The era of great change has a great impact on the people, especially the tax system and the household registration system, which can affect them immediately.

This will have a direct impact on the stability of the country.

Therefore, Xiao Ruxun did not dare to slack off on the reform of these two aspects, and while reducing taxes, he also exempted a number of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes that should not exist, such as fire and silver.

At the same time, tax collectors are strictly restricted from collecting excess taxes under false pretenses, and local procurators are required to coordinate the collection of taxes, and the Central Investigation Department has set up branches in the areas currently under its control to supervise the whole process, and once tax collectors are found to have illegally collected taxes, they will be immediately arrested.

This is a tax reform that benefits the general public.

Another reform is also related to all the people, that is, to abolish the household registration division system of "military craftsmen and civilians" since the Yuan and Ming dynasties, and abolish the division of household registration of military households, artisan households, medical households, station households, salt households, music households, Tan households, etc., and all grant the status of civilian households.

The untouchability system existed for a long time in ancient China, and before the Mengyuan Dynasty, it was mainly said that those prostitutes and the like were good, but in the Mengyuan Dynasty, the household registration system was unprecedentedly regressed, and the people of the whole country were divided into many households, and each household could only do the same thing by hereditary replacement, and even needed special approval from the emperor to break away from the household race.

The Ming Dynasty inherited such a system, and there were some products on top of this, such as the Wei system is based on military households, which is very anti-human and severely restricts the social development of the household registration system, which is very ridiculous, Xiao Ruxun began to plan to abolish it early on.

And now it is better, because abolishing these household registration systems is equivalent to giving grace to the people, and Xiao Ruxun understands the truth of planting trees and enjoying the shade of the predecessors.

The abolition of these household registration systems, the unified integration of households, unified management, and the reorganization of household types into occupations to allow the circulation and movement of different occupations aroused strong repercussions in several places in the three southeastern provinces as soon as it was issued.

Because there are a large number of untouchables here, including the descendants of Zhang Shicheng's department who fought against Zhu Yuanzhang, and the descendants of the rest of Emperor Jianwen who fought against Zhu Di, they are all lowest-status untouchables and are looked down upon, but with Xiao Ruxun's order, they were also liberated and granted land.

They have been transformed from untouchables to taxpayers, and they have been treated fairly, and for them, it is almost like being reborn.

The imperial court did not dare to raise any questions about the liberation of other households, but for the liberation of military households, the courtiers panicked, they didn't know what Xiao Ruxun was doing this for, liberated the military households, who would be a soldier?

So Xiao Ruxun took the opportunity to launch his new military service plan, replacing the military household system with a new military service system, and ending the matter of generations of soldiers.

This kind of reform, which increases local control, increases the tax population, and improves social productivity and people's loyalty, is not enough for small governments.

At this time, while the Great Purge intensified, at the moment when the resistance of the court was unprecedentedly weakened, Xiao Ruxun began to work on the six ministries, the first of which was the household department, Xiao Ruxun ordered the household department to be divided into two, divided into the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and divided the functions.

The Ministry of Finance is in charge of taxation and finance, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs is in charge of household registration and civil affairs, Ye Xianggao became the secretary of the Ministry of Finance, and the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs was temporarily vacant and handed over to a few waiters to manage on his behalf, and no one knew who Xiao Ruxun's preferred secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs was.

But these reforms are certain to affect the whole body, since Xiao Ruxun proposed the reform of military service, it is obvious that he wants to work with many departments, and what is closely related to military service is household registration, and the household department will definitely be moved, Ye Xianggao is not confused at all.

However, Ye Xianggao originally thought that he would be in charge of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but he turned out to be the secretary of the Ministry of Finance, which made him somewhat confused.

In addition, Xiao Ruxun set up a new departmental staff department, and transferred Liu Huangsheng, the former secretary of the military department, to the secretary of the general staff, and the military functions of the military department were inherited by the general staff, and the remaining functions of the military department were the same as those of the logistics department, in charge of military logistics and transportation, that is, part of the functions of the original arsenal department, and no longer had anything to do with military command.

In addition, the weapons research and development function of the Arsenal Division was also divided by Xiao Ruxun, and a separate military industry department was established, and Xu Guangqi was appointed as the secretary of the military industry department, which was specifically responsible for weapon research and development and innovation.

The Ministry of Industry is still responsible for the world's projects as always, unchanged, and has also added the function of innovating civil appliances.

The Military Selection Department of the Military Department, the Military Selection Department, the Literature Selection Department and the Examination and Merit Department of the Ministry of Officials were separated together and united to form a new Central Organization Department directly under the emperor, and the appointment, dismissal, and promotion of military generals and officials were also under the jurisdiction of this department, and the Ministry of Officials was only left with the function of managing the list of officials and issuing official certificates according to the appointment of the Organization Department.

This department is not bound by any other department, and only obeys the emperor's orders, and the scholar of this department is actually the emperor's eldest brother, Xiao Rulan, the king of Chu.

At this moment, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the king of Chu will not become a real power scholar at all, the actual head of this department is the emperor Xiao Ruxun himself, and a few servants under him are real power, but they are all Xiao Ruxun's henchmen.

It seems that in order to prevent the Organization Department of the Central Committee from becoming an overpowered department that hinders the emperor's power, Xiao Ruxun used the imperial family that could not hold real power to serve as the puppet Shangshu, and the actual power was in the hands of the emperor.

If the guess is correct, in the future, the puppet Shangshu candidates in this department will also be held by the imperial family, but in fact, they are in the hands of the emperor.

The financial, personnel, and military powers were all grasped by the emperor, and the court was under control, and the ministers completely became the emperor's tools, and they no longer had the ability to resist the emperor.

Against this background, the Central Investigation Department informed the emperor of the results of the investigation of Zhao Shiqing's case.

This is a political case led by Zhu Yinghuai, the Duke of Chengguo, and united several former Ming nobles and some former Ming Dynasty officials, because they were dissatisfied with Zhao Shiqing being favored by the emperor, and were very jealous of Zhao Shiqing, which then developed into dissatisfaction with the emperor not giving them real power.

As a result, the case rose to the point of politics, Zhu Yinghuai decided to kill Zhao Shiqing to sound the alarm to the emperor, let the emperor figure out the current situation, and even united a group of former Ming officers, preparing to start a coup d'état once the emperor did not compromise, kill the emperor, and welcome the restoration of Zhu Changluo, the eldest son of the former Ming emperor.

The case finally "came to light" and "the truth was revealed".

After Emperor Xiao Ruxun learned the truth of this matter, "Long Yan was furious", and he was extremely angry and demanded that the noble officials who should be involved in this matter be executed, the men in the family were executed together, the women were confiscated into the teaching department, and all the family property was confiscated into the treasury.

For some grassroots participants who have not been explained before but are now accountable, such as the officers in the former Ming army, they will be dealt with together and cut down the roots.

Gu Dali and Cai Guozhen, who assisted in the investigation in a timely manner, were given leniency, that is, they were executed by themselves, but their families could live, their titles and official status were abolished, they were demoted to concubines, and they were allowed to stay in the capital to live, but they could not live at their original address.

Zhao Shiqing, who died tragically, was comforted, added the title of Wenzhong, and added the title of prince and prince, and the son of Zhao Shiqing was favored by the imperial court, awarded official positions and rewards, and his wife gave him a life and enjoyed the honor of the country.

The Zhao family was grateful to the emperor for his comfort.

Since then, the first Great Purge has been a phased victory.