In this battle, the Navy of Chenxi Army won a complete victory. The Li family was sunk more than 130 warships. All the troop transport ships and the elite soldiers on it were swallowed by the sea. In the end, less than twenty of them escaped. The remaining thirty injured warships raised white flags and surrendered.

No one was killed in the Chenxi Army, and less than ten injured people. All the new recruits accidentally fell because the ship was shaking violently when they jumped to the Lijia warship to receive the more than a thousand prisoners.

After this battle, the Li family coalition forces on Yuedao were completely frightened. In addition, there was not much food stored on Yuedao, so they simply gave up Yuedao. All the remaining navy retreated to Jiaozhou Island City, a coastal town of Lidao, to rest.

The news came back to Chang'an, the capital of Li family. Li Yuan, the Emperor of Li Tang, could not believe his ears. He sat on the dragon throne. Prince Li Jiancheng also happened to be in Yanying Hall. He said with a blue face: "Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!"

He kicked the messenger to the ground and said angrily: "You dare to speak nonsense, and you should kill me!"

He had forgotten how long he hadn't been so angry. Originally, the news that Xue Wanche had sent back was still going well. He could advance in the sea and land in one fell swoop, annihilation of the young commander's army and capture Suizhou, which was vast. Who would have thought that the situation suddenly had such a big reversal?

Chenxi Island was seized, Xue Wanche and the two or three thousand coalition forces on the island, all the masters led by Baisan Taoist lost contact, and even half of them were destroyed?

Li Jiancheng would not believe it anyway. This is simply incredible and impossible!

Yanying's palace was silent, and the eunuchs didn't even dare to be proud of their spirits. The emperor's close minister, Pei Ji and Na Yan (i.e. the Shizhong) Liu Wenjing did not dare to speak out easily to persuade him.

After all, Li Yuan had experienced many hardships, and he came to his senses first and sighed, "Prince, don't be impatient." He then asked the messenger who was so scared that he was no longer indifferent.

The messenger had personally experienced the battle of the sea in the morning light. He bowed his head and said what he saw and heard.

Li Jiancheng was stunned for a while and suddenly said angrily: "Chu Loujun drove the holy beast of the Dragon Sect, and one person and one crane destroyed our 15,000 naval fleet? Nonsense! How is this possible?"

The messenger kowtowed desperately and said, "Everything that Mo General is true. He also asked Mo General to pass on a message to His Majesty and His Highness, saying.........."

"What are you saying? Say it quickly!"

"I dare not say it."

Li Yuan's face was so gloomy that water could almost drip. He stopped the angry Li Jiancheng and said to the messenger: "Repost Chu Loujun's original words, I forgive you for not guilty."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." The messenger replied: "At that time, more than a dozen ships of our side retreated quickly, and Chu Loujun did not chase him. He just sent a message from afar and said, 'Tell you Emperor Tang and the Crown Prince that you are welcome to attack Chenxi Island at any time. I, Chu Loujun, are here to wait for the vanguard. I will kill 10,000 and 100,000. I will still kill all 10,000. In addition, You Chuhong and Dugu Fengposun are in my hands. When you send troops to invade Suizhou, it is when You Chuhong's heads land...'"

Li Yuan naturally knew that Chu Loujun would not call him "Tang Emperor" or "Crown Prince" in his original words, and most of them were called by his name, but he had no intention of pursuing these things. Seeing that the messenger had no other information, he waved his hand to let him go down, then sat heavily on the dragon throne, and asked Liu Wenjing tiredly: "What do you think of Liu Aiqing?"

Liu Wenjing sighed: "I guess General Xue and others are afraid that there will be a lot of danger, otherwise Chu Loujun would not only mention Mrs. You's name. In addition, Mrs. You fell into Chu Loujun's hands, and the matter on Bat Island was probably destroyed by Chu Loujun. This Chu Loujun is really incredible. You should be more cautious in attacking Suizhou. Don't send troops easily before making complete preparations. In addition, the holy beast of the Dragon Sect helps Chu Loujun, and you must also contact the Shenlong Sect to ask clearly, otherwise it will affect the cooperation between the two families..."

Li Yuan stroked his forehead with a headache.

Not to mention that the plan to attack Suizhou by sea failed completely, You Chuhong alone was enough for him to have a headache. This old woman was the Dinghai Shenjian in Dugu Valve, and Dugu Valve was an extremely important force in the Li Valve power. You Chuhong's defeat made him afraid of being attacked.

Li Jiancheng couldn't help it and said angrily: "Why should Liu Nayan be more ambitious and destroy his own power? No matter how powerful Chu Loujun is, he is just a person. This time, he relies on the help of two sea dragons of the Dragon Sect to defeat our navy by chance. I am afraid that he will do anything!"

Seeing him roaring at Yanying Palace repeatedly, Li Yuan said unhappily: "The prince is tired, go down and rest."

Seeing Li Yuan's expression, Li Jiancheng didn't dare to say anything anymore. He left Yanying Palace angrily. When he returned to the East Palace, he thought of losing two confidant generals Xue Wanche and Er Wenhuan. He used the sea to defeat the young commander army to promote his power and suppress Li Shimin's wishful thinking, and all of them were lost. He couldn't help but wave his sword and cut off a corner of the desk in the study.

"Chu Loujun, this prince is irreconcilable with you!"

In fact, no matter how angry Li Jiancheng was, Li Yuan, who was cautious in the end, adopted Liu Wenjing's suggestion and suspended the plan to attack Suizhou. While accumulating strength, he revised the offensive plan...

Xu Fangyuan learned about the news that Li's family had withdrawn from Yuedao five days after the naval battle. At that time, Chu Zheng had already left Chenxi Island. He asked the general manager Qin Ruyun, and after receiving the order, he quickly sent a navy to join Yuedao to the territory of Chenxi Army.

Of course, these are all later stories.

...

Besides, Chu Zheng defeated the Li family's navy and rode the Baihe back to the sky above his flagship. He patted Baihe's head and then fell back to the bow of the ship. He found that everyone's eyes were different when they looked at him, obviously with awe and a bit of fanaticism.

Even Qin Ruyun's eyes shone brightly, she smiled at him with a smile, knowing that this island would be completely included in his pocket from now on, and Chu Zheng's rule would be as stable as Mount Tai.

The news that Chu Shuai led the navy to defeat the invading Li family army was like wings, and soon spread in the city. Countless people rushed out of the house excitedly and shouted excitedly on the streets. Some people burst into tears to pay tribute to the spirit of heaven who had been killed for months, some people lit firecrackers, and laughter everywhere. The atmosphere was even more lively and joyful than the Spring Festival.

When Chu Zheng led his men back to the city, the cheers of the people rushed into the sky and resounded throughout the city. Many people excitedly burned incense and knelt down and shouted long live Chu Shuai.

Chu Zheng rode on his horse, looking at the people kneeling on the streets, listening to the deafening cheers of the soldiers in the city, and bursts of excitement surged in his heart.

From now on, Chenxi Island has eliminated any worries and can officially reform according to his and Qin Ruyun's plan!

In this chaotic world, he will create a pure land where ordinary people will never starve or freeze to death, and will have the dignity that mankind should have!

...

In the afternoon of the same day, Chu Zheng took advantage of the great victory to speak in front of the city lord's mansion. Tens of thousands of people in the city came to listen to his speech in the cold wind.

Chu Zheng first introduced Qin Ruyun as the city lord and island chief, and then promulgated a series of new policies and development outlines.

1. Encourage farming, announce tax reduction and interest reduction. Chenxi Island is exempt from taxes within two years, and will be levied at 10% of the land output in two years (the original tax is 50% during the reign of King Chen and 80% during the reign of Xue Wanche). The land rent for all wealthy households shall not exceed 10% (currently more than 30%), and the annual interest rate for money placed in the stamps shall not exceed 10% (currently more than 10%), and violators shall be severely punished. In addition, the government will lend out the grain, oxen and farm tools needed for all farmers to reclaim this year without interest.

2. Divide Chenxi City into ten streets. The disaster relief department sets up offices in each street, county, town, and village to supervise the distribution of disaster relief rice, grain, cotton coats and quilts, and organize and guide the people to resume production and normal life as soon as possible (in the future, the disaster relief department will be directly transformed into a "Civil Affairs Management Office", and its functions will increase ideological education, policy interpretation and actual implementation, so as to replace the usual functions of township chiefs and village chiefs, so that the governance scope will truly cover the lowest-level rural villagers).

3. When building roads, first restore the roads to various counties, towns and large villages, and finally achieve the completion of roads in all mountain villages.

4. Build schools and promote compulsory education. Children aged six to twelve must enter school. All tuition and living expenses are provided by the City Lord’s Mansion.

5. Implement the household registration system, and everyone registers their household registration, and use household registration as identity certificate in the future, and cancel the road induction system.

6. Establish a unified commodity market to encourage commodity trading, and reduce commercial tax to 10%.

7. Establish a special school for generals and administrative staff to train qualified staff. All officials must start from service staff in the future and be promoted step by step.

8. Encourage inventions, and any invention that improves productivity, weapon power, and grain output will be rewarded.

9. Gradually establish and improve people's livelihood laws to protect the rights and interests of all people.

...

There are 25 new policies in total, big and small, and basically all drafted by Qin Ruyun and Chu Zheng discussed it with her.

After Chu Zheng announced the announcement, Qin Ruyun explained in detail to all the people present.

These new policies are a blessing for the vast majority of poor people, accounting for 95% of the proportion, but are cutting off their losses for the rich and powerful people. Not only are the real interests damaged, but the privilege of becoming an official in the future is also seriously threatened. Originally, the poor were basically illiterate, and only the children of wealthy and powerful families could read and read, so they had the privilege of becoming an official. Now promoting compulsory education is equivalent to cutting off their privileges.

If it is in the past or in other areas, these new policies are extremely difficult to implement, but the situation on Chenxi Island is particularly special.

The former King Chen himself was the largest landlord on the island. Over the years, he took advantage of nearly half of the land. During his tenure, Xue Wanche even exploited variously. Even the powerful people in the city were bitten off a large area of ​​flesh and blood. Now all of these wealth, land, food and food are cheaper than Chu Zheng.

The city lord's mansion under Chu Zheng's name occupies almost 70% of the land on the island, 80% of the wealth and more than 90% of the food, making it the well-deserved richest man on Chenxi Island.

However, the assets of the powerful and wealthy households have shrunk most of the time compared to the past, and many of them have even become ordinary families, with unprecedentedly weak power.

Chu Zheng's city lord's mansion took the lead in reducing rent and interest rates and reducing taxes. Unless the rich and powerful people reduced rent and interest rates, no one would rent their land to farm.

As for violent resistance? The killing nature of the previous city lord Xue Wanche had already scared them out of their courage. The current city lord, Shuai Chu, even came out of the sea of ​​corpses and blood. He did not see the head on the city still dripping with blood?

Not to mention that Chu Shuai had just broken more than 10,000 yuan and returned from the victory. It was considered benevolence and righteousness when Shuai Shuai was so arrogant. At that time, Ding Huan, Pang Xin and others dared to be so arrogant, and there were these rich and powerful people behind it. No one knew whether Shuai Shuai knew these inside stories, and he dared not say anything.

At present, generals and officials at all levels can maintain their original positions and not be affected by the new policy. Those who are vested interests can naturally not object.

The people who benefit the most will only support the new policy with both hands and feet.

This also made Chu Zheng and Qin Ruyun's series of new policies easily implemented to promote social reform. In addition to the rich and powerful complaints that were negligible, the people were all excited, and the cry of "Long Live the Shuai Chu" quickly spread throughout the city and did not calm down for a long time.

The emerging small force of the Chenxi Army has completely taken root in Chenxi Island.

For Chu Zheng and Qin Ruyun, carrying out a series of social reforms to Chenxi Island is a responsibility and a right. The two plan to transform Chenxi Island into their ideal country, a home where the people can live and work in peace and contentment.

It can be foreseen that with the implementation of the new policy, productivity will be further liberated, people's strength will be coordinated, and social distribution efficiency will be improved. Chenxi Island will surely become the most desirable pure land in troubled times in the future.

...

The sunset is setting, and it is evening again in a blink of an eye.

The hundred people have finally dispersed one after another, but the city is still lively in the morning light.

Tens of golden lights spread on the city lord's mansion, making it even more majestic and magnificent.

The City Lord's Mansion is Yuanchen's Mansion, which covers a very wide area. However, Chu Zheng was not used to living in such a luxurious place. He originally wanted to demolish it, but was persuaded by Tong Hai and others, saying that the City Lord is the lord of all people, so how can he show his majesty if he doesn't do this? Moreover, demolition is a waste of resources and is really a waste.

Chu Zheng was anxious to go to Bat Island at that time, and had no time to stick to his own opinions. The Chen Prince's Mansion was preserved and changed to the City Lord's Mansion.

However, after Chu Zheng came back this time, he ordered that only one-fifth of the buildings be retained, and the remaining palace buildings were closed to save manpower and material resources for cleaning and maintenance. This fifth of the area also includes the training grounds and barracks of the guard camp.

The places Chu Zheng used in daily life were only a side hall, including a bedroom, a study, a living room, and a conference room.

However, after Chu Liuxiang and his friends and a group of rescued girls arrived, Chu Zheng ordered an additional one-tenth of the area to be opened to accommodate them.

At this time, Chu Zheng had a half-day free time in his life. He hugged Niu Niu and lay on the bamboo chair in the corridor in front of the study, gently stroking the little girl's sparse hair.

No matter how busy he is these days, he will take half an hour to accompany this little girl. When he has no time, Dongfang Bai or He Lan'er will take care of Niu Niu. He Lan'er has never mentioned his orders 100%. What surprised Chu Zheng was that Dongfang Bai was actually quite good to Niu Niu, and he had neither a stern face nor impatient. This is really rare. Chu Zheng speculated that Niu Niu's sensibility and obedience played a key role.

At this time, Niu Niu had just curled up in his arms and fell asleep, her hands still holding his clothes with attachment. This attachment that seemed like a relative made Chu Zheng's heart soften.

I thought I hadn't had tea for a while, Chu Zheng subconsciously licked his somewhat chapped lips.

Most of the servants in the city lord's mansion have long been dismissed, and Chu Zheng doesn't like anyone to disturb him, so there is no maid next to him who serves tea and water.

He Lan'er was still caring and acted as the little maid. Seeing this, he immediately brought warm tea to Chu Zheng.

"Thank you, Lan'er." Chu Zheng took a sip, then breathed comfortably.
Chapter completed!