After Liu Rujue said this, Huang Mengzhen couldn't help but become even more desperate, so she had to watch these police soldiers surround her.

In the end, Liu Rujue and Huang Mengzhen were both captured.

Not only Liu Rujue and Huang Mengzhen, but also the policy of the noble army system and a large number of powerful feudal gentry moving overseas, so that many grassroots officials who did not cooperate with the imperial decree as before and wantonly made false reports and concealed them were arrested.

After the crown prince and Zhang Wenxi interrogated the crimes of these people, they asked for the royal order banner and sent soldiers to escort the main culprits among these people to the wells of their respective county cities and set up a platform to behead them.

"Slash!"

"Don't!"

Liu Rujue and Huang Mengzhen were also escorted to the vegetable market in Wendeng County because they were the main culprits who led the forgery of the five maps of the Yellow Book in Jiazhuangdu, Wendeng County, and were beheaded by the executioner in full view of everyone.

Liu Rujue and Huang Mengzhen also shouted before being beheaded.

But it's useless to shout anything at this time.

Soon, the two of them fell to the ground.

Like Liu Rujue and Huang Mengzhen, there are many local moths who have been killed for fabricating yellow books and falsifying.

In the entire Shandong territory, for a time, you can see people's heads rolling and blood spattering bluestone everywhere.

Many local officials and people in Shandong were terrified by this.

"Fuyuan, 30,000 taels of gold, can you please raise your noble hand, let the officials and people of Shandong take a hand, remove the military soldiers, and still let the Guozi supervise and refute the investigation."

For this.

Liu Weihan, a wealthy gentleman from Weifang, Shandong, specially asked to meet Zhang Wenxi with friendship in the same year.

Zhang Wenxi said with a smile: "Thirty thousand taels of gold, let me betray the emperor's grace, the prince is too contemptible, right?" ”

"Fifty thousand taels!"

Liu Weihan gritted his teeth and said.

Syllable!

Zhang Wenxi slapped the table, stared at Liu Weihan: "If you do this again, this court can only send you to prison for questioning!" ”

"Don't forget, contemptible people are also military members, and what I care about is whether the military family can live above you for generations, not whether my Zhang family has countless gold."

Liu Weihan didn't say anything after hearing this, he only got up and arched his hand: "Then I will leave, and the Fuyuan will be treated as if the people had never come!" ”

Zhang Wenxi didn't let anyone send Liu Weihan, and only continued to look at the file involving fraud in the fabrication of the Yellow Book.

Because Shandong's wealthy gentry and wealthy people failed to pay bribes, they were even more sure that the current fabrication of the Yellow Book could no longer be faked, so many prefectures and counties had to seriously fabricate the Yellow Book.

After Zhu Yijun issued an edict to exempt them from forced labor, as soon as it was time to compile the yellow book, the grassroots officials were no longer active in the matter of giving the people to the households, and even took advantage of the opportunity of the people to go to the households, wantonly amassing wealth, demanding how much silver each household had to pay before they could go to the households.

And the people have always been used to frugality, so many people who have nothing to pursue would rather not go to the household than pay the money to go to the household.

As a result, many of the people became black households.

But now, due to the strict investigation of Zhang Wenxi and the crown prince, the local grassroots officials are forced to take the initiative to ask the people to go to their homes and start to do work from house to house.

And.

This is because many of the common people are only happy to farm to earn money, and are not interested in political tasks such as going to the household, just as many of them do not pay much attention to the affairs of the government.

Therefore, many grassroots officials began to have to pay for rice and oil to tempt the people to go to the household for their own black yarn hats.

In a word.

For a time, because the crown prince and Zhang Wenxi used military soldiers to refute the investigation, forcing the local officials to seriously complete the work of fabricating the Yellow Book, so that the compilation of the Yellow Book went very smoothly and the degree of completion was also very high, the problem of concealing the population was basically solved, and a large number of new people began to appear in the official archives of the imperial court.

It is worth mentioning again that the success of the crown prince and Zhang Wenxi lies in the fact that they learned the method of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, in the year of fabricating the Yellow Book and the Fish Scale Atlas, that is, before implementing this system that only benefits the state and disadvantages the officials and the people, let the implementation and supervision of the entire policy be carried out by the forces of two different systems, that is, the literati in the army are responsible for refutation, and the local bureaucrats and officials are responsible for implementation.

It's just that Zhu Yuanzhang was not perfect when he created such a system back then, because he still wanted to save money, so he didn't plan to raise the army, trying to make the army self-sufficient, but this led to the low status of the military households, and they couldn't supervise the scholars at all, and would only make peace with the scholars.

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang himself also knew that not being a noble army would lead to this result, so he later handed over the task of refutation to the prisoners of Guozijian, that is, those young people who had just become the ruling class, and let them be responsible for refutation, but he still wanted to save costs, so he did not give much benefit to the prisoners of Guozijian, and only turned the refutation into a kind of compulsory labor of the prisoners of Guozijian, which was equivalent to a kind of forced labor belonging to the prisoners of Guozi.

And when there was no imperial examination system, because the Hongwu Dynasty's elected officials were mainly selected from the Guozi prisoners, the Guozi prisoners were still willing to do this kind of voluntary labor that offended the locality, after all, they could be promoted if they performed well.

However, after Zhu Yuanzhang re-established the imperial examination in the thirtieth year of Hongwu, the scholars who obtained the Jinshi background through the imperial examination gradually became the main object of the selection of officials, and the Guozijian did not even have this benefit, so he was unwilling to actively do this kind of voluntary labor that offended the local officials.

As for why Zhu Yuanzhang re-established the imperial examination, I will not mention it here, but in general, the separation of military and political affairs, and the division of the entire empire into two systems, the scholarly bureaucracy and the military aristocratic supervision, is the trend in the political system of this era.

Even in the Qing Dynasty, because the Qing Dynasty was a dynasty in which the nobles of the ethnic minorities colluded with the Han bureaucrats and big landlords to rule China, the Qing Dynasty naturally established two systems of mutual supervision by scholars and military aristocrats.

Among them, the banner people enjoyed privileges and belonged to the military aristocracy of the Qing Dynasty, but because of their small numbers, they were basically only responsible for supervision and control of important positions of power, while the scholars and doctors among the Han people were responsible for implementation.

This model began with the Manchu Shangshu and the Han Shangshu in the six central departments, the Manchu Shangshu was responsible for supervision, the Han Shangshu was responsible for doing things, and even in the early days, it was the princes of the Manchurian aristocracy who supervised each ministry separately.

After modernization, this is even more true in many countries, which are called the two systems of party and government.

And now, Zhu Yijun Guijun can be regarded as making the Ming political system conform to this trend in terms of reform, and also allow the prince and Zhang Wenxi to successfully solve the problem of population concealment at the local level.

Xiyuan, the Imperial Division.

"According to the Shandong Fu Press, after Shandong's recompilation of the Yellow Book, the new population has reached 17.68 million, including 13.92 million Zhuangding."

On this day, Wang Xijue reported to Zhu Yijun about the increase in population in Shandong's official grasp after the recompilation of the Yellow Book.

After hearing this, Zhu Yijun couldn't help but slap his hand on the case, and got up and said: "It's really jaw-dropping, these local petty officials and rich gentry have hidden so many people!" ”

"Shandong has always been rich, there are many people, and many of them have taken the initiative to migrate to Liaodong."

"It's not surprising that so many hidden people can be found today."

"It's just that Your Majesty, from this perspective, can also perceive that with the implementation of a series of policies to encourage childbirth in recent years, coupled with the promotion of new crops and new farming techniques, the growth of the population of our ethnic group may not be as much as the official knows."

"And if you want these people to become rich and free and not bear the heavy burden of forced labor, then you have to let more Fanyi bear these forced labor and heavy endowments, and provide for these people, and even just let Fanyi be slaves is not enough, but also more Fanyi are more diligent than the Han people."

"That is to say, if the Ming Dynasty wants the new rites to be chaotic and the current outline of governing the country is not abolished, the speed of the king's transformation cannot be said to be too fast, but it should be said to be too slow!"

"Up to now, many of the Nanyang Fanyi are still burning mountains and farming, wearing animal skins for warmth, so ignorant and backward, how can they support the hundreds of millions of people of my Han family?"

When Wang Xijue said this, he arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty should think carefully!" ”

Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing what Wang Xijue said: "What Qing said is very true, not only the Fanyi in Nanyang, but also the Tatar children outside the Saiwai, and most of them can only nomadic fishing and hunting, plus if they want to move to the South Seas and even the Western Ocean, they must also be supported by the local Fanyi natives, so that they can go willingly, so that they have to ask these Tuyi in the South and Western Oceans to be more civilized." ”

Speaking of which.

Zhu Yijun looked at the ruling ministers in front of him and said: "How to completely transform the barbarians in the entire universe and establish a complete ritual and legal order is the next important task of this dynasty. ”

"Since Master Shen recommended himself as the first assistant, I have realized that this way of inviting himself as the first assistant is very good, and it can be regarded as a statement from the beginning of the first assistant's confirmation that he himself has the initiative to do things for the country, and unlike the way that he has to work for the country only because the king's order is difficult to disobey, this is more in line with the spiritual requirements of Xinli for his compatriots, that is, to encourage him to take the initiative to fight for his ideals and serve the king with sincerity, not to be sanctimonious, pretending to be indifferent, and not to be ashamed of the behavior of striving for fame and fortune seriously."

"If even coveting this kind of fame and fortune obtained for the sake of the country and the people is regarded as a shame, then isn't it even more shameless to pretend to be upright and say that you don't want to be an official and say that you are only incapable of disobeying your destiny and that you are incompetent and immoral?"

Zhu Yijun said: "Therefore, I have decided that the next first assistant, I will not directly appoint, nor will I be elected by the court first, but the secretary of state above the Shangshu, including Zhishi, who wants to be the first assistant for the future of the country, can recommend myself to the first assistant, when self-recommending, it is natural to write the reason and the goal of governance, and then accept the court recommendation, the court will launch five or six people to choose from, and list the list of main escorts, I will be handpicked from this, once the first assistant needs to be changed halfway and the state affairs are in urgent need of the first assistant, I and even the kings of future generations, there is also a reference, One person can be appointed from among these optional but not selected ministers. (End of chapter)