Chongzhen and Zhu Youzhen have been stationed in Nanjing for a month.

Time suddenly began to enter the hotter season.

However, the war in the north has not yet burned to the Yangtze River, and even Huguang, Henan, Cangzhou, and Baoding have not yet heard of war.

Jiannu was busy moving the capital to Beijing, setting up the name of the country, sealing hundreds of officials, building a political system, etc., but he still only confronted Li Zicheng's troops on both sides of the Yellow River in Shanxi.

The Ming Dynasty, whose political center has moved south, is still very calm.

Although it is the hot summer season, due to the climate of the Xiaoice River, the officials and gentlemen of Nanjing City can bear it.

And.

Since Qian Qianyi's rebellion, there has not been much fierce political struggle and major turmoil within the Ming Dynasty.

Because the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen moved south and a large number of merchants hoarded Juqi.

The entire city of Nanjing and even the entire south of the Yangtze River already have the phenomenon of soaring inflation.

The gentry in Jiangnan also wanted to use this to make a fortune in the country, and by the way to control Zhu Youzhen's economic lifeline, after all, the imperial court needed their support if it wanted to raise troops and repair the defense system.

But Zhu Youzhen was not controlled by these Jiangnan chaebols.

As the emperor, he chose to use Wei Zaode's rebellion and Qian Qianyi's rebellion to take the opportunity to obtain a basic capital through rough raiding methods.

At the same time, these two major cases were also used to deter the courage of the ministers and gentry.

Even if there is no rebellion between Wei Zaode and Qian Qianyi, Zhu Youzhen will make one or two pieces.

Through the massacre and raiding of homes after creating a major case, the gentry in Jiangnan first deeply realized that Emperor Zhu Youzhen was not as strong as they imagined.

Then, Zhu Youzhen openly announced to the cabinet and the six ministries and seven secretaries and other court officials that he would change the tax policy in the form of a new policy at the opening of the dynasty, and the first thing was to take action against the commercial and trade interests controlled by the gentry, and the profiteering industries of salt and iron minerals were even withdrawn.

In this way, it will naturally make the Jiangnan gentry full of resentment, but they dare not disobey the authority of the king again because of Zhu Youzhen's thunderous methods before.

Therefore, when Zhu Youzhen threw out the grace of tax exemption for one year.

The Jiangnan gentry, who did not dare to resist Zhu Youzhen's new policy but wanted to protect their own best interests, had to give up their previous means of raising market prices to make profits and control the imperial court.

Now they can only increase productivity and lower prices.

As a result, Zhu Youzhen did not use a single soldier again, and successfully mobilized the entire Jiangnan to desperately produce strategic materials for the upcoming war.

The Jiangnan gentry also unconsciously followed the baton in the hands of Emperor Zhu Youzhen.

Quietly, it was not the Jiangnan gentry who controlled the emperor Zhu Youzhen, but Zhu Youzhen who controlled the Jiangnan gentry.

The whole of Jiangnan has not been unable to survive because of the continuous rise in prices, resulting in turmoil among the people at the bottom.

Zhu Youzhen skillfully used the policy to prevent the whole of Jiangnan from causing major unrest in the people because of his brutal methods against Qian Qianyi and his need to forcibly collect taxes.

For Zhu Youzhen, this has to be said to be a victory that did not see the smoke.

At least he has a firm foothold in Jiangnan, which is controlled by the Donglin Party.

The war in the outside world is not yet approaching.

The overall situation in the Ming Dynasty is in a stable state, and for Zhu Youzhen, it is the best time to continue to carry out the reform of the New Deal and accumulate strength.

Although it is tax-free for one year.

However, the pace of tax reform has not slowed down, and it is still ongoing.

On the second day after the conclusion of the court meeting, Zhu Youzhen convened cabinet ministers and household officials to discuss the details of the tax reform.

Zhang Shenyan, a member of the Cabinet University, was originally changed from Nanjing Hubu Shangshu to Hubu Shangshu.

However, Zhu Youzhen considered that he did not support tax reform, and that he was a typical radical faction of the Donglin Party, and refused to compromise at all.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen changed him to the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and he was a title, and he did not care about the Ministry of Rites.

Liu Zongzhou, a famous minister of science who manages the Ministry of Rites, is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Although the six ministries of the Ming Dynasty and the Metropolitan Procuratorate are also matched with the Shangshu and the Shilang who manage the affairs of the Ministry, there are also many cabinet scholars and foreign governors who have the title of Shangshu or Shilang of each ministry and the Imperial History or Deputy Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the former is naturally the actual ruler of each ministry, and the latter is naturally just raising the grade.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen transferred Zhang Shenyan to the household department with great power, and naturally wanted to teach Zhang Shenyan, who did not cooperate with him, a lesson.

After all, as the emperor, he is no more than when he came to Nanjing, in order to take care of the Jiangnan Donglin Party, he had to let a high-ranking Nanjing official like him join the cabinet.

Now, Zhu Youzhen is only waiting for the following officials to find an opportunity to participate in the impeachment, and he will naturally be eliminated from the cabinet members.

Succeeding the head of the cabinet was Fan Jingwen, a scholar of Jianji Temple.

Zhu Youzhen asked Fan Jingwen to lead the real power of the household department with the dignity of the first assistant, which was to show that he, the emperor, attached great importance to tax reform.

In this way, Zhu Youzhen formed a group of three people, including Fan Jingwen, Dang Chongya, the left attendant of the household department, and Qi Biaojia, the right attendant of the household department, to coordinate and arrange the tax reform.

Only Li Banghua and Gao Hongtu did not participate.

The former wants to govern the military affairs of Fengyang and Henan, and the latter is a mediocre person with moral character but no talent, and Zhu Youzhen has no intention of reusing it, and now he is in the position of second assistant, which also happens to be his "secretary".

After several days of discussion, Zhu Youzhen finally approved the implementation of Fan Jingwen's 17th year of Chongzhen's "New Deal for Tax Collection".

The specific implementation of this new policy is to divide the tax of Daming into four categories: agricultural tax, commercial tax, customs duty, and individual income tax.

The left squire of the household department is directly responsible for the collection of taxes, and the right servant of the household department is responsible for various tax expenditures, and the Lang Zhong and the outer Lang of the provincial clearing officials under the household department are added to this, so that the four types of taxes are responsible for the special Langzhong and the outer lang of the provincial clearing officials in the provincial clearing and official divisions.

Ma Shiying and Lu Zhenfei are both former magistrates, familiar with local government affairs, and know what the above four types of taxes should be, not too little and not too much, so that the people can't afford it.

The families of Dang Chongya and Qi Biaojia are both wealthy local businessmen, and naturally they also know how to collect commercial taxes and tariffs more reasonably.

Fan Jingwen has always loved the people, so naturally he will not set too high an agricultural tax collection amount for Zhu Youzhen's new tax policy.

Once the tax reform is finalized, it is a matter of implementation.

After Zhu Youzhen approved the approval of the celebrant supervisor, he was transferred from the General Administration Department to the cabinet and sent to the household department, which fully presided over the reform matters, of which the left attendant of the household department, Dang Chongya, was responsible for the daily implementation of specific tax collection.

The Ministry of Household Affairs issued a decree to the governors of the provinces, which should have been issued directly to the governors, but now it is the norm for the governors to lead the local government affairs of the provinces, so the governors are responsible, and then the governors appoint a political envoy to be directly responsible for the collection of taxes in the provinces.

Among them, the key areas of tax reform are naturally the Nanzhili region and the Huaiyang region, which occupy half of the world's wealth.

Zhu Youzhen directly changed Lu Zhenfei from the governor of Yingtian to the governor of Nanzhili, and was responsible for the tax collection of rich areas such as Yingtian, Suzhou, Songjiang, and Fengyang.

As a participant in this reform, Lu Zhenfei naturally spared no effort to implement the tax reform in the Nanzhili area.

And the governor of Huaiyang is Zhu Youzhen's hardcore confidant Li Mingrui, and naturally he spared no effort to implement it in Huai'an and Yangzhou.

Henan has Li Banghua, so naturally there is no need to worry about obstacles.

And Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi are close to Nanzhili, and they are very close to Zhu Youzhen, the son of heaven, and they dare not make times.

The trade between Liangguang and Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou was not as good as that of Nanzhili and Fujian, Zhejiang, and the implementation of the reform, even if it was slow, did not affect the collection of imperial taxes.