The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 606
At this moment, no matter whether it is the title of the Prince, the honor of the Three Lords and the Three Soldiers, or the actual control over Zheng Jun...

It's all too ostentatious!
No matter which emperor sat on the dragon chair above, it was impossible to tolerate Zheng Chenggong's continued stay in the court.

There are only two choices before Zheng Chenggong.

Either retreat bravely, leave your name in history, and be a figure like Duke Zhou!

Either go one step further and fight for the throne, and then die and the family will be wiped out, and the stigma will last forever.

Zheng Chenggong chose the former without hesitation!
He is going to retire and will not stay in the court any longer.

The reason why he did not choose the latter is also very simple. One is that the education he has received since he was a child does not allow him to be a traitor.

The second is because he knows that in the current Ming Dynasty, no one can compete with Zhu Hongyu!
Zhu Hongyu's prestige in the army is too high, and his control over the army is too strong!

Even among Zheng Jun, I don't know how many people regard Zhu Hongyu as an idol, a king who will follow to the death.

Furthermore, Zheng Chenggong is old now, and his son is not good enough.

Then what is he fussing about?
Obediently retiring and raising up is his best choice at present.

After seeing Zheng Chenggong's statement, Zhu Hongyu was very happy in his heart, but he didn't agree immediately but just said it.

"Da Ming still needs King Yanping now, so King Yanping can't be the one to pick someone up at this time!"

Zhu Hongyu did not agree to Zheng Chenggong's begging for bones, but he did not refuse either.

Just say not now!
Basically, it is hinting that the matter of begging for bones will be discussed later.

The main reason is that Zhu Hongyu wanted face, and he only announced the reward for Zheng Chenggong. If he agreed to Zheng Chenggong's begging for bones, what would the world think of him?

So, don't worry about begging for bones, as long as Zheng Chenggong makes a statement, take your time!

Zheng Chenggong returned to court, and Zhu Hongyu continued to promulgate the imperial edict.

The fourth imperial decree is to order that the imperial examinations be officially held in three days, so as to promote enough officials for the Ming Dynasty and absorb fresh blood for the ruling class.

The fifth edict is Zhu Hongyu's order to abolish the household registration system of Ming Dynasty.

Abolish military households, civilian households, happy households, merchant households, salt households and other household registration differences, and change them to civilian households, abolish lowly slave registration, and promulgate the edict that Chinese people are not allowed to be slaves!

In fact, the most important thing is to abolish lowly status. As for slave status, it has been abolished long ago.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a regulation that people of the country should not be slaves, but the regulation was a regulation, but no one enforced it.

As the saying goes, there are policies at the top, and countermeasures at the bottom. The big gentry in the Ming Dynasty had a lot of show operations.

Isn't it forbidden to keep slaves?
Very good, they stopped keeping slaves, and started to adopt sons and daughters!

If a family is rich, it's not too much to accept a hundred or eighty adopted sons and daughters, right?

Zhu Hongyu didn't have a good solution for this, he couldn't say that he wouldn't let someone adopt his adopted son, could he?

All he can do is to strengthen the supervision work, and if he is caught, he will be punished severely!

Of course, Zhu Hongyu can also promulgate a government order to allow adopted sons and adopted daughters to also have the right to inherit the family property. In this way, the social problem of slavery may be alleviated.

But, again, don't worry, this matter can take your time!

The sixth imperial decree is Zhu Hongyu's order to abolish the three additional levies in the late Ming Dynasty.

Abolish the taxes owed over the past years, and start from this year to carry out large-scale tax reductions and exemptions for the localities to win people's hearts.

The three rates were one of the biggest reasons for the successive peasant uprisings in the late Ming Dynasty.

The imperial court ordered to levy one per cent, and the next one will be able to get one cent out.

It is often the imperial court who takes the blame, but the big head is taken by the corrupt officials below.

After tossing and tossing, the imperial court couldn't get much money, and there were constant uprisings in the places where it was rebuilt.

The fat one is just the big mouse in the middle!

Might as well just abolish it!

According to the seventh imperial decree, Zhu Hongyu is still working on rectifying taxes.

Announced in the form of an imperial decree that from today onwards, Daming will "prosper in the prosperous age, and will never add gifts."

Then, there was the subsequent decree that the gentry should pay for the errands and the gentry.

Never adding taxes, sharing the income of the gentry, and the gentry as a whole are related to each other.

The purpose of never adding taxes is to win people's hearts, and Zhu Hongyu is starting to rectify the place.

The means to curb land annexation!
If there is no previous base of never adding gifts, Zhu Hongyu is afraid that he will be sprayed to death.

What is Zhu Hongyu most concerned about now?
To put it bluntly, it is his own posthumous name!

As for the talk about prosperity and wealth, the current Zhu Hongyu doesn't really care.

At his current state, material enjoyment really doesn't matter, because there is nothing he wants but can't get.

The only thing he cares about is the posthumous name left in history!
Now Zhu Hongyu's thoughts are somewhat similar to Zheng Chenggong's.

I don't care about the same material enjoyment, what I really care about is reputation.

If anyone let Zhu Hongyu's society die, Zhu Hongyu would definitely destroy him humanely.

The eighth imperial decree is Zhu Hongyu's order to abolish all miscellaneous additional agricultural taxes, abolish exorbitant miscellaneous taxes, and only collect regular taxes.

To put it bluntly, it is still to reduce the burden on farmers and alleviate social conflicts.

Plus make a name for himself!
The ninth imperial decree is Zhu Hongyu's order that from today onwards, the Ming Dynasty will levy additional taxes such as merchant tax, salt tax, and tea tax.

This is really for the sake of profit!
With a big wave of his hand, Zhu Hongyu reduced the agricultural tax by a large amount, so he naturally had to find a place to make up for it.

He didn't want to take money out of the farmers' pockets, so he had to say sorry to the merchants!
Farmers are taxed and will rebel if they cannot survive.

But businessmen won't!
In fact, Zhu Hongyu originally wanted to implement a wave of stepped taxation to curb land annexation and the excessive gap between the rich and the poor in society.

However, after much deliberation, Zhu Hongyu chose to give up this tempting idea.

Because he knows that if the stepped taxation is directly implemented, the place will definitely explode.

Before the Manchu Qing was completely resolved and the world was unified, Zhu Hongyu had to be timid in doing things.

After Zhu Hongyu's imperial decree was read out, no one stood up and said nonsense to Zhu Hongyu that he should not compete with the people for profit.

This made Zhu Hongyu very happy!

Obviously, the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty did not have the talent to treat Zhu Hongyu as a fool.

On such an occasion today, if anyone dared to stand up and show off his IQ, it would embarrass Zhu Hongyu.

That's really no different from showing off the big heads on their necks!

If anyone dared to stand up and challenge him today, Zhu Hongyu would definitely not kill people on the spot in order to make a face.

But when today is over, Zhu Hongyu will definitely let them experience what it means to be favored by the emperor.

From now on, no one in your family can pass the imperial examination!
For the undead you!
When the matter was over, it was already night. After Zhu Hongyu ordered to retreat from the court, he led the team back to his residence and summoned the queen to attend her bed.

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(End of this chapter)