After Zhu Yijun asked Zhang Jingxiu to rectify the Jinyiwei and set up a whistle-blower system, there was indeed a big change in the officialdom. Therefore, in addition to many people being convicted, one cabinet minister and two ministers were also dismissed.
However, the intensity of the major blood exchange is much weaker than before.
Mainly because Ming Dynasty has begun to make profits from the outside world, and the degree of internal strife has begun to weaken.
This crude method of increasing national funds by confiscating homes has never appeared on a large scale.
It was also to avoid affecting the common people's worry that the money would only be taken away by the imperial court. Therefore, they were only obsessed with seizing power, pursuing short-term violent wealth accumulation and short-term luxurious enjoyment, and did not make long-term financial management plans.
Pan Sheng, Xu Xuemo, and Yang Wei all returned to their hometowns to retire in their old age with official titles.
Zhu Yijun also specially awarded three gold plaques with the words "loyalty and virtue" to the three of them, and ordered the construction of an archway to commemorate their merits. This was regarded as recognizing their merits as an emperor, praising their virtues, and protecting the honor of their family.
Zhu Yijun also wanted to do this because of this honor, so that his family would not do short-sighted things, such as indulging his children to squander, not being harmonious to his neighbors, not actively engaging in social undertakings, and not maintaining local stability for the court.
The remaining ministers in power who did not resign breathed a sigh of relief.
They knew that the emperor had no intention of being mean and ungrateful, so while they were grateful for the emperor's kindness and did not want to retire, they also tightened the discipline on their children, hoping to stay in high positions for a longer period of time and realize their unfinished ambitions.
certainly.
The reason why Shen Shixing and other ruling ministers did not strongly oppose the whistle-blower system was not only because the emperor did not mean to be mean and ungrateful, but because they were close to the emperor and knew that the emperor's real intention of establishing the whistle-blower system was to control the domestic bureaucrats and scholar-bureaucrats. The degree of exploitation of the common people also prepares for the future large-scale development of foreign profits to benefit the people of the world.
And now.
Mining profits have begun to show signs of benefiting the people. As ruling bureaucrats, they have naturally occupied the main part of the cake distributed to the people of the world, so they can still tolerate it and are willing to restrain their children in order to wait for external profits. Cash in, all the hard work will come to an end.
Although the informant system made everyone in the world feel in danger and had to strictly control their children to preserve their family reputation and their own career, for the common people, it made everyone feel more peaceful and began to work actively to make money.
The Han people have always had a strong ability to repair themselves.
As long as the officials and subordinates and the gentry do not disturb them, they can quickly recover after being robbed. Even if they lose their land and property, they can still cultivate new fertile fields and open new workshops, making a depressed place Agriculture and handicrafts developed again.
In the late spring of the thirteenth year of Wanli, when Li Rusong was on his way back to Beijing, he saw that the towns in Jizhou were much more lively than when he went north last year.
There are many traders and shops, and there are many more people farming. It is difficult to see lazy people, and many people have even started farming on the barren and steep mountains.
He took the initiative to ask a commoner named Jie Bailiang: "What is this old man sowing?"
This explanation says: "Grown sweet potatoes!"
Li Rusong couldn't help but ask: "Sweet potatoes have been promoted for many years, why are the elderly just starting to grow them now?"
"In the past, I planted it for the squires and officials, but now I plant it for myself. How can it be the same?"
Jie Shiliang said.
"Why do you say that? Could it be that sweet potatoes are easy to grow now?"
Li Rusong asked.
Jie Shiliang said: "Looking at you, this noble man, you don't know the real situation. According to the previous situation, you cultivated the soil and cracked the rocks, and finally opened up a new piece of land. As soon as you planted sweet potatoes, the official came to ask where this land is. The land owned by my father-in-law has been listed in the fish scale book for a long time. If you want to plant it, you have to pay the rent, otherwise it will be taken away from the government office and sent to the prison to wait for disposal! In this case, who dares to open up new land to plant sweet potatoes? "
"So it's not that sweet potatoes are bad, it's that people's hearts are too bad!"
"Is it possible that people's hearts are better now?"
Li Rusong asked.
Jie Shiliang said: "Anyway, it's much better than before! No squire or official dares to come to ask for newly cultivated land. If they dare to come to ask for it, go to the inn to complain to the emperor. They don't have to do it for a few acres of mountain land of limited value. Offending the imperial court; therefore, the big guys dare to open up the mountains and plant sweet potatoes again. Although I am already seventy, I don’t want to be idle anymore. While I can still move, I will open up a few more acres and plant some sweet potatoes. This way In lean years, we don’t have to chew the bark of trees, and we can also make dried sweet potatoes and sell them in the market for some money.”
"I'm selling sweet dried potatoes!"
"Girl, would you like a bowl of roasted potatoes?"
“Potato broth, freshly made and ready to eat!”
In the early summer of the thirteenth year of Wanli, the weather was warm and breezy, and the Jizhou area was also green.
While the people in this area began to actively develop the barren mountainous areas to grow sweet potatoes, the potatoes harvested through the barren mountainous areas were already being hawked by small traders along the market streets.
When Li Rusong saw this scene, he reported this to the emperor.
"It can be seen that if we want to make mulberry farming more developed and the world richer, it is not enough to discover high-yielding crops and promote and encourage people to develop mountainous areas."
"It must be supplemented by a system that restricts officials and gentry from disturbing and plundering the people!"
"At the same time, the court must govern the country by adhering to the principle of not taking advantage of the people and spending all the money. Otherwise, no matter how hard-working the people are, they will be lazy and stubborn, and high-yielding crops and water conservancy projects will be wasted, and many new roads will be built to facilitate transportation for the people. !”
Zhu Yijun also learned about the same people's sentiments from the mediators from various places, and therefore spoke to Shen Shixing and other ruling ministers in the Imperial Palace.
"What your Majesty said is that such a system is due to the new etiquette first and then people are willing to recognize such a system. After all, the new etiquette pays more attention to the courtesy of the common people and protects the lives and property of the people."
"Therefore, it is necessary to clarify the status of the new etiquette, and compile a new "Da Ming Huidian" based on the new etiquette."
Shen Shixingdao.
Zhu Yijun nodded: "That's right, I'm going to write a new code."
"According to the order!"
So, in this way, the Ming Dynasty really began to write new canons based on the new rites, which was equivalent to using it as a constitution and establishing a series of new systems that truly benefited the people and strengthened the country.
While compiling the new Huidian, Li Rusong and Liang Yuanlong also returned to Beijing in triumph.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun also ordered Li Rusong of the Jin Dynasty to be a marquis at the Xuanzhi gate on the day he saw the dynasty, and he was hereditary, so that the Li family would have two marquises from now on, in order to remember Li Rusong's contribution to the northern frontier.
At the same time, Liang Yuanlong, who survived the cold and came back in the summer, was also granted the title of Doctor Fengzhi and directly promoted to Yuanwailang of the Examination Department to show his importance.
besides.
Zhu Yijun specially summoned these two people on the platform after the dynasty dispersed.
The reason why Zhu Yijun values the two of them so much is naturally because what they do is of great significance.
Although Li Rusong and others only exterminated a tribe on the shores of Lake Baikal in later generations and erected many monuments, the martial virtue they brought to Wanli is immeasurable.
"Your helmet is also dented quite a bit!"
When Zhu Yijun summoned Li Rusong and Liang Yuanlong on the platform, he first looked at Li Rusong and said this.
(End of chapter)
