Li Binyan was extremely nervous. This was the first Beijing inspection since the new dynasty Yazheng. He has been uneasy since the dynasty.

Li Binyan has been communicating with the censor He Zhang next to him.

"Why did the Censor He be so calm? This is the first time since His Majesty ascended the throne. This not only involves the dismissal but also involves the major matter of capital and life!" Li Binyan whispered.

He Zhang blinked and looked at the right censor, and asked blankly: "Why is Censor Li so frightened? Is he corrupt and abused the law?"

Li Binyan hurriedly shook his hand and said, "That's not! How could that be possible? Before His Majesty ascended the throne, he had never been corrupt. How could this be the saying of corruption and abuse of power?!"

"Then why are you nervous?" He Zhang shook his sleeves and left. He was the one who needs to worry about Jingcha. After all, Hu Yi was impeached recently and was shot in court, and it was empty. There was nothing wrong.

, just impeachment with virtue.

He Zhang sighed, why, why can Li Binyan be rewarded with merits?

Li Binyan stood there in a daze, looking at the sky, and following the crowd left the Meridian Gate, still feeling uneasy.

This time, the Beijing inspection tour was very disturbing.

The Ministry of Personnel, the six departments of the Censorate, the Censorate, the General Secretary of the General Secretary, the General Secretary, and the General Secretary, began to prepare the question book.

The question book is a special melody, a fold made of paper.

Each picture in the question book has 6 lines, 20 words per line, 18 words in flat, and 2 words in the head.

The word "Question" is written in the middle of the first picture. This is the original, just like the work summary written by Zhu Qiyu before coming to the Ming Dynasty, it must have a cover.

The text starts from the second picture, with the title name and reason for the title being written at the beginning, and then describes the origin, plot and handling opinions of the matter being reported. The end of the article ends with a careful request for the title or a careful report.

The last painting is written in the middle of the year, month and day of the title. Below the month and day, the official title name of the person who has the title, the cover and the end of the text must be stamped with the official seal.

This is a complete question book.

Everything that officials in Beijing do and every government affairs they handle must be written and must be consistent with the case subjects of each department.

During the year when the Beijing officials were in Beijing, they would write a few questions and sealed them to Wenyuan Pavilion Kaifeng for the press.

Minister of Personnel, Minister of the Secretariat, Six Sections, General Constitution of the Censorate, Censor of the Right and Right, Senate of the Tongzheng Department, Tongzheng, and Tongzheng Envoy, all of them were present and closed-door meetings. If you encounter something that cannot be ruled,

The emperor personally announced it by the Tongzheng envoy.

The entire Beijing inspection time is about fifteen days. The documentary in Beijing must not be later than five days, and the documentary must be checked within ten days.

The entire officialdom of the capital immediately started to move and fell into the busyness of the year at the end of the year.

Of course, it seems that among the officials above the fifth rank, only Li Binyan is busy, and he is very busy.

The other officials brought out a box of old notes from under the table and asked the Ministry of Personnel to inspect the Qing official department, the examination department and the censors.

Most officials actually knew that they could not get through the past, and His Majesty would sooner or later be able to get over this punch.

It would be better to prepare yourself, and the officials from the provincial Beijing Inspection Commission wrote for them randomly.

After writing it yourself, let them check it out, at least some ambiguous things, write it clearly and save misunderstandings.

There are cases in every part of the matter, and there are also six ministries. If the documents are written randomly, then the first thing is to be a crime of concealing the error.

The colleagues of the Censorate prepared more than a year of Chen Tiao as fast as possible. Everyone continued to chat happily, and then watched Li Binyan, who was running around and still wanted to investigate the case.

"Censor Li, take a break? I have a good luck box given by His Majesty. Do you want to try it?"

"Censor Li didn't prepare to drink water to moisten his throat. After drinking tea, it's not too late to write again. Anyway, there are still five days left."

"Oh, let me tell you Censor Li, just ask your colleagues from the Qing Lisi to write for you. If they can even frame you, they will do their business at most."

"Have you heard that? After the Chinese New Year, Wang Zongxian will be the Zuodu Censor. The position of Zuodu Censor, which has been hanging for a long time, will eventually stop."

"Zhengxian Wang is still busy with the government envoy, and some of them are busy. After so many new policies this year, my legs have become numb and my legs have lost more than five pounds."

...

The chatting continued, and Li Binyan was very similar to those classmates who had not done their homework at the beginning of school.

Everyone usually says that I haven’t done my homework yet, and when I handed in, only Li Binyan didn’t write it.

While the Beijing Procuratorate was underway, Zhu Qiyu stopped the salt and iron meeting for two months and was held again as scheduled.

Zhu Qiyu was still sorting out his meeting summary, and the ministers were chatting in a low voice at the long table in Juxian Pavilion.

When the emperor walked in, it immediately became quiet.

"See Your Majesty, can your Majesty be safe?" The ministers greeted him.

Zhu Qiyu nodded and said, "Well, sit down. Let's start."

Jin Lian, the Minister of Revenue, stood up and said, "Ma Zheng of the Ming Dynasty and Xia Heng, the Minister of Taipu Temple, come and introduce it to you."

The Minister of Taipu Temple is ranked among the nine ministers, who is the third rank. Before Xia Heng was the Chief of Shuntian Prefecture, who is the fourth rank.

This is not how fast Xia Heng was promoted, but that Shuntian Prefecture is located in the capital. The prefecture chief and prefect of Shuntian Prefecture have always been of the fourth rank, but in fact they are one level higher.

This is not uncommon, such as the municipal teams of four municipalities directly under the central government in later generations and other provincial teams at the same level.

So Xia Heng went from the third grade to the third grade.

Xia Heng stood up and said, "Ma Zheng of the Ming Dynasty is rotten."

Xia Heng used two extremely simple words to describe Ma Zheng's depravity in a concise way. He was so outspoken because he was really bad.

No more accurate words to describe.

The martial arts were promoted, and the horses were released in the south mountain. The military preparations were not promoted. The horses had political affairs, but only a little bit.

"Your Majesty reported that in the fifth year of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty was defeated in the Battle of Lingbei. The Ming Dynasty's cavalry lost eight or nine out of ten. Emperor Taizu Gao was determined to revitalize the horse government to provide for the needs of the Northern Expedition."

The Battle of Lingbei in the fifth year of Hongwu was Zhu Yuanzhang's ambitious attempt to destroy the Northern Yuan regime and attack Helin.

Even Helin, who is running back to the Hanghai Mountains, now.

There is the Mongolian dragon court.

The Central Army was led by Xu Da, the Eastern Army was led by Li Wenzhong, and the Western Army was led by Feng Sheng.

The Central Army was defeated and returned, and the Eastern Army won few of them, while the Western Army advanced rapidly, but in the end all the captured territory was abandoned.

The Battle of Lingbei in the fifth year of Hongwu kicked off the battle of Zhu Yuanzhang's destruction of the Northern Yuan for twenty years.

It was not until the Battle of Fisher Sea that Lan Yu destroyed the Northern Yuan royal court and the Northern Yuan emperor's title ended.

"In the sixth year of Hongwu, Chuyang Wumajian was established to lead forty-eight groups. In the same year, the law of raising horses stipulated that eleven households in the south of the Yangtze River and five households in the north of the Yangtze River raised one horse."

"In the 28th year of Hongwu, the Northern Yuan Dynasty had been destroyed, but Emperor Taizu Gao still set up ninety-eight groups of horse farms, such as the million-dollar horse farm in Shunshengchuan, which was set up at that time."

"In the 17th year of Yongle, Emperor Taizong Wen investigated the world's horse politics, and more than 400,000 horses were horses in the border town, 600,000 horses were garrisoned by the capital, 160,000 horses were garrisoned by the capital, 200,000 horses were supplied.

There are more than 120,000 horses in the two capitals and 13 provinces, and the total number of horses is about one million to be sold."

“Today.”

Xia Heng paused for a moment and took a deep breath and said, "Today, the horse head is tied to the land acre, and the number of land acres is recorded in the horse book, so the growth and decline of people's households, the rules for the land acres are also responsible.

.”

"The horse list of counties and counties has not been compiled for a long time, and the land is acre and the population cannot be verified. Where can the horse politics come from?"

After Xia Heng finished speaking, he sat down, leaving behind the silent ministers.

The Ma Zheng of the Ming Dynasty cannot be said to be without it, but only a little bit is it, and it is mostly used to collect taxes.

The horses are released in the south mountain and the development of literature and martial arts is the inevitable trend.

Zhu Qiyu sighed and said, "The country raises horses, and the people sent it to each other every year. Taipu Temple last year, and reported seven-point fat horses, more than 16,000 horses. After three or four months, I ordered Xia Heng to test again, and then stop.

One thousand six hundred and thirty-eight horses, and the lifting is as big as a hundred.”

"I can fool me, but there are no horses in Taipu Temple, the Imperial Horse Supervisor. Can I fool you over?"

This is an old account. Zhu Qiyu said that this is not a settlement with Xia Heng. Last year, the Taipu Temple reported 16,000 horses with a weight of seven cents, but the actual account was 1,600.

The gap is ten times.

Liu Rong, the young minister of Taipu Temple, also died in Tumu Fort last year and died for the country. After the seventh year of Zhengtong, all the war horses of the Ming Dynasty relied on the private markets of Xuanfu.

Zhu Qiyu clapped his hands again and said, "Actually, I have investigated this matter in detail. In fact, the root cause is that the Ming Dynasty has inherited peace and the population is growing. In the past, the pastures have gradually become acres of land and raised the people."

The corruption of horse politics is not only the reason for the adjustment of the general direction, but also the general trend of the development of the times. At that time, ninety-eight groups of horses could be raised, and the people in the world were sparse, so naturally they could shed horses on a large scale. Now the population is prosperous, and the pastures are

It is also a trend to change land.

"Your Majesty is wise." The ministers hurriedly bowed their heads and said.

The corruption of Ma Zheng in the Ming Dynasty was not achieved overnight, nor was it overnight. The blame was not on someone's head, but on a systematic collapse.

Zhu Qiyu took out a memorial and said, "But fortunately, Mengwu's short horse horse can fight and carry, is fat and strong, and the price is cheap, which makes it a trend for officials to overthrow the people."

"Xing'an, read the book "The Commentary on the Important Affairs of the Frontier of the Qing Ma Zheng to Prepare the Frontier" by Zhu Chun, the left-handed clerk of the Xuanfu Border Affairs."

Xing'an picked up the memorial and said in a singular voice: "I am afraid and trepidation. I will get one thing if I am thinking thousands of times. Today, I will report to you: Hu horses cannot be used for a long time."

Zhu Chun is a painter in Jiangxi. What does he know about Ma Zheng?

But Zhu Chun does understand Ma Zheng very well.

He started working as a junior officer in the border affairs of the Xuanfu since the first year of Zhengtong. He did not stay at home as a painter all day, but he was really sitting in this junior officer.
To be continued...