If it were the former Zhengde little emperor, who was subject to narrow thinking of the times, faced with such an aggressive attack from the cabinet, he would probably have to be blind and be suppressed.

In the end, maybe I can only play with a childish temper, avoid court, and quit.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao would not allow this to happen. Although it was the first time he became an emperor, he had read countless historical novels and many palace dramas in his previous life, so it was not that he had no means of coping.

If Zhu Houzhao wants to make a difference in politics, he cannot let the cabinet lead the nose. He must take the initiative to achieve his political goals through exchange of interests, like Dad Hongzhi, like Daddy Hongzhi.

In the past month, Zhu Houzhao has made himself a close-fitting notebook, which contains some things to do in the future in English.

There are two core goals that must be achieved: one is to establish a new army directly led by the emperor, mainly based on firearms, and eliminate the old guard border troops and Beijing camps.

Taizu said: Power comes from the barrel of a gun!

If Zhu Houzhao wants to do a big thing, he must not be without a strong army!

Another core goal is that during his reign, he must divide and disintegrate the gentry class, crack down on land annexation, redistribute wealth, and allow more classes to master wealth, rather than just the little people at the top of the pyramid to eat enough and drink enough, and the remaining people eat wild vegetables.

The secondary goal is to limit the rights of eunuchs, and it is best to abolish the Silijian and solve the cancer that entrenched in the Ming Dynasty.

If an emperor needs a group of eunuchs to ensure power, then this emperor is too useless!

The second is to eliminate the royal nobles who entrenched on the people and sucked blood! These bastards are like leeches, occupying a large amount of land and wealth in the country, and the more they absorb, the more they become, the more they become.

In the future, these fat pigs will be the target of Zhu Houzhao's focus on liquidation.

After roughly completing the above goals, I not only held heavy troops, but also dismantled the rule of the civil servant group, controlled the country's regime, and then could truly do big things!

Zhu Houzhao first recommended Zhang Juzheng's "one-whip method" and Emperor Yongzheng's "spreading acres of vocations into acres, fire consumption belongs to the public, and officials and gentry pays food together". Once implemented, these policies will greatly reduce the burden on farmers.

At the same time, the direction of tax collection is modified. The focus of tax collection is no longer the pitiful land tax of farmers, but commercial tax! Zhu Houzhao can vigorously develop the whole country's commerce, build highways and new railways, nationalize production materials such as salt, tea, copper, iron, porcelain, cotton yarn, silk, etc., set up modern companies to manage, formulate new taxation standards and production rules, and increase national revenue.

The current financial distribution of the Ming Dynasty was that the gentry group was rich enough to rival the country, occupying most of the wealth of society, while the court and the people were particularly poor!

If Zhu Houzhao wants to promote business and develop industry, he must kill the pigs of the Gentlemen Group and use the money he has plundered from the Gentlemen Group to develop industry and commerce.

When such a policy is implemented, it will inevitably be the enemy of the entire gentry class and corrupt officials.

In particular, the implementation of new commercial taxes and the nationalization of the main means of production in the Ming Dynasty was simply poaching the roots of the Jiangnan gentry group!

Because salt, tea, copper, iron, porcelain, cotton, yarn, silk, coastal smuggling trade, these are the greatest source of wealth and strong foundation of civil servants' groups.

The reason why the cabinet was able to suppress the imperial power in the middle and late Ming Dynasty was that the literati class behind the cabinet controlled Jiangnan, a major financial and taxation land, and all its wealth flowed to its private pockets. The aristocratic families in Jiangnan all had tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of acres of land, with huge household incomes of hundreds of millions of yuan.

Adequate wealth gives the aristocratic group the capital to confront the imperial power.

In comparison, the imperial court has not collected taxes for many years, the national treasury is deficient, and the empty warehouse can run away mice. The people cannot eat enough, and when they encounter famine, they will be hungry everywhere and the people will live in poverty.

During Chongzhen, the finances collapsed and the treasury was empty. I issued certificates for many years to "suppress the salary", "training the salary" and "Liao salary" all shave money from the farmers. However, the most important commercial tax was collected less and less. For example, the annual tea tax was only a mere ten thousand taels of silver, which was a tea tax! Who wouldn't drink tea in the Ming Dynasty? Tea merchants in any prefecture in Jiangnan made more than this profit in a year, and the greed of these corrupt officials, wealthy merchants and wealthy merchants.

Anyone who has studied politics knows that military is the continuation of politics, and politics serves the economy! Controlling the economy is equivalent to controlling the court and the army, which is equivalent to controlling the country.

Without the division and disintegration of this greedy gentry group, Zhu Houzhao's ruling goal of allowing 60 million ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty to have enough food will never be achieved!

Of course, this is just about internal affairs. When the country is strong, Zhu Houzhao will launch a foreign war and expand its territory!

The first goal is to attack the nomadic peoples in the north. It is best to completely digest and absorb them and become part of the Ming Dynasty. It is not impossible to even annex Siberia. In the future, this place will become an exile place for the Ming Dynasty. Those corrupt officials will be thrown into this ice and snow to mine!

Finally, he pointed to the Indochina Peninsula and the Indian Peninsula to plunder land and wealth.

In order to live a wealthy life in the Ming Dynasty, it was necessary to increase productivity and carry out the industrial revolution. This required a large number of people to provide cheap labor, and war was undoubtedly the fastest way to obtain cheap labor.

Although the method of exploiting colonial people to subsidize the Ming Dynasty is not glorious, it is better than exploiting the Ming Dynasty people!

Zhu Houzhao was the king of the people of the Ming Dynasty. He was responsible for his family's food and drink. As for the floods outside, what did it have to do with him?

The second goal is to ban the construction of a navy, participate in the era of navigation, and expand the territory around the world. Let’s fight with Portugal and Spain, and see if it is your Franchise aircraft's ship's strength or my Ming Dynasty's cannon.

Of course, we must not forget to introduce foreign high-yield grain crops and cash crops, such as corn, peanuts, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, rubber, etc.

Of course, there are the most important tobacco leaves!

Although Zhu Houzhao was smoked to death in the fire in his previous life, he was still looking forward to taking another breath of smoke. Without smoke, he lived a difficult life every day. Fortunately, Columbus had discovered the New Continent of the Americas ten years ago. Ocean Ship boats from Portugal and Spain often came along the coast of Ming Dynasty. It was not difficult to get tobacco seeds.

A country has tens of millions of government affairs, and the Ming Dynasty has been in its reign for 130 years. The court has accumulated so many problems and will never be improved overnight.

In the past month, Zhu Houzhao has only so many things to think of. If he thinks of more things in the future, he will slowly add them to the notebook.

People are doing things and God is watching, in short, just do your best.

To do things, you must first know how many resources you have to use! On this point, Zhu Houzhao clarified the power he had in his hands early.

In terms of finance, thanks to his father Hongzhi's diligent work and loving the people, although the treasury has not had much surplus, it has not suffered too much losses, and basically maintains a balance of income and expenditure.

There are two vaults in the Ming Empire:

One is the Ministry of Revenue’s Taicang, which is the national treasury.

One is the internal transportation treasury controlled by the emperor, which is referred to as the internal treasury and the treasury, which is the emperor's private wallet.

Emperor Hongzhi was a gentle man on the surface, but in fact he was quite strong. Almost every year, he asked the Ministry of Revenue to transport a certain amount of gold and silver from the Taicang warehouse to enrich the internal warehouse. On average, hundreds of thousands of taels a year were not spent, but kept it like this. The accumulation of small amounts became more than five million taels.

If converted into RMB, it will be about 4 billion.

After doing this, it actually doesn't cost much. For ordinary people, this money is astronomical, but not much for the emperor. If it is used for rewards and two or three major things, it will basically be consumed.

Otherwise, why would the Ming Dynasty court be poor? Emperor Hongzhi saved money for his whole life under the pressure of the Ministry of Revenue, and the money left behind was not as much as a coal boss in later generations. The coal boss could have a net worth of 10 or 20 billion yuan!

In terms of military affairs, what he can now directly command the Four Guards and Warriors Battalion controlled by the Imperial Horse Supervisor, a total of 40,000 imperial guards, as well as two huge spy agencies, the East Factory and the Jinyiwei.

These are Zhu Houzhao's personal armed forces, and there is no need to go through the cabinet to mobilize services.

Of course, the 60,000 elderly, weak and disabled people who were deposed by Emperor Hongzhi in the Jing camp are nominally considered Zhu Houzhao's direct power. There is nothing wrong with being mobilized.

In addition to the Beijing camp, the Ming Dynasty also had a powerful military force, that is, the Jiubian Army Town, which was responsible for defending the security of the Ming Dynasty in the north. The Jiubian was the elite of the Ming Dynasty, with a population of about 800,000. Because they fought with the northern nomadic peoples all year round, their combat effectiveness was still quite strong. They obeyed the emperor, but Zhu Houzhao could not command and mobilize, and the cabinet would not allow it. The border troops were drawn to cause empty defense. If the Mongolian cavalry went south, the entire north would be corrupt.

In fact, if it weren't for the Jiubian Military Town that was related to national defense and security, Emperor Hongzhi would definitely attack him. Not to mention being ruined, he would at least have to firmly control it in his own hands.

Now the Nine Border Army is completely controlled by the civil servant group. If Zhu Houzhao insists on mobilizing the border army, the cabinet will choke on food and military pay.

Although the emperor had nominal command power and could be forced to move. However, he had no money and food, and the civil servants interfered with it, and the army had no food to eat on the road, so he couldn't walk far.

All the emperor could do was to arrange eunuchs to guard the Jiubian Army Town. He could not mobilize the Jiubian army himself, and at least he had to ensure that the civil servant group could not be mobilized either!

After all, no one can guarantee that when the emperor was stupid, the civil servant group would not support the local vassal kings, and then rushed to the capital in the name of clearing the king's side.

As for the garrisons all over the country, they were actually the National Defense Forces in charge of local public security in the Ming Dynasty. They were known as one million, but in fact they lacked training for many years. They have become farmers and have basically no combat effectiveness.

After all, Emperor Zhengde in history had received personal teachings from his father Hongzhi and knew the importance of gaining military power. Therefore, he made great efforts in this area throughout his life, such as directly drawing elite border troops to fill the Beijing camp, promoting military generals, and putting down his figure and taking some capable warriors as adopted sons as confidants.

However, the silver required for tens of thousands of people is astronomical, and when the cannon fires, the army moves, the treasury is empty. The civil servant group originally wanted to suppress the imperial power, and would definitely tamper with finances, and even directly do not grant funds. Zhengde's private treasury is used less by himself, so it is not enough to spend on the military.
Chapter completed!