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    Chapter 535: Big Construction Plan (First Update)

    The demise of Ming Dynasty does not mean the end of things.  \\?.  com¡¡First release\\In fact, many troublesome things have just begun.  The first thing that needs to be faced is what to do with these Ming officials who surrendered or were captured.

    Emperor Chongzhen, Zhang Yan and others were stubborn and refused to eat after being captured. They went on a hunger strike on the seventh day after being captured and died.  His son and princess were sent to Taipei and placed under house arrest for life.

    Some officials were disheartened after being captured and did not want to contribute to the Chinese Empire, so they asked to be released back to their hometowns.  Except for a few people who had great complaints, Xiao Mingqian agreed to them all.

    In fact, not only them, most of the officials who surrendered to the Chinese Empire were sent back to their hometowns.  After passing the assessment, a few were able to stay in some relatively unimportant departments.  The content of the assessment has nothing to do with Confucian classics.  Such assessment content makes most Ming officials who want to continue serving as officials feel cold in their hearts.

    There is a problem here.  First of all, what impact will these people have on society after returning to their hometowns?  You know, these literati are experts at creating public opinion.

    However, Xiao Mingqian would rather fight a public opinion war with them than include them in the government establishment.  After all, the way these old officials handled government affairs was completely different from the way the Imperial Chinese government acted.

    Then another question arises, does the Chinese Empire have that many officials that can be sent to such a vast newly occupied land?

    In fact, after the establishment of the Chinese Empire, Xiao Mingqian deliberately expanded the establishment of the imperial government. Basically, each county had one county magistrate, but there were six deputy magistrates.  A police station has one chief and five deputy chiefs.

    In short, in order to cope with the situation at this time, Xiao Mingqian maintained a severely overstaffed government agency.  \\?.  com¡¡First release\\For this reason, the salaries of military government administrators were nearly three times higher than before the founding of the empire.

    However, the money was not wasted.  Today, a few years later, wherever the imperial army passes, tens of thousands of officials of various types quickly take over local administrative and legal functions.

    Although there have been incidents of locals resisting administrative personnel sent by the empire in many places, and these have lasted for several months, time can kill everything.

    The imperial government¡¯s new governance style, its relatively clean style, coupled with land reform and permanent exemption from agricultural taxes, gradually won the support of ordinary people in the area.

    Even though there are many literati, old and young in the Ming Dynasty, they continue to incite public sentiment and create public opinion that is not conducive to the Chinese Empire, but in the face of actual interests, the words of these people are so empty.

    Especially after a few months, the immediate effect made ordinary people see the superiority of the Chinese Empire over the Ming Dynasty.

    With the improvement of living standards, the words of those who still remember the Ming Dynasty have completely lost their market.  Of course, there is also the contribution of the power of public opinion in the Chinese Empire.

    However, not all things from the Chinese Empire are acceptable to the common people.  For example, the abolition of all forms of clan laws, the abolition of the custom of binding women's feet, etc.

    These things have been stubbornly occupying the hearts of the people, so much so that they completely disappeared only after the Chinese Empire completely ruled this land for more than 20 years.

    During this period, the entire society experienced several turmoils because of these things.  The losses caused are also frightening.

    But Xiao Mingqian¡¯s firm attitude caused these things to completely disappear from the land of China before Xiao Mingqian abdicated.

    Of course, it is worth mentioning that the more than one million baby girls adopted in that year played a huge role in getting rid of these rotten things.

    After they arrived in Taiwan, they all received the latest education, which made their thoughts the most radical.

    When they grew up, most of them found their hometowns and their families based on the cards that had been following them.

    During family reunions, they also spread their thoughts to their hometowns.  Their special life experiences, special status, and their and their families¡¯ gratitude to the Chinese Empire made them the carriers of new ideas about the Chinese Empire.

    Such a result was something that Xiao Mingqian, Tang Hongsheng and others did not expect from the beginning.  But the effect is surprisingly good.  Even greater than the power of public opinion.

    By the end of 1854, the Chinese Empire had imported as many as 300,000 government officials to the Central Plains. Their presence completely stabilized the entire Central Plains region.

    Even though Jiang was gradually calmed down later?, Hunan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places have basically stabilized.

    Although conflicts between local Han people and ethnic minorities still occurred from time to time, the Chinese imperial government adopted an impartial attitude when dealing with such conflicts.  The number of conflicts has become less and less frequent, and their scale has become smaller and smaller.

    Of course, this is also due to the large amount of materials entering these places.

    After wiping out Zhang Xianzhong and the chieftain chiefs who opposed the land policy of the Chinese Empire, these areas became relatively stable, and Xiao Mingqian gradually opened up the business rights in these areas to the merchants of the Chinese Empire.

    Under this situation, a large amount of goods poured into these areas crazily.  The cheapness of daily necessities such as food, salt, ironware, clothing, etc. has made the lives of local people much better.  And those wealthy families are slowly buying some luxuries.

    The stable life and the vigorous suppression methods of the Chinese Imperial Army have made local rebellions less and less.  The local security is also getting better and better.

    ??The Chinese Imperial Government is committed to eliminating ethnic differences. It never mentions ethnic differences in daily life, and all refer to them as common people of the Chinese Empire.  The fair attitude made the people of the ethnic minorities gradually recognize the Chinese Empire, and also allowed them to gradually eliminate the ethnic label in the process of Chinese culture in schools.

    A hundred years later, except for a few large clans, the people in the entire southeast region basically had no ethnic distinctions, and all regarded themselves as citizens of the Chinese Empire.

    Of course, the beneficiaries cannot be just the people in the southeast.  The Central Plains is a vast area with a large population.  If we want to make it as prosperous as Taiwan, its reconstruction cannot be without a unified plan.

    So Xiao Mingqian announced a plan for the reconstruction of the Central Plains at the government conference at the end of the year.

    In the next ten years, the Chinese Empire will spend 2 billion yuan in fiscal revenue to carry out large-scale infrastructure construction.

    This includes the construction of educational facilities, road construction, farmland water conservancy facilities, river management projects, large-scale basic industrial construction, etc.

    At the same time, industrial and commercial enterprises are encouraged to participate in these constructions. All industrial and commercial enterprises that enter the Ming Dynasty to set up factories will be given five and a half tax incentives.

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