Prince Li You of the Great Tang Dynasty begs the noble families to their deaths!

Chao Yang raised his arms and shouted, "Noble families!"

"Indeed, a prestigious family!"

"The aristocratic family class originated from the Eastern and Western Han dynasties. They possessed books and passed on knowledge to their descendants generation after generation. Some even cultivated their political skills. Therefore, whether it was the Eastern Jin Dynasty hundreds of years ago or the Tang Dynasty now, almost all officials were from aristocratic families."

"Even aristocratic families practiced intermarriage within their own families, and it was extremely difficult for the emperor to marry into one of them."

"Besides monopolizing knowledge and engaging in endogamy, these aristocratic families also illegally seize land through various means and evade taxes by concealing their land holdings. They themselves do not have to pay taxes to the state, and now they are protecting even more hidden households to evade even more taxes. They are truly insatiable."

Li You paused briefly before summarizing.

"I have given three lessons, the core of which is to tell everyone: the noble families are guilty."

"During our rebellion, including after our victory, we must recognize the true colors of the powerful families and dare to wage a full-scale struggle against them."

"Only by breaking the hereditary inheritance of aristocratic families and liberating all the educational and land resources occupied by them can the majority of the population, the lower classes, be spared from becoming outcasts like the Dalits."

"Not to mention, many of the soldiers in Huang Chao's army were slaves before."

"For example, the brothers in the Northern Army Camp, Yan Jiu and her sisters, and the Weaver Girl of our Golden Army."

"Next, our Huang Chao army will receive even more slaves, namely the monks' slaves from the temples in Jiangnan."

"You must memorize the knowledge I impart today and then pass it on to your new brothers and sisters."

"Furthermore, thanks to everyone's joint efforts, the terraced fields reclaimed by Huang Chao's army have exceeded 10,000 mu. The number of soldiers in Huang Chao's army has also reached 13,000."

"I hereby decree that from today onwards, our Huang Chao army will begin registering land, and every soldier will be allocated one mu of land. From birth to death, this mu of land belongs to you, and you may pass it on to your children, but you may not sell it."

"If a soldier dies in battle, his land shall also be distributed to his children."

"If soldiers marry, your family will have two acres of land."

"So, soldiers who are not yet married, you'd better hurry up and give birth to your children before you are buried!"

At this point, over three hundred men and women died, and cheers erupted.

"Reclaiming land takes time, and we don't have much land at the moment. Fortunately, the south is sparsely populated, and there are many plots of land around Dongting Lake that can be reclaimed. As more land is reclaimed in the future, each soldier will receive even more land."

"Many of our businesses have also started to make money. At the end of each year, we distribute some money to everyone."

"After we conquer the world, we will distribute all the land under heaven to the people!"

"The benefits of the world should never be enjoyed exclusively by powerful families!"

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The land registration policy described by Li You began to be implemented gradually the following day.

The relevant orders were also delivered by assassins to the Dahongshan base, Raozhou base, Xuanzhou copper mine, and Xiangzhou shipyard to inform all Huang Chao's soldiers.

Terms such as India, the caste system, Brahman, Dalit, and noble families also spread within the army.

Huang Chao's army, from top to bottom, regarded the aristocratic families as their enemies and were determined to eliminate them.

Yin Hongzhi finally understood why his nephew had gone to such lengths to teach those three lessons.

The sole purpose was to broaden the horizons of the soldiers and unify their thinking.

The eccentric King Qi who once only knew how to hunt has become shrewd and capable, and has become a leader of his region.

Yin Hongzhi felt that even he, as the uncle, sometimes found it difficult to fathom the true thoughts of the King of Qi.

Chao Yang was also deeply moved.

He was moved not only by the King of Qi's analogy of "the aristocratic families to the Brahmins," but also by the spirit of eagerness to learn and courage to resist shown by Huang Chao's soldiers.

Compared to them, the pampered and spoiled brats I taught when I was working at the Xuzhou Prefectural School were simply a bunch of useless good-for-nothings.

Huang Chao's army currently numbers only 13,000, which is not a large number.

Chao Yang dared not even imagine what the situation would be like if Huang Chao's army under the command of King Qi reached 50,000 or 100,000.

With King Qi's skill in "inciting" others, it would probably not be difficult for him to have an army of 100,000.

Moreover, King Qi was genuinely willing to share his land and wealth with his soldiers, unlike the ungrateful "Xiang Yu, the Hegemon-King of Western Chu".

In addition, the massive amounts of copper and silver coins constantly being produced in Huang Chao's army...

With his "loyalty to the emperor and love for the country" ideology, Chao Yang finally began to seriously consider the possibility of the King of Qi achieving "final victory".

Unlike figures like Yin Hongzhi and Chao Yang, who possessed knowledge and the ability to think for themselves, the ordinary soldiers in Huang Chao's army were now thinking about finding wives and having children as soon as possible.

Previously, they had no choice. Even after joining Huang Chao's army, many of them only knew how to work hard and their lives were relatively passive.

Some servants even thought their lives were already very good and dared not ask for anything more.

Now that the King of Qi has said that the land can be divided equally and can be passed on to one's children, the soldiers who do not yet have children immediately feel a sense of urgency.

Moreover, King Qi stipulated that everyone should receive an equal share, meaning that everyone, regardless of age or gender, would have a share.

Therefore, the girls in the military, who were already highly sought after, became even more desirable.

The same goes for Miss Yan Jiu.

Yan Jiu was one of the earlier ones to join the group, and King Qi also gave her and her sisters the right to choose their husbands freely.

It's only natural that men pursue women, and women can choose men in return.

As I said before, they didn't have a choice before, but now that they have the opportunity, they have to keep their eyes wide open and choose carefully, because this is a lifelong decision.

Even so, among Yan Jiu's sisters, some women experienced hardships and difficulties in their marriages with the husbands they chose.

Some of these women, unwilling to go through any more trouble, simply made do and have now all had children.

Those couples who couldn't make it work had no choice but to seek the King of Qi's intervention to dissolve their marriages.

In other words, King Qi was doing the work of issuing divorce certificates in the army, just like a modern civil affairs bureau would do.

Sometimes, marriage doesn't guarantee happiness; divorce can be the beginning of a new life.

Among the group of girls who came from Xiangzhou, Yan Jiu was the most outstanding.

She is beautiful, bold, and quick-witted.

Therefore, their horizons are also quite broad.

After much deliberation, they finally chose the King of Qi.