"At the beginning, I always thought deeply in my heart, you and I wished, and then there was always a clear and shallow pick......"

In the first month, when the south of the Yangtze River was still slightly cold, the sun was still shining in Yunnan in the southwest.

When the men of the Qianguo Mansion were fighting in Guizhou, the sound of beauty came out from the Han Palace, dozens of musicians in two classes played and beat various musical instruments, and more than ten plump dancers in the hall danced along with the tune.

is obviously neatly dressed, but they can give people the ultimate charm, giving people a sense of beauty with long sleeves and long sleeves.

"Your Highness, open your mouth ......"

"Mmmm, it's delicious."

Sitting on the main seat in the hall, Zhu Gaochi, who had fallen, had a plaster cast on his feet at the moment, but he was holding two dancing girls in Luo clothes in his arms.

The two girls were beautiful and plump, leaning on Zhu Gaochi's arms at the moment, and feeding him fruits from time to time.

Zhu Gaochi's hands were also restless, exploring the two women, occasionally touching something graceful and soft, he couldn't put it down and kept kneading, causing people's cheeks to redden.

"Keep going......

Zhu Gao smiled happily, even though he had two in his arms, his eyes were still looking at the dozen or so dancers and music girls.

It's a pity that he hasn't enjoyed enough when he hears a voice from the temple gate.

"Princess, Your Highness, he ......"

"Hurry up, get up and dance!"

Hearing the sound of obstruction outside the hall, Zhu Gaochi hurriedly withdrew his hand from the gentle township and motioned for the two dancers to get up and dance.

Seeing this, the two dancers tidied up their necklines and hurriedly got up to dance.

Therefore, when Zhang broke in, he only saw Zhu Gaochi, who was sitting in his place quietly watching dance music.

"Oh, you're here, you're coming, you're coming...... It just so happened that we watched "Fengyue" arranged by the second child together. ”

Zhu Gaochi greeted Zhang as if nothing had happened just now, and Zhang frowned when he saw this, crossed the crowd, walked to Zhu Gaochi and sat down, and immediately grabbed his hand and sniffed it.

"Your Highness's hand has a lot of flavor......"

If Zhang pointed out, Zhu Gaochi could only smile and say: "I just drank a few glasses of milk, and the second child said that drinking milk is good for bones." ”

"Hehe......" Zhang chuckled a little, didn't bother to expose him, just took out a letter from his sleeve.

"This is written by the crown princess, Your Majesty, your mother, and the second child all asked us to prepare a family trip to Nanjing, it seems that the situation of my mother is not very good."

"My mother?!" Hearing Zhang's words, Zhu Gaochi hurriedly snatched the letter and read everything at a glance.

"Do you want to stop raising and wait until your legs are better?"

Zhang looked at Zhu Gaochi's limping appearance and was a little worried, but Zhu Gaochi regained his composure: "No, since the second brother is urging me, I must think that something is wrong with my mother." ”

"You let people pack up their things now, and we will take Zhan Ji to Nanjing in three days, Zhan Jun and Zhan Yong are too young, so they will stay in the mansion and wait for us to come back."

When it came to his mother-in-law, Zhu Gaochi became anxious.

Seeing this, Zhang also hurriedly asked people to clean up, and personally wrote a letter to Guo Yan, explaining that they would go to the capital.

At the time of their actions, the situation in Yunnan was actually not so stable.

On the ninth day of the first lunar month, Zhenkang's Tusi rebelled, and Wang Xuan, who learned the news, immediately led his troops to Zhenkang, and suppressed the local rebellion with his brother Wang Kui, who was guarding Zhenkang Town, and took the opportunity to change the local Tusi to the stream.

In the north of Yunnan, a rebellion also broke out in the Daxue Mountain of Jianchang in Xingdusi, Sichuan, and Mu Chun sent He Fu to suppress the rebellion after learning the news.

Due to the successive rebellions of Daxueshan and Zhenkang, Zhu Gaochi and his team were unable to go to Nanjing for a while, and Zhu Gaochi, who learned the news, also issued a decree to let He Fu and Wang Xuan quell the rebellion as soon as possible.

For any country, the end of the year and the beginning of the year are undoubtedly the busiest stages, and the same is true for the Ming Dynasty.

【Imperial History of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Palace...... Zhang Huai】

Holding the music in his hand, Zhu Gaoxu in the Chunhe Hall frowned, and the Yisha next to him was also very nervous.

The note in his hand was the impeachment of Li Shi, Li Qi and others by Zhang Huai, the imperial historian of the Imperial Procuratorate, for forcibly buying land in Susong Erfu.

"Is the land forcibly bought, is it owned by the gentry and wealthy households, or by the ordinary people?"

Zhu Gaoxu raised his head and asked Yishiha, who also replied: "It belongs to the rich and gentry, after all, the cultivated land of the ordinary people is scattered and it is not easy to buy." ”

"But the gentry and wealthy households, they annexed the people's cultivated land in patches, so the land they bought was a whole piece of land."

Yi Shuha said this, Zhu Gaoxu thought about it when he heard the words, and finally sighed: "You told them about this matter, right?" ”

"Slave maid ......" Yisha knelt down, bowed his head and said:

"They are all brothers from Bohai, although Your Majesty and Your Highness do not hesitate to reward, but in their hands except for the more than 1,000 acres of farmland given by Your Highness and Your Majesty, there is no other way to make money."

"Over the years, they have complained to me that many people in Yan Mansion have purchased shops and fields in the capital, but they only have a small amount of farmland because of His Royal Highness's constraints, and the money has accumulated dust."

"The slave maid thought about it too, so after knowing that His Highness was going to use Su Song's Second Mansion as a soil fertilizer pilot, he told them about it."

After explaining, he waited quietly for Zhu Gaochu to speak, and Zhu Gaochu muttered: "Have you bought it?" ”

"There is no slave and maid, after all, the slave and maid are alone, and they are not brought to life or death, so there is no need to buy them, but the slave and maid bought more than 2,000 acres for the brothers in the family."

Yisha first explained his attitude, and then ashamedly said that he had purchased more than 2,000 acres of arable land for his brother at home.

Zhu Gaoxu listened, and after a moment of silence, he spoke:

"They can buy the land of Susong Erfu, but only the land of Susong Erfu."

"In addition, all the purchased land should be measured for me, so that the people of the yamen can register and make a register, so as not to evade taxes."

"Your Highness, rest assured, this point has already been explained." Yisha nodded hurriedly, and Zhu Gaoxu also shook his head when he saw this, and after putting down the music in his hand, he continued to deal with other notes.

However, most of these songs are the matter of Yan Mansion and Bohai generals buying land in Susong Second Mansion, because this group of guys is wealthy, so the price of cultivated land in Susong Second Mansion has been raised from 12 guan per mu to 26 guan.

Seeing this, many poor and rich peasants sold their arable land and organized themselves to become their tenants.

At first, Zhu Gaoxu thought that the nobles were forced to buy and sell, and forced the peasants to be their tenants.

However, a closer inspection revealed that many peasants could not resist the temptation to sell their fields, and they took advantage of the need for tenants to sign up.

Since Zhu Gaoxu had already introduced relevant policies, the tenants in the Yongle period were still guaranteed, for example, the landlord's land rent should not exceed 60%.

In this way, the tenants can harvest forty percent of the grain, which is 120 or 30 catties per mu, and the land is also paid by the landlord.

Therefore, the speed of land annexation in Jiangnan was far faster than Zhu Gaoxu thought, and the people thought that they had got the money and found a long-term job, but they didn't know that this was just a little clever, and the really smart ones were the nobles and ministers who got the policy.

Most of the officials in the two provinces of Susong have been replaced by officials from Bohai, and in their songs, after the news of soil and fertilizer spread, land transactions in the two provinces of Susong have become very frequent.

Under the New Deal, land transactions required a trip to the Yamen to replace the new land deed, and the name of the landlord on the land deed would also be changed.

In the whole transaction, the government will collect a deed tax of 100 yuan per mu of land, and in the past half a year, the second government of Susong has collected a total of more than 446,000 yuan of deed tax.

In other words, in the past six months, the land transaction situation in Susong No. 2 Mansion was more than 4.46 million mu.

Whether there are repeated transactions among them, Zhu Gaoxu is not very clear, but there is no need for him to stop this momentum.

First, it is difficult to stop, and second, such land annexation is more convenient to collect taxes.

It is much easier to collect taxes from thousands of noble and wealthy families in the two provinces than to collect taxes from three million people.

However, the premise of being able to collect taxes is that the imperial court must be able to suppress this group of people, otherwise they will begin to hide their fields and evade taxes, just like the group of wealthy families in Jiangnan in the late Ming Dynasty.

The two Song Dynasty did not restrict land annexation, but they rarely failed to collect taxes, in the final analysis, it was still a management problem, and the management of the late Ming Dynasty was simply sparse.

Of course, these two problems are only secondary reasons, and the main reason why Zhu Gaoxu did not stop it was that he wanted to use the generals of Bohai and Yanfu to enter the land market of Susong Erfu, and then start to measure the land of Susong Erfu.

The more they annexed, the less difficult it became for Zhu Gaoxu to measure land when he implemented the new policy, because Bohai and Yanfu were undoubtedly dependent on imperial power, and many of their actions were disliked by Jiangnan officials.

It would not hurt to put them into the Jiangnan market and compete with Jiangnan officials, which would not hurt the imperial power.

The only thing to be aware of is to prevent them from complicit.

After sorting out the notes in his hands, Zhu Gaoxu put aside the notes on the impeachment of the land annexation of the two prefectures of Su Song and did not deal with it.

He plans to use the Second Mansion of Susong as a pilot to see if the three million people of the Second Mansion of Susong will be affected if the land annexation is not prevented.

If the impact is not large, and it can help the imperial court increase taxes, then you can also promote this set of policies to the six prefectures in Jiangdong, the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the more than a dozen prefectures along the Yangtze River.

Thinking so, the sound of singing also came from outside the hall.

"Sun Cheng, the right attendant of the Ministry of Households, ask to see His Royal Highness......"

A voice sounded at the door of the hall, and I have to say that although Sun Cheng is a civil official, his voice is really loud.

"Come in."

Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth to answer, and soon saw Sun Cheng walk into the hall.

Seeing him come in, Zhu Gaoxu also closed the recital, waiting for him to sit down and speak.

"Your Highness Xie......"

Before taking his seat, Sun Cheng thanked him and saluted, and then sat down.

After he took his seat, he did not hide it, but directly said:

"Your Highness, the 20,000 officials sent to Guizhou have arrived in the capital, and they are now waiting for the dispatch in the vicinity of the Great Sect Field in the outer city."

"All arrived?" Zhu Gaoxu didn't expect it to be so soon.

But if you think about it carefully, it is not surprising, after all, with the issuance of the policy, as long as the students are not blind, they can feel the tightening of the imperial court's policy on graduating students to serve as officials, and no one wants to miss this opportunity to make the whole family happy because of being late.

"All of them have arrived, and now we are waiting for Your Highness to distribute the officials to the counties."

"In addition, this is Xia Shangshu's transfer to His Highness."

Sun Cheng took out a note, and Zhu Gaoxu took it from Yishiha's hand and looked at it carefully.

The list in this note is basically all candidates from the three provinces of Liaodong, Shandong, and Sichuan, as well as the five prefectures and departments, who have made political achievements in the new policy.

There are candidates from the government to the county government, but the number of them who took the initiative to sign up for Guizhou is scarce, and Zhu Gaoxu counted the number, only sixty-seven.

This situation made Zhu Gaoxu frown, under the new policy, the number of officials in a county was more than in the Hongwu period, a total of six, namely the magistrate of the seventh grade, the county of the eighth grade, the main book of the eighth grade, the teachings of the ninth grade and the history of the ninth grade, and the inspection of the Soldiers and Horses.

Before the warden and the patrol were not included in the grade, under the new policy, the lowest was from the ninth grade.

Although the official position is low, there is a way to rise, and the officials, town mayors, lieutenant chiefs, grain chiefs and others in the Xu officials need to participate in the imperial examination and be admitted to the imperial examination in order to continue to rise.

Although it is not as difficult as the entrance examination, it is also necessary to compete with hundreds of thousands of people for less than 2,000 places, and they are also one in a hundred.

"Sixty-seven people, at most one house."

Zhu Gaoxu frowned and looked at Sun Cheng, who also said: "What Xia Shangshu means is to send officials to the Zunyi Mansion divided from Banzhou first to maintain the smooth flow of grain and grass for the army in front. ”

"As for the other government officials, they can be selected and appointed from this year's imperial examination."

"In addition, among the 67 officials, officials in Sichuan have gone to Zunyi Mansion and brought the corresponding skilled officials."

After Sun Cheng finished explaining, Zhu Gaoxu bowed slightly, and then closed the music.

"Since this is the case, let's do it first, and the officials and officials will set off together."

After explaining, Zhu Gaoxu continued to look at Sun Cheng, and Sun Cheng had nothing else to do, so he got up and left slowly.

Not long after, the sound of Zhu Gaoxu's pen review sounded again in the Chunhe Palace.

At the same time as he was approving, the rugged mountain road from Chongqing in Sichuan to Zunyi in Guizhou was also crowded with people.

In mid-February, Guizhou was still cold, and the dense fog in the mountains made people's hair full of water droplets, and from a distance, it seemed that everyone was white.

On the rugged mountain road, which was less than two feet wide, thousands of people drove horses and horses to the end, and in front of them were thousands of craftsmen of all kinds and hundreds of scholars.

"Meng Ming, this road is too difficult to walk."

In the crowd, a twenty-seven-eighteen-year-old Confucian student complained, while the young Confucian in his early twenties next to him chuckled:

"If this place is not remote enough, it will not be our turn to come and serve as high-ranking officials."

In the face of the slippery and rugged mountain road, the young Confucian students can still laugh, which has to be admired.

"Honestly, do you regret it now?"

Wiping the dew from his beard, the twenty-seven-eight-year-old Confucian opened his mouth to ask, and the young Confucian who was asked by him also smiled: "What is there to regret?" ”

"If it weren't for the grace of the imperial court, how many of us would have difficulty even studying, and all our lives would be just fishermen fishing by the sea and carrying goods at the docks."

"Now that I, Xu Shuo and Xu Mengming, have been exceptionally promoted to the prefect of Zunyi by the imperial court, it is already a great favor, how can I dare to regret it?"

Xu Shuo chuckled and spoke, and the person next to him also smiled bitterly: "It's not bad if you want to compare like this." ”

"Okay, there are still twenty miles to go to Tongzi County, you have to prepare well." Xu Shuo patted him on the shoulder to comfort him, and the two chatted without saying a word and continued to walk forward.

It took them an hour to finally rush to the so-called Tongzi County, which was also the first county they entered Zunyi Prefecture.

It's a pity that this so-called county is very different from the county in their impression.

"This is my county?!"

Standing on the hillside, looking at Tongzi County, which was surrounded by wooden walls and where more than 1,000 people lived, the twenty-seven or eighteen Confucian students couldn't believe it, and Xu Shuo beside him also sank in his heart.

They led the team down the mountain nervously, and then met two officials who had been waiting for a long time at the gate of Tongzi County.

When they saw Xu Shuo and them, they hurriedly trotted forward to greet them: "Charter (Liu Cai), I have seen Xu Zhifu and Wang Zhixian. ”

The two of them were Xu Shuo and the officials they sent to communicate two months in advance, so they naturally knew Xu Shuo and them.

"This is Tongzi County?" Wang Zhang, the magistrate, looked at this simple place like a countryside in disbelief, and said with a wry smile when he heard this:

"There are not many places in Zunyi Mansion that are suitable for placing in the county, and Tongzi is already a flat place."

"Before, this was just a post station, except for the post house and stables, the rest of the walled wall and 200 wooden houses were built by the Duke of Qianguo."

The charter reported the situation in Tongzi County, and Wang Zhang and Xu Shuo looked at each other after hearing it, and couldn't help gritting their teeth and saying:

"I knew that with my political achievements, at most I would be a master, and now I am promoted to the magistrate, which is definitely not a good place."

"Let's go check it out first." Seeing that even the market town could not be called Tongzi County, Xu Shuo couldn't help but be worried.

Although he was mentally prepared when he discussed with Jian Yi and decided to go to Guizhou, he didn't expect Zunyi's situation to be like this.

Now he is a little worried about the situation of Zunyi County (Banzhou City), where he governs, and it can't be the same as Tongzi County.

Thinking of this, Xu Shuo and Wang Zhang walked into the wooden wall of Tongzi County with the stunned five officials of Tongzi County and more than forty officials.

Inside the stockade, the 200 wooden houses have been occupied by the common people, and they are still concocting wood to continue building houses.

They wore blue-black clothes, men wore blue-black left-sided blouses and trousers, women wore right-sided tops with round-necked chest-crossed tops, and bottoms were various pleated skirts and trousers, which were also more blue-black in color.

"These people are the people of the Miao family who were left behind by the Tusi who were reclaimed and returned to the Tusi, and for Liu Qianhu in the army yesterday, there are still more than 2,000 barbarians on the way to migrate, counting almost 4,000 people here."

The charter explained, and the group of people also looked at them in fear, and stopped their movements.

"There are a hundred brothers in the army in armor in the village, but they generally do not care about the people, but are only responsible for maintaining law and order."

"When I came, Liu Qianhu said that they were only responsible for training our soldiers and horses, and then they were going to the south to quell the rebellion."

"They don't interfere in government affairs during this period, and they can help if they need help."

The charter explained everything in Tongzi County, and at the same time took out a booklet from his arms: "This is all the situation in Tongzi County." ”

Wang Zhang took it and opened it, and Xu Shuo also came over.

[Two hundred and sixty-seven households, one thousand six hundred and twenty-seven, five hundred and twenty-six males, three hundred and twenty-four unattained, and seven hundred and seventy-seven females. 】

[200 houses, 1 post house, 1 stable, 26 cattle, 12 horses, 34 pigs, 427 poultry, 3,600 stone of grain......]

"Meng Ming, you have to support me!"

Looking at the document in his hand, Wang Zhang suspected that he was not managing a county, nor was he a magistrate, but a town mayor.

Different from Xu Shuo's identity, Wang Zhang is a student of the official school in Liaodong, although he is also outside the Guan, but he is always inferior to Xu Shuo, who was born in Jilin City.

Xu Shuo was exceptionally promoted to the prefect of Zunyi, in addition to the fact that no one wanted to come, it was also because of his identity in Jilin City.

This time Xu Shuo entered Guizhou, Jian Yi gave him a lot of help, he had more than 700 officials and more than 1,600 craftsmen, in addition to 600 horses, more than 20,000 stone grain, more than 5,000 yuan.

If you don't cry poor with Xu Shuo, Wang Zhangzhen doesn't know who to cry poor with.

"I want to help you, but now I have to see what the situation is in Zunyi County, and I have to visit the counties again."

Xu Shuo swallowed his saliva, there are five counties in Zunyi Mansion, Zunyi, Tongzi, Suiyang, Renhuai, and Meitan, if each county is so poor as Tongzi, then he may really have to ask the court for help.

"I'll leave you three thousand stone grains first, ten craftsmen of all kinds, thirty officials, ten teachers and one interpreter of the Siyi Pavilion."

"For the rest, you can wait for me to visit for a month before allocating it to you."

Xu Shuo made a promise, and then walked on the dirt road with Wang Zhang, occasionally wanting to communicate with these people, but unable to communicate because of language problems, and only relying on the translator of the Siyi Pavilion could understand the other party's difficulties.

"Although I know the Miao language, I don't know the Kam language and other languages, so Wang Zhixian has to find some people to translate."

The translator of the Siyi Pavilion was embarrassed, and Wang Zhang was exhausted when he heard this, and he only felt that Tongzi County might be the retirement center of his life.

"There should be people in the army who are proficient in these languages, and I will write a letter to the Duke of Qianguo after I arrive in Banzhou, asking a few people to help you."

Xu Shuo patted Wang Zhang's shoulder, not wanting him to be discouraged, after all, the topography of Tongzi County can be said to be the best place along the way, and there is still hope that there is still hope to go one step further with merit in developing well.

"I hope there is, but there is no arable land in Tongzi County, so it seems that I can only sit and eat empty."

Wang Zhang looked at the only two acres of vegetable land in the book, and didn't know how to describe his emotions.

"I went to Zunyi to take a look, there should be a lot of arable land under the rule of the Yang family, otherwise what would they eat?"

"Even if you don't, you don't have to worry, it's a big deal like you are a pawn in Dazhu County, take the people to slowly open up the wasteland, and I will find a way to get food."

In the face of Wang Zhang's discouragement, Xu Shuo continued to cheer him up, while looking at the situation in Tongzi County, and then asked the officials behind him to order all the craftsmen to come to Tongzi County to urgently build some houses for Tongzi County.

Soon, more than 1,000 craftsmen cut down trees, turned adobe into walls, and built more than a dozen single-room houses in just half a day.

It's very basic, but it's better than nothing.

Looking at the more than ten simple houses and the empty surroundings, Xu Shuo couldn't help but be speechless, praying that his government would not be so poor......

(End of chapter)

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