Wanli Youming

Chapter 486

Chapter 486

After Wang Xijue said this, all the civil servants nodded in agreement.

The turmoil in the autumn and winter of the 14th year of Wanli, which originated from an attempt to throw the emperor into the water, did not cause new fluctuations.

Chong Wang was hammered to death, and there was not much change.

After being ordered by the imperial court, the three kings' intercession note did not dare to say more.

The main reason is that Zhu Yijun has military power in his hands and can control all situations.

What's more, most of the powerful and bureaucrats are considered smart people, so they can bear it, knowing that going against the emperor is against the general trend of the world.

Because the production units are becoming more and more subdivided, the trend of this land is that the imperial power is getting bigger and bigger.

Although people in later generations can sum up such a historical phenomenon with hindsight, there are also some people in the current generation who are extremely smart and aware of this trend.

"Immigration and the development of external interests are still the main national policies at the moment."

"How is the land purchase going?"

After this incident, Zhu Yijun continued to focus on political affairs, and asked Shen Shihang about the current situation of land purchase.

Shen Shixing replied: "Longzuosi and Dayou's family are willing to sell us their land in order to survive, but the Shimadzu family is not willing!"

At this time, Qi Jiguang, the privy envoy, replied: "Your Majesty Qizuo, it is reported that the Shimadzu family is dissatisfied with the fact that the dynasty is too kind to the Japanese and robs them of the benefits of maritime trade, so they intend to surrender to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and ask Toyotomi Hideyoshi to raise a large army." Come to attack Dongpu and drive away our soldiers and people."

Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this, and asked, "Do you have any plans to deal with it?"

"The Cabinet Division has decided to ban firearms from Shimadzu, and agreed to Governor Xing Jie's request to add 300 million taels of silver coupon loans to Longzou Temple and Dayou each to help them compete against Shimadzu, and strive to be in the Before Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s soldiers came, Shimadzu’s strength was reduced, so that they gave up relying on Toyotomi Hideyoshi to dominate the Japanese kingdom of Kyushu.”

Shen Shixing replied.

At this time, Qi Jiguang, the privy envoy, said: "The Privy Council has decided to send more troops to Dongying. We can't just expect Ryuzoji and Otomo to make Shimadzu submit. It is the intention to drive away the soldiers and horses of this dynasty first, so it is necessary to increase the soldiers and horses in Dongying, in case in the future, they will directly defeat Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s soldiers and troops on the grounds that Toyotomi Hideyoshi will attack and destroy the peace of the world.”

Zhu Yijun nodded: "All right!"

"How is the development of foreign interests going?"

Zhu Yijun asked.

Shen Shixing replied at this time: "The Marquis of Ningyuan, the governor of Andong, asked to open iron mines in North Korea, and Chen Linzuo, the admiral of the Nanyang Navy, asked to open copper mines in Luzon. It has been found that these two places are rich in iron and copper, but There are Xiyi entrenched in Luzon, so it is necessary to drive out the Xiyi to get its copper mines.”

"Then drive away!"

"The imperial court can't raise so many sailors for nothing. Tell Chen Lin and them that if they don't want the imperial court to reduce the size of the warships, they should open up new mines for the imperial court!"

Zhu Yijun said accordingly.

Shen Shixing and Qi Jiguang bowed their hands and said yes.

Zhu Yijun then asked again: "How is the tax cut to benefit the people going?"

"Because of the current overseas immigration tax increase, the price has increased by a million taels, plus the previous coal mining and other coal mines have increased the annual income of 50 taels. After the restoration of Haojing, the trade tariffs for Japan and the Mughals have increased by 200 million taels. Two silver dollars, so there are three strategies for tax reduction after the Ministry of Household Affairs discusses:

One is to permanently exempt Ding Yin from the corvee in Shaanxi and Shanxi; the other is to reduce the silver raised by horses in Shandong, the capital, and Henan; "

Zhu Yijun knew that there were three plans, which were related to the fact that the officials of the household department came from different places of origin.

When officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs discuss tax cuts to benefit the people, they will definitely give priority to taking care of their hometowns.

Although according to the official appointment system of the Ming Dynasty, Su Song and people from Jiangxi and Zhejiang were not allowed to serve as household officials, there would still be household officials who would serve as the spokesman for Jiangnan Haoyou and would ask for tax reductions in Jiangnan.

Zhu Yijun now needs to choose one of the different tax reduction plans as the next tax reduction or tax exemption.

In this, Zhu Yijun needs to consider first favoring the common people in that place.

Although all the people in the world need favors, so that more people can become rich and good gifts, so that the economic foundation of the new rituals will be strengthened, and the consumption power of the people will be further improved. Without the impact of exponential rise, it is impossible for the emperor to suddenly reduce or exempt all the people's taxes, and it is necessary to selectively reduce or exempt according to the actual situation.

"Shanxi and Shanxi will be exempted from corvée forever, and Shandong, Jingshi, Henan Yangmayin and Jiangnan will be exempted from heavy taxes in the future."

After thinking about it for a while, Zhu Yijun made up his mind to benefit the people of Shaanxi and Shanxi first.

The Shaoqing Kingdom of Taipusi, an official from Shaanxi, couldn't help laughing with tears at this moment.

However, some officials from other places of origin could not hide their disappointment on their faces.

However, Hai Rui and some other officials still had joyful expressions on their faces. For some officials in Hai Rui who really cared about people's livelihood, as long as it was a tax reduction or exemption, it was a good thing no matter where the people were reduced or exempted.

More than a month later, the 15th Chinese New Year of Wanli.

All cities and towns in Shaanxi and Shanxi issued notices stating that they would be exempted from corvee forever.

Ordinary scholars and people are very happy because of this.

Zhou Sihuan, the magistrate of Pingliang, Shaanxi Province, even went plainclothes to the Fenbi where the list was posted in the prefecture to watch the reactions of the people. Seeing that many people were jumping for joy after hearing the scholars read the content of the list, they even ran to tell each other.

He couldn't help but looked up at the sky and was delighted: "After watching the list, come back to sing and dance, and we are all happy with Qingping and the good government."

As he said that, Zhou Sihuan couldn't help but looked north and bowed.

Several scholars saw him like this and understood who he was worshiping, so they looked north and worshiped together.

Zhu Yijun found out about this through the Jinyiwei in Pingliang not long after, and was very happy about it all day long.

The biggest advantage of exempting the corvee is not to reduce the burden on the common people, but to increase the freedom of the people, and it is easy to achieve Zhu Yijun's goal of increasing the freedom of the people.

Because the corvee in every place is essentially borne by the poor.

But if the poor have all migrated away, the corvee will become a burden on the big households.

After all, it is impossible for the government to stop building projects to exploit people's power just because the poor have moved away.

Therefore, when the corvee is not exempted, the big households will obstruct the free migration of the people in every possible way, and are unwilling to actively cooperate with the court to relocate the people. After all, this will affect their interests.

But once the corvee is exempted, the big households will not have to stop the migration of the people because they are worried that the burden of corvee will be transferred to themselves.

Therefore, when the corvee was exempted in Shaanxi and Shanxi, the big families no longer actively prevented the poor families from leaving their homeland through clan and township agreements, and the resistance to relocating common people to sea was greatly reduced, and the resistance to common people to work in other places was also reduced.

Chen Jiuzhu's paper shop accepted many people from Shaanxi and Shanxi after Zhu Yijun was permanently exempted from the corvee in Shaanxi and Shanxi.

After learning that Shaanxi and Shanxi were exempted from corvee, Liu Quexian took the initiative to contact Wang Changgeng, who was an official in Fengxiang Mansion, Shaanxi, and went to Shaanxi to open a new cotton cloth workshop, in order to preempt the exemption of corvee from Shaanxi and Shanxi. business opportunities.

After all, once the corvee is exempted, the income of the people in Shaanxi and Shanxi will inevitably increase as long as they are not affected by natural disasters, and then their ability to buy cloth will increase, and more idle and cheap labor will be able to participate in weaving.

Naturally, there are many keen merchants like Liu Quexian.

This also led to the development of industry and commerce in Shaanxi and Shanxi, and the court's tax negotiations in Tongguan and other places also began to increase.

(End of this chapter)