Chapter 10: Hiding the Beautiful Little One in the Golden House (1)

"Brother, have you heard of it?"

"What have you heard?"

"Empress Yian was overly sad because she missed the late emperor and was in a bad state. Recently, news came from the palace that the empress was seriously ill and the imperial physicians were helpless. Maybe soon, hey..."

"Is the new female imperial physician not good?"

"The Empress is a heart disease. Although the female imperial physician is very skilled in medical skills, what this heart disease requires is heart medicine!"

"Empress Yian is one of the few wise queens in the world. How could this happen? Is it true that a good person really not live long?" Another sigh came.

"Although the late emperor was unworthy, he had a deep affection with the Empress and was very loving. It was a pity now..." A teake shook his head and said, not knowing what the pity he said meant.

"Hmph, now the bones and blood of the late emperor died early, and the current emperor no longer had any worries about orthodoxness, so there was no need for the empress to exist!" I don't know who was so bold that he dared to openly criticize the current emperor in the teahouse in the downtown area. Everyone suddenly looked at the sound and saw a purple figure flashing, and it disappeared into the crowded crowd outside the teahouse, making it difficult to find any more.

"How is it? Has the news been released?" Zhu Yinglong stood with his hands behind his back, stood under the window, and asked Xu Yingyuan who had just returned from doing everything.

"Now the people on the street are talking about the sudden illness of Empress Yi'an. Many people are very sad. However, I heard that someone deliberately slandered the emperor and said..."

"What do you say, but I have a solid position, and it doesn't matter what orthodox orthodoxy is. Empress Yian is the wife of the late emperor. She is useless to me. It's time to kill and avoid future troubles?" Zhu Yinglong sneered.

"Yes, yes, they also said that the Empress's illness was a poison caused by the emperor's orders to be used in secret, so the slaves, dare not deceive anything." Xu Yingyuan replied nervously.

"Do you know who did it?" Zhu Yinglong asked in a deep voice. He intended to let Zhang Yan escape by pretending to die and be a long-term couple with him, but he didn't expect that someone would make a fuss about it and want to take advantage of the situation.

"I don't know. I heard that the people who have spread these rumors are all in strange places. I have inquired about many people, but none of them knows the identities of these people, but they just know that they like to wear purple robes."

"Purple robe?" Zhu Yinglong's face suddenly became serious, because he remembered a person, a person who was almost forgotten. His men were all wearing purple robes. When he was arrested, because it was dark and because he was wearing black, he did not realize it was purple until he saw it clearly.

This person is Lan Lin, and his Wuwei Cult.

Are these people the remnants of Wuwei Sect? Zhu Yinglong had some conspiracy in his mind. If these people were not eliminated, it would always be a disaster. Especially during the "critical crackdown" period, he was really brave enough to fight against the court.

Although few people believe in these so-called rumors, they cannot shake the root of his status as an emperor. He could have let it go, but when he thinks about the ability of cults to deceive people in later generations, he did not pay enough attention at first, and eventually it almost caused a huge disaster. Therefore, Zhu Yinglong decided to strictly supervise religions, ban illegal religions and gatherings, and establish a strict application and approval system. He even cracked down on religions with political purposes like Wuwei Cult, and designated them as "cult" and listed them as the key care targets for "critical crackdown".

After the "clearing prison" and "severe crackdown", there will be a relatively clean space inside and outside the court, which will also give many depressed and unsuccessful officials the opportunity to show their talents and serve the court. However, before the emperor are two huge problems, one is "land" and the other is "tax".

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, land annexation was serious, and the country's land area decreased (in fact, it was only increased, but there was no reason to reduce it), 70% of the land was concentrated in the hands of less than 10% of people. In addition, the household system of the Ming Dynasty, one household was a farmer, and could only go to farm, and then closed the country. Zhu Cheng Neo-Confucianism's vigorous suppression of the budding of emerging capitalism, focusing on agriculture and suppressing commerce, led to the extremely low level for more than two hundred years. In addition, the tax system was unreasonable and the tax was heavy, which eventually led to internal destruction, failure to prepare military preparations, and only hundreds of millions of people, but it allowed a small tribe outside the pass to grow and grow, becoming the dominant Chinese, and began the miserable fate of being slaves for three hundred years. It is really regrettable.

The Ming Dynasty was an agricultural power, and there was no doubt that it was said that the largest country in the world at that time was the Ming Dynasty, but the largest country was not the most powerful country. This sounded a bit ironic. But in fact, the existing political, economic and military systems of the Ming Dynasty had come to an end. According to Zhu Yinglong's own understanding, there were only two ways to go to the Ming Dynasty. One is to change the dynasty and change the emperor, and last for hundreds of years. The second is to completely reform the existing national system. First, we must do it.

The only thing is to prevent land annexation. The second is to relax the household registration system and allow workers, farmers and merchants to exchange identities at any time. Of course, low-level low-level households, slave households and prostitutes still exist for a certain period of time, but this is also banned. Of course, there are restrictions. In the general situation of the world, the prosperity of slave trade and huge economic profits, Zhu Yinglong did not think that all ethnic groups would be treated equally. At least the neighbor in the east wanted to turn the man above into a slave and the woman into a prostitute.

Under the existing domestic situation, the implementation of "land reform" cannot be used to implement fierce measures, and can only adopt some relatively mild measures. Japan's "Meiji Restoration" can be used to learn from this point. The land was exchanged from the landlords with new technologies or other high-profit industries, and then distributed to farmers in the name of the country to farm, gradually allow farmers who have lost their land to obtain land, and clean up the country's arable land. Those who do not have land deeds but possess land without reason, whether they are officials or civilians, will confiscate the extra land deeds and then return them to farmers. At the same time, the land sale must be passed through the government. It is strictly prohibited to buy and sell land privately. The Land and Resources Department will be added under the Ministry of Revenue to liquidate and measure the land resources across the country. Land and sale exceeding a certain amount must be submitted for approval.
Chapter completed!