But since Chongzhen gave power to him, Yu Xiaotian took a deep look at the current situation of the Ming officialdom, only to find that the current Ming officialdom is indeed rotten, and there are a bunch of bad debts everywhere, and no one can say the current reserves of the treasury and the treasury in various places.

So Yu Xiaotian had no choice but to order the Metropolitan Procuratorate to send people to start going out of Beijing to check the grain and silver deposits in the local government treasury.

In addition, in July, Yu Xiaotian personally proposed three important measures, one is to cancel the original increase in taxes in various places, and first fundamentally reduce the heavy burden borne by the people in various places.

The second is to announce the opening of the sea ban, choose the coastal Songjiang Prefecture, Ningbo Prefecture, Quanzhou Prefecture, and Guangzhou Prefecture to restore the city of Fu, fully liberalize the sea ban, allow merchants to carry out sea trade, and set up a tax collection system, formulate tax collection methods, collect taxes to increase fiscal revenue, and the taxes collected by the city shipping divisions set up in various places are not left for local use, and are directly transferred to the treasury of the imperial court.

Just such an item, Yu Xiaotian expects that in the first year of trial, the city department in these four places will be able to collect at least three million taels of silver for fun, if the operation is done properly, and if the appointed personnel are effective, they will get four or five million taels of silver in the first year, which is like playing.

And now he no longer regards the sea as his forbidden territory, and the Weitou Bay of Quanzhou Mansion has been officially handed over to the City Shipping Division for management, anyway, now that he has become the actual ruler of the Ming Dynasty, it is no longer meaningful to continue to regard these things as his private property.

The third is that Yu Xiaotian proposed to completely cancel the tax exemption policy enjoyed by those nobles and magnates in the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, re-clear the land area, and implement the system of apportionment into mu to reduce the burden of the ordinary people at the bottom before, and began to collect taxes on those powerful relatives who have enjoyed tax exemption for a long time.

The first two items are acceptable, but the third opinion put forward by Yu Xiaotian was immediately opposed by those with vested interests in the government and the opposition.

This motion put forward by Yu Xiaotian can be said to have touched their vested interests in the most fundamental way, they are lying on the merit book of their ancestors, or they are studying and becoming officials, and they finally obtained these benefits, and now Yu Xiaotian wants to take it away, of course, it will make them feel very unhappy.

In the past, many of them did not have to pay any taxes to the imperial court at all, but now if Yu Xiaotian implements this system, then they can no longer enjoy the benefits of tax exemption, and they have to pay a large amount of taxes to the government and the imperial court every year, which is equivalent to taking money out of their pockets, how can they agree.

This time Yu Xiaotian is equivalent to stabbing the hornet's nest, when even if it is opposed and resisted by the collective opposition and resistance of officials and powerful relatives in various places, the twists and turns of the book to insult Yu Xiaotian can be said to be overwhelming like a heavy rainstorm, almost drowning Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian looked at the mountains of these pieces of music that resisted his opinion, and sneered, he had already been mentally prepared for this kind of thing, these moths lying on Da Ming's body to enjoy it, now that he has touched his vested interests, of course he will not agree lightly, and he will definitely put up a stubborn resistance.

Since this is the case, then he is not polite, Yu Xiaotian ordered the household department to forcibly implement the plan he proposed, regardless of whether the local authorities agree or not, just forcibly carry it out.

In addition, he ordered that under the Ministry of Households, preparations should be made for the establishment of a tax department, which would be responsible for the collection of taxes throughout the country, and that each government should set up an agency directly dispatched by the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Imperial Court, and the person in charge would be called the tax envoy, who would preside over the collection of taxes in various places, and in strict accordance with his requirements, re-clear the land and reformulate the amount of taxes collected in various places.

This matter cannot be done by saying a word, Yu Xiaotian had already arranged for someone to study this matter before entering Beijing, it can be said that he has been thinking about it for a long time, and he also has full anticipation of the resistance he may encounter.

When he threw out this system, he had already taken into account the possible situation, so he prepared a group of people in advance to be responsible for the implementation of this matter.

However, if you want to fully implement this system in the whole territory of the Ming Dynasty, it is undoubtedly not an overnight thing, just to set up this tax department under the Ministry of Households, it is necessary to mobilize a lot of manpower, in addition, there are not many places throughout the country that listen to his control, and many local governments have a wait-and-see and resistive attitude towards his current actual control of the imperial court, even if he forcibly implements it, these local governments will not take it lightly and act according to his requirements.

Therefore, this also needs to be solved by force next, and Shandong, which is the closest to Beijing, has become the pilot of this tax reform, and the other is Yu Xiaotian's nest Fujian.

The reason why Shandong was chosen as the first trial place is because since Yan Jizu led his division north to be defeated and captured by Yu's army, the governor of Shandong has been short of personnel, and the whole Shandong has suffered the Denglai Rebellion in these years, and then encountered the Jiannu southward entry into the Kou, which has caused great damage to the local social structure in the entire Shandong and some of the north.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian's layout in Shandong in advance has also made his influence penetrate into various parts of Shandong and take root deeply, so in Shandong, the implementation of this system will undoubtedly be relatively less resistance for the time being.

So Yu Xiaotian selected an official named Zhang Changfang from among the officials and asked him to go to Shandong to replace Yan Jizu as the governor of Shandong.

Zhang Changfang is less than forty years old, he used to be a court official who was not very ambitious, and he was a small official under the household department, but this person is very knowledgeable, and he had a very good relationship with an insider of the Sea Wolf Division in Beijing before, and he often walked around, and he found that Zhang Changfang was a very thoughtful person through guò exchange insiders.

And he is very dissatisfied with the current land annexation and additional strategy of the Ming Dynasty, thinking that the Ming Dynasty has accumulated too many maladministrations for more than 200 years, especially the annexation of land by local magnates, which makes the people miserable.

Therefore, the current chaos of the Ming Dynasty is inseparable from the current land annexation, and the ordinary people at the bottom have no way to survive under the continuous increase of the imperial court, but they cannot touch any interests of these local magnates at all, and the benefits are taken away by them, but the unlucky ones are the most ordinary people, which is one of the causes of the chaos in the world.

In addition, natural and man-made disasters caused the exiled armies in the northern provinces to rise in all directions, causing chaos in the world.

Zhang Changfang's arguments can be said to be more in line with Yu Xiaotian's views, so after Yu Xiaotian entered Beijing, the inside line of the Beijing division introduced Zhang Changfang to Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian also attached great importance to Zhang Changfang, and specially took time to have a long talk with him, and found that this person was indeed quite far-sighted, looked at things more thoroughly, and was a usable person.

So this time, when arranging the governor of Shandong, Yu Xiaotian promoted Zhang Changfang and sent him to Shandong to take up his post.

Zhang Changfang was not only a little worried about Yu Xiaotian's bold approach, but also quite eager to try, Yu Xiaotian's ideas and practices were much more radical than his previous ideas, if they could really be implemented, then they would be relieved of a lot of heavy burdens borne by ordinary people, and at the same time, they would also increase a lot of taxes for the imperial court.

However, if we want to really implement this kind of policy, and in addition to abolishing the preferential policies that the local magnates have enjoyed for a long time, it is estimated that there will definitely be great resistance.

After Yu Xiaotian heard Zhang Changfang's worries, he sneered: "These people have been enjoying it for too long!" While enjoying the huge benefits brought to them by the Ming Dynasty, they did not bring any return to the Ming Dynasty, and they were still flying in the local area, causing trouble.

It's time to pack them up! You just have to do it, I'll give you soldiers and horses, if someone refuses to give in, just kill more, presumably after these people's blood is enough to flow, naturally no one will dare to jump out and oppose it! ”

After Zhang Changfang listened to Yu Xiaotian's words, he couldn't help but feel a little chill in his heart, and said in his heart that this Yu Xiaotian is really a killing god, in the end, he was born in a martial arts and is good at doing things with a knife, but this is also good, at this time to implement such a system, if the wrist is not hard, it is indeed difficult to move an inch at all, since Yu Xiaotian asked him to kill, then he just had to do it, not to mention that Yu Xiaotian made it clear to him, gave him soldiers and horses, and helped him to carry out bullet pressure.

Now who doesn't know the power of Yu Jiajun, if someone really dares to resist, then as long as Yu Jiajun is his backing, what else is he afraid of?

So after Zhang Changfang got the edict, he immediately took two battalions of Yujia soldiers out of Beijing and rushed to Jinan Mansion to officially take office.

Later generations for Zhang Changfang to set up a biography, said that folk rumors said that Zhang Changfang was the first fierce dog in front of Yu Xiaotian, Yu Xiaotian ordered him to Shandong to implement a new tax system, this person is very hard, to Shandong after taking office, immediately began to drastically reform the local tax system, everywhere spread out the land.

In this way, some big families on the ground in Shandong immediately quit, they still thought that now is the past, they have the final say in the locality, even if they go to the court, there are people to protect them, especially some royal relatives, they are even more arrogant and accustomed to it on weekdays, even if they know that Yu Xiaotian is in charge of the court now, but the world is still surnamed Zhu, isn't it? These people are all relatives of the emperor, do they want to bow their heads to foreign surnames?

So these people were very awesome, and some of them beat the people sent to the government to clear the land, some of them scolded and drove them away, and some even asked the house slaves to beat the officials to death on the spot.

(Special thanks to Eastflowing friends for their tips!) ）