Qi Jiguang's departure, and the subsequent impeachment and dismissal of the ministers such as Pan Jitao, the head of the household department, made the people of the world breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that this is the Son of Heaven expressing an attitude, and it means that the matter of strict investigation of private mining is finally coming to an end.

Officials at all levels also learned the meaning of the songs, and gradually stopped strictly investigating illegal mining, and no longer falsely accused people of innocence, arbitrarily pointed out others as mining thieves, and even began to take the initiative to appease the people who were accused of being mining thieves.

The world began to be a little sad, and the hearts of the people gradually returned to peace.

But what some officials and people in Shandong did not expect was that at this time, Shandong Fuzhao would have to check the population and re-compile the yellow book.

Many officials and citizens are very dissatisfied with this!

Of course.

The people here do not refer to ordinary people, but those rich people who want to eat the benefits of others by hiding the population, such as the head of the Li Changjia of the Lijia, and the rich people who have quite a lot of assets and can rely on the hidden population to accumulate slaves.

Because it was in their interest to conceal the population, these people were dissatisfied with the decree to count the population.

Some officials were dissatisfied because they could no longer benefit from helping the chiefs hide their populations.

But these officials and people are dissatisfied, and they can no longer care about the officials.

Because their strength is still not as good as that of many eunuchs, not to mention, they still have to have errands in the Shandong official office, and they can't offend Fu Bao.

Therefore, dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, and they still have to carry out the population inventory and recompilation of the yellow book carried out by Zhang Wenxi and the prince.

However, there are still officials and people who are unstoppable in their greed or lucky, and they still begin to hide the population, and there are even those who are bold enough to take advantage of this incident to further enrich themselves.

According to the system.

The Yellow Book of the Ming Dynasty was re-made every ten years, and the cost of making the Yellow Book was borne by the people themselves.

That is, if the people of the first class want to make up their own yellow book, they need to bear the cost of making the yellow book.

In other words, the high-grade paper, adhesives, and pen and ink used to make the yellow book are all borne by the people themselves.

This is the method that Zhu Yuanzhang came up with when formulating the Yellow Book system in order to save the administrative costs incurred when compiling the Yellow Book.

However, this method has caused many people to be inactive in fabricating the Yellow Book, that is, registering it on the household, either shoddy, or simply delaying it, so that the Yellow Book will be destroyed within a few years, or it will not be handed over for many years, so that the central court of the Ming Dynasty will be more and more unable to clear the number of new people under its rule, how many people have died, who has a few people and even how many slaves.

And this life.

In order to avoid the local people not needing to make the yellow book because they were unwilling to bear the cost of making the yellow book, and the national income had already increased significantly, Zhu Yijun issued an edict in the fifteenth year of Wanli, saying that after the sixteenth year of Wanli, the cost of making the yellow book would be borne by the imperial court.

At the same time, in order to prevent local officials from asking each lijia to go to a designated place to purchase materials for the preparation of the Yellow Book, and to take the opportunity to make money, so that the materials used in the preparation of the Yellow Book are expensive and of poor quality, and the officials at all levels are required not to monopolize the procurement of the Yellow Book materials.

However, because the hidden population is beneficial to the local officials and the people, but only to the country, the grassroots officials and the people are still not active in fabricating the yellow book, and there is still a serious situation of hidden population.

Therefore, this also led to the need for the crown prince and the governor of Shandong, Zhang Wenxi, to strictly fabricate the system of the Yellow Book again.

At the same time, there are still some officials and citizens who use some serious materials that appear to be the fabrication of the Yellow Book, but in fact use materials that look the same and are actually more perishable.

In this way, although the household registration and other information registered in the Yellow Book of Yili Jia are true, within a few years the Yellow Book rotted on its own, resulting in the household registration of the Lijia as if it had not been registered.

The crown prince discovered this problem when he led a cadre of military soldiers to refute the investigation, and ordered that all the officials and civilians suspected of doing so be arrested, and those who should be beheaded should be beheaded, and those who should be exiled will be exiled.

In addition, there are more daring officials and citizens who directly fill in the Yellow Book, not filling in the real population, but filling in the people who have already passed away, and some even directly select a few people from the previous Yellow Book. ”

"This yellow book of the twenty-seven capitals and five maps of Wendeng County is wrong!"

"The deformed household Liu Dazhu recorded in it existed in the yellow book compiled at that time in the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, why is there still this person now?"

"Is it possible, he Liu Dazhu can live for more than two hundred years, almost the same life as the country?"

On this day, when a military soldier named Cheng Mingyu refuted the yellow book of Wendeng County, he found a loophole, wrote this question on the article, and handed it to the prince.

The grassroots level of the Ming Dynasty was sometimes not all called by li and jia, but also by the names of "she", "du" and "tu".

And "capital" generally refers to the neighborhood of the county seat, and "map" is equivalent to A.

After reading this, the prince ordered: "Immediately let Qian Guerrilla send troops to arrest the magistrate of the county where Liu Dazhu is located and the head of the lieutenant Jia, and temporarily re-compile the yellow book by the reserve!" ”

"According to the three orders, you dare to cheat so blatantly, it seems that you really don't take Wang Fa in your eyes, if you don't kill a police officer, I'm afraid there will be more daring people!"

Then, the prince said a few words with a stern expression.

As a result, some officers and soldiers soon broke into Wendeng County in shock, and arrested the county magistrate Fang Heng on the spot.

Fang Heng was so frightened that his bones were numb on the spot, and he asked Chief Xiao Yingguan, "What crime have I committed?" ”

"Guixian made up the Yellow Book to falsify, desecrated the imperial court ceremony, and was suspected of deliberately deceiving the monarch!"

"This is the text of the Constitution."

Xiao Yingguan unfolded the article in front of Fang Heng as he spoke, and after reading it, Fang Heng realized that when there were originally twenty-seven capitals and five pictures to make up the yellow book, he actually filled in the people who had existed in the Hongwu Dynasty on the new yellow book.

"Are you all blind, such obvious mistakes have been filled in!"

The county magistrate Fang Heng scolded his subordinate officials because of this, and then cried: "I'm wronged, I really didn't know that they would be so perfunctory and fill in the yellow book so casually!" ”

"Fang Zhixian still saw the patrol press, and then said how he was wronged."

After Xiao Yingguan said that, he ordered to arrest Fang Heng of the county first.

And Liu Rujue, the lieutenant governor of the twenty-seventh capital of Wendeng County, quickly learned about this from his relatives in the county ya, and was so frightened that he hurriedly came to Wutu and found Huang Mengzhen, the rotating leader of Wutu.

Because Huang Mengzhen is Liu Rujue's nephew, Liu Rujue had to come and tell him to escape quickly.

It stands to reason that one mile of Daming is one hundred and ten households, divided into ten miles long and one hundred ordinary people.

And the 100 households in it are divided into 10 households, and each of the 10 households chooses the first 10 households.

Before Zhu Yijun abolished his conscription, he served in a class every year in order, and the year of service was called the current year, and the year of non-service was called the platoon year.

And if they can't get enough people to serve, the lieutenant commander and A will be punished first.

Because of this, in the current Wanli period, those who can become the head of the lieutenant are basically local powerful people, who can deceive up and down without being afraid.

Therefore, chiefs like Huang Mengzhen and Liu Rujue are often relatives.

"Since the province has been ordered to give five taels of subsistence silver to the deformed households in the province every year, according to the decree, the deformed households in the capital will only copy the deceased deformed households in the yellow book of the past years, so that the subsistence silver can be used as our envoy to the countryside, every time we do this, there is nothing to do, how come there is something to do this time?"

Huang Mengzhen asked Liu Rujue very puzzled after knowing this.

Liu Rujue said with a frightened face: "According to your uncle in the county, it was the Fuyuan that invited the people from the guard to be responsible for the refutation, which is different from the people who sent the national eunuch to refute the investigation in the past, you know, the military households of the guard house are not the same system as us, so we don't even know the people who refute the investigation, so naturally we can't talk about bribery, plus your uncle has only been in the county government for a few days, so I only know about it." ”

After hearing this, Huang Mengzhen was speechless, and her face turned pale.

"It's useless to say this now, I'm ready to entangle, let's hurry up, first flee to your father-in-law's house in Jianzhongli Qitu, and have the right to spend the night, and then go somewhere else."

"If you stay any longer, I'm afraid your head will hit the ground."

Liu Rujue then spoke again.

"Good!"

Huang Mengzhen agreed, and hurriedly ordered the house slave to bring the carriage.

So, not long after, Liu Rujue and Huang Mengzhen fled from Jiazhuangdu and went to Jianzhong.

"All this is because of the current emperor's noble army, so that the military households are no longer broken households, but have become nobles who are more preferential treatment than us Confucian scholars, and then, these military households will naturally work hard and seriously in order to keep this grace of resting with the country."

"If you don't have a noble army, only a noble doctor, it won't be like this, after all, a scholar can't be hereditary, and he can't always rest with the country."

"In short, it's still too powerful today! Use the land and gold and silver treasures stolen from outside to favor the military households, and then let the military households supervise us, so that your uncle and I, Li Zhengbai, will be famous in the examination that year. ”

On the way, Liu Rujue also talked to Huang Mengzhen about the root cause of this incident.

After hearing this, Huang Mengzhen said: "It seems that we are really unlucky to meet such an emperor." ”

As soon as Huang Mengzhen finished speaking, a group of officers and soldiers appeared in front of her, all of them holding the wind chasing big guns and even the sons and mothers, and they were holding the banner of the Wendeng County Police Bureau.

"Police officer!"

"It's over!"

Liu Rujue couldn't help shouting, and then sighed:

"I forgot that although the mining thieves are not strictly investigated now, the new police officers have not been withdrawn, and these police officers are also military households, and after the imperial court, these military households are not afraid of us soldiers."

"Can you buy it with silver?"

"It shouldn't work, although they are controlled by the county, but at the same time, they are directly under the orders of the higher-level police yamen, and now they suddenly appear, and the county doesn't know, they should have directly accepted the task of the higher-level police yamen to come here."

"According to the law, if their commanders fail to complete their mission and are found to have committed corruption, they will be expelled from the military, as long as they are not stupid enough to let us go for a sum of money, and then lose their status as military households."

"The current dual leadership system is also a headache, making it more difficult for these armies to deal with." (End of chapter)