Chapter 122 - Enthronement and Claim to the Emperor
More than 30,000 Tuntian troops left Luoyang and returned to their respective Tuntian districts, and the city defense of Luoyang City suddenly became a little empty, but fortunately, Qin Zongheng outside the city saw that he couldn't do anything and had already left in disgrace, otherwise it would inevitably be another vicious battle.
Everything went very smoothly, there were no accidents, Zhao Fan in a momentum, posted a notice, handed over to the world, in March of the third year of Guangqi, in Luoyang Imperial City to complete the sacrifice to the sky, ascended the throne and called the emperor, changed the Yuan Tianhe.
Under the summons of Kong Wei and Du Rangneng, many officials who had already gone home to escape the war stood up and returned to Luoyang City to continue to serve the royal family, and there were some really capable people.
At the suggestion of Kong and Du, Zhao Fan promoted a large number of officials with real talents and hard work, and quickly formed his own small court.
When the Tianxia Domain heard the news, it was silent, no one made a sound, no support, no opposition, and everyone seemed to be waiting for a leader to appear.
What is surprising is that half a month later, Hedong Jiedu made Li Ke the first to submit a congratulatory letter to Luoyang, and sent someone to send a batch of gold and silver property to Luoyang as a congratulatory gift to congratulate King Shou on his accession to the throne.
Under the leadership of Li Keyong, the feudal towns of the world handed congratulatory letters to the imperial court of Luoyang City, and sent congratulatory gifts one after another to show respect.
Everything seems to be going well, it seems that Zhao Fan has become the real master of Datang, but Zhao Fan knows that all this is just the surface.
In fact, he is now a puppet emperor in the eyes of everyone, and most of the reason why the feudal towns are vassals to him is because they are not convinced by each other, and no one dares to act rashly, so they find him such a balance.
But this absolutely does not mean that he has the real right to speak, nor does it mean that he is completely safe.
The experience of later generations told him that he, the emperor, could be hanged and beaten, driven out of the imperial city, or even poisoned at any time.
After all, these things are all written in the history books, and almost everyone knows about them in later generations.
In fact, history has come full circle, and finally returned to the original point, Zhao Fan eventually became the emperor, but Chang'an became Luoyang, the only difference is that he did not have the coercion of the eunuchs, and the Tiance Army under his command also became the Shouwang Army, no, now it is called the Heavenly Mandate Army.
The reason why it is called the Mandate of Heaven Army is because Zhao Fan wants to prove one thing, that is, my fate is up to me, he wants to fight with the sky, fight with fate, fight with history, and finally completely change history!
Putting aside all the messy thoughts, Zhao Fan began to concentrate on government affairs, after all, doing the things in front of him is the most important thing, as for the future, I will talk about it later, you can't be ambitious.
After the war, Zhao Fan paid a large amount of pension, which fell into the hands of the soldiers' families without any deduction, and the purchasing power of the residents of Luoyang City became unprecedentedly strong.
With the flow of cash into the market, there are more and more caravans entering Luoyang City, and for a while, Luoyang's several major city gates are crowded with traffic, crowded, and the inns of the entire Luoyang City are full, if you come late, you can even only sleep in the firewood room.
Seeing this situation, Zhao Fan also adjusted the tax rate of Luoyang City in time, canceled the original poll tax, and changed to value-added tax and income tax, respectively, when entering the city, twenty taxes and one after the successful sale of goods, and after the merchants paid the prescribed taxes and fees, they could trade freely in Luoyang City, regardless of the reason, if the transaction was unsuccessful, the taxes and fees could be refunded.
On the other hand, Zhao Fan also strengthened the investment of public security forces, vigorously rectified in Luoyang City, not only captured a large number of spies lurking in by major forces, but also swept away the underworld forces in Luoyang City.
As the saying goes, deliberately planting flowers and flowers do not bloom, and unintentionally planting willows and willows into the shade, Luoyang City has quickly become the largest concentration of traders and trading transit place in Datang in a short period of time, and traders are also willing to trade in Luoyang City.
Although the same taxes must be paid, the tax rate in Luoyang City is much better than that in other places, and doing business in Luoyang City can also be fully guaranteed in terms of safety.
Under the leadership of Zhao Fan, Luoyang City officially gave the businessmen a very high status, which made the businessmen happy, the businessmen were never short of money, but in the feudal society, the social status has not been high, at this moment in Luoyang City, fully enjoy the feeling of being respected, and naturally enjoy it very much.
As an emerging force, and also the emperor who has been recognized by the people of the world, Zhao Fan has also received strong support from many merchant families, and under the influence of the idea of not putting eggs in one basket, many big families have gone to Luoyang to establish a branch, so as to strengthen the connection with Zhao Fan.
Luoyang City, which had been somewhat ruined in the past, broke out with extremely strong vitality in a short period of time, and in just half a month, Luoyang City collected more taxes than the sum of the previous year.
And what surprised Zhao Fan the most was that a large number of caravans came to Luoyang City, completely bringing some of his small inventions to fire, and a large number of furniture printed with Tangbao Industrial anti-counterfeiting logos were purchased by merchants from all over the world, and became a popular trend across the country.
Tangbao Industry has also become one of the most profitable industries in Datang, and its various products are perennial sales explosion, and orders for many products have even been scheduled for half a year.
A large amount of financial taxes and profits injected great financial support into the Heavenly Mandate Army, and also brought great convenience to Zhao Fan's reform of government affairs.
A number of government decrees that Zhao Fan felt were unreasonable were abolished, and at the same time, a number of policies were introduced to recuperate and benefit the country and the people, which greatly improved the livelihood and development of the people in Luoyang and Shaanxi.
And Zhang Ji did not live up to Zhao Fan's expectations, the work of Tuntian was in full swing, a large number of ownerless land, after the statistics, was assigned to the state, coupled with the confiscation of the Ye family's land, Zhao Fan's land has reached an extremely crazy number, but also greatly expanded the operational space of Tuntian.
The Tang government not only provided fields to eligible displaced people, but also provided housing, seeds, farm tools, and cattle, and only required a part of the harvest to be handed over, as well as two months of military training every year, which was a great thing for those who were hungry and homeless.
With the support of extremely strong welfare, countless displaced people in the customs have flocked to the two places, greatly enriching the population vacancy under Zhao Fan's rule.
With the financial support of all parties, the 100,000 new troops of the Mandate of Heaven were quickly formed, and in the face of the generous salaries and perfect welfare system of the Mandate of Heaven, whether or not to join the army and serve the country became a question that did not need to be considered at all.
Zhao Fan was desperately preparing, he knew that his time was running out, he had to become strong as soon as possible, and he must strive to have enough strength before Zhu Wen eliminated Qin Zongquan, otherwise it would be a bad thing.
(End of chapter)