When Lin Zhe learned that there was a large-scale turmoil in Xiangtan, it was already half a month later, and the Hunan side wanted to solve it by itself at first, not wanting to alarm the central government, and dispatched patrol police to suppress it, but they thought that the situation would deteriorate so quickly, and when they reacted and asked the local garrison for help.

The rebels have more than 3,000 troops, and dozens of patrolmen have been killed in the early days of suppression.

Seeing a rebellion in Xiangtan, Hunan, Lin Zhe couldn't believe his eyes!

What kind of situation is this, can't it be like those harsh monarchs in ancient times? Can he even cause a national uprising against him?

This made Lin Zhe, a great man who has always regarded himself as the savior of China and led the rise of the Chinese nation, a little stunned.

Putting down this urgent telegram from Hunan, Lin Zhe pondered.

Earlier, when Jiang Daoquan and others proposed a stepped agricultural tax, Lin Zhe expected fierce resistance, and a large number of officials in the past few months have written against it has confirmed that there will indeed be great resistance to this matter.

But he did not expect that the stepped agricultural tax would lead to armed revolt and even turn into a rebellion.

But do you have to give in because of armed resistance?

Never!

Nowadays, the problem of land annexation in China is very serious, and the Chinese Empire has accepted the status quo of the Manchu era for 200 years, and at the end of each dynasty, land annexation will always be very serious.

If the empire does not solve the existing problem of land annexation, it is likely that in a few decades there will be even more serious problems.

Therefore, the issue of land annexation must be resolved

However, the promotion of the stepped agricultural tax seems to be a little impatient, and the way the people below do things seems to be a little wrong.

Ordinary landlords oppose it. But those officials also opposed it, so they couldn't say it, and they looked at it with the party-state of later generations. It is understandable that ordinary people have opinions on what the central authorities have decided. But officials must obey the organization's decisions.

After pondering for a long time, Lin Zhe did not make any decision, but quickly convened a cabinet meeting, at which he made clear for the first time his attitude that the issue of land annexation must be resolved.

At the same time, it also requires the Organization Department to do a good job in the ideological work of officials, to make them understand the importance of obeying the decisions of the Central Committee of the Empire, and to severely punish any official who dares to contradict the Central Committee at this juncture.

At the same time, he also instructed the Cabinet to do a good job in publicizing and popularizing the stepped agricultural tax, not in the same way as in the past. Just sit on the high platform.

This matter concerns the vital interests of the broad masses of peasants, and it is important for them to know that the tiered agricultural tax is not harmful to them, but is of great benefit to them, because they have the opportunity to obtain the land they covet.

Officials at all levels, especially state employees at the township level below the county level, must carry out extensive propaganda work to make sure that the people know the nature of the stepped agricultural tax and that they are not left to the minority of large landowners. Not badly ill-intentioned gentry blinded.

After the cabinet meeting, Lin Zhe held another meeting of the Supreme Command, which was different from many previous meetings that only listened to but rarely expressed his position, this time Lin Zhe personally deployed the task. He demanded that the military must make good preparations for war throughout the country, maintain the emergency mobilization and mobility capability of the troops, and be able to dispatch troops as soon as an incident occurs and deal with it accordingly.

Immediately after that, he telegraphed to the garrison in Hunan that the Xiangtan rebellion must be dealt with quickly and strictly.

After some emergency deployment. Lin Zhe did not stop moving, let alone wait and see the situation. Instead, tough and forceful measures have continued.

First of all, they summoned the procuratorate and demanded that they strengthen their supervision of officials at all levels. Identify and deal with the black sheep of the central decision-making.

On 28 March, the garrison troops under the Hunan Garrison Command stationed in Xiangtan began to formally suppress the rebels.

On the same day, the Ministry of Supervision and the Ministry of Patrol Police joined forces to investigate and arrest more than 30 officials serving in Beijing, most of whom had publicly spoken out against the tiered agricultural tax.

In the days that followed, there was another stir in officialdom across the country, with officials who were clearly opposed to the tiered agricultural tax either dismissed from their posts or demoted and transferred from key posts.

As for the rebellion in Xiangtan, it only caused a shock at the beginning, and once the military dispatched, they couldn't turn the storm at all.

This so-called rebel army was in fact nothing more than an armed rebellion by a few large landlords into thousands of ordinary peasants, who did not even have many weapons.

In the face of an army armed with breech-loading rifles and cannons, there was no resistance at all.

The military did not even have time to dispatch regular field troops, and only dispatched a garrison battalion stationed in Xiangtan to completely suppress the rebellion.

In this rebellion, the main culprits and some of the backbone were either killed or arrested, and then quickly court-martialed and convicted of treason.

Immediately after the verdict came, he was shot on the spot, and he didn't even have a chance to go to jail.

In addition to being shot directly, all property will be confiscated, and at the same time, family members who did not participate in the rebellion will also be implicated, and their relatives and friends will not be allowed to hold public office, and those who have already held public office will be dismissed.

As for those ordinary people, although most of them are confused, they are still intolerable under national law, and most of them are sentenced to life imprisonment.

Lin Zhe was still pleased with the military's swift action this time, although the military had survived several years of peacetime, it still maintained a strong combat effectiveness, and the army was still his most reliable force.

Ordinary people and even officials may send him Lin Zhe, but the army will not oppose him too much.

The domestic army was established by Lin Zhe, and those generals were all Lin Zhe's henchmen, and there were no former Qing officials or anything like that.

At the same time, the army was generally more radical, and many generals dreamed of opening up their territory, and they fought wars with foreigners in the northwest and in the Outer Khingan Mountains and other places. And you civilian officials are desperately trying to reduce military spending at home, and you will do everything to drag them back. They can't tolerate that.

After Xiangtan, a small-scale rebellion also broke out in Shanxi. However, it was quickly subdued under the strong suppression of the local military.

In addition to the use of force to suppress it, a wave of officials going to the countryside was also set off across the country, not only township officials, but even officials at the prefectural and county levels frequently went to the countryside to directly publicize the benefits of the stepped agricultural tax.

In countless market towns or villages, there will be literate people reading aloud notices about the stepped agricultural tax, and when those peasants heard that they had to pay the excess tax for 50 acres, they all said in their hearts, this is the business of Lao Tzu. I don't have five acres of land.

Moreover, no matter what era people generally have the hatred of the rich, when they hear that the government wants to suppress those big landlords who own a large amount of land, one by one even shouts loudly, and it is better to kill those big landlords who are not benevolent to the rich, so that they will be able to get more land.

The stepped agricultural tax caused unrest, and to some extent caused turmoil in the empire, but for the great empire, it was only a small twist in the way, and a few small rebellions were nothing at all.

Ming and Qing dynasties. There were countless small and medium-sized rebellions, and it was not bad that there had been such a small rebellion for the first time in the many years since the empire was founded.

However, this incident also taught Lin Zhe a lesson, that is, governing the country should not be too anxious. Gotta take your time.

If large-scale propaganda had been carried out in advance when the stepped agricultural tax was introduced, it would not have allowed the gentry and landlords to successfully deceive the common people.

No, Lin Zhe is more cautious about some subsequent reforms related to industrial and commercial tax.

The empire's current tax revenue is already more dependent on industry and commerce. However, the current collection of industrial and commercial tax is relatively simple, and there are some problems. The Ministry of Finance, for a long time, wanted to reform.

In this regard, Lin Zhe is also at the same time, if the industrial and commercial tax is subdivided. It is very complicated and cannot be as one-size-fits-all as in the past, so let the Ministry of Finance first carry out regional pilots to ensure that the new industrial and commercial tax is perfect, and at the same time will not cause a large-scale rebound, and then implement it nationwide.

If a country wants to rise, the process will be full of many different problems, some of which can be emulated by previous experience, while others are completely new, which are great problems for the empire and for Lin Zhe.

Dealing with these problems every day made Lin Zhe feel a little irritable!

So much so that when he saw Qi Lin dancing, he was a little absent-minded!

At the end of the song, Qi Lin, who was still wearing a dance dress, stepped forward, looking at Lin Zhe, although she was looking forward, she didn't seem to notice that she had walked in front of him, and she couldn't help but stretch out her hand and shake it in front of Lin Zhe.

At this time, Lin Zhe reacted: "Oh, it's over, it's a good jump!" ”

"I'll go back first!" Qi Lin didn't plan to say anything to Lin Zhe, she didn't return to Nanjing again voluntarily, she was forced to come back.

When she first returned to Shanghai, the officials of the secretariat arrived, and although the accompanying secretary was not good-looking, her father had to call himself an official when he saw it.

Although the accompanying secretary was very respectful to her, his attitude was very resolute, saying that Qi Lin must go back to Jingshi, and that this was the word of the saint. and revealed that if Qi Lin refused, then he would use forcible means, even if he tied her up, he would tie her up to Jingshi.

This scared Qi Lin's father, Qi Xuanyun, half to death, and thought that Qi Lin had offended Sheng Yan when he was in Jingshi.

Although she was no longer willing to do so, she was forced to follow Secretary Li back to Nanjing and still serve as the choreographer of the Royal Dance Troupe.

This is the third time she has danced solo for Lin Zhe, the first two times Lin Zhe was extremely fascinated, and Qi Lin could feel the excitement unique to men in his eyes.

But today, this man is a little different, as if something has affected his mood.

said that she was going back, but her footsteps did not move, although she was reluctant to be forced to Nanjing to see, but it is undeniable that she herself has a great impression of Lin Zhe, otherwise she would not have chased all the way to Nanjing, the reason why she returned to Shanghai was just because she was afraid of the future, and she didn't want to lose her freedom like those concubines.

She needs the sky to fly, not a canary in a cage.

"It's still early, let's go back after dinner with me!" Lin Zhe came back to his senses, and looked at Qi Lin again, although his expression remained flat, he had already returned to the excitement that was unique to men in the past.

Men invite women to dinner, eating is not the goal, exercise after the meal is the goal!

Today is no exception, although Qi Lin does not like this, she is afraid, she is afraid.

But things have developed to the point where there is no possibility of retreating, so after dinner, he went to Lin Zhe's bed half-pushed and half-pushed.

A female official in charge of Lin Zhe's living notes recorded on the same day: On the end of the eighth year of the lunar month, the emperor summoned the people's daughter Qi to sleep in Juren Hall! (To be continued.) )