The political impact of the peaceful end of the Shandong War on China was shocking, and when the Cao Yun was reopened, even those who remembered the previous dynasty the most had to admit with dismay that the trend of the Lin Han Empire changing dynasties was inevitable.

The first thing Tang Bin, the new governor of Shandong Province of the Han Dynasty, did when he took office was to order the abolition of all the gold checkpoints and the abolition of the administrative apportionment imposed on the merchants in the north and south, because the Lin Han group has always been mercantil, compared with the Ming and Qing dynasties, the credibility of the Han Empire in the eyes of the merchants is remarkable, so although the war has just ended, the security situation in many places is not very good, and even the trusted magistrates have not arrived, but Tang Bin's order has still received good results, under the threat of vigorous lobbying by the Jin and Hui merchant groups, The Cao Bang River Transport Company, which has been in charge of the river transport business for 100 years, can't wait to plunge into the arms of the Han Dynasty, and it is particularly worth mentioning that in order to express the "pure heart" of the Cao Gang to Beijing, the Cao Gang launched nearly 200 boats at one time, starting from Xinzhou Prefecture to transport hundreds of thousands of stone grain, cotton and other materials to Zhili to enrich the Gyeonggi market.

The process of China's reunification is largely a game of dominoes, in which the initial process of ascension is crucial and arduous, but once it is firmly established, it is much easier to do the rest of the game. The political speculation of the Cao Gang was highly praised by the Beijing government, among which the current Cao Gang leader was awarded the title of "Kaiping County Male" by the Han Dynasty, and this famous river transport company also received a lot of government orders, the largest of which was the military material supplement of the Anhui garrison, which basically belonged to the essence of "fame and fortune", when this huge dividend was passed out immediately had a resonance effect on the surrounding areas, and many counties, prefectures and governments in the surrounding areas of the Han Dynasty began to make it clear that they were willing to accept the leadership of the Han DynastyOne of the largest pieces of land is the Xuzhou Mansion between Shandong and Anhui, this surrender process is a bit like the secret joint of underground workers, Wang Shirong's ordnance grain statistics Yamen played an extremely important role, in fact, this rebellion project was indeed very successful, when all the seventeen counties of Xuzhou changed banners, Wang Dahai's army was officially stationed, and Prince Jian's Rabu, who was far away in Nanjing, had just received the news.

The great military success made the whole city of Beijing look forward to the future unification, and on this issue there was an extremely sharp contradiction within the center of the Han army, among which the civilian clique headed by Li Guangdi insisted on stopping the pace of war and allowing the people in the territory to recuperate; In opposition to them were a group of young and strong officers of the Yamen of the General Staff, whose views were diametrically opposed to those of the civilian clique, believing that at this moment the imperial court should take advantage of the victory and pursue the victory, even if it was limited to the fact that the national strength was not large enough to raise troops to the south, at least it would sweep through the Central Plains of Henan and Pingjing.

Lin Feng was in a dilemma at this time, in all fairness, he himself was inclined to make persistent efforts and launch a war to completely solve all the problems north of the Yellow River, but, as the supreme ruler of the Han Dynasty, he also understood that although the current Han Empire was majestic, but the interior was already unsustainable, and the perennial war made the people at the lowest level of the empire complain, and the example of the Ming Dynasty in the past was only a hundred years, if the peasants were squeezed too fiercely, the consequences triggered by this would inevitably be catastrophic.

When the civil and military groups were in dispute, China's political form has undergone tremendous changes, and I don't know whether it was stimulated by the results of the Han army, when the war in Shandong had just calmed down, Yang Qilong in Henan Province after more than a year of careful preparations, suddenly assembled an army of 120,000, since Xinyang and Nanyang went south respectively, attacked Hubei in a big way, and successively defeated several puppet Qing traitor green battalion armies, and successively conquered Dengzhou, Xinye, Laohekou, Gucheng and other important cities, and swept through southern Henan and northern Hubei in less than two months. After spending a little time appeasing the place, the army immediately descended the Tang River and joined forces with Fancheng to besiege Xiangyang.

At this time, the reason why they tried their best to advocate war was that "the army discipline of the thief Yang Qilong has no fighting spirit, and if the Wang division goes to attack, it will be like a bamboo", but the current war situation is not the case, Yang Qilong's troops performed quite well in the Hubei War, compared with the situation a few years ago, both the organization and equipment have been greatly improved, and the most surprising thing is that This peasant rebel army was actually equipped with a large number of war horses and had at least 6,000 cavalry, and it is obvious that there is no shadow of the Mongols behind this incident, which is impossible in any case. The "annihilation of Yang Qilong in one fell swoop" expected by the officers of the Shaozhuang faction was obviously unlikely, and judging from the current situation, if this peasant army was to be defeated and Henan was to be completely captured, it was probably necessary to engage in a large-scale war.

Just when the civilian clique had a slight upper hand, Yang Qilong's envoy also arrived in Beijing smoothly, compared with the past, this envoy appeared very low-key, in fact, the change of diplomatic status was not overnight, the farthest of which can be traced back to the meeting between Lin Feng and Yang Qilong, and then for a long time the relationship between the two sides belonged to the semi-allied nature of the "strategic partnership", and they exchanged with each other on an equal footing, and then with the successive victories of the Han army and the repeated setbacks of the peasant army, this relationship gradually changed. Yang Qilong's envoy also gradually slipped from the position of "foreign envoy" to "minister of a small country", and when facing the court of the Han Empire, the tone of his voice became weaker and weaker, but despite this, the envoy basically insisted on his independent status, and whenever it came to the relationship "national system", he still tried to play the banner of equality.

This time, this de facto relationship was personally recognized by Yang Qilong, and after the envoy arrived in Beijing, he immediately saluted Lin Feng's subordinates, saying that Yang Qilong was willing to belong to the Han court, and asked His Royal Highness the King of Han to give him a title. This nominal submission immediately became the pretext of the civilian clique, and many people believed that the Henan issue did not necessarily have to be military means, and that Yang Qilong's submission represented the possibility of political inducement. This kind of argument is very marketable in both the government and the opposition, and because of the disgust with the war, public opinion in various localities also unconditionally favors the civilian position, and the military faction became isolated and helpless at the end of the struggle, and its arrogance was greatly reduced.

Under the strong demand of the people of the whole country, Lin Feng, the king of the Han Dynasty, had to accept the suggestion of the civil official group, most of the military operations of the Han Dynasty were postponed, and Yang Qilong's envoy also successfully completed the diplomatic mission, and the Han King canonized His Royal Highness Yang Qilong, the third prince of the Ming Dynasty, as the "Shunyi Gong" of the Han Dynasty, and concurrently served as the governor of Shannan, called "General Pingshun", and was in charge of the civil and military affairs of Henan and Hubei provinces, and the military attache under his command was appointed and dismissed by himself.

At this point, the last military crisis north of the Yellow River was reconciled, and both sides were basically satisfied with the results of this diplomatic activity, from the perspective of the Han army, from a political point of view, Yang Qilong's surrender marked that the Lin Han Empire had basically completed the task of unifying the Yellow River Valley, and from then on, it was impossible for anyone to question the legitimacy of this regime in legal theory, and Lin Feng's status as the "true son of heaven" was recognized by all strata of the country, and in terms of economy, The war-torn Central Plains was given a respite, even though everyone knew that future wars might be even bigger and more brutal.

Now the government of Lee Kwang Di is preparing to measure the land of the whole country, and at the same time approve the population, and prepare for the various policies of the future empire, as far as Chinese tradition is concerned, this activity is inevitable at the beginning of every new dynasty, and the impact is also very far-reaching, once the founding emperor has done it, it basically becomes the "law of the ancestors", which can not be changed easily, and the scope of influence is at least two or three hundred years.

Under normal circumstances, measures such as measuring land and taking stock of the population would be resisted by the broad landlord class, and the reason for the opposition was very simple, because according to the laws handed down for thousands of years, this class enjoyed special privileges in taxation, and because of their high status and powerful power, these wealthy families would of course also buy farmland and hire tenants for a long time, and many peasants had to attach their land to the names of these wealthy families in order to evade taxes. Therefore, if the state re-measures the population and counts the population, it will undoubtedly be snatched from the mouth of this class, so it should be subject to huge resistance, and finally have to be stillborn.

However, this situation does not include the Han Empire, from the historical precedent, if an old empire does this kind of thing, it is most likely to die, and if it is a new empire to do it is much easier, because the change of dynasty is originally a process of social reshuffle, and with war and turmoil, the original rich and wealthy are basically dead, at this time to count the land, the resistance is relatively much less.

The process of the establishment of the Lin Han Empire is no different from the founding of the previous dynasties, and now the territory of the empire is from east to west, including Nuergan, Ningjin, Zhili, Chahar, Shanxi, Shandong, Shaanxi, Gansu and other provinces, most of which are due to the perennial war, the vast countryside is full of devastation, more than 60% of the landlords were either killed or fled, and the local yamen records of the registers are simply in name only, only in Liaodong and Zhili as examples, at the beginning of the establishment of the Han army, In addition, with the collapse of the puppet Qing government, the land occupied by the Eight Banners was also distributed to the displaced people, and the land revolution in Liaodong was more thorough, the original "Four Great Families of Liaodong" was cut down by Kangxi, and then fought a few major battles, the conqueror Lin Feng in order to appease and dismiss the troops of Ma Ying and the Cao brothers, he had already allocated those lands to the peasants, so the landlords who were originally weak had no room to speak at the moment.

After a busy few months, the number of population verification is more than 62.72 million, this result is somewhat surprising, originally in Lin Feng's understanding, this period of China because of the Hundred Years War, the population loss is very large, before getting Shandong, the official data of the empire is about 36 million, plus more than 11 million in Shandong, the total number will not exceed 50 million at most, now more than 10 million people are indeed very surprising. However, Li Guangdi's report also gave some quite convincing reasons, according to the imperial prime minister, the Chinese population suffered very heavy losses in the war, and according to the proportion of residence, the most casualties were urban residents; followed by farmers on the outskirts of cities; The third is the rural areas far from the cities, and the most well-preserved places are often mostly remote mountainous areas. In the course of the war, human beings carried forward the biological instinct of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, most of them fled into the mountains to form villages to protect themselves, cultivated the slopes of the mountains to talk about their stomachs, and at the same time with the change of the war situation, constantly moved towards relatively safe areas, in this process, death is naturally very frequent, but most of them are women, children and children, if they are young and strong, the chance of survival is not very small.

This report is very scientific, at least it makes sense in terms of reason, to be honest, Lin Feng was quite skeptical of this figure at first, because the reputation of the government agency in this credit is indeed not very good, but at this time Lin Feng is not good to find faults, the so-called investigation has no right to speak, he is not qualified to say anything about it, and from an administrative point of view, the government only needs to find out the population, as for other theories and the like, it is an economic or sociologist's business.

For the construction of China's internal affairs in the seventeenth century, Lin Feng is generally out of a half-understanding, this self-feeling comes from many previous "pat on the head" decisions, which come from the twenty-first century brain of the idea, in the process of practice most of the proved mistakes, but also caused a lot of losses, so he now in economic activities rarely express opinions on a specific matter, as a king, it is not difficult to do this, his current office mode is generally relatively simple.

In terms of occupation, the emperor is unfamiliar in the minds of many people, although Lin Feng comes from later generations, but this does not mean that he will be the emperor, although the 21st century is an era of information explosion, but there are very few things about the guidance and assistance of the emperor's profession, in the end this industry is not popular, the bookstore can produce "Mechanic Introduction" or "Engineer Must Read", but there is certainly no "Emperor Training Guide", which shows that this type of work is quite rare, at least not to be able to grab a handful on the street.

Lin Feng now works between six and eight hours a day, there are a lot of things, but it is not very difficult to deal with, the professional cultivation in the past few years has made him understand a truth, that is, the work of the monarch in this industry is very flexible, if it is very responsible, it is no problem to work eighteen hours a day, and further, if a certain king has a masochistic tendency, it is no problem to die of exhaustion; However, if you want to do it easily, you can do it at all, or even do nothing.

As far as traditional Chinese jurisprudence is concerned, the power of the king is unlimited, so from this point of view, in the entire Han Empire, from the quarrel between husband and wife to the war between the two countries, Lin Feng has the right to intervene in anything that happens, as a monarch, it is technically impossible to do everything, so he can only carry out selective labor, although according to the system, all departments of the entire imperial court have to send a large number of concerts to Lin Feng every day, the number is very large, and most of the things are only formal "submissions"- It means that it has been reported, so in the face of this kind of twists and turns, Lin Feng generally only needs to express a state, the usual reply is "I know", write "lonely and very gratified" when you are in a good mood, and write "Er is kind to you" when you are in a bad mood, on the surface, every move seems to be careless, but in the hinterland, it follows the original tradition, there are rules at every glance, and the emperors of all dynasties can't jump out of this circle.

After several years of hard fighting, most of the military threats around the empire have been basically eliminated, regardless of east, west, north and south, hundreds of thousands of Han troops are all on the offensive, and even the nomads on the border are harassed by the Han army's iron cavalry, and the three-sided iron cavalry from east to west: Ma Ying, Zhao Guangyuan, Wang Jinbao and other troops have degenerated to the extent of no return, in order to loot and enrich themselves, they often rob homes and houses, and cruelly abuse the people of neighboring countries, He committed heinous crimes on the steppe, almost to the point of indignation in many places, although the king of Korqin, Buryagma, repeatedly said that this kind of thing was completely an "accident", and he did not mind it at all, but this did not prevent the court officials from being impeached with righteous indignation, but it was a pity that the king of Han himself did not care much about this kind of thing.

Because of the more leisurely relationship, Lin Feng has spent more time with his son in the past few months, his son looks very beautiful, white and fat is not afraid of life at all, and is very close to Lin Feng, no matter who holds it, he is very popular, his official name is Lin Xuan - this "Xuan" word is said to mean beautiful jade, and it also means bright and pure, and the empire attaches great importance to this little thing, because if nothing else, the little guy will be the master of China in the future, So although the current finances are not very rich, Li Guangdi still generously took out a large amount of money to overhaul the mansion for this kid, in addition, in order to compete for the place of "companion" or guard around Lin Xuan, the qualified bigwigs of the Han Empire launched a fierce competition, which can be said to cover almost all government departments, and the situation is simply dumbfounded, such as Ma Ying, the general who is far away in Nuergan, his son is only eight months old this year, but he has already written countless letters to Lin Feng, said that the climate in Nuergan was not good, so for the future of the empire, he hoped to send his son to Beijing to take good care of him, of course, if the court needed it, his son could also serve the Lord and serve the "dog and horse work".

The so-called tiger father has no dog, from the perspective of blood, of course, General Ma's son cannot be a mediocre talent, but unfortunately as far as the current situation is concerned, the court has not been able to find out what Ma Gongzi can do for the time being, and Lin Feng really can't imagine how the eight-month-old baby will "work as a dog and horse"?

The guards who escorted Ma Gongzi into Beijing were very low-key, but the official rank was a bit jaw-dropping, the leading officer was named Murong Parrot, and now his official position was the commander of the Second Brigade of the Sixth Army of the Han Cavalry, with the rank of colonel, and the rank was from the fourth grade. Because Colonel Murong Yu secretly has another position: the guard of Qinhuangdao Town and the commander of the Western Expeditionary Corps of the Great Han Dynasty.

Chapter 6 of "The Great Thief of the Country" is the end of state affairs, family affairs, and world affairs

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