Chapter 46: Yangzhou City and Hangou
The reform of the Ram Liberation was very effective, and from the third year after the reform, the tax revenue of Huai'an doubled, and at the same time, the city of Huai'an was full of merchants, and the lives of the people also improved. The whole Huai country has a thriving appearance.
With the passage of time, Huai's national strength has steadily improved. In more than 20 years, the cultivated area of Huai has expanded by 30%, and the total population has also increased by 50%. The abolition of the Dingkou tax has prevented people from drowning babies, and the population has naturally increased.
Of course, it's not all good news, on the contrary, there is a lot of bad news. With the implementation of the new tax law, many nobles are obstructing it overtly or implicitly, and these people use delays, overcharges, deliberately lowers the grade of grain, and other different ways.
The new tax law was distorted and obstructed, and over the years, as many as 100 tax collectors were beheaded by Wang Lin's order. Even some aristocratic families were directly exterminated by the king's ruthless hands.
It was very difficult to implement the new tax law, and Wang Lin gave them a chance from the beginning, but there were always people who felt that Wang Lin would not dare to do so. In the end, there were not a few people who were quarreled and killed.
If you want to implement the new deal, the method is very simple: win over a group, divide a group, and crack down on a group. To put it simply, it is to treat a treat, cut off the head, and accept it as a dog.
After killing a group of nobles, all the vacated rights were arranged for the public office and the clan to control.
At the same time, after reforming taxes, Wang Lin also reformed the college. Over the past hundred years, the college established by Zijue has become an aristocratic school, which is not in the interests of Huaiguo and the public office.
Wang Lin forcibly stipulated that Huaiguo College must have Chinese students every year. Wang Lin wants to inject new blood into the country, and cannot let the decaying aristocracy hold back.
At the same time, after the tax revenue of Huai State was increased and the treasury was enriched, Wang Lin began to rectify the public office and the public family.
The children of the Huaiguo Clan, in addition to the lineage, will change their clan after three generations, and they will be demoted from the public office to the public family, in fact, when the Xuanyao pattern on their foreheads disappears, they will automatically be demoted to the public family.
After the Xuanniao pattern disappears, the luck they provide for Zijue will be greatly reduced, and at the same time, it will no longer be counterattacked by the luck of Bang Zhou's Mandate of Heaven, of course, the protection of the Xuanniao of the Mandate of Heaven will also be reduced, and it will become a six-dimensional attribute +3 within three generations after the change, and +1 after three generations, and it will not change again.
In the past, due to financial reasons, the Huaiguo Office did not give much support to the public family. Now that taxes are overflowing, Wang Lin feels that the Gong clan should be included.
All the children of the public office, including the children of the public clan, must go to school, those with excellent grades can be appointed to official positions, and those who are strong and strong can join the Xiaoguo army, and their food and clothing are provided for by the public office until they reach adulthood.
The Xiaoguo Army is an army specially established for the children of the public office and the clan, and it is also the most trusted and important armed force of the Huaiguo Office. The Xiaoguo Army was also established by Wang Lin.
With the support of the Huaiguo Office, the children of the office in the Xiaoguo Army have been boiling their bodies since they were young, learning all kinds of knowledge, and their strength is very strong. This kind of sense of belonging of the children of the Gong clan who has been cultivated since childhood is very high, even if they fight to the last person, they will not surrender, but the number of Xiaoguo troops is not large, and the cost of cultivation is extremely high.
Wang Lin gave the Ram Xie a very high trust, and the Ram Xie also lived up to expectations and carried out a restructuring for the Huai State. After more than 20 years and a whole generation of restructuring, the tax policy has been completely stabilized.
In recent years, a large number of ministers have attacked and slandered the Ram Solution for various reasons, and some people even deliberately spread rumors that the Ram Solution wants to restore the country to the country.
But these were all vetoed by Wang Lin, who trusted the Ram Solution very much, because he knew that the reform of the Ram Solution was almost the opposite of all the nobles, and as long as he hesitated the slightest bit in support of the Ram Solution, those people would rush to the top.
For more than 20 years, Huai has been governed by a rich country and a strong people, which can be called a full treasury, a solid people, an endless stream of business and travel, and the world has been greatly governed.
After Wang Lin annexed the Han State, he began to continue southward, at this time the Huai border had reached the Yangtze River, and further south was the Wu State.
At this time, after nearly two hundred years of development, Wu was already a big country south of the Yangtze River. The population is more than a million. When the Han State was annexed, the Marquis of Han just wanted to flee to the Wu State, and then use the national strength of the Wu State to help him restore the country.
The state of Wu was far away from Huai'an, the center of the Huai state, and it was somewhat inconvenient for the army to conquer, so Wang Lin decided to build a city along the Yangtze River. Then use the city as a bridgehead and attack the state of Wu.
After several inspections, Wang Lin finally decided to build the city in Jiangweiyang. Weiyang was only a small city during the Han period, but it was close to the river, the surrounding terrain was flat, and there was a river bay where a water village could be built, which was originally the location of the Han State Sailors.
Wang Lin ordered the Huai State sailors to come and camp here, and relocated 20,000 people to expand the small city.
A large number of materials were transported from Huai'an to Weiyang, and with the current national strength of Huaiguo, it is not too difficult to build Weiyang, it is nothing more than money and food.
Wang Lin personally sent the children of the public office to preside over the construction of the city, and changed the name of Weiyang to Yangzhou.
The construction of Yangzhou City is not simple, because it is necessary to consider the possible attack of Wu, so Yangzhou City needs to build fortifications.
A large amount of supplies were supplied, and the construction of Yangzhou City went smoothly, and even a waterway was specially dug to bring water from the Yangtze River into the city. A waterway was opened up in the city to facilitate transportation, and it was also the moat of Yangzhou City.
Wang Lin even came to Yangzhou in person, and this Yangzhou city is indeed a good place.
"Your Majesty, Yangzhou City is four hundred miles away from Huai'an, if it is to conquer Wu, money and grain need to be transferred from Huai'an, the road is far away, which consumes quite a lot, it is better to dig a river canal directly, divert water from the Yangtze River, connect the Huai River and Surabaya, and connect the north and south of Huai into a line."
"This will not only facilitate the transportation of supplies, but also facilitate the deployment of troops."
One of the master craftsmen of the Craftsman Division spoke to Wang Lin. Hearing this, Wang Lin also felt that this was a good idea, and immediately ordered him to take someone to survey the terrain.
The excavation of the ditch requires a lot of manpower and material resources, but once completed, the benefits are also very many, and the canal directly connects the north and south of Huai into a line. The cost of transporting materials has skyrocketed.
At the same time, it is also conducive to the rule of the Huai State, once the excavation of this river is completed, Wang Lin's order in Huai'an can almost be regarded as the morning and evening.
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The excavation of Yangzhou City and Hangou is a great project created by the working people of our country, as the earliest canal to be clearly recorded, this is likely to be the first canal in human history. The excavation of the ditch made a strong contribution to the excavation of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the future, and at the same time made an important contribution to the communication between the north and the south. ——Chinese History, Seventh Grade, Volume I