Han Que was actually able to restrain his sub-prefects and magistrates to strictly implent the Green Seed Law, making the people volunteer and never coercing?
And when he wanted to dismiss these officials and replace them with others, Wang Wenchuan didn’t even investigate and agreed to it right away?
Such flight of fancy!
Han Que, Wen Jun did have so understanding of him.
He was promoted at light speed because he supported the new laws; in Wen Jun’s eyes, though he wasn’t exactly a complete sycophant, he was far inferior compared to Wang Wenchuan’s virtue and capabilities.
For such a person, to indulge his sub-prefects and magistrates in forcibly imposing the Green Seed Law, adding to his own achievents seed the reasonable course of action.
How could it be that he was like possessed by Wang Wenchuan, actually implenting the new laws without compromise?
Wang Wenchuan’s complete trust in him was even more preposterous.
Because Wang Wenchuan was clear about the true character of these officials who were rapidly promoted. What if Han Que wanted to form a faction, to cultivate his own power in the Western Capital Henan Prefecture, hence submitting these personnel changes?
Wang Wenchuan, far away in the imperial court, had almost no chance to clearly investigate the officials dismissed and promoted by Han Que, so a better approach would certainly be to approve only a part and put aside the rest.
Unless there was actual evidence or an unavoidable reason for the dismissal, Wang Wenchuan wouldn’t approve it so clean and neat.
As a senior official, how could Wang Wenchuan possibly entrust the complete personnel appointnt and removal power of the entire Western Capital Henan Prefecture to Han Que with confidence?
This left him utterly baffled.
But seeing Han Que’s brimming confidence, it didn’t seem like he was idly deceiving him, joking at his expense.
Thinking of this, Wen Jun summoned his subordinates, instructing them to contact the old party mbers everywhere to gather information.
To confirm whether what Han Que said was indeed true.
...
Leaving Dule Garden, Lu Heng was in high spirits.
Seeing the old party senior official’s dumbfounded look was just too amusing!
In this ultimate trial, he transmigrated into Han Que, the Magistrate of the Western Capital Henan Prefecture.
The original Han Que was indeed a variable within the New Party; he hadn’t fully supported the new laws, instead, he used them as a ans for his promotion.
But the current Han Que, after Lu Heng’s transmigration, was completely different.
The other players who transmigrated into these officials were basically like Lu Heng.
They had only one goal, which was to implent the new laws unwaveringly, just like Wang Wenchuan did when he was a magistrate!
These players had already been tempered through a thousand trials in previous simulation exercises and had presided over reforms in the imperial court as Wang Wenchuan. Now they were demoted to the local level, which was like using a cleaver to kill a chicken.
They were all too aware of these local officials’ convoluted tricks.
After all, when they played Wang Wenchuan, they almost coughed up blood due to these local officials’ duplicity and deceit.
Thus, whenever their sub-prefects or magistrates caused trouble, they would quickly find out and quell them with thunderous asures.
The Qi Dynasty was full of redundant officials, so there were plenty waiting for positions; it was no big deal to replace a few.
Moreover, players impersonating these officials had two huge inherent advantages.
First, the players had no vested interests; they neither counted on new laws for promotion nor worried about harming their landlord interests, enabling them to be as precise as machines in their enforcent.
Second, there was absolute trust among the players. So, whatever officials Lu Heng wanted to dismiss or promote, once submitted, Wang Wenchuan would approve imdiately; just as when Chu Ge played Wang Wenchuan, whatever he wanted to do, if submitted to the Emperor, ng Yuan would also approve imdiately.
These two points were sothing historical officials could never achieve.
Thus, the collective transmigration of players directly turned the entire court of the Qi Dynasty from top to bottom into a united front, even forming a near-unified will.
The new laws were thus implented almost exactly as originally conceived.
Even if occasionally native local officials caused issues, the players would quickly discover and severely rectify them, reducing to the lowest the chances for the new laws to be distorted and beco harmful to the people.
Of course, without the forced apportionnts and usury, the revenues from the Green Seed Law and the Exemption Law would certainly decrease accordingly.
But for the players, this was of no consequence because this approach was obviously more sustainable.
As long as the new laws gradually gained acceptance by the public, they would garner the support of the peasants. With this vast group of beneficiaries behind them, the new laws could be upheld for a longer duration.
Additionally, it was necessary to consider the enhancent of the state’s fiscal inco during the developnt process of productivity.
The Agricultural Water Law part of the new laws involved using interest from green seed loans to construct water conservancy and develop agriculture.
Wen Jun believed that the wealth of the world was finite, which was obviously mistaken. Although the productivity developnt in ancient tis was very slow, with land reclamation, irrigation, increasing population, and expanding farmlands, the wealth of the world was also growing.
Lu Heng believed that after three to five years, the entire Qi Dynasty would be transford in the hands of their cohort of officials.
He wondered what kind of expression would be on Wen Jun’s face then?
He felt a bit excited for so reason.
...
In the blink of an eye, three years had passed.
A carriage stopped in the countryside near a farm in Luoyang.
"Master, we have arrived."
The coachman lifted the carriage curtain, and Wen Jun stepped down from the carriage to look at the vast expanse of farmland.
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