From Soldier To Emperor

Although the frequency of the two-headed giant Jack's steps is not fast, the 4 meters tall figure stepped out far beyond the speed of ordinary human jogging, and only human sprinting can catch up.

However, for the two-headed giant Jack, this kind of stride is just normal walking, and naturally occupies a physical advantage in chasing humans.

"put!"

The densely packed bed crossbows and slings on the head of Liangzhou City suddenly shot towards Jack, the two-headed giant who was advancing alone, under a command.

And the undead army behind the double-headed giant Jack stopped outside the range of the defense equipment on the head of Liangzhou city...

In other words, the Liangzhou City defenders only had the two-headed giant Jack as a target!

Hundreds of large and small defensive instruments lost the big rocks, the thick bed crossbow that was indistinguishable from the long spear, and the ignited fireball was thrown into his hand, holding a large iron rod covered with spikes, and one side with his body. Jack the two-headed giant with a matching large shield.

These are the weapons and equipment that Richard has summoned hundreds of craftsmen and thousands of coolies in the northwest region to build for the two-headed giant Jack in a short period of time.

It's not that Richard didn't want to equip the two-headed giant Jack with a heavy armor that is more than 4 meters high. With the power of the two-headed giant, what kind of armor can't support it?

But it is too difficult to build armor. At least in this era of Tang Guo, artisans are unable to build heavy armors over 4 meters high, let alone heavy armors, even ordinary light armors can't do it!

Of course, if you give these craftsmen years to study and build, you may be able to get a set of armor specially matched by the two-headed giant, but Richard can't wait for a few years!

The Tang state now only has one hundred thousand soldiers, and has not yet been relieved from the blow of Anlu Mountain, but a few years later, given the richness of the Central Plains, it is difficult to guarantee that the Tang State Council will not burst out.

On the other hand, Ming State had taken a large enough site. The area of ​​the Northwest region alone was larger than the Central Plains area that Tang State actually controlled at this time. The areas occupied by Ming State were all places where side soldiers had passed.

Moreover, although the Northwest region is more prosperous than the Western Regions, it is definitely a vast land and sparsely populated compared to the Central Plains!

You know, even though Tang Guo experienced the Anlu Mountain rebellion and the army was under Chang'an City, the Central Plains still faced social contradictions with fewer people and more land!

To put it bluntly, the nearly half of the Central Plains area that has been soldiers once did not solve the contradiction between fewer people and more land.

Of course, the war between Anlushan and Tang was part of the Han civil war. No civilians were deliberately slaughtered. Most of the civilians did not die in the hands of the army, but starved to death because of the war.

The stability of the Ming State was based on a powerful military force and a feudal feudal system with small land and large population.

Why did the new army established by the Ming State in the northwestern region be able to fight? It was not because Ming State gave land to every household, and the people spontaneously began to maintain Ming State's rule!

Without the exploitation of the landlord gentry class and the local cliques of middlemen, after the distribution of land, the Ming country can not only get enough money to maintain the court and the army, and the people can eat their food again...

Of course, this small peasant economic model also has its drawbacks, because it is the majority of the common people who control the land, and the wealth is scattered, and it is difficult to be concentrated. Without the landlord gentry class and local powerhouses who have a large amount of capital, it is naturally difficult to have merchants. ...

As a result, all the commercial activities in the cities and towns became small farmers' vegetable markets, and the bulk trade was only run by the imperial court in the territory of Ming Dynasty!

In the Ming Dynasty, apart from the imperial court, there is no individual financial resources to organize business activities and the sale of shops and restaurants. Even the owners of handicraft workshops and craftsmen have become imperial courts, and ordinary small farmers cannot support them. I won't raise them...

Although this kind of feudal small peasant economy is very stable, it prevents the development of social productivity. Basically, if you want to develop social productivity, you can only rely on the official power of the imperial court, which is commonly known as government-run ‘enterprise’.

At this time, ninety-nine percent of Mingguo’s mines, collective farms, and bulk trade were in the hands of the imperial court, and they belonged to the true meaning of “state-owned enterprises”.

This is a measure that tests the executive power of the government bureaucracy. Fortunately, Richard has an impartial, competent, and absolutely loyal cabinet, coupled with Jin Yiwei’s supervision and a strict system for the elimination of officials, and the development of government-run businesses in the country. It's not bad.

This also allows Mingguo to concentrate most of the wealth of society and regulate social development at will, such as adjusting the price of food on the market. Without competition from big merchants, farmers can only sell their food to government-run businesses...

Of course, farmers can choose not to sell, but the court can control the market price and convert it into silver when collecting taxes to force farmers to sell grain!

This is equivalent to increasing the burden on farmers in disguise!

It's just that the court wants face, unlike the landlord squire who is unscrupulous in order to benefit, so there is a proper schedule for the taxation of farmers ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ will not be excessively squeezed.

As long as the bureaucracy is not corrupt, this government-run business model will benefit the country a lot!

It's a pity that the bureaucracy is the most corruptible thing in the world...

Nowadays, the relatively clean bureaucratic system of Ming Dynasty is flourishing, but it is because the establishment of the country has not been long. The founding of the country is still in his prime, and the imperial system is relatively perfect, so the bureaucratic system corruption has not started.

After two or three generations of work, the officialdom will definitely change.

This is the greedy instinct of people. After all, how many officials are willing to sacrifice themselves for others without seeking personal gain?

In the history of the earth, after Zhu Yuanzhang was founded, corrupt officials killed batch after batch, and finally Zhu Yuanzhang died. Wasn't he slandered by the entire bureaucracy as a bloodthirsty tyrant?

And the Ming in the history of the earth, finally decayed and degenerated to hollow out the foundation of the country, and was eventually overthrown by the peasant uprising and the Man Qing Dazi!

Outside Liangzhou city, the two-headed giant held a heavy wooden shield about the size of his body, blocking most of the attacks.

This wooden shield is actually made of more than a dozen trees that are processed side by side and tied together, so it is naturally difficult to penetrate...

Of course, if there is artillery, it can still be penetrated with solid bullets.

As for the stone fire bombs that were thrown in Liangzhou City, although they could get past Jack's shield, hitting Jack on his body was just tickling him.

The cursed two-headed giant human body is full of negative energy, and the flame can't burn at all!

In this way, the two-headed giant Jack came to the outside of the moat outside the city unscathed under the unbelievable gaze of the Liangzhou city defenders, and then he walked into the moat like this and gradually sank into the bottom of the river...

It didn't take long for the two-headed giant Jack to climb up from the other side of the moat under the inexplicable gaze of the Liangzhou city defenders!