Galileo's entry into the Royal Academy of Sciences was just a minor matter in the twelve years of the Great Ming Dynasty's revelation.

In the near future, more scientific masters from the West and the East will come to the Ming Dynasty and make their own contributions to the Ming Dynasty's scientific and technological development.

It is not even just a science master. The Imperial College will also recruit international students from other countries. Even for international students who are not just Confucianism in studying Chinese history and culture, the court will also give generous scholarships.

It is difficult to maximize the interests of the Ming Dynasty in all aspects simply by relying on swords and guns. After all, the fist can only hit one person, but cultural output can gradually expand the influence of the Ming Dynasty, and thus achieve the assimilation effect brought by swords and guns.

The institutions and systems of maritime trade have been basically established, and perhaps in the near half a year, the treasury income of the Ming Dynasty will increase several times.

In addition, Ma Shiying has been transferred to the governor of Huguang, Yuan Keli has been the governor of Henan, and Sun Chengzong has now gone to Liaodong. In other words, the pilot area of ​​reform has now extended to the central part of the Ming Dynasty and outside the pass. It can be imagined that in the near future, the tax proportion of land tax will be lower.

Zhu Youxiao, who offended almost all the gentry classes, even lowered the taxes again as early as the beginning of the year, and even issued an imperial edict to the Daming Daily, that is, if a single household land is less than five acres, he would no longer collect land tax, and ordered all prefectures, prefectures, counties and counties to make the news public.

This decree for benefiting the people is also called "reducing taxes in prosperous times, and no taxes will be imposed for five acres". It was officially recorded in Zhu Youzhao's actual record, becoming an important political performance of Zhu Youzhao's valuation of being a wise monarch of his generation.

Officials would not object to this policy of benefiting the people, because it did not involve their interests, and they were also happy to flatter the Emperor Zhu Youxiao.

The people are naturally very grateful for this, especially in the late Ming society where land annexation is very serious, there are still many landless people and poor peasants who only occupy a small amount of land. Although Zhu Youxiao exempted their corvee labor and various additional silver entrusted, he still bears taxes and has a great pressure on life.

Now Zhu Youxiao is directly exempted from taxes of less than five acres of land, which undoubtedly further reduces the burden on the bottom-class people who are struggling on the line of life and death.

You should know that not all areas are highly developed urbanization, and many landless people and poor peasants cannot survive completely like the people in the Jiangnan area.

In addition, this actually has little impact on the treasury income of the Ming Dynasty, because for self-cultivated farmers who can bear taxes, the amount of land is definitely not less than five acres. After all, there is no hybrid rice now, and there is no more than a dozen acres of land at home, so it is impossible to survive.

Local officials are not resistant to this policy, because in such families with a land ownership of less than five acres, there is actually no oil or water to squeeze out. If they are forced to force themselves, they will revolutionize when they cannot live.

Therefore, it is obvious that once Zhu Youxiao's decree was released, there would be fewer so-called troublemakers in the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao also specially drew a cake. On the New Year of the 12th Year of the Apocalypse, he proposed his political blueprint in major official newspapers, that is, to prevent people with fewer land acres from paying taxes this year, and to achieve a single land acre ownership of less than a certain standard in three years, and will even directly and permanently reduce land acres in the near future.

Now that Zhu Youxiao has fulfilled his first promise, the people are grateful and cannot help but start to look forward to His Majesty's subsequent promises to be fulfilled. Some have even begun to fantasize how comfortable their life will be if they really don't even collect land taxes in the future.

Zhu Youxiao's painting cake not only wins over the hearts of the poor peasants, but also gives them a change in their attitude towards the court for middle-level self-cultivated farmers and middle- and lower-level landlords, because everyone knows that once the land tax is reduced, it is in their interests.

However, for the gentry class, the temptation of this painting cake is not great, because their greatest privilege after gaining fame is to not pay taxes, so that a large number of self-cultivated farmers can contribute, so that they can get rich overnight and become parasites. But now His Majesty wants to turn the privileges of his own class into the rights of all the people of the Ming Dynasty. Now they have no privilege treatment, and they can no longer let others sacrifice themselves as their own slaves.

This is equivalent to completely depriving the gentry of the whole world of food in disguise.

But civil officials representing the gentry class dare not point fingers at the promise made by Zhu Youxiao. First, they do not know how to object. Your Majesty wants to exempt the taxes of the people of the world in the future, which is in line with the Confucian political philosophy of light taxes and low taxes, and you cannot refute it. Second, if civil officials want to oppose Zhu Youxiao's exemption of taxes from the people of the world, they can only find a reason why the treasury income is tight now and they cannot live without the taxes of the land taxes.

However, the treasury revenue is getting more and more abundant year by year, especially as the sea trade opens this year, coupled with the further expansion of the mainland market, the expansion of commercial tax from Fengyang to Nanzhili makes civil servants unable to find any reason why the court is still poor.

Some cunning officials even began to advise Zhu Youxiao to travel east to worship Mount Tai, and even the other five mountains also went to worship. Some simply begged Zhu Youxiao to expand the tombs of his ancestors on the grounds that the dynasty governed the world with filial piety.

As well as Zhu Youxiao’s own tomb, officials from the Ministry of Rites also took the initiative to request expansion.

There were also those who directly asked Zhu Youxiao to expand the royal gardens and palaces, and advised him to go south again on the grounds of appeasement of the sea.

Zhu Youxiao knew what these civil servants meant. It was obvious that he wanted to make his own efforts to make himself, the emperor, spend more money, that is, to expand the expenditure of the treasury, to make himself poor, and to slap himself in the face, so that he could not fulfill his promise to permanently exempt the world from the land tax in the future.

At the same time, I was also famous for being very happy.

For these ministers who deceived him to spend more money, Zhu Youxiao could readily promise. If the reasons were not sufficient, Zhu Youxiao directly instructed him, and even clearly wanted to be a fool, so Zhu Youxiao simply went to prison directly.

Sometimes it is not even just Zhu Youxiao who claims to be a wise king of the generation and wants to be thrifty. The censors of the Censorate and the Six Censors have played a role now, which has really deceived their dark colleagues. Whoever advises Zhu Youxiao to carry out activities such as going to Mount Tai or expanding gardens, as long as one censor impeached him, Zhu Youxiao will directly dismiss the person according to the censor's opinions.

"Now that the national treasury is abundant, some of you have forgotten the root of being a minister, flattering me and flattering me. I will tell you the truth, I am not King Zhou of Shang or Emperor Huizong of Song! You should put away your colorful intestines as soon as possible and do things for the court with peace of mind!"

Zhu Youxiao scolded a group of civil servants in the court more than once, and civil servants could only sigh that His Majesty is too wise and frugal, and has the style of Yao and Shun.
Chapter completed!