Chapter 460: Jiangnan Stability

When everything was revealed, the world was shocked. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is almost unimaginable that those Donglin Party members who usually look like the world are a group of well-dressed beasts who are for their own selfish desires.

What many people didn't expect was that these Donglin Party members turned out to be a group supported by a group of capital forces to get involved in politics.

Zhu Youxiao even criticized these Donglin Party as 'exquisite egoists' in the newspaper, which aroused heated discussions among the people all over the world.

It's a new word, but the meaning is taken literally.

"Self-interest, self-interest, the so-called self-interested, that is, to achieve success in the most direct and effortless way, self-interest first, regardless of the life or death of the people, let alone the rise or fall of the country. In the eyes of this group of people, even if the flood is terrible, it has nothing to do with them. ”

"What is exquisite, that is, elite, if ordinary people in the market have a self-interested heart, it is also excusable, and there is no harm to the world. However, if you read the books of sages and sages and aspire to serve the country and the people, you will have a heart of self-interest, and the world will be worried~! Previously, the court was in turmoil, and in the cases of Red Pill and Palace Transfer, the people of Donglin tried to manipulate the Holy Monarch and make him like a puppet. Fortunately, the sage was wise, and at the beginning of his ascension to the throne, he endured humiliation, worked hard, and worked hard, but then the Ming Dynasty was in danger! ”

The world was in an uproar!

Those traditional readers feel extremely excited in their hearts. And those who read in the capital camp feel related.

However, the crimes of the Donglin Party, the Jiangnan Gate Lords, and the Shi clan have been revealed to the world, and one crime after another has been exposed in front of people's eyes, and they have suddenly become street rats that everyone shouts and beats. In particular, the wealth confiscated from this raid has made people completely see the hypocrisy of this group of people.

It also makes people really realize that the Donglin Party is a product of businessmen's attempts to usurp the country.

"Your Majesty, what should be done with the criminals captured this time?"

Early on this day, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department came out to ask Zhu Youxiao for instructions. Zhu Youxiao pondered for a moment, and then raised his voice and said: "Those who serve the public should not be killed, and those who are private should be killed." ”

"Should the Donglin criminal ministers also be dealt with in the same way?"

"Destroy them all." Zhu Youxiao decided that the way of life and death is to learn from **** Taizu to engage in political struggle, which is carried out in accordance with this principle. People who are public, if they think differently, they will only be defeated, but they will not kill, as long as their psychological quality is relatively passable, there is a possibility of a comeback in the future. Those who are selfish will be shot directly.

The affairs of the Donglin Party have also dragged on for a long time, and it is not enough to serve the world by killing people before. Now that he kills someone, the world applauds.

At the end of the winter of the fourteenth year of the Apocalypse, in the midst of the abuse and cheers of the world, a bunch of criminal ministers of the Donglin Party, as well as the Jiangnan gate lords and scholars who participated in a certain party this time, were escorted to Beijing one after another, and one after another were ambushed under the knife at the entrance of the vegetable market. For a while, it was killing people's heads and bleeding all over the ground.

When a group of criminals of the Donglin Party were escorted to the execution ground, they were all in a trance, and they had been completely defeated. The Dog Emperor not only raided his home to Jiangnan, but also launched a more powerful public opinion machine to publicize their crimes, which has made them lose everything.

These egoists have naturally killed a hundred, and Zhu Youxiao did not hesitate or hesitate at this time. Once the egoist is in power, the destructive power is incomparably terrifying. Just like the United States in later generations, it was a country that specialized in cultivating egoists, but with the unremitting efforts of those egoists, the United States was finally tossed by these people and its national strength declined. The problems of the United States in later generations are simply too similar to those in the late Ming Dynasty.

The situation in Jiangnan has gradually stabilized at this time.

With the transfer of a large amount of basic living materials, the operation of society has remained stable. At the same time, the industrial and commercial aspects have gradually returned to normal order.

State-owned enterprises, on the other hand, began to settle in large numbers in the Jiangnan area and began to receive many assets confiscated.

The profits from this raid are too lucrative, and although the cash is not too much, the assets are very terrifying. A large amount of land, houses, shops, workshops, factories. There are also countless rare treasures, jewels and jades, and antique cultural relics.

After these assets were taken over by the imperial court's state-owned enterprises, they were evaluated and disposed of. All the good assets are retained, and those less important assets are gradually sold.

Zhu Youxiao was in the Forbidden City and issued several policies one after another. The first is to control the public opinion apparatus and completely ban all kinds of newspapers that operate without a license, especially those that are popular by hand. The second is that non-governmental newspapers must be published under official supervision and must not publish all news that endangers national interests.

This policy has further controlled public opinion.

The second is that Jiangnan should carry out a comprehensive reform, and the content of the reform is the reform of officialdom on the one hand, and the reform of agricultural taxation and commercial taxation on the other hand.

The reform of officialdom is most important in that officials and their families are not allowed to do business, and at the same time corruption is severely punished. This is very crucial, most of the people's hatred and antagonism towards the imperial court are caused by corruption. On the one hand, the reform of agricultural taxation is to protect the interests of small farmers, and tenant farmers can be exempted from taxes, and their tenant rent shall not exceed 20 percent, and peasant households with no more than 20 mu of land can also be exempted from taxes. At the same time, all other tax-exempt classes, whether they are meritorious or noble, can no longer enjoy tax-free privileges. Landlords with more than 300 acres of land who adopt the tenant model will be subject to higher and higher taxes. When it reaches the order of 300 mu, the tax will reach 2 percent, but this tax will be paid by the landlord and has nothing to do with the tenant farmers. If it reaches 500 acres or rents the land to tenant farmers brainlessly, then the tax will exceed 2 percent, and the landlord will lose money.

It was a system used to curb land annexation, while safeguarding the interests of ordinary peasants and at the same time combating the privileged classes' interest in agricultural land.

In terms of commercial taxation, personal income tax, corporate income tax, and value-added tax are collected together.

At the moment when the Jiangnan region announced its reform, many industrial and commercial classes immediately complained bitterly. However, the people's will is like iron, the official law is like a furnace, and the policies of the imperial court have begun to be gradually implemented in Jiangnan.

Many people are confused about the reform plan of the imperial court. This is a model that offends the landlord class, the privileged class, and the business class to death, but why doesn't the world fully expose the rod and overthrow this dog emperor directly?

However, the actual situation is completely different, because Zhu Youxiao has now formed a new interest group, and at the same time, most of the reforms have been gradually completed in the north. The northern region is now in chaos, and even if the southern region is chaotic, it is impossible to threaten the imperial court.

Therefore, this Jiangnan rebellion was directly wiped out just by the pressure of the army. In many places, the landlords and privileged classes are now willing to rebel and are alone.

Zhu Youxiao is not afraid of others rebelling at all, as long as the areas that have completed the reform are stabilized, the big deal is like a chaotic era, and the past will be swept away one by one, and then the great unification will be completed.

After the reform, not only social stability, but also the continuous application of scientific and technological achievements, the productive forces have been greatly improved.

The state-owned capital consortium controlled by Zhu Youxiao had already begun to enter Jiangnan on a large scale at this time and complete the harvest of Jiangnan in various fields.

First of all, the assets seized made the state-owned capital consortium grasp the rich benefits after entering Jiangnan. At the same time, the reform will further produce a series of benefits. All these benefits were pocketed by the consortium and continuously transfused blood for the national finances.

The railway in the south of the Yangtze River has also begun to gradually enter the state of construction.

At the same time, the state-owned capital consortium entered Jiangnan, which also brought steam engines to Jiangnan's industry and commerce, and a large number of steam engine factories began to appear in Jiangnan. The textile industry of the Ming Dynasty began to transfer to the south of the Yangtze River on a large scale. In this era, the most lucrative ones are naturally factory owners.

The state-owned capital consortium now has the most advanced productive forces, and after Jiangnan enters the reform, Daming, the most developed area of industry and commerce, will soon become the financial cow of the imperial court. At the same time, the state-owned capital consortium will also obtain rich benefits in Jiangnan.

First of all, in the textile industry, the entry of state-owned capital consortiums has made private capital begin to retreat in the textile industry. There is no way to compete with the state-owned capital consortium, and the difference in productivity is too great. The textile mills controlled by state-owned capital not only used steam engines in terms of power, but also more advanced textile equipment.

So there was no suspense at all, and the privately-owned textile mills began to retreat. Whether it is domestic sales or exports, the price is not comparable to that of textile factories controlled by state-owned capital.

As for the reduction of workers, it did not affect employment. Because the imperial court and the state-owned capital consortium were building a large number of workers in the Jiangnan area, the construction of railways, highways, and radio communications, as well as the large-scale construction of water conservancy facilities, all required a large number of workers, and the urban population was completely insufficient, and workers had to be attracted from the countryside.

When many people complained about it, they suddenly found that Jiangnan's economy was more prosperous, and it was simply full of vitality, which was completely different from the old and decadent atmosphere before.

Naturally, it is completely different, in the past, when those chaebols and scholars controlled wealth, these capitalists were often unwilling to spend their money, or spent money just to continue to invest, so as to monopolize the market, and then rely on monopoly brainless exploitation.

Money could not flow, and a large number of people were seized by those nobles and chaebols, and the economic crisis naturally appeared, and the market was dead. However, Daming is still an export-oriented country after all, and there is a large amount of silver inflow every year, which has eased a little. But the life of ordinary people is actually very difficult because there are not so many jobs in the market.

On the one hand, those rich and powerful classes spend their days drinking and drinking, on the other hand, those who take refuge in those classes are arrogant and domineering, and on the other hand, their own people are freezing and starving, and social problems naturally arise directly.

Now those nobles and chaebols have been swept away by the imperial court one by one, and all their assets have been confiscated. On the one hand, the imperial court and consortia continue to invest and invest in the Jiangnan area. Infrastructure construction, as well as the investment and construction of new industrial and commercial assets, immediately created a large number of jobs, and the wages were not low. On the other hand, in terms of basic living materials, the imperial court carried out full guarantees.

Policies have been introduced one after another in the areas of grain, vegetables, and meat. Food security is the strictest, market prices remain stable, and prices are in a state where ordinary people can easily eat enough as long as they work. At the same time, in the supply of vegetables and meat, Zhu Youxiao engaged in a Ming Dynasty version of the 'vegetable basket project'. A large number of vegetables are produced on the outskirts of the city to supply the city, farms, etc., and the imperial court also gives a part of the subsidies.

Ordinary people have something to do, and their income has also increased. At the same time, the price of basic living materials has not risen, and the basic cost of living has directly decreased a lot. And behind the economic boom, there are many opportunities. Especially with the fall of those scholars and gate valves, the previous chain of interests has been nullified. Some of the grassroots stakeholder groups have now lost their original backstage.

The imperial court also renovated and built urban facilities, and invested in water conservancy facilities in rural areas. At the same time, the construction of roads not only increased employment, but also promoted the development of industry and commerce after the completion of these road facilities. The distribution of wealth in the Jiangnan region has also become more reasonable, so ordinary people feel that life is better. The privileged class, which had previously stepped on their heads, has now disappeared in large numbers.

Moreover, the reform of the imperial court is relatively comprehensive, and the judicial and other aspects are followed by the reform, and now even if the businessman is rich, it is difficult to rely on money to oppress the ordinary people.

The imperial court is spending money frantically and constantly building all kinds of basic civil facilities. This also detonated market employment, ordinary people have money, the market economy is immediately revitalized, and the market naturally prospers.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the map in the Forbidden City, Jiangnan had been taken, and the next place to be taken, he directly aimed at Fujian and Guangdong.

These two provinces, in the Ming Dynasty, were far away from the emperor of Tiangao, and smuggling and smuggling were very rampant.

In particular, Fujian's private salt is almost open. But it also has something to do with the traffic problem. Previously, the shipping of the Ming Dynasty was banned, and it was more troublesome for the official salt to enter Fujian by land. Fujian coastal can also dry salt, although the tidal flats are mostly sandy beaches, and the sea water will seep, but some of the transformation can also be salted, so Fujian is basically a private salt market.

The problem of illegal salt was only solved incidentally, and the most important thing was that the smuggling of maritime merchants in Fujian and Guangdong was very rampant, and Zhu Youxiao felt that he could still raid his home.

This time to take Jiangnan, the imperial court's harvest is too rich. But this time, the main thing obtained was assets, which is equivalent to more cows, and the cash is not too exaggerated, and it is worth 500 million taels of silver. And those big maritime smugglers have more than N silver in their hands.

If these maritime merchants involved in smuggling are taken down, the imperial court will be able to gain a wave of fat.

Zhu Youxiao really couldn't control this thought, Dongchang and Jinyiwei had already begun a large-scale investigation of rich households in Fujian and Guangdong, as long as they found the handle, they could raid their homes on a large scale as soon as the two provinces were reformed. As long as he is caught, he will directly copy it when the time comes, this is a common method used by Zhu Youxiao to eliminate the gap between the rich and the poor in society.

Those merchants whose wealth accumulation has reached a certain level and can even threaten the imperial court directly seized the money and grain industry by means of raiding their homes, and the rich households at the bottom of the pyramid used the method of policy regulation to cut off the umbilical cord of their illegal interests, so as to complete a wave of wealth equalization.