The construction of the school has just begun, in fact, compared with the war, Zhao Fan is better at economic and development, after all, the reform and opening up of the Celestial Empire in the previous life has embarked on a very correct path, Zhao Fan only needs to draw a gourd in the same way.

And now Zhao Fan, the most important thing is to recuperate and develop the economy and people's livelihood under his rule, rather than recklessly using force.

Tang Zhaozong in history miscalculated his own strength, and brazenly sent troops to attack Li Keyong and Wang Jian, and finally suffered heavy losses and became a thing in the hands of others, which was kneaded by others.

Zhao Fan will not make this mistake again, Datang is already like this, it is not something that can be solved in a moment and a half, nor can it be changed by eliminating one or two feudal towns.

If this is the case, it is better to settle down, slowly Tuzhi, at least in the current Tang Dynasty, except for Qin Zongquan, who is not afraid of death, no one else dares to rebel openly.

Militarily, Zhao Fan now has only one goal, which is to completely annex the territory of Qin Zongquan and strengthen his strength first.

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In April of the second year of Tianhe, Qin Zongquan sent Zhao Dejun to lead a large army to re-attack Jingnan, killing Zhang Gui, the envoy of Jingnan Jiedu, and Zhao Dejun left the general Wang Jianzhao to defend Jingnan, and led the army to withdraw to the base camp of Shannan Dongdao.

Qin Zongquan, who was bleeding from his head in Ruzhou, finally got some good news, and his generals temporarily withdrew their caution and continued to confront Zhu Wen's coalition army, but overall, Qin Zongquan's army gradually fell into weakness.

I have to say that calling the emperor is a stinky move taken by Qin Zongquan, and he is simply carried away by desire.

As powerful as Li Keyong, has he been called emperor? No! Is this feudal town in the middle of the pass called the emperor? Nor did it! In those areas where the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, and the areas where the emperor's order cannot reach, is anyone called the emperor? Or not!

Only he, Qin Zongquan, was instigated by his subordinate generals, so he couldn't find the north, and he even ignored the aftermath of the Tang Dynasty and brazenly proclaimed himself emperor.

For a while, he Qin Zongquan became a public enemy of the world, and he no longer had any allies, not only that, but the generals under him also questioned it, and some even directly led the army to vote for Zhu Wen, who held the banner of the Tang Dynasty.

Although Qin Zongquan will achieve a partial victory for a while and a half, in the long run, it is a definite defeat and he is powerless to return to the sky.

Just when the feudal towns were fighting, the Heavenly Mandate Army under Zhao Fan was not idle, but raised the battle flag of counterinsurgency, frantically encroaching on the territory of Qin Zongquan.

And Zhao Fan's army expansion plan has been basically completed, the Mandate of Heaven Army has temporarily stopped recruiting new soldiers, and the 150,000 soldiers of the Mandate of Heaven Army have appeared in everyone's field of vision with a new look.

The Mandate of Heaven Army is not only well-trained, but also extremely perfect in terms of equipment, each soldier is equipped with a flying fish crossbow or longbow, a horizontal knife, a horse pistol, the armor is customized by Tang Bao Industry, and the sky blue military uniform is unified and neat.

In the area under Zhao Fan's control, he has completed a series of reforms, and the new Wuhou system has replaced the original system, and the model and structure are exactly the same as the public procuratorate and law that Zhao Fan came into contact with in his previous life.

In terms of taxation, Zhao Fan also carried out a lot of reforms, canceled a lot of messy taxes, mainly focused on commercial taxes, and businessmen in the tax at the same time, but also got a variety of convenience, income has increased a lot more than in the past, as a result, the people have reduced the burden, the overall tax has not decreased but increased.

With the rapid development of Luoyang City, there are more and more residents who have the conditions to move into the city, and the old city has long been insufficient to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people under the rule of Luoyang City.

But even so, Luoyang City still could not accommodate the crazy influx of civilians, in desperation, Zhao Fan could only start the old city renovation plan, expanding the scale of Luoyang City several times, all used, all the people who want to move into the city to provide, the imperial court will no longer charge additional fees.

Aren't you going to move in? Yes, build your own city.

The people have no complaints about this, compared with the high housing prices in Luoyang City, it is obviously much cheaper to build a house by yourself...

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The winter in the north is unusually cold, especially in this era, there is no pollution, global warming has not yet appeared, as a southerner, Zhao Fan simply wants to hide in the quilt for the rest of his life.

Fortunately, the uncomfortable winter has finally passed, Luoyang in April can be regarded as the fragrance of birds and flowers, full of vitality, walking on the streets of Luoyang City, Zhao Fan enjoys a rare leisure.

In fact, I have to say that being an emperor is really a bitter and tiring thing, if it is not a last resort, Zhao Fan feels that he wants to be a businessman more.

After all, with his advanced business sense, it is not easy to make a splash in this era.

As soon as he raised his head, two tall monuments appeared in Zhao Fan's eyes, one was a martyr's monument and the other was a merit monument.

The martyr's monument is densely recorded with every soldier who gave his life for the Luoyang regime, their name will always be remembered, this is the supreme glory that belongs to them and their families, the bearded name is hung on the top of the martyr's monument, he will always guard Luoyang City.

The merit monument is recorded on the name of some donations to Zhao Fan, all the people's families, as long as the donation to a certain extent, can leave their names on the merit monument, not only that, Zhao Fan also set up the corresponding title according to the amount of donations, although they are some false titles, but they still make the rich people in the world excited, and they obediently took out their purses and paid their own strength for the Luoyang court.

The main reason is that Zhao Fan issued a new decree, all those who obtain knighthoods through financial donations, the imperial court is recognized, not only that, but they can also enjoy tax incentives, and can directly meet officials of the corresponding level, and even meet officials of lower rank than themselves without saluting.

The most sinister thing is that Zhao Fan also set up three highest-level titles, and these three titles can even ask to meet the emperor at any time, but these three titles are no longer set according to the conditions, but changed in real time according to the ranking of donations, which caused a money-burning war among the rich for a while. Zhao Fan naturally smiled at this.

The rich people raised their eyebrows all of a sudden, although they took out so much money at once, which made them a little painful, but when they remembered that they could barely straighten their waists in those petty officials and officials in the future, they felt that the money was still worth it.

When Zhao Fan wanted to promote this decree, he was opposed by the Manchu civil and military, after all, in their opinion, this is selling official beards, which is simply detrimental to Sven.

After some explanation to no avail, Zhao Fan directly proposed that if anyone could pay for the military expenses of the Mandate of Heaven Army, then he would never mention this matter again, and the result can be imagined, as soon as the ministers heard that they were going to dig out their own pockets, they shook their heads like a drum, and even worse, they cried on the spot, which made Zhao Fan angry and funny.

In the end, under Zhao Fan's repeated reiterations, the decree was successfully passed and thoroughly implemented, and a large amount of wealth poured into Zhao Fan's trouser belt, and Zhao Fan always strictly guarded the bottom line, the title is the title, the official position is the official position, and the title is just a kind of glory, and it definitely cannot represent power.

Of course, in fact, there are not many people who can get the title, after all, the threshold set by Zhao Fan is very high, but even so, Zhao Fan still made a lot of money, and the Luoyang Imperial Court has also become the richest force in the Tang Dynasty.

(End of chapter)