Putting down the notebook, Zhu Cihong nodded sincerely, and then looked at Huang Zongxi again, his face looked better.

"Huang Zongxi."

The emperor suddenly called names, and Huang Zongxi immediately replied: "The minister is here." ”

Zhu Cihong showed an appreciative demeanor and said: "You have analyzed very thoroughly, your thinking is very good, and you dare to say it, not bad!" ”

Huang Zongxi, who was originally nervous, immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and said with some emotion: "The Holy Tomorrow has no past Your Majesty!" ”

Yang Tinglin and other cabinet officials also showed admiration on their faces, and they called our emperor Shengming.

As an emperor, he dared to abolish the eunuch system and the imperial grain and national tax, two old rules that lasted for more than 2,000 years, undoubtedly with great courage and great pattern!

Zhu Cihong stepped down from the throne and paced to himself: "The agricultural tax can be abolished, and the Ministry of Finance can list the specific implementation plan?" ”

After the abolition of the agricultural tax, the people no longer pay public grain, what will happen to the granaries in various places? How to maintain the supply of military rations is a problem that needs to be considered and resolved.

Huang Zongxi also came prepared, he said: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister's suggestion is that the imperial court should set up a separate department for grain reserves, and buy grain in various places during the harvest season every year, hoard grain reserves, and deal with major natural disasters and other emergencies. ”

"Isn't this the central grain reserve?" Zhu Cihong raised his eyebrows.

Huang Zongxi said: "Your Majesty, when Chongzhen was ten years old, you set up a grain store in Fengyang to use it for military supplies and to deal with famine, and stabilize the grain market.......

Speaking of grain stores, these are all industries under the Royal Group, and Huang Zongxi mentioned this stubble at this time, obviously reminding Zhu Cihong that he should contribute those chain grain stores of the royal family......

Zhu Cihong smiled and ignored him.

Just kidding, the chain grain store of the Royal Group is currently the largest grain merchant in Asia, with a complete management system, how can it be said that it can be taken out?

Moreover, the Royal Group is secretly carrying out a mission with the grain store at this time: a grain war!

This was an economic war against Japan, blocking their grain prices, with the intention of controlling the Japanese grain market, so that the Japanese feudal lords and daimyo would wear out more quickly in the civil war, and rely more on the support of the Ming Dynasty.

Daming is now strong, and it has the strength to rely on a more high-end trade war method to defeat the opponent without a fight, and achieve the strategic goal.

Now the chaotic little Japan, with a weak domestic economy, is not the opponent of the Ming Dynasty at all, and Zhu Cihong is just training with them. (The plot of Japan will be written in detail in the next volume)

Zhu Cihong said solemnly: "Reserve grain is an important strategic material related to the economic security of the Ming Dynasty, how can it be replaced by civilian grain stores?" The imperial court must directly control, rearrange and establish a large-scale reserve grain warehouse! ”

Next, Zhu Cihong copied the grain reserves of later generations, and asked the Ministry of Finance to set up a grain reserve company, under the jurisdiction of provincial branches, responsible for the annual purchase of grain storage, to ensure the amount of grain reserves.

The Ministry of Finance should also draw up a rotation plan, such as changing grain for one crop every three years, and export old grain to ensure the quality and safety of grain reserves and stabilize market grain prices.

Zhu Cihong specifically demanded that the management of the imperial court's grain reserves must be strictly systematic and strictly responsible, so as to ensure that the imperial court's grain reserves can be stored, managed, mobilized, and used.

The most important thing is that the imperial court's grain reserves should not be used casually, unless the grain supply in the whole country or some areas is obviously in short supply, or the market price fluctuates abnormally, and major natural disasters and emergencies occur.

Without the consent of the emperor and the cabinet, no yamen or individual is allowed to use the imperial court's grain reserves without authorization!

Zhu Cihong approved Huang Zongxi's notebook and said: "That's all I have to say, the specific plan, the cabinet will go back and discuss a detailed plan, and hand it over to the Ministry of Finance to handle, with the assistance of the Ministry of Households." ”

Yang Tinglin, Huang Zongxi and other cabinet ministers replied loudly almost at the same time: "The ministers obey the order!" ”

The issuance of this decree marks the official abolition of the agricultural tax that has been levied in China for more than 2,000 years, which can be called a groundbreaking move and will surely go down in history.

Praising a good saint is the specialty of civil officials, and in this situation, Huang Zongxi and Mao Xiang, who were born as talented people in Jiangnan, naturally did not lack beautiful words, and praised Zhu Cihong.

However, Zhu Cihong was not carried away by their praise, and he knocked on the dragon case and said something that some people present did not want to hear: "Add one more, landlords with more than 200 mu of land still need to pay public grain, 30 per mu, and those who own more than 500 mu, 20 per mu." ”

In fact, the biggest beneficiary of the abolition of agricultural taxes is the landlord class, and Huang Zongxi, as the spokesman of the landlords in Jiangnan, has some ideas in his heart.

Not only him, but all the cabinet ministers, most of whom were born in the families of eunuchs, can be regarded as the landlord class.

As long as it is a person, how can there be no selfish, Zhu Cihong can understand them, as long as they can put seven or eight points of mind into serving the country and the people, he will be content.

Zhu Cihong's move was not aimed at the cabinet ministers, but to force the landlord class to transform into business.

The problem of land annexation is an incurable disease of the centralization of power in feudal society, and the big landlords like to buy land as fixed assets when they have money.

Now that the Ming Dynasty values commerce and relies on commercial development to drive the national economy, how can rich people be allowed to rely on the land? Must set up a factory!

Looking at the bewilderment on the faces of the cabinet ministers, Zhu Cihong said: "The imperial court will formulate preferential policies to support landlords to invest in factories." ”

Although the policy of apportioning the land to the mu is a great good, it has lifted heavy shackles on the poor, uprooted the cash cows of many officials, and dealt a blow to the old wealth of the landlords.

However, judging from the general trend of social development, the apportionment of land to mu actually strengthened the feudal land ownership system, and the historical Taqing Dynasty was nominally implemented in various provinces, but it was not seriously and persistently implemented.

Historically, the "imperial grain and national tax" has always affected the rise and fall of China, although there have been reforms such as the "two tax laws", "one whip law", and "apportionment into the mu" in China's history to expand the scope of tax payment and let those who have real estate and money pay more taxes, but due to the corruption of officials, the burden was eventually passed on to the peasants.

Even the "rule of Wenjing" and "the rule of Zhenguan", which have been mentioned many times, are only short-lived and light-hearted, and the feudal rulers of successive dynasties have never been able to jump out of the "Huang Zongxi's law" in which the burden on the peasants is getting heavier and heavier.

"He who is a man does not do humanity is like an animal; If you are a king, you will be punished by heaven if you don't do the royal way! ”

Zhu Cihong felt that what he wanted to do in the future was to continue to de-feudalize.

The definition of feudal society is not that there is an emperor or a feudal society, and Zhu Cihong is not stupid enough to change his life.

According to the definition of Marxist historians, feudal society refers to the social form of landlords or lords who occupy land and exploit peasants or serfs.

The natural economy formed by feudal society is an economic structure based on land, combining agriculture with handicrafts, taking the family as the unit of production, and having self-enclosed and independent nature to meet its own needs.

Now the Ming Dynasty, is in the midst of a commercial revolution, no longer dependent on the natural economy, after the Tianwu New Deal, the national thinking has also been greatly changed, and the open and prosperous overseas trade continues to carry out the primitive accumulation of capital.

At this stage, Europe is also in the stage of the disintegration of feudal society and the rise of capitalism.

Another characteristic of feudal society is that the landlord class is the ruling class, and the contradiction between the landlord class and the peasant class is the main contradiction in feudal society.

What Zhu Cihong has to do now is to eliminate the landlord class and transform them into capitalists.

Of course, the largest landlord in the country is the emperor Zhu Cihong, who established the Royal Group, aiming to be the first to transform, pulling the nobles of the clan into the Royal Group, and also letting them transform together.

Now, it is the turn of the small landowners of the country to transform.

The eunuch system is also a landmark tumor in feudal society, so Zhu Cihong abolished it without saying a word.

Of course, there is a delicate conflict between the imperial autocracy and capital, and since he can't wait to be revolutionized by the tide of the times, Zhu Cihong can only take the initiative to innovate from the top down.

As a traverser, he can't go against the tide of the times in order to maintain his autocratic rule, and let the hundreds of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty fall into a tragic historical cycle.

All in all, this series of innovations, the road is rugged, and it is a great change unseen in a thousand years, no less than the reopening of the country.