Last night, Zhu Yunxi had an indescribable dream and was shaken.
In the early morning, I woke up again due to peeing.
Lifting the quilt, he frowned slightly when he looked at the dried stain on the mattress, but he had no choice but to sigh slightly in his heart.
There is always a fire that cannot be extinguished in the young man's body. Then he got up to wash up, went to the back hall to do some martial arts boxing, did fifty push-ups, and ran two laps until he was sweating a lot and his body was full of energy.
The fire seems to have subsided a lot.
Is Grandpa Huang up? Sitting at the desk in the side hall, Zhu Yunxi asked while wiping his face.
Pu Wuyong stood with his head lowered and his eyebrows lowered. His Majesty did not go back to Fengtian Palace to settle down last night. He slept at Concubine Hui's place!
Zhu Yunxi suddenly realized it and couldn't help laughing and said, "Old man, that's fine!"
Then he did not eat breakfast immediately, but asked the bastard to bring the memorial and looked at it carefully.
As the crown prince, he not only had to listen in and express opinions when the old man and the court ministers discussed political affairs. Moreover, the old man also gave him the right to review memorials.
Of course, after he reviewed it, the old man had to read it again.
Growing from a crown prince to a qualified king is a step-by-step process. Only by first understanding the internal affairs and shortcomings of the empire can we make corresponding reforms in the future. Any reform is based on the previous system and must be
Be realistic.
If we just start by vigorously developing business, change this and that, and slap ourselves on the forehead unrealistically, I am afraid that it will not only be unhelpful to the country, but also have the opposite effect.
The deeper you go into this era, the deeper this feeling becomes. For many things, you must not just pat your head and have a whim. What you think is good must really adapt to this era and truly bring benefits to the country and the people.
nice one.
The central ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were all second-ranked Jinshi. They may be a little pedantic, but when it comes to governing the country, their abilities and opinions are far beyond what ordinary people can match.
The first memorial was given by Xu Gui, the Chief Secretary of Henan Province.
This year, there is a severe drought in Kaifeng and Zhangde prefectures in Henan, and the harvest of fields is less than four out of ten. The people can only eat food and are unable to pay taxes. I am bold and ask your Majesty to exempt the people of these two prefectures from summer taxes.
The first memorial is not good news. Our country is too big, and no matter how peaceful the world is, there will always be places where we suffer natural and man-made disasters.
Zhu Yunxi took up his pen and wrote neatly, that is, he ordered the bracelets to be exempted from taxes. In the notice of the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Supervisory Office inspected the censor to calculate the population of the people in the drought-stricken areas of Henan, and exempted them from summer taxes to calm the people's hearts and show their dignity.
Tiande.
After thinking about it, he wrote with emphasis: Henan Governor Xu must remember not to underreport or conceal his mistakes in order to cover up his mistakes. How much people’s land is harvested is related to the livelihood of millions of people. When the New Year is approaching, if the people are hungry, report it immediately, or
When it comes to providing relief from Guancang or allocating money and grain from the Ministry of Household Affairs, we must not be careless.
There is a drought this year, but I don’t know what will happen next year. Spring plowing is coming in a blink of an eye. People in the two prefectures must be more cautious when doing spring plowing. God is so kind to you. You must remember to put the people first. Put the drought situation in the two prefectures and the people’s livelihood first.
Difficulties, and matters regarding spring plowing next year, please report in detail without delay!
He is the crown prince, and the old man is allowed to use the imperial pen and inscriptions. But he cannot use the tone of the emperor, but the tone of the crown prince. The local officials can also see that this is the old man asking Zhu Yunxi to get familiar with each other first and the local officials.
After reading the memorial in Henan, Zhu Yunxi picked up a blank memorial and continued to write that natural disasters cannot be avoided by manpower. However, some officials underreported and concealed reports for the sake of their future official positions, which prevented the people from bathing in God's grace and made the central government
It is impossible to understand the public sentiment at the first time.
Sun'er has some superficial opinions. In areas prone to natural disasters in the north, the imperial court should send censors, jinshi, and guozijian supervisors to patrol. They should observe the people's conditions and report to the court in detail the local abuses and people's livelihood. If there is a disaster, the censors, jinshi, etc.
Supervise the three-body supervision and punish officials who neglect their duties.
In the past, when the imperial court punished officials, they would always take the lead. Sun'er thought that even the head of the local area could not be exempted from punishment.
Whenever there are floods, droughts, insects, frost, hail and other disasters in the ministry, as soon as the fields are damaged, the officials will immediately report it to each level. Those who neglect their duties, ignore the disaster, shirk their duties, and do not carry out their duties in their positions will be punished with eight canes.
ten.
The head of the village is equally guilty!
However, in years of disaster, those who usurp acres of land, such as village chiefs, leaders, and large households who usurp acres of land, will receive forty sticks for one mu of land and one hundred for five acres. Their property will be confiscated by officials and distributed to the poor people!
After finishing writing, Zhu Yunxi looked at it again, put it down carefully, and waited for the ink to dry.
Natural disasters are not terrible. The Ming Dynasty's national strength is still good, and it can provide relief to the victims and stabilize the people's hearts. But what is terrible is that in the years of natural disasters, officials did not act. What is even more terrible is that the years of natural disasters have become an opportunity to embezzle people's fields.
If local officials do not act, the people will inevitably borrow money from large families at high interest rates and mortgage their fields in order to survive. When the disaster is over, no matter how the people's livelihood is, the fields will become someone else's.
And among them, the biggest reliance behind these large families who have embezzled land is not the government. It is the local chiefs, heads of the class. They are the township chiefs and village chiefs. These people are the bullies at the grassroots level. They are more evil than
Corrupt officials.
Then, Zhu Yunxi picked up the second memorial.
Chen, who holds the title of Commander-in-Chief of the Former Army, is presented by Yang Chun, the commander-in-chief of Gansu Town.
This is a military memorial, and Gansu Wei is a large border town.
Stationed in Ganzhou Wei (now Zhangye City, Gansu Province), it has jurisdiction over the Great Wall, starting from the north bank of the Yellow River in today's Lanzhou to the northwest to the Tuolai River in Jiayuguan, with a total length of about 800 kilometers.
Zhu Yunxi took a sip of strong tea and started reading carefully.
The forward post of our guard is located in a remote location. The governor's palace has a lot of losses in transporting money and grain. Merchants are often harassed by horse thieves and common people when transporting grain and grass, and their lives are often in danger. I am brave enough to kowtow to your majesty.
Sold to merchants, they were allowed to recruit people to farm, build forts, and store food for the border troops!
I would like to remind you again that the Great Wall in Gansu may not be built by countless civilians. Gansu is a remote and sparsely populated area, and conscripting civilians will inevitably hurt the farmers. The soldiers at the garrison also have fields in their homes and are responsible for guarding the border posts, so they dare not touch it lightly.
I am stupid, please give me some advice!
After Zhu Yunxi read it, he fell into deep thought.
The Gansu Guard is one of the nine borders of the Ming Dynasty. It is a bitter and cold place at the border and it is not easy for soldiers. What they fight is money and grain. Food is mobilized from the center or the nearest granary to the border. The loss on the road is too great. Just imagine, a three thousand people transportation team
, if we walked for half a month, just these people would be able to eat astronomical amounts of food.
The policy that the imperial court has always pursued is to let merchants transport grain, and private merchants to transport grain and grass to the border in exchange for salt and tea that the imperial court allows to sell, which is mutually beneficial.
However, the folk customs in that place are fierce.
Just like in later generations, it was illegal to rob a police car. Hu and Han people lived there together, and everyone had horses that came and went like the wind. No matter who you were, they robbed you first.
Back and forth, merchants transporting grain would rather travel a long way and choose other safe border towns than go there.
Yang Chun's suggestion is very good. There is a large amount of unclaimed land there. Selling it to merchants can be a source of income. At the same time, let the merchants organize people to clear up wasteland and use the food produced every year to enrich the border. At the same time, build manors to resist bandits and clear out the land. Banditry.
But! Zhu Yunxi wrote that the fields under Gansu Wei's rule were selected for sale according to the number of people in the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion, and merchants were allowed to recruit people to cultivate them.
As he wrote, Zhu Yunxi changed his mind, but the local banditry was the responsibility of the guards. The Gansu Guards had 15,000 troops, and it was incompetent to sit back and watch the rioters and horse thieves harass the grain road. Isn't it incompetent? Let's clear out the bandits immediately and plunder the official grain. Horse thieves were killed without mercy. Those who looted and rebelled were young and strong and were sent to the army. Officials of the Military Interruption Department and the Martial Arts Department kept detailed records of the suppression of bandits and reported them to the Governor-General of the Fifth Army.
Then, Zhu Yunxi wrote again, "Yang Chun, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army, has asked merchants to farm and increase military supplies, which is really a good thing. Your Majesty, I feel very relieved! As a reward, I will give you twenty kilograms of wine and ten bolts of cotton."
But then the next question made Zhu Yunxi somewhat confused.
The Gansu Guards General mentioned in the memorial the construction of the Great Wall.
In the eyes of later generations, the construction of the Great Wall was a manifestation of passive defense that wasted people and money, but in this era, it is impossible to have a large army at the border, and the enemies outside the wall are all highly mobile cavalry. So the existence of the Great Wall is a military necessity.
Building the Great Wall required civilian labor. There were no machines in these days, so it was all carried on shoulders and carried by hands.
I was thinking about it when I suddenly heard the old man's voice.
I saw Zhu Yuanzhang coming in from outside and said with a smile, "But is there something difficult to do?"