Hengdao Sixteen Kingdoms

Chapter 364 Year Name
The end of the year has entered before we knew it.

When you are busy, you will feel that time flies by.

With the implementation of various measures, the number of newborns has increased significantly. Yueji has built medical clinics in various counties to deliver babies and provide support to families who have given birth.

However, after a year of hard work, we could only build the medical center to the county level. There were too many counties below, a slight shortage of manpower, and not enough money and food. We could only train a large number of private doctors and barefoot doctors.

Even so, the effect is remarkable.

In addition, Li Yue linked the number of births to political performance, and county magistrates from various places also attached great importance to it.

Although the number of children who died in infancy is still there, it has dropped significantly compared with the previous two years.

Zhou Qian was busy all year round. After the autumn harvest, he mobilized slaves to build pipelines and set up post stations.

The Hu people were not as industrious as the Chinese people, and they launched several rebellions.

But they were quickly wiped out by the soldiers from all over the country who were fighting for their lives.

The town army could not find such a good thing all year round, and its desire for military glory was not inferior to that of the Black Cloud Army. There were only 3000 slaves who rebelled, but there were 9000 people in the town army riding donkeys from all over the country. They did not give any They survive.

When other slaves who did not participate in the mutiny saw this posture, they became more honest and more diligent.

The speed of station construction has been greatly increased.

With the inn, there will be a place to place disabled soldiers.

They bled and sweated for Daliang, and Daliang was naturally responsible for taking care of them in their old age.

Seventy to eighty percent of the official roads and inns were paved, and the central government's control over local areas was greatly enhanced. Li Yue's will also extended to various counties and counties through the official roads.

Any movement in the place can be quickly transmitted to Yecheng through the inn.

Seeing that the year was coming to an end, Li Yue ordered that everyone in the country who was over sixty and under seven years old could go to the government to receive ten catties of meat and five dou of grain. Although it was not much, it still showed his sincerity.

Let the common people share the benefits of the rise of Liang.

This year's grain harvest will be bumper, and the three melons and two dates will be enough.

A medium-sized county has a population of about [-], with the elderly and children accounting for at most [-]%. Each person has five measures of grain, which is only [-] shi.

As for meat, the Heiyun Army hunted day and night and harvested a lot. Sheep, deer, cattle, wild boars, wolves, pheasants, rabbits... all in groups.

Both sides of the Yellow River are already fertile, covered with weeds and overrun by wild beasts.

The scouts even captured a dozen elephants and rhinos and placed them in the Bronze Bird Garden.

There is no shortage of meat around Yecheng. If other counties are short of meat, they can directly use livestock from pastures to replace it.

Agriculture is the foundation of the country. Li Yue attached great importance to farming, but he also did not forget to develop animal husbandry.

A nation that cannot eat meat will never become strong.

Li Yue's ultimate goal is to enable every Liang people and common people to have a meal of meat every once in a while.

But now the goal is a bit far away.

The old year has passed in the blink of an eye.

At the court meeting, Liu Qun suggested establishing a new title to inspire the people.

Only then did Li Yue remember that he had been using the title of Ran Wei.

Now that Ran Wei has gone far, Liang Guo has almost finished digesting Ran Min's legacy, and it is time to establish a new year.

Liu Qun suggested "Taisheng", Jiang Gan and his group suggested "Jiwu", and Cui Hong suggested "Tianxing".

Since the beginning of the New Deal, Jiang Gan and his gang have become more and more active and have become a force that cannot be ignored in the court.

On the surface, they are fighting for the title of the year, but in fact they are fighting for the right to speak.The common people of the Han family trained by Li Yue have not yet grown up, and it is the time when the court is in decline.

Direct descendants such as Chang Wei, Zhou Qian, and Cui Jin all guarded one side.

Wang Meng was presiding over the New Deal in Yanzhou, but he couldn't come up for a while.

Everyone expressed their opinions and no one gave in.

Li Yue touched his forehead. In fact, it didn't matter who he chose. Liu Qun's Taisheng promotion was to let Li Yue stop his military operations and develop the country. Jiang Qian's intention of inheriting the martial arts was more obvious, inheriting Ran Min's martial arts...

Cui Hong's Tianxing is pretty good, but God alone can't do it these days.

"Hongwu might as well be used as the new year's name!" Li Yue directly chose the most domineering new year's name he had ever seen.

The situation when the Ming Dynasty was founded was somewhat similar to today. It was also necessary to drive out alien races and restore China.

On the other hand, the Liang Kingdom is constantly threatened by others and will be in danger if it forgets to fight. A resounding reign name can also boost domestic morale.

"This year title is majestic and domineering, and it is suitable for the current time. I second the proposal!" Shen Zhong was the first to agree as usual.

Liu Qun and Cui Hong would naturally not object, and Jiang Gan had no confidence to go against Li Yue.

The new year's name is thus determined.

The first year of Hongwu (354) also hit us.

Wang Meng made several memorials one after another. Suppressing the powerful was the first step. In addition to releasing the land and the population, it also paved the way for the following steps and weakened the conservative forces that resisted the New Deal.

Wang Meng made three statements: First, he abolished the imperial examination system and the nine-rank official law that had been in place since the Han Dynasty, and adopted the imperial examination system for all officials.

Second, remove counties and establish prefectures, transform the three-level administration of state, county, and county into the second level of state, county, and eliminate redundant officials and officials.Wang Meng also specifically pointed out that since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, scholars were selected based on their family status, and Shanhan's family was rejected with disdain, and the scholar-bureaucrats began to be proud of themselves with the prestige of the county.

The county was the basis for the recognition of powerful gentry, so the so-called "county hope" appeared, such as the Zheng family in Xingyang, the Cui family in Qinghe, and the Wang family in Taiyuan, all based on the county.

Abolition of counties would be equivalent to taking a step back from the bottom of the cauldron. It was the same as Li Yue's previous plan to divide large states into small states, but Wang Meng's steps were faster and bigger.

Previously it was aimed at powerful people, but this move went straight towards the nobles.

Third, rebuild the five-baht coin system of the Han Dynasty, develop the economy, strictly control salt, iron, copper, and grain, and hold the economic lifeline in your hands.

Ever since Dong Zhuo changed a big coin into a small coin, which directly destroyed the mature five-baht coin system in the Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms has continued to this day without even taking a breath. The Western Jin Dynasty had just made some progress, but it immediately collapsed...

Former Zhao, Jie Zhao, and Ran Wei couldn't afford such high-end things. Bartering is still popular in Liang State, and food and cloth are hard currencies.

These three strategies are much more advanced than suppressing the powerful.

Li Yue is already doing the first one.

Article [-]: The three counties in eastern Hebei Province have been divided into Cangzhou. So far, the effect seems to be pretty good, at least there have been no adverse reactions.

The powerful men were beaten hard by Wang Meng, and the nobles had already compromised in the face of Li Yue's pressure. They were at their weakest, and now was undoubtedly the best time for restructuring.

Article [-]: I’m afraid it’s still a little difficult at the moment. It’s not easy to restore a system that has been damaged.

It requires great credibility from the government.

The people of Middle-earth have been tortured by Jie Zhao for 30 to [-] years. They are so poor that their eyes are green, and now they can only just eat.

The road is taken step by step, and things are done one by one.

Wang Meng acts decisively and vigorously, while Li Yue needs to be calm and steady, so that they can complement each other.

Just like a prescription, the emperor and his ministers should help each other and should not be messed up.

In the second court of the new year, Li Yue put the removal of counties and establishment of prefectures on the agenda. Let's see their reaction first.

(End of this chapter)