Jinhua County County Ya.

After the county magistrate Zhang Zishan posted the notice, he put the matter behind him.

It wasn't until three days later that a group of people came to visit, saying that they had been ordered by the emperor's grandson to come to check the acres, and he realized that there was such a thing.

Zhang Zishan was neatly dressed and ran out of the yamen with light steps to greet him, and when he saw that there were only five people in this group, he could hardly believe his eyes.

From the very beginning, he felt that there was something wrong with the imperial grandson's decree, and how big a project it would have to be to check the acres of land across the country, not to mention hundreds of thousands of people, right?

Even if they thoroughly investigate Jinhua County, there are three or two thousand people, which is not enough.

However, the imperial grandson only sent such five people, could it be said that it was just a formality?

"Dare to ask a few who are in charge?"

Lu Qingshu pointed to Huang Wenjing in front of him and said.

"Huang Shengyuan is in charge, I am in charge of recording, this Zhang Junhu is responsible for controlling the flying ball, and the other two Jinyiwei brothers are responsible for protecting our group."

When Zhang Zishan, the leader of Jinhua County, heard this, he hurriedly arched his hand towards Huang Wenjing.

"It turned out to be the emperor's grandson Gaozu, looking up for a long time!"

"If you have any business trips, please follow me into the yamen to talk."

"Good!"

Several people followed Zhang Zishan into the yamen, and after the guests and hosts sat down, Zhang Zishan asked about the intentions of several people.

"Dare to ask how many of you have business?"

"We came to check the acres of Jinhua fields on the order of the emperor's grandson."

"Oh?"

"Just the five of you?"

"Of course not!"

"We hope that there are thousands of students from the academy, and they were all sent by the imperial grandson this time."

Zhang Zishan heard that there were 1,000 people, and they were all students, so he felt reliable.

"Although a thousand people are a little less, if they are all students, they will almost be able to count the number of acres in our county."

Huang Wenjing hurriedly waved his hand when he heard this.

"Lord Zhang misunderstood, although the imperial grandson sent out more than 1,000 people, only five of us were assigned to Jinhua County."

When Zhang Zishan heard this, he stood up on the spot in shock.

"It's just the five of you?"

"The imperial grandson is too child's play, isn't it, what are you five people capable of?"

"It's not that the official complains to you, and it's not that the official is unwilling to cooperate with you."

"This official eats the imperial court, and he should be loyal to His Majesty and the emperor's grandson. However, this official is also appointed by the imperial court, and he is not familiar with the acres of land in Jinhua County, and as for the servants and officials in the yamen are all natives of Jinhua County, this official does not dare to expect them to be diligent in the king's affairs, and how dare this official send them to you? ”

For Zhang Zishan, Jinhua is just an inn on his resume, and if he is not promoted after serving a full term, he will also be transferred to another place as a county magistrate.

Therefore, Yu did not obstruct the original intention of the imperial court to check the acres of land in public or private, but simply felt that this matter was not easy to handle, not to mention the loss of life and money, and in the end, he might not be able to find out a result.

Huang Wenjing smiled slightly when she heard this.

"Thank you Lord Zhang for reminding me, but we didn't come here to ask for help this time, we just wanted your adult to send someone to verify it."

"Verify?"

"Yes!"

"We have mapped out the approximate acres of fields in Jinhua County, and we only need to take out the fish scale atlas of your county and compare it to find out the acres that are not in the atlas."

Zhang Zishan was dumbfounded when he heard this, and his face was full of disbelief.

"You're done?"

"You also drew a map of my fields in Jinhua County?"

"When did you start working on it?"

Huang Wenjing smiled proudly.

"To tell you the truth, we have been exploring Jinhua County for three days."

Zhang Zishan was even more puzzled when he heard this, what is three days enough, it is estimated that this group of people has not even finished Jinhua's Shuanglong Mountain!

"Huang Shengyuan, this is not a joke?"

"Are you sure it only took you three days to check all of Jinhua County?"

Huang Wenjing smiled confidently.

"Of course!"

"We have redrawn the map of Jinhua County's acres of fields, and every rice field and mulberry field has not been left behind!"

"This ......"

Although Zhang Zishan didn't believe it, he still ordered someone to bring the county's fish scale atlas.

When the distribution map of the whole county of Jinhua County was placed on the table, Zhang Zishan looked at Huang Wenjing provocatively.

"Huang Shengyuan, it's time to take out the atlas you drawn, right?"

"Of course!"

After Huang Wenjing said this, she immediately took out a yellow booklet from her handbag, opened it and spread it on the table.

Zhang Zishan hurriedly stretched out his head to look over, and was stunned by the graphics on the yellow book after just one glance.

"This ......"

"Is this really my map of Jinhua County?"

Huang Wenjing replied with a smile.

"More than that!"

"This is not only the county map of Jinhua County, but also the distribution map of fields and ponds in Jinhua County."

"All rice fields, mulberry fields, ponds, fish ponds, etc. in Jinhua County are marked on the map."

"The first page is a summary map, and the back is a fish scale atlas of each mile, and I invite Lord Zhang to take a look!"

When Zhang Zishan heard this, he immediately flipped through the album, and while looking at it, he made a surprised sound.

"This ......"

"If you don't see it with your own eyes, you will kill this official, and this official will not believe that you can do all this in three days!"

"Could it be that the rumors are true, that you really drew a picture in the sky?"

Zhang Zi's good deeds were completely shocked by the map drawn by Huang Wenjing and others, not only the outline is accurate, but the information such as peaks and roads is clearly marked, and even the boundaries of the fields and acres are clearly drawn.

Compared with the fish scale atlas revised in the early years, I don't know how many times stronger!

"That's not a rumor!"

"The imperial grandson created the Flying Divine Ball, and we took the flying ball to observe the terrain, topography, and landform in the sky, so that we drew such an accurate and detailed atlas!"

"Now I also ask Lord Zhang to send a messenger to the newly marked area to investigate, inquire who these acres belong to, and urge him to hurry up to handle the name change and transfer."

"Otherwise, when the deadline comes, according to the latest laws of the imperial court, these acres of land will all be treated as ownerless wasteland!"

Zhang Zishan felt a pang in his heart when he heard this, and arched his hand towards Huang Wenjing.

"Thank you Brother Huang for reminding me, this official has thanked you for this kindness on behalf of the people of Jinhua!"

Huang Wenjing smiled and waved his hand when he heard this.

"This is not what I meant, it was specially instructed by the imperial grandson before we left."

The emperor's grandson said that the people seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and cultivate some barren land between the mountains and wilderness, but they just want to earn more money every year and give them a chance to change. Only those who involve too many acres of land and refuse to rectify will be dealt with strictly. ”

When Zhang Zishan heard this, he immediately bowed deeply in the direction of the capital.

"The imperial grandson is really worthy of the name of benevolence and righteousness!"

"This official has thanked the imperial grandson Gao Yi for the people of the county!"

After Huang Wenjing said this, he ordered people to call the county's scribes and messengers to the county office, and also ordered people to call the county's lizheng, township chiefs, grain chiefs, and other grassroots managers scattered throughout the county to wait for orders.

After a short time, all the scribes and errands of the county were gathered in the county office.

Huang Wenjing didn't say anything polite to them, and directly put the atlas drawn by Huang Wenjing and others on the table and asked them to come and check it by themselves.

The county lieutenants, the canonical history, and the scribes of each room looked at the new version of the atlas, and they sweated one by one.

In fact, most of these fields that were not on the yellow books of the imperial court were encroached upon by them or their clansmen, and they only had to look at the atlas to know that their hidden fields were exposed!

"Adult ......"

"What is this?"

Zhang Zishan saw that they were all still stiff-mouthed at this time, and his face couldn't help but darken.

"Emperor Sun Renyi, give you one last chance, let you file and register the acres that are not in the fish scale atlas as soon as possible!"

"If you don't seize this opportunity, the imperial court will use the fish scale atlas drawn in the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu as the standard, and all the acres of land that are not in the atlas will be classified as public land!"

"This ......"

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other, and after looking at each other, they collectively made a decision, that is, to quickly send someone to notify the clansmen and relatives to come over to register and file!

Although it is a bit embarrassing to do this, there is also the possibility of being settled by the imperial court. But they can't care so much about it, so they can only register the land in their own names as soon as possible.

After all, they have also invested a lot of manpower and material resources in order to reclaim wasteland!

Zhang Zishan knocked his subordinates, and called Lizheng, the grain chief and others in each mile to come in, and asked them to claim the land that was not in the fish scale atlas by themselves.

When the lieutenant chief, grain chief, and others saw such a detailed atlas, they were also suppressed, and they all kowtowed and pleaded guilty, admitting their lawlessness.

Zhang Zishan did not blame anything in the past, but just let them claim it, and then mobilized all the scribes to quickly register it with the county government to implement it.

While the county government of Jinhua County was in full swing, other prefectures and counties in the capital of Daming were also busy with the same thing.

Only in the remote areas has progress been slow, but two months later, new fish scale atlases have been submitted to Beijing.

In the imperial court, since Zhu Yunxi issued an order to check the country's acres of land, all the officials of the court and the central government have been waiting to see the excitement.

However, when the first batch of inventory scales was delivered to the imperial court, all the officials who spoke cool words shut up.

This was followed by the second, third, and fourth batches.

Until the last batch of Yunguichuan's fish scale atlases were also escorted into Beijing, all the officials above the court became silent, and the words were like gold.

Although they didn't know how much difference the total number of acres of land had been counted in Hongwu's 24 years, the fish scale atlas that had been handed back in the previous batches had already found more than double the amount of land.

Once the imperial grandson completes the summary of all the fish scale atlases and counts the real amount of land in the Ming Dynasty, the entire court will be covered with a river of blood!

Now they are only concerned about one thing, and that is how many people His Majesty the Emperor will connect this time......

Winter.

Before the last big court meeting of the new year, His Majesty the Emperor summoned hundreds of civil and military officials in Beijing to the palace to listen to the training.

Every official who received the order wrote the suicide note in advance and cried with his wife and children to say his final goodbye.

Therefore, when they stood outside the palace gate and waited for their audience, almost everyone had swollen eyes, dodging the gaze of others.

When Lao Zhu walked into the Fengtian Hall sitting on his shoulder, his eyes coldly swept over the officials on both sides of the Danqi, and let out a disdainful cold snort.

Because according to his eldest grandson's words, the number of fields will be officially announced in the court today!

After Lao Zhu sat down, the civil and military officials bowed three times and bowed nine times, and the early dynasty officially began.

However, unlike in the past, none of the officials of the early dynasty took the initiative to stand up and do something.

Even Zhan Wei, the official who has always had nothing to do, has become extremely calm today, and he has not the slightest intention of standing up and being the first bird.

Everyone was waiting, waiting for the owner of the seat in front of the emperor.

This seat is the exclusive seat of the emperor's grandson, but the emperor's grandson rarely comes, so it is empty most of the time.

The civil and military officials hoped that this seat would also be vacant today, but the heavens did not seem to hear their prayers, and the imperial grandson actually attended today's morning court in a rare manner.

"Grandson meets the emperor's grandfather!"

"Flat!"

"Grandpa Xie Huang!"

"Zhu Yunxi, you said before that there was something important to start today, I don't know what it is?"

Zhu Yunxi's eyes turned when he heard this.

"Grandpa Huang, why don't you retire from the dynasty today, let them go home first for a good New Year, and we'll talk about it after the New Year......

When the officials heard this, they secretly breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts. However, they were halfway through their breath when they heard the old emperor let out a dragon roar.

"your grandma's fart!"

"Let's let you toss for so long, today you have to say that you don't give us an accurate number, believe it or not, we will order someone to hang you up and beat you on the spot!"

Zhu Yunxi secretly stuck out his tongue when he heard this, and then took out a note from his sleeve.

"Grandpa Huang is angry, I said it's not okay......"

"After the calculation of the disciples of the grandson, the total number of acres of land in the Ming Dynasty is ......"

Zhu Yunxi deliberately paused when he said this, his pause didn't matter, and the hearts of the entire court officials, as well as the old Zhu Tou sitting on the dragon chair, were lifted, and even his breathing was still.

It didn't take half a minute for Zhu Yunxi to say a string of numbers.

"The total number of acres of land in Daming is 13.64 million hectares!"

After Zhu Yunxi said this number, the entire court was filled with the sound of exhalation, followed by a series of gasping and sobbing sounds.

Lao Zhu stood up from the chair in shock, circled around the dragon chair and the screen behind the dragon chair, and turned around several times before looking at Zhu Yunxi with a face full of disbelief.

"Say it to us again!"

"Returning to the emperor's grandfather, the total number of acres of land in the Ming Dynasty is 3.64 million hectares!"

"Grandpa Huang, let's retire from the dynasty if there is nothing to do today, and let them go home for a peaceful New Year!"

When Lao Zhu heard this, he stretched out his hand tremblingly, pointed at the officials under the court and shouted.

"Who's going to tell us!"

"What is the total number of acres counted in Hongwu in the twenty-fourth year?"

When the officials heard this, they all bowed their heads in shame.

Only Zhu Yunxi looked up at Lao Zhu and said a number that made everyone tremble.

"Grandpa Hui, the total number of acres of land in the country that you counted last time was 387,470,000 hectares......"

When the officials heard Zhu Yunxi say this string of numbers, they all knelt on the ground and kowtowed to apologize.

"Wait for a capital offense!"

"Wait for a capital offense!"

"Ministers...... Capital offense ......"

Lao Zhu only felt that his eyes were dark when he heard this number, and he hurriedly reached out and grabbed the armrest of the dragon chair, and it took a while to recover.

"Three hundred eighty-seven four hundred and seventy thousand!"

"It's just that in the past two and a half years, our Daming has more than 10 million hectares of land!"

"We really have a group of good officials!"

"Hahaha!"

Lao Zhu's laughter was poignant and miserable, although he had never respected the officials under him, but he thought that he was fair and strict, and he also entrusted his courtiers with important responsibilities and trusted.

The civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, there are not many people who are born as Jinshi.

Many officials are from poor families who have risen step by step from the prison guards of the country.

However, he gave them such a high official position and gave them such a high official position, and they repaid themselves like this?

"Good!"

"Good!"

"You guys are really nice!"

"Come on, ...... all the officials who counted the acres last time"

"Clan punishment!"

ps：

In fact, the number of acres in the 24th year of Hongwu and the 26th year of Hongwu was more than 3 million and 8 million respectively.

Although it is not as scary as I made it up, it is indeed a bit scary that there are nearly twice as many fields in Daming in just two years. I've just added a little bit on that.

After all, with the inventory methods of the Ming Dynasty at that time, it was impossible to clean up, even if the knife was on the neck, it was useless.

(End of chapter)