On June 5, Ye Qingzhou worshiped heaven and earth in Luoyang and officially ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor.
The divine fortune teller Lu Gongming calculated that there would be heavy rain that day, so he wanted to persuade Ye Qingzhou to find another auspicious day, but he was ultimately rejected by Ye Qingzhou.
On the day of the enthronement ceremony, dark clouds appeared in the sky and heavy rain fell, making people panic.
Ye Qingzhou drew his sword and slashed the sky. The magnificent sword energy pierced the clouds and filled the sky. But in an instant, the sun shone brightly and the sky cleared and the rain stopped. Such amazing sword skills shocked the dignitaries and people who came to watch the ceremony.
Everyone knelt down and bowed their heads, shouting long live the mountain.
Later, Ye Qingzhou named the country Qi and Jianyuan Shenwu.
The reason why the name of the country was chosen is "Qi", which means "the world is equal and there is no difference".
After taking the throne, Ye Qingzhou's first decree was to nationalize all the land in the world and distribute it uniformly by the government. Contract farming was allowed, but free buying and selling was not allowed.
Land annexation has been a persistent problem in the past dynasties. The landlord class has always demonstrated the evil of human nature in years of disaster and famine. In order to make huge profits, they will not hesitate to force the poor to sell their sons and daughters, and even artificially create food shortages.
Just because the greater the famine, the higher the price of food!
Therefore, private land ownership is definitely the biggest evil in the world. If martial arts wants to develop, population is the most important asset. Ye Qingzhou needs to feed and clothe the people of Daqi, so he will never compromise with anyone on this matter. .
As soon as this decree was promulgated, opposition voices arose one after another. Even in the court, countless so-called wise ministers and celebrities stood up to stop it.
But Ye Qingzhou was unmoved: "The land of aristocratic families and wealthy families was originally annexed, so why not now it is annexed by the imperial court? I have made up my mind, and this matter cannot be discussed."
After going to court, the head of state, Shen Huaimin, looked sad, and even went to the palace to find his daughter Shen Jingyi, hoping to let her enjoy the pillow breeze.
Shen Jingyi is now the queen, and her mother honors the world, but she is a woman of her own opinion. She obviously chose to side with Ye Qingzhou. Instead, she persuaded Shen Huaimin: "Father, your majesty's move must have deep meaning. When it comes to wealth and honor, , Now that our Shen family is already the richest in the world, we own a large ranch in Youzhou, and my eldest brother and brother Peng are also reused, why should we still hold on to the mere land in our hands? "
People are greedy and always want more and don't like to lose.
The same goes for Shen Huaimin. By investing in Ye Qingzhou, he has received unimaginable huge profits, but now he is reluctant to part with the Shen family's property.
Even if he is like this, the dignitaries and wealthy families inside and outside the government are even more complaining, even uproar.
On this day, Wang Junfeng, Nie Shixiong, Xu Buyi, Xu Wenshan and Zhang Shunchen gathered together to talk about the New Deal.
The five of them were accepted by Ye Qingzhou as his direct disciples. They are the ones with the highest cultivation level except Ye Qingzhou. Each of them is a true "enemy of ten thousand people", so they are called the "Five Tiger Generals" by the world.
The 'Golden Winged Tiger' Wang Junfeng was born into a wealthy family, the 'Liaoning Tiger' Nie Shixiong was born into a general, and the 'Jade Faced Tiger' Xu Wenshan was born into a wealthy family. Among the Five Tigers, that is, the 'Flying Star Tiger' Zhang Shunchen and the 'Decepticon' Xu Buyi and his wife came from a poor family, and their family was quite poor.
Xu Wenshan couldn't help but sigh: "The world has just been peaceful, and it will usher in chaos. Once the New Deal comes out, it is impossible for aristocratic families and wealthy families to submit obediently."
Wang Junfeng has an arrogant personality. Although he comes from a wealthy family in Xiling, he is a staunch follower of Ye Qingzhou. He has a very disdainful expression towards the aristocratic families and wealthy families: "What if the whole world turns against you? Master's magical power is incredible, and one person can defeat them all with one sword." , we might as well go back and advise our families not to use the mantis as a chariot.”
He obviously meant these words to Nie Shixiong and Xu Wenshan, especially Xu Wenshan, who had only joined the Xinwu Sect for a short period of time, and coupled with his status as a noble son of an aristocratic family, he still didn’t know much about Ye Qingzhou. style of doing things.
"There is nothing that Master decides that is impossible to do. Wenshan, you have great opportunities and great luck, so don't make any mistakes."
Nie Shixiong also tried to persuade Xu Wenshan: "I don't want the 'Five Tigers' to become the 'Four Tigers'. Anyway, I have already planned to personally go back to Liaodong to persuade my family members to hand over their land and property and let the government redistribute it."
In fact, they were not very resistant to Ye Qingzhou's new policy. After all, Daliang was in chaos due to land annexation.
Now, although Ye Qingzhou has a strong attitude towards nationalizing the land, in fact wealthy families and aristocratic families can still spend money to rent land from the government through contracting.
What is really affected is the land that has been concealed and misappropriated through illegal means. Ye Qingzhou will not recognize these bad debts. No matter how the wealthy family eats them, they have to spit them out.
Xu Wenshan had seen with his own eyes the fighting power of the Shenwu Army, so he understood that no matter how much the aristocratic families and wealthy families in the world resisted, it would be useless.
Once the emperor and his ministers, Daliang has been destroyed, and the new Daqi will naturally have new rules.
Take it or die.
"I'll go back and persuade the people."
Xu Wenshan let out a long sigh, feeling weak in his heart.
In the next three years, in order to resist the New Deal, bandits were revolted all over the country. Aristocratic families and wealthy families first sent their tribesmen to pretend to be bandits, looting places and causing trouble.
Among them, some aristocratic families and wealthy families openly rebelled, saying, "How can we give up our ancestors' inheritance to others?" ' The banner called on the 'people of insight' in the world to resist the 'tyranny' of Da Qi.
After Ye Qingzhou saw the memorial, he immediately dispatched more than ten thousand soldiers, divided into five groups, and attacked in all directions. He was led by Wang Junfeng, Nie Shixiong, Xu Buyi, Xu Wenshan and Zhang Shunchen, and ordered them to go to various places to quell the rebellion.
In any county where rebellion occurs, all the aristocratic families and wealthy families in the county will be massacred regardless of the cause, and all land and property will be confiscated.
The soldiers were brave and the tiger generals were invincible. Wherever the divine warriors went, the so-called "righteous teachers" of the wealthy families were killed one after another, leaving behind their helmets and armor, and the army was completely defeated.
After the Shenwu Army bloodbathed the five states of Ji, Liang, Henan, Yan, and You, the remaining aristocratic families and wealthy families finally chose to surrender and obediently handed over their land and properties, without mentioning the 'ancestral inheritance'.
After all, if the fight continues, they will have to meet their ancestors in person.
After three years of cold and heat, and three years of Shenwu, the world was settled and the world was at peace.
Ye Qingzhou didn't even need to take action personally, the "Five Tigers" under his command had already killed all the aristocratic and wealthy families. Looking at the victory reports sent back by the five disciples, Ye Qingzhou smiled coldly: "A bunch of cheap bones, are you honest now? ”
The New Land Deal was successfully promulgated, and the Da Qi court was able to master a large amount of production materials and successfully solved its financial difficulties.
Politics is essentially a pie-sharing game.
The emperor had to hold a knife in his hand to cut the cakes of aristocratic families and wealthy families, and then distribute the cut cakes to ordinary people, so that they could live, and even live happily. This is the so-called peace. prosperous times.
Once the emperor loses the power to divide the cake, and even the cake originally allocated to the court is divided by others, then the country is not far from being finished.
Now, what Ye Qingzhou has to do is to divide Daqi's cake again.
The first step is to cut the flesh from aristocratic families and wealthy families, that is, confiscate their land and properties.
This step has been completed, so we have to proceed to the second step, which is to distribute the cut cakes to the people of Daqi.
In order to do this, Ye Qingzhou selected the soldiers in the Shenwu Army through examinations and sent them to local areas to supervise the implementation of the decree.
Fortunately, when he was training the warriors, in addition to the Xinwumen's exercises, Ye Qingzhou also compiled a lot of teaching materials and conducted cultural literacy on the warriors in the evening.
It not only teaches them how to read and write, but also teaches them how to understand the world. It also teaches them various management knowledge.
Therefore, most of the soldiers are both civil and military, and because of the power of Si Neng, they must stand with the ordinary people, otherwise they will be repelled by the power of Si Neng, and their cultivation will be at a standstill. Regress and become a useless person.
Therefore, it is difficult for martial soldiers to be bribed by wealthy families. The characteristics of the power of thinking determine that they cannot violate the interests of the people, at least not openly.
In the sixth year of Shenwu, Ye Qingzhou established martial arts academies in every county in the world to win soldiers by force.
There are eight gates in a warrior's body. Those who can open one gate are called children, those who can open two gates are called talents, and those who can open three gates are called scholars.
After passing the Juren Examination, you will be qualified to serve as an official, but the speed of promotion is relatively slow. If you want to go further, you must continue to improve your cultivation.
Those who open four doors are considered Gongsheng students, and those who open five doors are considered Jinshi.
Only by becoming a Jinshi can one participate in martial arts debates in front of the palace and receive personal guidance from Ye Qingzhou. This alone makes martial arts scholars all over the world flock to him.
In the eighth year of Shenwu, the Central Plains entered an unprecedented prosperous age.
"Golden-winged Tiger" Wang Junfeng swept across the thirty-six kingdoms of the Western Region. The kings who dared to kill the envoys of Qi hung their heads on the North Tower.
Nie Shixiong, the "Tiger on Fire", defeated the eight tribes of Donghu Tianyu. If any tribes dared to kill the envoys of Qi, they were immediately killed.
"Jade Faced Tiger" Xu Wenshan suppressed hundreds of barbarians in Qianchuan, South Vietnam. The barbarians dared to kill Qi envoys and slaughtered them into nine counties. The 'Decepticon' Xu Buyi and the 'Flying Star Tiger' Zhang Shunchen each led more than a thousand soldiers to patrol the world, inspecting lawlessness and appeasing public opinion.
After eight years of hard work, Daqi is peaceful and peaceful. Houses are not closed at night, and people do not pick up things on the road. Not only can everyone have enough food and clothing, but at least they can barely get enough food and clothing. Few people have died of cold or starvation.
Looking at the memorial sent back by Xu Buyi and Zhang Shunchen, Ye Qingzhou sighed: "Sure enough, the family has fallen and the world is full."
During the reign of Emperor Liang, the reason why the world starved to death in the wilds was not because of insufficient food. Although the population did continue to expand, it did not reach the level of famine.
The reason why refugees are everywhere is mainly due to land annexation, and the most direct consequence of land annexation is that landlords control most of the food output.
In order to make money, they did not hesitate to hoard food, continuously raised the price of food, and allowed a large number of people who had lost their land to starve to death, causing scenes of human tragedy.
Ye Qingzhou just solved them and successfully fed the people all over the world.
In the age of peace and prosperity, fortunes gathered together, and the capital was among the best in the world. The hearts of the people in the fourteen states all turned into big rivers of thinking and energy, surging in like hundreds of rivers.
"Ninety-nine points return to one, which means that ninety-nine percent of the world's luck is attributed to me."
Ye Qingzhou swallowed a huge amount of thinking power, his spirit was infinitely elevated, and his mind also rose to the sky, like a god, overlooking the vast territory of Daqi.
Ye Qingzhou even felt that he had become a swimming fish that could jump out of the river of time, and saw the reflection of the old time, which was the 'shadow of the past' in the Cangyuan world.
The once great world of Cang Yuan was just a foreign and barbaric land where there were only wild beasts and no humans.
Then the holy sword Xuanyuan descended from the sky and pierced into a majestic mountain. The shining sacred sword light also illuminated the hearts of a group of apes, allowing them to successfully awaken to wisdom.
People began to appear on the earth.
They gathered around Holy Sword Xuanyuan, knelt down, prayed, and absorbed knowledge.
Xuanyuan is the sword of the holy way, so it has the attributes of spreading civilization and establishing order. The light of the sword shines in all directions, constantly spreading the fire of civilization.
Initially, the ancestors of the Cang Yuan Realm learned to drill wood to make fire, learn to use tools, make stone spears to hunt wild animals, and collect wild fruits to store for the winter.
Later, they learned to make bows and arrows and traps, weave fishing nets and clothes, and even learn to farm.
Finally, civilization and order were established. The Central Plains and Blue Star's East Pole Country had similar terrain features, with two large rivers running from east to west.
The rivers flood regularly, so the ancestors of the Cang Yuan Realm had the need to control the water. The organization of manpower to control the water created the need for unified dispatch of human resources.
The unified system came into being over a long period of time, allowing the Central Plains region of Cangyuan to finally establish a centralized monarchy and a unified country based on the county system.
"This is the history of civilization evolution in the Cang Yuan world?"
Ye Qingzhou saw the history of the Cangyuan world through the 'shadows of the past' in the long river of time, and was surprised: "The Xuanyuan Sword came to the Cangyuan world about two hundred thousand years ago, but in Blue Star, the Xuanyuan Sword The loss is only five thousand years. It seems that the time flow rate in the two worlds is different, the difference is nearly forty times."
At the same time, Ye Qingzhou saw a new 'shadow of the past'.
In the Central Plains region of the Cang Yuan Realm, the population has been migrating outwards for a long time, entering the grasslands to the north and becoming nomadic tribes such as Donghu and Tianlang. They have crossed the sea to the east and settled on the archipelago, which has become an island mainly for fishing and hunting. civil.
The southward branch migrated to the Baiyue area, accompanying themselves with jungles and streams, and became the Southern Barbarians.
Finally, there is another group that continues to move west. They not only established the countries in the Western Regions, but also became the people of the sunset in the more distant land of sunset.
After these ethnic groups left the Central Plains, they lost the guidance of the Holy Sword Xuanyuan, and the fire of civilization gradually extinguished, and they continued to fall into the abyss of barbarism.
They became bloodthirsty and cruel, and regarded "eating the weak as the strong" as the way to survive. Without the constraints of morality and etiquette, they lost the gentleness in their bones and became beasts in human skin.
When Ye Qingzhou saw this scene, he couldn't help but think of a sentence in his heart: "If the barbarians and Di come to China, they will come to China; if the Chinese come to barbarians, they will come to barbarians."
Civilization has never been divided by blood. The way of civilization of Holy Sword Xuanyuan is the way of the Holy King that is open and inclusive. As long as you are willing to accept civilization and order, and are willing to accept education, you are a Chinese.
On the other hand, if you want to break the shackles of morality and culture and pursue so-called freedom and nature, then you are Di Yi.
"Civilization and barbarism represent two completely different 'Taos'. Once the Holy Sword is born, it will definitely lead to Taoist disputes."
Ye Qingzhou felt a strong sense of crisis. By tracing back the "shadow of the past" in the long river of time, he finally knew that the Holy Sword Xuanyuan was on the top of Dongyue.
But he also saw that the Cangyuan world was not just the Central Plains, but an entire huge 'Pangaea'. The land plates were all connected, with only a few sporadic islands surrounding the 'Pangaea'.
Because of the barrier of mountains, there is no direct military conflict between several continental plates.
But the existence of 'Dao Zheng' made Ye Qingzhou realize that once the Xuanyuan Sword was born, it would definitely lead to a catastrophe in the world.
With just a little deduction, Ye Qingzhou understood that this 'Dao dispute' came from the spiritual world, and the person who caused it was none other than himself.
"Because I opened the spiritual world and founded the Xinwu Sect. While receiving benefits, it also caused disaster?"
Ye Qingzhou was speechless.
There really is no free lunch in this day and age.
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In September of the eighth year of Shenwu, the three armies that went to conquer Donghu, the Western Regions and South Vietnam returned to the court almost at the same time and asked Jinque to offer prisoners.
In front of the main hall of Jinque, the armor leaves are shining brightly.
"Chen Wang Junfeng."
"I wish Wenshan."
"It's not easy for me to be Xu."
"Meet Your Majesty!"
"Get up."
Ye Qingzhou raised his hand, and a force passed through the earth to the three of them, lifting them up from the ground. The three of them were shocked and secretly surprised: "Master's cultivation has improved again!"
Later, noble captives from Donghu, South Vietnam and the Western Regions were presented. Most of them were from royal families, especially women with beautiful appearance.
The eight tribes of Donghu who were once capable of conquering and fighting can now only sing and dance to entertain people with sex. Otherwise, if the emperor of Daqi is not happy, millions of corpses will be buried in the land of Donghu.
Standing among a group of prisoners, Wu Ya secretly felt disgusted because the man sitting on the dragon chair killed her most beloved brother Uwe.
But before leaving, her father asked her to serve the Emperor Shenwu of Daqi wholeheartedly.
Just when Wu Ya was pitying herself, Ye Qingzhou's eyes fell on her, and his eyes were quite surprised: "The fate has fallen, and its color is pure green?"
The luck of Wang Junfeng and the other five tiger generals can be said to be prosperous, but compared with the girl in front of them, they are still slightly inferior.
Ye Qingzhou opened his divine eyes again, his eyes penetrated the long river of time, and saw a hazy "shadow of the future" on Wu Ya's body, and saw part of the future destiny.
"In the original timeline, was the Empress Donghu who conquered the Central Plains in the future? Nie Shixiong was very lucky. After a long trip, he actually picked up an empress and came back."
Ye Qingzhou was naturally happy to have found another person who could harvest his luck: "Your name."
"My daughter Wu Ya has met the Emperor of Da Qi."
"Haha, Dong Hu has bowed his head and proclaimed himself a vassal. You are from a noble family, so it is okay for you to call yourself a vassal. I ask you, are you willing to join my sect and practice martial arts with me?" (End of this chapter)