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Chapter 234 The Ming Dynasty's Declaration of Emancipation of Slaves
Zhu Yijun was surprised by Wang Qian's execution ability, so he went directly to Sun Jigao, and even made a case, which is quite typical.

Not only was Sun Jigao held, but his money was also emptied, so we have to talk about the purchase of worsted wool for Sun Jigao's outer room.

Needless to say, the process of finding the outer room. Whoever controls the three aunts and six wives in the capital will control the list of the outer rooms. This is Wang Qian's core technology, and Wang Qian's control over the three aunts and six wives is nothing more than coercion and lure , and this time, Wang Qian aimed at Wen Po among the six wives.

The reason why Wang Qian selected the three aunts and six wives as stable women, that is, the profession of midwives, was to screen the concubine, but any concubine that could give birth to a son and a half for the master must be the master's favorite, treasure in the palm, That's why the outer room was allowed to give birth to the child.

Most of the lords in the Jingtang are Jinshi. After the carp jumped the dragon gate, this status has become noble. How many people greet him with smiles, and how many people flatter him?Lack of a flattering person in the outer room?So it must be the master who took the initiative.

One can imagine the status of the outer room that can give birth to children in the master's heart. The master can risk a lot of money to give birth to a child in this outer room.

Wang Qian's tactic is actually not unusual, it's just a skin-skinning technique, he's looking for trouble in the outside room, and he's beating the tiger.

"Sun Jigao, you've come to this step in the end." Zhu Yijun looked at Sun Jigao who was kneeling on the ground, and sneered, with some mockery in his tone. He often walks by the river, how can anyone not get his shoes wet?Sun Jigao thought that what he had done was perfect, but Wang Qian caught him and executed him.

"Since April of the third year of Wanli, you have accumulated a total of 24 taels of silver. This time, you have collected 5000 taels of fraud in the examination room. You are the number one scholar, and you have done well." Zhu Yijun held a ledger in his hand. , all the witnesses and material certificates are there, and the iron evidence is as strong as a mountain, which cannot be denied by Sun Jigao.

"The guilty minister deserves to die, Your Majesty, please forgive me, Your Majesty, please forgive me." Sun Jigao did not quibble, because in the prison, Zhao Mengyou had already shown Sun Jigao the physical evidence found by the court.

Zhu Yijun shook his head and said, "Actually, Fan Yingqi and Wang Jiaping also collected money in the second year of Wanli, but they didn't do anything. If you only collect money and don't do anything, you can't fall to this level, understand?"

During the second year of the Wanli Examination, Daming hadn't started anti-corruption, so Fan Yingqi and Wang Jiaping only took money and didn't do anything, so it wasn't considered cheating in the imperial examination. He and Wang Jiaping will definitely not refund the money.

Thinking of the faces of those two, Zhu Yijun didn't know what to say. Standing and greedy for money really showed his true qualities as a scholar.

But Sun Jigao deserves to die. He not only works, but also does his best. How brave is he to send exam questions from the Gong Yuan?The 15 people who won Jinshi this time are the credit of Sun Jigao.

"Since you have been taken to the Wenhua Palace, you have confessed your dirty things, and you have to tell the world." Zhu Yijun took out the file and said, "This time, I'm here to break it up for you, thank you Ti is handsome."

"I obey the decree." Zhao Mengyou came out and said, "Yesterday, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Punishment issued driving stickers, please Your Majesty Zhu to approve and issue a seal to investigate and deal with Sun Jigao's fraud case in the imperial court. , Documentary evidence, submitted to the imperial court, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Punishment, and Dali Temple have no objection, and now it will be announced."

"Seven red coral plants were donated by Xia Yingzhe, a student of Renhe in Zhejiang Province, at a price of 500 taels of silver."

Zhao Mengyou had someone lift up a red coral, seven of which became a forest, and it was the nest of the phoenix. In other words, only seven corals could attract the phoenix, and the weight was more than gold. Even if it was as rich as the emperor, the red coral This kind of thing is also used to make jewelry to wear, instead of making seven plants into a bonsai for viewing so extravagantly.

In the Qing Dynasty, the pursuit of coral, especially red coral, surpassed all dynasties. The coral court beads hung by emperors, concubine collar ornaments, court crowns, and crown beads worn by officials were all made of red coral.

"Seven red gold chains, 120, were donated by Yang Mao, a student from Ji'an, Jiangxi, and others, and the price was 250 six taels." Zhao Mengyou asked someone to carry two more boxes, which were filled with red gold chains.

"Is it copper?" Zhu Yijun heard that it was a red gold chain. Why is this big copper chain so expensive?
"It's pure gold, pure gold. As early as in the Western Han Dynasty, clan relatives prepared rewards, which were extremely high-purity gold as offerings to ancestors. Most of them were gold cakes. Not bad." Zhang Juzheng heard the little emperor's question, and immediately stood up to answer the question.

The emperor himself was frugal and didn't know much about extravagance. He thought that the red gold that Zhao Mengyou brought out was brass in the current context of Daming.

When bronze and brass are first fired, their color is very close to that of gold.

"It's because I have no experience." Zhu Yijun heard Zhang Juzheng's explanation, and suddenly realized that Zhang Juzheng was to blame. Zhang Juzheng always used red gold to refer to brass when making money. Talk about this stuff.

The purity of gold cakes in the Western Han Dynasty was 99%, which was real, and the purity of these gold chains was obviously more than 99%, which represented the powerful smelting technology of Ming Dynasty. Gold purification is a technical job.

"Twelve Ziying cicadas, the price is priceless." Zhao Mengyou took out another set of cicadas for the courtiers to witness together.

"I know that Ziying is laver, which can prevent big neck disease together with kelp, but kelp is grown in cold seas such as Shandong, and laver is grown in sea areas such as Zhejiang, and Ziying throws Xiu soup, I like to drink it very much." Zhu Yijun looked at The twelve pairs of cicadas said with emotion.

Ziying Shuxiu Soup is made of seaweed egg drop soup, which is made by throwing egg flower into it.

Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said: "Ziying is a kind of hard jade, harder than jade."

"Where did this thing come from?" Zhu Yijun asked curiously.

"I don't know..." Zhang Juzheng has fallen into a blind spot of knowledge. He actually doesn't have a deep study of jade and extravagance.

"It comes from the Xuanwei Department of Myanmar. It is a rare and high-quality product. It is rare in the hinterland and priceless in the market." Zhao Mengyou explained. Zhao Mengyou is still investigating the source of the twelve cicadas, but it is certain that they came from Myanmar. jadeite.

"Your Majesty can't." Zhao Mengyou saw that the emperor was about to reach out to grab those cicadas, and watch them. Ti Shuai had never been so flustered, and even roared at the Wenhua Palace to prevent His Majesty from touching those things.

Zhao Mengyou whispered to Zhang Hong anxiously, Zhang Hong's eyes widened before he realized the purpose of this thing.

"Sun Jigao's chamberlain, Zhao Qiaoniang, self-blasphemy." Zhang Hong carefully explained the source of this thing, his voice was so low that only the emperor could hear it.

Zhu Yijun blinked, retracted his hand abruptly, and backed away a bit, such a luxurious thing, to use the patterns on it to insult himself?
"We Ming scholars, when it comes to having fun, can always open my eyes to me, amazing." Zhu Yijun asked Zhang Hong to take this thing away.

Zhao Mengyou just didn't disclose the purpose of this object, but the courtiers were not confused. Zhao Mengyou was so flustered that he even went against the etiquette of the correcting officials to prevent His Majesty from touching the twelve cicadas. Even though they had been cleaned, it was still bad luck.

The courtiers talked a lot and had different reactions. Some were eating melons, some were exclaiming extravagance, and some seemed a little guilty. Most of them looked at Sun Jigao, as if they were looking in a mirror. A considerable part of the things Sun Jigao played with Courtier, obviously played.

After looking at it for a long time, he realized that this thing was probably a purple emerald.

Zhu Yijun waved his hand, signaling to take it down quickly. At the same time, he was also wondering how the twelve cicadas were played. Did they all stuff in, or six at the front and back?It should be front and back, after all, Sun Jigao.

"Three pieces of white jade plates were presented by Gu Xiancheng of the Gu family in Wuxi. The price is 5000 taels of silver." Zhao Mengyou took out three more white jade plates. There is no use value, only exchange value.

Zhu Yijun was like a curious baby, looking at all kinds of strange objects presented by Zhao Mengyou, Zhu Yijun had never seen these things before, just like a country bumpkin who just entered the city, he was very curious.

In the past few years, the poor in the house were used as trousers, and there were no treasures. In the past two years, the emperor didn't like such things when he was rich. The goods were all sold in Nan Yapu, no wonder the Emperor Ming didn't know much about it.

Zhu Yijun was amazed, he knew one of them, ambergris, he had seen it with his own eyes, and it was Yin Zhengmao who got a big one from whaling in Luzon and sent it to the palace.

Shark oil was originally used as a lamp oil, but His Majesty used all the shark oil as lubricating oil to lubricate machinery, so shark oil can no longer be used as lamp oil.

As an emperor, if he is extravagant, it will be unimaginable extravagance for his courtiers, but if he is not willing to be extravagant, he can live a very poor life.

"They're all useless things, so there's nothing interesting about them. Sun Jigao, why don't you have a land deed? With tens of thousands of acres of land, the people of Ming Dynasty can have more than ten thousand people without being displaced." Zhu Yijun read all of them. Apart from rare treasures, gold and silver, there are not many land deeds.

Sun Jigao knew that the emperor and Yuanfu were in Qingzhang, so naturally he didn't dare to embezzle the land. These things are of high value and they are also very valuable. When the court no longer returns the land to the Qingzhang, it is the right way to slowly realize the purchase of land.

Sun Jigao is a smart man, he knows how to judge the situation, and knows that he can't annex Tianmu right now, and he will be rubbed on the ground by Zhang Juzheng.

But he is not that smart, he doesn't know that being greedy for ink, cheating in the examination field, he will be beheaded by the great Ming sword Hai Rui, maybe people like Sun Jigao actually look down on honest officials like Hai Rui from the bottom of their hearts. There are underestimated enemies.

And Sun Jigao's judgment was right. Hai Rui's divine sword did not have many means to fight corruption, but Wang Qian's means were endless. No, he immediately carried Sun Jigao to the Wenhua Palace in front of the public. humiliated.

For Zhu Yijun, these things were put into the domestic funds and left ashes, and they were just sold in Huangzhuang.

Sun Jigao stared blankly at all this with a concubine-like expression on his face. The Tiqi's ability to dig three feet into the ground is really amazing. All his hidden treasures were brought out and brought to the Wenhua Palace to be made public. .

Not only did he want to die, but he also wanted to die in humiliation.

His stories will be compiled into scripts, dramas, and novels, and will be reviled for thousands of years in the end.

"President Hai, set up a tall stele for Sun Jigao in the forest of happy steles outside the Chaoyang Gate, and clearly write down the things he committed, so that in the future, someone will say that I am indifferent and ungrateful, and criticize scholars." Zhu Yijun faced Hai Rui said.

Storybooks, operas, and novels are next to this. The Happy Forest of Steles outside the Chaoyang Gate is the place where the emperor murdered people. After his death, he will be talked about countless times. Come to Happy Forest of Steles.

A large number of shameless literati who gave gifts to Sun Jigao, represented by Gu Xian, were all dismissed from their fame, and their descendants and grandchildren were not allowed to take the imperial examination for five generations.

This is a very serious punishment, and more importantly, the clan will never be allowed to enke.

There is such a family in Daming, which was decreed by Emperor Taizu Gao himself that they are not allowed to participate in Enke forever, and that is Quanzhou Pu's family.

At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Kublai Khan came to Lin'an (Hangzhou), the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Empress Dowager of the Southern Song Dynasty surrendered. At this time, there were still a large number of clans staying in Quanzhou in the Song Dynasty. The slaughter of the clan of the Southern Song Dynasty became a knife in Kublai Khan's hand.

The court of the Southern Song Dynasty was sorry to the people in the north and the south, but absolutely not to the Pu family in Quanzhou.

After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he issued a special decree to ban the Pu family from taking the imperial examination. The Pu family in Quanzhou, which had flourished for more than two hundred years, disappeared completely, and all the disciples of his clan changed their surnames and fled.

Zhu Yijun dealt with the students who cheated in the imperial examination. The five generations were not allowed to take the imperial examination, which means that these 15 families will be cut off from the opportunity to gain power for nearly a hundred years. Then the disciples of their family can only change their names to In other people's families, no matter who accepts this name change, they must bear the pressure of the court to hold them accountable.

Ming Dynasty’s handling of imperial examination fraud can refer to Hongwu’s 30-year North and South List Case.

There have been many frauds in the examination hall in the past dynasties. In the eighth year of Hongzhi, Long Ni, a recruiter from Nanya, took the exam for Jin Kui, the son of Jin Ze, the chief constitution of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Grinding, ignorance makes people stand up to the crock; those who send it to Nanjing to talk about the way are good at arguing about the bullets.

In the end, it was during the reign of Zhengde that Emperor Wuzong played against this Jin Kui, and found that this guy was indiscreet and incapable of doing anything. It's just that Jin Kui's fame was deprived and he was exiled to the border.

In the 44th year of Wanli, there was actually a bizarre case of fraud in the examination room. An illiterate named Shen Tonghe passed the Huiyuan examination.

Sun Jigao's behavior was too bad, and it would be over for others to take the exam for him. He just leaked the questions.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me." Sun Jigao knelt on the ground and kowtowed to plead guilty, his head almost broke.

Zhu Yijun looked at Sun Jigao playfully and asked, "Is there anything else you want to explain? I will give you a chance to make meritorious service."

Zhu Yijun was very curious, where did Sun Jigao have the guts? It is normal to look down on him as a little emperor, but to look down on Zhang Juzheng, how stupid is he to think he can escape Zhang Juzheng's disposal?

It is worth noting that this time Enke will try to recruit Jinshi, which happens to be 15 more than in previous years. Did Shen Shixing and Lu Tiaoyang do it on purpose or accidentally?Apparently Zhang Juzheng received some rumors and has been investigating, but Wang Qian moved faster and rushed ahead of Zhang Juzheng.

Zhu Yijun gave Sun Jigao a chance, a chance to make meritorious deeds, and this is where the little emperor is bad. This opportunity to make meritorious deeds may not save Sun Jigao's life, but it sounds like as long as he confesses clearly, he can live.

Sun Jigao struggled for a while, but kept kowtowing, begging the emperor for mercy.

"Pull it down." Zhu Yijun knew that Sun Jigao would not confess. He had already made a choice, so he just confessed. If there was no substantive evidence, then Sun Jigao would be more sinful.

Sun Jigao has no evidence, he can't bite anyone.

The imperial court has laws and regulations, but some people are not so gentle.

Sun Jigao was dragged away by the Tiqis. He was still begging for mercy loudly, but no one spoke up for him. Fraud in the examination hall was unacceptable to everyone in Ming Dynasty. This is a dragon gate, not someone's private gate.

Today is the court meeting, Zhu Yijun's hand touched the memorial, the courtiers trembled suddenly, every time your majesty touches the memorial at the court meeting, most of them are cursing, and the scolding is not swearing, and the scolding is very ugly.

"Wu Guifang, Governor of Water Transport, returned to Beijing to narrate, and Xuan came to see him." Zhu Yijun said to Feng Bao with a smile.

"Xuan, Governor of Water Transport, Wu Guifang." Feng Bao shouted loudly with his voice hanging.

Wu Guifang is an official of the capital censor Jingtang. He went to the local governor. His official title is Jingtang official, but his dispatch is the governor of the water transport, so he is still in the category of foreign officials, and this time Wu Guifang returned to Beijing, just in time for the Great Court Meeting , Zhu Yijun made a special announcement.

"I greet Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live." Wu Guifang saluted very respectfully.

"Aiqing is flat." Zhu Yijun's smile was very sunny, not at all like the one who chased and beat Sun Jigao just now, it seemed that he was not like that, the speed of Zhu Yijun's face changing was faster than flipping a book.

Wu Guifang gave a detailed account of the water transportation of the Grand Canal after the grain was transported by sea.

Wu Guifang's opinion is: within five years, the burden of transporting grain by grain should be handed over to sea grain, and the transport capacity of the river channel should be released to communicate the trade between the north and the south. The capacity released in the next month will bring the Grand Canal back to life.

And Wu Guifang mentioned a point that few people in the court actually mentioned, that is, the danger of the Cao Gang.

On this canal, there is a group of gangs known as the Cao Gang. They occupy the pier and are divided into five factions. These five factions are inextricably linked with various folk religions. Without it, the financial resources of these Cao Gangs will be completely cut off.

If the canal does not transport grain, it must also transport other goods. Isn’t the Cao Gang still lying on the riverboat to suck blood like this?
In the eyes of the imperial court, this is indeed the case, so Zhang Juzheng did not mention this when he was in charge of the Haicao matter.

In the memorial, Wu Guifang explained the basic logic in detail. There are two financial sources for these gangs. One is to make profits from the grain ships when they pass through the border. Rat grain is the grain for them; The second is to be arrogant.

To put it more clearly: These Cao Gangs are all dogs raised by big families. Once they lose the benefits of grain boats, these Cao Gangs have raised so many people, and they will bite their owners if they can’t eat them. It's not just the imperial court who died, but also the powerful and powerful.

Then the matter of rectifying the river bandits along the canal became a matter of course.

Zhang Juzheng is not omnipotent and omniscient. He doesn't know much about the survival of Caobang's ecological niche.

Wu Guifang's report on the affairs of the canal was the first thing he did when he returned to Beijing, and the second thing was to farm the fields.

"These are the six proposals for farming, can Wu Aiqing talk about it?" Zhu Yijun was very curious about Wu Guifang's order for farming.

Wu Guifang bowed her head after thinking for a moment and said: "First, it is the division of jurisdiction. The boundaries of the prefectures and counties are not clear, and the powers and responsibilities are not clear. If something goes wrong, they will blame each other. The court has recently measured the acres of land and is also surveying the geography. The first task in farming is to clarify the rights and responsibilities, and who to ask for accountability."

"Secondly, please allocate all prefectures, prefectures and counties to prepare granaries, and use the funds for land reclamation to dig wells to get water. It is also necessary to dig wells and farm fields to reclaim wasteland. Poor coolies cannot sustain themselves, and reclaiming wasteland requires investment. "

Hearing this, Zhu Yijun said helplessly, "There has been a locust plague in Jiangxi recently. Governor Pan said that the first thing he did was to ask the grain officials to cut off the grain officials. The prefectures and counties prepared granaries, but they were empty, and there was even a scene of fire dragons burning the granaries." .”

Wu Guifang had already heard about this incident. It was not without reason that Pan Jixun, a good old man, became Ling Yunyi in Jiangxi.

Wu Guifang bowed her head and said: "So we need to divide the jurisdiction. The Changping Cang Zuobuzheng of each provincial road is responsible. If the canggu is missing, the Zuobuzheng will be negligent; each prefecture will be responsible for preparing the empty warehouses; each prefecture and county will be responsible for the empty warehouses. The magistrates and counties of the prefectures and counties are responsible.”

"I understand what Wu Aiqing said, and Aiqing continued." Zhu Yijun really understood the connection between these two things. It turned out that Wu Guifang's words were intertwined.

Translation Translation is the responsibility system of the head of the granary.

It is roughly: something happened to the granary in your jurisdiction, and the imperial court dispatched relief, and if the grain was not dispatched, your head would be lost.

Huang Qing said that he would give money and food to get through the low-yield period of reclamation, Hou Yuzhao said that he would pay tolls, and Wu Guifang said that he would give money for reclamation. This is the cost. Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng mentioned it more than once. , then you have to object immediately, and talk about the cost, then it's worth watching.

There is no doubt that Wu Guifang's memorial is a book worth reading.

Wu Guifang bowed his head again and said: "The third is to imitate the law at the beginning of the country, and use the prefecture and county judges as the agricultural officials, who only manage agricultural affairs. Those who do not have agricultural officials, that is, the grain officials. This official, you are not allowed to ask for other uses, and those who are the best in the three-, six-, and nine-year examinations at the end of the year will be promoted."

"Agricultural officials and food officials should be familiar with "Nongshuo", and they should go to Baoqisi for the examination when they return to the court to report on their duties."

"Nongshuo" is an agricultural publication compiled by Baoqi Division Zheng Xu Zhenming for a long time and combined with practice. The agricultural officials and grain officials do not understand grain and farming. What kind of agriculture does he manage?What kind of food do you have?

Moreover, after passing the examination in [-], officials were promoted to official positions.

"Okay!" Zhu Yijun's eyes became brighter and his smile became stronger.

Wu Guifang suddenly shook her sleeves, kneeled on the ground solemnly, and said loudly: "The fourth is to call the refugees to the fields, cultivate those who are powerless, give the officials to the cattle, and return the officials to the three minions the next year. Take the original owner Recognize, don't sue."

"That is to say, the vagrants were summoned to let them reclaim the wasteland. For those who are unable to cultivate, the agricultural officials will give cattle and seeds, and pay off the money for the cattle in three years. As for the original owners of the vagrants, they think they are unlucky and must not sue the officials for robbing."

As soon as Wu Guifang's words came out, all the ministers talked a lot, and they couldn't hide their shock.

The landless peasant households and city wanderers in Ming Dynasty were slaves of the noble gentry, and what Wu Guifang said meant that the exiles were summoned to cultivate the fields, and the original owners could not sue, which was to restore the status of landless peasant households and city wanderers.

A Ming version of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Zhu Yijun tapped his fingers on the table, Feng Bao immediately shook his whisk when he saw this, and the correctional officers immediately turned down their hooks and sickles, stretched their voices, and said in unison: "Quiet."

Zhu Yijun waited for the courtiers to calm down before asking, "Wu Aiqing, do you know what you're talking about?"

"I know, I'm old." Wu Guifang kowtowed again. He was born in the 18th year of Zhengde and is now 56 years old. He may die someday. He knows what he is talking about and what he is doing.

"I think it's very kind." Zhang Juzheng immediately expressed his opinion after hearing this, and agreed with Wu Guifang's remonstrance.After Wu Guifang entered Beijing, she went to the Quanchu Guild Hall to discuss with Zhang Juzheng. Zhang Juzheng's attitude was to do it, to do it.

"I think this article is what the people want." Wang Chonggu immediately stood up and expressed his agreement. How many murders were caused by this kind of slave relationship with strong personal attachment?As Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, although Wang Chonggu always does not do his job properly, the affairs of the Ministry of Punishment are indeed under his control.

Ge Shouli looked at Wang Chonggu with a smile on his face. After he left, the Jin Party would definitely not make too many mistakes. At least Wang Chonggu would judge the situation. When Zhang Juzheng was alive, Wang Chonggu would never go against Zhang Juzheng.

As for after Zhang Juzheng?Who can see things so far away?

"Wu Aiqing is exempt from courtesy." Zhu Yijun signaled to Wu Guifang that he was right. This memo is only the fourth article. He agreed with what Wu Guifang said, and decided to carry out this memo.

Wu Guifang, however, resisted the decree and did not respect it. She still knelt on the ground and said: "Fifth, it is a barren field, and it is a land without an owner. Everyone does what is convenient and listens to the people's confession."

Wu Guifang knew that her speech could easily cause misunderstandings, so she bowed her head and said: "The barren fields will no longer have owners. They are not the private property of his old Liu family, old Li family, old Zhao family, and old Wang family. After listening to the people's confession, it is who planted the barren fields. , who is the landlord.”

"The Han family has loyalty and goodness." Zhu Yijun said sincerely after listening.

Wu Guifang is not Zhang Dang, he just came to the present, and he still hasn't forgotten his original intention of working hard to get a Jinshi, to cultivate himself, govern his family, rule the country and the world.

How many people forget as they walk, why did they set off?
Wu Guifang did not forget.

His memorandum can be said to have hit the fundamental interests of the class of the rich and powerful, the wealthy and the gentry, the people who own the land of the means of production and the tools of production.

Zhang Juzheng's Qingzhang, Returning Fields, and Cultivation are decrees to ease the main contradictions of the Ming Dynasty, while Wu Guifang's Memorial is a continuation and supplementary explanation of the Qingzhang Returning Fields Order.

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