Take a plane to the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 493
However, even so, Zhu Changyuan did not give up on Zhu Yujian, and always reserved a place for him in his heart.I also want to check him out.

When it comes to prestige, this is undoubtedly Zhu Changning!

Because Zhu Changning is his old team member, he is his life-and-death brother who fought the first battle with him, and now he also serves as one of the twelve ministers, and Zhu Changyuan even thought about making him king.

All these determined that Zhu Changning's prestige among the officials was undoubtedly the highest.

It seemed that in the PK between Zhu Changning and Zhu Yujian, Zhu Changning had the absolute upper hand.

Zhu Changyuan had nothing to worry about when Zhu Changning was promoted to the throne. The only thing he had was his cousin's attitude towards the former prince Zhu Cihong.

I have worked so hard to find Zhu Cihong and won Zhang Yan's favor. Moreover, if his prediction is correct, this will definitely make him the most prominent symbol of a peerless Mingjun in history.

Think about it, to be able to tolerate the former prince, not only did not kill Zhu Cihong, but also supported him and gave him a rich living material. Is this kind of tolerance and open-mindedness that ordinary kings can have?

However, hidden dangers are hidden dangers, and Zhu Cihong is the former prince after all.

Just because he can tolerate it doesn't mean that others can tolerate it. If he leaves this world in the future and the new emperor quietly kills Zhu Cihong after he ascends the throne, wouldn't this make his original intentions dusty.

The point is, Zhu Cihong is a very good kid. Since he met him many years ago, the two have been both teachers and friends. Zhu Changyuan also really likes this kid.

Zhang Yan didn't want him to die, so why did she want the remains of the ancestors and emperors to be massacred.

Chongzhen was sorry for Zhu Changyuan, and Zhu Changyuan was also very disgusted.

But that was all a political cover, and deep in his heart he was full of reverence and pity for the emperor who "dead to the king"!
Therefore, it is necessary to test who is to be crown prince!
In August of the first year of Taizheng, Zhu Changyuan issued an edict: Tang Wang Zhu Yujian returned to Beijing!

At the same time, in order for Zhu Changning to have a platform and identity corresponding to Zhu Yujian, he was conferred the title of Sun Moon King on the grounds of his great achievements and being in the clan.

It can also be said that Zhu Changyuan is going to give Sun Moon Island to Zhu Changning for private use!
Anyway, if he wants to return to the modern society in the future, these things will always belong to him.

In the autumn of the first year of Taizheng, all the vassal kings from all over the country were moved to Hainan Island. The land left by those vassal kings naturally became Zhu Changyuan's pocket, but he distributed all of them to the poor and refugees free of charge.

At the same time, the nationwide land transformation is also going well.

Autumn is the harvest season for the common people, and it is the same for the imperial court.

For example, Zhu Changyuan's first tax collection since the founding of the country began.

The government offices of the prefectures and counties report the tax situation in their jurisdictions to the provinces, and the provinces will first report the list to the central government, and then they will pay the tax money they have received to the central government.

Zhu Changyuan held the statistical report and nodded while looking at it.

Through the land reform movement, the northern provinces of Shaanxi, Henan, Liaodong, Shanxi, and Hebei were the first to complete the land reform. Therefore, the taxes in these places are naturally the highest.

But looking back at the few wealthy provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, the amount of taxes paid is not as good as that in North China. What is even more exaggerated is that a small Taiwan pays more taxes than half of the south of the Yangtze River.

This also surprised Zhu Changyuan, put the report on the table, and said to the ministers: "Your cabinet must have seen these data, what do you think?"

Liu Zongzhou said: "Your Majesty sees thousands of miles away, and the benefits brought about by the land reform are beyond my expectation!"

The benefit he mentioned is taxation!
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen’s annual tax was only 400 million taels, which was less than one-fifth of the 2000 million taels of silver in the Hongwu period. Therefore, there were so many soldiers without military pay, and the disaster in Shaanxi could not be solved. .

If he had taxes from the Hongwu period, and a large amount of money had been stored in the treasury, it would have nothing to do with the entire land of Shaanxi having no harvest.

But now, after Zhu Changyuan's land reform, even if only half of the land reform has been carried out, the tax amount in the first year of Taizheng has already reached 9000 million taels!

This is fully twice as high as the sum of all taxes and taxes during the 13 years of Chongzhen's reign.

Of course, many of them are due to Zhu Changyuan's use of chemical fertilizers in Shaanxi and Liaodong, but it has to be said that land reform is the biggest help, otherwise, no matter how much fertilizer is used, no matter how much wealth is created, it will fall to those landlords In the hands of Lao Cai.

"My cabinet ministers are ashamed of your Majesty!" Liu Zongzhou continued: "It is really stupid to realize the sageness of the emperor until now. Therefore, I discuss with you to implement the land reform policy throughout the country as soon as possible."

"En!" Zhu Changyuan nodded.

After a while, Guocheng Electronics reported that due to the earliest implementation of land reform in northern Myanmar, this year's taxes have also been counted and collected, up to 200 million taels.

As for the rest of the Indochina Peninsula, land reforms cannot be counted because they have just been pacified. According to Zhu Changyuan's policy, they will be exempted from tax for one year.

Of course, foreign landowners don’t enjoy any subsidy policies when they donate their land, and it is completely distributed to farmers forcibly.

These foreign taxes, such as Myanmar, have been merged into the territory of China in name, so all taxes are paid to the capital.

But the distance was too far, Zhu Changyuan ordered Guo Cheng to pay the tax every five years.

Anyway, the Ming Empire is not short of those silvers now.

In September, Zhu Yujian arrived in the capital.

Zhu Changyuan immediately invited him into the palace, and had a pleasant dinner with him.

I don't know whether it was because of being frightened by Zhu Changyuan or what, this time when Zhu Yujian came back from Hainan, he didn't bring his concubine with him.

Zhu Changyuan was half drunk, pretending to be a little drunk, took Zhu Yujian's hand and said, "Uncle Emperor, the world is peaceful now, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. My Ming country is covered with four seas. I am very relieved!"

Zhu Yujian nodded and said: "This is all due to your majesty. Your majesty is a true wise king. There is no such thing in the past and present. It is easy to compare the achievements of the first emperor, and it is even better!"

This is not Zhu Yujian's joke or compliment, this is a fact that everyone in the world can see.

Zhu Changyuan nodded, and said with a mournful face: "You and I are both clansmen, and King Tang is my uncle, and the uncle of the world. I have something to decide, so I have to ask my uncle!"

Zhu Yujian knew that Zhu Changyuan was about to say something important, so he put the wine glass on the table, took a step back, knelt down, and said, "I am willing to do my best for Your Majesty!"

Zhu Changyuan said: "You and I are both clansmen, but Emperor Lie's remains are not bad. I don't know how to deal with family affection?"

This is what I said to Zhu Yujian, which means, this little prince of the former Ming Dynasty, how do you think about it?

Or to say: This Zhu Cihong, do you want to kill him?
When Zhu Yujian heard that it was such a sensitive matter, he immediately changed his attitude and became silent. No matter how Zhu Changyuan looked at him, he just pretended not to hear.

Zhu Changyuan was not happy, and said directly: "King Tang, please share the worries for the widow!"

King Tang remained silent, Zhu Changyuan said angrily, "Zhu Yujian, tell me what you think."

Zhu Yujian had no choice but to bow his head and knelt down, saying: "Uncle Huang can't be killed, His Majesty can be killed!"

It means that from the perspective of family affection, they should not be killed, after all, everyone is in the same vein.But from a political point of view, we must cut the grass and roots.

Zhu Changyuan was not happy, and had a drink with Tang Wang for a while, then excused his illness and asked Tang Wang to kneel down.

After Zhu Yujian left, Zhu Changyuan ordered Zhu Changning to enter the palace overnight.

In the south study room, Zhu Changyuan pretended to be drunk, not only appeared a little groggy, but even his eyes were slightly red.

Zhu Changning quickly ran to his side, supported Zhu Changyuan and said, "What's wrong, Your Majesty? Have you drank so much wine?"

Zhu Changyuan took a deep breath and waved his hands, indicating that he was fine, pointed to the bench opposite the desk in the imperial study and said to Zhu Changning: "Sit down, I have something on my mind, I have been hesitating, and I will tell you today , give me a good idea!"

Zhu Changning said, "Your Majesty, please tell me."

Zhu Changyuan chuckled, stood up and walked in front of Zhu Changning, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Chang Ning, you always call me Your Majesty, but in fact we are brothers besides monarchs and ministers?"

"Brother Huang!" Although Zhu Changning heard Zhu Changyuan say that, how could he dare to be presumptuous.

"I came to you today mainly to ask you about the remains of Emperor Lie of the previous dynasty. The former crown prince is getting older. According to the practice of my Ming Dynasty, I should choose a concubine for him next year!"

"But because of this matter, I have been sleeping all night long, and I can't sit down. You can give me some advice, whether I should make him king and distribute him to Hainan, or directly..."

Zhu Changyuan made a slight movement, and Zhu Changning saw it clearly.

"What is Your Majesty hesitating about?" Zhu Changning stood up and said in a low voice, "In my opinion, I shouldn't have welcomed him into the palace in the first place."

"For the sake of my great Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cihong, the former prince, cannot stay!"

Zhu Changyuan hesitated for a while, thought for a while, and said: "But the prince is still young, I can't bear to kill him, and besides, the prince is innocent!"

Zhu Changning took Zhu Changyuan's words and said, "The crown prince is innocent, so why should he be innocent?"

Tang Taizong was also a generation of outstanding people and a famous emperor through the ages, but was his success easy?Isn't it also stained with brother's blood?Isn't it also the decapitation of Prince Li Jiancheng?

In Zhu Changning's eyes, killing a former prince is not even a stigma!
Zhu Changyuan took a deep breath, closed his eyes slowly, and said four words to Zhu Changning: "Go back first!"

(End of this chapter)