The fourteenth year of the Apocalypse, the end of spring.￥f,

The cabinet announced that Huguang and Huaihe River Basin were included in the reform.

This news directly produced an explosive effect. A major earthquake was triggered in the officialdom of Huguang and Huaihe River. What should be come.

The imperial court had just won the Mongolian War and drove the Mongolian Khan Lin Dankhan out of the Mongolian grassland. The emperor used his power to reform Huguang and Huaihe River Basin, which immediately scared a group of ready-to-move forces so much that they dared not move.

Especially when the court announced the news, the army had been transported to Huguang and Huaihe River Basin by train. An infantry division was sent to Fengyang. There was the ancestral tomb of the Ming Dynasty there, so it was absolutely impossible to go there.

The railway has been built in Huguang and Huaihe River basins, and it can be passed through. However, the railway has not crossed the Yangtze River and the Yangtze River Bridge has not been built yet.

The field troops retreated from Mongolia were directly invested in Huguang and Huaihe River areas, namely Anhui and northern Yangtze River areas of Jiangsu.

South of the Yangtze River, only Huguang is fully included in the reform. That is, Hubei and Hunan will be included in the reform scope this time.

As soon as the army passed, the officials also passed one after another.

The reform began with administrative reforms. Unlike previous reforms in other provinces, the Ministry of Personnel and the Censorate directly began to investigate ** this time.

Not everyone can join the Han Imperial Party at this time.

A major earthquake in the officialdom occurred directly in Huguang and Huaihe areas. A large number of officials were caught out and put into prison, and their property was confiscated by the court.

Obviously, this reform is a disaster for officials in Huguang and Huaihe River Basins. Who is the official now?

Even those who are clean and rich in their families are basically business families. These business families have to be covered up after the reform.

However, the court did not kill all the officials who had a good understanding, were willing to cooperate with the court's reform, and were not as greedy as greedy. After all, it was impossible for a reform to replace all the officials there, and there were still some to ensure order.

Therefore, the imperial court usually sends officials to come, and while investigating the problems, they also absorb officials.

Administrative reform was carried out very smoothly under the leadership of the army. No official could resist it. They did not have military power, and they did not dare to rebel blatantly. They could only be pinched by the court like mud, and they could pinch whatever they wanted.

Get out of here if you don't like it, stay where you like it.

Those who are found to be corrupt and imprisoned are basically fat pigs. If they are greedy enough, they will naturally be cost-effective to slaughter them, which can be very pleased and supplement the national finances.

The crowds were scrambling and the people applauded.

When officials sent by the court arrived in Huguang and Huaihe areas, the local administrative trend quickly changed, the government's efficiency became higher and became more honest, but there were more things to manage. The number of officials and the armed forces that local governments could draw were also increased.

Various new departments, local departments responsible for taxation, local taxation, education, water conservancy, civil affairs, forestry, agriculture, industry and commerce, transportation, etc., have been established one after another. In the past, these departments were not available in the local area. Local governments were basically highly autonomous and had extremely low administrative costs.

The Ming Dynasty was able to maintain the country's collapse with ultra-low fiscal revenue, mainly because it relied on ultra-low administrative costs.

However, the court no longer adopts that model, but adopts a more sophisticated administrative management model, and no longer allows local forces to be highly autonomous.

The court even extended its hands to the township level, and township government departments will be established in these reform areas.

The armed forces that local governments can draw are police forces and armed police forces, and they can also request support from the garrison troops. In this reform, there is even support from the Central Military Region Field Army.

The court directly dispatched a large number of officials and civil servants to the reform areas, as well as a large number of policemen and armed police to the local area, and at the same time recruited local constables.

After these forces arrived at the local area, the first thing they did was to suppress bandits and crack down on gangs to ensure the safety of business, personnel exchanges, and local stability.

The reform was still very smooth at the beginning, and there was no resistance in the officialdom reform. So it began to enter tax reform, and the problem was directly exposed.

The landlords in the towns began to violently resist the law. And they were violently resisting the law everywhere, which was in a hurry.

During the tax reform, commercial taxation was implemented, but the gentry who paid taxes together were very uncooperative.

The court reformed and established township governments, which meant to seize power from them!

These gentry, as landlords, were even more reluctant to accept the court's new agricultural tax policies. They didn't understand any agricultural companies and didn't want to do it.

They only knew that the court had to collect taxes. And the more land the higher the agricultural tax. This was the rhythm of putting them to death. These landlords controlled a large number of people through the land. At the same time, they also built forts in the countryside, and even had many weapons, and sometimes even played guest roles as bandits.

The civil servants of the court came down to measure the land and beat him away with sticks.

Moreover, the Huguang area has a large depth, and many places have complex terrain, and mainly produces commercial grain. The landlords are tall and far away, so they are not willing to buy the court's reform at all. The court's agricultural reform policies in the north were a little unacceptable for the time being.

Soon, the Huguang area was like the imperial court was in an emergency.

"Your Majesty, the biggest source of resistance to Huguang's reform is those landlords, and those landlords have a large population. However, these populations are also what our court wants to release from the land now. The conflicts between the two sides are irreconcilable, so the only way is to fight." Jiang Dejing suggested to Zhu Youxiao.

"But in that case, Huguang will probably be in chaos for a while." Shen Qing said, "Maybe there is a softer way."

Zhu Youxiao was also thinking about this issue, as Jiang Dejing said. The commercial power in Huguang area is not very strong, but the landlord class is very powerful, and the resistance to reform mainly comes from these landlord classes.

The landlord class controls a large number of people, and now the court needs to release these people from the land, so the contradictions are a bit irreconcilable.

After these populations are released, who will produce the land? The land mainly pays taxes when the land is abandoned, so they can only sell land. However, when the market is so much money, it is not worth selling a large amount of land.

In fact, this reform itself was aimed at the interests of the landlord class. During the reform process of northern provinces, because those landlords could not confront the court, the reform was carried out smoothly.

Now in Huguang, if those landlords resist the imperial court, if they use force, they may catch fire everywhere.
Chapter completed!