Dynasty Conquest

Chapter 459 Reform
In June [-] AD, Emperor Long Han used Wang Jing's bloodshed as an excuse to send his newly formed Supervision Office to start a drastic reform of the entire Far Eastern Dynasty.

The Far East Dynasty has been established for more than [-] years. By the time of Emperor Yongyeon, various backlogs of conflicts had reached a very dangerous edge. If an outbreak broke out, the entire dynasty would be reduced to ashes.

In the central government, the civil servant aristocratic group and the military nobles fought endlessly, attacking and defending each other. Although the emperor was the supreme ruler, his actual power was controlled by the big aristocrats, the imperial power was weakened, and the prestige of the central government gradually lost.

In the local area, the local governors who control the military and political power do not listen to the orders, and support their own self-respect. Many local provinces have even become the private territories of the nobles, and the central government's orders are not implemented. This is the case with Nagaro, who has occupied the position of governor for 15 years.

At the same time, the contradiction between the noble elite and the poor commoners is getting deeper and deeper. Ten percent of the nobles in the entire Far Eastern Dynasty control 80.00% of the land. exploitation.

Many commoners have worked hard for a whole year, and 80.00% of the cultivated food was taken away by the nobles in various names. If the weather is good, the commoners can still use the remaining 20.00% of the grain to make ends meet, but in the year of famine, the commoners can only eat There was no next meal.

Facing the hungry and cold civilians, instead of showing sympathy, the nobles collected taxes in various names. The civilians who couldn't survive either became refugees and fled to their homes, or became slaves of the nobles.

The slaves of the nobles were struggling daily on the line of life and death. Many people were forced by the nobles to rise up and resist, which led to rebel activities in at least half of the 56 provinces in the entire Far Eastern Dynasty.

These rebellious rebels conquered towns and robbed food and grass, and the dynasty had to send troops to suppress it. The large army needed to consume more money and food, and these were transferred to the civilians, which in turn led to new resistance.

Now it has fallen into a vicious circle, with uprisings happening one after another in various places, and the dynastic army is becoming more and more numerous. Most of the army is controlled by the local governor. enough troops.

The local governor sent troops to wipe out the rebels, and most of the money and food needed to be allocated by the central government, which led to an increasingly empty treasury, while money and food were exploited layer by layer in the hands of officials, making the officials richer and richer.

Now the entire Far Eastern dynasty has fallen into a sickly deformity. The country is poor, the government is rich, the people are struggling to live, and at the same time, powerful external enemies are watching.

The Hanhai Empire is mobilizing its troops like a wolf, deploying heavy troops in the border area, preparing to avenge the annihilation of the country a hundred years ago.

The Rong tribes harassed the northern border area of ​​the Far Eastern Dynasty almost every month. They plundered towns and robbed the population, cattle and sheep. Since most of the military expenditure of the dynasty was used to suppress civil strife, the northern army stationed in the north was overwhelmed with self-care and could not protect the country and the people at all. role, can only stick to some important pass.

After the Far Eastern Dynasty experienced the melee among the princes, although Long Han won with the support of the Central Army and the Nanchuan Army, what he took over was a mess.

When Long Han was helpless in the face of the riddled Far Eastern Dynasty, those noble and important ministers not only did not share his worries, but instead connected with each other for their own interests, trying to make Long Han stand alone.

Long Han was only in his 20s, at the age of youth and vigor. Facing the conflicting Far Eastern Dynasty and the aristocrats, he was forced to decide to perform a thorough operation on the terminally ill Far Eastern Dynasty.

Just like Lin Chuan, chief of the Supervision Office, said: If the Far Eastern Dynasty continues like this, it will eventually slip into the abyss of history, and there is no other way but to perish.

Emperor Long Han knew that what Lin Chuan said was not an exaggeration. He had traveled all over the Far East Dynasty and knew that what Lin Chuan said was not false, so he learned from the painful experience and carried out the reform to the end even at the risk of national subjugation.

Although Emperor Long Han had only been enthroned for one night and his foundation was not stable, he could not wait to perform surgery on the Far Eastern Dynasty.

Long Han first set his sights on the official system. No matter how big or small the officials in the dynasty were, most of them were aristocrats. The result was that the aristocratic forces were intertwined, the government orders were incomprehensible, all levels of government were corrupt and incompetent, and the efficiency was low.

The Supervision Office under Lin Chuan's command became the sharpest knife used by Emperor Longhan to attack officials. Corrupt officials are dissatisfied, and naturally they will not show mercy when they get angry.

The officers and soldiers of the Supervision Office are uniformly equipped with black uniforms, representing the ruthlessness and iron blood of the Supervision Office. They are like a black cold current, centered on Wang Jing, and quickly radiating towards the surrounding areas.

Starting from Wangjing, the officials and soldiers of the Supervision Office in black uniforms marched all the way. With the emperor Longhan's will, they entered various provinces, towns, and even villages, and began their actions to punish corruption.

The Supervision Office, a newly established institution, is unknown. No one had heard of it before Emperor Long Han came to the throne. When governors and officials from all over the country heard that a department called the Supervision Office was going to punish corruption, they sneered with disdain. .

From the officials' point of view, the new official took office three times, and the new emperor Long Han's enthronement is naturally the same. The so-called Supervision Office's punishment of corruption is just going through the motions. on heart.

The careless and paralyzed officials from all over the country still acted as before, but they didn't know that this time the emperor Long Han was really serious.

A grand banquet is being held in the governor's mansion of the Aleg province. Officials from all over the province gather together to celebrate the governor of the Aleg province being promoted to the finance minister of the Far East Dynasty.

The Minister of Finance is in charge of the tax revenue of the Far Eastern Dynasty, which can be described as a fat vacancy. The governor of the province of Aleg is also very happy. He has made a lot of money in the province of Aleg over the years, so this celebration banquet is also very special. ostentation.

Although the people in the province of Aleg are living in poverty, this does not affect the officials drinking and eating meat. After all, they are nobles or rich people from various towns.

In order to hug the thigh of the Governor of Alegre, that is, the thigh of the future Chancellor of the Exchequer, the gifts given by the officials are extraordinarily expensive, and there are countless rare treasures. The gold coins are all pulled by carts. The governor of Leige Province was happy, and with a little help, they will soon be able to get back the things they sent out through other means.

At the banquet, there were staggered cups of wine, silk and bamboo around the beams, and the governor's mansion was brightly lit. Dozens of officials were blushing from drinking and making a lot of noise, but in this lively atmosphere, there was one person who was out of place, and that was a man sitting in the corner. The Inspector in black, he poured and drank by himself, feeling extremely lonely when he was free.

　Sorry everyone, because of the power outage, I am now offering the third update today, and the update in the early hours of tomorrow may be delayed a bit.

　　
　
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