Daming: I help my wife be the empress

In fact, regarding the land tax reform, Zhu Yuxi had already discussed with Hao Guangming, which is to learn from the series of reforms in Yongzheng in history.

First clear the ten acres of land, and then divide the tenements into the acres, then the gentry pay the grain as a whole, and finally legislate to limit the maximum land rent.

With this arrangement, the lives of ordinary farmers and tenants in Daming will be much easier.

However, Auntie Zhu is not going to release all four big moves at once, because it will be too painful for the landlords, and it will inevitably arouse the resistance of the landlord class.

Although Auntie Zhu now has an army of more than 80, she is not afraid of the resistance of the landlord class, but she does not want to cause too much turmoil.

Moreover, now that the landlord and gentry class has the right to speak in the vast countryside, it is very difficult for her to implement the four major measures at once.

Not to mention the lack of staff to implement it, ordinary people will be bewitched by the landlord and gentry class and stand on the opposite side of the imperial court.

Therefore, Auntie Zhu prepared to bloodlett the gentry and landlords, and in the process, built a huge team for land tax reform and maintenance, 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 think that if we want to carry out the reform of land tax, we must first clear the acres of land." Zhang Youyu, Minister of the Ministry of household affairs, was the first to get up to express his opinion.

But many people know about the "Qingzhang Tianmu".Because all dynasties wanted to get rid of the malpractices of land administration, they had to clear up the land.

Not to mention, Zhang Juzheng carried out Qingzhang Tianmu during his reform, and took it as the last reform policy.

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It's a pity that Qingzhang Tianmu had just begun, and Zhang Juzheng died before it could be completed.

People die.

All other new policies have been abolished, not to mention the new policy of Qingzhang Tianmu, which touched the big pie of the three major vested interest groups of the clan, nobles, and gentry landlords.

If it weren't for the fact that the current situation is very different from that in the early years of Wanli, Zhang Youyu would definitely be sprayed to death by a large number of conservative ministers if he mentioned "Qingzhang Tianmu" as soon as he came up.

But now he only mentioned such a thing at the beginning, but it was looked down upon by many people.

Even if they don't take history as a guide, all the ministers know that since the reorganization of the cabinet ministries before Aimee Zhu ascended the throne, the Ministry of Household Affairs has been asked to train batch after batch of officials for clearing Zhang's fields.

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

After half a year, thousands of such officials have been trained!
As the person in charge of this matter, if Zhang Youyu didn't know that the first step of Zhu Yu's land tax reform was to clear the land, then he would not have to do it as the Minister of the Ministry of Households.

"My minister believes that the most important thing to carry out land tax reform is to do a good job in the selection and appointment of officials." Chief Assistant Yuan Jixian was the second to express his opinion, "No matter how good a policy is, it will be difficult to implement it without competent officials to lead it."

Huang Daozhou, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, said: "The land tax reform is of great importance, and it should be implemented on a trial basis. I think it is better to follow the previous new policies of the Ministry of Finance, the Court of Justice, and the Police Department, and implement it in Yingtianfu for three months, and then implement it to the entire South." Zhili. After great success, it will be extended to other provinces.” …

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Listening to the various suggestions made by the courtiers below, which basically contributed to the land tax reform, and no one objected, Auntie Zhu couldn't help but nodded with a smile.

If someone dared to come forward to oppose the land tax reform in court at this time, she would not be polite.

But Auntie Zhu is very clear that this does not mean that no one opposes the land tax reform, but that the opponents are all hiding under the water, waiting for opportunities to move.

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

It is estimated that under her suppression, even if there is no major turmoil, there will definitely be a lot of small bloody conflicts.

No, Xie Xuelong, Minister of the Patrol Department, quickly mentioned related issues.

"Your Majesty, in the past, landowners and some gentry would block the clearing of Zhang's land, and many common people would often be bewitched by this generation to participate in it, blocking the progress of Qingzhang's land.

This time Qingzhang Tianmu will inevitably encounter this kind of thing, how to solve it, the court must make regulations early.

Otherwise, the officials below will inevitably abuse their power in the name of land tax reform, which will stigmatize land tax reform and make it difficult to carry out the reform. "

After Xie Xuelong finished speaking, the Hall of Martial Heroes fell silent, and no one dared to answer for a while.

Because this matter will offend many people as soon as you open your mouth—how many officials in the government and the opposition are not from the gentry and landlord class?Even if individuals don't care, there will be relatives and friends who care about the interests of the field.

Therefore, it is really hard to say how to convict those who blocked Qingzhang Tianmu.

Not to mention that it won't have any effect, it will also cause dissatisfaction with Aimee Zhu, who thinks that you and the imperial court are not of the same mind and only think of self-interest.

Be serious, if the matter gets out, you may be scolded by many gentry and landlords, even resented by relatives and friends, even assassinated.

Ma Shiying lowered his head slightly, with a hesitant look on his face, thinking whether he should stand up and say this.

After all, when Aimee Zhu agreed to keep him in the cabinet, she wanted 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 hard, so he was weighing how many crimes should be convicted and how to punish them.

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

Unexpectedly, less than ten breaths later, I heard Zhu Yu's crisp voice.

"The matter is simple. Now Jiangbei, Hubei, Henan, Shandong, Beizhili, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu are all short of population, and people always have to relocate.

If someone stands up to obstruct the New Deal, his land and house will be confiscated, and his whole family will be moved to the provinces north of the Yangtze River for resettlement.

After moving over, let the local government redistribute the land in accordance with the new land tax regulations. In the past, it was too unfair to women to divide the land by adult men. Therefore, I decided that in the new policy, women can also share the land as men when they grow up. ! "

As a powerful empress, Aimee Zhu certainly wants to fight for some rights for women.She has long wanted to mention the matter of counting women into the adult.

After Aimee Zhu said this, all the ministers were taken aback, probably because they did not expect Aimee Zhu to have such a bold and outrageous proposal, and she was determined to carry it out.

When he came back to his senses, the chief assistant Yuan Jixian was the first to say: "Your Majesty, this is absolutely impossible!"

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

She was thinking, now that the Qing captives have been driven out of the pass, and the court has stabilized.If Yuan Jixian, the chief assistant, still can't play any positive role, but instead prevents her from implementing the New Deal, then it should be replaced.

"This..." Yuan Jixian thought for a while, and knew that it was impossible to persuade with etiquette.

If the saying that "women should be at home with their husbands and children, and farming and fighting are men's business" is used, it will definitely negate Zhu Wei, the empress.

After all, Yuan Jixian was a local governor, and he was not a person who wanted to be famous. He pondered for a while and said: "Your Majesty, if a woman becomes an adult, she can share the land like a man, not to mention whether the common people can accept it. Come to a series of questions.

First, there are only so many fields in the world today, and it is not enough to divide the fields with men, let alone add women?Maybe we are going through war right now, the population has dropped sharply, and there are fields to divide, but what about decades or hundreds of years later?
Second, women always have to marry. If a woman marries into her husband's family, what should be done with the land to which she belongs?

If he is allowed to marry with the land, the local people will not be willing, and even the people will not want to marry their daughters, which is not conducive to the people's reproduction.

However, if he is not allowed to marry with the land and divide the land in the husband's home, he will inevitably be resisted by the husband's home, making it more difficult for a man to marry a wife, and it is also not conducive to reproduction. "