Kaifeng, this thousand-year-old city, is known as "seven corners, eight lanes, and seventy-two alleys".
Henan Governor's Yamen is located in the northwest corner of the northern part of the central axis of Kaifeng City.
Wu Sidao, the newly appointed governor of Henan Province, had only been in office for two days when a large number of squires gathered in front of the government office, and the number was getting larger and larger.
After Wu Sidao heard about this, he couldn't help but smile. Counting the days, they arrived relatively slowly.
Originally, Wu Sidao thought that on the first day he took office, he would be visited by squires from all over Henan.
Who would have thought that the squires actually came a few days late. Is it possible that they were secretly colluding and delayed a little time?
Wu Sidao came to take office by sea ship, so he took office relatively quickly.
How can I put it, it is not surprising at all that the squires came to see Wu Sidao.
Because Nian Gengyao's defeated army would definitely harm the peaceful homes of the local gentry in Henan on their way to the south.
Before taking office, Yuzhu once warned Wu Sidao that the great squire would definitely not be allowed to exist.
Wu Sidao was from Shaoxing. In Shaoxing, there were only a handful of great squires with family assets exceeding 10,000 acres of fertile land.
However, things are different here in Henan. With thousands of acres of fertile land, they are just entry-level country squires.
Why?
The great squires in Zhejiang are not entirely dependent on the income from the land. Almost all of them have side businesses to make money. For example, they raise silkworms, weave silk, weave homespun cloth, etc.
It was different here in Henan. Henan merchants were completely out of place in the entire Qing Dynasty.
If the squires in Henan Province want to have money in their pockets, they can only make a fuss around land annexation.
Therefore, before taking office in Henan, Yuzhu personally told Wu Sidao that Henan Province, as a pilot project, would implement three new policies, one is to divide the land into acres, the other is to levy inheritance tax, and the other is to revert fire consumption to the public.
In fact, in addition to the inheritance tax, the other two policies were implemented after Lao Si ascended the throne. Yuzhu thought they were very good and used them.
One of the policies that offended people the most was that the gentry and the gentry all worked together as errands to pay for food.
At present, Yuzhu's throne is not yet secure, so he should not be too impatient, lest the resistance will be too great and lead to civil unrest everywhere.
Therefore, the collection of inheritance tax was temporarily used to replace the gentry's duty to pay the grain as a whole.
While you are alive, you can enjoy good food and drink well, but if you want to pass on the vast hectares of fertile land to the next generation, I'm sorry, but you have to pay heavy taxes!
The inheritance tax rate is not high, fixed at 30%.
In other words, when the father's 100,000 acres of fertile land is passed on to his son, only 70,000 acres are left.
In the Qing Dynasty, the further north you go, the more the elders think more about the happy life of their children and grandchildren.
Therefore, the further north you go, the smaller the role of the contract and the greater the official authority. Correspondingly, land annexation becomes more and more powerful.
Wu Sidao is a sensible man. The Shaanxi-Gansu Green Camp rebels led by Nian Gengyao have not been wiped out for a long time. The fundamental problem is that they have weakened the strength of the great squires by driving away tigers and devouring wolves.
It would be too appalling to directly confiscate the land and grain of the great gentry.
However, using the astonishing destructive power of the rebels crossing the border to cause the great squires to suffer huge losses or even disasters has nothing to do with the imperial officials and troops.
With Wu Sidao's profound knowledge, after Yuzhu took control of the situation in the capital, he did not kill him to silence him, which was already the end of his benevolence.
Moreover, Wu Sidao, who was lame, could actually be appointed as the governor of Henan. What did he say?
A scholar dies for a confidant!
People outside are very anxious, but Wu Sidao is not anxious.
Wu Sidao finished his breakfast slowly, picked his teeth, rinsed his mouth, rubbed his teeth with green salt, drank half a cup of tea, then changed into his official uniform and went out to meet the guests.
"Students pay homage to Mr. Futai." More than a dozen squires bowed to the ground together.
These days, those who are qualified to be called great country squires must have an entry-level qualification of a senior official or above.
With the honor of being a civil servant, he is not required to kneel even when he meets the governor.
"My dear friends, why do you want to see me?"
"Master Futai, I sincerely request the imperial court to send out troops as soon as possible and use all its strength to exterminate Nian Gengyao's Shaanxi-Gansu rebellion."
The first person to stand up was Xu Tianzhong, a squire originally from Xinzheng County and a former doctor in the Ministry of War.
Xu Tianzhong said impassionedly: "I originally planned to destroy my family's relief (shu), but I had no choice but to find that the newly built granary in the countryside was completely robbed by the rebels..."
When Wu Sidao heard this, he couldn't help but secretly thought it was funny. Xu, you are so funny. You are destroying the family and saving people, how dare you say it out loud?
As the saying goes, people who talk about morals are full of petty calculations of their own interests!
Regardless of Xu Tianzhong's high-sounding words, in fact, wasn't it just that the family business in the countryside was completely destroyed by Nian Gengyao's Shaanxi-Gansu Green Camp rebels?
Huh, Xu, if you want to fight with me, you are a lot older, your beard is white, you are still a bit young!
"Brother Xu, before you came to the provincial capital, you must have not had time to read the imperial newspaper sent by the imperial court, right?" Wu Sidao asked Xu Tianzhong calmly.
When Nian Gengyao's defeated army passed through the border, Xu Tianzhong happened to be visiting friends in Xinzheng County and luckily escaped.
"No." Xu Tianzhong's family business was destroyed, so how could he bother to read the imperial newspaper?
Wu Sidao twirled his beard and said slowly: "In the imperial court's decree, I did not add the title of admiral."
After all, Xu Tianzhong had been a doctor in the Ministry of War. When he heard this, his expression immediately changed.
In the Qing Dynasty, the full official title of the governor of Henan was: Right Minister of the Ministry of War and Right Deputy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Governor of Henan and other places, he also managed rivers and farmland.
Only governors with the title of admiral are qualified to make the green soldiers in their province obey orders.
A governor without the title of admiral cannot fully command the green battalion admiral of the province. At best, he can only control thousands of soldiers and horses of the fifth battalion of the Fubiao Chinese Army.
Wu Sidao's meaning is very obvious. I know all your grievances, but I can't control the new army coming from afar, so I can only do nothing to help!
In court, when everyone quarrels with each other and files lawsuits, they must always be reasonable.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The previous Di Di newspaper made it very clear that He Wenda, a first-class baron, the commander of the third town of the New Army, also serves as the admiral of Henan Green Camp.
The saying that a scholar meets a soldier cannot be explained clearly.
Xu Tianzhong did not have the guts to go to the New Army camp to reason with He Wenda, so he only dared to come to the safe provincial capital to complain to Wu Sidao.
However, Xu Tianzhong still made the mistake of empiricism. After Yuzhu came to power, he deliberately separated the military and political affairs.
In other words, Yuzhu's newly appointed governors of various provinces did not have the title of admiral.
To put it bluntly, the governor can safely manage the civil affairs of the province, and leave military affairs to the governor of the province.
Seeing Xu Tianzhong rolling his eyes in anxiety, Wu Sidao couldn't help but smile, trying to take advantage of the king's loopholes, you are still very young!
Before Yuzhu wanted to weaken the big squires in various places, he had already expected that there would be a gathering of people to complain.
Therefore, the newly appointed governors of various provinces are not qualified to manage military affairs.
It's your freedom to file a complaint, so feel free to file a complaint!
However, the governor has no right to interfere with military affairs. You can't quarrel with the admiral of your province over your family property, right?
Wu Sidao pretended to be helpless, and the squires who came to complain were all dumbfounded.
Seeing that everyone was silent, Wu Sidao sighed and said: "As you are local sages, you are the foundation of the imperial court. Even if I don't care about military affairs, I can still make an emergency report to the imperial court on your behalf to urge the Pingnan army to wipe out it as soon as possible.
The bandit army from Shaanxi and Gansu."
What Wu Sidao said was so beautiful that all the squires present came forward to express their gratitude.
"Thank you, Mr. Fuyuan."
"Master Futai loves the people as his own children, we should give him umbrellas for all people."
"Henan is very lucky to have such a good official as Mr. Zhongcheng..."
For a moment, flattery poured into Wu Sidao's ears like a flood.
What a shame, these big country squires were sold by Wu Sidao, and they still have to help count the money!
After the gun-making equipment and British craftsmen arrived in Tianjin, Yuzhu simply stayed in Tianjin and did not return to the capital for the time being.
Because, counting the days, the equipment for making cannons will be arriving soon.
As a commander-in-chief who has led troops for many years, Yuzhu knows better than anyone that the main reason why Nahuang has been able to dominate Europe for more than ten years is because of his cannon skills.
In modern wars, the role of artillery, known as the god of the army, has become more and more obvious.
According to the urgent military information reported by He Wenda, Nian Gengyao's 80,000 green battalions without artillery, under the joint attack of two towns with nearly 100 artillery, were unable to fight back, let alone fight back.
You must know that Nian Gengyao is by no means a loser. He is familiar with the art of war and is good at training and leading troops.
However, the elite Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion trained with painstaking efforts by Nian Gengyao were defeated by the new army after only one encounter.
This is not a crime of war, and the weapons and equipment have appeared.
Since modern times, the Japanese army has placed special emphasis on spiritual victory, deceiving themselves and exaggerating the power of the so-called bushido spirit.
However, while the American army built nearly a hundred aircraft carriers in a short period of time, the Japanese army only built a few.
In the face of absolute strength advantage, all activities that brag about spiritual victory methods are just mindless self-pleasure.
After the American army dropped two big black bombs, the Japanese, who arrogantly shouted that one hundred million would be destroyed, had to surrender.
A defeated country has no face at all.
In front of the arrogant MacArthur, Yuzhu still remembers the servile look of the Japanese Emperor Hirohito.
The grassland nation has become a nation of singing and dancing. This is because in the face of heavy machine guns, no matter how awesome Genghis Khan's invincible spirit is, his body will be shot into a sieve.
Under industrial civilization, when there is a huge generational difference in weapons and equipment, especially when the battlefield is one-way transparent to one side, the battle has already been completely lost before the war begins.
Yuzhu has always had a firm belief that the national defense industry must be in the palm of his hand, so that he can sleep soundly and soundly at night!
The gun-making and cannon-making equipment from Britain were temporarily unable to be produced by the Qing Dynasty, so they were forced to spend money to purchase them.
Just for a set of cannon-making equipment, the British dared to offer a sky-high price of 500,000 taels of silver.
Yuzhu had his teeth knocked out and swallowed them together with the blood, and was forced to pay the bill.
Even if you can't bear it anymore, you still have to endure it. Who said your skills are inferior to others?
Sooner or later, the national defense industry, under the correct guidance of Yuzhu, will surely shine.