With the continuation of the reform, Daming's finance ushered in a sharp rise in the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, and finally at the end of the year, it exceeded the scale of 3.5 billion yuan. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The smooth progress of reform also has a great deal to do with the support of military strength.

The reform initiated by Zhu Youxiao was essentially a violent demolition supported by the military. What was dismantled was the old system of the Ming Dynasty, and what was established was a complete local administrative system. The administrative model of the Ming Dynasty has also changed from the local autonomy model in the past to the direct management of the imperial court all the way to the township level, and now only the village level is local autonomy, but the administrative village will still have the secretary of the village party committee appointed by the imperial court.

The secretary is a member of the Han Emperor Party and a top leader assigned to the locality.

In this forced demolition action, the interests of the landlords, merchants, and elites in the past were all damaged to varying degrees, but at the same time, the starting gun of competition was fired, and as long as they were able, they could gain benefits under the new system. The most fundamental change in this reform is that no one will be able to make money lying down in the future, and only those who have put in the effort and wisdom will be able to reap the benefits.

For those capable groups, they are in high spirits in the face of reform, and a large number of capable businessmen, with the reform and seize the opportunity, began to climb up hard, forming a new business group, and this group of businessmen is also a group that supports the reform of the imperial court.

In the past, it was all those bureaucratic capitalists who made money without brains, and those businessmen who had no background and no power, who had no opportunities at all, and who could only be reduced to vassals if they wanted to develop. After the reform, the space for survival has suddenly become larger, and there are more opportunities.

After the reform, the merchants also improved in the official places. However, the children of merchant families are now unable to participate in the imperial examination again, and they cannot even be ordinary civil servants. Of course, there is no problem in politics, as long as you stop doing business, you can get qualifications, and the household registration is not fixed.

It is equivalent to the imperial court redrawing a line for businessmen, politics is something they can never touch, as long as they pay taxes according to the law, they have status.

Of course, there are still restrictions on this status.

The imperial court had restrictions on merchants' residences, travel, cars, weddings, and the like. Even if an ordinary merchant has money, he still can't build a house too big, unless he is a merchant who has won the Folk Medal.

The reason why this restriction on businessmen has not been abolished is, on the one hand, to prevent businessmen from consuming too much people's power in terms of personal enjoyment under the gap between the rich and the poor, and on the other hand, to control social contradictions.

It means: Okay, well, you have money, but don't give me a.

The easiest and most crude way for a businessman to obtain the Civil Order is to do charity. At the same time, those who do a good job in organizing production and other activities and make outstanding contributions to economic development can also be awarded civil medals.

The most obvious benefit of the reform is the expansion of state-owned capital. In the past, state-owned capital was basically developed in the north, but this reform in the south has also led to the development of state-owned capital in the southern provinces, and a large number of assets have been reorganized and developed.

As the reforms progressed, the land annexation of the southern provinces was also dealt a terrible blow by the imperial court. A large number of landlords, who had no experience in running agricultural companies, and many did not know how to improve productivity, had no choice but to sell their land in the face of the court's harsh taxes.

Of course, there are also a large number of landlords who have registered agricultural companies and changed the tenant farming model to the hired labor model, but if they do not increase their productivity, they can only face losses.

Some landlords registered agricultural companies, but abandoned the land, trying to evade taxes through such means, after all, if the agricultural company did not make a profit, it did not have to pay taxes, and as a result, because the land was abandoned, the government took it to compulsory auction. Because there is a large amount of land for sale in the market, there is basically no auction price.

Because of the new agricultural tax policy, a large amount of cheap land has appeared on the market, but a large number of yeoman farmers have emerged. Because yeoman farmers no longer have to pay land taxes and no longer have to bear forced labor, owning 20 acres of land in the south that does not have to pay taxes is easy to feed their families.

Also because of the new agricultural tax, the internal contradictions of the Ming Dynasty have also been eliminated a lot.

In China, the demise of a dynasty is a cycle in which the people are unable to support their wives and children because of the lack of Taoism, and then the Taoist overthrows the unenlightened. Except for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, none of the other dynasties in China for two or three hundred years were slavery, and all of them were the system of the Heavenly Dao system.

In this reform, Zhu Youxiao also brought a way of life to the people. Civilians had the option of immigrating, which allowed them to acquire large tracts of arable land. You can also choose to be a worker, so as to enjoy the worker security system of the imperial court, or you can be a yeoman farmer who does not have to pay taxes, and a yeoman farmer can also be a half-farmer and half-worker.

The education for all system has created a channel for ordinary people to rise.

After the reform of the Ming Dynasty, merchants and landlords could be rich, but they could not hinder the people's right to survive. Any businessman or landlord who wants to make brainless money by squeezing the common people is within the scope of this reform. Merchants and landowners have money, and they must have the ability to survive under the new system.

This ability is not the ability to drill camps, but to improve one's own productivity and make the cake bigger. As long as they increase productivity, save consumption, and make reasonable and full use of resources, they can earn profits, otherwise the imperial court taxes can force them into bankruptcy.

There will never be a shortage of people with this kind of ability in China, and the essence of this reform is to kick away those who have no ability and occupy resources, and let those who have the ability to manage these resources. Those important resources are operated by state-owned enterprises, restricting private capital from entering those important economic fields.

To sum it up in one sentence: liberate the productive forces.

When the productive forces go up, the living standards of the common people will naturally improve, and civilization will naturally progress.

For this reform, with the efforts of the official media, the people have gradually become deeply aware of the benefits of the reform, and they all applaud and rejoice in the reform.

Even if those businessmen wanted to rebel against the reform, with the collapse of the chaebols in Jiangnan, it was basically impossible. The merchants did not have any resources to rebel against, and they were not as good as the landlords, who at least had tenant farmers in their hands.

The landlords were also the first to bear the brunt of this reform, and the landlords at least had tenant farmers in their hands to arm themselves to resist, but the problem was that this reform was good for the tenant farmers. One of the most obvious advantages is the reduction of interest rates and rents, so that tenant farmers no longer have to bear the heavy rent, and at the same time, the interest on the money borrowed from the landlords is also reduced to a very low level.

Will the tenant peasants join the landlords in resisting the reform on a large scale?

Apparently not!

But there are still some sporadic localities, and there are still a lot of them. Many tenant farmers were deceived by landlords because of the limited access to information. There are also many local clan forces, as well as some underworld forces, that are very resistant to reform, and there are often incidents of violent resistance to the law.

This kind of violent resistance to the law occurred frequently in large numbers in the course of reform, mainly caused by the landlord class. It's just that those landlords who resisted reform were all cleaned up by the imperial court by violent means, and there were not many BBs, and the local armed police and the central army were directly dispatched to arrest the landlords who resisted the law, confiscate the land, and then sentence them and auction them.

Absolutely resolute, simple and brutal.

The simpler and more direct way is often the best way. It was precisely with the support of the local public security, the armed police, and the central army that the social atmosphere of resistance to reform was quickly suppressed.

The next game of reform is the southwest.

At the end of the 15th year of the Apocalypse, the Armed Police Force and the Central Army had already begun to station in the southwest, taking the lead in carrying out military reform in the southwest and laying a good foundation for administrative reform.