Maybe it was Zhu Yijun who had bodhicitta and tried to solve the problem of infant drowning and got a blessing. At the end of the seventh year of Wanli, Zhuang Jingjia scored twice and finally gave birth to the emperor's eldest son. For fear of dying in infancy, he did not name him for the time being - but gave a
The title of the King of Luo County.
The birth of the emperor's eldest son and legitimate son did not directly create a prince, which also set an example for those involved in the imperial family reform. As for the issue of the emperor's succession, Zhu Yijun evaluated his own body in this time and space and believed that there is no rush for the time being. Moreover, this issue must be dealt with in the empire.
They must be resolved together when implementing political reform. Zhu Yijun judged that a fight between dragons and tigers would be inevitable in the future.
When King Luo was born, Zhu Yijun did not offer a general amnesty. He only accepted congratulations and gifts from ministers and vassals, and congratulated him with rewards. He also issued an edict stipulating the conditions for future pardons:
Except for the empress dowager and the emperor who are ill and need amnesty to pray for blessings, in other cases such as the canonization of queens, the birth of princes, and the establishment of princes, the court will no longer grant amnesty to the world.
In accordance with the emperor's promise to the two palaces, after the queen confirmed her pregnancy, Zhu Yijun began to let the concubines in the harem have equal access to rain and dew. Because the medical school has studied the relationship between a woman's pregnancy and her menstrual period, the harem Shangyi Bureau made arrangements for the emperor's concubines.
After making corresponding arrangements, the results were unexpectedly good.
Within three months, Concubine Yifei was diagnosed with a positive pulse. Then good news came frequently: Concubine Wang Zhao, Concubine Zhang Duan, Concubine Li Jing, and Concubine Chen Shu concubine were pregnant one after another, making the two queen mothers think they were living in a dream.
Zhu Yijun reversed the decline of the royal family's heirs, which had been difficult since Xiaozong, and most of the people in the world were delighted. Especially when the noble ministers saw that the emperor was so capable, they were all happy - congratulations seemed to come like snowflakes.
Throughout the dynasties, the heirs of the emperor's family were not just a personal matter, but a top priority related to the stability of the world and the sustainability of peace. Therefore, an emperor with strong fertility is worthy of praise and encouragement.
And Zhu Yijun made so many concubines pregnant with dragon seeds in one breath, which is simply an example among the emperor and an elite among the emperor.
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At the beginning of the eighth year of Wanli, after more than two years of piloting, summarizing experiences and lessons, and improving the plan, Prime Minister and Cabinet Minister Zhang Juzheng requested the order, and Zhu Yijun approved, and a whipping law was launched nationwide.
At the beginning of the reform, Zhang Juzheng pointed out that the smooth implementation of the One Whip Law depended on the results of land clearing and household reorganization.
The nationwide clearing of abbots and household registration, which began in the sixth year of Wanli, was finally completed at the end of the seventh year of Wanli with the strong support of Zhu Yijun and the constraints of severe punishments and laws.
A total of 9 million hectares of new land were cleared nationwide during this period of clearing and household registration, which was three times the amount achieved in the original era. The national population census finally fell to 169 million, which was nearly 169 million more than in the original era.
half.
The achievement of such great results is actually inseparable from Zhu Yijun's conscious efforts to eliminate relevant obstacles in the past few years after taking power.
Regarding the political pressure faced by Qingzhang, Zhu Yijun did not let Zhang Juzheng become the enemy of the world with the determination and perseverance to "break up his family and sink his clan" and "die from exhaustion" like Wanli in the original time and space.
Based on a nationwide class analysis and detailed survey of political forces, Zhu Yijun first attacked the gentry in Jiangnan over the past few years. Using the "Songjiang Slave Revolution" as an introduction, he launched a severe crackdown on the gentry who over-occupied land and concealed their household registration.
The Jin gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, represented by Xu Jie, was stunned by the emperor's series of tactics. Moreover, the rise of newspapers deprived the Jin gentry of their right to speak in the clear stream of scholars, so that their resistance did not make waves at all.
The successive assassinations of the emperor and Zhang Wenming gave Zhu Yijun the legitimacy and excuse to vigorously clean up and suppress the Jin gentry. The Jin gentry in the north and south, who had experienced the white terror, completely lost the will to resist the edict of the imperial abbot, and their acceptance level was completely beyond expectations.
Zhang Juzheng’s prediction.
As for Xungui's land occupation and concealment of household registration, Zhu Yijun adopted the method of redemption. The salt auction and the policy of exchanging land for points harvested most of Xungui's land. Later, Zhu Yijun released Xungui and asked the big landowners to focus on
In the maritime trade, the nobles represented by the British Duke vomited a large amount of land.
For the clan that was the most difficult to crack down on, Zhu Yijun took advantage of clan reform, using sticks and carrots at the same time, and the land issue was solved relatively well.
These three parties are the three political forces in the original time and space that have the strongest resistance to Qingzhang and Yiyibufa. After being manipulated by Zhu Yijun, the Qingzhang work was carried out very smoothly - even if there was some noise and resistance, it was a local problem and did not
It caused fluctuations in the overall situation. For these small problems, Zhang Juzheng used all possible methods and made clear arrangements.
In Zhu Yijun's view, after the Ming Dynasty launched the colonial model, the contradiction between man and land will be greatly alleviated in the future. As for why it is not now a step further to "the gentry receives food from one body", it is mainly due to the following considerations.
On the one hand, after calculations, after the comprehensive clearing and household registration, the imperial court comprehensively strengthened the management of the tax exemption quota for scholars. The increase in taxes from "the gentry paying taxes as one" was very small, which was completely out of proportion to the political price paid by the imperial court.
Secondly, "the gentry pays taxes as one body" is mainly to collect taxes in a one-size-fits-all way when the efficiency of court management is low. This is contrary to Zhu Yijun's purpose of using tax exemption means to regulate social management in the future. And more importantly, it is a whip in this time and space.
In fact, the law has progressed compared to the original time and space - the tax exemption for scholars was realized in the form of tax refund, that is, they paid the tax first, and then the court refunded it according to their tax exemption amount.
On the surface, this policy seems to be like taking off your pants and farting. In this time and space, except for a few people such as Wang Guoguang, almost no one understands what kind of magic operation this is - it seems that there is nothing except increasing the workload at the grassroots level.
usefulness.
But Zhu Yijun, a former tax director, knows that this is by no means unnecessary. The main function of the policy of paying taxes first and then taxing back is to deeply rooted in the concept of "equal taxation for all" and to help everyone develop the habit of paying taxes.
Secondly, in the future, as the financial situation changes, the scope and tax rate of tax refunds can be adjusted at any time. By then, the data and information left during the tax refund process will greatly reduce the workload of new tax collection.
Thirdly, "the gentry all pays the grain" is a tax policy based on Yongzheng and Kangxi's so-called "benevolent government" of "never increasing taxes", which merges the oral taxes into the land - this will bring benefits to industry, commerce and even urbanization after the development.
, the collection of personal income tax brings great resistance.
The last one, the collection of Dingkou Fu also protected the achievements of the Qing Dynasty and household registration - making the national census a normalized work, which was conducive to the government's governance.
Due to the above reasons, Zhu Yijun weighed it again and again, and after detailed analysis and discussion with the cabinet, the newly introduced whipping law did not reach the point of "the gentry receiving food as one body" - it was just a matter of "seeking truth from facts."
During the implementation of the original time and space strip whip law, the people in the south of the Yangtze River benefited from it, and most thought it was good governance. However, in the north, due to insufficient currency input and circulation during the implementation of the one whip law, it turned into evil in some areas.
Law.
Farmers in the north concentrated on selling grain during the tax payment season, because the grain market was not as developed as in the south, resulting in a situation of "money is expensive and grain is cheap", which greatly increased their tax burden. Moreover, the corruption of officialdom in the north was worse than that in the south at that time, resulting in tax collection
In the process of collecting taxes, local officials increased the "fire consumption" indiscriminately, which also increased the taxation in disguise.
In this time and space, when Zhu Yijun, Zhang Juzheng and others introduced a whipping method, they consciously selected many state capitals in the north, south and south of the imperial court and in the border areas for piloting, which fully exposed the problem.
At the same time, the industrial complex laid out by Zhu Yijun had most of its production links in the north due to mineral resources, which in turn strengthened the market economy in the north of the empire and increased the amount of money invested in the north of the empire in disguise.
Moreover, because of the "Li Chaodou jumped into a river to save his mother" incident in this time and space, the imperial court, which was in relatively good financial condition, significantly increased the salaries of Beijing officials, and then invested a large amount of silver into the circulation link in the north, objectively alleviating the "money shortage".
As for the problem of fire consumption in the process of melting loose silver into official silver, Zhu Yijun directly copied Emperor Yongzheng's "fire consumption returned to the public".
In the fifth year of Wanli, the imperial court gave a large-scale salary increase to Beijing officials, which caused dissatisfaction among many local officials - we were doing the hardest and most tiring work at the grassroots level, and our promotions were slower than those of Beijing officials, and now our wages are still one year behind.
Jiezi, doesn’t this force us to commit corruption?
However, the imperial court at that time was indeed unable to support the increase of salaries for all officials in the world, and it had no choice but to only take care of the officials in the capital. Otherwise, if there were two more Li Chaodou like that, the emperor would lose his face.
But the subtext of not increasing salaries for local officials is that local officials have a way to get money, and they do not need to increase their salaries. This is a bad direction in itself. But before the whip law is implemented, the court cannot
Increase taxes on the common people to maintain integrity, so this matter has been delayed for the past two years.
After the strip-whip law was piloted, some local officials took advantage of the fire to influence them. Some of the more sinister ones actually received 30% of the tax, which actually increased the taxes on the local people. But the pilot was to fully expose the problem.
Therefore, along with the full implementation of the strip whip law, there was also the later Emperor Yongzheng's policy of "returning fire consumption to the public and raising honest silver". After a large amount of data statistics, due to the different quality of silver in the pilot state capitals, the average cost of fire consumption was three points
.So the imperial court explicitly stipulated that the fire consumption was 13%, and if one more point was added, it would be considered a crime of "corruption".
All fire consumption was collected by the Chief Secretary and distributed uniformly to the lower levels after being registered. The edict said: "Instead of using fire consumption in states and counties to support the superiors, how about the superiors setting aside fire consumption to support the states and counties."
This system has brought immediate results. First, it directly increases local fiscal and tax revenue and improves local disaster response capabilities. Secondly, it determines an income system that combines salary and financial support, which eliminates the original excessive tax collection and arbitrary taxation.
The discretionary power was eliminated, and gray income was converted into explicit subsidies, which reduced the risk of corruption. Thirdly, the fire consumption standards were uniformly stipulated, which also reduced the burden on farmers.
Attributing fire consumption to the Chief Secretary also has the benefit of increasing the control of provincial local governments over lower levels. According to the original design of the salt policy reform, the delineation of salt sales areas was based on counties. This policy directly caused
This creates a situation in which the county is rich but the government is poor, and the province is poor, which is not conducive to the control of county governance at the provincial and government levels.
Now that the fire consumption is under the control of the province, the imperial court allows the Chief Secretary to introduce the standards for the issuance of Yanglian Silver in the province, which adds a powerful starting point for the governance of each province based on local conditions.
The disbursement of money to support integrity, in turn, widened the income gap between local officials and officials in the capital. Take Wang Tingxi, governor of Sichuan, who was born in the attendant's office at the end of the eighth year of Wanli, as an example. His money to support integrity was as high as 5,500 taels.
Nearly ten times his annual salary.
Although the officials in the capital were covetous of this high income, they were not very envious of it. Because the political reform of the imperial court had not yet deepened at this time, local officials' staff and other personnel needed to be paid by individual officials. Therefore, Yanglianyin could not yet create the "three-year cleanup".
The effect of "prefect, one hundred thousand snowflakes and silver".