In the fourth year of Wanli, the golden cinnamon is fragrant.

Daming Jingshi.

Zhao Zhenji and Hai Rui, who were in the north and south of the city, and the two senior officials who supervised the pilot project of Qingzhang Tianmu, had already entered Beijing during this season.

"Your Majesty!"

"Beizhi Qingzhang has added 3,625,500 acres of cultivated land."

"Nanzhi Qingzhang has added 5,788,900 mu of cultivated land."

"The total increase in the number of acres of cultivated land has reached nearly 50 percent."

And because of this.

On this day, inside the Yuntai Gate of the Forbidden City.

Zhu Yijun drank tea while listening to Wang Guoguang, the head of the household department, on the achievements of the north and south direct pilot Qingzhang.

Gradually, after Zhu Yijun heard that there would be more than 9 million mu of cultivated land in the north and south alone, he and the ministers Zhang Juzheng, Lu Tiaoyang, and other ministers present all laughed.

You must know that the increase of more than 9 million mu of cultivated land in the north and south is equivalent to nearly 60 percent of the total number of acres of land in the Ming Dynasty.

This means that a large amount of land endowment will be added.

"Very good, Qingzhang really works well!"

Zhu Yijun then nodded, said a word, and then asked: "Presumably, the increase in taxes for the more than 9 million mu of cultivated land is enough for various expenses this year, right?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, not only will it be enough for this year's expenses, but it will also be able to save some surplus, about three million taels of silver and more than one million stone grains."

The kingdom of the Household Department of Shangshu returned to the road.

Zhu Yijun heard Wang Guoguang say this, and at this time he read "National Style":

"Rat, Rat, Rat, Rat,

No food!

Three-year-old girl,

Don't care. ”

After reading it, Zhu Yijun said: "Is there a new policy that needs to be implemented as soon as possible to benefit the people?" Taking advantage of the abundance of national funds, it should be implemented as soon as possible. ”

"Lest a large amount of this money and grain be stored in the warehouse, and stolen by the corrupt officials and officials who guard it."

"Therefore, it is better to use this money and grain as soon as possible to benefit the country and the people, as the saying goes, take it from the people and use it for the people!"

Except for Zhang Juzheng, all the ministers were shocked when they heard Zhu Yijun say this, thinking that His Majesty was so optimistic about the integrity of the officials in the world, instead of thinking that most of the officials in the world were honest and upright.

Zhang Siwei even, so he glanced at Zhang Juzheng.

He hoped that Zhang Juzheng, the only person who could force the emperor to change his concept, would correct the emperor's inappropriate concept in time.

If the so-called king is not secret, he will lose his minister;

The emperor now wants to immediately use the surplus state money for the benefit of the people, just because he is not worried about the officials who take care of the money and grain.

What is this like?

However, Zhang Juzheng did not admonish like this after getting up at this time, but gave up his hand:

"Your Majesty, the river has not been dredged for many years, and this time during the Nanzhi Qingzhang period, it is reported that many embankments in Jiangxi have fallen into disrepair due to disrepair, and there has been too much rain in Jiangxi this year, so that many embankments have collapsed, so that a large number of people's fields have been flooded."

"Therefore, in the humble opinion of the minister, it is better to send officials to prime the river, and first go to patrol Jiangxi, water control and disaster relief, and use the part of the levy that has not yet been transported to Beijing, which is levied in Nanzhi, for the purpose of water control and disaster relief in Jiangxi, and can greatly save the cost of road transportation."

"Accurate!"

Zhu Yijun replied.

Zhang Siwei glanced at Zhang Juzheng in surprise.

He didn't expect that Zhang Juzheng was already ready to use the surplus state funds to do something for the benefit of the people!

Zhang Siwei has reason to suspect that the Son of Heaven does not believe in the integrity of the officials in the world, but he is afraid that it is Zhang Juzheng.

"This time, the officials responsible for the implementation of this new policy have made great contributions, and they should be praised to encourage the officials who have not cleared the acres of land."

At this time, Zhu Yijun mentioned rewarding the officials of the reformist faction, and as he spoke, he issued an edict: "Give the officials who are executing the first level of reward and dispersion, give double taels below the prefecture and county, give three taels above the platform, give 10,000 taels of silver to the governor and the general soldiers, and give 20,000 taels of silver to the governor and above." ”

Zhu Yijun's doing this is also equivalent to raising incorruptible silver, and the officials who can implement the reform are saved from offending too many powerful people for the imperial court, but because they get too little reward, they are prone to psychological imbalance, and then they are more likely to be corrupted by the powerful people.

"Your Majesty!"

Hai Rui stood up at this time and said: "In the humble opinion of the ministers, the increase in national funds should not be used as the capital to reward officials, and it is the duty of officials in the world to act in accordance with the decrees of the imperial court. Who reads the books of sages and becomes an official, not for the sake of the community, but for the wealth? ”

Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "It's not that everyone is you Haigang Peak, and the generous reward now is also for the sake of heavy punishment in the future if anyone dares to loot people's wealth in the name of the New Deal, so it is not considered to be punished for not teaching." ”

"Yes!"

Hai Rui responded happily in his heart, and did not fight.

He admitted that the emperor was right, not everyone could be like him, and follow the requirements of the saints.

"In addition, next, in addition to the implementation of the matter of clearing the acres of land in the country, there is also the matter of opening the sea, once the sea is opened, it is necessary to increase the training of sailors, and the cabinet should discuss with the Ministry of War to determine the scale of the sailors who need to be trained, and who needs to be recommended as the commander of the water trainers! I decided that the new sailors would be named the Yongwei Battalion. ”

Zhu Yijun talked about the water practitioner at this time, and the ministers hurriedly said "obey the order".

Then, Zhu Yijun said: "I recently instructed the inner servants to investigate and count the origins and family backgrounds of the middle ones in the previous palace examinations of the national dynasty. ”

"As a result, I found that the proportion of those who came from the common people in the previous palace examination places is getting smaller and smaller, and now there is an imbalance!"

"Of course, this is because scholars from the common people have the opportunity to come into contact with famous scholars and famous articles of the time, and they are not as good as the children of bureaucrats and gentry, so scholars from common people are more likely to fall into the ranks."

"But if this situation is allowed to continue, it will not be conducive to me and the imperial court knowing the suffering of the small people."

"Therefore, I have decided to add another fifty jinshi places on the basis of the existing jinshi quota as a quota for specially admitting scholars from common people."

"By analogy, the township examination and the hospital examination should also increase the number of such places."

"In this regard, we should set a standard for judging that a scholar can be classified as a child of common people, such as no more than 100 acres of land in the clan, or no filial piety or more within three generations."

"After the meeting of the cabinet and the Ministry of Rites, it will be played immediately."

After Zhu Yijun spoke, he ordered.

Therefore, this time, not only the other ministers except Zhang Juzheng were surprised, but even Zhang Juzheng himself was quite surprised.

He had to admit that the Son of Heaven was really good at finding out what to do in all kinds of chapters and archives like mountains and seas, especially he loved to do all kinds of surveys and statistics.

Zhang Juzheng was happy about this, but he actually neglected to teach the emperor to pay attention to arithmetic and statistics.

However, governing the country is not only to look for the problems of the present from history, but also to find out the problems from various figures.

And now that his emperor students had taken the initiative to master this skill, he was naturally happy.