At that time, few people ate pork in the eating habits of the people, and the people generally chose chickens, sheep and beef to eat meat, but the output of chickens and sheep was small, and cattle were necessary for agriculture. However, soldiers have to eat meat to replenish their daily physical strength.

At the same time, the output of pork is far larger than that of other livestock, so Baili Wuji forcibly expanded the breeding of pigs by the people after promoting sweet potato planting.

At the same time, in view of the situation that pigs may not be sold, in order not to hurt farmers, it is stipulated that the Black Flag Army in various places will recycle it according to the cost of feeding plus one percent of the profit. This not only ensured the enthusiasm of the people to raise pigs, but also brought meat to the soldiers of the Black Flag Army.

In order to smoothly promote the above reforms, Baili Wuji decided to provide small low-interest loans to the people of Chu with the backing of the Chu treasury after consulting with Xu Shiming and others. All the people of Chu can apply for this kind of loan in the local yamen, and the interest is 10%, which will be repaid at the time of harvest, and the interest and even the principal can be reduced or reduced as appropriate in case of disaster and famine.

In order to prevent the officials of the yamen in various prefectures and counties from being greedy for ink, Baili Wuji set up a tax bureau, which was directly under the jurisdiction of the Chu Wangfu, and added relevant personnel to the yamen of each prefecture and county to collect taxes and distribute and collect this loan.

Since then, the state of Chu has formally formed the separation of military, political and financial powers.

This move made Xu Shiming feel real pain, but he would never have thought that it was precisely because of this that Baili Wuji could truly gain a firm foothold in the Chu State.

Under the deterrence of the strong military power of the Black Flag Army, the state of Chu completed the "Qingguan Movement" in nearly four months.

Riots of more than 1,000 people and as few as a few dozen people took place.

All of them were riots that took place because of the purge movement and tax reform that harmed their own interests.

But under the severe blows of the Black Flag Army, it collapsed.

Baili Wuji did not feel panicked at all when he heard the news, the riot was in his expectation, this mode of redistribution of interests was forcibly promoted, there was no riot to be terrible, there was riot suppression, and these poisonous sores could be completely squeezed out in order to make the Chu State truly develop and become strong in the future. Reform always comes at a price, even if it is in blood.

There is no successful reform in the world that is bloodless.

It can also be said conversely, that the price without blood means that the reform is a failure.

Reform itself is a redistribution of benefits.

How can vested interests not work hard if they want to keep their interests?

If you work hard, you will bleed, and this truth is understood by Baili Wuji.

According to statistics, in the past three months, more than 2,300 officials have been investigated, more than 2,100 have been investigated, and 3,121 have been convicted. Of these, 1,920 were executed, and the rest were imprisoned.

Thirty-seven riots were suppressed. The number of rioters killed amounted to more than 1,700.

Among them, in the process of suppression, the soldiers of the Black Flag Army killed a total of 107 people and wounded more than 300 people.

It really washed the entire upper class of Chu State in blood.

Strangely, in the thirty-seven riots, almost no one took part in the uprising.

Most of those involved in the riots were kept house slaves and farmers.

This made Xu Shiming and the other three governors very puzzled, as long as the initiators of the riot were slightly tempted, some people would blindly obey, but although it was not eradicated this time, the people participated very little.

After the most Lu Baili Wuji explained, it is actually very simple, just one is - profit.

For this reform, the last benefit is the people, rectify the rule of officials, redress the people's grievances, this is originally the dream of the people living in the middle and lower classes, now that the change is about to be realized, do you want to lure the people themselves to oppose it?

Undoubtedly a dream. Don't think that the people are stupid, but in fact the people have their own scales in their hearts.

In fact, the effect is also very obvious, and since then, the decrees of the Chu Wangfu have been unimpeded in the twenty-five states of the Chu State.

But what Baili Wuji didn't expect, or didn't notice, was that the people who rioted were basically fragments. The real old Chu power hidden in the states and counties is slowly accumulating strength, waiting for an outbreak.

In these three months, the life of the people of Chu is getting better day by day, and the people are waiting for the autumn harvest. Perhaps, the effects of a series of reforms can be effectively verified after the autumn harvest.

August 20.

Yang Shi's second warship, the Haiyu warship, was completed.

The Haigu warship is the most widely equipped type of ship in the Tang Dynasty. The main weapons on board were winch crossbows, gun carriages, and slapping rods. However, under the instruction of Baili Wuji, only one in the front and one and two on the left and right were installed on the entire warship, a total of six wheel guns.

On this day, Baili Wuji took Lu Shiyun's master and servant, and his subordinates to board the Haiyu warship and swim on the Yangtze River. Lu Shiyun's master and servant have never taken such a big boat, and whenever a wave comes, she can't help but scream and pull her body. Baili Wuji had no choice but to call Bailiren to take care of Cui'er, and he unceremoniously hugged Lu Shiyun in his arms.

The two little ladies live in the water town, and they actually adapt to the swaying of the boat, and they are not seasick.

At the same time, Baili Wuji also set up targets on the river surface to watch the intensity of the warship's artillery strikes. According to Baili Wuji's thoughts, he was indeed quite dissatisfied, and only two of the ten shells fell within one foot of the target in the firing of the unilateral five-round round gun, and this hit rate was .......

After the exercise, Baili Wuji rewarded Yang Shi and the relevant personnel of the Ship Institute and encouraged him to the fullest.

Baili Wuji said afterwards that Yang Shi did have merit and great merit on this day.

……。

After using the Qingguan movement to sweep away the different voices of the states of Chu.

Xu Shiming had a tacit understanding that the state of Chu was slowly transferred to a state of armament.

The Armory, which had expanded several times, had been renamed the Ordnance Bureau.

A large number of idle people from the surrounding states such as Yue, Yi, and Heng entered the Ordnance Bureau and produced firearms in large quantities.

The official roads from Tanzhou to Dunzhou and Tanzhou to Liuzhou recruited a large number of personnel from various states for widening and leveling.

The original intelligence network was formally established as the Military Intelligence Agency, with Xu Shiming as the commander and Xu Shouren as the administrator.

The fine work has begun to penetrate into the Southern Han Dynasty.

……。 Everything is just waiting for the autumn harvest.

The fifth day of the ninth month.

An unexpected messenger came to Tanzhou. Li Xian, the envoy of Liu Yan of the Southern Han Dynasty.

Liu Yan inherited the foundation of his brother Liu Yin Nanhai King in Lingnan, and was called the emperor in Panyu, called Xing Wangfu, and the country was called Dayue. In the second year, Liu Yan changed his country name to Dahan as a descendant of the Liu family of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Yanqi is a complex of contradictions, a combination of arrogance and inferiority. Due to his distance from the northern regime, Liu Yan did not have a close relationship with the Central Plains regime, saying that the emperor and Zhu Liang had no contact. When Li Tang destroyed Zhu Liang, Liu Yan heard that his army was very strong, and he was worried that it would threaten his position, so he sent people to the Central Plains to find out the truth, and in the letter he called himself "Lord of the Han Dynasty", and respectfully called Li Tang "Emperor of the Tang Dynasty", and said that the Han had sent envoys and was preparing a large number of tributes, which could be delivered in the autumn.