Sun Chengzong still understands the affairs of Li Yiqi's family, and in order to let Li Yiqi study, the Li family has made great efforts. Li Yiqi's father also died when he was very young because of poverty.

Listening to Li Yiqi's words now, Sun Chengzong knows that Li Yiqi's father also died because of poverty.

"The little grain collected every year, in addition to paying various taxes, is only forty percent left." Li Yiqi sighed and said: "Collecting firewood, going up the mountain to hunt, collecting medicine, being very busy every year, and eating wild vegetables for half a year." ”

Sun Chengzong patted Li Yiqi's shoulder and comforted: "What we are doing now is to have no one like us in the future." ”

"Let the virtuous brother see it!" Li Yiqi nodded, and then said helplessly: "I hope we can do a good job!" This piece of self-reserved land was reclaimed by us, and the sacrificial wine said that when the crops are harvested, we will take these crops back home. ”

The two men looked at each other and smiled.

"Tomorrow we will leave the school and go to Daxing County, otherwise we will show our ambitions."

Sun Chengzong said with a smile.

With the graduation of civil servants and taking office, it means that Zhu Yijun's internal reform has officially begun. This is a small step for the Ming officialdom, but sooner or later it will become a big step, and it is a very big step.

Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Yijun got up very early today, because he was going to the early court today, although there are a lot of things in the court these days, but the court is quite stable, and nothing big happens. Zhu Yijun was also in the early dynasty, but he couldn't help but go.

Walking into the main hall, the ministers knelt down to pay respects, and then it was time to participate in the performance.

However, the participation is all small things, and Zhu Yijun can deal with it directly according to the old practice.

"Your Majesty, the minister has a play!"

I originally thought that today's morning dynasty would be mixed up like this, but I didn't expect Wang Xijue, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, to suddenly stand up. Not only did Zhu Yijun not expect it, but the ministers present also didn't expect how he suddenly appeared.

No matter what it is for, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites stands up, and the matter will definitely not be small.

"What's the matter with Aiqing?" Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Xijue and asked with a smile.

"Back to Your Majesty, please open the ban!" Wang Xijue's voice was not loud, but the words he said made everyone's bodies shock. Many people turned their heads to look at Wang Xijue, is this guy crazy?

Zhu Yijun didn't expect Wang Xijue to throw out this big bomb and open the ban, this is not a trivial matter!

The so-called ban on the feudal lord, refers to the imperial court's ban on the vassal king, since Chengzu Zhu Di forced the reduction of the feudal domain basically uprooted the feudal king's excessive political and military power, in order to completely eliminate the harm, after the Chengzu Zhu Di, the Ming Dynasty emperors repeatedly strengthened the surveillance, restraint and restriction of the clan, forming the so-called "feudal ban".

Zhu Yijun also understood the ban on the domain, after all, the Ming clan had reached the point where they could not deal with it, and they had become a burden on the country. If you don't deal with it, then there will be a real problem.

The ban on feudal lords and clans was restricted in many ways, including that the feudal clan was not allowed to pre-empt military affairs and political affairs, and all clans were not allowed to enter the government as officials, and they were not allowed to engage in industry and commerce. The two feudal kings were not allowed to meet each other without the permission of the clan, and the clan was forbidden to go out of the city.

After the feudal king was entitled, he was not allowed to return to Beijing to enter the court without permission, he was not allowed to associate with the government of the fief, and even those who married with the clan were not allowed to be elected as officials in Beijing.

The vassal king was not allowed to appoint officials from the royal palace, nor was he allowed to refuse the royal officials sent by the imperial court. It was even stipulated that when a child born in the clan family had to ask for a name from the imperial court, the name was nominally given by the emperor. and when they are older, they must ask the court for marriage and matching, and they are not allowed to "marry without authorization".

A prison called the "High Wall" was also set up in Fengyang to imprison the clansmen who were considered to have committed the ban, and there were often hundreds of people in prison.

"Your Majesty, the minister consulted the fish scale book of the household department's accounting fields, and the total land in the Ming Dynasty is 12 million hectares, of which the prince's clan occupies 2.2 million hectares, accounting for 20% of the total."

Twenty percent sounds like a lot, but how many people are in the Ming Dynasty, but you also have to look at how many people in the clan.

Zhu Yijun has read this information, in the period of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, the number of people with titles in the clan was 58, and the increase in Yongle was not more than 127. The growth of the clan really took the fast track in the eighth year of Jiajing, when there were a total of 8,203 clans, of which 275 were concubines and 4,300 were without titles.

In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, it reached 28,840 people, and then the population of the clan began to rise wildly, and in just 20 years, the population was always as high as 80,000, and now, the population of the clan has exceeded 100,000.

At the current scale, it continues to grow, and it is estimated that it will double in a few years.

The population of the clan is indeed growing rapidly, but it is only 100,000 people, which is not much compared to the overall population size of the Ming Dynasty, but they actually own one-fifth of the cultivated land of the Ming Dynasty, this proportion is too terrifying.

However, when he heard about 12 million hectares of land, Zhu Yijun was still very pleased, this is Zhang Juzheng's achievement!

At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang conducted a large-scale land census in the Ming Dynasty, and the land up and down the Ming Dynasty was 8 million hectares, and in the Chengzu period, it was also carried out once, and the land was 7 million hectares.

In just two generations, the land has been swallowed up by the nobles and heroes.

This million hectares are not said to be tax-free, or exempt from money and food, but they have disappeared, or they have been embezzled and hidden.

In the Zhengde period, the Zhengde Emperor conducted a nationwide land census, and the entire Ming Dynasty only had 3.8 million hectares of land left, less than half of the Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang period. After so many years of recuperation, the population of the Ming Dynasty grew rapidly and a large amount of wasteland was reclaimed, but the land was less than half of the land when the country was founded.

Zhu Yijun estimated that he could understand Emperor Zhengde's thoughts, and he was probably mad, and before Emperor Zhengde could clean up the land problem, there were no people. Zhu Yijun couldn't help but think of Zhang Juzheng, if Zhengde had Zhang Juzheng, it is estimated that Daming would have changed a long time ago.

When Zhu Yijun was divergent in his thinking, Wang Xijue below did not stop.

"Last year, the rice supplied to the capital by the whole country was 4.6 million stones, and the rice supplied to the clan was 9.7 million stones, and the rice supplied by the clan was more than twice that of the rice used in the capital." Wang Xijue said this, pausing slightly.

This is not to say that I don't know, but I was shocked when I said it, the Ming clan has become a burden to the imperial court.

If in a few years, the population of the clan is doubling, then the court really can't afford to feed these people.

However, there are also people who are simply worried, or really feel that it is time to change, but there are also people who see something different, that is, the emperor's younger brother, King Lu Zhu Yihua. Who in the court didn't know that the Queen Mother was choosing a concubine for King Lu and preparing for a big wedding.

In terms of the degree of favor of the Queen Mother to King Lu, the scale of the big wedding is naturally needless to say, the key is the subsequent vassal and land.

Every vassal king will have land in the domain, and in terms of the queen mother's favor for King Lu, this reward will definitely not be less. At this time, the timing of the ban on the opening of the feudal domain was very delicate, and many people had already begun to think about what to do.

Zhu Yijun sat on the dragon chair and didn't speak for a long time, how could he not think of it.

After pondering for a moment, Zhu Yijun glanced at Wang Xijue and asked, "What does Aiqing think?" ”

"Please limit the system of knighthood, open the business of the four people, and relax the prohibition of entry and exit." Wang Xijue seemed to be ready for a long time, and said loudly.

Although it is simple to say, it is a policy for every sentence, the so-called system of limiting the title of the clan, to put it bluntly, is to limit the title of the clan. The son-in-law can't inherit the title, and the second son continues to divide the feud, if that's the case, the Ming clan will only get bigger and bigger.

To open the business of the four people, to put it bluntly, it is to allow the Ming clan to join the army, do business, and farm.

This statement is just a statement, in fact, it is to cancel the restriction that the clan is not allowed to join the army as an official, after all, most of the clansmen of the Ming Dynasty have not yet fallen to the point of doing business and farming.

The last one, the ban on entering and exiting, to put it bluntly, is to release the ban that the clan is not allowed to leave the fiefdom, and the vassal king is not allowed to leave the city or return to Beijing. This one can be said to serve the first two, and without this one, the first two are meaningless.

Wang Xijue's words came out, and the needles could be heard in the hall, and no one spoke.

How did the ban come about, no one knows, to put it bluntly, this is set by the emperor.

The Ming Dynasty is difficult to appease, and the world of the ancestors is difficult to come, and to put it bluntly, it is a rebellion. This is also the reason why the emperor was so wary of the vassal royal clan. I can take the throne of martyrdom, and so can others!

To put it bluntly, the ban is to stifle this kind of thing from happening again, although I have rebelled all over the world, but I don't want me to be rebelled.

Now the ban on opening the feudal domain is proposed, although the reason is very good, but this matter depends on the emperor. Many people already feel that Wang Xijue is too bold, and if the emperor does not agree, Wang Xijue's fate is estimated to not be too good.

Zhu Yijun sighed, in fact, he also knew that this matter had to be resolved.

It's easy to say, but it's hard to do, and when it comes to really operating, it's not an overnight thing, and it's definitely not a matter of the emperor's holy decree. But since someone brought it up, it just added fuel to the fire.

"Open the feudal ban!"

Zhu Yijun sighed, and the ministers below were trembling, this matter is too sensitive, most of the ministers don't want to get involved, if they are not careful, it is possible to lose their heads. His Majesty the Emperor, who he serves, is not a master who does not dare to kill.

"The stakes are high, so hand it over to the Cabinet Ministry!" Zhu Yijun thought about it and said.

Handed over to the Cabinet Ministry, to put it bluntly, it is to see what the ministers say and solicit the opinions of the ministers.

After this incident, the ministers didn't want to participate in anything, compared to Wang Xijue's performance, other performances were nothing. After announcing his retirement from the dynasty, Zhu Yijun went straight back to the Qianqing Palace.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, this news naturally spread quickly, especially when the emperor's younger brother was about to become a vassal domain, and such news was transmitted faster.