Chapter 606: The Ming Dynasty Gentlemens Sexy Operations
At this time, whether it was the prince's title, the honor of the three princes and three orphans, or his actual control over Zheng Jun...
They are all too ostentatious!
No matter which emperor is sitting on the dragon throne above, it is impossible for Zheng Chenggong to continue to stay in the court.
Now there are only two choices before Zheng Chenggong.
Either retreat bravely, leave a name in history, and become a figure like Duke Zhou!
Or go one step further and fight for the throne, and then your body and your family will be destroyed, and you will be infamy for thousands of years.
Zheng Chenggong chose the former without hesitation!
He wants to retire and no longer stay in the court.
The reason why he did not choose the latter is also very simple. First, the education he received since childhood did not allow him to be a rebellious official and traitor.
The second reason is because he knows that in the current Ming Dynasty, no one can compete with Zhu Hongyu!
Zhu Hongyu's prestige in the army is too high, and his control over the army is too strong!
Even among Zheng's army, I don't know how many people regard Zhu Hongyu as their idol and the king they want to follow to the death.
Furthermore, now Zheng Chenggong is old and his son is also useless.
So what else is he fussing over?
Retiring obediently and recuperating is his best choice at the moment.
Zhu Hongyu was very happy after seeing Zheng Chenggong's statement, but he did not agree immediately and just said.
"The Ming Dynasty still needs King Yanping. King Yanping can't give up at this time!"
Zhu Hongyu didn't agree to Zheng Chenggong's begging for bones, but he didn't refuse either.
Just saying not now!
It's basically a hint that we'll talk about begging for bones later.
The main reason is that he, Zhu Hongyu, wanted to lose face. He just announced the reward for Zheng Chenggong. If he agreed to beg for Zheng Chenggong’s bones, how would the world think of him?
Therefore, there is no need to rush the matter of begging for bones. As long as Zheng Chenggong makes a statement, take your time!
Zheng Chenggong returned to court, and Zhu Hongyu continued to issue imperial edicts.
The fourth imperial edict was to order the imperial examination to officially begin in three days to promote enough officials for the Ming Dynasty and attract fresh blood to the ruling class.
The fifth imperial edict was Zhu Hongyu's order to abolish the household registration system of the Ming Dynasty.
Abolish the differences in household registration such as military households, civilian households, Le households, merchant households, and salt households, and uniformly change them to civilian households. Abolish the slave registration of lowly people, and promulgate an edict that no one in the country should be a slave!
In fact, the most important thing is to abolish the lowly status. As for the slave status, it has been abolished long ago.
In the Ming Dynasty, there was a rule that citizens were not allowed to be slaves, but the rule was a rule, but no one enforced it.
As the saying goes, there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom. The wealthy gentry of the Ming Dynasty did a lot of tricks.
Isn’t it forbidden to keep slaves?
Very good, they stopped keeping slaves and started accepting adopted sons and daughters!
If a person is rich, it is not too much to accept one hundred and eighty adopted sons and daughters, right?
Zhu Hongyu didn't have any good solution for this. He couldn't say that he wouldn't let his adopted son be accepted, right?
All he can do is to strengthen supervision and impose heavy penalties if caught!
Of course, Zhu Hongyu can also issue a decree so that his adopted son and adopted daughter also have the right to inherit family property. In this way, the social problem of slavery may be alleviated.
But, again, don’t be in a hurry, you can take your time with this!
The sixth imperial edict was Zhu Hongyu's order to abolish the three rates imposed in the late Ming Dynasty.
The tax arrears accumulated over the past years will be abolished, and large-scale tax reductions and exemptions will be implemented for local governments starting from this year to win over people's hearts.
Three wages was one of the biggest reasons for the continuous peasant uprisings in the late Ming Dynasty.
The imperial court ordered a levy of 1 cent, and the following people would be able to get a share of it.
Often the imperial court takes the blame, but the majority of the blame is taken by corrupt officials below.
After a lot of troubles, the court could not get much money, and uprisings continued in the places where it was being reorganized.
It’s just the big rat in the middle who’s gained weight!
Might as well abolish it altogether!
According to the seventh imperial edict, Zhu Hongyu is still rectifying taxes.
It was announced in the form of an imperial edict that from today onwards, the Ming Dynasty will "live in prosperity and prosper, and will never increase its wealth."
Then, there was the accompanying decree that the peasants should work together to pay the grain.
There is a connection between never increasing taxes and sharing the land, and the gentry acting as errands and paying taxes as one body.
The purpose of never increasing taxes was to win over people's hearts, and the gentry and the gentry were all working together to pay taxes, while Zhu Hongyu was working on reorganizing the place.
Ways to curb land annexation!
Without the previous foundation of never adding talent, Zhu Hongyu was afraid that he would be sprayed to death.
What does Zhu Hongyu care about most now?
To put it bluntly, it is his own posthumous name!
As for glory and wealth, Zhu Hongyu doesn't care much now.
At the point where he is now, material enjoyment really doesn't matter, because there is nothing he wants but can't get.
The only thing he cares about is his posthumous name!
Now Zhu Hongyu's thoughts are somewhat similar to Zheng Chenggong's.
We don't care about material comforts; all we really care about is reputation.
If anyone wants to let Zhu Hongyu die, Zhu Hongyu will definitely order him to be humanely destroyed.
The eighth imperial edict was Zhu Hongyu's order to abolish all kinds of miscellaneous additions to agricultural taxes, abolish exorbitant levies and miscellaneous taxes, and only levy regular taxes.
To put it bluntly, it is to reduce the burden on farmers and alleviate social conflicts.
Plus make him famous!
The ninth imperial edict is that Zhu Hongyu ordered that from today on, the Ming Dynasty will levy additional taxes such as commercial tax, salt tax, tea tax, etc.
This is really for profit!
With a wave of his hand, Zhu Hongyu reduced agricultural taxes by a large amount. Naturally, he had to find a place to make up for it.
If he doesn't want to take money out of farmers' pockets, he has no choice but to say sorry to the businessmen!
If farmers are taxed and unable to survive, they will rebel.
But businessmen don’t!
In fact, Zhu Hongyu originally wanted to implement a wave of tiered taxation to curb land annexation and the excessive gap between the rich and the poor in society.
However, after much deliberation, Zhu Hongyu chose to give up this tempting idea.
Because he knows that if the stepped taxation is introduced directly, the place will definitely explode.
Before the Manchus were completely eliminated and the country was unified, Zhu Hongyu had to be timid in doing things.
After Zhu Hongyu's imperial edict was read out, no one stood up and said nonsense to Zhu Hongyu that he should not compete with the people for benefit.
This makes Zhu Hongyu very happy!
Obviously, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty did not have the kind of talent to treat Zhu Hongyu as a fool.
On an occasion like today, anyone who dares to stand up and show off their intelligence will embarrass Zhu Hongyu.
That's really no different from showing off the big heads on their necks!
If anyone dares to stand up and challenge him today, Zhu Hongyu will definitely not kill anyone on the spot just to keep his face.
But when today is over, Zhu Hongyu will definitely let them experience what it means to be favored by the emperor.
From now on, no one in your family will ever pass the imperial examination!
Targeting Immortal You!
When the matter was over and it was already dark, Zhu Hongyu ordered the retreat, led the team back to his residence, and summoned the queen to sleep with him.