On the first day of the second month of the fourth year of Xuande, Jiaozhou City was full of lights, gongs and drums were noisy, and there was a joyful scene.

Early in the morning, the prefect of Jiaozhou Prefecture led the officials of all sizes in the city to greet Li Yuntian and the officials of the three divisions of Jiaozhi outside the city.

Since Li Yuntian was coming, Jiaozhou City was idle at this time, and the people gathered on the roadside with great interest and waited to see the demeanor of General Dingnan.

After a year of recuperation, Jiaozhou City has regained its former vitality, and Li Yuntian's policy of reducing taxes has benefited the people a lot, and has also made everyone gradually accept this supreme military and political official in Jiaozhi.

This is not only due to Li Yuntian's policy of developing the economy, but also has an important relationship with his efforts to eradicate the original ruling stratum in Jiaozhi and set up a new ruling stratum in one fell swoop.

In Li Yuntian's view, in order to truly make Jiaozhi long-term peace and stability, one is to make the people of Jiaozhi live a prosperous and comfortable life, and the other is to immigrate to the real border, and the people who have migrated from the inland come to Jiaozhi to integrate with the local people.

Both of these conditions are crucial and indispensable, otherwise you will encounter unexpected troubles later on.

When Li Yuntian, who was riding a tall horse, appeared in front of the city gate surrounded by everyone, the prefect of Jiaozhou hurriedly led his officials to bow to Li Yuntian, and the people knelt on the ground with hula and knocked on their parents.

Lei Ting followed behind Li Yuntian with a nervous expression, vigilantly observing the surrounding shapes, in fact, she was against Li Yuntian appearing in this kind of mixed public place, after all, the remnants of the rebels in Jiaozhi had not been cleaned up, in case someone hid in the welcoming crowd and cast cold arrows at Li Yuntian, then Li Yuntian would be in danger.

However, as the chief soldier and governor of Jiaozhi, how could Li Yuntian be afraid of the remnants of those rebels, and he naturally had to appear on such an important occasion to boost the morale of the Jiaozhi army and people.

Li Yuntian's arrival caused a sudden commotion among the people on both sides of the streets in the city, and people rushed forward one after another, all wanting to see Li Yuntian up close, but were stopped by the soldiers in charge of security on both sides of the road.

At the same time, many soldiers of the Xiaowu Army occupied the commanding heights of the buildings on both sides of the road with crossbows, meticulously monitoring the crowds on both sides of the road to prevent the enemy from hiding in the crowd and attacking Li Yuntian.

However, to Lei Ting's relief, Li Yuntian did not encounter any trouble along the way, and came to the Yamen of the Jiaozhi Political Envoy Division very smoothly, preparing to live in the backyard of the Jiaozhi Political Envoy Division, so as to facilitate the future office.

It is foreseeable that with the extermination of the Jiaozhi rebels, the political affairs after Jiaozhi will far exceed the military affairs, so he lives in the Yamen of the Political Envoy Division, so that he can handle the government affairs of Jiaozhi more conveniently.

The prefect of Jiaozhou Prefecture had already prepared a sumptuous luncheon, and Li Yuntian led all the officials to the banquet at noon.

Because the Champa army assisted the Ming army in suppressing bandits, Dogesa and Lundes were also invited by Li Yuntian to participate in the ceremony of entering the city, and arranged for the two to sit at the same table with him, which surprised outsiders.

In the eyes of everyone, Dogsa and Lund were just two barbarian chieftains, and they were not qualified to sit at the same table with everyone at all, but since this was Li Yuntian's arrangement, naturally no one dared to object.

Compared with Lundus's flattery, although Dogesa was smiling, he was extremely worried, he was worried that Li Yuntian would take the opportunity to put him and Lunders under house arrest, so that the city would be leaderless and would be slaughtered by Li Yuntian at that time.

Li Yuntian saw Dogesa's forced smile, and a subtle smile flashed at the corner of his mouth, how could he not guess what Dogesa was worried about, and was ready to find an opportunity to have a showdown with Dogesa, and clearly tell Sù Dogesa that he was bound to win the city.

Near the end of the luncheon, Li Yuntian unexpectedly announced in public an important decree to be implemented in Jiaozhi -- the "Decree on the Allocation of Plots into Mu" -- and transferred the power to formulate tax policies from the county and state capitals to the Yamen of the Jiaozhi Political Department.

After the imperial approval of Emperor Xuande, the tax of Jiaozhi will be reformed - the tax will be divided into acres: the tax of the imperial court is based on the land, and the tax is paid according to the land, and the tax in kind is changed to tax silver.

As soon as Li Yuntian's words fell, the officials at the scene were in a commotion, talking to each other and whispering, no one thought that Li Yuntian would actually merge the "taxes" and "endowments" that the people had to pay, and then put an end to the "poll tax" that had been collected for more than 2,000 years.

It is worth mentioning that the tax and the tax of the people of the Ming Dynasty are collected separately, in layman's terms, the fu refers to the field tax levied according to the number of acres, and the tax refers to the poll tax levied according to the number of heads, also called Ding Yin.

In other words, those who do not have land after the implementation of apportionment to the mu are exempt from paying the land tax, while the peasants who have land are able to spend more time cultivating the land, which plays a positive role in the development of agricultural production.

At the same time, it also put an end to the multiplicity of local taxes that were used by the people, making it difficult for officials to cheat and make money from them.

Moreover, after the change of forced labor to the levy of silver taels, the peasants gained greater personal freedom and were more likely to leave the land, which provided more sources of labor for the urban handicraft industry.

As a result, the industrialists and merchants in the towns no longer need to wear silver, which undoubtedly improved the living conditions of the industrialists and merchants, and played a positive role in promoting the development of industry and commerce.

As the saying goes, if you lose the east, you know that Sang Yu, it seems that Li Yuntian will collect a lot less taxes in a year, but in fact, it does not have much impact on the operation of the government.

After the implementation of apportionment to the mu, the biggest impact was undoubtedly on the officials in various localities, and since then they have lost the opportunity to get up and down from the tax revenue, and Li Yuntian's move is undoubtedly beneficial to the people.

In addition, the enthusiasm of the rural peasants for farming has increased, and the labor force needed for the development of urban industry and commerce has also been solved, which will certainly promote the vigorous development of agriculture and industry and commerce, and the annual land tax and commercial tax silver are fully sufficient to support the operation of the local yamen, and there is a considerable surplus.

If it were left in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, Li Yuntian would definitely encounter tremendous resistance if he implemented the apportionment of the land into the mu, and those local officials would not sit idly by and watch their own interests suffer.

However, the grass-roots officials of the yamen in various prefectures and counties were all selected by Tongguò Enke, and were trained in the Xingnongyuan, Xinghuyuan, Xingliyuan, Xingjunyuan, Xinggongyuan, and Legal Punishment Yuan, and were personally appointed by Li Yuntian, so these officials naturally did not oppose the tax reform.

In addition, Li Yuntian had already taken over the financial power of the local yamen in Jiaozhi to the Yamen of the Jiaozhi Political Envoy Division, and the collected taxes had to be handed over to the political envoy and the Yamen of the Political Envoy Division, and the Yamen of the Political Envoy Department would allocate the funds needed for the operation of the yamen in various localities from the lower levels, and the use of the funds should be examined and supervised before reasonable funds were distributed.

This makes it difficult for local officials to make money from tax revenues, so the resistance of senior officials in the state capital is naturally smaller.

The reason is very simple, even if they try to collect more taxes, then in the end they have to hand over to the political envoy and the yamen, who will do such a thankless thing?

Judging from Li Yuntian's trajectory, in order to implement the practice of apportioning the land into the mu in Jiaozhi, he worked steadily and steadily, step by step, and before announcing the order of "apportioning the land into the mu", he had already made sufficient preparations, and deliberately transferred the financial power of the local yamen to the Yamen of the Political Envoy of Jiaozhi, and the Yamen of the Political Envoy Department allocated the money downward.

Because it was a period of confrontation with the rebels, the production and life in the area controlled by the Ming army were destroyed, and there was no way to collect taxes from the people, so Li Yuntian's method was warmly welcomed by the Jiaozhi officials, which meant that they could get the expenses of the local yamen from the Jiaozhi political envoys.

In view of the critical situation of the Ming army at that time, which was firmly suppressed by the rebels, everyone thought that Li Yuntian's recovery of local financial power was just an expedient measure, and no one would have thought that this matter would become a custom of Jiaozhi.

Over the past year or so, the operation of the local yamen in the Ming military-controlled area has been normal, encouraging agriculture and water conservancy, so that the economy has recovered quickly and the shape of the yamen has been very good.

Since the local yamen have not been affected after handing over the financial power, who has reason to propose to return the financial power?

What is especially important is that Li Yuntian's prestige in Jiaozhi is now in full swing, and no one dares to provoke him, otherwise he will be asking for trouble.

It is precisely because of Li Yuntian's bold tax reform that the people of Jiaozhi have been freed from cumbersome taxes, which not only promotes the flourishing of Jiaozhi's agriculture, but also vigorously promotes the commercial development of Jiaozhi, which is of epoch-making significance to Jiaozhi.

The people of Jiaozhi were all overjoyed and ecstatic after learning about the "Decree to Spread Ding into the Mu", which means that their life pressure will be drastically reduced, and at the same time, there will be many more means of making a living.

Dogesa was stunned by Li Yuntian's sudden re-innovation of the Jiaozhi tax, and never imagined that Li Yuntian would actually change the tax system of Jiaozhi, you must know that the tax system is the cornerstone of a country, and it is difficult to change it, otherwise it will involve all aspects of affairs.

And Li Yuntian was able to persuade Emperor Xuande to carry out the reform of the tax system in Jiaozhi, which shows that he is very attentive to Jiaozhi affairs, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it with painstaking efforts, which makes Dogesa feel a chill down his spine for no reason, it is obvious that Li Yuntian's visit to Jiaozhi this time is not only as simple as quelling the rebellion, but also has other purposes, otherwise how can he be so "aggressive" in Jiaozhi, and almost all military and political affairs have undergone major changes, which are completely different from the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty.

I don't know why, Dogsa suddenly thought of the huge overseas trade organized by Li Yuntian the year before last, and his mood suddenly became bad, if Li Yuntian wants to vigorously develop overseas trade from now on, then the geographical location of the city country will be very important, especially the many seaports, which are undoubtedly the target coveted by Li Yuntian, and will definitely arouse his covetousness!