Ji'an Prefecture.

Du Huaishui is the criminal litigation magistrate of Ji'an Prefecture, in charge of the trial of criminal cases in the first prefecture, and his authority is similar to that of the president of the Criminal Procedure Division of the Intermediate People's Court of the Later Dynasty, and he is a legal official.

The Du family's lawsuit in Jishui County for not retreating has become a big problem, and it has long been out of the jurisdiction of Ji'an Prefecture, and the political envoy Yamen has also sent a commissioner to Ji'an Mansion to supervise it, but for some reason, it has been dragging on, neither sentence the Du family to return it, nor according to Du Huaishui's ideas, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty.

It dragged on for more than a month.

With the passage of time, there are more and more local operations like Du Huaishui in Jiangxi, and the land encroachment spread around the Jitai Plain is the most serious.

Seeing such a scene, Du Huaishui's heart became steady.

The law does not blame the public, and half of Jiangxi's official eunuch families like the Du family are implicated in this matter, and they occupy the truth and legal correctness, even if the court wants to be poor, even if the emperor wants to break it, where can he clean it up?

The crows in the world are generally black, slow to say that Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Nanzhili, and Henan are also unclean, you can't kill all the crows.

However, Du Huaishui also knew that the matter involved so many people, and it was impossible for the court to hold the people accountable in accordance with the laws of the Ming Dynasty.

How to pursue stability? Of course, it is to suspend the implementation of the national policy of abolishing tax-free fields and workers' fields.

But Du Huaishui ignored the most important thing, that is, at the bottom, accounting for ninety percent of the number of scholars and scholars, the grassroots talents and people are not as shameless as those who are officials, and only a very small number of people are holding the land and unwilling to let go.

Most of the sources of tax-free fields under the names of these talents and people are the affiliated fields of neighbors and relatives, who will be cheeky and not retreat?

Those who are really unwilling to retreat are just career gates like the Du family, who have both rights and a high ceiling of employment.

Du Huaishui thought that their group of vested interests stood on the united front, and the power was enough to force the emperor to suspend the implementation of the national policy of abolishing the two fields and taxing the whole world, so he smiled every day when he entered the office, with a posture of being a bamboo in his chest, but soon he couldn't laugh.

"Lord Chen."

After receiving the order of Chen Yixin, the prefect of Ji'an, Du Huaishui's eyelids jumped violently as soon as he stepped into the prefect's office hall.

He actually saw the thousands of households of the Jinyi Wei Thousand Households in Ji'an Mansion at the Yamen of the Prefect of Ji'an Mansion!

In the past few years, the local Jinyi Wei Qianhu Office has been carrying out functional transformation, from supervising the local government to supervising officials, depriving the former local provincial government of some of the supervision responsibilities of the provincial government and the general judge.

And Jin Yiwei is directly under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Division, and there is a darkness in his bones that he can't see the light, and he has never had any contact with the local chief official in recent years, and often when these things living in the shadows show up, they will always take away a few lives!

"Our Qianhu Guanyang Valley of Ji'an Mansion."

Chen Yixin introduced it, and then looked at the latest issue of the Qiushi newspaper on the big case.

"Yang Qianhu."

His body trembled slightly, Du Huaishui greeted Yang Gu slightly, and before he could ask, the latter had already stood up and walked over with a smile.

"Du Huaishui Du Tuiguan, Hongwu twenty-seven years with the Jinshi background, Ling Zun was the left senator of Jiangxi in his early years, the fourth son of the knee, Gu is a minister of the court, the eldest son is your eldest brother is now the right of Jiangxi to participate in politics, supervising the grain road of the three mansions, right."

The bottom of the Du family was said unbiased from Yang Gu's mouth, which made Du Huaishui's forehead immediately sweat.

"The Imperial Front Division and the Shangguan of the Metropolitan Procuratorate have arrived in Nanchang Mansion."

Yang Gu's hand was on Du Huaishui's shoulder, and the latter sat on the ground as soon as his legs were weak, and he was a thief.

Seeing this Du Huaishui so frightened, Yang Gu smiled dumbly, turned his head to look at Chen Yixin, bowed slightly and said, "Lord Chen, this Du Huaishui, the lower officials are going to take it away." ”

Take? Where to take me?

Du Huaishui struck a spirit, lay on the ground to protect Yang Gu's thighs, and raised his head in horror: "Yang Qianhu, Xia Guan is an official of the imperial court, take the rules of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Criminal Department, and what crimes did the Xia Guan commit, and use it to go to Jinyiwei to explain?" ”

"I really don't have the regulations of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Criminal Department."

Yang Gu bent down, grabbed the collar at the back of Du Huaishui's neck, and pulled it up as soon as he used force.

"But I have an official document signed by Cabinet Elder Yang Ge and the Imperial Minister, is it enough?"

Cabinet, Imperial Minister?

These two mountains moved out, Du Huaishui suddenly felt that all the strength in his body had been drained, and the Du family had only encroached on hundreds of acres of land, where was it worthy of the cabinet and the imperial front secretary, a top-notch center, to be named in person?

The bigger the movement, the less vitality it is.

"Not anymore."

Chen Yixin watched Yang Gu leave with Du Huaishui, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

Thankfully, really lucky.

As the prefect of Ji'an Mansion, his family naturally can't be as honest as water, but fortunately, in this matter, he Chen Yixin still wisely chose to take a step back, and returned all the fields that did not belong to his Chen family to the people, and did not shamelessly hold on to the land deed.

If he had helped a colleague like the Du family at that time, it is estimated that the first person Yang Gu would have taken today would be him Chen Yixin!

Silently touched his neck, fortunately, his head was still there.

Early in the morning, the Jinyi Wei Thousand Households Office in Ji'an Mansion began to arrest people all over the city, breaking down the doors one by one, such a big movement, Chen Yixin only saw the Lanyu case in Nanjing when he was just in the middle of the year.

With such a movement, it must be that the emperor has a murderous intent!

The emperor's knife, not only Jiangxi, but also the entire Ming Dynasty will not be able to escape.

With the arrest of Du Huaishui, the affairs of the Du family were quickly implemented, the people of the Du family have been pampered for decades, where can they afford the torture of Jinyiwei, and they will be shaken out of the prison on the same day, and in addition to the land property voluntarily offered by the people, there are hundreds of acres that are directly swallowed.

That is, the anchorage land that was won in the early years, with the death of the original 'tenant' or imprisonment, he directly changed his face and encroached upon.

After the imperial court officially issued the national policy of canceling tax exemption and job income, the local people in Jishui County sued the Du family to the county government of Jishui County, and what relationships did his Du family use to deter the people, and the list of officials involved in the case, the Du family also honestly spit it out.

Not only that, including the Du family has had a relationship with which colleagues in Jiangxi for decades, and since the Du family, a large group of officials like the Du family in Jiangxi have responded, and there is also the shadow of the Du family.

"We hope that if the big guys behave like this, the law will not be held accountable, and the court will suspend the implementation of the national policy."

The boss of the Du family, who had already been sentenced and was dying, said weakly.

"I am Jiangxi's right-hand politician, and the main thing in this matter is that I am the one who contacts and directs, and I have nothing to do with my younger brothers, nephews and other children."

"It's shocking."

The official of the Metropolitan Procuratorate in charge of the Jiangxi region took the list and found the supervising eunuch of the Imperial Front Division, and said in a deep voice: "Father-in-law, this Jiangxi can be said to be rotten to the bone. ”

In the cabinet of the dynasty, Yang Shiqi, the first assistant, and Xie Jin, the university scholar, were both from Jiangxi, which not only greatly encouraged the morale of Jiangxi scholars, but also encouraged Jiangxi scholars to engage in township party activities to a certain extent.

The big guys support each other, and one family is greedy and ten are greedy!

Those who took the initiative to withdraw from the fields like Chen Yixin were basically outsiders, while the local tigers in Jiangxi had already discussed countermeasures and colluded together behind their backs. Either you return or you don't!

This is good, pull out the radish and bring out the mud, and none of them run away.

"According to the oracle, if this is all cut off, it will be a thousand heads."

Pinching the list collected together, the official of the Metropolitan Procuratorate swallowed: "What should I do?" ”

The matter has reached such a serious level, if you really want to draw a knife quickly, what kind of paralysis will that place become.

"What are you afraid of, and there is no chief officer."

The eunuch glanced at it: "The biggest one is just an envoy, there are only three local prefects, and there are only dozens of adjutant officials with seven people and five grades and six ranks, most of them are still unofficial and unemployed scholars and some officials who are not on the stage. ”

The literary style of Jiangxi is here, do you want to say too much, 108,000 literate people are not difficult to find, more than 1,000 heads, hundreds of posts, not enough for those poor people who are not in the first place to grab.

There are 60 or 70 million people in the Ming Dynasty, even if the literacy rate is only one percent, according to the proportion, the number of scholars in Jiangxi is an extremely large number.

"Commandment, kill!"

The eunuch didn't blink his eyelids, so he spat out: "Anyone on this list will be beheaded!" ”

The sky in Jiangxi, with the fall of this sentence, was dyed scarlet and hideous.

And the worst thing in Jiangxi is undoubtedly the Du family, from the head of the family to the old man Du, six of the four sons and seventeen grandsons were all beheaded!

The other eleven escaped because they were young and did not have a reputation, did not have the basis to own tax-free fields, and naturally could not have embezzlement, but they would be exiled to Liaodong or Taiwan with the daughters of the Du family for the rest of their lives.

The situation of the Du family is also the epitome of the door valve of the small half of the officials in Jiangxi, that is, the door is full of beheading!

Since Jiangxi, Nanzhili and Zhejiang, the two major provinces with the best energy of the scholar class, have not run away, and the two places together are also thousands of heads on the ground, and such as Henan, Shandong, Huguang, and Fujian, there are many second, and there are only a few hundred people together, not to mention Shanxi, which is not good at learning, and Shanxi and Beiping provinces are busy digging coal.

After the heap, the total number of officials involved in the tax exemption and employment field cases in the Ming Dynasty this time has also reached 3,700!

Three thousand seven hundred, that is, three thousand seven hundred heads!

Such a terrifying number made all the officials of the Ming Dynasty have a feeling of returning to the empty seal case of the year, and for a while, the people in the world were panicked and frightened.

But because of this, the process of returning land has been infinitely accelerated, and the entire 1.4 million hectares of land have returned to the hands of the common people and landlords.

At this time, Qiushi Bao published two consecutive articles and lit another fire.

"Since the beginning of the fifth year of the establishment of the text, the taxes of the local Shangnan Zhili and Zhejiang have been relaxed from 15 taxes to 20 taxes, and the rest of the provinces in the country have been relaxed from 20 taxes to 30 taxes.

In the past, there was a shortage of how many places to make up, and the treasury and the provincial official warehouses were dead, but now only half of the grain chiefs at the two levels of the provincial government are missing, and the other half is paid by the imperial court, so to speak, so that the local gentry and landlords can breathe a sigh of relief, plus the reduction and exemption of taxes, the total amount is naturally much less than in previous years, and the unjust money they have to spend is visibly less than the naked eye.

And the reduction and exemption of the provincial and government grain chiefs to make up for the shortage, this can be regarded as another kind of fire consumption to return to the public.

If the two-level grain chiefs of the provincial capitals run away, it will be difficult for the local tax policy of the Ming Dynasty to continue, and the intensity of disaster relief will also deteriorate.

Give up a little sweetness, it should be.

Reducing grain taxes and returning fire consumption to the public will not only allow the rapid recovery of people's strength, but also encourage the population to have children.

The leniency of the 30 tax and one tax, except for the early years of Hongwu was implemented for a period of time, and only the rule of Wenjing was implemented in all dynasties, and the amount of grain paid was equivalent to the land that the people chose to attach to the name of the scholars, which is an almost negligible number.

Abolish the tax-free field and the employment field, if you still look at the original tax, the annual tax of Daming Jianwen in five years is expected to reach 80 million stones! The country can't consume so much food, and it is better to let the people eat a few more bites of food if they are moldy, and only when they are full can they have the strength to have a baby.

The Ming Dynasty is now only four or five million hectares of land, subject to the lack of mechanization and the scarcity of the population, this number of reclamation has reached its peak, and the peasants of the people really rely on their physical strength and sweaty work to plough the land, so they have to eat more.

And the second national policy is purely Zhu Yunwen's encouragement of childbirth in order to stimulate the population explosion.

"Since the beginning of the fifth year of the establishment of the text, except for the military and commercial registrations of the military and garrison offices in various places, the registration of agricultural and artisan registrations has been stopped, and all craftsmen and peasants have unified household registration certificates, and the servants and subordinates of large households in various places have been registered and issued household registration certificates, and the total population and land production of each province have been submitted to the center."

Zhu Yunwen is about to start the Ming census to stimulate childbirth.

In many places, large landlords often have hundreds of subordinates, servants, maidservants, and the like, what are these?

In the era of cold weapons, these are national strength!

After the census is over, Zhu Yunwen will start to implement the Dingkou tax!

Pay as many taxes as you want, as long as you are willing to pay for it, you can raise it as you like.

With such a big land, what is 60 or 70 million dingkou enough for?

The northeast of China, which fed half of China in later generations, is still a virgin land, the vast prairie is still waiting for the Ming Dynasty to conquer, and the treasure land of South Asia and Southeast Asia that is two crops and three crops a year can also become the granary of the Ming Dynasty, and can also become the barrier of the Ming Sea, which all need to be realized.

According to the process, it took 150 years of hard work for the Ming Society to enrich the population to 150 million, and this growth rate is only 0.6 percent!

And referring to the population of the Zhu Ming clan, from more than 20 sons of Taizu to nearly 300,000 descendants of Wanli year! The growth rate has reached 6 percent!

That's ten times more than the average person.

The main crux of restricting the population growth of the Ming Dynasty is nothing more than two major points, the rapid reproduction of scholars and clansmen, both of which have squeezed out the breeding environment of ordinary people, and now these two have been cut by Zhu Yunwen, and then the proportion of taxes will be relaxed, and the population of the Ming Dynasty will usher in a high-explosive period.

Referring to the Manchu Qing Dynasty after the death of the Ming Dynasty, in the 30th year of Kangxi, the registered population of the Qing Dynasty was more than 20 million, and by the Xianfeng period, there were about 400 million Dingkou in the country. The growth rate is about 2 percent, of course, there is also the credit of the introduction of sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes, which leads to enough food to satisfy the stomach.

As for the other objective factors that limit the growth rate of the population: underdeveloped medical technology, low resistance to natural disasters, and insufficient level of industrialization, Zhu Yunwen is also working hard.

But at least within a hundred years, even if the entire Ming Dynasty plays with its life, it will not be able to fill the land around the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and objective factors will not be able to affect the current population The new birth rate is greater than the mortality rate.

Zhu Yunwen felt that as long as he didn't play a game like Jiuchi Roulin, he should be able to see Daming's Ding Kou break 100 million before he died.

The prosperity is not far away!