Griffin Commander in the Late Ming Dynasty

Volume 431: Chapter : New System, New Life, and New Defying Heaven

While the Great Yan army led by Jiang Han was taking over various places, a comprehensive top-down reform was also in full swing.

The people from all over the Central Plains have been welcoming and seeing off the comings and goings on their own lands in recent years, watching the flags on the city walls changing frantically. Today it is the imperial court, tomorrow it is bandits, the day after tomorrow it is the Tartars, and later it is the imperial court again. The only difference is from ** to a more **, and everyone's life has become more difficult. Perhaps some people once had expectations for **, but now, they are no longer there.

They only hoped that the new Dayan would not take away all their remaining belongings like Dashun did. If that happened, they would really have no way to survive.

Jiang Han used to be quite naive. He thought that the suffering people all over the world should naturally resonate with each other and be able to unite with each other. However, when he really started to rescue the people, he found that even among the poor people, there were group divisions.

The local poor people looked down on the refugees from outside, and the refugees from outside looked down on the women among them, thinking that they could only survive by relying on their bodies. Their simple concepts of good and evil were still deeply bound by the remnants of these feudal ideas.

Changing these things is not something that can be done overnight, and perhaps Jiang Han won’t be able to see it in his lifetime, but he is willing to work hard for it. Everything starts with making the people know and affirm Da Yan.

How to be sure? That is to let the people of Dayan know that this new court stands with them.

If you want to welcome a new life, you must start by breaking down the old life, smashing everything that is outdated and backward, burning it cleanly, and then you can start a new life on the new ground.

He was going to let the humanoids do the hosting work. The humanoids were mentally sound and determined, and they would not be affected by external temptations from humans. They had super strong combat power and were not afraid of various threats. They were simply perfect candidates.

The most important issue now is the post-war and post-disaster reconstruction of the provinces north of the Yangtze River and the establishment of a simple organizational structure.

At the local level, Dayan unified local administration and set up prefectures, states, counties, townships, bao, villages, and li under the provinces.

Since the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, the township has always been the largest unit in rural organization. The rural organization in the Ming Dynasty was the same as that in the Yuan Dynasty, but there were great differences between the north and the south.

Rural areas in the north are divided into three levels: the largest is called a township, the second is a community, and the smallest is a village.

In the Yuan Dynasty, a community was composed of fifty households. In the Ming Dynasty, the number of households was not fixed and generally exceeded the limit of fifty. The number of people in the village was even less than that.

In the south, rural organizations are divided into four levels: township, village, village, and town.

The bao in the south originated from the dubao system of the Song Dynasty, the village is a common village, and the li is not the li in the lijia system, but the name of the original natural village, which is the small-scale villages in the south.

In the rural areas of the south, there are also "districts" and "maps". In short, the rural organization of the Ming Dynasty, in the north, retained the colors of the township system and the community system after the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, while in the south it was deeply influenced by the Song Dynasty's Dubao system and was very complicated.

Jiang Han simply carried out unified planning directly. When local officials took office, the first thing they did was to implement local grassroots administrative units, thoroughly complete the distribution of land, and strengthen public security management.

Under the new administration, the county magistrate is still the seventh rank, the township head is the eighth rank, the village head is the ninth rank, and the village head is the ninth rank... Jiang Han actually wanted to emulate the modern official selection agency, but he is not even a civil servant. He has no idea what kind of officials these section chiefs and department heads are and what their ranks are. It would be better for him to upgrade according to the original structure.

Each prefecture has a thousand city defense troops equipped with firearms, and three urban maintenance units are specially set up: police agency, urban management agency and fire agency to maintain local public security. The director is treated as an eighth-rank official. Each township has a patrol station, and the patrol chief is treated as an eighth-rank official.

All township heads, security chiefs, village heads, and neighborhood heads are directly appointed by the government, and once they take office they are court officials.

If we rely on local nominations, it will eventually be controlled by the wealthy gentry and powerful people. The common people will not understand all these fancy things. In every era, the rich are the masters. In this way, all previous efforts will be in vain.

Also following the land inspection are the cadres of the Discipline Inspection Commission. They will follow to inspect the land in various places and review the performance of the temporary officials previously sent out to avoid unfair land distribution and collusion to embezzle land. After that, when the humanoids conduct the trial, they will inspect it again as a final insurance.

Most of the temporary officials sent to several northern provinces were selected from schools. Although these students who had just stepped out of the ivory tower were still enthusiastic like idealists in their work, they would become much more mature in affairs management with a little guidance and increased experience.

If it doesn't work, just fire him and replace him with someone else!

In terms of social system, the traditional identity system of "scholars, farmers, workers, and merchants" was completely abolished and implemented nationwide.

It was clearly decreed that all provinces should remove craftsmen from the register as civilians and exempt them from the Beijing craftsman fees. The government handicrafts and craftsmen needed by the government should be changed to a hiring system and paid according to the work done.

In this way, the enthusiasm of handicraft workers has been greatly improved, which has greatly promoted the development of handicraft industry.

Facing ordinary poor people, abolish all contracts of selling body parts, prohibit all types of human trafficking, declare all human trafficking to be illegal, and violators will be punished by law!

Furthermore, the custom of foot binding for women was abolished, and infanticide was banned and made illegal!

What the people were most concerned about were land and tax policies. Dayan renamed all the land in the country "national land", abolishing private land ownership and implementing national land ownership.

The government uniformly reclaimed the land and redistributed it. For those who did not own land, they were allocated land according to their household registration and were required to contract and cultivate the land, but they had to assume certain obligations, such as military service.

Farmers are losing their land due to increasingly serious land annexation, and the root cause of land annexation lies in land transactions.

The national land system stipulates that land is state-owned and private land trading is prohibited, which can fundamentally solve the problem of farmers being thrown out of their land. Farmers who own land will naturally not rebel.

China has had state ownership of land since the Shang and Zhou dynasties. This was later replaced by feudal private ownership of land after the Warring States Period. After two thousand years of development, private ownership of land has become the main form of the feudal land system.

Jiang Han knew that once this order was issued, it would inevitably be met with strong opposition from landlords of all sizes. Some landlords and bureaucrats might even rise up in rebellion, just like they did with Wang Mang's new policy of nationalization of land. But Jiang Han was not worried about this, because the delicious food he had prepared for these landlords was on the way. If these people wanted to jump up and cause trouble, they had to live until that time first.

In addition to abolishing the original land policy, the court will implement a new land tax policy, abolish tax checkpoints in various places, and abolish all miscellaneous taxes except the regular taxes!

In areas that have not experienced war or natural disasters, the land tax is distributed according to the amount of land.

Places that have suffered natural disasters will enjoy one year of tax exemption. Places that have experienced war north of the Yangtze River will enjoy two years of tax exemption. Shaanxi and other severely affected areas will enjoy three years of tax exemption.

During the tax-free period, the court did not collect a single penny from either agricultural or commercial taxes, so the people could rest and recuperate and resume production.

According to historical rules, the temperature of the Little Ice Age will begin to rise rapidly after 1650, which will take another ten years according to current time.

Therefore, in history, there was the so-called "Kangxi and Qianlong prosperous era" of the Qing Dynasty, but in fact it was just that the disaster was weakened after the temperature warmed up.

After dealing with these, Jiang Han was ready to find the humanoids to discuss how to mobilize the masses and try these gentry. However, as soon as he opened the group communication platform, he was a little hesitant to speak.

The most popular post on the humanoid communication forum: "No ghost inside, girls, do you have any commanders to show me some dirty pictures? I'll start with a suburban county."

Volume 432: Chapter : Jiang Han: Excuse me

The first post Jiang Han opened on the humanoid communication forum made him feel a little daunted. Looking at the content of the post which was full of vulgar words, and the poster made Jiang Han's eyes go dark.

Only fine wine and M4 are worth living up to: "Is there one? Hurry up, where is the soldier ant? Take two pictures!"

With this weird name, it’s easy to tell who the person is.

No, brother 16, you have thick eyebrows and big eyes, why would you post such a post in secret? Jiang Han always thought that he was an extremely wise commander in the eyes of the humanoids, but now he began to doubt it.

Sweets Lover: "No, shouldn't you want M4's pornographic pictures? Why do you want the Commander's?"

Only fine wine and M4 are not to be missed: "What about Hammer? If there are any M4 pornographic pictures, can I show them to you?"

The White Wolf's eyes saw its prey: "As expected of you, you are a sister-con. Keep playing."

Only fine wine and M4 are not to be wasted: "Are you deliberately looking for trouble? Just tell me whether you want to watch it or not?"

The White Wolf's eyes saw its prey: "Look, here comes some of the Commander's collarbone (slurp)"

It's not AK12, how can you! Oh, she is a vixen, that's fine.

Hunting tonight: "There's something wrong with you"

Tears in my eyes, there are still normal people in this team! These outrageous things must be isolated cases!

Beware of the massive number of cases that damage the human image!

Isn't the long-haired commander a kind of furry: "What!? Commander's erotic picture? Where is it???"

Davari had two cups of wine and said, "Why don't we publish this so that everyone can criticize it?"

Griffin's only designated wife: "Why don't you post this so that everyone can criticize it?"

Only fine wine and M4 are not to be wasted: "Can you change your crappy ID, you slut? Who told you to choose such an ID? The only wife can only be my M4!"

Don’t call me a little princess: “Sister 16, don’t be like that…”

The commander's only thought: "Everyone, look at me, look at me!! I have something to announce!!"

Only good wine and M4 are worth living up to: "What new job are you going to do for everyone?"

Commander's only one: "I just went to the Commander's personal space to...ah...to pay attention to the Commander's personal spiritual life."

Only fine wine and M4 are worth living up to: "You are really perverted... Commander, do you know you are so perverted?"

The White Wolf's eyes saw its prey: "I remember this guy stole the commander's underwear. What a pervert."

The commander's only question: "You didn't smell it?"

The commander's only thought: "Don't interrupt me, I'm talking about business."

Only good wine and M4 are worth living up to: "Okay, then you spy on the commander and then what?"

Commander's only one: "I found the commander's personal terminal system is online. Hey, do you think it's fun?"

Only fine wine and M4 are worth living up to: "............"

The eyes of the white wolf saw the prey: "My account was hacked just now. All the comments I made before were posted by others and have nothing to do with me. I did not participate in any discussion. I hereby declare that I have drawn a clear line."

Isn't the long-haired commander a kind of furry? "My account was hacked just now. All the comments I made before were posted by others and have nothing to do with me. I did not participate in any discussion. I hereby declare that I have drawn a clear line."

Davari said: "My account was hacked just now. All the comments I made before were made by others and have nothing to do with me. I did not participate in any discussion. I hereby declare that I have drawn a clear line."

. . . .

After a screen full of comments, Jiang Han saw that this post and several others disappeared at lightning speed. Instead, posts appeared in the forum such as "On the future development direction of Griffin", "What details should humanoids pay attention to when fighting", and "How to get along with humans in the new environment". The humanoids in the posts looked very decent and were discussing things very seriously.

In the private group of humanoids, a group of humanoids are now catching the traitor.

M16: "What's going on? Who is on duty today? Why didn't the commander tell me in advance that he was online? What is he doing? Remove this person from the silver party quota in the future!"

AA12: "I can't go there."

AK12: "As far as I know, it should be UMP45 who is on duty today."

M16: "Fuck you, do you want to do this? @Griffin's only sister, get out of here!"

HK416: "Hahahahahahaha! Melt your sorrow away!"

AK12: "You can't call her now. Her sister came over these two days. She has fallen for him. She spends every day with her sister and doesn't even check the terminal."

M16: "Sister-con is such a loser!"

Springfield: "Clam"

191 posted a picture: "M16: Those who are obsessed with their sister are really useless"

M2HB: "Do all you sister-con guys talk so funny?"

...

Jiang Han looked at the serious forum content, as if everything that happened before was just a dream of Jiang Han. He hesitated for a while, and then slowly typed a notification: "Everyone, prepare for a video conference in 30 minutes. Let's talk about how to conduct the issue of how the people can sell green garlic to the landlords..."

Only good wine and M4 are worth living up to: "Received, Commander"

Commander's only one: "No problem Commander, I know how to do it! Just wait and see!"

Davari had two cups of wine: "Don't worry, Commander. With me here, I will definitely let these landlords see what a single spark can start a prairie fire!"

Why did Jiang Han want landlords like Qing Suan? On the one hand, it was for land redistribution, and on the other hand, it was to increase his own popular support and the credibility of the court.

The simplest way to increase credibility is to remove the huge burden on the people, and the purpose is to build a central bank.

If we want to establish a new economic system, we must establish a central bank. The central bank is not an ordinary bank like Mingshang Bank, but a dominant financial center institution in the country. It is responsible for formulating and implementing the country's monetary credit policy, has the exclusive right to issue currency, and is an important tool for the country to intervene and regulate the development of the national economy. The current situation is that if the government runs this bank, it will be very difficult.

During this period in history, some commoners in Europe became wealthy merchants through business, and for safety reasons they deposited their money in the king's mint.

There was no paper money in Europe at that time, and the "free coinage" system was implemented. Anyone could take gold to the mint to be minted into gold coins, so the mint allowed customers to deposit gold.

However, these merchants did not realize that the mint belonged to the king, and no one could stop the king from using the gold in it.

In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, war broke out between King Charles I of England and the Scottish nobles. In order to raise military funds, he requisitioned the gold in the mint, calling it a loan to the king.

Although the gold was returned to the original merchants afterwards, the merchants felt that the mint was not safe because the king was beheaded by Cromwell and their gold was almost not returned...

So the merchants deposited the gold with the goldsmith, who would issue a certificate for the depositor. Later, they could withdraw the gold with this certificate. This is how modern banks were born.

Therefore, the earliest banks in the world were private banks, and the earliest banknotes were issued by goldsmiths. They had no direct relationship with the government and were protected by law.

The British royal family once ran a bank and embezzled customer deposits many times. Gradually, no businessmen trusted them anymore, and they were no longer able to operate.

In 1694, the Bank of England was established, marking the establishment of the modern Western banking system.

Although this is the central bank of the United Kingdom and was founded by the British royal family, the person who actually operates it is a seasoned business tycoon in London. It is a joint-stock company established with an unlimited number of people, which makes it a well-capitalized financing institution.

Of course, the prerequisite is that the money is lent to the government for a long time, and the government has to pay annual interest and management fees.

People did not trust the government and were worried that their money would be taken away at will. The situation in the Ming Dynasty was even worse.

Although the world has changed, due to the lack of sustainability and morality before the Ming Dynasty, people's trust in the court is really not very good, not even as high as that of a businessman.

If you want to bring about change, you must first make the people feel that you are trustworthy. The first step in building trust is to fight the landlords and local tyrants, and then deliver the land promised to the people.

It's not like buying a horse's bones for a fortune, but I can only say that we should let everything return to the way it should be.

Today's first update, there will be Q skirt 6 bar 7 later

Volume 433: Chapter Chapter : Mongolian War

The flying sand and rocks made it difficult for men and horses to move forward. The volunteers marched for another ten miles according to the battle plan and finally reached a dense grassland again.

The army followed the river and entered a narrow and wide river valley. The valley was wide, covering dozens of miles and full of green. The surrounding river water was shallow and clear. The grass near the river was very soft, obviously a natural living environment.

Everyone was cheered up. The environment here was a paradise for nomads. It must be the nest of a certain tribe!