Even many landlords, gentry, and wealthy businessmen were ready to move in secret.

But as Zhu Yong wiped out the bandits under Zhang Xianzhong's troops and shocked the Ming Dynasty again, those guys who were ready to move became honest again.

Last year, the Ming army defeated the Qing army that entered the pass and robbed, and annihilated 200,000 Qing army members. This is what is claimed to the outside world, but in fact there are only 50,000.

After this news spread, it had already made officials from all over the Ming Dynasty happy and shocked those bad-minded guys.

The battle that defeated the Tartars last year also made many people see that the Ming Dynasty court was turning from decline to prosperity.

When those merchants and landlords face a powerful central government, the only thing they can do is to honestly follow the laws of the court.

If you want to rebel, you will destroy yourself!

As a result, Sun Chengzong's tax reform also benefited from it and was being implemented in various places faster and faster.

Because of the implementation of the new tax law, the annual fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty increased dramatically, which allowed the court to give up some of the previous harsh taxes on ordinary people and reduce the burden on ordinary people.

All of this, because of the victory last year, turned the original vicious cycle of the Ming Dynasty into a virtuous cycle.

By the end of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Sun Chengzong had already implemented the new tax law to most of the Ming Dynasty.

The annual fiscal revenue of the Ministry of Revenue of the Ming Dynasty (including silver and grain) has soared by one-third. This is a preliminary estimate, and it is expected that more will be expected later.

After the New Year, the thirteenth year of Chongzhen entered the year of Chongzhen, and Zhu Yong received another huge good news.

An official sent sweet potatoes and corn that he had been sending people to look for from Guangdong and Fujian.

Zhu Yong who received this news was extremely excited.

Then, Zhu Yong immediately arranged for officials to select experienced old farmers from the capital and began to try growing these sweet potatoes and corn in the capital area.

Let these old farmers figure out how to plant these sweet potatoes and corn, and then Zhu Yong is ready to promote them as soon as possible.

Moreover, Zhu Yong remembers that it is very easy to manage whether it is corn or sweet potatoes. He even needs to be sprinkled into the ground in the right season, without the need for human management, and he can survive by himself.

Both crops are drought-tolerant crops, and more importantly, their yields are large and able to feed more people.

However, these are the sweet potatoes and corn of later generations. As for whether the sweet potatoes and corn of this era are the same as those of later generations.

Zhu Yong was not sure about this, so he had to ask the old farmers to try planting first, find out the time and method that was most suitable for them to plant, and then promote it nationwide.

Zhu Yong believed that after corn and sweet potatoes were promoted and planted in the Ming Dynasty, there would be no need for famine in the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, the internal problems of internal troubles caused by bandits in the Ming Dynasty could be fundamentally solved.

At the same time, after the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Yong was preparing to abolish the Ming Dynasty's garrison system that had been used for more than two hundred years, and cut all garrison troops in the Ming Dynasty by half.

After half of the old, weak, sick and disabled in the garrison army, the remaining half of the garrison army will no longer be an army, but will be transformed into local security groups.

They will equip cold weapons and bird guns, be responsible for the suppression of bandits in various places and maintaining order, which is somewhat similar to the martial arts and police in later generations.

There are also some soldiers in the garrison who become yamen runners, similar to police officers in later generations.

After reorganizing the garrison troops in this way, it will not only reduce the large number of garrison troops in the Ming Dynasty at this time, reduce the expenses of the imperial court, and streamline the manpower.

Even so, this will be a very huge task, and it is difficult to deal with. The turmoil caused by it is even more severe than tax reform.

Therefore, Zhu Yong had no intention of accomplishing it overnight. He handed over the job to Yang Sichang, the Minister of War, and ordered him to gradually complete the elimination and reform of all the military troops within three years.

After Yang Sichang received the order, he was also very excited.

He knew that if he could complete the reform of the garrison army, his contribution would not be smaller even if he could not match Sun Chengzong.
Chapter completed!