"This person is either a great sage or a great traitor!" Gao Qidao, "Because any new policy can change the fortunes of the Ming Dynasty." If it is implemented well, he will be a great sage, saving the people of the world and seeking the well-being of the people. If it is not implemented well, he will be a great traitor and a great evil, bringing disaster to the country and the people. ”

"These two strategies have struck at the rights and interests of the landlords and gentry, lightened the burden on the people, and the original intention was to be good to the people." Liu Bowen said, "I just don't know if these two new policies can withstand the opposition of the gentry." ”

"The southwest is remote, and the power of the gentry is weak. I am sure that the emperor's two new policies will definitely be implemented. Gao Qidao, "It is really great wisdom for that person to choose the place where the new policy was tried out in the southwest." ”

"It is true that the gentry in the southwest did not have the ability to resist the New Deal." Song Lian sighed.

"I believe that in less than a year, the southwest will definitely change greatly!" Lu Chang sighed, "Abolishing the per capita tax and replacing it with a land tax is an unprecedented measure, so I can't be sure whether the tax revenue of the imperial court will increase or decrease at that time." ”

"But whether it is a traitor or a virtuous, that person must be a great talent." Liu Bowen said, "This person's intelligence is much higher than ours. ”

When the crowd heard this, they fell silent.

Although they didn't want to admit it, the truth was that 'that man' was a bit smarter than them.

Scholars often say when they are modest that this person is ten times more talented than me, and that it is like a star than a bright moon and a horse than a unicorn, but at this moment they did not say anything.

This kind of thing can be said when it is modest, but when it comes to telling the truth, they do not say it.

"I actually appeared out of thin air such a scholar, a great talent for governing the country, I really don't know if it's a curse or a blessing. And we don't even know who he studied with or who he is. "For a long time, Song Lian said, "Although we have never met, we, who are famous Confucians, have been hanging and beaten by him all the time." ”

Previously, on the issue of dynasty change, they were refuted by the emperor in the court.

Song Lian, because he lost the position of the crown prince and the prince.

The emperor's move to sell words increased the treasury by 100 million taels, so that the Ming treasury was filled in a very short time.

All these things are beyond their means.

And now, Zhu Yuanzhang has directly bypassed them and implemented the new policy.

"I really want to see who that person really is!" Liu Bowen said.

"And Mu Ying also attacked those barbarian toasts and asked the Han people to control the barbarians. In this way, the population of the southwest will increase a lot, and in addition to the disaster victims in Shandong, the immigrants will eat it, and the southwest will soon develop. Lu Chang said.

"When the time comes, it will affect the whole country, and it will be difficult to stop it in other places."

"Your Majesty and that person are playing a big game of chess!"

"According to the news from the household registration officer of the household department, the southwest is divided into acres of land, and the gentry are integrated into one errand and one grain. The people of the nearby provinces rushed to the southwest. Lu Chang, the head of the household, said, "Even people from the surrounding provinces want to marry their daughters to Sichuan." It is believed that it will not be long before the population of the three southwestern provinces will skyrocket. ”

"People all over the world, who doesn't want to run to a place with good policies?"

"In the states and counties around the southwest, there is even an aggressive phenomenon of robbing young people in the southwest to be sons-in-law."

"When the time comes, the southwest will be rich, and the south will be poor again."

"If the population is moving to the southwest, the economy of the south will be affected, and the officials in the south will not watch them pass."

"Let's wait and see, the emperor and the southern officials will fight."

……

The Prime Minister's Mansion, Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong are also secretly discussing this matter.

They represent the Huaixi Party, and most of the generals in Huaixi can only fight, so they can't discuss with them. Therefore, there are only two people to discuss, Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong.

"Although these two measures of the emperor are only implemented in the three southwestern provinces, they have already affected the entire Ming Dynasty." Li Shanchang said, "There has even been a migration tide of people from the south to the southwest!" ”

"In the long run, the southwest will become a rich land, and the south will become a barren land."

"We have to propose to the emperor and issue an order to stop the people from emigrating."

"Don't you see that? The emperor is already determined to implement the new policy. Li Shan said, "So we went on a show, not only did it not work, but it would cause a commotion." ”

"We need to at least make our attitude clear." Hu Weiyong said.

Then the two went to meet the emperor, and as Li Shanchang expected, their audience had the opposite effect.

Zhu Yuanzhang not only did not prevent people from migrating, but encouraged them to migrate, and even relaxed the household registration system.

Let the people no longer need a guide to cross the road!

Zhu Yuanzhang thinks so, anyway, the apportionment into the mu will eventually be implemented throughout the country. Aren't you rich in Jiangsu and Zhejiang? Isn't the power of the gentry great? The people have moved away, and it is up to you gentry to exploit whomever you gentry will exploit.

It is their right for the people to want to emigrate, and the court must not interfere.

Although Jiangsu and Zhejiang are rich, it is the gentry who are rich, not the common people.

When the people heard that the southwest did not collect a poll tax, the gentry no longer had privileges, and it was normal for them to run away.

When you see that the people are gone, you are in a hurry, and you will take the initiative to beg us to implement a new policy in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Only if you are good to the people, the people will come back, and the people have been difficult to deceive since ancient times.

"Your Majesty, the three southwestern provinces, production has all resumed. Including the Miao Man, Yi Man, etc. in the deep mountains, they all belonged to my Ming Dynasty, and were under the jurisdiction of the Ming officials, and the barbarian areas also resumed production. ”

"Your Majesty, the population of the three southwestern provinces has skyrocketed. People from all over the world have emigrated one after another. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Households, the population of the southwest has reached as much as 50 million! ”

"The population of the southwest even exceeds that of Jiangsu and Zhejiang."

"Everyone in the southwest lives and works in peace and contentment, and everyone praises His Majesty as the Holy Monarch of the ages. The common people became rich, the price of rice fell, and the whole became rich. The tax paid is ten times higher than in previous years. ”

"Good!" Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed when he heard this, "To carry out a special test in the southwest region, we must promote talents in the southwest without exception." ”

……

The endless waters of the Wa Kingdom.

After half a month of sailing, Tang He and his fleet entered the vast Waguo Sea after leaving Yingzhou Xiandao. It had been several days, and the crowd was frustrated that they had not encountered the big fish 'whale' mentioned in the holy decree.

The entire fleet consisted of ten 'Hongwu Bao Ships', each 150 meters long and 40 meters wide.

At this time, Daming's navigation technology was very mature, and the use of transoceanic star pulling and the use of a sextant was able to accurately measure the latitude to one degree. In the fleet, there are also two old fishermen as staff officers.

Observing the sea conditions and the direction of the wind, they are very good.

"Poof!"

At this moment, suddenly a huge fountain erupted from the sea.

Immediately after that, a huge wave broke off on the surface of the sea, a huge swallowtail appeared on the surface of the sea, and a behemoth appeared. The thing was so big that the crowd could only see part of its body from the Hongwu treasure ship.

"It's the god of the sea, it's the god of the sea!

！ When the old fisherman saw this, he immediately fell to his knees on the side of the boat and prayed to heaven.