I am the king of the dead

"Would you like to be that chicken?"

"Who serious person wants to be a chicken? Do you?"

"I do not want."

"Ding."

There was the sound of wine glasses clinking.

Xing'an wiped the sweat from his forehead, listened for a while, and walked forward slowly.

Xing'an returned to Tai'an Palace, and stood motionless in the courtyard for a long time, until the snow began to fall, he remained motionless, letting goose feather snowflakes cover his whole body.

There were snowflakes on Xing'an's eyebrows, but he still looked at him without blinking.

His Majesty and Yu Qian often played chess to discuss politics, and Xing'an also listened to it for a long time. He always felt that there was a layer of window paper in front of him, but he still couldn't understand it.

Xing'an understood what He Zhang said today, and it was very clear. The simple two words, moreover, summed up how the past dynasties destroyed the New Deal very clearly.

He suddenly moved and walked towards his residence.He still couldn't think of a solution.

In the early morning of the next day, heavy snow fell on the red bricks and blue tiles of Beijing City, and the bronze lion spine beast was also covered with snow.

The red walls and golden tiles under the cover of white snow, covered in silver, and Qionglou Yuyu, make the whole capital, with evergreen pines and cypresses, indistinctly shadowed in the heavy snow, dotted with little green.

The white snow is set against the red wall, and the pieces fall into Qiongfang.

The pieces are exquisite each other, and the jade is flying up and down.

Zhu Qiyu got up stretched. He had been trying to breastfeed the child for the past few days, but ended up competing with the child for milk.

Zhu Qiyu got dressed, went to the bathroom to wash up, wiped off the water on his face with a square towel, looked at Xing'an's hesitant look, and asked a little strangely: "What's the matter? It seems Didn't sleep well, what's wrong with you?"

Xing'an uttered He Zhang's theory of times, and he thought about it over and over all night.

Zhu Qiyu was taken aback, and said with a smile: "Is there such a good thing?"

"A good thing?" Xing'an looked at His Majesty dully, how could this be considered a good thing?This is undermining the New Deal, how is this a good thing?

Zhu Qiyu nodded of course and said: "Why is it not a good thing? If they dare to do it, I will dare to kill them. They don't want their lives, and I don't want my name, just right."

"Nobody delays."

It is true that Zhu Qiyu has a full hand of cards and is also good at playing cards, and he has never lost in a game of cards so far, but he can choose not to play cards and directly flip the table.

Zhu Qiyu is not Zhu Youjian. Before Zhu Youjian Meishan hanged himself, when he was dying, he still said that I am not the king of the subjugated country, and you are all the ministers of the subjugated country!

What is Zhu Qiyu?

Going to be scolded as the king of subjugation, Zhu Qiyu didn't plan to have any good reputation when he showed Guo Jing and other 52 people to the public and stripped the grass.

You can scold bureaucrats as you like, but you must do things well. If you don’t do well, the guillotine at Caishikou will be hungry and thirsty.

Now there are three substitutes for one official position. If you don't want to do it, some people will do it.

Xing'an was stunned for a long time, and the window paper was finally torn. His Majesty is not afraid of them jumping, just jump as he pleases, just cut it.

Don't want fame, you can really do whatever you want.

Zhu Qiyu said quite affirmatively: "As long as you show your head, you will beat him until you dare not."

"I'd like to see if the officials in this world are more courageous than my sword."

After eating breakfast, Zhu Qiyu came to the imperial study room and said, "Have the people from all over the country that I asked Tiqi to invite come?"

Zhu Qiyu sent Tiqi out of Beijing a few years ago, randomly checked [-] common people, and went to Beijing to meet the saint. This matter was not arranged by the Ministry of Rites or the Department of General Administration, Zhu Qiyu determined the list entirely, and Tiqi went to invite people.

There was an ancestral system in the Ming Dynasty, and they met the common people once a month, which was called Xuanyu.

According to the ancestral system, except for the first month and the twelfth month, when the imperial court did not promulgate the decree to the elders due to the lack of farming, on the first day of each month, the clerk's office had to request a decree to promulgate a decree.

The Governor of Shuntian Prefecture led the magistrates of Wanping and Daxing counties, led out Xuanyu from Huijimen, led the elders to Chengtianmen, crossed the Jinshui bridge, and went to Fengtian Hall to face the holy Xuanyu.

One line per month has become a national custom.

The language used in the oracle is always easier to change, and it is the vernacular of the vernacular.

Emperor Zhu Zhanji of Xuande, until he was seriously ill, still met the elders in the ninth year of Xuande.

In February, talk to the common people: do all the farming, don’t wander around and gamble; in March, tell the common people: cultivate while the time is right, don’t be lazy in farming; in April, talk to the common people: plant mulberry and silkworms, don’t be idle ; In May, say to the common people: abide by the law and don't instigate lawsuits.

He became seriously ill in June and was unable to see the elders again, but he often told the supervisor of ceremonies to announce the edict.

When did this thing stop?

During the orthodox period, San Yang assisted the government, and canceled this custom on the grounds of Ming Yingzong Youchong.

Zhu Qiyu has been on the throne for more than a year, and no one has ever mentioned this matter to Zhu Qiyu. It is almost wishful thinking to expect the courtiers to play their subjective initiative.

From the pile of old papers, Zhu Qiyu dug out the system of promulgating edicts, introduced the old and brought forth the new, and asked the common people to come to the palace, sit together, and have a good chat.

These bureaucrats want to lock the emperor in the big cage of the palace every day, and lock the emperor in the information cocoon.

Zhu Qiyu is not.

He locked up the bureaucrats, and he moved out the envoys and edicts himself, in order to express his feelings above.

All the twenty people who were invited came from various prefectures, and they were representatives of public opinion randomly selected by Zhu Qiyu who threw their names into the box.

Zhu Qiyu took back the decision-making power of the list from Shuntian Mansion, canceled the etiquette of the face-to-face saint, and only needed to take a bath and change clothes to face the saint, and the location was also moved from Fengtian Hall to Tai'an Palace.

In addition to Zhu Qiyu, Wang Wen and Yu Qian were also present.

The common people were extremely anxious. They lived in peace at home and were happily preparing for the new year, but they were arrested by Tiqi and taken into the capital!

Of course, after Ti Qi explained, the emotions of these people gradually stabilized, but they were still anxious.

The matter of promulgating the edict has long been a legend among the people, and His Majesty actually wants to promulgate it.

It is not a rumor that His Majesty is good at killing people. When he entered the city, he could still see the row of black people hanging on the bank of the Tonghui River. He could see the figures of Guo Jing and other 52 people peeling the skins and pulling weeds last year, warning those who came in and out. People, Daming does not allow the existence of spies.

Even the king of Joseon knew a thing or two about the name of Emperor Ming's brutality. A group of ordinary people went to face the saint?This one is not good, I am afraid it will bring disaster.

Zhu Qiyu sat in the study, waiting for the people to file in under the guidance of Tiqi.

Chapter 227 Hell in the World

Zhu Qiyu also recruited Yu Qian and Wang Wen. Yu Qian was the person who preached the government orders of the farm law. These people all knew Yu Qian.

Even so, the people that Zhu Qiyu had found, after entering the door, knelt down to a large area, shouting long live.

Zhu Qiyu found that the emperor was indeed at the top of the sky, even if he really sat with these common people, these common people might not dare to say anything.

Zhu Qiyu signaled them to flatten their bodies, and these people were stunned for a long time before anyone got up.

Zhu Qiyu chatted with the common people for a while, facing the new emperor of Ming Dynasty, the common people could only be grateful, but they had no opinion at all.

This made Zhu Qiyu quite disappointed, he suddenly thought of those commanding officers who sat upright every time in class, sitting motionless for a class, with their eyes unblinking, sitting upright.

After all, the emperor is the emperor, and if he comes forward, the people may not dare to speak up.

He left his seat and sat behind the screen, and the atmosphere really became active.

He has been sitting behind the screen and listening. When he encounters a question of concern, he will write a note and ask Xing'an to send it to Wang Wen, so that Wang Wen can ask.

Yu Qian didn't want to take power, so he just chatted with the common people about his parents.

Wang Wen asked about His Majesty's concerns.

For example, how was Daming's system of grass-roots chiefs and first chiefs destroyed?

From among the villagers, Zhu Qiyu learned that it turned out to be all kinds of so-called active duty.

The so-called regular service is the supply of Lijia.

Lijia's provision of this item has overwhelmed the Lichang and Jiashou.

For example, when the chiefs and chiefs of each state and county go out to serve, it is their turn to be the chiefs and chiefs of their families; .

These elders, first of all, they have to collect the silver, which is four or fifty taels, and no less than two or thirty taels.

Just accept the meeting gift, otherwise you here will not do it.

Zheng Zuo and the leader each have their own grades, and even the official secretary and Menzao have their own divisions, and they also set a distribution schedule. If the deadline is not bad, it will become a distribution.

In addition, Lichang and Jiashou also have to take turns to supply compradors, including but not limited to next trips, furnishings, banquets, social etiquette, oil candles in various yamen, six-room paper letters, messenger money, etc. The monthly expenses No less than several hundred taels of silver.

Of course, the district chief couldn't handle such a heavy apportionment by himself, and it was bound to be apportioned down to each head.

The final result is that no one is willing to be the head of the village or the leader of the first class. In the end, the grassroots level is completely destroyed.

The common people responded to many situations, all of which were issues that Zhu Qiyu had never thought of.

For example, if you want to be exempted from hard labor, you only need to pay [-] Wen, and you can be exempted for one year, which is more than four taels of silver.

For example, on the issue of private rents, the Ming dynasty took over acres of land from an annexed family at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and used them as official land, which was rented out to the common people.As a result, no one is cultivating the official land, which is the same as the violation of the military and health law.

For example, in the case of scales, the landowners did not use official dendrobium, but rented scales and issued scales.Rent scales are used when collecting rent, with 220 tendons per stone; and hair scales are used when selling, with only 130 tendons per stone.This in and out, there is a difference of [-] tendons per stone.

Big fights in and small fights out, showing the ugly face of exploitation.

Zhu Qiyu didn't even dare to play like this, but these landowners are just doing whatever they want to exploit each other.

For example, the usury problem of weddings and funerals, that is, the donkey rolls. Yu Qian also reported this last time. It was only from the mouth of the farmers that Zhu Qiyu knew how far this phenomenon had reached.

The weight of the bride price in the countryside has reached a frightening level. A family spends no more than seven stones and five buckets, and the silver is no more than five taels, but the bride price is as many as tens of taels, and there are also wedding banquets and other things.

This has to be borrowed, where to go?Borrow a donkey to roll.

Once the donkey rolls, it is covered with interest money. Once the money banks that donkey rolls start to collect, it will be a disaster of ruining the family.

An old farmer burst into tears while talking, a kind of usury called Qingdaoqian, which is specially used to lend money when Huang Qing doesn't accept it.

According to the three cents to six cents of silver for a stone of rice and grain, lending varies from three cents to six cents of silver, but when the common people borrow green rice money, they have to give gift money to the master as a guarantee.

A stone of rice grain is at least three coins and silver.

It is the so-called Harvest City, where the poor servants have no money left.

There are many problems reported by these people, and Zhu Qiyu listened to these human sufferings behind the screen in a daze.

He thinks that he is already a king who is very concerned about the sufferings of the people, but these things, he is on the [-]th, and he can't see the whole picture.

With the smooth implementation of the government, he was indeed a little proud, but this pride gradually disintegrated with the people's emotional and tearful descriptions. There is still a long, long way to go, and he is just beginning.

People who leave Tai'an Palace will be sent home before the New Year. Each person will only be given two stones of rice, five catties of meat, and four liters of oil for the New Year.

Zhu Qiyu came out from behind the screen, and sat in front of the long desk without saying a word.

Yu Qian hurriedly bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, these and other things are old things. Since the implementation of the Farm Law, all the supplies supplied by officials and compradors have been banned."

"There are also loans like this green rice money, all of which are done by criminals. Most of them have been imprisoned, or emigrated or flown, and the situation has changed a lot."

Yu Qian is quite familiar with these things. He is the governor all day long, isn't that just the governor?

Every place I go to, although slightly different, is almost the same, similar with minor differences, and it's all about this kind of problem.

Restoring the construction of grassroots organizations is the most important thing. The management methods of commanders, chiefs, and chiefs have allowed these problems to be solved on a large scale.

When Yu Qian was governor of Henan, there was a time in the former Song Dynasty in the Kaifeng government office, Bao Qingtian’s Baogong Temple, and the common people would go to Bao Qingtian temple to burn incense every autumn harvest, and then turned to the Kaifeng government office to file a lawsuit.

People in the city go to the countryside to cheat, and they have names and surnames. When they are cheated of money, they go to the common people.

The lawsuit has not yet started, and the courts, the government, Yousi, civil officials, etc. are thriving, and they all regard these people as fat pigs delivered to their door, ready to be slaughtered at any time.

When the common people see the magistrates and magistrates, those few get a hundred taels of silver.

As for doing business?At least five hundred taels.

In Gyeonggi, Kyushu outside the mountains, and Fujian, the situation has improved a lot.

Yu Qian was afraid that Zhu Qiyu would get angry, and the emperor would lay down millions of corpses and bleed for thousands of miles. It was almost Yu Qian's subconscious reaction to persuade Renshu.

Zhu Qiyu sighed and said, "But the two capitals and 13 provinces of Ming Dynasty only have one capital, one province, and two prefectures outside the mountains. What about the rest?"

Yu Qian turned pale in shock, bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, there is no need to rush this matter. I sincerely know that Your Majesty is worried about people's livelihood, and I know that Your Majesty does not forget the four people, but the farm law has just been implemented in Gyeonggi halfway, and there are many problems. If it is extended, it may cause endless harm.”

"Your Majesty's Spring and Autumn Period is at its peak, and you are anxious for a moment. If you promote it in a hurry, I will be afraid that the world will change."

Gyeonggi, Kyushu outside the mountains, and Fujian all suffered from wars and disasters, and the gentry rushed to them regardless of the responsibility of the herdsmen in Anfang.

This is the foundation of the farm law. If the farm law is immature and promoted directly, it may cause major problems.

Zhu Qiyu shook his head and said: "I am indeed a little impatient. Next time I will change my clothes and pretend to be a petty official. The common people will also change places. In Tai'an Palace, they still can't let go."

As long as the thinking is not slippery, there are always more ways than problems.