Chapter 293: He said long live the people
The first month of the sixth year of Jianwen is destined to leave a strong mark in the history.
Because this time the Great Dynasty Meeting marks the official implementation of the First Five-Year Plan of the Ming Dynasty!
While the court was in an uproar, the local government was the same, and the political envoys of the provinces were completely jumping.
They all felt the tremendous pressure like mountains and seas, and they also felt the courage of Zhu Yunwen, the emperor and the cabinet!
Although he was bitter in his heart, the emperor of the soil in these places could only pinch his nose and sign the military order to the cabinet with a wry smile.
If you don't sign it, you can't do it, if you sign it, you can be an official for at least another five years, and if you don't sign it, you'll be killed on the spot!
At this juncture, whether it is Yang Shiqi or Yu Xin, whether it is the Yang Party or the Zhejiang Party, everyone is red-eyed.
Don't say that you are Yang Shiqi's fellow countryman and friend, even if you are his own son, he can't care about covering you.
The tasks assigned by the cabinet and the central government to the provinces must be completed unconditionally, and if you dare to slack off in the slightest, you will be directly dismissed, and the current Ming cabinet has no effort or no effort in its eyes, and it doesn't care about the process, the cabinet only wants to see the result.
It's all done or it's not done!
"There is no way back."
Zhejiang's political envoy Wang Yu signed the military order under the watchful eye of the commissioner of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and then immediately summoned the colleagues and officials of the entire political envoy and the yamen, and said in a concise and unswerving tone.
"Notify the prefects of all prefectures and the same governors to come to Hangzhou."
The cabinet apportioned the provinces, and he apportioned them to the provinces!
Isn't it just accountability, in front of the military order, no one should keep face, either complete the task and get promoted to make a fortune, or take off the official robe and go home to farm.
As a rich coastal province of the Ming Dynasty, the pressure on Zhejiang is too great.
But in this period, which province can be relaxed?
"Check it out for me, how many fields and how many families do those landlords and old rich people have!"
Liu Ben, the political envoy of Shaanxi Zuobu, is an authentic Hebei man, who has the heroic spirit of Yan Zhao, and he is also murderous when he speaks.
"A bullshit digging coal, what are hundreds of fucking family members doing in the house, do you want to rebel! All of them were dismissed by the officials, and these families were compiled into civil registers and arranged to be reclaimed, and the land of Hebei was ten rooms and nine empty, and a lot of land had not been planted. ”
If there are insufficient households, they should be dismissed, and if they have insufficient land, they should also be dismissed.
A five-year plan can be regarded as pushing officials across the country to the edge of a precipice.
All the prefectures and counties felt the pressure, and one after another the county commanders really felt what it meant to not even have the time to eat and drink, and they were busy going to the front line all day long, taking three shifts of officials to the mountains and going to the countryside, and drilling in the poor countryside one after another.
I don't know how many wealthy businessmen in Hebei want to cry without tears.
They don't produce, and in the past few years, they have relied on digging coal and pouring mines, so they have bought hundreds of family servants to take care of the family's nursing home, and now they have all become buried mines.
Just one sentence at the entrance of the yamen, whether to be dismissed or not?
Not to be dismissed is to attempt to rebel!
"County master, these are all left to escort the boat and the car."
Shanxi's big-bellied coal boss sent a red-eyed county order to kneel: "I can't be dismissed, I've been dismissed, how can the goods of the Chamber of Commerce come out tomorrow." ”
"Fuck you."
The county magistrate kicked over, pointed at his nose and scolded: "You don't know how to do it, how much coal do you only produce a day, do you need to support more than 400 people in his mother?" ”
"Then you can dismiss half of the family, why do you want to dismiss the maid together."
The coal boss couldn't get past it, and he remembered the handsome maids in the house, which he bought to warm the bed in the house.
"There are men and women, when will this Dingkou be able to go up?"
This county order has long been red-eyed, because he was forced to a dead end by the top prefect, and the northwest men have violent personalities, and the military order signed is not a dismissal, but a sideline!
Ding Jingfu, the political envoy of Shanxi Zuobu, was born in the army in his early years, and he was also one of the largest households in Shanxi, and he was a veritable tiger.
As a large coal province, what is the situation in Shanxi, the cabinet is clear, there is money in this place, there are large and small coal bosses, and the collusion between officials and gentry is serious, and the number of acres of land lying on the books is definitely much worse than the actual number.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Shanxi, as the only remaining populous province in Hebei, relocated hundreds of thousands of people to Hebei, Henan and other places five times, but the number of people retained was still as high as 4 million!
This is still the statistics of the thirteenth year of Hongwu, and in the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, the population of Shanxi did not increase but decreased, falling to 3.7 million, the most bizarre is the national population verification at the end of the fourth year of Jianwen and the beginning of the fifth year, Shanxi's population actually dropped by 100,000, only 3.6 million left!
What about people?
The cabinet knew in his heart that it must be the local Haoqiang in Shanxi who was buying his mouth and filling his slaves.
The wealthy businessmen in Shanxi, even if they are weaker, can have hundreds of thousands of taels, and the common people have many children in their families, who will refuse if they can sell a girl for thirty or fifty taels of silver.
The daughters are sold to the landlords and wealthy merchants as bed warmers, and the proportion of Shanxi's population is more male than female, and if this continues, after ten or twenty years, I am afraid that Shanxi's population will be even less.
Therefore, the cabinet was the most ruthless in apportioning Shanxi: "Within five years, the registered population of Shanxi will not reach 4.3 million, and all the chief officials of a province will be dismissed from their posts and their homes will be confiscated. ”
Four million 300,000 is exactly the record of the thirteenth year of Hongwu.
Ding Jingfu saw this posture, and thought about asking his eldest brother Yang Shiqi who had just worshiped two years ago, but the inspector of the Metropolitan Procuratorate sent by the latter had already brought Yang Shiqi's meaning to him.
"If Shanxi can't meet the planned targets, the end will be miserable."
Within five years, Quan Daming will ensure that the increase of 6.7 million Dingkou will be completed, and Shanxi will only allocate 700,000, if it can't be completed, Yang Shiqi promises not to let Ding Jingfu go!
Ding Jingfu is also a ruthless person, and after knowing that there is no room for change in the affairs here, he murderously summoned the prefects of various prefectures.
"Those coal merchants who like to buy maids and boys, except for the family members who left them with daily trade escorts, have all been dismissed by me, especially the maids, and no one is allowed to buy maids again."
Overkill, left-leaning.
This is the case in the Central Plains, when a new policy is introduced, either the east wind will prevail over the west wind, or the west wind will overwhelm the east wind.
Of course, even so, Ding Jingfu did not dare to dismiss all the family members, and strictly ordered the local government to leave enough manpower for these coal merchants to operate their businesses, otherwise these coal merchants could not transport coal, and the commercial tax would decline.
Although Ding Jingfu was too lazy to care about the life and death of those wealthy businessmen, he only had his own life and death in his eyes, but in the handling of this matter, he still showed the wisdom of a provincial political envoy, and showed no mercy where it should be ruthless, but where there should be room for it, he also strictly required the prefecture and county level, and sent special personnel to supervise and investigate it at all times.
"For those who dare to disobey, they will be convicted of raiding their homes!"
Breaking the county order and destroying the door of the mansion.
In ancient times, the prefect of a prefecture could easily determine the life and death of the people of Lishu, let alone a province like Ding Jingfu?
If he doesn't fulfill the planned targets, he will have to go to the guillotine himself.
Up and down, what kind of leader has what kind of subordinates.
Ding Jingfu was furious, and the prefect and county magistrate under him were about to go crazy.
It is necessary to grasp not only the acres of land but also economic development, and both hands must be grasped, and both hands must be firm.
Why didn't you find out before, it turns out that those of us who are officials are so capable?
In such a short period of less than three months, on the basis of ensuring that the coal transportation of the Shanxi Coal Merchants Association was not affected, Shanxi was stunned to clean up nearly 100,000 half-sized children and girls!
Yang Shiqi is right, it's man-made!
As long as the Ming bureaucrats want to do it, there is nothing they can't do.
It's just that they are used to being lazy and sluggish, and if they are really cornered, they can burst out with more than ten times stronger energy and fighting spirit than usual.
"Let's do him a little first."
Banners were raised on the front lines of almost every prefecture and county, and Yang Shiqi's golden sentence became a proverb that spurred grassroots officials and officials to struggle, and everyone was working hard for the five-year plan.
For example, a large number of extra domestic servants who had been cleared out of the coastal areas were sent to Hebei to compile households, and those landlords and gentry who had been in collusion with the bureaucratic class for hundreds of thousands of years were severely stabbed by the officials they once attached to in this large-scale liquidation campaign.
"Do business and do business well, why do you raise so many people? Hug before you go out, you are more imposing than the official. ”
A wealthy businessman in Fujian, who has hundreds of subordinates in a house covering an area of nearly 100 acres, is found to be incredible when the local prefect knows about it.
When did the merchants of the Ming Dynasty become so arrogant?
It has only been six years since the imperial court lifted the ban on commerce, and this group of bourgeoisie began to eagerly enjoy the high power of the slave owners?
It was also discovered that without waiting for the cabinet to legislate, the local government began to introduce temporary regulations.
"For non-commercial needs, no more than 10 domestic servants are allowed in a household. Merchants who need to travel by boat or escort car shall declare the number of households to the Yamen with a valid business permit, and the actual inventory shall not exceed the declared quantity. ”
The bureaucratic class was officially in opposition to the powerful gentry class.
And in this situation, many things are also developing in a good direction.
For example, because there is no surplus land to cultivate, the population cleared out of Jiangnan will be filled into Hebei for reclamation, so that even if one side produces the population and the other side sells the land, the two sides work together to realize the plan of adding new registered Dingkou and the number of acres of land.
Working together, the big picture is important.
"Concentrate on big things."
The articles in each issue of Qiushi Bao are rendering this kind of social atmosphere in full swing, which makes Zhu Yunwen even have a trance, this atmosphere of struggling towards a goal all day long, just like when he was a child, his grandfather, an old Red Army reminiscence.
"At that time, with a wave of his big hand, the whole country was united, and there was a high fighting spirit to move mountains and reclaim the sea, and there was nothing difficult in this world, because the power of the people is invincible."
The miracle of the 50s and 60s?
Zhu Yunwen copied the cabinet's copy of the newspaper, looked at the achievements of the provinces in the past few months, and fell into silence.
If he could have this honor to pay tribute to the great man and do a few big things in this life in this time and space, he would be blind to death.
Thinking of this, Zhu Yunwen's heart shook and summoned Hu Sizong, who wanted to publish an article in the newspaper.
"Remembering the state financial revenue of the five years of the Ming Dynasty, the grain is more than 42 million stones, more than 40 million taels of silver, a number of cloth silk silk, and a number of mercury tea cinnabar.......
Although the income has reached a new high, it has surpassed Tang Tianbao, but it has been calculated. During the Tianbao period, the imperial court could buy 71 million stone grain with an annual income of 10 million, and the price of grain was nearly half cheaper than that of today.
In terms of the annual income of silver money, I have been in the Ming Dynasty for five years, and I have not even caught up with half of the Southern Song Dynasty. ”
In the latest issue of Qiushi Daily, Zhu Yunwen, the emperor, made a rare appearance, wrote and wrote in person, pouring a spoonful of hot oil on the current hot situation.
"Two hundred years later, my Ming Dynasty has not been able to catch up with the Southern Song Dynasty. Not only is it not as good as the mouth, but the taxes are not enough, and even the expenses and prices required for the people's life are not even as low as the Tang Dynasty 800 years ago.
I can't help but want to ask: Since the ancestors of the present dynasty, what have countless Ming monarchs and ministers been doing? Where have we wasted our time, where have we lost it?
Time has been lost by us in war, lost in the hundreds of years of foreign entry, and we are terrified by the sound of iron hooves during every day and night.
Spring and autumn are short, and there is no more green skull.
If our generation is lazy, future generations will be busy, and if our generation struggles, future generations will be relaxed.
Now I have set a five-year plan, and my heart is the livelihood of the world. I only hope that the holiday will be successful, and I will never give more, so that the people will no longer have hunger and bitter cold.
As long as I, the cabinet and the people can stand together, work together, roll up our sleeves and work hard, then we can regain the hundreds of years we have lost! I am convinced of this.
Long live the Ming Dynasty, long live the people of the Ming Dynasty. ”
In every era, there will always be beliefs in every era.
The belief of Jianwen in the world is Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen.
A leader who can inspire the people and call on the people of the world must be a good leader, even if his ability is just a cowherd, but the country under his leadership can also burst out with great power that makes the world look sideways.
This was true of Emperor Taizu Gao, and so were his successors.
"Long live the people to your majesty, and your majesty says long live the people."
Yang Shiqi put down the newspaper and couldn't help but be impressed by Zhu Yunwen's bearing.
With this fire, Daming's five-year plan this time will definitely not fail.
Longjiang Shipyard, Fuzhou Shipyard, Quanzhou Shipyard, Pingjin Shipyard.
In several major shipyards in the Ming Dynasty, thousands of workers shouted slogans, shirtless, sweating back and forth, and the propaganda slogan of 'roll up your sleeves and work hard' hung on the keel, and these workers also held back a common thought:
Win back lost time!
There is no miracle that the Chinese nation cannot create, because there are too many miracles created by this nation in its 4,000-year-old glorious years.
One after another, warships are launched into the sea, and the simplest ships to build can even be done once a month!
One a month, four shipyards and dozens of docks, Wei Jun didn't even dare to calculate.
With this kind of efficiency and enthusiasm, he can complete the 600 ships in the five-year plan in one year!
"First, we will make every effort to process the cao transport ships, and the construction of the Fu ships and warships will be postponed."
At the first time, Wei Jun made the most correct decision.
The construction of the ships and the use of these newly launched ships to transport materials to and from the ships can not only speed up the delivery of materials for other construction periods, but also help support the work of the sister provinces.
It was also at this moment of high enthusiasm of the whole people that the smart Yang Shiqi introduced a policy of buying land with fields.
Jiangnan is densely populated, and the corresponding per capita arable land is scarce, while Hebei and Liaodong are sparsely populated, with millions of hectares of land uncultivated, which is a good opportunity for immigrants to settle down.
"Replace one acre of land in the south of the Yangtze River with ten acres of land in the Hebei Plain and Liaodong Plain!"
The policy was opened to Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi for the first time, and local propaganda also caught up with Zhu Yunwen's east wind.
"Time waits for no one, five years to reclaim millions of hectares, we must work together, the more land, the richer the country, the rich the country can make the people strong.
His Majesty said that if the holiday is successful, it will never be endowed. ”
There is an emperor to inspire the people, and there is policy support, what is there to hesitate about?
As soon as some poor families in the three provinces gritted their teeth, they really boarded the northbound Cao transport ship and went to Pingjin without hesitation at the mouth of the Yangtze River.
The Ming version of the Kanto!
"In the three provinces south of the Yangtze River, a total of 400,000 households have migrated, totaling more than 2.35 million."
When Xia Yuanji found Zhu Yunwen to give his gift, the tea bowl in the latter's hand almost fell to the ground, Rao was like this, and he poured himself all over while shaking.
"How much? More than two million? ”
This is the Ming Dynasty, an ancient society that attaches great importance to the local complex.
"The people regard Your Majesty as their father, and they are willing to respond to Your Majesty's call to open up wasteland and reclaim land and prosper the place."
Zhu Yunwen took a long breath, only to feel the itch of the scalp bursting.
More than 2 million people went north, how much land could be reclaimed?
What a simple, lovely people,
With a slogan and a promise that they will never be given, they are willing to leave their ancestral hometown and go to a foreign land that they have never seen or even heard of in their lives.
"These immigrants are going to be exempted from this year's tax."
Zhu Yunwen was moved, hurriedly explained, and said urgently.
"By the way, the north is not better than the south of the Yangtze River, the north is colder, let the Liaodong Weaving Bureau send each of them a few more pieces of warm clothing, don't freeze, if the treasury is tight, I will come out from within."
The people regard the king as a father, and the king loves the people as a son.
Xia Yuanji's eyes were red for a while, he had read books for half his life, and he had never spied on such an era of deep affection between the monarch and the people in books.
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the minister guarantees that more than two million people, men, women and children, will survive their first winter in the north safely."
Grabbing the ground with his head, Xia Yuanji left the Qianqing Palace in good spirits.
He is now full of energy and fighting spirit.
To be able to watch this country make great strides forward is indeed a lifelong honor for the ministers.