Eight passes of the capital, eight sides of the mountains, five rivers around Luoyang, known as the world, the thoroughfare of ten provinces, Luoyang City, after entering the imperial court's key industrial city plan, the prosperous Luoyang City has undergone amazing changes. Please Baidu search (product book network) to see the most complete! The fastest update!

Like the sea, the emerging industrial zone starts outside the south gate of Luoyang City and expands rapidly along the Luoshui coast to the southwest. The banks of Luoshui are lined with tall water wheels that go deep into the river, which are the sources of power used to drive the movement of the machines.

Emerging industries such as cement, glass, and cotton textiles have gradually replaced the old business pattern of Luoyang City, and a large number of displaced people from Shaanxi and Shanxi have brought a large number of cheap labor to this gradually transforming industrial city.

After King Fu was moved to the capital, the land of the vassal state was also restructured and distributed to the poor, which also greatly alleviated the land and population contradiction in Henan Province.

It is precisely because of these changes that although Henan Province has also been on the edge of drought in recent years, it has not had any impact on the lives of the people except for a certain impact on industrial development. In particular, the residents of Luoyang City, who are on the side of the original granary under construction, naturally do not have to worry about food supply.

However, for the new governor of Henan Prefecture, Xia Yunyi, he believed that Henan Prefecture still had the need for further reform, and after three months of on-the-spot investigation of the ten counties under his rule, he discussed with Niu Jinxing, the mayor of Luoyang City, and planned to gradually abolish all forced labor and Ding taxes starting from Luoyang, and distribute them to the acres of land and industrial and commercial taxes.

Henan Prefecture has jurisdiction over 10 counties, including Luoyang, Yanshi, Gongxian, Mengjin, Dengfeng, Xin'an, Mianchi, Yiyang, Yongning, and Songxian. However, from the perspective of the entire Henan Province, only Luoyang City stands out, and the economy of the other counties is still dominated by agricultural production.

Although Niu Jinxing failed to step into the position of prefect like Xia Yunyi, he was able to be promoted to half a level in 2 years, and he didn't feel how slow his promotion speed was. As the mayor of Luoyang, he only wanted to make some achievements in economic development, and he didn't think about gnawing any hard bones.

Therefore, when he heard that Xia Yunyi wanted to make such a big move, he suddenly became a little flustered. He hurriedly persuaded Xia Yunyi and said, "Gong Yu, are you too anxious to seek treatment?"

Now Henan Prefecture can maintain such a situation, and it is already a world of difference from the provinces of Shaanxi. Even if it is compared with other regions in Henan, we can also be among the best.

Neither the local people nor the gentry were dissatisfied with the status quo. You have only been in office for three months, and you have not had much communication with the gentry and people in various counties, and if you boldly throw out such a big reform plan, it will inevitably be resisted by the local gentry and common people. Aren't you going to make trouble for yourself again?

Besides, it is not up to the local officials to abolish all conscription and taxation and apportionment them among the acres of land and industrial and commercial taxes. Have you consulted the Imperial Court and Your Majesty? There are no face-to-face instructions, and we are not pleasing inside and outside to do this..."

Xia Yunyi was not as worried as Niu Jinxing, he cut off the other party's words and said: "As early as a few decades ago, someone said that the people in the north were more important than forced labor, and the people in the south were more important than taxes, but everyone said that they had never been able to find a solution.

Moreover, since the corruption of the conscription system, the conscription extracted from various places only fell on the lower-class civilians, but the rich gentry relied on their privileges to escape the conscription, which also made the burden of the lower-class civilians heavier and heavier. Commoners' homes often went bankrupt due to forced labor, or even fled with their families.

It can be seen that if the conscription system is not reformed, I am afraid that it will endanger the stability of the entire Ming Dynasty. Since the first year of Chongzhen, the imperial court's political reform in Hebei has allowed me to see a solution to the problem of forced labor.

It is said that the northern conscription is heavy, but where is the northern conscription important? Isn't it important to focus on river work? The imperial court separately extracted the river workers in Hebei and set up a special agency for governance, and the funds for the management of river workers were allocated to the benefited acres except for a part of the funds allocated by the imperial court. The rest of the conscription was arranged without leaving the county border, and was organized by the commune.

I had traveled all over the north and found that only the improved forced labor system in Hebei was the most important way to reduce the burden on the people at present. But I still think that the conscription system itself is no longer in line with today's Ming society.

Imagine that the workers in the workshop have to take a month out of their labor every year, which not only adds to the burden on the workers' families, but also makes the factory owners suffer. And those farmers who work at home also have to give up their family affairs to cope with the forced labor, and some of the time of the forced labor is also chosen during the busy agricultural season, which makes the farmers tired, and if they are not good, they will lose their crops in their fields.

It can be seen that China's conscription system is too preferential to the powerful and the big, and too mean to the small people. If we want to completely solve the shortcomings of the conscription system, it is better to completely abolish the conscription system, and instead convert the conscription into money and food, and then hire special personnel to bear these conscriptions.

If the conscription is to be converted into money, it should not be divided equally according to the number of heads, as in the past, but according to the example of wealth. Industry and commerce can increase the tax case, but the village can only share this law according to the acreage, and the rich should pay more taxes to the poor in order to be worthy of their privileges.

And the same is true of the Ding tax, and now all localities are hiding the population and not reporting it, which is nothing more than trying to evade the Ding tax. If we can't correctly grasp the number of people under our rule, how can we control local food reserves? Only by taking advantage of the present and folding the Ding tax into the acres of land can those people no longer hide their Ding Kou...

As for what you just said, whether the court and His Majesty will support us, whether you should report to the court and Your Majesty first. I think that the imperial court and His Majesty would be happy to see us do this, otherwise the imperial court would not have carried out the reform of the conscription system in Hebei first.

However, at present, the imperial court and His Majesty cannot express their position on this matter in advance, because after all, the economy of all parts of the country is still dominated by agriculture, and the unified conversion of forced labor and tax into the acres of land will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among the gentry and wealthy families in various places.

But in our local area, the opposition of the gentry and wealthy families in various places is not so fierce. As long as we can successfully complete the reform of the conscription system in Henan Prefecture, the imperial court will naturally have reason to promote it everywhere. Besides, if Your Majesty didn't place hope on us, how could this Henan Mansion transfer so many officials from the Youth Society? ”

Niu Jinxing suddenly fell silent, he thought about Xia Yunyi's statement repeatedly in his heart, and found that what the other party said seemed to be very reasonable. Of the ten counties in Henan, seven of the county commanders are from the Youth Society, and the other three county commanders are also relatively enlightened young officials, plus he himself was transferred to Xia Yunyi's subordinates, it can be said that Henan Prefecture has basically become the world of the Youth Society.

Xia Yunyi really wanted to do something, and the place couldn't stop it at all. Unless the imperial court directly intervenes to transfer Xia Yunyi away, it will be difficult for the governor of Henan to interfere in the policy of Henan Province.

Xia Yunyi, who served as the leader of the Youth Society and the model of young scholars, was already enough to compete with the governor of a province in politics. Not to mention, the growing influence of the Youth Society in the north also made the various factions in the DPRK hope to befriend Xia Yunyi instead of making him their enemy.

Of course, such a big political aura shrouded in Xia Yunyi and the Youth Society, and it also needs to be filled by Xia Yunyi and the Youth Society with sufficient political achievements. If you only have prestige but show inaction, the fate of the Restoration Society is obviously a lesson for the Youth Society.

Niu Jinxing naturally hopes that the reputation of the Youth Society will get better and better, so that he can use the ladder of the Youth Society to rise to the top. And now the façade of the Youth Society is Xia Yunyi, a model scholar. Only when Xia Yunyi's reputation is getting higher and higher can the world recognize that the Youth Society is the hope of the future Ming Dynasty.

After thinking about it, Niu Jinxing finally decided to make a bet with Xia Yunyi. Nowadays, ordinary political achievements are obviously not enough to support the great reputation of the Youth Society, and instead of making people ridicule the Youth Society for not being worthy of its name, it is better to have a name that dares to be the first in the world. Based on the reform policy of the conscription system implemented by the imperial court in Hebei, Niu Jinxing felt that the reform policy proposed by Xia Yunyi was not so outrageous.

He then nodded to Xia Yunyi and said, "Since you have made such a big determination, I will naturally support you." But if we want to carry out such a big change, we can't hide it from the court and Your Majesty after all. I thought that even if you can't write directly to the court, you should reveal some details to Your Majesty in your private capacity, and you should not catch Your Majesty off guard. ”

After thinking about it for a while, Xia Yunyi finally took a step back and said, "It's okay, as long as we discuss a specific plan first, I will write a letter to Your Majesty..."

After receiving the support of Niu Jinxing, Xia Yunyi convened the chief officials of nine counties and one city under his rule to discuss the reform plan for the conscription and taxation of Henan Prefecture. With the exception of one county magistrate who abstained from voting, everyone else chose to support Xia Yunyi's reform of the province's forced labor and Ding tax.

After Xia Yunyi and Niu Jinxing began to implement the reform policy of Luoyang City, this year's levy and Ding tax into the acres of land and the taxation of industry and commerce, a private letter written by Xia Yunyi himself to the emperor was also sent from Luoyang City.

It only took ten days for this letter to reach Chongzhen, and after he read the letter, he understood the content of Xia Yunyi's reform, which was roughly equivalent to the integration of the gentry and the gentry.

Since Chongzhen ascended the throne, he has been implementing these two policy variants in Hebei, and although he has achieved some results, he has not completely solved the local shortcomings.

Xia Yunyi is willing to step on this thunder for the imperial court in the local area, so that the imperial court can better distinguish which officials sincerely support the reform of the imperial court and which officials just want to speculate and reap benefits, which is naturally a good thing.

What's more, Xia Yunyi is looking for a very good point in time, and now the court is standing in line for Qian Shisheng's case, and no one will pay attention to what happened in Henan Mansion for the time being.

Therefore, Chongzhen just found Qian Qianyi and Cui Chengxiu, revealed some tone to them, and put the matter on hold for the time being, waiting for the results of Xia Yunyi's reform in Henan Mansion.

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