Time flies, just in the blink of an eye, the lively summer vacation passes with time.

Compared with the liveliness of the capital, Xie Jin in the Nanjing City Edict Prison is worse than death.

Ji Gang did not torture him, but he still adopted the method of closing his eyes and locking him in a dark prison with no one to talk to him.

In this way, Xie Jin became thinner and thinner, and his cheeks and eye sockets were abnormally sunken.

Finally, when the weather turned cold, Xie Jin suddenly saw the cell door being opened, and a dazzling firelight appeared in front of him.

Xie Jin saw Ji Gang, whom he hadn't seen for several months, and he walked into the prison with a few brocade guards, sitting in front of him with a chair, and four brocade guards standing beside him.

After a while, there was an extra table inside, and there were four meat dishes on the table, which made Xie Jin, who had not seen meat for many days, feel hungry.

After Ji Gang came in, he sat there, drinking wine with meat dishes, as if he had nothing to say.

"I won't say anything, Ji Gou, don't think about it......"

Xie Jin stubbornly said his thoughts, but Ji Gang just glanced at him, listened to his words of "won't say anything", and suddenly smiled.

"We've caught a couple of people you're related to, and now there's no point in you talking about it."

Ji Gang smiled and spoke, and then slowly got up: "Originally, you were the only one, and I didn't dare to torture you, but now ......"

Ji Gang chuckled and didn't say anything specific, but soon Xie Jin knew what Ji Gang wanted to do to him.

A stove was brought in, and the brocade guard added coal to it and opened the vent in the cell.

In a short time, the coals in the furnace turned red, and the temperature of the whole cell rose.

If it is placed in normal times, you can see the fire, you can have a stove for heating, such a day will make Xie Jin very happy, but at the moment he is like falling into an ice cave.

In front of him, Ji Gang put an iron needle a foot long into the furnace, and after a while, he saw that the steel needle was so red that it was almost melting.

"Try my methods, they are very different from those below."

Ji Gang picked up the iron needle with pliers, slowly got up and walked to Xie Jin.

"Ji Gou, you dare to use lynching!!"

Xie Jin was tied to a wooden bench and couldn't move at all, so he could only shout in horror.

"Hmph, do you think you are still a scholar of Xie University?"

Ji Gang said as he brought the iron needle close to Xie Jin, which made Xie Jin frightened and couldn't help but think of Jinyiwei's methods.

He had heard that when Jin Yiwei treated prisoners, he would use a red-hot wire to penetrate the prisoner's cheek, penetrate it repeatedly, and finally build a shelf, so that the tongue could not move, and once moved, the wound would be pulled.

Thinking of this, Xie Jin trembled with fear, but Ji Gang sneered: "Haha, you think I'm going to penetrate your face?" ”

"I'm not that stupid, I said I'm not like them......"

Ji Gang's voice fell, and before Xie Jin could speak, he suddenly said, "Take off his clothes......

"Ji Gou!"

Xie Jin didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief, so he shouted frantically, and the two brocade guards stepped forward to make a move.

"I say! I say! ”

At this moment, Xie Jin was so frightened that he was incontinent, and the entire cell was filled with an unpleasant smell.

Ji Gang frowned, as if he wanted to do it, but he didn't know what to think about, he finally put down the pliers and asked people to clean up the filth that Xie Jin had made.

After all the things were packed, Ji Gang re-entered the cell, sat on the chair, and looked disgusted: "Say, your methods ......"

"We ......" Xie Jin, who had not yet walked out of the picture just now, opened his stunned eyes, explaining their relationship network, as well as the population of daily hidden fields and slaves.

Time passed little by little, and when Ji Gang walked out of the edict with a thick booklet, he went to the west corner gate of the palace without thinking about it.

An hour later, this book had appeared in Zhu Di's hands.

"It's really implicated......

Flipping through the Chinese booklet, Zhu Di did not expect Xie Jin to explain so clearly.

It seems that he is not as steely as he writes in his poems......

"Okay, according to this booklet, you go to the criminal department to get the driver's post, and arrest all the characters involved above."

"In addition, Jiangxi will also give me a thorough investigation to the end, and work together with the West Factory, the Six Ministries, and the Six Military Governor's Mansion!"

It was September and the weather was slightly cool, but Zhu Di's words made people feel that it was winter.

"Command!"

Ji Gang was excited, this kind of thing is the thing to make a fortune, although there is a West Factory, but there are few people in the West Factory, and there will not be many places that can be inspected, and the big head is always eaten by himself.

Thinking of this, Ji Gang slowly exited the West Corner Gate and walked towards the East Palace.

Not long after, he met Zhu Gaoxu in the East Palace, and by the way, he told him all about Xie Jin and Jiangxi.

Zhu Gaochu was silent on the surface, and readily agreed to him, but after he left, Zhu Gaochu lowered his face: "This guy thinks I don't know ...... filthy things."

"Your Highness, why don't you send more people from the West Factory?"

Standing aside, he also made a careful suggestion, and Zhu Gaoxu said: "Send more people from the West Factory, and at the same time let those officials and officials who are prepared in Beijing go to Jiangxi to prepare for the post." ”

Jiangxi's population on paper is nearly 10 million, and the actual population is probably more than 10 million.

Its population size is equivalent to the sum of the four provinces of Beizhili, Shanxi, Henan and Shaanxi.

At present, Jiangxi has not yet implemented the new policy, so it still adopts the tax method of fixed land tax, and the annual quota is 3 million stone set by Zhu Gaoxu.

However, on paper, the amount of cultivated land in Jiangxi is 40 million mu, and even if one stone is produced per mu, four million stone should be handed over after the new policy.

Of course, if you want Jiangxi to pay more land and reduce the burden on the people, then rectifying the rule of officials is the right way.

At present, there are more than 700 officials and more than 57,000 officials in Beijing.

This amount is relatively small compared to the volume of Jiangxi, and it is obviously not sufficient.

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu could only speak: "This year, students with first-class grades will be selected from primary school graduation as officials, how many do you estimate?" ”

"Based on previous years, there should be more than 36,000 people." After recalling, he opened his mouth to give an answer, and Zhu Gaoxu was also very satisfied.

Two years to digest Jiangxi, and then do it to Zhejiang, this speed is not slow.

"Let Hu Lun keep an eye on Ji Gang, if he fills his pockets, he can leave it alone, but he must know how much he has eaten."

"As much as he eats now, I will ask him to spit it out in the future."

The words fell, and Zhu Gaoxu was also immersed in the handling of the music.

At the same time, Ji Gang, who got Zhu Di's will, began to investigate the case and raid the house.

Starting with the officials in Beijing in Nanjing, from noon, thousands of brocade guards walked in large numbers in the streets and alleys of the capital, walking around among the six departments to arrest.

Even if it is just an official who has been mentioned by Xie Jin, he will be arrested by Jinyiwei.

For a while, the people in the entire capital were panicked, and there were sounds of breaking houses and raiding homes until late at night.

In this process, Ji Gang did not target people who had enemies with him, even if the other party had no friendship with Xie Jin, Ji Gang would also collect charges and arrest him.

Among them, the more famous Geng Tong, Chen Ge, and Zhou Xin, three more famous ministers, were arrested by Ji Gang because they had impeached Ji Gang, Chen Ying, Yuan Gang, and Qin Heng for being deceived and framed innocent.

It's just that he arrested people in the edict with his front foot, and released the three people with his back foot, Ji Gang was angry but didn't dare to say anything, but just spread his temper to others.

Of the more than 3,000 Beijing officials and more than 20,000 officials in Beijing, nearly 30 percent were searched by the Jinyi guards sent by Ji Gang, of whom more than 500 officials were arrested, and more than 4,000 officials were arrested.

If it weren't for the fact that Zhu Gaoxu had prepared enough spare officials in Beijing early on, then I am afraid that the people he had arrested in the past few days would have been enough to paralyze the capital.

Ji Gang's madness puts everyone in danger regardless of faction in the temple.

Officials spontaneously organized themselves and knelt outside the West Point Gate to worship the Wailing Temple.

"Your Majesty, Ji Gang and Chen Ying deceived the Holy Hearing and brutalized Zhongliang, please punish Your Majesty severely!"

"Your Majesty, Ji Gang is in trouble, please ask Your Majesty to judge!"

"Born as a direct minister, died as a straight ghost, and the minister waited for the death of the admonition, please ask Your Majesty to severely punish Ji Gang and Chen Ying!"

"Your Majesty......"

Outside the West Corner Gate, thousands of Beijing officials knelt and bowed, and the scene was grander than the grand court meeting of the Zhengdan Festival.

They wept and sang hoarsely, but they never saw Zhu Di walking out of the West Corner Gate.

But they were not discouraged, and continued to prostrate and sing, and told what they had seen.

Among them, Geng Tong, Chen Ge, and Zhou Xin, the three ministers who were fished out by Hu Lun, were even more red and swollen on their foreheads, and they burst into tears.

Sitting in the West Corner Gate, Zhu Di was as stable as Mount Tai, and he was not affected by this group of courtiers at all.

Some of these people are ministers and direct ministers, but it does not prevent them from hindering the development of the Ming Dynasty now.

The implementation of the new policy is imperative, and it is better to die hundreds or thousands of officials than tens of thousands of people.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, all the gentry and wealthy families in Jiangxi were relocated, so that it was not easy for them to incite the people, as long as the people were not instigated, the implementation of the new policy would not sacrifice too many people who were easy to be fooled.

Zhu Di calmed down to deal with the music, but after a while, he heard footsteps.

He looked up, but saw Yishaha walking into the hall, kneeling down five times and bowing three times when their eyes collided: "Your Majesty, this is the newspaper sent by the prince and the slave, please read it." ”

"Newspapers?" Zhu Di was stunned, but Wang Yan stepped forward to take a thick stack of newspapers, brought it back and handed it to Zhu Di.

Zhu Di opened it, only to find that the newspaper was relatively thick, two feet long and one foot wide, with many contents written on it, and the left side was circled with a black frame, and it was written [Daming Monthly].

Zhu Di flipped through it, and found that there were [Daming Daily], [Fanguo Daily], [Overseas Daily], and [Nanyang Daily] in this pile of so-called newspapers...... and more than 20 newspapers.

Specifically, it is the newspapers of the 14th Buzheng Department and the Capital Division, as well as the newspapers of Yanran, Bohai, Wusizang, Sanxuan Liuwei, Luzon, Jiugang, overseas officialdom, overseas countries and vassal states.

In the end, the summary is the [Daming Daily], which is mainly based on the synthesis of various places, and its content is also the largest, but only some major events are recorded.

For example, the [Daming Daily] in Zhu Di's hand, which wrote about the Ming Dynasty's reform of land and return to the river in Guangxi, as well as the case of Jiangxi civil officials and gentry and powerful officials protecting each other and apportioning taxes equally to ordinary people, as well as the overseas Kunlun mining of gold and silver mines, as well as various policies of officialdom in Nanyang and Western regions to recruit immigrants.

In addition, there are also the governance situation and direction of the provinces, and some projects and policy directions of the Ming Dynasty.

I have to say that this newspaper is more comprehensive and more extensive than all the [Di Newspapers] in Daming now.

After reading [Daming Daily], Zhu Di looked at the newspapers in Daning, Shaanxi, Yunnan, Sanxuan and Liuwei and other places, and just after a little look, he understood the general situation of the Ming Dynasty.

"What do you mean by the second child letting you give me these?"

Zhu Di put down the newspaper and looked up at Yishiha, who was kneeling on the ground.

When he heard this, he said: "Your Highness said, for example, the literacy rate has probably increased to 15% after more than ten years of compulsory official education, so public opinion is no longer limited by oral transmission, but can be spread through newspapers. ”

"Many places resist the New Deal because the people do not understand the content of the New Deal, and can only judge it through hearsay."

"In addition, officials in various places will also misinterpret the meaning of the imperial court's policies, causing unnecessary trouble."

"Since this is the case, then with [Daming Daily] as the direction, facing the people directly, and telling the people the attitude of the court, the people will not be easily deceived by local officials and gentry."

"Another ......"

Yizha also said all the words that Zhu Gaoxu said to himself, without deleting or altering a single word.

Zhu Di listened very carefully, and only then did he speak:

"This is indeed beneficial to the imperial court, but the newspaper must be in the hands of the imperial court to avoid being instigated by people with intentions."

Although he found the newspaper useful, Zhu Di did not think that it was a good thing for the newspaper to be oriented to the people.

After all, the Ming Dynasty is a family, and if the speech is too indulgent and the people's dissatisfaction with the court increases, then the object of their dissatisfaction will often be attributed to the emperor.

In the long run, the emperor will undoubtedly help local officials carry a lot of black pots, so grasping the measurement is a thing that must be done.

"Your Highness is going to send thirty-six officials from the East Palace, and then select three thousand six hundred from the first-class graduates, and finally send them to various places, from the state capital to the political department to set up newspaper offices."

Although Zhu Gaochu wanted to start with the [county newspaper], there were more than 1,700 counties in Daming, and the scale was too large.

In comparison, the scale of less than 300 provinces is relatively controllable.

As long as the state newspaper is done well, the county newspaper can also be slowly promoted.

Of course, the most important thing is that Daming's finances are relatively tight, and too much money is needed to implement the county newspaper.

Newspapers are involved in politics, economy, military, agriculture, people's livelihood and other aspects, and the reporters engaged in it need to visit, and in this era, there are no cars, so they can only be equipped with horses.

In this way, the cost is relatively high, so it is easier to start from the state capital and work upwards.

"Okay, I know about this, when will this newspaper be opened?"

Zhu Di inquired about Yizha, and Yizha estimated: "About two years, and each edition of the newspaper has a different publication time, similar to [Daming Daily] is published in March, Zhili and Zhejiang and other political departments are published in January, and the state government newspaper is relatively fast, published on the 10th. ”

"It's a little slow, but just wait for the steam locomotive to come out." Zhu Di mentioned the steam locomotive at the head of the head, which made the eunuchs on duty who didn't know about it very curious, but they didn't dare to ask more.

"Okay, you can go back to the Chunhe Palace."

Zhu Di waved his hand, and he hurriedly returned the salute and retired.

After he left, Zhu Di continued to bury his head in dealing with the music, ignoring the ghost crying wolf howl of Zhou Xin and others.

Zhu Di ignored them, and they had no choice but to watch Ji Gang deal with the Beijing officials involved, and then turn around and go to Jiangxi.

The news of the capital had already reached Jiangxi, and with the six prefectures of Jiangdong as a lesson from the past, the smarter rich and powerful families hurriedly changed the "Fish Scale Atlas" and the "Yellow Book" with the officials.

This kind of thing will be very slow if it is investigated by Ji Gang, but the gentry and heroes know how many fields they have under their names, how many high-grade fields, how many low-class fields, and how many slope fields, so it is very simple for them to change the book.

Of course, smart people are always in the minority, and some gentry and heroes have not yet discovered the sense of crisis, thinking that the imperial court is just thunder and rain.

It's just that their idea was shattered as the 60,000 Jiangbei official troops in Jiangxi began to take over the city defense.

More than 7,000 people, including Xichang, Jinyiwei, the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, entered Jiangxi in a mighty way, starting from Jiujiang Prefecture to the south to arrest the officials involved, and then according to the officials' confessions, they went to investigate the "Fish Scale Atlas" and the "Yellow Book" to verify the land and household registration.

As the Jingcha contingent arrived in Jiangxi, the literati in Jiangxi protested, but in the face of the army, their protests were particularly weak.

Incitement of the people is a common method for them, so in the course of the audit, bloodshed will inevitably occur.

In less than a month, Jiujiang Prefecture had 12 large and small clashes in a row, and they were sent to Nanjing like snowflakes, almost occupying Zhu Gaoxu's desk.

"This group of people is really stupid, the court is here to help them, but they have maintained this group of guys!"

On the fifth day of October, Zhu Zhanyan, who came home from school, was qualified to read the recital.

When he saw the report of the twelve conflicts in the implementation of the new policy in Jiujiang Mansion, he couldn't help but scold his temper.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at Zhu Zhanyan's appearance, and while his face was calm, he couldn't help but point out to him:

"It is a human characteristic to be easily instigated, and the degree of difficulty in being incited depends on the complexity of one's own values, thoughts, and other issues."

"It is difficult for people with diverse thinking and values to be instigated by others, because if you want to instigate a person, you must grasp the sensitive points he cares about, for example, what the people care about is the land, and the imperial court will act against the rich and powerful, and the people who are attached to the land in their hands will be easily instigated and instigated."

"You should have learned these things in politics class, you shouldn't have focused on science, and you didn't even take politics classes well, right?"

"Nope!" Hearing his father's words, Zhu Zhanyan said embarrassedly: "Naturally, I remembered it after your father's reminder, but I was a little impulsive......"

"It's normal to be impulsive when you're young, and your heavenly identity is sensitive, so you need to pay more attention to these." Zhu Gaoxu explained, and at the same time said to Zhu Zhanyan:

"The people are easily incited, mainly because they don't know what the new deal is, and the land of Jiangxi has always been united, and the clan plot is heavier, so it is not surprising that it can cause such a conflict."

"The sensitive points that they are being incited are mainly arable land and an unknowable future."

"This group of people who are incited is either a clan relationship or an employment relationship."

"The tenants' land is in the hands of the landlords, and if the landlords fall, they will face a situation where they have no land to cultivate."

"Even if the government has advertised that the land will be divided equally among tenants, you will not believe it if you are a tenant, after all, the value of the land is too high."

Zhu Gaoxu explained to Zhu Zhanyan, and Zhu Zhanyan gradually became clearer.

Juntian has had this kind of slogan since ancient times, but few have really implemented it, especially after the founding of the country, not to mention Juntian's policy.

Zhu Gaoxu's success in Juntian was mainly due to the fact that he used students from outside Jiangnan to carry out reforms in Jiangnan, and the two sides did not have time to establish interests at all.

If Zhu Gaoxu is asked to carry out a new land equalization reform in Bohai now, then he will definitely not be able to carry it out, because the local situation has stabilized, and it will be very difficult to change it.

However, if he used Jiangnan officials to reform Bohai, it would be a different story.

Zhu Gaoxu said and looked at Zhu Zhanyan: "You also know about the newspaper, right?" ”

"Got it, when will Nanjing Daily and Daming Daily be published?"

Zhu Zhanyan knew that other newspapers were not laid out so quickly, but "Daming Daily" and "Nanjing Daily" were published quickly because they were right at his feet, and now he couldn't wait to see what his classmates had to say about "Newspaper".

"It will be published in about three days, and at that time, you can also exchange credits in middle school, one credit per copy."

Zhu Gaoxu told Zhu Zhanyan about the newspaper, and Zhu Zhanyan was also happy when he heard this: "When the time comes, I will see what my classmates say." ”

"They come from all over the world, and they may not know the situation in other places, but they definitely know the situation in their hometown, and this is the fastest and cheapest way for them to get the situation in their hometown."

"That's right, but "Daming Daily" is time-sensitive, and it is published every three months, and it is basically published three months ago." Zhu Gaoxu reminded.

Zhu Zhanyan doesn't have a young master's temper, which is the most satisfying thing in Zhu Gaoxu's free-range education.

It's just that he thought about it, it seems that most of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty didn't have a young master's temper, otherwise they wouldn't have cultivated so many hobbies.

On the contrary, those vassal kings had a lot of temper and often hammered and killed slaves.

Thinking about it this way, Zhu Gaoxu asked Yishuha: "Since the promulgation of the "Sect Rules", has anyone committed it again? ”

"Yes!" Yisha said without thinking: "After King Yi became a vassal in Hanzhong, he often carried a slingshot and a sword, rode a horse and galloped around the suburbs, and attacked the people who could not evade at every turn. ”

"In addition, his life is indulged and unbearable, and he usually has no scruples about cutting his hair naked and mixing with men and women, and he takes pleasure in it."

"After the promulgation of the "Zong Gui", Shi Wangkun, the governor of the Yi Wang's Mansion, invited Xie Ran, the prefect of Hanzhong, to come to the Hanzhong prefect Xie Ran, and the cane of King Yi was fifty rods and imprisoned for three years."

"King Yi refused to accept Shangshu, but was rejected by the slave maid......"

"King Yi?" Hearing this title, Zhu Gaoxu thought about it, and then remembered that this was Zhu's royal name.

Zhu is eight years younger than Zhu Gaoxu, and now he is only twenty-four years old, and if he is not severely punished, he will definitely have another incident.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu said with a calm face: "The missionary order is to punish Zhu for wearing coarse linen clothes and plowing the fields for those people who have been attacked by him. ”

"Aren't Geng Tong, Chen Ge, and Zhou Xin good at admonishing death, so they will be sent to supervise Zhu."

"After the spring ploughing is over, if Zhu commits it again, he will be demoted to a concubine!"

Zhu Gaoxu's voice fell, and he also responded, but Zhu Zhanyan was a little unbearable and said: "Father, after all, King Yi is grandpa's brother......

"Ridiculous!" Zhu Gaoxu interrupted Zhu Zhanyan's words and said sternly:

"They messed with the law in the name of the Zhu family, if we don't punish them severely, then the people will only say that the emperor indulged them, and finally pushed everything to the heavenly family."

"If you can't bear to deal with them, you have to bear to suppress the rebellion of the people in the future, you can choose one......"

Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand: "You go down and think about it yourself, if you can't make a decision, it can only be said that you are not suitable to be the future prince of the Ming Dynasty." ”

"The retainers retired ......"

Zhu Gaoxu rarely loses his temper with Zhu Zhanyu, let alone says something like this.

Zhu Zhanyan was taken aback, and his expression was a little flustered.

Seeing his father waving his hand, he also hurriedly withdrew from the Chunhe Palace......

(End of chapter)