After Wanwan told Yinzhen, she only asked the system to keep an eye on things and didn't pay much attention to it anymore, as she was busy right now.
She was busy learning medicine, and then continued to consolidate her knowledge of embroidery, perfumery, and other skills.
I sleep until I naturally wake up every day, and then learn this and that; my days are quite fulfilling.
By the time Yinzhen finished dealing with this matter, a full year had passed before the policy took effect.
After all, the emperor genuinely wanted to get rid of this scourge, and even if the ministers didn't want to, how could they possibly fight against the emperor?
At first, there was a lot of opposition from the Jiangnan region, which was the strongest. However, the emperor said that foot binding was permissible, but only if you were willing to have your property confiscated, be dismissed from your post, or have taxes increased.
They even created a system of collective punishment, offering a reward of one tael of silver to anyone who reported foot binding.
One tael of silver could cover half a year's living expenses for a family of three if they were frugal.
This also led to a surge in reports.
A year later, Wanwan received a notification from the system, and a large amount of merit flowed into her.
After watching Yinzhen resolve this matter and get his foot-binding issue off and back on track, Wanwan began to implement his previous idea of unifying land tax and labor tax, so that gentry and villagers could pay taxes together.
Of course, it also met with opposition from the imperial court and the imperial clan, but could they oppose the emperor?
The reason they objected was because they were the big landowners.
But the emperor was determined to do it, and he didn't care about the reputation among the people. When the officials saw that this was not working, they further damaged his reputation, saying that he was heartless and so on.
When Wanwan found out, she felt sorry for the people. Then she spread rumors among the people, saying that the emperor wanted to reduce the burden on farmers and that the land tax reform and the integration of gentry and rural residents into a tax system were good policies.
The tax burden on farmers was reduced while that on landlords was increased, so the large landowners and officials were unhappy and tried to tarnish the emperor's reputation.
Later, in the voices of the common people, the emperor was a good emperor, but the officials were all bad.
They only thought about exploiting them. Even when the emperor introduced a good policy, they still wanted to oppose it. Those landlords were no good either.
The officials, landlords, and members of the royal family failed to achieve their goals and instead gained even worse reputations among the people.
The emperor, on the other hand, reached the pinnacle of his fame.
When Yinzhen learned of this, he smiled helplessly, and then felt the love of his mother.
His mother was never one to suffer a loss, nor would she ever let her child be wronged.
Sure enough, after he had just suffered some injustice at the hands of those officials, his mother retaliated.
Su Peisheng saw his emperor grinning widely and knew the reason: "The Empress Dowager has always doted on the Emperor." He was flattering him—no, flattering the emperor was a very successful tactic.
Yinzhen nodded proudly, "My mother really loves me."
These two policies were then easier to implement.
It took Yinzhen two whole years to get these two policies fully implemented across the country.
It wasn't that we didn't want to introduce these two policies in the first year; it was just that we were too busy in the first year.
But once the immediate issues were mostly resolved, he began sweeping reforms to rectify official conduct and punish corrupt officials.
Emperor Yongzheng hated corrupt officials the most and despised corruption the most. So during the Yongzheng era, if you wanted to become an official, as long as you dared to embezzle a lot and were discovered by Yongzheng, you would basically face the crime of having your family property confiscated and your clan exterminated.
Moreover, after Yongzheng came to power, he confiscated the homes of many corrupt officials. In any case, the homes of bondservants had already been confiscated during the Kangxi era.
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