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Chapter 999 Are you afraid?
Kaifeng, a thousand-year-old city, is known as "seven corners, eight alleys, and 72 alleys".

Henan Governor's Yamen is located in the northwest corner of the northern central axis of Kaifeng City.

The new governor of Henan, Wu Sidao, had just taken office two days ago, and a large number of gentry gathered in front of the Yamen, and more and more.

After Wu Sidao heard about this, he couldn't help but smile slightly, counting the days, they came relatively slowly.

Originally, Wu Sidao thought that on the first day he took office, he would be approached by country gentry from all over Henan.

Who would have thought that the squires were a few days late.I'm afraid it was a little bit of time wasted by secretly engaging in collusion, right?

Wu Sidao came to take up the post by sea boat, so he arrived at the post relatively quickly.

How should I put it, it is not surprising that the gentry came to Wu Sidao.

Because, Nian Gengyao's defeated army, on the way to retreat to the south, will definitely harm the peaceful homeland of the local gentry in Henan.

Before taking office, Yuzhu once told Wu Sidao that the big country gentry must not be allowed to exist.

Wu Sidao is from Shaoxing. In Shaoxing, there are only a handful of big country gentry whose family business exceeds ten thousand mu of fertile land.

However, Henan is different. With tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, they are only entry-level gentry.

Why?

The big gentry in Zhejiang do not completely depend on the income from the land, and almost all of them have sideline jobs to earn money.For example, raising silkworms, weaving silk shuttle homespun cloth and so on.

Henan is different here.Yushang was not popular in the whole Qing Dynasty.

If the country gentry in Yu Province want to have money in their pockets, they can only make a fuss about land annexation.

Therefore, before coming to Henan to take office, Yuzhu had personally told Wu Sidao that Henan Province, as a pilot, would implement three new policies.

In fact, apart from the inheritance tax, the other two policies were adopted after the fourth son ascended the throne. Yuzhu thought it was very good, so he used them.

One of the most offensive policies of the fourth child is actually the fact that the gentry and gentry work as a errand to pay food.

At present, Yuzhu's throne has not yet been firmly established, so don't be too impatient, lest there will be too much resistance and lead to civil uprisings everywhere.

Therefore, the collection of inheritance tax is temporarily used to replace the gentry's errand payment.

When you are alive, you can eat delicious food and drink spicy food, but if you want to pass on the ten thousand hectares of fertile land to the next generation, sorry, you should pay heavy taxes!
The tax rate of inheritance tax is not high, it is fixed at [-]%.

In other words, if the father's [-] mu of fertile land is passed on to his son, only [-] mu of fertile land will remain.

In the Qing Dynasty, the further north one went, the more the elders thought about the happy life of their children and grandchildren.

So, the farther you go north, the smaller the role of the contract and the greater the official authority.Correspondingly, land annexation has become more and more powerful.

Wu Sidao is a sensible person. The Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion rebel army led by Nian Gengyao has not been wiped out for a long time. The root problem is that the power of the big gentry is weakened by driving tigers and wolves.

Directly confiscating the land and food of the big gentry, this is too appalling.

However, taking advantage of the amazing destructive power of the rebels crossing the border to cause the big gentry to suffer huge losses or even disasters has nothing to do with the imperial court and the army.

With Wu Sidao's profound knowledge, after Yu Zhu controlled the situation in the capital, he did not kill him to silence him, which was already the best of humanity.

Moreover, Wu Sidao, who is limping, can be appointed as the governor of Henan, what can I say?

Scholar die for the confidant!

The people outside were very anxious, but Wu Sidao was not in a hurry.

Wu Sidao took his time to eat breakfast, picked his teeth, rinsed his mouth, wiped his teeth with green salt, drank half a cup of tea, then changed into his official uniform and came out to meet the guests.

"Students pay homage to Mr. Futai." More than a dozen big country gentlemen bowed to the ground together.

These days, to be eligible to be called a great squire, the entry-level configuration must be above the Juren lord.

With the fame of juren, even if he met the governor, he would not kneel down.

"My dear friends, why do you want to see Ben Fu?"

"Lord Futai, I implore the imperial court to dispatch troops quickly and do our best to wipe out Nian Gengyao's Shaanxi-Gansu rebellion."

The first to stand up was Xu Tianzhong, a great country gentleman whose ancestral home was in Xinzheng County, and who had served as a doctor in the Ministry of War.

Xu Tianzhong said impassionedly: "I originally planned to destroy the family to relieve the (shū) difficulties, but I had no choice but to rob the granary that was just closed in the countryside by the thieves..."

When Wu Sidao heard this, he couldn't help but secretly felt funny, Xu, you are so funny, destroying the family to relieve difficulties, thank you for being able to say it?
As the saying goes, a mouth full of moral articles is full of small calculations for one's own interests!

Regardless of Xu Tianzhong's high-sounding words, in fact, isn't it just a family business in the countryside that was completely ruined by Nian Gengyao's Shaanxi-Gansu Green Camp rebels?

Hmph, the surname is Xu, I want to compete with the old man, don't look at your age, your beard is white, and it's still young!
"Brother Xu, before you came to the provincial capital, you must have not had time to read the residence newspaper sent by the court, right?" Wu Sidao asked Xu Tianzhong calmly.

When Nian Gengyao's defeated army crossed the border, Xu Tianzhong happened to be visiting friends in Xinzheng County, and escaped by luck.

"Never." Xu Tianzhong's family property was destroyed, how could he care to read the imperial court's residence newspaper?
Wu Sidao raised his beard and said slowly: "In the court's decree, I didn't add the title of admiral to this Fu."

After all, Xu Tianzhong had been a doctor in the Ministry of War, and when he heard this, his expression changed drastically.

In the Qing Dynasty, the full title of the governor of Henan was: the right servant of the Ministry of War and the right deputy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the governor of Henan and other places, and also managed the rivers and farmland.

The governor with the title of admiral is qualified to let the green battalion soldiers in the province obey.

A governor without the title of admiral cannot command the admiral of the green battalion in the province. At best, he is in charge of thousands of soldiers and horses in the fifth battalion of the Fubiao Chinese Army.

Wu Sidao's meaning is obvious. Ben Fu is aware of everyone's grievances. However, Ben Fu can't control the new army who came from afar, so he can only help him!

In the courtroom, everyone is arguing with each other, and they have to be reasonable.

In the previous mansion newspaper, it was clearly stated that He Wenda, the first-class baron and the third town commander of the New Army, also served as the admiral of the Henan Green Camp.

The so-called scholar meets soldier, there is no reason to explain it.

Xu Tianzhong didn't have the guts to go to the new army camp to reason with He Wenda, so he dared to come to the safe provincial capital to complain to Wu Sidao.

However, Xu Tianzhong still made the mistake of empiricism. After Yuzhu came to power, he deliberately separated the military from the government.

In other words, Yuzhu's newly appointed provincial governors did not have the title of admiral.

To put it bluntly, that is, the governor can take care of the province's civil affairs with peace of mind, and the military affairs will be handled by the admiral of the province.

Seeing Xu Tianzhong rolling his eyes anxiously, Wu Sidao couldn't help but to smile, trying to take advantage of the king's loophole, you guys are so young!
Before Yuzhu wanted to weaken the great gentry from all over the country, he had expected that there would be a crowd to sue.

Therefore, the newly appointed provincial governors are not qualified to govern military affairs.

It's your freedom to sue, just sue as you like!

However, the governor has no right to intervene in military affairs, so you can't quarrel with the admiral of this province for your family business, right?
Wu Sidao put on a gesture of helplessness, and all the big gentry who came to sue were dumbfounded.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Wu Sidao sighed and said: "You are the country's sages, and you are the foundation of the imperial court. Even if I don't care about military affairs, I can also urgently play an imperial court for you, urging the Pingnan army to wipe out it as soon as possible. The bandit army from Shaanxi and Gansu."

What Wu Sidao said was extremely beautiful, and the big gentry present all stepped forward to salute and thank him.

"Thank you, Master Fuyuan."

"Your Majesty Futai loves the people like a child, and we should give you the Wanmin Umbrella."

"Henan has such a good official as Mr. Zhongcheng, it is really lucky..."

For a moment, flattering words poured into Wu Sidao's ears like a tide.

It's a pity, these big squires were sold by Wu Sidao, and they still have to help count the money!
After the gun-making equipment and British craftsmen arrived in Tianjin, Yuzhu simply stayed in Tianjin and did not return to the capital for the time being.

Because, counting the days, the equipment for making cannons is coming soon.

As the commander in chief who has led troops for many years, Yuzhu knows better than anyone else that Nahuang has been able to run across Europe for more than ten years, mainly because of his cannon tricks.

In modern warfare, the role of artillery, known as the god of the army, has become more and more obvious.

According to the urgent military situation reported by He Wenda, Nian Gengyao's [-] green battalion soldiers without guns, under the joint attack of the two towns with nearly a hundred guns, could not even fight back, let alone fight back.

You must know that Nian Gengyao is by no means a fool. He is familiar with the art of war and is good at training and leading troops.

However, the elite of the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion trained by Nian Gengyao was defeated by the new army after only one encounter.

This sincerity is not a crime of war, and weapons and equipment have appeared in Daichaer.

Since modern times, the Japanese army has placed special emphasis on the method of spiritual victory, deceiving themselves and exaggerating the power of the so-called bushido spirit.

However, when the Mi Army built nearly a hundred aircraft carriers in a short period of time, the Japanese Army only built a few.

In the face of absolute strength advantages, all bragging about the spiritual victory method is mindless self-indulgence.

After Mi Jun threw two big black bullets, the Japanese country, which arrogantly clamored for a total of [-] million jade pieces, had to bow its knees and surrender.

A defeated country has no face to speak of.

In front of the arrogant MacArthur, Yuzhu still has a fresh memory of the Japanese Emperor Hirohito's servile appearance.

The grassland nation has become a singing and dancing nation. That is because, in front of heavy machine guns, Genghis Khan's invincible spirit will be shot into a sieve even if his body is smashed into a sieve.

Under industrial civilization, when there is a huge generation gap in weapons and equipment, especially when the battlefield is one-way transparent to one side, the battle has already been lost before the war begins.

Yuzhu always has a firm belief that the national defense industry must be in the palm of his hand, so that he can sleep soundly and soundly when he sleeps at night!
The gun-making and cannon-making equipment from the UK was temporarily unable to be manufactured by the Qing Dynasty and was forced to buy it at a cost.

Just for a set of gun-making equipment, the British dared to offer a sky-high price of 50 taels of silver.

Yuzhu knocked out his teeth, swallowed them together with blood, and was forced to pay the bill.

Even if you can't bear it, you still have to bear it. Who told you that your skills are inferior to others?

Sooner or later, under the correct guidance of Yuzhu, the national defense industry will surely shine.

(End of this chapter)