Wanli Xinming

Chapter 208
The dust of reforming the clan has not yet settled, and the imperial court issued the "Order of Compiling Households and Qimin", which opened the prelude to the work of creating a new yellow book across the country.

The re-compiling of the household stickers yellow book is the basic work of the entire reform, and the success or failure of this work is directly related to the effect of the subsequent reform.

Therefore, in the reform edict issued in the fifth year of Wanli, the illegal consequences of the work of editing household postings were directly stated: "All officials, Lijiatong and households concealed and cheated, and if they could not understand the implementation of over-cutting, they all implied that they would be eliminated. Those who have surplus grain will be executed as a whole. If the household is concealed, the parents will be executed, and the population will be sidelined."

During the promulgation and implementation of the imperial edict, this bloody warning has already begun to take effect: in the fifth year of Wanli, when the local governments of the prefectures, states, and counties reported the local basic yellow book, the local tyrants and evil gentry clearly opened their eyes and concealed the household registration. I tried my best to make up for it - as a result, it was impossible to speak before and after the submission of the form, and more than [-]% of the logical relationship could not be explained.

Of course, this illogical statistical table could not be reported to the imperial court. As a result, many government officials continued to work overtime all night in December of the fifth year of Wanli. Just barely made a difference.

Because the imperial edict said that "the fifth year of Wanli is based on the Yellow Book", some confused local officials were fooled by the subordinate officials and operated in the opposite direction on the handed over to the Yellow Book, resulting in the local tax base falling instead of rising in the fifth year of Wanli.

Most of these subordinates and confused officials who sought benevolence and benevolence were liquidated in the sixth year of Wanli. After the court was soft on the case of Zhang Wenming in the fifth year of Wanli, in the autumn of the sixth year of Wanli, thousands of people worked on the basic yellow book. The subordinates of the hands and feet were neatly "executed as a whole", while the big households who colluded with them to conceal their household registrations were "executed by their parents, and the population was on the sidelines."Those confused officials who can explain it clearly can get dismissal treatment, and those who can't explain clearly have to go to the execution ground.

With the gradual implementation of the "Order on Compiling Households and Qimin", 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 of the world, under the banner of the king's life, the imperial envoys were slaughtered, and the envoys' psychology was gradually distorted.

Behind these evil ghosts and the Jin Yiwei who monitors them, there are also a pair of dark sons and inspectors who are on the bright side staring at them with red eyes. The unspoken rules of "human relationship society" and "official protection" are described in "Editorial". It is not easy to work under the "House Qimin Order", because the emperor will no longer give them the opportunity to make mistakes and justify. No matter who they are, as long as they get on the edge of the "House Qimin Order", the eating guy will have to stay in another place.

The reformation has begun!Although ordinary people are still in a society where information is transmitted extremely slowly, everyone can feel the changes brought about by the reform.After many poor people found that the big family around them was taken away by Jin Yiwei, they could soon find his head on the gate of the county town, and the slaughter was accompanied by a new owner of the field—mostly from Burma, The military landlord who returned from Jiubian.

From the south to the north of the whole empire, the situation of Tianlianqianmo became less and less. Many "servants" who were attached to the houses of landlords and gentry turned into small landlords again. They were still engaged in the original farming work, but their family members were very different. There is a small sign on it: "A certain province, a certain prefecture, a certain county, a certain village, a certain person, the household registration number is *******", which is the same as the sign hanging on the door of the house.

With the full rollout of various reforms 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, because of his old age, begged for bones, and retired with the titles of Doctor Guanglu, Zhuguo, Young Master and Taizi Taifu, Minister of Officials, and Jianjidian University, and was awarded a first-class earl, Chiyi.

Lu Tiaoyang was the first civil servant to be canonized after the imperial court changed the nobility.

Although this earl is not hereditary, and the honor is only issued to Lu Tiaoyang's death, but for him, it still belongs to the dignity of super honorable ancestors.Because the new law stipulates that for those who work mediocrely during their tenure, they will be awarded the lower-ranking titles among the peers.Lu Tiaoyang was able to win the first-class earl, which shows that his work ability and integrity have been affirmed by the emperor.

Lu Tiaoyang is upright and "selfless" -- in other words, he never uses power for personal gain, nor does he form gangs, and has high political wisdom.During Yan Song's reign, because of Lu Tiaoyang's slippery behavior, Yan Dang had nothing to do with him.

Lu Tiaoyang has gone through three dynasties. Although he has not led the major political affairs, as a person with strong executive power, he has a strong ability in assisting.Moreover, he has a friendly personality, never shows off his achievements, and is unwilling to listen to others praise him.It was evaluated as: "I am afraid to see knowledge when I build it, and I am afraid to see virtue when I am anxious."

Therefore, as the first high-ranking official to be canonized after the introduction of the new law, the court and the public are also very concerned about what kind of evaluation the emperor will give to Lu Tiaoyang.Because of his character, his political achievements are not obvious, and the so-called "people have nothing to praise the public", so many people think that Lu Tiaoyang may be a second-class uncle.

Unexpectedly, the emperor gave Lu Tiaoyang a very high evaluation in the canonization edict: "How long and thick the public quality line is, it must have the style of an ancient minister." He considered him to be a contemporary Bingji, "In Han Bing Ji, now Lu Tiaoyang is also."

On the one hand, Lu Tiaoyang was because his body really couldn't support it, and on the other hand, he was a little afraid of the stormy reform reform, so he insisted on going.

As a result, after receiving the emperor's canonization edict, Lu Tiaoyang, a man who attached great importance to his own moral cultivation, was embarrassed and embarrassed.Zhu Yijun called him into the palace, and after repeatedly comforting him, he let go of his psychological burden and thanked him for returning home.

Because of the large number of reform stalls, after Lv Tiaoyang became an official, Pan Sheng and Ma Ziqiang successively entered the cabinet with the titles of Minister of Rites and Minister of Personnel.Shen Shixing and Yu Youding took over the positions of the two respectively.

Although Wang Guoguang is only one position away from the first assistant, his old-fashioned nature is hard to change. He has just been released from the punishment of guilt and Tu Gong, and he immediately arranged for it. Within half a month, he married two little girls in a row and became Mrs. Ru , was impeached by the imperial censor and the court.His character was once again strongly questioned, and his integrity was also shattered.

As a result, Zhang Siwei has become the most promising cabinet minister to replace Zhang Juzheng.Moreover, he implemented Zhu Yijun's will with all his heart and never compromised. Therefore, the court and the opposition judged that Zhang Siwei was in the heart of the emperor, and after Zhang Juzheng's two terms as prime minister, Zhang Siwei had the most hope of taking over.

At the end of the sixth year of Wanli, the first step of the "investigation" on the compilation of yellow books and household stickers across the country was completed. Preliminary statistics show that the population of the country is more than 4000 million, which is close to double the number of yellow books in the five years of Wanli—if ​​there is no great edict After the release, the urgent supplementary report may reach the jaw-dropping gap of one and a half times.

In the north of the empire, the serious problem of hidden households was fully exposed.The main reason is that there are a large number of clans and the corruption of the guards in various places, and a large number of bankrupt people either take shelter in the major palaces, or become semi-serfs in the guards - resulting in a large number of people who have not been included in the statistical scope for a long time.

In the south of the empire, the disproportion between males and females was even worse.After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the gap between the rich and the poor widened rapidly, and after a large number of self-cultivation farmers fell into poverty, due to the influence of the traditional concept of "prioritizing boys over girls", in order to preserve the inheritance of incense, when men and women could not raise at the same time, priority was often given to saving boys and drowning girls. Or sell it after a few years.

In the late Jiajing period and Longqing period, in some areas of the south, it has developed to the point of "being proud of a boy and ashamed of having a girl". Even wealthy families regard their daughters as money losers and foreigners.

In Zhejiang, Shaoxing Prefecture, Ningbo Prefecture, Taizhou Prefecture, Yongkang County, Wenzhou Prefecture, Yanzhou Prefecture and many other places, because "marrying is still extravagant" has brought a great burden to the people, resulting in the drowning of female infants has become a kind of commonplace custom.

In addition to Zhejiang, there are also a large number of female infanticides in Nanzhili, Fujian, Huguang, Yangzhou Prefecture, and Ji'an, Jiangxi.

The widespread prevalence of female infanticide led to a decrease in the birth rate in the southern part of the empire—this was positively related to the proportion of the entire southern part of the empire to bear the imperial tax, and it was also a reflection of the economic base on 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 unholy trend of extravagant marriages and female infanticide.However, infanticide is essentially an economic problem, and it is a social problem caused by the gap between the rich and the poor and the imbalance of the economic structure. The ban on extravagant marriage cannot solve the root cause.Moreover, for the government who cracked down on the drowning of female infants, the high mortality rate of newborns at this time made it almost impossible for them to obtain evidence, and they could only capture some typical cases every year.

Now, the statistics of the Yellow Book shockingly revealed the fact that the ratio of men to women in the entire southern part of the empire has reached an astonishing 1.5:1. When multiplied by 8000 million people, there are 600 million more men than women, which means nearly [-] million Men of the right age are in a state of being unable to marry a wife, which will cause huge obstacles to the entire social economy.

(End of this chapter)