Wanli Youming

Chapter 150 Population Survey

Chapter 150 Population Survey

When Yu Youding, Li Chengliang, Wu Weizhong and others led the Ming army to the palace, when they saw Li Yan, Li Yan immediately knelt down and tremblingly said: "Your Majesty, Li Yan, greet you!"

"Hi Your Majesty!"

Yu Youding replied, and asked, "Does Your Highness know that Ping'an Road Observer Zheng Che refused the Heavenly Army's entry into Pyongyang?"

After hearing this, Li Yan glanced at the escorted Zheng Che, and then hastily denied, "I don't know."

After hearing this, Yu Youding said, "Then how does His Highness plan to deal with this person?"

Li Yan hurriedly said: "Put to death!"

Yu Youding nodded and gave Li Chengliang a wink, and Li Chengliang ordered Zheng Che to be relieved.

Li Yan said at this moment: "Immediately execute Zheng Che to prove Gu's loyalty!"

Zheng Che didn't speak, just smiled with tears in his eyes.

Not long after, Zheng Che was also killed.

And then, Yu Youding also expressed his willingness to act on behalf of the emperor on the grounds that the king of North Korea, Li Yan, had exonerated the adulterer and proved his loyalty, and announced that the emperor wanted him to pay the treasury, and immediately ordered Busan, Jeju, The Mazhu Islands are all managed by the Chinese garrison.

Li Yan accepted the order and acted accordingly, not daring to be dissatisfied at all, and had to raise funds to seriously entertain the ministers and officers and soldiers of the Celestial Dynasty.

Li Yan and his ministers really didn't dare to be negligent, and they were deeply afraid that the ministers and officers and soldiers of the Celestial Dynasty would be dissatisfied in the slightest, and they refused to leave, which made them feel aggrieved like slaves.

Therefore, as Li Chengliang said when he recruited Ding to transfer troops in advance, the whole army of the Ming Dynasty really celebrated the New Year in Seoul, and had a comfortable and good year.

Except for Wu Weizhong who was ordered to take part of the grain and beans stored in the North Korean government treasury to Busan to garrison troops after Yuanxi, Li Chengliang and others stayed in North Korea until early February before leaving with the full North Korean treasury savings.

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"The great victory in Pyongyang, Li Chengliang did not disappoint me. From this point of view, there is no problem with the North Korean garrison,"

The third day of February in the eighth year of Wanli.

When the ice and snow melted, the old willows on the palace walls began to turn green.

Forbidden City.

On the second day after the sutra banquet ended, Zhu Yijun only learned of the news of the great victory in Pyongyang when he played the imperial palace in the west room of the Wenhua Palace, so he laughed and said to Zhang Juzheng:

"This victory is all due to the New Deal, so the Ming Dynasty was able to proclaim the prestige of martial arts to foreign feudal clans, and Mr. can take the lead."

"I'm ashamed, if your majesty hadn't had the heart to work hard to govern, even if you have the heart to benefit the country, it would be difficult to implement the government of Zhongxing. Therefore, those who can really make Ming Dynasty have such martial arts are all thanks to your majesty!"

"What's more, Your Majesty is the father of the people of the world, and only His Majesty can bring grace to the people of the world."

"It can be said that the prosperity of the world and the fall of the world all depend on your majesty, and the so-called ministers, even if they have the abilities of Zhuge Wuhou and Yue Wang, are just icing on the cake for the emperor who wants to rule."

Zhang Juzheng replied.

Zhu Yijun nodded.

He knew that Zhang Juzheng was taking this opportunity to let him understand the importance of the emperor's governance and progress to an empire, and don't really think that this is just related to the first assistant. It's just a senior wage earner.

"At present, the Qingzhang's farmland is over. If I really want to be a king who wants to govern, I can't just be satisfied with just measuring the world's farmland. I should continue to innovate in the system, especially the financial and taxation system. After all, all cultural and martial arts depend on This is the basis."

Zhu Yijun spoke at this time.

Obviously, Zhang Juzheng's worry that Zhu Yijun may only be satisfied with some achievements in the future and gradually lose his determination in the future is superfluous.

Otherwise, Zhu Yijun would not have revealed his intention to continue to reform the system for Zhang Juzheng after the end of Qingzhang Tianmu.

Qingzhang Tianmu has been implemented nationwide since the first month of the fifth year of Wanli. Now, three years later, at the beginning of the eighth year of Wanli, the governors from all over the country have reported the number of completed field records, and the Qingzhang has indeed been completely completed.

This can be regarded as a major event completed in the early years of Wanli.

It took three years to re-investigate the fields of the whole country. The problems that can be found are not only the problems of mergers, but also the problems of population structure, class solidification and climate change.

Zhu Yijun has planned to set up a statistics and research institution to conduct scientific analysis of the surveyed data, and then provide guidance for subsequent restructuring, especially the national acreage data that has just been surveyed.

After all, Qingzhang Tianmu cannot be used for nothing, and its meaning cannot only be used to increase the land tax.

Turn the words back.

Zhu Yijun asked Zhang Juzheng after talking here: "What do you think, sir?"

After Zhang Juzheng pondered for a while, he cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty is wise!"

Zhu Yijun continued: "So the new policy can't end at Qingzhang Tianmu, and we have to continue to implement the new reform policy. It just so happens that the cabinet ministers, Master Ma and Master Shen, have inspected the place and returned to Beijing. I also hope that Mr. and these two masters and all the ministers Discuss, and then establish a new reformable government, so as to eliminate the long-standing disadvantages."

Zhang Juzheng bowed his hands and said yes.

"Before a new reform policy is determined, the governors of various places should not be idle. An imperial edict is issued to let them prepare for the population survey. I have been on the throne for so many years, and I have to know how many people I have."

"In addition, it is stated in the decree that slaves and servants who serve as foster sons and daughters should also be counted in the register. In order to prevent powerful officials and gentry and other big households from being unwilling to report the situation of slavery truthfully, it must be specified in the decree. If they do not truthfully let the government Registration, once a maidservant escapes or disappears but is not registered, the government will not be able to search for and arrest her.”

Zhu Yijun said at this time.

In fact, Zhu Yijun had long wanted to conduct a national census of Ming Dynasty.

After all, if you don't know the population of the whole country, you can do many things without knowing the bottom line.

For example, the proportion of workers to the total population is related to the development of the commodity economy in Ming Dynasty, whether the imperial court should start to intervene in the commodity economy, and even start to pay more attention to these workers, and whether it should be abolished in time. The statute that the strike of hired workers should be regarded as the crime committed by the following, and the accomplice to the crime of treason should be punished at a later date.

These are very necessary, and they are also the most basic starting point for treating oneself as a Han Chinese.

It’s just that in the past few years, it was necessary to clean up the administration of officials, recover taxes, and even clear up the farmland, but the entire bureaucratic system, mainly composed of reformers and follow-up officials, still couldn’t spare to conduct a census.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun did not ask for an edict to conduct a census until the end of Qingzhang Tianmu.

"You see, Your Majesty loves the people. It's not true that because of the large number of people in the country, there is no need to count the people in the world as weeds. It is true that the common people of the world are regarded as their own people, and the number of them should be seen in the book."

When Zhang Juzheng left after finishing his lecture in Wenhua Hall, he talked to Wang Jiaping, the new living annotator.

Because Shen Li has already asked for a transfer, but he learned of his father's death not long after he was transferred, so he had to go directly to his hometown Ding You, and visit the village people by the way.

Therefore, Wang Jiaping became the new living commentator.

After Zhang Juzheng said to Wang Jiaping, who had just arrived in the imperial residence and was not very familiar with the emperor, Wang Jiaping clasped his hands and replied:

"What Yuanfu said is that the subordinates also saw His Majesty's love for the people, but they didn't expect that the emperor, as Yuanfu said, also has a strong heart to strive for governance! This makes Yuanfu's reminder just now It also seemed unnecessary."

Zhang Juzheng smiled lightly, and said: "It's good that you know! Just to be a close minister of the emperor, you should remember a sentence: 'If you don't keep secrets, you will lose your ministers, and if your ministers don't keep secrets, you will lose yourself'. After all, some people don't want the emperor to have vigor."

Wang Jiaping replied: "The subordinate understands!"

Zhang Juzheng nodded and said nothing.

Wang Jiaping was not his student.

As for the reason why Zhang Juzheng didn't recommend his students to serve as daily life adjudicators, it was because he, the chief assistant, was determined to reform, and before, Duoqing did not follow the ritual system but followed the holy order, so most of his students had already betrayed him. .

Therefore, among his students, there are no officials who were born in the Hanlin Academy, have good literary talents, can be used for daily life, and have a good character, are cautious and reticent, and do not easily make friends and form associations.

He can only look for it from people who are not his students.

As a result, Wang Jiaping was able to serve as the new living official.

Because of this, Zhang Juzheng often needs to take the initiative to ask Wang Jiaping about some things, and it is impossible for him to take the initiative to talk to him like Shen Li did when he was the daily life commentator.

(End of this chapter)