After Liu Rujue said this, Huang Mengzhen couldn't help but feel even more desperate, and could only watch the police soldiers surrounding her.
In the end, both Liu Rujue and Huang Mengzhen were captured.
Not only Liu Rujue and Huang Mengzhen, but also the military system and the policy of relocating a large number of powerful lords and gentry overseas have led to the arrest of many grassroots officials who still did not cooperate with the imperial decrees and wantonly made false reports and concealed reports.
After the prince and Zhang Wenxi interrogated the crimes of these people, they asked the king to order the flag and sent soldiers to take the main culprits among them to their respective county cities and set up a stage in the well to be beheaded.
"cut!"
"No!"
Because Liu Rujue and Huang Mengzhen were the main culprits in forging the five-picture yellow book of Jiazhuangdu in Wendeng County, they were also taken to the vegetable market in Wendeng County and were beheaded by the executioner in full view of the public.
Liu Rujue and Huang Mengzhen shouted before being beheaded.
But it's useless to shout anything at this time.
Soon, both of them were dead.
Like Liu Rujue and Huang Mengzhen, there were many local worms who were beheaded for fabricating pornographic records and committing fraud.
Throughout Shandong, for a time, heads were everywhere and blood was splashing on the bluestone.
Many local officials and people in Shandong were terrified and terrified.
"Fuyuan, 30,000 taels of gold, could you please be noble and give a hand to the officials and people of Shandong, and remove the military scholars, and still let the Imperial College investigate."
to this end.
Liu Weihan, a wealthy gentry in Weifang, Shandong Province, specifically asked to meet Zhang Wenxi because of his friendship with him.
Zhang Wenxi smiled and said: "Thirty thousand taels of gold, just for me to betray the emperor's favor. Are you looking down on me too much?"
"Fifty thousand taels!"
Liu Weihan gritted his teeth and said.
Snapped!
Zhang Wenxi slapped the table, widened his eyes, and looked at Liu Weihan: "If you do this again, this court will have no choice but to put you in jail for questioning!"
"Don't forget, sir, I am also a member of the military. What I care about is whether the military household can live above you for generations to come, not that my Zhang family can have countless gold."
Liu Weihan didn't say anything after hearing this. He just stood up and handed over his hands: "Then take your leave and treat the hospital as if you have never been here!"
Zhang Wenxi did not ask anyone to send Liu Weihan off, but continued to read the files involving fraud in the compilation of the pornographic book.
Because the wealthy gentry and wealthy people in Shandong failed to pay bribes, they were even more certain that the current yellow book could no longer be faked. Therefore, the first-class people in many prefectures and counties had to seriously fabricate the yellow book.
After Zhu Yijun issued an order to exempt people from corvee, as soon as it was time to make up the yellow rolls, the grassroots officials were no longer active in registering people, and even took advantage of the opportunity for people to register to make money, asking each household to pay how much money they had to pay in order to register. household.
The common people have always been used to saving, so many people who have no pursuits would rather not register in the household than pay to register in the household.
As a result, many people became black households.
But now, due to the strict investigation by Zhang Wenxi and the prince, local officials at the grassroots level are forced to proactively ask people to register and start working from door to door.
and.
Because many people are only interested in farming and making money, and are not interested in political tasks such as household registration, just as many of them don't pay much attention to matters in the government office.
Therefore, many grassroots officials began to have to spend money and hand out rice and hair oil to lure people to register in order to gain their own status. In the past, people begged them to register, but now they are begging people to register.
Anyway.
For a time, because the prince and Zhang Wenxi used military personnel to conduct refutations, they forced local officials to conscientiously complete the work of compiling the yellow register. The compilation of the yellow register went smoothly and was completed to a high degree, and the problem of hiding the population was basically solved. , a large number of new populations began to appear in the official records of the imperial court.
It is worth mentioning again that the crown prince and Zhang Wenxi were able to succeed because they learned the method used by Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang to fabricate yellow albums and fish scale albums, that is, before implementing this system that only benefits the country and disadvantages the officials and the people, they first make the entire policy Execution and supervision are carried out by the forces of two different systems, that is, civilians in the military are responsible for refutation, and local bureaucrats and officials are responsible for execution.
It's just that Zhu Yuanzhang was not perfect when he created such a system. Because he wanted to save money, he did not plan to expensive the army, and tried to make the army self-sufficient. This resulted in the low status of the military household, which was unable to supervise the nobles at all and could only make peace with the nobles. .
Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang himself knew that not having an army would lead to this result, so he later handed over the task of refuting the investigation to the supervisors of the Imperial College, that is, those young people who had just become the ruling class, and asked them to be responsible for refuting the investigation, but he still In order to save costs, the students of the Imperial College were not given much benefit. They only turned the refutation into a kind of voluntary labor for the students of the Imperial College, which was equivalent to a kind of corvee for the students of the Imperial College.
When there was no imperial examination system, because the officials selected in the Hongwu Dynasty were mainly selected from the Imperial College students, the Imperial College students were still willing to do this kind of voluntary labor that offended the local government. After all, they could be promoted if they performed well.
However, after Zhu Yuanzhang re-established the imperial examination in the 30th year of Hongwu, scholars who had obtained Jinshi status through the imperial examination gradually became the main targets for official selection. The Imperial College no longer even had this benefit, so it was unwilling to actively do such things to offend the local government. The voluntary labor of powerful officials.
As for why Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to re-establish the imperial examination, I will not mention it here, but in general, the separation of military and political affairs, and the division of the entire empire into two systems: the scholar-official bureaucracy and the supervision of military aristocrats, was the trend in the political system of this era.
Even during the Qing Dynasty, because the Qing Dynasty was a dynasty in which aristocrats from ethnic minorities colluded with Han bureaucrats and landowners to rule China, the Qing Dynasty naturally established two systems of mutual supervision between scholar-bureaucrats and military aristocrats.
Among them, the bannermen enjoyed privileges and belonged to the military aristocracy of the Qing Dynasty. However, because of their small number, they were basically only responsible for supervision and control of important positions of power, while the scholar-bureaucrats among the Han people were responsible for execution.
This pattern has been in place since the six central ministries had the Manchu and Han ministers. The Manchu minister was responsible for supervision, and the Han minister was responsible for doing things. Even in the early days, the princes Baylor of the Manchu aristocracy supervised each ministry respectively.
After modernization, many countries are even more like this, which is called the two systems of party and government.
Now, Zhu Yijun's army has made the Ming Dynasty's political system conform to this trend in terms of improvement, and has also allowed the prince and Zhang Wenxi to successfully solve the problem of population concealment at the local level.
Xiyuan, Shi Yusi.
"According to the Shandong Fu'an Report, after the reorganization of the Yellow Register in Shandong, the new population reached 17.68 million, including 13.92 million adults."
On this day, Wang Xijue reported to Zhu Yijun the official population increase situation after Shandong reorganized the yellow list.
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun couldn't help but slapped his hand on the case, stood up and said, "It's really shocking that the petty officials and the rich people and gentry in these places have hidden so many people!"
"Shandong has always been rich and prosperous, with a large number of people, and many of them have taken the initiative to migrate to Liaodong."
"It's not surprising that so many hidden people can be found now."
"It's just that Your Majesty, from looking at it, can also realize that with the implementation of a series of policies to encourage childbirth in recent years, coupled with the promotion of new crops and new farming techniques, the increase in the population of our tribe may not be just official. Know that much.”
"And if you want these people to become wealthy and free people who do not bear the burden of hard labor and heavy taxes, then you have to let more Fanyi bear these hard labor and heavy taxes to support these people, or even simply It is not enough to make the Fanyi slaves, we must also make more Fanyi work harder than the Han people to cultivate, weave and produce."
"In other words, if the Ming Dynasty wants to maintain its new rites and maintain the current principles of governing the country, then the speed of transformation cannot be said to be too fast, but it should be said that it is too slow!"
"Up to now, many Nanyang barbarians are still burning mountains for farming and wearing animal skins to keep warm. How can such ignorant and backward barbarians support the billions of people of our Han family?"
When Wang Xijue said this, he cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, you should think carefully about this!"
Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing what Wang Xijue said: "What you said is true. Not only are the Fanyi in Nanyang, but also the Tatars outside the Great Wall, most of them are still nomadic, fishing and hunting. In addition, they will be moved to Nanyang and even In order to make them willing to go to the West, we must allow them to be supported by the local Fanyi natives. In this way, we must ask the Nanyang and the West to be more civilized."
Speaking of which.
Zhu Yijun looked at the ruling ministers in front of him and said: "How to completely transform the barbarians into kings and establish a complete order of etiquette and law in the entire universe is the next important task of this dynasty. Whether it is the innovation and eradication of internal affairs or the conduct of foreign affairs, they are all important. It must be properly coordinated and cannot be neglected. At present, Ji Guogong has left his post and returned to his hometown, so the most important thing is to establish a new chief assistant first."
"Since Master Shen recommended himself as the chief assistant, I realized that this way of asking himself to be the chief assistant is very good. It can be regarded as showing that he has the initiative to do things for the country from the beginning of the confirmation of the chief assistant, and it is just because of the difficulty of your life. The way Wei Cai has to work for the country is different. This is more in line with the spiritual requirements of Xinli for his compatriots, that is, to encourage them to actively strive for their own ideals and to serve the emperor sincerely, without being sanctimonious, pretending to be indifferent, and not I am ashamed of my serious pursuit of fame and fortune."
"If even coveting the fame and wealth obtained by serving the country and the people in a serious way is considered a shame, then isn't it even more shameless to pretend to be noble and say that you don't want to serve as an official because you have to obey the emperor's orders and express your incompetence and morality? ?"
Zhu Yijun said: "So, I have decided that the next chief assistant will not be appointed directly by me, nor will he be selected by the court first. Instead, he will be a minister above the minister, including those who have become officials. Anyone who wants to be the chief assistant will serve the country. Anyone who has great achievements in the future can recommend himself to me as the chief assistant. When recommending himself, he should naturally write down the reasons and goals of governance, and then accept the recommendation from the court. The court will recommend five or six people who can be selected and make a list of chief ministers. I will make a list of them. Once the chief minister needs to be replaced midway and the state affairs are at a time when the chief minister is urgently needed, I and even future kings will have a reference to appoint someone from these optional but unselected ministers." (This chapter over)
