In August, under the chairmanship of Chen Zeyu, the Seris House finally passed the "Manchu Liquidation Bill of the Seris Republic" submitted by Zhang Kangren of the Ministry of the Interior against the former Qing nobles.

Since Seris conquered Beijing last year and later liberated the whole country, troops from all regions have escorted local Manchurian nobles to newly built concentration camps on the outskirts of Beijing. By the end of last year, the number of people in several concentration camps had reached 700,000 after excluding the old and the weak, and Cao Jiaxiang, vice minister of the Ministry of Security, who had taken over this affairs, naturally would not support them in vain, and under the criterion of "no work, no food," these former "emperors" had to join in the construction of Beijing's new urban area. Of course, there will never be a shortage of whips and bullets in the process, but no one will sympathize with them anymore.

At the same time, the disposal of the large wealth left by these people, especially the Manchu imperial family in the inner city of Beijing, became a problem, and Seris passed the "Personal Property Law" very early, so naturally he could not deprive others of their property for no reason, even the Manchus. In this case, the introduction of the Manchu Liquidation Act of the Republic of Seris became logical.

According to the bill, all the Manchu nobility who have been exposed to complaints from local civilians for more than a year will be the first priority of the Government of the Republic.

Including all the Manchu royal families, these people will no longer enjoy the slightest aristocratic treatment of the past, they will have food, but they must rely on their own labor to obtain it. Of course, a group of these more sensitive identities are destined to live in "special areas" for the rest of their lives. With the exception of the "limited" amount of land and money reserved for each individual, anything beyond this will be nationalized by the government of the Republic. Under the investigation of the special department of the republic, the property of the Qing family, including the emperor, the queen mother, the prince, the Mancheng nobles in various regions, and the great eunuch Li Lianying and others in the palace were all "excavated" one by one. The collected figures, even today's Chen Zeyu couldn't help but feel smacked, in addition to the more than four million taels of gold collected and countless precious cultural relics and treasures of immeasurable value. The total amount of silver alone has reached 900 million taels, in addition to a large number of deposits in banks in various countries, and the total savings are about 40 million pounds.

Chen Zeyu knew that the amount of private silver in the late Qing Dynasty was about 2 billion taels, and this figure had almost reached half of the amount of silver in private collections. In addition, the more than 8 million taels of gold is more than 400 tons, and the wealth represented is also not to be underestimated, almost equivalent to 1/9 of the gold reserves of the Central Bank of the British Empire. Excluding the invaluable treasures and antiques, the total amount of silver, gold and bank deposits confiscated amounted to an astronomical amount of 3,646.27 million Chinese dollars. This is equivalent to 10.7 times the national government revenue and 53.3 times the military budget last year.

The central government of Seris suddenly received such a huge amount of money that it did not know how to use it for a while. Including Chen Zeyu himself, he didn't expect it to be such a huge amount of wealth, he originally thought that it would be good to have a few hundred million Chinese dollars, but he didn't expect that in the end, this number would exceed 3.6 billion in the continuous statistical surge. You must know that the national fiscal and tax revenue of Seris was only more than 300 million yuan, and now when I think of the wealth of more than 3.6 billion Chinese yuan rolling in, both Chen Zeyu and the high-level government officials suddenly feel extremely "dizzy".

With this huge amount of money in hand, Seris will be able to use it for the construction of railways, the development of shipping, shipbuilding and machinery manufacturing in the future, and the national strength of the republic will begin to develop by leaps and bounds.

"No wonder the former Qing Dynasty always lost battles, and the entire Manchu aristocracy was holding such a large amount of wealth in their hands, how many Beiyang fleets could they run, and how many Dingyuan ships could they buy."

Chen Zeyu looked at the clearance list sent by the Ministry of Security in his hand, and couldn't help but shake his head speechlessly. This is only a quantifiable part of the money, and the wealth seized by the government also includes a large number of jewelry and cultural relics, as well as mountains and forests, the latter of which is the real bulk in terms of value.

Although he himself did not advocate hatred and slaughter of the Qing Manchus, he could not bear the "competitive action" of his subordinates, and Chen Zeyu knew that every fortune on this list would mean the blood and bitter tears of countless Manchus. But Chen Zeyu understood that his government had to deprive all the Manchu nobles of their wealth, as if it were the heinous crimes committed against these people. Besides, for hundreds of years, the banner system of the Manchu Qing Dynasty has already raised these people into moths one by one, and these groups that do not produce and rely on sucking the blood of the Chinese to survive have to rely on some iron-blooded means to transform them.

As for such a large amount of wealth confiscated, Chen Zeyu had already thought of a use for them.

Except for a small part of it for the national compulsory education plan for the next 20 years, most of the rest was once again cut into three parts by Chen Zeyu. A part of about 600 million Chinese dollars will be given by Chen Zeyu to the Ministry of National Defense for the supplementary budget for the development of the navy and army in the next ten years, and one-third of the cost will be used to fund the construction of railways and other infrastructure throughout the country, and then the remaining largest part, about 1.56 billion Chinese yuan, which is equivalent to one-half of the wealth obtained from this "clean-up", will be distributed by Chen Zeyu to all the more than 650,000 officers and soldiers of the navy and army of the Republic in the name of national defense allowance.

Don't underestimate the amount of money allocated to the army, according to the government's calculations, the average reward distributed to each Navy and Army soldier will reach 2,400 Chinese dollars, equivalent to 240 pounds, which is already enough to buy two Centrino cars or hundreds of acres of land in Seris today, which is converted into more than 1,700 grams of gold, which is enough to make people blush.

In principle, the distribution of this fund will be completely based on the combat exploits of the officers and men of various units in the previous battles, and the brave and the cowardly are poor; according to the statistics of the Ministry of National Defense, a considerable number of the first will become the real elite and rich class of Seris after this "national defense allowance activity."

In addition to the financial incentives, all soldiers will receive an additional piece of land of about 20 hectares per capita. These lands also came from the collection of the former Qing Emperor's Village and the Qiren aristocracy by the Seris government, and the total amount also reached an astonishing 520 million mu, which has reached more than one-third of the country's arable land at the end of the Qing Dynasty. Originally, the civil affairs department of the republic did not agree to the distribution of the confiscated cultivated land in this way, but Chen Zeyu's strong interference finally passed the decision.

Chen Zeyu has made up his mind to create a group of Junker aristocracy in the East. One-third of the cultivated land of the former Qing State was allocated to the Seris military class, which accounted for less than 0.18% of the population, and for this decision, the Republic took out 13 million hectares of "special land for military personnel"! In Chen Zeyu's heart, in the future, these military families all over the country will become the backbone of Seris, and they will also be the most loyal to him. In the future, if someone wants to pry his position in the country, the existence of this large number of Oriental Junkers alone will have to be carefully weighed by him.

In addition to the land given to the soldiers, the remaining 325 million mu of arable land confiscated by the government was turned into mechanized state-owned farms by Chen Zeyu. In terms of operation, it will completely refer to the production and construction corps that has begun in Northeast China and Xinjiang today, and the business model of complete industrialization.

Soon after, the Seris government formed the Seris Grain Group Company, which was affiliated with the state. In addition to producing its own grain, the Seris Grain Group will also participate in the purchase and sale of grain in various parts of the Republic in the future, and become a weight for the government to balance the supply and price of grain.

After the passage of the liquidation bill in August, the Ceris government began to organize the relocation of Luzon's military dependents to the mainland in accordance with the plan.

Although this group of immigrants with a total number of nearly 4 million people has tested the domestic shipping companies for a while, the effect is still immediate. In addition to helping the officers and men of the armed forces in the north to settle down in their new homes as soon as possible, on the other hand, there are many high-quality technical personnel among the families of these large numbers of military personnel, and this will be a good deal for all kinds of industrial construction on the mainland in the future.

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In October 1896, when the Ceris government in Asia was organizing the relocation of Luzon families by various shipping companies in Asia and was busy measuring land in the country, Japan, a neighboring country just across the sea from them, fell into turmoil again......

With the acquiescence of the British, after nearly a year of naval blockade by the Russian Far East Fleet, Japanese rule in Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu gradually collapsed.

In fact, Japan was not able to produce enough food in Japan, but it was sufficient for itself. Although Japan's population has grown rapidly over the past half century, from the early 30 million in the early shogunate era to more than 40 million today, the introduction of high-yield crops such as corn and potatoes from Latin America has not been as great as the outside world thinks. Even after the Japanese government stepped up its agricultural development in Hokkaido in recent years, for a period of time, Japanese grain merchants exported several batches of rice to the Qing Dynasty.

In recent years, the Japanese government has transferred millions of young and middle-aged people from Honshu, Shikoku and other places to participate in the development of Ezo farming, which has greatly changed the structure of grain production in various regions of Japan. After Russia occupied Hokkaido, which belonged to Japan last year, the plight of food shortage in the country immediately weighed on the backs of all Japanese people.

In addition, the Japanese army had lost a large number of troops in the Korean battlefield one after another, and the Japanese government had transferred a large number of peasants from various places to make up for the loss of military personnel in order to prepare for the war with the Russians.

In this way, the Japanese suffered on the island of Honshu for more than half a year, and instead of waiting for the expected Western aid, they dragged themselves down first. Since the beginning of autumn, hundreds of food riots have erupted in various parts of Japan, especially in cities lacking arable land, such as the Kanto region.

It was in this situation that the Russians finally showed their claws again.

On October 3, 1896, two divisions of the Russian Far East Army suddenly landed in Akita on the western coast of Honshu and routed the Japanese Kumamoto Division that came to snipe on the same day. By October 5, the Russian army, having gained a foothold, again transported three divisions of troops ashore from the rear one after another.

On October 9, Russian troops began their march towards the southern part of Honshu. On October 15, the Russian army conquered Yanshou County. On October 27, after a fierce battle, the Russian army annihilated the Japanese Yokohama Division from the south, and with the cooperation of the Far East Fleet, captured Sendai, a port on the eastern coast of Japan.

In less than a month, the Russian Far East Army swept through Honshu, the main island of Japan, from west to east, plunging the entire Japanese government and the opposition into a state of terror!

At the end of October, just as the Russians began to turn around and "clean up" the northern part of Honshu, the North Korean people suddenly "made a fuss" again.

On October 31, the Korean Southern Army (formerly the Donghak Party People's Army) suddenly seized Japan's Tsushima Islands in the waters of the Korean Strait under the cover of two warships, "Kangji" and "Chaoyong"!