Zhu Yijun agreed with Qi Jiguang's statement and nodded.
Moreover, Zhu Yijun also said very directly: "If the restructuring can be successful, all the ministers have contributed the most. I will remember it, the people of the world will remember it, and future generations will also remember it."
"I am ashamed!"
Shen Shixing, Qi Jiguang and others hurriedly replied.
Zhu Yijun continued: "Luzon has been restored, and many wealthy families have been confiscated. I think this dynasty can implement some new good governance that benefits the people."
When Zhu Yijun said this, the ruling officials such as Shen Shixing, Qi Jiguang, Wang Xijue, Wang Lin, Luo Wanhua, etc. all straightened up with proud expressions on their faces.
Ministers who have good governance that benefits the people and have some ideals of managing the world and benefiting the people are very willing to see such policies realized through themselves.
After all, according to the principles of saints, scholars should take it as their own duty to benefit the people of the world.
At this time, Shen Shixing stood up and said: "Your Majesty, after a discussion at the political affairs hall, I believe that to promote good governance, relief is not as good as tax exemption and exemption from military service. Relief easily makes bureaucrats use their hands to move around, and in short, they use various means to make it difficult for the Holy Grace to be given. For the common people, it is not as simple as tax exemption and exemption from labor. As long as the higher authorities reduce the collection of benefits from the people, the bureaucrats below will have no reason to exploit the common people."
"Therefore, after the recovery of Luzon, based on the increased taxes and trade income from the recovery of Luzon, as well as the estimated increase in subscription profits from mining, we propose that we can implement a policy of permanently exempting the world from corvee."
"In this way, we can further relieve the plight of the small people, promote industry and commerce, and reduce the situation where the small people have to rely on the powerful rightists because of the burden of corvee, thus inhibiting mergers;"
"And if your Majesty has no intention of exempting himself from corvee service, he can avoid the heavy taxes imposed by Jiangnan. At present, the taxes borne by Jiangnan are uneven in all parts of the world."
Zhu Yijun thought for a while and said: "The recovery of Luzon was due to the people. If the people of the world were not willing to stand with the imperial court to support Xinli, and even dared to make trouble with the old school's treacherous ministers, dared to expose them, and even supported the imperial court by purchasing subscription coupons, it would not have been possible. There would not be today's great victory, not to mention that the great victory itself was achieved by countless people joining the army and fighting on the battlefield, or building ships and equipment in factories."
Speaking of this, Zhu Yijun said: "Therefore, the new good government should benefit the people all over the world, so let the world be free of corvee forever!"
"In this way, the people in Jiangnan can also enjoy the benefits, especially the majority of landless people in Jiangnan who make a living by working. They no longer need to pay dingyin and can reduce labor costs."
"As for the reduction and exemption of heavy taxes and gold flowers and silver in Jiangnan, we will talk about it later! It is said that every inch of land in Jiangnan is valuable, so those who have land in Jiangnan are not in a hurry to get out of trouble by reducing taxes."
"Your Majesty said so."
"Eternally freeing the world from corvée service is enough to shine through the ages and make Your Majesty have a virtue that far exceeds that of three generations."
"I am so lucky to live in such a prosperous time."
Shen Shixing started talking at this time.
"I second the proposal!"
"Without Your Majesty, this kind of good governance would have been unthinkable before."
"However, your majesty, corvee can be avoided, but it will be difficult once it is rebuilt. I am afraid that if the imperial court cannot make profits from external development to support the army and officials in the future, and cannot manage well internally, I am afraid that if it wants to impose corvee again, It will be regarded as a tyranny by the people of the world, and it will even be exposed everywhere."
Qi Jiguang expressed his worries at this time.
Zhu Yijun said: "I believe that the ministers and ministers in the future will be better than you, and they will be able to find new ways to make the country rich. If they are not as good as you, then there is no need to be in power and abdicate in favor of talents!"
"And no matter what, at least the people of this or several generations have enjoyed a prosperous age without having to suffer from corvee, and in this way future generations can at least know that our generation is worthy of being remembered by them. We just need to keep good records."
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
At this time, Wang Xijue raised his hand and replied, "I would like to erect a monument to record this matter."
"allow!"
"Erect a monument at the Imperial Palace to record this matter."
Zhu Yijun replied with a smile.
"Yuan Fu, your cabinet is now under great pressure."
After the dynasty dispersed, Qi Jiguang smiled and gossiped to Shen Shixing and other cabinet bachelors.
You know, the Wanli Dynasty had too many good governance.
First, the land was cleared at the beginning, which relieved the shoulders of many ordinary people from a lot of taxes that had been imposed in vain. Later, the Qing army was permanently suspended, and even the corvee was exempted in Shaanxi and Shanxi, as well as in places such as Shandong, Henan, Fengyang, and the capital. The horse price silver and fodder silver as well as the Shandong Banjun system.
Therefore, now, after the country has become rich, it still needs to implement a system that benefits the people to show that the court is really running the country according to the principle of benefiting the people. The only way is to permanently exempt the world from corvee and abolish the heavy taxes in the south of the Yangtze River.
Originally, the ruling ministers did not really want to bring it up, but the reason why they unanimously agreed and reported it to the emperor was because they knew that the emperor would prefer this, because it would be easier to demonstrate their holiness and make the dynasty more capable. The internal affairs achievements will leave a glorious mark in future history books.
However, they still put forward a proposal to exempt Jiangnan from heavy gifts and gold and silver, and hoped that the emperor would choose this young man, just to show his appreciation to the people of the world.
Moreover, the exemption from heavy gifts and gold flowers and silver in Jiangnan will only benefit Jiangnan. Jiangnan has the most literati, which will naturally give the emperor a good reputation.
This is equivalent to sacrificing relatively little benefit to the people in exchange for an equally great reputation.
But after all, Zhu Yijun is a person who values benefits and does not want to engage in such falsehoods. He also really prefers to raise the height of good governance to a higher level, so that future saints who want to surpass him will have to provide greater benefits, and may even need to Just establish a better welfare security system.
Thus.
As Qi Jiguang said, Zhu Yijun's cabinet was naturally under considerable pressure.
Because the current permanent freedom from corvee in the world is based on good governance that can support domestic economic development and external development.
In other words, the chief minister of the cabinet, Shen Shixing, and the bureaucrats in charge of internal affairs in the world must really be able to transfer the assets obtained through house confiscation to Luzon, so that the stability of the country will not be affected by the permanent freedom from the world's corvee.
At least you have to do it during your tenure.
This requires that the bureaucrats in the cabinet have really strong governance capabilities, so that they can not only greatly develop internal productivity, but also obtain a lot of external benefits.
Therefore, Qi Jiguang told Shen Shixing that the cabinet was under great pressure.
Shen Shixing laughed and said: "The cabinet is under great pressure, so how can the Privy Council not be under great pressure? Anyway, if the military generals are greedy for life and afraid of death, are brave and foolhardy, and even only know how to drink soldiers' blood and rob people's wealth, which affects the country's external development policy, the cabinet is Not dependent.”
"How dare you slack off!"
"Everything that is forewarned will be established; anything that is not forewarned will be ruined."
"If you really want to be prepared to avoid corvee, with such a sage king in charge, at least in this life, you can do it."
Qi Jiguang replied with a smile.
Shen Shixing looked at the blue sky and said: "Yes, the prosperous age of the Wanli Dynasty should be so glorious, even if it is not necessarily the same as today, it must be ancient!"
Once the edict to permanently exempt the world from corvee was issued, it indeed caused a wave of waves.
The whole country applauded.
Because this good governance benefits all classes.
The big landowners whose family members were Ding Ruyun naturally paid a large amount of Ding Yin.
Not to mention the middle and lower class landlords, it is very affordable without having to pay dingyin, which will undoubtedly allow them to have extra money to invest in industry, commerce and education.
Needless to say, ordinary people do not have to pay a small amount of silver, and they are relieved of a large burden. The extremely poor do not have to become slaves just because the landlord can help pay a small amount of silver, and they have less personal dependence with the powerful people. You can become a free citizen, which in turn can promote the growth of the workers and citizen classes. It can also stimulate domestic demand and further expand the domestic market.
The increase in domestic consumer demand will undoubtedly have a positive stimulating effect on the emergence of industrialization. More factories will take the initiative to increase research and development and improve productivity.
So, all classes are happy.
But this also made many people in the old party feel frustrated while being happy.
After Gu Xiancheng, who had been ordained as a monk, learned about this from Zhang Jing, Qian Yiben, and Gu Yuncheng, he couldn't accept it and asked: "Is it true that he will be exempted from the world's corvee forever?"
(End of chapter)
