I have already established my power and prestige, so how did Li Shimin come back to life?

Mr. Qi straightened his sleeves and nodded solemnly, "Everything is progressing steadily according to plan. The imperial edicts have been posted in all prefectures and counties."

"I have carefully selected numerous literate individuals to explain Your Majesty's will in detail. Now everything is ready, and we just need to start the fire."

After hearing this, Li Chengqian's heart, which had been hanging in the air, finally settled down.

He looked at Mr. Qi with a determined look and said in a deep voice, "A single spark can start a prairie fire!"

The voice echoed in the Liangyi Palace for a long time.

……

In front of the gates of various prefectures and counties, people gathered under the imperial edict like a tide, shoulder to shoulder, each with their heads raised, their eyes fixed on the words on the imperial edict.

The literate person stood in the center of the crowd, interpreting the contents of the new policy word by word in a clear voice. As the people-friendly measures were explained, bursts of exclamations and cheers broke out from the crowd from time to time.

"Your Majesty's policy is truly a good one! Taxing the land instead of the head of the population."

A country man shouted excitedly, his face filled with irrepressible joy.

"My family only has two acres of land, but the tax is collected from four people! According to Your Majesty's instructions, I only need to pay taxes on two acres of land from now on. This is really great news!"

"This new policy really takes the common people into consideration! It's reduced so much tax, and we can finally have hope for the future!"

An old man was so excited that his beard trembled slightly, and tears flashed in his cloudy eyes.

"That's right, our Majesty is truly a wise and enlightened ruler."

The young man next to him also echoed, his eyes full of anticipation.

Just as everyone was immersed in the heated discussion about the new policy, someone shouted loudly: "Do you know that those noble families are actually trying to rebel and harm our Majesty?"

The sound was like a thunderclap. The crowd was silent for a moment before they started to explode.

"What? How dare the noble family be so rebellious!" "The emperor treats them well, why would they rebel?"

Angry questioning came one after another, and the people's faces were full of astonishment and confusion.

"Why are these noble families rebelling?" someone in the crowd asked loudly.

Seeing this, those who could read patiently explained, "That's because His Majesty wants to make decisions for us common people, which touches upon the interests of those aristocratic families and corrupt officials!"

"As you all know, these noble families have been committing crimes in the local area, seizing our land and leaving many of our people homeless."

"They also secretly raised prices, hoarded food, and then sold it at a high price during famine years. Countless villagers starved to death because they couldn't afford to buy food."

"Moreover, they colluded with corrupt officials to manipulate the imperial examinations, preventing truly talented young men from humble backgrounds from becoming officials. This allowed them to control government affairs and continue to oppress us."

"Take the Taiyuan Wang family, which Your Majesty eliminated, for example. Our children were used as spittoons and toilet paper by these aristocratic families!"

"The Cui family of Qinghe colluded with Tubo and intercepted our army's military reports, causing the defense of Songzhou to be lax and nearly leading to its loss."

"But the villages outside Songzhou City have all fallen under the slaughter of the Tibetan cavalry!"

"Do they take the lives of us civilians as their own?"

"In their eyes, the lives of poor people like us are not worth as much as a blade of grass in their house!"

These words immediately made the people furious!

"These noble families deserve to die!"

"Whoever dares to go against His Majesty! I, Old Three, will not forgive him!"

"I am but a common man! How dare I spill blood for your majesty!"

"Your Majesty, kill the nobles! Well done!"

A middle-aged man raised the sickle in his hand high.

"Yes! Good kill! Not killing is not enough to appease the people's anger!"

"And now they dare to oppose His Majesty! They are courting death!"

"Let's go, I want to go to the front line and fight against the dogs of the aristocratic families!"

"Beat the aristocratic dog!"

"That's right! Whoever dares to go against His Majesty! We will not forgive him!"