Among the thousands of emperors in history, those who had the highest requirements for ability were those who founded the country and those who rose again during wars, especially the latter.
Establishing an empire is often a great governance after great chaos. The founding emperor also has two rare advantages in the face of great difficulties: First, the people are determined. After years of chaos, the people are in dire straits. As long as someone can give them a safe environment and give them a
As long as they have enough to eat, they don't care where the person comes from or what he is like; secondly, the ruling class of the previous empire has been completely shuffled, leaving a large number of empty positions waiting for replacements, which is also the core reason for attracting talents.
An emperor who emerges from war is precisely weak on these two points. War in an empire is a sign of the decline of the empire. Most of the common people take a gloating view of such a country and hope it will fall. And the original aristocracy is unwilling to give up what they have.
Interests and localism prevailed, and princes from various places became independent in order to seek greater power. These two points are often the core reasons that lead to the rapid collapse of a huge empire in a short period of time.
In this case, the ability displayed by the king is often higher. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why the number of emperors who founded the country exceeds that of the emperors who revived during the war, and the number of emperors who revived during the war was far less than the kings of the kingdom.
Among the few ZTE emperors, Emperor Hongshi was one of the best.
——"The Biography of the Red Stone Emperor"
Chapter 12 Long Live the King
In late winter January of the 5th year of the Magic Calendar, the Imperial City was completely immersed in a peaceful and festive atmosphere. Residents within a thousand miles of the Imperial Capital came to voluntarily come to celebrate Red Stone's birthday.
There is no doubt that the Red Stone Emperor is a famous king of his generation. Among the dozens of generations of emperors in the Amy Empire, although he is not unprecedented or unprecedented, he is still outstanding among them.
This is especially true internally.
In the 20 years since the Red Stone Emperor came to the throne, he has stopped external expansion plans and reduced his military establishment. The imperial military has been reduced from 1.25 million regular troops on the day he took the throne at a scale of 20,000 to 50,000 per year to 700,000 regular troops in the 5th year of the magic calendar. This is a large-scale reduction of the military.
The frequency of military exercises was reduced, the scale of military exercises was reduced, and military expenditures were reduced from 2 million gold coins to only 750 million gold coins. While reducing the army, it vigorously promoted the development of civilian armed forces such as mercenary groups. Before Emperor Hongshi came to the throne, the empire had no
An A-level mercenary group, the current Xuanqing Earth Dragon Knights, is headquartered in the territory of the Holy Holy See, and the empire's strong military will not allow any civilian military force with more than 400 people to exist. After Emperor Hongshi ascended the throne, he
The three orders were to eliminate many restrictions on mercenary groups. At that time, the Imperial Military Department was extremely critical of reducing troops and increasing mercenaries. Three of the four marshals openly opposed it. As a last resort, the Redstone Emperor forced the three marshals to retire.
In one fell swoop, the establishment of the 11 brigades directly under the three marshals was abolished. In order to better implement his policies in the army, the young emperor sent his uncle, the leader of the moderate faction in the army, who was the leader of the Tongyunguan Defense Area (i.e. the Holy Snow Mountain)
Defense Area) General Marshal Chi Datong was conferred the title of Imperial Marshal and Chief of Military Affairs.
After that, Hongshi said on many occasions: Imperial soldiers are more precious than more valuable. Just one swordsman battalion soldier, for example, needs to be fed by at least 10 imperial civilians to maintain his equipment, food and training for a year. Therefore, the empire
It is only necessary to maintain an elite and invincible army. More tasks such as maintaining security and escorts are left to mercenary groups and other civilian armed forces. These armed forces not only do not need the empire to feed them, but in turn can provide support to the empire.
Provides substantial tax revenue.
At the same time, Hongshi was rectifying the internal affairs of officials and cultivating their health. In the years when Hongshi first came to power, at least 20 high-ranking officials were deprived of their titles and killed every year because of corruption, bribery, and poor governance.
The effect of being exiled and killing chickens to show the monkeys may not be obvious yet, but after killing a few tigers, not only the monkeys, but also the entire imperial warlord system trembled. A large number of incompetent people either voluntarily or were forced to step down from their high positions.
Groups of young people entered the imperial bureaucracy, and it was rare in previous generations for officials to rule in the Qingming Dynasty.
After nearly one million soldiers retired, they immigrated to the Northern Federation and integrated into local life. More residents moved from poor areas to wealthy areas along the mainland highway. Over the years, Hongshi has allocated 10 million military expenditures in the original budget to local development.
Economy, encourage births.
The result of 20 years of self-cultivation is that although the empire's tax revenue has been reduced from the tithe (1/10) tax for ordinary residents to the tithe (1/15) tax, the total annual tax revenue of the empire has increased from 970,000 20 years ago.
million increased to 14 million; the population increased from a total of 28.9 million on the two continents 20 years ago to 35.32 million. The total population even exceeded the sum of the three empires of the Hughes Empire, the Mercenary Empire, and the Holy Desert Empire, and the economic strength
It is even higher than the three aforementioned empires and the Hami and Northern Hami empires combined.
The wealth of the residents of the empire is also unmatched by other countries. Not only the nobles have three wives and four concubines, but also ordinary people can go to other countries to have mistresses and three concubines. Large-scale marriages have appeared in the border areas of the empire.
Mistress Village has also become a symbol of the prosperity of the country and the strength of the people.
Emperor Hongshi practiced frugality and kept it simple except for necessary foreign affairs activities. If we talk about the only big celebration, it is the birthday of Emperor Hongshi, which happens every five or ten years. Originally, Hongshi didn't want to do it, but Hongshi was 28 years old.
At that time, 500,000 people from around the imperial capital surrounded the palace and volunteered to celebrate Hongshi's birthday. Hongshi had no choice but to propose a compromise plan, once every five years, and not at other times.
The only difference between this year's celebration and previous years is that it incorporates some official manipulation. The Red Stone Emperor hopes to use this celebration to wash away the uneasiness that has pervaded the empire in the past two years.