Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Luo Chen was willing to admit that he had planned the rebellion. This was the last thing he could do for the empire.

Previously, when Lin Yi and Luo Chen were chatting in the prison, they talked about the future of the empire.

Lin Yi's goal is Southeast Asia. In order to prevent local powers from being too powerful and the empire to better control local areas, it needs to be changed to a system of separation of powers.

As those with vested interests, those local officials will definitely oppose it.

It is impossible for the empire to replace all these people, because if they do so, they may be forced to rebel at this stage.

The empire needed stability, so it needed some means to force them to agree to the separation of powers.

To be able to do this and win the support of the people at the bottom can only mean that those local officials participated in the rebellion.

Only in this way can the empire take the initiative.

Luo Chen understood this, so he was willing to take the blame for the empire.

At the same time, he also directly gave Lin Yi the dirty information about his faction officials.

In this way, Lin Yi can take the initiative.

In return, Luo Chen must die, but his heirs can avoid death.

Although they were exiled to Yizhou Island, thinking about Luo Chen's final contribution, they would not have too hard a time in Yizhou.

Finally, Luo Chen was executed by lethal injection one night.

Later, Lin Yi took the dirty information given by Luo Chen and directly approached the officials of Luo Chen's faction who were still in the capital.

Lin Yi gathered them together, then slapped them in front of them with the dirty information given by Luo Chen, and then said that he wanted to establish the separation of powers. Let them have their say.

Then, Lin Yi leaned back on the chair and looked at them quietly.

Under the pressure of Lin Yi and his guards with guns, the dozen or so officials knew that they had no choice and expressed their support one by one.

Some officials have even begun to secretly express that they can follow Lin Yi's lead in the future.

Lin Yi didn't say much to such people.

He knows that some people just think that someone above them is easy to do, so they want to climb a big tree while trying to get involved in officialdom.

Lin Yi told the truth that he was disgusted, but he also knew that he couldn't stop such a thing.

The officialdom of Daxia has been like this for thousands of years, and this is simply not something that Lin Yi can change alone.

Therefore, Lin Yi also figured it out and felt that it was not impossible to gather these people.

At least under his control, the civilian forces can be integrated to better support the military's next actions.

Therefore, Lin Yi did not explicitly refuse, but just told those officials who wanted to join him to work harder and implement the national policy of separation of powers as soon as possible.

It has to be said that with the assistance of these officials, the implementation of this national policy was faster than Lin Yi imagined.

After all, for these officials who have newly joined Lin Yi, this task of implementing national policy is the first task Lin Yi has given them.

They all wanted to do this matter beautifully, so that they could show their faces in front of Lin Yi.

Therefore, after these officials returned one by one, they sent telegrams to their subordinates, asking them to make rectifications in accordance with the requirements of the court and realize the national policy of separation of powers within a time limit.

Those lower-level officials saw that their immediate superiors had directly defected to Prince Rui. After weighing the situation, they found that they did not have the strength to resist at all.

Their superiors have defected, and their colleagues are half-hearted and can't get along.

Even if some local officials want to resist, they can't make waves.

Under such an environment, the vast majority of officials chose to follow the imperial court's orders and began to implement the national policy of separation of powers.

However, some local officials who felt that they were far away from the emperor and beyond the control of the court, took a lucky mentality and thought that Lin Yi would not touch them, so they refused to carry out the execution.

As a result, within half a month, these people were arrested or died unexpectedly for various reasons.

This frightened the officials who had promised on the surface but were still procrastinating secretly.

One by one, they worked overtime and began to carry out Lin Yi's orders.

The final result was that three months after Luo Chen was executed, the entire empire had basically completed the national policy of separation of powers.

A large number of new inspection agencies and courts were built in various parts of the empire.

This made the empire rejuvenate from top to bottom.

This result made both Lin Yi and Zhao Xu deeply satisfied. The empire implemented this national policy without causing major chaos.

This shows that the imperial court has basically controlled the empire and integrated the power of all levels of the empire.

At the same time, after the first revision of national policy, the lower-level officials did not resist, so if the empire wants to implement other national policies in the future, it is unlikely to encounter large-scale obstacles.

This is the most important.

If you want an ancient empire to be rejuvenated, it can't be changed by just a simple national policy.

This separation of powers is only part of it, aiming to weaken the power of lower-level officials.

In this case, when we implement other national policies in the future, we will have a foundation at the bottom and it will be easier to implement them.

And through this time, Lin Yi has almost completely taken over Luo Chen's power in the court. This way, when he wants to do something, he will not encounter obstacles from civil servants.

Of course, Zhao Xu knew that Lin Yi had taken over Luo Chen's power, and he also supported it.

After Lin Yi accepted the support of these civil servants, the first thing he did was to exempt the empire's farmers from agricultural taxes.

The reason why Lin Yi did this is also very simple.

Nowadays, commercial taxes and tariffs have completely exceeded agricultural taxes. Agricultural taxes now account for only one-sixth of the empire's total tax revenue.

It is undeniable that this one-sixth of the tax collection does account for a large part of the empire's tax revenue.

According to the current empire's desire to catch up with Western countries and develop industry, agricultural taxes should not be exempted.

But Lin Yi considered that these agricultural taxes were very important to the empire, but they also tied up a large number of laborers.

To give a simple example, although the agricultural tax was important, it also tied some laborers to the land, causing the empire's industrial development to fail to meet expectations.

Therefore, in comparison, the empire can reduce taxes by one-sixth in one or two years and free up a large number of labor forces.

Let these laborers enter cities and factories.

After all, there is no agricultural tax, and farmers have less pressure. They don’t have to worry about whether their harvest for a year will be enough to pay the tax.

The current situation is that whatever the farmer harvests is his own, which makes the farmers feel no pressure. In order to cooperate with the empire's propaganda, they are allowed to enter the city.

In this way, although the empire's tax revenue will decrease within one or two years, starting from the third year, the empire's tax collection will remain the same as the current tax amount and increase at an annual rate of 5%.

Based on this calculation, the empire has not suffered much losses, the farmers have also benefited, and factories in various places and the empire's industry will begin to explode.

Therefore, overall, the empire was earned with blood.