On the second day, the cabinet officially issued a Jun decree in accordance with Zhu Houzhao's edict, saying that starting next year, the first year after the new emperor ascended the throne, the Ming Dynasty would no longer collect land taxes and would never start a ban.

Even Emperor Zhu Houzhao wrote an article personally stating that if the people of the world still had to pay land taxes, it would only mean that the Ming Dynasty had destroyed its country.

This edict was written, and naturally everyone in the world cheered for it, praying from the heart that the Ming Dynasty would never perish forever, and it would last for thousands of years and a country would last for thousands of years!

Zhang Juzheng, who was in charge of the Hanlin Academy, instructed the Hanlin Academy to record the historical officials of the Hanlin Academy to immediately record the actions of this prosperous era:

"This is a grand event that has never been seen in the ages. You should write it down carefully, and you don't have to be stingy with the words that are beautiful in the pen. This is not flattering the king, but expressing emotions for the people of the world. It is also a merit in this prosperous era, so that the kings of later generations can use this as a sign of it!"

"Don't worry, even Wen Jing has never been so kind. Even the Emperor of Tang and Song Dynasty could not exempt all the labor taxes. The country has such a saint, and the abdication is about to abdicate. I do not admire Tai, do not seek immortality, do not enjoy enslaving the people, and dare to use iron fist to regulate chaos, and can seek peace for the people! I, Xu Qingteng, wish I could not cut off my descendants and be a lackey in front of Your Majesty's door!"

The Hanlin Academy's reviewer Xu Wei shook the hanging belt and started writing quickly. He walked straight through his hand, but his mind had already formed a picture of the prosperous era that was prosperous and prosperous, which was so prosperous that he could not help the people.

After receiving the imperial edict from the cabinet, Hai Rui hurried to the compilation room of the Huangming Pao: "Write the article quickly and publish it! Since ancient times, no emperor can compare with my emperor's virtues. After Yao and Shun, no emperor can achieve his merits. Those who cultivate the world, who have received this kind of favor, are very fortunate to be the common people of the Ming Dynasty!"

"Ah! If Hai Rui has a next life, he will be willing to be born in the Ming family!"

Hai Rui knelt down again, the iron-like man, this was the second time he knelt on the ground and kowtowed north! And they were all kowtowed heavily, and blood was seen on his forehead! Heavy tears moistened the ground!

"I dare to ask the Minister of the Congregation, I wonder if the memorial of the emperor's remarks to advise His Majesty to retreat has been submitted to the emperor. I want to take back the memorial!"

Not long after, Hai Rui came to the Censorate to find the left censor Yang Lin.

Yang Lin turned the wheelchair to Hai Rui and came: "It has been submitted to the imperial court, but you can tell me why you should withdraw your memorial."

"Your Majesty issued an edict to abolish the land tax and never raise a levy forever. This is the best civil service in the world. This shows that Your Majesty has never forgotten all the people in the world. With such kindness, the subordinates will criticize Your Majesty for losing his old age and seeking welfare for the world. It is a ruthless act, just like ordering an eighty-year-old father to plow the fields. It can be said that he is very unfaithful and unfilial! Hai Rui deeply regrets it!"

Hai Rui said again, "And this edict is here, and the people of the world will not keep their kings and fathers and rule the world again. Everyone hopes that the new emperor will ascend the throne, and the favor of the sage king will be revealed, and the new chapter of the prosperous era will begin. The lower officials will no longer oppose Your Majesty's abdication, and they will not be as panic as this expectation of not urging the throne!"

After hearing this, Yang Lin nodded: "You, Hai Rui, still value the people of the world more. However, you have misunderstood the king for a long time and you should regret your mistakes, otherwise you would be deceiving Your Majesty's magnanimity!"

Hai Rui nodded and immediately made a self-blame memorial.

Like Hai Rui, all the scholars and people in the world knew that they had blamed the Emperor Zhu Houzhao for wrongly, and they thought that the Emperor Zhu Houzhao wanted to abandon them and seek happiness alone.

Now, before abdicating, His Majesty the Emperor issued an edict to exempt the land tax and never raise the expedition, which undoubtedly made all of them fully understand that His Majesty did not have their people in his heart.

Zhu Houzhao also knew that his rash abdication would definitely make the people of the world who were accustomed to the various benefits and benefits of the Zhengde Dynasty unacceptable or even disappointed.

Therefore, when he knew that the proportion of land tax revenue in the imperial treasury income was no longer large, he decided to ban land tax and never levy land tax, namely agricultural tax.

In this way, Zhu Houzhao believed that the people of the world would no longer object to their abdication, because they did not abdicate, the new emperor could not ascend the throne, and the decree of exempting agricultural tax could not be enforced.

People are all thinking about themselves. They were unwilling to let the emperor abdicate before, but also for their own interests. Now they are willing to let the emperor abdicate, so naturally they are also thinking about their own interests.

No matter what.

Zhu Houzhao used his last grace to make the people of the world accept his political behavior of abdicating the new emperor ascending the throne.

All the people in the world cry in the prosperous Ming Dynasty!

In the entire Ming Empire, almost everyone was happy about it.

Wang Gao, the magistrate of Wanping of Shuntian Prefecture, couldn't help but put away the fish scale book and the household book, and said with a smile:

"From then on, these will be deposited in the newly built Wanping County Museum. Without the land tax, the clerks will no longer be able to exploit the people, and there is no need for the township officials to send the land to transfer taxes to the farmers. I am also happy and no longer worried about offending the powerful and no longer feel ashamed of conquering the people. It is truly a great emperor's grace, and the great emperor's grace!"

"I hope the Ming Dynasty will be passed down for thousands of years. Tang Mengbi, a student from Taohua Village in Daxing, led the whole village to work together to compile this national poem, hoping that his ancestors would bless him... Since Taizu raised his troops in Huaiyou...", the student Tang Mengbi couldn't help but feel admiration for this incident and called on the people of the village to build temples for the empire together, praying that the Ming Dynasty will last forever. After all, the Ming Dynasty began to exempt the agricultural tuition forever.

For a time, the surrounding villages and communities responded one after another.

Xu Wanru, a commoner far away in Dingxing County, Baoding Prefecture, did not know that the Ming Dynasty had stopped tax collection, and was stopped by the clerk when he went to the county town to pay grain the next year: "The summer tax will not be collected this year! You can choose to sell it to the government at a fair price to use it for regular liquidation, or you can take it to the market for sale, or you can take it back by yourself!"

"No more rewards? Dear fellows, what's going on? I really won't be rewarded this year?"

Xu Wanru looked at the tax grains from a village she had transported and asked in disbelief.

"It's not just that I won't be levied this year, I won't be levied next year, and I won't be levied in the future. As long as the Ming Dynasty does not perish, you will never have to pay this grain." The household registration office in Dingxing County said, and said again: "Now that the tax grain is exempted, the errands of this house are boring. I want to go home to farm after the New Year!"

Xu Wanru didn't hear what the housekeeper said, because he was overjoyed and was so out of sight that he didn't know what to say for a moment, and only knew to kneel on the ground and kowtow to the county government.

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"The wine industry in the capital is booming. Once the land tax is exempted, the price of grain has dropped a lot. Wine shops everywhere have been brewing. Now the powerful and wealthy gentry in the capital are half drunk. With this prosperous era, why don't Mr. Xu take advantage of this and spend the rest of his life, why should he still worry about it? Is there anything else you don't want to get tired of?"

Crown Prince Zhu Zailei was influenced by the new education and thought about everything according to the laws of the market economy. Now when chatting with Xu Jie, he did not forget to talk about the Beijing Wine Industry and Emperor Zhu Houzhao's exemption of land tax.

"This year's birthday, Your Majesty has allowed His Highness and his ministers to hold a grand ceremony. Guanglu Temple has prepared 100,000 jars of good wine, so why worry about not getting drunk?"

Xu Jie said with a smile, and couldn't help but think of the current exemption of land tax, and couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.

As a Grand Secretary of the Imperial Cabinet, he is already a top-level prominent family. Naturally, he is not as excited as most middle and lower-level people about exemption from land taxes, but he couldn't help but say:

"At that time, in order to fill the national treasury, the court recovered the land tax owed by the gentry in Jiangnan, and killed the blood flowing into a river. Now, the land tax can be directly exempted from the world, and all the taxes that are owed per year are all exempted. The great evils of the past were hard to tolerate. Now it is just a small amount of forgiveness. The country is truly rich and the government orders are no longer the same."

"Just as Mr. Xu said, now my father can exempt all the taxes from the world. Why? You and I understand that it is not because the Ming Dynasty plundered the colonial income from the outside world, which is much greater than the income from the land tax. Looking at the prosperous era of the Han and Tang Dynasties, it is actually because the benefits of the world and the four seas are all lost to the Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Zailei said, and then said, "However, my father is equivalent to letting me, the prince, continue to plunder the outside world in the future. Otherwise, I have already exempted all the land taxes now. If the sea ban is exempted from commercial taxes, how can I raise this millions of troops and hundreds of thousands of officials, and the widows, widows, widows, orphans in the entire Ming Dynasty."

"It is precisely this that Your Majesty banned land taxes and demanded that he never be allowed to pay levies. This not only cuts off the opportunity for officials to exploit the people, but also cuts off the opportunity for future kings to collect farmers in their own country. In addition, he also cuts off the idea of ​​reducing and exempting commercial taxes;

His Highness will ascend the throne to the emperor and empress in the future. Although the major business companies in the government control most of the empire's wealth, His Highness cannot be used to benefit the people, because His Highness has to be used to support the army, and the real benefit of the people can only be taxes collected from merchants. If he wants to collect more taxes from merchants, he can only continue to develop business and industry. It is difficult for the empire to return to the era when men farmed and women weaved!"

Xu Jie's words made Zhu Zailei nod. He naturally knew what it meant to exempt Emperor Zhu Houzhao from land tax, but he also knew that he could not stop all this from happening.

Zhu Houzhao did have this purpose in exempting land taxes. It was precisely because considering that large landlords like Xu Jie would still exist in the imperial society in the future, and the Ming Empire, who was worried that it would finally take the road of industrialization, would return to the previous era of farming civilization.

Therefore, he simply exempted the land tax directly, causing future rulers to lose the opportunity to rely on collecting land tax to maintain their rule, and forced future rulers to find solutions in terms of commercial taxes and external income.

Undoubtedly, in this way, commercial tax can only become the main body of imperial taxation.

Any merchant who wants to bear the cost of low productivity in the operation of the Imperial Government's public utilities will find it difficult to achieve this.

The merchants are naturally dissatisfied with this, but they are dissatisfied and cannot object to the majority of satisfied people in this country.

At this time, Xu Jie could only persuade the Crown Prince Zhu Zailei that he could no longer avoid relying on commercial tax to manage the country in the future, so he had to be prepared to offend the merchant class. At the same time, he had to continue to adhere to the will of the Emperor Zhu Houzhao to unite with workers and peasants, increase employment and promote industrial development.

In a blink of an eye, the crown prince's enthronement ceremony came. Because of an edict that exempted the levy, the crown prince's enthronement made most people in the Ming Dynasty think that this was auspicious and festive matter.

When Zhu Houzhao's 70th birthday was about, it was naturally a more festive thing in the eyes of the people all over the world.

The entire capital began to be decorated with lights and colors from the third day before Zhu Houzhao's birthday.

The newly manufactured generator directly assembles the generated DC power into a huge Beijing lantern network, making the entire Beijing city bright as daytime even at night.

In order to stimulate business development, Shuntian Prefecture has long abolished the curfew in the outer city. Now, in order to make the whole world celebrate together, Zhu Houzhao has simply issued an order to temporarily cancel the curfew in the inner city and the imperial city, so that subjects can go to the palace city to celebrate their birthday from the beginning of Si and the beginning of You.

For a time, the entire capital was filled with people, and a colorful shed was set up in ten steps. There were flowing banquets in the colorful sheds. No matter the noble or low, or men and women, they could sit and eat, or enjoy the flowers drunk.

Zhu Houzhao also woke up from the wine pond and meat forest. He was in his seventies and liked the fun as he got older. Only the emperor's birthday could he spend money like water.

After the Wanshou Festival, Zhu Houzhao officially issued an edict to abdicate.

On this day, all civil and military officials came to Zhu Houzhao as the last dynasty during the emperor's reign.

This day was also the last time Zhu Houzhao wore a crown and a robe. He ruled the world and was worshipped by all the ministers and vassals.

The red sun hung by the palace wall for a long time and refused to fall, and Zhu Houzhao also sat in the Golden Palace for a long time and refused to leave. For some reason, he suddenly felt reluctant to pass on this picturesque country to his descendants.

But people can't stand the years, and beauty will eventually get old and power will be handed over. Instead of waiting for the god of death to take it away, it is better to give it up first, so as not to be even more sad when facing the difference between life and death.

Zhu Houzhao finally passed the jade seal to the hands of the Crown Prince Zhu Zailii.

Zhu Zailei, who was over 50 years old, was obviously much older than when Zhu Houzhao was about to ascend the throne. He was even three points older than his father, and he still felt that the jade seal was very heavy. He couldn't help but refuse again and again. However, Zhu Houzhao still released it heavily.

As if the heavy burden on his shoulders had been put down, Zhu Houzhao suddenly became much lighter and couldn't help but want to shout loudly.

Zhu Houzhao returned to the Royal West Garden, which will still be his leisure place in the capital.

The new emperor Zhu Zailei returned to the Forbidden City to work, and the attendants and the twenty-four yamen still moved back to the original site to work.

Zhu Houzhao seemed to be unable to hear the sound of bells and drums and whips, which made him feel more and more disappointed, which made him not have the courage to release the last military power in the end, but still locked the guards tiger talisman he later ordered to make in his password box.

Although the first decree issued by the new emperor Zhu Zailei after ascending the throne was to grant him the Supreme Emperor.

On this day, the gate of the Royal Xiyuan, which had been closed for a long time, opened. Zhu Houzhao and his queen walked out in a carriage, a large number of inner officials and palace maids and Jinyiwei. Under the eyes of the emperor and civil and military officials, they left the capital.

When Empress Xia saw the real train for the first time, she couldn't help but touch the green carriage. When Zhu Houzhao saw this, she hurriedly pulled her up: "Come up and take a closer look, this is our special train, you can see enough!"

"Brother Emperor, do we really want to take this car to Jiangnan?" Empress Xia asked Zhu Houzhao in disbelief.

Zhu Houzhao nodded. Not long after, the squeaked heat rushed into the sky and the train began to roll. Queen Xia looked at the emperor Zhu Zailie who was still standing bent outside the car window and couldn't help but waved: "Lei'er, we're leaving!"
Chapter completed!