In the second year after Yuzhu ascended the throne, he abolished the ironware monopoly system.
Nowadays, due to the reorganization of the fiscal and taxation system in the western region and the streamlining of many county offices, there is enough foundation to abolish the salt monopoly system.
The salt monopoly system started from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and has been implemented until now. It is time for it to come to an end.
Yuzhu's general idea of governing the country is that counties in the western region with a population of less than one million should be merged into prefectures.
That's all, the land tax system and tax system in the west have also undergone earth-shaking changes.
Specifically, the land rent of tenants in the entire western region must not be higher than 15%.
Yuzhu adopts a one-size-fits-all policy. Any landowner who dares not to implement it will be fined ten thousand times.
Because Yuzhu saw clearly that the source of trouble in the west was that the output of the land was gradually decreasing, but the land rent was increasing day by day.
Of course, any reform of fiscal and taxation measures requires supporting policy assistance.
The imperial court also reduced the land tax for the entire western region to thirty taxes per one.
Yuzhu is an old bureaucrat, and he knows better than anyone else that if the imperial court receives one dan of grain, the corrupt officials in the west will have to collect at least 5 dan of grain.
The consequence of high tax rates is that people's wealth is wasted and corrupt officials are benefited.
Globally, there has always been a rule: the higher the tax rate, the more people will find ways to evade tax.
After Yuzhu came to power, first the gentry worked as errands to pay the grain, and then they shared the land, and the head tax was cancelled.
At the same time, after the merger of counties, there are more than five times fewer county governments in the west than before?
The fewer government offices there are, the lighter the burden on the people is. This is common sense.
In the former Qing Dynasty, if the county government wanted to collect taxes in full, it had to support a large number of servants and use violent means to suck blood from the people.
Different from the previous Qing Dynasty, all tax collection in this dynasty was done on their own initiative.
If someone intentionally conceals or underreports his income and does not kill anyone once found out, he will be fined ten thousand times as much.
Yuzhu sees it clearly better than anyone else. Instead of feeding countless tax collectors, coming to collect cattle, dragging pigs, and collecting door panels to collect violent taxes, it is better to keep an eye on the big families in each county.
As long as the big families in each county are afraid of fines and report taxes honestly, even if the small people omit a little land tax on newly opened fields, it will be a trivial matter.
To be honest, apart from the tax bureaus of lighthouse countries, which scare Americans, tax evasion is simply a common thing.
Everything has advantages and disadvantages.
Yuzhu's strategy is to catch the big ones and release the small ones, and target the big families in each county. As for the small farmers, most of them don't have the guts to steal the registered land tax.
This is the situation in the West.
Jiangnan and Huguang, the tax-heavy areas, all have three taxes and one tax.
For this reason, small-scale uprisings broke out in Jiangnan and Huguang areas.
However, what year is it today?
Under the rapid suppression of the imperial army, which was armed to the teeth and had convenient water transportation, the uprising was quickly extinguished.
On Yuzhu's desk, there is a list of landlords from Jiangnan and Huguang who were implicated in the peasant uprising.
"Hengchen, for the sake of a little vested interest, it's really pity that they lost a lot for a small amount." Yuzhu raised his hand and gently tapped the memorial on the table.
Zhang Tingyu also felt that the landlords who participated in the uprising were indeed stupid. These fools thought that it was an era when they could rise up with just two kitchen knives. They were so stupid that they were speechless.
In fact, as far as Zhang Tingyu knows, the rifles of the imperial army have been replaced by two generations, from front-loading smoothbore guns to front-loading rifled guns.
The evolution of rifles is mainly due to the contribution of retired French captain Bessaian.
Fixed-load ammunition, lead bullets with cylindrical shells, significant progress in steel-making technology, and Bessaian's inspiration, standard rifled guns that can be mass-produced were born.
The rate of fire of a rifled gun is slower than that of a smoothbore gun. It can only shoot three rounds per minute at best.
However, it is impossible for Yuzhu not to understand that the longer the effective range, the better the lethality.
Therefore, under Yuzhu's insistence, the front-loading rifled gun first gained popularity in the first town.
After large-scale testing by grassroots troops, the effective range of the front-loading rifled gun has been expanded to about 300 meters.
You know, the previous musket had an effective range of only 80 meters.
In the past few years, the Luanzhou Gun Factory has been operating at full capacity to produce muzzle-loading rifled guns, allowing the entire Imperial Army to be re-equipped.
"Hengchen, since they are so stupid, let's kill them all, right?" Yuzhu deliberately ran against Zhang Tingyu.
The geographical location of the Zhang family in Tongcheng, Anhui Province determines that Zhang Tingyu's background is actually one of the spokespersons of the great Confucians in the south of the Yangtze River.
However, Zhang Tingyu was different from Jiang Sheng in that he did not have a deep relationship with the Jiangnan Confucians and only occasionally cooperated.
"God has the virtue of good life, and the emperor is a sage who has not been seen for thousands of years. He must be able to understand the ignorance of stupid people." Zhang Tingyu tried his best to save the stupid landlords.
Yuzhu said coldly: "If you don't kill those who secretly plotted rebellion, where is the majesty of the imperial court?"
Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhang Tingyu quickly said: "Your Majesty, I think it is better to exile them to Ninggu Pagoda and never allow them to return." He had tried his best.
Yuzhu turned around and asked Xiaoxuanyu: "What do you think?"
Xiao Xuanyu had already thought clearly about it, and expressed his attitude, saying: "Returning to the emperor, I think it is not a bad idea to only blame the culprit. After all, they were suppressed as soon as they discussed the incident, and no serious consequences were caused.
Consequences. However, we must not spare them lightly. Why not send them all to Nanyang to work as coolies?"
Yuzhu nodded and asked Xiao Tiezhui: "What about you?"
The little iron hammer said seriously: "Back to the emperor, I thought that times have changed, how can a small loach make big waves? It would be better to simply confiscate the house and exile him to the Western Regions to grow cotton. After all, there are many things in the Western Regions.
There is a shortage of people to grow cotton."
Yuzhu looked at Little Iron Hammer with great relief, this child has really grown up.
The princes of this dynasty all have the experience of young military academy and recruits.
After being promoted to lieutenant for meritorious service, he was given a small office and learned to handle government affairs from Yuzhu.
After a whole set of training, none of Yuzhu’s sons looked like prodigal sons.
In his later years, the old emperor was unable to sleep peacefully due to the seizure of his legitimate son by Kowloon.
Yuzhu's sons not only opened their houses to the king, but also studied government and military affairs step by step.
So far, the princes have not been able to cultivate their own power in private.
It is impossible for Yuzhu to let his sons have a lot of free time to stay at home and form cliques for selfish purposes.
As long as this person is free, he will definitely become a monster.
Of course, the main reason is that Yuzhu has not established a prince, and the princes have no clear target to fight against, so they have to pretend to be filial even if they pretend to be.