Suzhou Mansion, outside the Chumen.
Wang Bin, Han Yi, Yu Zhenmu, and Qian Qin were sitting in a tea shed not far from the city gate. When they saw Yao Shan coming leisurely, they couldn't help but get up and stand on the roadside to greet him.
Yao Shan came with a smile on his face and chanted: "Maoyuan City is picturesque, and the Changmen tiles are about to flow. According to the Shuiguang Hall, the Yuehua Tower is built."
Yu Zhenmu sighed and said: "Master Zhifu, what Li Yishan sang was about Jiankang, the capital of the Southern Dynasties. The current capital is not this Suzhou city. Furthermore, the Chang Gate where the tiles are flowing is the legendary Tianmen, and it is not this. Breaking the Truman Gate. It’s a little inappropriate to use this poem.”
Han Yi smiled heartily and added: "If I were to say, what Brother Yao really wants to say is, 'all the ministers are half drunk, and the emperor has no worries.' Nowadays, business in Suzhou City is endless, and the new business strategy has achieved results Feiran is naturally happy and carefree."
Wang Bin nodded slightly, and Qian Qin on the side took a step forward and said: "Speaking of it, the Chumen was called the Changmen during the Spring and Autumn Period. "Wuyue Spring and Autumn" records: Those who set up the Changmen were to resemble the Heavenly Gate and open the Changmen. It means closing the wind. There is also a saying in Jin Luji's "Wu Chuxing": Where is the gate of Chang'e, the flying pavilion spans the waves, the heavy Luan carries the Youji, and the back xuan opens the song."
"Sun Wu and Wu Zixu led the Wu army to attack Chu from here, and also made their triumphant return from here. That's why it was called Po Chu Gate. Today, this gate connects Nanhao Street and Changmen Street, and has the convenience of going up the Tang River and leading to Fengqiao , in the future, this place will be prosperous, and it will definitely not fall behind the capital Qinhuai."
Just as Yao Shan was about to praise him, he heard a scolding sound in his ears.
"If there is no road guide, you are a refugee. Catch me!"
"My lord, please forgive me. We brought you a guide, but we couldn't find it for a while."
"If you lose it, you don't have it. If you don't have it, you have a refugee. What else can you say? Come on, arrest me!"
"Dad, Mom, I'm afraid."
Two soldiers rushed forward, grabbed the man, and tied him up. Then they tied the woman and the child together.
"Stop! What are you doing?!"
Yao Shan strode forward and shouted sharply.
"Ah, it turns out it's the magistrate, and the villain is Lu Yuan who breaks the Chumen and guards the integrity."
The bearded Lu Yuan followed the example of the literati and bowed to the prefect Yao Shan.
Yao Shan waved his hand, looked at the tied couple and children, and said coldly: "Why is that so?"
Lu Yuan's face became serious and he said to Yao Shan: "Sir, these three people are farmers from other places outside the city. They want to enter Suzhou City, but they have no way to lead them. According to the law, they should be imprisoned."
"The First Minister of the Ming Dynasty"
Yao Shan frowned slightly, looked at the man, and asked, "Where are you from? Where is Lu Yin?"
"Sir, we are from Zhaowangbao, a hundred and twenty miles away. Because our child caught wind-cold and had a high fever, we had no choice but to open a road in Lizheng to seek medical treatment in Suzhou City. However, I was on my way at night, traveling in a hurry, and accidentally lost my guide..."
The man explained the matter clearly.
Yao Shan stepped forward, looked at the little girl's slightly dark face, his eyes filled with tears, raised his hand and placed it on the girl's forehead, frowned, and said to Lu Yuan: "The child has a high fever, please don't delay. Let them enter the city."
"Sir, you are not allowed to enter the city without a road. You should be treated as a refugee. If you violate the law, the court will investigate you. I won't be able to bear it."
Lu Yuan was deeply impressed by the massacres of the Hongwu Dynasty and did not dare to violate any laws.
If these people were not so-called villagers, but refugees or Tatar spies, wouldn't he be beheaded?
This risk cannot be taken.
"If the court pursues the case, I will take the responsibility!"
Yao Shan untied the rope, helped the child and the woman up, and said sternly to Lu Yuan: "Get out of the way!"
Lu Yuan gritted his teeth and did not give in. He said stubbornly: "Master Magistrate, I am in charge of this broken Chumen! If there is no road to guide you, you can't enter the city!"
"I am the prefect of Suzhou Prefecture! Are my words useless?!"
Yao Shan scolded sharply.
Lu Yuan took a step forward and shouted without fear: "I am following Taizu's law, so what does a magistrate mean?! You only take care of their family, have you ever thought about us? The previous one was upright and kind, but his Where is the body! It’s still sinking in the moat!”
Yao Shan's face turned pale!
That's right, the previous Shouzheng let a few people into the city who had no way to lead because of his kindness. As a result, he was reported to Zhu Yuanzhang's ears. He didn't know what route he took.
So Shouzheng died, and those who had no way to lead were all sent into the army!
The law enacted by Zhu Yuanzhang clearly stipulates:
Whenever soldiers and civilians come and go, but they go out of a hundred miles, they will be inspected and cited. If there is no citation, you must be captured and sent to the official...
Those who condone are equally guilty...
Inspection departments are set up in strategic places across the country to interrogate spies, criminals selling illegal salt, prisoners, and people who appear to be suspicious.
At the same time, the punishment methods are clarified:
Anyone who has no literary quotation and crosses Guanjin privately can be given eighty sticks.
If there is no way to pass through the gate, or if there is no way to cross over, then the staff will be eighty.
Road guide, to put it bluntly, is a traffic permit.
The Luyin system is not independent, but a derivative of the household registration system.
Zhu Yuanzhang promulgated a decree to "register the world in the form of a yellow register, so that all people in the world can register according to their original names and colors." Considering the problem of refugees at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, he used the method of updating the yellow register of household registration to restrain the people.
The Ming Dynasty naturally would not learn from the Yuan Dynasty and create a four-class system of "Mongols, Semu, Han and Southerners". Zhu Yuanzhang had Zhu Yuanzhang's idea that everyone would be the same and register together.
However, although there is no four-class household registration system, there are four occupational systems, which set up four types of household registration: civilian, craftsman, military, and music (this is the first-level household registration, and other second-level household registrations were added later). Different occupations
, everyone returns to his own place and cannot be crossed.
Whatever the household registration is, just do the household registration. Don’t think about escaping or crossing the country.
Stay where you are, don't think about running around.
The result Zhu Yuanzhang wanted can be summed up in one sentence:
The people live in peace.
For farmers, Zhu Yuanzhang's management policy was obviously not as stipulated as Baili, but more stringent.
For example, after Lao Zhang finished planting the fields today, he accidentally had a full dinner and wanted to go for a walk to eat.
Take a walk after dinner and live to be ninety-nine.
So, Lao Zhang walked away and shook his head. Alas, he was suddenly caught. He asked if there was a way to lead him?
Lao Zhang was wronged, he just digested his food, where is the way?
There was no easy way out, so he got a beating.
If you're friendly, I'll let you go home to recuperate. If you're not a friend, I'll drag you away directly.
Why?
Because you went a mile away from digestion. If you go more than a mile, there must be a road to guide you. If there is no road to guide you, who will arrest you if not you?
One mile, how far...
Lao Zhang looked back in the direction of his home. Under the afterglow of the sun, he could see the thatched house. His wife and children seemed to be waiting for him to go home and sleep. If he is captured and sent to the army, hey...
It is estimated that farmers in the early Ming Dynasty did not have enough to eat at night, either because they were out of food, or because they were afraid of being stretched or walking...
You just want to find a relative who can reach the other person's house with your howl. As long as the distance is more than one mile, you have to open a way to lead. If you don't, you will bear the consequences.
Losing a road guide is much more serious than losing an identity card in later generations.
It is precisely because of this that Lu Yuan, who is upright, would rather fight against the prefect than dare to let people enter the city.
Those who condone are equally guilty!
He didn't want to receive eighty sticks and be beaten to death.
Yao Shan can't do anything to Lu Yuan. They act according to the rules. What can you say?
In desperation, Yao Shan had no choice but to ask Han Yi to go to the city to ask the doctor out. Then he took the child's pulse and prescribed medicine.
Yao Shan helped the family temporarily rent a room outside the city and left some money. After the child got better, he returned to the prefect's Yamen.
"I, Yao Shan, the prefect of Suzhou, paused: The system of road diversions and business diversions restricts people and business, which is detrimental to people's livelihood and trade. I sincerely request that the system of road diversions and business diversions be abolished to alleviate the difficulties of the people and merchants..."
Yao Shan wrote quickly and wrote "The System of Abandoned Road Yin and Shang Yin".
But what Yao Shan didn't know was that this memorial was written at the wrong time.
Because at this time in the capital, hundreds of officials once again rose up and formed groups to question and criticize Jianwen's new policies, demanding the abandonment of a whip law, national policy, and farming and commercial sales.
The reasons for these people are:
Emperor Jianwen's improper governance made God angry.
Specifically, there was another earthquake in Nanjing...
