readx; In terms of military spending, it was set at 40 million silver dollars, accounting for about 23% of the fiscal revenue of the empire in the first year. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 In terms of the expenses of officials and civil servants, 12 million silver dollars were budgeted, and another 8 million silver dollars were budgeted for administrative expenses, making a total of 20 million silver dollars.

The local system of the empire basically remained the same as the previous dynasty in terms of titles, but the functions and powers were greatly changed, and some new official positions were also added.

The number of officials first increased, and a county had county ordinances, judges, and various bureaus below, such as the Internal Revenue Bureau, the Health Bureau, the Education Bureau, the Construction Bureau, and the Police Department.

There are some civil servants in each bureau, and the Ming court is generally looking for civil servants at random, except for a county order, a county officer, and the chief bookkeeper, the others are all ungrade personnel, these personnel are all found by the government itself, that is, they have not been trained, the personnel are also very complicated, and the salary is not high. It's a bit like the assistant police of later generations.

Now the empire has completely abandoned that practice, and all civil servants are centrally trained, uniformly appointed, and paid a higher monthly salary, usually three silver dollars a month, as well as housing benefits.

At present, the number of officials and civil servants in the empire has reached nearly 100,000, and there are still more than 100,000 armed police to be reorganized into local police.

The cost of supporting these officials, civil servants, and police officers is tens of millions of silver dollars.

Fortunately, for the empire's financial revenue, these expenses are still affordable, and the remaining 120 million silver dollars are mainly used for education, infrastructure construction, medical care, and scientific research.

In terms of education, after discussion between Zhao Yan and the cabinet, it was decided to allocate 40 million silver dollars to education, which can allow 50% of the legal education age in the empire to enroll in free education after deducting the infrastructure construction of the school and other miscellaneous expenses invested in the early stage.

The current legal age of admission is 8~15 years old, children under the age of 8 want to enroll, must pay the fee and enroll, this era basically does not have the concept of universal education, so there are too many uneducated teenagers, so priority is given to them to recruit into school, the younger ones and so on, and when the imperial teachers are enough, then continue to expand the scale of education.

At this time, the teachers of the empire are still very tight, but compared to before, they are much more abundant, and now they have entered the stage of snowballing, as long as they roll for another year, the teachers of the primary school will be enough.

Of course, the quality of teachers is relatively low, and it will take time to improve, and this improvement will be very fast.

Because of the current education system, the division of labor among teachers is extremely high, and there are special teachers to cultivate students' ideology and morality, and they are quite good at personal quality.

The main purpose of education is to transform character, and it does not require students to have a high level of culture, and it does not matter if the culture is low, as long as the character is passed. Among so many students, there must be many who study well, and these good students can become high-level talents in the empire, and the requirements for becoming high-level talents are not high, after all, no matter what industry it is, even if it is scientific research, it only involves the primary level, and there are not so many things to learn.

By next year, all 8~15-year-old teenagers in the empire can be pulled into schools. The following year, the legal age can be lowered to 6 years. And the establishment of Chengren School, which allows Chengren to go to school for free.

In terms of construction, 30 million silver dollars were invested, and the focus of construction was still on rivers and water conservancy, and the funds allocated in previous years were enough to control the rivers, but there was not much money to build hydropower stations. This year, 10 million yuan will be invested to build two large hydropower stations.

The principle of hydropower and thermal power is the same, thermal power uses steam turbines to drive power generation, and hydropower uses the potential energy of water flow to drive turbines to generate electricity. The two hydropower plants are expected to be completed within three years, which is a common sense investment to accumulate experience in hydropower generation.

The other 20 million yuan was used to build roads and railways, of which the railways in the colonies were already included in the scope of construction.

The colony could only expand inland with the railway, and wherever the railway was built, it could expand to wherever it went.

Because the colony needs to transport the raw materials back to the mainland, if there is no railway, the raw materials cannot be transported, then the colony is meaningless.

At present, immigrants are all settled in ports and riverside areas, and only those who settle under such conditions can transport things out, otherwise they will not be able to change their state of poverty, and perhaps it is only better than before immigration.

Australia and the Americas do not have a lot of money to build railways, because it is too expensive to transport steel from the mainland, so Australia and the Americas will establish a steel production that can produce steel rails next year, and the railways built this year are only built where they have to be built.

And in terms of medical care, 30 million was allocated this year, and the empire's free medical policy was declared bankrupt, and the empire simply did not have that much money. Therefore, Zhao Yan decided to restore medical charges, but only charged 100% of the cost of medicines, and the empire was responsible for supporting medical personnel.

Under the condition of charging fees, Zhao Yan issued instructions to the Ministry of Medical Affairs that doctors must first save people and then collect fees, and if someone cheats and fails to pay, they cannot be forcibly collected.

In terms of collecting medical fees, it is completely self-conscious, and now the empire has no money to implement free medical care, and it cannot be treated differently by region, so it can only be used this strategy.

For example, for those minor illnesses, patients will generally give money after seeing the doctor, and those who have the ability not to give it are personality problems. As for those catastrophes and diseases, many families can't bear them, so Zhao Yan allows them not to give money, which is equivalent to charging for minor illnesses and free for major illnesses.

In this way, 30 million silver dollars is absolutely enough.

At the same time, 5 million silver dollars were allocated for scientific research funds.

In addition, there were 15 million silver dollars left, and Zhao Yan asked the cabinet to keep it for emergencies.

The empire's annual revenues were basically spent that year, and there were almost no reserves, which were basically unnecessary in the absence of a strong foreign enemy.

However, the empire does not have a large number of reserves like the original historical Britain, because the empire is more development-conscious, and it is believed that as long as it survives the early stage of the empire, the empire will have huge reserves.

…… The budget for the new year has been calculated until the first month, and this year's Spring Festival is very lively, and all the provinces of the empire are singing and dancing this Spring Festival.

The people of the entire empire were looking forward to enlightened politics in this new dynasty that would lift them out of poverty.

There are many problems left over from the Ming Dynasty, the most important of which is the gap between the rich and the poor. However, this gap between the rich and the poor is relatively easy to regulate.

There was no population pressure in this era, and the resources per capita were greatly enhanced by the rapid expansion that preceded the establishment of the empire.

In the new year, there will be new efforts to regulate and control land annexation.

Throughout the empire, the Agricultural Tax Reform Act was enacted, which was amended and improved at the end of last year.

The price of arable land in the empire itself, since the beginning of the year, has been falling sharply.

No landlord dares to keep the land in his hands, because the more land, the more taxes will be collected, and the land will reach 100,000 mu, and the family can be broken within that year.

However, basically no big landlords are willing to hold on, if you want to hold on, small landlords can, after all, there is little land, although the tax is higher, but it is not that it is unbearable.

At the same time, there are not many landlords who intend to resist taxes, and more just want to evade taxes.

At this time, the empire has deployed a large number of armed police in various provinces, and there is no difference between resisting taxes and looking for death, and the landlord is not a bandit, and the monk can't run the temple if he can't run.

As for tax evasion, many landlords have this idea. The intention was to evade agricultural taxes by concealing the acres of land, but this trick was of no use to the imperial officials.

In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Zhao Yan cut down more than 300 officials in Shandong, and these officials, regardless of their ability and political achievements, were cut down because they accepted bribes, and they were also skinned.

For the imperial officialdom, which was paid more and did not need to buy officials, 99% of the officials were unwilling to accept bribes from the landlords, but would arrest them.

These officials who were transferred out of Shandong have all experienced the great anti-corruption.

Because there is a precedent, the first thing they do after they arrive at the place is to measure the acres of land repeatedly, and there must not be a single error in the data.

Some officials do not hesitate to measure repeatedly.

Some local officials are more insidious, they first notify the local landlords, let them measure by themselves, and then report the number of acres, and then the government will measure again, the same is to measure several times, whoever conceals the number of acres to a certain extent will be sent to the court, and more landlords who violate the law and discipline will be killed, but it will help to improve political performance!

The new landlords who supported the empire belonged to the kind that rose later, and these landlords generally did not own more than 3,000 acres of land, and at the same time developed the breeding industry. These landlords were cultivated by the empire, and they embraced the rule of the empire.

And the traditional landlords, who were the supporters of the Ming Dynasty and occupied a large number of means of production, the policy of the empire was to suppress the old landlords.

It's just that this kind of suppression is principled, and it can't be deliberately suppressed before it is caught, but once it is caught, it can be sublimated to a certain extent, and the main punishment is the confiscation of land.

The price of land continued to fall, and in some places it was even reduced to five silver dollars per acre, and the empire lowered the price of land in three ways.

One is the agricultural tax reform, where landlords must sell their land, otherwise they will be charged high agricultural taxes, and in the process of many landlords selling their land, land prices begin to fall.

The second is that the empire stipulates that when the landlord collects the rent, he shall not exceed 20 catties of grain per mu, and such a meager tax, even if there is 10,000 mu of land, the collected grain is sold at the price of one silver dollar per stone, and the income is only more than 1,000 silver dollars, and even the tax is not enough to deduct.

The third is that the empire is constantly emigrating overseas, and there are fewer tenants.

In particular, the second clause deprives the landlords who relied on tenant farmers to pay rent. This policy was formulated by Zhao Yan in order to eliminate the landlords who were parasitic on the tenant farmers.

Zhao Yan is actually not against mergers, because mergers will lead to the emergence of more professional production methods, but it is definitely not the kind of merger that is leased out, and that kind of merger can only be said to be parasitic, such as leasing 10,000 acres of land to many tenant farmers, who have no capital among themselves, and will not invest too much money in the rented land.

And the kind of landlords who hire long-term workers to run the business are what Zhao Yan welcomes, because they manage the land themselves and will invest money in the land to strengthen productivity and move towards a professional production route.

As for immigration, Zhao Yan stopped immigrating this year, only encouraging individuals to emigrate, and the empire's policy of apportioning travel expenses and dividing land and property when going to colonies was also stopped.

The population of 200 million is very small on the mainland, especially after the expansion of the territory in the western and northern directions.

At the beginning of the year, after consulting with the high-level officials of the empire, Zhao Yan decided to build Nanyang, Australia, and the Americas into land reserve areas, that is, except for the development of some areas with extremely high economic benefits, these areas will no longer be developed.

At the same time, the empire should carry out a thorough expansion of these areas, completely clearing these areas of natives, and preferably turning them into no man's land.

80% of the South Seas, Australia, and the Americas will become the future reserve living space of the empire, and the colonial direction will be transferred to India and Europe.

This is mainly formulated by Zhao Yan after reflecting on the development route.

What Zhao Yan thinks is, what is the main direction of the future development of the empire?

Expand, expand, and expand again, so that the Han people are spread all over the world? Development, redevelopment, and only the economy as China in later generations will be attached?

These are all incorrect routes.

Expansion is needed, and all enemies need to be strangled in the cradle, but not the earth can be ruined indiscriminately! Once the Han people who have entered the industrial age are distributed all over the world, it will evolve into the same as in later generations, with environmental pollution everywhere and a large number of extinctions.

At the same time, once the population is too large, the per capita resources will naturally be less. The population of the Han nationality must also be controlled to a certain extent, and Zhao Yan feels that one billion is the dividing line, and seven or eight billion people should be the ideal state.

Zhao Yan thinks mainly about sustainable development, first of all, there must be a land reserve, and the living space of the reserve cannot be touched by any race. When the empire has grown sufficiently, has some capacity to control pollution, and is overpopulated, it can be considered to use reserve land.

On the colonial side, it was to conquer India and European countries, including Tsarist Russia, establish colonies there, and eliminate all countries that posed a potential threat to the empire. And by squeezing India and Europe to make the empire rich.

The complete conquest of India and Europe was preceded by the dumping of goods on them, giving the empire a source of power for its industrial development. In this way, the empire set a general course of development.

In this general direction, this year, the empire has canceled the land distribution in Nanyang, Australia, and the Americas, but it does not prohibit individual immigration, and the empire will still pay personal travel expenses. At the same time, the Cabinet has already sent personnel to begin the demarcation of reserve areas.

Reserve areas are an important part of sustainable development, and as long as a large enough reserve area is demarcated, the Han people will have enough ways to retreat.

The important direction of development this year is still at home, and at the same time, the empire does not have enough financial resources to expand in full this year, except that it does not cost much financial resources to clear the natives in the South Seas, and the westward and southern expansion are also going on as usual.

Westward expansion is to expand in the direction of the Western Regions and Tsarist Russia, and southward expansion is to expand in the Indochina Peninsula, and the enemy is not strong.

Because the western route is too far from the mainland, it is not so easy to replenish, and while building railways, it is also encouraging immigrants, and still retains the policy of free land distribution.

And within the empire, land regulation has reached a critical juncture.

At the same time that land prices were plummeting, the new landowners supported by the empire were expanding rapidly. Agricultural companies, which operate on a corporate basis, have been invincible in this expansion, swallowing up a lot of land.

These companies are not a single person or a few people, but they dilute their shares to absorb large amounts of money, and then quickly annex the lands of the South.

Behind the expansion of these agricultural companies, it is Zhao Yan who is secretly indulging. During the Spring Festival, Zhao Yan met with dozens of businessmen in private, and Zhao Yan talked with them for a long time.

Soon, under the guidance of Zhao Yan, these businessmen began land annexation, and agricultural companies covering millions of acres continued to emerge.

However, the land area of these agricultural companies is only one million acres at most, and there is no higher than that. These agricultural companies stopped when they expanded to the limit of one million acres, and at the same time, the shareholders of these companies were very large, and the chairman with the largest number of shares only had tens of thousands of acres of land, and below the chairman, there were only 5,000 acres at most.

These agricultural companies are still being formed, because Zhao Yan has a group of obedient dogs. The merchant class he supported supported him and was tamed by him to be very obedient.

They set up agricultural companies, each of which broke through the limit of one million acres, and at the same time, no one's shares could share the benefits of more than 10,000 acres of land.

Zhao Yan supports land annexation, but it must be a merger with professional management and not overdoing it, and the company's model is the most suitable.

These agricultural companies will hire the management team of Denglai Agricultural University to manage the company, and these management teams are not considered civil servants, but the management talents trained by Denglai Agricultural University for private companies, these managers have studied agricultural management for so many years, have the most sophisticated and reasonable management methods, and have mastered the most professional production technology.

The management team is still being cultivated, and these managers are paid well, and if they do not run the agricultural company's industry, they will be fired by the shareholders and new managers will be hired. In addition, the board of directors is not directly involved in the management, and these agricultural companies will be run by managers who graduated from Denglai Agricultural University, and those shareholders will have to wait for dividends at home and supervise them from time to time.

At the same time, these agricultural companies have a special shareholder, that is, Zhao Yan, who also has a share in it, and holds the same shares as the chairman.

Zhao Yan's property has been separated from the empire's property, but the rare treasures, antiques, calligraphy and paintings obtained by the empire, all of which are collected by the imperial family, and the empire pays him a monthly salary of 5,000 silver dollars.

At present, Zhao Yan's assets are 20 million silver dollars, because among the various monopolies of the Imperial Ministry of Commerce, Zhao Yan accounts for 10% of the shares, and Zhao Quan also has 5% of the shares.

Zhao Quan hasn't even looked for an heir so far, and this 5% will also be Zhao Yan's in the future.

The assets of the Imperial Ministry of Commerce, including real estate and various values, the assets of two hundred million silver dollars are the least.

Among the 20 million taels of assets, Zhao Yan still has a lot of rare treasures in his hands, and antique calligraphy and paintings are not included in them. Of course, only more than 3 million taels of assets can be used with these 20 million taels.

Naturally, this money can't be put in the bank to make mold, so Zhao Yan also makes some investments, it's not that Zhao Yan loves money much, it's just that he is idle and has nothing to do, and he will open another stove to make some money, but Zhao Yan doesn't use his power to make money, and he still pays taxes.

At present, in terms of the administration of the empire, Zhao Yan hands over most of it to the cabinet, and usually he only asks, but rarely intervenes, and only puts forward his opinions to the cabinet.

Although it is said that it is now in the early stage of constitutionalization, although Zhao Yan also abides by the constitution, the cabinet gives 12 points of respect to Zhao Yan's opinions, and Zhao Yan is what he says.

Zhao Yan's prestige at this time has reached an unparalleled peak, even if he has no military power in his hands, no one dares to touch him, and no one dares to ignore his voice. Not for anything else, just because Zhao Yan has won the hearts of the people and the army. Whoever dares to touch Zhao Yan, all the soldiers and people will not let him go.

His love for the people, his talent, his thoughts, and his deeds have been widely praised, and the textbooks drawn up by the Imperial Ministry of Education are full of pages about Zhao Yan.

Even if Zhao Yan handed over the military power, as long as he went outside and casually raised his arms, it should be his or his, and no one could restrain him, even if it was the Constitution.

Zhao Yan established the constitution not to limit himself, but to limit his children and grandchildren.

After nearly two months, the framework of the empire has been formed, the members of parliament have been elected, the prosecutors and inspectors of the Supreme Procuratorate of the empire have been appointed, and the judges of the empire are constantly studying and training, and the number of judges in various places is still insufficient.

Under the command of Zhao Yan, various departments have entered the right track, and the state of separation of powers has been initially formed, but this is a kind of separation of powers that has not fully touched the people, and it is not complete.

But even so, these departments have entered the state of operation in accordance with the principles formulated by Zhao Yan, and they are running well.

The most Zhao Yan usually does is to summon people from the military, politics, and business circles, both publicly and privately.

He was like a man at the helm, constantly correcting the direction in which the empire was headed.

In addition, Zhao Yan usually goes to three places: the Academy of Science and Technology, the Opera House, and the Barracks.

The scientific research work of the Academy of Science and Technology can be said to have reached a point of rapid progress, with a large number of discoveries in chemistry, and the research on electricity has gradually deepened, and inventions such as the internal combustion engine have also been in the research stage.

The construction of steamships has also made great progress, under the operation of the state apparatus, the construction of steamships is very fast, according to the design drawings, half of the completion has been completed, judging from the drawings, the success rate of steamships is 100%, but in terms of propulsion and other aspects of the surname can not be said.

Zhao Yan often goes to the opera house because he often writes some songs and takes his family to watch and sing, but Zhao Yan's family has a thirteen-year-old little Lori, that is, Princess Zhu Yujiao of Changping.

Zhao Yan is 24 years old this year, he can be said to be very young, the youngest founding emperor in history, and it is not too much to marry someone who is 11 years younger than himself, and when Princess Changping reaches the age of 18, Zhao Yan is only 29 years old, which is a normal phenomenon in later generations.

Although Zhu Yujiao is only thirteen years old, she is already very sensible, and she didn't cry or make trouble when she came to Shandong, what surprised her was that Zhao Yan didn't take her first night when she got married. When she plucked up the courage to ask, Zhao Yan smiled and touched her head and said, "You are still young." ”

Gradually, she found that life in Zhaojiabao was very rich and varied.

Zhao Yan would often take them for walks, horseback riding, performances at the opera house, and hunting in the woods.

The enjoyment in Zhaojiapu is not comparable to that in the Forbidden City, the fruits of Zhaojiabao are constantly used all year round, many of them are fruits shipped back from overseas, and a large number of spices and various novel foods that she has never seen are also brought back from overseas.

Although the residence is not grandiose, it is designed to be bright and spacious, and there are electric lights in the rooms, as if you will never have to face the darkness. Although there are few people to serve them, life is very comfortable.

Gradually made Zhu Yujiao like the life of Zhaojiabao, which is full of vitality, without so much intrigue, as if she can live a carefree life forever.

Regarding Zhao Yan's personality, Zhu Yujiao gradually understood that he was indeed a monarch who loved the people like a son, but he treated foreign races like villains, of course, she didn't care about the lives of foreign races. His words and deeds carry an irresistible personal charm, and his miraculous rise has given him a legendary color. For the youngest founding emperor in history, the warlord who ended the rule of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yujiao blushed from time to time, and she did not have any hatred for Zhao Yan.

Even if the dynasty has changed, her father is still living well, that is, he is not imprisoned, he has also been expelled from the Forbidden City, and he still retains a guard of hundreds of people.

The only situation that is not very good is that his father has the same salary as Zhao Yan, only 5,000 silver dollars a month, which is not enough for the thousands of eunuchs and maids in the palace. However, as an outdated emperor, so many eunuchs and palace maids are useless, and most of them have been dismissed.

The military camp and the military academy are also places that Zhao Yan often goes, the military academy and the combat experimental battalion are very close, the combat experimental battalion represents the most innovative operational attempt of the empire, and the Denglai Military Academy is the highest military school in the empire, and the students of the military academy are also exposed to the latest operational ideas of the combat experimental battalion when they are educated in the current combat mode.

The reform of the military system has also continued, and the production capacity of the Imperial Weapons Bureau has been greatly expanded, and the army and navy can be replaced with new equipment within this year.

This year, the empire plans to recruit another 300,000 conscripts into the army, and set up fifteen first-class production corps, which are considered second-line troops, and these production corps will be distributed to various places for production, but they are required to be closer to the mainland.

The number of Reading Camps in the Empire will increase to 500, for a total of 300,000 people.

In addition, after the military restructuring, it will be organized into 4 Category A Infantry Divisions, 5 Category B Infantry Divisions, 2 Category A Cavalry Divisions, and 4 Category B Cavalry Divisions.

For the military fortification of the empire, Zhao Yan used the method of sending reading battalions to defend, and the local government was responsible for one or three reading regiments (similar to the prefecture-level city level in later generations). Denglai, on the other hand, arranged a Praetorian Guard, which commanded a Class A infantry division, a Class A cavalry division, and a Class A artillery division.

The mainland was basically arranged in this way, with the Reading Battalion being responsible for the garrison, the Praetorian Guard guarding Denglai Yanjing, and the fifteen Class A production corps distributed in the provinces of the empire's homeland.

In the overseas colonies, the model of reading battalions and reading groups was used to expand, and the first and second divisions were sent to the battlefield when the scale of the war reached a certain level.

The army strength of the empire is 15 A and B infantry divisions, 15 A production corps, a total of 530,000 people, and 500 reading battalions (combined can be organized into reading force regiments), with a strength of 300,000 and 300,000 logistics troops. That's 1.13 million in total.

In terms of the navy, the empire's plan for maritime supremacy will be expanded to 150,000 within three years, and the navy will establish 100 marine battalions with 61,000 men, for a total of 160,000 people.

The navy was redivided into four local coastal fleets: the North Sea Fleet, the Bohai Sea Fleet, the East China Sea Fleet, and the South China Sea Fleet. At the same time, the First Fleet was renamed the Royal Fleet and was stationed in the Bohai Bay, ready to attack at any time.

Outside the mainland, there are three fleets, one for the Pacific Fleet, one for the American Fleet, and one for the Indian Ocean Fleet.

The Pacific Ocean is the back garden of the empire, and the Pacific Fleet is dominated by frigates, whose mission is to escort and clear pirates, and the royal fleet is operational.

The main force of the American Fleet will be moved to the Caribbean Sea on the east coast of the Americas, with Port Dios as a base and expanding to the Atlantic, while the Pacific Fleet will be responsible for clearing pirates and protecting merchant ships on the west coast.

The Indian Ocean Fleet, holding the Cape of Good Hope, expanded with the American Fleet from the east and west to the Atlantic.

In general, the main fleet is the Royal Fleet, the American Fleet, and the Indian Ocean Fleet, the four mainland fleets and the Yangtze River Fleet are offshore and river patrol fleets, and the Pacific Fleet is the ocean-going escort fleet.

Zhao Yan was the emperor of the empire, and served as the minister of the imperial [***] department and the commander-in-chief of the army and navy.

After the disintegration of the Ming Dynasty, the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty were not purged, but Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other thieves were arrested by Zhao Yan.

After the trial of the emperor's [***] court, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were sentenced to three years in prison, and the other thieves were sentenced to lighter punishments and some heavier punishments than Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, mainly depending on whether their behavior was bad when they were thieves.

However, there was another arrested, but it was the military attache of the Ming Dynasty - Zuo Liangyu.

Zuo Liangyu's atrocities can be said to have reached the point where heaven and earth cannot tolerate it, and the highest military court of the empire sentenced Zuo Liangyu to death and confiscated his family property after nearly seven days of trial.

Most of the other civil and military officials of the Ming court did not ask about it, and Zhao Yan only sent an invitation letter to Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting, inviting them to serve as advisers to the emperor [***], with a monthly salary of 1,000 taels.

After receiving the invitation, the two readily agreed, the Ming Dynasty had ended, and the two royalist backbones had no thoughts about the Ming Dynasty.

In their opinion, the reason why the Ming Dynasty ended was because Chongzhen himself couldn't see the situation clearly, and if he could compromise a little, he would not have made trouble to this point.

Judging from Zhao Yan's behavior after ascending the throne, Zhao Yan's own constitutional idea is not to sell sheep's head and hang dog meat.

Qin Liangyu, a very dazzling female general in the Ming Dynasty, was appointed as a lieutenant general of the empire by Zhao Yan, and at the same time was named 'Marquis of Women'.

If there is anyone in the toast in Sichuan who is not finished, it is Qin Liangyu. The other toasts in Sichuan have all been reclaimed and returned, and only Qin Liangyu has not yet solved it.

After Qin Liangyu received the holy decree, he took the initiative to hand over the Tusi Great Seal, and took his son Ma Xianglin to lead 5,000 white pole soldiers out of Sichuan to accept the reorganization.

At the beginning of February, Qin Liangyu arrived at Zhaojiabao, and Zhao Yan immediately set up a banquet to entertain him. and officially canonized her as the 'Marquis of Women' on the Imperial Plaza.

Qin Liangyu can be said to be one of the highest titles canonized since the establishment of the empire, and only Zhao Quan's 'Marquis Wenzhong' can be compared to it.

For a marquis who is not the founder of the empire, the empire does not have any opinions, after all, Qin Liangyu is a female general, and she has performed prominently in the fight against Jianyu.

Qin Liangyu can be said to be the most warlike female general since ancient times, and the ancient Mulan was just a small soldier. At this time, the empire advocated equality between men and women, and there were high standards of rewards for those women who had made outstanding contributions.

His son Ma Xianglin was also named an imperial major and sent to the Denglai Military Academy for further study. His son Ma Xianglin, once after the Battle of Shanhaiguan when the Jin Army was hit by an arrow, especially the arrow chased the thief, the enemy retreated, and was known as 'Little Ma Chao' in the army, is an out-and-out brave general.

When Zhao Yan had a long private conversation with Qin Liangyu for another hour, he appointed Qin Liangyu as the chairman of the Women's Federation.

As for Qin Liangyu's 5,000 white-pole soldiers, they were incorporated into the empire's 'First Mountain Regiment', to say that the empire's mountain troops were originally trained by learning from white-pole soldiers.

It's just that now the weapons have changed, and the Empire's mountain regiments have become very different from the white pole soldiers, but they still inherit some combat skills.

Therefore, Zhao Yan gave the white pole soldiers the name of the 'First Mountain Regiment', but after the incorporation, it was not led by Qin Liangyu, nor by Ma Xianglin, Ma Xianglin will be transferred to other troops, Qin Liangyu is a little old after all, and he is not suitable for fighting on the battlefield again, so he was appointed by Zhao Yan as the chairman of the Women's Federation.

By February, Congress had passed three bills in a row.

One is the Slavery Act, the other is the Women's Protection Act, and the other is the Imperial Security Regulations.

The Slavery Act stipulates that private individuals may not enslave or imprison citizens of the Empire in any form, and the Empire does not recognize any form of deed.

The Law on the Protection of Women prohibits the mutilation of women in any situation, including foot binding and the sale of personal liberty, and establishes that women have the same rights as men.

The Imperial Public Security Regulations stipulate that private individuals are not allowed to keep private soldiers, let alone possess weapons, and those who possess more than five hot weapons, such as rifles, are subject to criminal liability. Only those who have obtained a licence to carry a firearm can carry a firearm.

The provinces of the empire were full of slavery, and any large family was dozens of domestic slaves, many of whom had no personal freedom. Among them, the status of the caretaker is higher, but these caretakers are also the thugs of those people, and they are the dependents of the township.

(To be continued)