The real root of the current problem lies in the political structure of the Ming Dynasty - from the top cabinet to the eight ministries and then down to the various political envoys and then to the county, this line is firmly held in the hands of Emperor Chongzhen.

However, from the county level down to the specific subdivision, the administrative structure from the township level to the village level is almost the same as an extralegal place, and the favorable court decrees are implemented, and the useless ones are treated negatively, unless the court moves the real character.

The continuous emigration of the Ming Dynasty is the top priority of Emperor Chongzhen's concern, and naturally no one has the courage to grow hair and dare to contradict Emperor Chongzhen in this matter.

However, the most direct reaction after the migration of a large number of people is that the land is idle, not only in the case of the land in Huangzhuang, but also in the case of those landlords.

Since Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, he has been constantly buying and hoarding grain, and the largest grain merchant in the world is by no means a Hui, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Jin merchants, but Shaofu.

On the other hand, it is because of these hybridized high-quality grain varieties made by Chen Zuqi - through more than ten years of continuous exploration, the Agricultural College has produced many high-quality grain varieties under the leadership of Chen Zuqi, and the grain output has increased again and again, which has further suppressed the price of grain.

The most direct impact of grain prices is that the people of the Ming Dynasty do not have to worry about not being able to eat, but have excess grain to feed livestock and make wine, so naturally no one will sell their land because they are poor and cannot eat.

In addition, there is no such thing as endowment at all, and they are exempted from forced labor, and ordinary people will not be idle and run away to rent land.

Although those big landowners have also reaped some benefits in the process, the benefits are almost multiplied compared to the previous time when grain prices were extremely high.

In this case, what should I do if I want to reap the same benefits as before? Of course, it's to get food prices back up – what if you want food prices to go back up? Artificially inflated food prices, of course!

If you want to raise the price of food, the first hurdle is the imperial court.

Emperor Chongzhen definitely doesn't want to see food prices rise, and the court bosses led by the Shaozhuang faction must also be on the same front as Emperor Chongzhen, and they also don't want to see food prices rise.

The second level is the common people.

The people of Daming are more concerned about whether their families can have enough to eat, and then how much benefit they can bring to themselves after the price of food rises - whether they can eat enough, no matter how high the price of food is, there is an egg?

There are even some people who, like the big landlords, also hope that the price of grain will rise, and when the price of grain rises, they will be able to sell more grain for silver, and their families will have a better life.

There is also a very fucked up problem, that is, the people of the Ming Dynasty have not yet experienced the Internet explosion, and a lot of news is either said by the storyteller, or the second uncle of the third son-in-law of the seventh uncle of the neighbor's relatives said it in the younger son, and the ordinary people who can read the newspaper and buy it are always a minority of the minority.

True and false news are mixed together, and the government's lack of control over the bottom level naturally causes information asymmetry and is easy to be fooled.

The fortunate thing in the misfortune is that since Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, most of his energy has been focused on how to make the people of the Ming Dynasty eat well, and no matter how stupid the people are, they can truly experience the huge difference from when they couldn't eat before.

So the final result is that there are indeed many people who are dissatisfied with the low price of food and are fooled, but no matter how lame they are, they are not stupid enough to point the finger at the imperial court and Emperor Chongzhen, but at Chen Zuqi, who came up with the optimization of grain varieties.

And then there is the reason why Emperor Chongzhen is angry.

Chen Zuqi is the same as Yuan Longping, this is enough to be canonized, make high-yield food to make these people full, and then put down the bowl and scold?

There is no such reason in the world, and it doesn't make sense anywhere.

I've seen a lot of all kinds of bullshit remarks, but I didn't expect this kind of brain-dead to appear in Daming, and Emperor Chongzhen's mood is not beautiful in any way: "Don't those actors and storytellers like to sing and tell stories, they all hang them on poles to dry, let them calm down, and then send them to Chennai in the Mughal to open up the wasteland, so that they can live there for reflection and reflection."

And the people behind this matter, no matter how many people I am implicated, if there are 10,000, I will arrest 10,000, and if there are 100,000, I will arrest 100,000, this kind of garbage is better not to stay! ”

After the fire was over, Emperor Chongzhen set his eyes on Lu Xiangsheng again: "Go back and remember to tell the Ministry of Rites and Guozijian that if any scholar also has this bullshit view, he will directly take away his fame, recover all preferential treatment and never use it!" ”

These people who have been led astray by others can say that those who read books will be very fucked up if they are also led astray - the future generations are proper keyboard warriors.

Unlike the keyboard warriors of later generations, who can only hold the keyboard and cannot participate in government affairs, many of these readers in Daming will actually participate in government affairs and come into contact with all aspects of Daming.

When these people enter the ministries and even the cabinet, they can really affect the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor drops the chain again, that is the really terrible situation!

After Lu Xiangsheng bowed down, Emperor Chongzhen continued: "The reason why such a problem arises is that the people's wisdom has not been opened, and the people are also cloudy. ”

Lu Xiangsheng bowed and said: "What Your Majesty said is extremely true, but although social studies have been everywhere, the illiterate people are still like carps crossing the river, and if they want to change completely, they are afraid that it will not happen overnight." ”

Emperor Chongzhen snorted, knocked on the table with his fingers and said: "The matter of social science is not urgent, ten years of trees, a hundred years of people, it is not an overnight effort, and I also know that it is not urgent."

But there is another problem, which is exposed at the moment, and if this matter is not solved in the future, today's incident will repeat itself sooner or later. ”

Lu Xiangsheng still bowed down and said: "Yes, the country gentry still have a very heavy right to speak, and the small people of Shengdou regard the patriarchal law as greater than the national law, and regard the sectal order as greater than the government decree, and they are more afraid of the clan elders than their parents and officials, once someone instigates it, there will be a big problem." ”

Lu Xiangsheng didn't expect today's scene to appear before - more than ten years of smooth sailing, since Chongzhen five years later, it is almost Haiyan Hejing, and there is a phenomenon of singing and dancing among the people, and the sudden appearance of the situation makes the court feel a little caught off guard.

Emperor Chongzhen sneered and said, "Is it that I can't move the knife?" Or are some people too floating? It is time to change the situation that the imperial court decree does not go to the countryside in the future, no matter what patriarchal and clan laws, in front of the court laws, I must make way for the laws!

The Cabinet and the Ministry of Household and Officials discussed together to see how towns should be set up below the county level, with the head of the town to govern the townships under them, and the head of the township to govern the villages, and there must be a village head in the village.

Once such a problem arises again, from the village chief to the township head, I don't believe that there are still people who can eat the bear's heart and leopard gall and dare to resist the Da Ming Law! ”

Lu Xiangsheng suddenly felt extremely painful.

There is no one in the past dynasties who does not know the disadvantages of the imperial power not going to the countryside, and it is not that they do not want to directly set up administrative units directly in the village - although the ancients did not have those messy technologies and technologies as support, they did not necessarily have a worse political vision than the people of later generations.

To put it bluntly, it's not that I don't want to, but I can't.

Even if there is a imperial examination system, a large number of talents can be selected, and it is not easy to achieve a surplus of talents.

In ancient times, the small officials in the township, in the spring and autumn period, eighty households were one mile, and those who had the ability to govern things were the right. The Qin and Han dynasties are the hundred schools of thought, and the Li is positive, also known as the Li Dian and Li Kui. The Jin and Southern Dynasties were renamed Li Officials. The Northern Wei Dynasty, the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty are all placed, and they are still called Lizheng. Song Yilizheng, household chiefs and other superintendents paid taxes; Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty began to order each county to take the first-class household as the lizheng and the second-class household as the head of the household. Jin and Yuan also set up Lizheng, which is clearly called Lichang.

Here we go back to the original question, officials are not officials! It is impossible for the Ministry of Officials to focus on officials below the county level - the Ministry of Officials is responsible for the officials of the entire Ming Dynasty, and they don't even want to take care of it at the county level, so return to their hometowns?

What's more, most of these are made out of the local clans, and they will naturally go to their own clan forces, as for how the imperial court decree will be interpreted in the mouths of these people, it is conceivable.

It is precisely because of this that when Emperor Chongzhen mentioned that there would be a township under the county and a village under the township, Lu Xiangsheng would feel extremely painful.

Daming doesn't have so many surplus talents!

Especially with the continuous conquest of the Ming army, the territory area is getting larger and larger, and the number of officials needed is also increasing, and there is no excess talent wasted to the local area.

But this problem is not a problem at all for Emperor Chongzhen: "Abolish the lieutenant chief, the village chief is jointly elected by the people of a village, elected every three years, those who are unqualified are deposed, and those who are qualified are given official status and are under the management of the local political envoys."

As for the township head, let's first select from the county government offices in various places, and the official body is from the nine grades, and the big edict is also applicable to village heads, township heads and officials at all levels and above.

By the way, the township also set up a township lieutenant, who was led by the general flag and small flag of the veterans, and the township soldiers were also selected from the retired soldiers to guard the township and arrest thieves and other matters to them, so there must be no problem. ”

Lu Xiangsheng groaned for a long time and finally responded.

Emperor Chongzhen is very capricious, and he can make a decision with a pat on his head, as for how to operate in the middle, it has to be a headache for the cabinet, the household department and the ministry.

But I have to admit that the method proposed by Emperor Chongzhen is indeed a solution.

The advantage of the county government directly connecting with the governor is vertical management, and if there is anything to do directly, it can go directly to the lizheng level, and then directly to the people, and it is precisely because of this that the county order is called a pro-people official.

The problem lies in this point, the chief is directly facing the county level, how many lieutenant chiefs does a county have? The county commander is too busy to manage it, so he still needs to take care of other things?

Once there is any problem, just finding these senior managers, ordering things to go down and then executing, it will already take a part of the time, and the administrative efficiency can be imagined.

Now that Emperor Chongzhen proposed to select township chiefs from all levels of county government, in fact, a lot of effort has been saved - at least, these township chiefs do not need to be selected from among the scholars who are selected from the annual imperial examination.

As for the village chief, it's even better, even if the village chief elected in the first session is still the patriarch of those clans, in fact, it's not a big problem, because they already have a township chief who directly manages them.

The township chief is not like the county magistrate, the county magistrate may be busy to death, the township chief is staring at the one-third of an acre of land in front of him, and he can completely focus a lot of energy on fighting with these old patriarchs.

Even if they can't fight them, they can completely make these clan elders lose the election after three years, or directly abolish their position as village heads, and then re-elect them - even if these clan elders are elected again, then they will be elected again.

Anyway, everyone is used to playing shady operations, and it doesn't necessarily mean that these clan elders will definitely be able to control the place to death.

If they really have that ability, Emperor Chongzhen would have already made a big mess when he played the immigrant real side before, and he would honestly wait for the government to arrange it?

At this point, Emperor Chongzhen was still not very satisfied: "I have heard that in many places, the people still recognize the patriarchal law, and there are often cases where the clan elders bypass the Ming law and lynch them.

In the future, all levels of counties, townships, and villages need to pay attention to this problem, the patriarchal rules are a good thing, and I don't want them to abolish them all, but no matter what kind of patriarchal and clan rules they are, they must not violate the Daming law. ”

This is directly going to the root - the patriarchal rules are a good thing to a certain extent, and Emperor Chongzhen does not plan to abolish them completely.

But this thing is both a good thing and a bad thing, and it is a typical double-edged sword nature, because many of the patriarchal family rules simply ignore the Da Ming law.

To put it more simply, the existence of this thing not only imposes a certain degree of moral restraint on people, but also abuses lynching.

The simplest example is adultery – whoever commits adultery with eighty rods, and is guilty of the same sin between a man and a woman. "Da Ming Law", vol. 25.

Although this cane of eighty is really beating down and will kill people, but the private way of dealing with it is to directly dip the pig cage, which is actually against the "Da Ming Law".

Of course, these regulations are only aimed at the people, and the punishment for officials is basically based on the punishment of the common people.

This is also the reason why the Ming law has always been unpopular with Ming officials, because almost all the punishments are imposed by officials compared to ordinary people.

After Lu Xiangsheng bowed down again, Emperor Chongzhen breathed a sigh of relief.

The conflict between the Ming law and the patriarchal family rules, the setting of the township and village levels, and the imperial power does not go to the countryside? Joke!

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