"How's Wang Sai'er's situation?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"Wang Sai'er has already entered the palace with the help of Yan Siqi, but now the emperor of Dongying is Xingzi." Wang Liqian replied.

"What happened to Emperor Koko?" Zhu Youxiao heard that Wang Liqian had something to say.

"Xingzi is a woman, and she is only thirteen years old." Wang Liqian said.

"Woman? So how did Wang Sai'er execute his plan? Zhu Youxiao asked in surprise.

"Xingzi's father, Masahito, is still alive, and now he is only one in forty, and although he abdicated, he is still the regent of Emperor Taishang." Wang Liqian said.

"You mean that Wang Sai'er actually went to see Zhengren." Zhu Youxiao said.

"According to the news from Dongying, this is the case." Wang Liqian replied.

"Dongying is about to be in chaos, send someone to keep an eye on Dongying, Wang Sai'er can't have an accident." Zhu Youxiao didn't know the history of Dongying, he only knew that Dongying was about to break out in the Shimabara Rebellion, and the rest didn't know.

"No."

……

In August, Zhu Youxiao visited Jiangnan again. This time I visited Jiangnan, and the officials who accompanied me were the most, and four of the seven cabinet members came. Moreover, this time, Zhu Youxiao decided to take the land route, so that these officials could have a better look at the situation of the people.

The emperor had many rules for traveling, and Zhu Youxiao did this to avoid disturbing the people, and he rarely entered the city. Zhu Youxiao just went to Jinan on a special trip when he was passing through Jinan, and Huang Zongxi was in Jinan at the moment.

"Huang Taichong, can you get anything from going to so many places?" Zhu Youxiao asked with a smile.

"Your Majesty, you have followed your Majesty's words and gone to many places, and you have indeed gained." Huang Zongxi said respectfully.

"Tell me about it." Zhu Youxiao said.

"The minister found that since the dynasties, the tax law has been reformed several times, but each time the burden of the people will rise to a higher level than before the reform after a period of decline, and Your Majesty's tax reform may not escape this reason." Huang Zongxi said frankly.

"Too rushed, don't be unreasonable." Seeing this, Sun Chengzong hurriedly said.

"It's okay, I also agree with what Tai Chong said, but what is Tai Chong's good strategy?" Zhu Youxiao stopped.

"The suffering of the people has been raging for a long time, and there is the harm of accumulation and no return, the harm of taxes that are not generated, and the harm of land without rank." Huang Zongxi replied. This sentence is the famous "Huang Zongxi's Law", Zhu Youxiao didn't expect Huang Zongxi to put it forward now.

"I decided to make you the deputy director of the State Administration of Taxation, and I am presiding over a new round of land reform?" Zhu Youxiao said with a smile.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Longen!" Huang Zongxi said respectfully.

"Before you officially carry out the Tianfu reform, I want to hear your thoughts." Zhu Youxiao said.

"First, the tax should be redefined as the standard of the land; Second, the expropriation of land must be declared by the soil, those who produce a hundred grains will be given a hundred grains, and those who produce mulberry and hemp will be given cloth and silk, and even the sundries will be given what they produce, and what they produce and what they pay will not be consistent; Third, re-measure the land, calculate the acre according to the quality of the soil, and take 240, 360, 480, 600 and 720 steps as five mu, that is, divide the land into five grades, and tax them according to the same level, so as to eliminate the problem of uneven tax burden caused by different land quality. Huang Zongxi said.

"First of all, I agree. But the second point I don't agree with, I think it is still necessary to insist on the unified taxation according to the treasure money, which is far more beneficial than disadvantageous to the imperial court, and when you implement the tax reform, you will find that what I said must be right. Zhu Youxiao said.

"No." Huang Zongxi said.

"The third point, re-measure the land, according to the quality of the soil to calculate the seedling volume, this point I do not fully agree, I agree to tax according to the quality of the soil, the upper field according to the thirty tax one, the rest of the fields in turn decreasing, the lower field to implement sixty tax one, Taichong, what do you think?" Zhu Youxiao said.

"Your Majesty, this move will cause a sharp drop in the revenue of the treasury, and now the treasury is barely maintaining a balance of payments." Bi Ziyan said.

"It is so unfair that the peasants, who have the largest proportion of peasants and the least income, bear the most taxes in the empire, and that the industrial and commercial classes are far richer than the peasants, and they should bear the taxes of the empire, not the peasants. What Tai Chong said is that the suffering of the people has been a long time and the taxes have been raging, and what I should consider is how to make the 'people' get rid of the pain of taxes, and in my hands, I may not be able to cancel the field tax, but I hope that one day I can cancel the field tax. Zhu Youxiao said.

In later generations, not only did farming not have to pay taxes, but the state also had to make up money, which was definitely not possible in this era, but what Zhu Youxiao could do was to reduce the land endowment.

"Your Majesty Shengming!" The crowd shouted.

……

After the implementation of the "apportionment into the mu", the empire once again carried out the second reform of the field endowment, this time the reform was to reduce the land endowment, which did not conflict with the "apportionment into the mu". The news that the imperial court was going to reduce the land endowment spread, and the price of land in the empire began to rise slowly, and Zhu Youxiao's land in central Burma and Yangon was once again selling well.

Zhu Youxiao's second stop was to Qufu. In Qufu, Zhu Youxiao still wanted to worship Confucius, no matter what Confucianism brought to China, but Confucius's did influence China for 2,000 years, and it is still influencing China. It's just that what Zhu Youxiao didn't expect was that he had to buy tickets to go to Qufu Confucius Temple, and of course Zhu Youxiao didn't need to buy tickets.

"Doesn't it seem that Confucius is not against business either?" Zhu Youxiao said with a smile.

Hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, everyone had to laugh dryly, only Sun Chengzong said softly: "Your Majesty ......"

"Is Liang Shanbo Zhu Yingtai studying here? But how did I hear that the two of them studied at Wansong Academy in Hangzhou? Zhu Youxiao saw a high-rise building, and there was a plaque on the high-rise building, which read, "Liangshan Bozhu Yingtai Reading Office".

Hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, everyone didn't know how to answer, how to feel that Zhu Youxiao was here to find fault.

"This juniper is planted by the ancestor of the Confucian saint himself, after thousands of years, it was destroyed in the period of Jin Xuanzong, and several branches were sent in the twenty-second year of Hongwu, and it was lush." Kong Yinzhi hurriedly changed the topic.

"Let's go ahead and have a look." Zhu Youxiao said with a smile.

Kong Yinzhi followed Zhu Youxiao and personally introduced the Confucian Temple to Zhu Youxiao. Zhu Youxiao and his entourage soon came to the main hall. At the foot of the stairs are the imperial tablets of various dynasties and generations, among which the Yuan tablet is the largest. On the left side of the main hall, is the family temple of Kong's family, the east and west walls are written with small wooden plaques of the emperors of the past dynasties, when Zhu came by the school, you can also see the title of the Ming Dynasty, but after the Qing army entered the customs, but the title of the Ming Dynasty was abandoned.

When Zhu Youxiao saw these titles, he remembered what the Kong family had done after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and Zhu Youxiao said coldly: "Let's go." ”

"Your Majesty, let's go." Sun Chengzong asked suspiciously.

"I just want to pay homage to Confucius, after all, he has influenced China for thousands of years, and he has no other meaning." Zhu Youxiao left without looking back.

(End of chapter)