Wanli Youming

Chapter 597 The Wanli Prosperity Should Be So Glorious!

Chapter 597 The Wanli Prosperity Should Be So Glorious!

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: "Lu Song has been restored, and many wealthy families have been confiscated by the way. Presumably, this dynasty can implement some new policies that benefit 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 benefit the people with good governance and a little bit of the ideal 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 the sages, scholars should take it upon themselves to benefit the people of the world.

At this time, Shen Shixing stood up and said: "Qizuo Your Majesty, after a joint discussion in the Political Affairs Hall, the ministers believe that to promote good governance, relief is not as good as tax exemption and labor relief. Relief is easy to make bureaucrats work hard. It is not as easy as exempting the people from taxation and labor, as long as the higher authorities reduce the collection of benefits from the people, the bureaucrats below will have little reason to oppress the people."

"Therefore, after the recovery of Luzon, based on the increased taxation and trade revenue from the recovery of Luzon, as well as the expected increase in the benefits of subscription coupons from mining, we propose to implement the policy of permanently exempting the world from corvee."

"In this way, it can further solve the difficulties of the common people, and promote industry and commerce, and reduce the situation that the common people have to rely on the rich and right because of the burden of corvee, and then restrain mergers;"

"And if Your Majesty has no intention of exempting from corvee, you can avoid Jiangnan's heavy taxation of gold, flowers and silver. Right now, only Jiangnan's taxes are uneven in all parts of the world."

Zhu Yijun thought for a while and said: "The recovery of Lu Song is due to the common people. If the people of the world were not willing to stand on the court's side to support the new ceremony, and even dared to make trouble with the old traitorous officials, dare to expose, and even support the court by buying subscription tickets, There will be no big victory today, not to mention that behind the big victory is the fact that countless people's children enlisted in the army to fight on the battlefield, or built ships and equipment in factories."

Speaking of this, Zhu Yijun said: "Therefore, the new good governance should benefit the people all over the world, so let's exempt the world from corvee forever!"

"In this way, the people in Jiangnan can also enjoy benefits, especially the majority of landless people in Jiangnan who make a living by working. They no longer have to pay dingyin and can reduce labor costs."

"As for the reduction and exemption of Jiangnan's heavy tax and Jinhuayin, we will talk about it later! It is said that every inch of land in Jiangnan is expensive, so those who have land in Jiangnan are not in a hurry to get out of trouble by reducing taxes."

"Your Majesty said yes."

"Forever exempting the world from corvée is enough to shine through the ages, and make His Majesty far surpass the virtues of three generations."

"How lucky I am to be in this prosperous age."

Shen Shixing spoke at this time.

"My minister agrees!"

"Without Your Majesty, this kind of good governance would have been unthinkable before."

"However, Your Majesty, corvée can be exempted, but once it is rebuilt, it will be difficult. I am afraid that if the imperial court cannot make money from external development to support the army and officials, and if it fails to manage the internal affairs well, it may be difficult to conscript corvée again. People all over the world will regard it as a tyrannical government, and even fight everywhere."

Qi Jiguang expressed his worries at this time.

Zhu Yijun said: "I believe that the cabinet ministers and ministers behind you will be better than you, and they will be able to find a new way to make the country rich. If they are not as good as you, then there is no need to be in power, abdicate and let the good!"

"And no matter what, at least the people of this generation or several generations have enjoyed a prosperous age without being forced to suffer, so that future generations can at least know that our generation is worthy of being remembered by them, just make a good record."

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

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 of all, the clearing of Zhang Zhang’s land made the shoulders of many small people less a lot of taxes that were added by the void. Later, the Qing army was permanently suspended, and even the corvee in Shaanxi and Shanxi, as well as places such as Shandong, Henan, Fengyang, and Jingshi were exempted. The horse price silver and fodder silver and the Shandong squad army system.

Therefore, until now, after the country has become rich, it is necessary to implement the system of benefiting the people to show that the imperial court is really governing the country according to the principle of benefiting the people.

Originally, the ministers in power would be exempted from corvée forever, but they didn’t really want to bring it up, but the reason why they agreed to play it before the imperial court was because they knew that the emperor would prefer this, because it would be easier to demonstrate the holiness and make the dynasty The achievements in internal affairs will leave a brilliant stroke in the history books in the future.

However, they still put forward a proposal to exempt Jiangnan from heavy taxation and Jinhuayin, and hope that the emperor will choose this small one, just to express their opinion 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 Zhu Yijun is a person who values ​​benefits after all. He doesn't want to engage in such false things, and he really prefers to elevate the height of good governance to a higher level, so that future sages will have to give more benefits if they want to surpass him, and may even need to pay more. Just build a better welfare system.

Thus.

As Qi Jiguang said, the pressure on Zhu Yijun's cabinet during this dynasty was naturally quite high.

Because the permanent exemption from corvee in the world is based on the good governance of domestic economic development and external development that are sufficient to support it.

That is to say, the chief assistant of the cabinet, Shen Shixing, and the bureaucrats in charge of internal affairs in the world, should really be able to obtain funds and Luzon through ransacking their homes, so that the stability of the country will not be affected by the permanent exemption from corvee.

At least you have to do it during your tenure.

This requires the bureaucrats of the cabinet to be really strong in governance, which 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 said with a smile: "The cabinet is under a lot of pressure, why is the Privy Council not under too much pressure? Anyway, if a general is greedy for life and afraid of death, brave but not resourceful, and even only knows how to drink the blood of soldiers and rob people's wealth, which affects the country's external development policy, the cabinet is Not dependent.”

"How dare you slack off!"

"Anything that is forewarned is established, and what is not forewarned is forfeited."

"If you really want to prepare to be exempted from corvee, with such a sage in power, 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 unprecedented, it must be ancient!"

Once the imperial edict of exempting the world from corvee forever was issued, it indeed caused a wave of waves.

The whole country applauded.

Because this good governance benefits all classes.

The big landlords whose family members are Ding Ruyun naturally paid a large sum of Ding Yin.

Not to mention the middle and lower class landlords, they don't need to pay small silver, which is also very affordable, which will undoubtedly allow them to have extra money to invest in business and education.

Needless to say, ordinary people do not have to pay ding silver and are relieved of a large burden. The extremely poor do not have to become slaves just because the landlord can help pay ding 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 actively increase research and development to increase productivity.

So, all classes are happy.

But this also made many people in the old party feel frustrated while being happy.

Gu Xiancheng, who has become a monk, learned about this from Zhang Jing, Qian Yiben, and Gu Yuncheng, and asked in a very unacceptable way: "Is it true that you will be exempted from corvee forever?"

(End of this chapter)