newbobooks Chapter 365: Muto Yoshinobu Takes Action Again
Chapter 365: Muto Yoshinobu Takes Action Again
As for the children, it would be best if they were willing to raise them.
But if they are unwilling, Jiang Li can only spend more money and hire someone to raise these children. This is a result that everyone can accept.
After solving these problems, Jiang Li turned his attention to the landlords and gentry in Hubei.
As far as he knew, these guys played a great role in this incident, otherwise with the money and men in the hands of the three warlords Hu Duozong, He Chengjun and Xia Douyan.
No matter what, no one dares to be his enemy. The most likely thing is that they will rely on the city walls for defense, or simply run away.
If this were the case, there would not have been such huge losses in this river crossing campaign.
Therefore, Jiang Li really wanted to confiscate the homes of all those parasites who were selfish and only cared about their own family property, disregarding the interests of the nation and forcing such a war forward, and exterminate their entire families.
Although Jiang Li was angry, he forced himself to hold it back, even though these guys annexed land, concealed population, evaded taxes, colluded with officials and businessmen, took human lives and oppressed the good.
But after all, only some of them did this. If they were all killed, innocent people would inevitably be harmed, and this would not be good for his future rule.
So he suppressed his anger and ordered the army and the people to conduct public trials of these landlords, gentry, wealthy businessmen, and bullies. However, the laws used this time were no longer the previous Qing Dynasty laws.
Instead, he recruited legal talents from all over the country and spent two years revising and compiling the New Han Code.
As time went on, all the landlords, gentry, wealthy businessmen, and bullies in every county and town in Hubei were tried, and those who deserved to be killed were killed, and those who deserved to be sent to labor camps were sent to labor camps.
After that, they began to distribute houses, furniture, money, grain and supplies. As for land, of course it had to be divided as well, but the ownership of the land was not directly distributed to the people. Instead, as before, only the right to use the land was distributed.
By the time all this was done, a month had passed, during which Jiang Li was involved in the house search.
Not only were 30 million dollars seized, but also 80,000 kilograms of gold, as well as countless jewels, jades, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, with a total value of at least 60 million dollars.
In addition, Jiang Li also seized 70 million mu of land, of which more than half were paddy fields, reaching more than 30 million mu, making it a truly major agricultural province.
As for the confiscated grain, after distributing half of it to the people, there were still 500 million jin left. This greatly increased Jiang Li's confidence in the construction of Hubei.
Since three provinces were occupied this time, Jiang Li did not plan to continue using troops to avoid indigestion due to overeating.
So in the past month, apart from confiscating property and dividing land, Jiang Li only did one thing, which was to recruit soldiers from the people in order to greatly increase his military strength.
In fact, there is no way around it. After all, with the addition of three new provinces, a large number of troops are needed to ensure domestic security.
Not to mention, there is such a fertile land as Hubei, because everyone knows that Hubei is an important grain producing area, and everyone wants to take a bite.
Although we now occupy Hubei, it borders four provinces, namely Shaanxi, Henan, Anhui and Jiangxi, making it a real battlefield.
Therefore, a large number of troops must be stationed to ensure safety. Although he now has an army of more than one million, 800,000 of them are militia, and a group of them will have to be disbanded after returning.
By then, he might not even be able to gather a million troops, so he had to recruit a large number of soldiers to control this vast territory.
After everything returned to normal, Jiang Li immediately transferred a large number of talents from Guangdong to serve as officials to manage Hubei Province.
And a large number of these talents came from the universities he founded.
After setting up the management framework, Jiang Li began to have the Infrastructure Bureau, the Supernatural Bureau, the Medical Bureau, and the Education Bureau send talents to Hubei to carry out work.
At this time, the military merits of various troops had been sorted out, and he began to reward them according to their merits. Those who deserved promotions were promoted, and those who deserved rewards were rewarded. In short, after all this operation, everyone who was still alive was happy.
Even the soldiers who died in this battle, after questioning, Jiang Li introduced the souls who did not want to enter reincarnation into the system of Earth God.
Let them serve under the City God and enjoy the incense of people.
And this wave of actions made all the soldiers under his command become more fanatical. After all, what did the saying go?
The end point of every industry is within the system.
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Let’s not talk about how Jiang Li would digest the three provinces he had just acquired.
Take the Northeast for example. The supreme commander of the Kwantung Army, Mutō Yoshinobu, has been in trouble ever since he used Yin-Yang magic to curse Jiang Li, which backfired and caused heavy casualties.
He no longer hoped to use Yin-Yang magic to deal with Jiang Li, but instead used assassination, poisoning, economic warfare and other methods to secretly attack Jiang Li and his military generals.
However, because the Anmin Army has extremely strong discipline, neither soldiers nor officers are allowed to leave the barracks without reason, in order to reduce the probability of conflict with the civilians.
In addition, with the existence of the secret guards and the Earth God system, the Japanese spies who assassinated and poisoned had almost no chance to carry out their plan, so the success rate was extremely low, and they suffered a lot of losses as a result.
This made Muto Yoshinobu very angry. He now had a large army under his command, but he could only watch Jiang Li rise rapidly.
However, without instructions from the Japanese upper echelons, it was impossible to impose any effective restrictions on Jiang Li's development.
But Muto Yoshinobu considered himself a great man, so how could he be willing to be under someone else for long? So after discussing with the few remaining elders of the Jiujiu Sect.
It was decided to assassinate the Japanese upper class and then frame the Chinese, in order to arouse the anger of the Japanese upper class towards the Chinese and force them to use military force against China.
The person he sent was none other than the Jiujiu faction, which was closest to him and had suffered a severe blow last time.
It must be said that the Jiuju faction was quite capable. After returning to the country, they quickly launched the operation and completed the assassination mission quite smoothly.
However, they did not act according to what was agreed upon with Muto Yoshinobu at the beginning, but instead smuggled in private goods and made moves against the Japanese upper echelons.
Moreover, they launched a fatal attack on other forces that had suppressed them in the past, killing many hostile forces, causing chaos in Japan for a while.
Of course, they successfully framed the Chinese practitioners for this action in the end, which made the Japanese upper echelons furious, and they ordered Muto Yoshinobu to vigorously hunt down the Chinese practitioners.
What Muto Yoshinobu never expected was that the Japanese upper echelons did not allow him to launch a full-scale invasion of China immediately, which made him very confused.
However, what he didn't know was that the Japanese upper class actually also wanted to launch a full-scale invasion of China. After all, in their eyes, China was now a big piece of fat meat, given their century-old industrial foundation.