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The raid of the Wang family's mansion was just the beginning, and then all the gentry and wealthy families in the entire Tiandu City suffered tragic disasters, and none of them were spared.

Boxes of book scrolls were transported to the palace by Chu soldiers, and what awaited them was the fate of being burned.

At the same time, the property confiscated from the gentry's homes was like a mountain, and was transported to the treasury one by one. According to preliminary statistics, the gold, silver and jewelry collected by Fa Yang from major families in Tiandu reached an astonishing amount of more than 100 million yuan, which is still a conservative number.

Of course, in addition to the property of those aristocratic families, the children of these aristocratic families were also deprived of all rights. The men were all sent to Qing and Hu to engage in heavy labor. The women expanded their beauty to the "Buxiayuan" to wait for their miserable fate in the future.

Regarding this "banned book" incident, Fa Yang's explanation to Huang Fu is that poetry and songs will only make people lose their will, while those books of the hadith of generations are easy to make people feel strange.

"The so-called "many books will be lustful," means that the people will be strong, and the people will be strong, and the people will be weak, and the country will be weak and will be destroyed. We should prevent books from being circulated under the rule of the Great Chu to prevent people from chaotic life."

This is the future Fa Yang's statement in front of all civil and military officials in the Chu Palace.

This "banned book" incident made Huang Fu Zai Tian completely gain a foothold. The entire Qingzhou clan family was emptied, and the confiscated wealth and land greatly expanded the national treasury and played an important role in the future military and political development.

However, this incident only caused an uproar among the gentry under the Chu State. After all, it did not persecute the interests of the grassroots class, and even many people praised it, believing that these family members should have suffered this retribution long ago.

However, the people of Da Chu were too naive. If the people under Liu Ce saw this scene, they would choose to migrate their families as soon as possible and try every means to escape quickly before the situation spreads, rather than talk about the experiences of the aristocratic races here.

Because after years of war and education indoctrination, the people under Liu Ce's rule were extremely sensitive to crisis awareness, they all understood one truth, that is, how can there be a complete egg when the nest is destroyed, and the children of aristocratic families have fallen to this point, let alone ordinary people without any background?

Soon, after dealing with the major families in Qingzhou, Fa Yang finally extended his claws to the ordinary people, and the first one to attack was the merchant.

On January 26th, Tiandu’s silk shop...

"You have not paid taxes for two months, and have seriously violated the laws and regulations of the Great Chu. If you have the order of the prime minister and the taxes are out of date, all your wives and daughters in the family will become prostitutes, and their descendants will be demoted to slaves and taken away!"

After the officer read out the crimes of the silk shop, he waved his hand and asked the soldiers who followed him to drag the boss's wife and a pair of children away.

"Husband..."

"Don't take my wife and children away, please, be kind. My son is only seven years old and my daughter is only four years old. I can't take them away..."

The shopkeeper hugged the officer's thigh tightly and begged in tears.

However, the officer was unmoved at all, kicked the shopkeeper away and said viciously: "The national law is like a mountain, no one can violate it. If you default on taxes and refuse to pay, your store will be confiscated next time!"

After saying that, the officers and soldiers spitted on his face and walked out of the shop without looking back.

The shopkeeper lay on the threshold, bursting into tears, watching his wife and children being taken away by those soldiers like tigers and wolves, and stamping his chest without any effort.

In fact, it was not that he was unwilling to pay commercial taxes, but that Fayang set the tax to a point that they could not bear at all.

Merchants must issue an account book when paying taxes. After verification and accuracy, commercial tax is paid on time with 70% of the income from the account book.

Note that 70% of these are not profits, but capital is included in them. This is undoubtedly a businessman who is desperate.

Regarding this, Fa Yang gave the statement: "Businessmen value profit but are mean. In the peaceful season, trade merchants and goods to deceive the people with inferior products, and hoard goods in the troubled times to make huge profits.

Such things are not about production, but only for profit is equivalent to being treacherous and untrustworthy. We should use heavy taxes to suppress them so that they will never turn over."

After all, Fa Yang's move was to suppress merchants, and even demote merchants to the lowest level of low-level business among scholars, farmers, industry and commerce. He also strictly stipulated that merchants could not wear silk, carry gold and silver, and were not allowed to use carriages when traveling, and even food was strictly restricted.

Of course, this is just a superficial statement. In fact, after a trip to the Far East, Fa Yang deeply realized that those merchants who traveled around the world, especially the huge caravans doing business overseas, while obtaining benefits, they also brought a large amount of unknown information to the Far East, and then popularized it into various households by Liu Ce.

Once a person becomes interested in new things, he will definitely try his best to explore. This is very unfavorable to the new Chu State and is also quite unfavorable to Fayang's reforms. He wants to kill this potential threat in the cradle.

Soon, the merchants in Tiandu survived under Fayang's high-pressure policy. Everyone clamped their tails and even gave up their years of identity as a businessman and switched to other industries.

The people of Da Chu still said nothing, and still naively believed that Fa Yang dealt with those illegal businessmen for the sake of ordinary people, and he kept applauding his policies.

But then, those private schools did not escape the disaster. Under Fa Yang's strict order, all the private schools and academies in Tiandu City were sealed almost overnight, and all the books in the hands of scholars were confiscated.

In response to this, many students made great efforts to argue, saying that what they learned was the way of Confucius, and Fa Yang's move was equivalent to being a great rebellious person.

Fa Yang used the simplest and most rude method to deal with the protests against these students, that is, to pull out all the most violent students and leaders who were in trouble and impose ink punishment. After detaining the remaining students for several days, the storm was quickly calmed down.

"The poetry and calligraphy advocated by Confucianism is filial piety, mercy, kindness, integrity, integrity, benevolence and righteousness, not military, and shameful battles are the way to harm the country and the people. The six arts are actually the six lices. Our great Chu should remove these six lices and overthrow Confucianism to establish a foothold in the world.

Today, the Great Zhou Dynasty was full of confucianism's six lice. Look at the group of people in the Tai Chi Hall, all of whom are flattering people who can only talk big but not do their jobs. If one day our Great Chu will follow in this, Confucianism will be eliminated and never used..."

This is Fa Yang's passionate reply to the officials who raised objections in the future.

The aristocratic family was dealt with, the merchants were suppressed, and the students were also scared. The whole city of Tiandu was panicked, fearing that one day the disaster would fall on them.

However, under this high-pressure atmosphere, most people still support the Great Chu, and this support accounts for more than 90% of the population under the current Chu State.

They are craftsmen and farmers...

For these two groups, Fa Yang was also not ruthless and directly issued new laws to them with drastic moves.

The law stipulates that since you are a craftsman, you are destined to be a lifelong profession and can only make a living by smithing. And the division of labor is detailed. For example, if a blacksmith makes scissors, then your shop can only make scissors. If you make agricultural tools, you can only make agricultural tools. If you find any illegal decrees, you will be punished.

As for those miners, they are destined to work in the mines for the rest of their lives, and they are not allowed to work professionally without special circumstances. Of course, the Great Chu court will allow them to have heavy work that they can't finish until they die for the rest of their lives, and ensure that they will not be unemployed.

The peasant class, Fa Yang, distributed the land deprived of the aristocratic families to them for the first time. Just as the farmers were crying with joy, Fa Yang's laws and regulations came later.

The law stipulates that farmers must work diligently to plant crops, and pay 50% of the grains per mu of land according to regulations. Taking the four seasons of the year as an example (the production cycle of grain in another world is relatively short), and if one acre of land is harvested in a quarter, two stones must be paid.

In addition, there are extremely strict regulations on cultivating cash crops. For example, if you plant mulberry leaves, tea, tobacco leaves, etc., you must pay 90% of the income, and you must ensure that the income from grain is not reduced all year round, otherwise you will be severely punished.

As for the division of labor of farmers, it is also clear that men and women cannot oversteer, and even peasants must pay a high amount of cloth every year.

In addition, if the farmer lacks the farm tools or livestock needed for arable land in his home, he can ask the local government office to rent it, but he must increase the income of 10% of the land on the premise of ensuring that the farm tools and livestock are intact.

If the farm tool is damaged, compensation must be doubled. If the plowing ox is thinner than before renting, it will be extremely criminal law, which is equivalent to the fact that the beasts in another world are worse than those in the other world.

(I am afraid that the ox will lose weight, so I can only feed it with fine materials, which indirectly leads to a decrease in farmers' income)

With all these harsh laws, the farmers in Qing and Lake basically have no rest time all year round, and can only carry the burden and work in the fields.

But Fa Yang seemed to feel that it was still too relaxed, and he also formulated a one-year three-month labor service to engage in various labor or military training, and seemed to have never given up until they torture them to death.

Of course, if the people exceed the standards and complete the annual indicators stipulated by the court, such as the blacksmith who builds dozens of pairs of scissors and the farmers increase their per mu of land by dozens of kilograms, there is a reward, and this reward is to exempt his whole family from working for one year.

In addition, Fa Yang also stipulated that if the land harvest is poor or life is forced to be traded between the people, it can be sold to the court or to ordinary people.

This is because even under Liu Ce's rule, land purchase and sale are strictly prohibited. Even if farmers have difficulties, they will use low-interest loans to help them overcome the difficulties.

But Fa Yang did the opposite, and even allowed the people, especially farmers to participate in gambling in disguise, to encourage the people to trade land in disguise.

I can’t even understand yellow cover. If farmers lose their land, will they not rebel?

But Fa Yang smiled knowingly and assured Huang Fu: "Only in this way can the people be connected with the fate of Chu, and make sufficient preparations for the emperor to establish a tiger and wolf army..."
Chapter completed!