Zheng Hong's strength is based on the success of his decades-long military career.

In this life, he has fought with his father and ancestors since he was a child, and he has never been defeated.

This experience of never failing also made him develop an arrogant and domineering character.

But he would never have imagined that his own son would do it to himself.

What made him even more cold was that the second son watched the third son move towards him, not only was there no accident, but there was also a sense of relief.

After all, he was already in his early sixties, and in the face of the critical attack of his son who was less than forty years old, he didn't have time to resist at all, so he was slashed in the back of the neck by Zheng Bo with his hand.

Zheng Hong's eyes rolled, and he fainted without warning, and behind him, the screen fell, and four guards with muskets rushed out, aiming their guns at the two brothers.

Zheng Fang was afraid that they would hurt the third brother, so he shouted, "What do you want to do? Want to rebel! ”

The four guards were originally panicked by the scene in front of them, although they were loyal to Zheng Hong, but the two people in front of them were none other than the governor's own son.

Moreover, several of them also listened to their conversations, and knew that the Governor had a disobedient heart. At such a time, even his own son did not dare to support him, how could their guards dare to go all the way to the dark.

So, the four of them looked at each other and lowered their guns.

Zheng Bo looked at his father who was lying on the big case, and a miserable smile appeared on his face. He turned to Zheng Fang and said, "Second brother, go and send a message to Ying Tianfu, I'm here to accompany my father." ”

Zheng Fang was shocked: "Third brother, don't make your own opinions, now that the eldest brother has not returned, we should all follow the instructions of the eldest brother." ”

Zheng Bo asked: "I, Zheng Jiayang, have violated the yin, it is not a day or two, and such behavior is a conspiracy." Even if His Majesty is magnanimous, how can other nobles let go of this opportunity! With such a great sin and no blood, how can Your Majesty spare me and others?

The matter has come to this, my Zheng family is not willing to give up one person, how can I make everyone angry! Giving up my life to save my family, I can count myself as a deserved death......"

In this era, it is already a great rebellion for a son to do something to his father. Even if Zheng Bo is alive, he will be referred to by thousands of people in the future.

From the moment he decided to do it, Zheng Bo had already thought of his fate.

However, he has no regrets. Because he saved the whole family!

Zheng Fang said: "Now eldest brother, there is no news from Your Majesty, even if the third brother has a decisive heart, he should let His Majesty know, let the world know that my Zheng family is just my father's madness, and everyone else is loyal." Let alone...... Didn't the third brother want to go to Yingtianfu to see Xu'er and them again? ”

Zheng Bo's emotions calmed down, reached out and hugged his father's body, looked back and said, "I took my father to the backyard to live alone, waiting for His Majesty's holy judgment." Don't let anyone disturb us these days. ”

Zheng Fang relieved his heart a little and said: "Being a gentleman is a great filial piety, being a father is a small filial piety, the third brother must not make his own opinions, things may take a turn for the better." ”

But Zheng Bo didn't listen to this, he wouldn't let himself become the person pointed by Qianfu, shame for his family, and shame for his children.

In the evening of the Hezhong Governor's Mansion, it was already late at night in Yingtianfu, but in the telegraph room facing the Western Regions, the clattering telegraph pointers kept moving.

The staff who received this information did not dare to slack off, and the news was quickly transmitted to their superiors, and then sent to the palace.

"Your Majesty, the news from Kangju that Zheng Hong tried to do wrong, but was dissuaded by his two sons. Now Zheng Hong has been placed under house arrest. Zheng Fang sent a confession and waited for the holy judgment. ”

After receiving the news, Zhu Zhanji paused for a moment and couldn't help but smile.

Guotai and the people have been peaceful for forty years, and there is a harmonious atmosphere within the Ming Dynasty, which makes him a little bored.

finally met a Zheng Hong, but before he could make a move, the matter had already been settled.

This is inevitably a kind of frustration, I took off my pants, but you came to relatives.

But from the bottom of his heart, Zhu Zhanji is still quite pleased, after all, there is no need to live in misery.

If the Zheng family really rebels and kidnaps the people in Shanghe to oppose the imperial court, even if the arrangement is good, it will kill a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, which will only cheapen other ethnic groups.

"With the Secretary of General Affairs, Jinyiwei escorted Zheng Hong to Beijing. This time Zheng Hong rebelled, and everyone in the Zheng family can understand the reason, put the country first, and should be exempted from his family crimes. But...... Let Zheng Ying see you tomorrow ......"

Zheng Ying is Zheng Hong's eldest son and has remained in the capital. In the afternoon, he was ordered to be monitored, but now that the second son and third son of the Zheng family have killed their relatives in righteousness, they naturally have to order Zheng Ying to go back and continue the title.

"Let Jinyiwei report his analysis of Zheng Ying early tomorrow morning."

It is necessary to send Zheng Ying back to inherit the title, but it is also necessary to confirm the loyalty of this person. If he is a white-eyed wolf again, he can't be allowed to take power no matter what.

In addition, let Zheng Ying not be allowed to directly take over the post of governor of Hezhong, Zhu Zhanji also had other ideas.

According to the current feudal system, the post of governor of Hezhong should be taken over by the Zheng family, which is the foundation of the empire's stability.

If he is not allowed to take over, it will easily touch the nerves of the clan and the nobles.

At the beginning, Zhu Yunwen cut the domain, which led to the loss of the country, and there were only more than 20 clans at the beginning.

Now there are one hundred and one princes of the Ming Dynasty, hundreds of county kings, hundreds of noble families, and thousands of military generals.

When there is a change in policy, they will certainly be the most opposed. No matter how powerful Zhu Zhanji is, he also needs the support of these generals, nobles, and clans to manage this country.

It can be said that it is precisely because of this determination of the stable social level that everyone will support Zhu Zhanji.

Although the civil officials are not involved in the division of feuds, they have now gradually formed a large group represented by the trade of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and a large group represented by the industrial development of the Ming Dynasty.

So after some careful consideration, Zhu Zhanji still decided not to break the current rules, but also to try.

Although this set of rules may seem a bit stiff, it is very stable. In this world, the emancipation of the productive forces has not yet reached the most effective level, and the level of education has not yet reached the level of enlightenment of everyone.

The more stable the system, the better it is for rule.

Early in the morning of the second day, the temperature was still very low, but the ministers of the early dynasty saw the prince of Wuguo, with all the descendants of the Zheng surname in the mansion, kneeling outside the Chengtian Gate.

The ministers had no idea that there had been an attempted rebellion in the river, and they could not help but be a little surprised to see even the children of six or seven years old kneeling in the street.

Some ministers who were good friends with the Zheng family wanted to come forward to ask a question or two, and took off their big hats and put them on those children.

But last night the telegram from the telegraph office on the Western Front rang all night, and there were ministers who knew the inside story, and they hurriedly persuaded these colleagues to stop and let out a sigh.

As soon as the word of rebellion spread among them, no one dared to come closer to them.

Before His Majesty spoke, getting close to them was not a conspiracy?

Since the first year of orthodoxy, Zhu Zhanji has changed many of the original rules of the upper dynasty, and the time of the early dynasty was determined at the beginning of Chen, that is, at seven o'clock in the morning.

The ministers who could participate in the early dynasty were only the chief officials of the three grades and above.

They will spend half an hour summarizing yesterday's work and reporting today's plans.

At eight o'clock, the morning court dissolved, and the chiefs of the ministries returned to their yamen, leaving only the cabinet members.

Zhu Zhanji would finish breakfast in a quarter of an hour, and while eating breakfast, he listened to Honglu Temple's arrangements for the Wu Dynasty.

The Wu Dynasty generally began from the beginning of the Wu Dynasty, mainly to meet with foreign ministers and deal with unexpected affairs.

After noon, Zhu Zhanji will not deal with official business other than emergency affairs, and he will arrange his time freely in the afternoon.

The Wuying Hall was originally used as a place for the Wu Dynasty, but this was because the original West Palace was empty, and there were only a few old concubines in the Zhu Yuanzhang period.

After Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne, the Zhang family moved into the West Palace, and it was a little inappropriate to discuss matters in the Wuying Hall located in the West Palace.

So since then, whether it is the early dynasty or the afternoon dynasty, it is held in the Jinshen Hall.

After the festival was moved to the parliament building, the temple was emptied and was only used for ceremonies.

In fact, it doesn't make much difference where the court meeting is held today, because in the seventeenth year of orthodoxy, the resonant electronic megaphone has been invented.

With this kind of megaphone, there is no longer a need to send a message to the eunuch, and there is no restriction on the discussion of affairs anywhere.

From the Zheng family kneeling outside the Chengtian Gate, it has been determined that the focus of today's morning dynasty is on the affairs of the Zheng family.

Therefore, during the early dynasty today, Prime Minister Yu Qian and the chief officials of the six ministries took the initiative to give up their positions and let the officials of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Defense discuss the disposition of the Zheng family.

Zhu Zhanji sat on the dragon chair, his face was calm, and no one knew what he was thinking in his heart.

Until Xu Yongning, the governor of the Zuo Capital of the Five Armies, proposed to escort Zheng Hong back to Beijing and behead him outside the Chengtian Gate to set an example.

Zhu Zhanji opened his mouth and said: "Where is Zhu Ziyun of the Propaganda Department? ”

Zhu Ziyun is Zhu Youstew's nephew, the same age as Zhu Zhanji, but he is more than 20 years younger than Zhu Zhanji.

The department of the Propaganda Department, Zhu Zhanji has always been controlled by the clan, to be precise, in the line of King Zhou.

After Zhu Youstew died, because he had no children, his younger brother Zhu Youyi inherited the jue, and then passed on to two more people, and it came to the hands of Zhu Ziyi, a concubine.

He was able to inherit the title because this person was a rare and capable person in the clan. In his early years, he opened up more than 50 hospitals on Turtle Island. not only rescued the people of the Ming Dynasty and sympathized with the soldiers, but also imposed a soft policy on the local cannibals, which made many tribes return to their hearts.

The rapid development of the Zhou Wangfu on Turtle Island definitely has more than half of his credit, so after inheriting the title of King Zhou, Zhu Zhanji did not let him retire in the capital, but let him take charge of the Propaganda Department.

Zhu Ziyun stood up from his seat and clenched his fists and said, "The minister is here." ”

Zhu Zhanji said: "Compile the Hezhong telegram into a book, and starting tomorrow, I will vigorously publicize Zheng Hong's wolf ambition in the newspaper. ”

Hearing Zhu Zhanji's words, everyone immediately understood, although Zheng Hong was controlled by his son and did not cause big losses, he was already a dead man.

However, the Ming Dynasty has been peaceful for too long, and the hundred officials are comfortable, and they also need a model to deter the hundred officials, including the nobles in the fiefdom.

If even such a rebellion against the imperial court is not severely punished, it will only fuel everyone's wolf ambitions. The death of a Zheng Hong, but it can deter everyone, he can also be regarded as a meritorious service.

Bai Gui, the secretary of the military department, said: "Your Majesty, although Zheng Hong's actions have not caused a major disaster, but he has been in the river for many years, and what he has done should have been known for a long time. However, there has been no information on this in the past, and it is necessary to thoroughly investigate the administration of the officials in the river and find out the cause. ”

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "The Ministry of War, the General Administration Department, the Jinyi Guard, and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies will form a joint investigation team to thoroughly investigate this matter. Successive officials of the imperial court since Zheng Hong Chengjue must submit a statement of defense. ”

Bai Gui received the order to retreat, and Zhu Zhanji said to Xie Zhenqi again: "The parliament, around Zheng Hong's case, put forward corresponding improvement measures to prevent the feudal domain from becoming bigger. ”

After receiving the order to retire during the Xie Zhen period, Zhu Zhanji said to Yu Qian: "In recent years, in terms of civil affairs, the collusion between officials and businessmen has become increasingly close, and the imperial court should also have corresponding measures to prevent collusion between officials and businessmen. ”

Yu Qian, as in the original history, is full of righteousness. During his tenure as prime minister, the officials were clean and clear, and no one dared to be corrupt.

However, it was a policy that officials could do business that had been formulated during the Zhu Zhanji period, so although they did not dare to be corrupt, they meddled in industry and commerce, and their interests were deeply involved, which Yu Qian could not control.

Hearing Zhu Zhanji's words, he bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, the minister has always thought that allowing officials to do business is the biggest drawback, and it should be re-organized among the people to facilitate the control of the imperial court. ”

In the twenty-sixth year of orthodoxy, the development of the Ming Dynasty has entered a new stage, and most of the state capitals of the country, including the county seats, have been electrified and connected to loudspeakers.

In the loudspeakers in various places, there is half an hour every day for local officials to conduct legal popularization.

At this time, Zhu Zhanji proposed to cancel the household registration system.

During the period of Zhu Yuanzhang, in order to facilitate management, the Lijia system was implemented.

The Lijia system is even stricter than today's residents' committees and villagers' groups! Every one hundred and ten households is divided into one mile, the first ten households with more labor and more grain are the li chief, and the other 100 households are divided into ten households, and each of the first ten households is divided into ten households.

Every year, when it is necessary to go out of conscription, in this case, one person is sent to the chief, one person to the first person, and nine other people, a total of 11 people to bear the responsibilities of work.

Ten A and one A are responsible for a year, and everyone arranges shifts, which is called "row year".

Widows and lonely people who belong to families with special difficulties and cannot afford forced labor can be exempted, but they must be recorded, which is called "abnormal zero".

Since the cover of the household register of the household department is yellow, everyone calls it the "yellow book".

All the newspapers in the whole country came up, and there were more than 10,000 copies, a lot! Hidden in the east and west of the lake behind the palace. When it comes to sacrifices and other occasions, it is necessary to take it out and offer it.

Due to the large number of yellow books, in order to facilitate the collection of taxes and the compilation of taxes, the household department specially made a white book.

Every year, one person in the household department, two people in the imperial history, and four people in charge of the household department, a total of seven people, with a group of accountants carrying abacus, crackling, checking errors.

This is equivalent to today's tax officer, as well as the inspection branch of the State Administration of Taxation.

This strict household registration management system was the foundation of stability in the Ming Dynasty at the beginning, and neither Zhu Yunwen nor Zhu Di had ever reformed in this regard.

In addition, the household registration is also divided into three classes, civilian, military, and craftsman, collectively referred to as private households. There is another category, that is, Lehu, which belongs to the untouchable.

Nationality, that is, belonging to agriculture or business, self-financing, self-organized production and business activities; Military status, craftsman nationality, the army refers to professional soldiers, craftsmen refer to skilled workers, and the country that works is to pay wages, belonging to the "public family"!

Civilian, military, and craftsman statuses are equal, but for the sake of national stability, you are not allowed to change back and forth.

This system has certain advantages, that is, no matter when, the Ming Dynasty will not lack a source of soldiers, nor will there be a shortage of craftsmen.

However, there is a very big flaw in this, and that is that the upward passage becomes very narrow.

In addition to studying to change his fate, the farmer's son can only be a farmer, not a worker, and cannot be a soldier. The same is true for the other two types of household registration, so many talents, may become obscure because of this restriction.

And there are also musicians, in later generations, artists, singers, that is a very high status. But in Daming, they belong to the lowest people, and they are even disqualified from studying and becoming officials.

Girls grew up to be only a few women, performing arts, and boys were forced to wear green turbans from an early age as a sign to distinguish ordinary civilians.

This is how the so-called "cuckolding" in later generations came about.

Zhu Zhanji's abolition of household registration is tantamount to lifting the restrictions on everyone. You are the son of a farmer, not only can you be a farmer, but you can also work in a factory or become a soldier.

The most important thing is to cancel the discrimination of Lehu, so that those criminals do not have to be inferior anymore.

The impact of this change on the Ming Dynasty is very discriminatory, and the household department of the Ming Dynasty has not been able to completely determine the identity of the domestic people for ten years.

It is only in recent years that the country has stabilized.

However, it still imposes a huge burden on the management of the country, and even the taxes are much less.

Although the Ming Dynasty did not rely primarily on agricultural taxes to fill the treasury, this loss was still unacceptable to many officials.

Zhu Zhanji was talking about corruption, and Yu Qian was talking about household registration, which seems to be the same thing. But there is a tax nexus in between, and the impact on both sides is the same.

Yu Qian considered that the household registration system would be as strict as before, and the control of anyone would be relatively simple, including corruption.

However, Zhu Zhanji could not only consider these aspects, he considered more far-reaching, and even included the hidden dangers of the current feudal system. A weak emperor may later lead to the centrifugation of the princes and the independence of various places.

Although even if he is independent, it is still the descendants of his Zhu family who are in power, and it is still the world of the Han people. But for Zhu Zhanji, it is better to maintain a huge empire as much as possible.

Abolishing the household registration system now can open an opening for the succession of titles and titles in the future.

The harm of the title succession system is not great, but the harm of title inheritance is actually very large.

On the one hand, this almost blocked the upward path of ordinary people, because the official positions above were almost fixed.

The only thing that the people can count on is to develop in the civil service.

On the other hand, placing some incompetent people in important positions will cause a lot of unnecessary struggles and infighting, and consume one's own strength.

In order to develop, Zhu Zhanji still adopted the original inheritance system, but in the past few decades, Zhu Zhanji has the intention to change this unreasonable and even restricted the development of the Ming Dynasty.

And Zheng Hong's case provided him with such an opportunity.

After listening to Yu Qian's words, Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "Reform is for the development of the Ming Dynasty, how can you waste food because of choking." I already have a plan in mind, and I'll talk to the Prime Minister today. ”

Yu Qian bowed again. "Listen to me."

Zhu Zhanji said: "If I want to check the household registration of the people in the world, I will assign a unique number to each person. This number will be a symbol of the person's identity, whether it is a customs clearance document or a bank account, it must be compiled in real name. Only one account is allowed per person, so that no matter whether the person is a businessman, a worker, or a farmer, all the wealth is clear at a glance. Even if you want to evade taxes, you can't. If you want to control, there are traces to follow. ”

The ministers in the audience looked at each other, and it was only a short time before they realized the benefits of this method.

Each person's unique number will not be mistaken because of the same name and surname. Now the bank branches have penetrated deep into the towns and villages, because cash is not allowed, cash circulation can only be through the bank, so almost everyone has opened an account in the bank.

However, the previous accounts were confusing, and many people registered several accounts on their own.

As long as you don't open an account in one place, the bank lacks the ability to identify customers, and it is difficult to find out how many accounts and how many properties a person has.

However, once the identity number information was established, all these difficulties were solved.

Yu Qian immediately said excitedly: "Your Majesty is really a genius, and the minister immediately worked out a detailed strategy according to His Majesty's wishes. ”

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said, "It's going to be dispersed early." …… Li Liang, let the Zheng family enter the palace, let them drink a bowl of hot porridge first, and then meet them after I have eaten. ”

When Zhu Zhanji finished breakfast and returned to the Jinshen Palace, he had already finished reading the analysis of Zheng Ying by the intelligence officers of Jinyiwei and the Intelligence Department.

When Zheng Ying was young, he had already come to Yingtianfu to study, because he fought in the Hezhong region for many years, and Zheng Hong fought all year round, so he was not like the princes of other regions as hostages, but he has always stayed in the capital as a hostage.

He is in his early forties this year, but he has only been to the river four times in total, and each time it is still very short.

In the intelligence, he is the heir of a family of military generals who is generous and better than martial arts.

Such a character gave Zhu Zhanji greater confidence in the next temptation.

Zheng Ying led his sons and nephews into the Jinshen Palace, and he didn't dare to step forward, so he knelt on the ground: "The criminal minister Zheng Ying and the seventeen descendants of the Zheng family came to see Your Majesty." Except for Ying's two ignorant grandchildren, the descendants of the Zheng family are all here, and I respectfully ask Your Majesty to make a holy judgment. ”

Zhu Zhanji shook his head and sighed: "My Ming Dynasty is now at the peak of the country, and today I didn't expect to have a foolish person like your father, and my heart is unspeakable. Zheng family......, your Zheng family is really difficult for me! ”