As soon as Ding Yun issued these three imperial edicts, the officials present almost burst into laughter. They generally felt that Ding Yun was alienating herself from the world's aristocratic families, going against powers that, while not numerous, controlled eighty to ninety percent of the nation's total assets. Wasn't this courting death?
The content of these edicts.
Apart from exempting agricultural and head taxes, which might earn her some prestige and popular support.
Which of the others wasn't courting death?
It was precisely out of this mindset, and also out of not wanting to see Ding Yun, this inexplicable person and a woman at that, become emperor, that none of the officials raised any objections.
Instead, they were quite active and diligent.
They helped to rapidly disseminate these three imperial edicts.
Then, the whole world was in an uproar, the world was shaken.
Although ordinary people were a little surprised, most of them were cheering and celebrating the exemption of agricultural and head taxes. After all, for ordinary people, who was emperor was irrelevant. Being able to pay less tax and have more income was more important than anything else. Such a good thing, let alone a woman as emperor, even if it were a non-human as emperor.
They would support it with both hands and feet.
But others did not think so. It could be said that apart from ordinary people, almost everyone else in the country would suffer losses due to Ding Yun's three imperial edicts.
Therefore, the entire country soon descended into chaos as Ding Yun had predicted, with uprisings beginning everywhere.
Ding Yun's method of response was also very simple.
That was assassination.
However, this could not be considered assassination, because Ding Yun did not kill secretly, but openly. Therefore, it could be considered an open killing, or perhaps a direct execution.
Some people announced their rebellion in the morning and gathered their forces, preparing to march directly to the capital to eliminate the rebels. By the afternoon, they and their loyal subordinates would be effortlessly killed by a few lasers shot from a person who emerged from a flying object that descended from the sky, quickly returning to nature.
If some officials in a certain place directly rebelled, those officials would be directly executed, and at the same time, law enforcement robots dispatched by Ding Yun would take over and manage local affairs.
After a period of time.
It could be said that the whole world fell silent.
People dared to revolt mainly because they thought of the eighteen lords gathering at the capital to eliminate the rebels. But now, before they had even gone far from their homes, their leaders were directly killed, and their leaders continued to be killed.
Who would dare to cause trouble anymore?
This was no longer something achievable by human strength.
Most importantly, because Ding Yun did these things openly, and the bodyguard robots who descended from personal high-speed flying vehicles also read Ding Yun's edicts after killing, stating that rebels deserved to die.
Therefore, anyone who witnessed the scene at the time generally believed that Ding Yun was a divine being descended to earth, or perhaps even more powerful than a divine being, otherwise how could she command so many flying beings to help her suppress rebels.
With this understanding, who would dare to follow those who were courting death by attacking Ding Yun? Everyone was busy carving ancestral tablets and portraits, and sacrificing them as deities, weren't they?
On one hand, if they dared to take the lead in causing trouble, they might not live to see the next day. On the other hand, there were not many people willing to follow them in causing trouble. The unrest, which seemed to be growing and receiving responses from all sides, was quelled within a few days.
Ding Yun's requirements began to be gradually implemented.
But even to this extent, there were still many people who were not disheartened, not reconciled. Since direct rebellion was difficult, they would resort to underhanded tactics. For example, they would be less diligent in their work, or they would deliberately twist Ding Yun's edicts, or they would think that the emperor was far away and simply ignore Ding Yun's edicts, continuing to collect taxes as usual, but keeping the money for themselves.
After all, whether it was conveying, interpreting, or executing the edicts, it was these officials and gentry. If they were unwilling, did not interpret, or said less during interpretation and dissemination, who would know that the land and head taxes had been exempted? Even if someone knew, could they go to the capital to file a complaint?
Therefore, many officials were indeed.
Extremely arrogantly feigning compliance while acting in opposition.
They thought that what they were doing was unknown to anyone.
Even Emperor Minghui could not do anything to them back then.
Could they not fool a mere girl?
They also wanted to let Ding Ming know that without their cooperation, even the best policies would be useless and could not be implemented.
This world could not be stabilized by brute force alone.
Without their cooperation, what was the emperor?
But what they did not know was that on the day of her ascension, Ding Yun had already launched several global communication satellites and global surveillance satellites into space, and had established a comprehensive sky network monitoring system. She had no interest in monitoring ordinary people, but all officials were under the close monitoring of the sky network system.
Their actions would be analyzed and judged by specialized artificial intelligence. Those who were qualified and did not cause trouble would not be reported, while others who made small moves would be truthfully reported and graded according to their severity.
Ding Yun gave them a one-month probation period.
After a month, the entire country showed no significant changes compared to before, and Ding Yun's policies had hardly been smoothly implemented.
Most people still did not know that the land and head taxes had been exempted. Even those who knew could only continue to pay due to the oppression of the government and gentry, and their inability to resist.
Population statistics, land surveys, and the like.
There was almost no progress.
Only near the capital, because it was too close and it was really difficult to act too recklessly, was there some progress.
Ding Yun saw all these situations.
It was not until the one-month period was over that she once again mobilized a large number of bodyguard robots and law enforcement robots to go to all parts of the country to eliminate corrupt officials and gentry.
After execution, they would take over the assets and official positions on the spot.
And publicly announce the tax exemption and execute the orders.
Thunderous means, ruthless.
The most crucial point was that Ding Yun's actions were unlike those of past emperors. Even if past emperors knew that some officials below might not be very obedient, they could not directly execute them without evidence. They had to send the Imperial City Department to collect evidence, send imperial envoys to investigate, and only after conclusive evidence could they be apprehended and dealt with.
But Ding Yun used the sky network to monitor the world.
What evidence was there that she didn't have?
Anyone who cried injustice had conclusive evidence.
Although there were no human or physical witnesses, there was video evidence. With the videos released, who could deny it?
Another difference was that even if past emperors sent imperial envoys, they could only investigate one place at a time and resolve issues one place at a time.
This gave other officials plenty of opportunities to destroy evidence.
Or even to escape.
And those dispatched by Ding Yun could reach their destinations rapidly within a minute. Within a day, all the corrupt officials and gentry in the entire country who deserved to die were executed and replaced by law enforcement robots.
Those whose crimes were not severe enough to warrant death were either exiled.
And replaced by law enforcement robots.
Even those who did not warrant exile were mostly given a warning, or a few law enforcement robots were assigned to supervise them. It could be said that within a day, Ding Yun successfully completed a major reshuffling of the officialdom across the country and successfully let those people know what the immeasurable power of heaven was.
Past emperors might have been deceived by them.
They might have been held hostage by them.
In many aspects, they had to compromise.
But Ding Yun was not afraid of these. She had the ability to flip the table and not play with them, so she was naturally fearless.