Chapter 256 - Constitutional Monarchy

According to Li Gengyun, Guo Feng and they also began to carefully consider the current situation, after the establishment of the new dynasty, it will inevitably attract the attention of many parties, especially in Nanzhou, not to be left behind, Hua Teng, who is not willing to lag behind, will also take the opportunity to support the king of Tianping and re-establish the Great Song Dynasty, of course, this Great Song must be the Great Song in his hands. One is to fight against the Northern Yuan, and the other is to correct the concept in the hearts of the people of the world, as long as the Great Song Dynasty is still there, those patriots who have hope for the Great Song Dynasty will inevitably flock to Nanzhou and gather in Nanzhou, and then the Nanzhou court will not have to worry about the shortage of talents in the court.

Therefore, the reason why Li Gengyun wants to recruit talents and select talents is to bring all the talents in Xiangzhou and even the surrounding areas into his hands before the establishment of the new dynasty, and then the establishment of Xiangyang College, in addition to cultivating talents, a more important task is to brainwash these talents, completely wash away the concept that the Great Song Dynasty is the only one that originally remained in their minds, and instill the ideas of the new dynasty.

For those people, the change of dynasties has been an existential situation since ancient times, and the fall of one dynasty will inevitably bring about the rise of another. But no matter which dynasty is in control of the world, all they care about is their personal livelihood and whether they can survive in the future, so Li Gengyun will land the tax law and the law of agriculture and commerce in Xiangzhou as soon as possible, the purpose is to realize the new policy in the hearts of the people as soon as possible, so that the people can feel the benefits of the current policy and will be grateful to the new dynasty.

At the same time, the improvement of the military system is of course also to promote the unity of the new army's strength and the balance of power, in addition to avoiding the occurrence of Fang Tong's rebellion, it is more important to make the army a symbol of the imperial power. In particular, the policy of replacing taxes with military service has been recognized by all the people of Xiangzhou, and the soldiers know that joining the army can not only help reduce the taxes of their families, but also obtain military salaries, which is more powerful for their own sense of honor and is also conducive to the stability of the army and the stability of the military spirit.

Now the only problem in front of Li Gengyun and them is those scholars and gate valves, Fang Tong was able to go so smoothly in Xiangzhou at the beginning, and the support of these gate valves is indispensable, but the policies that Li Gengyun is implementing now have largely shaken the interests of some gate valves, especially the law of taxation and agricultural business. Originally, most of the land in Xiangzhou was concentrated in the hands of these gate valve families, and if Li Gengyun wanted to implement the law of taxation and agricultural business, he would inevitably redistribute the land, and the land of those gate lords would definitely be directly cut head-on.

This is also the most difficult point to control, if these gate lords are united, the power they form is not small, so Li Gengyun arranged for those scholars to land in various cities, not only to supervise the implementation of government decrees, but also to monitor these families to a certain extent. On the other hand, the ambush plan set up by Li Gengyun is, of course, not a simple ambush. For Xiangzhou, there was no need for ambushes, and it was already under the control of Zhao Zhen. The reason why the ambush was established was to suppress it as soon as possible when those gate valve families rebelled in the future, and it was also equivalent to using intimidation to suppress these family gate lords and not dare to act rashly.

Of course, this is under the premise that Fang Tong was still a general before, and now a new dynasty is going to be established, and these ambushes are naturally going to play their role, so what Li Gengyun wants to do now is to do this to these gate valve families.

"The gate valve family, if they are willing to accept the deployment, they will naturally give them some convenience and preferential treatment in terms of trade, but if they are unwilling, then they will ...... directly" Li Gengyun directly touched his neck with a knife when he spoke, and the meaning was very clear, that is, if these family gate valves are disobedient, they will be destroyed directly.

"Kill?! Wouldn't this cause internal instability in our Xiangzhou? ”

"Fight violence with violence, stop killing with killing!"

The family gate valves that want to be killed are naturally those who are disobedient, and they are not particularly strong door valves, and for those who are particularly strong, it is natural to use the method of killing chickens and monkeys to lock their hands and feet, so that they feel threatened, and if they do not cooperate, the ending will be the same as those disobedient gate valves that have fallen. If he obediently obeyed, handed over the land, and freed the house slaves, in this way, the family of gate lords wanted to give full play to his advantages in commerce, and the imperial court would naturally vigorously support them and help them transform from landlords to wealthy merchants. Of course, in terms of commercial taxes, Li Gengyun will naturally not let go easily. According to what he knew, he had already decided how to levy the business tax, that is, to adopt a three-year method. The first phase is preferential for three years, the second phase is stable for three years, and the third phase is normal for three years. The rate of taxation rises every three years, a total of three periods, and after the end of the three periods, these wealthy businessmen have become accustomed to it. At that time, the commercial tax is likely to be several times higher than the agricultural tax, and it will also be an important source of finance for the new dynasty.

"Brother Yun!"

Although he has experienced a lot of things, Guo Feng has deeply felt the changes in his personality from Li Gengyun's current strategies and practices, and Li Gengyun, who was originally dominated by Huairou, has now begun to become a little violent, and killing seems to be a common thing. Especially in terms of policy, when he was in Qingfeng Village, and even when he first arrived in Xiangzhou, Li Gengyun never directly participated in the killing, but when Fang Tong rebelled, it was Li Gengyun who personally led the troops to attack and kill, and the nearly 10,000 soldiers who died at the east gate did not feel sad at all, but were very ordinary.

"The foundation of everything is to demand the stability of Xiangzhou, the development in stability, the expansion in stability, and the strength in stability. Guo Feng, you are a military advisor, after the establishment of the new dynasty, I have already negotiated your position in the court with the empress, as well as General Ma, General Zhao, and the three of you, and there will be no change in your position in the army. But you will each lead your own troops, directly under the arrangement of the Empress. ”

"As for the other ministers in the court, if Mu Yang is willing to go out, then I want to give him the position of supervising the imperial history, and if he is unwilling, then continue to stay in Xiangyang Academy. The four heroes of Xiangyang also need to be drawn from the army and serve in the DPRK to avoid wasting talents. Yuwen, you arrange the duties of the four of them. As for the other scholars who have landed in various cities, it is up to you to arrange their duties! ”

"As for me, after the establishment of the new dynasty, a new third-party independent agency, the Military Aircraft Department, will be established, similar to the Privy Council of the Great Song Dynasty, but the Military Aircraft Department exists independently and can impeach the empress's decrees, not only the empress's, but any decree of the future successor emperor can be impeached."

"Imperial power is empty?!"

"Constitutional monarchy!"