Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Xiong Rulin, courtesy name Yuyin, was born in Yuyao, Zhejiang.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, he was a Jinshi. He served as the magistrate of Tong'an County, Huke Gishizhong, and the inspector of Fujian Province, Zhaomo.

During the Hongguang period, he was called back, and he was restored to the household department to give Shizhong, and then to the official department to give Shizhong.

In history, the Hongguang Dynasty was destroyed, and Xiong Rulin insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty, but she was served by Lu Wang Zhu Yihai, who became a cabinet minister in the court of Lu Wang Jianguo.

From the data of later generations, apart from Xiong Rulin's insistence on resisting the Qing Dynasty, there is nothing worthy of praise in other aspects.

Therefore, hearing Xiong Rulin raised the issue of the permanent tenancy system this time, Aimee Zhu was quite pleasantly surprised.

There are indeed problems with the permanent tenancy system, but there are too many tenants in the Ming Dynasty, and the permanent tenancy system must not be completely reformed.

Therefore, after listening to Xiong Rulin's words, Zhu Wei pondered for a while and said, "What do you think about canceling the item of 'tenants can re-tenant' in the permanent tenancy system?"

When Zhu Yu and Hao Guangming studied the permanent tenancy system, they felt that most of the troubles it brought about were caused by the item of "re-tenancy".

If the tenants can no longer rent out the land, the ownership of the land can be cleared.

Many ministers also understand this truth.It's just that the retenancy of land involves the interests of a large number of people. Although tenants are the main tenants, there is also a class of gentry and landlords.

In addition, the problems brought about by the permanent tenancy system are far less serious than other problems in Ming Dynasty, so no one cares about them.

But now that Zhu Yu wants to carry out the land tax reform, the conditions are extremely mature, and it becomes a matter of convenience to get rid of a major drawback in the permanent tenancy system.

Therefore, after a little thought, all the ministers agreed aloud.

Aimee Zhu decided to leave Xiong Rulin at this point, thinking that if Xiong Rulin could make more contributions in the land tax reform, she could be promoted to be a member of the household department, a foreigner, or even a doctor.

Although Xiong Rulin is less than 40 years old and relatively young, there were many ministers who were younger than him in the Zhaowu Dynasty.

Therefore, as long as you have the ability, youth will never be an obstacle to promotion.

Afterwards, Aimee Zhu and the ministers discussed other issues in Qingzhang Tianmu.

Shen Shaofang, the right servant of the household department, said: "Your Majesty, the tax exemptions for gentry in various places are different, which is not conducive to the clearing of the land. Please take advantage of the land tax reform to unify the tax exemptions for the gentry in Ming Dynasty.

This move can not only reduce the difficulty of clearing the land, but also prevent the gentry from abusing their tax exemption rights in the future. "

After finishing speaking, Shen Shaofang took a careful look at Aimee Zhu, wanting to see Aimee Zhu's happy expression.

This suggestion was actually an impromptu thought by him referring to Xiong Rulin's suggestion of the disadvantages of the permanent tenancy system, in order to show Aimi Zhu his attitude of supporting the New Deal and his personal knowledge.

He knew that Auntie Zhu had always been dissatisfied with Zhang Youyu, the Minister of the Household Department, and just made do with it.

Therefore, as long as he can gain the trust of Aimee Zhu, he is likely to replace Zhang Youyu as the new Minister of the Household Department and then enter the cabinet.

Although the power of cabinet ministers has been greatly reduced today, and it is far from the glory of the past, they are still cabinet ministers after all.

Shen Shaofang thought that his proposal would definitely impress Aimee Zhu, but Aimee Zhu said calmly, "No need."

No need?
It was difficult for Shen Shaofang to react for a while.

Many other ministers also showed expressions of incomprehension.

Shen Shaofang also thought that Auntie Zhu was unwilling to offend the gentry group, so she persuaded again: "Your Majesty's martial arts skills are so great now that no one in the world dares to follow suit. If you don't use this land tax reform to get rid of the disadvantages of the gentry's tax exemptions, it may be difficult to handle it in the future." This matter!" ...

What Shen Shaofang said was sincere, and those who didn't know thought he was not a gentleman.

How could Aimi Zhu not know the drawbacks of the gentry's different tax exemption rights?
But what she wants to do is to directly cancel the gentry's tax exemption right, which is a sharp cut, not a change like Shen Shaofang's.

Among the four measures of land tax reform, the gentry's integrated payment of grain is the most unacceptable to the gentry class. If it is not done well, it is likely to arouse fierce resistance from many gentry.

Therefore, Auntie Zhu is not going to take it out before the first two steps are finished.

It is not convenient to say at this time.

She thought for a while, and said: "This land tax reform is also a pilot project. In the early stage, it only involved Yingtian Mansion, Nanzhili and Jiangbei Province. In the whole of Nanzhili, the tax exemption for gentry is about the same. It is meaningless to reform at this time. "

After hearing this, Shen Shaofang thought that Auntie Zhu accepted his proposal, but felt that it was not suitable to do it at this time.

So he bowed and said, "Your Majesty is wise."

Some people in the palace who hate courtiers flattering the monarch, such as Huang Daozhou, not only frowned at Shen Shaofang after hearing these words, but thought: I didn't expect that Shen Shixing's grandson would be a flatterer, it would be embarrassing for his grandfather.

Shen Shaofang's grandfather, Shen Shixing, was the No. [-] scholar in the Jiajing period, and a cabinet minister recommended by Zhang Juzheng on his deathbed during the Wanli period.

Shen Shaofang's father, Shen Yongmao, was a Jinshi in the Wanli period, and also became the Minister of the Ministry of War in the early years of Chongzhen.

Therefore, Shen Shaofang is a real three-generation official with extraordinary background.

Because of this, he flattered the emperor in order to get promoted, which made Huang Daozhou feel contemptuous.

Aimee Zhu didn't care.

As an emperor, there are too many people who want to please and flatter her. Although she has only been an emperor for half a year, she has long been immune to it.

At the same time, as long as the courtiers don't flatter her so much that it makes her sick, she won't take it to heart.

Again, as long as you are capable, she is willing to use it no matter if you are a courtier or someone who likes to flatter you.

This meeting on the first step of the land tax reform, "clearing the land and acres", lasted for three days, and many related specific matters were finalized.

For example, completely use the new measurement unit in Qingzhang Tianmu.

Although these unit standards came from abroad in later generations, there is no international universal measurement unit in this time and space.Now that Auntie Zhu took it out, it is naturally considered to be from Daming in this time and space.

What's more, in the future, it would be the most convenient way for Ming to borrow many scientific and technological materials and technologies from later generations and replace them with later generations' international common measurement units.If you have to use some of Daming's current units, it will be ten times more difficult to improve Daming's technological level as soon as possible.

In fact, among the many military factories run by the imperial court in the Ming Dynasty, the measurement units of later generations have already been fully adopted.

In addition, although the names of weights and measures have not changed every time the dynasty of China changes, the actual standards have been changed repeatedly.

Therefore, it is not unacceptable for the people of Ming Dynasty to change Auntie Zhu's name and actual standards together.

At the same time, the use of new measurement units, new algorithms, and even Arabic numerals can effectively prevent the local government from using the old set of land data to the court, and make the clearing of Zhang Zhang's fields more thorough.

Of course, this will also greatly increase the workload of officials in the court to implement the policy of land tax reform—but before Zhu Yu asked the Ministry of Households to recruit thousands of officials and train them for nearly half a year, isn't it just to make efforts in this matter?
Concerning the "land tax reform" imperial meeting, Zhu Yuxi did not ask for secrecy, because after the meeting, that is, on December [-]st, the Qingzhang Tianmu will be carried out in Yingtianfu.

Because of this, during the meeting held by Auntie Zhu, some relevant information was continuously spread out, causing Yingtian Mansion and even the entire Nanzhili and Jiangbei provinces to stir up undercurrents...
Duke Wei's mansion, Zhanyuan.

The big butler Xu Changfu hurried into the place where Xu Wenjue usually spends his leisure time.

That's right, Xu Wenjue spends his days at home, not outside.Because Wei Guogong's mansion is too big, being at home is almost the same as being outside.

Zhanyuan, a famous scenic spot in Nanjing in later generations, is now only a part of Wei Guogong's mansion.The later Bailuzhou Park was called Dongyuan in the Ming Dynasty, and it was just a separate garden of Wei Guogong's mansion.