Among the thousands of emperors in history, the most demanding of ability are the emperors who rose again in the founding of the country and the war, and the latter is especially high.

Opening up an empire is often a great rule after the great chaos, and the founding emperor still has two rare advantages in the midst of all difficulties: first, the people are determined, and after many years of chaos, the people are not able to make a living, as long as someone can give them a safe environment and give them a full bite to eat, they will not care where the person comes from or how he behaves; second, the ruling class of the previous empire has been completely reshuffled, and a large number of vacant positions are waiting to be replaced, which is also the core reason for attracting talents.

The war-torn emperor was a weakness in these two areas, and the war was a harbinger of the decline of the empire, and most of the people gloated about such a country, hoping that it would fall. The original aristocratic class was unwilling to give up their existing interests, and localism prevailed, and the princes everywhere sought greater power. These two points are often the core reasons for the rapid collapse of a vast empire in a short period of time.

In such cases, the power required of the king is often higher. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why the number of founding emperors exceeds that of the war-torn Zhongxing emperors, and the number of Zhongxing emperors is far less than that of the kings of the kingdom.

Among the few Zhongxing Emperors, the Red Stone Emperor is the best among them.

- The Legend of the Redstone Emperor

Chapter 12: Long Live the King

In late January of the 5th year of the Magic Calendar, dìdū was completely immersed in a peaceful and festive atmosphere, and residents within a thousand miles of dìdū volunteered to celebrate Redstone's birthday.

There is no doubt that the Redstone Emperor is a generation of famous monarchs, and among the dozens of emperors in the Amy Empire, although he is not the one who has come before or after him, he is also one of the outstanding.

This is especially true internally.

In the 20 years since the Emperor Hongshi ascended the throne, he stopped the expansion plan to reduce the number of troops, and the emperor has compressed the 1.25 million regular army from 2~50,000 per year to 700,000 regular troops in the 5th year of the magic calendar, and has reduced the frequency of military exercises on a large scale, reduced the scale of military exercises, and reduced military spending from 200 million gold coins to only 750 million gold coins. At the same time of compressing the army, vigorously promote the development of civilian armed forces such as mercenary groups, before the accession of the Red Stone Emperor, the empire did not have any A-class mercenary group - the current headquarters of the Xuanqing Land Dragon Knights is located in the territory of the Holy See, and the strong generals of the empire do not allow any civilian military force of more than 400 people to exist at all. The third order of the Redstone Emperor's ascension to the throne was to remove many restrictions on mercenary groups. At that time, the emperor's ** ministry was extremely critical of reducing troops and increasing merceries, and three of the four marshals openly opposed it. As a last resort, the Red Stone Emperor forcibly ordered the three marshals to retire, and cancelled the 11 brigades directly under the three marshals in one fell swoop. In order to better implement his policies in the army, the young emperor made his uncle, the moderate leader of the army, Marshal Chi Datong, the general of the Tongyun Pass Defense Area (i.e., the Shengxue Mountain Defense Area) at that time, the chief of military affairs of the imperial marshal.

Since then, Hongshi has said on many occasions: The emperor ** people, expensive jīng is not too expensive. Just one swordsman battalion soldier is an example, and to maintain his equipment and food and training for a year, it will take at least 10 Imperial civilians to feed him. Therefore, the empire only needed to maintain an invincible army of jīng sharp. More work such as policing and escorting is left to civilian forces such as mercenary groups, which not only do not need the empire to feed, but in turn can provide the empire with a large amount of tax revenue.

At the same time, Redstone reorganized the internal management of the officials. During the years that Redstone was in power, at least 20 or more high-ranking officials were robbed, killed, and exiled every year for corruption, bribery, and unclear governance. The effect of killing chickens to monkeys may not be obvious, but after killing several tigers, not only the monkeys, but also the entire emperor valve system are trembling. A large number of incompetent people either voluntarily or forcibly retired from high positions, and groups of young people entered the imperial bureaucracy, which was rare in the previous life of the Ming Dynasty.

Nearly a million servicemen were discharged from the military and emigrated to the Northern Union to live there. More residents have moved from poor areas to wealthy areas along the mainland highways, and over the years, Hongshi has allocated 10 million yuan of military spending from the original budget to local governments to develop local economies and encourage childbirth.

As a result of the 20 years of recuperation, the total annual tax revenue of the empire has increased from 970 million 20 years ago to 14 million yuan, and the population has increased from 28.9 million to 35.32 million on the two continents 20 years ago, although the empire's tax revenue has been reduced from the tithe (1/10) tax of ordinary residents to the tithe (1/15) tax of ordinary residents. The total population even exceeds the sum of the three empires of the Xiusi Empire, the Mercenary Empire, and the Holy Desert Empire, and the economic power is even greater than the combined economic strength of the aforementioned three empires, the two empires of the Hami and the Northern Hami combined.

The affluence of the inhabitants of the empire was also incomparable to that of other countries, not only the nobles had three wives and four concubines, but even ordinary people with ordinary heads could go to other countries to make two nǎi three nǎi, and the large area of two nǎi villages that appeared in the border areas of the empire also became a symbol of the country's wealth and the strength of the people.

The Red Stone Emperor practiced frugality, except for the foreign affairs activities that had to be carried out, basically simple. If there is a big celebration, that is, the birthday of the Red Stone Emperor, which is every 5th and 10th birthday, Hongshi did not want to do it, but when Red Stone was 28 years old, 500,000 people surrounded the palace and volunteered to celebrate Red Stone's birthday. Redstone had to come up with a compromise once every 5 years, and the rest of the time it would be waived.

The only difference between this year's celebration and previous years was that it was somewhat incorporating some official cāo longitudinals, and the Redstone Emperor sought to use this celebration to wash away the unease that had permeated the Empire for nearly two years.

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