In the fourteenth year of the Apocalypse, spring ended.

The cabinet announced that the Huguang and Huaihe river basins would be included in the reform.

This news directly had an explosive effect. A major earthquake was triggered in the officialdom of the Huguang and Huaihe regions. What should come is still here.

The imperial court had just won the Mongol War, driving the Mongol Khan Lin Dan Khan out of the Mongolian steppe, and the Son of Heaven had reformed the Huguang and Huai River valleys with his might, which suddenly frightened a group of forces that were about to move.

Especially when the imperial court announced the news, the army had already been transported by train to the Huguang and Huai River valleys. Among them, an infantry division was sent to Fengyang. There is the ancestral tomb of the Ming Dynasty there, and it must not be messed up there.

The railway has been built to the Huguang and Huaihe river basins, and it can be crossed. However, the railway has not crossed the Yangtze River, and the Yangtze River Bridge has not yet been built.

The field army withdrawn from Mongolia was directly thrown into the Huguang and Huaihe regions, that is, the northern areas of the Yangtze River in Anhui and Jiangsu.

To the south of the Yangtze River, only Huguang has been fully included in the reform. That is, Hubei and Hunan will be included in the scope of reform this time.

As soon as the army passed, so did the officials.

The reform began with the administrative reform, and unlike the previous reforms in other provinces, this time the Ministry of Reform and the Metropolitan Procuratorate directly began to investigate corruption.

At this time, not everyone in the Han Emperor Party could enter.

A major earthquake in the officialdom was directly generated in the Huguang and Huaihe areas. A large number of corrupt officials were uncovered, thrown into prison, and their family property was confiscated by the imperial court.

Obviously, this reform is a disaster for officials in the Huguang and Huaihe River valleys. Now he is an official. Which ass is clean?

Even those with clean butts. He is also an official with money in his family. Basically, they are all business families. Officials from these business families also have to get out of the way after the reform.

However, the imperial court is not clean and killed, and the imperial court still retains those officials who have good understanding, are willing to cooperate with the reform of the imperial court, and are not so greedy. After all, it is impossible to replace all the officials there in a reform, and there is still something left to ensure order.

Therefore, the imperial court generally sent officials over. While investigating corruption, we also recruited officials.

The administrative reform was carried out very smoothly under the control of the army. No official can resist, and they have no military power in their hands, and they dare not rebel blatantly, so they can only be pinched like mud by the imperial court, and they can pinch it as much as they want.

If it is not pleasing to the eye, get out, and leave it if it is pleasing to the eye.

Those who were found to be corrupt and sent to prison were basically fat pigs. is greedy enough for fat, so it is naturally a good deal. It can not only make people happy, but also supplement the national finances.

There was a flurry of chickens and dogs. The people applauded.

The officials sent by the imperial court arrived in the Huguang and Huaihe regions, which soon changed the style of local administration, and the government became more efficient and more incorruptible, but it also took care of more things. There has also been an increase in the number of officials and the number of armed forces available to the local government.

All kinds of new departments, such as local taxation and national taxation, as well as local departments such as education, water conservancy, civil affairs, forestry, agriculture, industry and commerce, and transportation, have been established one after another.

The Ming Dynasty was able to maintain the country from collapse with ultra-low fiscal revenues, mainly relying on ultra-low administrative costs.

However, now the imperial court no longer engages in that model, but adopts a more sophisticated administrative model, and no longer allows local forces to exercise a high degree of autonomy.

The imperial court even extended its hand to the township level, and township government departments were established in these reform areas.

The armed forces that can be drawn by the local government are the police force and the armed police force, and the garrison can also be called for support. In this reform, there is even more support from the field army of the Central Military Region.

The imperial court directly dispatched a large number of officials and civil servants to the reform areas, and at the same time, a large number of police and armed police were sent to the localities, and at the same time, local arrests were recruited.

After these forces arrived in the localities, the first thing they did was to suppress bandits and sweep away organized crime, so as to ensure the safety of commerce and people's exchanges, as well as local stability.

The reform went smoothly at the beginning, and there was no resistance to the reform of officialdom. So the tax reform began, and the problem was directly exposed.

Those township landlords began to violently resist the law. Moreover, there is violent resistance to the law everywhere, and it is simply urgent everywhere.

At the time of the tax reform, the commercial tax was implemented, but the gentry who paid taxes in one place were very uncooperative.

The reform of the imperial court and the formation of township governments are to seize power from them!

These squires, who were landlords, were even more reluctant to accept the new agricultural tax policy of the imperial court, and they did not understand or want to engage in any agricultural company.

All they knew was that the imperial court had to collect taxes. And the more land, the higher the agricultural tax. This is the rhythm of trying to bring them to death, and these landlords control a large number of people through the land. At the same time, there are forts in the countryside, and there are even a lot of weapons, and sometimes even cameos as bandits.

The court officials came down to measure the land and ran away with sticks.

Moreover, the Huguang area is relatively deep, the terrain in many places is complicated, and the production of commercial grain is the mainstay, and the landlords are far away from the emperor one by one, and they do not buy the reform of the imperial court at all. The imperial court's agricultural reform policy in the north was a little unsuitable for a while.

Soon, the Huguang area was like an emergency in the imperial court.

"Your Majesty, the biggest source of resistance to Huguang's reform is those landlords, and those landlords have a large population in their hands. But these populations are also what our court is now going to release from the land. The contradictions between the two sides are irreconcilable, so the only way is to fight. Jiang Dejing suggested to Zhu Youxiao.

"But in that case, it is estimated that Huguang will be in chaos for a while." Shen said, "Maybe there's a softer way." ”

Zhu Youxiao is also thinking about this issue, as Jiang Dejing said. The commercial power in the Huguang area is not very strong, but the power of the landlord class is very large, and the resistance to reform mainly comes from these landlord class.

The landlord class controlled a large number of people, and now that the imperial court needed to release these people from the land in large numbers, the contradiction was somewhat irreconcilable.

After these populations are released, who will produce the land? The land is mainly taxed when the land is wasted, so they only have one way to go, but when there is so much money in the market, it is worthless to sell the land in large quantities.

In fact, this reform itself was aimed at the interests of the landlord class. In the process of reform in the northern provinces, because those landlords could not confront the imperial court, the reform was carried out smoothly.

And now in Huguang, if those landlords rebel against the imperial court, once they use force, they are likely to be on fire everywhere.

"Then win over a group, isolate a group, and suppress a group." Zhu Youxiao decided, "Let the state-owned enterprises come forward to win over a group of landlords to set up a joint venture agricultural company, the state-owned enterprises will provide technology and capital, and the landlords will provide the land." If you put another batch, don't worry about it for now, and you'll be beating out a batch of the ones that are the happiest. (To be continued.) )