When Yu Youding, Li Chengliang, Wu Weizhong and others led the Ming army to the palace, and when they saw Li Hui, Li Hui immediately knelt down and said tremblingly: "Minister Li Hui asks Your Majesty for peace!" ”

"Your Majesty!"

Yu Youding replied and asked, "Does Your Highness know about the fact that Zheng Che refused to allow the Heavenly Army to enter Pyongyang?" ”

After hearing this, Li Hui glanced at Zheng Che who was escorted, and then hurriedly denied: "I don't know." ”

After hearing this, Yu Youding said, "Then what does His Highness plan to do with this person?" ”

Li Hui hurriedly said: "Be punished!" ”

Yu Youding nodded, and gave Li Chengliang a look, and Li Chengliang ordered Zheng Che to be relieved.

Li Hui said at this time: "Immediately behead Zheng Che to prove Guzhi's loyalty!" ”

Zheng Che didn't speak, only smiled with tears.

Not long after, Zheng Che was also killed.

Next, Yu Youding also expressed his willingness to play on behalf of the Son of Heaven on the grounds that the Korean king Li Hui had eliminated the traitor and proved his loyalty, and announced that the Son of Heaven wanted him to compensate the treasury and immediately ordered Busan, Jeju, and Tsushima Islands to be managed by the Celestial Empire's garrison.

Li Hui accepted the order and complied with it, not daring to be the slightest dissatisfied, and had to raise funds to seriously entertain the ministers and officers and soldiers of the Celestial Empire.

Li Hui and his ministers really didn't dare to slack off, and they were also deeply afraid that the ministers of the Celestial Empire and the officers and soldiers would be dissatisfied at all, and they would not leave, making them feel like slaves all the time.

Therefore, as Li Chengliang said when he drew Ding Ding to transfer troops in advance, the whole army of the Ming Dynasty really spent the New Year in Seoul, and had a comfortable and good year.

Except for Wu Weizhong, who was ordered to go to Busan with a part of the grain and bean material stored in the Korean treasury after the first day of the New Year, Li Chengliang and others stayed in Korea until early February, and then left with the full savings of the Korean treasury.

……

"Pyongyang's victory, Li Chengliang really did not disappoint me, so it seems that there is no problem with the North Korean garrison,"

The third day of the second month of the eighth year of Wanli.

When the ice and snow melt, the old willows on the palace wall are beginning to sprout new green.

Forbidden city.

The day after the feast, Zhu Yijun learned the news of Pyongyang's victory when he was playing the imperial chapter in the west room of the Wenhua Palace, and laughed because of this, and said to Zhang Juzheng:

"This is because of the new deal, so the Ming Dynasty can declare the prestige of martial arts in foreign domains, and Mr. can be the first to take credit."

"The minister is ashamed, if it weren't for His Majesty's hard work, even if the minister had the heart of profit, it would be difficult to really implement the Zhongxing policy, so those who can really make the Ming Dynasty have this martial art are all Your Majesty's merits!"

"What's more, Your Majesty is the father of the people of the world, and only Your Majesty can bring grace to the people of the world."

"It can be said that the prosperity of the world and the death of the world all lie in Your Majesty alone, and the so-called courtiers, even if they have the ability of Zhuge Wuhou and King Yue, are just icing on the cake for Emperor Tuzhi."

Zhang Juzheng replied.

Zhu Yijun nodded.

He knew that Zhang Juzheng was taking this opportunity to make him understand the importance of the emperor's plan to rule and forge ahead for an empire, and he didn't really think that it was just related to Shoufu, who, to put it bluntly, was essentially just a high-level worker who carried out the emperor's will.

"Now that the Qingzhang acres have ended, if I really want to be the king of the country, I naturally can't just be satisfied with just measuring the acres of land in the world. And we should continue to innovate in the system, especially the fiscal and taxation system. After all, all cultural and martial arts rely on this. ”

Zhu Yijun said at this time.

Obviously, Zhang Juzheng's concern that Zhu Yijun may only be satisfied with some achievements in the future and will gradually lose his determination in the future is superfluous.

Otherwise, Zhu Yijun would not have revealed his intention to Zhang Juzheng to continue to reform for him after the end of Qingzhang's fields.

Qingzhang field acres from the first month of the fifth year of Wanli began to implement in the country, to now three years later, at the beginning of the eighth year of Wanli, the governors of all places have reported the number of fields completed by Qingzhang, it is indeed considered to have been completely completed.

This is a major event completed in the early years of Wanli.

After three years of re-examining the country's fields, the problems that can be found are not only the problems of annexation, but also the problems of demographics, class solidification, and climate change.

Zhu Yijun has planned to set up an institution for statistics and research of the corresponding data, and conduct scientific analysis of the data obtained from the survey, so as to provide guidance for the subsequent restructuring, especially the national land acre data that has just been surveyed.

After all, Qingzhang acres cannot be cleared in vain, and its significance cannot be used only to increase the field endowment.

The conversation turned back.

Zhu Yijun asked Zhang Juzheng as he said this: "What does Mr. think?" ”

After Zhang Juzheng pondered for a moment, he arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty Shengming!" ”

Zhu Yijun continued: "Therefore, the new policy cannot be ended in Qingzhang Tianmu, and we must continue to implement the new reform policy. ”

Zhang Juzheng said yes.

"Before this is the new reform policy, the local feudal lords should not be idle, and issue an edict to let them start preparing for the population survey, I have been on the throne for so many years, and I must know how many people I have."

"In addition, it was stated in the edict that slaves and servants who were used as children and daughters should also be counted, and in order to prevent the powerful and gentry and other large families from being unwilling to truthfully report the situation of slave ownership, it should be pointed out in the decree that if the government does not truthfully register, once a servant escapes or disappears, and is not registered, the government shall not search and arrest him."

Zhu Yijun said at this time.

Zhu Yijun actually wanted to do a national census of the Ming Dynasty for a long time.

After all, if you don't get to the bottom of the national population, many things are also very bottomless.

For example, the proportion of workers in the total population is related to the development of the commodity economy in the Ming Dynasty, whether the imperial court should start to intervene in the commodity economy, or even begin to pay more attention to these workers, and whether it should be abolished in a timely manner, and whether the law established by the Ming Xiaozong that hired workers should strike should be regarded as guilty of the following crimes and be punished for complicity in rebellion.

These are all necessary, and they are also the most basic starting point for treating oneself as a Han person.

It is only because in the past few years it was necessary to purge the administration of officials, recover the confiscation of confiscations, and even clear the acres of land, and the entire bureaucratic system, which was mainly composed of reformers and followers, could not spare itself to conduct a census.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun did not ask for an edict to conduct a census until after the completion of the clearing of the fields.

"See, Your Majesty loves the people, and he doesn't really think that the people of the world are like grass mustard, and they can grow crazy after a period of time, but they don't need to be counted, they really regard the people of the world as their own people, and they want to see their numbers in the book."

When Zhang Juzheng left after the lecture in the Wenhua Palace, he said to Wang Jiaping, the new living note.

Because Shen Li had already asked for an external transfer, he learned that his father had died soon after he was transferred, and he had to go back to his hometown directly to worry about it, and by the way, he visited the countryside to check the people's situation.

Therefore, Wang Jiaping has become the new living official.

At this time, Zhang Juzheng said to Wang Jiaping, who had just arrived at the imperial palace and was not very familiar with the emperor, Wang Jiaping replied:

What Yuanfu said was that his subordinates also saw His Majesty's love for the people, but he didn't expect that the Son of Heaven was really as Yuanfu said, and he also had a strong heart of hard work! And it makes Yuanfu's reminder just now seem unnecessary. ”

Zhang Juzheng smiled faintly and said, "It's good if you know!" is just to be a close minister of the Son of Heaven, and you should remember a sentence: 'If the king is not secret, he will lose his minister, and if the minister is not secret, he will lose his body' After all, some people don't want the Son of Heaven to have sharpness. ”

Wang Jiaping replied: "The subordinates understand! ”

Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and did not say anything more.

Wang Jiaping was not his student.

As for why Zhang Juzheng did not recommend his students to be the living officials, it was because he was determined to reform as the first assistant, and because he had obeyed the holy order without following the etiquette system before, most of his protégés had betrayed him.

Therefore, among his students, there is no official who is born in Hanlin and has good literary talents, but can be used as a daily life, and has a good character, is cautious and quiet, and does not easily make friends and form associations.

He could only find it from people who were not his students.

As a result, Wang Jiaping was able to serve as the new living officer.

Because of this, Zhang Juzheng often needs to take the initiative to ask Wang Jiaping about some things, and it is impossible to take the initiative to talk to him like Shen Li did when he was an official.

(End of chapter)