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Xiangzhuang's generosity was exchanged for gratitude from the gentry. After they returned to office, they began to fully cooperate with the work of clearing the land under the leadership of the guardian's lieutenant. It took less than half a month to clear the land and the result was achieved.

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The Palace of Chu, the study room.

Bailixian brought the guardian lieutenant Che Shi to the palace to meet him overnight.

"King, the land clearance of the whole country has already been achieved. There are 68 counties under the jurisdiction of Wu County, Danyang County, Kuaiji County, Lujiang County, and Jiujiang County, with a total of more than 12 million mu of arable land! Among them, more than 3 million mu of fertile land with a yield of more than 2 million mu of mountainous land with a yield of less than half a stone per mu, and more than 2 million mu of land with a yield of less than 900,000 mu of land can be collected!"

Ziche Master took the general book of land tuition and explained to Xiangzhuang word by word.

"Oh, more than 900,000 stones?" Xiang Zhuang was overjoyed when he heard this and said, "How long will it take to collect it?"

I originally thought that the maximum was only 600,000 stone of land tax, but I didn’t expect that there would be more than 900,000 stones! If the more than 900,000 stone of land tax could be collected in time, it would really solve the urgent need for the national treasury to be embarrassed. At that time, not only would we repay the borrowed grain from major families in time, but we would also be able to pay the full salary of officials at all levels, and even have a slight surplus.

Bailixian shook the feather fan and said with a smile: "Don't worry, you should be able to collect it all before the end of the year." The Qin Dynasty calendar was first of October. The end of the year was the end of September. Now it is early September, which means that at most twenty days, more than 900,000 stone land taxes can be sent to Taicang, Wuzhong.

"Well." Xiang Zhuang nodded happily and said to Ziche Shi, "General Ziche, thank you for your hard work."

Ziche Shi quickly bowed and said, "As a minister of Chu, it is necessary to serve the king."

Xiang Zhuang smiled slightly and looked back at Xiang him: "Ziyi, immediately promote the guardian lieutenant Che Shi to the guardian rank of the guardian rank!"

"Now." Xiang he said with a sigh, and Ziche Master quickly knelt on one knee and thanked Xiang Zhuang, "Thank you, my king!"

Xiang Zhuang turned around and returned to the chief seat, and then signaled Xiang he, Bailixian and Ziche Master to take their seats separately, and then said: "Ziyi, Ziliang, the implementation of the new land tax method is very smooth and the effect is also very significant. So next, should we implement the reward farming and fishing commercial law?"

According to Xiangzhuang and Bailixian's plan, the Chu State reform was mainly divided into three steps.

The first step is to implement the law of enrolling households and civil servants, liberating a large number of private households privately stored by aristocratic families, gentry and clans, so that they can become the law of enrolling households and civil servants directly under the central government. At the same time, in the process of implementing the law of enrolling households and civil servants, we will solve the clan forces in various counties, especially the counties in Jibei, and relieve a major concern of the State of Chu.

The second step is to clear the land of the whole country and implement the new land tax method, so that the aristocratic families, gentry and civilians can be used together, and while greatly expanding the source of the treasury, it greatly weakens the influence of the aristocratic families and gentry in Jiangdong, thereby strengthening the centralization of the Chu State and putting all counties and counties directly under the strong control of the royal power.

The third and most important step is to reward farming and reading business!

Xiang Zhuang indeed highly praised the farming and war system of the Qin Dynasty, but he never thought of following it in full. As early as in Guanzhong, Xiang Zhuang discussed it with Bailixian. He added another word for reading in the middle of the farming and war system to turn the farming and war system of the Qin Dynasty into the farming and war system of the Chu Dynasty. However, now, he has to add another word for Shang.

The farming and war system of the Qin Empire was actually not perfect, and it was even a bit deformed.

The Qin Empire, which pursued the farming and war system, was only keen on two things: one was farming, and the other was fighting. Under the temptation of military achievements and titles, the people became war madmen, and the country became a huge war machine. Therefore, the Qin army could become stronger and stronger, and there was no need for military rations. Therefore, the Qin State could wipe out the six Kanto countries and unify the world.

If it weren't for the violent death of Qin Shihuang, if it weren't for the second generation Hu Hai and Zhao Gao's rebellion, the Qin Empire, which pursued the farming and war system, would continue to expand outward. After sending 300,000 troops to attack the Huns in the north and 500,000 troops to fight Baiyue in the south, there would definitely be a larger-scale foreign war. Only God knows what kind of territory the Qin Empire would finally conquer.

However, even if the Qin Empire conquered the entire Asian continent, it would never last long, because in order to maintain the momentum of external expansion, the Qin Empire vigorously rewarded farming wars and severely restricted the development of business, science and culture. If a civilization loses the prosperity of business, science and culture, it would never last long.

Without the prosperity of commerce, there will be no abundant material things, and the country will not be rich.

Without the prosperity of science, there will be no progress in civilization and will lead to invasion of powerful enemies.

Without cultural prosperity, national identity will not appear, and the country will easily collapse.

Therefore, Xiangzhuang should add the words "read" and "shang" to the farming and war system to become the farming and war reading system!

There is no need to say that farming and fighting, rewarding reading is not to encourage scholars to study hard and study the scriptures all over the world, but to encourage scholars to learn from others' strengths and learn from various schools of thought. In this way, it will inevitably lead to cultural prosperity. Cultural prosperity will inevitably lead to rapid development of disciplines such as astronomy, geography, physics, chemistry, and medicine.

As for rewarding commerce, it is to make the country richer. Only when the country is richer can it have sufficient financial resources to support large-scale external expansion. Of course, if the commerce of Chu State prospers, it is necessary to carry out currency reforms and convert the monetary system from a copper standard to a silver standard, or gold and silver standard.

In ancient China, there was no commercial civilization like ancient Rome, Egypt, and Babylon. The most important reason was the serious constraints on commercial behavior by the copper-based system. You can imagine that in ancient times, when there was no money shop, a businessman had to go to other places to do business. If there was no gold and silver currency, how many cars of copper coins would he have to carry?

Therefore, it was not until the Song Dynasty that silver was designated as legal currency that China's business truly flourished.

In short, what Xiang Zhuang wants is to maintain the momentum of the external expansion of the farming and war system as much as possible while relaxing the constraints on civilization progress of the farming and war system as much as possible. As a time traveler, Xiang Zhuang is well aware of the hard truth that no farmers are not stable, no business is not rich, and no science is not developed. Therefore, these moves cannot be left behind, and they must be hard!

Bailixian hesitated a little and whispered: "Master, should you slow down first?"

It should be noted that Wei Yang's reforms during the Qin Xiaogong period took twenty years to complete the implementation of various laws one after another, while Chu State had only taken less than a year to implement two batches of new laws. If the third batch of new laws were immediately implemented, it would be a breathless effort, and Chu State would probably not be able to bear it.

Not to mention anything else, once these third batch of new laws are implemented, they will offend many powerful generals in the army.

These powerful generals are not easier to deal with than clans, gentry, and aristocratic families because they hold military power in their hands!

Once these powerful generals join forces with the gentry, aristocratic families and the remnants of clans, it is not a joke. Maybe Jiangdong will fall into chaos and the current good situation will be destroyed in an instant.

Xiang also said: "King, it's better to go through two years before the aristocratic families, the gentry and the people are all accustomed to the first two batches of new laws. When they understand the benefits of the new laws, they completely put aside their resistance to the new laws, and then implement the third batch of new laws. Otherwise, once all kinds of hostile forces join forces to cause trouble, big things will be wrong."

"That's right." Xiang Zhuang followed the good side and said with a smile, "I'm anxious."

Seeing that Xiang Zhuang was not persisting, Baili Xian couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

At this moment, Xiang Zhuang faintly heard a strange sound and turned around and said, "Come out."

As soon as he finished speaking, an ebony dead man walked out of the shadow in the corner of the study, bowed to Xiang Zhuang and said, "Master, the chief executive's secret letter!" After that, the ebony dead man spit out a wax ball from his mouth and handed it over.

Xiang Zhuang took the pill and gently pinched it, and then took out a small roll of paper from it. After it was unfolded, it was a thin high-quality public transport paper. Qu Bucai, the chief manager of the Ebony Cliff, used a quill brush to write small tadpole-like characters on the thin paper. He put it under the light to carefully recognize it, but Qu Bucai copied the detailed articles about the new Baimo method.

"The provisions of Baimo's new law?" Xiang Zhuang tightened his heart and said, "Is the old man Liu Bang finally going to reform the law?"

Nowadays, not only Chu is committed to reforming, but small countries like Huainan, Qi, Liang, Zhao and even Yan, and South Korea are also reforming. To put it, it seems that there is no movement in Linjiang.

"Jun Yao, the general fu?!" After reading a few lines down, Xiang Zhuang suddenly burst into tears.

Xiang, Ziche Master looked at each other when he heard this. Although Ziche Master was a guardian lieutenant and had just been promoted to the guardian rank, he really didn't understand Jun Yao's servant. What was the matter of Pingshuo Fu? Baili Xian looked shocked and said in a deep voice: "Jun Yao, Pingshuo Fu? King, this is probably the theme of Bai Mo's new law, right?"

Xiang Zhuang did not answer, but just read the secret letter seriously and focused.

After a long time, Xiang Zhuang finally sighed and handed the intensive work to Bailixian, and then said, "This Bai Mo is really amazing. He is going to do a stall in the diary and a whip technique!"

That day, when I saw the short article on Bishu's law test paper, Xiang Zhuang always felt familiar. Looking back now, it turned out to be the original general outline of the one-whip method and the stall ditto. Xiang Zhuang studied science when he was in high school, and history did not require the college entrance examination. Therefore, he was just a rough dabbling on the one-whip method and the stall ditto, so he couldn't remember it at that time.

However, after seeing the new Baimo law provisions provided by Qu Bucai, Xiang Zhuang recalled that the one-whip method and the stall-stopping ditches are a big killer weapon, especially the stall-stopping ditches, which will greatly promote population growth! Thinking of this, Xiang Zhuang couldn't help but feel a little heavy-hearted. With the reform of Baimo in the Han Dynasty, the population surged, and the national strength surged. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!