, which made people increase their firepower, and dry firewood was continuously thrown into the dock.

The bursts lasted for a day and a night, and even the sky in Wubao was burned red.

The next day, Wubao couldn't take it anymore.

The fort people inside killed the dock master and surrendered out of the city.

Looking at the roasted black prisoners of war one by one, Yang Zheng rushed into the crowd with his personal guards, and whipped wantonly, "You bitch who won't cry if you don't see the coffin! I don't want it for you. If you don't behave properly, I will send you all Go to Juyan and Shuofang as slaves!"

Hearing that there was no need to die, the prisoners were secretly relieved.

Yang Zheng's notoriety for massacring the city and building the Beijing Temple was widely spread.

In fact, the slaves of Daqin are much better than their shady households and Zhuang slaves. They can be converted into waiting to return after three years, and they can be converted into governing the people after two years.

Once the first dock is broken, the second and third can be broken.

Yang Zheng and Zhang Fubing split into two groups and burned them all the way.

Some stubbornly resisted, and would rather be roasted into coke than surrender out of the fort.

Some saw the Qin character banner and knew that the king of Qin Yang Zheng was there in person, so they opened the city and surrendered obediently.

The 33 Wubao in Nan'an were destroyed in a blink of an eye.

Longxi did the same.

Although the tyrants are watching and helping each other tactically, they are still in a state of disunity strategically, and there is no difficulty in defeating each one.

The Battle of Longxi was more tragic than that of Nan'an. The tyrants here are used to lawlessness, and they were the first to launch this rebellion, especially the surnames of Niu, Liang, and Xin, which are inextricably linked with the Central Plains gentry.

Wild fire, in spring.

Sometimes internal struggles are more tragic than external ones.

But under the pressure of Qin's Mount Tai, all resistance was futile.

It is impossible for a tyrannical power in a state of disunity to confront Qin.

So when Yang Zheng made up his mind, it was only a matter of time before they were wiped out.

Wubao was bulldozed one by one, and the powerful families in Longxi were wiped out one by one.

A population of 10,000+ was relocated to the counties of Juyan, Beidi, Shuofang, and Xihai.

The rest of Tianshui County also obediently surrendered under the turmoil and smoke billowing all the way of the Qin army.

According to Yang Zheng's promise, the legal land is still theirs, and the people who are willing to continue living with them are free to do so. They are allowed to keep domestic slaves, but all the land and population must be registered and registered, the Wubao must be demolished, and the private army must be disbanded .

More than 100 members of the three generations of the wealthy family must be separated, and all children, regardless of direct lineage or collateral lineage, have the same right to inherit the land.

Everyone is the same, without exception.

In front of Qin Jun's bloody knives, the tyrants strongly supported Yang Zheng's various laws and highly cooperated, perfectly showing the other side of the tyrants, kind, friendly, and respectful...

Yang Zheng left Zhang Fu to preside over the overall situation in Longyou, and returned to Chang'an with the army.

Longyou was just a trial run, so it was unavoidably rude and unseemly, and there were many imperfections.

A dock is a closed kingdom.

The news is blocked, and everything belongs to the docker.

Hao Qiang says what he says.

Many shady households didn't know that Yang Zheng was allocating fields to them, so the resistance became a little more intense.

"The next step is to look at your Zhenfu Division and Xuanyi Division. All the powerful and powerful in Sichuan must have your people. Every household must find out clearly, so that the shady households and confined people know the national policy of the Great Qin. Know what Juntian is!" Yang Zheng summed it up a bit.

"I take orders!" Pang Qing and Zhao Aqi clasped their hands together.

The idea is already very clear, try to mobilize the people.

Yang Zheng didn't believe that he didn't want to give land to the land.

Without the support of shady households and confined people, the tyrants can't play well.

This is also a strategy of drawing salaries from the bottom of the pot.

In Qin State, there are powerful scholars, but there are no noble families.

Its power cannot be as strong as that of the Central Plains, and it can directly confront the government.

Suppressing and weakening them is the best choice before they evolve into noble families.

Instead of killing them.

Existence is reasonable, everything in the world has two sides, and the powerful scholars are not useless.

Although Longyou's handling was somewhat disgraceful, a big stone that was pressing on Yang Zheng's heart was removed.

Those who follow me live, those who oppose me perish.

This battle also showed Yang Zheng's determination to implement the land equalization system, and the rest depends on the level of the Xuanyi Division and the Zhenfu Division.

However, Yang Zheng felt that it was inevitable for the tyrants to compromise in the end.

Because there are too many successful examples in history.

(End of this chapter)