The courtiers of Great Qin looked at the situation map of the Europa continent that the emperor hung out and were shocked.

Outside of Great Qin, there are so many countries, such a big land, so much of the world, so many countries that are at war with each other, and so many novelties, muskets, artillery, sea ships, writing, books, and languages.

What Great Qin has, they also have, and in terms of civilization, these people cannot be regarded as barbarians.

After the Renaissance, Europe paid attention to a number of modern literary and artistic lights, and their culture has made a great leap.

If China cannot work hard to catch up in order to take the lead in an all-round way, then when the mainstream of the world becomes steel and guns, Chinese civilization will also be left behind.

The sea is the future of China.

Great Qin must occupy the absolute mainstream on the ocean!

This is Xiao Ruxun's irreversible will, anyone who tries to hinder him will be eliminated by him with violence, and he will definitely not stay.

For this reason, he did not hesitate to launch land reform to completely destroy the landlord class, and to control the entire country and localities, so that the implementation of government decrees could be carried out unimpeded, so that there would be no more local constraints.

The courtiers looked at the situation map of the Europa continent and stepped into a new world that they had never heard of under Xiao Ruxun's explanation.

"This is the country of Spain, this is the country of Portugal, and what we call Francisco is actually the Portuguese, and now the country of Portugal is being annexed by the state of Spain.

That is, the Spanish State invaded Luzon, and was defeated by the sailors led by me before, and this is the focus of our union, the French country, and the other Genoese country is in this position.

In addition to these three countries, there are also England and the Netherlands, here and here, respectively, they are all countries with strong seagoing ship construction technology, and the strength of the sailors is not under our Great Qin.

With the main force of our Burmese Naval Division, it is only a partial division, and with the current strength of Great Qin's Naval Division, it is only the size of a Spanish country, and there are other very strong naval divisions in the entire Europa Continent.

The other is the bird gun, the bird gun is still imitated from Spain and Portugal in the former Ming Dynasty, and now under my improvement, Daqin's bird gun is no longer under the Europa, and there is a light-inspired flintlock gun that the Europa people do not have, and the strength of the artillery is not below the Europa.

But this is now, that is to say, in the former Ming Dynasty, decades ago, our sea ships and firearms technology had lagged behind the Europa, so that in the previous Ming Dynasty and the Europa people several times in the firefight, we used our numerical superiority to defeat them, and our own losses were higher than their own people.

The military technology of the Europa people is no longer under the foregoing, almost the same as our Great Qin, if we don't care about the population, we are just on an equal footing with them. ”

The fact that the emperor himself told it was a particularly great blow to the officials.

"Ping...... Equal? ”

The most shocking was Ye Xianggao.

"Your Majesty's words, ...... Can the Europa people be on an equal footing with Great Qin?! ”

"It's true from the perspective of military technology, in some aspects, such as arithmetic, such as astronomy, such as building sea ships, these are all above Daqin, the reason why I want to trade with the five mouths is to bring these things they have mastered back to Daqin, promote, study, and surpass them in Daqin."

Xiao Ruxun calmly told the facts.

The officials looked at each other.

The dignity of the Heavenly Empire really does not allow them to believe in the truth of this matter, but the emperor Chrysostom said that it is difficult to chase after a horse, how can the monarch say jokes, and they can't believe that Xiao Ruxun is telling a lie no matter what.

Moreover, Xiao Ruxun sent people to Europa, and he knew more about Europa than any of them, there is no doubt about this.

So although they were puzzled, although they were shocked, they did not dare not believe it.

Indeed, the Europa had begun to threaten the majesty of the Celestial Empire.

"Now we still have each other's strengths and weaknesses, but the Europa people have dared to drive a sea ship thousands of miles to harass us under our noses, you can imagine how big their courage and greed are, if Daqin does not wake up and improve himself immediately, it will not take many years, and it will be inevitable to fall behind in an all-round way, and when the time comes, the Heavenly Empire will be defeated, what kind of panic should it be?"

Xiao Ruxun spoke more heavily, and the elites of Great Qin were even more shocked by this.

"How could Great Qin be defeated?"

Wang Xijue muttered in surprise.

Xiao Ruxun heard it and was very dissatisfied with Wang Xijue's attitude.

"Elder Wang Ge, there is no way out for us to stick to the rules and rest on our laurels, and it is not good for us to indulge in the impression of the Heavenly Empire, it's time for the people of Great Qin to know what kind of world this world is, what kind of world this world is, let everyone open their eyes, go to the sea to see, I believe they can see something different."

Xiao Ruxun made a comprehensive determination of this policy.

The six ministries of the Cabinet were ordered to immediately pass this decree and then issue it to the localities for implementation, requiring the establishment of municipal shipping departments in Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Ningbo, Shanghai, and Qingdao, the establishment of transshipment envoys, the stipulation of the proportion of taxes to be paid to do business at sea, and so on.

The emperor finally took the opportunity to attack the merchant tax.

But there are almost no dissents.

Originally, there must have been, but most of these people were invited to the Central Investigation Department for tea, so it is conceivable who the rest were.

Either Xiao Ruxun's old subordinates and newly promoted land reform officials, or insignificant petty officials, or tamed high-ranking officials.

Who can argue against that?

Xiao Ruxun decided to focus on the collection of commercial taxes, the larger the transaction amount, the higher the income, the more taxes will be levied, and whoever dares to evade taxes and avoid taxes will not be a simple prison sentence.

The extremely low commercial tax imposed by Zhu Yuanzhang in the former Ming Dynasty is gone, and the emperor's orders are unstoppable.

Xiao Ruxun further strengthened the heavy punch of centralized power and began to attack.

Not only set up a city department to collect commercial taxes, but also set up transfer envoys in various places, and the national taxes must be uniformly sent to the central government, and then the central government will allocate local budgets.

Local financial and personnel powers are fully controlled by the central authorities, military powers are also controlled by the central authorities, local civilian officials have no military powers, local garrisons do not listen to local officials' dispatches, local powers are comprehensively weakened, and centralized power is greatly strengthened.

Some people's worst fears are finally happening, but they are powerless to change anything.

Xiao Ruxun will never allow them to change anything.

Soon, Xiao Ruxun asked the household ministry and the cabinet to submit the list of suitable city officials and transfer envoys for him to choose.

The duties of the Ichinbo Shiro and the transit envoy are very important, and they are an important part of his centralized and strengthened power, and the selection of candidates must not be sloppy.