When Fan Jingwen, the first assistant of the cabinet, said this, the officials present couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

However, Zhu Youzhen suddenly slapped the table angrily at this time: "What's so funny!" ”

"You are not ashamed, I am ashamed of you! From Shangshu to Shilang, from Hanlin Bachelor to Kedao Yanguan, each one is richer than the other, and the total amount of the front and back is more than 40 million taels, don't tell me, this is all their income as an official! ”

Zhu Youzhen roared like this, and the officials present lowered their heads and didn't dare to laugh anymore.

"Hubu Zuo Shilang Dang Chongya, tell me, how much has the imperial treasury earned in recent years? How much is the total estimate of this raid? ”

Zhu Youzhen asked with a calm face.

"Back to Your Majesty, the imperial court's treasury income in previous years was only two million taels, even His Majesty's internal treasury was only one million taels, and now there are about 40 million taels of money, of which about 10 million taels of silver and gold are in cash."

When Dang Chongya said this, he didn't dare to look up at Zhu Youzhen, and his voice was also very small, for fear that His Majesty would be even more annoyed when he heard it and thought of the 40 million taels he had obtained from the raid.

"Okay, just after copying the family property of eight convicts, I got more than 40 million taels, even if you only count cash and gold, it is not less than 10 million taels, which is worth five years of income from the Ming treasury!"

As he spoke, Zhu Youzhen looked at Gao Hongtu and Zhang Shenyan, cabinet scholars who were quite protective of the power of the gentry: "Tell me, where did most of the wealth in the world flow?" ”

Gao Hongtu and Zhang Shenyan both remained silent, and the other officials also did not say a word.

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen also laughed angrily: "I thought that it was very scary for several traitors to copy the capital to get a total of more than 4 million taels of silver, but I didn't expect that in this Jiangnan can also copy out the family of the official gentry with a wealth of 10 million. ”

"I know that there must be some of you who are richer than the ones who were copied, but as long as you don't commit crimes, I won't pursue them, but if you dare to obstruct the tax reform of the New Deal and don't give the court a way to live, then don't blame me for not collecting taxes, and repaying the people by raiding the house!"

As soon as Zhu Youzhen said this, the officials present had to hurriedly shout: "The ministers don't dare!" ”

"It's good if you don't dare to know, at present, all the acres of land confiscated will be returned to the Huangzhuang, and the Huangzhuang will lease the tenants to the displaced people for cultivation and use, so as to avoid being annexed by other powerful people;

As for the confiscated houses, as well as all the properties and antiques, all the houses are auctioned off, and the gentry and wealthy merchants can participate, and I will not ask you why you can afford to auction them;

In the 10 million taels of cash and gold in the sealed treasury, plus the previous 8 million taels, there is no need to worry about money and food in the next one or two years;

In order to appease the hearts of all the people and give the whole day a buffer period, the Cabinet has drawn up a decree for me:

That is, from July 1st this year to July 1st next year, only relevant tax registration will be done, and no taxes will be collected, that is to say, all taxes in the world will be exempt from tax for one year, and the tax will be officially levied in July of the next year. ”

Zhu Youzhen didn't expect that he would get tens of millions of taels of wealth by relying on Qian Qianyi's rebellion, so he now also made a personal favor and was exempt from taxation for one year.

And this year is a crucial year for the future resistance to Jiannu.

Exempting from levy for one year can avoid exacerbating the contradictions between himself and the Jiangnan gentry too much in this year, so that he can prepare for the war more calmly.

As long as you arrive in Jiannu within this year, you will go south.

Yi Jiannu's strength was not enough to unify the world by relying on his small number of Eight Banners and part of the Han army.

What's more, he Jiannu occupied the north, and he had to digest it and resume production.

Therefore, as long as a year later, the Ming Dynasty resisted Jiannu's southward movement, Zhu Youzhen could free up his hands, and he could clean up the gentry group as much as he wanted, and when the time came, he would forcibly collect taxes according to the tax registration records.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen has other purposes for exempting the world from taxation for one year.

If his prediction is correct, once his decree is issued, it will stimulate the rich businessmen and tycoons to dump frantically during the year, and the commodity economy will be in an abnormally active state for a short period of time, and prices will also fall because of the active market, especially the necessities of life such as grain and salt.

In that case, Zhu Youzhen would be able to train and support a larger and even stronger army at a lower cost.

The cabinet ministers did not expect that Zhu Youzhen would be directly exempted from taxation for one year because he copied out so much silver, so they were busy saying that His Majesty was a benevolent monarch and a man of virtue.

"Let's retreat from the court", Zhu Youzhen saw that the officials present began to be happy because they were exempt from taxation for a year, so he couldn't help but smile secretly, these people are so cheap, before that, they only refused to levy a commercial tax, and now they are forced by themselves to collect more benefits to the imperial court, because they are exempt from taxes for a year, they are too happy one by one.

After the seven members of the cabinet retired from the court, they had to work out how to formulate the tax collection policy of the new deal in accordance with Zhu Youzhen's instructions, while most of the officials of the other ministries did not pay attention to the matter of the new deal at all, and they were now more concerned about the matter of tax exemption for one year.

The bureaucrats, knowing that there was no way to prevent His Majesty from carrying out the New Deal, had no choice but to accept it, but they were not interested in participating.

They are more interested in taking advantage of the tax exemption this year and putting all the money they should earn into their own pockets.

As a result, these bureaucrats began to instruct their family's business agents to increase their promotional efforts and the scale of production.

After all, part of the money earned after a year has to go back to the imperial court, and how much money earned in this year is your own.

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"Immediately tell the Zheng family that all 300,000 sets of porcelain will be converted into grain from Nanyang Country at a 20% discount at the usual price, and will be delivered to several of our major grain stores immediately after being transported back from Nanyang.

"Tell Steward Zhou that all the prices of my Liu's major cloth stores have been reduced to seven percent, which is the same as last year, in short, we must sell all the fabrics this year!"

"The Lu family has begun to bring the price of grain to the level of last year, and we can't lag behind, and we will also drop it by two percent, taking advantage of this year's tax exemption, everything that can be sold will be sold!"

"Tell several salt merchants in Shandong and Yangzhou that all the salt must be sold this year, otherwise it will be useless to wait until next year!"

The new policy in the court was like a gust of wind, so that the gentry and people in the entire Jiangnan knew about it.

And the tax-free one-year event is like a spark, which has completely ignited the economic fire in Jiangnan.

In the entire Jiangnan market, from grain to cloth to salt, oil, tea and iron ore are frantically reducing prices, and even land, houses, etc. are falling wildly.

The problem of the soaring prices in Jiangnan caused by the Ming Emperor's stationing in Jiangnan was solved at once, and the merchants did not dare to hoard Juqi anymore, and rushed to sell the materials that were in short demand at the moment.

"Your Majesty, prices have begun to fall, and these merchants have said that they will take advantage of the tax exemption to make a fortune as soon as possible;

Someone asked: Aren't they worried about increasing the scale of buying and selling transactions like this, and aren't they afraid that the tax will increase when the imperial court actually levies it next year? Some people say that it is not certain who is in charge of this country, and that they may have a new owner next year, and who knows whether it is better or worse to be taxed or not, so it is better to take advantage of the tax exemption this year to earn more silver. ”

Jinyiwei commanded the envoy Li Ruolian to inform Zhu Youzhen of the information monitored in the market.

Zhu You couldn't help laughing after hearing this: "This is understandable, after all, this year is tax-free, and the situation next year is unpredictable, so it is better to earn all the money in your own hands this year, since they want to play like this, then I will also play with them!" ”

"Since the prices of all kinds of military supplies have also dropped, you are now secretly sending people to secretly purchase a large number of grain, grass, iron ore, salt, cloth, especially cotton jackets, and other things at low prices, and in addition, you should order Huangzhuang to immediately buy land at a low price in large quantities!"

After Zhu Youzhen said, he couldn't help but feel secretly proud.

In his opinion, at this time, it is necessary to let the Ming court take advantage of it, obtain military materials at a lower cost, and save military expenditures;

Moreover, if you keep buying on your side, you can also keep the price from falling too outrageously, which will lead to deflation, the price is too low, and the merchants can't survive, and the people who work for a living can't survive.

For the first time, Zhu Youzhen began to try to use his own policies to manipulate the entire commodity economic market in order to achieve his political goals.