Chapter 816, Emperor Haokang
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August 29 of the tenth year of Changle in the Great Jin Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty is located in the crown prince Wei Peng, Wei Peng ascended the throne as the emperor, the emperor is called Haokang, and the year is called Duanning, this year is the first year of Duanning. Respect Emperor Wu of Jin as the Emperor Taishang, Empress Mu as the Queen Mother, Emperor Wu of Jin released his government and no longer interfered in political affairs; canonized Helan Xue as the queen of the Middle Palace, in charge of the phoenix seal treasure; The eldest son of the emperor is still the king of Jin, the second son of the emperor Yufan is the king of Rui, the third son of the emperor Yubai is the king of Han, the eldest daughter of the emperor Princess Changle, and the second daughter Princess Chang'an.
At the same time, Yang Jiulin, the prince of Feng'an, was the king of Zhenbei, and the eldest son Jun Chu was the son of the family, and he rewarded thousands of households. Mu Zige is Shun Ningbo, Su Nan is Yan Ningbo, Chen Fengting is Jing Ningbo, Liu Huaiyu is Qing Ningbo, and each has 500 households; Those who followed Helan Xue, Yang Jiulin, Wei Junlou and others in the southern and northern wars in these years were rewarded with titles according to merit and were crowned with official positions.
In fact, these Emperor Wu of Jin had a plan early on, thinking that since he wanted to give the Zen position to his son, it was better for this good person to let him do it.
Among the officials who passed the imperial examination in these years, Wei Peng promoted a group of young officials according to their evaluation and ability to take charge of the important affairs of various ministries. He has always hated the imperial historians, but this position can not be set up, thinking that Wang Yunjing is a straight-tempered and hard-tempered person, so he put this person on the imperial history platform, and at the same time issued an order, if the imperial history impeached a hundred officials, if there are any more people who chase the wind and catch shadows and speculate, once it is verified that they will be dismissed from their posts and investigated, they will be sentenced according to the severity of the punishment, and they can be beheaded and exiled. This is to tell everyone, you people, you can supervise hundreds of officials, don't fool around, Lao Tzu doesn't listen.
In addition to the felony of homicide, the original sentence of beheading shall be re-approved, and if the sentence of exile can be commuted, it is not necessary to be executed, and the sentence of the original sentence within three years may be commuted.
And because the Empress Dowager is 80 years old this year, the imperial court will celebrate the birthday of the Empress Dowager, and the elderly over 80 years old in the country can get a hundred taels of silver and a piece of silk, which is said to be the queen's maiden family to pay tribute to the court.
In the years that followed, Wei Peng and his young team embarked on a series of reforms and continued to implement new policies.
In the second year of Duanning, Wei Peng issued a decree to open up the way of speech, absorbing people of insight from the people, now the Great Jin Dynasty has been established for a long time, most of the officials in the DPRK and China are passed down from generation to family, although there will be a scientific examination every three years, but the poor students can enter the office is still a minority, plus these years to expand the territory, the officials are, but there are still too few people who can enter the cabinet, Wei Peng listened to Helan Xue's suggestion, widely accepted cloth, once the research is indeed talented, directly hired without exception, and gradually break the trend of more than four officials being monopolized by the official family.
If it is peaceful today, Yang Jiulin said to Wei Peng that the army can be reduced, the military service system can be revised, and based on the household soldier system in Monan, it will first be tried in the Central Plains and other places, and then implemented throughout the country, and the remote frontiers will not be disarmed, and the armies of other counties and state capitals will be greatly reduced.
As a result, these young and strong men returned to farming, and agriculture in the whole country developed greatly.
Lian Ruixing, who was the head of the household department at that time, again admonished Wei Peng, revised the household registration, checked the population and land of the whole country, registered it, prohibited the private cultivation of land and encroachment on fertile land, and revised the legislation to strengthen the centralized control over land.
This is the third large-scale census in the history of the Great Jin Dynasty, the first two being at the beginning of the founding of Taizu and the other being during the reign of Emperor Gaozong sixty years ago. On the one hand, this population and land inventory is also because in the past ten years, the Dongyan, Xiliang, Dali, and Beidi south have been unified to the Great Jin Dynasty, and the population and land quantity are also reported by local officials in accordance with the old calendar, with a little statistics, and the accuracy is greatly reduced, coupled with the encouragement of land reclamation during the period of Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, the country's existing cultivated land has been greatly increased compared with the time of Emperor Huiwen, if the land is illegally occupied, it will inevitably affect the country's taxes and reserves, and will also hurt the people's enthusiasm and livelihood for farming for a long time.
Wei Peng asked his brother-in-law to work out the implementation rules with the household department and cabinet officials, and the census of population and land took eight months, and by the fourth year of Duanning, the population of the Great Jin Dynasty had reached 60 million, and the cultivated land area was 580 million mu, which was the highest value since the founding of the Great Jin Dynasty.
In this census, the imperial historians also cleaned up a number of huge corruption, big corruption, based on this, Wei Peng and the six ministries and cabinet ministers revised the law of the Great Jin Dynasty, the punishment was also polarized, the threshold for the corruption of officials was raised, the punishment was increased, the light was convicted and imprisoned, and the heavy was exiled and beheaded and confiscated, and because of this, several corrupt officials were punished, which deterred the officials of the DPRK and China.
The approval of the death penalty has also been revised, people can not be resurrected after death, in order to avoid excessive sentencing, unjust, false and wrongful convictions, all death sentences must be checked by three levels, and the capital crimes of officials above the fourth grade must be directly heard by heaven, ruled by the Son of Heaven and the cabinet, at the same time, such as exile, extermination and the like have also been modified, so that the punishment in the Duanning period can be said to be the most humane stage in the history of the Great Jin Dynasty, but the crime rate has been reduced a lot, without him, the economy of the Great Jin Dynasty during the Duanning period has developed rapidly.
Wei Peng also enacted a new commercial and trade system, which encouraged handicraft, silk and textiles, and non-governmental trade, and at the same time, encouraged the cultivation of silkworms, increased trade taxes, and reduced farmers' taxes, which also protected the country's agriculture from being affected. Due to the pacification of the Quartet during the reign of Emperor Huiwen and Emperor Wu of Jin, it also caused a sharp decline in the population of the frontier and Yanzhou, Liangzhou, Northern Xinjiang and other places, although Emperor Wu of Jin formulated a policy of rewarding childbirth, but the population growth was a slow process, and he added adjustments on the original basis, and by the time of the fifteenth year of Duanning, the population of the Great Jin Dynasty had exceeded 30 million, and the population was 180 million.
In the early years, Xie Ziting took the trade route of the official and merchant team, and became the passage of the countries outside the Western Regions to and from the Great Jin, and the economy and culture were exchanged through this road, and the capital became the cultural and economic center at that time, and some foreigners settled in the Great Jin Dynasty to learn the culture of the Great Jin Dynasty, among which there were also books that were passed on, and the books were printed and published to Europa and other farther places.
Later, the Western lords sent envoys to the Great Jin Dynasty to submit their credentials in order to form alliances and open up a farther trade route, of course, at the same time, there were more cultural exchanges. At this time, language became a problem, so Helan Xue asked Xie Ziting to find a translator in Persia and other countries, and opened a translation school in the capital to teach the languages of various countries. She also understands some of it, which is a lot more convenient, because now there is basically no war, and the peacetime began to emphasize literature and light military force, among those emerging gentlemen in the capital, there are also those who are like King Han and others who strictly discipline their parents, so some go to learn foreign languages, since the emperor's favored youngest sons have gone to learn, and the children of other ministers have no reason to lag behind, so the capital has set off a boom in learning foreign languages.