With her ability, it was not impossible to launch a coup and regain the imperial power from Jiang Lingrong.

But what's the point of doing this?
The government has become corrupt and the aristocratic families are intertwined. If she wants to reform the new government, she can't do it alone.

The Southern Dynasty was already riddled with holes, and the imperial court was still going to decline due to internal strife and internal strife. Jiang Fuguang's body was already so weak that it was difficult to support the operation of a country. The fall of the Southern Dynasty would be a matter of time.

"The trend is irreversible!"

After Jiang Lingrong stole the throne, Jiang Fuguang was also weighing the future of the Southern Dynasty. Like a calm bystander, she had been observing the general trend of the court, calculating the direction of the Southern Dynasty, and finally decided to send the booklet to him.

Every step Jiang Fuguang took was carefully considered.

"From the moment Jiang Lingrong ascended the throne, she has been on the opposite side of the imperial court, to the point where she is the enemy of everyone. General Bai Lao, General Huwei and others have learned from their mistakes. She can no longer tell who is loyal and who is traitorous in the whole court. She cannot Dare to trust anyone, because trusting anyone can make her lose everything, and she cannot afford to lose."

"In addition to the righteousness of the common people, she also has a personal relationship. She wants to protect the Qi family, as well as the ministers who are attached to the Qi family and support the eldest princess, as well as their family members and friends. The fate of everyone is tied to her. She will not If you dare to gamble, you can’t gamble.”

"She didn't even believe me," Ji Ruxuan laughed at herself and picked up the pamphlet on the case. "She sent this good recipe for governing the country to me and asked me to prove to her that I have the courage and even the ability to rule the country. When implementing the New Deal, she also wanted to know whether the New Deal could bring about vigorous development for a brand new dynasty, enable the people to live and work in peace and contentment, and present a peaceful and prosperous age in her ideal."

Jinbao's eyes widened and he couldn't help but ask: "What if you can't do it..."

"It can't be done," Ji Ruxuan smiled and shrugged, "The Jiang Dynasty will become the unified party."

Jiang Fuguang did not fight with Jiang Lingrong internally and stayed in his house to recuperate in order to preserve his strength and seize the initiative in the upcoming world trend and firmly grasp the trend.

Jin Bao opened his mouth wide with a look of shock.

Ji Ruxuan was amused by his expression: "Why are you so shocked? It's just to destroy a country. It's not like Jiang Fuguang has never done it before. Whether it's the already destroyed Yun China or the soon-to-be destroyed South Vietnam, they were all during the period when Jiang Fuguang was in power. , led by her, I am not bragging about her, but with the strength of the Northern Dynasty, it will be swept away by Jiang Fuguang in less than ten years."

Jin Bao was speechless. He always felt that his tone seemed regretful, as if he really hoped that the Northern Dynasty would be swept away by the eldest princess.

He hesitated for a moment: "The implementation of the New Deal cannot be completed overnight. All dynasties have followed the old system. All politics and laws are modified and improved on the basis of the old system. The old system is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and is difficult to change, let alone. Aristocratic families and local officials colluded with each other and obstructed them at every turn. They took advantage of the New Deal to create fear and misfortune among the people, making the people think that the New Deal was harmful..."

Ji Ruxuan smiled half-heartedly: "Is the aristocratic family very powerful?"

Jin Bao looked at the scary smile on his face and couldn't help but feel his scalp numb, his whole body felt cold, and he had a bad feeling in his heart.

The family is in trouble!
On the second day, Emperor Guanghe announced various new policies for the new dynasty in the court, and the entire Jiang Dynasty, like a wheel and axle, entered high speed.

During this period, he really encountered resistance from aristocratic families and local officials.

Emperor Guanghe ignored it.

The aristocratic family thought they had the new emperor under control, so they began to intensify their efforts, creating fear in various places, publicizing the harm of the New Deal, and intensifying the voices of rebellion in various places.

After the imperial court re-measured the land, it was already a month later, and the family's huge hidden fields could no longer be concealed.After investigation, it was found that there are huge amounts of hidden farmland in various places, accounting for [-]% of the local arable land. Less than [-]% of the acres are left for ordinary people, and there is almost no farmland.

The family's methods of annexing land were also very cruel.

The climate in the north is changeable, and small-scale disasters occur from time to time. Therefore, local government agencies directly provide food relief, and the aristocratic families collude with local officials. Whenever there is a disaster, the government officials deliberately do not release food, and they also claim to the outside world that the imperial court did not order the food release. .

When a famine broke out and people died, the aristocratic families would join forces with local merchants to drive up prices and create all kinds of panic. The people paid high prices but could not buy a few kilograms of grain. Years of savings were wiped out. In order to survive, they had no choice but to sell goods. .

After driving the people to a desperate situation, the aristocratic families will step forward and buy the fields from them at a low price, or they may not even pay any money, and use the food they have accumulated to exchange the fields with the people, and directly cheat the white wolf, or Forced selling, forced buying, or even direct robbery.

Simply outrageous.

The common people had no land and could not grow food, so they could not pay taxes. The court could not collect taxes. The common people could only rent acres of land from aristocratic families. Seventy percent of the harvest from one acre of land had to be paid to the owner, and the remaining [-] percent had to be paid to the owner. The poll tax, as well as the various heavy miscellaneous taxes of the court, were not even enough to cover the daily expenses of a family. At best, they were tenant farmers, and at worst, they were slaves raised by aristocratic families.

The people couldn't even fill their stomachs. Whenever there was a natural or man-made disaster, the local government would not provide food relief, and the people without fields would have no way to survive, and were forced to embark on the road of rebellion.

Rebellions in the Northern Dynasties have been going on for more than ten years.

Every few years, the imperial court had to spend a lot of money and materials to suppress the rebellion. If the national treasury could not make up for the shortfall, it could only impose various miscellaneous taxes and heavy taxes on the people. After that, they would have their bones and marrow sucked out, and so on. Make up for the shortfall in the national treasury.

A vicious circle is formed.

Therefore, once the Hidden scandal was exposed, the reputation that the family had accumulated for hundreds of years suddenly fell into disrepute.

Under the spread of Emperor Guanghe, the common people at the bottom, as well as people everywhere who became bandits and rebels because they could not survive, turned their hatred on the aristocratic families.

They believed that aristocratic families had annexed the land that originally belonged to them, leaving them, farmers who had relied on farming for generations, with no land to cultivate. They were devastated by famine, losing their parents, wives, children, husbands, as well as relatives and friends...

Bandits from all over the country rebelled against the party, and even some desperate people gathered together to attack local aristocratic families, causing horrific tragedies. Thousands of them gathered in groups, and the local government could not suppress them. Many aristocratic families, except for the elderly, weak, women and children, were almost massacred. Empty.

The rebels plundered the family's accumulated wealth, and even went so crazy that they burned down the family's ancestral hall and ancestral code...

This move made the family lose their courage.

We must know that the inheritance of a family depends not only on the wealth, status, connections, and channels accumulated over generations, but also on the ancestral hall and clan code that represent the inheritance of the family.

Destroying ancestral halls and legal codes is, to put it bluntly, destroying the inheritance of a family.

The implementation of the imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty was a slow poison to the aristocratic families. The Anshi Rebellion dealt a huge blow to the aristocratic families in the north. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, there was a great man named Huang Chao. He was the terminator of the aristocratic families. After the Song Dynasty, the imperial examinations flourished. The aristocratic families that had previously restricted the imperial power had very little influence on the court, and the imperial power was dominant~

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