In fact, regarding the land tax reform, Zhu Yulao had already discussed it with Hao Guangming, and that was to learn from the series of reforms of Yongzheng in history.

First, the land was cleared, then the land was distributed among the land, then the gentry paid the grain as one, and finally, legislation was introduced to limit the maximum land rent.

With this set of rules, the lives of ordinary farmers and tenant farmers in Ming Dynasty will be much easier.

However, Zhu Yuyao was not prepared to unleash all four ultimate moves at once, because this would be too painful for the landlords and would inevitably arouse resistance from the landlord class.

Although Zhu Yuluo now has more than 800,000 troops, he is not afraid of the resistance of the landlord class, but he does not want to cause too much turmoil.

Moreover, now that the landowning gentry class has the say in the majority of rural areas, it will be difficult for them to implement the four major measures at once.

Not to mention the lack of staff to implement it, the common people will be deceived by the landlords and gentry class and stand on the opposite side of the court.

Therefore, Zhu Yuyao was ready to bloodlett the gentry and landlord class with a knife. In the process, he established a huge land tax reform and maintenance team, and gradually gained the trust of the common people through propaganda.

Anyway, she has plenty of time now and is not in a hurry.

"I believe that if we want to carry out land tax reform, we must first clear the land acres." Zhang Youyu, the Minister of Household Affairs, was the first to stand up and express his opinion.

But many people are aware of the matter of "clearing the land and clearing the land." This is because in order to eliminate the abuses of land administration in every dynasty, the land must be cleared.

Not to mention, during Zhang Juzheng's reforms, he carried out land clearing and regarded it as the last reform policy.

Unfortunately, Qingzhang Tianmu had just begun and was far from being completed, so Zhang Juzheng died.

When people die, government ceases.

All other New Deals have been abolished, not to mention the New Deal that clarified the land ownership of one's father-in-law and affected the three major vested interest groups: the clan, nobles, gentry and landlords.

If the current situation had not been very different from that in the early Wanli years, Zhang Youyu would have been scolded by a large number of conservative ministers for mentioning "clearing the land" as soon as he came up.

But now that he only mentioned this one thing at the beginning, he was looked down upon by many people.

Even if they don't take history as a guide, all ministers know that since Zhu Yusao reorganized the cabinet ministries before he ascended the throne, he asked the Ministry of Household Affairs to train batch after batch of officials to clear the land.

At the end of May, the Ministry of Household Affairs has been recruiting people who are literate and can do simple arithmetic as officials, teaching them how to clear land and conducting a series of trainings.

In half a year, thousands of such officials have been trained!

As the person in charge of this matter, Zhang Youyu would not have had to do this as the Minister of Household Affairs if he did not know that the first step in Zhu Yu's land tax reform was to clear out the land acres.

"I believe that in order to carry out land tax reform, the most important thing is to do a good job in the selection of officials." Chief Assistant Yuan Jixian expressed his second opinion, "No matter how good the policy is, it will be difficult to implement it without capable officials to lead it."

Huang Daozhou, the Minister of Rites, said: "The land tax reform is of great importance and should be implemented on a pilot basis first. I think it is better to imitate the previous new policies of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Patrol, and implement it on a pilot basis in Yingtian Prefecture for three months, and then implement it throughout the entire South China Sea.

After achieving great results, we will promote it to other provinces."

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Listening to the various suggestions put forward by the ministers below, most of which were to promote the reform of land tax, and no one objected, Zhu Yuyao couldn't help but smile and nod.

If anyone dared to show up in court to oppose the land tax reform at this time, she would not be polite.

But Zhu Yuyao knew very well that this did not mean that no one opposed the land tax reform, but that the opponents were hiding underwater, waiting for opportunities.

And in this way, if the opponents make some small moves when implementing the land tax reform, it will cause a lot of trouble.

It is estimated that under her suppression, even if it does not lead to major turmoil, there will definitely be a lot of small bloody conflicts.

No, Jie Xuelong, Shangshu of the Patrol Department, quickly mentioned related issues.

"Your Majesty, landowners and some gentry have always blocked the clearing of land, and many common people are often seduced by these people to participate in it, blocking the progress of land clearing.

This kind of thing will inevitably happen to the Qing Dynasty's father-in-law, and the court must make early regulations on how to solve it.

Otherwise, officials below will inevitably abuse their power in the name of land tax reform, stigmatizing land tax reform and making it difficult for the reform to proceed."

After Jie Xuelong said this, the Wuying Hall suddenly became quiet, and no one dared to answer the question for a while.

Because this matter will offend many people as soon as it is mentioned - how many officials in the government and the public are not from the gentry and landlord class? Even if they don't care personally, there will be relatives and friends who care about the interests of the land.

Therefore, it is hard to say exactly how to convict those who obstructed the clearing of land.

Not only will it be ineffective, but it will also arouse Zhu's dissatisfaction, thinking that you are not of the same mind as the court and only think about personal gain.

Once the matter is taken seriously, if word spreads about it, it may be scolded by many gentry and landlords, or even resented by relatives and friends, or even assassinated.

Ma Shiying lowered his head slightly, with a hesitant look on his face, wondering whether he should stand up and speak out.

After all, Zhu Yurao had promised to keep him in the cabinet just to use him for such things.

It's just that Ma Shiying didn't want to offend the huge group of gentry and landlords too severely, so he was weighing how heavy the crime should be and how he should be punished.

He was not in a hurry because he didn't think anyone else would dare to speak like this.

Unexpectedly, less than ten breaths later, Zhu Aonao's crisp voice was heard.

"The matter is simple. Nowadays, Jiangbei, Hubei, Henan, Shandong, Beizhili, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu all lack population, and people always have to migrate.

If anyone stood up to obstruct the New Deal, his property and house would be confiscated and his family would be relocated to the provinces north of the Yangtze River.

After moving here, let the local government redistribute the fields in accordance with the new land tax regulations - in the past, it was too unfair to women to allocate fields based on the argument of adult men. Therefore, I decided that in the new policy, women who are adults can also receive fields like men.

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As a strong empress, Zhu Yuluo certainly wanted to fight for some rights for women. She had long wanted to mention the inclusion of women in the adult ranks.

After Zhu Yuyao said this, all the ministers were stunned. They probably did not expect that Zhu Yurao would make such a bold and outrageous proposal, and she was determined to implement it.

After coming back to his senses, Chief Assistant Yuan Jixian was the first to speak out: "Your Majesty, this is absolutely impossible!"

"Oh, why not?" Zhu Aao looked at Yuan Jixian with some unkindness.

She was thinking that now that the Qing prisoners had been driven out and the court had stabilized, if Yuan Jixian, the chief minister, still failed to play a positive role and instead hindered her from implementing the New Deal, then he should be replaced.

"This..." Yuan Jixian thought for a while and realized that it was impossible to advise with etiquette.

If we take the argument that "women should stay at home, take care of their husbands and raise children, farming and fighting are men's business", it will definitely deny Zhu Yuluo as the female emperor.

After all, Yuan Jixian had been a local governor and was not a person seeking fame. He pondered for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, if a woman comes of age and can be divided into fields like a man, not to mention whether the people can accept it, even if the court enforces it, it will still lead to it."

Here comes a series of questions.

First, there are so many fields in the world that it is not enough for men to divide the fields, let alone women? Maybe we are experiencing war and the population has dropped sharply, and there are fields to divide, but what about decades or hundreds of years from now?

Secondly, women must marry. If a woman marries into her husband's family, how should the land she belongs to be dealt with?

If she is allowed to marry off her land, the local people will not be willing to do so, and the people may even be unwilling to marry off their daughters, which is not conducive to the reproduction of the people.

But if they are not allowed to marry with the land, and the land is divided where the husband's family is located, the land will inevitably be resisted by the husband's family, making it more difficult for men to marry, and it is also not conducive to reproduction."
Chapter completed!