I gather power with my gift of God and build the heaven

Chapter 97: Power covers the territory, finally exposed

In the following time, the dynasty began to distribute appointment documents on a large scale, purging officials from almost all the cities in the occupied areas.

Basically all officials are members of rural cooperatives.

The only exception is probably Wuchang in Weiyuan County. He is the only Ming Dynasty official to be appointed county magistrate so far.

Other officials, if they have not committed any crime, corruption or bribery, and want to serve as officials in the National Salvation Army.

Then let me join the farm cooperative first and become the village chief to manage a village. After enough political performance, I will naturally have the opportunity to be promoted to a higher official.

At least for now, until the dynasty establishes a more preferential official system, all officials must be promoted in this way.

Anyway, with the support of official positions, even illiterate ordinary farmers will not have major problems.

It can be said that extraordinary means such as dynastic official position and heavenly status completely got rid of dependence on those literati.

This model will not change until the dynasty stabilizes the place and establishes other methods of selecting and recruiting officials.

Of course, the greater possibility is that it won't change.

Because of the existence of official positions, personal political achievements can be clearly recorded. It is clear who is promoted and who is demoted. The dynasty only needs to select from those with qualified political achievements.

If you can't manage a village well, how can you manage a county, a prefecture, or even a province?

Moreover, when managing a village, no matter how big a mistake is made, the scope of the impact will only be so small.

In short, if you want to directly occupy a high position in the Salvation Army, it may be very difficult.

Of course, with the current development momentum of the National Salvation Army, it is still very easy to get promoted, because there are a lot of official positions available, and it is possible to promote a large number of low-level officials at any time.

If you have the ability, you can naturally be promoted quickly.

The most important of these is that the dynasty and the People's Salvation Army have the ability to suppress all resistance, forcing the literati to do things according to new rules and patterns.

As for the vast majority of people at the bottom, they most likely don’t care much about this.

For the vast number of people at the bottom, whoever can make them live a good life is the Master Qingtian, the Mingjun.

In the next ten days, the dynasty reorganized and appointed all the officials, troops, wealthy families, and gentry in all the newly occupied areas, and completely integrated them into one.

By November 20, the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the National Salvation Army had completely completed its previous strategic goals and occupied two prefectures and counties, including Hezhou, Weiyuan County, Zhangxian County, Longxi, Ningyuan, and Tongwei, plus the two prefectural cities of Lintao and Gongchang. .

After completely occupying these places, the dynasty began to control spiritual power, centering on each city, gradually spreading to the surroundings, covering every village, and finally completely covering the territory.

Of course, covering such a large area, spiritual power is inevitably much thinner, many times thinner than the newly acquired energy between heaven and earth.

However, with the supplement of the spiritual power of the people in the territory, the concentration of spiritual power is also increasing rapidly, and I believe it will soon become strong again.

Along with it, there was a mighty bright yellow national destiny, which first enveloped each city, then each village, and finally the entire territory.

But unlike spiritual power, national destiny is not evenly distributed, but has strong and weak distribution.

Because of the large population in the city, the national destiny is naturally stronger and stronger, but in the countryside, it is much lighter, barely covering the entire village, blooming with a very light and very light bright yellow light.

And in the wilderness outside the village, there is only an almost invisible thin layer, which can only be said to barely connect the entire territory together.

Of course, the People's Salvation Army's governance has not received support from everyone.

At least the many literati, the wealthy businessmen whose homes were confiscated, are all full of resentment and hatred towards the old people's army, and they all look forward to the coming tomorrow's army.

Needless to say, the families of wealthy families and businessmen, the National Salvation Army caused them to lose their former good life.

As for those literati, some looked down upon the current People's Salvation Army, thinking that they were just a bunch of idiots. When the Ming Dynasty reacted, they could quickly mobilize a large army to annihilate them.

What's more, it's because the People's Salvation Army doesn't use them as literati to govern, which blocks their way to the top.

Moreover, in the territory of the People's Salvation Army, they did not have many privileges like the Ming Dynasty. As long as they had the title of scholar or above, they did not have to pay taxes at all.

In the territory of the National Salvation Army, as long as you have land, you must pay taxes to me.

What's more, there is now a large amount of land that has been taken over by the People's Liberation Army and then rented to the people with 30% of the tax.

Who else would plant their fields that require at least 50% of the harvest and other miscellaneous taxes?

And as high-ranking scholars, they don't know how to farm.

However, the People's Salvation Army will not collect less from their land taxes.

In the end, they had no choice but to either cut interest rates or sell land.

If the interest rate is cut, it needs to be at least the same as the National Salvation Army's tax.

Otherwise, no one would plant their fields.

However, when the People's Salvation Army collects taxes, it does not depend on how much land rent they collect, but on how much land they own.

In other words, if they only charge 30% of the land rent, then all of it needs to be handed over to the National Salvation Army.

This situation forced them to sell their land, and the Salvation Army also stipulated that land could not be bought and sold privately, and they could only sell it to the Salvation Army at the market price.

In this way, apart from the peasants who originally had land and the ancestral land that could not be sold, few people still had land.

With all these things, how could those literati princes not hate? They simply gnashed their teeth in hatred.

However, facing the military deterrence of the Salvation Army, they could only grit their teeth and swallow their anger, silently endure the "strict" regulations of the Salvation Army, and wait for the rescue of the Ming army.

The existence of these wealthy and powerful people and literati made the territory of the Salvation Army, which was shrouded in national destiny, appear a piece of discordant black and gray patches.

Wang Chao's mind looked from the perspective of spiritual power, and the entire place occupied by the Salvation Army was shrouded in a bright or dark yellow national destiny.

Not to mention the wilderness, it was almost invisible.

In places with people, the city was brighter and the countryside was slightly darker.

However, in the cities with stronger national fortune, there are a lot of gray and black spots, which look disgusting and ugly.

In contrast, the villages with weaker national fortune are pure and there is almost no gray and black resentment.

As for the fact that they can join the agricultural society and become the village chief, they still have a way to rise.

Isn't that an insult to them?

Who are they? They are scholars who read the books of sages. How can they do those rough jobs?

Fortunately, they can afford to read the books of sages, and they still have some family assets. In addition to the income from selling land, they can always live without worries for a long time.

Of course, not all scholars have family assets. When they lose all kinds of privileges, their lives begin to become more difficult.

Between life and nobleness, they finally chose life.

Of course, they did not become village chiefs or work in the fields. The way out they chose was to teach in private schools.

For these people, the dynasty and the village chiefs of each village will not only not suppress them, but also strongly support them.

At the end, Wang Chao simply waved his hand and recruited teachers in various villages, towns and cities to open official schools, and the rescue army paid the teachers.

As for opening a school, it would cost a lot of money and grain.

Haha, Wang Chao, who had pocketed all the money and grain of the two prefectures and several counties, said that he was worried about how to spend the gold and silver piled in the warehouse.

For Wang Chao, these gold and silver are money when they are spent, and they are just some useless metals piled in the warehouse.

As for being able to carry the national destiny, it is also useless at present.

After all, the national destiny today is not rich enough, so there is no such thing as so much random use and waste.

Next, in addition to recruiting and training soldiers, Wang Chao and his men recruited civilians to carry out construction, build roads, build schools, etc.

This not only allows many civilians to eat and live directly on the construction site, saving their own food, but also earning a lot of money.

Ten coins a day, three hundred coins a month, and almost one or two taels of silver in three months.

And if you can save a little, one or two taels of silver is enough for a family of three to spend for a year.

For the people who have nothing to do in winter, this is simply a windfall.

At the same time, the roads, schools, etc. in the two prefectures and counties can also be built and completed.

It can be said that this is a win-win situation.

Not only does the People's Salvation Army not need to provide porridge for disaster relief, but also the infrastructure of the two prefectures and counties is built.

This can also be regarded as work-for-relief.

For a while, the entire territory of the People's Salvation Army was full of vitality.

The people who can eat enough and even get ten cents a day began to smile, and their sense of identity with the People's Salvation Army continued to deepen, and the national destiny gradually became rich.

With the construction of roads, the national destiny has drawn a series of bright yellow "roads" in various cities and villages.

However, the news of the People's Salvation Army finally couldn't be covered up, and the cities near Ningyuan, Tongwei and other surrounding counties also gradually received the news.

However, when they wanted to report the news of the rescue army, they suddenly found that their superiors, Lintao Prefecture and Gongchang Prefecture, seemed to have completely lost contact.

At the beginning, they did not think of it in the direction of falling.

Just like Li County, which is adjacent to Ningyuan

Li County Magistrate Ning Wenyuan walked back and forth in the lobby of the county government, muttering to himself.

"This group of damn bandits is so bold that they dared to occupy the county town. They are going to rebel."

After a while, County Magistrate Duan Jiawen hurried in from outside the lobby.

Seeing Duan Jiawen's figure, Ning Wenyuan's eyes lit up, stopped walking, and asked anxiously.

"How is it? Have you contacted Gongchang Prefecture?"

Duan Jiawen shook his head helplessly.

"Sir, our connection with Gongchang Prefecture has been completely blocked by the rebels in Ningyuan County, and we can't contact Gongchang Prefecture at all.

And"

When he said the last sentence, Duan Jiawen's face was a little solemn, and his tone was slightly hesitant.

"And what? You tell me.

It's already this time, why are you still hesitating?"

Ning Wenyuan frowned and asked anxiously.

"It seems that Fuqiang County has also been occupied by the rebels"

"What? How could this be?"

Ning Wenyuan couldn't help but screamed, and even his tone had changed a little.

"I doubt it, I doubt it."

"What do you doubt?"

Duan Jiawen gritted his teeth and finally said his guess.

".I doubt that the situation in Gongchang Mansion may be a little bad.