The dust of the reform of the clan had not yet settled, and the imperial court issued the "Order to Register Households and Qi Min", which kicked off the work of creating new yellow books across the country.
The re-establishment of the yellow book for household subsidies is the basic work of the entire reform. The success or failure of this work is directly related to the effect of subsequent reforms.
Therefore, in the reform edict issued in the fifth year of Wanli, the illegal consequences for the work of compiling household stickers were directly written clearly: "Every official, Lijiatong and other households conceal cheating, and cannot explicitly implement excessive divisions, and all insinuate deductions Those who have surplus grain will be put to death together. If the household is concealed, the head of the family will be put to death, and the population will be expelled."
In the process of publicizing and implementing the imperial edict, this bloody warning has already begun to take effect: in the fifth year of Wanli, when local governments at all prefectures, prefectures, and counties reported local basic yellow records, they opened their eyes and concealed the situation of local tyrants and evil gentry. They tried their best to make up for it - but as a result, they were speechless before and after handing in the form, and more than 90% of them could not explain the logical relationship.
Of course, this illogical statistical form could not be reported to the court. As a result, many government offices worked overtime all night in December of the fifth year of Wanli. Many prefects and county magistrates accompanied the subordinate staff of the household to work until the New Year's Eve. I reluctantly handed over the job.
Because the imperial edict said "based on the yellow records of the fifth year of Wanli", some confused local officials were deceived by subordinate officials and performed reverse operations on the yellow records handed in, resulting in the local tax base of the fifth year of Wanli falling instead of rising.
Most of these subordinate officials and confused officials who were seeking benevolence were liquidated in the sixth year of Wanli. After the imperial court was merciless in killing Zhang Wenming in the fifth year of Wanli, in the autumn of the sixth year of Wanli, thousands of people were listed in the basic yellow book. The subordinate staff who were hands and feet were neatly "executed together", while the big family members who colluded with them to conceal their household registration were "executed by their parents and their population was expelled". Those confused officials who can explain clearly will be dismissed from their posts, and those who can't explain clearly will also have to go to the execution ground.
With the gradual implementation of the "Household Registration Order", many exiled families implicated in Zhang Wenming's case in Northeast China, Hainan and other places found that they had many new neighbors. In the governor's yamen of the seventeen provinces in the world, under the royal flag of the imperial envoys, people were killed, and the psychology of the imperial envoys gradually became distorted. In folklore, they were all like evil ghosts crawling out of hell.
Behind these evil ghosts and the imperial guards who monitor them, there are also pairs of secret agents and patrolling imperial envoys who are deployed in various places, staring with red eyes. The unspoken rules of "human society" and "officials protecting each other" are in "Editor's Notes" It is not easy to implement the Order of Households and People, because the emperor no longer gives them a chance to make mistakes or excuse themselves. No matter who is involved in the Order of Households and People, they will have to move to another place.
The reform has begun! Although ordinary people still live in a society where information transmission is extremely slow, everyone can feel the changes brought about by the reform. After many poor people discovered that a wealthy family member around them had been taken away by the Jin Yiwei, they would soon find his head on the gate of the county town. Along with the massacre, the family's farmland changed to a new owner - mostly from Myanmar, A landowner with military merit who returned from Jiubian.
Throughout the empire, from south to north, there were fewer and fewer fields. Many "servants" who were affiliated with the houses of landlords and gentry suddenly became small landlords. They were still engaged in their original farming work, but the family members A small sign is hung on the door: "A certain province, a certain prefecture, a certain county, a certain village, a certain person, household registration number *******", which is the same as the sign hanging on the door of one's own house.
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As various reforms were fully rolled out in the sixth year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun was busy hitting the back of his head. In August of the sixth year of Wanli, Lu Tiaoyang begged for his bones because of his old age. He retired with the titles of Guanglu Doctor, Zhu Guo, Young Master and Crown Prince Taifu, Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and Bachelor of Jianji Hall, and was awarded the first-class earl, Chiyi.
Lu Tiaoyang was the first civil servant to be canonized after the imperial court changed the title law. After returning to his hometown with the ceremonial system of a count, his identity was no longer a citizen, but a noble.
Although the earl was not hereditary and his rank was only paid until Lu Tiaoyang died, for him, he still had the dignity of being a great ancestor. Because the new law stipulates that for those who have mediocre performance during their tenure, they will be awarded a lower title among the same level. The fact that Lu Tiaoyang was awarded the first-class count shows that his work ability and ethics were recognized by the emperor.
Lu Tiaoyang was an upright man who "served his family selflessly" - in other words, he never used power for personal gain or formed cliques, and he had high political wisdom. During Yan Song's reign, because of Lu Tiaoyang's slippery ways, the Yan Party could do nothing against him.
Lu Tiaoyang has experienced three dynasties. Although he has never led major political affairs, he is a person with strong execution ability and has strong ability in assisting. Moreover, he has an aggressive personality and never shows off his achievements, nor does he want to listen to others praise him. It was evaluated as: "The tree is for fear of seeing knowledge, the one who is anxious is for fear of seeing virtue."
Therefore, as the first high-ranking official to be canonized after the introduction of the new law, the government and the public were also very concerned about what kind of evaluation the emperor would give Lu Tiaoyang. Because of his character, his political achievements were not obvious. It is said that "people have nothing to praise the public", so many people think that Lu Tiaoyang may become a second-class uncle.
Unexpectedly, the emperor's canonization edict given to Lu Tiaoyang made a very high evaluation of him: "This officer has such a long and thick conduct, he definitely has the style of an ancient minister." He was considered to be the contemporary Bingji, "in the Han Dynasty Bing Ji, now Lu also regulates Yang."
On the one hand, Lu Tiaoyang was unable to support his health, and on the other hand, he was also a little afraid of the stormy reforms, so he insisted on going to Shangshu.
As a result, after receiving the emperor's canonization edict, Lu Tiaoyang, a man who attached great importance to his own moral cultivation, felt ashamed. Shangshu made self-criticism and resolutely refused to be rewarded as a first-class uncle. Zhu Yijun summoned him to the palace, and after repeatedly comforting him, he put down his psychological burden, thanked him and returned home.
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Because the reform stalls were very large, after Lu Tiaoyang became an official, Pan Sheng and Ma Zhiqiang successively entered the cabinet with the titles of Minister of Rites and Minister of Personnel. Shen Shixing and Yu Youding took over their positions respectively.
Although Wang Guoguang was only one of the chief ministers, his old and perverted nature was hard to change. As soon as he was relieved of the punishment of committing crimes and seeking merit, he immediately started to make arrangements. Within half a month, he married two little girls in succession and became Mrs. Ru. , was impeached by the imperial censor and impeached. His character was once again strongly questioned, and his moral integrity was shattered to pieces.
As a result, Zhang Siwei has become the most promising cabinet minister to succeed Zhang Juzheng. Moreover, he carried out Zhu Yijun's will with all his heart and never compromised. Therefore, the government and the public judged that Zhang Siwei was in the emperor's heart. After Zhang Juzheng served as prime minister for two terms, Zhang Siwei had the best chance to take over.
At the end of the sixth year of Wanli, the first step of the "fundamental survey" in compiling the national yellow registration and household allowances was completed. Preliminary statistics put the country's population at more than 140 million, nearly double the yellow registration data in the fifth year of Wanli - if there were no large-scale The gap in urgent supplementary reports after the edict is issued may reach a staggering one and a half times.
In the northern part of the empire, the serious problem of invisibility was fully exposed. The main reason is that there are a large number of corruptions in the clans and various health offices. A large number of bankrupt people either take shelter in the royal palaces or become semi-serfs in the health offices - resulting in a large number of people not being included in the statistics for a long time.
In the southern part of the empire, the imbalance between male and female population was even more serious. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the gap between the rich and the poor widened rapidly. After a large number of farmers fell into poverty, due to the influence of the traditional concept of "preferring boys over girls", in order to preserve the inheritance of incense, when men and women could not raise them at the same time, boys were often given priority and girls were drowned. Or sell them after cultivating them for a few years.
By the end of the Jiajing period and the Longqing period, in some areas of the south, it had developed to the point where "it was a matter of pride to have a boy and a shame to have a girl." Even wealthy families regarded their daughters as losers and outsiders.
In many places in Zhejiang, such as Shaoxing Prefecture, Ningbo Prefecture, Taizhou Prefecture, Yongkang County, Wenzhou Prefecture and Yanzhou Prefecture, "marrying extravagantly" has brought a huge burden to the people, causing female infanticide to become a kind of A common custom.
In addition to Zhejiang, at this time, there were also a large number of female infanticides in Nanzhili, Fujian, Huguang, Yangzhou Prefecture, and Ji'an in Jiangxi Province, which were comparable to those in Zhejiang.
The widespread prevalence of the bad habit of female infanticide led to a decrease in the birth rate of the population in the southern part of the empire - this was positively correlated with the proportion of imperial taxes borne by the entire southern part of the empire, and was also a reflection of the economic foundation reflected in social relations.
Previously, in the face of such bad habits, Zhu Yijun also issued decrees many times, asking local officials to change customs and use various means to curb the unhealthy habits of extravagant marriages and drowning of female infants. However, infanticide is essentially an economic problem, and it is also a social problem caused by the gap between the rich and the poor and the imbalance of the economic structure. Simply banning extravagant marriages cannot solve the root cause. Moreover, for the government to crack down on female infanticide, the high mortality rate of newborns at this time makes it almost impossible for them to obtain evidence. They can only catch a few typical cases every year - which does not help the general trend at all.
Now, the statistics of the pornographic books have revealed a shocking fact. The ratio of men to women in the entire southern part of the empire has reached an astonishing 1.5:1. Multiplied by a population of 80 million, there are 16 million more men than women, which means that nearly 16 million men outnumber women. Tens of millions of men of the right age are unable to marry, which will cause huge obstacles to the entire social economy.
