Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 769
The establishment of maternal and child hospitals in various places will be slightly earlier than ordinary hospitals. When the trade volume between Daming and neighboring vassal states and Europe has steadily increased, and the financial situation continues to be good, ordinary hospitals will be established in various places to benefit more people.

Zhu Youjian estimated that the establishment of public hospitals in various places will take at least 20 years, and more and more funds will be consumed. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the purchase of various food and materials from the vassal states, which will be used in the future. Worthless silver and copper coins, trade with as many countries as possible, so as to transfuse Daming blood.

As the number of silver coins circulating in the markets around Daming is getting less and less, Daming silver coins have been generally accepted by the Chinese civilization circle, and silver tickets have also quietly gained more recognition from Daming merchants, and the situation continues to develop Going on, if you don't spend the silver coins in your hand quickly, I am afraid that within ten years, silver notes will replace silver coins and become the mainstream currency in the market.

The establishment of a public health system is a complex and huge project. Everything now is laying the foundation for the future. As for the specific progress, it depends on Daming's achievements in science and technology.

After determining the direction and goals of the medical industry, Zhu Youjian turned his attention to the issue of agricultural taxation.

In this memorable and special year, according to Daming's increasingly healthy fiscal revenue, it is necessary to do something about Thirteen's agricultural taxes.

For families with less than 17 mu of land, the tax will be reduced from [-] to [-], and the rest will remain unchanged. This policy has been implemented since the [-]th year of Chongzhen's summer harvest.

This kind of tax reduction is unprecedented in scale, and it has far surpassed the so-called light corvee and thin tax in previous dynasties.

Unpaid corvee service for the imperial court has been abolished for several years, and the most direct beneficiaries of this rare tax reduction measure are the people at the bottom.

The [-]th tax is a great benefit for all farmers. If you produce a stone of crops per mu, you only need to pay one-tenth of it to the government. No exaggeration.

Zhu Youjian hoped that the Ming Dynasty would completely abolish agricultural taxes in the future, and he believed that this would definitely be possible, even in the not-too-distant future.

But he can't do it.

He wanted to leave this unprecedented feat to the future emperor.

After he abdicates, the new emperor will announce this great move after ascending the throne, and he will instantly win supreme praise, gain great prestige, and his position will be extremely firm.

This is the best political legacy he left to the new emperor.

Now his prestige is high enough, no matter whether it is in the court, the army, or among the people, he enjoys a great reputation.Many facts over the years have proved that the various strategies he implemented have benefited Daming endlessly, and have also allowed most people, including court officials, to enjoy better benefits.

Unknowingly, the current him has achieved what he promises, and all of this is not achieved by pure killing and tyranny.

Because he understands that people's nature is to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. As long as you can bring enough benefits to the majority of people, so that people can truly feel that life is getting better day by day, and will be better in the future, then your prestige will come naturally. It will be established, and there is no need to use some heresy to deliberately create it.

The prince has turned 16 this year. According to the plan formulated by Zhu Youjian, Zhu Cihong will finish his study at the Polytechnic Institute (Guozijian) in the first half of Chongzhen's 17th year, and will start a four-year study tour in the second half of the year.

Thousands of books have been read, knowledge and self-cultivation have been acquired, and it is time to travel thousands of miles to increase life experience and experience.

The end of the paper is so shallow that I know that this matter must be carried out.

Everything needs the combination of theory and practice, so that the truth can be realized in the whole process.

Zhu Youjian is still very optimistic about Zhu Cihong's future road to power.

Over the years, under the subtle influence of Zhu Youjian, coupled with the real world he came into contact with during the four years of studying outside the palace, everything he saw and heard made Zhu Cihong grow from a simple and kind boy who grew up in the deep palace to a young man. Zhu Youjian likes to hear and see the steady young people who see all kinds of things in the world.

But after all, Zhu Cihong is still too young, and his mental maturity is far from enough. Only through more tempering can he slowly figure out how to walk the road of life, and can improve the ability to distinguish right from wrong through continuous cognition of things .

For the planning of Zhu Cihong's study tour route, Zhu Youjian placed it in the area north of the Yangtze River where the conditions are the most difficult.

The specific route is to start from the capital, go to Jizhen and leave the customs to travel in Liaoning Province, then go west along the border wall, go to the original Xuanda, Yansui, Gansu, Ningxia and other border towns to investigate the specific living conditions of the soldiers and civilians along the way, and finally in Shaanxi Lintao, Pingliang, Xi'an and other prefectures where the provinces resettled immigrants visited the fields and resettled the people and returned to the capital. The whole study tour took four years, modeled on the undergraduate semester system of later generations.

In order to ensure Zhu Cihong's safety, Zhu Youjian specially dispatched [-] elite cavalry from the Yongwei Battalion as guards, who were responsible for going out to the sentry and covering the left and right to prevent accidents.

According to Zhu Cihong's itinerary, the five hundred elite riders would covertly protect them within [-] miles of the periphery, and the safety around Zhu Cihong was taken care of by the hundred brocade-clothed riders who were best at melee combat.

The equipment of these Jinyi Tiqi can be said to be armed to the teeth. They are equipped with all the latest melee equipment from the Military Weapons Supervisor. It is no exaggeration to say that even if they are attacked by thousands of armed personnel not equipped by the Ming Dynasty official army Hundreds of Tiqi will also completely defeat it.

These measures are just plans and preparations for the worst. The current Ming Dynasty can be said to be the safest country in the world. Within this period, many bandit gangs that had been causing trouble to the local area for many years were completely wiped out, and the subsequent crackdown also wiped out all the urban foxes and social mice in the city.

In view of the good security situation in various places and the phenomenon of not closing doors at night in many areas, the cabinet followed Zhu Youjian's will to cancel the curfew in the entire Daming territory and promote night markets, so as to allow people to have more leisure and entertainment activities and promote a more open folk atmosphere. , but also allow more people to obtain an additional income.

Zhu Cihong has already reported to Zhu Youjian the entourage of his study tour that started in the second half of the year.

The personal bodyguards are still Cheng Jian and the other two Jinyi close-combat masters, and the personal eunuch is still Zhao Xin. Along with Zhu Cihong are Zhang Dingyuan, who has moved his family to live in Huangzhuang, and has also studied in the Polytechnic Institute for two years. Wen Tiren's eldest grandson, Wen You, and Lu Xiangsheng's second son, Lu Fang.

　Thanks to SHAJIA and Priest of Electric Healing for the reward.

　　
　
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