All taxes are waived for 10 years.

Just this sentence frightened the ministers.

That's a tax, a normal tax that has been levied since history, and it's the main source of income for all imperial courts.

The Tang Dynasty's class was not high, and it was very humane, even the conscription was set up very humane, if you didn't want to go, you could offset it with money and goods, although the price was higher, but the merchants and those rich people did it, no one was willing to do those hard work, and the court also got a windfall income.

As for the manpower problem, the Central Plains Dynasty had the most people, and the most important thing was people, even if those people were allowed to go, they might not be able to do any heavy work.

With the introduction of the conscription system, the conscription system has basically been abolished.

Although the imperial court did not decree the abolition of the conscription system, it was actually not much different from deposing.

Adult men, each of whom is still obliged to do twenty days of labor per year, is also the main labor force of the imperial court's large-scale projects, the imperial court only needs to take care of their food and shelter, and even sometimes, they have to bring their own dry food.

But now? The system still exists, but it has changed differently.

In the whole year of last year, the imperial court conscripted a total of more than 1.3 million conscripts.

More than 1.3 million, which seems to be a lot, but among the tens of millions of school-age adults in Datang, this 1.3 million is only less than one-tenth.

Moreover, many of these servants choose to work overtime, and the reward is to exempt them from the following year's tax, or to reduce them according to the overtime hours.

To put it bluntly, the current conscription system means that you are obliged to accept the court's twenty-day call-up, which you have no right to refuse, but whether the court calls you or not is the court's business, and those who were called up last year will definitely not be called up again next year, unless the court needs a lot of labor, and those who were not called up last year will still be re-recruited under the premise that they still cannot meet the gap.

But judging from the current situation, this is basically unlikely, and there are many reasons for this, and everyone understands it in their hearts.

Some people want to object, but they can't refute it.

The emperor's order cannot be refused, in addition, they have also seen the benefits of economic construction, if the future development momentum can be as strong as this year, there is such an increase, then not ten years later, maybe five years later, the tax will be dispensable for the imperial court.

The news was made public, either to put pressure on these officials or to give the people some hope.

In short, the reaction from the outside world is good and scary.

No one thinks it shouldn't be, but no one is willing to pay, and no one will willingly hand over what belongs to them.

Therefore, what the people can usually look forward to is that they hope that the imperial court can reduce some taxes.

In other words, needless to say, as long as the emperor issued a holy decree saying that there would be no increase in taxes in the next few years, the people would celebrate happily and have a kind of respect for the emperor from the heart.

Therefore, after the news was announced, the first reaction of the people was naturally to believe it, and after the question was made clear, the entire Datang could see the people saluting in the direction of Chang'an.

There is almost no forced labor, and now the levy will be abolished, and the life of the people may not be much worse without these two things, but without these two things, their life will be better.

The announcement of the news also directly stimulated the consumer market, so that the commercial income of the entire Datang increased a little.

In short, all this is what Li Yuanji wants.

In ten years, to feed agriculture with commerce, in fact, this routine is basically the same as that of later generations, later generations are to feed agriculture with industry, of course, to really be able to do this, the time and energy spent during the period is also difficult to imagine.

The level of difficulty is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Although the order was issued, Li Yuanji always felt a little uneasy, or a little unconfident.

"Your Majesty, Yamato has not come to our side for three months, and the fleet we sent has not replied, the minister has sent someone to Yamato to understand, but there is no news for a while...... "Outside is joyful, but the coldest atmosphere has been ushered in in the Taiji Palace.

Ma Liu didn't want to talk about these unpleasant topics, but now it's not a question of whether he wants to talk about it or not.

"It seems that the Wubu family feels that their strength is enough to compete with the Tang Iron Cavalry......" Li Yuanji raised his eyebrows and said leisurely.

Over the years, a lot of gold and silver have been introduced from Yamato, and almost all of these are imported at the price of cabbage, and what Datang has paid for this is just some stock grenades.

And those grenades were also made by Li Shimin's order, because the selling price was extremely high, so they were intermittent, and there are still a batch in the warehouse until now.

Although he crossed the ocean, after arriving in Yamato, some of them could not be used because of moisture, but the ones that might have been used were directly counterattacked by the Monobe family.

Li Yuanji intended to control the speed of the Monobe family's counterattack, but he couldn't stop the other party's rout, and the other party felt that the Monobe family had the help of gods, and even many soldiers did not dare to resist.

And the deterrence has been formed, whether the Monobe family still has grenades or not, for them, the impact is actually not great, no one dares to gamble, no one dares to fight.

Because the other side has collapsed, from the top to the grassroots, they are all in a mess, and it is impossible to organize effective resistance.

If you have such a situation, you are naturally unwilling to continue to transfuse blood to other countries, and it is still in the form of cutting meat.

Moreover, Datang and Yamato are separated by a sea, with this moat as a barrier, if Datang wants to attack Yamato in a big way, it is impossible in a short period of time, once the Monobu family completes the internal rectification of Yamato, even if it is Datang, sending an expeditionary force of 350,000 will not play any role, and it may even be dragged to death there.

"What do the people of the Monobe family say?" Li Yuanji continued to ask, a small Yamato is just a small one, and it can't turn up any big winds and waves.

"They said they didn't know anything, and they hadn't heard from Yamato for a long time, but the minister felt that there was something wrong, and according to the previous surveillance, it was found that they had secret contact with some strangers, and the people of the Monobe family had been secretly investigating the formula of gunpowder." Ma Liu responded.

"Hmph, a small family of things, dare to break the oath, do you really think I am so easy to provoke?" Li Yuanji snorted coldly, very annoyed that the Wubu family had privately inquired about the gunpowder formula, but he didn't care.

If they really had access to any secrets, Ma Liu would not have mentioned it until now, and Datang's custody of the gunpowder formula was also extremely strict.

All the people involved in the manufacturing, those who know the formula, all stay in the base, there is a small world, what you want, you are not allowed to leave, and even many women from Yamato have been sent in, and every single man has a wife.

And the outside is three layers inside and three layers outside, and it is impossible for anyone to leave or approach there, so even if the Monobe family buys everyone, it is impossible to get the formula for gunpowder.

A good emperor, in addition to making his people happy, must also expand his territory.

It is possible to conquer by force alone, but it is not the wisest choice.

Li Yuanji didn't play much political means, but this time, he also wanted to play.

As for the result, it's not your own country anyway, and the right to use the little devil to train your hands, anyway, the worst result is just to send a large number of troops to land in Japan.

But at that time, will the moat that the little devil think in his heart really become a moat?

However, the only thing that makes Li Yuanji feel distressed is that the fleet that has been established for several years, and in a few years, they have already had rich experience in the ocean, and they can avoid most of the bad weather, and at the same time find a suitable route, at least they will not run into the reef and sink.

Once this fleet cannot be picked up, the loss for Datang will be huge.

"Send someone to contact the other side, as long as they pay the same price, I can provide them with more advanced grenades, and if I rescue my fleet, I will give them 100,000 grenades." The corners of Li Yuanji's mouth rose slightly, and he said softly.

"No!" Ma Liu answered, turned around and went directly to arrange, without any hesitation at all.

Ma Liu left, and Li Yuanji's face once again showed a strange smile.

If the Monobe family does things according to their own plans and doesn't touch their bottom line, they won't be able to tolerate them, but unfortunately, the monobe family is not willing to do this, they want to seek a bigger plan to make themselves stronger.

Is it really powerful to have grenades? I just don't know how these little devils will react when rocket artillery and muskets appear in front of them?

"Hey, I really don't know what the Monobe devil thinks, isn't it good to listen to me? On the other side of the killing, the Monobe family is the most powerful force in the whole of Japan, and even if you want to overthrow the emperor and take the throne himself, why do you need to do this at this time? Li Yuanji shook his head with a smile on his face.

The Monobe family made themselves a little unhappy, but it was also very cool, because they could support a wave of counter-support, let the devils go dog-eat-dog by themselves, it was best to fight a lose-lose situation, and then the Datang Iron Cavalry landed directly in Japan and included it as part of the Datang territory.

The little devil's heart is very bad, Li Yuanji does not want to treat them as his own people, if possible, he prefers to kill them all before accepting Japan, and then immigrate there.

Although it is said that the Japanese are the descendants of the boys and girls brought by Xu Fu of the Qin Dynasty, but after all, it is a legend, who is sure? If you are not your own person, you can't rest assured after all.