The Liu family successfully rebelled, and the Chinese army successfully established the Chinese Empire, but this does not mean that everything is over. All of this can only be said to be the beginning of the peak era of the Liu family.

The Liu Dynasty appeared again, and it was a unified dynasty, not a small court. It was the second powerful Liu family after the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Liu Yuanqiao claimed to be the descendant of Emperor Guangwu of Han, but everyone knows that he has no relationship with the royal family Mao. However, Liu Yuanqiao also mentioned it occasionally, so I am embarrassed to mention it more.

And they still have to face the same number of problems, and some things are not as easy as before.

In the past, what they had to consider was how to defeat the Ming army, seize the world from the Zhu family, and replace it, but now, what they had to consider was how to rule the world.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying that it is difficult to conquer the world, and it is even more difficult to defend the world. For these emperors, how to make the world come to great success for thousands of years is also a very serious problem.

Since Liu Yuanqiao's heroic talent has captured the world, what he needs to consider now is to formulate a system to pass on the Liu family's country from generation to generation.

In the past dynasties, what I fear most was that after I seized the world, after I lived my life, I would let my powerful ministers seize the world in a blink of an eye. This is what the emperor feared the most.

But no matter how afraid is, there is one thing that remains unchanged. This is because the emperor must be assisted by ministers, because no matter how capable the emperor is, he will never be able to finish everything. There are really few workaholics like Zhu Yuanzhang.

Since the combination of Jiang Shang and King Wen of Zhou suddenly rose up more than a thousand years ago, it has been popular in all dynasties where emperors lead civil and military officials with prime ministers and govern the world.

Since Jiang Taigong, the position of Prime Minister has officially entered the historical stage and has become the leader of civil and military officials. In history, a wise prime minister can prosper the country and make peace, or can also turn the tide down. If it is a treacherous prime minister, it will harm the country and the people.

The Ming Dynasty was established on the basis of the Yuan Empire, which suffered from great hardships from powerful ministers and prime ministers, and the powerful ministers were deposed and established with slightest remarks.

After learning from this experience and lesson, Zhu Yuanzhang killed Hu Weiyong, he refused to appoint the prime minister no matter what, because the prime minister's power was too great and posed too great a threat to the imperial power, so he distributed his rights to the six ministers.

Therefore, Hu Weiyong was the last prime minister in Chinese history. Although he had always had a cabinet chief for more than 200 years after the Ming Dynasty, leading civil and military officials and assisting the government, the chief minister was the chief minister. Some people called him the chief minister, the chief minister, and the grandfather, but no one called him the prime minister.

In fact, this is just to allocate the rights of the prime minister to six departments and the cabinet, which is equivalent to allocating the rights of one person to several people.

But these civil officials were not useless. They soon began to reverse the situation and used all officials to become the end of the imperial power and the scholars and officials to rule the world together.

The political system of the Ming Dynasty was that the imperial power and scholars ruled the world together. The emperor lived in the forbidden area and ruled with his priests. All officials guarded the world. This was the best combination and was also a practice that was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Because in all dynasties, there will inevitably be foolish monarchs and powerful ministers. These are factors that will cause the demise of the country. However, the huge power was allocated to the cabinet and to six ministries. It is difficult to rebel. As expected, there has not been a powerful minister threatening the imperial power for more than two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty.

However, doing this has its drawbacks. Although the cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty did not threaten the imperial power, the overall authority of the official threatened the imperial power.

In the past few decades, the emperor's power was basically trapped in the capital, which could be said to be that the government orders could not leave the Forbidden City and the imperial power would not be sub-county. There was no way for civil servants to hostage the entire civil servant group to deal with the emperor. The emperor had no other way except relying on eunuchs.

Liu Yuanqiao admired the long-lasting life of the Ming Dynasty, but did not admire the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and was forced to such poverty.

You must know that Liu Yuanqiao knew how rich the people of the Ming Dynasty were, how difficult it was for the emperor to make some money. The best metaphor was Emperor Wanli.

The people were extremely rich, and the emperor also knew that many places were rich, so he sent eunuchs to collect taxes, which angered the entire civil servant group and the gentry group. They opposed it openly and secretly, saying that the emperor's behavior was anger and resentful by the heavens and people, and they levyed heavy taxes.

This made Emperor Wanli very embarrassed and unable to get out of office.

Liu Yuanqiao was just sneering. These dog officials who were killed in heaven were punished, and they were extremely vicious and resentful. They could just impose heavy taxes. The emperor collected some taxes, which was the wrath of heaven and man.

The emperor was engaged in a small business, just to compete with the people for profit. The emperor could only rely on the income of the imperial village. If there were no eunuchs sent to collect money, it would not be enough.

If this set is to be used on Liu Yuanqiao, it will not work. If other emperors are concerned about their face, they will worry about what others say to live with the people and compete for profit with the people, but these words can't do anything to Liu Yuanqiao at all.

He knew very well how rich the people were. As for competing for profit with the people, they did not compete for profit with the people, but for profit with these gentry.

The biggest difference between Liu Yuanqiao and the Ming Dynasty was that he valued interests more than anything, so some officials said worriedly: "The Great China is to learn from the Yuan Dynasty and to include the country's taxes to the Semu people, and they will take them to manage them."

It is said that the Mongolian emperors at that time didn't know how to collect taxes, and they collected very little taxes. The cunning Seminister gave the emperor a very large number of contracts, so he would collect taxes, which made the people angry and resentful.

Liu Yuanshui would not do this, but he would not be as stupid as the emperor and government of the Ming Dynasty. He gave up these commercial taxes. Liu Yuanqiao not only would not give up commercial taxes, but would even organize the government and the court to do business and increase the government's income.

The overall problem of the Ming Dynasty was actually a problem of lack of money. One was short of money and it turned out that one had a disease and all kinds of conflicts arose.

In the words of the Liu family, there is only one disease in the Ming Dynasty, which is the disease of poverty. If the disease of poverty is cured, the other diseases will be cured. So don’t tell him about benevolence, righteousness, and morality, and don’t tell him about anything to gain fame. He only cares about money.

When the Ming Dynasty was founding, the tea tax could have an income of 200,000 to 300,000 yuan a year, which was enough to be worth a province's land tax. However, later, those pure moral gentlemen were allowed to collect taxes, and the more they collected, the less they were, they were only twenty or thirty taels a year. Only the Ming Dynasty could do such a scam.

Is it true that the people don’t have to pay taxes? These grassroots farmers still have to pay what they should pay. Only those gentry and powerful people don’t pay, and the money falls into their wallets. Liu Yuanqiao publicly criticized this kind of action.

If there were such officials in the Chinese dynasty, these people would have to push the Meridian Gate to behead them.

After some calculations, Liu Yuanqiao slowly began to formulate his policy of governing the country.

First of all, we must have a prosperous country and strong people. As long as we have money, everything will be easy to do. As long as the people are peaceful, the people will live a stable life. If others want to force them to rebel and win them back, it is not easy. We have a life of a warm kang with our wives and children. However, if you follow others to rebel, do you think everyone is Liu Yuanqiao!

After solving these problems, it is to solve the government's administrative problems. The cabinet policy of the Ming Dynasty has extremely positive significance, that is, the positive side is open and transparent in many places, and there is no soil for the powerful ministers to breed. The ministers are facing each other, which can easily allow the emperor to gain profits and take advantage of them.

However, they had encircled the entire Shidafu group and the civil servant group, fought against the imperial power, and forced the imperial power into the Forbidden City, and ordered the government to not leave the imperial city, which was also undesirable. In Liu Yuanqiao's eyes, although the world was not lost, it was actually equivalent to losing the world. This was equivalent to sharing the world equally with others, which was unacceptable.

It was because Liu Yuanqiao thought of this that he thought that he would continue to follow the Ming Dynasty politically, but he also had to restrict the cabinet and the privileges of Shilin. Only by eliminating their privileges and allowing them to pay taxes like other people, eliminating corruption, and eliminating tax evasion, can this be a plan to ensure the court's long-term stability.

From the perspective of human nature, it is impossible to eliminate corruption, because the power of being an official is in control. Even if you don’t extend your hand to others, others will stuff the money into your pocket. It is difficult for women to deliver the money to your door and the money to deliver the money to your door.

Liu Yuanqiao also understood this point. He was so rich that he could not refuse the red envelopes and silver stuffed in by others, let alone those others.

Corruption can be suppressed through political means, but tax evasion must be eliminated. The Ming Dynasty had such a big plate and such a big country, if it was a serious tax collection, its silver would be enough.

However, there were so many businesses in the Ming Dynasty, but not many paid taxes. At the beginning, the vassal kings did not pay taxes, and then the scholars and officials and the entire sages did not pay taxes. In the Ming Dynasty, the huge empire only received more than 4 million taels of land tax a year. How could a mere 4 million taels of silver be enough for the expenditure of the entire huge country?

Will the entire court not collect taxes? Of course, officials collect taxes. They made a clever name and made heavy taxes, as numerous as cows. However, these taxes have fallen into their hands, not into the court, not into the hands of the emperor. As a result, officials are extremely rich and noble, while the people are extremely poor. The people are not able to eat enough, and in the end they have to rebel, and the Ming Dynasty is destroyed.
Chapter completed!