In the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, Jiubian Military Town officially withdrew from the stage of history.

Liaodong Town announced the abolition, and was re-selected as garbage recycling, and outstanding soldiers were incorporated by the Central Army.

There were not many military officers from Liaodong Town who escaped this liquidation. However, there were also a group of people sent to the military academy for further study during the review. These military officers will also be incorporated into the Central Army after graduating from the military academy.

The former servant system was also swept into the trash can along with Jiubian. Zhu Youzhao issued an order to completely prohibit military generals from recruiting servants, and those who violated the job were dismissed from their posts and strictly punished them.

Zhu You proofreaded the transformation of the Ming Dynasty system and was finally done almost at this time.

Jiubian Military Town has been abolished, and replaced by the Central Army established by Zhu Youxiao. The Central Army is a new army with strict discipline and supporting military guiding ideology. The scale is not small now. After the Liaodong Town was incorporated, it expanded to a scale of 500,000.

The Central Army is organized by divisions and is not subordinate to each other. Therefore, a division of the Central Army cannot rebel. However, Sun Chuanting is leading the army in the Western Regions, and the possibility of rebellion is equal to zero. Moreover, the Western Regions are far enough from the capital, so Zhu Youxiao does not have to worry about military rebellion.

Zhu Youxiao is always vigilant about internal rebellion. When the emperor is afraid of this, there is no need to worry about military strength. However, now that Zhu Youxiao has improved the combat effectiveness of the Central Army, he naturally has to be wary of it. If there is a rebellion one day, there is really no regret medicine to take.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao was very cautious about military mobilization, and the safety of the capital must be guaranteed.

What Zhu Youxiao needs to do next is to continuously improve military technology. As long as the logistics support can restrict the army, there is basically no need to worry too much about rebellion.

The house search was continuing, and the first person to be liquidated was Li Chengliang's descendants. The factory guards directly seized nearly five million taels of silver from Li Chengliang's sons' houses, and also seized a large amount of property. This old guy was in Liaodong before he died and plundered a large amount of silver.

The other military officers who were seized were also found, and a lot of property were found. Although they were not as terrifying as Li Chengliang, the number of military officers who were seized was quite large, with a total of more than 10 million taels of silver and a lot of assets.

Although I didn't find any profits of hundreds of millions, this wave was still very profitable.

Moreover, Zhu Youxiao felt relieved. Those guys who made money from the national crisis were finally punished and did not let them get away with it.

The Central Army, which expanded its army to 500,000, was distributed to various provinces by Zhu Youxiao.

Of these, 150,000 were deployed in the Western Regions Military Regions and are currently fighting against the nomadic peoples in the Western Regions, but the expansion has been temporarily suspended and farming is being managed in the Western Regions.

The remaining 350,000 were deployed in the Northeast region, and the capital also left 50,000 troops to guard it. 50,000 Central Army was also distributed in the south and north of the desert. The remaining 200,000 Central Army was concentrated in Jiangnan, Huguang and other places to protect the reform.

The reforms in Huguang area have begun to show results, and this commercial grain production area has also stabilized. Jiangnan has also stabilized. With the guarantee of military strength, all forces that violently resist reform have been ruthlessly suppressed by the Central Army.

In those provinces that have completed the reform, the military forces of the garrison were all laid off, and replaced by the armed police forces. In addition, the police who handle daily public security and cases formed a new public security system.

"Your Majesty, if the reforms in Jiangnan are completed this year, tax revenue will inevitably rise sharply, and at least 500 million tax revenue can be increased." Jiang Dejing said: "It can be seen that the southern provinces are actually places of taxation. Now the Party School has admitted a large number of personnel, and there is no shortage of officials supporting the reform. Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong and other provinces can be included in the reform immediately. By next year, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces can also be included in the reform, and the entire Ming Dynasty will complete the reform."

"Okay, the next step is to reform these three provinces." Zhu Youxiao agreed.

"Your Majesty is wise."

In the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao issued another order to include Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong in the reforms. The reforms to Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong received support from a large number of people. Especially with the advancement of technology, a large number of factory owners emerged.

These factory owners hope that the Ming Dynasty can establish a unified internal market.

After Zhu Youxiao carried out reforms, the internal market of the Ming Dynasty was actually in a state of division. In reformed areas and unreformed areas, there are two tax systems, and even the currency is not the same.

If the entire Ming Dynasty completed reforms, coupled with the construction of railways, it would be of great benefit to factory owners. This means that their goods could be sold to markets across the country.

At this time, after the reforms of the northern provinces, including Huguang and Jiangnan, completed the reforms, the markets in the reform areas were already very huge.

A large number of private-invested factory owners are now beginning to support the court's reform policies.

Of course, the imperial court was not ruthless when collecting taxes from these private enterprises. Basically, there were taxes in every link, but the market was large enough and the dividends of new technologies were not over yet, so it was still very profitable.

The reforms in the 12th year of the Apocalypse, especially for Fujian and Guangdong provinces. The maritime trade in these two provinces is relatively developed, especially in Fujian, where smuggling is extremely rampant.

After years of naval strikes, smuggling has not been so rampant.

Although many sea merchants colluded with pirates, the navy had too many warships and the tonnage of warships became larger and larger. When those pirates met the Royal Navy, they could only run away with their tails. Under the continuous encirclement of the navy, the pirates' bases were removed one after another, and their momentum was suppressed.

Pirates do not just wander around the sea. They need bases to replenish and trade, so as long as they sweep their bases, it will be difficult for pirates to continue to develop. Without a place to replenish and trade, their strength cannot grow.

However, there are still many smuggling. The focus of this reform in Fujian and Guangdong is to comprehensively build a customs system and crack down on coastal smuggling.

The customs of the Ming Dynasty will be established as a complete customs in this reform. All coastal ports from south to north of the local mainland will have customs, and all imported and exported goods will be subject to import and export tariffs.

The reforms in Fujian and Guangdong also caused a rebound from some landlord forces, but they were quickly suppressed by the Central Army.

Zhu Youxiao’s reform plan did touch the interests of landlords.

Landlords can no longer exploit land by renting land to tenants, but the landlord class is not completely resisting the new system. Zhu Youxiao still left them a way to go. As long as they become self-produced agricultural companies, the tax rate is still acceptable, so many landlords also accepted the reform calmly.

The industrial and commercial class also rebounded to reform, but the strongest Jiangnan financial oligarch has been destroyed, and now there are not many people who are blindly looking at it.

The most touching of the reform were the privileged tax-free classes, but those who dared to resist the reform were suppressed. Now Zhu Youchao’s rule of the Ming Dynasty was not maintained by those privileged tax-free classes, but through new interest groups to maintain the ruling pattern. Therefore, even if those privileged tax-free classes resist the reform, they are unable to make up for the truth.

With the inclusion of provinces such as Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi in reforms, tax revenues rose sharply for a while.

Not only the industrial and commercial tax that has seen a significant increase, but also the agricultural tax also increased significantly. The reformed agricultural tax was only for groups with a certain amount of land. Moreover, in the 15th year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao set the tax exemption in the north to be less than 50 acres, the Heilongjiang area in the northeast was less than 300 acres, and the southern provinces generally had less than 30 acres.

Different regions have different tax-free divisions based on their crop yields. The purpose is to allow small and medium-sized self-cultivated farmers to avoid being troubled by taxes and to live a well-off living standard. Those who exceed this level will start to pay agricultural taxes, but the agricultural tax is not very high. At the beginning, it is only 5%, and then gradually increases to 10%. The tax rate of agricultural companies is 10%.

As for the agricultural tax of landlords, they are not ruthless. It doesn’t matter if they can’t pay it. They take the land for auction to collect it.

If an agricultural company is established, in addition to the 10% output tax, there is also a 25% profit tax. If it is to be reflected, personal income tax must be charged. Of course, this personal income tax can still be avoided, but there is no 25% profit tax that must be paid.

If you are a traditional landlord, under such a tax system, the more land you own, the higher the tax, the highest it will be, even to 30%, and the maximum tenant rent shall not exceed 10%, which is equivalent to losing every year.

The new local governments established under reforms are busy collecting taxes during the autumn harvest, and this is also the most frequent time for the Central Army to be dispatched.

Some local tyrants clearly wrote on their faces, "No tax payment" and thought to themselves what if they don't pay, they can do anything to me? Some landlords and powerful people even beat up tax-related civil servants.

I thought that their local forces could cover the sky with just one hand.

As a result, when the Central Army arrived, everything was full of native chickens and dogs. The landlords and powerful people who beat the state civil servants were all confiscated and exiled to the frontier.

Zhu Youxiao is now cleaning up the thorns on the local area, and his policy is not ruthless.

In troubled times, Zhu Youxiao is focusing on the Legalism system, supplementing it with Confucianism, and both are used. Confucianism is to prevent and control, while Legalism is to regulate chaos.

As for Taoism, there is nothing we can do. It is impossible to make people now simple and natural. Now is not the time to be in ancient times.

The Taoist style was very good in ancient times when there were more real people. But now people have become "pseudo-men" in the eyes of Taoism, so naturally they have to use the Confucian style. But Confucianism cannot work in troubled times. Can reasoning convince those criminals?

To rectify those criminals, we naturally have to use the Legalists.

The administrative system of one prefecture, one county, one town, one town, one level and one level is now being established in reform provinces one after another.
Chapter completed!