July 10th, according to the Western calendar, is already August 27th, a full 12 days have passed since the "Holy Maiden Ascension Day", but Li Zicheng deliberately tampered with the Western calendar, taking this day as the 15th day of August in the Western calendar, that is, the "Holy Maiden Ascension Day" in the eyes of believers.

The entire Xining area, including Sanchuan Prefecture and its subordinate counties, was even more lively than Xinyuan, and all the staff of the government and county government took action, divided into several groups, and left the city in the early morning, marching in different directions.

The "Law of Tui'en", which is specifically aimed at foreign races, was also officially promulgated and implemented, and various regulations such as "worship God", "naturalization of Han nationality", and "division of land" should not only be publicized to the people, but also posted in all towns and villages, so that all the people should not know about it.

The Mandate of Heaven has a broad mind and accommodates all the alien races on earth, but they must pay all kinds of taxes just like the Han Chinese.

Carried out together with the broad mind, there is also the military might of the Mandate of Heaven.

The cavalry of the 1,000th household of Li Guo and the infantry of the 3,000th household of Qin Danian also took action, passing through Xining Prefecture, Sanchuan Prefecture and their respective counties respectively to maintain the stability of the party.

This day is mainly a deterrent, to prevent some ill-intentioned people from repenting, the real killing, a few days ago, the soldiers through the villages and towns, the main thing is to educate: the Mandate of Heaven has not forgotten all the people.

The Catholic Churches everywhere also took action, taking the opportunity to proclaim God in various places, and accepting the people into the Church with all kinds of preferential conditions and incomparably open hearts.

Nanchuan Catholic Church, Weiyuan Catholic Church, and Xining South Catholic Church, which were originally converted from the Buddhist Taer Temple, Guolong Temple, and Hongjue Temple, were even more pioneers, and the pastors of the three churches, Feng Dan, Wang Jie, and Lu Bu, personally held the Bible, walked through the streets, and preached the gospel of God to the people.

The Dongguan Mosque on Dongguan Avenue in Xining was destroyed by the Hui people who believed in the terror religion on their own initiative, and the Third Catholic Church in Xining will be built on the original site, so that there will be three Catholic churches in Xining City, becoming the largest center of Catholicism in the East.

As the Eastern Pope of the Catholic Church, Li Zicheng has two offices in the Xining Catholic Church, and although he rarely comes here because of his busy schedule, the office is cleaned every day.

In this vigorous implementation of the "Tui En Law" in Xining Mansion and Sanchuan Prefecture, it originally had little to do with the Han people and the Han people who were naturalized earlier, but when they learned the content of the "Tui En Law", they still took the initiative to join in.

They are already Han Chinese, they distribute the land, they pay taxes according to the law, but many of the people are not yet believers in God.

When Catholicism began to spread in Xining, it was still a foreign thing to the people, and the people unconsciously resisted it, but after hearing and witnessing it in the past few years, they have seen a lot of it.

When Li Zicheng became the Pope of the Catholic Church, he suddenly narrowed the distance between God and the common people, and for a while, in the entire Greater Xining area, it became fashionable to believe in God, if you are not a believer in God, you are embarrassed to go out, and if there is a dispute between the people, those who believe in God will also get more fraternal support.

According to later statistics, more than ninety percent of the 100,000 people in the Greater Xining region are children of God.

Li Zicheng naturally laughed at the development of all this, if it were not for the emergence of a powerful core figure, with the temperament of the Han people, how could there be such a unified situation of "all the people believing in religion"?

Most of these believers are not the most devout of John Tong, but what does it matter? It is enough for the people to have spiritual sustenance, so why hang themselves on the tree of God?

He hoped that no matter what happens in the future, the common people and believers will not be overzealous and will live their lives in peace, and it is better not to have a situation like the terrorist religion in which "all the people believe in religion" and "all the people are soldiers"; a country in the modern sense in which the church is ubiquitous will not affect normal politics and life.

Li Zicheng liked the attitude of Western Europeans towards religion in later generations: religion is just a belief, but it will not change the major rights and wrongs! I had just done a service in the church, and when I left the church, I turned around and beat those weak people all over the ground......

What is the use of religion for individuals and for society?

Li Zicheng once pondered this question, and when introducing Catholicism into Xining, he was also very conflicted, and even doubted his own approach, but from John Tang, he found the answer.

That's the moral bottom line!

As long as they are not manipulated by people with ulterior motives and deliberately lead religion into a fanatical situation, whether it is for individuals, society, or the country, under the guidance of religious teachings, they will improve their own moral bottom line.

Taking advantage of the fact that the people's worship of God had risen to a new stage, Li Zicheng quietly promulgated the "Tax Law" in the name of the Metropolitan Governor's Office.

The emergence of the "Tax Law" did not increase the types of taxes, nor did it raise the tax law, but it only established the agricultural tax and industrial and commercial tax in the form of a law, which actually overlapped with the tax part of the "Industrial and Commercial Law".

The most important part of the Tax Law is not the tax itself, but one of its principles: everyone is equal before taxes!

That is to say, in the future, those who will have to pay agricultural taxes and industrial and commercial taxes are not only the most ordinary people, but also Shilin, Shinong, industrial, commercial and military personnel, all of whom have the obligation to pay taxes.

This broke the tax system of the Ming court legally.

According to the tax system of the Ming Dynasty, the gentry and the imperial village did not have to pay agricultural taxes, while the merchants in the south controlled the government through the Donglin Party, and obstructed the imperial court from collecting industrial and commercial taxes under the pretext that "the imperial court should not compete with the people for profit".

Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, rich businessmen and powerful people do not need to pay taxes, and the ordinary people at the bottom of the society and the strata who should be helped the most are the main body of tax payment.

The loss of a large amount of taxes in the imperial court, coupled with the use of troops against the Tartars in Liaodong, caused the imperial court to fall into a deep financial crisis and was forced to raise taxes, and the main body of the tax increase was still the people living at the bottom of society.

The poor surpass the poor, and the rich exceed the rich!

If the Ming Dynasty does not perish, there is simply no heavenly reason!

Li Zicheng was already building a legal framework for the future Chinese Empire.

Among the four laws that the Mandate of Heaven is now promulgating, the "Law of Tui'en" is a law specifically for foreign races, and it will only be implemented in the future on the frontier and even in lands outside of China.

The "Tax Law" does not have much practical effect in today's Xining and Longyou regions, and the current territory of the Mandate of Heaven Army is a border land in the Ming Dynasty, and there are not many tax-exempt rich businessmen and magnates, and even Li Zicheng's own factories have to pay taxes, who else dares not to pay taxes?

The promulgation and implementation of the "Tax Law" is still aimed at the future, and it will, together with the "Law of Industry and Commerce" and the "Land Law", become the basis of the three major laws governing the Mandate of Heaven and the Governor's Office.

Although Li Zicheng is also preparing to promulgate laws on elections, the electoral system has just begun to be tested in Longyou Province, and there is still a long way to go before the system matures, and it is still impossible to accurately predict whether it will be implemented in the entire territory of China in the future, or when it will be fully implemented.

With the unremitting efforts of pastors, elders, and publishers, almost all the people in Xining believe in God, and this momentum has gradually spilled over to the surrounding Longyou and Gansu, especially Longyou, which has already had a certain foundation, and this time it has been strengthened.

Although Li Zicheng is the pope of Catholicism in the East, his main focus is not on the propaganda and promotion of religion.

In addition to going to the Firearms Bureau to see the research and development of mountain guns and gunpowder packs, as well as the production speed of rifles, the main time is to stay at the Xining Girls' School, and let these female students graduate as soon as possible, so that he can be liberated from them.

By the middle of July, the Song Ministry of Culture had finally accepted rifles from the Firearms Bureau of 500 households, plus the rifles of the original 500 households, and the 7,000 households were now also equipped with 1,000 households of soldiers and 1,000 households of auxiliaries, catching up with the Zhou Bin Department stationed in Triangle City and Kadang City, but it was only one thousand households less than the soldiers of Ma Youshui stationed in Guguan.

The rifles produced next will add five hundred auxiliary soldiers to Qin Danian's department, so Li Zicheng asked Qin Danian to first select five hundred households for rifle training, and once he has a rifle, he can immediately be promoted to a soldier.

At present, the second, third, and seventh three thousand households are concentrated in the Xining area, with a total strength of more than 6,000 people, including more than 2,500 soldiers and more than 3,500 auxiliary soldiers.

Li Zicheng had some new agitation, and always wanted to use troops against a certain place to expand the territory of the Heavenly Mandate Army.

However, now around the territory of the Heavenly Mandate Army, the southeast direction is the Guanzhong and Bashu of the Ming Dynasty, if you can't accumulate enough amount, don't touch them, it is rare to be able to maintain a balanced situation with Hong Chengchou in Guguan.

The west and south directions of the territory are mountains, rivers and grasslands, typical nomadic habitats, whether it is Tibetans or Mongolians, Li Zicheng has no interest in opening up to them for the time being, even if he can open up the territory, he will not be able to garrison for the time being, and he will consume a lot of manpower and grain in vain.

In these nomadic lands, when initially occupied, a large amount of investment must be made, just like Li Zicheng subdued Lin Dan Khan in the triangle city, although the battlefield duel was victorious, and the military was also victorious, but the Mandate of Heaven not only did not get any war compensation, but also paid a lot of food.

Lin Dan Khan had nothing but his troops and livestock, so what could he use to compensate the Han Chinese? His private property seems to be left with only the Eight Great Fortunes......

In addition to teaching in the school, Li Zicheng has been in a state of restlessness, but he has not been able to find a suitable breakthrough until the beginning of August, when Guo Shijun returned to Xining from Gansu.