"Drag him down and chop him!"
Xing Jie didn't say much, he just gave this direct instruction.
He has nothing to talk about with these famous Japanese people.
Because the core needs of Ming Dynasty's external expansion were: first, fertile land to solve the domestic problem of too many people and little land; second, a market that consumed a large number of cheap goods such as cotton cloth.
Therefore, in essence, the Ming Dynasty needed to eliminate as many of the exploiting classes as possible who owned Japanese land and had nothing to do with production, that is, these daimyo.
With the power of the imperial court protecting the life and property safety of domestic disaster victims after they migrated overseas, the Han Chinese who moved here such as Gao Zijia basically did not suffer the massacres and plunder of the local Japanese landlord class, allowing many people to become rich within a year or two.
And at home.
For Emperor Zhu Yijun, he was most happy to see that the problem of too many people and too little land was finally solved through external transfers, instead of solving the problem of people, that is, after forcing the refugees to rebel and become bandits, they slaughtered the excess people. .
Before Zhu Yijun came to the throne, the ruling class of Ming Dynasty did this.
Including Zhang Juzheng in history. During the reform period, he also adopted a strategy of mainly killing to deal with the unrest caused by too many refugees.
Wang Yangming also did the same thing when solving the problem of too many refugees.
There is no way. If there is no external expansion, this is the only way. After all, people can be killed, but it is difficult to increase the food production of the land a lot at once.
The purpose of Zhu Yijun's implementation of the new etiquette was to change this approach.
Let domestic problems be solved not by the brutal way of people killing each other, but as mildly as possible.
In this way, the country can start to have a more tolerant environment for individuals, so that the individuality of the Chinese people can be promoted, and then various disciplines can be developed, a hundred flowers can bloom, and a new technological revolution can emerge, and individuality should not be suppressed because of the cruelty of struggle.
From the emperor to the common people, there is no need for the same mold, and everyone will not feel insecure due to insufficient resources, and everyone will not be very violent.
"Your Majesty, so far this year, 37,362 landless people, 19,438 people, have been relocated; 365,972 land parcels have been divided. mu."
"In addition, starting in the ninth year of Wanli, after the immigrants divided their fields, Dongying, Maodanmian, and Donglai (Taiwan) had increased their land tax by more than 1,067,000 taels."
On this day, Zhu Yijun was here to watch the court as scheduled at Xunzhi Gate.
On the morning of this day, Wang Lin, the Minister of Household Affairs, reported to him the increase in taxes after immigrants emigrated overseas.
In fact, the relocation of Han people did not just start this year. People were encouraged to migrate to the sea before that. It was only this year because of a major disaster that the imperial court officially began to organize large-scale relocation of disaster victims.
The imperial court did not officially organize immigration before, but only encouraged it. The reason was that it took into account the evil side of human nature.
Because if the imperial court organizes immigration and uses examinations and quotas, many officials below will have the courage to falsely accuse wealthy households as refugees, force them to move, seize their family property, and turn the relocated people into a There is a tyranny that robs the people, and the superiors and other officials who are in charge of them will turn a blind eye for the sake of good goals.
Therefore, the imperial court only encouraged immigration before this, and did not impose any requirements.
If there were no such requirements when passing the official examination, even if there were still officials who took away the property of wealthy people and forced them to move, the court would still be able to stand firm in rectifying the situation, and officials such as Fujin would not be dismissed because of the examination results and quotas. Indulge the officials below to act recklessly.
Only now when large-scale disaster victims appear, the imperial court will send special imperial envoys to organize immigrants.
Back to the topic.
Precisely because the relocation of people did not start this year, people have been encouraged to migrate since the ninth year of Wanli. Therefore, overseas land taxes have now been increased to one million taels of silver dollars.
One million taels of silver dollars is quite a lot, equivalent to nearly one million taels of silver.
You must know that before the reform of the Wanli Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty, Taicang's annual income of silver was only about 4 million taels on average, and the increase was about 1 million taels of silver.
The tax revenue of 1 yuan is not a small amount, it is a very dazzling financial achievement!
Zhu Yijun was very happy about this. It was a good thing to be able to increase taxes without killing people or increasing taxes.
It's true that he doesn't kill people much.
Even the natives are not killed very much because the Ming Dynasty has a productivity advantage.
"It's very good. Since the annual income has increased overseas, domestic taxes that burden the people can be reduced or exempted at discretion. For example, horse prices, farm tools, looms and other equipment can be exempted from customs clearance, so as to help reduce the burden on the people and promote farming."
Zhu Yijun said at this time.
Wang Lin raised his eyes and was overjoyed, and said hurriedly: "I obey the decree! Your Majesty loves the people so much that he is the most benevolent and saintly king I have ever seen!"
"Your Majesty is certainly as kind and virtuous as heaven, but there are female ministers who harbor evil intentions and want to undermine His Majesty's administration!"
"In the past, some people used the policy of cleaning up Buddhist temples to enrich themselves. Later, they used the policy of recruiting immigrants to embezzle the money for recruiting immigrants. Their greed is unprecedented in history!"
"As a result, God warned us that there is no rain for a long time in Gyeongsang Province. Last year there was also a long drought without rain in Fengxiang. The year before that, there was a long drought in Guangxi. There were also earthquakes and floods in Huaiyang."
"Your Majesty, if such female ministers are not eliminated, they may not be able to benefit the people and may cause chaos in the world!"
"The female official I am talking about is Li Che, the prime minister of Guanglu Temple, and his teacher Shen Shixing, who were exposed by Governor Zhang Butang (Zhang Yue) before!"
"Shen Shixing clearly wanted to implement the New Deal, but in fact he secretly ordered Li Che to envoy Zhang Butang to use the Zhao'an Bank to privately share it with the wealthy gentry."
"I, Zhang Butang, had already filed an impeachment petition, but Shen Shixing colluded with the general envoy Ni Guangjian to hide the ammunition, so that His Majesty did not know about it, so I had no choice but to reveal it to Your Majesty on the day of the meeting!"
After Wang Lin said this, Jiang Zhongxiao, a doctor in the household department, immediately left the court and asked Zhu Yijun about Shen Shixing and Li Che.
Zhu Yijun knew this because Zhang Yue had indeed impeached Shen Shixing and Li Che, saying that Li Che had asked him in the name of Shen Shixing that Zhang Yue could collude with the local gentry to suppress the bandits and secretly share the stolen money when he went to recruit troops.
But Zhu Yijun didn't believe that Shen Shixing would be so greedy. Even though he knew what he needed was for the recruited bandits to go overseas to explore, he dared to take care of people's lives just to embezzle the recruitment money.
What's more, Zhang Yue presented only evidence of Li Che's involvement in the matter, and no evidence of Shen Shixing's involvement.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun only asked Jin Yiwei to investigate secretly and did not do anything else.
But at this time, Jiang Zhongxiao used this as an argument, and also used natural disaster warnings to prove that Shen Shixing had done great evil, which forced him to doubt Jiang Zhongxiao's true purpose.
Things in the court are always turbulent. Some people seem to be impeaching but are actually protecting, and some people seem to be supporting but are actually destroying.
What Zhu Yijun needs to do is not to fall into trap easily.
Therefore, after Zhu Yijun said what Jiang Zhongxiao said, he asked: "If the natural disaster occurs as a warning, then it must be my fault! After all, I am the emperor, and the minister's unethical behavior is also the result of my improper appointment of people! So, you mean that I use people inappropriately?" improper?"
Jiang Zhongxiao was startled for a moment, then prostrated to the ground, holding an elephant wat in his hand and gritted his teeth and replied: "Yes! God's warning is to remind Your Majesty that Shen Shixing has failed Your Majesty and has no loyalty to His Majesty in the past. He should be punished!" "
