Last time, in order to solve the border trouble in the north as soon as possible, Emperor Chongzhen decided to reopen the "West Factory" and the "Insider Factory" first, and monopolize the "financial institutions" across the country.

In this time and space, although Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen has become a "cultivator", he should have cultivated immortals and asked, immortality, and less attachment to the mortal world, but as the descendant of the Zhu family and the king of a country, he is always worried about the life and death of the people and the survival of the country, so he attaches great importance to the "family history" of the ancestors.

As we all know, Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang is the founder of the Ming Dynasty, and Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youxiao, the king of the Ming Dynasty, although they both want to govern the people of the world through hard work, but the name is different and the ending is different. However, since Zhu Youzhen was "changed against the sky", he wanted to learn from his ancestor Zhu Baba.

Some people say that Zhu Yuanzhang's nickname is "Zhu Baba", and some people say that Zhu Yuanzhang was born on the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, so he is also known as "Zhu Chongba", but in fact, "heavy" is just "family ranking", and "Zhu Chongba" was not born on the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, but was born on the eighteenth day of the ninth lunar month in the first year of the Tianli calendar of Yuan Wenzong (1328).

This year, his father Zhu was 548 years old, and his mother Chen was 43 years old, and the combined age of his parents was 91 years old, not 88!

However, because during the Yuan Dynasty, ordinary people who did not hold official positions, especially the "Han Chinese" and "Nanren" people with low social rank and no culture, mostly named according to market etiquette, and often used their birthdays, parents' years, birthdays or family rankings to take a "slang" name.

"Cai's Family Tree" said: "The Yuan Dynasty had a system, and those who had no job were not allowed to take names, but could only be named by adding the rank between brothers and the age of their parents when they were born." Therefore, the great-grandfather of the hero "King Kaiping" Chang Yuchun in the early Ming Dynasty was named "Sisan", his grandfather was named "Chongwu", and his father was named "Liuliu"; The great-grandfather of "Dongou King" Tang He was named "Wuyi", his grandfather's name was "Liuyi", and his father's name was "Qiyi", all of which were named after numbers. Therefore, it is said that "the prince and the general, would you rather have a kind?" ”

If Zhu Yuanzhang's name is added to the age of his parents, then his name should be called "Jiuyi", and if it is named after the age of his parents or the date of birth, that is, according to the date of birth, it must also be called "18", not "88" or "heavy eight"! This shows that Zhu Yuanzhang's name is very traditional.

In fact, the "heavy" in the name "Zhu Chongba" is the family "character generation", because he has four cousins named "Chongyi", "Chonger", "Chongsan", and "Chongwu"; The three brothers are called "Chongsi", "Chongliu", and "Chongqi", and he is the youngest, so he is called "Chongba", that is, his full name is "Zhu Chongba".

In the "A Little History of the Ming Dynasty", there is a record in the "Taizu Self-narration of the Monument of Zhu's Shide": "The first uncle married the Liu family and gave birth to four sons, the first duke, the second duke, and the third duke (Yu) Xuyi, and the fifth duke (Yu) Zhongli."

First Kao Jun married Xu, a native of Sizhou, the fourth prince of Changzhong (Yu) Xuyi, the second heavy six duke, the seventh duke of the birth (in) Wuhe, a certain season also, born after the relocation of Zhongli Wuchen year. There were six grandsons in Xianbokao, and since the rise of the army, they have been immersed one after another. The first brother has a son called Wenzheng, and now he is the governor of the capital. Heavy six, heavy seven are all extinct. This shows that Zhu Yuanzhang's family was born extremely lowly, and among all the founding monarchs in Chinese history, he can be regarded as a real "grassroots".

Zhu Chongba went from a beggar to a monk, and then from a monk to a beggar, but in the end he successfully counterattacked and became the founding monarch by participating in the peasant uprising, and was able to implement his set of "severe punishment laws" to severely crack down on local tyrants and shoddy gentry throughout the country and severely punish corrupt officials because of his great wisdom.

Zhu Chongba's "great wisdom" is called a "politician", far beyond his "willingness to cut his whole body and dare to pull the emperor off the horse". His "political wisdom" was to solve China's thousand-year-old political problem of "imperial power not going to the countryside", because she redesigned a political system that could successfully bypass the bureaucracy and have the central government directly control the population, arable land, livestock, property, and other important governance materials in various places. It is not possible for ordinary emperors to do all this.

But if you want to change the problem of "imperial power does not go to the countryside" for thousands of years, you not only need to have a special "technical team", but also need time to grind. Therefore, from the second year of Hongwu (1369 AD), Zhu Chongba allocated funds to set up the "Guozijian" and began to vigorously cultivate the children of poor families as "tribute students".

The value of the existence of the "Guozijian" is that it has established a political force that only obeys the orders of the emperor himself, and this "Guozijian" was positioned to serve the people at the bottom of the society at the beginning of its establishment, that is, after completing his studies, he was sent to the county, township, and village-level units below the county and township level to publicize the "Great Message" to promote the "rule of law".

This can almost be regarded as "no one before and no one after you", and the only thing that can be compared with it is probably the so-called "Shang Dynasty Reform" during the Warring States Period. According to the lessons of previous dynasties, if the imperial power wants to go to the countryside, it will first be opposed by the ministers of the court and the central government, the rich gentry and the local sovereigns, and local bureaucrats, because "when the water is clear, there are no fish, and if the people are observed, there are no fugitives." "If there is no entanglement of interests, who will be willing to do things for you? Therefore, it is said that "the mountain is high and the emperor is far away".

However, Zhu Chongba showed his "resilience" as a monk and called Huazi, used a "grinding" trick, and relied on the many "tribute students" he personally cultivated to successfully realize the "intellectual youth go to the mountains and go to the countryside" in the way of propaganda and popularization, and completed the collection of "household stickers" across the country and handed them over to Zhu Yuanzhang in person.

The "household sticker" is equivalent to the "household registration" of later generations, and it is an accurate information to find out the population records of the entire dynasty. Although in the process, many local forces expelled "Gongsheng" from the countryside in line with the historical tradition of "a strong dragon does not suppress the head snake of the land" and prevented Zhu Yuanzhang from conducting a "population census," this did not prevent Zhu Yuanzhang from mobilizing the army (Jinyiwei) to suppress him bloodily under the pretext of "rebelling against the people," so that landlords and bureaucrats of all sizes in various localities were afraid.

Therefore, under the supervision of the "secret services", this "household subsidy" system has been strictly implemented and immediately implemented, and it can even accurately obtain the name, place of origin, birthday, family status and other information of the first-hand person who collects the data, which is comparable to the "national census data" of later generations, and its authenticity and validity are very high.

When the "household subsidy" system was almost implemented throughout the country, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the "household registration summary" from all over the country, and after knowing it, he seemed extremely happy, and began to decide on the next step, which was to establish a "yellow book." The basic unit of the "Yellow Book" is the "map", and Lao Zhu stipulates that 100 households are "one map".

The "ten households" within the "one map" are numbered as "one first", and one household is selected from them to become the "first first". There are 10 "A heads" in "100 households", and a "lieutenant chief" is assigned to manage these 10 "A" and report directly to the county yamen. Therefore, this kind of management system divided by "maps" is called the "Lijia system".

In order to carry out this "Lijia system" in a complete and strict manner, Zhu Yuanzhang still adopted a "grinding" formula, intending to use time to exchange space, and first implement it in the Huzhou area of Zhejiang, and then in the southeastern provinces, and after the southeastern provinces are basically popularized, it will be forcibly implemented in all provinces across the country.

The viciousness of the "Lijia system" lies in the fact that, first, it has crossed the "feudal bureaucracy" class and used "technical officials" such as "Gongsheng" and "Juren" to directly manage the people at the grassroots level in the countryside to popularize the rule of law, so that the people at the bottom have obtained the power of "civil lawsuits" and extended the imperial power to the grassroots level.

Second, it has divided the "power structure" at the grassroots level, making it difficult for local bureaucrats, gentry, and landlords to form a "powerful group" and thus form a situation in which "feudal warlords" are separatized. At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang skillfully used means to make various forces fight each other to the death in order to cater to the "imperial power", creating involution.

Therefore, the success of the "Lijia system" has greatly saved the administrative costs of the imperial court, and with the ubiquity of "factory and health spy organs" such as "Jinyiwei", it can firmly control the freedom of speech of the grassroots people, and excavate and collapse all kinds of "local snake" forces at the grassroots level, which is unmatched in all dynasties!

Even more powerful than the "Lijia system" is the issuance of the "Yellow Book". The "Yellow Book" is actually the "household registration system" of the Ming Dynasty, and each volume contains the basic information of the 100 households in this "Li", such as the number of population, gender, age, property status, etc., because the cover page of the manual must be the "Yellow Pages", so it is called the "Yellow Book". In addition, the imperial court stipulated that the "Yellow Book" must be re-approved every ten years, which was equivalent to the "population census" in later generations.

By re-examining the "Yellow Book", we can learn the details of each household in the past ten years from the various data registered in the new and old yellow books, such as the amount of new additions, the amount of reductions, the amount of existing amounts, the reasons for the change of amounts, and so on, so as to save costs and improve efficiency for the population under the management of the imperial court. At the same time, the government of the Ming Dynasty stipulated that all those who practiced medicine, sold medicine, divination, and fortune telling could only operate in their own villages, otherwise they would be punished if they were considered illegal.

As for ordinary peasants, the government stipulates that they can only move within the "one mile" where the 100 households in the "map" are located on weekdays, and they must not go beyond the level of entry and rest, otherwise they will be considered illegal and must be punished. The government stipulates that the neighbors must know clearly how many people are in each peasant family and what occupations they are engaged in, otherwise they will be punished. That is to say, when the government asks about the basic situation of a peasant's neighbor, if it can't answer, it will be punished according to the punishment of spies!

This is a copy of the "armor protection law" of the Qin State's "Shang Martingale Change" during the Warring States Period, but Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he was not satisfied, because he knew that whether it was a hundred officials or ordinary people, they were afraid that the emperor Lao Tzu would know how much land and acres he held in his hands, but Zhu Yuanzhang, as the king of a country, must clearly know the acres of land in the world, and there is no need to be taboo too much, after all, the previous "land system" was first declared by the people themselves, and then the local officials reviewed and archived.

But the question arises, is the land that farmers voluntarily declare fertile or barren? Is it more or less? Who will file and when? In this regard, not to mention that the emperor did not know, even the local officials did not know. But what's the problem? That's where the door comes in.

First of all, measuring land is a "technical work", which relies on human measurement and involves various mathematical graphics of area calculation methods. At the same time, how can arid areas and saline-alkali land be converted into irrigated fields? This determines that there are not many talents who can measure the land, and it is very labor-intensive and material-intensive.

Second, the number of local officials in a county is limited, and it is impossible to go door-to-door to the homes of farmers to examine them one by one. Therefore, if the high-ranking emperor Lao Tzu is allowed to figure out these things, then the bureaucracy at the grassroots level will not be of much use, so the bureaucracy at all levels will resist this matter.

That is to say, in terms of declaring land and their respective properties, whether it is peasants, landlords, local officials, or even the "official eunuch families" who retire and retire, they are also resistant to this, so they shield each other and deceive, just not wanting the emperor to clear how much land and property he has.

Therefore, how much arable land there is in the whole world, and how much property the common people and officials have, the emperors and sons of the previous dynasties really don't know, which has caused an obvious gap between the taxes reported and handed over to the imperial court by officials in various places and the actual income, which cannot be avoided.

As everyone knows, whether it is the taxes collected from the families of peasants, landlords, etc., or the income obtained from the confiscation of the property of innocent ministers, there is only an approximate number, and there is no specific figure. But Zhu Yuanzhang had to spend a lot of money in order to continue to send troops to conquer the Northern Yuan, so he had to master the exact figures.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang thought to himself, since the "Yellow Book" has been regarded as a successful case, why not register the property of officials across the country? Sure enough, under the high pressure of the "imperial power" and the implementation of the "Jinyi Guard", a "fish scale book" with a detailed registration of the property of officials in various places appeared.

The "Fish Scale Book" is the ancient "property disclosure system", which records how much money the officials have. How much land? How many properties? How much property? How many wives and concubines, subordinates, slaves and maidservants? It's easy to see at a glance. However, Zhu Yuanzhang faced many obstacles when implementing this system, and he used a grinding technique.

By the twentieth year of Hongwu (1387), a large number of "Guozijian" bloodlines graduated one after another. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang asked these trainees to go to the grassroots level to do things, and cooperated with the "grain chiefs" (station chiefs of grain stations) in various places to accurately count the grain harvest in various places for Zhu Yuanzhang, and did his best to do a good job in reporting.

This succeeded in bypassing the bureaucracy and local forces. But no one expected that in such a "foolproof" situation, Zhu Yuanzhang still endured his temperament and decided to take the lead in the "two Zhejiang" and "two Beijings" first. This means that although Zhu Yuanzhang believes that food is the safest when it is eaten in his mouth, as long as he has not swallowed it, he will always worry that someone will come to snatch it. Perhaps this is the basic skill that Zhu Chongba practiced when he was a wandering monk and a beggar begging along the street.

However, at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't wait, because he passed the end of his life at the age of 71, because the "fish scale book" has not yet been popularized!

However, due to the popularization of the "household sticker" and the nationwide promotion of the "yellow book", the foundation for the promotion of the "fish scale book" nationwide has not been laid. It is precisely because of this that after Zhu Di seized the throne of Ming Taizong, he was able to continue the northern expedition to Mongolia while sending Zheng He to the West. This shows that Zhu Chongba is very politically wise in governing the country, which made his fourth son Zhu Di finally "martial arts" like his father, and dare to call the ancestor of the sect, which is "Ming Chengzu"!

This is the statecraft that Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen is now going to learn. However, Zhu Youzhen decided to make changes on this basis, that is, peasants who had no land or little land were allowed to pass around the country with rubbings (copies) of "household stickers" as "photo posts" (ID cards), and they could freely choose to work in government-run factories, or they could choose to work for private businessmen, and even allowed young and middle-aged men to serve in the frontiers as "mercenaries" or take loans to go to the sea to do business.

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