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This decree will naturally not have any conflict of interest for the nobles, but will allow the nobles to save a lot of taxes that need to be paid.

After all, the vast majority of the land in the entire Song Kingdom was occupied by the nobles, and the nobles were also the most important taxpayers.

While lowering taxes benefited the people, the nobles naturally benefited immensely.

Article 3 of the new law is the collection of commercial taxes.

This decree really touched the interests of the nobles, although the status of the merchants of the Kyushu mainland was low, almost all the nobles secretly controlled many merchants and used these merchants to earn money for them.

Prior to this, because of the low status of merchants, the government did not levy any commercial taxes, and the nobles used merchants to earn a lot of money.

But now, the government has begun to collect high commercial taxes, where are these nobles willing?

Article 4 of the new law states that there is no distinction between high and low, but only meritocracy.

The promulgation of this decree caused an uproar in the entire Shangqiu City, even if it was a lot of indifferent Confucians, they also changed color after seeing this decree.

For a long time, the whole of Kyushu has pursued the saying that life is noble and low, and there is an unparalleled gap between the aristocracy, the powerful and the common people, which is basically impossible to cross.

When Haotian was born and powerful warriors began to emerge, civilians were qualified to gain social status through martial arts practice, and even truly entered the official career.

However, compared with those powerful families with a long heritage, these families formed with the personal strength of warriors are still a bit lonely, and they can't have any impact on the old aristocracy at all.

However, the promulgation of this decree regardless of status, meritocracy, will definitely subvert the entire Song Dynasty's talent system, and many poor disciples are likely to occupy a large number of official places by virtue of their own talents.

In this way, the interests that the nobles can have will be fundamentally touched.

Therefore, in addition to the eight veins of the Song Kingdom, almost all the nobles in Shangqiu City began to write to the Duke of Song, demanding the abolition of this decree.

Under the banner that ancestral teachings cannot be abolished and etiquette cannot be changed, they strongly condemned Huan Chang's actions of violating tradition and deviating from the norm.

If it was said that the reform of the law was only a few small nobles jumping at the beginning, then now even many big nobles have begun to connect and strongly resist the new law.

However, just when many nobles were writing one after another, the fifth decree was promulgated again, which made the major nobles in Shangqiu City stunned.

Article 5 of the new law provides for the training of the new army and the awarding of knighthood for military merit.

Titles have always been a symbol of status, even the nobles with the lowest titles are families with a long heritage.

In the past, even if some children of poor families were lucky enough to be in high positions, it was almost impossible to obtain a knighthood.

This also makes the title a symbol of the nobility's heritage, and no matter how powerful a family without a title is, it is impossible to truly rank among the nobles.

Even those generals who have made many military achievements, if they don't have a very strong family background, they can't get knighthoods.

But now, according to the new law, as long as you can make enough military achievements, even ordinary soldiers may be able to obtain knighthoods, which is simply a provocation to all nobles who have titles.

The nobles in the entire Shangqiu City were truly angry.

Not only that, but even the nobles in the city not far from Shangqiu, after receiving this news, were furious and began to mobilize all their relations to prepare to resist this change.

In Shangqiu City, a man in simple clothes, carrying a simple spear behind him, quietly looked at the notice posted on the wall, and his face slowly showed an excited expression.

"Military merit knighthood, can it really be knighted for military merit?"

The man is in his early thirties, and his body is extremely calm, but his face is always with a touch of exhaustion.

However, when he really saw the contents of the notice clearly, his fists couldn't help but clench tightly, and the excitement in his eyes became stronger and stronger.

This man's name is Wu Jing, and his family still had the lowest title more than a hundred years ago, although it is not a big noble, and it is also a small power in the local area.

However, Wu Jing's family gradually declined, and when Wu Jing's grandfather was at that time, he was removed from the title because of some mistakes, and the Wu family really became penniless.

By Wu Jing's generation, the Wu family was no longer any different from real civilians, but Wu Jing still remembered his father's teachings before his death, that he must get ahead and then restore the glory of his ancestors.

Wu Jing has a good talent for martial arts, and he also has a lot of adventures in the process of wandering the rivers and lakes, and there are few enemies with spears in his hands.

However, Wu Jingzhi is not in the rivers and lakes, but in the temple.

If you want to restore the glory of your ancestors, you must obtain a knighthood, and after Wu Jing's martial arts achievements, he joined the army.

Because Wu Jing's martial arts are strong, and he is brave enough to charge into battle, he is deeply respected by the general, and his military rank is also rising.

However, after all, because of his identity, even if his ability is extraordinary, it is still impossible for Wu Jing to obtain a knighthood through military merits, at most he is just a lieutenant official position.

This kind of military rank is not at all comparable to a knighthood that can be passed down from generation to generation.

Wu Jing worked hard for several years before he completely gave up, then resigned from his official position and began to wander around the Song Kingdom, hoping to find an opportunity.

It's just that Wu Jing, who has been running around for more than a year, found that he was just wasting his time.

Although with Wu Jing's martial arts, whether he defected to the government or to the great nobles, he could obtain enough status, it was still impossible to obtain a knighthood after all.

Just when Wu Jing was disheartened, he saw the decree of the military merit knighthood, and the excitement in his heart can be imagined.

"This is a new law promulgated by the general, and the general is full of promises, if I defect to the army now, with my ability, it will definitely be okay to get a knighthood. ”

After taking a few deep breaths, Wu Jing calmed down the emotions stirring in his heart, and then walked towards the recruitment office of the new army without hesitation.

The formation of a new army that appeared explicitly in the new law was not just an empty talk, and at the same time as this decree was promulgated, Huan Chang had already begun to recruit new troops.

Not far from the recruitment office of the new army, Huan Chang walked slowly on the street with four guards, quietly listening to the discussions of the people on the street.

In the crowd, more than a dozen people dressed as civilians lowered their heads and walked towards Huan Chang.

But he said that Wu Jing was about to go to the recruitment office of the new army, when he suddenly heard someone next to him exclaim: "Oh my God, that's the general, these new laws were promulgated by the general!"

Following the direction pointed by the passerby's fingers, Wu Jing happened to see Huan Chang with four guards, and the light in his eyes couldn't help but become hot.

However, soon, Wu Jing found more than a dozen people dressed as civilians, divided into several teams and walked towards Huan Chang, and his face immediately changed greatly.

"General, be careful!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Wu Jing was already carrying a spear in his hand, and Dapeng pounced on it like wings.