Longevity begins with Jinyiwei

Although the prince is still young now, he has been enlightened for a long time. What is the prince's personality and how does he behave on a daily basis are no secrets at all to those who are interested.

Naturally, people's hearts will change accordingly.

It is very obvious that in the near future, if this evolution is not stopped, the competition for the crown prince will inevitably become the biggest source of disaster within Daheng!

This problem has obviously been realized by many people, but limited by the emperor's sole authority and the current ever-changing political situation in Daheng, no one dares to say anything more.

And the emperor himself, after returning to the palace from the Academy of Engineering, Er Dezi's report clearly told the news of the harem.

Regarding the intrigue in the harem, as usual, the emperor did not make any statement.

As far as the emperor is concerned, he is naturally very clear about the pros and cons, but...it is difficult to distinguish between pros and cons, right and wrong.

But everything, compared to a next generation emperor who can inherit his will, can be regarded as insignificant.

The inertia of history is too great, even the emperor can't be sure, the power of a generation can change this inertia.

And this is the essence of the crown prince problem.

It is obvious that Daheng's choice of crown prince has gone beyond the inertia of history.

Throughout the dynasties, the founding emperors conquered the world, while the second generation of monarchs defended the world.

Or, in troubled times, use heavy codes, and govern the world with benevolence and righteousness.

Since the Qin Dynasty, all dynasties have been like this.

Today's Daheng is different from most of the dynasties in history. On the contrary, it is more like the Qin Dynasty that swallowed up the six countries and ruled the world.

Qin destroyed the six kingdoms and unified the world, ushering in an era of unprecedented unification.

It also opened the historical cycle of thousands of years of division and reunion.

Today's Daheng is still in the cycle of history, but... after the emperor relearns, promotes business, the collision of ideas and ideas, the confrontation between the new and the old...

What's more, in this period of time, on this world stage, with the prosperity of the sailing age and the rise of the western countries, the era of barbarians except for the kingdoms of heaven seems to have passed.

Although the Kingdom of Heaven is still an unquestionable big country, the times are turbulent. It seems that it is not the era of guarding the dozens of provinces in the Han Dynasty.

For Daheng, and for the Han civilization, this is like Qin's unification of the six kingdoms, a great era that has never been seen before.

The first emperor ruled the six kingdoms and ushered in an unprecedented era of unification.

However, the first emperor, or the Qin Dynasty, never failed to solve the endless disasters that emerged from the opening of a new era.

Just like Shang Jun's reforms, which forged the foundation of Qin's unification of the six kingdoms, Shang Jun did not enjoy the benefits of his reforms, but eventually died of his reform policies.

The same is true for Qin, who destroyed the six kingdoms and ruled the world, but never enjoyed the dividends of dominating the world. Instead, he was directly buried by the disasters brought about by the domination of the world.

It was not until the Han Dynasty that after several generations of emperors, it was possible to completely establish the unified pattern of the world.

The Son of Heaven is most worried, of course.

An unprecedented era, an unprecedented road.

You must try and make mistakes again and again, and you must bear the cost of trial and error again and again.

It is like the capital nature of business prosperity, like the ideological turmoil brought about by the emergence of new learning, like the infinite variables brought about by the comprehensive exchanges between the East and the West, like the wars brought about by the expansion of territories, and the hard-to-eradicate wars in the pre-Ming period. Aftermath...

And this, if there is no strong helmsman to control it, no matter how huge the empire collapsed overnight, it is by no means an illusion.

A lot of thoughts flickered in his mind, and the royal roster in the hands of the emperor was slowly closed.

Unlike the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, when the affairs of the clan mansion were handed over to the Ministry of Rites, when Daheng was first established, the emperor re-established the clan mansion to manage the affairs of the royal family.

Of course, when Daheng was first established, the so-called royal family consisted of only him, the founding emperor, and his heirs.

Even today, the Son of Heaven can understand why in history, the emperors seemed to have no affection for the crown prince or their own heirs, and they often gave death and abolished it.

Now the Son of Heaven understands that he didn't look through the royal roster of this family mansion, and he didn't pay attention. Over the past few years, he has had more than 20 sons one after another.

Even a considerable part of them, the number of times he has seen them since birth, is also very few.

So, what about feelings!

Feeling weak is the norm.

If it's just that the feelings are weak, the emperor doesn't mind much, but if it sends out a wrong signal, people think that his eyes will only be limited to the four older princes, which is not in line with the original intention of the emperor up.

In this palace, whether the emperor values ​​it or not is related to everything...

"Go arrange it, choose a good day,"

"Concubines in the harem, princes and daughters, gather together."

Putting down the roster in his hand, the Son of Heaven let out a long breath and spoke casually.

"The slave obeys."

Er Dezi bowed and bowed.

The emperor waved his hand, glanced at the roster on the table, his eyes were dim, but he didn't know what he was thinking...

Chapter 617 Disaster 3000

"Your Majesty, Mr. Hong asks to see you."

Just when the Son of Heaven was in deep thoughts, a eunuch came hurriedly outside the palace and bowed to the Son of Heaven.

The Son of Heaven was slightly startled, then seemed to think of something, the corner of his mouth slightly raised, and nodded: "Let him come over."

Not long after, Hong Chengchou stepped into the palace, and bowed deeply to the emperor: "My lord, see Your Majesty."

"Excuse me."

The emperor stood up, waved his hands, and immediately eunuchs walked to the side hall and arranged the seats.

The emperor went towards the side hall, followed by Hong Chengchou.

"Have you been out of Beijing for half a year?"

The emperor sat down and asked casually.

"The minister went to Beijing for inspection in early March this year, and it has been exactly half a year so far."

Hong Chengchou sat down and replied respectfully.

The emperor looked at the respectful Hong Chengchou in front of him, and couldn't help chuckling, this Hong Chengchou is really a chicken thief.

Seeing the storm engulfing at the beginning of the year, after expressing his opinion on the resolution of Lijia's restructuring, he immediately fled out of the capital and escaped from the center of the storm by virtue of his power of engineering disaster relief. He didn't return to Beijing until the storm subsided.

This is the case with Hong Chengchou, at the beginning of the turmoil, he brazenly stole the flames, and then slipped away in an extremely tactful way, without offending anyone, I have to say that he is quite capable.

It's just that whether he will offend the emperor depends on the results of his inspections and disaster relief projects in various places in the past six months.

Hong Chengchou obviously understood the emperor's thoughts very well, and before the emperor could speak, Hong Chengchou handed over a dossier respectfully.

"Your Majesty, this is the detailed record of the minister's inspection of various projects..."

The emperor took it casually, but did not read it. Hong Chengchou understood it when he saw it. After pondering for a while, he reported aloud: "Your Majesty, the disaster situation this year is much more serious than last year..."

Hong Chengchou's voice sounded, and the emperor began to read the dossier.

The dossier records are very detailed, the disaster situation in various places, the progress of disaster relief projects, and even the general situation of various prefectures and counties under the disaster situation...

Obviously, the climate change brought about by the Little Ice Age is still deeply affecting Daheng Tianxia.

Natural disasters are still continuing, and even, compared with previous years, they are much more serious.

Listening to Hong Chengchou's report and looking at the shocking numbers on the file, the emperor's expression did not change much.

All of this was already in his expectation.

Having struggled for a long time as a refugee at the bottom, the Son of Heaven naturally knows that natural disasters are terrifying, but man-made disasters are often the greatest horror.

Just like the land of Shaanxi that has been plagued by natural disasters for nearly ten years, it does not mean that the natural disasters make it impossible for the people in Shaanxi to survive.

Rather, natural disasters have left the fields in Shaanxi barren and reduced grain production. In the past, ten grains could be produced, but as the natural disasters continued, only eight, or even six or seven grains could be produced.

Although it seems that there is a difference of [-]-[-]%, or [-]-[-]%, it is obvious that if the imperial court does not have a strong overall control, it will inevitably lead to an extreme shortage of food.

Since ancient times, there are not a few people who have made money in the country. If the seemingly [-]-[-]% vacant quota is not effectively controlled and relieved by the imperial court, it will cause the price of food on the market to soar several times or even dozens of times. More and more people cannot survive.

This will lead to a vicious circle, with food prices getting higher and higher, and the ability of the people in this era to bear risks is undoubtedly extremely low. Such turmoil will force more and more people to be unable to survive .

More and more people can't survive, and without the government's strong regulation and relief, more and more production will be abandoned, civil unrest will occur, and the food needed by the people will become less and less.

A vicious circle is born.

The continuous turmoil in Shaanxi in the late Ming Dynasty was born of this.

Since the establishment of Daheng, the emperor's first solution to disasters is naturally man-made disasters.

The army went to Shaanxi to suppress the civil unrest, quell the chaos, establish a strong and powerful ruling order, clean up the lawlessness, and then allocate food relief. The reform started and the land was divided into individuals.

In this way, the order is restored, and the problem that the court needs to face is much simpler, that is, the vacancy caused by the reduction in food production caused by natural disasters.

If it is [-]%, the court will make up [-]%, if it is [-]%, the court will make up [-]%.

The imperial court reused the food shortage to attract young and strong people, organized major projects, repaired water conservancy, built roads with water, and further increased the carrying capacity of the land in various places.

In fact, even though the natural disasters seem to be continuing and intensifying, in most of the disaster areas, the people under the disaster situation are better than before.

The reason is naturally very simple.

In the past, strictly speaking, the foundation of imperial court rule was not the people of the world, but the landlords and gentry of the world!

In the whole world, most of the land is concentrated in the landlords and gentry.

Most of the people are tenants of landlords and gentry!

No matter how low the court's tax rate is, no matter how good the policy is, it doesn't make any sense to these common people who are tenants.

These common people, who are tenants, pay the rent to the landlord, and the rent is [-]%. The court has the final say and the landlord has the final say.

Most of the rent, even 90.00% of the rent quota, is far higher than the imperial court's taxes.

And the tenants, not only have to face the high rent of the landlord, but also bear the oppression of the grassroots government.

In this way, there is a phenomenon that a slight natural disaster will immediately corrupt the whole place.

Otherwise, even with ten taxes and one high land tax in Daheng today, the people would never be able to bear the disaster for a year or two.

After Daheng was established, the world was cleaned up, and the emperor relied on military power to forcibly start the redistribution of resources with almost bloody means.

That is, to crack down on the cleansing of landlords and gentry, and to distribute land to poor people. After the reform system is established, it is even more policy-level to suppress gentry and landlords who make a living by annexing land.

In this way, the people all over the world, everyone can share the land, even if each person has only one mu, according to the current Daheng tax system, the land tax is [-] and [-].

That is, one-fifteenth of the grain for one mu of land is the land tax.

One mu of real estate is two to three stones, one stone is about [-] to [-] catties, and one mu is about three to four hundred catties.

Even if one-fifteenth of the land tax is taken away, it is definitely enough for a young man to live well.

Not to mention, after the forcible and bloody redistribution of resources, most of the common people also have several acres of land in their hands.

Even if there is a drought, there are drought-tolerant crops promoted by the imperial court, such as sweet potatoes, which are drought-resistant and high-yielding crops.

All kinds of exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes in the past are also abolished in Daheng today, and the corvee, which can be called the head of man-made disasters, is strictly controlled by the emperor.

Nowadays, if all localities want to collect corvee, they have to submit it to the provincial level for approval. The local prefectures and counties not only need to submit a detailed plan for expropriating corvee, but also need to send a provincial inspector censor to inspect and inspect the report after approval, that is, All corvee plans are kept on file.

The Son of Heaven even started an accountability system that has never existed before, that is, those responsible will be held accountable for life!

The attitude of the Son of Heaven is obviously very clear. He would rather middle and lower-level officials be lazy and slack in politics, and he would not harm the people for the sake of political achievements and selfish desires.

All of these have created the increasingly large center of Daheng's power, that is, most of the power has been brought back to the center, a complete big government system, everything is in accordance with the imperial court policy, and the autonomy of middle and lower officials is also is greatly compressed.

Such a strong and powerful administrative order suppresses man-made disasters, but also has a tough and bloody redistribution of resources, and the imperial court relies on state-owned businesses to control the overall economic order.

As a result, from the end of the Ming Dynasty to the fifth year of Zhaowu today, although natural disasters have become more and more terrifying and spread incrementally, the relief funds and food allocated by the imperial court have been increasing every year.

Falling off a cliff.

The vast majority of people in the disaster area seem to be getting better and better, and Daheng's ruling order is becoming more and more stable.

Everything seemed to be going in the best direction, but Tianzi obviously didn't have much joy.

He knew that if natural disasters continued, the root cause of the problem would be impossible to reverse.

No matter how many policies there are, they can only reduce the impact of natural disasters, and it is impossible to completely quell them.

And if the natural disaster continues to spread like this, the pressure on Daheng will also increase, and when it reaches a limit of carrying capacity.

Then there will only be one consequence, that is... crash!

The emperor rubbed his forehead and looked at Hong Chengchou: "How is the project going?"