Xu Shiyang's resolute style of breaking the monopoly of knowledge caused a serious polarization of the gentry and wealthy families on the empire and Xu Shiyang.

And what is very surprising is that those local families who have a good reputation for cultivation and reading usually have a bad opinion of Xu Shiyang.

Then there are those former Zhou Xungui whose fate is closely related to the previous dynasty - such as the four major families of Jinling.

On the contrary, simple landlords and rich people (that is, the kind of people who lack fame in their families) who used to have a bad reputation in the local area have a good view of the empire.

Because breaking the monopoly of knowledge is also good for them - in the past, these rich landowners who have no merit are also the targets of discrimination by the gentry, fat pigs raised by the government.

After the popularization of primary schools, their children and grandchildren no longer had to go around asking for teachers in order to join the gentry class.

This means that their upward channels have also been broadened.

Moreover, the most important thing for the landlords was actually their wealth, and in the empire there were so many opportunities that the landlords found that even if the usury of the tenants was waived, the empire would give them more ways to make a fortune.

If you are a little adventurous, you can invest in factories and farms that have sprung up like mushrooms.

If you just want to live a stable life, you can buy treasury bonds and eat interest.

Even those who were reluctant to buy that little bit of land, and were so conservative that they didn't even trust the national debt, could buy some Fusang slaves, Jiaozhi slaves, and the like at a cheaper price, and work diligently on their own land—slaves signed death deeds, and their status in the government was equivalent to that of large animals, and they were much more comfortable to use than hired tenants.

Of course, in the end, there are very few such people, and many more people choose to make preparations with both hands - on the one hand, they buy a few slaves to take care of the ancestral fields of the family as a way out, and on the other hand, they invest the surplus grain and money in factories or national bonds, and compete for the opportunity to make a fortune.

To sum up, whether it is a low-level commoner or a slightly higher social status of a yeoman farmer or a rich man, the only people who had a negative attitude towards the empire before were actually those who were accustomed to violating the ban with force, and the Confucians who liked to mess with the law with literature.

After the "History of Zhou" case, some light heroes and Confucian scholars who stood on their own side and sat crookedly had some good feelings towards Xu Shiyang and the empire.

For the knights, Xu Shiyang's instructions for leniency to the Han people made them feel that Xu Shiyang was at least not a tyrant, and that kind of imaginary tyrant was tyrannical and oppressed the good, at least among the Han people.

Then, they confront the imperial court and avenge the people, and they become self-righteous.

People are like this, no matter what the facts are, if they believe that their actions are justified, then it is normal for them to do as many things as there is no lower limit.

But if it is the opposite, then people's confidence and determination to do things will collapse very exaggeratedly.

An example: the traitor armies in ancient China were usually not low in combat effectiveness, because they fought for their own glory and wealth, and the alien race could give them the opportunity to burn, kill and plunder, and they decided that it was justified.

The two Tatar regimes in Xu Shiyang's previous life were combined armies with their own clan as the core and traitors as the main body.

However, after the awakening of nationalism in modern times, the traitor army serving foreign races has become synonymous with weak chickens, not only in China, but also in other countries, and none of the puppet armies have combat effectiveness.

Turning back to the topic, by the end of 1798, with the conclusion of the "History of Zhou" case and the Dali assassination case, and the boasting of Xu Shiyang by the empire's powerful propaganda machine, there were very few Han Chinese who were really questioning the legitimacy of the empire, except for the few who were anti-imperial because their own interests were completely deprived of their own interests.

Moreover, most of the light heroes and Confucian scholars who were bent on opposing the empire were also sent to the frontier.

There, they had no choice but to support the Empire.

The reason is simple, the aliens can give them the best, and they are not as bad as the empire gives them.

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In 1798, the empire exiled nearly 100,000 people, and Qin, Jin, Chu and other subordinate kingdoms, as well as Liaodong, Monan, Dali and other newly compiled provinces, were divided into a lot.

These people will be the basis for maintaining peace on the border, so that these areas can rise to a new level, regardless of whether they are in governance or martial arts.

For this reason, the border provinces and princes attached great importance to these people, saying that they were distributed, but they were treated better than one another.

The King of Qin used the Confucian scholars assigned to serve as local bureaucrats in the royal domain, didn't they all think that they were talents in the world? Give them a piece of land and let them toss and experiment with their own policies, if they can become natural, it is the best.

If it doesn't work, anyway, the Qin State is big enough, and the people are mainly of different races, and the local people will not feel distressed if they suffer some losses.

And if this kind of thing is put in China, no one will dare to do similar experiments.

Even those who did not want to be officials were also useful to the Qin king, for example, they could sort out and compile the history books of foreign races - whether it was Pars, the great enemy of Qin, or the Khwarazm and Tiele people who had surrendered but were still in a semi-independent state, the Qin state had to sort out their history.

Well, in order to make it easier to slander people.

In general, the Qin State will comprehensively slander these heroes of alien history as villains, treacherous people, fools, and even bastards.

If you want to destroy its country, you must first destroy its history, and if you want to destroy its history, you must first defile its heroes.

Xu Daixuan still understands this truth, his main opponent Pars is a country outside the radiation area of traditional Chinese civilization, with its own civilization, history and heroes, destroying such a country is not something that can be done by winning a few victories on the battlefield, this must be a comprehensive conquest, from their people to their souls.

Along with the military victories of the Qin state, there must also be cultural victories. Xu Daixuan wanted to completely brainwash the alien people in the occupied areas, so that they would regard Huaxia as a beacon of human civilization from the bottom of their hearts, and their own civilization as a complete roughness.

To do this, he needed the help of these old-fashioned literati, who were very good at similar work, and who loved it.

You know, these people are useless people who can belittle their own civilization, let alone judge the civilization of others.

Of course, in addition to these, there is, naturally, direct military conquest.

This requires the help of those light heroes.

At the end of 1798, Xu Daixuan began preparations for a large-scale military operation, which was to attack the core territory of Pars the next year.

In recent years, with the prestige of the previous field victories, the Qin army has smashed all the territories east of Ctesiphon, the capital of Pars, to pieces, like a fierce beast that has been pulled out of its claws, and all that remains is to give it the final blow as soon as possible, and then kill and eat meat.

For this reason, the King of Qin began to carry out a general mobilization in the entire Qin ruling area, and such a good military resource for the exiles in the country would naturally not be wasted.