Daming: Lend the system to Emperor Hongwu at the beginning

Chapter 174 Lao Zhu: Is this reform very radical?

If it was Hai Rui's previous stubborn temper.

He really dared to walk away.

But looking at Zhu Yuanzhang in front of him now, his legs seemed to be filled with lead, and he couldn't move at all.

In fact, he understands that it doesn't matter whether the person in front of him is the real Emperor Hongwu or not, the important thing is that the Ming Dynasty really started to get better and better in his hands.

He likes the current Ming Dynasty.

He also wanted to do his part for the current Daming.

Besides, Hai Rui was a fan of Emperor Hongwu, and he deeply admired Zhu Yuanzhang.

In case it was really Emperor Hongwu in front of him, if he left, wouldn't he have to regret his death.

Hai Rui didn't want to leave.

Yan Song, Xu Jie, Li Chunfang and others did not dare to leave.

If it was really Emperor Jiajing in front of them, they might still have a chance of survival if they left. If it was really Emperor Hongwu in front of them, then leaving now, there would be no second possibility except death.

As great Confucians of the Ming Dynasty, they knew Zhu Yuanzhang, the great Hongwu Emperor, better than anyone else.

This is an emperor who speaks for himself.

No one dared to disobey such an emperor's order, because history has proved that those who dare to disobey will end up dead without a burial.

"Very well, since everyone is willing to stay and work with us, let the crown prince tell you about the next reform plan of the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at everyone and spoke in a deep voice.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Biao stepped forward with a smile and said, "Actually, it's all old talk. Basically, it's a plan that Daming in this plane has already tried, but it's just that it hasn't been implemented because of various problems."

"In general, there are three points."

"First, it is aimed at the officialdom. The examination method is used for local officials in various places. The Metropolitan Procuratorate conducts political assessments on officials every year and every quarter."

"In the early Ming Dynasty, Liu Bowen and Mr. Liu were in charge of this point. The test method here is handed over to Hai Rui Haigong. After the two of you go down, you can formulate a reasonable plan based on your experience in governance in the early Ming Dynasty. "

"The second is taxation. In the future, the taxation of the Ming Dynasty will adopt a whip method proposed by Gui E in the [-]th year of Jiajing. The first thing we need to do is to check the land and acres in the world, and formulate a new fish scale book for the Ming Dynasty. Collect land taxes, corvee and other miscellaneous levies. For one, combined collection, but what is collected is not silver, but my Daming treasure."

"Of course, this precious banknote will be a new banknote, which will be printed and issued by the Daming Royal Bank. As for the old banknotes that were issued indiscriminately before, they will be abolished."

"Here, Shen Wansan, president of Daming Royal Bank, will explain the specific trial plan to you later."

"Third, the government and gentry pay taxes together."

"From next year onwards, the imperial government's preferential land policies for the gentry will return to the level of the early years of Hongwu, and the changes made in the subsequent dynasties will not be counted."

Speaking of this, Zhu Biao couldn't help but joked with a smile: "I think this is called restoring the ancestral system."

"However, here I want to explain to you that this policy has never been implemented on our side, so this preferential policy here is also temporary. The tentative implementation time is five years. After five years, all lands, no matter Whether it is owned by an official or a gentry, it must be taxed according to the law."

When everyone below heard Zhu Biao's eloquent talk above, they couldn't help but feel their hearts jumping for a while.

Even reformers like Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong admired Zhu Yuanzhang's boldness in reform.

Such a policy harms the interests of all gentry and bureaucrats, but the implementation of such a policy requires bureaucrats and gentry to implement it.

There are not many officials and gentry in this world who can harm the interests of their own families and make the country prosperous and strong.

Even in the original history, Zhang Juzheng was under great pressure from the clan in the later stage of the reform.

In this era of ruling the country with filial piety, not everyone can bear this kind of pressure.

"Of course, in parallel with these three reforms, there is an increase in the salaries and benefits of officials. I won't go into details here, but these salaries will definitely allow them to live an extremely good life after they have to deal with daily expenses."

"Your Majesty, I think this is too urgent!"

"These three reform strategies are very good, but if they are carried out separately and reformed slowly in 30 to [-] years, it may be better." Zhang Juzheng persuaded.

Gao Gong next to him also nodded.

He has always thought of himself as a radical person, but now compared with His Majesty, he feels that the so-called reform plan he has drawn up in his heart is simply nothing, and it is not worth mentioning at all.

So he couldn't help but say at this moment: "Your Majesty, if such reforms are followed, there will only be one situation. I am afraid that [-]% of the officials in the world will resign and return to their hometowns, and the gentry will do everything possible to obstruct the implementation of these reforms."

"Maybe they won't obstruct it openly, but they will definitely obstruct it secretly. This will cause huge resistance to reform."

"Tai Yue Gong and Zhong Xuan Gong, in fact, this is already a very gentle reform plan. If it is according to my father's original intention, the reform will only be more radical." Zhu Biao said helplessly.

To be honest, if the future development of Ming Dynasty did not require the support of a large number of people, how could Zhu Yuanzhang be so patient and step by step to transform Daming from nobles to royal family to gentry.

If Zhu Yuanzhang's temper had been followed 20 years ago, he would have mobilized a large army to this world to kill these colluding officials, gentry, nobles, and royal families several times.

Zhang Juzheng and others couldn't help but stagnate when they heard this.

Only then did they realize that the person in front of them was Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang!
In the four major Hongwu cases back then, the ruthless people who almost killed the officials of the Hongwu Dynasty have indeed softened their treatment a lot now.

"okay."

"You just have to do things according to Biao'er's orders. Those who don't cooperate and want to make trouble, we have plenty of ways to deal with them."

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, he looked at Yan Song again: "This reform is still led by Yan Song, assisted by Xu Jie, Gao Gong, and Zhang Juzheng."

"The specific reform plan will be implemented after you and Li Shanchang have discussed it properly."

"If it is true as Gao Gong said that there are officials who don't understand the form and don't want to do it, just let them go. We will send officials from the early Ming Dynasty to fill in the vacancies."

"We still say that, do things well for us, and it will be to your benefit."

"Don't pay attention to the petty interests that are temporarily lost in the family, and soon you will find out that there is a wider world outside."

"Yan Song, Xu Jie, do you two understand what I said?" Zhu Yuanzhang said suddenly.

"Ming...understood!" When Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly mentioned their names, Yan Song and Xu Jie couldn't help feeling a little flustered.

"You really should understand!"

"To be honest, we have tried to kill you two many times, but you two are honest. We have done a good job in what we have told you, so we can let go of the beheading thing first, and the next point is Reform, do things well, and if you do well, you will not only be the loyal ministers of Ming Dynasty, but you may even be famous for thousands of years, if you don’t do well... we will personally take your heads that are deposited around our necks.”

"You should understand that we never talk empty words."

"Your Majesty, the old minister will definitely do a good job and live up to His Majesty's entrustment." The two fell to their knees with a plop.

How could they not know that Zhu Yuanzhang was mentioning the two of them.

Fortunately, they haven't done anything secretly in the past two years.

"Okay, let's go down and do things!"

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand, indicating that the civil servants could retreat.

When these civil servants and great scholars left, Yu Dayou, Qi Jiguang, Wang Chonggu and the few generals who were qualified to come in to discuss matters suddenly became more uncomfortable.

They have been standing in the corner since entering the hall.

They didn't understand what His Majesty discussed with the civil servants just now, and all their minds were focused on the generals beside Zhu Yuanzhang.

As generals, they are very sensitive to the breath of the same kind.

These few people can stand beside Zhu Yuanzhang, Qi Jiguang and others understand that these people should be the famous founding generals in the early Ming Dynasty.

These people put too much pressure on them.

Especially now, with the departure of civil servants, when the eyes of those founding generals began to fall on them intentionally or unintentionally, the pressure they endured was even greater than when they fought against Japanese pirates back then.

"Okay, now that we've finished talking about the bullshit in China, it's time to talk about something serious!"

Zhu Yuanzhang ignored Qi Jiguang and the little generals who were shivering under the prestige of the founding generals, but waved his hand, behind him Mao Xiang stepped forward with a few Jinyi guards, and quickly carried a large table into the center of the hall.

A carefully drawn map of the world soon spread out on it.

In an instant, Qi Jiguang and the others felt that the hall, which was full of talents just now, became menacing.

"This map of the world should be familiar to everyone, after all, we just conquered the world once in the late Qing Dynasty."

"This world is more backward than the plane of the late Qing Dynasty. Except in the territory of Ming Dynasty, the extraordinary factors are almost negligible."

"So, it shouldn't be too difficult to conquer the countries of the world on this plane again."

Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, everyone couldn't help laughing.

"That's a good statement. We dare not say anything else. Father, you give me 3000 people, and I promise to obey the Japanese system!" Zhu Di said with a smile.

After 30 to [-] years of growth and experience, the little guy who was sensitive, inferior, and wronged to cry in front of Zhu Biao has now grown into a generation of famous players who are not weaker than Xu Da and Chang Yuchun.

"Haha, fourth brother, you need 3000 people to fight the Japanese country, and the emperor will give me 2000 people, and I will take down the United States for you." Zhu Xi said vigorously.

"laugh……!"

"Second brother, do you have any culture? There is no such thing as America now, and North America is still occupied by Indians!" The third child Zhu Yan laughed.

"All right!"

Zhu Yuanzhang drank with a sullen face.

"There is no place for you three rebellious sons to talk here. Shut up for me and get out of here."

The three guys who just wanted to let go of themselves suddenly silenced, and ran away in a desperate manner, one more honest than the other.

Zhu Yuanzhang motioned the crowd to gather around the big table, and then continued: "The so-called conquering the world is easy, but ruling the world is difficult. It is easy for those foreign races to defeat, but it is difficult to completely conquer and assimilate them."

"But this time, this plane is expected to become a sub-plane of our Ming Dynasty. You should all understand what this means, so we will not allow any unstable factors to appear here in the future."

"And it just so happens that the extraordinary power in this world is the talent of Confucianism and Taoism, a kind of extraordinary power that only belongs to me, Ming Dynasty, and possesses an unparalleled ability to assimilate."

"This gives us endless possibilities...."

(End of this chapter)