In December of the year 995 in the Heavenly Stem calendar, due to the court's continued indifference, local uprisings and separatist movements intensified.
Due to the loss of some land, the imperial court even increased tax collection to ensure sufficient tax revenue.
This practice, which can be described as robbing Peter to pay Paul, has incited even more people to rise up in rebellion.
[In a cycle of increased taxes → widespread poverty → uprisings → reduced government revenue, the demise of the Great Gan regime is accelerating.]
[In times of rise and fall, the people suffer. On this land, lamentations are everywhere. Your abilities allow you to clearly hear the cries of the dead.]
[Responding to their calls, and also to the wishes of your Taiping army, you accelerated your expansion.]
Wherever the Taiping army passed, almost no aristocratic families were spared, for you can see the wronged souls who died because of them.
"Tell me, who invented this family tree thing? It's really useful..."
Standing at the gate of the Xu family, a well-known local clan, and watching the people inside being led out one by one by the Taiping Army, Ye Li held their family genealogy and asked Liu Yong, who was standing next to him, about it.
This most progressive-minded general, who was also one of the first to join the Taiping Army with Ye Li, was at a loss for words.
A family tree is a good thing, indeed it is for his chief.
However, isn't there something wrong with how he used it?
"With their family trees in hand, we searched house to house for those who had escaped, and then we picked out the most heinous criminals and executed them."
How does our Lord Ye know who has problems and who doesn't?
That's incredible! He must truly be a god descended to earth; otherwise, how could such a being exist in this world?
He had witnessed it firsthand: in the previous town, several important members of the Li family hid in a dry well, trying to avoid being captured by the Taiping Army.
The dry well was bottomless, and a dark room was hidden in the well wall next to it.
The soldiers were completely unaware of the place, but Ye Li walked straight over and, with a single sword stroke, took the hidden room and its inhabitants away.
In another town, almost no one knew that the youngest son of a landlord was a serial killer, and that beneath his own room was a secret chamber where poor people were kidnapped and tortured.
However, Ye Li could see that this person had naturally not escaped the Taiping Army's trial.
Of course, he wouldn't say anything about what Ye Li had done.
These things will not affect the prestige of the Taiping Army; on the contrary, they can further enhance their reputation.
Wherever the Taiping army went, they would follow Ye Li's original slogan, "Land to the tiller," and distribute the land to the local people.
Based on what he had seen and learned along the way, and combined with the wisdom of some of the scholars under his command, Ye Li also promulgated regulations for the Taiping Army.
By enforcing strict laws, the Taiping army was guaranteed not to turn into bandits who burned, killed, and looted, at least for a short period of time, and his ideas could be implemented according to plan.
(Entry title: "Popular Expectation, Triggers for Double the Results with Half the Effort.")
In Dagan, ordinary people don't necessarily live well. In other rebel areas, due to chaotic management, most people don't live very well either.
However, the Taiping army's commanders genuinely cared for the people. Wherever they went, they would open granaries and distribute grain, allowing the people to drink a large bowl of rice porridge so thick that chopsticks could be stuck in it without it falling over.
When compared with the Taiping Army, the difference becomes apparent.
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