After Wang Xijue said this, all the civil servants nodded and agreed.
This disturbance in the autumn and winter of the fourteenth year of Wanli, which was caused by an attempt to make the emperor fall into the water, did not cause any new fluctuations.
King Chong was hammered to death, but there were not many changes.
The three kings' memorial to plead for mercy did not dare to say anything more after being ordered to do so by the emperor.
The main reason is that Zhu Yijun has military power and can control all situations.
What's more, most of the powerful bureaucrats are considered smart people, so they can tolerate it. They know that going against the emperor is against the general trend of the world.
Because production units were becoming more and more subdivided, the trend in this land was toward greater and greater imperial power.
Although people in later generations can belatedly conclude such a historical phenomenon, there are also people in the current generation who are extremely smart and will realize this trend.
"Immigration and the development of foreign profits should still be the main national policies at the moment."
"How's the land purchase going?"
After this incident, Zhu Yijun continued to focus on political affairs, and asked Shen Shixing about the current situation of land purchase.
Shen Shixing replied: "Both the Ryuzoji family and the Otomo family are willing to sell their land to us in order to survive, but the Shimazu family is not willing!"
At this time, the privy envoy Qi Jiguang replied: "Your Majesty, it is reported that the Shimazu family is dissatisfied that the imperial court is too good to the Japanese and deprives them of the benefits of maritime trade, so they intend to surrender to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and ask Toyotomi Hideyoshi to raise an army. Come to attack Japan and drive away our soldiers and people."
Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this and asked, "Do you have any plans on how to deal with this?"
"The Cabinet Branch has decided to ban firearms from Shimadzu, and agreed to Governor Xing Jie's request to provide an additional three million taels of silver dollar coupon loans to Ryuzoji and Otomo each to help them compete with Shimadzu and win Reduce Shimadzu's strength before Toyotomi Hideyoshi's troops arrive, so that he will give up his desire to dominate Japan's Kyushu with Toyotomi Hideyoshi."
Shen Shixing replied.
At this time, the Privy Council envoy Qi Jiguang said again: "The Privy Council has decided to send more troops to Japan. We cannot just count on the two Japanese chiefs, Ryuzoji Temple and Otomo, to make Shimazu surrender. We need to guard against the possibility that all three of them will use Toyotomi Hideyoshi." The intention is to drive away the troops of this dynasty first, so we need to increase the number of troops in Japan in preparation for sending troops in the future on the grounds that Toyotomi Hideyoshi is proficient in conquests and destroying the peace of the world, and directly defeats Toyotomi Hideyoshi's military front."
Zhu Yijun nodded: "Everyone is OK!"
"How's the development of foreign profits going?"
Zhu Yijun asked.
Shen Shixing replied at this time: "Ning Yuanhou, the governor of Andong, petitioned to open an iron mine in Korea, and Chen Lin, the admiral of the Nanyang Navy, petitioned to open a copper mine in Luzon. These two places have been found to be rich in iron and copper, but There are Western barbarians entrenched in Luzon, so they need to be driven away in order to obtain the copper mines."
"Then drive them away!"
"The imperial court can't keep so many naval forces in vain. Tell Chen Lin and the others that if they don't want the imperial court to cut down its troops and warships, they should open up new mines for the imperial court!"
Zhu Yijun said.
Shen Shixing and Qi Jiguang raised their hands and said yes.
Zhu Yijun then asked: "How is the tax reduction to benefit the people going?"
"Due to the current increase in taxes on overseas immigrants to the tune of one million taels of silver dollars, plus the previous increase in national government revenue of 500,000 taels of silver dollars from naturalized coal mines, and after the recovery of Haojing, the trade tariffs between Japan and the Mughals increased by 20,000 taels. One million taels of silver dollars, so the Ministry of Household Affairs has three tax reduction strategies after discussion:
The first is to permanently exempt Shaanxi and Shanxi from corvee service; the second is to reduce the amount of horse-raising silver in Shandong, Jingshi, and Henan; the third is to reduce the gold, flower, and silver taxes in Jiangnan. Now I leave it to your majesty to make a decision. "
Zhu Yijun knew that the emergence of three options was related to the fact that the Ministry of Household officials 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 own hometowns.
Although according to the official appointment system of the Ming Dynasty, Su Song and people from Jiangxi and Zhejiang were not allowed to be officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs, there were still officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs who acted as spokespersons for Jiangnan's right-wing officials and would petition for decrees to reduce taxes in Jiangnan.
Zhu Yijun now needs to choose one of the different tax reduction plans as the next tax reduction or tax exemption.
Here, Zhu Yijun needs to consider favoring the common people in that place first.
Although people all over the world need favors to reach the point where more people can be rich and good at gifts, so as to consolidate the economic foundation of new gifts and further improve people's consumption power, the increase in national fiscal revenue is a spiral. It is impossible for the emperor to suddenly reduce or exempt all people's taxes due to non-exponential increases. Tax exemptions need to be selectively based on the actual situation.
"Shaanxi and Shanxi will be exempted from corvee service forever, and Shandong, Jingshi, Henan and Jiangnan will be exempted from heavy taxes in the future."
Zhu Yijun thought about it and decided to benefit the people of Shaanxi and Shanxi first.
Shaoqing Guo, an official from Shaanxi Province, couldn't help but burst into tears at this time.
Naturally, some officials from other places of origin could not hide their disappointment.
However, some officials such as Hai Rui still had a look of joy on their faces. For some officials in Hai Rui who really care about people's livelihood, as long as taxes are reduced or reduced, it is a good thing for the people in whichever place they are exempted.
A little more than a month later, it will be the New Year of the 15th year of Wanli.
All towns and cities in Shaanxi and Shanxi have issued notices promising permanent exemption from corvee.
The ordinary people were very happy.
Zhou Sihuan, the prefect of Pingliang, Shaanxi Province, even came to the pink wall of the prefecture where the list was posted to watch the people's reactions. When he saw many people jumping for joy after hearing the scholars read the list, they even ran to tell each other.
He couldn't help but look up to the sky and rejoice: "We sing and dance after watching the list, and we are all happy about the peace and the good government."
As he said that, Zhou Sihuan couldn't help but look north and bow.
Seeing him like this, several scholars understood who he was worshiping, so they looked north and worshiped together.
Zhu Yijun soon learned about this through Jin Yiwei in Pingliang, and he was happy about it all day long.
The biggest benefit of eliminating corvee is not to reduce the burden on civilians, but to increase people's freedom, and it is easy to achieve Zhu Yijun's purpose of increasing people's freedom.
Because corvee work everywhere is essentially borne by the poor.
But if all the poor people move away, the corvee becomes a burden for 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 was not exempted, the big families would obstruct the free movement of the people in every possible way, and were unwilling to actively cooperate with the court in relocating the people. After all, this would affect their interests.
But once the corvee is waived, large households will not have to worry about the burden of corvee being transferred to themselves and prevent people from migrating.
Therefore, when corvee service was abolished in Shaanxi and Shanxi, large households no longer actively prevented poor households from leaving their homeland through clan and township agreements. The resistance to moving people to sea was greatly reduced, and the obstacles to people going to work elsewhere were also reduced.
Chen Jiuzhu's paper mill accepted many people from Shaanxi and Shanxi after Zhu Yijun was permanently exempted from the corvee service in Shaanxi and Shanxi.
After Liu Quexian learned that Shaanxi and Shanxi were exempted from corvee, he took the initiative to contact Wang Changgeng, who was an official in Fengxiang Prefecture in Shaanxi, and went to Shaanxi to open a new cotton workshop in order to seize the opportunities brought by the exemption of corvee in Shaanxi and Shanxi. business opportunities.
After all, once the corvee is abolished, the income of people in Shaanxi and Shanxi will inevitably increase as long as they are not affected by natural disasters, and their ability to purchase cloth will be enhanced, and more idle and cheap labor will be able to participate in weaving.
There are naturally many businessmen as keen as Liu Quexian.
This also led to the more developed industry and commerce in Shaanxi and Shanxi, and the imperial court's customs clearance and commercial taxes in Tongguan and other places also began to increase.
