Longevity begins with Jinyiwei

For an adult, half a catty of rice per day is already less, and this has been scraped by officials at all levels...

But soon, Li Xiu suppressed the killing intent in his heart, took a deep breath, and his expression returned to normal.

It is not scary to be greedy, what is scary is to be greedy and not do anything.

At least in Liaohe County, if he is greedy, the matter will be settled for him.

With the implementation of the reform policy, the common people have food to eat, even if they eat a lot less, but they can barely eat enough to survive starvation. His goal of stabilizing Liaodong has been achieved.

As for the middle process...

In this era when being an official is almost entirely dependent on self-consciousness, it is obviously impossible for him to want all officials not to be corrupt, even for the generals he trained.

They are also human beings, and they are human beings.

Appropriate greed, as long as he handles things seriously, he is not unacceptable.

Moreover, nowadays, everything has to make way for reform, and it is not the time to fight corruption.

"Go and find out who is greedy, how much greedy, and do it in secret. If you find out, don't say anything."

Li Xiu waved his hand, and a Jin Yiwei who was accompanying him immediately took orders and turned away.

"Let's go, follow the master and I will walk around the village."

Li Xiu's expression was as usual, he smiled and exchanged greetings with the little official, and then wandered around the small village calmly.

Returning to Beijing soon, the situation of the reform, if he doesn't go to the bottom to have a look at it himself, and only rely on the reports from the people below, he will not feel at ease after all.

In two days, from Shenyang City, to various counties, and then to villages and towns, half of Shenyang, under the clothes of the emperor Bailongyu, almost wandered around all over.

Carefully observe the implementation of finance and taxation, land, the two most fundamental things of reform.

Fortunately, under the policy of integrating the top and bottom and exerting pressure from top to bottom, things are still done honestly. Even though there are various disadvantages, at least his desired goal has been achieved.

The major policy of reform, after several months of intensive implementation under such a waste of time, has already taken root in this land, and the rest is to be implemented day after day, imperceptibly.

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4 Chapter [-] Control the people and rule!

The tenth day of September in the second year of Zhaowu.

It was only early in the morning, and the genius was dimly lit. It was the time of the curfew, but inside and outside Shenyang City, there was a hustle and bustle.

Gathered outside the city gate, gathered in twos and threes, waiting eagerly.

"winter!"

At some point, with the sound of rumbling war drums, the closed city gate opened,

Accompanied by the sound of a rumbling war drum, the silence in Shenyang City was completely torn apart.

Immediately afterwards, there was chaos, but there was the sound of footsteps that seemed to be extremely orderly. The soldiers of the Imperial Battalion stationed in the Shenyang Imperial Palace quickly assembled, and the emperor's banner was also erected high in the army.

"Your Majesty, let's drive!"

In the palace, accompanied by the eunuch's shout, the emperor, dressed in a armored stomach, with a bulging cape, rode his horse and moved, followed by the soldiers of the imperial camp with his bodyguards behind him.

When the emperor arrived at Yuqianying, the army standing upright on the street followed suit and headed out towards the city gate.

At the same time, the people who had already gathered on both sides of the street also knelt down on the ground holding the incense burner in their hands.

"Long live! Long live! Long live!"

The shout of long live shook the heavens and the earth, while the emperor rode his horse and moved, he looked around with indifferent eyes.

However, when the people outside the city gathered and knelt down to send them off, the eyes of the emperor couldn't help flickering.

If the people in the city respectfully send it off, it is an act organized by the Shenyang government, but outside the city, these seemingly disorderly people...

"Long live! Long live! Long live!"

The mountain roared and the tsunami rushed straight into the sky. Li Xiu looked around, all with grateful eyes. At this moment, there was an indescribable feeling in his heart.

"Long live Your Majesty!"

"Long live Your Majesty!"

Speaking of it, he really just did some insignificant things. Even if the reform policy is implemented now, in Liaodong, it is only to let these people have the qualifications to live normally, and it is far from being able to live well. the point.

But they were extremely satisfied, and even gave him the greatest support for the emperor.

All this seems to be very beautiful, but in fact, it is extremely cruel.

Just like the five arts of controlling the people mentioned in Shang Junshu: one people, weak people, tired people, humiliating people, and poor people.

The so-called one people means unifying thought, monopolizing ideology,

The weak people refer to the weak people and the strong country, the strong country and the weak people, and the way to govern the country is to focus on the weak people.

To tire the people is to find things for the people and make them exhausted.

To humiliate the people is not to make the people respect and believe, or to instigate them to report and expose each other, and ultimately to live in an atmosphere of fear.

For the poor, it is to let the common people prostrate themselves, have no respect and trust, deprive them of surplus food and wealth, and make them poor and short-sighted.

The seemingly absurd theory is actually the real truth.

With a unified ideology, the people will not be confused by other ideologies, and the biggest source of turmoil can be eradicated.

The weak people, the tired people, the humiliated people, and the poor people, these four points, the biggest role is to allow the country and even the emperor to gain the support of the people at the lowest cost, and at the same time, to get the power of the people at the lowest cost.

The simplest side is just like the people in front of you. Under the rule of Hou Jin, they are precarious, and their life and death are unpredictable.

This is undoubtedly oppressed to the extreme, and the people are also weak, tired, poor, and humiliated to the extreme!

Therefore, he only needs to implement a little bit of good governance to win the support of these people. As long as he wants to, with this support, he can easily use the power of hundreds of thousands of people in Liaodong through the ruling organization.

But if the people in Liaodong live a prosperous and carefree life, he wants to win the support of these people, and if he wants to mobilize the power of these people, it is not something that every household can get by sending a few buckets of rice!

That will inevitably require a greater cost of governance, and it will also add more unstable factors.

Therefore, the rule of a country has never been about the prosperity of the people and the strength of the country.

Instead, the country needs to be weak to be strong!

Of course, this weakness naturally needs to change with the changes of the times.

Nowadays, it is extremely simple to weaken the people, but with the development of the times, the weak character of the weak people, of course, also needs to keep pace with the times.

Especially with the development of society, people's life has gradually become rich with the development of society, and people's wisdom has been developed.

If we want to weaken the people, it is not simply and brutally squeezing, but the court needs to use all kinds of hands hidden in the dark to make most of the people run around and make a living. Only in this way can we obtain more at the lowest cost of governance Great power!

Of course, means are just means. If the people's wisdom has been developed, it is naturally not difficult for people to find out, and this, the importance of ideology, is reflected.

The five arts of Shang Jun's control of the people, rather than saying that the reform made the Qin State strong and achieved Qin's tyranny, it is better to say that it is a conclusion under the rule of human nature.

As long as people still exist, this conclusion cannot be changed.

And as a ruler, especially in this era, even if he risked the world's disgrace and corrected the ills of the ages, in the end, he still had to return to the way of ruling the country by elites and squeezing the power of the people.

This is an unchangeable historical law, and as long as human beings still exist, it cannot be changed.

Even if it is reversed for a while, it will inevitably return to this law.

Whether it's the past, the present, or the future.

Perhaps, the only thing he is different from is his way of doing things. In fact, although he is also ruling and oppressing, at least, in his hands, he will let the people live a better life, and their lives will be more hopeful and Do your best to ask the officials and elites to treat the common people better.

Instead of letting these people live in a daze, it is a lifetime.

Other than that, there was nothing he could do.

He is also a human being, and he cannot reverse the inevitable laws of history, nor can he change everyone's hearts.

With many thoughts circulating, Li Xiu let out a long breath and uttered two words.

"tips!"

"According to the order!"

Wang Wu next to him took the order, and the eunuchs carried the trays full of copper coins and broken silver one by one, and sprinkled the money and silver to the people.

For a while, the order was chaotic, and the people looted money and silver, but the shouts of long live were helpless.

"Order the whole army, on the way back to Beijing, there will be no fighting, no disturbance to the people, no stepping on the fields, and those who violate the order will be subject to military law!"

The decree was issued again, the generals took orders, the emperor didn't say much, he rode his horse and moved, and the team that was slowly moving forward because of accepting the worship of the people also suddenly accelerated, came out of Shenyang, and rushed towards the direction of the capital.

When they came, there were only tens of thousands of soldiers of the Imperial Army of the Beijing Army. When they returned, because Shanhai was abolished and reorganized, Liaodong was pacified, and the fourth battalion of the Beijing Army originally stationed in Shanhai returned to the organizational system.

This mighty triumphant team is also an inflated army of tens of thousands!

At this time when the hearts of the people are in turmoil due to the reform, with the power of great victory, enter the customs and return triumphantly!

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Chapter 461 The Cruelty Under the Agitation

When the army set off, the news of the emperor's triumphant return to Beijing quickly spread to the whole world with the attention of all parties.

The reform of Liaodong, after several months, is no longer a secret in the whole world.

People in the north are in turmoil, and it has long been a naked reality.

Under the general trend of reform, perhaps the only one who is excited about this reform is Nan Ming, who has recently been re-established.

The defeat of the Liao Town and the destruction of the country by the Later Jin Dynasty was undoubtedly a terrible news for the officials of the Nanming Dynasty, and it made people feel turbulent and desperate.

But just like every time in the past, the former Qin Gong and the current Daheng Emperor are still so unwilling to be at peace. After finally stabilizing the national fortune, they started to toss again!

This time, the blade is aimed at the gentry and landlords in the world!

What this means is obviously very clear.

"In less than a month, nearly 1 people migrated from the north, and nearly a hundred of them were officials from the north alone."

"There are countless rich merchants and gentry everywhere!"

"Every province in the north is in turmoil, and the hearts of the people are against each other!"

"The brilliant Ming Dynasty seems to be the aspiration of the people of the world!"

"If things go on like this, it won't be long before the King of Ming Dynasty decides to settle in the Central Plains."

Shi Bang Yaokang's passionate voice can be clearly heard in the Duke of Chu's mansion in the capital city of Quanzhou.

Lu Xiangsheng was dressed in a coarse cloth robe, brandishing a broadsword on his own, immersed in the world of martial arts, as if he didn't care what Shi Bangyao said at all.

In the end, the blade sank into the ground, and Lu Xiangsheng glanced at Shi Bangyao: "Have you ever thought about why they moved their family to the south of the Yangtze River?"

After uttering this sentence, Lu Xiangsheng didn't say another word, walked to the stone table in the gazebo, picked up the teacup, and drank it down in one gulp.

As for Shi Bangyao, his complexion turned ugly for a moment, not because Lu Xiangsheng said they hadn't thought of it, but under the agitation with great difficulty, no one was willing to think about this aspect, and few people were willing to sweep everyone's nature.

Lu Xiangsheng's words completely tore away all illusions, and put the cruel reality on his face.

A very simple truth, as long as there is another way to go, I am afraid that few people are willing to sell their properties, leave their hometowns, and come to the south of the Yangtze River thousands of miles away!

So, there is only one possibility.

That is, even if he, Li Xiu, put the knife on everyone's necks, there were still very few people who had the guts to resist.

Obviously, the more people dare not resist, the higher the success rate of Li Xiu's unprecedented reform.

Even if it is only half successful, as the reforms penetrate to the bottom, the terrorist control brought about will be unprecedented in all dynasties. The growth of national power is obvious and naturally unprecedented.

At that time, I am afraid that only one partial division will be needed to sweep away the Daming they worked so hard to rebuild.

"Your Majesty has always admired you very much, and the road to the cabinet has been paved for you!"

"Why do you say you have to struggle in this mess?"

This time, what Shi Bangyao said in the past to persuade Lu Xiangsheng was used by Lu Xiangsheng to persuade Shi Bangyao.

Hearing this, Shi Bangyao couldn't help but look dark, the fact is true, if it wasn't for Duke Qin's protection, and because of his experience of being a captive when he went to Mongolia and got nothing, he might have returned home long ago.

But soon, Shi Bangyao's expression became firm again:

"If he doesn't usurp the throne, Shi will definitely follow him and die for Daming."

"Despite all the difficulties, Shi will never give up."

"Usurper?"

Lu Xiangsheng sneered: "Do you think, if the Queen Mother hadn't done such a thing, His Majesty would have chosen to come to this point?"