The overhaul of the agricultural tax soon led to a lot of land sell-offs, especially among the elites, who began to sell off a lot of land.

There were also some powerful people who began to set up agricultural companies to operate land production.

However, not all the wealthy can play the enterprise, and most of the powerful are not good at the management of the enterprise. There are still a lot of magnates who have sold their land.

If you don't sell your land, you will lose your annual agricultural tax.

The new agricultural tax bill is based on the number of acres of land, and the more land you own, the higher the tax. If you still operate according to the way of collecting rent, then you will not collect money at home with your feet crossed, but lose money at home with your feet crossed.

This land reform was indeed a relatively big blow to those powerful people, but ordinary peasants were overjoyed.

Many peasants have less than 30 acres of land, and this agricultural tax reform means that they will no longer have to pay the imperial grain.

Then the Cabinet issued a decree to completely abolish the conscription system in the New Deal area.

The abolition of forced labor means that ordinary people no longer have to worry about being pulled by the government to repair this and that, and it also means that the burden is greatly reduced.

The government will pay all the wages for employment.

Not only do rural laborers not have to bear the burden of forced labor, but they can also earn wages to support their families by working on construction sites during the off-season.

The tax exemption for less than 30 acres of land, the abolition of forced labor, and the increase in construction activities have greatly enhanced the ability of the people at the bottom to resist disasters.

At this time, in the New Deal area, even if the government is not so strong in disaster relief, the people themselves have a relatively strong ability to resist disasters. But disaster relief is still needed.

And such taxes. Make the distribution of social wealth more equitable.

Conscription was abolished though. However, the personal income tax is fully implemented in the New Deal area, and it is also a tax exemption for those with high incomes and tax exemption for those with low incomes.

This was greatly embraced by the common people, and these policies were also deeply publicized in the army, and these reforms of the emperor were immediately supported by the soldiers.

After all, ordinary soldiers are basically from poor backgrounds, and at this time, the emperor can make the poor people live better, so he naturally supports it with both hands.

With the support of the people and the army, those powerful or something. I can't set off any wind and waves at all.

Soon after, the Cabinet introduced a new household registration management policy, that is, the household registration of military households, stove households, artisan households, and other household registration that had been passed down for generations was officially abolished, and all of them were incorporated into the normal households. Household registration is divided into rural and urban household registration, and the rural population can migrate to urban areas.

After the hukou reform, occupational discrimination was completely eliminated, and at the same time, their children were allowed to participate in the imperial examination.

And since the sixth year of the Apocalypse, public primary schools have begun to build a large number of public primary schools in the New Deal area, and with the improvement of people's livelihood, the people have some money in their hands. Sending children to school is also gradually increasing.

In a few years, the system of compulsory primary education will be introduced.

The implementation of the new policy in the northeast region has been relatively smooth. There are no traditional forces here, and the interests of the elite are blocked here.

The people who immigrated to the Northeast region were like entering heaven at this time. The resources here are simply too abundant, and the population is small.

Although the infrastructure is a bit poor, the imperial court and the local government are constantly building infrastructure, and as long as you work hard for a few years, you can live a good life.

Just when the newly requisitioned areas began to implement reforms, Shandong was also quietly included in the scope of reform. If Shandong is directly announced to carry out reforms, then it will inevitably cause some backlash.

Therefore, the first to reform was the administration, and all the local administrations in Shandong were changed to the same as those in the New Deal area. Police stations and armed police forces have been set up, the number of civil servants has been increased, the administrative system of townships and towns has been increased, and the policy of high salaries and honest pensions has been adopted.

As long as the administrative reform is completed, the central government's control over the localities will be greatly enhanced, and the subsequent tax laws, the judiciary, household registration, and so on can be immediately reformed. Anyway, Zhu Youxiao did not clearly say that Shandong would be included in the new deal area, but carried out it step by step.

At this time, the traffic situation in Shandong is the best among the unreformed provinces in the northern provinces, after all, it is close to the coast, and although the traffic in the mountainous area is inconvenient, as long as the road is built, the problem can be solved. At the time of the administrative reform in Shandong, the investment and construction on the road had already begun to exert force.

Since the beginning of the year, the development of the New Deal area has become very rapid, especially in the northeast, where the main force of the construction of the Ming Dynasty is basically there.

The government has invested a lot of money in the construction of the northeast region, and in addition to the financial aspects, there is also the investment of state-owned enterprises in the northeast region, and there is also an influx of private capital into the northeast region.

Migration from Kannai to Tohoku continues to continue, and after more than two years of migration, the population of Tohoku has risen to more than 15 million. The population pressure in the Kannai provinces has also been greatly reduced, and the ability to resist natural disasters has also improved.

"Your Majesty, the Navy's exploration fleet in the northern part of the Americas has returned, where a large number of salmon and otters have been found, and gold has not yet been found."

"The Gold Force has also discovered several gold mines in the Northeast and is now ready to mine ......"

"The navy has officially opened up trade with the Anbei and Southern Koreas, as well as the Khmer and Siam, and a certain amount of grain can be transported back from the Indochina Peninsula this year."

One good news after another, Zhu Youxiao was very happy, and immediately ordered the navy to set up a stronghold in Alaska to catch salmon and hunt otters.

At the same time, the navy was ordered to prepare for the expulsion of Dutch influence in Asia and expel the Dutch from Southeast Asia as soon as possible.

The layout of Southeast Asia is related to whether Daming can successfully survive the Xiaoice period, where the grain output is really attractive.

The Indochina Peninsula region can be put aside for the time being, and first rely on trade to obtain the grain of the Indochina Peninsula. The island of Java was the next target to be captured.

The capture of the island of Java not only allowed them to obtain the agricultural resources there, but also drove the European bandit gangs out of the Asian waters, so that the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty could sail and trade unimpeded. Most importantly. After the capture of Java. You can also migrate to Australia.

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Navy after the capture of the Philippines. Already preparing to attack Java Island. The Dutch had not been on the island of Java for a long time, and the attack on the Dutch city of Batavia, which would later become Jakarta, was not as difficult as the attack on Manila.

Manila tibia Spaniards have been in business for many years, and naturally Batavia can compare. It is true that the Dutch were more hooligans than the Spaniards, but it was useless to be rogues. Because of the weather, the number of gunboats in the navy has grown to forty-two in six years, and the navy's strength has grown by a blowout.

Today, the Royal Navy is the absolute hegemon of Asian waters, in terms of naval strength. The Dutch have been completely crushed. The size of the Marine Corps has also expanded to 50,000.

At the beginning of the year, the Royal Navy formed a fleet and sailed to Indochina. Trade with the three Indochina Peninsula countries of Annam, Khmer and Siam was opened by force and diplomacy.

In fact, the use of force was much more in this process, and with the exception of one Khmer who was willing to accept the Royal Navy's demand for monopoly trade, both Annam and Siam rejected this demand. As a result, these Indochina countries were naturally repaired, shelled and landed, and frightened Annam, the North and South, and Siam.

In particular, after the Royal Navy landed at the port, the Southern Empire of Annam also sent an army over. As a result, the Marines beat the ass with firearms, and only then did they agree to the Royal Navy's monopoly trade demands.

The same is true of Siam and Annangu. In the end, they were all forced by the threat of the Royal Navy, and in order to send the Royal Navy away, they agreed to the demand for monopolistic trade.

The so-called monopoly trade requirement is that these countries can only trade with the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, and cannot conduct any trade with the Europeans.

After these countries agreed to such a request, the Royal Navy withdrew, and as for whether these countries complied with the agreement, it was up to them to be conscious.

If you don't realize it, you can fix them again.

Trade can naturally be carried out normally, and the merchant fleets of state-owned consortia have set sail and are loaded with goods to trade with other countries, and civilian merchant ships are also flocking to these Indochina countries in large numbers.

In the past six years, the Ming Customs has been greatly improved, and the coast is full of anti-smuggling ships, and very many civilian merchant ships that evade customs duties have been seized by anti-smuggling ships.

As for the tariff collection of the imperial court, those maritime merchants had no way at this time. Thinking that there were no more pirates to recruit, the people could no longer trade in Japan. At the same time, even if a pirate gang is formed, there is no island to hide in the coast.

It is obviously impossible to resist tariffs by force. However, since the establishment of customs and navy, it has been much safer to go to sea for trade.

With the capture of Luzon by the Ming Dynasty, trade in Luzon was fully opened.

At the same time, after the navy signed trade agreements with Annam, Khmer, and Siam in Indochina, these civilian merchant ships could also go to Indochina to trade.

Of course, they could have traveled to these countries to trade, but the Spanish and Dutch often plundered Ming merchant ships, so it became more dangerous to trade with these countries. Now the Ming Navy is like a wolf and a tiger, but it is much safer to go to the Indochina Peninsula to trade.

However, compared with the merchant fleet of state-owned consortiums, private merchant ships do not have any advantages. Because the navigation technology of the merchant fleet of the state-owned consortium is more advanced, and the ocean-going navigation technology and accumulation of sextants and charts, the private merchant ships are generally uneven.

In terms of tonnage of merchant ships, as well as in types, they are not as good as state-owned consortia. The state-owned consortium now has 2,000-ton merchant ships, while the largest private shipyard can only produce 1,000-ton merchant ships. And they are all traditional kind of merchant ships, with watertight compartments, but the hull is relatively fragile. Although each has its own advantages in transportation, it is inferior in diversity to the merchant fleet of the state-owned consortium, which has begun to equip the soft-sail merchant ships of the Europeans.

First, the establishment of tariffs has greatly reduced the profits of ocean trade. In addition, the competition has begun to become stronger, and many overseas gadgets are not as rare as before, and they cannot be sold at such a high price.

The number of luxury goods overseas is not large, and there are still many merchant ships to trade, so naturally not everyone can successfully trade those luxury goods, and the windfall profits of ocean trade are diluted.

The dilution of the windfall profits from the ocean trade was also a result of the imperial court's wishes, so that the merchant ships could only bring back large quantities of raw materials and grain from overseas.

Of course, the market needs to be operated, and these countries in Indochina do not have so much grain to export for the time being. Because many of their resources have not yet been developed, they simply did not have the motivation to develop them in the past.

First, their productivity is relatively low, second, their medical level is relatively poor, and the population growth is not fast, and third, they are relatively rich in products, and they have developed a kind of inertia. As a result, although there are large areas of agricultural resources in the Indochina Peninsula, many of them are in an undeveloped state.

To develop these resources, it is obvious that Daming's capital is needed to invest overseas.

However, Daming's energy has not been placed on the Indochina Peninsula for the time being, but on the Dutch. After the navy repaired the countries of Indochina casually, more than 20 gunboats sailed against the wind in the southeast monsoon to Java Island, and began to trouble the Dutch.

The official attack on Java Island will wait until the southeast monsoon is over, and then the troop carriers will be able to sail south downwind and drop a large number of marines on Java Island.

And this fleet is acting as a vanguard. (To be continued.) )