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Chapter 906 The imperial decree that shocked the world (third)
Unexpectedly, this is not over yet, within two days, another imperial decree was announced to the world, bluntly explaining the purpose of the tax money collected by the sea ban.

First, the success of opening the sea depends on whether the navy is strong or not, so [-]% of the tax money collected will be used for the warships, weapons, and soldiers of the Daming Navy.

Second, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty nearly 300 years ago, the population has grown and the economy has prospered. The original system of imperial government positions is no longer suitable for the current situation. First-level official positions, and other levels of official positions are also overwhelmed.In addition, the aides of the officials and the officials from all over the country work hard for the country and share the worries of the emperor. Therefore, the official position system of this dynasty will include all the aides and officials as official official positions of the court.

In addition, the decree even gave an example that since the beginning of the founding of the country, the cost of food, clothing, housing and transportation has been greatly increased, and the original salaries of officials have been unable to make ends meet.And these sources of money will be obtained from sea tax, and [-]% will be withdrawn every year.

Third, agriculture is the foundation of the country, and right now the people are suffering from natural disasters due to floods in the south and drought in the north.Therefore, the imperial court decided to withdraw [-]% of the sea tax every year to supplement agricultural work, or to offset agricultural tax, or to build water conservancy projects, etc.

Fourth, the road is unobstructed, so that we can communicate with each other.The convenience of traveling from south to north is beneficial to the travel of the people, so another [-]% of the sea tax will be used for the construction of basic transportation in the Ming Dynasty.

Fifth, [-]% of the remaining sea tax goes to the state treasury for other purposes, and the last [-]% goes to the big house.

As soon as this decree came out, it immediately caused a sensation in the Ming Dynasty. The matter of Liao Ju's life and death was immediately thrown into a corner, and no one cared about it anymore.

When the North and South Navy of Ming Dynasty heard the news, everyone immediately jumped for joy.You must know that in this era, navy divisions are actually not valued by the court and local governments.The navy commander is basically just a coastal defense guerrilla.But now, in the decree of the imperial court, on the basis of the original navy funds, [-]% of the income from the sea tax will be allocated to the construction of the navy.No matter how much, this is great news after all.

Especially Zheng Zhilong, he knows that the sea tax income is likely to be about 1000 million a year, and 100% is also [-] million. This is a huge amount of money, and it is still there every year.You can imagine it with your feet. If it continues like this, the scale and combat power of the Daming Navy will reproduce the glory of the Yongli period, and even surpass it!
Such a prospect, how can those who are in the sea not yearn for it?
Of course, in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, the most concerned about this decree is naturally the second one.Especially those related to the cost of living calculation in the decree, which made those Qingliu, especially those who wanted to be honest officials, burst into tears.The imperial court finally realized that with that little salary, it wasn't even enough to plug the teeth!

It will be fine in the future, and the staff, helpers, etc. hired by official officials will also have state salaries, and they will not have to pay for it themselves, which will save a lot of expenses.

"Ah, if Hai Gangfeng is still alive, I'm afraid he will cry with joy?" Many officials have such a thought in their hearts.

Of course, what they are most concerned about is that according to the meaning of this imperial decree, there will be many more officials receiving imperial salaries in the future.Those Jinshi, Juren, etc. who are waiting in line for an official, all of them have suffered so much, and finally have an official!They are also very curious, what will this reform of the official system look like?

And the ordinary people on the platform, the farmers who farmed the fields, were also overjoyed when they heard this decree.Although the imperial court has been emphasizing that agriculture is the foundation of the country, it can be said that in the past, it was mostly for collecting land taxes, but now, it seems that the imperial court wants to divert money from sea tax to subsidize farming.Such a big good thing is like a pie in the sky.Therefore, in the fields and among neighbors in the countryside, when they speak, they will first bring a sentence "The emperor's sage..."

For farmers like them, it doesn't matter how much silver can be distributed in the sea tax, but as long as there is silver, it is something that can be enjoyed.For nothing, happy!

When the dust of the Liao Juren incident settled, the businessmen were disappointed at first. They felt that they would have to spend more money in the future.In this state of mind, suddenly the imperial decree emphasized the need to use sea tax money to build Daming’s transportation facilities, which is the biggest beneficiary for merchants, although the decree did not mention merchants at all. But they could tell at a glance.After being suppressed, I ate a sweet date, and it didn't seem to hurt so much!
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This decree involved almost everyone in Daming, so everyone was discussing it.Moreover, the positive effect relieved the pressure on Sun Chuanting a lot, which made him feel relieved.He is not afraid of being the emperor's eagle claws, thugs, going into battle shirtless, and offending others, but he is afraid that after working hard, he will end up being pushed out by the emperor as a scapegoat!

But judging from the current will, he can feel that the emperor is sharing his worries and problems.With such an emperor around, how could he just use himself?

"I will live up to your Majesty's expectations!" Sun Chuanting silently looked towards the direction of the capital to the north, secretly swearing in his heart.

He Qiaoyuan, governor of Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, heard about it, turned around and looked in the direction of the capital. He said nothing for a long time, and finally sighed and said: "Turning the clouds and rain, manipulating people's hearts, the general trend has come, Sun Boya is betting right!"

When he first wrote to the imperial court, he only wanted to seek a benefit for his hometown, and he also wanted to earn at most tens of thousands of taels of sea tax money.

When he heard that Sun Chuanting had come and killed Liao Juren, he immediately felt that Sun Chuanting was a lunatic who did such a thing to offend all the officials of Ming Dynasty in order to express himself and earn attractive sea tax money. Extraordinary things.For his most capable deputy, he was a little puzzled, and even a little worried about whether it would affect the national policy of opening the sea. For this reason, he found Sun Chuanting and wanted to reprimand him to make him restrain himself.

On that day, he was extremely disappointed.But things changed again and again, and it finally made him understand what was right.

This matter seems to be capable of everyone, but in fact it still harms the interests of some people. After all, the money from the sea tax cannot come out of thin air.Those former smugglers, those who wantonly evaded taxes and evaded taxes by virtue of their fame, were the ones who lost their interests.

But they were illegal in the first place, and they were the targets of suppression by the imperial court and condemnation by public opinion.It's okay to do things normally, but once the general trend of opening the sea to collect taxes becomes a success, it's not something they can secretly shake.Or at least it can be said that wanting to subvert this national policy will be many times more difficult than before!

(End of this chapter)