The fog in his vision dissipated again, and Chu Ge began to play the next stage of the role of Wang Wenchuan.
"We can almost implement all other contents of the new law."
Chu Ge looked at the plans for the second batch of new laws in his hand.
This time, the new law finally includes the Green Crops Law.
Judging from the current situation, Wang Wenchuan, played by Chu Ge, has even more control over the entire court than Wang Wenchuan in history.
It can only be said that when a gentleman plays tricks like a villain, he will be more terrifying than a real villain.
The old party was also trying to fight back, such as constantly impeaching and criticizing the new party, but this counterattack was easily suppressed by Chu Ge and did not have much effect at all.
On the one hand, this is because Wu Desi is actually in the hands of Chu Ge. Even if officials of the old party want to dig up dirt on the new party, it will be difficult for them to do so; even if they can, the emperor may not support it.
After all, the emperor already had dirt on the New Party officials. As a referee, once he made up his mind to sidestep the situation, there was nothing the Old Party could do.
As for conventional attacks on the new law, they are even less effective.
Chu Ge's new law plans this time are all stable plans, and the results they produce are basically positive. In addition, the official system law firmly tied the emperor to his own chariot, so the old party's impeachment
It won't have much effect at all.
Therefore, after Chu Ge looked around in the court and found that everyone was basically his own, he felt that he could almost enter the next stage.
Promote the Youth Law!
Of course Chu Ge knew that promoting the Green Seeding Law might cause great harm, but he still wanted to try it.
On the one hand, it is because if you want to win the Battle of Niuzhu, you must have sufficient military resources. However, except for the exemption law that can significantly increase fiscal revenue, the new laws currently implemented have little effect.
The exemption law has also been modified in order to win over the centrists in the old party, so the income effect is far different from the historical exemption law.
Therefore, Chu Ge promoted the Green Seedling Law at this time in order to further increase fiscal revenue and give the subsequent Niuzhu Battle a greater chance of victory.
On the other hand, it was because Chu Ge also wanted to see how far he could push the Green Seed Law at this time.
Historically, Wang Wenchuan promoted the Qingmiao Law, which brought the Qi Dynasty at least 3 million yuan in revenue every year. However, as local officials began to continuously increase the interest rates of the Qingmiao Law, the Qingmiao Law changed from "generating money" to "acquisition of wealth" and was eventually abolished.
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Now, Chu Ge has dealt a heavy blow to the old party through vigorous party struggle methods, and his voice in the court has also been extremely high.
Unless the emperor has a serious crisis of trust in him, the possibility of being dismissed as prime minister is extremely slim.
He wanted to see if he could achieve better results than when he implemented the Young Seedlings Method under such a consistent situation?
Therefore, Chu Ge added one more item to his improved Green Seedling Method plan.
Local officials in various states and counties are strictly prohibited from raising interest rates on loans under the Qingmiao Law, and are strictly prohibited from forcing apportionment. All levels must review the loan at all levels. Once any forced apportionment or increase in interest rates occurs, the superiors in the area will also be punished.
In addition, Chu Ge also decided to regularly send Beijing officials to various places for unannounced visits. Whenever Qingmiao Loan was discovered to be out of shape, the local officials in charge would be punished.
Of course, Chu Ge also knows very well that it is definitely impossible to rely on the constraints of this system to completely eliminate the situation where officials below sing false scriptures, but it can be avoided to some extent.
Wang Wenchuan's reform in history did not do well on this point, which can be said to be an omission.
Wang Wenchuan used the income from Qingmiao Loans as part of his performance evaluation, which naturally spawned many speculative officials who forcibly apportioned Qingmiao Loans and raised interest rates.
As a result, he will naturally be firmly blamed for harming the people.
Chu Ge speculated that the reason why Wang Wenchuan indulged these New Party officials to a certain extent in history was probably out of necessity.
Because Wang Wenchuan did not control the entire court to the extent that Chu Ge does now, he did not clean up the old party hard enough, and the trust he gained from the emperor was relatively limited. There were only so many people in the new party, and Wang Wenchuan could not spare the time to rectify the new party.
, naturally, whoever needs it will make do with collecting the money for the treasury first.
But at this time, Chu Ge can attack within the new party within a certain limit, because the pressure from the old party is already very small.
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[From the Battle of Uuzhu: 4 years]
Soon, Chu Ge's Green Seed Law was implemented for a full year.
He looked at the documents on the desk again, and information from all over the country came to him like snowflakes.
The remaining old party officials are still campaigning against the Qingmiao Law, including Wen Junshi, who was expelled from the capital.
But Chu Ge is completely immune to these and doesn't even look at them.
The Green Crops Law was implemented for one year and indeed brought in a large amount of income, reaching more than two million yuan.
This is indeed a considerable amount of income.
Many officials in the New Party were punished for forcibly apportioning money or privately raising interest rates on youth loans. Chu Ge's vigorous and resolute style caused some turmoil within the New Party. However, since there were not many voices from the Old Party in the court, most of the speculators in the New Party
Pai had no choice but to swallow his anger.
They either restrain themselves and do not dare to force the apportionment of Qingmiao loans or raise interest rates so blatantly, or they try to find ways to cover up the situation. The latter is obviously very difficult and risky.
To a certain extent, this has made the implementation of the Green Crops Law better than in history.
Chu Ge estimated that based on the current situation, winning the Battle of Niuzhu in four years would not be a big problem.
At least in terms of military resources, it is sufficient.
After all, laws such as the Arms Supervision Law and the Disarmament Law that can improve the military's combat effectiveness have been implemented long ago. Coupled with the abundant fiscal revenue in recent years, as long as Yu Jiaxuan's line can function normally, there is great hope that in Niuzhu
Ji defeated the Jin soldiers.
Came to the court again.
What surprised Chu Ge was that there seemed to be something wrong with the emperor's face today.
"Wang Qing, do you know about this matter?"
As the emperor spoke, he asked the little eunuch beside him to hand over something.
Chu Ge was stunned for a moment, then realized that he might have triggered some special plot, and quickly took the things.
This is a scroll and a memorial.
Chu Ge slowly unfolded the scroll and couldn't help but feel a "thump" in his heart.
This is a "Picture of Refugees"!
The refugees in the picture are all naked and haggard, each using a branch as a cane, a scene of purgatory on earth.
In the memorial, the harm caused by the new law to the people was lamented, saying that the new law had caused serious consequences such as "nine rooms in ten houses were empty, and the people were displaced."
At the end, there is a sentence: "I can already cry with my eyes, but what's worse than this? The drought is caused by Wenchuan. As the officials and ministers said, if you go to Wenchuan, it will rain. It will not rain for ten days." Rain, that is, begging to behead the minister Xuande outside the gate for the crime of deceiving the emperor."
I mean, what I saw in front of me has already made people shed tears, not to mention that the real situation is far worse than this? This severe drought is all caused by Wang Wenchuan's reform. If the officials can follow what I say , to depose Wang Wenchuan, it will definitely rain! If it does not rain within ten days, then I will be beheaded outside Xuande Gate to punish me for deceiving the emperor.
This memorial can be said to be heart-breaking every word.
Look at the name on the memorial: Zhang Renxia!
Just when Chu Ge was still a little distracted because of the name Zhang Renxia, the emperor had already slapped the armrest and asked angrily: "Wang Qing! What's going on!
“Is this the case since the new law came into effect?”
Chu Ge had not seen the emperor so angry for a long time, and there was even some sadness in this anger.
He quickly explained: "Guan family, this is not the fault of the new law..."
But his explanation still failed to work. In grief and anger, the emperor once again decided to dismiss Wang Wenchuan from the prime minister.
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"Damn! This dog emperor!
"The ears are too soft!"
Returning to the critical juncture of five years again, Chu Ge was simply furious.
This failure came too suddenly, and he was not mentally prepared at all.
Of course, part of the reason is that he has already suppressed the old party to a great extent, so he unknowingly relaxed his vigilance, and ended up being stolen by these old parties.
After calming down, Chu Ge learned from his experience and began to analyze the reasons for this failure.
On the surface, this failure appears to be sudden.
It stands to reason that Wang Wenchuan has basically eliminated the old parties within the court, and officials who support the new law already account for the majority in the entire court.
Moreover, it also won the emperor's trust through official laws.
But why are we still dismissed just because of one picture?
This matter is more complicated when explained in detail.
The key this time is the "change in the sky".
People in ancient times were very secretive, especially in the communication between heaven and man. The emperor, who claimed to be the emperor, was even more convinced of this.
Therefore, during severe droughts in ancient times, many emperors would fast, pray for rain, and even issue edicts to punish themselves. This is because in the eyes of the ancients, natural disasters such as severe droughts were warnings from God, and emperors must reflect seriously and correct their mistakes.
And this time, why can a "picture of refugees" be so lethal?
Because there were indeed many refugees at that time.
The emperor originally did not know how serious the disaster was at that time, but after seeing this picture of refugees, he was mentally shocked and even went without eating for several days because of grief.
Once the disaster was revealed to the emperor, the emperor had many channels to prove the disaster.
After the disaster was confirmed, the matter became complicated.
In the emperor's view, a severe drought began not long after the new law was implemented. This was obviously a warning from God. In addition, officials from various places were impeached, saying that the green crops law in the new law had left people hungry and displaced. The combination of multiple factors Under this situation, the emperor will naturally waver in the new law.
At this time, although Wang Wenchuan, played by Chu Ge, has become a powerful minister with great power, he has not yet grown up enough to compete with the emperor.
And those old party ministers who have not been able to deal with it thoroughly will also take this golden opportunity to launch a fierce attack on the new law.
Only when the Green Seedling Law is successfully implemented in another three to five years, and the entire imperial bureaucracy builds a powerful system rooted in the new law from top to bottom, can Wang Wenchuan, played by Chu Ge, truly grow up to completely hide the emperor's secrets, or communicate with the emperor.
The point of challenging.
"Then, the most urgent task at this time is how to overcome the natural disaster.
"It can only be said that the most difficult thing to deal with in history is not inevitability, but some kind of contingency..."
Historically, this natural disaster became a key factor in the interruption of Wang Wenchuan's reform.
Speaking of which, this is actually quite unfair.
A few years after the new law was implemented, a severe drought swept across the country. This severe drought created a large number of refugees and gave the old party an excuse to attack the new law. The emperor was worried about this every day, feeling that God was against it.
A warning issued due to the new law.
And Zhang Renxia’s picture of refugees became the straw that broke the camel’s back.
He even swore at the time that the severe drought in the world was all due to Wang Wenchuan's new law. As long as the emperor canceled the new law, it would rain within ten days.
According to historical records compiled by Wen Junshi, after the emperor canceled the new law, it rained within ten days.
The old parties also took this as irrefutable evidence that the new law has brought disaster to the country and the people, causing anger and resentment.
Wang Wenchuan's response was very tough at first: We are not afraid of changes in nature!
In other words, neither landslides nor severe droughts can scare him or stop him from implementing new laws.
After he was dismissed as prime minister, he felt a lot more helpless: Could it be that the severe drought in the world and the rise of refugees were all because of the Green Seedlings Law? Wouldn't it be possible that without the Green Seedlings Law, there would be no severe drought and refugees?
But at that time, his helpless rebuttal did not have any effect.
As for Chu Ge, of course he is still on Wang Wenchuan's side this time.
Because from the perspective of modern materialism, if it doesn't rain and whether the ground is dry, what does it have to do with the reform? This is just a purely natural phenomenon.
What's more, now that Chu Ge is playing the role of Wang Wenchuan, if he wants to spend the country and strengthen his troops, he must withstand the natural disaster. Otherwise, once he is dismissed as prime minister, the new law will be abolished, which means all previous efforts will be wasted.
Chu Ge calmed down a little and began to look for solutions in historical materials.
The first thing he thought of was to start with Zhang Renxia.
This little character that the player had played before was originally a mentor and friend to Wang Wenchuan, but at such a critical moment, he stood on his opposite side and became the trigger for his dismissal.
In history, Zhang Renxia has been praised for hundreds of years as a "little man who cares about the country and the people" because of this upper class incident.
In relevant historical materials, Zhang Renxia's changes are actually very clear.
He did respect Wang Wenchuan at first, but after he went to the local government, he saw more and more shortcomings of the new law, so he quickly changed his mind and began to oppose the new law.
It seems a bit biased to say that he belongs to the old party. After all, he has not been deeply involved in party disputes, but his existence has indeed caused huge obstacles to the new law.
“With a long sword and a glass of wine, a man’s heart is narrow.”
This is the description of Zhang Renxia in the copy, which summarizes him as a "xia".
If Zhang Renxia's deeds ended here in the Refugee Picture, then some people might think that he was a capricious villain. But in fact, after Wang Wenchuan was dismissed as prime minister, some officials made trouble for Wang Wenchuan, and Zhang Renxia also spoke up. If
It was not the emperor who saved him, but he almost lost his life.
From this point of view, Zhang Renxia at least practices his own morality in his heart and uses the word "xia" throughout.
Chu Ge's initial idea was to either use Wang Wenchuan's identity to find a reason to send Zhang Renxia to Lingnan, and then arrange for someone to intercept all his memorials.
As long as Zhang Renxia was not in the capital and could not be listed on the refugee map, perhaps things would not have developed to this point.
But soon, Chu Ge gave up this idea.
Because he knew that Zhang Renxia's behavior was actually inevitable. In other words, Zhang Renxia was actually just a pawn of the old party. Even if Zhang Renxia had no upper class plot, the old party headed by Wen Junshi would not let him go.
Given the opportunity, they will always try their best to use natural disasters to attack Wang Wenchuan's new method.
Bullying the superiors and concealing the truth may be an option, and covering the mouths of most people so that they cannot complain to the emperor is also an option, but these methods are too easy to overturn.
There is also something to be said for lying to others. Small things are easy to conceal, but for something as big as a natural disaster, the longer it is concealed, the more tragic it will be when it overturns.
Therefore, we still need to find ways to solve this problem from the root cause.
"The difficulty of this matter is that natural disasters and new laws were closely related in the eyes of people at the time.
“The severe drought happened to happen just after the new law was implemented.
"The Battle of Niuzhu will start in ten years. I must race against time and not waste a second. Therefore, I cannot let the old party govern the country first and then implement the new law when a severe drought occurs and people are angry. In that case,
There simply isn't enough time.
"So, I'm going to take advantage of this heavy rain.
"Zheng Xia may have been prepared to die when he wrote the letter, but he didn't expect that it actually rained after a severe drought for several months. In the eyes of people at the time, it was his spirit that moved God, but in fact
Yes, this is obviously a coincidence...
"It's just that this coincidence gave the new law a fatal blow.
"What if I could take advantage of this heavy rain? What if I could find a way to get the gods to be on my side?"
Chu Ge gradually sketched out a plan in his mind.
But before he had time to implement it, the fog in front of him had filled the air again, and today's game time was coming to an end.
Chu Ge felt a little regretful, but then he thought about it. He had taken a big step in the story line of the character Wang Wenchuan tonight. Especially since the line of powerful ministers had been taken, the difficulty of slicing the entire history had also suddenly dropped, which doubled his confidence.
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At this time, other players also woke up from their sleep.
The official forum of "Dark Sand" was quickly flooded with discussions from players.
"Damn! The second stage of this copy is too difficult!"
"Yes, both lines feel like they are at MAX difficulty."
"Actually, it can't be said that it is particularly difficult. A more accurate term would be that it is frustrating! Compared with the copy of Sheng Taizu, it is too frustrating!"
"Yes, the key is because Yu Jiaxuan and Wang Wenchuan are both courtiers. No matter how ambitious they are, if the emperor does not support them, it will be in vain!"
The players on the forum can be said to be full of complaints.
Some players have further smoothed out the detailed clearance method of the "I Want to Say It Yet" dungeon.
As many players have predicted before, the ultimate goal of this copy is to win the Battle of Niuzhu and defeat the enhanced version of Jinbing without the key figure Zhao Binfu.
But before, the players were still vague about how to do it. They could only roughly guess that Yu Jiaxuan would take on the role of leading the army.
But now as the players progress, it all becomes gradually clearer.
Yu Jiaxuan and Wang Wenchuan can be regarded as two lines, one literary and one military.
Yu Jiaxuan represents Wu. Although he is a scholar, his fighting ability is incredible and he is also extremely talented in military affairs.
Currently, the player who has made the fastest progress in playing the Yu Jiaxuan line is Zhao Haiping. According to his strategy, the Yu Jiaxuan line has at least three stages.
The first stage is to rob the camp, the second stage is to suppress the bandits, and the third stage is to train troops.
Players have already mastered the two solutions to hijacking camps, but the second stage of suppressing bandits has stumped many people.
The difficulty lies not in being able to defeat them, but in not being able to catch these tea bandits!
Every time he led officers and soldiers to suppress bandits on a large scale, these tea bandits could always get the news in advance and escape.
Players are like punching cotton with no power at all.
After Zhao Haiping failed twice, he carefully analyzed the current situation of suppressing bandits and finally thought of a way.
That is to carefully select five hundred dead soldiers from the official army and rush forward!
As a result, he was really rushed down.
The reason for this must start with the fact that the tea bandits were able to avoid being encircled and suppressed by the army every time.
The tea bandits have the support of the people nearby, so as long as the government and the army gather in large numbers, there will always be people who report the news. The tea bandits crush the government and the army in obtaining information, so naturally they can escape every time.
Therefore, Zhao Haiping deliberately stayed in the city for a few more days, allowing the officers and soldiers to practice and rest in the city, creating an illusion for the tea bandits.
During the training, Zhao Haiping secretly selected five hundred elite soldiers and secretly went up the mountain when no one was paying attention.
Of course, in this case, the number of officers and soldiers would not be dominant at all.
There are thousands of tea bandits, and the mere 500 people led by Zhao Haiping are at an absolute disadvantage.
But after two attempts, Zhao Haiping discovered that these tea bandits were actually just a mob. Facing the extremely powerful Yu Jiaxuan and the officers and soldiers who seemed to have descended from the sky, these tea bandits quickly lost morale and fled in all directions.
Zhao Haiping found the right opportunity to kill several of the leaders, and the banditry was naturally put down.
Immediately afterwards, he entered the third stage of the Yu Jiaxuan line.
The main goal of the third phase is troop training.
After pacifying the tea bandits, Yu Jiaxuan fought in many places as a firefighter, quelling bandits in various places.
It's just that the combat effectiveness of the local government troops at that time was not high, and their armaments were depleted. Even fighting bandits was a bit difficult.
What's more, Yu Jiaxuan's target was never these bandits, but the Jin people.
He knew very clearly that many of these bandits were poor farmers who could no longer live, and many of them were forced to become bandits like the tea merchants before. As an official of the Qi Dynasty, he wanted to suppress the bandits.
It is his duty to protect the environment and the people.
But he has never forgotten that Jin people are his biggest enemies in life.
Therefore, Yu Jiaxuan wrote to the emperor, hoping to create a local force with combat effectiveness, and received the emperor's consent.
Zhao Haiping originally thought that training soldiers was not difficult, but once he got started, he discovered that there was clearly a pitfall here!
Because the emperor's and Yu Jiaxuan's ideas cannot be said to be completely different, they can only be said to have nothing to do with each other.
The emperor's idea was simply to establish a local militia organization to deal with frequent riots in various places and maintain local security.
In other words, the emperor just wanted a firefighting team.
But Yu Jiaxuan's ambition is definitely not here. He wants to build this Flying Tiger Army into a truly combat-effective force. Once the border changes in the future, it can be pulled to the front line at any time to confront the Jin soldiers head-on!
Therefore, players encountered a big difficulty when forming the Flying Tiger Army: no money!
After all, in the emperor's view, the Flying Tiger Army was just a security force used to suppress local uprisings, so the military expenditures were very limited.
In the process of playing Yu Jiaxuan, Zhao Haiping discovered that if he only used the emperor's allocation to form the Flying Tiger Army, he would only be able to form a weak team. If he wanted to rely on it to defeat the Jin soldiers, it would be impossible.
impossible.
Therefore, Zhao Haiping began to try to get money from various places, and the Flying Tiger Army's expenditure was particularly huge.
As a result, he was subjected to various impeachments.
Some people say that the expenses of Yu Jiaxuan's Flying Tiger Army are extremely huge, which affects the daily expenses of other armies; others say that the Flying Tiger Army's extravagant activities will not only waste people and money, but may also cause shock to the Jin Kingdom and cause border damage.
Friction may even lead to war.
These are naturally nonsense to the players, but the emperor couldn't stand it anymore and actually asked the special envoy to bring a gold medal to stop his Flying Tiger Army immediately.
Zhao Haiping looked confused, but even with the gold medal coming, he did not dare to disobey, so the Flying Tiger Army could not continue to build up.
Yu Jiaxuan's line is stuck here.
On the other hand, this line of writing by Wang Wenchuan caused more controversy.
The solution to Yu Jiaxuan's line is relatively simple. Whether it is to rob a camp or suppress bandits, in the final analysis, it is solved with outstanding military talents, and the solution is similar.
But for this line of Wang Wenchuan's reform, players have a variety of solutions.
It has even been played as a business simulation game by many players, who use this slice of history to wildly experiment with their own economic ideas.
But in the end, most of the tricks failed...
Rather than saying that the players are crazily performing different economic reform ideas, it is better to say that the lower-level officials in this historical slice are crazily performing and singing crooked scriptures.
Players have found that no matter how hard they work to perfect the details, no matter how perfect the new method plan is, the final execution can be described by the name of the dungeon.
If you want to say it, give it up.
The behavior of these low-level officials is really hard to describe.
In anger, some players simply stopped pretending, openly amassed money, and only focused on winning the Battle of Niuzhu ten years later. As a result, civil commotion broke out, and they were soon impeached and dismissed by the old party, and reopened at the speed of light.
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After some experiments, many players discovered helplessly that copying Wang Wenchuan's standard answer seemed to be the safest choice.
Strictly following Wang Wenchuan's methods at the time will allow the new law to remain stable for at least five years.
Of course, he will still be dismissed from the prime minister five years later because of the drought and Zhang Renxia's refugee pictures.
Immediately afterwards, some players tried to play Zhang Renxia and asked him not to become a member of the upper class, or simply used Wang Wenchuan's identity to suppress Zhang Renxia, and used Wang Wenchuan to persuade Zhang Renxia earnestly...
Although the final result is still not very optimistic, the players have basically determined the method of clearing the level and the relationship between the two lines of Yu Jiaxuan and Wang Wenchuan.
The two lines influence each other.
Wang Wenchuan's reforms may enrich the national treasury, and may also create a large number of local refugees and lead to banditry.
Yu Jiaxuan's training of the Flying Tiger Army requires state financial allocations. The better the country's economic situation, the more military resources the Flying Tiger Army can get; and if Yu Jiaxuan cannot assess these banditry problems in time, the old party will be more able to find opportunities to impeach Wang Wenchuan.
, causing the new law to fail earlier.
How to use new laws to increase tax revenue while generating as little refugee money as possible, how to quell local banditry as much as possible and develop the Flying Tiger Army without the support of the court have become the key to players passing the game.
In an ideal world, players would accumulate a large amount of military resources for the Qi Dynasty through Wang Wenchuan's reforms, and use Yu Jiaxuan's identity to train the Flying Tiger Army. Combining the two, they can hope to win the Battle of Niuzhu.
