Since it has been decided to change the law, how to choose the person who presides over the change has raised the agenda.

Two years after Wang Yan succeeded to the throne, in the second year of Daqian Qianning, there was an official move.

In order to prevent problems with the change, the imperial court deliberately chose a county to conduct experiments, and only after experiments in this county, it was decided whether to promote the whole country according to the effect.

The advantage of this is that even if something goes wrong, it is only a county problem, and it does not extend to the whole country, and it is easy to correct.

However, it is another question in which county to implement it, but in the end, it was the royal family who made the decision and finally used it as a pilot in Lujiang County.

Lujiang County is south of Jiujiang County and west of Huiji County. During the Huai Kingdom, it was the territory of the Chao Kingdom. After being annexed by the Huai State, the county was placed.

Daqian now has a vast territory, and 36 counties were established during the founding of the country, but later continued to develop, and at the same time, the prefectures and counties that were originally briefly divided in the south were redivided.

Because the population of southern states and counties was small and the geographical area was large, after continuous immigration and population reproduction, although the population of the southern region was still not as good as that of the north and the Central Plains, it had undergone earth-shaking changes compared with the early years of the founding of the country. It is no longer appropriate to use the previous administrative model.

Therefore, during the period of Emperor Xiaohui of Daqianzhongzong and Emperor Wang Yi, the southern counties were split, such as Cangwu County, which was divided into Jiangxia, Lingling County, Changsha County, Guiyang County, Wuling County and so on.

At present, there are 125 counties and counties in Daqian, including overseas, the Western Regions, and eastern Liaodong.

The reason for choosing Lujiang County is that the transportation here is convenient, it is very close to Jinling, Nanjing, once there is a problem, the imperial court can send a large army to rush to it at the first time, and at the same time, this is the hometown of Huaiguo, and the royal family is very strong here.

Here, the power of the noble, the powerful, and the eunuch families is much weaker than that of the Central Plains and the north, and the intensity of reform is much less.

Soon after the decision of the imperial court, a large number of Confucian children were sent to Lujiang County to begin to implement reforms, and at the same time, the eyes of the whole country also converged here to know about the reforms.

In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the reform, the imperial court sent a large number of reformist scholars, and at the same time let the children of the royal family come.

With such fanfare, it is to implement the policy at all, and at the same time, it is also to prevent those treacherous old officials below from making any small moves.

The most important thing to change the law is the rule of officials, and the royal family is very aware of this, so they send a large number of royal children to come. At the same time, there are also a large number of enthusiastic scholars of the Fa-changing faction to promote it together.

After all, how many members of the royal family are there? It takes too many people to change the law.

In the past, the total number of officials in a county was only 100, but now there are almost 300 royal children and reformist officials sent by the imperial court, which is more than enough to manage a county.

Even the towns below were managed by the imperial court, and it can be said that Lujiang County was completely controlled by the imperial court.

In this case, the imperial court implemented the reform of the law, and the progress was very fast, coupled with the fact that there was no official prevarication and corruption, in Lujiang County, the political clarity here can be said to have reached the peak of history, and even the highest in the history of mankind.

Under these circumstances, the reforms carried out by the Daqian court in Lujiang County went very smoothly, and the imperial court re-inventoried the acres and population, and also found out those hidden fields, and the fields occupied by the powerful and noble were deprived, and at the same time these people were punished.

At the same time, he ordered the ministers and officials to be thrifty, and in the time of the first emperor, the atmosphere of the great cadres was far less extravagant than it is now, and now the extravagance of the nobles, officials, and wealthy businessmen prevailed, and the cost of a meal was comparable to that of the small people for a year.

Since ancient times, people have not suffered from widowhood but unevenness, and the people have worked all day long, but they have no food and clothing, and the dogs of the powerful families have lived a better life than them.

This situation is not normal and must be changed. Such extravagance and waste must be punished, and the imperial court will raise taxes on them, and then reinvest the collected taxes into the relief of the poor.

The royal family does not agree with the average, because the average is a kind of unfairness, some people have made meritorious contributions to the imperial court, so they naturally want to be treated preferentially, and some people are lazy Why should they give him average?

The imperial court now wants to reduce the excessive gap between the rich and the poor, and at the same time compensate the common people.

In addition to these, the imperial court also abolished the slaves and maids, although the imperial court ordered the abolition of slaves and maids in the past, but because the law enforcement was not enough, the officials in various places did not want to offend the nobles and eunuchs, and most of them turned a blind eye.

Now these officials in Lujiang County will naturally not be like this, and in this case, the reform of the imperial court will be implemented very seriously. As for those nobles and heroes, they didn't dare not agree.

In fact, there were many obstacles to the abolition of slavery, and many slaves would even oppose the decree. Because many times, the slaves and maids in the families of those noble and powerful officials and eunuchs are many times better off than ordinary people.

After a series of reforms such as the inventory of acres of land, the abolition of slaves and maids, the reform of the tax system, the redistribution of land, and so on, the changes in Lujiang County are visible to the naked eye.

The reform of the imperial court in Lujiang County has been carried out for three whole years, and in the past three years, the scholars of the imperial court reformers have continued to go to Lujiang County, and there are almost four or five hundred scholars in the entire Lujiang County, and they have carried out earth-shaking changes in the politics and economy of Lujiang County.

The nobles, eunuchs, and powerful no longer encroached on the land, there were no slaves and maids, and the people either had land or could work in the workshop, and everyone could have no worries about food and clothing.

The powerful did not dare to act recklessly, the officials of the entire Lujiang County were clear and clear, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and ordinary people could eat a meal of meat in three days.

The roads in the county are smooth, the circulation of goods is convenient, the water conservancy facilities are also perfect, and farming is more convenient. It can be said that the entire Lujiang County is almost world-apart from before, and it is almost like a Datong society advocated by Confucianism.

Seeing such dazzling results handed over by the reformers, the court and the whole court were shocked. Although the interests of the Haoqiang, Xungui, and official eunuchs have suffered some losses, if the entire Daqian can become like Lujiang County, it is acceptable to the court.

After several discussions, the imperial court originally decided to promote the reform of the whole country in the same way as Lujiang County, but the royal family felt that Lujiang County alone did not explain the problem. It is still necessary to draw out two more counties for experiments.

Many reformist officials thought about it and felt that this was indeed the case, what if this set of changes and restructuring left Lujiang County, what should they do if they are not adapted?

So the imperial court transferred half of the manpower from Lujiang County, plus the children of the royal family, and selected a county in the north, the Central Plains, and Guanzhong to start implementing the reforms.

The success of the restructuring of Lujiang County made a large number of scholars in the school palace see hope, and they have joined it and went to other places to participate.

For a time, several pilot counties selected by the imperial court were in full swing to promote the law change.

(End of chapter)