In August of the first year of Wuding, all merchants, shops and properties in Linqing Prefecture County were nationalized by Daqi. More than 2,500 merchants, tooth merchants, and tooth people were charged with treason, disrespect, tax evasion, and competing for profits with the people. Those who abandoned the city and beheaded, committing the most heinous crimes, belonged to the Yi tribe.
The vacated shops and businesses were taken over by Qi civil affairs officials and directly operated by Da Qi. Emperor Wu Ding issued decrees many times that no private property was allowed to exist in the empire.
The inspection of wealthy merchants and tooth merchants is only the first step. The actions to take over the fields, factories, mines, mountains, forests, and lakes in Linqing are also carried out simultaneously.
Under the iron-blooded policy, countless squires and powerful men were killed.
After this battle, Linqing's industries withered and its prosperity was no longer prosperous. Emperor Wuding comforted himself by saying that this was a pain that must be experienced in the reform process and a price that must be borne.
On August 21, an edict was issued to kill the subordinate officials in Linqingzhou County. Anyone who had colluded with Ming thieves would be killed.
A total of 230 government officials from three groups and six-room clerks from Qiu County, Guantao County, and Linqing Prefecture City were executed on charges of treason and corruption.
Including: intending to commit rebellion, colluding with thieves, falling into laziness, laziness and following the rules, self-stealing, malpractice for personal gain, holding officials hostage, etc.
After the massacre, only one-tenth of the original number of officials in the prefectures and counties were left. Government affairs were piled up without anyone taking care of them. The prefectures and counties were in a mess, and the people's mentality changed.
Emperor Wu Ding had no one to spare, so he had to recruit local talents and young students to use coercion and inducement to deal with affairs in order to maintain grassroots rule and prevent it from collapsing.
After all this trouble, Da Qi's rule in Linqing has become precarious.
However, Emperor Wu Ding was uncompromising and continued to abolish private property, ban landlords, imprison mine owners, and massacre Jin gentry...
Daqi began to fall rapidly towards the polar circle, and the future and destiny of the empire became uncertain.
The only thing that is certain is that more and more people want Emperor Wu Ding to die.
In the public opinion, Liu Zhaosun is known as the tyrant of the ages. Even tyrants such as Xia Jie, Shang Zhou, Yang Guang and others pale into insignificance compared with him.
In August and September, rumors abounded around Linqing, and prophecies about the emperor's cruelty and cruelty, which would lead to divine punishment, were popular in the city.
On August 28, the west gate of Linqing caught fire for no apparent reason, and rumors soon spread:
"If you don't think about the Tao, the monster will burn the palace." This is a prophecy that Linqing Chaoguan will also be destroyed by fire.
There are two locust trees growing in the north of Linqing City, three to four feet high. On the night of August 29, it is said that one of the locust trees suddenly grew wildly. It grew to a height of one foot and three feet in one night, and its trunk grew like a human being. , has a head, eyes, hair and beard. So there was another rumor: "When the king's virtue declines, his subordinates will rise, and there will be a tree that grows like a human being."
On the first day of September, local scholar Fan Jin saw a meteor falling to the ground and said:
“When a comet comes out, it is hunger and war, and when a ruler enters a tree without virtue, it is merit.
There are other "birds nesting in trees for no reason, and soldiers will rise up"; "ghosts cry at night, and the country will perish"; "the dead return to their hometowns, and the crops are not harvested, and the war breaks out"
The list goes on.
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Emperor Wu Ding was furious and ordered a thorough investigation into the source of the rumors. Zhang Dong quickly arrested a group of young scholars suspected of fabricating prophecies.
The Zhenfu soldiers searched the houses of these people and found various props of witchcraft and Gu. Emperor Wu Ding ordered that all 72 people involved in the case be killed and all kinds of compiled prophecy books collected from the search were burned.
Historically known as burning books and trapping demons.
As the tyranny of Qi State continued, assassinations occurred one after another. In August, more than a dozen assassinations against the emperor took place.
The identities of the assassins are varied, including remnants of the Jin gentry, fallen scholars, remaining merchant servants, Southern Ming assassins...
However, none of these eighteen assassinations were successful, and the assassins basically did not even touch Emperor Wu Ding.
On September 6th, all the failed assassins were executed, and more than 2,000 people were beheaded due to their involvement.
On the sixth day of September, Aotouji was crowded with people. Emperor Wu Ding obviously wanted everyone to know what would happen if he disobeyed him and became an enemy of Da Qi.
Ma Shiying, Lin Yu and others who came back from South Zhili happened to witness the killing in the Linqing Canal. Ma Shiying looked at the densely packed heads floating on the river, his mouth wide open, and he was speechless for a long time.
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Like hitting a groundhog, the emperor's iron fist struck any opposition force. After two months of bloody suppression, all hostile forces in Linqing Prefecture City were wiped out.
The canal city that originally had a population of 500,000 experienced a series of disasters such as the war, rebellion, and suppression in the first year of Wuding. The merchants fled to death and most of the population was displaced. By September of the first year of Wuding, the remaining population in the city was less than 200,000. .
On the 9th day of September in the first year of Wuding, after a long and bloody preliminary preparation, witnessed by the 200,000 surviving people of Linqing, the "Qi Dynasty Land Acquisition System" (hereinafter referred to as the Acquisition System) was officially promulgated.
This day is destined to go down in history. Emperor Wu Ding established the prototype of the totalitarian rule of Qi in the form of laws.
The contents of the "Field Acre System" mainly include:
(1) The Emperor of Da Qi is the only legal emperor in the world and enjoys undisputed right to rule the global territory.
(2) All land and wealth in the world belong to the Emperor of Da Qi. The Emperor of Da Qi is kind and bestows land and wealth on his subjects. Wherever there are fields in the world, people all over the world cultivate the fields together; when there are fields, they are cultivated together, when they have food, they have the same clothes, and when they have the money, they work together.
(3) Establish officials at all levels and have their own methods for recommendation, promotion, demotion, reward and punishment. For every household with 50 residents, a "representative" is set up to manage production, distribution, education, justice, local military affairs, etc.; a joint sitting system is implemented to encourage mutual reporting.
(4) Surplus grains and money should be paid to the "state treasury". All agricultural and sideline harvests, except for rations, should be paid to the "state treasury". Anyone who keeps it privately would be put to death.
(5) Abolition of feudal marriage.
The original text of "Qi Dynasty Land Acquisition System" is as follows (excerpt):
It extends beyond the North Pole in the north, to England in the west, to Fusang in the east, and to Australia and South Vietnam, all of which are the territory of Qi. The Emperor of Da Qi was the only true emperor in the world. He was ordered by Heaven to live a long and prosperous life. The other emperors and monarchs were false emperors and rebellious and should be tortured to death.
The land of the world is distributed according to the population, regardless of the number of men or women, the number of people in their family is calculated. If there are more people, the more will be divided, if there are fewer people, the less will be divided. We must ensure that all people in the world share the emperor's great grace, have fields to farm together, food to eat, clothes to wear, and money to work with, so that there is no unevenness everywhere, and no one is not full and warm.
Every household in the world raises eight hens and two hens (pigs), and the time is right. Every year at the time of harvest, the two representatives supervise the five chiefs and hand over all the food to the state treasury except for enough food for each person in the family. The same goes for the remaining crops, wheat, beans, ramie, linen, silk, chickens, dogs, various other items, and money.
The world is all one family of the emperor's subjects. No one in the world is allowed to be selfish. If everything returns to the treasury, then my emperor will make use of it. Everyone in the world will be peaceful and everyone will be fed and warm.
There is an imperial examination every year in the world to make up for the vacancies of officials. If the person is promoted to the right person, the recommender will be rewarded; if the person is not promoted, the recommender will be punished. Among the soldiers and civilians in the army, if there are those who can abide by the orders and work hard, the two representatives will list their deeds, note their names, and keep their names with the soldiers. The leader of the soldiers will identify the person with the commander of the camp, and the leader of the fruit will identify the person, and recommend the name to the commander of the army, and so on. Anyone who recommends others indiscriminately will be deposed as a farmer.
Every man in the world who has more than three wives and daughters will have one man as a soldier. The rest of the widows, widowers, orphans, invalids, and sick people were exempted from military service, and all were given to the state treasury to support them.
Admire this!
The eighth day of September in the first year of Wuding.
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