Galileo's entry into the Royal Academy of Sciences was nothing more than a trivial matter in the twelfth year of the Apocalypse. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the near future, there may be more scientific giants from the West and the East to come to Daming and make their own contributions to the development of science and technology in Daming.

Even not only the great masters of science, but also the Jingshi University will also admit international students from other countries, and even for international students who study Chinese history and culture in addition to Confucianism, the imperial court will also give generous scholarships.

It is difficult to maximize the interests of the Ming Dynasty in an all-round way by relying solely on knives and guns, after all, fists can only hit one person, but cultural output can gradually expand the influence of the Ming Dynasty, and then achieve the assimilation effect brought by knives and guns.

The institutions and systems of maritime trade have basically been completely established, and perhaps in the near next six months, the treasury revenue of the Ming Dynasty will increase several times.

In addition, Ma Shiying has been transferred to the governor of Huguang, Yuan Keli has been the governor of Henan, and Sun Chengzong is now going to Liaodong, that is to say, the pilot area of the reform has now extended to the central part of the Ming Dynasty and outside the Guan, it is conceivable that in the near future, the proportion of tax revenue accounted for by Tianfu will be lower.

In order to unite the common people and gain the support of the common people, Zhu Youxiao, who offended almost all the gentry classes, even lowered the tax again as early as the beginning of the year, and even explicitly issued a decree in the "Daming Daily", that is, those with less than five acres of land per household will no longer be taxed, and ordered all prefectures and counties to make the news public to the people.

This will to benefit the people is also known as "the reduction of the tax in the prosperous era, and the five acres are not levied", and it was officially recorded in Zhu Youxiao's record, which became an important political performance of Zhu Youxiao to advertise himself as a generation of Ming Jun.

The officials would not object to this policy of benefiting the people, because it did not involve their interests, and they were happy to follow the flattery of His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youxiao.

And the common people are naturally very grateful for this, especially in this kind of late Ming society where land annexation is very serious, there are still a lot of landless people and poor peasants who only occupy a small amount of land.

Now Zhu Youxiao is directly exempted from taxes for land occupancy of less than five acres, which undoubtedly further reduces the burden on the people at the bottom who are struggling on the line of life and death.

You must know that not all areas are highly urbanized, and many landless people and poor peasants cannot completely survive without the land like the people in the Jiangnan area.

In addition, in fact, this has little impact on the treasury income of the Ming Dynasty, because for the yeoman farmers who can bear the tax, the number of acres of land must not be less than five acres, after all, there is no hybrid rice now, and there is no more than ten acres of land at home, so it is impossible to live.

Local officials are not opposed to this policy, because families with less than five acres of land have nothing to squeeze in the country, and when they are forced to do so, they will be revolutionary.

Therefore, it is obvious that as soon as Zhu Youxiao's will comes out, there will be fewer so-called Diao people in the Ming Dynasty in the future.

On the New Year of the 12th year of the Apocalypse, he put forward his own political blueprint in the major official newspapers and periodicals, that is, to let the people with less acres of land no longer pay taxes this year, and after three years, no taxes will be levied if the number of acres of land owned by a single acre is less than a certain standard, and in the near future, the land taxes will even be directly and permanently reduced.

And now that Zhu Youxiao has fulfilled his first promise, the people are grateful to Dade and can't help but start looking forward to the fulfillment of His Majesty's follow-up promise, and some have even begun to fantasize that if they really don't even levy Tian Fu in the future, how comfortable their little life will be.

Zhu Youxiao's picture of the pie not only won over the hearts of the poor peasant class, but also made their attitude towards the imperial court change and hope for the middle-level yeoman farmers and middle- and lower-class landlords, because everyone knew that once the land tax was reduced, it was also very in their interests.

However, for the gentry class, the temptation of this painting cake is not great, because their biggest privilege after achieving fame is that they do not have to pay taxes, and therefore they can have a large number of yeoman farmers to contribute, so that they can get rich overnight and become parasites, but now His Majesty wants to turn the privileges of his class into the rights of all the people of the Ming Dynasty, and then they have no privilege treatment, and they can no longer let others contribute to be their own slaves.

This is tantamount to completely depriving the gentry of the whole world of the privilege of not paying food in disguise.

But the civil officials representing the gentry class did not dare to point fingers at this promise made by Zhu Youxiao, first, they did not know how to oppose it, His Majesty would exempt the people of the world from taxes in the future, which is in line with the Confucian political concept of lightly punishing the poor, and you can't refute it; Moreover, if the civil officials want to oppose Zhu Youxiao's exemption from the tax on the acres of land of the people of the whole world, they can only find a reason why the current state treasury revenue is tight and they cannot live without the tax on the acres of land.

However, the treasury revenue is increasing year by year, especially this year, the opening of sea trade, coupled with the further expansion of the inland market, the expansion of commercial taxes from Fengyang to Nanzhili, so that the civil officials can not find a reason for the court to be poor.

There were even cunning officials who began to advise Zhu Youxiao to travel east to worship Mount Tai, and even the other five mountains also went to worship, and some simply implored Zhu Youxiao to expand the mausoleum of the ancestors and ancestors on the grounds that the dynasty ruled the world with filial piety.

Even with Zhu Youxiao's own mausoleum, officials of the Ministry of Rites also took the initiative to request that the scale be expanded.

There are also those who directly asked Zhu Youxiao to expand the royal gardens and palaces, and advised him to tour the south again on the grounds of appeasing the sea frontier.

Zhu Youxiao knew what these civil officials meant, and it was clear that he wanted to make himself the emperor spend more money, that is, to expand the expenditure of the state treasury and make himself poor, so that he could slap himself in the face, so that he would not be able to fulfill his promise to permanently exempt the world from land in the future.

At the same time, he also fell into the infamy of a great achievement.

For these ministers who bewitch themselves to spend more money, a few reasons are okay, Zhu Youxiao can readily agree, and if the reasons are not sufficient, Zhu Youxiao directly applied, and even made it clear that he wanted to make himself a faint king, and Zhu Youxiao simply went to prison directly.

Even sometimes, it is not only Zhu Youxiao himself to advertise that he is a generation of Ming Jun, and he must be diligent and thrifty, but the brainless speech officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Sixth Branch have now played a role, and they have really pitted their black-bellied colleagues, who want to advise Zhu Youxiao to engage in activities such as going to Mount Tai or expanding the garden, as long as one of the speech officials is impeached, Zhu Youxiao will directly dismiss this person in accordance with the opinion of the speech official.

"Now that the treasury is abundant, some of you have forgotten the fundamentals of being a courtier, flattering me, flattering me, I tell you the truth, I am not the king of Shang, nor is it Huizong of the Song Dynasty! You put away your fancy intestines as soon as possible, and do things for the court with peace of mind is the right thing! ”

Zhu Youxiao reprimanded a group of civil officials in the court more than once, and the civil officials could only sigh that His Majesty was too wise and thrifty, and had the style of Yao Shun.