Longevity begins with Jinyiwei

"Master, Master Liu, Master Li, Master Wu... are all here."

Yan Fu raised his head, glanced at the butler who was walking quickly, pondered for a while, and then asked, "Have you all come?"

The butler replied: "All the heads of the families have come."

Yan Fu held the official document tightly, and frowned. After a long while, he said hesitantly: "Uncle De, tell me, should you see them?"

The housekeeper was taken aback for a moment, then immediately shook his head: "Master, if you can, don't meet, if you must, you can't agree to any request from them."

Yan Fu asked, "Why?"

"The old slave has inquired. These few days, several of their families have been raising money, and they should be sent to Jinyiwei."

"But in Xinxiang County, there are not only Jinyiwei, but also the Inspection Department, as well as Daheng Bank, Changlong Rice Bank..."

"Your Majesty has decreed that anyone can report violations of the reform, as long as they find out, they will be rewarded!"

"In such a large Xinxiang County, it is necessary to check the acres of land, count the population, and redistribute the land. For more than a year, there has been a lot of rumors. I don't know how many people are waiting to divide the land..."

"No matter how hard you try to win over, it's impossible to win over everyone in Xinxiang County. As long as a little bit of news leaks out, it's over!"

"Besides, there are so many inspection teams above, all of them are personally led by the officials of various ministries..."

Yan Fu's expression was dignified, tightly holding the official document from the court in his hand, the thoughts in his mind surged like waves, and in the end, they were also reduced to two words.

pros and cons!

Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?Or does it do more harm than good?

After a while, Yan Fu seemed to have just made a decision, and got up abruptly:

"Call the officials and servants of the yamen!"

"Send someone to the inspection department, and let the inspection department cooperate with the official to implement the imperial reform order!"

……

At this time, in a courtyard in the northwest corner of Xinxiang County, several Jin Yiwei were counting the gold and silver sent by the various gentry and landlords with excited faces.

"These bastards are really fucking rich, 1000 taels of silver, and they don't even bat an eye!"

"If I knew it earlier, I would have asked for more. Damn, I've made a fortune!"

"Boss, we really don't care about them after we collect the money?"

"Why don't you care?"

Jinyiwei General Banner Wang Shuo sneered: "We want money, and we have to do things!"

"If they really dare to mix together and violate the policy of reform, we will report it. A county magistrate and gentry are in the same boat and violate the reform policy. This is a great contribution!"

"It's enough for a few of our brothers to go up a level or two!"

"But we took the money. If the higher-ups find out about this, it would be a serious crime!"

"Nonsense, who doesn't love money!"

Wang Shuo smiled viciously: "Violating the reform, this is a serious crime of confiscating one's home!"

"The people above are here, don't they love money?"

"The ransacking of the house is so lucrative, as long as we take care of it a little bit, who cares about our little things!"

"Go, send someone to watch, be careful, don't let them find out."

"This is what we call getting rich and getting promoted at the same time!"

Jin Yiwei asked again: "Then what happened to the bank, they have been watching us..."

"Your Majesty's reform requires land and population. We don't touch these, so let's all drink some soup!"

"They are also human beings, how could they not love money!"

"The big deal is to give them some of this soup. There are so many big families, it is impossible to clean them all. Just get one or two, and it will be enough!"

……

"Jin Yiwei collected the money, and sent people out to watch those gentry. The inspection department didn't collect the money, and kicked them out... Those gentry are now in the county government, but the county Ling didn't see them, instead he summoned the Yamen officials and sent people to the inspection department..."

"Our people should have been discovered by Jin Yiwei..."

In the Daheng Bank in Xinxiang County, several people were also discussing in secret.

"Knowing that we are staring at you, you still dare to accept the money openly..."

"Jin Yiwei is going to eat everything!"

"Steward, Jin Yiwei sent someone over..."

……

"My lord, why don't you accept the money delivered to your door?"

Inspecting the yamen, the housekeeper asked doubtfully.

"Why charge?"

Inspector Shi Gang asked back.

The butler was stunned, for a moment, he didn't know how to reply.

"This silver, take it away!"

"These houses are the grasshoppers after autumn, and they won't be around for long."

"Now the imperial court clearly intends to dig out the roots of these people. If we still run over to hang out with them, that would be stupid!"

"Look, there are always idiots in their family who can't see the situation clearly and make some fools."

"At this time, if you make a moth, the minimum is to steal the house and distribute it."

"Copy this at random, even if there are still tenants in the field, let's not touch it, these other things, just drink some soup, it's enough for us to eat a lot."

"Why do we need to take this hot silver..."

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Chapter 519 Time Will Have Victims

clap clap clap...

The sound of the abacus rang continuously. In the hall, there were tables arranged like a private school, and eunuchs who were proficient in arithmetic were all attentively looking at the account books and fiddling with the abacus.

There are still many eunuchs in the palace shuttling among them, or carrying account books to each eunuch's desk, or stacking the calculated results neatly together.

"Be careful, there can be no mistakes at all. Every account book must be verified by three people before it is submitted to the Qianqing Palace!"

"If you make a mistake, it will be a matter of cutting off your head."

Wang Wu walked slowly among them, uttering a few words from time to time.

After finishing speaking, Wang Wu seemed to have remembered something, turned to look at the little eunuch beside him, and asked:

"How many more places have not been submitted?"

"There are still 180 counties that have not been submitted, and they should still be on the way..."

"For the guards in various places, it took eight hundred miles to rush, and they have all arrived."

The little eunuch replied immediately.

"Um……"

Wang Wu nodded, and then looked at the mountain of audit results.

"You guys, take these and present them to His Majesty with me."

With an order, several eunuchs immediately followed suit, moved the account books, and followed Wang Wuchao to Qianqing Palace.

……

"Your Majesty, some results have been audited."

After arriving at Qianqing Palace, Wang Wu trotted to the side of the emperor immediately, and made a sound respectfully.

The emperor glanced at these account books: "Have the audit results of the various guards come out?"

"The part has already come out, that's all."

Wang Wu immediately replied.

"Take them all here!"

The emperor nodded, and Wang Wu immediately directed the little eunuch to put a stack of account books on the table.

The emperor picked up an account book casually, flipped through it for a while, and frowned.

The so-called audit is naturally not as simple as simply counting the population and land reported by various places.

The foundation of reform lies in land and population.

The land inventory and population inventory of the Ming Dynasty have long been useless.

Just like the land and population yellow book of the Ministry of Household Affairs, from the 32nd year of Wanli to the fourth year of Chongzhen, after so many years, it has been thoroughly investigated many times,

The number of land population has not changed much, and even in many places, the registered household registration land yellow book has not changed a bit for many years, even the single digits have not changed!

It is obvious that the population and land inventory of the Ming Dynasty has already been completely corrupted.

It is conceivable what will happen when a country, and it is still a country dominated by agriculture, has no statistics on its own country's land and population.

The first thing he needs to do in this reform is naturally to check the land and population in the world.

There is no doubt that even if there is no follow-up reform policy, just checking the population and acres will inevitably violate the interests of many, many people.

Of course, nowadays, no one dares to resist openly.

But secretly, there are many places where you can do tricks.

After all, there are now nearly a thousand counties in Daheng, and each county is basically an iron-clad country gentry and a low-level county magistrate.

Asking the counties to check is to let the squires of the counties check themselves, not to say completely perfunctory, but to cover up a little casually. Nearly a thousand counties are a huge number.

It was precisely to avoid this that he made such a big battle.

At the beginning, the big tax case was wantonly involved, and the biggest reason was to attack the gentry and landlords!

But now, whether it's the twelve inspection teams or Jinyiwei, or let the inner court's hand reach out to the whole world, or make it public to the whole world, reward those who report heavily!

It's all to avoid collusion and concealment!

And these hundreds of people in the palace are auditing in rounds day and night, which is exactly for this reason.

The yellow book of land and household registration in the Ming Dynasty was naturally not enough to be used as a reference for a long time.

But these years, he was not unprepared at all.

For example, during the military reform back then, a large number of guards changed from being useless to solid guards. These lands, including the wasteland reclaimed by guards in various places over the years, are recorded in the records for every acre, and there are backups in the palace.

There are also major cases over the years, the land that was confiscated and distributed, and the attack on the former Ming clan, all of which have a large number of land populations that have been re-registered.

In addition, the border towns with military and political integration, these years, under his will, started the population and land inventory early, which is why the taxes paid by these governments every year can far exceed the highest tax paid by the court important reason.

Jin Yiwei also needs to conduct unannounced investigations for many years, and conduct unannounced investigations on the land of the landlords and squires all over the world.

With these huge data as support, it is enough to calculate an approximate number of the world's field population. In addition, he ordered that every seven days, all localities must collect and submit the inventory books, which can also be used as a certain data support.

In the end, if the gap is not too large compared with the population and land figures compiled by various regions, and the multi-pronged monitoring has not found any problems, it means that even if there is concealment, it is definitely in a very small range and the problem is not big.

But if the numbers differ too much after the summary and comparison, there must be a problem. At that time, we will send people to conduct targeted inspections, and it will be clear whether there is a problem and what the problem is.

And the account book in front of him is obviously something wrong.

Ningzhou Wei was restructured in the year of Jingwu in the former Ming Dynasty, and 860 mu of occupied land was recovered.

In the second year of Jingwu, that is, the first year of Zhaowu, 920 mu of land was reclaimed, and 860 mu of land from the former Ming clan was received.

In March of the second year of Zhaowu, there was a severe drought in Ningzhou, and some people were displaced. Ningzhou Wei was responsible for resettling refugees in Ningzhou Prefecture. Ningzhou Wei allocated 520 mu of land and built Anning Town on the spot to resettle refugees.

But this time through the inventory, the population of Anning Town has increased by more than [-] people, and the number of fields has not increased, but it is still more than [-] mu less than the amount of land allocated by Ningzhou Wei.

What's tricky in this is already obvious.

"Go check!"

The emperor threw this memorial book to Wang Wu, and after uttering two words coldly, he picked up another account book casually.

"Old slave, let's go!"