After Zhu Gaoxu ascended the throne, the morning court was late, but the end time was also fast, usually before lunch in the morning, because he was not allowed to discuss a certain matter, no matter how big or small, it was stipulated that it must be completed within half an hour, if it could not be decided, he would act as the emperor directly.

Today is the first day of the New Deal, and the courtiers have tried to mention a lot of things, mainly to ask for money and officials.

In the link of special promotion, the emperor delegated power, and many ministers could propose their protégés or relatives and friends.

But all the ministers have their own relatives and friends, so there was a scene of voting today.

The first vote was for the prefect of Huai'an.

The original prefect has already reached the age of Zhishi, and Qian Chang, the secretary of the ministry, took out three lists, and then Huang Huai, Yang Shirong, and Hu Yan came up with their own candidates, Huang Fu thought about it, and was not polite, and also proposed his own candidates.

The other officials were red-eyed.

Because according to the new policy, now the cabinet members can be nominated, in the past, everyone wanted to be promoted to the six ministries, but there were only six scholars in the six ministries, few positions, and many officials, now there are 17 cabinets, and everyone can strive for them in the future.

Because there were too many candidates, Huang Fu entered the voting session happily.

Before the vote, the emperor allowed everyone to canvass for votes, so the seventeen cabinets exchanged heads and discussed together.

Huang Fu was not stupid, and pulled his second assistant Hou Hai to say something, probably knowing that Hou Hai might support him.

The former official department Shangshu Jianyi has now entered the headquarters and is the head of the infantry division.

This is a newly established department, a new official position, but the level is not low, the same as Shangshu, Zheng Erpin.

Several retired Shangshu entered the third army like the same, and everyone began to be puzzled.

Because the emperor made the military generals serve as the six servants before, and there are also those who do Shangshu (Xu An, the current Shangshu of the Ministry of War, is a military general), and there are military generals who do the imperial history of the left and right (Meng Shan).

Now let Wenchen go to the third army department.

But Jian Yi knows why, the Infantry Division is responsible for the transfer and promotion of senior infantry officers throughout the Ming Dynasty.

And he doesn't need to fight, of course he is capable of being a civil official.

It is precisely because he has been a secretary of the ministry that Jian Yi feels very interesting today, after a prefect was elected in the past, the court could quarrel.

A person who is dissatisfied with the relevant candidate will be impeached immediately, and some people may start from the eighteenth generation of the person's ancestors to prove that this person is not suitable.

Now you don't have to say that, after everyone has put forward the candidates, they will vote if they don't agree, and the problem will be solved in a few minutes.

As for the incompetence of the prefect in the future, or the person who commits a serious crime, the person who proposes it must be held accountable.

Jian Yi began to think that if he would be held accountable in the future, many people would definitely be reluctant to nominate him.

But I didn't expect so many people to be nominated today, and one prefect was proposed eight candidates.

Huang Fu also decided to vote without saying a word, and after a few minutes of discussion, the voting results appeared quickly.

Xu Ming, nominated by Huang Fu, won by 11 votes.

Xu Ming was the supervisor of the imperial history of Shandong when he was Jianwen, and Yongle was the first Langzhong of the military department, and was later demoted to Jiaozhi by Zhu Di, where he followed Huang Fu, and the two had a good relationship, and they also talked about it, and now they are doing the prefect in Jiaozhi.

Huang Fu wanted to transfer him back, and he happened to be recommended as the prefect of Huai'an.

This will be a world away from Huai'an, and Huai'an will definitely be much better.

Huang Fu himself had five votes, and he persuaded Hou Hai to support three votes, and he had already received eight votes.

None of the other candidates had more than five votes.

The vote was fresh, but it got off to a good start, and the officials were staring at it.

According to the new policy, the chief officials of the fourth rank and below must also report to the emperor for approval and verification.

If you have more than four grades, you can only report to the preparatory candidate, which will be determined by the emperor, or the emperor can directly appoint you.

Of course, Emperor Zhu Gaoxu was very face-saving, and he would not embarrass Huang Fu when he came up, so he didn't even read Xu Ming's information, and directly agreed on the spot.

The courtiers were in an uproar, convinced that the emperor was decentralizing power to the cabinet.

This means that they will all have the opportunity to get the right to be shared by the emperor in the future.

In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, it was the ministers and the emperor who were fighting for power.

Some emperors can't compete with ministers, so they simply mess up.

Zhu Gaoxu now has a little power, and the ministers are very happy, as if they have taken a big advantage.

However, they did not notice that Zhu Gaoxu had already laid the groundwork by allowing the vote, because everyone is selfish, and it is impossible for all the 17 members of the cabinet to unify their thinking, and they will inevitably be divided into several factions in the future.

Taking a step back, even if the seventeen-member united front is impossible, it is impossible to confront the emperor, because the power above the fourth rank is still in the hands of the emperor, and some important officials can be removed at any time, and even cabinet candidates can be replaced.

Zhu Gaoxu plans to come step by step and let go of small power first.

Then look at the operation of the cabinet, then set the cabinet tenure time, and then set the rules for training the next cabinet first and second assistants.

Set the threshold for entering the cabinet, and after several step-by-step reforms, after a few years, the cabinet will form a good set of alternative rules and operate in an orderly manner.

Even if the new emperor is young, the court will still be able to operate smoothly and efficiently.

It was already after lunch in the Tiansan Dynasty, and the emperor walked to the Huagai Hall alone.

After the New Deal, cabinet members did not need to go to the Huagai Hall to approve the folds in the future, according to the relevant regulations, important folds would be sent to the Huagai Palace, and other cabinets could handle them, but sometimes when important documents such as the appointment of officials needed to be sealed, they would also be sent to the Huagai Palace.

He thought as he walked.

The three major evils of the Ming Dynasty, the clan system, the military household system, and the encroachment of farmland, were basically sorted out by him in three years.

Will my Ming still die?

He thought about it and was still not at ease, so he turned back to Zhong Xian and said, "You wait for Xia Butang to finish lunch, let him come over, and I will wait for him in the Huagai Palace." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Not long after Zhong Xian went out, Xia Yuanji came, it turned out that this guy didn't go back to eat at all, and when he heard the emperor summoning him, he arrived without saying a word.

"How much farmland do I have now?" Zhu Gaoxu asked.

This matter was done by Hongxi at the beginning of the second year, and now it is the beginning of the fourth year of Hongxi, and it has been almost two years, and the imperial court has reconfirmed the power, divided the land into households, and spent nearly two years before and after, and finally gradually confirmed the rights of the world's fertile land.

Of course, Xia Yuanji came as soon as he opened his mouth, and said that at the same time, in accordance with His Majesty's will, it will be updated every month.

Because of the fact that in places such as Liaodong and Nanyang, and even in other parts of the country, such as Jingxiang, the people are still cultivating new fields.

"How many people have more than 10,000 acres now?" The emperor required that after each household confirmed its rights, it should have one and four pairs and five land certificate books.

The head of the household takes the book, and the local government keeps a copy, sends a copy to the household department for preservation, sends a copy to the palace for preservation, and there is a copy of the unified seal, which cannot be opened at ordinary times.

The household department is specially counted and arranged, and after being updated every month, it will be sent to the emperor.

But Zhu Gaoxu had a lot to do, and he didn't have time to take a closer look, so he simply called Xia Yuanji over and asked.

Xia Yuanji is not a computer either, so he can't remember so much, but he knows that the emperor will often ask, so he wrote down all the important ones.

"As of December last year, there were 146 households with more than 10,000 mu of households in the country."

"And so many?" Zhu Gaoxu couldn't believe it.

He collects 60% of the tax of more than 10,000 mu, which is quite a high tax, and there are still people who keep it above 10,000 mu.

"Most of them are wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan, Zhejiang and other places, with high local output, paying 60% of taxes, and some making money, so many rich businessmen are unwilling to sell land."

"There are also more than a dozen households that are adults, and His Majesty has given them a tax exemption policy for the first five years, so there are more fields now."

Zhu Gaoxu has been operating there for almost two years, and has cultivated a large amount of grain fields, and based on the tax-free policy, there are quite a lot of people who go, and the average number of fields owned by individuals is now the highest.

Zhu Gaoxu is still quite satisfied, in another time and space, I am afraid that there are more than 10,000 mu of large households in a province.

Now under his new tax law, the vast majority of people are unwilling to hoard so much land.

As long as there is no annexation of a large amount of farmland, the people will be able to live normally, the people will be able to live, and they will not easily rebel.

For the Ming Dynasty, the biggest enemy in the future, except for the faint king, is the catastrophic weather.

He can't control the catastrophic weather, but he can prevent it.

This requires the same set of education and training methods, and try to ensure that there are no young emperors.

"In the past few years, the wind and rain have been good, and most places have had bumper harvests." Zhu Gaoxu said at this time: "This is the best opportunity, the imperial court should build more large warehouses to store grain, in order to prepare for future disasters." ”

"At the beginning of the Sui and Tang dynasties, the large granaries of the previous dynasty could be used for decades, and we are in the Ming Dynasty, we can't even be inferior to the Sui Dynasty, right?"

The granaries of the Sui Dynasty were famous, not only well stored, but also well protected.

Without these granaries, there would have been many more deaths at the end of the Sui Dynasty.

"The household department has been discussing this year and decided to build ten more large granaries and try to move to the northwest." Natsuhara Yoshimichi.

The construction of the granary at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty was actually a mess, and the real development began with Yongle, and the four major granaries of the entire Ming Dynasty, Huai'an Fengji Warehouse, Xuzhou Guangyun Warehouse, Dezhou Dezhou Warehouse, and Linqing Linqing Warehouse, were all near Beijing, and other small warehouses were basically near Beijing.

This practice is far from the Sui Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty had frequent disasters, more than 4,000 natural disasters occurred in the entire two hundred years, and at critical times, you can't transport grain too far away, not to mention that the grain storage of the Dynasty is not enough.

Among them, the largest Guangyun warehouse has 1,000 granaries, but it can store up to 2 million stones, which is still not half a star worse than the granaries of the Sui Dynasty.

Xingluocang of the Sui Dynasty, the site of which is in the southeast of Gongxian County, Henan Province, is named after the place where the old Luoshui flows into the Yellow River. More than 20 miles around, 3,000 cellars, each cellar can hold 8,000 stones, all full, can hold 24 million stones, the four granaries of the Ming Dynasty, it is enough for a fraction.

Sui granary not only has high reserves, but also is well preserved.

Another Hanjiacang built in the Sui Dynasty, one of the cellars, stored 500,000 catties of millet put into the Northern Song Dynasty, and most of the grains were intact when the archaeological discovery was made in 1969.

So Zhu Gaoxu thought about it and said: "The granary of the Sui Dynasty is famous in ancient and modern times, but my Ming Dynasty is less than one-tenth of the Sui Dynasty. ”

"When you are building a granary, you must learn from the Sui Dynasty."

"Don't do it, don't concentrate the granary near Jingshi, look at the more disaster weather over there, and the grain output is small, you can build it there."

"Your Majesty is wise, and the minister knows."

Zhu Gaoxu's face turned straight at this time, and he continued: "The officials guarding the granary are changed every three years, and every year the Jinyi Guard and the Beijing Army go to spot checks. ”

"Strictly prevent fireworks, whoever catches fire in the granary, burns more than 10,000 stones, regardless of the reason, behead the whole family and the guards in charge of the granary."

"The household department is the first person responsible, if you can't find it, let Jinyiwei and Jingjun find out, your household department is a big crime."

The emperor suddenly became serious, and Xia Yuanji was also startled, and he immediately said, "Please rest assured, Your Majesty." His expression was disapproving, obviously not knowing that there were many routines in the future.

What trade-in, what barns caught fire.

(End of chapter)