Behind Wenyuan Pavilion, a small row of houses facing a few magnolia trees on the east side is the location of the Cabinet Planning Department after Zhu Yijun ordered the expansion of Wenyuan Pavilion.

The Department of Policy Preparation is mainly responsible for researching and formulating various policies for the reference of the auxiliary ministers, and then the auxiliary ministers will select and ask the Son of Heaven to implement them.

Because the Department of Planning and Planning is mainly engaged in research and planning, many of the officials who serve in the department have not simple backgrounds, and most of them are not the same, including Qingliu and followers, and there are also clans, proficient in business, and proficient in all kinds of mathematics, foreign affairs, religion, etc.

King Zheng and Zhu Zaiyu both served as a historian in the Department of Planning and Planning because Zhu Yijun reformed the clan and ordered a number of officials to allow the clan to serve.

The officials of the Department of Policy and Policy have real power, that is, they provide reference opinions on many major policies, but it is true that they do not have real power, because they do not have the power to decide which national policy to implement except for the auxiliary ministers, and this decision power is in the hands of the cabinet ministers.

In the early spring of the fourteenth year of Wanli, in the early spring of the 14th year of Wanli, many officials were still lit up in the planning department, a large number of red candles were still lit, the sound of crackling abacus kept appearing, and people were still walking back and forth.

Boom!

Shen Li, a cabinet scholar who presided over the general affairs of the Planning Department, even accidentally hit the door frame when he was walking, and then suddenly felt a lot more sober, and looked at the officials of the Planning Department who also stayed up all night with him, and asked:

"How's it going, have you got the results?"

At this time, Lu Kun walked over and handed a copy of the closed case to Shen Li, and said:

"It's approved!"

Lu Kun replied.

"Do you want to continue cleaning up the temple?"

Shen Li took over the case, pinched his eyebrows, and then asked.

"It's hard to say, if you don't stop cleaning up the Buddhist temple, it seems that at present, we have to kill some people who have become gangsters!"

"Because, according to the number of landless people and the number of temple fields that have increased after the Buddhist temples have been cleaned up in various places, there are still more than 200,000 unemployed people who cannot get a share of the land.

"However, since the twelfth year of Wanli, natural disasters have been frequent, first the great famine in Guangxi, and then the Huaiyang earthquake accompanied by floods, and since last year, the drought in Yan'an and Fengxiang has been accompanied by great hunger! Recently, there has been a great hunger in Yunyang, and a large number of locusts have crossed the east of the river this spring. ”

"Therefore, according to the statistics of the number of displaced people reported from various places, the number of displaced people has increased to more than 300,000, and after the land is divided into the displaced people who have increased due to the cleaning of Buddhist temples, these new displaced people due to the disaster will not have much new land to divide, because according to the number of undivided fields reported by the political secretary of Dongying, there is still a shortage of at least 500,000 mu of land!"

"What about the homeland?"

"Southern Shaanxi, eastern Sichuan, and Huguang should be able to reclaim some new fields, using the method of destroying forests to create fields and filling lakes to make fields."

Shen Li asked at this time.

Zheng Wang Zhu Zaiyu hurriedly objected: "If the local area can not destroy forests and fill lakes, it will not destroy forests and fill lakes!" ”

"According to numerical statistics, in recent years, the frequent drought in Shanxi Province, Shaanxi Province, is too closely related to deforestation, and the frequent disasters in the Huaiyang area are also related to the diversion of the Yellow River and the excessive filling of lakes in this dynasty.

Shen Li couldn't help frowning: "Then what else can be done?" Originally, according to the original arrangement, it was enough to use Dongying and other new fields to solve the problem of many people without land after the cleaning of Buddhist temples, but who would have expected that the heavens would not be beautiful. ”

"I have an idea."

"Please also ask Your Highness and the princes for reference."

Like Lu Kun, Jin Xuezeng, who was also on temporary duty in the Planning Department, came over and said a word at this time.

Shen Li and the others looked at him.

"Although the imperial court is short of land now, there is no shortage of silver dollars, and it is completely possible to use silver dollars to buy land!"

"Not to mention other places overseas, just near Dongying, where the dynasty has stationed a large number of troops, there are still many fertile fields controlled by the Japanese people."

"If there is an area called Iino and called a granary by the locals, there are millions of acres of fertile land, and now that the Japanese are fighting each other, it is the time when we need to exchange a large amount of our lead and iron and other materials, and we can exchange the silver dollars exchanged for these materials to exchange their fields!"

"In this way, he can drive a large number of cultivated fields and Japanese soldiers into their soldiers, and we can also get a large amount of cultivated land to share among the people, and then strengthen the kingization of Dongying!"

Jin Xuezeng said at this time.

After hearing this, Shen Li couldn't help but ask, "What if they don't want to?" ”

"Then spend silver dollars and send Wang Shi to take it! The whole world is not the king's land, why does he occupy my king's land? ”

"Now he is given a silver dollar in exchange, just to show that my heavenly kingdom is as benevolent as the sky, and I am willing to take back the king's land in the form of a silver dollar reward, so as to show that the way of governing the country is more in line with the benevolence advocated by the new rites, and try to reduce the number of Han soldiers due to the king's transformation!"

Jin Xuezeng said in a deep voice at this time.

"That's all there is to it!"

Lu Kun said a word at this time, and then looked at Shen Li and said: "Otherwise, the national policy presented by our Policy Department will be ridiculed by the people of the world, saying that we don't understand the people's feelings and implement the new policy without permission, at least we will be dismissed and exiled, and at worst, we may be beheaded and the people will be angry, the key is that the Department of Policy cannot be abolished because of this, because there is a Department of Policy Planning, which means that the country has always been willing to reform." ”

"Then write the charter like this, and let the cabinet elders deliberate, either buy Tian Anmin, or raze Anmin!"

Shen Li made up his mind without hesitation.

At this time, the sky outside was already bright, and the bureaucrats outside the gate had been kneeling for almost half an hour, Zhu Yijun also finished breakfast and came back from greeting the queen mother of the two palaces.

As soon as Shen Shixing entered the Donghua Gate, Li Zhe ran over first, and said as he walked with his shoulder: "Enfu, do you know about the affairs of the hundred officials?" ”

Shen Shixing closed his eyes in his shoulder and replied, "I already know." ”

Li Zhe said: "They are forcing you to give up the policy of cleaning up the Buddhist temple!" ”

Shen Shixing opened his eyes: "Huijimen is the place where the ministers play, they want to ask Your Majesty to advise, there is nothing to blame, and let them go, the servants will go to the cabinet first, if you have nothing to do, you can go back to the yali to do your own thing." ”

"Yes!"

After Li Zhe answered outside, Shen Shixing really ordered the people who raised their shoulders to go directly to the cabinet.

As soon as they arrived at the cabinet, Liu Yingjie, Wang Xijue, Zhang Xueyan, Shen Li, Wang Jiaping, and other cabinet scholars and cabinet scholars greeted them.

As soon as Shen Shixing saw these people, he asked, "How is it, has it been agreed?" ”

Liu Yingjie said: "It's decided, don't shed the blood of your own people, only immigrate and divide the land!" The previous policy of encouraging people to go to sea to buy land and land reclamation was changed to the imperial court to organize landless people to go to sea to reclaim land! ”

Shen Shixing laughed after hearing this, and then asked, "Is Tian enough?" ”

"Not enough!"

Wang Xijue followed up at this time.

Shen Shixing's face sank after hearing this: "How can you not bleed if you are not enough?" ”

Shen Li said at this time: "Xingwu thought of a way, that is, to buy land with silver dollars, and after the discussion of the old Wang Ge, he felt that he should directly buy land with silver dollar coupons, if any of the daimyo of the Wa Kingdom was unwilling to accept the imperial court's silver dollar coupons to buy their fields, they would ban the sale of lead, iron, firearms, gunpowder, saltpeter, cotton cloth, silk and other things!" In this way, it can save a lot of transportation consumption, and it is more conducive to exchanging lead and iron and other materials for its fertile land, which is better than directly exchanging silver dollars. ”

"If you can, let Youji print the silver dollar coupon now, and prepare to take it to Dongying for additional issuance, so you don't need to bring the silver dollar over."

(End of chapter)