Just when the feudal towns were still depressed about losing the support of the branch counties, and wondering how to obtain more resources to strengthen their own strength in the only one acre and three points of land they had left, the second step of the imperial court's reduction of the feudal domain followed. At the end of the eighth month of the third lunar calendar of Jianlong, the Later Zhou court issued a decree again, and began to make major adjustments, transfers, and migrations to all the towns under the control of the Later Zhou Dynasty, except for Shuofang, Dingyan Liangjiedu, and Fu and Linzhou, and cut off the connection between these jiedu and the only remaining one-third of an acre of land that they had been operating for many years, so that these Jiedu envoys who were originally stationed in the feudal towns called for wind and rain and did whatever they wanted lost their foundation.

Although he was well aware of the purpose and intention of the imperial court's major adjustment, transfer, and migration, he knew very well that once he left the place where he had been operating for many years, he would become a rootless water and a tree without roots, and he would no longer have the capital to bargain with the imperial court. But as soon as the strength of the imperial court was there, the Great Zhou Forbidden Army, which was born from the Beiping Army, had been putting on a look of being eyeing the local feudal towns that were not obedient to the imperial court's edicts at any time since the battle of the Shangdang. Second, the Zhaoyi Army made Li Yun resist the imperial court but was quickly defeated and took his own life, and no one wanted to follow in his footsteps because of his unwise actions. What's more, the Beiping Army Jiedu envoy was also among the transfers, and Wang Kunjun once again accepted the arrangement of the imperial court without objection and transferred it to the German army. Although the vacant Beiping Army Festival Envoy was not awarded to anyone, and although the concurrently serving as the Beiping Army Festival Envoy actually had no effect on Wang Kunjun and other former Beiping Army members who were already in control of the Great Zhou Dynasty, this could not be a reason for other local Jiedu Envoys to refuse to obey the order. Therefore, no matter how unwilling or unwilling they are, these individual envoys can only pack up their bags, leave their old nests with their families and the upper limit of 500 personal soldiers who can accompany them according to the imperial court, and travel hundreds or thousands of miles to take up their posts in new and completely unfamiliar areas.

When these envoys who were reluctant to leave their original stations, dragged their families and dragged their families and at the same time, and settled down to arrive at their new stations before the deadline set by the imperial court, and were just beginning to familiarize themselves with the situation in the new jurisdiction, the third step of the imperial court's feudal reduction had already begun to be implemented. In the middle of December of the lunar calendar of the third year of Jianlong, the decree of the Later Zhou court once again appeared in front of these Jiedu envoys who had not yet sat in the new position, announcing that because some of the Jiedu envoys only cared about their personal interests and disregarded the ban of the imperial court and the safety of the society, they colluded with hostile countries to smuggle all kinds of prohibited items out of the country, and their behavior was equivalent to that of a financial enemy. Therefore, from now on, the right to "return to the map" of each feudal town will be withdrawn, and the envoys and their subordinate officials will no longer be allowed to participate in any commercial activities, and violators will be severely punished.

Recovering the right of the local jiedu envoys to "return to the map" and prohibiting them from carrying out commercial and trade activities in their own jurisdictions that do not have to pay any taxes and can earn huge profits is tantamount to taking a salary from the bottom of the kettle for those local jiedu envoys who want to rely on these huge profits to maintain their cronies and maintain their elite soldiers. Without the right to "return to the map", it is equivalent to cutting off the main source of income for these jiedu envoys, making them lose the capital to gather relatives and confidants, recruit and train troops, and at the same time lose the possibility of future development and growth, and then threaten the imperial court. This is especially true for those local envoys who have just left their original roots and have just arrived in a new area, and who need a lot of money to re-cultivate their cronies and establish their own henchmen and armed forces -- although they can gain temporary benefits by expropriating and extorting money in their own jurisdiction, it is tantamount to killing chickens and eggs, and even if the local people will not rise up to fight, the imperial court can still ask him for his guilt, and take his right to take his life and even take his life.

As a "model" envoy of the imperial court, Wang Kunjun once again stood up to express his support as soon as the imperial court's decree was issued, and as soon as possible, he dissolved all contacts with the "government-run" industry "Datong Commercial Bank" of the Beiping Army, and "recovered" his shares in it. Not only that, while Wang Kunjun withdrew from the business activities of the "Datong Commercial Bank", he also asked other "Qingyuan" brothers to do the same, so as to show how the "Qingyuan" brothers collectively supported the imperial court and how thoroughly they implemented the will of the imperial court.

Although the business activities of the "Datong Commercial Bank" had entered a very healthy and benign state of development long before the "Qingyuan" brothers went south to take over Kaifeng, except for Jia Run'an, the director of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, who still needed to grasp the strategic direction of the commercial and trade activities at some times, the other brothers had long since ceased to meddle in the management and operation of the "Datong Commercial Bank" and handed over full authority to the chief treasurer from the head office to the branches, but no one believed that the "Qingyuan" brothers' control over the "Datong Commercial Bank" had weakened in the slightest. Similarly, although the brothers of the "Qingyuan" withdrew or transferred their shares in the "Datong Firm" in a very short period of time after the imperial court issued an order to withdraw the right to "return to the map," no one believed that the big shopkeepers and shopkeepers of the "Datong Firm" at all levels who had taken over these shares would really regard themselves as proprietors and would no longer recognize the ownership of the "Datong Firm" by the "Qingyuan" brothers. Just as Wang Kunjun took the initiative to abandon the branch counties under the jurisdiction of the Beiping Army and accept the transfer of the imperial court, the "Qingyuan" brothers did this as a gesture and an expression, an effective strategy to make other local feudal towns have no legitimate reason and sufficient basis to resist and disobey the will of the imperial court. What's more, now these local festival envoys who have just taken up their new posts have no perfect team of cronies, and no loyal and reliable henchmen, even if they want to resist the imperial edict by force, they do not have the strength to implement it. Therefore, in the face of this will to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle, the envoys of various localities can only sigh and helplessly obey it.

First, they used the abolition of the branch counties to cut off their right-hand men, and then relied on the jiedu to make the big pair to strip them off from the intricate network of relationships in the original locality, and then they used a trick to withdraw their salaries from the bottom of the kettle in order to recover the right to "return to the map" and cut off the most important financial source of these people. Such a strategy of linking one link after another, just like Cheng Biting Jin's three-plate axe, slashed at the bodies of these local feudal towns and towns, forcing them to be powerless to parry and retreat again and again, and finally from the local separatist forces that could influence the government at many times to weak subordinates at the mercy of the imperial court. In terms of the central court's control over the localities, after this series of weakening and blows, the Later Zhou court had reached the highest peak of all the Central Plains and even the entire Chinese homeland since the Tang Dynasty. Although these local feudal towns are not yet alive and dead, they also have the ability to transfer and replace them at any time, without worrying that the other party will threaten the safety of the imperial court.

Although the threat to the imperial court had been minimized, the crossing team did not want to stop there. For in their view, the very existence of the feudal towns is an abnormal phenomenon, a sign that the central power has not yet fully realized its control over the state. In order to achieve long-term peace and stability of the country, and to completely eliminate the malaise of frequent changes of political power in the Central Plains since the Tang Dynasty, it is necessary to fundamentally end the system of feudal towns and towns as the Northern Song Dynasty did in the previous generation.

So, just when the feudal towns and festivals in various places had just recovered some of their senses from the imperial court's "cutting the feudal three-plate axe", and were ready to pick up their tails and be a man, and do a good job on their new one-acre and three-point land, the second lunar month of the fourth year of Jianlong, the Later Zhou court issued an order again, ordering all the local feudal towns of the Later Zhou to report to Beijing before the twentieth day of April of the lunar calendar.