There were more people outside the capital of Liangzhou. The soldiers guarding the city carefully identified them and confirmed that they were not refugees from famine. They collected some silver and let them into the city.
"I heard that those who fled famine are coming to our place,"
"The governor has ordered that the city gates be closed immediately upon sighting disaster victims. All of you should light up your shields!"
The soldiers at the city gate nodded.
However, no victims came here for many days, and those who were heading this way seemed to have evaporated.
The governor of Liang Province, however, had a bad feeling. He hadn't heard from his subordinates in days. There was no news from Jincheng, Wuwei, or any other cities. He was a little anxious. At this time, he absolutely couldn't let any chaos occur. The people in the court were fighting fiercely, and he heard that a powerful person in Jiangnan had captured a city. Could it be...
A subordinate came in to report that some Taoist priests who called themselves Taiping Dao had recently come to the city and were preaching in the city.
The governor of Liangzhou wasn't interested in these things. Thinking of the two cities that had lost their connection, he felt annoyed and waved his subordinates away: "What's wrong with Taoist priests? With them preaching, the people don't have time to think about trivial things."
Finally, half a month later, he received news from Wuwei, but the messenger was accompanied by a large army of about ten thousand people.
The governor of Liangzhou stood on the city wall, looked at the soldiers in yellow clothes, and rubbed his eyes hard.
"When did such an army appear in my Liangzhou?"
But before he could figure it out, the city suddenly became chaotic, and he could faintly hear someone shouting: "The blue sky dies, the yellow sky rises, the year is Jiazi, and the world is blessed!"
Many people, led by several people dressed as Taoist priests, rushed towards the city gate, while the vendors near the city gate all drew knives from their carts.
The city was broken, and it was broken very quickly.
It was not because the city walls were not high enough or the bricks were not strong enough, but because there were too many Taiping troops in the city.
The Liangzhou governor, who was kneeling on the ground, racked his brains but couldn't understand why the people under his rule had become rebels?
After watching Fang Zhiyi coming slowly, he seemed to understand something.
A group of people followed Fang Zhiyi, their faces full of awe. There were even believers on both sides of the street kneeling down to worship and chanting something.
Fang Zhiyi stood in front of him, but did not look at him. Instead, he turned to the people and said, "Liangzhou has been liberated!"
The people cheered, but some people understood the meaning of liberation. However, they soon realized that the Taiping Dao's philosophy was to maintain peace, so the first thing the Taiping Army did after taking over Liangzhou was to abolish excessive taxes and levies, and the first thing was to equalize land. In simple terms, the land of those local tyrants was taken over by the Taiping Army, and then the Taiping Army distributed it to all the people.
In addition, Fang Zhiyi also announced that from today onwards, as long as the wasteland reclaimed by the people was registered with the government, it would become their own land! This measure greatly increased the enthusiasm of the people for reclaiming wasteland.
The fourth policy was "selecting the virtuous and appointing the capable". As long as you had the ability, you could come to the Taiping Army and recommend yourself to be an official, regardless of your origin and background. This move had no appeal to the common people, but it did attract some businessmen and scholars. These scholars were knowledgeable but had nowhere to display their knowledge. Businessmen were not allowed to engage in politics due to the court's laws. Those small and medium-sized landlords had been hiding at home, but they gradually showed up after hearing the news. Although the Taiping Army promised to only take the land of the powerful and would not attack the small and medium-sized landlords, they were inevitably afraid.
For a moment, the area in front of Fang Zhiyi was filled with bamboo slips, and there were people queuing at the door.
Fang Zhiyi had experienced many worlds and had his own set of experience in judging people. He spent two days selecting a group of people to remain as officials at all levels. He changed the previous salaries into wages, which were paid on the first of each month. At the same time, he promulgated a new method of calculating dates. The people below thought it was the date of the immortals and rushed to record it.
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