After the ministers withdrew, Zhenwu also got up and paced slowly in the hall, entering the customs for decades, through continuous marriage, the flags have been invisibly connected into a piece, the so-called flags are like mountains, just the princes and nobles of the upper echelons do not interact with each other, and the flags of the flags have long been blood-fused, but this situation is not a good thing for him, and it will increase the resistance to the innovation of the eight banners.

If we want to change this situation, we must break the existing system of restricting the marriage of the flag and the people, but this is a major event that shakes the fundamental of the Eight Banners system, at least for the time being, he does not dare to break it, and what can be done now is to break the barriers between the upper three banners and the lower five banners, and encourage the eight banners to marry freely, so as to further weaken the control of the princes of the banners over the banner people.

However, for the princes and nobles with different surnames of the clan and the banners, it is best for him, the emperor, to marry, and not let them marry, so as not to form a large interest group, which is not conducive to the stability of the country, thinking of this, he couldn't help but sigh lightly, if he is involved in politics, he should not expect the freedom of marriage, unless he can give up his existing identity.

The imperial court's punishment opinions on the case of fraud in the warehouse soon spread in the inner city, and the princes and nobles of the banners were secretly relieved after hearing about it, they were not too concerned about the warehouse officials and officials who committed the crime, they were only concerned about how to punish the grain chamber of commerce, since it was only ordered to be doubled, it showed that Zhenwu did not mean to study them deeply.

After hearing the news, the banner people also breathed a sigh of relief, since it was only to punish the huge greed, then they would not kill too many people, and the ordinary warehouse officials and officials were not qualified to be able to be hugely greedy, so there was nothing to worry about.

The most depressing thing is the grain merchants involved in the case, compared to the punishment of the Ming canonical punishment and the dismissal of the family. The double return of illegal gains is tantamount to extrajudicial favors, but the problem is that there is no exact number of years, when should this confused account be counted? Everyone knows what will happen if they are in the same case as the convict, and the grain merchants twisted their brows and thought about it again. For the sake of insurance, I can only do what I can and lose all the grain in my hand.

The large-scale transportation of grain back to the official warehouse by grain merchants of all sizes in Beijing immediately caused a sensation, and the people of Beijing had no good impression of these grain merchants. The more sufficient the grain in the official warehouse, the more stable the grain price will be, and the official grain will be guaranteed, and the people will naturally be very happy.

It's March, and it's still raining. However, relief money and grain from Nanyang, Jiangnan, and Huguang have begun to arrive in Tianjin in a steady stream, and then they will be transferred to the disaster areas of various provinces. Without exception, all of them were loaded with grain, and the ships leaving the port were immigrants bound for Australia.

This is because the imperial court took into account the severity of the disaster and the large number of ships carrying grain to the north, in order to reduce the loss of empty ships as much as possible and reduce the pressure on the disaster area, so as to increase the number of immigrants from the provinces.

Relief food continues to arrive. The hearts of the people in Gyeonggi immediately calmed down, and Zhenwu and the courtiers were secretly relieved to see this situation, and the relief food and silver money were received in time. The specific relief matters are the business of the officials in the following provinces.

Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong, and other provinces have already been in full swing in disaster relief matters, and after local officials have withdrawn the allocated disaster relief money from the 'Four Great Hengs', they have begun to purchase surplus grain from local grain storage households for soup soup and medicine application, and work-for-work relief projects have also been carried out in various localities one after another.

Officials of all sizes in various places knew that this disaster relief was of great significance, and no one dared to have the slightest negligence and slackness. It makes them walk on thin ice, and the officials are still easy to say. The hardest to guard against are the young inmates. …,

Although the prisoners have the qualifications to be officials, but after all, they have not yet been officials, and they do not know anything about the rules of officialdom, although they have never experienced disaster relief, but they have done a special understanding before coming to the place, and some common sense is basically understood, everything likes to be corroborated and compared, and they are chattering and asking non-stop, and a group of local officials are annoyed, partial and offended, these prisoners have to write a supervision diary every day, and send it back to Beijing directly with the Beijing newspaper, which can be said to be directly to the heavens, how dare they easily offend?

The prisoners who like to communicate with local officials are easy to deal with, but what they are most afraid of is the prisoners who like to make private interviews with micro-services, which is called being unguardable. If hearsay about some bribery, grievances and the like is recorded in a diary, it is really fatal.

The magistrates were very busy with disaster relief and had to be distracted to deal with them.

It is not only the local officials who are suffering, but also the ministers of the court who are in pain because of the diaries of the prisoners, and all the prisoners know that the diaries may reach the heavens, so they are also very serious, not only diligent in observation, but also with their own opinions, in order to be able to get the favor of Zhenwu, and the diaries are not only limited to recording disaster relief matters, but also about the post stations, roads and bridges, cities, academies, school palaces, years, urging departments, prison lawsuits, etc., all of which are long and long.

At the beginning, Zhenwu also looked at them one by one, only one day, and then felt that he couldn't stand it, so he transferred the diary to the study for preliminary review, and then submitted it to the valuable one, several ministers in the study were already very busy, where to find so much time to read one by one, and immediately asked for an order, suggesting that the diary be transferred to the officials of the temple supervision office and the Hanlin Academy to read and select first, and only a small part was kept in the hands of the study and Zhenwu.

Zhenwu has no opinion on this suggestion, but just reminds to pay attention to the relationship between local officials, in case someone deliberately conceals it, this time, the officials of the Beijing division have one more thing, they have to read a few prison diaries every day, and they have to write abridgements, one by one is naturally full of complaints, but this move is Zhenwu's initiative, and the officials can only slander a few words.

After a few days of watching, a group of hands-on officials felt that they benefited a lot, and the prisoners who went to various places to supervise were all selected from the Guozijian, basically all of them were eunuchs, tribute supervisors, and children of banner people's lords, most of them were talented and good in character, high and self-disciplined, and the diary was described in a wide range of fields, and after a few days of reading, they had a general understanding of the prefecture and county where they were located, and the image of the local officials was also on the paper, and some officials with a heart gradually realized the importance of these prison diaries.

Because these prisoners have not entered the officialdom, do not understand the rules of officialdom, and have no interest relationship, it can be said that they are completely from a fair position and truthfully record the local situation, and these diaries can be used as the basis or evidence for the evaluation of officials, and they have gradually become interested in this matter.