I am the king of the dead

"Let your family's scandal be heard all over the world, and your infamy will last forever!"

"You choose."

Yu Qian shuddered violently. His Majesty sent people to the Xieyuan Courtyard on weekdays, which is enough to make people frightened. He thought this was His Majesty's top treatment, but now Yu Qian realized that he underestimated His Majesty's meanness and ungratefulness. Your Majesty This is too bad.

Famous religious sinner, this murderer must be punished.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for not insulting Long En." The four patriarchs knelt on the ground, trembling, they finally recognized the reality, and in the hands of this grandpa, they can die safely and without any fuss. It's His Majesty's favor.

Zhu Qiyu didn't do this out of his whim.

In the fourth year of Yongzheng, Nian Gengyao fell out of favor and was bestowed with death. As a veteran of the old court, Qian Mingshi was somewhat unconvinced, so he wrote a letter to Nian Gengyao to plead for mercy, which pierced Yongzheng's lungs. Go back to your hometown.

When Qian Mingshi left Beijing, Yongzheng personally wrote "Mingjiao Sinners" and carved it into a plaque, which was hung on Qian Mingshi's door and local officials inspected it every day.

This is not over yet, Yongzheng ordered 380 five Hanlins to write poems, scold Qian Mingshi, and write a thousand-character essay if they can't write poems. Stone carvings filled Qian Mingshi's ancestral hall.

Since then, Jiangzuo literati have no Qian family.

The reason why Yongzheng did this was because he saw the chaos during the Kangxi period with his own eyes. For civil servants, beheading is useless.

If you kill your head, the civil servants will shout that you will become benevolent and thank the Lord for your kindness;

Beheading cannot deal with civil servants, but fuels their arrogance.

During the reign of Kangxi, Kangxi tried three times to open the sea and set up the Songjiang Ship Secretary, but was blocked every time, and lost three confidantes one after another. Qian Mingshi was the one who obstructed Kangxi's opening the sea for the third time.

How to deal with civil servants?

Totally screw him up.

Zhu Qiyu put away his arrogance, waved his hand, and asked Lu Zhong to take people down to investigate and make up for it. These four patriarchs are all going to enter Jieyuan in the end. As for the other accomplices, they should be killed, and they should be killed. Zhu Qiyu I still have to stay in Guangzhou for a while, so this case can naturally be settled.

Zhu Qiyu sat in the car and left Baishoufang slowly. The farce of blocking the door was gradually coming to an end.

Chen Ruyan, Yu Qian and other officials sat in a car and returned to Nantang.

"Yu Shaobao's persuasion to benevolent forgiveness seems to have made little progress." Chen Ruyan said worriedly, he was worried that the method of teaching sinners would be too damaging.

Chen Ruyan and Yu Qian are old acquaintances. At the beginning, Chen Ruyan took over the minister of the Ministry of War from Yu Qian. Although he didn't do well, he finally found Jiang Yuan for the Ministry of War to be the minister.

Regarding His Majesty's strategy of "Ri Gong's one soldier" and today's sinner, Ren Shu didn't persuade him much, but the more he persuaded, the more he went back.

Yu Qian didn't mind very much and said: "The method of teaching sinners by name is probably what you deserve. If you can force your majesty to the point of using sinners by name, is there a trace of humility? Is there any courtesy of a minister? "

"This has to be told to Hu Shangshu, let Hu Shangshu perfect this method, Hu Shangshu is the prince's young teacher, and the emperor's heirs should learn such methods."

"Aren't Yu Shaobao worried?" Chen Ruyan asked in a low voice.

Yu Qian said as a matter of course: "Of course, I am the Marquis of Wu Xun, and I am not a civil servant, and sinners of the famous religion can't use me, so I naturally won't worry."

"Ah, this..." Chen Ruyan said dumbfounded.

Indeed, Yu Qian is now the Marquis of Wu Xun, and the famous religious sinner is the way to deal with civil servants, no matter how he deals with it, he will not be able to deal with Yu Shaobao.

A Tiqi hit the horse and came to the side of the car, and said loudly: "Yu Shaobao, something happened."

"Don't panic, what's the matter?" Yu Qian asked in a low voice, his expression became serious immediately.

Tiqi bowed his head and said: "Someone jumped the wall in a hurry, but it should not be a big deal. Your Majesty asked five hundred Tiqi to protect Yu Shaobao."

Yu Qian's complexion changed in an instant, and he said eagerly: "Confused! Come to me, what will your Majesty do?"

Ti Qi hurriedly said: "Your Majesty still has two thousand Ti Qi."

"That's good." Yu Qian breathed a sigh of relief. The firepower and quality of the soldiers of the two thousand tyrants would definitely have no problem breaking through the Guangzhou mansion to escort His Majesty back to Beijing on board.

Chapter 768 Breeding people, never adding gifts

Lu Zhong, as a Tiqi and the head of the secret service, naturally had certain expectations for this overbearing and arrogant jumping over the wall. His Majesty's ability to send someone to protect Yu Qian proved that the problem was not serious.

The same is true.

Daming ransacked the homes of the four great families in Lingnan at an extremely fast speed. The dragons had no leader, and all their nests were taken over. Some people who didn't know the destiny and the situation chose to burn the boat, and the final result was naturally that they hit the iron plate.

The weather in Guangzhou Mansion these days is not very good, it is rainy and rainy, and the Ti Qimen will not stop handling the case because of the rain. For more than ten days, at night, the streets of Guangzhou Mansion are full of horseshoes, usually The case has made new progress, and a new criminal has been arrested.

After the weather cleared up, the sound of horseshoes disappeared, and the people of Guangzhou Mansion suddenly discovered that the walls of the square were being demolished inside and outside of Guangzhou Mansion, which aroused the people's amazement.

This is naturally a decision from His Majesty.

At the end of June in the ninth year of Jingtai, the imperial decree of the Ming emperor:

Ordered the Guangzhou government to demolish the wall of the square, leaving only the gate of the square as a building sign, and the square was changed into a street, and it was ordered to allow the establishment of shop fronts, and stalls could be set up five steps in front of each door, and street trees were planted five steps away to distinguish carriages and pedestrians.

Watchtowers are built in sections along the streets, and special personnel are assigned to watch in case of fire alarms and bandit police.

The curfew time is reduced, from Zishi to Chenshi.

Morning markets, evening markets and night markets are open, streets are allowed to cross alleys, tile houses, teahouses, restaurants, food, cloth and other grocery stores are allowed along the streets, and all kinds of arts in the open space can be set up to stage performances and ask for rewards.

The Fang Guo system is disappearing in Guangzhou. After gaining sufficient experience, apart from military towns, the Fang walls of other cities in Daming will gradually be abolished.

In the early days of the Fang Guo system, it was to prevent people from committing crimes at night, that is, to take advantage of the night to commit crimes. However, with the passage of time, the Fang Guo system has gradually become a shelter for evil people and evil people. industry, it becomes necessary to demolish the square walls.

The Emperor of Ming Dynasty came to Guangzhou Mansion, and the situation in Guangzhou Mansion is changing quietly. This is not a silent change, but an earth-shaking refreshing.

In the countryside outside the city, many farms began to appear. In these farms, there were many commanders who traveled around and were disciples of the emperor. The government servants are stationed in the watchtower.

The urban and rural areas have undergone earth-shaking changes, and there are construction sites everywhere. Among them, several official factories in Nantang have attracted countless people who have lost their land and lost their jobs.

"It's wrong! It's wrong! They dare to charge so much money! One room costs two taels of silver a year! This is the price of two hundred catties of pork! Two pigs are only two taels of silver!"

"It's all the imperial court's money, my money is all thieves!" Zhu Qiyu looked at the account in his hand and said to Xing'an very angrily.

Because there is no household registration system that divides square and Guo households into ten equal parts and rural households into five equal parts, Daming has no way to directly collect the house tax number silver. , Every year, the house tax number alone can collect as much as 50 yuan.

During the orthodox years, only 130 million taels of silver were discounted in Zhengfu!

But just relying on the property tax number and silver, the four families can collect 50 taels of golden flower silver in Guangzhou a year.

Of course Zhu Qiyu understands that this is the difference between direct tax and indirect tax.

"If our Daming can get this household system right, we will collect the house tax number silver. This year, there will be more than ten million and two years old." Zhu Qiyu rubbed his chin, thinking about the possibility of collecting the house tax number silver .

Xing'an couldn't help nodding and said: "It's more than that, this is only Guangzhou, each of these cities with a population of one million can collect 50 taels, and 34 cities with a million people can collect 700 million taels of silver. "

Zhu Qiyu had to say with emotion: "It's right that the Song Dynasty was rich. It's no wonder that his court is poor. It's a pity that Daming can't do this."

"Why did the Song Dynasty receive this money?"

"Because the Song Dynasty did not set up a land system and did not suppress mergers, not only that, but the courts of the Song Dynasty also sold official land, which led to unimaginable land-lost farmers in the Song Dynasty."

"These peasants can only go to the city to work as cows and horses for food, but some of them have become rich. The reason why they were able to collect house tax numbers in these two Song Dynasties is because even if people are taken away, there are some people in the city who buy them. "

"Da Ming can't accept that."

It’s not cost-free to collect money from bandits. For the bandits who don’t do production all over the city, eating, drinking, and laying waste are a lot of expenses, and they have to make offerings. You have to take care of all aspects of your life to be able to count as a master, but if you want to make connections, you must have connections, don't you?This has to give a copy to everyone who is powerful and powerful.

These four families divided the 50 taels, which is actually not too much.

If the court really wants to collect this money, it has to support so many people. How many people can really go to Taicang?

In fact, it is not a cost-effective business. It is better to tear down the walls of the square, and the court will not accept it, and even the bandits will not accept it.

"Your Majesty is wise." Xing'an also wanted to remind His Majesty that the collection of house tax credits is a real struggle for profit with the people, and it is cruel exploitation, especially under the bureaucratic system of the Ming Dynasty, the tax increase will eventually have to be paid. Spread it on the heads of the common people.

"In these years, if you want to increase your income, it is more reliable to open the sea to collect tariffs." Zhu Qiyu said, pointing to the case file in front of him.

The Ming Dynasty wanted to set up a land system to curb mergers, so it couldn’t set up a [-]-household system, and there was no way to collect house tax credits. For the sake of an unknown amount of income in a year, it’s better to open the sea. .

Zhu Qiyu picked up another memorabilia, which was the meticulous memorabilia of Shen Yi, Minister of the Household Department. In the memorandum, he mentioned the issue of people's fertility. Zhu Qiyu read the memoir carefully and nodded repeatedly.

"At the beginning, I was worried that Shen Yi wouldn't be able to do well as the Minister of the Household Department. After all, Mu Yang Bo Jin Lian Zhuyu was in front. Now it seems that he is still good, at least he is not separated from the grassroots and fancied out of thin air." Zhu Qiyu held it Zoushu said to Xing'an.

Jin Lian has a lot of military exploits. He once served as the governor of Chen Mao in military affairs and went to Fujian to suppress the rebellion.Daming's new monetary policy and development of maritime affairs, with the cooperation of the monarch and ministers, laid the foundation for Daming's new financial affairs.

Shen Yi's memorial is about encouraging births.

From Shen Yi's point of view, Daming should not be afraid that if he has too many children, he will not be able to support him. If he is active, he will have as many children as he can.

Daming currently only has [-].

How to do?

If the imperial court wants to adjust this contradiction, it must find a way to settle it, so the sea ban cannot be imposed again, and the people must be released.

It is bound to bear the brunt of the brunt. If the common people are not fed enough, they will have their heads knocked off. Those who seek food from their granaries will naturally not hinder the sea trade.

The Ministry of Households is the vested interest of Daming Kaihai, and the money of the Ming Dynasty has never been so rich. Although there is still the embarrassment of occasionally having to borrow money from the inside, and being scolded by His Majesty's big peng as a beggar, it is not difficult to borrow money from His Majesty. shame.

His majesty lost face and got the inside, the national funds are full, and he speaks confidently when facing the other six ministries. In the past, because he couldn't even pay the full salary, anyone could step on the household ministries. no more!

In Shen Yi's view, the present is the best time to encourage childbearing.

In the memorial, Shen Yi divided the cost of having a baby into three parts.

Part of it is the cost of marriage. As the Ming Dynasty imported a large number of women from North Korea, Japan, Annam, Champa, Luzon and other places, the cost of marriage has been continuously reduced due to the impact of cheap foreign women.

The second part is the cost of childbirth. With the continuous improvement of the medical technology of the Jiejie Hospital, the number of Daming Huimin Pharmacy and the practice of medicine in Daming have increased, the risk of childbirth has been reduced, and the survival rate of infants has been greatly improved.

The third part is the cost of raising children. In Ming Dynasty, the parents generally go to work. The eldest brother looks after the second child, the second child looks after the third child, and the child looks after the child. The cost will naturally be very low. It is also a culture where elder brothers are like fathers. social basis.

Life, the more people are born, the more unstoppable the Ming Dynasty's sea development; the more people are born, the less people will die; Forced to increase social productivity.

Having more children will relieve all worries.

How to encourage it?

"The fields of the rich are connected with rice paddies, and the officials, gentry, and gentry are so good that they don't hide their people, but there are few people. The poor have no land to stand on, and the treacherous people entrust them as guests to avoid more corvees. Ding Yin and Lijia and Jun corvee Waiting for the four poor silver to stay in the place, not to enter the court, and the private pockets are rich and the public funds are deficient."

"Every time editors are reviewed, they have the name of increasing the account of Si Wubo. Regardless of the suffering of the people, they must seek to overflow their foreheads. Therefore, those who should be deleted are not deleted, and those that should not be increased are increased. What's more, people are dead and refuse to be dismissed. When a child is born, it is responsible for its registration."

"The barrenness in the ditch is still on the book, and the son of Huangkou is already a call for pursuit. It is inevitable to pay compensation at first, and then to flee."

"Gu: Breed people, never add gifts." Zhu Qiyu looked at the memorabilia in his hand, and finished reading Shen Yi's last sentence with some emotion.

What Shen Yi was talking about was a common phenomenon, the rich had endless fields, while the poor had no place to stand.

The reason for this phenomenon is that the Dingyin, Lijia, corvee and other four kinds of silver in the Ming Dynasty were collected by the local government, and they were not escorted to Beijing, and all were left to the local government.

The four moneys of the Ming Dynasty were all built on Dingkou. If they were all kept in the local public funds and used in the local areas, most of them flowed into the private pockets of corrupt officials. The routine of splitting the money between three and seven.

Because this involves the pockets of local carnivores, whenever there is a yellow book review and compilation, in order to increase the number of small silver, the company will ignore the suffering of the people, and the dead ones that should be deleted should not be deleted, and the new ones that should not be added should not be added. Increase.

The rich and tyrannical played tricks and had to escape from the Dingcha, but the poor in the ravines became Shangding, nine dollars per person, and even children with yellow mouths were chased for Dingyin, and it became inevitable for the people to flee.

The phenomenon really exists, and the question is how to alleviate this social conflict and phenomenon. The analysis of the reasons is well-founded. Shen Yi is the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs and an official, not an administrative officer of Wenyuan Pavilion, Hanlin Academy, or Ke Dao Speaker. He came up with his own solution.

Based on Jingtai's nine-year population, from then on, no matter how many people are born, the new population will never be taxed.

There is no need for local officials to make arrangements, and the common people don't need to flee to escape. Ding Cha is calculated based on the current population of [-] million.

The poll tax on newborns has since been abolished!

After Xing'an finished listening, he couldn't help saying with emotion: "It seems that the Ministry of Household Affairs is really not short of money recently, and even this kind of breeding population has never been paid."

"It's all over." Zhu Qiyu said confidently.

The Ministry of Accounting is considering the actual interests of the Ministry of Accounting. Right now, the sea is in full swing. As long as the Department of Shipping and Shipping operates normally and the domestic and national funds are taxed in half, the Ministry of Accounting will not fall into a deficit year after year. Even the salaries of Beijing officials The dilemma of not being able to pay in full.

In the past, the Hubu was the vanguard of opposing the opening of the sea. For example, during the Yongle period, Xia Yuanji, the Minister of the Hubu, rebelled against Emperor Taizong Wen many times and demanded a sea ban.

The main reason is that the opening of the sea during the Yongle period was the income of official ships, all of which went to domestic funds, and the national funds could not get a penny. They also had to maintain a huge fleet and provide goods for the fleet.

The current household department has become a solid supporter of Kaihai. The main reason is that the tax internal funds of the Municipal Shipbuilding Department and the national funds are split in half. Your Majesty's internal funds are more like the Ming Dynasty reserve fund. biggest beneficiary.

The top and bottom of Hubu are naturally supported by the five bodies. Hubu has been thinking about how to maintain this open sea model all day long.

The Household Department is more afraid of death than the emperor. For the Household Department, the life without money is really too hard.

That's why Zhu Qiyu said that the household department really broke the boat this time.

"Let Yu Shaobao take a look at this memorandum first, and then hand it over to the Wenhua Palace. I won't make a reply. If everyone agrees, I'll be happy to see it come to fruition, but there's a lot of resistance." Zhu Qiyu fell into deep thought. middle.

"The minister leads the decree." Xing'an took the memorial and went to find Yu Shaobao.

Yu Qian was busy working in the farm law at this time, and the situation in Lingnan was different from that in Jiangxi. Taking advantage of His Majesty's first fire in Guangzhou, Yu Qian took the farm law in Lingnan area a big step forward.

The fertile fields of the four major families became official fields and were replaced by means of replacement, and Lian Tianqianmo became the first batch of fields established by the farm.

As a result, the enthusiasm of Lingnan farmers to participate in the farm law was high. Some hesitant small farmers and landowners naturally stopped hesitating when they saw that the imperial court took out so many official lands to participate in the farm.

The rest will eventually join the Farm Law as it continues to expand.

"Breed people, never add gifts?" Yu Qian took off his bamboo hat, wiped his hands on his blouse, stepped on the shovel, and opened the memorial to the sun. He walked into the field today and stepped on it. The feet are full of mud, inspecting the hydrology of the fields and so on.