The second content of the decree is about Li Hongfei's plan for reform in Suzhou. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Since the date of the decree, Suzhou has been divided into a special administrative region, and Li Hongfei is the supreme governor of the administrative region, although he is still the prefect of Suzhou, but he has the right to cast firearms, the right to recruit soldiers, the right to financial autonomy, and a series of privileges such as appointing (recalling) officials below the rank of six ranks..........

Taken together, these privileges are tantamount to splitting the earth and sealing the king, and even greater than the rights of ordinary vassal kings, at least the vassal kings do not dare to make firearms privately and raise private soldiers.

Fortunately, Zhu Youzhen has not completely gone crazy, stipulating that such power is only for three years, and Li Hongfei must triple Suzhou's economy within three years, and he must train at least 30,000 combatable soldiers within three years.

The so-called combatable soldiers are one-to-one military strength that can confront the Manchu Eight Banners.

If any of these two points are not reached, three years later will be Li Hongfei's death.

The threefold increase in the economy was specially stated by Li Hongfei when he submitted the plan in order to get Zhu Youzhen to agree.

The economy he is referring to is mainly the tripling of various taxes on agriculture and commerce, after all, the ancients will not count any invisible wealth and fixed assets with you.

What Zhu Youzhen and the officials of the imperial court need to see is the result of comparing the silver you handed over to the treasury this year with that of previous years.

Originally, according to the previous tax revenue, even if the agricultural tax was not adjusted, Li Hongfei was confident that he would increase his economic strength by three or five times just by relying on the increase in the commercial tax.

But now that Zhu Youzhen has directly adjusted the commercial tax to the sky at one time, if Li Hongfei wants to triple the overall economy, wouldn't it be that after climbing to the sky, he will have to go to the triple heavens?

The officials of the household department are not stupid, the commercial tax has been raised by six times in various places, so when it is compared again, it will naturally be calculated according to the new tax rate.

In the first year's tax, if Li Hongfei pays less, then the household department will definitely thoroughly investigate the problem of tax evasion, but if he pays too much, then I'm sorry, after three years, you have to pay at least three times according to this standard.

Well, although the economic problems are a bit tricky, Li Hongfei is also a modern person, and in terms of economic development, he will not be much worse than the ancients.

But even so, Zhu Youzhen did not intend to let Li Hongfei go, and handed over all the things of organizing and training the new army to the other party, and also insisted that it must reach the level of the Manchu Eight Banners.

How powerful are the Manchu Eight Banners today?

In the eleventh year of Wanli (1583), Nurhachi used the thirteen pairs of armor left by his ancestors and fathers to raise troops, and the troops at that time were only a dozen people, and now the Qing army entered the south of the pass in a big way, occupying half of the Ming Dynasty, it only took 60 years, and every battle of the Eight Banners of the Manchu Dynasty was outnumbered, so that when the Ming army fought against the Eight Banners Army, there were no three times, and they did not even dare to take the initiative to meet the enemy.

It is another difficult task for Li Hongfei to train a group of recruits, and to do it one to one without falling behind.

If the plan of the all-firearms unit can be successfully implemented, it may be able to compete with it, but with the financial resources of the government, it is already the limit to support such an army of 30,000 people, where is there still money left to pay three times the tax to Zhu Youzhen?

Since ancient times, it has been difficult for the economy and the military to go hand in hand, at least for the Han Chinese, who have never made a fortune because of war.

After the Chinese army won the war, in addition to gaining land and fame, it generally did not ask for money from those small countries, and even sent a lot of kindness to help the defeated small countries, which is typical of slapping a swollen face and becoming fat.

But once you lose, not only will you be looted by the enemy, but you will also have to cede the land and pay compensation to the woman..........

Therefore, after the ministers of the DPRK and China heard that Suzhou was changed into a special zone, instead of opposing it, they raised their hands in favor, because according to internal information, this commercial tax increase was the ghost of Li Menghui in Suzhou.

Now that Li Meng is looking for his own death, they don't mind waiting for three more years.

It's just that they don't understand that wars don't necessarily lose money, what Li Hongfei has to do is to tell everyone in the Ming Dynasty that war can also make a fortune!

Although these two tasks were difficult, Li Hongfei was not afraid of challenges, because according to the course of history, in less than a year, Dolgon would be able to conquer the north and move his army south.

If Li Hongfei can't even do these two things, then how can he resist the Dolgon army?

Suzhou is now considered to be at the forefront, once it can't resist the Dolgon army, let alone a group of ministers, Zhu Youzhen will be the first to turn his face and deny people, so now for Li Hongfei, absolute administrative power is the most urgently needed...........

And some of the businessmen in the martial arts arena, after hearing the first holy decree on commercial tax reform, almost didn't jump up to find Li Hongfei desperately.

Because although the commercial tax has been raised, they have not said anything about paying taxes, these businessmen listened to the grapevine, and took the initiative to take the account books to the prefect's yamen to pay taxes a few days ago.

It's just that before they can get angry, the content of the second holy decree makes them burst out of anger again.

What is the origin of this Lord Li?

It is even more powerful than the Mu Wangfu in Yunnan, is it the illegitimate son of the emperor?

Speculation is speculation, no one has dared to say such a thing, but a group of businessmen who have learned Li Hongfei's power are now secretly wondering whether to leave this so-called special zone.

At least some old-fashioned businessmen feel that this special zone has no future, especially those big families, if they can't give up this family business, they are probably ready to move.

However, some businessmen who are flexible and dare to work hard have found an opportunity to make money and their economic strength has increased by three times, which means that doing business here must make a lot of money, otherwise wouldn't the prefect have a bad head?

The businessmen have different ideas, and the officials at the bottom are basically complaining about hardship, if everyone offended the prefect before, they would be suppressed and excluded at most, but now Li Hongfei has the power of life and death, and he is still an unlucky chief who can only "live for three years".

A group of officials directly classified Li Hongfei as a dying person, the dying person is not terrible, the terrible thing is that this person still has supreme power, knowing that he will die, he will definitely use the power in his hand to pull a large number of people to accompany the funeral.

However, Li Hongfei didn't care what these people thought, he just took the holy decree and the official seal, hurriedly explained a few words, and then disbanded the crowd, he used the holy decree to take advantage of the purpose has been achieved, and the remaining time needs to hurry up to complete his development plan, how can he have time to gossip with these people.

As for what the officials of the DPRK and China think, or what the common people at the bottom think, it doesn't matter, and the final result will not be known until three years later.