After Wang Xijue said this, all the ministers bowed their heads and agreed.

In the autumn and winter of the fourteenth year of Wanli, this turmoil originated from an attempt to let the Son of Heaven fall into the water, and then did not cause new fluctuations.

King Chong was hammered to death, and there was not much change.

The recital of the three kings' intercession, after being approved by the royal court, did not dare to say more.

The main reason is that Zhu Yijun has military power in his hands, and all the situation can be controlled.

What's more, most of the powerful bureaucrats are still smart people, so they can bear it, knowing that going against the emperor is against the general trend of the world.

Because the production units are becoming more and more subdivided, the trend that leads to this land is that the imperial power is increasing.

Although the people of later generations can summarize such a historical phenomenon in hindsight, there are also people in the world who are extremely intelligent and will be aware of this trend.

"Immigration and exploitation of foreign benefits are still the main national policies at the moment."

"How's the land purchase going?"

Zhu Yijun continued to focus on political affairs after this incident, and asked Shen Shixing about the current situation of buying land.

Shen Shixing replied: "The Ryuzoji Temple and Otomo families are willing to sell their land to us in order to make a living, but the Shimazu family is not willing!" ”

At this time, the privy envoy Qi Jiguang replied: "Your Majesty, it is reported that the Shimazu family is dissatisfied with the fact that this dynasty is too good to the Japanese people, and takes away the benefits of their maritime trade, so they intend to join Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and ask Toyotomi Hideyoshi to raise a large army to attack Dongying and drive away the soldiers and people of our dynasty. ”

Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this, and asked, "Do you have any plans to deal with it?" ”

"The Cabinet has decided to embargo Shimazu on firearms, and has agreed to the request of Governor Xing Jue to provide an additional loan of three million taels of silver dollars each to Ryuzoji Temple and Otomo to help them counter Shimazu, and to reduce Shimazu's strength before Toyotomi Hideyoshi's troops come, so that he will give up his desire to rely on Toyotomi Hideyoshi to dominate the Japanese kingdom of Kyushu."

Shen Shi Xing returned.

At this time, the privy envoy Qi Jiguang said: "The Privy Council has decided to send additional troops and horses to Dongying, and we can't just expect the two Japanese chieftains of Ryuzoji and Otomo to make Shimazu submit, but we need to prevent these three families from taking advantage of Toyotomi Hideyoshi to drive away the soldiers and horses of this dynasty first, so it is necessary to increase troops and horses in Dongying, so as to prepare for the future when Toyotomi Hideyoshi is good at attacking and destroying the peace of the world, and directly thwart Toyotomi Hideyoshi's troops." ”

Zhu Yijun bowed his head: "All are allowed!" ”

"How's the development of foreign benefits going?"

Zhu Yijun asked.

Shen Shixing replied at this time: "The Marquis of Ningyuan, the protector of Andong, asked to open an iron mine in North Korea, and the commander of the Nanyang Naval Division, Chen Luan, asked to open a copper mine in Luzon. ”

"Then drive away!"

"The imperial court can't raise so many sailors for nothing, tell Chen Luan that if they don't want the imperial court to cut troops and reduce the scale of warships, they will open up more new mines for the imperial court!"

Zhu Yijun said.

Shen Shixing and Qi Jiguang said yes.

Zhu Yijun then asked: "How is the tax cut to benefit the people?" ”

"Due to the current tax increase for overseas immigrants amounting to one million taels of silver, coupled with the annual increase of 500,000 taels of silver dollars in the national funds of coal mines such as the opening of naturalization, and the increase in trade tariffs on Mughal trade with Japan by 2 million taels of silver dollars after the recovery of Haojing, there are three tax reduction strategies after the Ministry of Households:

The first is to permanently exempt Ding Yin from forced labor in Shaanxi and Shanxi; the second is to reduce Shandong, Jingshi, Henan horse silver; the third is to reduce the Jiangnan gold and silver tax; Now I ask Your Majesty to decide. ”

Zhu Yijun knew that there were three plans, which were related to the fact that the household officials came from different origins.

When discussing the matter of reducing taxes and benefiting the people, the officials of the household department will definitely give priority to taking care of their own townships.

Although according to the official appointment system of the Ming Dynasty, Su Song, Jiangxi and Zhejiang people are not allowed to serve as household officials, but there will still be household officials who are the spokespersons of Jiangnan Haoyou, and they will ask for a tax reduction in Jiangnan.

And Zhu Yijun now needs to choose one of the different tax reduction plans as the next tax reduction or exemption grant.

In this, Zhu Yijun needs to consider favoring the common people in that place first.

Although all the people in the world need favors to reach the point where more people can achieve wealth and good gifts, so that the economic foundation of Xinli will be more consolidated, and the people's spending power will be further improved, due to the impact of the increase in state fiscal revenue, which is a spiral rather than an exponential rise, the emperor cannot suddenly reduce the taxes of all the people, and it is necessary to selectively reduce or reduce taxes according to the actual situation.

"Forever exempt from forced labor in Shaanxi and Shanxi, and heavy taxes in Shandong, Jingshi, Henan and Jiangnan will be reduced or exempted in the future."

Zhu Yijun thought about it, and still made up his mind to favor the people of Shaanxi and Shanxi first.

Shaanxi official Taifu Temple Shaoqing Kingdom couldn't help but laugh with tears in his eyes at this time.

Naturally, some officials from other places of origin could not hide their disappointment.

However, Hai Jui and some other officials still have a happy look on their faces, and for some officials who really care about the people's livelihood, as long as it is a tax reduction, no matter which place the people are exempted, it is a good thing.

More than a month later, in the 15th year of Wanli.

All cities and towns in Shaanxi and Shanxi have posted articles that they will be exempted from forced labor forever.

The common people were overjoyed.

Zhou Sihuan, the prefect of Pingliang in Shaanxi, even came to the powder wall of the Zhangbang in the city of Fucheng in plainclothes to watch the people's reactions.

He couldn't help but look at the sky and rejoice: "After watching the list, I came back to sing and dance, and I was happy with the good official mansion of Qingping." ”

Saying that, Zhou Sihuan couldn't help but look north and worship.

When some of the scholars saw him like this, they also understood who he was worshipping, so they looked north and worshipped together.

Zhu Yijun soon learned about this through Jinyiwei in Pingliang, and he was happy all day.

The biggest advantage of being exempt from forced labor is not to reduce the burden on civilians, but to increase the freedom of the people, and it is easy to achieve Zhu Yijun's goal of increasing the freedom of the people.

For in every place the conscription is essentially borne by the poor.

But if the poor are gone, the conscription becomes a burden on the large families.

After all, it is impossible for the government to stop building projects and exploiting people's power just because the poor have moved away.

Therefore, when there is no exemption from forced labor, the big families will do everything possible to obstruct the free movement of the people, and they are not willing to take the initiative to cooperate with the imperial court to relocate the people, after all, this affects their interests.

But once the conscription is exempted, the large households do not have to prevent the people from migrating because they fear that the burden of conscription will be transferred to them.

Therefore, when the forced labor in Shaanxi and Shanxi was exempted, the large households no longer actively prevented the poor from leaving their homeland through clan and township agreements, and the resistance to migrating people to the sea was much reduced, and the obstacles for people to work in other places were also much less.

Chen Jiuzhu's paper mill accepted many people from Shaanxi and Shanxi after Zhu Yijun was permanently exempted from forced labor in Shaanxi and Shanxi.

After learning that Shaanxi and Shanxi were exempted from forced labor, Liu Quxian took the initiative to contact Wang Changgeng, who was an official in Fengxiang Mansion, Shaanxi, and went to Shaanxi to set up a new cotton cloth workshop, in order to seize the business opportunities brought by the exemption from forced labor in Shaanxi and Shanxi.

After all, as soon as the forced labor is exempted, the income of the people of Shaanxi and Shanxi will inevitably increase as long as they are not affected by natural disasters, and then the ability to buy cloth will be enhanced, and there will be more idle and cheap labor to participate in weaving.

There are naturally many keen businessmen like Liu Quxian.

This also led to the more developed industry and commerce in Shaanxi and Shanxi, and the imperial court's commercial tax in Tongguan and other places also began to increase.