(When I pasted chapter 1276 yesterday, I made a mistake because of carelessness, and I apologize to the book friends, and it has been corrected first.) As a token of apology, this chapter is a gift of 600 words to book friends. This section does not occupy a word count)

"Good. Since all of you have no objections, I have ordered the scholars to write this charter into a holy decree and distribute it to the whole country. Yun Xi said with an unnatural smile.

He suddenly called so many officials, and several civil officials with the highest official positions in the Ming Dynasty into the palace, of course, it was not just to discuss how to block the opportunity of someone to take advantage of the newly established states and counties to exploit loopholes. Li Ren can think of a way he can think of himself. In fact, his real purpose had nothing to do with the imperial examination, just to hide from others; His real purpose was to use this reason to implement a new household registration system.

China has implemented a strict household registration system since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, and people other than officials who want to leave their place of residence within a radius of 20 miles must be certified by the local yamen, which is called 'Chuan' in the Qin and Han dynasties, 'Guosuo' in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and 'Lu Yin' in the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the Qin and Han dynasties, it was better, and there was also the system of the township pavilion, so it was relatively easy to ask the pavilion chief to open a certificate; But later, the township pavilion system died out, and people who wanted to go out had to go to the county government to prove that ordinary people could not open it without money, and the scope of activities of the common people was limited to a radius of 20 miles.

But this is out of step with the demands of capitalism. Capitalism demanded that there were free people to act as hired laborers, not peasants tied to the land. Moreover, in the early days of its birth, capitalism must have appeared in a small number of economically developed cities, and it was impossible for it to blossom everywhere. Because there were few people in the Ming Dynasty at this time, the landlords in small places would desperately bind people to the countryside, and the capitalists in the embryonic state could not do anything to the landlords, and it was easy for the landlords in small places to borrow the power of the government to make them unable to gain a foothold, and they could only move to the big cities under the jurisdiction of the officials appointed by Yun Xi to protect industry and commerce.

And so many merchants are gathered in a small number of cities, the number of workers has increased greatly, and the Ming Dynasty set up Fuzhou counties according to the size of the population rather than the size of the land area (except for the border passes and Hanyi mixed areas), the population of these few cities will not be enough after a certain stage of industrial and commercial development, and the population needs to be absorbed from other places; Therefore, Yunxi had to loosen the current hukou system, so that ordinary people other than merchants could also migrate, so that industry and commerce could have enough people to work as workers.

Allowing people to have legitimate jobs or marry locals to move their household registration was only the first step, the next step was to loosen the road guidance system for artisans, and the next step was to do it to farmers. Of course, we must be cautious in dealing with the peasant road guidance system, because it is very easy to cause a backlash from the landlords and even shake the Ming regime. Yun Hee believes that it must be carried out in parallel with attracting landlords to invest in industry and commerce in order to minimize social unrest.

In addition, he will also carry out reforms in the military household system to free up a large amount of surplus labor. However, he will not do it in a short time, so he will have to wait until the four local divisions are set up and operating normally.

Of course, because he, as a beneficiary of the current order, did not dare to carry out drastic reforms, but only dared to take small steps slowly, if China's capitalism developed too fast, it was possible that the number of free labor force could not catch up with the labor demand of industry and commerce.

With fewer people and more land, it is naturally relatively easy to carry out the agricultural reform of 'changing from the pursuit of the highest yield per unit of land to the pursuit of the highest output per unit of land,' because there is no need to divide the land, and the interests of too many landlords will not be touched; but the willingness of the peasants to work in the cities will also be greatly reduced when their incomes increase.

But Yun Xi is also happy to see this happen. Speaking of which, many people may not know that when capitalism was in its infancy, around the time when the new shipping routes were just opened, the aristocracy imposed much stronger constraints on the peasants in Western countries than in China due to the implementation of the feudal system, and the capitalists could only give several times more income than they did in the countryside in order to recruit workers, so that the peasants were willing to flee from the countryside to the city at the cost of being severely beaten or even killed if they were caught.

So the income of the workers at that time was very high! The inhabitants of the country can be regarded as the middle and upper class, belonging to the middle class, similar to the workers of European and American countries in the sixties and seventies of the last century.

The sweatshops of early capitalism, which everyone is familiar with, emerged after the development of industry and commerce, many former aristocratic landlords in the country were transformed into capitalists, and the peasants were driven out of the land, and more and more freemen could be employed.

The increase in peasants' incomes and their willingness to work in the cities after the implementation of the agrarian reform will force the capitalists to give higher incomes to the workers, thereby promoting a more equitable distribution of the wealth earned by industry and commerce, thereby reducing the turmoil in the period of social transition and reducing the influence of the regime.

Not only that, Yun Xi will continue to vigorously support the people of the Central Plains to move overseas or the Western Regions, and always maintain the situation that the number of people in the Central Plains is not too large, and ensure that there are not too many free labor available for employment, so as to reduce the possible impact on the regime.

At that time, Europeans, except for the Russians, could evacuate the population to Siberia, only the Americas could evacuate the population, but at that time, more than 30% of the ships from Europe to the Americas would sink, so that many peasants did not dare to cross the Atlantic until they were about to starve to death, so that the social contradictions in Europe have always been very fierce; Now there are so many places in Daming that can evacuate the population, among which the South China Sea area is almost risk-free to immigrate by boat in the season outside of summer, and the number of people who can be evacuated must be more than in Europe, and the social contradictions should be eased somewhat. He thought.

Moreover, Yun Xi had another purpose, which was to urge the capitalists to improve the industrial machinery. If the supply of labor in the Ming Dynasty had been oversupplied, the wages of the workers would be very low, and the capitalists would have no incentive to improve machinery and increase production efficiency, so that they could really increase productivity and promote the industrial revolution, not just in the early stages of capitalism.

Yun Xi thought about the future situation in his mind, and suddenly heard Lu Yi say: "The official family, the slave changes a cup of tea for the official family." Only then did he come back to his senses, coughed twice and said, "Lu Yi, Xuan Hu Yan is here, I have an errand to order him." ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, the matter I want to discuss with you has been discussed, Aiqing should step aside."

"Yes, Your Majesty." The officials present stood up and saluted, then withdrew.

Yun Xi waited for them to retreat, also stood up and stretched, moved, and walked to the sunny window to bask in the sun for a while, drank a bowl of sour plum soup to relieve the heat and cool down, and asked Lu Yidao: "Lu Yi, have the father and son of the Yu family arrived?" ”

"The official family, Yu Xu, Yu Qian's father and son have all arrived at the Jinshen Palace, waiting for the official family to receive them." Lu Yi said. As a eunuch who served Yun Xi closely, he knew that Yun Xi valued this little boy named Yu Qian very much, although he didn't understand why, he still deliberately pointed it out when he spoke.

"Tell them to see them!" Yun Xi said with a little excitement in his tone.

But Lu Yi did not immediately follow Yun Xi's order, but said: "The official family, Zhejiang Zuobu political envoy Lian Zining is also already waiting in the palace. ”

Yun Xi was stunned for a moment and said, "Lian Qing has already entered the capital today?" ”

Lu Yi didn't answer, just bowed down and stood beside Yun Xi, motionless; Yun Xi didn't care, and ordered: "Since Lian Qing has returned to Beijing, then Xuan Lian Qing will come to see me first." ”

He said to Lu Yi again: "You did a good job. When you encounter such a thing, you should remind me. Then he called another eunuch in a loud voice, and commanded him: "Go and tell Wang Xi that I will reward Lu Yi with a month's salary." ”

"Official, this is just the duty of a slave, not a reward from Your Majesty." Lu Yi said immediately.

"Hey, you who serve me by my side don't dare to say anything if you don't say what I want. If you dare to say a word, you will be rewarded. In the future, when things like this happen, you must remember to remind me. Yun Xi said.

But it's not like a reminder and don't say more. Lu Yi finished Yun Xi's words in his heart, and promised to retreat and go to the palace to pass on the message.

On the way, he still thought: 'If you like to be on the bus, it's really good, and the official family is still willing to remind the slave of such a thing.' But a companion is like a tiger, how dare a person who has not served by His Majesty's side for more than ten years and has thoroughly figured out His Majesty's temperament? Not afraid of being dragged down and killed? Although His Majesty is generous today, he is not without eunuchs who deal with too many mouths. ’

'Father-in-law Xi is willing to tell us this experience, it is really generous to be a human being, and if I need to take care of it in the future, I will definitely take care of it. ’