A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 46 Yangzhou City and Hangou
Gongyangjie's reforms were very effective. From the third year after the reforms, Huai's tax revenue doubled. At the same time, merchants in Huai'an continued to come and go, and the people's lives improved somewhat.The entire Huai country has a thriving appearance.

With the passage of time, the national strength of the Huai country has steadily improved.In the past twenty years, the cultivated area of ​​Huai Country has expanded by [-]%, and the total population has also increased by [-]%.The measure of abolishing the small mouth tax has prevented the people from drowning babies, and the population growth will naturally increase.

Of course, it is not all good news, on the contrary, there is also a lot of bad news.Along with the implementation of the new tax law, many nobles are obstructing it, openly or covertly, by delaying, overcharging, deliberately lowering the food grade, and other different methods.

To distort and obstruct the new tax law, as many as [-] tax collectors have been beheaded by Wang Lin over the years.Even some noble families were almost directly killed by Wang Lin's ruthless hands.

It is very difficult to implement the new tax law. Wang Lin has given them a chance from the very beginning, but there are always people who feel that Wang Lin dare not do this.In the end, there were not a few people whose homes were ransacked.

If you want to implement the New Deal, the method is very simple, win over a group, divide a group, and attack a group.To put it simply, it is to treat guests, behead their heads, and accept them as dogs.

After beheading a group of nobles, Wang Lin assigned all the rights vacated to the public office and the public clan to control.

At the same time, after reforming taxation, Wang Lin also reformed the college.Over the past hundred years, the academy established by Zijue has become an aristocratic school, which is not in the interests of the Huai country, nor in the interests of the government.

Wang Lin imposed a rule that Huaiguo College must have Chinese students every year.Wang Lin wanted to inject new blood into the country, and he couldn't let the decaying aristocracy drag him down.

At the same time, after Huai State's tax revenue was increased and the national treasury was enriched, Wang Lin began to rectify the public office and the public family.

The children of the Huai State Duke's family, except for the direct line, will change their surname after three generations, from the Duke's family to the Duke's family. In fact, when the black bird pattern on their foreheads disappears, they will automatically be reduced to the Duke's family.

After the black bird pattern disappears, the luck they provide to Zijue will be greatly reduced, and at the same time, they will no longer be backlashed by Bang Zhou's fate. Of course, the protection of the fate black bird will also be reduced. It will become a six-dimensional attribute +3, and after three generations it will be +1, and it will not change again after that.

In the past, due to financial reasons, the Huai State Office did not give much support to the public.Now that the tax revenue is overflowing, Wang Lin thinks that the public should also be included.

All the children of the public office, including the public family, must go to school. Those with excellent grades can be appointed to official positions, and those who are physically strong can join the Habayashi Army. Their food and clothing are provided by the public office until they reach adulthood.

The Habayashi Army is an army specially established for the public office and the children of the public family, and it is also the most trusted and important armed force of the Huai country public office.The Habayashi Army was also established by Wang Lin, which was taken from the meaning of "serving the country's wings, like the forest's prosperity".

Supported by the Huai State government, the children of the government in the Habayashi Army have been working hard since childhood, and they have learned all kinds of knowledge, and their strength is very strong.This kind of public clan children who have been cultivated since childhood have a very high sense of belonging. Even if they fight to the last person, they will not surrender, but the number of the Habayashi Army is not large, and the training cost is extremely high.

Wang Lin gave Gongyang Jie a high degree of trust, and Gongyang Jie lived up to everyone's expectations and carried out some reforms for the Huai country.After more than [-] years and a whole generation of restructuring, the tax policy has completely settled down.

In recent years, a large number of ministers have used various reasons to criticize and slander Gongyang Jie, and some people even deliberately spread rumors that Gongyang Jie will restore Handi to the country.

But these were all rejected by Wang Lin. Wang Lin trusted Gongyang Jie very much, because he knew that the reform of Gongyang Jie was almost on the opposite side of all nobles. People will flock to it.

For more than [-] years, the Huai Kingdom has been governed to be rich and the people strong. It can be said that the treasury is full, the people are well-off, the business and travel exchanges are endless, and the world is in great order.

After Wang Lin annexed Han State, he continued to head south. At this time, the border of Huai State had reached the Yangtze River, and further south was Wu State.

At this time, after nearly 200 years of development, Wu State was already a big country south of the Yangtze River.The population is in the millions.When Han State was first annexed, Hanhou wanted to escape to Wu State, and then use Wu State's national power to help him restore the country.

Wu State is far away from Huai'an, the center of Huai State, and it is inconvenient for a large army to conquer, so Wang Lin decided to build a city along the Yangtze River.Then use this city as a bridgehead to attack Wu.

After several inspections, Wang Lin finally decided to build a city in Weiyang.Weiyang was only a small city during the Han Kingdom period, but it was close to the river, the surrounding terrain was flat, and there was a bend in the river where water villages could be built. This was originally the seat of the Han Kingdom Navy.

Wang Lin ordered the Huai State Navy to come and station here, and relocated [-] people to expand the small city.

A large amount of materials were transported from Huai'an to Weiyang. With Huai's current national strength, it is not too difficult to build Weiyang. It is nothing more than money and food.

Wang Lin personally sent the sons of the official family to preside over the building of the city, and changed Weiyang's name to Yangzhou.

The construction of Yangzhou City is not simple, because the possible attack of Wu State must be considered, so Yangzhou City needs to build fortifications.

With a large supply of materials, the construction of Yangzhou City went smoothly, and even a special waterway was dug to bring water from the Yangtze River into the city.A waterway was opened in the city to facilitate transportation, and it was also the moat of Yangzhou City.

Wang Lin even came to Yangzhou himself, this Yangzhou city is indeed a good place.

"Your Majesty, the city of Yangzhou is four hundred miles away from Huai'an. If the country of Wu is to be conquered, money and food will need to be transferred from Huai'an. The journey is far away, and the consumption will be quite large. It is better to directly dig a canal, divert water from the Yangtze River, connect the Huai River and Sishui, and bring the Huai Kingdom to Huai'an. The north and the south form a line."

"This will not only facilitate the transportation of materials, but also facilitate the deployment of troops."

A master craftsman from the Craftsmanship Division spoke to Wang Linjin.Hearing this, Wang Lin also thought it was a good idea, and immediately ordered him to lead people to survey the terrain.

The excavation of Hangou requires a lot of manpower and material resources, but once it is completed, there are many benefits. This canal directly connects the north and south of Huaiguo.The cost of material transportation has been reduced linearly.

At the same time, it is also beneficial to the rule of the Huai country. Once the excavation of the river channel is completed, Wang Lin's order in Huai'an can be regarded as coming soon.

The excavation of Yangzhou City and Hangou is a great project created by the working people of our country. As the earliest canal that was clearly recorded, this is probably the first canal in human history.The excavation of Hangou made a strong contribution to the excavation of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the future, and at the same time made an important contribution to the communication between the north and the south. ——"Chinese History Seventh Grade Volume [-]"

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