Xie Jin and Yang Shiqi did not stand up to object. It was not because they did not want to object, but because they knew that it would be useless to object. Besides, Zhu Yunwen was already using the suppression of land annexation as a test question to test the prince's ability to govern. You plan to let the prince fail in the exam, believe me. Don’t believe that the prince will make a list in the future?
There is no one who does not feel distressed. Xie Jin’s family has a lot of land. The land in his hometown in Jiangxi is more than 8,000 acres. Yang Shiqi is clean enough, but after having his son, he also purchased 3,000 acres of land in his hometown. .
Yes, these big guys have legal procedures and complete certificates, but the problem is that these 8,000 acres and that 3,000 acres were not opened up by themselves, but directly purchased from the hands of the people.
No matter how compliant the process is, the result is:
A large amount of local land began to be concentrated in the hands of the gentry and wealthy merchants. The common people had no land in their hands and could only become tenant farmers.
What are the living conditions for tenants?
Ask Zhu Wusi, but if you can't, ask Zhu Chongba.
As long as there is a famine or epidemic, the first to die will definitely have nothing. After the death of a tenant who relies on someone else's fence, there will be no kind people, and you will not even have a burial place, and you will have to expose your body in the wilderness.
??????????????????Civil officials often say that history is a mirror, but unfortunately everyone looks in the mirror every day, but they don't read history every day. It has only been sixty years since Zhu Maysi died, and it has been only sixty years since the founding of the People's Republic of China. In just over forty years, this group of people have forgotten what they did as landless people.
Eliminate a group of landlords, become new landlords, safeguard the interests of the landlords, form landlord power, rot, and be overthrown by a group of useless people, and new landlords appear...
This is the historical cycle of the feudal era, and it is also driven by interests.
If you touch everyone's interests and cake, you have to fight tooth and nail. Even if you are the emperor, you have to defend your own interests.
The civil servants were firm on this matter.
But the problem is that in the face of the powerful and capable Emperor Jianwen, the civil servant group, without a leader, is basically just a aunt who quarrels on the street. After a good meal, they have to go home and do whatever they want.
Emperor Jianwen stood in front of him. What else could he do besides spitting?
You can't slap bricks or hand over knives.
Zhu Yunwen issued an edict with three core points:
One: Within one month from the date of the issuance of the decree, if the person actively cooperates with the imperial decree and returns the extra acres of land, the imperial court will buy it back at the local market price of the acres, and will not hold him responsible for annexing the land.
In other words, if you voluntarily withdraw the land and receive leniency, the court will not investigate how you got the land or whether you used any illegal means.
Second: Within one to two months after the decree is issued, those who proactively cooperate with the imperial decree and return the extra acres will be purchased back by the imperial court at half the local market price, and will not be held responsible for annexing the land, nor will their crimes be investigated.
Third: Two months after the decree is issued, if anyone deliberately delays, delays, conceals, transfers, or resists the imperial decree or inspection, the imperial court will forcibly take back the extra acres and return them to the imperial court without paying any money. The naval commander's office and the The Security Bureau took the lead in tracing the source of the land.
As soon as the decree came out, the court was in an uproar.
To be honest, Zhu Yunwen's regulations on the number of acres for officials were not too harsh. For a first-grade official, 1,500 acres was a lot. You must know that a person of Zhuge Liang's level only had 1,500 acres.
During the Han Dynasty, there were regulations on how much land an official could have, and most of them were from 500 to 1,500 acres, with the maximum being 5,000 acres.
Of course, these are just regulations. Whether they have been implemented to the end or how many days they have been implemented will not be taken into consideration. However, the control of the amount of land owned by the gentry class has a historical basis and historical evidence. It is not Zhu Yunwen who insists on his own way and pats his head. from.
After the Jianwen Dynasty reformed the salary system, officials could live a well-off life relying solely on their salaries, and their dependence on land income has been reduced. Continuing to control and gather large amounts of land will only cause a large number of people to lose their land and form tenant groups. And the size of this group means how big the size of the refugees will be during the future period of great disasters and famines, when the court is unable to provide disaster relief!
Zhu Yunwen would never allow this phenomenon to continue to develop, insisting on limiting the number of acres of land for officials, and even issued an order that panicked all officials in order to implement the policy:
From February to June of the 11th year of Jianwen, all prefectures and counties in the country prohibited land delivery.
Land deeds are not allowed to be processed, which means that the way for officials to disperse the land and avoid risks is completely blocked.
Facing the menacing Emperor Jianwen, many officials had already planned to fight hard, but who would have expected that cabinet ministers Xie Jin and Yang Shiqi would be the first to submit a letter to plead guilty. And voluntarily quit the extra acres at home.
The posture of the cabinet has made many officials fearful. Even the big bosses have retreated and apologized. How can we, small officials, get along?
Xie Jin and Yang Shiqi's bowing of their heads was just the beginning. Bao Zhao, the Minister of Punishment, Zheng Ci, the Minister of Industry, Chen Xingshan, the Minister of Rites, and Tie Xuan, the Minister of War, also submitted letters to plead guilty and retire.
On the other hand, Jian Yi, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and Xia Yuanji, the Minister of the Ministry of Husbandry, did not make any move. There was really no need for these two to write memorials, and the land at home was not enough for the prescribed number of acres.
It has to be said that Jian Yi was poor and Xia Yuanji was upright.
At this point, the Procuratorate and Dali Temple will have to follow even if they don’t.
Everyone knows Zhu Yunqi's temperament, and he does what he says. When he first came to the throne and his footing was unstable, he dared to make drastic changes in the system. A group of officials almost carried Lao Zhu and told Zhu Yunqi to follow the ancestral system, but it was useless. There was a lack of powerful ministers and connections in the court. In the case of the party, no one can compete with the imperial power.
The majesty and power of the imperial power determine that the entire Ming Dynasty needs to operate according to his will. As long as the emperor thinks it is necessary, then go ahead and no one can stop it.
Xie Jin is not Zhang Juzheng, and Zhu Yunwen is not Wanli.
Zhu Yunwen has been in control of the court for ten years, and now it is the eleventh year. His position is more stable than Mount Tai. No one can shake it, and no one can shake it. At this time, those who resist can only say a few words to vent their anger. Let me express it. You may take an opposing stance, but when it comes to actually executing it, you still have to be obedient.
】
In order to avoid losing all their money and being held accountable, more than 200 officials from the capital had already pleaded guilty and resigned in just three days. They didn't even bother to wait and see.
In particular, there are many censors and seventh-rank officials who have more than 300 acres of land. This group of people completely offended the Navy Commander's Office on the issue of whether Wang Zhen's name should be left on the Heroes' Monument. Now the Navy Commander's Office is involved. We're in the middle of a ground survey. If we don't retreat quickly, we're afraid we'll be pressed down and beaten.
The navy, in terms of its power, had no way to participate in the land affairs, but Zhu Yunwen was willful and insisted on doing so. No one had anything to say and had to retreat first.
Xia Yuanji is the most depressed. Officials are retiring one by one, and the expenditure is from the Ministry of Household Affairs. This is a huge hole, and even a few million taels of banknotes may not be able to fill it. It's okay to be a Beijing official now, but it will be there soon. As a local official, the little surplus from last year seems to be all spent again. The emperor just can't see that there is any surplus in the Ministry of Revenue...
Zhu Wenkui admired Zhu Yunwen endlessly. This is the emperor, an emperor, domineering!
Zhu Yunwen allowed Zhu Wenkui to see the unparalleled power of imperial power, and also warned: "Listen to both, and you will be enlightened, and if you listen to one side, you will be dark. Only if you analyze deeply and think that your actions are right can you be so domineering. If you don't know whether the road ahead is right, If it works, we need to listen to the opinions of ministers and avoid acting arbitrarily.”
Zhu Wenkui was taught.
Since the eleventh year of Jianwen, Zhu Wenkui has spent two hours every afternoon at Wuying Hall to handle government affairs under Zhu Yunwen's supervision. If he doesn't understand and doesn't know how to deal with it, Zhu Yunwen will not directly give Zhu Wenkui "the answer." ", but asked Zhu Wenkui to put it aside for the time being, and return to the East Palace to think about it by himself or discuss it with the East Palace officials, and then discuss it the next day.
Compared with Zhu Yuanzhang who handed over Zhu Biao to a group of great scholars, Zhu Yunwen directly brought Zhu Wenkui to his side, taught him in an immersive way, and actively cultivated Zhu Wenkui's opinions, judgment, thinking and overall view.
The courtiers were also very pleased that Zhu Yunwen taught the prince so carefully. Zhu Yunwen's governance had many incredible breakthroughs, and many things and problems had appeared that had never happened in any dynasty. , A prince trained solely on pure Confucianism may not be able to control complex situations.
Now Emperor Jianwen personally teaches the prince and lays a solid foundation. In the future, the policies of the Ming Dynasty will be carried out in one continuous line, and chaos will not occur, and prosperity will be continued.
The nineteenth day of the first lunar month.
Three steam engine Dafu ships arrived at the sea off Nampo, North Korea. Xue Xia and Gu Yun were dressed in flying fish suits and stood on the bow with majestic faces. The Navy's Qianhufang came forward with strong steps and said in a low voice: "Ten miles further, we will reach the boundary of Nanpu City's Ship Division. There is a North Korean navy patrolling."
Xue Xia said with a cold face, "Please prepare the navy officers for battle!"
Fang Dazhuang nodded slightly, turned around and shouted to his deputy Gao Zhen, the herald and others: "Get ready to fight!"
"Ready to fight!"
The sound came one after another.
Three warships, with nearly five hundred soldiers, instantly entered combat readiness. Even the curtains and windows on the side of the ship were removed, and the barrels of the divine machine guns were slowly extended. Each sergeant holds a fire stick. Just waiting for an order, he will open the fire stick, light the fuse, and bombard Nanpu Port!
On the deck, rows of sergeants were holding muskets, hand crossbows, shields, etc., ready for battle.
The order Fang Dazhuang received was to follow the instructions of the Security Bureau. He also knew that Xue Xia came here to find out who gave the Japanese envoy the merchant pass, so he caught the emperor off guard and almost ruined the emperor's overall situation in the East China Sea!
This matter cannot be disclosed lightly. Once the opening is made, who knows when cats and dogs will be sent to Ming Dynasty. If they go to Jinling to cause trouble, Ming Dynasty will lose face.
A ship from the Shipping Department of Nampo City in North Korea discovered the approaching fleet and saw that the flag of the Great Ming Dynasty was flying. They didn't pay attention at first, but when they got closer, they realized that these people had their weapons arranged and their magical cannons stretched out. , I felt that something was wrong, and wanted to stop it, when I heard a thunderous sound roaring across the sea:
"Xue Xia from the Ming Dynasty Security Bureau is here to investigate the case on the emperor's order. Anyone who dares to stop him will be killed without mercy!"
