Chapter 190: White City Rectification

Lelouch's radical approach not only made the outside nobles hate the same enemy, but even the emerging nobles within Lelouch were slightly dissatisfied, among which the Church Guards were the mainstay, the Church Guards were not the descendants of Lelouch, they were not the people who were originally from the bottom of the garrison, nor were the Janissaries loyal to Lelouch more than anything, they were born nobles, and they were loyal to the church from the beginning, and it was not until Lelouch cooperated with the church that these guards also joined Lelouch's feelings.

And it is not so much that they are loyal to Lelouch or that they are more loyal to the Son of God, Lelouch began to inspect the situation of the Church Guards as soon as he washed the blood of the nobles who rose up in the entire White City to make trouble, and the armed priests became the most direct inspectors, the armed priests distributed in various places, the vast majority of them were born from the commoners or the small landlord rich peasant class, and there were quite few nobles who became priests.

And the armed priests are also supported by Lelouch, they are loyal to the Son of God, and they are more loyal to Lelouch, but the information collected by the Church Guards is still more satisfying, because the vast majority of the nobles of the Church Guards are actually from the nobles inside the church and the wandering knights recruited from all over the place, even if they are noble knights, they are also people who have been expelled from the family or have no inheritance rights, they themselves do not have any good feelings for their families, and now it is impossible to give up their good future for those nobles who have no feelings, they can see that the era of nobility is over, and the era of bureaucrats and nobles is coming。

They can't be bureaucrats, but there is no problem with the nobles who rely on military merit to climb up.

After ensuring the stability of the Church Guard, Lelouch began to take over the White City, and the nobles in the inner city almost controlled more than 90% of the interests of the entire White City, including land, shops, gold, caravans, and even the management of the streets of the White City.

However, Lelouch was not unprepared, early the next morning, a large number of low-level officials went to all parts of the White City, and the information of the church priests also allowed the officials to find out the ownership of each storefront, so that they could recover them as soon as possible, and as for the land outside, Lelouch was very generous to implement the land reform in the garrison and the north, you know, although the land outside the White City is not particularly large, but if it is developed to meet the needs of the White City itself, it will be more than rubbing, and it is not uncultivated。

Not only people, but also a large number of peasants, but they are all the servants of the aristocracy, in the past they were burdened with 78% of the terrible tax, but now, but there is no concept of taxation at all, although there is a must sell amount, but the price is also absolutely fair, so when Lelouch sent these lands to their hands, the entire White City, at least the peasants outside the city, did not hesitate to send their loyalty to Lelouch.

In fact, there will definitely be many people who say that Lelouch's agricultural policy is not very benevolent and perfect, but this is the most reasonable land reform, such as those who only charge one layer of tax after the land reform at the beginning, which is simply nonsense, and this does not help the peasants but harms the peasants, because you can't rely on only one layer of taxes to meet the needs of the entire empire, and the final result is the collapse of the whole system, and finally harms the peasants, what? Industry and commerce? If you give me five years to create an industry and commerce that can meet the needs of the empire, you can see that the Soviet Union has concentrated the strength of the whole country, absolute centralization and execution at the bottom, and the First Five-Year Plan has only completed half of industrialization.

To feed the entire Soviet Empire, it still relied on those massive collective farms, so it was absolutely impossible to walk step by step, eat bite by bite, and become a big fat man in one bite.

After the rapid distribution of the land outside the city, there was a great construction frenzy in Baicheng's self-territory, and countless farmers buried themselves in the land one after another, and the passion for work was the biggest catalyst for productivity, and fortunately, Baicheng's self-territory was not particularly large, so there was no trouble of merging villages and villages, but after the government paid for them to build new houses nearby, the redistribution of manpower was completed.

The land of the White City is no longer too important to Lelouch who has the garrison and the north, he is more concerned about the commercial situation within the White City, to be honest, the White City should be the most developed commercial city in the entire God-given land and even the entire Middle-earth, the Dragon River connects the north and the south, and the wide avenue allows the White City to integrate the power of the entire heaven-sent land, the dwarves are definitely qualified blacksmiths, the elves are definitely qualified artists, and the humans are definitely excellent merchants.

Of course, Lelouch wants to restore the commercial status of the White City, although the monopoly and direct intervention in the past have allowed those nobles to have endless wealth, but it has completely stifled the economic potential of the White City, and the free merchants are almost completely extinct in the White City, and now those who can continue to survive in the White City are the merchants who are completely dependent on the nobles, how much power can you expect them to provide for the commercial development of the White City?

"How many merchants are there in White City now?"

After Lelouch returned from outside the city early in the morning, he began to inquire about the economy of the White City non-stop, and De Creus, who was in charge of internal affairs, directly took the materials that had already been counted and said:

"Now we have counted a total of nearly 50,000 merchants in the entire White City, most of them are merchants who are attached to the nobles, and now that the nobles have been cleaned up, their position is now very embarrassing, I don't know what Your Majesty is going to do with them?"

In fact, for the merchants, Lelouch himself is a little disliked, although the results of the merchants rely on their own anger, but the merchants are almost the same as the nobles, the nobles are for their families to be able to lose their conscience, and the merchants are for the sake of profit, they can do anything for money!

But the empire conceived by Lelouch, industry and commerce are the top priority, Lelouch does not want to try to instill patriotism in the merchants, because indoctrination is in vain, they are not those Chinese merchants in the early Republic of China, but Lelouch does not care whether these businessmen are patriotic or not, Lelouch only needs them to know who to pay taxes, why to pay taxes, and how much taxes to pay.

"First count the property of those shops, and then extract sixty percent of it, and the last forty percent is evenly distributed to them, let them find their own way to do business, the first two years I don't collect any taxes from them, but after two years, I want half of their profits as taxes!"

Lelouch's words made De Creus stunned, not that Lelouch was too oppressive, but that Lelouch was too benevolent, in fact, even in modern times, merchants have quite a lot of taxes!

Now only half of the collection, is already very benevolent, the fastest environment for the development of businessmen, is not any welfare policy more, but how many restrictions, for the management of businessmen, Lelouch adopted the more popular practice in later generations, the early stage of laissez-faire, and wait until a certain business activity is not conducive to the development of the country, and then legislation to manage, which may cause a little damage to a country, but compared with the surge of business in this background, this loss is still acceptable.

Lelouch's stimulus to commerce really made the merchants cheer, they did not sigh at Lelouxiu's kindness, but sighed that they could finally open up and make money, but the merchants only had money in their eyes.

After solving the merchant's problem, Lelouch finally said what his nobles had been looking forward to:

"At present, the matter in the inner city has come to an end, but we still have to redistribute such a vacant house, have you all taken out the first batch of places to live in the inner city for your respective departments?"

Lelouch's question revealed an important situation, that is, Lelouch finally began to officially support the new power class, the inner city is the closest place to the peak of the highest power of the Terran Empire, and those who can have a place here will naturally have benefits that others do not have.

Although the bureaucrats and nobles that Lelouch was prepared to support were not an advanced system, this system had many advantages over the aristocracy, at least this system took care of the interests of both the upper and lower classes, and when the balance between the two sides reached a certain level, the constitutional system had a basis for implementation.

After recovering the north, Lelouch carried out the largest integration of forces on his own forces, this integration covered all aspects of economy, military and politics, although Lelouch has been on the throne for a long time, but now Lelouch forces are really beginning to mature and stable, the development of the Dragon River solves the increase in the consumption of grain agglomeration, and it seems that there is no problem to insist on the first bumper harvest in the north, and when the bumper harvest in the north, Lelouch has completely solved his own food problem.

And with food, Lelouch no longer has the last obstacle to unify the entire heaven-sent land.

In general, under the rule of Lelouch, the whole empire began to develop in an orderly and rapid manner, countless peasants were engaged in production wholeheartedly, and the workers were also working hard, and the enthusiasm for construction permeated the entire Lelouch ruling area, which was too different from the three major realms at this time.

Lelouch is an endless enthusiasm for construction, full of vitality and vitality, but the three realms are like a pool of stagnant water, without any firepower and vitality, only endless sorrow and hard work, and there are also various differences between the current Lelouch ruling area and the three realms, Lelouch is completely at the bottom of the direction, and the nobles are the upper level, the nobles of the three realms have completely demonized Lelouch, and the people at the bottom imagine Lelouch as their absolute savior.

Especially the experience of improving life, these peasants and soldiers who were fortunate to work with Lelouch for a period of time are constantly spreading their actual situation in their hometowns, which is like a dream-like life, and it attracts I don't know how many people, especially in the densely populated south, a large number of people have begun to move back, and they want to go to the sparsely populated north and garrison areas to seek a better new life.

But with the experience of Lelouch, the current new Grand Duke of the South has directly forbidden the movement of population, and now Lelouxiu's population is still so powerful when it is less than them, if they have a large population, then they really have no chance at all.

Although the economy of the three major realms is now backward, the farmers under their hands are less and less enthusiastic about construction, but they are still going all out to expand the army, Lelouch in his hands those powerful fully armed soldiers, gave them a great shock, they also began to pursue this powerful combat effectiveness, although the armor is impossible to compare with Lelouch, but to do some armor that is not far behind, or large-scale expansion of armor, but it can be done, they also met with Lelouch at the beginning of the plan, large-scale equipment for soldiers with paneled leather armor or paneled cloth armor。

The reckless soldiers of the three realms seem to have a kind of final madness, but Lu Lu Xiu is a little unhappy about this, because in this way, when Lu Lu Xiu goes to attack the three major realms, he will slaughter and defeat, not only those nobles, but also those countless peasants, these peasants are not only the nobles of the three major realms, but also the future people of Lu Lu Xiu, Lu Lu Xiu does not want them to die too much.

However, there is no way for Lelouch to do so at the moment, if Lelouch can manage those people now, he will not be allowed to prepare for an internal unification war.

The current God-given land is like a big powder keg, a large-scale war may break out anytime and anywhere, this war will absolutely belong to the future of the God-given land, although Lelouch is constantly rearming, but he has not relaxed his vigilance against the three realms, but has sent a large number of priests to the three realms secretly, and continues to spread the news of Leluxiu's power, in fact, there is no need to spread, after all, the actual living standards of the garrison and the north are there, and the peasants will naturally be close to Lelouxiu's side.

Therefore, although the nobles are also expanding their army, but the farmers and blacksmiths, who are the final executors, are constantly working and not contributing, although the nobles continue to adopt high-pressure policies, but it can only be counterproductive, although it stimulates production in a short time, but it pushes the farmers and blacksmiths more to the side of Leluxiu, and the current nobles of the three realms are really about to be at the point where they can only rely on themselves completely.

But maybe it's because of this that they're even more radical and crazy!

(End of chapter)