Chapter 241: The Three Counties of Huamin
This game lasted until late at night.
In this world where the sun rises and the sun sets, it is rare for a multi-person activity to last until late at night.
On the morning of the second day, Yang Mu issued a decree to confer canonization in front of the courtiers, giving Shencheng to the prince Yang Jun as his food.
The so-called food eup, slightly different from the feudal eup, the person who was granted the title himself, did not have the right to manage the city and military command, and the food eup, like other counties, was unified under the management of the higher level, but the annual tax of the place did not need to be handed over to the imperial court, but the full amount was obtained by the person who was granted the title.
That is to say, in the future, the local taxes of the entire Shencheng will go into the pocket of the little prince Yang Jun.
None of the ministers in the court questioned this.
Several former officials of the Shen State were even more pleased.
Because, this means that His Majesty the Emperor did not look at Shen Di in a different light, and it can be regarded as a reassurance to the old nobles of Shen State, and when facing the discrimination of my colleagues, I can shout that I am from Cangguo.
If you are against it, it is against His Majesty the Emperor, against His Royal Highness the Great Prince!
Of course, this is not the only thing that was discussed at the DPRK meeting.
In the past few months, Yang Mukai's court meetings have been relatively few, mainly because the work of the twelve parts is clear and meticulous, and there are two prime ministers presiding over the overall situation, as long as the strategy is implemented in accordance with the formulation, there is basically no problem.
Taking advantage of this momentum, Yang Mu issued a decree against Dong Guo.
The land of the cave country, with the largest high mountain range of the cave country as the center, Lianmang Mountain, according to the naming habits of China since ancient times, the south of the mountain and the north of the water are yang, and the north of the mountain and the south of the water are yin, and the land of the cave country is divided into three counties - Shanyang County, Shanyin County, and Zhongkun County.
In this way, with the addition of Longxing County, Leyuan County and Linshui County, Cangguo has six counties.
The land of six counties, the land area is equivalent to the size of four or five provinces in China, and the population has reached more than 30 million, which can be regarded as a medium-sized country in the entire Dali Dynasty.
Of course, this is to say that in the case of Cangguo completely digesting the cave country.
If indigestion causes civil unrest, not only will it not add points, but it will also subtract points.
Based on this, Yang Mu once again promulgated the decree of the people.
In the past, when Zheng and Shen had just been annexed, he also issued similar decrees, and the results were remarkable, because of the people's wishes, he did not suffer much resistance, and he treated the nobles more gently.
However, this time it was more ruthless.
The first is to abolish the original laws and decrees of the Dong Kingdom, and gradually implement the Dacang Law Decree and the reform decree based on the three major government decrees, so that all subjects in the three counties will enjoy the same treatment as the people of Cangguo.
Article 2 Beginning with the confiscation of household registration and the official books of land, the sale and purchase of land will be temporarily prohibited, and all parts of the land exceeding 100 mu will be confiscated and turned into basic state-owned farmland, which will be allocated by the government to poor peasants who have no arable land.
Article 3 is to remove all the privileges of the original nobles, and confiscate all property of the nobles of the cave country who have a title.
Article 4: All slaves shall be returned to their freedom, and those who sell and dispose of slaves without permission after a decree has been issued shall be beheaded.
Fifth, schools are set up in villages and towns, and the "Great Cang Law Order" is taught, and those who can pass the examination are exempted from paying taxes for one year, and those who get high scores are exempted from paying taxes for two years, and have the opportunity to enter the government.
Each of these five decrees can be said to be very ruthless.
In the first article, it is equivalent to including the citizens of the cave country into the Cangguo system, regardless of rank, enjoying such things as taxes, welfare, meritorious service, scientific examinations, reading and learning characters...... Wait for a treat.
This is compared with the past cave country, the two are worlds apart, when the people feel the immediate benefits, they will naturally increase their sense of identity to the country, even if they have a bad heart, they will gradually have a kind of gratitude to the country, let go of the prejudice in their hearts.
Article 234 is to take the landlords and aristocratic forces scattered in various parts of the cave country, just like beating the local tyrants and dividing the land, which can quickly harvest the hearts of the people, not only liberate the productive forces of the slave class, but also let the common people live and work in peace and contentment.
Because it is a direct confiscation of the land of the nobles and the cutting of the landlord's field, it is foreseeable that the three counties of Shanyang County, Shanyin County, and Zhongkun County will be the most evenly distributed places in the entire Cangguo at present.
Fifth, that is the rule of culture.
A series of brainwashing education in the school is an artifact, reading and practicing words all day long, reciting the "Dacang Law Order", and then listening to the propaganda articles in the "Dacang Times", it is difficult not to identify with and rely on the identity of Cangguo.
And the exemption from taxes and being an official is to tempt everyone to accept cultural rule independently, and I am afraid that when the time comes, if the teacher does not teach well, the people themselves will not be happy.
To assimilate the foolish people in the countryside, these five decrees are sufficient.
Of course, governance is about people and money.
In the past two years, the Ministry of Education has achieved fruitful results, so Yang Mu issued an order to allocate 30 million taels to the Ministry of Education, on the one hand, to recruit scholars in the society, and on the other hand, to train those students in the school, appoint them as Mr. Teachers, and send them to the townships in the three counties to teach the villagers.
With a stroke of the pen, Yang Mu allocated three million taels of silver to them for the publication and printing of the "Dacang Times", and distributed them to local governments for free for propaganda.
On the Ministry of Industry, 10 million taels of silver were allocated to organize paid forced labor, so that each village could build its own water diversion project for irrigation of farmland.
Anyway, after conquering the cave country, just by raiding the house and emptying the treasury, he earned 150 million taels of silver, and there is no need to be stingy with the amount of these tens of millions of taels of silver.
After a series of measures, Yang Mu discussed the details with several major ministers after the court meeting, and was busy until noon.
As soon as lunch was over, Yan Hua, the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Qin Changfeng, the secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, came together.
It turned out that the two Shangshu came together to discuss matters of negotiation with various countries.
Because of the geographical location and political relationship of Cangguo, the current exchanges between Cangguo and the major vassal states are mainly commercial exchanges.
Therefore, this is inseparable from the Ministry of Commerce, for more than a year, the Shangshu of the two ministries have often discussed affairs together, and this time they came together, and what they said should be the same thing.
"The Jin State congratulates me on the annexation of the Dong State by Da Cang, and invites my Cang State to send troops to carve up the southeastern border of the Wei State?"
Yang Mu finished reading the letter of state handed over by Yan Hua, the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and a strange feeling rose in his heart.
Without him, it's just out of place.