The biggest purpose of Zhu Jianshen's southern tour is the implementation of the new tax system.
The incident in Jinan City also gave him a reason to let the court solve it without any effort. The most powerful noble clan also killed the chickens and warned the monkeys, giving him a deterrent to facilitate subsequent court operations.
After Li Xian received the decree in the Fengtian Palace, he cooperated with the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Personnel, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to start investigating the tax bills sealed by the Nanjing Ministry of Household Affairs one by one...
Thirty-six officials and 138 cadres were transferred to work all night long to calculate the accounts.
After seven days, the final results emerged.
Of course, this result is also in line with most people's assumptions.
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And this detailed memorial also came into the hands of Zhu Jianshen.
There are two difficult things in this world: playing with other people's wives and taking other people's money.
After Zhu Jianshen saw it, he was not surprised at all. He calmed down and directly summoned officials above the third rank in Nanjing to go to the Qianqing Palace to report.
In front of so many officials, His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty could no longer restrain his anger. For the first time, he vented his nameless fire on Li Xian, the chief minister of the cabinet, in front of so many high-ranking civil and military officials. He also ordered Li Xian to start investigating, verifying, and completing the incorrect accounts over the years within three months. Otherwise, you, the chief minister of the cabinet, will not do it anymore.
This was the first time Zhu Jianshen got so angry, and it was against Li Xian.
The imperial court's response was also swift. The Ministry of Personnel asked the local officials to question and hold them accountable, and the Ministry of Household Affairs also began to collect the arrears. Everything was proceeding in an orderly manner.
Of course, the problems in the accounts were only minor problems, and the amount of money owed was also small.
The real problem, the big problem that shakes the country, is that the gentry and gentry can change the number of fields under their own names. Of course, this can also be found in the household registers.
In the eighth year of Chenghua, the first national land survey was conducted in nine counties of Hangzhou Prefecture.
Lin'an County, Hangzhou Prefecture, has 230,000 acres of good paddy fields and 80,000 acres of dry fields. However, in the 15th year of Chenghua, the number of acres dropped sharply, and 30,000 acres were lost for no reason, disappearing out of thin air...
This situation has occurred in other counties including Renhe, Yuhang, Qiantang, Yuqian, Changhua, Fuyang, Xincheng, and Haining.
When Hangzhou Prefecture was first registered, it owned a total of 1.3 million acres of paddy fields and 360,000 acres of dry fields. But now more than 200,000 acres of land have disappeared out of thin air.
These fields have no owners and do not exist. Of course, no taxes are paid...
And such people are Zhu Jianshen's main target this time. The purpose of making Li Xian look bad this time is to show his determination and put pressure on Li Xian to put all his energy on this matter. To put it bluntly, Zhu Jianshen has given the leading role to Li Xian to play.
The chief minister of the cabinet has to bear more than others.
And Li Xian also knew this. In order to prevent his old age from being miserable and his political status from plummeting, he could only mobilize all his forces in the south to have a good fight with the gentry in the south.
During the court meeting at Fengtian Palace, Zhu Jianshen said in front of the civil and military officials that he would give some time to prepare for those who could change the amount of land measured...
Of course, Zhu Jianshen at this time did not just follow up on the new tax system. He received Zhu Yi and Yang Zheng's operational plan for Kyushu Island and support for the Ryukyu Islands, as well as the number of troops and warships that needed to be invested.
The battle plan for Kyushu Island cannot be disclosed to the outside world because it cannot be put on the table.
The Ming army pretended to be pirates and went there. The battle plan was for the Shandong Waihai Navy and the Ningbo Navy to form a joint robbery fleet. The Ningbo Navy took out three warships and 1,500 naval soldiers, while the Shandong Waihai Navy The division deployed five warships and 2,500 naval soldiers, totaling 4,000 men.
An attack on Kyushu is scheduled for September.
The battle plan to save Ryukyu will be handed over to the main force of the Ningbo Navy one month later. The Fujian Navy will dispatch five warships and more than 2,000 naval officers to the southeastern waters...
This is a head-to-head confrontation, which is to wipe out the Japanese pirates who are causing trouble in Ryukyu...
It is not difficult to save Ryukyu, but what Zhu Jianshen is most looking forward to is the plan to mobilize troops on the main island of Kyushu.
Starting in September, for nearly three months, the large fleet will be pulled to the north of North Korea to conduct a series of routine training such as landing, killing people, and setting fires.
This time, for the first time, the large fleet directly incorporated young people from the coast of North Korea into the fleet to fight with the Han people.
In the border army system of the Ming Dynasty in the north, there were armies of various ethnic groups, including Mongols, Jurchens, Koreans, and Tungus people. However, they were all directly integrated into one team and mixed directly with the Han people. There has never been an army.
Of course, this is also another path for the people along the coast of North Korea in the future.
In addition to conducting large-scale landing training, the Ming Navy Navy also needs to have a detailed understanding of the topography of Kyushu Island within these two months.
And this also requires people from the Ming Dynasty inside Kyushu Island.
Zhu Jian thought about it deeply and found that Zhang Huaizhi, who had been to Kyushu Island and met the lord of Satsuma Domain, was the most suitable person. So he summoned Zhang Huaizhi on the night when he received the memorials from Zhu Yi and Yang Zheng.
The emperor and his ministers chatted for half an hour in Qianqing Palace... The next day, the emperor's imperial edict was sent directly to the Ministry of Rites.
Let Zhang Huaizhi, the official of the Ministry of Etiquette, go to Japan as an envoy to promote the country's prestige, the teachings of saints, and Buddhist classics...
Other officials in the Ministry of Rites believed that His Majesty was still very upset about Zhang Huaizhi's collision with a pillar in the Fengtian Temple in the twelfth year of Chenghua, so this time Zhang Huaizhi returned to the Ming Dynasty less than half a month before he sent him on an overseas mission. Wouldn’t it make you angry just by looking at it?
Of course, this is also a subjective understanding.
But Xu Youzhen knew clearly about the siege of Ryukyu.
Although His Majesty the Emperor had not said a single word to himself about these matters, Xu Youzhen still had some judgment in his heart.
When His Majesty the Emperor asked Zhang Huaizhi to go to Japan as an envoy, he definitely didn't want to simply look at him with displeasure. He wanted him to go to Japan to do some things.
Xu Youzhen didn't know what it was, but it must be a big deal.
He also felt a bit of a sense of crisis. He thought that his life had been on a smooth road since he was sent to Korea as a mission. Could it be that because of the affairs of the Ryukyu Kingdom, Zhang Huaizhi, a thorn in his side, also came into the sight of His Majesty the Emperor? , and then began to flourish and reach the pinnacle of life. M.biQuge.biZ
No matter what Xu Youzhen thinks.
Three days later, Zhang Huaizhi, the ceremonial director of the Ministry of Rites, took the emperor's order and several "officials" from the Ministry of Rites, and took a boat into the Yangtze River.
On the way, we also made a special stop in Suzhou City, picked up a middle-aged monk at Hanshan Temple, and took some scriptures with us into the sea.
After Zhang Huaizhi's ship entered the sea, it merged with two escort ships of the Ningbo Navy and headed for Kyushu Island together.
After three days at sea, three ships also crossed the Osumi Strait and landed in Osumi Province.
Because the warships that went out to sea this time were all huge and had many soldiers, even if they were close to the main island of Kyushu Island, they did not encounter any Japanese pirates blocking the way. The high Ming flag hung high, so the Satsuma Domain of Kyushu Island did not dare to act rashly.
After landing in Ohsumi, Zhang Huaizhi met the lord of Satsuma Domain, Shimazu Tachihisa, in the afternoon of that day.
This is a young man of short stature.
A pair of small eyes revealed cunning. After he saw Zhang Huaizhi, he showed great enthusiasm and welcomed Zhang Huaizhi and his entourage, guards and officials into his mansion...
Of course, he was very cautious about those Ming soldiers wearing armor and settled them at the harbor to rest. Although there was no shortage of food, there were dozens of "warriors" and their subordinates, Monitored day and night.
On the two warships, there were almost more than a thousand Ming soldiers, all wearing armor. If they entered Shimazu Tachihisa's residence and suddenly launched an attack, the Shimazu family would be doomed...
Shimazu Tachihisa also had to be cautious...
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