On the fourth day of the second lunar month, the day of "Holy Day" (Zhu Cihong's birthday), all officials did not have a holiday.

They are intensively implementing and promulgating a series of reform measures drawn up by Emperor Tianwu and his cabinet, and announcing the comprehensive implementation of new policies throughout the country.

Zhu Cihong published a long edict in the "Huangming Times", proclaiming the subjects of the world, and issued many policies with political program, formulating political goals and action guidelines for the Ming Dynasty in the next 20 years.

"It has been two hundred and seventy-seven years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and I have walked through a thorny road soaked in blood and tears!"

"There is not only the prosperity of Yongle and the grand occasion of Zheng He's seven sunsets, but also poverty, humiliation and national humiliation!"

"After more than 200 years, the Ming Dynasty has accumulated disadvantages for a long time, after decades of war, the people's livelihood is withered, the rich land is poor and poor, the people are strong and the army is weak, the mountains and rivers are victorious and lost, and there is no comprehensive mixed strong national strength, every time I think of it, I can't sleep at night......"

In Nanjing City, by the Qinhuai River, and in the major restaurants around the Jiangnan Gongyuan, countless scholars who came to participate in the imperial examination put down their wine glasses and listened carefully to the singing of the gentleman on the storyteller.

At present, the imperial examination is imminent, and His Majesty the Emperor's policies must be focused, and it can be said that 100% of them will be examined!

"At the time of the great controversy, the great controversy, the foreign invasion is frequent, if I still keep the old land and abide by the old system, how different is it to live in retreat!"

"As the saying goes, if you are poor, you think, if you think, if you change, if you change, only innovation is the only way for the empire to be strong!"

"I, hereby announce to the subjects of heaven and earth that the future of the Ming Dynasty will embark on an unprecedented road!"

In the south of the Yangtze River, where the newspapers first arrived, in the streets and alleys, the people stopped around the newsstands, their eyes were full of anticipation, hoping that there would be some policies that would benefit the people in the new deal.

"The foundation of national strength is in the common people, the soul is in the temple, and the law of the New Deal is the law of enriching the country and strengthening the people."

"There are four new policies for the country: unified governance to govern the country, reward farmers and businessmen to enrich the country, reward military merits to strengthen the army, and righteousness to correct the people!"

did not disappoint the people, and Emperor Tianwu mentioned many new policies for the benefit of the people in his later policies, which were actually disadvantages for the ages.

In terms of the social system, Emperor Tianwu once again affirmed that the identity system of "scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants" in the traditional era would be completely abolished and implemented throughout the country.

It is expressly ordered that all provinces are exempted from the craftsman registration for the people, exempt from the price of the craftsman in Beijing, and the handicraft industry of the government and the craftsman service required by the government are changed to a hired recruitment system, and the work is calculated and valued.

In this way, the labor enthusiasm of handicraft workers has been greatly improved, and the development of handicraft industry has been well promoted.

In the face of ordinary poor people, Emperor Tianwu abolished all contracts of sale, prohibited all types of human trafficking, and declared that all human trafficking was illegal, and violators would be punished by law!

In addition, the custom of binding women's feet was abolished, and infant drowning was also prohibited and made illegal!

There is nothing more important to the public than land and tax policy.

The "New Deal Edict" mentioned that the national land will be renamed "national land", that is, the private ownership of land will be abolished and the state ownership of land will be implemented.

Some landlords who have land will not be confiscated by the imperial court, but after that, private individuals are not allowed to buy and sell, and can only trade with the government.

For those who do not have land, they are allocated land according to their household registration and contracted farming, but they have to bear certain obligations, such as military service.

The peasants lost their land because of the increasing land annexation, and the root cause of land annexation was also the sale and purchase of land.

The state land system stipulates that land is owned by the state, and private land is not allowed to buy or sell land, so the phenomenon of peasants being thrown out of their land can be fundamentally solved, and peasants who have land will naturally not rebel.

China has been a state ownership of land since the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and was later replaced by feudal private ownership of land after the Warring States period, and after two thousand years of development, private land ownership has become the main form of feudal land system.

Zhu Cihong's move, although more clever than the previous rulers, was obviously challenging the gentry of the world, and as soon as this edict was issued, it was bound to meet with strong opposition from the landlords and owners.

There will even be some landlords and bureaucrats who will raise troops to resist, as they did against Wang Mang's new policy of land state ownership.

In this regard, the "New Edict" specifically stipulated that if anyone dared to attack the national land system and incite people to break the law, he would be exiled to the Zhengbei Prefecture and the Eastern Prefecture, and all land and property would be confiscated.

In addition to abolishing the original land policy, the imperial court will implement a new land tax policy, abolish local tax checkpoints, and abolish all miscellaneous taxes except regular taxes!

Places that have not experienced war and places that have not experienced natural disasters will all be apportioned into the mu.

Where there are natural disasters, the tax is exempted for one year, the places north of the Yangtze River that have experienced war are exempted for two years, and the Shaanxi and other hard-hit areas are exempted from tax for three years.

During the tax exemption period, no matter what agricultural tax or commercial tax, the imperial court did not collect a copper plate, and the people recuperated with peace of mind and resumed production.

Now that the major natural disasters in Daming have basically passed, according to scientific research, the temperature during the Xiaoice period will begin to rise rapidly after 1650 (the seventh year of Tianwu).

Therefore, in history, the so-called "Kangqian Prosperous Era" of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was actually just a weakening of the disaster after the temperature warmed up. (The new version of the middle school history textbook has deleted the phrase "Kangqian Prosperous Age")

The prosperity of the Tianwu Dynasty will not be taken as a prosperous era for post-disaster relief, but to fundamentally make the country rich and strong, and the people rich and confident!

In the Changzhou Mansion of Zhili, in the main hall of the Daming Merchants Federation, hundreds of wealthy businessmen from the south of the Yangtze River gathered to hold a meeting and listen to the lectures.

"Reorganize all money banks and ticket numbers into the Daming Central Bank, and take the central bank as the leading role to reform the national financial industry and promote the development of the imperial financial industry......"

After reading this sentence, Zhang Dabiao at the Chamber of Commerce looked suspicious, he really didn't understand what the word "finance" in the "New Deal Edict" meant?

Zhang Dabiao looked around, and finally looked at Wu Cheng, the general manager of the Royal Group, and asked politely: "Mr. Wu, you are in charge of the financial power of the Royal Treasury, you are a celebrity next to Your Majesty, and you have also run Mingshang Bank, what do you think of this policy?" ”

The wealthy businessmen also hugged their fists and said: "Please advise Mr. Wu!" ”

Since the Eight Great Jin Merchants were raided and the salt merchants were cleaned up, the business between Wu Cheng and Zhang Dabiao and other merchants became closer and closer.

After Zhu Cihong ascended the throne, the huge royal group gradually surfaced and began to appear in the eyes of the world, becoming the main source of income for the royal treasury.

Wu Cheng was appointed as the general manager of the Royal Group by the "Chairman" Zhu Cihong, responsible for the management and operation of the Royal Group, with an annual salary of 10,000 taels plus performance commissions, profit dividends, and an annual income of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, which really went to the peak of his life.

The word "manager" is understood by the businessmen who have read the book on the spot, because Zhu Xi, a Confucian scholar in the Song Dynasty, mentioned in the "Book of Gao Guoying": "If the manager of the world, the ancient and modern, I am afraid that today's power is not easy to reach." ”

Originally, these bosses were called proprietors and shopkeepers, but since the position of "general manager" was set up in the Royal Group, Zhang Dabiao and many other businessmen have become fashionable and call each other "a certain president".