On the second day, the cabinet officially issued a decree issued by Zhu Hou and issued an edict to the whole country, saying that starting next year, the first year after the new emperor ascended the throne, the Ming Dynasty would no longer levy land taxes, and would never again levy them.

Even Emperor Zhu Houzhao personally wrote that if the people of the world still have to pay the land tax, it can only mean that the Ming Dynasty has died.

This edict is naturally cheered by everyone in the world, and they all pray from the bottom of their hearts that the Ming Dynasty will never die, pass it on for thousands of years, and the country will last for thousands of years!

Zhang Juzheng, who was in charge of the Hanlin Academy, instructed the historians of the Hanlin Academy to immediately record this prosperous act:

"This is an unprecedented event, when carefully recorded, do not hesitate to write in the pen overflowing words, this is not sycophancy, but for the people of the world to lyrical, but also to remember the merits of this prosperous world, so that the kings of future generations will be flaunted with this!"

"Rest assured, Rao is Wenjing, and there is no such benevolence, even the ancestors of the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, it is difficult to avoid levy, the state has such a holy monarch, and the abdication is imminent, do not admire Tai'a, do not seek immortality, do not take pleasure in enslaving the people, dare to rectify the chaos with an iron fist, and can seek peace for the common people! I, Xu Qingteng, hate to cut off the roots of my children and grandchildren, and be the ears of your majesty's lackeys in front of the door! ”

The Hanlin Academy reviewed Xu Wei threw off the vertical belt, and he wrote hard, and walked straight with Danqing in his hand, but in his mind he had already formed a picture of Zhu Houzhao's blessing of the people and the prosperity of the countryside.

After receiving the edict issued by the cabinet, Hai Rui also hurried to the compilation office of "Huangming Bao": "Write and print it quickly!" The virtue of my emperor, since ancient times, no emperor can be compared, the merit of my emperor, after Yao Shun, no emperor can have; The people who cultivate the world have received this grace, and they are very fortunate to be the ears of the Ming Dynasty! ”

"Woohoo! If Hai Rui has an afterlife, he would like to be born in the Ming family! ”

Hai Rui knelt down again, iron-like man, this was the second time he knelt on the ground, knocking north! And it's all heavy knocks, and blood is seen on the forehead! Tears in my eyes!

"Dare to ask the general constitution, I don't know if the recital of His Majesty's retreat has been submitted to the imperial front, and the subordinate wants to take it back!"

It didn't take long for Hai Rui to come to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to find Yang Luan, the imperial history of the left capital.

Yang Lan turned the wheelchair to Hai Rui: "It has already been submitted to the Imperial Front, but you can tell the official why you want to withdraw the exhortation." ”

"Your Majesty's edict to abolish the field endowment, and never levy it, this is the world's first benefit of the people, which shows that Your Majesty has never forgotten the people of the world, so kind, the lower officials then harshly reprimanded Your Majesty for his old age, for the well-being of the world, it is really a tiring king, it is a ruthless and righteous act, and it is also like making the eighty-year-old father plough the field, which can be described as a great disloyalty and filial piety! Hai Jui regretted it! ”

Hai Rui said and said: "And this edict, the people of the world will not leave their father to rule the world again, I don't want to look forward to the new emperor ascending the throne, extending the grace of the holy monarch, and starting a new chapter of prosperity. ”

Yang Lan nodded after hearing this: "After all, you Hai Rui still values the people of the world more, but you have misunderstood the king for a long time, and you should repent of your negligence, otherwise, you will be bullying Your Majesty's generosity!" ”

Hai Rui nodded, and immediately blamed himself.

Like Hai Rui, the people of the world knew that they had wrongly blamed His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao, and they thought that His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao was going to abandon them and seek happiness alone.

And now, before his abdication, His Majesty the Emperor issued an edict exempting the levy from land and never levying it, which undoubtedly made all of them completely understand that His Majesty did not have them as his people in his heart.

Zhu Houzhao also knew that his rash abdication would definitely make the people of the world who were accustomed to the benefits and benefits of the Zhengde Dynasty uncomfortable, or even disappointed.

Therefore, when he knew that the proportion of the income of the Ming field endowment in the imperial treasury was no longer very large, he decided to ban the field endowment, and never again levy the agricultural tax.

In this way, Zhu Houzhao believed that the people of the world would no longer oppose his abdication, because if he did not abdicate, the new emperor would not be able to ascend the throne, and the decree of exempting agricultural taxes would not be implemented.

People are all thinking about themselves, and they were unwilling to let the emperor abdicate before, but they also thought about their own interests, and now they are willing to let the emperor abdicate, which is naturally also for their own interests.

One way or another.

Zhu Houzhao used the last grace to make the people of the world accept his political behavior of abdicating the new emperor and ascending the throne.

All the people in the world are crying and the Ming Dynasty is prosperous!

In the entire Ming Empire, almost everyone rejoiced about it.

Wang Huan of Wanping Zhixian County of Shuntian Mansion couldn't help but put away the fish scale book and household book, and said with a smile:

"From now on, these will be stored in the newly built Wanping County Museum, without the field endowment, the officials can no longer exploit the Li people, and the township officials do not need to fly the field to transfer the tax burden to the farmers, I am also happy to relax, no longer sad about offending the powerful, and no longer ashamed of the levy of the Li people, it can really be described as the emperor's grace, the emperor's grace is vast!"

"May the Ming Dynasty be passed on for thousands of generations, and Tang Mengbi, the son of Daxing Taohua Village, will lead the whole village to work together to repair this national word, and hope that the ancestors will bless it...... Zi Taizu has been ...... since the army was raised", Tang Mengbi, a member of the company, couldn't help but admire this incident for a while and called on the people of the whole village to repair the shrine for the empire, praying for the eternal existence of the Ming Dynasty, after all, the Ming Dynasty began to be free of agricultural taxes forever.

For a time, the surrounding villages and communities all responded.

And Xu Wanru, a commoner in Dingxing County, Baoding Prefecture, didn't know that Daming had stopped collecting taxes, and when she went to the county seat to pay grain in the second year, she was stopped by the household clerk: "This year's summer tax will not be collected!" You can choose to sell it to the government at a flat price for regular liquidation, or you can pull it to the market for sale, or you can pull it back by yourself! ”

"Not requisitioned? Ladies and gentlemen, this, what's going on, it's really not levied this year? ”

Xu Wanru looked at the tax grain from a village she had transported, and asked in disbelief.

"Not only will it not be levied this year, it will not be levied next year, and it will never be levied in the future, as long as the Ming Dynasty does not die, you, this grain will never have to be paid", the household secretary office of Dingxing County said and said: "Now that this tax and grain are exempted, the errand of this household is also boring, and I want to go home to farm after the year!" ”

Xu Wanru didn't hear what the secretary of the household said, because he was so overjoyed that he was so overjoyed that he didn't know how to say it for a while, he only knew that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the county government.

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"The wine industry in the capital is booming, the field is free, the price of grain has fallen a lot, and the wineries everywhere have entered the grain brewing, and now the powerful and rich gentry in the capital have drunk half of them, there is such a prosperous age, why don't Xu Gong take advantage of this to get drunk for a night, why still think hard, do you still have nothing to wear?"

Crown Prince Zhu Zailei was influenced by the new education, and everything will be thought in accordance with the laws of the market economy, and now when chatting with Xu Jie, he did not forget to talk about the Beijing Liquor Industry and the Emperor Zhu Houzhao's exemption from Tian Fu.

"This year's Wanshou Festival, Your Majesty has allowed His Royal Highness and the ministers to do a big job, and Guanglu Temple has prepared 100,000 urns of good wine, why not get drunk."

Xu Jie said with a smile, and he couldn't help but think of the matter of exempting Tian Fu now, and couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.

As a scholar of the Imperial Cabinet, he is already a member of the top family, so he is naturally not as excited about such a thing as most of the middle and lower class people, but he can't help but say:

"Back then, in order to fill the treasury and recover the land endowment owed by the gentry in Jiangnan, it did not hesitate to kill the blood of the river, and now, it can directly exempt the world from the field endowment, and all the arrears are also exempted.

"As Duke Xu said, now my father can exempt the world from paying taxes, why, you and I understand, it is not because the income of the Ming Dynasty's foreign plundering and colonization is far greater than the income of the field, try to look at the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties now, in fact, it is the benefit of the world and the four seas to lose to the Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Zailei said a word, and then said: "However, my father is also equivalent to letting me, as a prince, can only continue to plunder the outside world in the future, otherwise, now all of them have been exempted from this field endowment, if the forbidden sea is exempted from commercial taxes, how to raise this millions of troops and hundreds of thousands of officials, and the widows and widows of the entire Ming Dynasty." ”

It was these words that His Majesty banned the land levy and demanded that the levy should not be levied forever, which not only cut off the opportunity for the officials to exploit the people, but also cut off the opportunity for the kings of later generations to levy the peasants of their own country, and in addition, also broke off the idea of reducing or reducing commercial taxes;

His Royal Highness will be enthroned as the emperor in the future, although the several major trading houses in the official run control most of the wealth of the empire, but His Royal Highness cannot use it to benefit the people, because His Royal Highness has to use it to raise the army, and the real benefit of the people can only be the taxes collected from the merchants, and to collect more taxes from the merchants, they can only continue to develop commerce and industry, and it is difficult for the empire to return to the previous era of male farmers and female weaving! ”

Xu Jie's words made Zhu Zailei nod, he naturally knew what it meant for Emperor Zhu Houzhao to exempt Tian Fu, but he also knew that he couldn't stop all this from happening.

Zhu Houzhao did have this purpose, and it was precisely because he considered that large landlords like Xu Jie would still exist in large numbers in the imperial society in the future of the empire, and he was worried that the Ming Empire, which had finally embarked on the road of industrialization, would return to the previous era of agricultural civilization.

Therefore, he simply exempted the land tax, so that the future rulers lost the opportunity to rely on the collection of land taxes to maintain their rule, and forced the future rulers to find a way to deal with commercial taxation and external income.

Undoubtedly, in this way, the merchant tax could only become the main body of the imperial tax.

It was difficult for any merchant who wanted to leave the costs of running the imperial government's public utilities to the unproductive peasants.

Merchants are naturally dissatisfied with this, but they are dissatisfied and cannot raise objections to the majority of satisfied people in this country.

At this time, Xu Jie could only persuade the crown prince Zhu Zailei that since he could no longer avoid relying on commercial taxes to manage the country in the future, he had to be prepared to offend the merchant class, and at the same time, he had to continue to uphold the will of His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao to unite with the workers and peasants to increase employment and promote industrial development.

In a blink of an eye, it was time for the crown prince canonization ceremony, because of an edict exempting the crown prince, so that most people in the Ming Dynasty felt that this was an auspicious and festive thing.

When Zhu Houzhao's 70th birthday comes, in the eyes of the people of the world, this is naturally a more festive event.

The entire capital began to be lit up on the third day before Zhu Houzhao's birthday.

The newly manufactured generator directly assembles the DC generated into a huge network of colorful lights in the capital, making the entire capital bright as day even at night.

In order to stimulate commercial development, Shuntianfu has already canceled the curfew in the outer city, and now in order to make the whole world celebrate, Zhu Houzhao also simply ordered the curfew of the inner city and the imperial city to be temporarily canceled, and the subjects of Enzhun can go to the palace to celebrate their birthday at the beginning of the time.

For a time, the whole capital is the flow of people, and it is ten steps to set up a color shed, and the flowing water banquet is set up between the color sheds, whether it is noble or low, or men and women, you can sit and eat, and you can also get drunk and enjoy the flowers.

Zhu Houzhao also woke up from the wine pond and meat forest, he is old and old, the older he gets, the more he likes to be lively, and only when he, the emperor, celebrates his birthday, can he spend his money like running water.

After the Wanshou Festival, Zhu Houzhao officially issued an edict to abdicate.

On this day, the entire civil and military officials came to Zhu Houzhao as the last great dynasty of the emperor's period.

On this day, it was also the last time that Zhu Houzhao wore a crown and a gown, reigned over the world, and was worshiped by the envoys of the ministers.

The red sun hung on the palace wall for a long time and refused to fall, and Zhu Houzhao also sat on the Jinluan Palace for a long time and was reluctant to leave, for some reason, he was suddenly a little reluctant to pass on this picturesque country to his heirs.

But people can't fight over the years, beauties will eventually be late, and there is a time when power will be handed over, rather than waiting for death to take it away, it is better to let it out first, so as not to be more sad when facing the difference between life and death.

Zhu Houzhao finally passed the jade seal to the crown prince Zhu Zailei.

Zhu Zailei, who is over 50 years old, is obviously much older than when Zhu Houzhao was about to ascend the throne, and even three points older than his father, he still feels that this jade seal is very heavy, and he can't help but refuse, however, Zhu Houzhao still put it down.

As if the burden of a thousand catties on his shoulders had been put down, Zhu Houzhao suddenly walked much lighter, and couldn't help but want to shout loudly.

Zhu Houzhao returned to the Royal West Garden, which will still serve as his recuperation place in the capital.

The new emperor Zhu Zailei returned to the Forbidden City to work, and the attendant room and the 24 yamen still moved back to their original locations.

Zhu Houzhao no longer seemed to be able to hear the sound of bells, drums and whips, which made his sense of loss stronger and stronger, so that in the end he still did not have the courage to let go of the last military power, but still locked the Guards Tiger Talisman that he later ordered to make in his lockbox.

Although the first order issued by the new emperor Zhu Zailei after ascending the throne was to crown him as the emperor.

On this day, the gate of the Royal West Garden, which had been closed for a long time, opened, and Zhu Houzhao and his empress rode out of the carriage and a large number of eunuchs and palace maids and brocade guards, and they left the capital under the eyes of the emperor and civil and military officials.

Queen Xia saw the real train for the first time, and couldn't help touching the green leather carriage, Zhu Houzhao saw this and hurriedly pulled her up: "Come up and take a closer look, this is our special train, you can see enough!" ”

"Brother Emperor, do we really want to take this car to Jiangnan?" Empress Xia still asked Zhu Houzhao in disbelief.

Zhu Houzhao nodded, and it didn't take long for the heat to rush into the sky, and the train began to roll, Empress Xia looked at the emperor Zhu Zailei who was still standing outside the window, and couldn't help waving: "Lei'er, let's go!" ”

Zhu Houzhao only smiled slightly, in the end, he was more reluctant to have children as a mother, and he couldn't help but look at Zhu Zailei who was dressed as the emperor, and saw himself in a trance, when he sent Empress Dowager Zhang to a four-wheel drive carriage to go on a spring outing in the suburbs, he couldn't help but secretly say: "It's the beginning of a new era again!" ”