"Taiyue Xianggong, you are the most valued protégé of Old Xiangye Xu, if he doesn't come to you, who else can he find?"

Feng Bao's sentence is half right, but it's not all right. Xu Jie's sending people to Beijing to carry out activities will of course come to Zhang Juzheng, but with Xu Jie's thoughtful and cautious handling of things, of course, it is impossible to find Zhang Juzheng alone.

When he was in the cabinet during the day today, because Zhang Ju was the chief writer on duty today, he read almost all the recitals that were transferred from the General Administration Department today, and except for the normal recitals, which only accounted for a quarter of today's general recitals, there were two types of recitals that accounted for half of each of the remaining three-quarters.

Half of it is to ask the emperor to make a clear decree to let the sons and daughters of the military ministers and nobles get out of the palace, and not to "flatter the prince" and "shake the country" - of course, everyone did not use the word "roll" directly, but the meaning is definitely the level of "roll", and it may even be more sufficient than the anger contained in "roll".

This is mixed with several military ministers and nobles involved in this matter, they have said in the recital: their own son or grandson is stubborn, really not worthy of playing with His Royal Highness the Prince, they themselves are deeply worried about this, extremely worried that their son or grandson will bring His Royal Highness the Prince, even if it is only a little bit, it is also a huge harm and loss caused to them to the Ming Dynasty, and it is completely impossible to redeem death, so "crying blood and begging" Your Majesty to let their children go home, they must be strictly disciplined from now on, even did not hesitate to kill Yunyun.

Among them, Zhu Xizhong, the Duke of Chengguo, was particularly urgent, although this Duke was already sick, but he was sick and wrote three pieces in a row to submit, asking His Majesty to let his eldest grandson Zhu Yingzhen go home. The first stanza says that the child is not a good person, and that he must be taught carefully so as not to affect the prince; The second is that the child's grandfather is going to celebrate his birthday, and he hopes that he will at least come back first to go back to his mother's house with his mother; The third one is even more absolute, saying that he, Zhu Xizhong, feels that he is about to die of illness, and strongly asks this eldest grandson to come back to see him for the last time!

At that time, Zhang Juzheng watched these three pieces in a row, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart: Our Chengguo grandfather seems to be really frightened by the angry scolding of the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty, for fear that he will be scolded inexplicably in the future as a traitor through the ages. In order to "rescue" his grandson from the palace, he even cursed himself for being seriously ill - this is a rhythm that is so scared that he can't even die!

In addition to the "prince playing with him", the other half of the chapters are all related to the "Songjiang Retreat Case". Part of this is to directly complain to Mr. Xu, and a larger part is to denounce Hai Rui for being "confused" and "reckless".

Let's not talk about the aggrieved, Zhang Juzheng knew in his heart that he couldn't go anywhere as an old favor, but he still looked at Hai Rui's recital.

It's not that Zhang Juzheng has already sat on the side of his old Enxiang first, but that he himself is really very concerned about the issue of field clearing under Ying Tian's rule, and he very much hopes to extract useful information in this matter as an important reference for the field clearing work when he is in power in the future.

Judging from the examples given in these movements, Zhang Juzheng believes that although Hai Jui's work attitude is not problematic, his working methods are indeed too simple and crude.

Here we must first explain that Hai Rui's current governor of Yingtian is not just a simple governor of Yingtian, it has a full name, called: Prime Minister, Grain Reserve, Admiral, Military Affairs and Governor Yingtian.

What's on top here? It is not the governor Yingtian, but the prime minister's grain reserves.

In order to do a good job in this "prime minister's grain reserve," it is necessary to clean up the fields. But I don't know if this field is not clear, and I am shocked. Everywhere Hai Jui went, there were poor people who came to complain, who accused the rich of taking their land and the government forcing them to pay taxes. Moreover, more and more people began to point the finger at Hai Rui's life-saving benefactor: Xu Jie, the former cabinet assistant who had just been appointed to the office.

Xu Jie has been an official for more than 40 years, his protégés are all over the world, and his three sons have also entered the officialdom because of his relationship, and the father and son have purchased a large piece of land in their hometown, and the Xu family has become the family that occupies the most fields in Songjiang.

The matter of Songjiang was placed in front of Hai Rui Hai Qingtian, and everyone's eyes were also focused on Hai Rui Hai Qingtian - aren't you Qingtian, what kind of ability is it to check us, you have the ability to check Xu Jie!

Hai Rui is indeed upright and loyal, but being upright and upright does not mean being stupid and dull, he can feel the mentality of these people, and he also knows the trouble and embarrassment he is facing now.

However, Hai Jui is Hai Jui, and the blue sky is the blue sky! He decided: shoot the man first and shoot the horse first, and capture the thief first and capture the king.

Not only that, but it has to be fast!

If you want to clear all the cases one by one, it will take time and a lot of staff. Moreover, these cases are almost all old accounts, and many of the land transfer documents no longer exist, how to clean them up? No one can come up with a solution that can properly solve the problem within the law.

What to do?

Of course, Hai Jui has Hai Jui's style, or rather: the word Hai Jui itself represents a style, a unique style.

He adopted what he considered to be the simplest and most immediate method, and one that Chinese officials had most often used in the past: administrative means to settle economic disputes. Because in their view, all economic problems are ultimately political problems, and they are all issues related to social stability.

As a result, Hai Jui directly ordered that all the rich households should return half of their land to the government, and then the government would distribute it to the poor people who complained according to different circumstances. Not only that, but he also regarded the family of his benefactor Xu Jie as a "head sheep". In his opinion, as long as this "head sheep" takes the lead in returning the land, other rich households will not dare to resist or default. Of course, this truth is good, no matter how hard you are, can you be harder than the former first assistant who has been an official for more than 40 years?

As an old-school bureaucrat, Xu Jie should be said to be very "knowledgeable", and after he got the news, he immediately told Hai Rui and his friends that his family's acres of land were clearly registered with the government, and a total of 20,000 acres.

But as a veteran minister who has worked diligently for more than 40 years for the Ming Dynasty, although he has retired to Zhishi, in order to respond to the great call of Hairui Haiqingtian, he ignored the family situation, patiently persuaded his family, and decided to take the lead in retiring 10,000 acres of land!

Xu Jie believes that by doing this, he not only gave Hai Rui enough face, but also worthy of other "rich people" within the jurisdiction of Ying Tianxun - the name of Haizhong Cheng Qingzheng is known to the world, and he is a person who wants to save face, so we must give this face.

However, the problem is that Hai Rui doesn't want face, what he wants is: Qingzhang Tianmu.

Your old man Xu has hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land at home, and he is embarrassed to say that there are only 20,000 acres of land.

So Hai Rui was very dissatisfied with Xu Jie's performance. He knew that the so-called registered acres of land were used by everyone to cope with the payment of grain. It is already an open secret that many of the fields of large families are not in the books, and the reason why he Hai Rui wants to clear the acres of land is that he wants to reveal this secret.

Not only do the wealthy hide from the government, but the localities also hide from the center. The government in many places has two accounts, one is their own family background, and this account needs to be true, otherwise it will be a confused official; There is also a book for the superiors and the imperial court, which is a false number, as long as it can be fooled, the smaller the value, the better.

He Hai Rui is also a person who has served as the magistrate of Chun'an County, Zhejiang Province and Xingguo County, Jiangxi Province, and is familiar with the mysteries, how can these routines be hidden from him?

However, as Xu Jie's letters were sent one by one and the envoys set off one by one, Hai Rui was reprimanded and impeached more and more, and the most obvious and indeed the most criticized point is: What is the legal basis for your indiscriminate "half of the land"?