The officials in the court naturally had no objection to the idea of ​​Your Majesty's imperial power going to the countryside and all the households and the people being all together.

However, I felt very uncomfortable with the local administrative level city level. After some discussion, Lu Fan also changed the city into a prefecture with great care.

The administrative levels of provinces, prefectures, counties, townships, villages and local areas have been established.

As for setting up inspection stations in each township, they are actually similar to township police stations in later generations. The director has a ninth rank official position, which can greatly strengthen the imperial court's control over local villages.

When the new dynasty was first established, the first thing to do was naturally to rest and resume production.

After some court discussion, Lu Fan issued an order.

All miscellaneous taxes and fire consumption are exempted from additional payments, and farmers only need to pay regular taxes on time every year. In the future, the court will no longer forcefully levy corvee, but will instead recruit for paid.

In terms of business, according to the tax rate in Datong Town, commercial tax is levied nationwide. Anyone who engages in business activities must pay taxes in accordance with the law.

In order to ensure the successful completion of tax work, the Civil Affairs Department has a tax bureau and an independent tax army to suppress all villains!

In addition, in order to avoid the long-term trouble of the former Ming central court being dragged down by local finance, Lu Fan issued an order to nationalize the minerals from all over the country and operate them by local governments themselves.

50% of the profits were transferred to the state treasury, and the rest was retained by local governments, and the operating funds and dividends from officials were distributed.

As soon as this decree was issued, some former Ming officials in the court were in an uproar.

You should know that those who can own minerals, whether in Jiangnan or Central Plains, are all local gentry and powerful people. Once this move is made, it will offend many people to death.

If it were during the Chongzhen period, the court would have been criticized long ago, and a hat of competing for profit with the people was indispensable.

But Lu Fan didn't care, and even officials from the same department in Zhongda Department didn't care.

They wished that the gentry in those places caused trouble. Datong Town raised 200,000 soldiers, which cost a huge amount of money every year. Many officials had long proposed that Datong soldiers go to various places for a walk.

The decrees were passed after discussion, especially the policies on the education of the people in the New Dynasty, which made the former Ming officials stunned.

There is at least one primary school in each township, at least one middle school in each county, and at least one university in each province.

Regardless of male and female, children over the age of six, are supervised by the local government and must enter primary schools for free and complete five-year basic education.

This move will be used as a hard indicator for the annual official assessment. If the primary school education completion rate is poor, the local chief officials will be dismissed from villages to townships to counties.

The reason why local gentry is superior is that they have a large number of scholars, which can cultivate and fund scholars to study, and make them the official spokespersons for gentry, landlords, and merchants.

This move is even more ruthless than the imperial examination system that interrupted the monopoly of officials by the aristocratic family. The popularization of education for the whole nation and the foundation of local gentry has been completely hollowed out!

Many former Ming officials opposed it, saying that popularizing education across the country would inevitably consume a lot of money and would most likely put the imperial finances in a crisis.

In response to this, Minister of Finance Wang Ding'an said that he was not short of money, which made some opposing officials shut up.

With such a large-scale popularization of education across the country, the chief official in charge of finance said he was not short of money. God knows how terrifying financial resources the New Dynasty had.

Today's Daqian Dynasty is indeed not short of money.

Others are fighting in wars, but the Datong Army is getting richer and richer. Now Wang Ding'an has hundreds of millions of silver in his hand, and there is no place to spend the most.

Especially not long ago, Yin Cheng, who was chasing Zhang Xianzhong to suppress the bandits, news came from there.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to suppress bandits, this guy has already obtained more than 200 million taels of silver from the wealthy land in Jiangnan.

A tacit understanding was reached between the two sides.

Zhang Xianzhong ran in front. Every time he captured a city, he would squeeze wealth from local gentry and wealthy businessmen, and then abandon the city with his wealth and flee.

Of course, this money will soon be caught up by Yin Cheng and cut it off and fall into the hands of Datong Army because it is difficult to consign.

Then, the army of thieves would continue to go to the next city to extract the wealth of the gentry and wealthy businessmen. After that, they would be caught up by the Datong Army again and discard the stolen goods and flee.

In this way, the cycle was repeated. Even though many people in Jiangnan saw some clues and understood that the Xin Dynasty wanted to use the bandits to clean up all the gentry and tribes in Jiangnan and other places, but they did not dare to say too much, because they were all taken down by Yin Cheng who spoke nonsense.

The imperial army suppresses bandits. Do you dare to talk nonsense? Could it be that it is the same as the bandits?

As for gathering a crowd to rebel?

That's even better, a super army of 20,000 Xiang Yu and Lu Bu's level soldiers. I'm asking if you're afraid?

During this period, Wang Ding'an was extremely busy, and the busiest thing was to contact the Military Intelligence Department, send people to the south continuously, and escort wealth back to Beijing.

Nowadays, there are so many money and food in the national treasury that it is almost impossible to put down.

In the past, Wang Ding'an was worried about not having enough money to spend, but now he was worried about how to spend it with too much money.

In short, he has accepted his fate. In this life, he is a life that is busy with money.

In the following court, policies were determined one by one.

For example, in the planning, two comprehensive universities will be built in the capital.

Imperial University, Imperial Civil University.

Lu Fan will serve as the first president of these two universities, with the main purpose of cultivating military officers and civil servants. When education is popularized nationwide, it will gradually replace the imperial examination system that has lasted for thousands of years.

Moreover, according to Lu Fan's will, after the two universities start, civil and military officials from all over the country will be transferred to universities for training in batches.

Graduates who have completed the training will receive a university diploma before they can continue to become officials. If they fail the training and cannot graduate, they will abdicate and replace them!

These policies completely overturned the perception of former Ming officials. If we really follow this approach, Confucianism will be completely marginalized.

But the officials in the forefront did not dare to object at all, and even objected was of no use.

Because of Your Majesty's policies, the foundation of the Confucian sect has been dug up.

It doesn’t matter if Confucian students are not convinced. You can choose not to enter the officialdom. After the universal education is popularized, most of them will be students who want to be officials, so you will not be able to use them at all.

"Your Majesty, if these kinds of decrees are really implemented, I am worried that the world will be turbulent. Those Confucian students are not the masters of peace!"

Lu Xiangsheng said, reminding him.

He is very clear about the students who have been brainwashed by Confucianism.
Chapter completed!