Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 562 The hot discussion continues without waves, the three-level grassroots system of the Ming Dynasty

"Of course I won't be an upright official again." Lingyin said, "I want to open a musical instrument store and teach people to play musical instruments."

Gao Wenniang listened and nodded, "This is a good job - you can become this year's No. [-] flower list because you are proficient in several musical instruments, especially the zither and the qin.

In addition, you have gained a lot of fame and connections in the past six months, so it should not be difficult to establish a foothold in the capital. "

After hearing this, Suzune became more confident, and she couldn't help smiling, thinking about her life as a musical instrument store lady...
The morning is not the business hours of brothels, so the influence of this edict did not spread in Nanjing until the next day.

Because last night, almost all the brothels and brothels were closed, which made some rich and leisure people in Nanjing City lose a main form of entertainment, go to bed early and get up early, the business of various restaurants and tea houses this morning is actually faster than It was significantly better before.

Not only restaurants and teahouses, but almost everywhere there are people talking about this matter——

"The imperial court really had nothing to do, so they actually closed all the brothels and brothels."

"Isn't it? Last night, my brothers searched all over the city of Nanjing, but we couldn't find any open brothels."

"Hey, I found a small brothel in the city, but the place looked dirty, and the girls inside were disgusting, so I didn't dare to go in."

"It's right not to go in. I heard that the place is not clean and it's easy to get sick."

Most of these conversations come from some idle rich young masters, while the scholars habitually comment on this policy.

"Although all dynasties did not approve of women being prostitutes, some officials even cracked down on brothels and assigned prostitutes to wiveless men.

But it is the first time that such an imperial decree has been issued so clearly that the people of Ming Dynasty are not allowed to be prostitutes by law—our Majesty really dares to do anything. "

Someone laughed and said, "Isn't there still not much new work done by the Holy Spirit today?"

"I think the imperial court has overcorrected—not to mention the imperial decree, all brothels and brothels were forced to close, which made us lose a lot of places to go at night.

Let’s just say that for those girls, some of their living standards will not be as good as before, and they will not even be able to live on.

In addition, in the past, the common people could sell their daughters and wives in exchange for money when they couldn't live on, but now they are not allowed to sell them. What should the common people do if they encounter difficulties again? "

"Tch," someone sneered after hearing this, "According to Brother Li, selling women and wives is a good thing?"

"I didn't say it was a good thing, but at least it was a way for the poor to solve their difficulties."

"There are so many ways to solve the problem. Why do you have to sell your wife and daughter? In my opinion, even if the whole family dies together, you shouldn't sell your wife and daughter to live!"

"Brother Hong, don't get excited, we're just chatting, why should we be so serious..."

In various discussions, people gave this special decree of the imperial court a simple name - Prostitution Prohibition.

Just like in the past, the policy of clearing the land of the Zhang Zhang and sharing the land with the tenants was given the name "Qing Tian Ling".

Although the topic of the civil prostitution ban was extremely hot, until the end of April, when many brothels in Nanjing City were closed for more than half a month, there was still no disturbance, and the matter did not cause the slightest disturbance in the court.

As discussed by some scholars, the imperial court did not approve of women being prostitutes, and some local officials even cracked down on such industries to encourage people to start families and have children.

Therefore, when Aimee Zhu raised this matter at the cabinet meeting, it was not questioned, and the cabinet members almost unanimously approved it.

The decree was issued a few days later only because some details of the decree needed to be discussed.

Now, as the topic rages on, the cabinet is discussing two other important matters.

First, the trial implementation of the two policies of clearing Zhang Zhang's land and sharing land into mu in Yingtianfu has been completed and basically completed satisfactorily.

The next step is to extend it to the entire South Zhili.

Because it is a planned matter, and in the past six months, the Qingzhang Commissioner has also cultivated a large number of backbones and newcomers in practice, making it a matter of course for Qingtian to be promoted to the entire South Zhili.

Therefore, this matter was only mentioned at the cabinet meeting, and it was passed directly without causing any controversy.

What attracted the attention of the cabinet ministers was a memorial written by Chen Zilong, the head of the Population Statistics Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs, called "Please Set up Villages and Towns".

It was Chen Zilong who led the officials of the Population Statistics Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs to carry out a population census of Yingtianfu during the implementation of the two policies of clearing Zhang's land and sharing land with mu.

It turned out that the lijia system in the past in the Ming Dynasty was basically abolished. Even if it still existed in form, it mostly lost its proper function and even became very out of date.

With the support of Ying Tianfu and after argumentation, Chen Zilong suggested that the court replace the Lijia system with the village and town system.

This matter can be said to be related to Ming Dynasty's national policy on grassroots rule, and it is a major matter. Naturally, the cabinet ministers would not make a decision lightly, even Zhu Yuxi did the same, so they held a cabinet meeting for several days to discuss it.

The Lijia system and the grain chief system were complementary, but the grain chief system became obviously unsuitable for the national conditions in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and became a bad government.During Zhang Juzheng's reform, the grain chief system was abolished.

Although the abolition has not been complete, but now the food chief system does exist in name only.

As for the lijia system, it is still in name only now, and it cannot play the role of grassroots governance that it should have.

Therefore, the cabinet meeting in the past few days has decided to abolish the Lijia system, and the main discussion is actually what system to replace.

It should be known that at this time, a certain village and a certain town were just the habitual names of the people of Ming Dynasty. Officially, the countryside was regarded as Lijia, and the cities were divided by Lijiaxiang.

Only villages and towns only represent place names, and the meaning of a certain village and a certain town is actually similar to that of a certain valley and a certain slope.

In terms of administration, "town" represents Daming Bianzhen.

However, Aimee Zhu had already merged all the border towns of Daming into the provincial government, so the name of the border towns naturally became a thing of the past.

Thus, under the deliberate guidance of Aimee Zhu, a system similar to the later generations' grassroots administrative division was born.

Set up towns and towns under the county—the more populous and more prosperous ones are towns, and the less populated and barren lands are townships.

Under the townships, communes are set up, with several to a dozen natural villages as one commune.

As for the society, it is a natural village.

It is also stipulated that each town (township) has one mayor (head of the township), who is the eighth rank (cong eighth rank), and two deputy mayors (deputy township heads), who are the ninth rank (cong nine ranks).

The town (township) police station and other institutions were established, and the director of the police station was Zheng Jiupin (Cong Jiupin).

Plus some other Zuoer officials.

Each society has a director and vice president, and several other officials.

Among them, the president of the company is the big official, and the vice-president is the top official. In the previous official reform, the officials were divided into officials, top officials, left officials, and right officials. , Five levels of lower officials.

(Among them, the left and right officials will also be collectively referred to as the middle officials, and it is customary to call the lower officials as the small officials.)
In each natural village, the village head is elected by the villagers, not an official.

Aimee Zhu naturally hoped that the head of the natural village would also be included in the bureaucracy and be formally ruled by the imperial court.But later generations have almost never achieved this point, and it is even more impossible for Daming to do so.

In fact, the establishment of the first-level establishment of the society was opposed by several cabinet ministers including the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Finance.

The reason is very simple. This time, the Ming court will have many more officials and pay more salaries, which may drag down the court's finances.

In the end, Zhu Yu used the pavilion chief system in the Qin and Han dynasties and the expectation that Daming’s finances would increase year by year to convince these people, and this made Daming’s three-level grassroots system of “township/town, commune, and village” come into being.

　Second more.

　　Good night~
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(End of this chapter)