In a blink of an eye, at the beginning of the sixth year of Yuankang (296 AD), the time of five years passed in the blink of an eye, and the prince Sima Shu also grew from a handsome and upright young man. In the past five years, Sima Shu has never left Xincheng, every day he finishes official business in Xincheng, and then returns to Huangzhuang to rest, and his fitness has never stopped.

Sima Shu knew very well that in order to implement the new policy in Xincheng, he had offended the Jin Dynasty's clans, and in order not to cause a stronger backlash from the other party, he did not spread a little influence around.

For five years, Sima Shu has been hiding in Xincheng Taoguang to raise his mind, and the family family did not launch more fierce revenge against the prince when they saw the prince staying in Xincheng so 'peacefully'.

However, the rift between the crown prince and the family could not be healed in any way, and unless one side bowed to the other side and conceded defeat, there was no possibility of cooperation between the two sides.

In the past five years, the power of the Hou Party in the court has risen greatly, especially after receiving the support of more families, Jia Hou has completely controlled the situation in the entire Luoyang.

Although the prince behaved politely in Xincheng, Empress Jia had been thinking about how to abolish Sima Shu, so she had discussed countermeasures with those families who had taken refuge over the years. In the middle, she also asked her subordinates to poison Sima Shu, but every time Sima Shu was alertly dodged.

Moreover, in order to prevent Sima Shu from forming a party in the court, Empress Jia has not allowed Sima Shu to return to Beijing in the past five years, and even the prince's marriage has been delayed again and again. For five years, Sima Shu has been accumulating strength in the new city, waiting for an opportune time to return to Kyoto.

As Sima Shu got older and his abilities became more and more outstanding, Empress Jia's desire to depose the crown prince became stronger. When the situation in Guanzhong was a little unstable, Empress Jia couldn't wait to summon Sima Lun, the king of Zhao, to Beijing, in the name of asking about Guanzhong, which was actually the final preparation for the abolition of the prince - to win over the princes and kings.

In the past five years, Sima Shu has not been idle, and he has devoted himself to implementing the new policy in Xincheng. Since the implementation of the new policy, the registered population of Xincheng has increased from less than 100,000 to more than 250,000. These increased populations are the local populations that have fallen into the hands of wealthy families such as the Wang family and the Li family.

Of course, this population is not worth mentioning compared to those large counties with a population of millions at every turn, not to mention the large counties of the Central Plains, even Liu Yuan, the leader of the Xiongnu in the state, has more population than he controls. At this time, the Xiongnu in the northern part of Bingzhou had recuperated for many years, and the population had reached one million, and the army composed of the men who controlled the strings was hundreds of thousands.

The total number of people controlled by Sima Shu himself could not be compared to them in any way. Although Henan Yin is a large county, the family power here is very strong, and Sima Shu has no chance to expand at all. And in order not to irritate those big families, he has been careful to control his own expansion**, and over the years, Sima Shu has only controlled the impact of the New Deal in Xincheng.

Since there was no more population, Sima Shu could only find a way to maximize the energy of the limited population, and after finding out the details of his family, he immediately implemented the equalization system in Xincheng County.

According to the provisions of Sima Shu's new policy outline, the common people are born yellow, 4 to 15 years old are young, men are 16 to 20 years old, 21 to 59 years old are Ding, and 60 years old and above are old. Every year, one accounting, two years, and three years.

Middle-aged men and Ding men over the age of 18 are each given 80 acres of grain fields and 20 acres of miscellaneous fields. The grain field is used to grow rice and wheat grains, and the miscellaneous field is used to grow cotton and linen. Grain fields and miscellaneous fields are divided into upper, middle, middle, middle and lower according to the soil fertility and barrenness, and the annual harvest is divided into five levels: abundance, abundance, peace, apology, and disaster. Land is granted once at the age of sixteen and is allowed to be bought and sold.

The tax is based on the field, and the large harvest levy, the abundance levy is 90%, the flat levy is 80%, and the poor levy is 50%, and the tax is exempted in disaster years, and then a certain amount of grain is paid per 10 mu of grain field every year according to the land grade; Miscellaneous fields per ten acres of silk (or silk, silk) a number, a number of cotton.

Then the city is easy to tariff system, the whole county unified tariff, according to different commodities in the transaction at one time to levy different transaction tax, the rest of the time can be free to pass in the new city, no need to pay taxes. Salt, iron, and copper are bought and sold by the government.

Set up a craftsman field, according to the smelting field, casting field, forging field, machinery field, carpentry field, etc., according to the specialty of the craftsman in each field, according to the skill of the craftsman has one to ten grades, according to the grade of the monthly salary of grain and silk, and then count the number of workpieces processed and produced every month and then receive allowance. There are also generous bonuses to reward craftsmen who have invented, innovated and made outstanding achievements.

In terms of the official system, Sima Shu will be divided into three levels under his rule: the prince's mansion, the county, and the township, and set up three levels of administrative officials, such as the chief historian, the county order, and the township head, who are in charge of local governance, and the main work is to persuade the peasants to help the poor, to fight for the elimination of the poor, to build roads and canals, and to establish education.

The commanders and county lieutenants were appointed to control the military officials at the prince's palace and county levels, to control the regular training and management of the local militia, to assist in Jingcheng's local law and order, and to assist in recruiting local garrison troops from the militia.

There are 12 inspectors of criminal cases, who are in charge of judging matters in accordance with the law, upholding discipline, and clarifying the rule of officials, and their main work is to investigate criminal names, accept lawsuits and adjudicate cases, supervise and patrol judicial work.

However, the officials did not grant other fields, but only paid monthly grain and silk according to their grades.

In terms of education, it is necessary to set up government schools, county schools, and township schools, so that all six-year-old children in ordinary families can enter township schools free of charge, county schools at the age of 12, government schools at the age of 16, and college schools at the age of 18. According to Sima Shu's assumption, only those who have come out of high school can enter civil official positions and start to become officials.

Sima Shu reorganized the non-commissioned officer battalion into a military preparation school in Xincheng, recruiting those who have completed rural studies or the children of military meritorious persons or orphans who died in the army, and those who passed the sixteenth year either joined the army as a trainee non-commissioned officer, or were admitted to the military preparation school converted from a training camp, and after four years of study, they joined the army as an officer.

However, before that, Sima Shu first carried out military reform, because he knew that the army was the basis of all his power, so the military reform began when the new policy was still being brewed.

The most important thing in the military reform is to take the three rates of the East Palace as the basis, with the non-commissioned officers and officers from the non-commissioned officer battalion and the training battalion as the backbone, and mix together a total of 15,000 young and strong people of the original East Palace Guards, Zu, Sima, and Xu, first train for a period of time, and then select the best ones to form an army, and select 6,000 of its elite to be organized into the left and right guard battalions, thinking that the prince is pro-army.

The structure of the army has also been adjusted, and it is still based on 10 people as a team, 3 as a team, 3 teams plus flag-bearers and trumpeters as more than 100 people as a tun, more than 300 people in Santun as a battalion, 3 battalions and more than 1,000 people as a flag guard, etc. as a car, three capitals plus a team of Mo swordsmen, etc. as a box, and 6,000 people on the left and right sides as an army. The chief officers at all levels are in order, such as the chief, the team chief, the tun commander, the battalion commander, the captain, the school lieutenant and the lieutenant general. As a rule, each team began to set up a secretary to be in charge of military law, military merit records, and morale and morale.

In this way, there are still more than 3,000 people, all of whom have been sent to the local garrison to serve as reserves.

The establishment of local garrison troops, Sima Shu basically did it in accordance with the military system of the Tang Dynasty. Temporarily set up three Zhichong Mansions, and put three Zhichong captains under the command. Each prefecture has 1,000 soldiers selected from the militia from all over the country, and the establishment is the same as that of the regular army. Like the Xiang Army, the Zhichong Mansion is directly under the jurisdiction of the Prince's Mansion, and the local government has no right to dispatch.

Then, Sima Shu appointed Zu Ti as the commander of the First Army, stationed in Xincheng, and Sima Ya and Xu Chao respectively served as the commanders of Sima Shu's personal guard battalion and stationed in the Huangzhuang military camp.

After the implementation of the government and militia system in the localities, young and strong people in all localities had to participate in militia training for a period of time and bring their own weapons every year during the agricultural slack period. And the best in the militia were selected according to the proportion and became government soldiers. The Ochichong Prefecture was generally stationed near the county town, and generally served for five years, during which there was no monthly salary, and he prepared his own weapons, and was supplied with regular food by the imperial court, but his family was exempt from all taxes during his service. After retiring from the government soldiers, they still participate in the annual militia, but once there is a war, the government is ordered to recruit them, and they must rejoin the government soldiers.

The core of Sima Shu's military reform was to allow himself to firmly grasp the military power of the regular army and the local army, so as to lay a good foundation for the "new deal system" to follow. Therefore, after Sima Shu tightened his grip on the barrel of the gun, he immediately began to implement the New Deal reforms that had been planned in detail.

The time soon came to August of the third year of Yuankang, and Sima Shu was unprecedentedly busy in these months. In the first two months, while formulating the "New Deal" system, he also trained the reorganized New Army. After the outline of the New Deal reform came out, he discussed with his confidants Du Xi, Jiang Tong and others for more than a dozen days, revised and revised the details, and then began to implement it in Xincheng County.

Any new policy will be met with resistance and opposition, which is expected by Sima Shu and others. This resistance, as they expected, came mainly from various families.

In Sima Shu's "New Deal", the most concerned and opposed should be the Juntian tax system, and the biggest opponents were the wealthy families who owned a lot of land. They don't want to see that the people have a share of the land, and they don't want taxes to be levied according to the number of acres of land, so their losses will be too great.

In Xincheng County, there were originally two local wealthy families, Wang and Li, but after Sima Shu's rectification, there were no big wealthy families here at all, and even the few small ones left were also surrounded by Sima Shu's lineage forces, and they were weak and could not make any big waves.

For the remaining small ones, Sima Shu did not forcibly expropriate their land, and for the few hundreds, and more than thousands of private subordinates and slaves in their hands, the redemption system was adopted. Those who became servants of the wealthy clan could ask themselves to go to the official government, and the government would pay for them to buy them out of the hands of the wealthy families, and then move to other lands to grant them land to cultivate, and after paying the "ransom money" in addition to the taxes for several years, they would be the same as ordinary people.

As for the wealthy families outside the new city, Sima Shu didn't pay attention to the other party at all, and the surrounding wealthy families couldn't find an excuse to obstruct the implementation of the new policy, so they secretly made small moves. So the wealthy family encouraged the local people to make a big move in the local area and obstruct the implementation of the new policy, and at the same time sent people to Luoyang to carry out activities and write to the imperial court, accusing the prince of disorderly government in the new city.

But at this time, Empress Jia has not fully grasped the power of the court, and she needs the prince to involve the attention of the family outside, how can she help those family members who are not with her at this time?

Therefore, the wealthy family was active in Luoyang for a long time, and the property was spent like flowing water, but the court did not even reprimand the prince.

Although some celebrities were dissatisfied with some of the measures in Sima Shu's new policy, the prince was notoriously perverse, and he didn't still sell wine in the East Palace back then? In addition, Sima Shu completely ignored some discussions from the government and the opposition, so that those celebrities could not hurt the New Deal at all except for their addictions.

Some people with ulterior motives or anxious people took the opportunity to force themselves to raise troops to make trouble. However, these troops were all expected by Sima Shu and others, so they all became actual combat training for the new army. The first army of the pro-guard battalion, the government soldiers, and the box army took turns to attack and sweep away the rebellion. Some landlords and wealthy families who obstructed the New Deal were attacked one by one, their family property was confiscated, their families were distributed, and they were hung on wooden poles together with hundreds of cronies and henchmen, which became the negative teaching materials of the wealthy families.

Sima Shu even used this as an excuse to forcibly relocate all the powerful landlords of Xincheng under his subordinate Xincheng and thousands of their families to the county seat of Xincheng, so that they could be governed nearby, leaving only the clansmen and a small number of slaves to continue farming in the old land.

After such a calm, Sima Shu not only let people see his iron-blooded hand to suppress dissidents, but also began to operate the new city like an iron bucket, so that later Empress Jia and the family could not penetrate at all.

The equally far-reaching system of official positions and the system of persuasion and examination have not brought losses to the wealthy families for the time being, nor have they infringed on their interests, so they have not attracted much attention and reaction.

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