Since Zhu Shuren has set a timetable for the external counterattack in the next 20 years, the internal affairs construction of the Ming Dynasty and the planning of farming and climbing science and technology in the following years will naturally serve this timetable.

Of course, Zhu Shuren's inner thoughts cannot be directly disclosed to cabinet members.

Because many of the decision-making bases in this, especially his threat to the Central Plains Dynasty in the future of the Oirat Mongols such as the Dzungar Ministry, and the threat of the Rakshasa people to the Central Plains Dynasty, are only from the historical knowledge of Zhu Shuren's previous life, which cannot be answered directly by outsiders.

In the first seven-year cycle, the plan for Myanmar and Vietnam can barely be taken out and revealed to Shi Kefa and Zhang Huangyan. After all, this first stage can be seen by a discerning person now.

Li Dingguo's report on the disrespectful behavior of Burma and Vietnam, and the embezzlement of those swinging toasts in Yunnan are all solid evidence of crime. Even Shi Kefa understands that only by beating them once can they completely recognize the reality and let those regimes on the Indochina Peninsula know that the Ming Dynasty is completely prosperous this time, which is different from before.

And Zhu Shuren felt that Shi Kefa only needed to understand this step, it was enough.

Because Shi Kefa is in his sixties, he may not live to the end of this seven-year plan. Even if he lives a long life, he will definitely have to leave the center of power by then.

The next two seven-year plans are just the worries of Zhu Shuren, Zhang Huangyan, these central ministers, and Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong's generation of military generals.

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After knowing what he had in mind, Zhu Shuren held his "Meeting on the Plan for the Next Seven Years" at the end of April 1663, in the Jiangning Museum, outside Nanjing, during the early summer slack season.

Jiangning Museum, now it is also a scientific holy place in the Ming Dynasty, since the construction of Longwu began in the third year, it has been a full fifteen years.

The various museums, zoos, and botanical gardens that were originally built separately have all been merged. The Daming Academy of Sciences, which is under the Ministry of Industry, will send another institution to manage it in a unified manner.

The Ministry of Industry is at the ministerial level, and the Daming Academy of Sciences is at the department level, and the chief official should theoretically be at the level of Langzhong, but because Zhu Shuren attaches great importance to scientific work, in fact, he will be given the title of Jiashilang and be in charge of the work of the Academy of Sciences. This is like the later "deputy ministry directly leads the work of the department".

Therefore, the treatment of units at all levels below the Academy of Sciences has also risen by half a level, and the person in charge of the museum is no longer the head of the Ministry of Industry, but an outsider.

Its work is not only to carry out the research and display of these physical exhibits, but also to compile and publish various popular science books and engage in scientific literacy for the general public. Because the drawing and printing required for this kind of work is very complicated, Daming has also made some optimizations in printing technology, and in recent years, it has even been able to print naturalist illustrations of color pictures.

After fifteen years of construction, the surrounding area of Jiangning Town has become a new city of Nanjing, and the prosperity is no less than that in Nanjing. The grounds of the museum have also expanded several times compared to the beginning, and countless sanatoriums and conference venues have opened in this land of birds and flowers.

In the years before the Manchu Qing Dynasty, many Korean Chinese officials made some small comments about the construction of science and technology and engineering research institutions in Jiangning Town. They are not opposed to these constructions, but they simply feel that "the key departments should be built within the walls of Nanjing, how can such a large construction project be carried out in a suburban town".

If Nanjing City encounters foreign enemies again in the future, and there are barbarians fighting over, the city can still be maintained by the city walls and defenders, and the facilities outside the city are not all given in vain?

And only Zhu Shuren knows that with the current situation of Nanjing City's development and prosperity for hundreds of years at that time, what kind of congestion has become in the city, and a bunch of dignitaries and dignitaries have bought homes. If you have to build it in the city of Nanjing, the stalls will definitely not be able to be spread, and there will be constraints everywhere, and the environment is not suitable for building a "university town".

Therefore, in order to enclose as much land as possible and develop wantonly, Zhu Shuren would rather be outside the city.

Anyway, only he knows that with the development of artillery firepower to the present era, the future national defense must rely on rejecting the enemy from the country, at least relying on the border defense line and mobile force elastic defense.

The value of traditional city walls will only get lower and lower, so it doesn't matter whether there is a city wall to protect it or not.

In the future, the city wall of Nanjing City will only gradually evolve into a kind of cultural relic. Perhaps in the future, it will be necessary to rely on a design similar to the one proposed by Lin Huiyin in history, which can transform the top of the Beijing city wall into a people's park, so that the city wall will not be demolished by the process of industrialization.

In this case, Zhu Shuren engaged in scientific and technological and engineering research in Jiangning Town in advance, and gradually made it into a new city of Nanjing in the future, which could protect the city wall of Nanjing in disguise, so that the ruler did not have to worry about "not being able to industrialize in Nanjing without demolishing the city wall of Nanjing." Let the old city protected by the city walls only assume political functions in the future, and other functions can be handed over to the new city outside the city walls.

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"I haven't been to Jiangning for a few years, but I didn't expect this place to be prosperous, no less than in the capital. Your Highness is really far-sighted, Ze and posterity. ”

Shi Kefa, who is old and sick, has lived in a simple house for several years, and even the city wall of Nanjing is rarely released. This time, Zhu Shuren convened a meeting, and he was carried to relax.

As soon as he saw the museum and a bunch of scientific research institutions and industrial factories in Jiangning Town, he felt like he was in a different world. He even felt that if he didn't have to go to court in the future, it would be better to find a sanatorium outside the city to retire.

There are so many strange flowers and plants, rare birds and beasts around, and at first glance, the birds and flowers are fragrant, and you may be able to live for a few more years.

"Xian Gong likes it, just find a sanatorium and occupy it, what is this-rest assured, it's not a public weapon of the country, it's all the property of the Shen family, just borrow it."

Of course, Zhu Shuren is directly generous and squandered money, especially when he knows Shi Kefa's temper, he is still relatively honest. He didn't say to send it, but the other party borrowed it indefinitely in his later years, and directly blocked the other party's excuse.

Everyone chatted for a while, and soon Zhu Shuren introduced the main topic of the meeting.

"This meeting is to discuss my plan for the next seven years. This time, Gu has recalled Ning Yu (Li Dingguo's character) from the Yunnan front. If you have any doubts about some things, it is better to learn about them in person, which is a rare opportunity.

Judging from his performance, Burma and Vietnam still took in many remnants of the traitors in the southwest who were exterminated last year, and even more encroached on some Tusi in Yunnan that had not yet completed the complete transformation of the land and returned to the stream.

It's just that now that the new monarch has changed the yuan for only a few months, it is not appropriate to use swords and soldiers. Moreover, my current medicine and chemistry are not enough to completely deal with the tropical mountain rainforest, and we still need to work hard in the past few years. Therefore, Gu planned to formulate an internal affairs plan for a period of three to four years, all with the aim of using troops against southern Xinjiang at that time, completely subjugating Burma and Vietnam to the Ming Dynasty, and clearly understanding the situation. ”

After Zhu Shuren explained the purpose of the meeting, everyone had no objections, and then Zhu Shuren divided the discussion topics into three directions, starting from the three directions of internal affairs reform, the construction of newly occupied territories, and scientific research.

He first mentioned the part of the internal coup d'état law after the new monarch succeeded to the throne.

Strictly speaking, the matter of changing the law has nothing to do with future actions against Myanmar and Vietnam, or whether or not to use troops abroad, it is necessary to change the law.

But now that Xinjun has just changed the yuan, it is indeed suitable to push a change, and Zhang Juzheng also started to do it from the first year of Wanli.

Zhu Shuren felt that many of the parts that were abolished after Zhang Juzheng's death in the original Zhang Juzheng reform law can still be taken back and continued to be used, at most a little repair, or it can be optimized and advanced with the times.

The part of Zhang Juzheng's law on the rule of officials is the best preserved, and some of the evaluation contents he set for the performance of officials have not been completely abolished after him, so this part is directly left.

As for Zhang Juzheng's part of the fiscal law, it has already died in government, and after several decades of three salaries, centigold, and industrial and commercial taxes, the sources of finance and taxation are complicated, and it is impossible to return to a whip law. So it can only be borrowed slightly, and then reformulated.

And now the population of the Ming Dynasty has decreased sharply, less than half of the population when Zhang Juzheng was in power, so the contradiction between man and land is not very acute, and millions of people can be moved to the northeast Xintun reclamation area, and there can be a variety of corn and potatoes, so there is no need to move the cultivated land occupation system for the time being, so as not to move too many things at once, causing a backlash.

Zhu Shuren knew very well that reform should be carried out step by step, and that the administration of officials and finances should also be done separately, so that it is better to unite the majority at all times, strike at a small handful, and maximize the united front supporting the reform of the law.

In the first seven years, we will focus on one reform, and after overcoming it, we will change it in the next seven years, so that we can complete three major changes in 20 years. During this period, after each successful reform of the law, in the face of people's doubts, he could still rely on some military victories to prove that "the reform of the law has indeed enriched the country and strengthened the army", thus consolidating the political correctness of the reform.

Since ancient times, all kinds of reforms, after all, it is necessary to rely on the rich country and strong troops to hand over the answer sheet, when the Song Dynasty Wang Anshi changed the law, an important criterion is "after the implementation of the change, the Great Song Dynasty against the Western Xia with troops to win or lose whether it became stronger or weaker."

If, during the reform period, the Western Army suffered a major defeat against Western Xia, then Wang Anshi's group would have to take the blame for resigning and demoting a few officials, and the promotion would also be suspended. And if the Western Army wins a big victory, it can often take advantage of the victory in internal political reform.

Zhu Shuren has more vision and insight for hundreds of years, and naturally idealizes this Tao very thoroughly.

Burma, Vietnam, Dzungaria, Rakshasa are not enough for the Ming Dynasty's henchmen now, but it should be dealt with or dealt with, if people offend me, I will offend others, but when I commit it, I can't just think about it, but also set aside thousands of pounds to maximize the internal interests.

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"The first stage of the reform of the law implemented by Gu wanted to mainly involve finance, and Gu wanted to combine Zhang Juzheng's law with the laws of the three salaries and the gold of the current dynasty, so that the imperial court finance gradually returned from the wartime system to the regular law of collection in the peacetime era.

After all, in order to exterminate the Qing Dynasty and pacify the thieves, the imperial court began to pilot the gold in the south in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, and it has been twenty-two years. In the past 22 years, the finances have always been relatively generous, relying on the support of industrial and commercial taxes, raising soldiers and officers, building ordnance and maintaining supplies, all of which have been supported.

However, after all, it is not a common law, and our generation can use it, and it is better to keep the financial law for future generations. ”

When Zhu Shuren said this, he paused first to see if others could understand his painstaking efforts.

Zhang Huangyan reacted quickly, he usually knew all kinds of problems in Li Jin, and now that his cousin proposed, he immediately said his usual worries:

"It is indeed fast to collect money, and it is the money of rich merchants, and the goods involved are rarely necessary for the extremely poor people, so the pressure on the extremely poor people is very small, and it is easy to collect.

It's a pity that although this law has all kinds of benefits, it has a serious drawback, that is, it is necessary to set up cards in different provinces, and the money and property collected are intercepted by each province, and they are also promised to be used by the province. At the beginning, when a strong enemy attacked, the provinces reluctantly enthusiastically for their own interests and to protect their own most immediate safety.

But now that my Ming Dynasty has restored its heyday homeland, this kind of commercial tax paid by the provinces for their own use is already a bit out of place. Now it's just that the civil and military forces of my generation who have made great achievements in Zhongxing are still there, so they can forcibly suppress the actual use of the gold.

Once our generation will ...... You can't leave this kind of problem to future generations, it will definitely lead to the trend of feudal towns. ”

Zhang Huangyan knew very well that an important reason for the formation of feudal towns in the Tang Dynasty was that all personnel rights, financial rights, and military powers were delegated to various envoys.

Therefore, it is possible to decentralize financial power in a special period, and after the generation of the Southern Expedition and the Northern War, if it is decentralized, the emperor, the cabinet, and the household department behind may not be able to suppress the place.

In fact, to put it mildly, Zhu Shuren and Zhang Huangyan themselves were the feudal towns that were fattened out of the Lijin system at the beginning. So no one knows better than them about the potential dangers of this road and how to prevent them.

It's like no one knows better than Zhao Kuangyin how to release military power with a glass of wine, how to prevent rebellion in front of the palace, who let him rebel like this.

Zhu Shuren saw that the cabinet supported his idea and realized the pain point, so he continued to elaborate on his idea:

Therefore, in the next seven years, the company plans to gradually abolish the centijin on a pilot basis, and replace it with a new industrial and commercial tax levied by the imperial court, which will no longer be levied in the circulation link, but in the production link.

Then, like the Tian Fu, it can be collected by the imperial court in a unified manner, rather than being intercepted by the provinces and localities. Or at most, only a small part is reserved for the locality, for example, eighty-two open, the imperial court takes eighty percent, and the local government retains two percent. Leaving a little bit will not be too radical in reform, and it will completely hit the enthusiasm of local taxation. ”

After Zhu Shuren finished speaking, Shi Kefa and Zhang Huangyan were a little incomprehensible, not that they didn't think it was bad, but that they felt that it couldn't be implemented at all and was not operable.

Zhang Huangyan sincerely pointed out: "However, how to fully tax the production link? Is it the same as the weaving tax in Jiangnan at the beginning, and each loom pays four dollars of tax silver every year? Count the number of machines directly?

In addition to this method, I really can't imagine how to count the tax sources of the industrial and commercial tax production link of the private sector. ”

(End of chapter)