Emperor Ming's grandson

Chapter 305 Eventful Autumn
Zhu Yunying went to court early, and sitting on the dragon chair, he patiently listened to the civil and military officials reporting political affairs.

He was still very patient. Although he and Lao Zhu had met some things, the two of them had indeed discussed some things carefully during this period of time.But now, there is no need to bring it up in the court immediately, it needs some suitable timing.

In fact, Zhu Yunying is also very clear that although the Ming Dynasty has been established for [-] years, the power of the Ming Dynasty is getting stronger and stronger.For Zhu Yunying, she really felt quite satisfied and proud.

"This time the imperial court has won a great victory, and the north is temporarily peaceful." Zhu Yunying said slowly, and said to the civil and military officials, "All ministries should remember to assist in this matter, and there should be no delay in raising meritorious service and awarding rewards. The governor's mansion and the Ministry of war should report the report immediately .”

For Zhu Yunying's words, everyone will not be surprised, and everyone thinks that they should do so.Speaking of it, it is also because these things are what the emperor Zhu Yunying should do, and this is the duty of the princes in the court.

Especially at the beginning of the founding of the country, if the meritorious officers and soldiers were not well rewarded, then there would be a big problem.

Zhu Yunying is very clear about some things, so she is naturally more at ease about these things.He can sort out some things now with confidence, and he can make some relatively big changes in a down-to-earth manner during this period of time.

Zhu Yunying returned to the Hall of Martial Arts after he came down to court, and he had a lot of things to deal with.He also brought a lot of information, Zhu Yunying can also do some things in a down-to-earth manner at this time.

In Ming Dynasty's population statistics and land system, all these are very serious topics.Because Lao Zhu cares so much about household registration issues, there were household registration posts and yellow books in the past.

In the early years of Hongwu, the population seemed to be very small, even less than one-tenth of that in the Song Dynasty.But there are many hidden populations, or tenants and servants who have become wealthy households.Furthermore, there are indeed quite a few who fled.

Now that the population of Daming is increasing rapidly, Zhu Yunying is also carefully studying the law of population growth of Daming.

From one year to about ten years in Hongwu, this period is the population check.From about 15 years after Hongwu, Daming started a "population census", including Daming Guotai Min'an, and the population began to increase rapidly.

Especially after 25 years of Hongwu, the local separatist forces were almost completely eliminated, and there were not many major enemies near Daming.The population explosion is not an exaggeration. Daming's household registration has already exceeded 1000 million households, and this is not counting the population that may be hidden.

Because Daming's land has been warned and measured long ago, the current land is basically about 300 million mu, and Daming's annual tax and grain can reach [-] million shi.These are out-and-out taxes, and there are no other taxes.

Concealing land and donating it exists.Just like hiding the population, even though Daming has been checking the population and strictly controlling the household registration, such things do exist, and this is something that cannot be avoided.

Although there is no particularly complete statistics yet, Zhu Yunying feels that the population has reached [-] million, which is not far away from this figure. The strength of the Ming Dynasty can also be seen here.

Of course, all this is not enough, the population was large during the Song Dynasty.There are not so many Yanyun Sixteen States, and the population of the Song Dynasty has always been not small.The human resources of the Ming Dynasty still need to be further improved, which is also a manifestation of the strength of a country.

Zhu Yunying is very aware of this truth, which is one of the reasons why he wants to carry out land reform very much now, because Daming has more and more land and more and more population.

The land should feed more people and feed the ever-increasing population of Daming, instead of being reduced to a tool for a few people to accumulate wealth, and it cannot be a means for some people to control farmers.

Zhu Yunying is very sensitive to these matters, and he is very clear that the current Daqing really needs to do better.

People without long-term considerations must have short-term worries. Zhu Yunying does not hope that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there will be a situation like the one in history that cannot collect taxes and cannot support people. The salary is poor, and when bandits or aliens come, they are ready to surrender to the enemy while crying for poverty.

This kind of thing is not an exaggeration, whether it is complaining about the clan of the Ming Dynasty, or complaining about the arrival of the Little Ice Age, these are indeed one of the reasons for the decline of the Ming Dynasty, and even those talk that harmed the country or internal strife are the reasons.

But in the final analysis, the people can only rebel if they can't survive.The rebellion of people like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, coupled with the covetousness of the Jurchens, led to the fall of the Central Plains.

As long as the common people have land, as long as the common people can survive, it will be difficult for there to be rebellions that sweep the world.It's not that they can't survive, but not many people want to pin their heads to their belts.

Zhu Yunying is more confident about this. He definitely needs to deal with some policies, and he must implement some policies. He doesn't necessarily want to leave some things to future generations to deal with.

Zhu Yunying, who was in a good mood, frowned and looked at Zhezi, and estimated that in the next period of time, the whole court would need to make noise again, and there was absolutely no way to be idle.

Thinking about it, since Zhu Yunying became the emperor, it seemed that he really couldn't be completely clean, and a lot of things really happened, and they all needed to be dealt with by him, the emperor.

At the beginning of his ascension to the throne, there was chaos. Fortunately, Zhu Yunying, the grandson of the emperor, had a stable position, and with Lao Zhu's deliberate support, Zhu Yunying's control over the court has always been relatively stable.Compared with many new emperors who were busy taking over power and cultivating their team after ascending the throne, Zhu Yunying did not have this trouble.

Leaving aside the matter of ascension to the throne, the moment of ascension to the throne is the Chunwei case.Because the matter of the North and South List caused a lot of discussion among scholars in the world, the result was that Yan Shenggong's family was also dragged into this matter, which immediately aroused even greater discussions.

Yanshenggong is still Yanshenggong, because Confucius' respect is still necessary, and Ming also respected Confucius as a king following the example of previous dynasties.It's just that Yan Shenggong is no longer the head of civil servants, and he is no longer a first-rank official.

Yan Shenggong's title is only the seventh rank, which is one level higher than that of the Song Dynasty, and lower than the third rank of the Yuan Dynasty.

Kong Zhu's lineage, which is also the real direct lineage.The title of Lord Yan Sheng returned to the lineage of Kong Zhu. The Ming Dynasty established some rules in all aspects. The most solid supporter of the system of successors is the royal family of the Ming Dynasty.

This is obviously not a bad thing, and Zhu Yunying has always felt that his decision is correct.There are too many uncertainties in Lixian and the like. Zhu Yunying doesn't want to see future generations fighting for the throne, so it's better to have less trouble.

It was a troubled time, and it was also because Zhu Yunying fought in the north just after he became the throne, and the great victory of the country was real. Naturally, many people saw the strength of the Ming Dynasty, and saw that the Ming Dynasty was now sweeping the world.

Such an eventful year is not over yet, and the first year of enthronement has not yet passed, Zhu Yunying will naturally have to do a lot of things in the future, all of which will affect the trend of the court and the world.

It's as sweet as it is, even though he looks very tired, but Zhu Yunying really enjoys all this very much, he likes this state very much.

After all, he is a person with a strong desire for power and a sense of responsibility. He feels that he can govern the world well, instead of sitting in the position of an emperor and busying himself with pleasure, or praying to immortals and Buddhas in order to live forever.

The warm-up is about to begin, the emperor Zhu Yunying doesn't like to do something straight to the point.Some things have to be guided naturally, and a little warm-up is necessary, so that the next series of big actions can start naturally.

Lao Zhu was also busy. The emperor, who was already quite a workaholic, seemed to have tasted the joy of controlling the court again after being "substituted" once. He seemed to be active at this time.

Civil and military officials are a little dumbfounded at this time, but they are not surprised by such things.

As a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, he needs to learn to connect seamlessly. In the past, he served the emperor and the grandson of the emperor, but now he works for the emperor and the emperor. These things are really not difficult for them.

It's just that some people also feel more worried. In the past, the Supreme Emperor hardly interfered in the government affairs.In other words, even if they participate in government affairs, they will basically not be on the bright side, at most they will be commanding remotely behind the scenes.

But now the Supreme Emperor frequently summoned his ministers, and began to ask them to send the zhezi over, which made people think about it.

Even if the papers requested by the Supreme Emperor are basically the household department, which is related to people's livelihood, but this is directly intervening in the government affairs after all. This is a strong signal.

Zhu Yunying didn't feel unhappy, mainly because he knew the reason why Lao Zhu did this, and he didn't think there was any problem with it.Singing double reeds with his grandpa, Zhu Yunying is handy, and this is also for the preparation for the next things.

As the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Ru Yu is the so-called "heavenly official". He is considered to be Zhu Yunying's most reliable team member with real power in his hands. Now he just feels that it is a bit tricky.

Although Ru Yu is also used to saying that there is no barrier between the Supreme Emperor and the emperor, or that the courtiers below don't need to consider taking refuge, but this is only relatively speaking.

"Your Majesty, the Supreme Emperor frequently ordered his subjects today, and all the colleagues are talking about it in private." Ru Yu looked at Zhu Yunying and said earnestly, "Does Your Majesty want to chat with the Supreme Emperor?"

Ru Yu is an absolute team member, so he said these things to Zhu Yunying unreservedly at this time. This is simply to provoke two generations of emperors and create a "suspicion" between the two generations of emperors.

Zhu Yunying didn't care about these, and said with a smile, "Do your part, I know this in my heart!"

(End of this chapter)