"Since we are in the imperial meeting, we must make it open and honest.

First of all, His Majesty believes that after experiencing a series of previous events, it is difficult for the people of the capital, Tongzhou and Zhangjiawan to ensure that they will not be retaliated.

I believe you understand this very well."

Yang Feng stood among the two rows of tables in civil and military affairs and said.

The elders smiled indifferently.

"So, these three places will no longer be handed over to the court for governance, but will be directly under the jurisdiction of Your Majesty. However, Your Majesty can't manage it personally. Therefore, the people of these three places elect one member according to their household registration, that is, His Majesty appoints them, such as peasant members, merchants and civil servants, etc., and they form a commune to manage the local area.

However, because the capital is too large, each yard is autonomous.

And Your Majesty appointed a Prime Minister, and this Prime Minister has been appointed by me as the other party. The Prime Minister has the final right to decide on the affairs of each commune."

Yang Feng said.

"Who pays for them?"

Mr. Zhao pointed out the most core issue.

The court definitely can't control these places anymore, and in fact, no civil servant dares to control them in the future.

"Please rest assured that you will not ask the court to pay the money. Since it is self-government, of course it is to pay the money by itself. Similarly, the taxes in these places will not be given to the court again."

Yang Feng said.

The elders nodded slightly, indicating that they were acceptable.

It’s fine without the court paying money. Besides, this model is not a big deal. In fact, there were already such a thing in the south at this time, and the imperial power was not inferior to the county. However, some large towns that flourished because of industry and commerce, because there were no government offices for the court in administration, local gentry gathered together to discuss local affairs. The most representative one is Foshan in Guangzhou. Because the iron smelting industry is developed, the local prosperity is far beyond that of ordinary county towns, but administratively it is only a small township affiliated to the Wudoukou Inspection Department.

In the end, all matters were resolved by local gentry meetings.

The government will not care.

After all, they just need to pay taxes and not break the law.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the southern industry and commerce were prosperous, and such towns appeared in many places. The higher the sky, the more common the emperor was.

But the emperor's feet are still very exaggerated.

But since I can't control it, I can only accept this.

"Secondly, given that there were many hidden lands in the noble family before, and His Majesty has issued an order to abolish all imperial villages in the capital, I will be responsible for conducting a thorough investigation of all land and population in Shuntian Prefecture, and re-compiling a fish scale book, including the land and population of various garrisons.

Third, in view of the common problem of gentry families collecting actual slaves in the name of righteous men and women, they are also responsible for thorough investigations, and will not change their identities. However, since they are righteous men and women, they must analyze the property of the family. As long as they are adults, they must separate the property and also obtain the land. They must pay taxes, otherwise they will be disposed of according to the exceeding system."

Yang Feng said.

The elders all frowned.

This is about poking a hornet's nest, but the important thing is not about poking a hornet's nest. But once Shuntian Mansion completes such an investigation, it will definitely be outward next.

This is a bad thing.

The problem of Shuntian Mansion is not the most ruthless. The most ruthless are the landlords with thousands of child servants in Jiangnan.

In this way, all of them must divide the property of these serfs collected in the name of righteous men as their real sons, that is, to divide the property between them.

That would be crazy.

It's really crazy.

The landlords and the serfs will go crazy.

"Then I can only wish the coach smooth sailing."

Ye Mengxiong said with a smile.

Let these gentry from Shuntian Prefecture show Yang Feng crazy...

He didn't know that Yang Feng was deliberately waiting for the gentry of Shuntian Prefecture to go crazy. This was a letter of declaration of war against the gentry of Shuntian Prefecture, otherwise it would have been so public!

"Fourth, restoring the old Taizu system and abolishing the tax exemption of original fame and grade. The old Taizu system only exempted the corvee labor of scholars and officials. This is reasonable. After all, corve labor was a practical service at that time, and these people were indeed unable to serve. However, the exemption of land taxes during the Zhengde period and the exemption of silver in the Jiajing period were contrary to the ancestral system. Although it might have been a stopgap measure at that time, since it was the ancestral system, it still had to be carried out according to the ancestral system. Therefore, all of these were restored and the gentry paid the food together."

Yang Feng said.

"I don't agree with this."

Zhang Wei said.

"Are you worried that your property will be paid tax?"

Yang Feng said.

Mr. Zhang smiled slightly and stopped talking.

Yang Feng was a little surprised by their resistance, but it was nothing strange to think about it. Everyone was just a temporary conspiracy. This was just a temporary agreement. Maybe they would continue to fight next year. As for his reforms, they didn't need to care about them at all. They would inevitably overturn them afterwards. Mr. Zhang just showed his attitude and proved that the two men did not join him.

"Fifth, restore the old Taizu Kaizhong system, and the Ministry of Revenue will no longer issue stolen goods. All salt stolen goods need to be exchanged for grain to the generals of the nine borders. However, a transition period is set up. The salt merchants will still be able to export the border within five years. The generals of the border town will exchange silver for salt stolen goods, but it is allowed to exchange grain for stolen goods at the same time. The grain and silver for exchange for salt stolen goods will be converted into military pay."

Yang Feng said.

The generals were instantly energetic.

what does that mean?

The money sent to the door, and there were no intermediaries.

The court gave them a fixed amount of salt entries, which can be converted into military pay. The salt merchants took the money to their places to exchange salt entries. They did not have to serve the men in the capital, and the military pay was no longer half of the amount left in the capital. They could also make things difficult for the salt merchants to collect additional benefits.

If you don’t give me any extra benefits, I will give you a year before giving you salt.

That's what the ancestors did.

Now we can finally torture the salt merchants like our ancestors.

"Your Majesty is really wise!"

You Jixian stood up and bowed to Wanli on the imperial throne and said.

He is happiest.

He is the general of Ji Town, and his place is Changluyan, and Changluyan District is in Yang Feng's hands, which means that this can be implemented the most thoroughly.

Then Yang Yuan, Zhang Shijue, and Du Tong stood up to salute Wanli, and they were also long reed salt.

The cabinet masters still smiled without saying a word.

Seventy percent of the Ming Dynasty were good or not. If the whole world had the ability to sell private salt, any reform was meaningless. People didn’t need salt to attract them at all. Why do you care where you go to change it? It is estimated that Changlu Salt Area can be restored, and no one else will pay attention to it.

It will even reduce salt tax revenue.

After all, this is equivalent to forcing more people to trade private salt.

"I just said that our method is very good. If you can't sit down and discuss anything, we should continue to do this in the future and discuss it in front of His Majesty."
Chapter completed!