The matter of Duke of Wei was settled, and he followed him to the capital. Along the way, he looked south frequently, his eyes filled with reluctance to those hard-working farmlands.

Even so, there are still many things at home, so I have to clean up. From Nanjing to Beijing, the family property has shrunk a lot, and the original land of the house has been gone.

The Duke of Wei was so painful that his heart and liver trembled, and he hadn't eaten for several days.

These were all right. Zhu Youxiao exchanged some real estate in the capital for Duke Wei, but he had to hand over a lot of the floating wealth.

The Duke of Wei’s shops in Nanjing were sold at a low price, and most of them were flown into the hands of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

For a moment, the industry of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the south expanded rapidly. This time, so many houses were searched and all of them were given to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

It is impossible for all the money on the surface to be given to the Ministry of Revenue. It is mostly spent to the Ministry of Revenue. This is the tacit understanding between the emperor and his ministers.

Everyone makes trouble together and everyone divides the spoils together, and this has always been the case.

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The emperor cannot eat alone, otherwise, the ministers will not play with you next time, and they will not do such things.

This time, the civil servants put a lot of effort into it, so they also have this money. After entering the Ministry of Revenue, the money will be dispersed soon. At that time, it will spread to various places in the Ming Dynasty and where Zhu Youxiao needs it.

Looking at Empress Zhang who was walking over, Zhu Youxiao pulled her into her arms and said, "What should I eat tonight? I just took a shower and took a shower for too long, and I was a little hungry."

"I have already made people go and prepare." Empress Zhang sat on Zhu Youxiao's thigh and said, "It's all an old couple. How bad is it for people to see it?"

As he said that, Queen Zhang wanted to struggle to stand up.

But how could Zhu Youxiao be as she wished?

He took Queen Zhang back to his arms, and then Zhu Youxiao said, "Come on, who can see? Do you see if anyone is watching?"

Hearing the emperor said this, everyone below quickly bowed their heads.

I asked my eyes, my nose, my mouth, my heart, and I felt like I had seen nothing or heard nothing, and I was crying in my heart.

The emperor was joking with the queen, why did we involve us?

We are wooden stakes.

Queen Zhang looked at Zhu Youxiao helplessly and could only say, "Okay, don't make things difficult for them, scare them again. I will also go and prepare, and I will have dinner with His Majesty tonight."

"By the way, I have reported to the Concubine, as well as Concubine Tian and Concubine Yuan. They will also bring people here later."

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "Okay, you'll be fine if you make the decision on this matter. After so many years, you have managed the things in the harem well, so don't worry."

This is not something Zhu Youxiao said nonsense, it is a fact.

He rarely cares about the affairs of the harem on weekdays. What he does is to establish the authority of Queen Zhang, and he doesn't care much about the others, and leave them all to Queen Zhang.

For this reason, Zhu Youxiao polished Wang An and sent him to Queen Zhang.

After the past few years, Queen Zhang can be said to be very familiar with it, and this time she did it very well.

The emperor is back and can't always stay with her, as this makes her seem a little too domineering.

Lord of the harem, queen, you cannot take over everything yourself, you must learn to share.

This time the emperor's dinner was naturally more grand. The concubine invited her to come over, which was filial piety. As for the other two concubines, it naturally showed Empress Zhang's mind; and their children should also be taken by the emperor.

This arrangement is very good. Of course, it is definitely impossible for the emperor to leave tonight, so he has to stay with Empress Zhang. First, to show the love between the emperor and the empress, second, after leaving for so long, he does have some misses. There are many things to say and many things to do between the couple.

If possible, Zhu Youxiao would stay tomorrow. Of course, it would take only three things. He could not stay on the third day and he would go to other concubines.

In the past few days, Zhu Youxiao felt that his body might need to be replenished. He is only these women at the moment. If he continues to do more, his life will probably be even more unbearable.

If they are ignored, the women in the harem may have anything to do when they fight, and they are very resentful, so the harem may not be like that at that time.

So Zhu Youxiao was very careful and followed Queen Zhang's arrangements, having dinner at Queen Zhang's place that night and then spending the night.

The next day was still with Queen Zhang, and on the third day, I couldn't be here anymore.

After running for four or five days, Zhu Youxiao finally finished this process and went back to his residence.

Now that we have entered the sage time, Zhu Youxiao needs to have a good rest and doesn't want to do anything.

Zhu Youxiao did not summon his ministers, so he just let himself go in the palace.

Soon, Zhu Youxiao thought of what to do next.

Many problems in the Ming Dynasty have been solved, but many problems have not been solved.

The first thing is the matter between Liaodong and Mongolia. This requires war and will definitely not work in a short period of time.

In addition, there are two main things in China, one is tax reform and the other is military reform.

Needless to say, tax reform is a joke in the current Ming Dynasty. Whether it is field tax or commercial tax, it basically has no effect. It needs to be modified carefully to make them work.

In Zhu Youxiao's opinion, the reform of commercial taxation was not difficult. After several cleanings, the big merchants of the Ming Dynasty basically stood on their own side, and the disobedient ones were almost cleaned up, and they were basically around the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

As long as the commercial laws are formulated and published, there will be no problem. No businessman dares to object, and then he can set up a tax bureau to check it carefully and collect taxes well.

The difficulty lies in land taxation, and it is still relatively difficult to implement the implementation of the distribution of privy to acres. From then on, the Ming Dynasty collected taxes based on land and did not pay taxes based on the cap.

There are many benefits like this. Local taxes have nothing to do with population. They can untied the people and prevent them from farming on the land, go out to work, and concentrate in big cities. This will bring many benefits.

Paying taxes based on land will not lead to excessive gap between the rich and the poor. Your family will pay as much as the land, which will reduce the burden on ordinary people.

Of course, there is also a problem here, that is, the gentry would pass this part onto the tenants, which involves another problem - population mobility.

Zhu Youjiao needs to expand its business scale, recruit more workers, and open more workshops, so that ordinary people can work without being tenants, so that they can have a way out.

In this way, the landlords can increase their treatment for tenants and allow more people to survive without the land.

In addition to dividing acres, there is another one, that is, officials and gentry paying food together. To put it bluntly, it is to cancel the treatment of Zhu Yuanzhang to scholars and let everyone pay taxes together. No one can have any exceptions.

Zhu Yuanzhang gave preferential treatment to scholars, allowing poor scholars to study well. But in the end, this policy was used by civil servants and developed into not paying taxes, which made the world angry and resentful.

Moreover, civil servants also used their great wisdom to create a contribution, which made this policy even more disgusting. Fewer and fewer people paid taxes, and ordinary people also used this policy to gain a lot of benefits.

The country suffers from the loss. After all, ordinary people pay land to scholars and only pay less land rent than the state's taxes. In this way, they can get a little more; and scholars can also collect rent; but the country cannot collect taxes.

They divided the country's taxes, partly giving to themselves, partly to these scholars. This is the truth of the dedication.

Scholars and the people do this. If Zhu Youxiao wants to pay taxes, ordinary people may not support it, and it may be easy for chaos to happen.

We need to work hard on tax payment.

However, Zhu Youxiao didn't care. Reform was imperative, and it was not a matter of money.

In addition, the reform of the army is not that difficult. Many military households nowadays do not like to be military households.

After Zhu Youxiao had the current equipment, he could completely deport them, distribute the military farmland to them, let them take root and become ordinary people.

As for the remaining elite soldiers, they will be changed to a recruiting system. With elite equipment, you can raise less army. Besides, in this era, you can grab it if you have no money and do business. Anyway, you have to open up your business path.

If you create too many workshops, you also need a market. The domestic market is part, and of course, foreign market is also part.

Next, in addition to fighting, we must open up the market.

The first thing is Japan, Liaodong, and North Korea, so we will take these parts first.

Sitting up from the couch, Zhu Youxiao moved his muscles and bones.

This time, after making so much money, all the things that should be equipped are equipped with. Back hall cannons, mortars, metal shells, etc. You can use them. You have to do what you should be done on the gun and increase your investment. Anyway, just one sentence, get everything done.

At the same time, the research and development of steam engines can also be accelerated, and you can do anything with money.

"Emperor, Master Han is asking for a visit outside." Wei Chao came to Zhu Youxiao and said respectfully.

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao was stunned.

You know, I haven't seen anyone these days, and it's clear that I'm just resting, so no ministers come to disturb me.

As the chief minister of the cabinet, Han Yu has always been very sensible. How could he come at this time?

It seems that something is happening.

Zhu Youxiaoqiang said with a spirit of heart: "Let him come in."

"Yes, the emperor." Wei Chao quickly agreed respectfully, then turned around and went outside to greet Han Du.

Not long after, Han Yu walked in from outside.

After seeing Zhu Youxiao, Han Du quickly saluted respectfully and said, "My minister, Han Du, please see Your Majesty."

"Okay, please don't give me any gifts." Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and said, "Don't do those false gifts."

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