Qi Jiguang's departure, and the subsequent impeachment and dismissal of ministers such as Pan Jixun, the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, made the people of the world breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that this was an attitude expressed by the emperor, and it meant that the strict investigation of private mining was finally coming to an end.
Officials at all levels also understood the elegant meaning of Xiange, and gradually stopped strictly investigating illegal mining. They no longer falsely accused others of their innocence, and casually accused others of being mine thieves. They even began to actively recruit those who were accused of being mine thieves. people.
People in the world, who were beginning to feel a little confused, gradually regained their composure.
But what some officials and people in Shandong did not expect was that at this time, Shandong Fujia would have to conduct a population census and re-compile the Yellow Register.
Many officials and people are very dissatisfied because of this!
certainly.
The people here do not refer to ordinary people, but to those rich people who want to take advantage of others by hiding their population, such as the head of the village, and those who have considerable assets and can keep slaves by hiding their population. .
Because population concealment is beneficial to them, these people will be dissatisfied with the decree of population census.
Some officials are dissatisfied because they can no longer benefit from helping people like Li Changjiasou hide the population.
But these officials and people are dissatisfied and can no longer do anything about being promoted and waiting for officials.
Because their strength is still not as good as that of many rural eunuchs, not to mention that they have to do errands in Shandong government offices and cannot offend Fumo.
Therefore, despite their dissatisfaction, they still had to carry out the census and re-editing of the Yellow Register promoted by Zhang Wenxi and the Crown Prince.
However, there are still greedy or lucky officials and citizens who have begun to hide their population, and some are even bold enough to use this incident to further enrich themselves.
According to the system.
The Yellow Book of the Ming Dynasty was re-edited every ten years, and the cost of producing the Yellow Book was borne by the people themselves.
That is to say, if the people of Yijia want to make up their own yellow book, they need to bear the cost of making the yellow book.
In other words, the high-grade paper, adhesives and pen and ink specially used to make pornographic books need to be borne by the public themselves.
This was a method that Zhu Yuanzhang came up with when he formulated the yellow book system in order to save the administrative costs incurred in compiling the yellow book.
However, this method caused many people to be inactive in making up yellow books, that is, registering households, and either passed them off as good ones, or simply delayed in handing them over, causing the yellow books to be destroyed within a few years, or not to be handed in for several years, so that the Ming Dynasty The further the central court went, the more it became unable to figure out how many new people had been added to its rule, how many people had died, how many members of each family there were, and even how many servants and servants there were.
And this life.
In order to avoid the need for local people to create yellow books because they were unwilling to bear the cost of fabricating yellow books, and the national income had already increased significantly, Zhu Yijun issued an edict in the fifteenth year of Wanli, stating that after the sixteenth year of Wanli, the yellow books would not be fabricated. The cost will be borne by the court.
Every year when the Yellow Register is compiled, the Ministry of Household Affairs distributes silver coins to the chief secretaries and governors at the cost of one tael of silver dollars per mile. At the same time, in order to prevent local officials from asking each Lijia to compile the Yellow Register, they can only They went to designated places to purchase materials for compiling yellow books and took the opportunity to make money. The materials used in compiling yellow books were expensive but of poor quality. Governments at all levels were required not to monopolize the purchase of yellow book materials.
However, because concealing the population is inherently beneficial to local officials and people, but only detrimental to the country, grassroots officials and people are still not active in making up yellow records, and serious cases of population concealment still exist.
Therefore, this also led to the need for the prince and Shandong governor Zhang Wenxi to strictly fabricate the yellow book system again.
At the same time, there are still some officials and citizens who use what appear to be serious materials when compiling the Yellow Book, but actually use materials that look the same but are actually more perishable.
In this way, although the household registration and other information registered in the yellow register of Yilijia is true, the yellow register rotted away within a few years, which resulted in the situation of the household registration of Lijia being equivalent to not being registered.
The prince discovered this problem when he led a group of military officers to investigate, and ordered that all officials and civilians suspected of doing so should be arrested, and those who should be beheaded should be beheaded, and those who should be exiled should be exiled.
In addition, some more bold officials and citizens directly fill in the yellow rolls, not filling in the real population, but filling in the deceased people, and some even directly select a few people from the previous yellow rolls. Fill it in. "
"This yellow booklet of the twenty-seven capitals and five maps of Wendeng County is wrong!"
"The abnormal household Liu Dazhu recorded in it existed in the yellow book compiled at that time in the 24th year of Hongwu. Why is this person still there now?"
"It's not like he, Liu Dazhu, can live for more than two hundred years, almost as long as the country?"
On this day, a military scholar named Cheng Mingyu found a loophole when he was checking the yellow book of Wendeng County. He wrote the issue in the article and gave it to the prince.
In the Ming Dynasty, the grassroots level was sometimes not only called Li and Jia, but also called "She", "Du", and "Tu".
"Du" generally refers to the li near the county seat, and "Tu" is equivalent to Jia.
After seeing this, the prince ordered: "Immediately ask Qian Guerrilla to send troops to arrest the magistrate and the chief of the county where Liu Dazhu is located, and temporarily let the reserve personnel prepare the yellow list again!"
"After repeated orders, you still dare to cheat so blatantly. It seems that you really don't take Wang Fa seriously. If you don't kill one policeman, there may be someone more bold!"
Then, the prince said a few words with a stern expression.
As a result, soon some frightened officers and soldiers broke into Wendeng County and arrested the county magistrate Fang Heng in court.
Fang Heng was so frightened that his bones and muscles went numb on the spot, and he asked the commander-in-chief Xiao Yingguan: "What crime have I committed?"
"Your county has made up false records and desecrated the imperial ceremony. It is suspected of deliberately deceiving the emperor!"
"This is the Fengxian approval clause."
As Xiao Yingguan said this, he unfolded the article in front of Fang Heng to read. After reading it, Fang Heng realized that there were twenty-seven capitals and five figures when compiling the yellow book. People who had existed since the Hongwu Dynasty were still included in the new yellow book. On the book.
"Are you all blind? You filled in such obvious mistakes!"
The county magistrate Fang Heng cursed all his subordinates and cried, "I was wronged. I really didn't know they would be so perfunctory and fill out the yellow list so casually!"
"The county magistrate should meet with the inspector and tell him how he was wronged."
After Xiao Yingguan said this, he ordered the county magistrate Fang Heng to be arrested first.
However, Liu Rujue, the head of the 27th District of Wendeng County, soon learned about this from his relatives in the county government. He was so frightened that he hurried to Wutu and found Huang Mengzhen, the leader of Wutu's rotation.
Because Huang Mengzhen was Liu Rujue's nephew, Liu Rujue had to come and tell him to run away quickly.
Logically speaking, one li in the Ming Dynasty was divided into 110 households, divided into ten li chiefs and 100 ordinary households.
The one hundred households here are divided into ten households, each with ten households, and the ten households in each armor choose their head.
Before Zhu Yijun abolished corvee service, one person was sent out to serve each year in order. The year when he served was called the current year, and the year when he did not serve was called the queuing year.
And if there are not enough people to serve, the chief and A will be punished first.
Because of this, in the current Wanli period, those who can become the head of the village are basically powerful people in the local area, who can deceive people without fear.
Therefore, Jia Shuli chiefs like Huang Mengzhen and Liu Rujue are often relatives.
“Since the province has decreed a gift of 50 taels of subsistence allowance every year to the odd households in the province, according to the decree, all the odd households in the capital will only copy the deceased households listed in the yellow list over the years. In this way, the minimum living security will be distributed. It can be used as a fee for us to go to the countryside. Every time we do this, there is no problem. Why is there a problem this time?"
After Huang Mengzhen learned about this, she asked Liu Rujue in confusion.
Liu Rujue said with a panicked look on his face: "According to your uncle in the county, this time the Fuyuan invited people from the health office to be responsible for the investigation. It was different from the previous inspections when people from the Imperial College were sent to the Imperial Guard. You know, the people from the health office were responsible for the investigation. The military households are not in the same system as ours, so we don’t even know who is investigating, so naturally we can’t talk about bribery. In addition, your uncle has only been in the county government for a few days, so he only knows about this. "
After hearing this, Huang Mengzhen was speechless and turned pale.
"It's useless to talk about it now. I've already prepared the money. Let's run away quickly. First, we'll go to your father-in-law's house in Qitu, Jianzhongli. We'll spend the night there, and then we'll go somewhere else."
"If you stay any longer, I'm afraid your head will fall to the ground."
Liu Rujue then spoke again.
"good!"
Huang Mengzhen agreed and quickly asked her servant to bring the carriage.
So, not long after, Liu Rujue and Huang Mengzhen fled Jiazhuangdu and went to Jianzhongli.
"All this is because the current emperor nobles the army, so that the military households are no longer poor, but have become aristocrats who are treated more favorably than us Confucian scholars. Then, these military households will naturally try to keep this relationship with them. Thanks to the kindness of Guo Tongxiu, I worked hard and worked hard."
"If we didn't value the army but only valued the scholar-bureaucrats, this wouldn't be the case. After all, scholar-bureaucrats cannot be hereditary and cannot live with the country forever."
"In short, today's world is so awesome! Use the land and gold and silver stolen from outside to benefit the military households, and then let the military households supervise us, and let your uncle, I, Satoshi Haku, take the imperial examination that year."
On the way, Liu Rujue also talked to Huang Mengzhen about the root cause of what happened now.
After hearing this, Huang Mengzhen said: "It seems that we are really unlucky to meet such an emperor."
As soon as Huang Mengzhen finished speaking, a group of officers and soldiers appeared in front of them, all holding large blunderbuss and even double blunderbuss, and they were holding the flag of the Wendeng County Police Branch.
"Police soldier!"
"It's over!"
Liu Rujue couldn't help shouting, and then sighed:
"I forgot that although the mine thieves are not strictly investigated now, the newly established police soldiers have not yet been withdrawn. These police soldiers are also military households. After the imperial court nobles the army, these military households are not afraid of us scholars."
"Can I buy it with money?"
"Probably not. Although they are under the control of the county, they also directly take orders from the superior police office. Now they suddenly appear without the county knowing about it. They should have come here directly after accepting the task of the superior police office. "
"According to law, if their chief officer fails to complete the mission and is found guilty of corruption, he will be expelled from the military. As long as they are not stupid, they will not let us go for a sum of money, and then lose their status as military households. "
"The current dual leadership system is also very troublesome, making it more difficult to deal with these armies." (End of Chapter)
