The dust of the reform of the clan had not yet settled, and the imperial court issued the "Order of Registering Households and Eliminating the People", which kicked off the work of creating new yellow books across the country.
The reorganization of the yellow list of household subsidies is the basic work of the entire reform. The success or failure of this work is directly related to the effect of subsequent reforms.
Therefore, in the reform edict issued in the fifth year of Wanli Dynasty, the illegal consequences for the work of compiling household stickers were directly written clearly: "All officials, Lijiatong and other households conceal cheating, cannot clearly implement excessive divisions, and all insinuate deductions
Those who have surplus grain will be put to death together. If the household is concealed, the parents will be put to death, and the population will be driven away."
In the process of publicizing and implementing the imperial edict, this bloody warning has already begun to take effect: in the fifth year of Wanli, all prefectures, prefectures, and county local governments opened their eyes and concealed the situation of local tyrants and evil gentry when submitting local basic yellow records.
They tried their best to make amends - but as a result, they were unable to speak before and after submitting the forms, and more than 90% of them could not explain the logical relationship.
Of course, this illogical statistical form could not be reported to the court. As a result, many government offices worked overtime all night in December of the fifth year of Wanli. Many prefects and county magistrates accompanied the subordinate staff of the household to work until the New Year's Eve.
I reluctantly handed in the job.
Because the imperial edict said "based on the yellow records of the fifth year of Wanli", some confused local officials were deceived by subordinate officials and performed reverse operations on the yellow records handed in, causing the local tax base in the fifth year of Wanli not to rise but to fall.
In the sixth year of Wanli, most of these subordinate officials and confused officials who were seeking benevolence were liquidated. After the imperial court was merciless in killing Zhang Wenming in the fifth year of Wanli, in the autumn of the sixth year of Wanli, tens of thousands of them were listed in the basic yellow book.
The subordinate officials who were hands and feet were neatly "executed to death", while the big family members who colluded with them to conceal their household registration were "executed to death by their parents, and the population was expelled." Those confused officials who could explain clearly were dismissed from their posts, and those who could not explain clearly were also punished.
Take a tour of the execution ground.
With the gradual implementation of the "Household Registration Order", many exiled families implicated in Zhang Wenming's case in Northeast China, Hainan and other places found that they had many new neighbors. In the governor's yamen of the seventeen provinces in the world, the household registration imperial envoy
Under the royal flag, heads were being killed, and the psychology of the imperial envoys gradually became distorted. In folklore, they were all like evil ghosts crawling out of hell.
Behind these evil ghosts and the imperial guards who monitor them, there are also pairs of patrolling imperial envoys who are placed in various places secretly and openly, staring with red eyes. The unspoken rules of "human society" and "officials protecting each other" are in "Editor's Notes"
It is not easy to implement the Order of Households and People, because the emperor no longer gives them a chance to make mistakes or defend themselves. No matter who is involved in the Order of Households and People, they will have to move to another place.
The reform has begun! Although the people are still living in a society where information transmission is extremely slow, everyone can feel the changes brought about by the reform. Many poor people found that after the wealthy families around them were taken away by the Jin Yiwei, they could soon be at the gate of the county town.
His head was found, and along with the slaughter, the farmland changed to new owners—mostly military-honored landowners who had returned from Burma and Jiubian.
Throughout the empire, from south to north, there were fewer and fewer fields. Many "servants" who were affiliated with the families of landlords and gentry suddenly became small landlords. They were still engaged in their original farming work, but their family members were not as good as others.
A small sign is hung on the door: "A certain province, a certain prefecture, a certain county, a certain village, a certain person, household registration number *******", which is the same as the sign hanging on the door of one's own house.
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As various reforms were fully rolled out in the sixth year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun hit the back of the head with his busy foot. In August of the sixth year of Wanli, Lu Tiaoyang begged for his bones because of his old age.
The official title of Shangshu of the Ministry of Personnel, Jianjidian Grand Scholar, was retired and awarded the title of first-class earl, Chiyi.
Lu Tiaoyang was the first civil servant to be canonized after the imperial court changed the title law. After returning to his hometown with the ceremonial system of a count, his status was no longer a citizen, but a noble.
Although this earl is not hereditary, and the title is only awarded to Lu Tiaoyang until his death, for him, it is still a great honor for his ancestors. Because the new law stipulates that for those who have mediocre work during their tenure, they will be awarded a lower title among the same level. Lu
Being able to get a first-class earl by regulating Yang means that his work ability and ethics have been recognized by the emperor.
Lü Tiaoyang was an upright person and "served selflessly" - in other words, he never used power for personal gain or formed cliques, and he had high political wisdom. During Yan Song's reign, because of Lv Tiaoyang's unscrupulousness,
If he keeps his hand, the Yan Party will not be able to do anything to him.
Lu Tiaoyang has gone through three dynasties. Although he has never led major political affairs, he is a person with strong executive ability and strong ability in assisting. Moreover, he has a conflicting personality and never shows off his achievements, and he is not willing to listen to others' opinions.
He praised his virtues and was evaluated as: "I am afraid that I will see the knowledge when I am planting trees, I am afraid of seeing my virtues when I am anxious."
Therefore, as the first high-ranking official to be canonized after the promulgation of the new law, the government and the public are also very concerned about how the emperor will evaluate Lu Tiaoyang. Because of his character, his political achievements are not obvious. It is said that "there is nothing to praise the public."
, so many people think that Lu Tiaoyang may become an official as a second-class uncle.
Unexpectedly, the emperor's canonization edict given to Lu Tiaoyang made a very high evaluation of him: "This officer has such a long and thick conduct, he definitely has the style of an ancient minister." He considered him to be the contemporary Bingji, "in the Han Dynasty
Bingji, now it is also Lu who regulates Yang."
On the one hand, Lu Tiaoyang was unable to support his health, and on the other hand, he was also a little afraid of the stormy reforms, so he insisted on going to Shangshu.
As a result, after receiving the emperor's canonization edict, Lu Tiaoyang, a man who attached great importance to his own moral cultivation, felt ashamed. Shangshu made self-criticism and resolutely refused to be rewarded as a first-class uncle. Zhu Yijun summoned him to the palace and comforted him repeatedly.
Only then did I put down my psychological burden, thank my gratitude and return home.
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Because the reform stalls were very large, after Lu Tiaoyang became an official, Pan Sheng and Ma Zhiqiang were directly appointed to the cabinet with the titles of Minister of Rites and Minister of Personnel. Shen Shixing and Yu Youding took over their positions respectively.
Although Wang Guoguang was only one of the chief ministers, his old and pervert nature was hard to change. As soon as he was relieved of the punishment of committing crimes and seeking merit, he immediately went on a rampage and married two little girls in succession within half a month.
, he was impeached by the imperial censor and was impeached. His character was once again strongly questioned, and his moral integrity was shattered to pieces.
As a result, Zhang Siwei has become the most promising cabinet minister to succeed Zhang Juzheng. Moreover, he carried out Zhu Yijun's will with all his heart and never compromised. Therefore, the government and the public judged that Zhang Siwei was in the emperor's heart. After Zhang Juzheng served as Prime Minister for two terms, Zhang Siwei was the most promising.
Hope to take over.
At the end of the sixth year of Wanli, the first step of the "fundamental survey" in compiling the national yellow registration and household allowances was completed. Preliminary statistics put the country's population at more than 140 million, nearly double the yellow registration data in the fifth year of Wanli - if there were no large-scale
The gap in urgent supplementary reports after the edict is issued may reach a staggering one and a half times.
In the northern part of the empire, the serious problem of hidden households was fully exposed. The main reason was that there was a large number of corruption in the clans and various guards. A large number of bankrupt people either took refuge in the major princes' palaces or became semi-serfs in the guards - resulting in a large number of people for a long time.
The population is not included in the statistics.
In the southern part of the empire, the imbalance in the male-to-female population ratio was even more serious. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the gap between the rich and the poor widened rapidly, and a large number of peasants fell into poverty. Due to the influence of the traditional concept of "preferring sons over daughters", in order to preserve the inheritance of incense, men and women could not raise children at the same time.
Under such circumstances, priority is often given to saving boys, while girls are drowned or raised for a few years before being sold.
By the end of the Jiajing period and the Longqing period, in some areas of the south, it had developed to the point where "it was a matter of pride to have a boy and a shame to have a girl." Even wealthy families regarded their daughters as losers and outsiders.
In many places such as Zhejiang, Shaoxing Prefecture, Ningbo Prefecture, Taizhou Prefecture, Yongkang County, Wenzhou Prefecture and Yanzhou Prefecture, the "extravagant marriage" has brought a great burden to the people, causing female infanticide to become a kind of
A common custom.
In addition to Zhejiang, there are also a large number of female infanticides in Nanzhili, Fujian, Huguang, Yangzhou Prefecture, and Ji'an in Jiangxi Province, which are no less common than in Zhejiang.
The widespread prevalence of the bad habit of female infanticide led to a decrease in the birth rate of the population in the southern part of the empire - this was positively correlated with the proportion of imperial taxes borne by the entire southern part of the empire, and was also a reflection of the economic foundation reflected in social relations.
Previously, in the face of such bad habits, Zhu Yijun issued decrees many times, asking local officials to change customs and use various means to curb the unhealthy habits of extravagant marriages and female infanticide. However, infanticide is essentially an economic problem, and it is also a problem of poverty.
The social problems caused by the wealth gap and the imbalance of economic structure cannot be solved from the root cause by simply banning extravagant marriages. Moreover, for the government to crack down on female infanticide, the high mortality rate of newborns at this time makes it almost impossible for them to obtain evidence.
, we can only catch some typical examples every year - it will not help the general trend at all.
Now, the statistics of the pornographic books have revealed a shocking fact. The ratio of men to women in the entire southern part of the empire has reached an astonishing 1.5:1. Multiplied by a population of 80 million, there are 16 million more men than women, which means that nearly 16 million men outnumber women.
Tens of millions of men of the right age are unable to marry, which will cause huge obstacles to the entire social economy.