Chapter 991: Thousands of cars and thousands of cars returned to Chang'an
Although the new emperor has not yet officially ascended the throne, the internal political system of the Jin Dynasty, which has always been efficient and operational, has already taken over the central court of the Han Dynasty, and many policies and systems that have long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people within the Jin State have naturally begun to be promoted and implemented throughout the Han Dynasty.
The remnants of the big families in various places are now honest like grasshoppers after the autumn, and no one dares to jump out to obstruct the promulgation and implementation of the new policy. In fact, they were not just victims of the New Deal, but in many cases they were also beneficiaries of the New Deal.
Although all the land was nationalized and re-measured and then distributed to the hands of all Han people, which greatly damaged the interests of some large landowners, according to the new policy of the empire, these large families were given more land than small families on an equal distribution basis, and this land was enough for them to support themselves.
The only deficiency may be that there are no serfs and landless civilians in the Han Dynasty, and if these families want to harvest crops in the future, they will either plant and harvest them themselves, or pay people to help plant and harvest them. There is no longer much exploitation in this process, but only an act of paid mutual aid in the process of agricultural production, which is protected and encouraged by the empire.
In the future, those small families who have made a fortune in business will not have the opportunity to become a new landlord class, because the ownership of land belongs to the state, and any unauthorized purchase and sale of land will be punished by bankruptcy. Under the terms of the Han Charter, the Imperial Township level would re-measure the land every five years, count and census the population, and then reclaim the terra nullius and distribute it to the overpopulated families.
If a family that originally had 40 acres of land doubled its population after 10 years, and as a result, it was unable to feed the family, and there was no new land to add to the area, the family would need to export labor. Either he went to serve as a soldier and expanded his territory outside the Han Dynasty, or he went to engage in handicrafts and services, and earned money to buy food directly to support his family.
In fact, this practice can also effectively control the rapid growth of the population, and families who are too capable of giving birth should carefully weigh whether they can support their children after they are born.
Long before the outbreak of the Central Plains War, Zhao Xing began to build a new central government, or a new style of imperial court, and now it seems that the effect is still very obvious.
Liu Yu arrived in Chang'an three months ago and began to set up institutions and select personnel for more than a dozen major departments under the Government Council. Although he has not yet received a letter of appointment from the new emperor with the words "Prime Minister of the Government Council" and has taken the oath of office in front of the "Han Charter", the actual work has been fully rolled out, and many of the policies that have begun to be tried out throughout the Han Dynasty have been issued in newspapers by the Preparatory Office of the Government Council.
Jia Xu, president of the Legislative Yuan, is also drafting and revising the "Han Charter" word by word in accordance with Zhao Xing's instructions. Zhao Xing bluntly told Jia Xu that he should draft the constitution and mother law of the Han Dynasty from the very beginning of human nature, which was greedy and selfish, and do his best to plug the loopholes that may cause problems in the empire, especially in restricting imperial power, as well as the selection and succession of emperors, and the effective management and command of the imperial army.
Tian Feng, president of the Supervision Yuan, has already taken up his post, and is now taking a group of supervision envoys who are just as upright as him to tour the territory of the Han prefectures, supervising the work of measuring and distributing land that is being carried out in full swing in the prefectures, and admonishing and talking to the newly readjusted officials in the prefectures.
Wang Yun, president of the Judicial Yuan, kept a close eye on Tian Feng's actions and adjudicated and punished the "moths," "bullies," and "thieves" found out by the supervision envoys in various localities, and soon established the awe-inspiring authority and dignity of the Judicial Yuan. After the promulgation of the "Han Charter" and the "Han Code" one after another, the work of the Judicial Yuan will be more formal and orderly. At that time, Wang Yun even planned to adopt Zhao Xing's suggestion and set up people's juries in various courts, so that ordinary people could see with their own eyes how the judicial yuan enforced the law impartially.
In the new "Han Code", the biggest crime of "rebellion" will be completely banned, and the crime of treason will be replaced by the crime of treason.
According to the definition of the "Han Charter", the emperor's accurate identity in the future is the symbol and guardian of the empire, if the emperor himself did not violate the "Han Charter", and someone rose up to gather a rebellion with the intention of overthrowing the emperor, or even wanted to change the dynasty, he committed treason, and the people who rebelled with him were naturally traitors. As for the family members and friends of the traitors, they will be sentenced and convicted according to whether they know and participate, and there will be no more joint sitting.
Although the Han Charter still more or less upholds the status of the imperial power and the emperor, it is not difficult to see that Zhao Xing emphasized the concept of the state rather than the concept of imperial power everywhere. The change of the crime of treason to the crime of treason, although it is only two simple words, embodies the will of the state and the concept of humanity.
In addition to assembling a crowd to rebel with the intention of overthrowing the emperor, which can be convicted of treason, the rest of the attempts, such as trying to split the country with foreign countries, and all acts that endanger the security of the Han Dynasty, can be ruled as treason. The Han Code imposed the most severe punishment on traitors, and if they were confirmed to be traitors, they would be hanged and would not be tolerated. This one, even the emperor himself is covered.
After the end of the autumn harvest of this year, Zhao Xing led the central government officials who had gathered in Luoyang from all over the country, and under the escort of the Han cavalry division of the Dingyuan Army, they rode a carriage of thousands of taels to Chang'an, the capital of the empire. On the hundreds of miles of official roads from Luoyang to Chang'an, the people who had already finished the harvest were greeted or welcomed their new emperor.
Zhao Xing's eldest son Zhao Zhenbang stayed in Luoyang, in order to prevent young people from being proud and slack, Zhao Xing left Tian Feng, Wang Yun, Chen Gong, Mi Zhu and Qin Yilu and others in Luoyang, so that they could train and take care of his eldest son while they were busy with the affairs they were responsible for.
The positions of these five people are the president of the Supervision Yuan, the president of the Judicial Yuan, the Fengzhou Mu, the Minister of Finance of the Government Affairs Yuan, and the president of the Dahan Central Gold Bank, each of whom is higher than the position of the mayor of Luoyang City, and they are all officials who are directly responsible to the emperor, so there is no need to worry and scruple about picking up the emperor's son. The military command of Luoyang Municipality was under the jurisdiction of Li Tiezhu, a diehard loyalist of Zhao Xing, and Zhao Zhenbang did not want to have any privileges in Luoyang at all.
The reason why Zhao Xing put his son in Luoyang was because he wanted Zhao Zhenbang to fully contact and master the laws of finance and economics, and be a good emperor who could manage money in the future. In terms of military command, after several years of training, Zhao Zhenbang already has a solid foundation, so Zhao Xing is not worried. If the Han Empire wants to maintain long-term stability, it must take the road of combining a rich country with a strong army, and it must not jump on one leg, otherwise it will not be long before it will go to the old road of destruction.