"Crackling—"

"Boom, boom!"

Another year has passed, and when the New Year's Day of the eighth year of Yongle arrives, the entire Ming Dynasty has fallen into the atmosphere of celebrating the New Year.

The salute was fired in Nanjing, and the court meeting was held as scheduled.

The ministers and officials did not know that Zheng He led his troops to break through the capital of Ceylon and capture its lord alive, but he just sang as usual.

On the golden platform, Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu were wearing crown clothes, one sitting and the other standing.

The crown obscured their facial features, making it difficult to see their expressions clearly, and it was difficult to guess.

"Your Majesty, Guo Zi, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, has something to do......"

"Quasi"

Zhu Di opened his mouth to respond, and Guo Zi, the head of the household department, also started the annual report when he saw this.

"Last year, the imperial court gave 35 million stones, 125,600 horses of cloth, more than 520,000 catties of silk, and more than 400,000 catties of cotton velvet."

"Thirty-five thousand taels of gold, more than eighty-five thousand taels of silver, and more than one hundred and ninety-five thousand taels of copper."

"Miscellaneous, commercial taxes, mining classes, salt, and tea are more than 2.3 million times, and all kinds of silk and cotton cloth are more than 1.567 million times."

"According to the calculations of the Ministry of Households, 35 million stone of grain was collected last year, and more than 796,000 yuan of other types of folded color were earned."

"Last year, more than 3,960,000 stones, 8,250,000 yuan, and more than 4.6 million stones, more than 1,154,000 yuan."

"Last year, the number of households in the world was 14,340,755, and the number of mouths was 72,469,427."

"Last year, the number of acres of land in the world was 5,467,919 hectares, 32 acres and 6 cents."

Under Guo Zi's report, the seventh year of Yongle is undoubtedly another year of eating Lao Zhu's old book.

Although everyone has no opinion on this, it is not a good thing to always eat the old bottom.

"How much grain is still in the old warehouse?" Zhu Gaoxu asked Guo Zi.

"There are still more than 24 million stones of grain, more than 3 million yuan of money, and more than 7 million yuan of banknotes."

Guo Zi answered truthfully, and when Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he couldn't help but set his eyes on Zhu Di.

Zhu Di felt Zhu Gaoxu's gaze, and knew that it was time for him to speak, so he said:

"In the seven years of the new dynasty, the cultivated land in the world increased by more than 1.4 million hectares, and the tax grain only increased by 4 million stones."

"This year's tax and grain quota is 35 million stones, and the newly added 5 million stones will be allocated to 2.5 million yuan in Annan, 1 million in Liaodong, and 500,000 yuan each in Guizhou, Sichuan, and Henan."

No one objected to Zhu Di's quota plan, because the ministers all knew that the past few years had undoubtedly benefited the three provinces of Liaodong, Sichuan, and Henan.

As for Annam and Guizhou, the two newly established provinces, the former has gradually settled down and can incorporate taxes and grain into the imperial court, and the latter is the same.

A few days ago, Mu Chun had already destroyed Sizhou City, Tian Chen was captured, and now Mu Chun's troops turned north into the Yinjiang River, preparing to clean up Tian Zongding.

Under Mu Chun's troops, and surrounded by the Ming army in all directions, the two Tusi of the Song family and the An family began to accept the land reform and return to the stream, and Zhu Di gave them the treatment of the first rank, plus the relocation to Chengdu Mansion and the gift of 10,000 acres of farmland.

Although it is said that Guizhou's field measurement and registration have not yet been carried out, it is unlikely that the number of cultivated land in Guizhou will be less than 10 million, and the number of mouths will not be less than 4 million.

After the four major toasts were exterminated, Mu Chun also needed to cooperate with Li Jinglong to exterminate and appease the barbarians in southern Qiannan.

Compared with the four major toasts in Guizhou, these little ghosts are difficult characters.

The terrain of southern Qiannan is complicated, and it is undoubtedly a long-term task to exterminate them.

"Now most of the Tusi in Banzhou, Sizhou, Sinan, Shuixi, Shuidong and other places accept the appeasement, and the three divisions in Guizhou can also be set up."

"Spread my will, Banzhou will be divided into Zunyi Mansion, Pingyue Mansion, Sizhou and Sinan will be divided into Sizhou Mansion, Tongren Mansion, Sinan Mansion, Shiqian Mansion, Zhenyuan Mansion, Liping Mansion, Xinhua Mansion, and Shuidong and Shuixi will be divided into Bijie Mansion, Weining Mansion, Panzhou Mansion, and Guiyang Mansion."

"The land of southern Qiannan, although it has not yet changed the land and returned to the stream, it has also set up Pu'an Mansion, Anshun Mansion, and Duyun Mansion first."

"Set up three divisions in Guizhou, set up sixteen prefectures in Guizhou, and discuss the establishment of seventy-two counties in the other six departments."

"After the establishment of the three divisions of Guizhou, the people in the mountains were immediately relocated to Meizhou, Tongchuan, Jiading, Baoning and other places in Sichuan, and the imperial court distributed rations and farm tools, and sent the chief and the chief of grain to lead them to reclaim wasteland and be self-sufficient."

"Sichuan and Guizhou fields are given grain for their own stay, and Huguangtian is assigned to Sichuan."

"Beizhili, Henan, Shanxi, and Guizhou will implement the new policy from now on."

Zhu Di said a series of policies for Guizhou, and announced the implementation of the new policy in the four regions of Beizhili.

Although they were already mentally prepared, when they heard the news, everyone couldn't help but take a deep breath.

The implementation of the New Deal has been unstoppable, and the ministers have obtained the number of New Deal students who graduated this year through side knocks.

Twenty-four million four hundred and forty-two people, what a great number.

Now the new policy is not only the emperor and the prince of the East Palace, but also the millions of students under the new policy system.

To confront millions of intellectuals, it is difficult for even the emperor to do, even Zhu Gaoxu has to consolidate the foundation step by step from Jilin City in order to have his own basic plate to confront the ministers, and can the ministers pull out so many students to confront the students of the New Politics?

They can pull it out, but how many of the students they pull out can look up to the work of these knife and pen officials, such as grain chiefs, lieutenant chiefs, and clerks?

The goal of students under the Confucian system is to participate in the imperial examination, and they will rise to the top after being selected as a jinshi.

They will think this way because their ancestors were all scholars, and the New Deal students were not.

Not to mention counting three generations forward, that is, counting seven or eight generations forward, the ancestors of the New Politics students are also mud legs facing the loess with their backs to the sky.

For most Confucian students, the family is for them to go to private school, and it is a lot of money for them to make contacts, which costs hundreds of dollars and food, and how can they be a sword and pen official who is only 20 years old.

Compared with them, the New Deal students do not have this concern, for them, the cost of studying is not large, except for the cost of books and rations, the rest is paid by the imperial court, and as long as they graduate and meet the standards, they can lead the whole family out of poverty.

The twenty swords and pencils that Confucian students look down on are the wealth that more than ninety percent of the people in the Ming Dynasty need to work hard in the fields for three or four years to earn.

Twenty guan Yulu, with the current price of rice, can buy fifty stone rice, which is the output of 25 acres of land in the south of the Yangtze River and 50 or 60 acres of cultivated land in the north.

The folk proverb "one person is a servant, the whole family is full" began to spread from the fifth year of Yongle, when a large number of government students began to graduate.

With the current number of graduates of the New Deal students, everyone knows that those who graduate early can eat early, after all, the number of officials and teachers is also limited.

Just talking about the number of students graduating this year, it is enough to fill all the posts of county and town teachers, officials, township mayors, grain chiefs, etc. in the four provinces.

This year, what about next year? And the year after?

As time passes, at most five years, the new policy will be fully promoted in Daming, and the number of students who will graduate will not only be large, but also have few jobs.

The current New Deal students are equivalent to the iron rice bowl, as long as they graduate, they will have jobs, but it will be different in the future.

The students of the New Deal are anxious, and the ministers are even more anxious than them, because when the New Deal is expanding, Confucian students will inevitably be squeezed, so Li Zhigang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, can't help but take a step forward:

"Your Majesty, Li Zhigang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, has something to play."

"Accurate!"

After Zhu Di responded, Li Zhigang hurriedly said: "The minister thinks that the new government official school is only five years old, and the quality of the students that can be cultivated is worrying. ”

A few years ago, there was no objection to the official students serving as officials, because their interests were not violated, and they did not expect the imperial court to promote official education in such a snowballing way.

Now that they have reacted, if they continue to let the imperial court continue, then Jiangnan Confucianism will really have no way to live.

"Compared with those who graduated from official schools, the current local officials are probably really simple."

Suddenly, a voice sounded, but this voice did not come out of Zhu Gaoxu's mouth, but an official standing in the third row in front of the hundred officials.

Seeing this official, everyone was stunned, and they had no memory of this person in their memory.

However, it is normal for them to have no memory, because this person does not walk around the capital, or this is the first time he has returned to the capital in more than ten years.

"The right squire of the household, Hanzhou Bosun Cheng, I have seen Your Majesty and His Royal Highness......"

When Sun Cheng began to introduce himself, everyone reacted that Hanzhou Bosun Cheng, who had been presiding over Guanwai and Shandong's new policies in Shandong, was actually the person in front of him.

What Sun Cheng's entry into Beijing represents, the ministers can think of without spending their brains, it is nothing more than the comprehensive promotion of official learning.

It's normal to think about it this way, and to promote the new policy of the four political departments in the south and north of the world in one go, if there is no capable minister in charge, it is indeed easy to go wrong.

When the emperor announced this matter just now, many ministers thought of this, but they didn't expect Sun Cheng.

Although Sun Cheng was also a hero of the Bohai faction of Jingnan and was awarded the title of earl, his sense of existence was indeed low and terrifying.

Now that he suddenly entered the capital, the ministers couldn't help but feel a sense of anxiety in their hearts.

"Sun Cheng, when you first arrived in the capital, you didn't understand the etiquette system of the Great Dynasty, and today you suddenly exited, thinking that you don't understand the etiquette system, so I won't pursue you."

"Shame on ......"

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly spoke, seemingly reprimanding Sun Cheng, but in fact, he was relieving him, because Li Zhigang, as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was already ready to use the Great Dynasty Rite System to overwhelm Sun Cheng, but now he was interrupted by Zhu Gaoxu, and he almost failed to come up in one breath.

"Stand down."

Zhu Di opened his mouth to signal, and Sun Cheng also retreated to his position.

At the same time as he retreated, Zhang Yu of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies also took the initiative to stand up and say:

"Your Majesty, last year, there were three hundred and seventy-two guards in the world, two thousand eight hundred and twenty houses, and another two hundred and sixteen guards of the thousand households."

"The number of military households in the world is 1,865,427, the number of military tun fields is 826,000 hectares, and the number of military tun seeds and grain is more than 23,725,000 stones."

The number of military households in the Ming Dynasty has increased a lot, but this is mainly due to the continuous establishment of health posts in Jiugang, Luzon, Guizhou, Annam and other places, and the increase in military tuntian is also due to this.

Zhang Yu is already sixty-six years old, and judging from the fact that Zhang Fu can live to seventy-five, it should not be a problem for him to live to seventy, after all, as far as he is concerned, he has no injuries.

Looking at Zhang Yu, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but think of the butterfly effect brought about by the end of the Jingjing martyrdom two years ahead of schedule.

First of all, the capital saved by Lao Zhu was not lost by Zhu Yunwen in time, so it was used by the Yongle Dynasty until now.

The second is that in addition to Liaodong, Beiping, and Shanxi, which were hit hard, the rest basically ended the war without much participation in the war, and the Ming army was abundant.

These various butterfly effects made the situation in the Yongle period much better than in history, and Zhu Di's Northern Expedition was also able to pull out a few generals who were good at planning to him, so that he didn't have to be an old mother on the road to the Northern Expedition like in history, and everything had to be commanded by him, so that the Ming army could do it well.

Such a situation made Zhu Gaoxu proud and complacent, and the next Xia Yuanji, Huang Fu and others added to this pride.

The canal has been dredged, most of the Yellow River locks have been built, and the sediment has dropped by more than half compared with five years ago.

The number of floods in the Wusong and Huangpu rivers has decreased, and waiting for three years to repair them will save the people in Susong and other places from floods, and grain production will be more stable.

The report of this incident made Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Di feel much better because Queen Xu's condition did not improve.

Until the end of the court meeting, when the father and son accepted the salute and left the venue to change their clothes in the Huagai Palace, Zhu Di couldn't help but boast and praise:

"Ancient and modern, what other father and son can compare with the two of us?"

"It's rare." Zhu Gaoxu responded proudly.

Indeed, who of the fathers and sons of the emperors throughout the ages has been able to open up to Nuergancheng in the north, to the Old Port in the south, to the military and civilian government in Russia in the west, and to establish the city in Japan in the east?

Not to mention that in the seven years of his reign, the cultivated land has increased by 170 million mu and the population has increased by more than 12 million people.

This year's Zhu Di is forty-nine years old, Zhu Gaoxu is twenty-nine years old, and there are really few fathers and sons who can make similar feats to them at this age.

"After going to the East Palace, don't forget to go to the Qianqing Palace for a family banquet at night."

"Erchen remembers."

Zhu Di changed into regular clothes under the service of the eunuchs on the left and right, and after explaining a word to Zhu Gaoxu, he walked out of the Huagai Hall first.

Zhu Gaoxu, who had also changed into his regular clothes, walked out of the Huagai Palace, and saw Yishiha and Sun Cheng waiting at the door.

"Temple ......"

Before Sun Cheng finished speaking, Zhu Gaoxu went up and hugged a bear.

For Sun Cheng, who is only five feet two inches tall, he is as powerless in front of Zhu Gaoxu as a child facing an adult.

He was picked up by Zhu Gaoxu, and his feet fluttered a few times in mid-air.

Waiting for Zhu Gaochu to put him back on the ground, Zhu Gaoxu said, "Ride the golden chariot with me today." ”

He took Sun Cheng's hand and walked onto the golden bridle, and Yisha also followed with a smile.

After the three of them sat in the golden bridle, Zhu Gaoxu asked Sun Cheng: "You only entered Beijing in the eighth year of the New Dynasty, and I delayed you." ”

"Where is Your Highness, it is the honor of the minister to be able to do things for His Highness in the north."

"If you are someone else, you may not have such an opportunity."

Sun Cheng truthfully said his thoughts, and Zhu Gaoxu also said when he saw this: "I will keep a marquis for you in the future." ”

"Thank you, Your Highness." Sun Cheng didn't refuse, because he knew the character of His Royal Highness.

Seeing that he responded, Zhu Gaoxu also nodded with satisfaction: "I am restrained by hundreds of officials in this capital, and I can't go to the north to find out, my eyes are you except for the West Factory." ”

"Now I ask you, how is the implementation of the new policy, and what is the life of the people?"

As he grew older, Zhu Gaoxu gradually began to feel a little uneasy.

Although he has power, he does not have the ability to directly understand the following, and can only understand the situation in remote areas through others.

In this situation, he is actually full of worries about his new policy.

"Your Highness, rest assured!" According to last year's situation, the average number of fields in each province is seven acres in Shandong, six acres in Liaodong, fourteen acres in Bohai, and nine acres in Daning. ”

"There has been no change in the policy of Juntian, and the Confucian Mansion has been monitored by me, and I dare not blatantly oppress the tenants and the people."

"The only problem is that the students are too young to join the workforce after graduation, so when faced with many temptations, their resistance is too low, and the number of bribes is ......."

Sun Cheng was embarrassed to continue, but Zhu Gaoxu understood very well.

Most of the students who graduated from the New Deal were between fifteen and twenty years old.

In the past life, it was already the most comfortable day for them to be able to eat a full meal a year, and it was even more a fairy day if they could eat meat occasionally.

After serving as Xu officials, even if their money is enough to eat and eat meat from time to time, human nature is to make inches after all.

If you can't eat enough, you want to eat enough, if you have enough food, you want to eat meat, if you eat meat, you want to eat meat every day, and if you are full of wine and food, you want to think about women and power.

This is not a problem of government students, but people themselves have this desire.

There are very few people who can restrain this desire, otherwise the Song Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty would not have failed with high salaries and incorruptible pensions.

In Zhu Gaoxu's view, corruption and beauty are nothing, as long as the policies of the imperial court can be implemented, and there is no harsh taxation to harm the people, then it can still be used.

But once they don't implement the new policy of the imperial court, then Zhu Gaoxu will be ready to be replaced.

More than 200,000 graduates every year are enough for him to change the officials in several provinces of the New Deal.

There are signs of a shortage of graduate positions, and if the people below don't even have this reflexes, it's not suitable to stay in the post.

"There are rats every year, and they can't fight every year, this matter can't be stopped, you don't have to feel guilty."

Zhu Gaoxu sat on the golden chariot and spoke calmly, and instructed: "What you have to do is to cut these people out of us after discovering that they have parted ways with us. ”

"Yes!" Sun Cheng nodded solemnly, and Zhu Gaoxu also bowed slightly.

He does value feelings, but his first identity is the prince of the Ming Dynasty, and the second identity is His Royal Highness of the courtiers.

He is indeed prone to complacency, but he can calm down when faced with things.

He has been a grandson under Lao Zhu for so many years, and he has already exercised it.

"Have you visited Beizhili, Shanxi, and Henan?"

Zhu Gaoxu asked Sun Cheng, and Sun Cheng actually nodded.

"The three places where the minister went secretly and what he saw also gave the minister new ideas about the implementation of the new local policy."

"Let's talk about it." Zhu Gaoxu was interested, and Sun Cheng also pondered for a moment, sorted out his thoughts and said:

"To be honest, the situation in the three places is different, and Shanxi is the most different."

"Shanxi suffered less wars in the Zhizheng period, there are more mountains in the territory, and there are fewer rivers north of Taiyuan, so the cultivated land has actually been developed, and it will not achieve much results if it continues to develop."

"The minister went to the eldest son county in Shanxi, and looked at the "Yellow Book" and the "Fish Scale Atlas", the content is basically copied from the old Hongwu twenty-six years, and the field situation is not much, and the number of mouths, judging by the minister, the number of mouths in the eldest son county should not be less than 60,000, far exceeding the 47,000 recorded in the yellow book."

"Most of the other places visited by the minister were also less cultivated land and more population growth."

"According to the minister's judgment, the number of mouths in Shanxi is more than the four million recorded in the Yellow Book, and the maximum number can reach six million."

"Cultivating 40 million mu of cultivated land with 6 million people seems to be relatively rich, but in fact it is not rich, and the number of fields annexed by the local gentry and wealthy households and health offices accounts for at least 40% of the whole of Shanxi."

"There are advantages and disadvantages to such a merger, the disadvantage is that the people do not have enough arable land per capita, and the advantage is that it is easy to stabilize and collect taxes."

"Not only Shanxi, but in the whole world, the minister's views are these two."

Sun Cheng's words made Zhu Gaoxu nod, facts have proved that the landlord's annexation of land is more serious, it is indeed easy to stabilize, for example, the annexation of land in Jiangnan in the late Ming Dynasty was serious, but in addition to the short-term social instability caused by the rise in grain prices caused by the inflow of sea water in the south of the Yangtze River during the Chongzhen period, the rest is the Jiangnan slavery after the Dashun captured Beijing.

Both of these unstable factors are based on a socio-economic downturn.

The former was a revolt caused by the landlords' land being swallowed up by the sea and the tenants lost their source of income, while the latter was caused by an uprising caused by too much oppression.

The slavery was caused by the failure of the system in the early Ming Dynasty to continue, and the imperial court allowed the wealthy to buy slaves, which was controllable, while the source of income for the former tenants had to be prepared.

"In a place like Shanxi, if land is allowed to be annexed, then the only people who can shelter landless farmers are coal kilns, and the treatment of coal kiln workers is low.

Sun Cheng said these words and continued to Zhu Gaoxu: "Compared with Shanxi, there are many rivers and lakes in Beiping and Henan, and many cultivated land in the Song and Song dynasties was abandoned due to insufficient population. ”

"Chen deliberately went to visit, many farmers even if extensive cultivation of the field, at most more than 10 acres of manpower, the yield per mu is not high and not mentioned, the work is not easier than intensive farming, but at the end of the harvest can harvest more than 100 catties of grain."

"But even so, there is still a lot of arable land in Henan and Beiping that is abandoned, and it is easy to recultivate, but it is abandoned due to the lack of local population."

"If we can distribute barren grain and cattle to the people of Shanxi, and relocate them to Beiping and Henan, then Shanxi's environment will improve, and the restoration work in Henan and Beiping will also progress rapidly."

"There are only less than 17 million acres of arable land in the huge Henan, which is really a great waste."

Sun Cheng said this, and the golden chariot also stopped in front of the East Palace.

Zhu Gaoxu got out of the carriage, and at the same time explained to Sun Cheng behind him: "You draw up a charter for me when you go back a little, I want to take a look at it in detail."

"The minister has already prepared it." Sun Cheng got out of the carriage and took out the music in his arms, and Zhu Gaoxu also took it and walked into the East Palace.

Only by restoring the economy of the north can the north change from the identity of looking at the face of the south of the Yangtze River to the identity of equality.

Therefore, Sun Cheng's recital is very important......

(End of chapter)

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