Perhaps it was Zhu Yijun who developed bodhicitta and tried to solve the problem of infant drowning and gained blessings. At the end of the seventh year of Wanli, Zhuang Jingjia scored twice and finally gave birth to the emperor's eldest son. For fear of dying in infancy, he did not name him yet - but he was given the title of Prince of Luo County.
The birth of the emperor's eldest son and legitimate son did not directly create a prince, which also set an example for those involved in the royal family reform. As for the issue of the emperor's succession, Zhu Yijun evaluated his own body in this time and space and believed that there was no rush for the time being. Moreover, this problem must be solved when the empire implements political reforms. Zhu Yijun judged that there would be a fight between dragons and tigers in the future.
When King Luo was born, Zhu Yijun did not offer a general amnesty. He only accepted congratulations and gifts from ministers and vassals, and congratulated him with rewards. He also issued an edict stipulating the conditions for future pardons:
Except for the empress dowager and the emperor who are ill and need amnesty to pray for blessings, in other cases such as the canonization of queens, the birth of princes, and the establishment of princes, the court will no longer grant amnesty to the world.
In accordance with the emperor's promise to the two palaces, after the queen confirmed her pregnancy, Zhu Yijun began to let the concubines in the harem share the rain and dew. Because the medical school has studied and understood the relationship between a woman's pregnancy and her menstrual period, the harem Shangyi Bureau made corresponding arrangements for the emperor's concubines, and the results were unexpectedly good.
Less than three months later, Yifei was diagnosed with Ximei pulse. Subsequently, good news came frequently: Concubine Wang Zhao, Zhang Duan'an, Li Jing'an, and Chen Shu'an were pregnant one after another, making the two queen mothers think they were living in a dream.
Zhu Yijun reversed the difficult decline of the royal family's heirs after Xiaozong, and most of the people in the world were happy. Especially when the noble ministers saw that the emperor was so capable, they were all delighted - their congratulations seemed to come like snowflakes.
Throughout the dynasties, the heirs of the emperor's family were not just a personal matter, but a top priority related to the stability of the world and the sustainability of peace. Therefore, an emperor with strong fertility is worthy of praise and encouragement, and Zhu Yijun made so many concubines pregnant with dragon seeds in one go, which is simply an example among the emperors and an elite among the emperors.
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At the beginning of the eighth year of Wanli, after more than two years of pilot work, lessons learned were summed up and the plan was improved. Prime Minister and Cabinet Minister Zhang Juzheng requested the order, and Zhu Yijun approved it, launching a whipping law across the country.
At the beginning of the reform, Zhang Juzheng pointed out that the smooth implementation of the One Whip Law depended on the results of land clearing and household reorganization.
The nationwide clearing of abbots and household registration, which began in the sixth year of Wanli, was finally completed at the end of the seventh year of Wanli, with Zhu Yijun's strong support and strict punishments and laws as constraints.
This time the clearing and household registration cleared a total of 9 million hectares of new land across the country, which was three times the amount achieved in the original era. The national population census finally fell to 169 million, nearly 169 million more than in the original era. half.
The achievement of such great results is inseparable from Zhu Yijun's conscious efforts to eliminate relevant resistance in the years after he took power.
Regarding the political pressure faced by Qingzhang, Zhu Yijun did not let Zhang Juzheng fight against the world with the determination and perseverance to "break up his family and sink his clan" and "die from exhaustion" like Wanli in the original time and space.
Based on a nationwide class analysis and detailed survey of political forces, Zhu Yijun first attacked the gentry in Jiangnan over the past few years. Using the "Songjiang Slave Revolution" as an introduction, he launched a severe crackdown on the gentry who over-occupied land and concealed their household registration.
The Jin gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, represented by Xu Jie, was stunned by the emperor's series of tactics. Moreover, the rise of newspapers deprived the Jin gentry of their right to speak in the clear stream of scholars, so that their resistance did not make waves at all.
The assassinations of the emperor and Zhang Wenming gave Zhu Yijun the legitimacy and excuse to vigorously clean up and suppress the Jin gentry. The northern and southern Jin gentry who had experienced the white terror completely lost their will to resist the imperial edict issued by Qingzhang, and their acceptance was completely beyond Zhang Juzheng's expectations.
As for Xungui's land occupation and concealment of household registration, Zhu Yijun adopted the method of redemption. The salt auction and the policy of exchanging land for points harvested most of the noble land. Later, Zhu Yijun let the big landowners focus on maritime trade, and the nobles represented by the British Duke vomited a large amount of land.
For the clan that was the most difficult to crack, Zhu Yijun used clan reform, using sticks and carrots at the same time, and the land issue was relatively well solved.
These three parties are the three political forces that have the strongest conflict with Qingzhang and Yiyibufa in the original time and space. After being manipulated by Zhu Yijun, the work of clearing Zhang Zhang went very smoothly - even if there was some noise and resistance, it was a local problem and did not cause overall fluctuations. For these small problems, Zhang Juzheng used all possible means to make arrangements clearly.
In Zhu Yijun’s view, the Ming Dynasty started the colonial model and the contradiction between man and land will be greatly alleviated in the future. As for why we don't go one step further now to "the gentry receiving food from one body", it is mainly due to the following considerations.
On the one hand, after calculations, after the comprehensive clearing and household registration, the imperial court comprehensively strengthened the management of the tax exemption quota for scholars. The increase in taxes resulting from "the gentry's unified payment of grain" was very small, which was completely out of proportion to the political price paid by the imperial court.
Secondly, "the gentry pays taxes as one body" mainly uses a one-size-fits-all approach to tax collection when the efficiency of court management is low. This is contrary to Zhu Yijun's purpose of using tax exemption to regulate social management in the future. And more importantly, one whip method in this time and space is actually more advanced than in the original time and space - the tax exemption for scholars is realized in the form of tax refund, that is, they pay the tax first, and then the court refunds it according to their tax exemption amount.
On the surface, this policy seems to be like taking off your pants and farting. Except for a few people such as Wang Guoguang, almost no one in this time and space can understand what kind of magic operation this is - it seems that there is nothing except increasing the workload at the grassroots level. usefulness.
But Zhu Yijun, who was a tax director, knew that this was by no means unnecessary. The main function of the policy of paying taxes first and then rebates is to deeply ingrain the concept of "equal taxation for all" into the hearts of the people, so that everyone can develop the habit of paying taxes; secondly, in the future, as the financial situation changes, tax refunds can be adjusted at any time scope and tax rate. By then, the data and information left during the tax refund process will greatly reduce the workload of new tax collection.
Thirdly, "the gentry all pays the grain" is a tax policy based on Yongzheng and Kangxi's so-called "benevolent government" of "never increasing taxes", which merges the oral taxes into the land. This will bring great benefits to industry, commerce and even urbanization after the development. , the collection of personal income tax has brought great resistance.
The last one, the collection of Dingkou Fu also protected the achievements of the Qing Dynasty and household registration - making the national population census a normalized work, which was conducive to the government's governance.
Due to the above reasons, Zhu Yijun weighed it again and again, and after detailed analysis and discussion with the cabinet, the newly introduced whipping law did not reach the point of "the gentry receiving food as one body" - it was just a matter of "seeking truth from facts."
During the implementation of the original time and space whip method, the people in the south of the Yangtze River benefited from it, and most of them thought it was good governance. In the north, due to insufficient currency input and circulation during the implementation of the One-whip Law, it turned into a bad law in some areas.
Farmers in the north focus on selling grain during the tax payment season because the grain market is not as developed as in the south, resulting in a situation where "money is expensive and grain is cheap", which greatly increases their tax burden. Moreover, in the original time and space, the administration of officials in the north was more corrupt than in the south, which resulted in local officials indiscriminately increasing "fire consumption" during the tax collection process, which also increased the taxation in disguise.
In this time and space, when Zhu Yijun, Zhang Juzheng and others introduced a whipping method, they consciously selected many state capitals in the north, south and south of the imperial court and in the border areas for pilot trials, which fully exposed the problem.
At the same time, the industrial complex laid out by Zhu Yijun had most of its production links in the north due to mineral resources, which in turn strengthened the market economy in the north of the empire and increased the amount of currency in the north of the empire in disguise.
Moreover, because of the "Li Chaodou jumped into a river to save his mother" incident in this time and space, the imperial court, which was in relatively good financial condition, significantly increased the salaries of Beijing officials, and then invested a large amount of silver into the circulation link in the north, objectively alleviating the "money shortage".
As for the problem of fire consumption in the process of melting loose silver into official silver, Zhu Yijun directly copied Emperor Yongzheng's "fire consumption returned to the public".
In the fifth year of Wanli, the imperial court gave a large-scale salary increase to Beijing officials, which caused dissatisfaction among many local officials - we were doing the hardest and most tiring work at the grassroots level, and our promotions were slower than those of Beijing officials, and now our wages are still one year behind. Jiezi, doesn’t this force us to commit corruption?
However, the imperial court at that time was indeed unable to support the increase of salaries for officials all over the world, and it had no choice but to only take care of the officials in the capital. Otherwise, if there were two more Li Chaodou like him, the emperor would lose his face.
But by not increasing salaries for local officials, the subtext is that local officials have a way to make money and they do not need to increase their salaries - this in itself is a bad direction. But before the whip law was implemented, it was impossible for the court to increase taxes on ordinary people to maintain integrity, so this matter has been delayed for the past two years.
After the strip-whip method was piloted, some local officials took advantage of the fire to get their hands on them. Some of the more unscrupulous ones even received 30% of the tax, which in turn increased the taxes on the local people. But the pilot is to fully expose the problem.
Therefore, along with the full implementation of the strip whip law, there was also the later emperor Yongzheng's policy of "returning fire to the public and raising honest silver". After a large amount of data statistics, it was found that due to the different quality of silver in the pilot state capitals, the average cost of fire consumption was three points. Therefore, the imperial court explicitly stipulated that the fire consumption should be 13%. An extra point would be considered a crime of "corruption".
All fire expenses will be collected by the Chief Secretary, and will be distributed to the lower levels after registration. The imperial edict said: "Instead of burning fire in the state and county to support the superior, how about the superior setting fire to consume in order to support the state and county."
This system has brought immediate results. First, it directly increases local fiscal and tax revenue and improves local disaster response capabilities. Secondly, it determines an income system that combines salary and integrity silver, which eliminates the original excessive taxation and arbitrary taxation. The discretionary power is eliminated and gray income is converted into explicit subsidies, which reduces the risk of corruption. Thirdly, the fire consumption standards are uniformly stipulated, which also reduces the burden on farmers.
Attributing Huo Hua to the Chief Secretary also has the benefit of increasing the control power of provincial-level local governments over lower-level governments. According to the original design of the salt policy reform, salt sales areas were delineated on a county-by-county basis. This policy directly resulted in a situation where the county was rich but the government was poor, and the province was poor, which was not conducive to the control of county governance at the provincial and government levels.
Now that the fire consumption is under the control of the province, the imperial court allows the Chief Secretary to introduce the standards for the issuance of Yanglian Silver in the province, which adds a strong starting point for the governance of each province based on local conditions.
The disbursement of money to support integrity, in turn, widened the income gap between local officials and officials in the capital. Take Wang Tingxi, governor of Sichuan, who was born in the attendant's office at the end of the eighth year of Wanli, as an example. His money to support integrity was as high as 5,500 taels. Nearly ten times his annual salary.
Although the officials in the capital coveted the high income, they were not very envious. Because the government reform of the imperial court had not yet deepened, local officials' aides and other personnel needed to be paid by individual officials. Therefore, the Yanglian Yin could not yet produce the effect of "cleaning the prefecture in three years and earning one hundred thousand snowflakes of silver".
