Mid-October.

October is already the autumn season, located in the embrace of the Yanshan Mountains under the embrace of the city of Beijing, is already a group of autumn scenery, inside and outside the city everywhere is the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, the people are also filled with thick clothes, walking on the street, the pace is a lot faster.

At this time, in the cabinet office, the scholars of the fifteen departments of the imperial court gathered here and held a small court meeting. Everyone sat around, Liu Yan had just finished speaking, and copied a copy of the strategy with "Huangming Tianmu System" for everyone to read, and the various books had different expressions.

Zhao Min, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, looked at Liu Yan with a look of surprise, as if his long-cherished wish for many years was finally coming true.

Yue Ming, the secretary of the Ministry of Finance, and Song Gongming, the secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, were talking about something in a whisper, and there was a little worry on their faces, as if they were saying words such as "spending financial resources" and "delaying time".

Shang Shu Tian Huixu of the Ministry of National Defense and Shang Shu Xun Jingyun of the Equipment Department were also whispering something, and the two whispered about the deployment of troops and horses, lack of manpower, etc., and the two seemed to have some differences and were discussing.

And Zhang Lei, the secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, smiled happily, and looked at Liu Yan with admiration in his eyes, as if he was looking at an ancient sage. In Zhang Lei's opinion, to be able to attack the land system, this alone is enough for Liu Yan to enjoy the Taimiao, although Liu Yan actually doesn't care about these in his heart.

As for Bao Xuezhen, the secretary of the Ministry of Health, Wu Guojin, the secretary of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, and Wang Weizhen, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, they did not have any special reactions, but they were worried that the implementation of the "Huangming Tianmu System" would attract too much hostility for Liu Yan, so at this time, the three of them were waiting for Liu Yan to speak.

Next to it, the public prosecution

Bai Wenyi, the secretary of the Ministry of Supervision, Mi Hao, and Shang Wenyuan, the secretary of the Criminal Department, frowned, obviously worried that once the "Huangming Tianmu System" was implemented, there would be turmoil in Daming, and the workload of the Public Prosecution Department, the Supervision Department, and the Criminal Department would surge.

As for Huang Jin, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Song Shiwen, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, they watched everyone discuss cautiously, and did not dare to express their opinions at will.

At this time, Liu Yan's gaze swept over everyone, and he was not in a hurry to express his opinion, and Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the staff next to him, said: "Ge Lao, this is an earth-shattering event to re-survey the situation of cultivated land across the country, and if you don't get it, the world will be in chaos!" ”

Liu Yan smiled and said, "The matter is not so serious, and my father will never let this situation happen." ”

Then Liu Yan looked at Zhang Lei and asked: "Zhang Shangshu is in charge of national agriculture and land, what do you think of the "Huangming Tianmu System" drafted by this father?" ”

Zhang Lei naturally raised his hands in agreement, and immediately said loudly: "The elder advocated the promulgation and implementation of the "Huangming Tianmu System" is very good, such as today's population is ninety percent of ordinary people, but the land owned by these ninety percent of the people is less than thirty percent of the world's cultivated land, and the remaining seventy percent of the land is concentrated in the hands of the gentry, Haoqiang, merchants, and royal families. ”

"If this situation is not broken, then the prosperity of the country and the DPRK is an empty word, even if the new policy and military reform policy are forcibly implemented, it will only give the country a sigh of relief, and the world will still be in chaos sooner or later!"

Liu Yan nodded appreciatively to Zhang Lei, and Zhang Lei's words can be described as a sentence.

The reason why there were so-called dynasties in the Chinese dynasties

The cyclical law is because there is a problem with the distribution of land.

At the beginning of the founding of the dynasty, the land was vast and sparsely populated, so the people could get enough arable land to recuperate, and the country could quickly accumulate wealth and create a prosperous era.

But at the end of the dynasty, it was a situation where there were more people and less land, and land annexation inevitably appeared, and eventually more and more people lost their land and became displaced people, and finally all kinds of contradictions within the dynasty broke out, no matter how powerful the dynasty was, it would collapse!

What Liu Yan has to do now is to redistribute the cultivated land in the Ming Dynasty at the same time as the implementation of the New Deal and military reform, no matter how difficult it is, it must be implemented, and only in this way can the Ming Dynasty be saved.

Because the implementation of the "Huangming Tianmu System" is to fundamentally solve the root cause of the turmoil in the Ming Dynasty!

Yue Ming and Song Gongming wanted to say something, but the two didn't say it in the end, it was nothing more than a matter of money and grain, and now that the court has money and food, the two understood that it was futile to oppose this policy, so they had to give up.

At this time, Shang Shang Wenyuan of the Criminal Department, Bai Wenyi of the Public Prosecution Department, and Mi Hao of the Supervision Department spoke one after another, saying that once the "Huang Ming Tianmu System" is implemented, the number of civil cases, lawsuits, and officials confronting the imperial court will increase sharply, and there will be turmoil in various places.

Liu Yan asked directly: "Could it be that just because of the fear of turmoil, the imperial court does nothing and sits back and watches the people of the world have no land to cultivate?" ”

The three of them were embarrassed, and they all clasped their fists and said, "The lower official lost his words!" ”

Everyone talked about it, and everyone knew the resistance to the implementation of the "Emperor Ming Tianmu System".

It is even more resistive than the implementation of the New Deal and military reform, and it is much greater.

But everyone could see that Liu Yan's determination was very big and almost unshakable, so everyone was also worried.

Chen Xinjia pointed out directly and said: "Ge Lao, three points of the cultivated land that has been annexed in the world are in the official gentry, three points are in the merchant Jia Haoqiang, and the remaining four points are all in the hands of the feudal kings and royal families in various places. If you want to implement the "Emperor Ming Tianmu System", the elder of the pavilion will have to face not only the gentry and heroes from all over the world, but also the royal family all over the world, and even Your Majesty! ”

Liu Yan frowned slightly, in fact, he is not a royalist, to put it mildly, there are so many Ming royal families, it doesn't matter who does the throne, as long as he can save Huaxia. Therefore, Liu Yan was not worried about a complete face-to-face with Emperor Chongzhen, and he didn't mind making a move to abolish the establishment.

It's just that maintaining the Ming Dynasty is the best choice in today's situation, and saving the Ming Dynasty is to save Huaxia, so Liu Yan doesn't care about the person who is on the throne, but he can't care about the stability of the Ming Dynasty.

So Liu Yan thought for a while and said: "The implementation of the "Huangming Tianmu System" is not negotiable, no matter how difficult this matter is, it must be implemented. Your Majesty, I'll go and make a report. ”

Then Liu Yan looked at everyone and said: "As for your worries, my father can also understand them, so before the official implementation of the "Huangming Tianmu System", all ministries will do a good job in the preliminary affairs. ”

"The Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Military Intelligence, and the Ministry of National Defense jointly set up a land inventory team, and the specific rules were negotiated by the scholars themselves, and they went to various places to verify the amount of cultivated land."

"This prince will be within a year, and he will be clear

The amount of cultivated land and the relationship of ownership of the land are cleared! ”

"Within a year?"

At this time, not only Yue Ming, Wu Guojin, and Tian Huixu were full of bitterness, but even Zhang Lei, who was fully supportive at the beginning, collapsed at this time, and said: "Pavilion Elder, it's not a subordinate resignation, my Daming has a vast territory, just the inventory team arrived all over the country and walked through, a year is not enough, not to mention trying to deal with the forces in various places, to measure and inventory one acre at a time, it is estimated that the subordinates will not be able to complete it in three or five years, or even ten or eight years!" ”

Liu Yan frowned, and said: "My father doesn't have that much time to give you, two years at most, and the measurement of land must be completed. ”

"There must be people from the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Military Intelligence in the inventory team, and if it really doesn't work, mobilize the garrison troops from all over the country to join in and use manpower to pile up!"

Everyone gasped.

This small court meeting lasted for more than two hours, and when the various books dispersed, it was already evening.

At this time, Chen Xinjia walked out of the cabinet office, looked at the sunset in the west, and said secretly in his heart: "I don't know what kind of turbulent waves Liu Ge will set off when he makes such a battle this time!" ”

Not to mention everyone's embarrassment, at this time, Liu Yan was still thinking in the cabinet office, I don't know why, Liu Yan always felt that the "Huangming Tianmu System" he drafted had similar decrees in history, but he couldn't remember when it was for a while.

In fact, the strategy formulated by Liu Yan can be summed up in two ways: first, to check the situation of cultivated land across the country, and second, to confiscate

The court came forward to buy the surplus cultivated land from large households, and then redistributed it to the landless and landless people.

This is also a strategy formulated by Liu Yan after a few days of summing up based on the experience of implementing the new policy in Shandong, plus some experience of later generations.

Therefore, Liu Yan is very confident in this "Huangming Tianmu System", and believes that as long as he withstands the counterattack of the four forces of the gentry, Haoqiang, businessmen, and royal family at this time, he will definitely be able to make the Ming Dynasty prosperous.

"When did a similar policy emerge?"

Liu Yan frowned, and had a hunch in his heart, that is, his "Emperor Ming Tianmu System" was still a little rough, and he needed to supplement it with the decree that had appeared in history in his impression.

Just when Liu Yan was meditating hard, Wang Chengen walked in with a smile, saluted and said, "Hehe, the miscellaneous family didn't disturb Liu Ge Lao to deal with government affairs, right?" ”

Liu Yan got up and returned the salute and said, "Prince Wang, please sit down, Your Majesty has a will?" ”

"Huh,"

Wang Chengen said with a smile: "That's the case, Your Majesty saw a secret color porcelain of the Tang Dynasty in the Chongwen Pavilion earlier, it seems to be from the Kaiyuan period, and it is said that the quality is very good, and it should be rewarded to Liu Ge Lao." No, His Majesty asked the miscellaneous family to come over to see if Liu Ge was dealing with government affairs. ”

Liu Yan clenched his fists and said, "Your Majesty's grace, my father will go and thank him in person." ”

With that, Liu Yan got up and wanted to follow Wang Chengen to meet Emperor Chongzhen.

Suddenly, Liu Yan remembered the four words that Wang Chengen said just now, suddenly stopped, and suddenly remembered something.

Wang Chengen looked at Liu Yan who was standing in place in surprise, and said, "Liu Ge."

Old? What happened to Liu Ge Lao? ”

Liu Yan suddenly laughed and said to Wang Chengen: "Haha! The prince is really a noble man today, and one sentence has solved the doubts in his heart! ”

"Confused?"

Wang Chengen was also interested, and asked with a smile: "I don't know if Liu Ge Lao has any doubts in his heart, can he still let the useless person of the miscellaneous family solve it?" ”

Liu Yan's face was overjoyed, and he only said four words: "Check the field and bracket the household!" ”