Therefore, many times, he also envied Zhao Cheng's start. Although he had nothing, it was precisely because he had nothing that he had a blank canvas to draw on.
You can kill whoever you want, and watch whoever you want to chop. Unlike him, you have to find an impeccable reason for ransacking a house.
Fortunately, the Da Cang family has a great cause. By selling a large amount of land, it has alleviated the financial crisis. It can afford to raise more moths. As long as the court system can still operate normally, it is worth it.
It would be the most tragic and stupid thing if the entire system collapsed just because of cleaning out the moths.
After all, he, Liu Guangzheng, was not the founder of the country, so he could not act arbitrarily. No matter how unhappy he was, he had to endure it.
Liu Guangzheng still understands this clearly.
While vigorously building factories, Liu Guangzheng also introduced various labor-saving agricultural tools that can greatly improve production efficiency. These things were taboo in the past because they would free up some manpower and affect the stability of the world.
But now, Liu Guangzheng wants to develop industry, and what he needs is manpower.
Only by freeing up part of the manpower can we support a sufficient number of workers.
Sure enough, this year, the world ushered in a bumper harvest. Under normal circumstances, low grain prices would hurt farmers, and grain prices would be suppressed to very low levels. Instead, farmers starved.
But because the imperial court made money from selling land, it stabilized the price of food. Therefore, many farmers had a breather.
Part of the food purchased by the imperial court was used for military ration, and part was used to select workers from among the people. As for the conditions, there was no need to pay for food and clothing, and the salary was thirty cents a month.
In this case, countless people were tempted.
And this was not over yet. In order to expand the army, Liu Guangzheng began to sell arms in the second year.
At the beginning, Zhao Cheng only had a few Taoists, and he spent more than half a year making two thousand guns. But Liu Guangzheng now has thousands of Taoists under his command, operating at full capacity, and the productivity is very terrifying.
It's just that most Taoists are self-righteous and unwilling to light the stove.
For this reason, Liu Guangzheng simply used the pardon to seduce him. Of course, he did not directly pardon the real Tianshi, but directly divided the energy and received wages on a piece-by-piece basis.
Liu Guangzheng gave very little energy, but it was not because he was unwilling to give up. After all, if the imperial court died, no matter how much energy he had, it would be in vain.
It's because the production capacity of steel is limited, raw materials are not enough, and not many guns can be made.
But even though most Taoists don't look down on such a small amount of energy, there are still more than a hundred Taoists who are willing to do this hard work.
In the second year, the output of steel increased, so Liu Guangzheng also increased the "wage" for Taoists who burned stoves.
Therefore, in the second year, the court issued a decree allowing individuals to buy guns, but what was more expensive than guns were bullets.
As soon as this decree came out, the orders from the court were directly postponed to next year.
Under normal circumstances, if Liu Guangzheng developed industry and manufactured firearms, he would never be able to sell them. He would only arm himself and use this power to conquer the world.
It is better to rob the other party directly than to let others spend money to buy it.
But now, with an enemy like Zhao Cheng in Southern Wilderness, he is no longer allowed to provoke civil strife.
Selling the gun would actually make it more difficult for Zhao Cheng to attack the imperial court.
After all, Zhao Cheng can also make these guns. Even if they are captured by Zhao Cheng, they will be of little use.
The biggest disadvantage of Southern Wasteland is the small number of people, while the biggest advantage of the imperial court is the large number of people. As long as the imperial court is fully armed, even if it is ten for one, it will be profitable for the imperial court.
In this way, until the third year, the number of Canglong Guards in Liu Guangzheng's hands had expanded to 100,000. Each one was equipped with a gun and had been trained for a long time. Without Zhao Cheng's Taiping Army, this would undoubtedly be the strongest army in the world.
After all, the army is money, and raising an army means burning money.
Liu Guangzheng, on the other hand, sold land and arms, which can be said to be the two most profitable things. Under such circumstances, he had control over the world. If he could not raise such an army, he could only
Proved him to be too incompetent.
Not only that, as early as the first year, he ordered that local officials and prominent families across the country could train their own militia and even collect armor.
Originally, the imperial court had allowed this kind of thing for a period of time due to the Huangtian Rebellion, but then banned it, but now it has been allowed to do so again.
Under such circumstances, local forces naturally practiced hard in order to protect themselves.
Indeed, this was weakening the imperial court's control over local areas and weakening local authority, but in order to resist Zhao, Liu Guangzheng no longer cared about this.
Even if in the end, Da Cang becomes like his previous life, where local forces are divided and the royal family is just a mascot, he will not hesitate anymore.
His experience told him that when fighting against something like a demon, you can't take any chances. Only with the heart of dying together can you have any hope of winning.
Under such circumstances, within three years, the military strength of the small forces among the people in the country, and the total strength of the eleven states in the world, would be at least one million.
In addition, the number of state pastors, aristocratic families, and powerful people in various places totals at least two million.
As for the reason, it is naturally because those ambitious people, when they see this opportunity, do not hesitate to recruit troops and horses, and they have a disobedient heart.
After all, from ancient times to the present, the emperor has always been the one with strong soldiers and horses.
As for the imperial court, the troops stationed in the eleven states in the world, plus the army in the capital, only numbered more than 600,000.
The pattern of a weak leader and a strong minister has emerged.
Under such circumstances, it is natural that people can’t help but think about it.
After all, the powerful and powerful families suffered heavy losses due to the battle of Tian Jue Guan. If the imperial court presses harder and harder, it may not be able to greatly strengthen the centralization of power and weaken the powerful.
But Liu Guangzheng insisted on "acting against the grain."
The smart people in this world naturally know that this is an idea to use their power to weaken Zhao Cheng, which is a clear plan. After all, looking at the Xinguo, everyone is so powerful that there is no good end.
Even if he surrenders, he will probably lose his current wealth and honor. Although life will not be difficult, he will not be as prominent as he is now.
And with foreign enemies, even if the local powerful became stronger, they would not be able to attack the imperial court first, otherwise they would be immediately eliminated by others in the name of the Qing Dynasty. A balance was thus formed.
It can be said that Liu Guangzheng's political wisdom is not bad now. If there were no Zhao Cheng in this world, he might really be able to become a sage king and continue the national destiny for hundreds of years.
And at the end of the third year, when the fourth year just arrived, Zhao Cheng, who had burned down the plank road and had been silent in the Southern Wasteland for three years, finally made a move.
He dispatched a large number of craftsmen and began to overhaul the plank road!
His move immediately attracted the attention of the entire world, and for a moment, the entire China was shaken by it.