Sometimes, Xiao Ruxun also felt that what he was doing now, and what he was doing now, was actually robbing the rich to help the poor in another sense.
Robbing the richest group of people of their money and spending it to build the economy, stimulate domestic demand, and make the country lively instead of a pool of stagnant water.
Things couldn't be done one by one, but many things had to be done at the same time. He couldn't wait until the country was completely pacified before he started to develop the economy.
The needs of the people were very large, and if the development didn't reach a corresponding level, there would be trouble.
Therefore, Xiao Ruxun chose to develop a few provinces that he could completely control in advance, and build them as the model for the future development of Daqin, attracting the most elite people to gather in these places. He focused on developing these places first, attracting more people, and reducing people's desire for land.
Habits that had existed for thousands of years couldn't be changed by a few policies in one or two years, but Xiao Ruxun hoped to make some changes in this situation through his life. At least, he wanted more people to believe that he could live well without relying on land.
He didn't want people to buy large amounts of land when they had money, buy large amounts of houses and servants, and live a befuddled life.
Just like his investment in education, he didn't expect to build a huge education system in his lifetime.
He only hoped to build schools in various places to help people eliminate illiteracy, so that the people would no longer be blind, and would no longer be easily encouraged and deceived. They would be able to read and write, and would no longer be illiterate.
Xiao Ruxun didn't want things like education to become a privilege.
From the pre-Qin era, education belonged to the nobles to the Song era, education belonged to the landowning families. This was a tortuous process. The battle between the landowning families and the nobles ended with the landowning families winning. From then on, there were no bloodline nobles in China, but landowning families appeared.
After the landowning families monopolized education, they became the new nobles. Although they didn't have the status of nobles, they had everything that nobles had, and they were the actual nobles.
It wasn't until the White Horse Inn massacre at the end of the Tang Dynasty and the popularization of education in the Song Dynasty that the landowning families were swept into the trash heap of history, and the poor finally occupied the political stage.
But today, the poor scholars had become the nobles of this era. They relied on the privilege of receiving education and enjoyed the treatment of the nobles in the past. They once again emptied the foundation of the country and dominated everything in the country.
Therefore, Xiao Ruxun understood that no matter how much he promoted education, no matter how much he tried to make the imperial examinations fairer, as long as it wasn't universal, as long as there were still people who couldn't read and couldn't receive education, it would definitely revive the so-called noble spirit.
They would attach themselves to the body of the country and eat meat and drink blood. They would promote freedom and democracy while promoting the spirit of nobility. While brainwashing the masses, they would secretly use their privileges to eat up the wealth that the masses had created through countless years of hard work and eat up a powerful country.
Xiao Ruxun had reason to believe that it wouldn't be long before there would be "nobles" among his brothers who were born in poverty.
They would start doing what they once hated the most, and no matter how much they warned them, they would not be able to control themselves, because they had power.
When Xiao Ruxun was alive, he could suppress them, control them, and even destroy them by force.
But as long as the people couldn't get rid of their ignorance and didn't recognize the nature of the so-called noble spirit, they wouldn't be able to destroy these hateful ghosts. They would still appear countless times.
When he was dead, who could suppress them? Zhen Bang?
Therefore, while he was alive, he wanted to let as many people as possible become literate, let as many people receive education, and let as many people as possible no longer be illiterate. He wanted them to have the basic ability to read and write, so that they could have a basic understanding of the world they lived in.
He didn't want the worms that he had eliminated to be reincarnated into the bodies of his most trusted comrades, and then drag the country into the next cycle.
He craved power, he needed power, he liked power, but at the same time, he also hoped that the country would become stronger and stronger, so that the people could live and work in peace without being bullied, so that no one would be hungry, and no one would be treated unfairly.
He did his best to kill off the scumbags left behind by the former Ming Dynasty, tear them to pieces, and throw them into the fire to burn them clean. He cut out the cancerous tumors of the country one by one, and didn't hesitate to let this body become bloody and full of wounds.
He didn't hesitate to make himself cold-blooded and cruel, didn't hesitate to use the worst means to treat those parasites, didn't hesitate to throw them into the abyss, didn't hesitate to do the darkest and most terrible things in the world, didn't hesitate to be called a murderous demon king by later generations.
By doing so, he only hoped that this country and this people could be revitalized, and walk on the right path again, so that they could concentrate their strength to develop, and could concentrate their strength to transcend the cycle of history, do something different, and lead the world.
He didn't want the wealth created by the toiling masses of this country to be swallowed by a few people.
He wasn't fighting alone, because he had countless followers who were willing to fight with him.
He was also fighting alone, because he didn't have followers who could really understand his thoughts.
His followers were fighting for their future and descendants, so that their descendants could enjoy glory and wealth, so that they could enjoy fame and power. In the process of fighting, they hoped that they could become those they once hated the most.
As the saying goes, nobles, generals, and ministers are better off with guts. It means that if you can be a nobleman, I can also replace you as the new nobleman, general, and minister. That's all. It doesn't mean that what the nobleman, general, and minister represented would disappear and become something shared by everyone.
Now everyone was still working hard, just to completely eradicate those remnants, so that the people could take a breather and live a few days of good life.
But once the remnants were eradicated, their comrades might take the place of those remnants, stop the cause and ideals that everyone had worked hard for, and bring something back to Daqin.
Because they had become the remnants, they needed these things to serve themselves. They would give up and abandon their previous struggle, even fear this struggle, and publicize its evil.
Then, they would give a good name to the reincarnation that had once happened, and make a good vision that could not possibly exist. This would completely go against everyone's original intentions, and their own original intentions.
Xiao Ruxun couldn't live to five hundred or a thousand years later and ensure that this country and this cause would not change forever.
Once he closed his eyes and left this world, would everything return to how it was before?
He didn't know.
So Xiao Ruxun tried his best to develop the Central Investigation Department and the Central Audit Department, tried his best to expand his influence in the army, tried his best to think of a more suitable military system, and tried his best to delay the arrival of that day so that he could have more time to prepare.
He didn't know if he could stop the reincarnation from coming again, nor did he know if he could completely destroy it, but he felt that the possibility was probably not high.
He might be able to stop it once or twice, but if he wanted to completely destroy it, he might not be able to do it even after five hundred or a thousand years, or perhaps never.
But no matter what, he had to continue fighting.
Since he sat in this position, he had to do what he had to do. Ruling by doing nothing was not what an emperor should do.
Things that no one could do, even if they couldn't be done, they had to try. Even if the people died and the government ceased to exist, they had to do their best to kill as many parasites as possible in these few decades, so that the people could have a few more decades of rest.
The government order to establish the schools of enlightenment in each village had been passed down. The county and village governments immediately began to build school buildings, make tables and chairs, speed up the firing of movable type, and the compilation of new teaching materials. In short, everything had to be sped up.
In his limited life, there was not much time left for him to hesitate. After thinking about it, he had to make a decision without hesitation.
The current enemies were still eyeing him covetously, and the future enemies were already sharpening their knives.
Xiao Ruxun, who was fighting alone, needed more time.
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