Chapter 511: Imperial Afterglow Luo Mang
After seeing the situation in Lujiang County, the court was looking forward to the restructuring of several other counties.
After a large number of reformers and children of the royal family arrived, the government of these counties changed visibly.
Most of these reformists are young, they have just entered the school palace from the bottom, they have seen the darkness at the bottom, they have pursuits and ideals in their hearts, they are still very enthusiastic, and the ambitions in their hearts have not been defeated by reality.
Only these hot-blooded scholars can not be tempted by interests and not bow to power, especially with the royal court as their backing. The power they have unleashed is impressive.
Even so, there are still many scholars who have been co-opted and corrupted in this revolution, and then become the people they once hated the most.
However, because the rule of officials is clear enough, and there are royal children here, even corrupt officials will be found and dealt with at the first time.
When a hierarchy is white, then a black dot suddenly appears as an outlier.
With the help of the children of the royal family, coupled with the previous experience of Lujiang County, it took the reformers three years to successfully complete the reform of these three counties. Although there were some twists and turns, the reform was finally completed.
The success of the reform of four consecutive counties filled the court with confidence. Therefore, after summing up and sorting out the successful experience of the four counties in changing the law, the imperial court officially began to popularize the reform throughout the country in the tenth year of the Great Qianning Dynasty.
Through the reform of the law in four counties, the imperial court accumulated the first batch of reform talents, because most of them were Confucian disciples, and the person who finally presided over this reform was also a Confucian scholar.
This Confucian scholar's name is Luo Mang, and he has high moral character, and it can be said that in Wang Yan's opinion, this person's own moral standard is simply at the level of a saint.
Wang Yan thought it was a disguise at first, so he sent a lot of secret agents to investigate secretly, but it turned out that this person was not a disguise, but really advanced morality into daily life, according to Confucian moral standards, he was almost perfect.
He is upright and noble, and has a very high reputation among Confucian scholars, and is known as a model in the world and a moral benchmark. If such a person presides over the change of the law, the court will not suspect his favoritism.
Under the auspices of Luo Mang, Da Qian began a vigorous change.
Luo Mang got the support of the royal family and the support of hundreds of officials, and then began to change the law, because he was a Confucian, so he implemented the reform according to the Confucian concept. I want to realize the Datong society that Confucianism dreamed of.
Luo Mang first issued an order to abolish slaves and maids, once again reiterated the abolition of slaves and maids, and then issued a national clearing of fields, wanting to find out the country's acres of fields, and then called for frugality.
In order to carry out these orders, Luo Mang sent the officials he had cultivated over the years to all the states and counties in the world. Originally, these orders were verified by several counties, and there was no problem.
However, when these policies were first implemented, all the officials in a county from top to bottom were reformers, with ideals, ambitions, and enthusiasm.
Now to promote the whole country, the whole country needs tens of thousands of officials, but how many scholars have been trained?
Even if all the scholars of the academy are added up, there are only a few thousand. What's more, there are even fewer people who have the ability, ambition, enthusiasm, and a sense of justice.
One of the reasons why the imperial court had sent a large number of reformers was thoughtful, ambitious, and daring to practice. Therefore, the upper and lower governments are harmonious, the politics are clear, and the court is invincible.
The second is that the imperial court is powerful, there is a large army to suppress it, and the local heroes, nobles, and official eunuchs are not strong, so they dare not oppose it. This can be implemented smoothly.
But now after it is promoted to the whole country, the first problem is that the officials trained by the imperial court are far from enough, and the imperial court has cultivated seven or eight hundred scholars who agree with the law change through the four counties and counties, but there are too many people who want to change the law.
This reform is different from the previous ones, and if Confucianism wants to achieve a harmonious society, all officials need to have extremely high moral standards from top to bottom.
At the same time, this also increased the number of officials tenfold, in the past, the officials of the big cadres had an official status in a county, about less than 100 people, such as the scribes and officials below were not officials of the imperial court, but subordinate officials of various county orders.
In a county town, there may be no more than 10 real officials.
The court did this because there were few people who could be officials, and another reason was that it was too expensive. The imperial court simply could not afford it.
The Datong society that Confucianism wants to achieve is only something that some small countries and widows can try.
It is too difficult for a large country like Daqian, with a population of hundreds of millions, to do so.
Luo Mang began to push for executive orders based on the experience gained in the previous four counties, and these decrees were quickly transmitted. But when he got to Daqian, it didn't get as good as he imagined.
Although the cadres are strong, they are looking for a large number of officials who are honest and capable, who can be impartial, selfless, and have high moral standards.
In real history, there are several such officials, Zhuge Liang is counted as one, he did his best, and after he died, it can be said that he has paid all his life's efforts, and Zhuge Liang's disciple Jiang Wei is also one.
For the goal of reviving the Han Dynasty, Jiang Wei is the same. Next, Yu Qian is counted as one, Hai Rui is also counted as one, and in addition to these, there may be a few others. But this is a few heroes in real history that have only been produced for thousands of years.
How can Daqian find so many talents?
The reform of the law of the Great Qian's court has reached a critical moment, and the people of the court and the central government believe that this reform can be successful, after all, they have already succeeded twice.
Everyone was happy with the change in front of them, and felt that if the decree was issued, the change would be completed.
After the edict was issued, the reform of the law was implemented throughout the country, and officials from all over the country reported the situation of the reform of the law one after another, because of the support of a large number of reformers, the initial reform policy was implemented quite smoothly, and the decree for the release of slaves and maids was truly implemented in the whole country for the first time.
Immediately after the Qingzhang Tianmu, although there were many twists and turns in this article, it was suppressed by the big cadres and the army, and many officials personally took action, and those nobles, heroes, and eunuchs had to accept it.
Even if there were some people who made small moves, they were quickly suppressed.
However, the next price stabilization ordered merchants not to seek huge profits, and the price of goods must be sold according to the imperial court marking, forcing merchants, Haoqiang, Xungui, and official eunuchs to make profits to the people, and at the same time levying Shanze tax, and increasing taxes on Xungui, Haoqiang, and official eunuchs.
Establish a cheaper loan system, and the poor people borrow from the imperial court, and no longer charge interest in the short term.
All the policies began to be implemented according to Luo Mang's requirements, but these reforms involved too many interests, and the world's powerful, noble, and official families also fell silent.
The whole Daqian seemed to be very calm, like a deep lake, but under this calm water, there was already an undercurrent.
It's just because the imperial army is there, and they don't dare to act rashly, but the anger has not dissipated and disappeared, but is constantly accumulating, waiting until all the anger has accumulated to the limit, and waiting until there is a natural and man-made disaster.
All of this anger will be completely exploded.
(End of chapter)