Zhu Ji selected batch after batch, looking for a group of people who looked honest, and also found some shrewd people.
Then they sent people to talk to them separately. As long as they devoted themselves to the Ming Dynasty, they promised to give their families good treatment and a better future.
If he dares to betray the Ming Dynasty, not only will his whole family be killed, but he himself will never end well.
But what they need to do is very simple.
He only needs to report news to the Ming army from time to time and report those around him who have evil intentions.
Moreover, these two hundred people will be guarded by thousands of households in Liaoping Mansion and will be trained for a month first.
Their names of places of origin were registered in the booklet.
These are all precautionary measures and can only play a preventive role.
Shi Biao accompanied Zhu Ji to hundreds of households and saw the living conditions of the Jurchens.
The Ming army brought them suffering, blood, and humiliation, but it also brought them seeds, farm tools, and the opportunity to live well.
In the coming time, they only need to be honest and stay out of trouble, and they will be able to live on this land, and they will also have a new identity, a new nation, and a new place to go...
At this time, it can be said that the change from the old to the current has been successful.
Next is the time to test the results, but this test takes time.
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In the Palace of Qianqing.
Zhu Jianshen sat in front of the dragon case, his eyes on the memorial, but his mind was on the palace maid who had just been transferred. He raised his eyes from time to time and looked at the palace maid calmly. After reading, he quickly retracted his eyes. , thinking silently in his heart: "I am the real Dragon Emperor, not a loser in my previous life. If you want to watch it, feel free to watch it. No one will dare to say anything about you."
But when he raised his head and took another look at the palace maid on the right, oh, what a figure, after taking a second look, he lowered his head automatically.
It's become a habit.
The maids serving in the palace also knew that His Majesty the Emperor was peeking at them, and all of them felt anxious.
As His Majesty grows up, he will naturally have the need to be served, and whoever can be the first will have an opportunity to change his destiny.
Who doesn't know that a man has special feelings for the first woman who serves him.
In this way, these palace maids began to use the channels of several powerful eunuchs in the palace, and through their means, they were sent to the Qianqing Palace.
And Zhang Bao also knew that His Majesty had indeed reached his age, and he turned a blind eye to the eunuchs' interrogation, and all the good-looking ones passed.
There were a thousand palace maids who reached the age of 18, but there was only one emperor, so Zhang Bao came up with the idea of rotation. Starting from August of the ninth year of Chenghua, a group of palace maids serving in the Qianqing Palace were changed every month.
This happened ten times, and in June of the 10th year of Chenghua, Zhu Jianshen had not selected a beautiful palace maid to complete his bedside service.
It was because Zhu Jianshen did not make any "excessive" demands that the Empress Dowager Sun and his biological mother, the Empress Dowager Zhou, were troubled.
Especially the Empress Dowager Sun, she obviously felt that her health was not in good condition, so she thought that Zhu Jianshen could give her a great-grandson as soon as possible.
From time to time, Zhu Jianshen was called into the palace to test things out, but Zhu Jianshen was dumbfounded every time.
However, Zhu Jianshen still insisted on his own idea. He should not eat meat if he is under the age of sixteen. He must be tolerant. Those who achieve great things must endure things that ordinary people cannot tolerate.
Time flies, time flies like an arrow.
Zhu Jianshen is one year older, Xu Shisi. He is taller and more energetic. Before going to bed, he usually walks around the Qianqing Palace a few times and falls asleep when he comes back. But now he can no longer do it. He always circles the Palace. Walk around the city until you are so tired that you can fall asleep. If you don't drive around for a day, you will start thinking wildly while lying in bed, and you won't be able to sleep at all.
For a young emperor who has grown up at the age of thirteen, the biggest test is not the temptation of power, but the temptation of women under power.
At this stage, Zhu Jianshen was doing a good job. He just watched, and from time to time he would be bolder, pretending to touch his hands inadvertently, without making any further moves.
After Zhu Jianshen saw the beauty, he focused on the memorial again.
This is a memorial written by Li Binggui about the process of the new tax system reform.
Although the reform and implementation of the new tax system experienced some difficulties, with the strong pressure from the central government, the cooperation of Jinyiwei, and the support of garrisons from various places, it was still possible to achieve success in Shuntian Prefecture, Yingtian Prefecture, Fengyang Prefecture, Qinyang Prefecture, Luoyang Prefecture, and Xi'an The government and other places have had its results.
The fastest among them was not the capital at the emperor's feet, but the Yingtian Mansion captured by Xu Youzhen.
At the beginning of the tenth year of Chenghua, Xu Youzhen returned to Yingtian Mansion from Nanjing City to report on his work, and then stayed at home for three days, taking his handsome book boy with him, and then set off to Yingtian Mansion again. He wanted to collect a mid-term business tax, and after the grain tax, he Return to Beijing.
Yingtianfu was the first city in the Ming Dynasty with a population exceeding two million. In some aspects, its business was even more prosperous than that of the capital.
Therefore, with the establishment of commercial tax, Yingtian Mansion’s grain tax accounted for only 30% of the amount paid.
Xu Youzhen was in Shuntian Mansion. After reporting to Zhu Jianshen, he made some changes to the new tax system that suited Yingtian Mansion.
Because most people traveling to and from small counties have to go to the city of Nanjing to earn a living, the government has clearly stipulated that no taxes should be paid on weddings and funerals, boats and carts, silk cloth, etc. for soldiers and civilians. Vegetables carried by the people, common bamboo, wood and cattail utensils commonly used by the people, commonly used sundries, copper and tin utensils, etc. are also exempted. Therefore, the tax is only targeted at large goods, large merchants, and large shops.
With the help of the Duke of Wei and the support of Taining Marquis Chen Ying's army, the first Yingtianfu commercial tax was officially released in May of the 10th year of Chenghua, reaching 450,000 taels of silver, and the grain tax was converted into Silver also reached 110,000 taels of silver.
This was the first time that the dominance of grain tax was surpassed by the lowest level of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce.
The officials' land was measured and their privileges were abolished, but they had nothing to say. The merchants had their meat dug out, their accounts checked, and taxes collected, so they had no place to cry.
They made inquiries and learned that the business tax of Yingtian Mansion was going to continue. Some businessmen who had made enough money were thinking of escaping from Yingtian Mansion, but the government was indifferent to their escape.
The flight of big merchants allowed small vendors to make a little more money this year, and it also allowed other merchants who did not flee to make a lot of money.
Most of the merchants who fled went to Suzhou and Ningbo. But after they left, on the one hand, they heard that their competitors in Yingtianfu did not leave, but instead grew bigger and bigger. On the other hand, the imperial court was also determined to fight against the imperial court. Ningbo, Suzhou and others took action.
This made it difficult for these businessmen to get up and down. Some took advantage of the fact that the market was not completely occupied and went back in despair, while others were simply discouraged and quit.
Even if you don't make money, you can't squander it to those officials.
The entire business circle in the south is in chaos. Some have fallen, while others have stood up...
Although Shuntian Prefecture has completed the new grain tax system, it has not yet started to implement commercial taxes. It only set up customs duties in Tongzhou, which earned the Ming Dynasty 120,000 taels of silver this year.
There are many pilot projects. Fengyang Prefecture has a small business and is easy to handle. However, the first step of the new tax system reform in the three prefectures of Henan and Shaanxi was completed at the end of the ninth year of Chenghua.
He was also the last batch to be completed in this prefecture.
The difficulties encountered in these three places cannot be compared with Yingtian Mansion, but they also have their own obstacles and difficulties. Li Bing was able to complete it in one year without the direct support of the imperial power. For Zhu Jianshen, it was already very good. .
At least dare to rush and do it.
Wang Wen, who was far away in Fujian, left the little emperor and became energetic. Today, all the land of the officials and gentry in Fujian Province has been measured, and then the records are made in duplicate, and each local government keeps one copy. There is one in the household department of the capital.
For Zhu Jianshen, everything went smoothly.
He put the memorial down and sighed softly.
He thought of the only thing that made him uneasy,
It’s been a year and a half since Cao Jixiang, Zhu Yi and others left Ming Dynasty to go eastward, but there is still no news at all...
Did it sink in the sea?
No, as long as you find the strait, you can swim across it.
Or Zhu Yi found some good island and didn't want to come back. He decided to become the island owner himself. That was unrealistic. How could an island owner be better than the Duke of Ming Dynasty?
That was Cao Jixiang, but on second thought it was impossible. He was a eunuch, and being the island master was of no use to him.
Zhu Jianshen was very worried. Part of the reason was that the current Chengguo Duke Zhu Shou's health was getting worse day by day.
Although Zhu Shou was still in the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army, Zhu Jianshen had seen him two days ago. He was in his sixties and was even weaker than the British Duke when he was in his eighties, showing his age...
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