Next.

At eight o'clock in the morning, in the hall of the City Lord's Mansion.

Wang Chen met with the landlords who had come from all over Bagan and Chin State, and before the ceremony began, he had some things to attend to make the landlords willing to hand over the land.

There were about four or five hundred landlords in the two places combined.

The big landlords sitting in the hall were all big landlords, and there were many small landlords standing outside, they looked at Wang Chen sitting on the Taishi chair with a worried face, and they all knew one thing, this young man in front of them was the new ruler of Bagan and Chin State, and now they were concerned about how the newly ruling Wang Chen would deal with them.

In the past, when the dynasty was changed, it was often when the victors carved up the world, and these landlords belonged to the remnants of the old forces, and according to the past practice, the new rulers would kill a group of people and win over a group, and no one wanted to die.

Looking at the rich faces, Wang Chen finally spoke, "I am deeply pleased that you can come to the founding ceremony as promised. ”

Li Qing and another translator explained the meaning in Bagan and Chin Bang, respectively.

The landlords responded.

"Don't dare, don't dare. ”

"It is an honour to be invited. ”

"Yes, President, don't say that. ”

A group of people were talking nonsense, and the two translators told Wang Chen what they had probably heard.

Wang Chen was very satisfied with everyone's attitude, and cleared his throat, "This time I called you over, in addition to participating in the founding ceremony, there is another thing to discuss. ”

Everyone knew that the main drama was coming, and no one spoke, and they all pricked up their ears and listened carefully, after all, this is related to their survival in the future.

Wang Chen smiled and said, "As for me, I want everyone to hand over all the fields in their hands." ”

As soon as the words fell, the scene was in an uproar.

"What?"

"Do you want us to hand over all the fields?"

"President, I can't help it, I can't help it, don't you want our lives?"

"These fields have been accumulated by the family for generations, as soon as you ask us to hand them over, what will we eat in the future?"

"I hope you are gracious. ”

The landlords are in a hurry, and many of the people present live on tenant rent, if the field is gone, then they still play with a basket?

Wang Chen naturally knows this truth, but it is better to have the land in his own hands, not to mention anything else, if the population increases in the future, real estate will slowly prosper, and then the auction of land use rights will be all the national economy.

Of course, this is later.

For the time being, it is also the landlord class that hinders the population explosion, the common people have no land in their hands, they can only rent the landlord's field to grow grain, the proportion of rent collection is very high, Sanqi is considered to be the landlord's conscience, take the Wei and Jin dynasties as an example, the average proportion of large households in the grange is between four and sixty percent, the lowest is four or six open, the high is the landlord to take six, the tenant to take four.

When the harvest is good, it's okay, but in the era when the harvest is bad, the people are simply not able to make a living, and it is a luxury to want to live.

Just imagine, adults can't get enough to eat, what kind of population explosion is there to talk about?

The matter of changing children and eating did not happen less in the feudal era.

If you want a country to be strong, the number of people is necessary, like the modern society of Myanmar has a population of more than 50 million, and now there are only a few people in Bagan Kachin State?

In total, there are only four or five million people.

You must know that later Mandalay Province alone was more than 6 million.

Wang Chen wants to develop the population, the first thing to do is to eliminate the landlord class, so that the common people have something to eat, but what, this group of landlords belong to the educated people, and what he lacks most at present is the cultural class to help him consolidate his rule, so these people are the object of his elimination and the object of wooing, he is very kind and smiled: " As for the field, it must always be in the hands of the state, but I will not let everyone contribute the field in vain, if anyone is willing to take the initiative to contribute the field, I will make him an official, the more he pays, the bigger the official. ”

Hearing that there was an official, many people's eyes lit up, but they didn't speak out immediately, because they didn't know what kind of official Wang Chen would give them, whether it was a false position or real power?

Wang Chen didn't care what the landlords thought, nor did he explain whether he was in a fictitious position or a real power, and the next moment he restrained his smile and said in a sharp tone: "Of course, if anyone is unwilling to hand over the land, I'm sorry, the temples in Bagan and Chin Bang are small and can't accommodate you!"

The meaning is obvious.

or take the initiative to hand over the field and mix up a half-official position.

Either don't mess around in Bagan or Chin State, and pack up and go somewhere else.

Anyway, in a word, this field has to be handed over, and it has to be handed over if it is not handed over.

The landlords laughed bitterly and whispered for a while.

Finally, an old landlord with the highest prestige in the audience stood up, and he arched his hand and said in a slightly hoarse voice: "President, the old man is willing to hand over all the fields, I wonder what kind of official position you will reward me?"

"Thank you, uncle, for your understanding. Wang Chen was relieved first, and then asked, "I don't know how much land you have?"

The old landlord said truthfully: "Thousands of acres of fertile land. ”

Yo.

That's a lot.

Normally speaking, in ancient times, only those who owned more than 50 acres of land were worthy of being called landlords, more than 100 acres of land was considered good, and up to 2 or 300 acres was already a big landlord, as for thousands of acres, they were basically rich and bigwigs.

Obviously, the old landlord in front of him should belong to the more prestigious kind in his own place.

Long before the landlords came, Wang Chen had already asked Xiao Jianhua to plan how many acres of land to be an official, he smiled and said: "If the old man hands over all the thousands of acres of land, I can arrange a town mayor for you." He explained, "In the past, the imperial power was not lower than the county, and the town mayor did not belong to the official officials of the imperial court, but in the future, down to the village officials and the courtiers, they all received the imperial court and belonged to the main position." ”

When the old landlord heard this, he was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Thank you, President." ”

Wang Chen glanced at it and nodded, he didn't say anything, he knew what the old landlord thought in his heart, it was nothing more than the land he took out, and he wanted to earn it back by virtue of his power in the future, but Wang Chen would definitely not let this kind of thing happen, and the salaries and benefits of official officials would be better, but if anyone was corrupt and bribed, then sorry, buddy would not be merciful.

With the first person to take the lead, then those landlords all accepted their fate, anyway, if they don't contradict Wang Chen, they have to hand over the fields, it is better to be an official.

Things went surprisingly well.

The hundreds of landlords present were willing to hand over their fields.

In fact, there must be more than a few hundred landlords in Bagan and Chin State, and those who can come to the scene are all big landlords on the rich side, as long as they are willing to hand over their fields, there is nothing to worry about leaving those small landlords.

Wang Chen was very satisfied with the attitude of many landlords, and asked Ding, who had already begun to take office, to register everyone, and by the way, according to the amount of land handed over, from village officials to county officials, he awarded officials to this group of landlords, up to the county level, and then he did not seal it.

……

Settle the matter of the field.

Wang Chen went to the bedroom to change into formal clothes, the ceremony was about to be held, and he had to dress formally.

After changing clothes, under the escort of the village soldiers, Wang Chen left the city lord's mansion in an open-top carriage and headed towards the royal city of the former king of Bagan.

Along the way, Wang Chen kept waving to the people on both sides of the street.

Soon, came to the outside of the palace.

At this time, the entire square was already full of dense people.

Wang Chen came to the tower of Wangcheng City, chatted with Xiao Jianhua for a while, then picked up the speech and looked at it, and waited for more than ten minutes, he and more than 20 court officials went up to the city tower together.

Looking at the crowd of thousands of people below, Wang Chen was full of spirits, buddy has finally become the lord of a country, and he is proud in his heart, he did not show it on the surface, he looked very serious, and debugged the loudspeaker, and then, Wang Chen read out the No. 1 announcement of the People's Government of the Chinese Empire into the microphone, including appointments and the like, and what are the sensational words such as "those who are officials are servants of the people" and "they have died for the people".

Not to mention, the people who came to participate in the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China were very fond of this, and there were countless responses.

When the reading was nearing the end, Wang Chen was full of anger and said to the loudspeaker: " When we held the founding ceremony and announced the birth of the Chinese Empire, the people of the whole world have defeated the landlord class, and in the future, each of you will have a food ration field, you don't have to look at anyone's face to live, everyone is the master of the country, and we, the rulers, will serve you, the five million people of Bagan and Chin State have become a part of the Chinese Empire, you no longer have to grovel to live, the future of our country is infinitely bright, from tonight, all the people of the Chinese Empire have stood up!"

When Wang Chen finished the last sentence, tens of thousands of people at the scene erupted in fierce cheers.

Subsequently, Wang Chen held a coronation ceremony for Gong Cuo Jiang Piao to appease some of Bagan's old forces.

During the coronation ceremony, he used the soul to implant a picture of a huge Buddha statue behind his back to the people at the scene, and "said" to the Buddha statue that Wang Chen is the representative of the Buddha in the world, and he is the pope of Buddhism.

The coronation is over.

Another military parade took place.

Finally, there was the mass march.

The whole opening ceremony lasted eight or nine hours, and it was not officially finished until seven o'clock in the evening.

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Night.

Return to the City Lord's Mansion.

In the study, Wang Chen called Ding to sign the judgment and asked, "How many acres of land have been expropriated?"

Ding signed the statistical report and said with a smile: "Report the report...... President, this group of landlords alone handed over 2.3 million mu of fertile land, and some of them have been included in the DPRK before...... Together, we have tens of millions of acres of fertile land under our control. ”

Tens of millions of acres of fertile land?

Wang Chen was happy in his heart, if calculated according to the harvest in the ancient fields, it would take at least four or five acres to feed a family of three, but he was different, he could bring high-yield rice, wheat and other crop seeds from modern society, and he could completely feed a family of three with the output of one acre of land.

Tens of millions of acres of fertile land?

Even if we remove some of the fields that cannot be planted with rice, we would have no problem feeding 20 million people.

The total population of Bagan Kachin State is only four to five million, and Wang Chen can encourage them to have more children and increase the population in a short period of time.

Again, now the Chinese Empire's land endowment is temporarily in accordance with the Song Dynasty, one mu of land is paid three buckets of rice a year, one bucket of rice is equivalent to 12.5 catties in modern society, three buckets of rice is 37.5 catties, 10 million acres of land, enough to collect 375 million catties of grain, according to the current grain price of the Song Dynasty, equivalent to nearly 2 million yuan a year in agricultural tax alone.

Two million guan doesn't seem like much.

But you must know that Bagan and Chin State together have only four or five million people.

And this is only an agricultural tax, in the future, Wang Chen will engage in some state enterprises, such as power plants, etc., and then there will be a steady stream of money, what do you want to develop after you have money?

Hiring?

Vigorously develop modern science and technology and manufacture advanced weapons?

These are not things, as long as there is money, people, and knowledge of modern society, Wang Chen feels that it can be easily done.

Now that he is in power and has a small country to serve him, Wang Chen can already foresee the picture of his strong soldiers and conquering the world in the future.