The radical reform of agricultural tax quickly led to a lot of land selling, especially those powerful people, who began to sell a large amount of land.&1t;/p>

Some powerful people also began to set up agricultural companies to manage land production.&1t;/p>

However, not all the powerful people can play with the company. Most of the powerful people are not good at managing the company. There are still many powerful people selling their land.&1t;/p>

If the land is not sold, the annual agricultural tax will be lost.&1t;/p>

The new agricultural tax bill is to collect taxes based on the acres of land. The more land you own, the higher the tax amount. If you still operate it according to the method of collecting rent, it is not to collect money at home, but to lose money at home.&1t;/p>

This land reform was indeed a major blow to the powerful, but ordinary farmers were happy.&1t;/p>

Many farmers have less than 30 acres of land. After such agricultural tax reform, it means that they will no longer have to pay imperial grain from now on.&1t;/p>

Then the cabinet issued a government order to completely abolish the corvee service system in the new policy areas.&1t;/p>

The abolition of corvee labor means that ordinary people no longer have to worry about being led by officials to repair this and that, and it also means that the burden is greatly reduced.&1t;/p>

The government will give all wages.&1t;/p>

The rural labor force not only does not need to bear the burden of corvee labor, but can also earn wages when working on the construction site during the slack season to support the family.&1t;/p>

The exemption of taxes below 30 acres of land, coupled with the cancellation of corvee labor and the increase in construction activities, greatly enhancing the disaster resistance of the lower-level people.&1t;/p>

At this time, in the new policy area, even if the government is not so powerful in disaster relief, the people themselves have relatively strong ability to resist disasters, but disaster relief is still necessary.&1t;/p>

Moreover, such taxation makes social wealth distribution more fair.&1t;/p>

Although corvee service has been abolished, personal income tax has been fully implemented in the new policy areas. It is also that those with high income pay more taxes, while those with low income are exempted from taxes.&1t;/p>

Ordinary people support this very much, and these policies were also deeply promoted in the army. These reforms of the emperor were immediately supported by soldiers.&1t;/p>

After all, ordinary soldiers are basically from poor families. At this time, the emperor can make poor people live better. Naturally, they support them with both hands.&1t;/p>

With the support of the people and the army, those powerful and powerful people cannot cause any storm.&1t;/p>

The reform in the newly recruited areas is still continuing. The cabinet soon introduced a new household registration management policy, namely, the household registrations that have been passed down from generation to generation, such as military households, stove households, craft households, etc., are officially cancelled and all are included in normal households. Household registrations are divided into rural households and urban household registration, and rural populations can migrate to urban areas.&1t;/p>

After the household registration reform, occupational discrimination was completely eliminated. At the same time, their children can participate in the imperial examination.&1t;/p>

Moreover, since the sixth year of the Apocalypse, public primary schools began to be built in large quantities in the new policy areas. With the improvement of people's livelihood, the people have some money in their hands, and sending their children to school has gradually become more and more.&1t;/p>

In a few years, the compulsory primary school education system can be implemented.&1t;/p>

The implementation of the new policy in the Northeast region is relatively smooth. There is no traditional force here, and the profit grabbing of the powerful and wealthy class here is also blocked from the door.&1t;/p>

People who immigrated to the Northeast are as if they have entered heaven at this time. The resources here are so rich and the population is very small.&1t;/p>

Although the infrastructure is a bit poor, the court and local governments are constantly building infrastructure, and they can live a good life with just a few years of hard work.&1t;/p>

Just when the reforms began to be implemented in Xinzheng area, Shandong was quietly included in the scope of reform. If Shandong directly announced that reforms would be carried out, it would inevitably cause some rebound.&1t;/p>

Therefore, the first reform was administration. All local administration in Shandong was changed to be like the new policy areas. A police station was established, the armed police force was added, the civil servants were added, the township administrative system was added, and the policy of high salary and integrity was adopted.&1t;/p>

As long as the administrative reform is completed, the central government's control over local governments will be greatly enhanced, and subsequent tax laws, justice, household registration, etc. can be reformed immediately. Anyway, Zhu Youxiao did not clearly say that Shandong would be included in the new policy area, but would be carried out step by step.&1t;/p>

At this time, the traffic situation in Shandong was the best among the unreformed provinces in the northern provinces. After all, it is close to the coast and the mountainous areas are inconvenient. However, the road can be solved by repairing the road. When Shandong was carrying out administrative reforms, investment and construction on the road had begun to work.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao lived a comfortable life in Chengde. Since the beginning of the year, the development of the new policy area has become very rapid. Especially in the Northeast, the main forces of the Ming Dynasty's construction were basically there.&1t;/p>

The official invested a lot of money in the Northeast region for construction. In addition to financial matters, there were also state-owned enterprises' investments in the Northeast region, and private capital also poured into the Northeast region.&1t;/p>

The immigration activities from the inner city to the northeast are still continuing. After more than two years of immigration, the population in the northeast has risen to more than 15 million. The population pressure in the provinces in the inner city has also been reduced a lot, and when natural disasters occur, the ability to resist disasters has also improved.&1t;/p>

"Thank you, the Navy's exploration fleet in northern America has returned, where there are large numbers of salmon and otters, and the gold has not yet appeared."&1t;/p>

"The gold army has also found several gold mines in the Northeast region, and is currently preparing to mine..."&1t;/p>

"The Navy has officially opened up trade with Annan, Southern and Southern Dynasties, Khmer and Siam, and can transport a certain amount of grain from the Indochina Peninsula this year."&1t;/p>

One good news after another made Zhu Youxiao feel very comfortable, and then ordered the Navy to set up a stronghold in Alaska to fish for salmon and hunt otters.&1t;/p>

At the same time, the navy was ordered to prepare to expel the Dutch forces in Asia and expel the Dutch from Southeast Asia as soon as possible.&1t;/p>

The layout of Southeast Asia may be related to whether the Ming Dynasty can successfully survive the Little Ice Age, and the grain output there is really attractive.&1t;/p>

In the Indochina Peninsula area, you can temporarily put it aside, and first rely on trade to obtain food from the Indochina Peninsula. Jawa Island has become the next target to be captured.&1t;/p>

Capturing Java Island not only allows you to obtain agricultural resources there, but also drive these robber gangs from the Asian waters, so that the Ming Dynasty's merchant ships can sail and trade unimpeded. The most important thing is that after conquering Java, you can also immigrate to Australia.&1t;/p>

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After the Navy captured the Philippines, it was already preparing to attack Jawa Island. The Dutch had not yet gained a foothold in Jawa Island for a long time. Attacking the Dutch's Batavia City, which is later Jakarta, was not as difficult as attacking Manila.&1t;/p>

Manila's tibia Spaniards have been operating for many years. Of course, Batavia can compare. It is true that the Dutch are more rogue than the Spanish, but no matter how rogue it is, it is useless. Because the number of naval gunboats has increased to 42 in six years. The navy's strength has increased rapidly.&1t;/p>

Now the Royal Navy is the absolute overlord of Asian waters, and its navy strength has completely crushed the Dutch. The scale of the 6 Navy team has also expanded to 50,000 people.&1t;/p>

At the beginning of the year, the Royal Navy formed a fleet and sailed towards the Indochina Peninsula. It used force and diplomacy to open trade with the three Indochina Peninsula countries, Annan, Khmer and Siam.&1t;/p>

In fact, in this process, the means of force were used more. In addition to a Khmer willing to accept the monopoly trade request proposed by the Royal Navy, both Annan and Northern Dynasties and Siam refused this request. As a result, these Indochina Peninsula countries were naturally repaired. The shelling of Gaden 6 made Annan and Northern Dynasties and Siam terrified.&1t;/p>

Especially the Annan Dynasty, after the Royal Navy landed on the 6th port, it sent an army over, but was beaten by the 6th Navy team with a firearm, and then agreed to the monopoly trade request put forward by the Royal Navy.&1t;/p>

The same was true for Siam and Annan and Northern Dynasties. In the end, they were threatened by the Royal Navy. In order to send away the Royal Navy, they all agreed to the monopoly trade request.&1t;/p>

The so-called monopoly trade requirement means that these countries can only trade with the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty and cannot engage in any trade with the Europeans.&1t;/p>

After these countries agreed to such a request, the Royal Navy withdrew. As for whether these countries comply with the agreement, they must be conscious.&1t;/p>

If you don't realize it, you can fix them again.&1t;/p>

Trade can naturally proceed normally. The state-owned consortium's merchant fleet has set sail, and it has been loaded with cargo to the Indochina Peninsula to trade with various countries. Private merchant ships are also flocking to these Indochina Peninsula countries.&1t;/p>

The weather has been very improved in the Ming Dynasty after six years. Anti-smuggling ships are everywhere along the coast. It is very important for civil merchant ships that evade tariffs to be seized by anti-smuggling ships.&1t;/p>

The maritime merchants had no choice at all for the imperial court's tariff collection. They thought that there were no Japanese pirates to recruit, and the people could no longer go to Japan to trade. At the same time, even if they formed a pirate gang, they could not find islands to hide along the coast.&1t;/p>

It is obviously impossible to resist tariffs by force. However, since the establishment of customs and navy, trade on overseas markets has become much safer.&1t;/p>

With Luzon being captured by the Ming Dynasty, trade in Luzon was fully opened.&1t;/p>

At the same time, after the Navy signed a trade agreement with Annan, Khmer and Siam on the Indochina Peninsula, these private merchant ships can also go to the Indochina Peninsula for trade.&1t;/p>

Of course they could have gone to these countries for trade. However, the Spanish and the Dutch often plundered the Ming merchant ships, so it became more dangerous to go to these countries for trade. Now the Ming navy is like a wolf or a tiger, but it is much safer to go to the Indochina Peninsula for trade.&1t;/p>

However, compared with the state-owned consortium's merchant fleet, the civilian merchant ships have no advantages. Because the state-owned consortium's merchant fleet's maritime technology is more advanced, such as sextant and chart, the accumulation of ocean navigation technologies, and private merchant ships are generally uneven.&1t;/p>

In terms of tonnage and types of merchant ships, they are not as good as state-owned consortiums. State-owned consortiums now have 2ooo ton merchant ships, while private shipyards can only manufacture thousands of tons of merchant ships. And they are all traditional merchant ships with watertight compartments, but their hulls are relatively fragile. Although they have their own advantages in transportation, they are not as good as state-owned consortium's merchant fleets. The state-owned consortium's merchant fleet has begun to equip European soft sail merchant ships.&1t;/p>

Ocean Trade is obviously not so easy to do. First, the establishment of tariffs has greatly reduced the profits of Ocean Trade. Furthermore, competition has begun to become stronger. Many overseas things are no longer as rare as before, and they cannot sell at such a high price.&1t;/p>

There are not many luxury goods overseas, and there are still many merchant ships going to trade. Of course, not everyone can successfully trade those luxury goods, so the huge profits of ocean trade will be diluted.&1t;/p>

The huge profits of the ocean trade were diluted and the imperial court was willing to see, so that the merchant ships could only transport a large amount of raw materials and grain from overseas.&1t;/p>

Of course, the market needs to be operated. There is not so much grain available for export in the Indochina Peninsula for the time being. Because many of their resources have not been opened yet, they did not have the motivation to open it in the past.&1t;/p>

First, their productivity is relatively low, second, their medical level is relatively poor, their population growth is not fast, and third, their products are relatively rich, which has developed a kind of inertia. Therefore, although there are large areas of agricultural resources in the Indochina Peninsula, many are in an unopened state.&1t;/p>

Opening these resources obviously requires Ming’s capital to invest overseas.&1t;/p>

However, the Ming Dynasty's energy has not been placed on the Indochina Peninsula for the time being, but on the Dutch. After the Navy casually repaired the country on the Indochina Peninsula, more than 20 gunboats sailed against the wind in the southeast monsoon, headed towards Jawa Island, and began to trouble the Dutch.&1t;/p>

Officially attacking Jawa Island, you have to wait for the southeast monsoon to end. At that time, the troop transport ships can go south with the wind and send large numbers of Navy 6 teams to Jawa Island.&1t;/p>

And this fleet acts as a pioneer. (To be continued.)&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!