Chapter 179: Cult of Personality

In one village, a rent reduction has just been introduced!

According to the provisions of the rent reduction order, the landlord's rent in the village shall not exceed 30%! Moreover, the landlord must not have land without planting, that is to say, there can be no wasteland! If he can't grow it all himself, he has to rent it out!

This rent reduction order was a redistribution of social wealth, and the Song Dynasty peasants, who were originally the poorest in history, finally saw hope for a change in their lives to some extent! Their gratitude to Zhao Chen can be imagined!

And at this time, the personnel of the Propaganda Department entered the village!

This is a middle-aged man in his forties, and he is also dressed as a peasant, and he can't see the identity of an official at all! In fact, he is an important person in the Propaganda Department!

At the beginning, Wang Shu presided over the Propaganda Department, mainly to recruit some talented literati to enter it, but as a result, many Xiucai literati had no eloquence, they would only read to death, and they would only read out according to the book during propaganda, and few people listened to it at all, so Wang Shu knew that it was wrong! Later, after Wang Shu consulted Zhao Chen, anyone who can speak the Tao, whether it is a literati or a peasant porter, as long as he has the ability to "speak", he can join the Propaganda Division! And after these people entered the Propaganda Department, they became officials, and their identities were far more than before, so they naturally worked hard and did not dare to fall behind!

"This time, the forbidden army went to Guanshan and defeated the Jurchens! Do you know why the Forbidden Army was able to defeat the Jurchens? The "peasant" from the Propaganda Department stood in the middle of a group of peasants and spoke.

"Why is that?" An old man next to him said.

"That's because the forbidden army was an army trained by His Majesty, and it was also commanded by His Majesty himself at that time, so he was able to defeat the Jurchens! A genius like Your Majesty, we Han people have only produced one in thousands of years! We ordinary farmers, do what Your Majesty says, and we will be able to get a bumper harvest! is like a literati showman, if you do what Your Majesty says, you can become a champion! If the army does what His Majesty says, it will be victorious! In short, it is a sentence, following His Majesty is victory, and carrying out His Majesty's instructions is victory! "That's human.

The people next to him listened to it, and they only felt that the emperor was like being in the clouds, like a fairy, and they mortals could only look up at the emperor when they stood on the ground!

"Do you know who is the greatest god in the heavens and on the earth?" The man said again.

"Who is it?" An old farmer next to him asked.

"Naturally, he is the Pangu god who opened the world! The great god of Pangu opened the world, Nuwa Niangniang made people from the soil, and then the three emperors and five emperors educated all living beings, so that we Han people can always survive in the Central Plains and create a brilliant civilization, which is better than all barbarians! The great god of Pangu later gasified the three Qings, and the most powerful of them was Yuan Shi Tianzun! More than ten years ago, Yuan Shi Tianzun watched the scenery of the mortal world in the sky, he saw a black evil dragon appear in the north, and knew that this evil dragon was going to harm the world, so he personally went down to earth and prepared to kill the evil dragon! This evil dragon is the Jurchen, after the Yuan Shi Tianzun descended to earth, do you know who he was reincarnated into? The man said again.

"Who?" Everyone has a common answer in their hearts, but they don't say it, they all look at this "farmer" expectantly, hoping that what he says is the same as the answer in their hearts!

"Naturally, Your Majesty! Your Majesty is the Yuan Shi Tianzun who descended to the earth and used it to destroy the Jurchen! "That's human.

"Sure enough, Your Majesty! I guessed that right! No wonder His Majesty was able to defeat the Jurchen, he was the descendant of the Yuan Shi Tianzun, and no one was His Majesty's opponent! ”

"I'll just say, Your Majesty was only ten years old that day, and he was able to escape from Kaifeng, and later he was killed at a young age! It turned out that his origin was so extraordinary, it turned out to be the Yuan Shi Tianzun! ”

"Your Majesty is an immortal who walks in the world! Let's listen to Your Majesty, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it! ”

For a while, the surrounding people were talking, and the "peasant" had a smug expression on his face.

"Today, Your Majesty issued a rent reduction order, and we must be grateful to Your Majesty! May Your Majesty live long and long live, long live, long live! Suddenly, the "peasant" knelt down and said in an unusually excited voice.

"Your Majesty has no borders, long live long live long live!" The surrounding people knelt down with the man and shouted in unison.

"I once saw His Majesty from afar, and at that time I knew that His Majesty was a god descending from heaven, and after I went back, I carefully recalled His Majesty's appearance and drew His Majesty's appearance! Today, I give you this portrait, and you will ask for instructions and report to the portrait of Your Majesty every morning and evening in the future, and Your Majesty will definitely give you a dream and tell you what to do! The man stood up and said.

At that moment, he took out a painting, only to see that this painting was extremely exquisite, on which Zhao Chen was wearing a dragon robe, holding a sword, his eyes were sharp, as if he was looking at the sky in the distance, and under Zhao Chen's feet were white clouds, shining with golden light! This portrait is not much different from the portrait of the gods of this era!

When the surrounding people saw this portrait, they knelt down again!

After that, the people here enshrined this portrait in the ancestral hall, every morning and evening to come to ask for instructions and report, the so-called day thoughts, also dreams, someone really dreamed of Zhao Chen, the morning got up excited eyes full of tears, this is another story.

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The implementation of the rent reduction order in Hanzhong has encountered some resistance, but the resistance is limited! This does have a lot to do with Zhao Chen's killing of court officials at the beginning, when it was a change, only a dozen of the hundreds of officials in Hanzhong could survive, and the rest were all killed! These officials are all more or less connected with the local forces in Hanzhong, and after their deaths, the local forces in Hanzhong have suffered a great blow! Now the newly arrived group of officials can't fight against the imperial court at all!

However, the rent reduction spread to Sichuan, and many officials and gentry in Sichuan were in an uproar and opposed it one after another! Wu Jue and Wu Ling had to raise their vigilance, and finally Zhao Chen issued an edict in the name of the Military Aircraft Department, saying that Sichuan would not implement the rent reduction order, and the Sichuan gentry calmed down!

It's just that there is another order issued by the Military Aircraft Department at the same time, the imperial court has just recaptured Guanshan, where there is a lot of land, and the imperial court encourages the people of Sichuan to go to Guanshan to reclaim wasteland! All wasteland, as long as it is cultivated, belongs to the peasants themselves, and it is exempt from tax for three years! In addition, seeds and farm tools are provided by the imperial court!

After knowing the news, countless farmers in Sichuan were ready to move, and they had the idea of going to Guanshan! It's just that they all know that the north has just experienced a big war, and no one knows if the Jurchens will come, and no one knows if there is any danger there! In the end, only some peasants who are very brave or can't survive in their hometown will go to Guanshan! For a whole month, only a few tens of thousands of people left for the north! This mere tens of thousands of people is simply not enough to fill the population gap in Guanshan!

It's just that Zhao Chen has no better way, and he can't forcibly emigrate! There are indeed cases of forced immigration in previous dynasties, but they are generally at the beginning of the founding of the country, such as the immigration of Hongdong locust tree in the early Ming Dynasty, the filling of Sichuan in Huguang in the early Qing Dynasty, etc., that are all in the case of national unification, and there is no external trouble to dare to implement such a strategy! Now that the world is in turmoil, it is not a good time to implement forced immigration at all! Moreover, Zhao Chen feels that as long as the work of the Propaganda Department is in place, it is possible for people to immigrate spontaneously in the future!

By mid-April, Zhao Chen only took a dozen guards to the private microserver for a private visit, and saw an unbelievable scene! I saw that in a village, a Xiucai was standing there to carry out "personality cult" propaganda, and the walls of the village were full of "emperor's quotations", and I don't know how Wang Shu's propaganda department compiled these quotations, many of which had an inflammatory effect!

He stayed there, and then suddenly a couple of peasants arrived, and they fell to their knees and bowed down to him!

It turned out that Zhao Chen's portrait had been "printed" in large quantities and distributed to countless farmers' homes! These peasants' homes are enshrined in portraits of Zhao Chen, so as soon as Zhao Chen appeared, they recognized Zhao Chen's identity!

These peasants knelt there, and the peasants in the distance saw the scene here, came here one after another, and knelt on the ground one after another!

The way these peasants looked at Zhao Chen was completely different from the way other people looked at Zhao Chen before! In the past, those people knew that Zhao Chen was the emperor, but he was only the emperor, and they just looked at Zhao Chen with awe! And these peasants looked at Zhao Chen with a look of madness, worship, and faith!

Zhao Chen was stunned!

He knew that the Propaganda Department had been doing propaganda, but he didn't know that the Propaganda Department was actually doing personality cult propaganda!

"Damn! This Wang Shu, what is he doing! Zhao Chen was furious in his heart.

He no longer had the interest of a private visit, and after a few hasty words, he immediately turned around and left, ready to return to Hanzhong!

"What did Your Majesty just say? Do you remember? What Your Majesty says is the truth, and you must keep every word of Your Majesty in your heart! The peasants in the distance were talking!

"Alright, don't make any noise! I've got it all in my heart, and I'll tell you about it later! You go to the farm first, and in the evening, let's reminisce about the bittersweet and sweet! Before His Majesty did not implement the rent reduction order, the people lived in hardship, but now they live happily! We must remember the bittersweet memories and remember the kindness of Your Majesty! ”

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Zhao Chen returned to the palace, his face gloomy!

When Lin Bao saw Zhao Chen's appearance, he said with some apprehension: "Your Majesty, what happened?" ”

Zhao Chen said: "You go and find Wang Shu!" Find it now! ”

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