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However, after Chongzhen gave up power to him, Yu Xiaotian did an in-depth study of the current situation of the Ming Dynasty's officialdom, and found that the Ming Dynasty's officialdom was indeed rotten. There were piles of bad debts everywhere, and no one could explain the current situation clearly.

The reserve status of treasuries and treasuries in various places.

So Yu Xiaotian had no choice but to order the Metropolitan Procuratorate to dispatch personnel to start going out of Beijing to check the grain and silver deposits in local government treasury.

In addition, in July, Yu Xiaotian personally proposed three major measures. One was to cancel the original increases in rates and taxes in various places, and first fundamentally reduce the heavy burdens currently borne by the people in various places.

The second is to announce the opening of sea bans, select Songjiang Prefecture, Ningbo Prefecture, Quanzhou Prefecture, and Guangzhou Prefecture to restore municipal shipping departments, fully lift the sea bans, allow merchants to conduct sea trade, and establish a tax collection system and formulate tax collection methods.

Fiscal revenue was increased by collecting taxes. The taxes collected by the municipal shipping bureaus established in various places were not reserved for local use and were directly transferred to the treasury of the Ministry of Household Affairs of the imperial court.

Just for this one item, Yu Xiaotian expects that in the first year of trial implementation, the shipping companies in these four places will be able to collect at least three million taels of silver, just like playing. If it is done properly and the personnel appointed are effective, the first

Earning four to five million taels of silver a year is just like playing around.

And now he no longer regards the sea as his forbidden land. Weitou Bay in Quanzhou Prefecture has also been officially handed over to the Municipal Shipping Division for management. Anyway, now that he has become the actual power of the Ming Dynasty, he continues to regard these things as

His private property no longer has any meaning.

The third one is that Yu Xiaotian proposed to completely cancel the tax exemption policy enjoyed by the nobles and nobles for hundreds of years in the Ming Dynasty, re-clear the land area, and implement the system of dividing the land into acres, so as to reduce the burden of the ordinary people at the bottom.

Taxes began to be levied on the powerful and powerful relatives who had enjoyed tax exemptions for a long time.

The first two opinions are acceptable, but the third opinion put forward by Yu Xiaotian was immediately opposed by those with vested interests in both the government and the public as soon as it was put forward.

This motion put forward by Yu Xiaotian can be said to have touched their vested interests in the most fundamental way. They are lying on the merit books of their ancestors, or they have finally obtained these benefits through studying and becoming officials. Now Yu Xiaotian

Of course it would make them feel very unhappy if they wanted to take it away all at once.

In the past, many of them did not have to pay any taxes to the court at all, but if Yu Xiaotian implements this system now, they will no longer be able to enjoy the benefits of tax exemption and will have to pay a large sum of taxes to the government and the court every year.

This is tantamount to taking money from their pockets, how can they agree to it?

This was like poking a hornet's nest when it came to Yu Xiaotian. Despite the collective opposition and resistance from officials and dignitaries from all over the country, the memorials insulting Yu Xiaotian could be said to be overwhelming like a torrential rain, almost almost killing everyone.

Yu Xiaotian drowned.

Yu Xiaotian looked at the piles of memorials from various places that resisted his suggestion and sneered. He had already been mentally prepared for this kind of thing. These worms who were lying on Ming Dynasty to enjoy themselves were now touched by him.

Of course, vested interests will not agree easily and will definitely put up some stubborn resistance.

In this case, he was not polite. Yu Xiaotian ordered the Ministry of Household Affairs to forcibly implement the plan he proposed. Regardless of whether the local authorities agreed or not, he would just carry it out forcefully.

In addition, he ordered that a tax department be established under the Ministry of Household Affairs to be responsible for tax collection across the country. Each government would set up an agency directly dispatched by the Ministry of Household Affairs of the imperial court. The person in charge would be called the Tax Envoy.

He presided over the collection of taxes in various places, strictly followed his requirements, re-cleared the land, and re-established the amount of tax collection in various places.

This matter cannot be accomplished by just saying a word. Before Yu Xiaotian came to Beijing, he had already arranged for someone to study this matter. It can be said that he had been thinking about it for a long time, and he was also prepared for the resistance he might encounter.

Fully anticipated.

When he launched this system, he had already considered the possible situations he would encounter, so he prepared a group of people in advance to be responsible for the implementation of this matter.

However, if you want to implement this system immediately and comprehensively throughout the Ming Dynasty, it is undoubtedly not something that can be achieved overnight. Simply establishing this taxation department under the Ministry of Household Affairs will require the mobilization of a lot of manpower. In addition, all parts of the country are now hearing that

He does not control many places, and many local officials have a wait-and-see attitude and resistance to his current actual control of the court. Even if he continues to enforce it, these local officials will not easily give in and act in accordance with his requirements.

Therefore, this also needs to be solved by force. As Shandong, which is closest to the capital, it has become a pilot for this tax reform. The other one is Yu Xiaotian's hometown, Fujian.

The reason why Shandong was chosen as the first trial place is that since Yan Jizu led his troops northward and was defeated and captured by the Yu Jiajun, Shandong has been short of governors. In these years, Shandong as a whole suffered first from the Denglai Rebellion and then from

They also encountered Jiannu who went south to join the invaders, which caused great damage to the social structure of the entire Shandong territory and some areas further north.

In the northern part of Shandong, the upper-class social structure of many rich families and nobles was the most severely damaged. In addition, Yu Xiaotian's advance layout in Shandong also allowed his influence to penetrate deeply into various parts of Shandong.

It has taken root deeply, so there will undoubtedly be relatively less temporary resistance to the implementation of this system in Shandong.

So Yu Xiaotian selected an official named Zhang Changfang from among the officials and asked him to go to Shandong to take over the post of governor of Shandong after Yan Jizu.

Zhang Changfang is less than forty years old. He used to be a court official who was not very successful and worked as a minor official under the Ministry of Household Affairs. However, this person is very knowledgeable. He had a good relationship with an insider of Hailang stationed in the capital. He often

After walking around and communicating with insiders, I discovered that Zhang Changfang is a very thoughtful person.

Moreover, he was very dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty's current strategy of land annexation and additional factions. He believed that the Ming Dynasty had accumulated too many bad policies over the past two hundred years, especially the annexation of land by local dignitaries, which made the people miserable. People like them

Enjoying the tax-free policy, it does not provide any financial support to the country, and it sticks to the place like a moth, constantly absorbing the people's fat and oil.

Therefore, the current chaos in the Ming Dynasty is inseparable from the current land annexation. The ordinary people at the bottom cannot make a living under the continuous increase of the imperial court, but they cannot touch any interests of these local dignitaries, and the benefits are lost.

They took over, but the most unlucky people were the ordinary people. This was one of the causes of the chaos in the world.

Coupled with natural disasters, refugee armies broke out in the northern provinces and caused chaos in the world.

These arguments of Zhang Changfang can be said to be more in line with Yu Xiaotian's views, so after Yu Xiaotian entered the capital, insiders in the capital introduced Zhang Changfang to Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian also paid special attention to Zhang Changfang, and took the time to have a long conversation with him. He found that this person was indeed quite far-sighted, looked at things more thoroughly, and was a useful person.

So this time when arranging the governorship of Shandong, Yu Xiaotian made an exception and promoted Zhang Changfang and sent him to Shandong. Before leaving, he specially summoned Zhang Changfang and asked him to open up the situation in Shandong first and implement this policy.

A new tax system.

Zhang Changfang was not only worried about Yu Xiaotian's bold approach, but also quite eager to try it. Yu Xiaotian's ideas and methods were much more radical than his previous ideas. If it could be implemented, it would

It relieved many heavy burdens on ordinary people and also increased considerable taxes for the court.

But if we want to truly implement this kind of policy of apportioning every village to every acre, and also cancel the preferential policies that local dignitaries have enjoyed for a long time, it is estimated that we will definitely encounter great resistance.

After hearing Zhang Changfang's worries, Yu Xiaotian sneered: "These people have been enjoying it for too long! While they are enjoying the huge benefits that Ming has brought to them, they do not bring any returns to Ming, and they also

Being domineering in a local area will bring disaster to one party.

Now is the time to deal with them! Just do it, I will give you soldiers and horses. If some people refuse to submit, just kill more. Presumably after these people have shed enough blood, no one will dare to jump.

Come out and oppose!”

After listening to Yu Xiaotian's words, Zhang Changfang couldn't help but feel a little chill in his heart. He thought that Yu Xiaotian was really a murderer. After all, he was a martial artist and was good at using knives. However, this was fine. If such a system were implemented at this time, if

If he wasn't tough, it would really be difficult to move forward at all. Since Yu Xiaotian asked him to kill people, he would just do it, not to mention that Yu Xiaotian made it clear to him and gave him soldiers and horses to help him suppress it.

Nowadays, who doesn’t know how powerful Yu Jiajun is? If someone really dares to resist, then as long as he has Yu Jiajun as his backing, what else can he have to fear?

So after Zhang Changfang received the order, he immediately took two battalions of Yu family soldiers and generals out of the capital and rushed to Jinan Prefecture, where he officially took office.

Someone in later generations wrote a biography for Zhang Changfang, saying that folk rumors said that Zhang Changfang was the number one fierce dog before Yu Xiaotian. Yu Xiaotian ordered him to go to Shandong to implement a new taxation system. This man was very tough. After he took office in Shandong, he immediately

We began to radically reform the local tax system and spread clear land everywhere.

As a result, some big businesses in Shandong stopped working immediately. They thought it was the past and they had the final say locally. Even if they went to the court, there were still people to protect them, especially some relatives of the emperor.

They are used to being arrogant in daily life. Even if they know that Yu Xiaotian is now the head of the imperial court, they still have the surname Zhu after all, right? They are all relatives of the emperor, do they have to bow to a foreign surname?

So this group of people was very powerful. Some of them beat up the government officials who were sent to clear the land, some of them cursed and drove them away, and some of them even asked their domestic slaves to beat the small officials who went there to death on the spot.

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