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Chapter 116: How many things did Chu Shizhao hide? The appearance of the Whip Technique!

Collapsed?

My Great Zhou Dynasty has already reached the bottom. Do you mean it can fall further?
To be honest, Chu Shizhao was not afraid at all.

The previous Great Zhou Dynasty, which could still be used with some repairs, might have been far more difficult to govern than the current situation.

The worse things are, the more opportunities there are to revive them.

Moreover, for Chu Shizhao, this simulation attempt was a bit rotten because the save file of this version was a bit rotten. Instead of being a timid tinkerer, he might as well let himself go to death.

Under normal circumstances, as a fan of collecting minister cards, Chu Shizhao would definitely not disdain to do something like exterminating three clans of others.

But now it is different. Chu Shizhao has already taken enough blame. Not to mention whether the succession to the throne is true or false, what exactly is the Yongjin Emperor's last will and edict.

Chu Shizhao first defeated Wang's relatives by marriage, then fought with the nominal queen mother in person, and killed his three brothers.

Although the person who did it was not Chu Shizhao, but Chu Shizhao's subordinates, the account still has to be counted on Chu Shizhao.

What's more, Chu Shizhao didn't bother to change any history books. His achievements were earned through fighting, not by changing history books.

Even if you change the history books more thoroughly, some truly important events still cannot cover up the truth.

Instead of studying these crooked ways, it is better to do your own job well.

Therefore, Chu Shizhao's simulation completely brought out his temper, and he didn't care about any gains or losses.

Just don't make me angry.

Didn't he know that killing Yan Ming, who led the surrender, would bring about a great change? Didn't he know that conferring an extremely indecent title on Yan Ming would cause him to rebel again? Didn't he know the consequences of starting a war again?
Chu Shizhao obviously knew it.

But he wanted to do that. Regardless of whether Zhang Bu and Xu Xiangyang were loyal subjects of Chu Shizhao, they were loyal subjects of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

The loyal minister shed his blood for the country, but in order to appease the rebels, Chu Shizhao promoted the traitor who had killed the loyal minister.

What's the point?
Chu Shizhao was just very unhappy.

His original plan was to crush Yan Ming, press his head hard and make him kowtow and apologize to those loyal people.

But this bastard's main purpose was political speculation. Seeing that Lu Yi was powerful, he joined Lu Yi. Seeing that Lu Yi's situation was hopeless, he killed Lu Yi and surrendered to the court.

But does Chu Shizhao want you to surrender to the court?

If you don't surrender, I will take your head myself!

It’s as if if you, Yan Ming, don’t surrender, I, Chu Shizhao, will not be able to eat you!
As early as when the Huns gave up supporting Ma Su'an and Lu Yi's troops, Chu Shizhao knew that he had won the victory.

It is only a matter of time to defeat the rebellion of these two guys. Moreover, Li Jin and Huan Jie's attitude towards Chu Shizhao is very clear, and there are armies like the Beiwei Army that have the advantage of surprise attacks on the battlefield.

This left Chu Shizhao without any worries.

Chu Shizhao simply felt regretful that Yan Ming did not stand up to the end and fight Chu Shizhao to the death.

In this way, Chu Shizhao could openly exterminate Yan Ming's three clans.

But it's okay.

Even if you surrender, I will still exterminate your entire clan.

What keeps you sane?
Chu Shizhao has been screwed so many times in this simulation, does he still need to be rational?

And it seems that if Chu Shizhao gave Yan Ming a high position and generous salary, he would not rebel. There is only the first and second rebellion, but not the last one.

Many people like to gain benefits by being recruited by the imperial court.

As for the role and devastating blow that Yan Ming played in this rebellion, it was not as simple as him killing Lu Yi and offering his head to atone for his sins.

He did this only to have more bargaining power when it came to surrender.

Chu Shizhao had so many talented people under his command, why did he insist on having a traitor, a traitor who killed loyal people, to work for him?

Are you bullying him because there is no one else available?

Is it some bastard who thinks he can be my, Chu Shizhao's, dog just because he has some ability?
In this situation, Chu Shizhao just wants to have fun and act like a crazy guy.

Get money! Get an army! Get a westward expedition!

It cannot be said that Chu Shizhao has given up hope, but he has taken on too many responsibilities. If he is not dealt with a bigger one, after his death, his posthumous title will at least be "Ling".

Emperor Ling of Zhou?
This is not necessary!

Chu Shizhao would rather have the posthumous title of Emperor Wu of Zhou than let his reputation be ruined, and now if he wants to complete a Jedi counterattack and be recorded in the history books, he must at least accomplish the feats of Fenglangjuxu and Yanran Inscription.

If you want to be even more ruthless on this basis, the only thing left is the Whip of God, and you can march all the way westward.

To be honest, it was Chu Shizhao's bad luck.

Emperor Yongjin died too early, leaving Chu Shizhao with very little time to prepare and not much room for choice.

If Chu Shizhao had been given three more years of space, the situation would not have turned out like this.

Although Chu Shizhao was able to have such a small team in a year and was able to fight back under such circumstances, the thrills, the notoriety and the consequences involved would be an extreme test of Chu Shizhao's subsequent performance.

His situation was the kind that, as long as he didn't perform at the strongest level of an emperor, he would definitely be singled out for 'praise' by the historians.

As a result, before he officially started his grand ambition, he encountered the Luma Rebellion. His career as an emperor started off with a great loss.

As long as the Great Zhou Dynasty was destroyed, he would be the first to be blamed. After that, there might be a group of people in later generations who would repeatedly speculate whether there would be better results if Chu Shizhao's brother Chu Shixu succeeded to the throne.

Classic. As long as it doesn’t appear, it is the strongest.

Even though Chu Shizhao quelled the historical event of the Lu-Ma Rebellion, in the end many people still put the blame for the rebellion of the feudal lords on Chu Shizhao, because this was a vicious political incident that Chu Shizhao encountered during his reign.

From this, it can be seen that the situation of Chu Shizhao's succession to the throne this time is more than a devastating beginning.

Then do it!

Without saying anything else, max out your martial virtues first.

[In May of the first year of Kaihuang, after suppressing the Luma Rebellion, Chu Shizhao actively invested in military preparations. He ordered his soldiers to continue to practice martial arts and recruited a large number of craftsmen to study new tempering methods.]

The country’s fiscal revenue is currently low, but it is still functioning overall.

Moreover, Chu Shizhao observed the governing ability of his subordinate Chen Ka.

Wen Yu's strength mainly lies in the construction of large-scale projects, the guarantee of logistics and transportation, and his ability in logistics and grain transportation. He is obviously not as good as Huan Sheng in economic development and reform.

During the period when Huan Sheng served as prime minister, the fiscal revenue of the Great Zhou Dynasty increased by 20%, but Wen Yu could only provide a 5% increase in fiscal revenue.

Considering the shortage of funds, Chu Shizhao decided to stop being a human being.

[In June of the first year of Kaihuang, Chu Shizhao regarded those noble families who had surrendered to Lu Yi as traitors, and convicted them one by one and confiscated their property.]

It is worth mentioning that Lu Yi had killed those aristocratic families who were unwilling to submit to him and accumulated a lot of land and wealth, which have now been taken away by Chu Shizhao.

And now, Chu Shizhao is settling accounts with those noble families who followed Lu Yi. In this round, he got two rewards.

This method of making money is definitely the fastest at the moment.

However, this is a completely evil economic approach and will not last long.

[In July of the first year of Kaihuang, after you put down the Luma Rebellion, your reputation in Chang'an reached its peak.]

[You looked down at the ministers below the stage, while Huan Sheng presented the list of ministers who had intended to rebel in the Chang'an court. Chu Shizhao looked at the ministers crawling on the ground, watching their submissive appearances, and shouted one sentence after another, "Long live the emperor."]

[But you are not happy in your heart. You seem to see through everything and everything behind those people. You know very well that the obedience of these people is all based on your martial virtue. If one day, you lose this most courageous method, they will become the sharpest daggers stabbing you.]

[In August of the first year of Kaihuang, you wanted to implement benevolent policies for the people, intending to keep wealth for the people so that the country would be strong and the people would be safe, but you soon discovered a new problem. That is, with the current financial situation of the Great Zhou Dynasty, if the taxes of the people were reduced, then it would soon be unable to make ends meet. The assets obtained from the confiscation of property alone were far from enough to expand the military.]

[In September of the first year of Kaihuang, you had no choice but to withstand the pressure and launch a new policy in advance - "One Whip Law".]

[In October of the first year of Kaihuang, you ordered Dong Feng to go to the south and choose Zhejiang to be the first to implement the policy of "One Whip Law". Many people mistakenly believed that this was a new tax law introduced by the Zhou Dynasty to exploit the people, and many people were unwilling to accept it.]

[In November of the first year of Kaihuang, in order to ensure the orderly implementation of the "One Whip Law", Chu Shizhao sent several imperial envoys to survey the land, thereby expanding the scope of taxation and making the taxation relatively even.]

【This was in response to the situation at the time where those who occupied more land had more land but less taxes. Only by measuring the land from top to bottom could the taxes and labor service be balanced.】

[Most of the scholars who relied on land donations were not spared. Many of them were forced by Chu Shizhao's prestige and strong deterrence to voluntarily hand over the "illegally acquired" land and report the amount of land truthfully.]

[In December of the first year of Kaihuang, Chu Shizhao ordered Wen Yu to unify taxes and labor service, restrict harassment, and stabilize taxes. Before the implementation of the "One Whip Law", taxes in the Great Zhou were calculated separately, and in addition to taxes and labor service, there were also a variety of additional levies such as local products and tributes.]

【After Chu Shizhao implemented the Single Whip Law, all of them were simplified into one, and the tax was returned to the land and collected according to the acreage.】

[In January of the second year of Kaihuang, Dong Feng, under unprecedented pressure and the aggressiveness of powerful people and nobles, finally pushed for the implementation of the "One Whip Law" in Zhejiang.]

【After the Single Whip Law was enacted, the phenomenon of uneven burdens on households in different villages was adjusted, which was a rare phenomenon. The class conflict originally caused by the tax and labor service issue was temporarily eased, which was conducive to the development of agricultural production.】

[After the implementation of the "One Whip Law", the national economy will increase by 20% every year until the fifth year when the growth rate stops. ]

Chu Shizhao used the trump card of "One Whip Law" not for any other reason but to get some silver and inventory for his own treasury to facilitate his big tasks.

The basis of Wanli's three major expeditions was the important condition provided by the "One Whip Law" implemented by Zhang Juzheng.

You must know that after Jiajing, the problem of fiscal deficit in the Ming Dynasty could no longer be solved, but a famous prime minister like Zhang Juzheng emerged.

Without Zhang Juzheng, a peasant uprising might have broken out prematurely in the Wanli generation due to land annexation.

What no one expected was that Zhang Juzheng gave the Ming Dynasty a new lease of life. After the "One Whip Law" improved by Gui E, which was improved by this Ming Regent, the shadow of the Ming Dynasty, was implemented, the national treasury never lacked silver during the Wanli period.

Wars have always been fought for economic reasons. Without economy, how can you fight a protracted war? During the reign of Emperor Wanli, three large-scale wars were fought.

They fought the Battle of Ningxia, the Battle of Korea, and the Battle of Bozhou respectively.

These are the famous three major expeditions of the Wanli period.

Given the prevailing atmosphere in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, one can imagine the amount of money spent on fighting three battles of this magnitude. However, the "Single Whip Law" and the fruits of victory after Zhang Juzheng's reforms supported the national treasury, and the war was pursued relentlessly all the way, giving Emperor Wanli a lot of credit.

However, this does not mean that the "Single Whip Law" has no solution. Any policy will expose its drawbacks in the later stages.

Apart from the positive effects of the "Single Whip Law" in the early and middle stages, the "Single Whip Law" became more and more like a whip that was lashed hard on the people, drawing their blood to death.

But the Great Zhou Dynasty was already rotten to the core. If Chu Shizhao did not take some drastic measures, it would not be a question of whether to make money or not, but a question of whether the country would be destroyed or not.

When there is a famine, flood, or earthquake in the future, and Chu Shizhao has no money to provide disaster relief, he will be very happy.

Therefore, we must think of ways to get money for the national treasury.

No matter how you look at it, the only suitable political reform method for the Zhou Dynasty is the "Single Whip Law". It can not only save the cost of tax collection, but also improve the administrative efficiency of taxation. Once the administrative efficiency is improved, the execution ability of the Zhou Dynasty will also be strengthened.

Following the previous operation, Chu Shizhao registered the household registers of the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty and ordered a large-scale search to avoid the emergence of a large number of unregistered households.

The imperial examination system was also added to provide a real upward channel for talented people.

[In February of the second year of Kaihuang, in order to ensure the accurate implementation of the various requirements of the "One Whip Law", you took the opportunity to rectify the administration of officials. In terms of clarifying the administration of officials, Chu Shizhao has worked hard since he ascended the throne. He is also "harsh" by nature and is extremely harsh on the gentry. He is determined not to tolerate corruption and abuse of power.]

[Therefore, Chu Shizhao dismissed most of the officials and clerks who were corrupt, both inside and outside the capital, and even exiled them to other places. In just a few years, more than 500 officials were dismissed, and the prefectures and counties were in awe.]

[The rectification of the bureaucracy during his administration was not only to enrich the national treasury but also to relieve the people’s hardship.]

[In March of the second year of Kaihuang, Chu Shizhao reformed the military system and greatly restricted the military power of the Jiedushi. After the Lu-Ma Rebellion, a large number of unowned lands emerged in the Great Zhou Dynasty, so Chu Shizhao sent his own official troops to farm in peacetime, and then mobilized them to become a combat-ready force during wartime.]

[Among them, Chu Shizhao divided the grain income from farming equally, winning the favor and support of a large number of military households. ]

[In April of the second year of Kaihuang, the "One Whip Law" implemented by Dong Feng in Zhejiang had achieved some results, and the taxes paid by Zhejiang were more than 200,000 taels of silver higher than in previous years.]

At this moment, Huan Yi was analyzing the decree called "One Whip Law" word by word.

His elder brother Huan Sheng simulated and rehearsed the reform several times, but he failed to make any sense and the effect was not very significant.

However, as soon as Chu Shizhao introduced the "One Whip Law", Huan Yi smelled something wrong.

The tax increase in Zhejiang is really too fast. This speed is not a normal economic growth at all.

And can achieve such an effect.

Judging from the current content, the only thing left is the "Single Whip Law" which has already come into effect.

No, Huan Yi really didn't realize that Chu Shizhao, in addition to being good at fighting, also had such a delicate skill.

After all, Chu Shizhao's performance in fighting was so brilliant that Huan Yi somewhat overlooked Chu Shizhao's performance in governing the country.

The appearance of "One Whip Law" made Huan Yi confused again.

How many things did Chu Shizhao hide?

(End of this chapter)