The Water Transport Governor was a fat job, a second-grade official.
It could be said that he had a high position and authority…
However, the previous governor embezzled two million taels of silver and his entire family was executed.
The newly appointed Water Transport Governor was trembling with fear. Not long after he returned to the Water Transport Governor's Office, the Cabinet Chief Assistant Gao Gong and the Second Assistant Zhang Juzheng came to the Water Transport Governor's Office. The Water Transport Governor welcomed them outside.
Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng didn't waste any words and went straight to the point to tell the Governor of Water Transport their intention for this trip. They wanted to open up water transport and turn it into a private business…
The Water Transport Governor had just taken office, so he naturally didn't dare to defy the cabinet's orders. He directly reported the taxes and volume of water transport from all over the country.
The reform of the Ming Empire finally began. With the support of Emperor Wanli, the reform of government decrees began with the easiest business. After all, the reform of business basically would not harm the interests of any class...
Zhang Juzheng wanted to carry out land reform the most. He wanted to implement a whip law to abolish the head tax and change it to a tax per mu. The more land there was, the heavier the tax.
However, once the land reform was carried out, it would trigger the resistance of the squires, landowners, and aristocrats. For example, Xu Jie, who had retired as the chief assistant, was also a aristocrat with a family property of more than ten thousand mu…
After the implementation of the whip method, the Xujie family would increase their annual tax from a hundred silver taels to thousands of taels…
In Zhu Yijun's view, land reform would be carried out sooner or later, but it was not the right time to carry out land reform yet.
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In the imperial garden, Zhu Yijun enjoyed fishing.
After harvesting a few goldfish, Zhu Yijun pulled back his rod and stared at the rippling blue waves before opening the system.
Host: Zhu Yijun.
[Age: 11 years old]
[Occupation: Emperor of Ming Dynasty.]
[National strength: 21 million]
Half a year ago, the Ming Empire's comprehensive national strength was only 17 million. However, Zhu Yijun only used half a year to increase the Ming Empire's national strength to 21 million. From the perspective of achievements, Zhu Yijun was definitely worthy of being called a wise monarch.
If the business reform was successful, the comprehensive national strength would definitely advance by leaps and bounds again, Zhu Yijun thought to himself.
Emperor Level: Level 16
[Awakened Martial Soul: Divine Sweeping Monk. Divine Sweeping Monk's martial arts level is 120.]
In addition to this information, Zhu Yijun also checked the comprehensive national strength of the surrounding countries.
Because of the defeat, Menggu's overall strength had plummeted, and now Menggu's overall strength was less than 5 million. On the contrary, the Wei Nation's overall strength had soared, reaching 9 million with 600 thousand soldiers.
Zhu Yijun thought to himself that the Wei Nation's Toyotomi Hideyoshi had probably already begun the road to unifying the Warring States.
Hideyoshi was born in 1537, and Zhu Yijun was born in 1563. Hideyoshi was 26 years older than Zhu Yijun.
In 1573, Zhu Yijun ordered Li Rusong to defeat Meng Gu.
It was also in 1573 that Hideyoshi defeated Asai Nagamasa. Asai Nagamasa committed suicide, and Hideyoshi incorporated Asai's old subordinates.
However, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's achievements were not as outstanding as the Ming Empire's victory over Menggu...
It was now 1574, and the 37-year-old Hideyoshi had already been conferred the title of Lord of Hama City in the Omi Kingdom. He had become the strongest faction in the Sengoku Kingdom, and had 80,000 soldiers. He had already begun to show the momentum of swallowing the Wei Nation…
In the next few years, Toyotomi Hideyoshi would sweep away the fallen leaves and unify the Warring States…
The current Toyotomi Hideyoshi was already famous in the Wei Nation. As long as it was a ship merchant that traveled between the Ming Dynasty and the Wei Nation, they would definitely have heard of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
After Qi Jiguang entered Tanggu Port, he ordered people to inquire about the information of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. After inquiring, Qi Jiguang gradually paid attention to this person. From the rise of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he was also a Japanese who was familiar with military affairs.
Qi Jiguang was very emotional. He didn't expect that His Majesty, who was only ten years old, already had the ability to plan ahead. Moreover, His Majesty was really well-informed. He didn't even know about Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but His Majesty had already investigated him...
Wei Nation!
The gathering place of the Japanese pirates!
I will definitely lead the Celestial army to descend upon the Wei Nation and slaughter you until your blood flows like a river!
I'll make sure that you won't dare to cross the border of Great Ming again within a hundred years!
Qi Jiguang hated the Japanese pirates very much because he had fought many battles with them over the years. Tens of thousands of his brothers had died in the war against the Japanese pirates!
From the intelligence collected by the East Chamber, Zhu Yijun not only knew about the Wei Nation, but he also had a map of the entire northern territory of Menggu. If Zhu Yijun sent people to attack Menggu, the vast territory of Menggu would appear in Zhu Yijun's vision…
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Other than the Wei Nation and Mongolia, there was another small force that entered Zhu Yijun's field of vision. It was the Jurchen tribe. This tribe was in Liaodong, which was under Li Chengliang's control. Liaodong was cold and had little food. The people of this tribe mostly hunted for a living...
Others might not know about this tribe, but Zhu Yijun did!
Because this tribe was the predecessor of the Qing Dynasty…
Nurhachi was born in 1559, and Zhu Yijun was born in 1563. Nurhachi was four years older than Zhu Yijun, but Zhu Yijun had already become the emperor in 1573.
In 1573, the 15-year-old Nurhachi was still setting up cages in the snow, catching wild rabbits and pheasants to fill his stomach...
Liaodong was still the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Li Chengliang was the commander of Liaodong. The Jurchen tribes were under Li Chengliang's control and were called the people of the Ming Dynasty.
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"I have a good hand.”
Zhu Yijun put away his fishing rod and was in high spirits. After thinking and comparing, Zhu Yijun found that the Ming Empire he ruled was very strong, and the surrounding countries could not compete with the Ming Empire.
As long as he didn't play his cards badly, it wouldn't be difficult to pacify East Asia, conquer Mongolia, and destroy the Japanese. This was because both Menggu and the Wei Nation were at their weakest.
The Ming Dynasty was weak, the Wei Nation and Menggu were even weaker, and as for the Jurchen tribes…
Zhu Yijun's eyes flashed with killing intent…
"Men…Yan Mo!"
A young eunuch was grinding ink. Zhu Yijun picked up his brush and wrote a secret letter to Li Chengliang. The secret letter wrote: "The bandits of Liaodong are too powerful. Find an opportunity to destroy the Jurchen of Jianzhou and the Yehenala tribe of Haixi…"
Zhu Yijun's imperial edict was simple, and the reason for exterminating the Jurchen and Yates was a little far-fetched.
The words on the imperial edict translated: "The people of Liaodong tribe are too ugly. Destroy them…"
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