Multiverse: Beginning with Forced Binding

Re-measure the land, reform the tax system, and seize a large amount of money from the nobles whose families were confiscated and exterminated. Chen Xi suddenly became rich.

When you have money, you naturally have to spend it. He arranged movable type printing and papermaking, published books, and printed a large number of basic teaching materials that he had prepared long ago.

Chen Xi did not have the concept of respecting Confucianism alone. Everything was just breaking down and then building up, so he decided to make a new set of rules.

Nowadays, there is no concept of imperial examinations. Chen Xi is going to make imperial examinations. What will be tested in the imperial examinations is still the above sentence.

Confucian classics must be tested, and mathematics and engineering must also be tested.

Chen Xi did not mean to discriminate against Confucianism. Confucianism can make people understand reason, which must be learned, but you cannot only learn Confucianism. Mathematics and engineering are equally important.

Partiality is not allowed in Jingzhou.

Compulsory schools have also been opened to provide universal education for children of school age and impart knowledge for free, but they do not provide food.

Any resident of Jingzhou can enroll their children in school. If they study well, they will receive scholarships. If they study poorly, they will be expelled.

Chen Xi did not promote women's rights in this era and allow women to enter the court. This was too big a step and was not good. He opened a female worker school.

This can be regarded as a disguised improvement in the treatment of women. As long as they learn relevant skills in the female worker school and can earn some money when they go home, they don't have to worry about being treated harshly by men.

In terms of law, Chen Xi also made certain changes. It was not too detailed, but it also covered all aspects. The main thing was that the concept must be passed on and the country should be governed by law.

The era of governing the country by people has passed in Jingzhou.

For officials, Chen Xi also established a policy of dividing responsibilities and indicators for individuals. Everyone has a clear work list and will be held accountable if they do not do well.

Chen Xi did not eliminate all the aristocratic families in Jingzhou. Those who saw the opportunity quickly chose to surrender and obey the Jingzhou officials.

There are still some aristocratic families who are holding back bad things. They are temporarily dormant and are ready to come when the opportunity comes.

Unfortunately, the more these nobles endured, the less chance they had. When the young men in Jingzhou grew up, the nobles were no longer so important.

Moreover, the reform of the tax system also increased the expenditure of the nobles. Chen Xi sent people to calculate the property under each person's name and set up different tax standards.

The richer you are, the more taxes you pay. It is useless to hide your property. The Jinyiwei will investigate it clearly.

Land is the top priority. The more land you have, the higher the tax, so high that the land output of the nobles is not enough to pay the tax.

Chen Xi fundamentally prevented the nobles from annexing land, forcing them to return the land to tenants and poor farmers.

As for the practice of keeping yin and yang accounts, it is impossible to prevent it. On the surface, it belongs to the tenants, but in private, it still belongs to the nobles. There are too many such practices.

Chen Xi didn't care. After the nobles distributed the land to the tenants, he issued a decree to register the land.

Implemented to every household in every village, as long as you register with the government office, the government office will issue a land deed, and you can take the land deed to pay taxes in the future and get a tax payment certificate.

Any Jingzhou citizen, as long as they produce a tax payment certificate, the Jingzhou official has the obligation to protect your property safety.

If anyone dares to take a grain from a tenant who has paid taxes, the government office can arrest them, and the punishment is extremely severe, much more severe than the grain in the hands of the tenant.

The nobles want to cry but have no tears, they really dare not move.

The tenants are now shaking one by one, not afraid of them at all, and the nobles dare not play any small tricks in secret, for fear of being discovered by the Jinyiwei.

The Jinyiwei is so powerful that the poor households in a certain village may be the spies of the Jinyiwei. If the local nobles do something slightly, the Jinyiwei will know.

If you can't do it hard, the tenants still have the government office to endorse them, so what are you afraid of? From now on, this land is ours.

Chen Xi did not force the nobles to distribute these lands to the tenants. You did it voluntarily. It is useless to come to me to complain.

The nobles can only admit their bad luck. As for resisting the government, forget it. They are just looking for death.

Not paying taxes is not an option. Some nobles want to evade taxes. That's fine. As long as I don't find out, everything will be fine.

If I find out, everything will be over.

Many nobles have been found out by the Jinyiwei. Don't say anything. Take them away.

Arrest, convict, sentence, confiscate property, exile, behead.

After a series of procedures, the nobles became completely honest.

Chen Xi is ruthless to the nobles, and even ruthless to the officials. He can give the officials extremely high welfare benefits to ensure that the officials not only have enough to eat, but also eat well and live a rich life.

In this case, whoever dares to embezzle and accept bribes will not only be unlucky for himself, but also bring trouble to the whole family.

At this time, there was no such thing as not implicating the family once an official died. Even if the person died, the case had to be investigated thoroughly.

If one person was found, he would be punished.

If one official broke the law, the whole family would be punished.

In troubled times, severe punishments were used, and Chen Xi could not be lenient.

It was also the benefit of breaking down and then rebuilding. Everything was rebuilt, and what kind of laws to implement was still up to Chen Xi.

Guan Yu was not in charge of government affairs. In name, he was in charge of Jingzhou, but he was in charge of military affairs, fighting against Cao's army, suppressing the rebellion in Jingzhou, and he did not worry about other things.

The lives of the people in Jingzhou were visibly getting better, but the end of the Jingzhou aristocracy was not far away.

Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang were also discussing this matter. If this continued, all the nobles in the country would oppose him. Would he have a chance to restore the Han Dynasty in the future?

Zhuge Liang certainly spoke to Chen Xi. They had already made a plan for this matter, so it was not a big deal.

As long as they built a strong army, they could push forward all the way.

The military system would have to be changed sooner or later. To build a truly professional army, weapons and equipment must also be improved. Zhuge Liang was responsible for this matter.

The reforms in Jingzhou frightened the nobles in Yizhou. It was not that they did not want to do anything, but that they could not do anything. Now those who held power were all from the Jingzhou group.

The local nobles in Yizhou were at the bottom of the hierarchy under Liu Bei. They had little power and few soldiers.

When the reforms in Jingzhou were quite effective, the people of Jingzhou went to Sichuan under the arrangement of Chen Xi, and used their personal experience to promote and tell the people of Yizhou how good the reforms were.

After the reforms, the people had a way to survive.

The nobles in Yizhou were heartbroken. How dare you, a good thief? !

No matter how much the Yizhou nobles hated the people of Jingzhou, they still dared not touch them. Didn't they see that there were Jinyiwei protecting them?

Touching the people of Jingzhou was equivalent to touching Jinyiwei, which was equivalent to treason in disguise.

Who dares? !

Jinyiwei was the most feared institution by officials and nobles under Liu Bei. They were omnipresent. Who knows who in the family was the spy of Jinyiwei. If there was anything, they would know it instantly.

It's not that no one has mentioned that Jinyiwei had too much power and it would not be good to continue like this.

But Liu Bei didn't listen at all. In the current situation, it was a good thing for Jinyiwei to have more power. When everything was settled in the future, it would be too late to change it.

It was also because Liu Bei enjoyed the pleasure of knowing everyone's secrets. He had the privacy of those people in his own hands. This feeling was simply too good.

People with political sense like Zhuge Liang naturally saw the shortcomings of Jinyiwei. If Jinyiwei was dedicated to the public, it would not matter. As long as they had selfish intentions, everyone would be in trouble.

For this reason, Zhuge Liang wrote to Chen Xi, asking if there was any way to target the Jinyiwei in the future.

The simplest way is to divide the South and North Zhenfu Divisions. There is no rush for this. Let's talk about it in the future. The current Jinyiwei doesn't have so many problems.

When the country is unified and the Jinyiwei has great power, the South Zhenfu Division will be divided to specifically target the North Zhenfu Division.

At that time, the promotion and salary of the South Zhenfu Division will be linked to performance, and the Jinyiwei of the South Zhenfu Division will keep a close eye on the Jinyiwei of the North Zhenfu Division.

Private connection?

Stop it. Whether I can get promoted depends on whether any of you have violated the law. What's the benefit of connecting with you?

Jingzhou gradually regained stability. Jiangdong failed to start a war and dared not to start it at will.

Cao Ren and Guan Yu fought a big battle and were beaten badly. He had no choice but to lead his troops back to Xiangfan and began to defend it, fearing that the Jingzhou army would attack.

In this situation, no one expected that Guan Yu sent the Jingzhou army into Sichuan, and he entered secretly.

Because Liu Bei wanted to attack Hanzhong, he led the army to leave Yizhou and confronted Cao Cao in Hanzhong.

Xiahou Yuan died at the hands of Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun became famous again, and Ma Chao went to Longyou to deter foreign ethnic groups and prevent them from following the chaos.

Liu Bei also had two generals, Zhang Fei and Wei Yan, and Zhuge Liang was in charge of logistics, and Pang Tong, Xu Shu, and Fa Zheng were counselors.

The advantage was too obvious.

The opportunity that the Yizhou clan had been waiting for came, and as soon as Liu Bei left, they were shaking.

Rebel!

Must rebel!

The Yizhou clan would rather surrender to Cao Cao than sit and wait for death.

While Liu Bei was not in Chengdu, the Yizhou clan resolutely rebelled, but what awaited them was not success, but the Jingzhou army that had been prepared.

The Yizhou clan was shocked and cried out that they had been fooled by Liu Bei.

Cao Cao and Sun Quan also received the news of the dramatic changes in Yizhou. They did not expect Liu Bei to be so bold as to use his hometown as bait.

Cao Cao could not care about so much now, as he was fighting Liu Bei, but Sun Quan began to think again.

The Jingzhou army entered Sichuan. Is it the best time for him to take Jingzhou?

Cao Cao and Sun Quan secretly united. Cao Ren pretended to attack Jiangling and confronted Guan Yu. The rear of Jingzhou was inevitably empty.

At this time, Lu Su had died of illness, and Lu Meng had long died in the hands of the shadow guard. Lu Xun was too young. Without Lu Meng's recommendation, who would dare to let such a pale-faced scholar be the general commander?

So Sun Quan appointed his relative Sun Shao as the general commander to capture Jingzhou.

There was no need to play the white-clothed crossing of the river. Jiangdong was not afraid of Guan Yu's discovery at all. Anyway, the Jingzhou army was short of troops.

Either they entered Sichuan, or they were held back by Cao Ren under Guan Yu. Even if they discovered Jiangdong's military actions, Guan Yu could not rush back.

Sun Shao led the Jiangdong army and attacked Jingzhou with great fanfare, with great momentum.

The first target was Changsha County, and then they captured Wuling, Lingling and Guiyang, preparing to take all four counties in Jingnan, and finally go to Jiangling to stab Guan Yu's ass.

Jingnan was empty, and the Jiangdong army did not encounter any resistance along the way until they encountered the trap set by Chen Xi for them.

Chen Xi had already prepared an ambush on the road that the Jiangdong army had to pass. For this reason, he would rather use Changsha County to spoil the enemy's military spirit and make Jiangdong believe that there were no soldiers available in Jingnan.

After Sun Shao's army occupied Changsha, they divided their troops to attack Wuling and Guiyang without stopping. The two must-pass roads were all ambushed.

Chen Xi led a small number of Jinyiwei to fight against Sun Shao's main force, and Zhuge Jun led a large number of Jinyiwei to ambush Jiangdong's troops.

Zhuge Jun set a fire and almost destroyed the Jiangdong army. The other side did not expect that someone would set fire in the mountains. Aren't they afraid of losing control?

Zhuge Jun had already dug a buffer zone to prevent the spread of the mountain fire. As for these hilltops, they were completely abandoned.

Chen Xi set up various traps to delay the advance of Sun Shao's troops, and then there were various harassment battles.

Seeing the opportunity, Chen Xi personally led the Tiqi to raid, kill people and leave, and never fight.

When Sun Shao received information that another division of the army was defeated, it was too late for him to retreat. Zhuge Jun led the Jinyiwei to encircle from another direction.

Sun Shao had to send people back to Jiangdong to ask for support. Even if they couldn't fight, they had to send boats to pick them up from the river.

When Sun Quan got the news, he immediately sent enough boats upstream to rescue Sun Shao's troops, but Chen Xi, who had been prepared, set up various obstacles on the river.

A few troops on the shore were always watching. As long as Jiangdong sent people to clear the obstacles, the troops on the shore would start shooting arrows.

When the Jiangdong army chased them, they ran away and came back soon.

The troops sent by Sun Quan were mainly for support. They were not many in number, and now they were completely restrained.

They couldn't advance, but they were unwilling to retreat.

The various obstacles on the river were just there. Because they were going upstream, the impact was not enough to knock the obstacles away.

Among the Jiangdong generals who followed Sun Shao to the expedition, Gan Ning was the most capable. He fought with Chen Xi for less than ten rounds and was cut in two by a horse lance.

Ling Tong, who had forgotten his grudge with Gan Ning, was furious and rode forward. He could not even last three rounds before a horse lance pierced his head.

This scene frightened all the Jiangdong soldiers and they dared not fight Chen Xi again.

Zhou Tai, Xu Sheng, Zhu Huan and others were all at Ruxukou. There was only one Ding Feng left under Sun Shao who could barely fight, but compared with Chen Xi, he was a child.

The morale of the Jiangdong army dropped sharply, and they had to stay in the camp, make basic defenses, and wait for the Jiangdong ships to pick them up.

Looking at the Jiangdong camp, Chen Xi sneered, thinking that you are avoiding fighting, so I can't do anything to you?

"Pass my order, let the catapults be prepared, and bring all the black oil cans to me!"