The New Year is approaching, and there are many family sacrifices in small households, and there are naturally various ceremonies gathered on the stage.

Even if Shen Zhezi himself is not very interested in these etiquettes and the like, he has to admit that these things do have an effect on reassuring people's hearts and demonstrating the prestige of the stage, so that order can be popularized and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, which can be said to be beneficial and not costly.

In addition to the etiquette, there are still many moral and political collocations, among which the more conspicuous is the release of a large number of tun households and criminal households. In fact, it is really unclear what the sins of these tun households and criminal households are, and it is more a result of Xingtai using the law as an excuse to increase the control of the population.

Of course, it is not possible to simply say that Xingtai is indiscriminate, and when it comes to individual people, from the current point of view, they simply do not have the power to talk to the behemoth of Xingtai and demand justice, and those who can do this are those who can gather more voices of the villagers.

And what kind of fairness or strictness of the law to talk to these so-called township representatives, that is, to keep all kinds of administrative costs into the bottomless pit, there is no way to discern a result, not to mention, if the platform is too rigid in the so-called legal rope and tolerates, this part of the scale of tolerance will become the capital of those township clans and strong and strong, and will not benefit the small people at all.

Where there is a system, there is no vacuum within the system, and even if the rulers are sympathetic to the small people and leave a certain space for the people to live, this part of the space will definitely be squeezed and seized by people with ulterior motives, and will not allow the people's conditions to be truly improved.

Therefore, in the troubled times, only the heavy code can be governed as soon as possible, similar to this westward expedition to Hongnong, half of the villagers in Hongnong were almost all included in the criminal household, but the vast majority of them are really guilty of this? It should be said that they are also victims, and they are also coerced and coerced.

But from the perspective of those in power, the problem should not be seen that way. First of all, population is also a kind of trophies, and it is a very important one. If you want to get a long war endurance, you must use the war to feed the war and use the loot as soon as possible.

Secondly, the so-called dragon gives birth to a dragon, a phoenix gives birth to a phoenix, and a mouse son will make holes, which should not be a theory of blood, but a kind of path dependence on all living people, a kind of lazy inertia to change.

For example, those overseas Chinese families in Jiangdong, all kinds of tricks have already ruined Shenzhou, and they are still like this in Jiangdong and they are getting worse.

From this point of view, those Hongnong villagers may not have a little more ability to recognize reality than the overseas Chinese family. Even if Xingtai does not forcibly levy them, they will not live a life where everyone has land and full cultivation, and there is a greater chance that they will turn around and return to the countryside in other hometowns, and the township is still as strong as ever.

Therefore, in addition to being used as soon as possible to help the war, the purpose of the compulsory requisition is also to smash the so-called township feelings that collude with them to the greatest extent, so that they can return to independent individuals again.

At the end of the third year of Qitai, the scale of Xingtai was extremely large, covering more than 500,000 people and nearly 100,000 households, which was almost half of the scale of the population directly controlled by Xingtai.

Such a large-scale exemption was actually traced as early as the beginning of the year, and various household registration checks and farmland measurements were actually being prepared for this.

Although the large-scale tuntian labor forced Xingtai to have a huge mobilization power and accumulated a lot of vitality, it was not a normal mode of rule, especially as the territory of Xingtai became larger, the administrative costs in this area became higher and higher, and it was very detrimental to the general development of the territory.

You must know that these cantonments all over the Central Plains are also one of the expatriate agencies in Xingtai, and they also have requirements for political performance, and the requirements for Xingtai in this regard are still very strict. If you want to get better performance, you need to have more harvests, encroach on more and better arable land, and collect more people, which is the basic behavioral logic of the cantonments in various places.

Xingtai itself is to guard against and suppress the local township forces, and with such a big mountain as Xingtai, those cantonments have become local hegemons because of this, and it is not surprising that they are forcibly expropriated and expropriated.

If Shen Zhezi was only a local warlord who had previously been confined to Huainan, he would not stop this kind of behavior, but should encourage it, after all, the power in his own hands is the real power.

But now that he has been in power for Jin Zuo, he needs to be responsible for the entire society and all the people. If the life of the people under the royal road is more miserable than the old years when Shenzhou sank, then the so-called royal industry Xingzhi will be meaningless.

Therefore, it is imperative to dismantle the military cantonments in the Central Plains on a large scale, and the villagers will return to their hometowns and restore normal order. After so many years of cleaning up and rejuvenating the country, at least there are no excessively strong township forces in the Central Plains who dare to compete for these free people.

Of course, the exemption does not mean that they will be completely ignored, and the original military personnel will be transformed into a local tax system.

Especially with Shen Zhezi's northward march for many years, the first batch of veterans of the Huainan Army have almost reached the number of years of service, although the combat experience is still rich, but the physical strength will inevitably decline. At present, the development momentum of Wang Shi is still vigorous, and there is no need to rely on the support of these veterans, who have retired and returned to their hometowns, which is just the right time to build a grassroots ruling organization covering the countryside.

Before the New Year, the Wang Shi stationed in various places each organized a group of such veterans who were about to retire to Luo, and Shen Zhezi personally hosted a banquet in the old Luojun City on behalf of Xingtai to entertain these veterans.

"In previous years, we met and worked together, and went north to seek special achievements, and now Wang Shi is famous, and I have heard of it in the world! At present, the king is brave and enterprising, although it cannot be boasted that he has achieved all the achievements, but the accumulation of several years of feats has already inspired the world, and now the young and strong people in the sea are standing together, and the blood is ready to be used! ”

Shen Zhezi is still dressed today, standing on the high platform, looking at the old soldiers under the platform, he also has a lot of gratitude in his heart, and said loudly: "I persuade you to retire today, it is definitely not to like the young and hate the old. I eat with you, and you give me the strength of Shao Nian, so that I am famous in the north and south, the power of the world, and I dare not live up to it one day! Xiang Nian north things are erosive, and we and other brave people cross the river, pick from the head, the mountains and rivers inch by inch, all of them are the blood and tears of the old soldiers. ”

"Fang Jin Siye, although there are still new achievements to be gained, but looking back at the old land, how can you ignore the hands of the vulgar! I only ask you to spare no effort, raise your arms to help me on a journey, and set up the countryside with loyalty and bravery, so that I can worry about the future, sweep the court, and then behead the captive! In my lifetime, I hope that the universe will clarify, and then I will invite you all to come here, and the crowd of cranes will sit and talk about it, and share the feast! ”

Before these old soldiers entered Luo, they all understood their respective destinations, and some of them even became deacons in the township. Although most of the people are war-weary, most of them have been fighting for half their lives, especially after following the generals, they have frequently made great achievements, and they suddenly leave the ranks, and they are inevitably at a loss, and there is a faint sense of panic of being abandoned.

But this time, when he heard the general's words, everyone was excited, and many people had already burst into tears, and even rushed out of the ranks to the audience, raising their arms and shouting that they were willing to follow the general to the death.

Those who participated in this feast were not only these thousands of veterans, but also many of the in-service Wang Divisions stationed in the old Luo Military City, who were also deeply touched when they saw this scene, and they were even more sincerely envious of the opportunity for these veterans to follow for a while, and even had the experience of fighting side by side with the generals.

However, as the king's division became more and more powerful, the general gradually ceased to personally command the king's army, and many new soldiers could often only see the general from afar in this kind of ceremonial ceremony.

But this did not make the image of the general become empty in the minds of these soldiers, firstly, the general is indeed outstanding, but it can even be said that he is the most outstanding minister after the Taikang of China and the DPRK since the rise of the Zhongxing, and secondly, it is naturally because of the long-term exposure to the ears and eyes, whether or not he has heard of the general's deeds before, there is no shortage of various military training performances in addition to the military drills after enlistment, many classic examples of the generals in previous years have been compiled into dramas and toured in the army all year round, of course, including other famous generals.

It is true that all kinds of loyalty propaganda have maintained a very high cohesion among all departments of the royal division, but what really makes these serving soldiers deeply envious is the treatment enjoyed by those veterans.

Serving in the army is a high-risk profession, no matter how much rewards and incentives are hard to erase its cruelty, and it is not easy to train a skilled and experienced veteran in the battle formation, so it is often a lifetime when he joins the army, and it is difficult to enjoy the stable life they have fought hard like ordinary people.

The fact that these veterans were able to be dismissed from the military and discharged from the military was actually a special case, aimed at strengthening the control of Xingtai over the local area. Whether this will continue to be the case in the future remains in doubt. These soldiers may not have this kind of luck, and most of them will die of old age. Even if he can be dismissed as a citizen, the possibility of being directly appointed as the head of the township like these old pawns is really very small.

Soon, however, the general issued an order on the stage, ordering that in the future, sergeants should be exempted as a regular practice, and a batch of quotas would be distributed to each ministry every year, and the best of them would also be selected to manage the township.

As soon as this order was announced, the entire old Luo Military City suddenly resounded with continuous cheers. Although this order is limited in terms of quota and military merits, and it is impossible to be as large as this time, it is still a way out for those ordinary soldiers.

Although accumulating merit in the army is also a way out, this way out is undoubtedly more dangerous, and the most famous of Wang Shichengjun for so many years is Mo Zhong, who has now been promoted to the master of the Shengwu army.

After all, for ordinary soldiers, there is neither a long endowment, nor a very profound training of archers and horses, nor a lack of strange luck and opportunities, and it is really difficult to go through many great battles and make great achievements.

Relatively speaking, this way out is much more realistic, after all, there are still large areas of territory such as Central China and Hebei that have not been recovered, and when the thieves and captives in all directions are swept away, the number of such township chiefs will inevitably not be small. Even if you can't be a leopard tail marquis, the head of the people who retreated to the township can be regarded as living up to half of his life's labor.

The banquet of veterans is only one of the annual ceremonies, in addition, there are also sacrifices to heaven and earth, the king, and the ceremony of going to the Yique Pavilion to persuade students and so on. Around this New Year's Festival, Shen Zhezi was really busy.