In the sixth year of the new Qin, this was the seventh year of Liu Xian's army, the fifth year of the new Qin's occupation of Jiangnan, and the third year of the new Qin's unification of China. After several years of brewing, the power of industry is like a monster out of the cage, screaming and screaming together with the new Qin government, constantly colliding and biting the crumbling old order.

No matter how stubborn the gentry is, they now know that factories make more money than land, and even more stubborn scholars now understand that Chinese and Western education is the stepping stone to officialdom. A new era is coming.

This new era holds great promise, and although he is still a baby, his birth brings hope and vitality as well as the pains of childbirth.

But no change in the world is without costs. The difference is only in who bears the cost of change!

Since ancient times, China has seen an endless stream of changes, but they have come and gone, often to the detriment of the most vulnerable groups of a dynasty.

Yongzheng's fire consumption is returned to the public, and the paving into the mu and the official gentry are one and the errand is one to pay the grain, right? It was very strict and harmed the interests of the gentry group, so that the fourth master of Liu Xian, the most eye-catching of many emperors of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, had a reputation for a hundred years.

But in reality? The fire was returned to the public, and there was a clean silver, and there was a secret increase; If the land is apportioned to the mu, the problem of 'uneven apportionment' cannot be solved at all, and then there is 'excess levy'; in the end, the officials and gentry will pay the grain in one and the same errand will have a direct effect on the problem of hidden fields. Of course, when Emperor Yongzheng was alive, the implementation of these policies was quite effective. After all, the mean and unkind Emperor Yongzheng is very deterrent. But in the middle and late Qianlong period, the Manchu corruption was out of control, and in the end the gentry pushed their losses on the heads of the common people.

But in the current Daqin. Moved to the borderland, worked part-time, worked. The state's reduction of agricultural taxes has really given the peasants a chance to breathe. It's heavy land anyway. Even if the landlord buys the land in exchange for money to invest in the factory, the land is still a field, and the people still have to plant it.

Of course, it is wishful thinking to rely on China's current industrial power to loosen China's hundreds of millions of peasants. The base is too large, and it is impossible for industry to develop in a few years to promote agriculture.

The reason why the Chinese landlords were better to their tenants was not because the state reduced taxes accordingly, but because rumors of emigration were spreading more and more among the people. Many people know that immigrants are not sent to death.

Boatloads of immigrants were transported to the northeast and the South Seas, and caravans of immigrants traveled overland to Mongolia and the northwest. Another world awaits them. When you are desperate in your hometown, you can still go outside and fight hard.

Compared with this impact, the impact of the labor absorbed by China's modern enterprises is much smaller.

From Guangxi to Guangdong, from southeast to northeast, brand-new factories and industrial parks have appeared in ancient cities. These factories are either close to waterways, seaways, or railways, and convenient transportation is the first element of China's factory layout today.

Unlike many small-scale but long-established family workshops, new factories and industrial parks are lined with chimneys. Black smoke is emitted day and night. Nowadays, factories in China generally work two or even three shifts, and people are constantly resting. As for the cloudiness of the sky, the stars are blurred. The green grass river became dark and worried, but no one cared.

The environment can be polluted by industry, which is also a manifestation of industrial power.

The steam engine raised labor productivity to a height previously unimaginable to Chinese. Coupled with the self-preservation of tariff protection policies. As a result, almost all businessmen who dared to invest their money in the production of light and heavy industries quickly became rich.

On the banks of the Pearl River in Guangzhou and on the Huangpu River in Shanghai. On the banks of the West Lake in Hangzhou, on both sides of the Gu River in Tianjin. One beautiful villa after another has risen from the ground. If you have money, you will enjoy it, whether it is a boss or a senior manager, who will live in a party house when you have a lot of money in your hands?

On the official roads of the southeastern coastal provinces, countless fine four-wheeled carriages come and go all day long.

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At the end of the first month, Liu Xian issued an edict from the palace to the cabinet. The Cabinet was asked to speed up the number of immigrants to the Northwest.

As soon as Fan Debang saw this, his head felt pain.

The northwest is really not good, the land is barren, there is a lack of water, and the climate is still harsh. There are endless reports on immigrants in the newspapers, and anyone with long eyes and ears knows that the life of immigrants in the northwest is very hard. Although the living environment in the northwest is more comfortable than that in the northeast and the south, there is no tension all the time.

But for the common people, the northwest is still the next choice. Compared with the Northeast and South Seas, there are only disadvantages and no benefits.

The people in the south are willing to go to Nanyang and Yunnan-Guizhou, while the people in the north would rather go to Inner Mongolia than go to the northwest. Moreover, Gansu and Shaanxi in the northwest have suffered huge population losses. It is difficult to mobilize people from the local area to migrate to Qinghai and Xinjiang, which are farther and more difficult than Gansu. As a result, the work of immigrants in the Northwest lags behind the same kind in other aspects. Liu Xian got the report from the Bureau of Statistics a few years ago and didn't throw it out immediately, because he also knew that it was not easy.

"Lord Shousuke, national legislation is not child's play, how can there be a reason to change it." Wu Tingfang, the head of the Supreme Court, verbally refused.

Vanderbang is not annoyed either. "Where is this to change the law of the land, is this an amendment? The emperor said that the country should be governed according to law. It is necessary to achieve the 16 words of 'there are laws to follow, laws must be followed, law enforcement must be strict, and violations must be investigated'. ”

"Now that the state has to deal with this situation separately, it is only natural for the Supreme Court to amend some of the relevant provisions of the Criminal Code, or to add a few regulations."

Fan Debang didn't talk to Wu Tingfang too much, and then said directly: "I'll give you a month." After one month, amendments or additions to the relevant provisions of the Criminal Code must be submitted to the Cabinet for consideration. ”

It is also because the advisory board at the national level has not yet been formally established. Although the emperor has ordered the provinces and localities to select them, the appearance of the national advisory bureau will be next year, which is the second cabinet period. Therefore, for the review of draft laws, the cabinet will directly make a conclusion, and it will be OK to submit it to Liu Xian for approval. When the National Advisory Council is established, the right to deliberate will be shared between the Cabinet and the Advisory Bureau.

So, Wu Tingfang walked out of the State Council with a very ugly face.

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As March ticked by, the war in Xinjiang continued. The battle in the Northeast and on Lake Baikal has been thoroughly decided. Liu Siam had already asked the Germans to make a 'peace' with Russia, but St. Petersburg had not yet given a reply.

Henan, Luoyang in March.

In a small playground, a 30-strong man in a police uniform strode over. The police uniform worn by this person is different from that of ordinary police officers, and the specifications are much higher. Although it is good, it looks very bad.

It's not that the facial features are ugly, but that a pair of tricks are too penetrating. The two big eyes, not angry, are the same as tiger eyes. If dozens of criminals on the playground accidentally look at each other, cold sweat will break out on their foreheads.

As soon as this person appeared, the scene that was still a little chaotic was cleared, and several policemen saluted one after another, calling themselves seated. The prisoners immediately understood who it was. It was Song Damu, the deputy director of the Luoyang Police Bureau, nicknamed the big worm.

This person is a native of Luoyang, who entered Shaanxi when he fled from the famine in his early years, and then went from Weishui to Hanzhong, and joined the Qin army with good luck. Now he is just 30 years old, and he is already the second-in-command of the real power unit of the police station.

Song Damu's original name was Song Dayan, and I heard that it was a nobleman in the army who changed his name to Song Damu.

The prisoners watched Song Damu stride over, wanting to dodge but not daring to dodge, like a prey targeted by a tiger, a picture of waiting to be killed.

There were about fifty prisoners, very consciously and neatly, lined up in three horizontal columns in front of Song Damu.

"Now you should know that you're going to the Great Northwest." The voice was slightly hoarse, "It is the imperial court that favors you and does not let you be reformed through labor, but wants you to go to Xinjiang to settle down." There is a shortage of manpower in the frontier, and there must be people to garrison the frontier. And what about you? One by one, they are traitors and criminals, and they have to suffer a little hardship. Anyway, you all have brothers, your parents are taken care of, you have married and had children, and your family has now arrived at the train station. ”

This group of prisoners is just one of the groups in the Luoyang area, most of them are used to being faceless and skinless, and they are scolded a few times, and they don't feel pain or itch. If it weren't for the police and the surrounding prison guards, who were too deterrent, if it weren't for the fact that they were about to be sent to Xinjiang, many people would have yawned and had nothing to do. But it doesn't hurt your self-esteem at all, and you don't feel insulted at all.

Lu Yang, Lu is a big man, he was tall and tall when he was a child, a head taller than his peers, and his family named him a "foreigner" as a "foreigner". Foreigners are very tall?

It seems to be listening with low eyebrows, but in fact, the eyes are staring at the ants under their feet. He didn't feel that Song Damu's words made him angry and ashamed, and now he only had anger in his heart, and the high-ranking bigwigs in the angry cabinet looked like people, they ate people's food, and wore people's clothes, but they didn't do anything.

Lu Yang thought that his wife and children at home would follow him all the way to Xinjiang, and he might never be able to return to Luoyang again in this life, and only resentment was left in his heart.

"I know that few of you rotten bones are willing to work hard, and all of them are not honest. I'm sure there are still some of you who are trying to run away. But I tell you - stop dreaming. What do you use this brand for? ”

Song Damu slowly walked in front of the prisoner, and everyone bowed their heads and was silent.

Song Damu stopped in front of Lu Yang. "Such a good body doesn't need to be on the right path." He scolded Lu Yang, and then grabbed the sign on Lu Yang's waist: "Do you see the numbers on it?" A group of 10 people. When one person makes a mistake, the whole group sits together. If one person escapes, the whole group will be guilty of three degrees, this is the rule on the road. ”

Hearing this, Lu Yang's body shook. Don't say that he didn't have the heart to run in the first place, he didn't dare to run because of his wife and children. Now it's even more important to listen honestly to the arrangements on the head.

"It's military law all the way. If I commit a crime, I have the right to kill people on the spot. If any of you are guilty of committing a crime at my hands, don't blame me for using him as a sacrificial sword! (To be continued......)