Dominate the Country

Wang Zhizheng never thought that he would be rewarded by His Majesty the Emperor one day.

Holding the green jade ruyi in his hand, he didn't know how to go home. He was so flattered.

Pan Qian at home felt dizzy after seeing the green jade ruyi and the decree given by Chen Ming.

"No wonder people say that a crisis is a coexistence of danger and opportunity. Although Jin Jida is a big trouble, it is also a great opportunity."

The female consciousness told Pan Qian that with the decree of His Majesty the Emperor and the jade ruyi, her husband's future future did not need to worry at all. He remembered that the construction of Shanghai Medical College would start next year, and the entire construction period would only take three or four years. During this period, while preparing for the teaching staff, her husband could completely work part-time there. When the affiliated hospital of the medical college is established in the future, it can go further.

Before, Pan Qian did not dare to make such a wishful plan, but now Wang Zhizheng has the treasure given by the emperor, which is invisibly covered with a layer of golden light. Who dares to object?

"Even without the grace of His Majesty, I will take good care of Jin Jida. You don't know that Xiao Lou Xiao has treated the public hospital as his office these days." Wang Zhizheng said, while recalling Jin Jida's injuries in the past few days. The wound has been bleeding less, and maybe it can be sutured tomorrow.

God knows how much attention the imperial doctors from Nanjing paid to Jin Jida after arriving at the public hospital yesterday.

But Wang Zhizheng's fragile political mind has no idea what will happen in the public hospital in the next few days.

"Director, there is a reporter at the door, from the "Zhongyuan Daily"..."

"Director, the reporter from the "Financial Daily" requested to interview Jin Jida..."

"Director, the people from the "Ta Kung Pao" are here..."

In just one day, several top and first-class newspaper reporters in the country came to interview Jin Jida, which stunned Wang Zhizheng. The next day, Wang Zhizheng bought the daily newspapers of these newspapers at the newsstand in the community on his way to the hospital in the morning.

"Oh my god, so long?"

Whether it was the Zhongyuan Daily or the Ta Kung Pao, the front page published news, interviews, and comments about Jin Jida. The entire front page was filled with nothing but Jin Jida. But Wang Zhizheng clearly remembered that yesterday's interviews were all very short.

Especially the reporter of the "Financial Daily", this top Shanghai local newspaper, was driven away by Jin Jida very unhappy after only asking the second question, because the latter asked about the peasant uprising in North Korea last winter.

Yes, just last winter, a part of the Koreans who were urgently requested by the National Defense Army from the Northeast rioted, and in the end they naturally failed, and then as the untouchables to be dealt with, they were divided up by various forces, and they sold more than 50,000 men and women to Chinese slave traders. It's just that this can't make them a lot of money, because the Chinese government has just announced a decree - "Regulations on the Resettlement of Korean Serfs".

Announced that in the next five years, the treaty restrictions on Korean serfs will be gradually lifted, which is a reward for Chen Han's "loyalty" to North Korea. But everyone knows that this is China's "assimilation" of Koreans after annexing North Korea in the future.

Now, any Korean can apply for a yellow book anywhere in China. It can be predicted that it will soon become a lovely red book.

The development of several years has changed many of China's natural rules, especially in rural areas. The emergence of farm economy has greatly hit the economy of small and medium-sized landlords and self-cultivating farmers. Although China's population is far from the peak period of Chen Ming's previous life, there is indeed a surplus of labor in China's rural areas.

At the same time, the booming industry and immigration projects have solved the problem of surplus population in rural areas all over the world, especially in ShanX.

How many problems can a vast Northeast solve for China? What's more, China now has more than one Northeast, there are also Nanyang, Nanmingzhou, and North America.

So after this order was issued, the price of Korean slaves in the market plummeted instantly, and even the price of the most powerful Silla maids was cut in half. Now the best-priced slaves in China's slave market are Japanese slaves, and the most expensive female slaves are Indian white slaves.

Of course, Wang Zhizheng is not the only one who can see such a newspaper. As soon as Wang Zhizheng arrived at the hospital office, he received a report from the head nurse that Jin Jida had a big temper early this morning. Wang Zhizheng asked why, and the head nurse said that Jin Jida had read the newspaper.

"I want to sue the Financial Daily, I want to sue them..." When Wang Zhizheng walked to the ward, he happened to hear Jin Jida angrily accusing. His voice was loud and angry.

Xiao Lou was still in the ward. Wang Zhizheng did not go in, but returned to his office and deliberately opened the Financial Daily that he had not finished reading, because he knew that the reporter of the Financial Daily was kicked out of the room by Jin Jida after asking only the second question. Wang Zhizheng believed in his heart that the Financial Daily was making up nonsense, so he did not read it on the way to work.

But now he calmed down and read it carefully, and was greatly surprised. The latter's reports and comments pointed the spearhead directly at the two-class aristocracy and power politics of North Korea. Wang Zhizheng was stunned. This was going to overturn the sky of North Korea.

"Master Xiao apologized for a long time in the ward, but in the end, Jin Jida didn't sue the Financial Daily."

When Wang Zhizheng got home in the evening, he told his wife about these things. Pan Qian was one of the first female officials of Chen Han. Compared with Wang Zhizheng, who only liked to cut people, she had a much more sensitive political sense.

Pan Qian immediately smelled something unusual and asked.

"Although the Financial Daily is not under the leadership of Shanghai and is directly under the Ministry of Finance, if Lord Xiao really wants to run a newspaper, how can he not do it? This newspaper used to focus on the economic situation, but today it is writing about politics." Although some reports on North Korea by the Financial Daily also involved the economy. "But this is abnormal."

"This newspaper is directly under the Ministry of Finance, and it is more politically correct than private newspapers such as the Ta Kung Pao. Now they have fabricated this report out of nothing, and it is hard to say that it is not the intention of the ministry."

"The intention of the ministry is the intention of the cabinet, and the intention of the cabinet is the intention of His Majesty. ... Is the emperor going to cut North Korea?"

As Pan Qian analyzed, her eyes fell on a copy of the Financial Daily spread on the coffee table.

"…………In the Ming Dynasty, rice and cloth were used as physical currency throughout the country. All state revenues, including land tax, were realized through the tribute system. Under the tribute system, the tax payers sought huge profits, and farmers often had to pay tribute several times higher.

During the Imjin Japanese Invasion, the supply of military food became the primary problem, and in fact, tribute could not be collected any longer. Therefore, rice was levied in Chungcheong Province and Jeolla Province to replace all tributes. Ten years after the war, the "Datong Law" was tried in Gyeonggi Province, which changed the regular tribute (except for special tribute) previously paid to the central government departments headed by the palace and the tribute to the local government offices. Rice and other sundries were all abolished, and replaced by a system of collecting rice from all lands. The collected rice was called "Daedong rice". After the trial of the "Daedong Law" in Gyeonggi Province, it took a full hundred years until the late years of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, when all provinces of Korea, except Pyeongan Province and Hamgyong Province in the northwest, gradually implemented the Daedong Law.

During the era of the tribute system, tribute was nominally required to be paid by everyone, but the nobles and wealthy families were often exempted from tax, just like the literati in the Ming and Qing dynasties in China, who usually did not pay taxes. The entire burden of national taxes fell on the common people, and at the same time, due to the serious exploitation of the taxpayers, the court The actual income of the government was very small. Daedong rice was only paid by landowners, so it should be beneficial to those who had no land or little land. However, since there were still "jinshang" and "biegong" to offer local specialties to the palace or central government offices, and items such as charcoal, honey, chickens, and pheasants had to be paid to local government offices, the burden on tenant farmers was not reduced at all.

It was just that the Japanese invasion seriously damaged the interests of Korea and also hit all classes in Korea hard. While the population decreased, the vacant land also increased greatly.

The power of the royal family was suppressed system, the yangban aristocracy collectively entered a recovery period. To a certain extent, it consolidated the rule of Joseon.

Because the foundation of Joseon was the yangban aristocracy, when the yangban aristocracy became more powerful in the local area, although they developed a vigorous political power, the existence of the Joseon Dynasty as a whole became more stable.

Joseon, whose royal power was weakened several times, was not a dynasty of the royal family, but a dynasty in which power belonged to everyone and the entire ruling class. "The latter is a new term proposed by Chen Han's Political Academy, which is very novel but also easy to understand.

Just like the Zhao Song Dynasty, which shared the world with the literati, the power of the country did not belong only to the Zhao emperor, but also to the literati and their representatives in the central court.

And Chen Han's current practice is to expand the literati class to the entire intellectual class, and the capital for being an official is no longer just the articles of Confucius and Mencius, but the whole civilization. All future officials are "scholars", and "scholars" have expanded ten or a hundred times compared to the original scholar class. To a certain extent, when Chen Han's system is established, Chen Han's foundation will be more solid.

But now this system is not yet sound.

In the previous time and space, when Prussia was threatened by Napoleon's army. William III asked William von Humboldt to reform Prussia's education. He reformed the compulsory education system that Prussia was proud of, so that children of all classes had the same opportunity to receive education; and established the Humboldt University of Berlin. After that, the University of Breslau and the University of Bonn were established one after another.

Frederick William III once told the professors who escaped from the University of Halle under Napoleon's occupation: "This country must use its spiritual strength to make up for its material losses. It is precisely because of poverty that education must be provided. I have never heard of a country that became poor or destroyed because of education. Education will not only not make a country poor, but on the contrary, education is the best way to get rid of poverty!" He even shouted such a slogan: "University is a vast world for scientific workers. Science has no forbidden areas, no authority, and science is free!"

In that era, it was the educational reform that laid a solid foundation of scientific and technological talents for Prussia's delayed rapid industrialization and became the driving force for Prussia's resurgence.

Chen Ming is now doing the same thing as Frederick William III, but compared with William III's plan to make his country better and stronger, Chen Ming wants to make the dynasty he established more stable.

Teaching, education, perseverance.

Ten, twenty, thirty years... One hundred years later, China may still not achieve a 97.5% enrollment rate for school-age children, but going to school and taking college entrance exams will inevitably become an important channel for the mobility of all social classes, just like China in the 21st century.

Moltke said that Prussia's victory was decided on the podium of elementary school teachers. Then Chen Ming also hopes that the country he has established will be consolidated on the podium of elementary school teachers.

North Korea is already a cooked duck in Chen Ming's bowl, so he has to carry out "dramatic" reforms on North Korea, so that all North Korea's proactive "traditions" will be thrown into the gutter, and North Korea will become the same as China now.

So he has to create a wave of public opinion first...