According to Lu Xuan's prediction, it may take more than twenty years to truly restore the Ming Dynasty.

However, the good news is that with free aid from neighboring countries, at least on the surface, Lu Xuan has curbed the various problems of famine and chaotic people. After this winter, a new round of farming and eating problems will be temporarily solved in the spring of the following year.

At this point, Lu Xuan was finally able to take a breath and began to carry out some preliminary work for reforms.

The first is to open up trade. In the name of the country, maritime trade is opened up, and at the same time, it began to reorganize a sufficiently advanced navy. In this era of maritime hegemony, the Ming Dynasty was already too far behind. Although it has obtained some maritime rights around Asia at present, it is still far behind compared to the vast sea.

Whether it is America, Oceania, or even thousands of islands in South Asia, they contain endless resources. They plunder those resources and feed back to the Central Plains. In order to complete the original accumulation of resources, only then can we truly start to implement reforms. After all, all reforms require huge resource support.

In addition to the school that is being established, the Royal Academy of Ming Dynasty is also being prepared. He collects various folk remedies, accumulates them, sorts them out and summarizes them, and then introduces new things to improve these recording techniques. As much as possible, those that are valuable can be used to achieve their due effect.

This process is not simple. Even if he was the emperor, he faced huge resistance to promoting this matter. Because in ancient times, all kinds of crafts and secret recipes were passed on to the next generation. In most cases, he could not get it for money. This matter took a long time to accumulate.

However, it is not completely impossible. Because Lu Xuan once issued an order, that is, for technologies that have a significant improvement in social production, it can give the official body. This order is too lethal. You must know that after filling the stomach, ancient people generally had two major desires. One was to pass on the family line, but to shine the family and shine the ancestors. How to shine the family and shine the ancestors? Of course, they were to become officials.

Although they are only technical officials, they are able to enter the ranks and become officials. For ordinary people, it is still an irresistible temptation. In just one month, four people successfully obtained official positions. They provided important secret techniques in textiles, forgings, and medicine.

This caused a huge sensation among the people. After all, in this era, the status of craftsmen was not high. From the original lower-level figure to the superior official, this really stimulated the general public's thoughts. In this way, the process of collecting various secret recipes and secret techniques has also been greatly accelerated.

Scientific research is a long and intensive job. At present, Lu Xuan can only start with one step. In the future, after the establishment of a brand new education system, he can truly get on the right track.

Lu Xuan's other main action was to sort out taxes. Lu Xuan still couldn't understand the complexity of the Ming Dynasty's tax system. In fact, there were not many people who could really understand the entire Ming Dynasty. Because under the central tax system, there were still a large number of local taxes. For example, if raw silk is produced in a certain place, a kind of raw silk tax may appear.

The price of a kind of goods will change with the changes in the market. In this way, this small local tax alone requires a lot of energy to make various temporary adjustments. But in fact, how is it possible? How can someone really spend energy to do such things? As a result, taxation will only become more and more chaotic.

The reform of the tax system cannot be completed in one or two days. At the same time, these tax reforms are essentially an attack on land annexation. At this time, Wei Zhongxian had already begun to kill all directions in Jiangnan for a long time.

The Donglin Party was originally a school supported by salt merchants in Jiangnan. They paid for the training of some students to help them enter the court. These students formed parties with each other and eventually gradually developed into the famous Donglin Party.

A major feature of the Donglin Party in power is that I can be very greedy, but you must be as honest as water. Yes, the vast majority of Donglin Party members are invisible super landlords. But the most common way they use to crack down on political enemies is that the other party is embezzlement...

I remember that there was a case in the Ming Dynasty, an imperial envoy investigated and punished a corrupt official. He confiscated 200,000 acres of land under the other party's name. Isn't it very exaggerated that one person occupied 200,000 acres of land? But there were 300,000 acres of land under the name of this imperial envoy...

The reason why this dynasty is so rotten and has no cure is because all those in power are like this. Do you expect them to save the Ming Dynasty? Lu Xuan said, I'd better do it myself.

Wei Zhongxian is known for his ruthlessness when he comes quickly. This time he followed the order of the new emperor, and there were soldiers in his hands. He naturally did things unscrupulously. He understood what he did. He was just doing dirty work for the emperor. This kind of work may not necessarily lead to a good end if he did it well. But if he couldn't do it well, he would have no end on the spot. So Wei Zhongxian did it very carefully.

A thorough investigation of the land problem made many people sleepless at night. The key point is that the person who said this was not the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but the new emperor Lu Xuan. The rich people in Jiangnan had not yet been shocked by the news of the change of dynasties. Wei Zhongxian had already brought people to kill him.

Another important factor is that Lu Xuan allowed Zhu Youjian to start a massacre in the capital, causing heavy losses to the Donglin Party members. Almost all of them were killed. Only a very small number of the good reputations were left by Lu Xuan. This led to the financial owners behind them no longer being well-versed in the information about the capital. So when Wei Zhongxian arrived, they had not yet reacted.

No matter what, it is impossible to ask them to pay money and land. At the beginning of the plan, a large number of people came to make trouble at the sign of the master's family. In the idea of ​​not chasing the masses, the people even dared to wave hoes to the imperial army. However, Wei Zhongxian knew that he had the right to adapt to the situation. He also knew that Lu Xuan was an emperor who would never compromise at will. He immediately issued a death order. So the killing officially began.

In fact, Lu Xuan knew very well that most of the people involved in the riots were incited. But this does not mean that they are innocent. From their own perspective, they are not wrong to eat. But from Lu Xuan's standpoint, they are rioters. Therefore, there is no way to distinguish who is right and who is wrong.

If you really find the root cause, the mistake should be the Ming Dynasty in the previous dynasty. It was the fall of the Ming Dynasty, which led to their involuntary actions. Lu Xuan is completely changing all this.
Chapter completed!