Chapter 114: The Big Question

Zhu Houzhao walked in expressionlessly, at this time Zhu Houzhao's best performance was not to speak, and then stood quietly to the side. Before figuring out what it was, Zhu Houzhao decided not to say anything, nor to speak, and to see what his father thought.

Seeing Zhu Houzhao leaving, Zhu Youzhu listened and scolded these ministers, and those ministers bowed and saluted: "See His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

At this moment, the faces of these people all showed expressions of relief, this was the first time that the ministers were so looking forward to the arrival of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Zhu Houzhao saluted his father: "The son and the emperor see the father." ”

Zhu Youzhu nodded, still with a dark face, but because of the arrival of his son, Zhu Youzhang's expression softened a lot: "When you come, you will help the staff officer." Saying that, Zhu Youzhu said to a middle-aged official not far away: "He Jian, you talk to the prince." After saying this, Zhu Youzhu sat back on the dragon chair, obviously going smoothly.

He Jian, this person Zhu Houzhao knows, but he doesn't have much contact, the squire of the Criminal Department, if every emperor has to raise an official who is not afraid of offending people, then this He Jian is such a person.

He Jian, the word Shiguang, the number of five mountains, Zhejiang Xinchang people, Chenghua five years of Jinshi, when he was young, he had great ambitions, once said: "Out but not loyal to the king, into but not filial piety to relatives, how can you not be ashamed of the body of heaven and earth seven feet." The first grant of Yixing Zhi County. In the tenth year of Chenghua, he visited the imperial history of Shanxi Province, inspected the Xuanfu and Datong, and impeached dozens of incompetent officials below the governor Zheng Ning.

After returning to Taicang, the governor and eunuch violated the law, arrested and punished the crime, was framed, and went to the prison in brocade clothes. Soon he was released, and then toured Jiangbei.

Where the Fengyang Emperor's Mausoleum is located, the people take the nearest inch of wood as a capital crime, and the mausoleum guards abuse the people according to the prohibition. In the seventeenth year of Chenghua, he became the prefect of Henan Prefecture. The local disaster has been famine for many years, and the warehouse has been opened for relief, and ten things have been said about the famine. In the twenty-third year of Chenghua, he was promoted to participate in politics on the left side of Shandong, and successively served as the political envoy of the left and right sides of Sichuan.

In the sixth year of Hongzhi, he was promoted to the right deputy capital of the Imperial Palace, governor of Jiangnan, and concurrently managed the taxes and grains of the three prefectures of Hangzhou, Jia, and Hu. Susong flood, 150,000 stone relief of rice. With the waiter Xu Guan, Wusong and Baimao canals, drained into the sea, and the flood was eliminated.

In my mind, I reviewed He Jian's life, this person who made a speech in the supervision office, and the things that were impeached were all words, not afraid of the powerful, if you have to find a template for supervising the imperial history, then this He Jian is absolutely qualified. He stared at the lawlessness of officials, instead of thinking about how to criticize the emperor and how to make a name for himself all day long.

As a magistrate, honest and self-controlled, able to do things, starting from the county, with rich resumes, and a good understanding of the livelihood of the local people, Zhu Houzhao suddenly thought of something, as if he could go to the northwest!

At this time, He Jian didn't know that he was being remembered by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty, and wanted to let him go to the northwest, after listening to Zhu Youjiao's words, He Jian hurriedly said: "Yes, Your Majesty!" Then he turned his head to look at Zhu Houzhao, bowed and said, "His Royal Highness the Prince, in April this year, the minister was ordered to go to the Jingxiang area to raise the displaced people. ”

"The minister traveled through the junction of Henan, Huguang, and Shaanxi, and verified more than 235,000 households and more than 739,000 people in Jingxiang."

Zhu Hou looked at He Jian, a little incredulous, more than 235,000 households, more than 739,000 people?

Displaced people, this is something that all dynasties and dynasties are afraid of, there are many reasons for the displaced people, but basically they can't escape natural disasters**, the so-called natural disasters, that is, they are affected by disasters, the land has no output, and they can't survive locally, so they simply go to other places to live. **The reason is simpler, military disasters or harsh government, of course, there is one of the most important reasons, that is, land annexation.

At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the state granted land, which basically meant that everyone could get land, and newborns also had land, because the war consumed a large number of people, and the land was enough.

This point is the same in all dynasties, even in later generations, many people have also experienced this, some of the post-90s can be divided into land, and some can't, that is, because the cultivated land is gone, there is no way to distribute it to the people, which leads to the emergence of land without arable land. Coupled with illness and calamity, land is becoming more and more insufficient, and the people have no way to live.

Although the annexed land also needs people to cultivate and to be tenants, there are still people who can't even be tenants.

In a word, the number of people exceeds the carrying capacity of the land, and it is not difficult to solve it in the future generations, industry and commerce can absorb a large amount of surplus labor and create countless values, but not in this era, they can only become displaced people, living a hungry and full life. This raises a lot of problems, like the refugees of later generations.

These people are an unstable factor in social security, and the slightest carelessness will be exposed, not to mention the crime rate, and there are a lot of bandits and robbers.

Now Zhu Houzhao knows why his father lost his temper, this has touched the foundation of Daming's rule, and the number of displaced people is not unusual, the key is that this number is too scary. More than 235,000 households and more than 739,000 households, which have been found, but what have not been found? Millions of displaced people! If this is revealed, what will it look like?

There must be a lot of escapees, and even military households who escaped, this is a powder keg, which will explode if you are not careful.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but take a deep look at He Jian, this person is really a good courtier, you must know that these homeless people have not existed for a day, it will take so many years to have so many people. Nobody knows? This is impossible, at least the magistrates know, but they don't report it, and they will be removed after one term, who cares about this.

If the problem of displaced people is not solved well, it will affect the political performance, so it will simply not explode, besides, there are too many things involved.

The essential question is where does the land go without it? Most of them were annexed, and the displaced people were resettled, who paid for it? Who comes out of the land?

All the gentry and officials subconsciously hid, full of tacit understanding, anyway, if I can't see the problem, there is no problem, this is a typical bureaucratic thought. This He Jian is not small, he directly pierced the sky, and he did it himself, traveled to several provinces, calculated the number of displaced people, was bold, able to do things, and was a good official.

Thinking of this, Zhu Houzhao smiled at He Jian, and then softly reassured: "Lord He is hard. ”

He Jian did this, it is estimated that the bigwigs in the court will be dissatisfied with him, and when the matter is poked out, how to solve it has become the bigwig's problem. You must know that not every bigwig wants to ask for the people's life, it's just a slogan, it's okay to shout more, when it really smashes over, many people dodge it in a flash.