Be the Emperor from Today / the Young Emperor of the Ming Dynasty

Although the national strength of the Daming Empire has declined, there are still many famous officials. As long as the business is alive, the Daming Empire will be able to rebuild and prosper.

However, Zhang Juzheng and a group of politicians put their eyes on agriculture, not business in the slightest. In their view, business is a trivial matter, and agriculture is the foundation of the country...

However, Zhu Yijun knew that if he really wanted to make the country prosperous and strong, commerce was absolutely necessary, and now the Ming Empire lacked commerce.

From the time when Zhu Yuanzhang imposed the sea ban, a piece of tile was not allowed to enter the sea, and now the sea ban has been slightly relaxed, but it is not enough...

Navigational trade is only one of the commercial activities, and many commercial activities are still prohibited.

For example, both salt and tea are sold exclusively by the state, and merchants must pay the government to buy "salt yin" and "tea yin".

"Yin" is a certificate for merchants to transport goods, and the legal weight unit is printed.

Those guilty of smuggling salt are hanged, and those with weapons are beheaded.

All kinds of business operations have strict restrictions, which greatly shackles the business behavior of the Ming Dynasty...

In the early Ming Dynasty, it was strictly forbidden to go to sea by private persons. Violators were punished with a stick, and in severe cases were sentenced to hanging or beheading.

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In Zhu Yijun's view, reforming commerce is easy, but checking farmland is difficult...

One year of reforming business will pay off.

But reforming agriculture will take ten or even decades, and it is very easy to arouse opposition from the gentry and tyrants.

Moreover, reforming commerce can bring a new look to the Ming Empire, while reforming agriculture can only be prosperous for a while...

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Zhu Yijun sat on the dragon chair and wrote the business reform policy.

He has decided to completely open up business, except for salt, ordnance and minerals, the country's business is completely open.

Open the sea ban, set up a free port in Fujian, and let Yin Zhengmao notify all merchants to participate in the construction of the free port. The merchants who participate in the investment can get a reward of [-]% reduction in taxes.

Strengthen the military defense of Datong Prefecture, buy a large number of Folang cannons, Datong Prefecture is the closest to Mengguo, Zhu Yijun intends to open a horse market in Datong Prefecture, and trade with Mengguo and Western countries to make profits.

Zhu Yijun's vision is unprecedented. Although Zhang Juzheng and others are famous reformers, they don't know what happened in the West...

It's been a year, and countries such as Europe have entered the era of colonization, and various technologies have taken off!

The Fran cannon was invented in Europe. In the first year (year) of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, it was introduced into the Celestial Dynasty from Portugal. According to the country's name, it was named "Franco" and became a cannon in the mid-Ming Dynasty.

In the third year (4 years) of Jiajing, the Ming court successfully imitated the first batch of door frang machines.After that, the Ming court successively imitated all kinds of Fran machines of different sizes and models, which were equipped with the northern and coastal armies.

Now that Zhu Yijun is rich, he naturally has to purchase and develop artillery in large quantities. Zhu Yijun opened the sea ban because he wanted to build a powerful navy and let Western European countries experience the toughness of the Ming Empire!

Zhu Yijun wrote thirteen articles on commercial reform.

The most fundamental business reform is to completely open up business, no longer restrict business activities, and collect taxes for various business activities...

Zhu Yijun added nearly [-] tax clauses.

You must know that the agricultural tax is only a dozen items...

If these taxes were viewed by the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, they would definitely be heavy taxes. However, in Zhu Yijun's view, the collection of these taxes is very common, because five hundred years later, the world powers will collect thousands of taxes...

One hundred kinds of tax collection, very few!

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After Zhu Yijun put the thirteen business reform decrees on the table, he felt a little tired. He returned to the Hall of Mental Cultivation and went to rest...

Chapter 13 The High Butcher and the First Assistant

After Emperor Wanli came to power, Vientiane was renewed.

The civil and military officials in the imperial court were so frightened that they did not dare to slack off in the implementation of the decree!

Because under the authorization of the little emperor, the cabinet and the East Factory went on a killing spree. Officials above the fifth rank killed [-] people, and more than [-] people were sent to the frontier.

Under such high pressure, who would dare to commit crimes against the wind and be greedy for money and money?

During the recent period of time, Gao Gong, the head of the cabinet, was looking for signs of officials greed for ink. As long as he was caught, he was afraid that he would be directly thrown into the Ministry of Punishment for questioning.

Everyone knows that Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng are no longer joking, if they are caught by them, they will surely die.

For a time, the state institutions of the Ming Dynasty were operating rapidly, and the implementation of various decrees was smooth.

Many officials have seen through it for a long time. The cabinet is [-]% supportive of the little emperor. For the sake of the Ming Dynasty, they did not hesitate to offend their colleagues and be evil.

During this period, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng had a lot of infamy. Many officials secretly called Gao Gong the butcher of Gao and Zhang Juzheng as the first assistant of the raider.

Because Zhang Juzheng presided over the search of corrupt officials, all the silver taels, land deeds, and jewelry were registered and put into the national treasury.

The reason why the anti-corruption campaign was carried out so smoothly this time is mainly because of the cooperation of the East Factory, and the corrupt officials' behavior of greed and ink has nowhere to hide.

This is the original intention of the establishment of the East Factory, but the later descendants did not make better use of the East Factory, which made the East Factory become the eunuch that plagued the imperial court...

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After taking a nap, Zhu Yijun ate some afternoon desserts and asked Feng Bao to summon Hai Rui to the palace.

At this time, Hai Rui was drinking at Yang Bo's house.

Gao Yi was also present. There was a fire in Gao Yi's house, so he had been living in Yang Bo's house. Yang Bo was also a veteran of the three dynasties, and his reputation was only above the high arch, not under the high arch.