Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 272 Abolition of corvee
In September of the eighth year of the Great Ming Dynasty, the whole process of His Majesty leading the vassals, ministers, civil officials, and generals in Jinling City to sacrifice to Emperor Gao, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, was broadcast live on the Daming Daily in written form, and quickly published and distributed throughout the country.

In addition, court officials and gentry in the field also wrote articles to record this incident, and highly affirmed and praised His Majesty's loyalty and filial piety.Officials from all over the country also spontaneously built ancestral halls for the birth of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang in various towns and cities.

I also don’t know that the person who boldly opened the first company produced and sold portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang and even Zhu Youxiao, as well as speech books related to him.

Logically speaking, such an act of blaspheming the king's sanctity is already a felony.

However, folks are very interested in such portraits of national leaders or other elements, and the market has a large capacity. After the first person to eat crabs, related businesses have sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

But just when there were more and more shops of this kind and attracted the attention of the upper echelon, even Liu Ruyu, the admiral of the East Factory, was planning to take measures and report to Zhu Youxiao the request for instructions to suppress this kind of unhealthy trend.

However, what is unexpected is that Zhu Youxiao directly rejected the proposal of Liu Ruoyu, the admiral of Dongchang, and did not agree with the people of Dongchang to punish these merchants, but ordered the people of Dongchang to adopt a tacit attitude.

According to Zhu Youxiao's meaning, as long as it is not to slander or insult the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, civilian scholars and common people can be allowed to visit.

People always need to have faith, and in Daming, many people deified their ancestors and even deified emperors and generals. In this case, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty can also be treated as gods by the people.

Because I am a god, I feel awe in my heart, and because of awe, the country is stable, so why not do it.

However, Zhu Youxiao worshiped Xiaoling with great fanfare and publicized it through newspapers. The real value is not only to stimulate the commercial economy, but more importantly, it is reflected in the political sense.

This is tantamount to reawakening and strengthening the sense of belonging of the common people to Daming, and let them once again know who bestowed this peaceful and prosperous age, and Zhu Youxiao's legitimacy is also certain and beyond doubt.

In the four years since Tianqi, Zhu Youxiao has used Dongchang and Jinyiwei as minions to reuse eunuchs, strengthen imperial power, and suppress civil servants, making many people under the guidance of gentry who have the right to speak, and today's emperor has become an out-and-out A foolish ruler will only bring disaster and bad luck to the people, and even began to question the legitimacy of today's world, and began to think that Zhu Ming is about to die out, and more and more forces are ready to move, secretly planning to cause chaos in the world in the future At that time, there were no fewer heroes who rose to rule the roost.

But now at least the whole world can know by offering sacrifices to Xiaoling, at least for now, the entire country of China is still Ming Dynasty.

And Zhu Youxiao, as the emperor of Ming Dynasty, is the legal ruler of this land!
Not only did he declare his orthodoxy through this sacrificial activity, Zhu Youxiao also specially gave material benefits to the people all over the world on the 300th birthday of Zhu Yuanzhang.

"According to my decree, the people's land tax will be reduced by half next year! Abolish corvee! To persuade farmers to teach mulberry!"

As soon as Zhu Youxiao's decree was published in the newspaper and issued in plain text, people all over the world rushed to tell each other.

The land tax in the Ming Dynasty was not high, and now the half reduction is even lower, but this is nothing. For farmers, the real benefit is the abolition of corvee.

Working for the government for free, that is, serving in the military, has been paying equal attention to taxation for thousands of years, but it is more unbearable than the latter.

Not to mention the free labor of corvée, you have to bear the expenses along the way and the delay in farming, which reduces your annual harvest. In addition, there is no way to let your hands create more wealth during busy farming.

The reason why Zhu Youxiao permanently abolished corvee on the occasion of the [-]th anniversary of the birth of Emperor Gao of the Ming Dynasty was not only to benefit the common people to alleviate class conflicts, but also to give their hands a greater liberation. .

In this ancient agricultural country, the two identities of farmers and workers are often integrated together.

In the current Ming Dynasty, after more than two hundred years of development, the commodity economy has been considered super developed in the same era. Now under the butterfly effect of Zhu Youxiao, a modern man, even a trust economy has emerged.

The demand for labor is also stronger, and the increase of wealth always needs people to create.

If the hands of these peasants who can be converted to worker status at any time are not liberated, the commercial development of the entire Ming Dynasty will be restricted.

And the abolition of corvee, although the imperial court can no longer use free labor to carry out various construction projects, and may result in greater project construction costs due to the employment of civilian labor.

But compared to the wealth created after liberating their hands, Zhu Youxiao asked the people from the household department to do statistics. Once the corvee is exempted, millions of people in the entire Gyeonggi region will be able to work in the city and create a wealth of wealth. The value of tens of millions of silver dollars.

Moreover, Zhu Youxiao asked Huo Weihua, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, to tentatively build the project by hiring civilians in the seventh year of the apocalypse. What is surprising is that the wages given to the civilians are calculated based on his daily labor. Yes, therefore, during the entire project construction process, the construction enthusiasm of the peasants was quite high. After all, the more you do, the more money you will make.

In this way, the construction period of the project is greatly shortened, and the cost is also reduced a lot, and because the wages are not only linked to the quantity but also the quality, the quality of the project is also improved a lot.

A spring flood in the Huaihe River Basin this year did not cause a major disaster because Huo Weihua just hired tens of thousands of peasants to build a section of embankment several kilometers long along the coast last year.

"The abolition of corvee is an epoch-making gift. Only in Daming, as a citizen of Daming, can you enjoy this blessing exclusively. Thank you, my emperor!"

The editor-in-chief of Daming Daily, Zhang Dai, wrote such a comment on the front page.

The common people naturally clapped their hands and applauded, they recognized this kind of real benefit, Zhu Youxiao was exempted from corvee with a swipe of a pen, and let the people all over the world know his existence in a short while.

Some people have even begun to plan whether they should go to the city to find a job this year.

But most of the gentry officials remained silent at this moment. They lost the opportunity to exploit, and they could no longer use free labor in the name of corvee. The opportunity to lose one's family to seize one's land.

However, no officials have raised any objection to Zhu Youxiao's measures. Zhu Youxiao's collection of commercial taxes can be criticized as competing with the people for profit, but Zhu Youxiao is now exempting the common people from corvee, so he can't say anything.

Otherwise, the people all over the world probably wouldn't forgive him.

The mute eats Coptis chinensis, and can’t tell the hardships. What these gentry don’t know is that since the corvee has been exempted and the land tax has been reduced, the commercial tax is estimated to have to be raised.

One point lowering the land tax here is only a few million silver dollars less, but if the commercial tax is levied by one point more, it can increase tens of millions of silver dollars. Zhu Youxiao, who refuses to suffer, naturally wants to get back the former in the latter lost money.

(End of this chapter)