Chapter 646: The Matter of the Household Department (Medium)

The household department originated from the local officials in the official system of the Zhou Dynasty, and the Han Cheng Emperor placed five people in Shangshu, and the third of them was called the people Cao, and the main officials were on the book. In the Later Han Dynasty, he served as a civil official and a worker. The Three Kingdoms Wei placed Zuo Min's Shangshu and was in charge of finance. At the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, it was placed in Taikang. Emperor Hui had the right people to read the book. The Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Song Dynasty and Qi juxtaposed Zuo Min's Shangshu, and Liang and Chen juxtaposed Zuo Hu's Shangshu, and took charge of household registration and knew the affairs of the work officials. Later Wei and Northern Qi had a degree of support for Shangshu, and they were also the people of Zuo and Zuohu. Later, Zhou Yi "Zhou Guan", the big Situ Qing of the Land Mansion. At the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, it was called the branch of the degree, and it was changed to the Ministry of Civil Affairs in the third year of the emperor's reign. In the twenty-third year of Zhenguan of Tang Taizong, it was changed to the household department, the first year of Gaozong Xianqing was changed to the degree branch, the second year of Longshuo was changed to Siyuan, and the first year of Xianheng was reverted to the household department. In the first year of Guangzhai, it was changed to a local official, and Shenlong was reinstated in the first year. Later dynasties have been called.

In the Tang Dynasty, the household department generally had one person in Shangshu and three products; The two waiters are under the fourth grade. Hold the land of the world, the people, the government of the money valley, and the difference in tribute. There are four genera: one is called the household department, the second is called the degree branch, the third is called the gold department, and the fourth is called the warehouse department. two household inspectors and four directors; two directors of the Duzhi; three directors of the gold department; There are three directors of the Kurabe. During the Longshuo period, the household department was changed to Si Yuan, the degree branch was called Si Du, the gold department was called Si Zhen, and the warehouse department was called Si Yu. Tianbao eleven years to change the gold department said to be the gold, the warehouse department said the division.

In the Ming Dynasty, the household department was in charge of the territory, land, household registration, taxation, salaries and financial affairs of the whole country. Its internal handling of government affairs is divided into divisions according to the regional division of labor. In addition to being in charge of the money and food saved, each department is also in charge of some of the general affairs of other yamen, and their responsibilities are often overlapping. Chen Shan is the left waiter of the household department, responsible for the inspection work, the arrears and compensation for many years can be exempted according to the situation, and the weekday work is to adjust the surplus and shortage according to the income and expenditure of the provinces; Reduction of errand service is exempt from reinstatement; Pension relief for the poor and elderly in disaster areas, and rewards for meritorious people; Weigh the market, assess prices; Levy taxes on Shanze Pochi, Guanshi, and Kengye; Supporting the army to lose, supervising the transportation, supporting and transferring the tun seeds, opening the middle to the real side, and the hundred officials and Lu to pay; Regularly compile household registers, adjust households, etc., to understand the changes in population and land; Illegal acts such as concealment of household registration and embezzlement of land shall be stopped and corrected in a timely manner, so as to achieve the effect of national peace and security.

Chen Shan is a man with many ambitions, he has just become a member of the three important members of the household department, he is very complacent, the so-called new official took office three fires, on the first day of entering the household department in Nanjing, he began to inspect the accounts of the household department, and it took several days to finally check the accounts for many years, what he did not expect was that the entire household department of Nanjing collected 280,000 silver silver, excluding the construction of the canal, the annual military expenditure, there were 600,000 taels of silver consumed in the construction of the Great Bao'en Temple, this result is not surprising, After he continued to inspect it, he finally came to the conclusion that the construction of the entire Da Bao En Temple had consumed two million taels of silver from the sixth year of Yongle to the present, which surprised him and made him have many doubts about the construction of the Da Bao En Temple.

Immediately found Zheng He who was responsible for the construction of the Great Bao'en Temple and asked, Zheng He and Chen Shan's relationship is still good, although the two have nothing to do with each other, but there is no bad feeling, just arrived in Nanjing a few days ago, went to the household to receive a sum of silver, Chen Shan can also readily agree, it is said that one to build a temple, one to give silver, basically there is no possibility of evil, but the bad is bad, this Chen Shan has a lot of distrust in the eunuchs, and after the inspection, he is more and more suspicious of the silver spent on the construction of the Great Bao'en Temple.

This is a direct suspicion of Zheng He's character, which makes Zheng He feel insulted, although he is a eunuch, but he has followed Zhu Di's side over the years, not to mention his great military achievements, that is, this "Zheng" surname is also given by the emperor, the emperor has never had half a doubt about his character, let alone going to the West all these years, everywhere he goes, the character who doubted him was actually made irresponsible remarks by a household servant, it is simply a great shame! In a fit of rage, when Chen Shan sent someone to inquire about the audit accounts, he simply did not wait to see him.

Chen Shan didn't expect Zheng He, who had fallen down, to be so tough, and in a fit of rage, he corresponded to all the accounts built in Dabao'en Temple over the years, and found that there were hundreds of thousands of taels of silver missing, so he wrote down these accounts one by one and gave them to Zheng He, thinking that he would come out to explain.

Who knew that it was rare for people to see him at all, so he sent a subordinate to send him a letter, and the letter directly wrote a few: "If there is no real evidence, please don't say more?" ”

Chen Shan is a man of few people, eager and ignorant, and is the teacher of today's prince, trusted by today's saints, some time ago, he retreated from the dynasty, fell from the horse and was injured in the calf, the saint personally gave him medicine and bartending, this matter was rumored to be talked about in the capital, it can be said that at this time his prestige is very high, that is, Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong and others saw him, and they also wanted to shout Lord Chen, like today, by a eunuch that words were squeezed, or the first time, an old face rose red, and almost did not break the scolding.

Fortunately, he is still a little sensible, but he also knows that although this Zheng He is a eunuch, but he made a lot of military exploits in Jingjing in those years, plus these years to the West, to promote the prestige of my Ming Dynasty, he has really made a lot of military achievements, and his prestige in the DPRK is very high, not only that, the first time he went to the West, to the old port of Srivijaya Qi, when the old port of Guangdong overseas Chinese leader Shi Jinqing came to report, the pirate Chen Zuyi was fierce, Zheng He raised troops to exterminate more than 5,000 thieves, burned ten thief ships, obtained five thief ships, captured the pirate Chen Zuyi and other three thieves, in September of the fifth year of Yongle, Chen Zuyi was escorted back to the imperial court, Zhu Di ordered Chen Zuyi to be killed in front of the envoys of various countries, and beheaded the public to warn others, this move caused great prestige among the people, and he could not move, and in the court, his treasure ships passed through Sumatra, Manchurian, Ceylon, Guli and other countries. In Guli, he gave the king of the kingdom a silver seal, and built a stele pavilion, and set up a stele "to China more than 100,000 miles, the people and things are salty, the bustle is the same wind, the stone is carved in Z, and the eternal show is eternal", so feat, more and more people can not move.

Fortunately, today's saint is not happy with the Western move, just ascended the throne and issued an order to stop Western activities, the Western move in full swing is over, without the Western move, the former majestic Zheng He, has long lost the momentum of the past, but Chen Shan still did not plan to find trouble with him, if he was not too deceitful too much, he would definitely not do this, well, you Zheng He is the ancestor of the people, Jing Nan has made meritorious deeds, under the West, I dare not touch you, then I have to ask the prince to come out! “

After some calculations in his heart, Chen Shan felt that this matter should be done like this, so he asked his bureaucrats to sort out the accounts of Dabao'en Temple clearly, in which the 300,000 white flowers and silver that he didn't know to think about were clearly written, and he believed that as long as he presented this fold to the prince for preview, no matter how much the prince respected Zheng He in his heart, the prince would never spare Zheng He in the face of half of the tax of Nanjing's household department.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that his idea was good, and he entered the palace before dawn today, and invited the prince.

"I can't imagine that I, the copycat version of the prince, have just sat on the throne of the prince and dealt with such a big thing! It seems that this Lord Chen really attaches importance to himself? Yang Zheng smiled self-deprecatingly, and his face became stern, and the household servant was in charge of auditing the accounting and statistical work such as the edition and the actual levy. Its daily work includes reclamation for immigrants, appeasement and resettlement of displaced people, and based on the fish scale atlas and the yellow book, to curb the annexation of the wealthy people; to limit the land to the people of heresy; Arboriculture Section, Agricultural Officer; grazing horses on grassland; Electrify tenants to the best of the location; The arrears accumulated for many years can be exempted according to the situation, and in the midst of the heavy household department, as the prince, he naturally does not dare to slack off.

He pondered for a moment and said, "The matter of the household department is an adult, and if you have a loss, you have to be strict with yourself?" “

Chen Shan was overjoyed, he was a little worried, this prince seemed to be weak, but he was trained by Chengzu for many years, and he also had the style of his grandfather, and he was very careful about his grandfather's expedition to Mongolia, edited and revised the "Yongle Canon", moved the capital to Beijing, and went to the West to worship it very much, that is, the move of going to the West and all countries to come to the dynasty made him feel that as the Son of Heaven, he should be so emotional, for fear that his Zheng He would say something and cause him to be displeased. There's no need to touch this brow yourself.

The prince's sentence "Will you be strict?" made him happy in his heart, looked up at Yang Zheng, and only felt that there seemed to be something different about the prince today, but there was something different and indescribable, in short, there was a feeling missing. But this was not the time for him to think about this, so after a little groaning, he took out a piece of music from his bosom, bowed and handed it over.

Chen Wu on the side took it with interest and handed it to Yang Zheng.

Yang Zheng has a big head, but now he has to open the fold and pretend to look at it, the fold is very long, it is written in block letters, and the lines look extremely pleasing to the eye.

But it is not so comfortable to read, and the ministers who hear the monarch are the lords of the world, the subjects of the world, and the lord of all things, and their responsibilities are very heavy. If you want to call it a responsibility, you can only send it to your subordinates and make it all your words. Please drain your heart and gallbladder for Your Highness.

After reciting the first few sentences, the rest were all things he couldn't understand, and he didn't bother to read them, but it was inconvenient to put down the folds in his hand, so he could only continue to pretend to read them.

Time passed minute by minute, Yang Zheng was still watching the recital, now Chen Shan couldn't wait, he was conceited to learn people, and he was also extremely talented in writing this recital, but the prince was his student, and he knew much more about learning than others, not to mention calligraphy, Danqing, the way of governing the country is much stronger than himself, even the poetry and articles are also higher than himself, and this recital will never be too difficult to read.

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