Prison Water West Street, within a hall. Qin Mo stood alone in the center of the hall, facing the hundreds of people around him without the slightest fear on his face. It was as if the hundreds of people around him didn't exist at all. Today is the first day that he Qin Mo challenged all the halls in Annan City.

"Boy, I've already heard the old man of the Wang family talk about you. It's just that you're crazy. Some time ago, I offended my brothers on the Annan Road, and today if you don't show some skills. Hehe, I'm a Li to serve you. My brothers won't obey you. Come on, if you can knock me down today, as long as it doesn't violate morality, or let me wait for the brothers to die. I, Li, obey unconditionally. The weak depend on the strong, this is an ancient and unchanging truth. If you're not strong enough, no matter how talented you are. I, Li, will not obey you. ”

A burly and muscular man said to Qin Mo, who was the leader of the Xicheng District of Annan City. His name is Li Qing, he has a body of courage and innate Great Perfection cultivation, and there are a total of nine or so people under him. The 9,000 or so people under his command didn't do anything that violated the Great Flame Law. At most, it is to gather people to fight, and open some factories and shops to make profits. Casinos and ** and other industries are not involved in any of them.

Also, a wicked person like Chen Lai Mazi can't bounce for many days. His family background three hundred years ago was still quite prominent, and his family at least left tens of thousands of taels of silver for him. Qian can be a god, and he spent a large amount of money to make a person willingly bear all the charges for him, plus he knew how to hide it and didn't let the people of the patrol office and law enforcement hall notice him. Otherwise, he will be able to get away with it?

In the Yan Dynasty, as long as a qiē violation of the Great Yan Law was discovered, it would be suppressed by the yamen everywhere. At most, these shady industries are operating in the dark, and they will never be put on the surface.

Annan City is divided into four urban districts, east, west, north and south, and each urban district is controlled by a hall. These are all civil forces organized by some people who do not want to join the army and just want to defend the city of Annan. In the Yan Dynasty, becoming a soldier meant going to all sides of the battlefield to fight. I can't tell when I'm going to die, and many people in the Yan Dynasty have families.

There are a lot of worries around them, and if they want them to become soldiers, most of them are unwilling. Based on this, Yanming Wang Yanxu came up with a solution. That is to let the people organize themselves among the people, serve as soldiers in wartime, and weapons and armor are distributed by the local barracks. In normal times, he works as a farmer. You have to set aside three hours a day to train, and you don't have to train when you're busy farming. Concentrate on farming.

That's a good idea, but. There's a loophole here, and that's that if you do that, it's going to be very bad for management. Therefore, Yanxu Wang, the king of Yanming, set an identity for those people who were willing to serve as soldiers in wartime, that is, military households. Military households pay 10% less than ordinary people when they pay taxes. Don't underestimate this percent of the tax, a family of four works for a year and pays the court one percent of the tax is enough for a family of four to eat for two or three months.

Because of the emergence of this military household, the people of the whole country are happy to become military households as long as they have strong men in their families. After all, he can protect his family and defend the country without being separated from his family. And when you pay taxes, you can also pay one less layer of taxes. Who would not want to participate in this kind of good thing? The military household system created by Yanxu, the king of Yanming, played a huge role in resisting the invasion of foreign tribes during the Yan Dynasty when it was invaded by foreigners.

However, due to the fact that there were too many military households in the country at that time. Therefore, the subordinate officials cannot guarantee that every one of them is loyal to the Yan Dynasty. The specific situation of the military household and the imperial court were all learned from the transcript uploaded by the local yamen. This also makes it a lot of convenience for some people who have a heart to do their hands and feet.

After the leaders of the Yan family, the Xuanyuan family, the Han family, the Xiang family, the Mo family, the Sima family, the Shen family and other families passed away one after another. The new head of the family cannot take charge of all the affairs under his jurisdiction at once. Some families and officials in Western Chu began to organize their local military households into their own private soldiers. Among them, the city lord of the capital of Western Chu, Xu Hao, is the main one. drove the influential families of Western Chu to change the military household system of Western Chu to the warlord system.

The warlord system means one county and one warlord, and the local family controls the land that is the lifeblood of the people of the military households.

Leave the fertile land to them, and the barren land to the people. Then, they started to raise the price of local rice. At that time, it was also the season when Xichu was hit by a great drought, and after a year, the people's field production was greatly reduced. The annual output of the people is not even comparable to the output of the previous three months. In addition, the price of rice has remained high. The surplus money left over by the reduction of taxes could not buy much rice at all. What's worse is that on the eve of the drought, those families bought rice at four times the market price. There is a shortage of food in the homes of the people.

As a result, the people began to have no rice to eat, and these things were all carried out privately by the various families of Western Chu from the people of the imperial court, and the five major families and the two royal families of Yiyang had no way of knowing at all. Because at that time, they were all fighting on the front line, and the monitoring of Xichu, which was in the interior of the country, was greatly weakened.

The family of Western Chu successfully calculated the people to the point where there was no rice to eat. And this time. The people of the family let out the words. As long as they joined their warlord system, the family would provide rice to the people free of charge. and allotted some good land to the people.

When the people learned the news when they had no money to buy rice because they were poor, how would the people choose? There is no doubt about it, of course, they joined the warlord system.

In just one year, the major families of Western Chu have successfully made all the people of Western Chu join the warlords.

The warlord system is such that a village is run by a head of household assigned by a family. The head of the household deducted 1 percent of the grain he received and taught it to the county magistrate. Then the county magistrate deducted one percent of the tax revenue of all the villages and handed it over to the city lord. Then the city lord deducted 1% of the tax and handed it over to the county guard, and the county guard deducted 1% of the tax and sent it to the governor of Western Chu. The governor then found an excuse to lie about the tax and kept 16 percent of the tax revenue and handed it over to the yamen in various localities for the record.

Then the tax revenue can be transmitted to the imperial court from the yamen in various places, and the whole warlord system is clearly distinguished. Layer by layer of tax deductions, which are used to stay and reserve materials for the families in various places. Let them use food to recruit people who are short of food to become soldiers of their families, and then turn those withheld taxes into weapons and armor and other war materials to distribute to their soldiers.

In this process, the system of the imperial court managing military households was completely hollowed out. So that the imperial court did not react to the changes in Western Chu at all.

Fortunately, Yan Ye and Xuanyuan Wenhao used their accumulated connections to learn about this situation in a very short period of time after they ascended the throne, and immediately issued orders after they learned of this situation. suppressed the warlords in the territory of Western Chu. and began to purge other states of families interested in practicing warlordism. Within a year, the military household system was changed to the military tun system, and then it took another year to clear the obstacles in the territory of Western Chu. If you put pressure on the warlords of Western Chu, the warlords of Western Chu will have to stop using the warlord system to strengthen their power.

Then, its danger will sweep across the entire Yan Dynasty, and the huge country of the Yan Dynasty will be completely thrown into chaos!

Xuanyuan Wenhao and Yan Ye, the two Ming lords, with their extraordinary talents, kept the warlord system within Western Chu, and did not expand in the slightest during their decades of reign. Not only that, but they also allowed the power of the imperial court to take root in Western Chu steadily. With that force, 500,000 troops were mobilized to guard the border of Western Chu, so that all the warlords of Western Chu did not dare to act rashly.

After all, if they do anything else in such a situation, it will be tantamount to treason. If Xuanyuan Wenhao and Yan Ye were given this excuse, I believe that Xuanyuan Wenhao and Yan Ye would definitely take Mo Yi and Xiang Yang as commanders, and Ye Chengming and Huang Yiquan as generals. Ghost Nanjian is the military advisor, and Han Bo is the overseer. Lead a million-strong army to attack Western Chu and completely get rid of the warlord, the cancer of the Yan Dynasty!

It's a pity that there are also shrewd people in those families. It is because they understand this. So they've been very peaceful for decades, and they've never made any small moves. This situation has continued to this day

And Xuanyuan Wenhao and Yan Ye were clear about the loopholes of the military household system, so they changed the military household system to the military tun system. The so-called military cantonment system means that every year, there will be people who go to various places in the Yan Dynasty to estimate how much the land owned by the people will receive in a year. And a village has a tun chief, and the tun chief order is under its jurisdiction. Tunwei, Tunwei Order. If any of them have an abnormality, the others can report that person. This kind of system is set up in all counties and counties, but the scale is much larger than that of a village.

In addition to the above-mentioned system, the imperial court would regularly send people down to inspect each village, county, and city. The shift rotates every five days, and the original person will not know who is checking after work. The list was randomly assigned by the imperial court. And every day, there will be a special person to randomly check the two percent of the people who have paid tax records for inquiry. I know from them how much tax they paid.

And compare it with the number in the ledger, and if there is a mistake, the official in charge of this part will be dismissed and investigated.

(I won't explain the detailed military system, just write a rough one.) If you write it all, it is estimated that there will not be five or six thousand words. This is a bit of a suspicion of irrigation, I am full of discipline, and I will not use these unnecessary plots to irrigate. The officials can rest assured. ）

It has to be said that this perfect system has completely cut off the possibility of the re-emergence of warlords.

There were many people in the four halls of Annan City, east, west, north and south, and it was when the Western Chu changed that year, after the death of their family members for various reasons, they were completely disappointed in the military household system of the Yan Dynasty, and after arriving in Annan City, they wanted to continue to live a stable life. And those who were established with some of them served as soldiers in wartime. In normal times, they went to the mountains to hunt and do business to maintain their daily needs, and they did not occupy the land or minerals of the Yan Dynasty. So, they only need to pay the shop's taxes.

Whether it is the military household system or the military cantonment system, they are not in charge of them, and they are also able to retain the hall they have established because of the acquiescence of the imperial court. It has made a certain contribution to the business and stability of the city.

The imperial court was ashamed of them because of the changes in Western Chu, and what they did did did not violate the law of Great Yan. Therefore, the court also turned a blind eye. Let them form a church on their own, after all, it's not a bad thing.

And what Old Lady Wang asked Qin Mo to subdue was the four halls of Annan City, east, west, north and south, if all these four halls became soldiers, it would be equivalent to an extra 20,000 soldiers who could fight out of thin air. Plus because they only hunt, and run factories and shops. Therefore, they usually spend more time training than the common people under the military cantonment system, and they are very active in fighting every time the city is attacked. Therefore, all the people in these halls can be said to be elite soldiers.

And Qin Mo. Now it is necessary to use means to make the leader of the 20,000 elite soldiers in Annan City become his Qin Mo's subordinates