eldest son of Ming dynasty

Chapter 447
The harm of Zhuangtian that started in the last years of Xianzong, progressed in a big court meeting.

Rumors are still flying all over the sky, but Zhu Houzhao is not someone who can only play these tricks. The real things must be done quickly.

In order to manage the Huangzhuang, the palace sent many small eunuchs, or the head of the village, or the small school, these people did not lack moral things, but fortunately they are completely controlled by the palace.

Therefore, whether it is Tian or the people on Tian, ​​Huangzhuang and Zhongguan Zhuangtian have no obstacles at present.

Although the common people criticize the civil servants and honored ministers behind their backs, there is no clear imperial decree so far, and the main body is still the land in the palace.

It's not too difficult to do such a thing.

It's just that officials at all levels, whether it's the outer court or the inner court, have the possibility to reach out.

Zhu Houzhao should not be too concerned about how to divide the land, but he still has to pay close attention to supervision.

Otherwise, always worry.

It's not that I don't trust the new magistrates like Gu Renyi, the point is that they are just a person with two eyes, and sometimes they don't care.

In addition, if an imperial envoy is specially sent to inspect this matter, it will be different after all.

Officials up and down can make things difficult for people and appearances, but they cannot make things difficult for imperial envoys.

After a little thought, he decreed that Xie Pi, the attendant, Han Ziren, the deputy envoy of Jin Yiwei, and Jing Yang, the editor of the Imperial Academy, would be the imperial envoys to be responsible for this matter.

Moreover, Xie Pi is listed as the main, Han Ziren and Jing Yang are the deputy.

Jing Yang is a Jinshi who came from Jiake in the first year of Zhengde, ranking No.2 in the first class.

At that time, the imperial examinations were slightly changed, but those with high rankings were not included, so he still went to the Imperial Academy.Thinking of him this time is also because Jing Yang has a reputation for honesty and frugality.

As for choosing Xie Pi,
One is because he was born in the servant's office. Judging from the current situation, it is the least necessary for those who go out of the attendant's room to commit crimes. There is a broad road ahead, why bother?

Second, he is the second son of Mr. Xie Ge.Mr. Xie Ge has been in the court for decades, and he has known many people. Officials, big and small, want to sell Xie Qian's face, and they dare not do anything secretly.

You can bully the kid who doesn't understand the world, aren't you afraid that the old man who is like a human being will come to your door?
Of course, Xie Pi himself has a profound family education, so far he has never seen anything so bad as being greedy for money and lustful in his life.

Even if he is a little tender, there is still Han Ziren after all.

In addition, Jing Yang, who has just joined the ranks of officials and is still cautious.

Zhu Houzhao believes that most of these people will not be able to find any more exaggerated corruption cases, at most they will not find any problems.

No matter what, the inspector imperial envoy is out anyway,
As long as you go out, all relevant officials will have a scruple in doing things.

The capital in March is already warm, the sun is shining, and the branches on both sides of the official road have sprouted. They walked the official road, crossed the stream, and walked into the countryside along the dirt road.

Along the way, I saw several old farmers carrying bamboo baskets and walking on the road wearing straw sandals.In the field, there are still people who hang a gourd on their waist, and when they get tired from working for a while, they open it and take a few sips.

Jing Yang is from Jiangxi. He has seen continuous small hills since he was a child, but he has rarely seen such a large area of ​​fertile fields in the north. However, this seemingly hopeful field is full of ordinary people who are struggling to feed themselves.

"...The fields of Huangzhuang and the fields of Zhongguan are being divided now, so are the other fields not mentioned?"

Both Han Ziren and Jing Yang were looking at Xie Pi.

Those in the attendant's room should have known what was going on that day.

Xie Pi was wearing a black hat and a blue round-neck official robe. His face was delicate and shy, and he said, "The holy will is unpredictable, but it must be divided if you think about it."

Although redemption is also a way.

However, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the officials of various departments kept making reports, and the entire court is extremely tense now. Many low-level officials are either trying to clear their names or cater to Shangyi. In short, they are impeaching .

This kind of public anger will not be provoked by the cabinet, nor will it be provoked by officials in Beizhili, it is basically guided by the emperor.

In other words, even if there is a way to redeem the land, the big landlords in Northern Zhili still have to be forced to hand over the land.

Just to see if there are any stupid people.

Han Ziren was a county magistrate in Shandong, and he knew more about the matter, "I also think that we need to divide. Although Your Majesty has not investigated too deeply, how can you not investigate too deeply? As long as the matter of dividing the land continues, Inevitably you will hit a wall."

Jing Yang asked, "What wall?"

"Not enough points."

Han Ziren pursed his lips and spit out these three words.

Excluding Huangzhuang and Zhongguan's farmland, the remaining Guanzhuang has more than 3 hectares. With such a large population, even if it has been reduced to [-] mu of land per person, it must still not be enough.

"At that time, the matter of dividing the land is halfway through, what should we do if there is not enough?" Han Ziren said thoughtfully, "Your Majesty will definitely not fail to think of this issue, he must have already thought about it. Then use force to judge the matter."

Sometimes, judging by imperial decree is not necessarily particularly easy.Especially when it comes to things like this involving land.But if it is based on potential, then not necessarily.What can the emperor do if he can't get off the tiger? Of course he has to bite the bullet and get off.

Chatting like this, they soon arrived in Daxing County.

Gu Renyi started to divide the fields here first.
Naturally, the imperial envoy could only come here to see it first.

Gu Renyi was standing in the field at the moment, the breeze blew his clothes and his hair fluttered. In his sight, there were several men from the village. They carried a ruler and a piece of wood, and the sunlight Insert it into the ground like this, a piece of red cloth flutters in the wind,
"Cripple Zhang's house is here!"

After the initial panic, the common people have begun to accept the fact that there is a pie in the sky, and this acceptance is not a trivial matter, and now all the old and young, men and women, are all around.

And the man named Zhang Laizi is also illiterate. Anyway, he was drawn under the guidance of an old scholar in the village. He lost one of his front teeth. His knuckles are thick and he looks like he does a lot of farm work, and the black skin on his face is extremely wrinkled. Many, but that may also be because of the smile, which is not very smart,
"Cripple Zhang, you don't have to sell your daughter now!"

"Don't sell it, don't sell it, just serve this land."

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On the second day, Gu Renyi received the imperial envoy Xie Pi and his entourage, and they continued to go to the village to supervise the division of land.

As soon as they met and made some introductions, Gu Renyi said with a worried voice, "There is a problem. I didn't think of it at the beginning,"

Xie Pi stood shoulder to shoulder with him and asked, "Gu Fuzun, please tell me."

Gu Renyi was wearing an official hat, and had a black beard on his lips. He had no pretensions, and he didn't seem to be that hygienic... His shoes were dirty and his clothes were dirty, but he spoke and acted quickly, looking Very capable.

"At first, the imperial court only considered that the common people had no land, lost their foundation, and lived in extreme hardship. If they had land, they would be able to grow their own food and not have to sell their children. In fact, this is not the case."

The three of Xie Pi were a little puzzled, "Isn't that so? Can't this relieve the suffering of the people?"

"It can be solved, but it's only part of it. The people... are more miserable than we imagined. The land property is the lifeline. Before a certain level, the people will not easily change hands, and the people who are reduced to landless farmers are very difficult after all. , so many of them still have debts.”

The three of them were shocked when they heard this.

"If this is the case, they took the land, sold it for money, and became landless people overnight. What should we do? The court spent so much effort to divide the land, it is better to give them a few taels of silver to pay off their debts. simple."

There is always no need to mobilize so many people to distribute money.

In the end, when the land was divided, there were so many landless people, so the inspecting imperial envoy must have gone up with a memorandum.

When the emperor saw the result, would he be satisfied?

"Alas." Han Ziren sighed deeply, "Let the poor in the world have a piece of land and have food, this is the most difficult thing in the world."

"I'm going to issue an injunction in the name of Governor of Shuntian. Any land that was divided in the second year of Zhengde is not allowed to be traded within ten years. But..."

In fact, before the Ming Dynasty, there were periods when land sales were restricted.

But still the same sentence, if the law cannot be implemented, it is a piece of paper that is too hard to wipe your ass.The Ming Dynasty also banned slavery.We also ban yellow.

The key is execution.

In fact, many laws and regulations can be enacted, but it does not mean that they will be useful if they are enacted. Many things can even have no laws and regulations, even if it is a will of the ruler, it will work just as well.

"...But it's useless to have such a ban in Shuntian Mansion alone. If people leave the government, everything will go on as usual."

Gu Renyi can be transferred.

If it is the emperor who releases it, then these officials, as executors, can still find a way, after all, the emperor cannot move away.

"If you can't sell the land, how will the people who owe debts pay off?" Jing Yang asked.

Paying off debts is a matter of course.

You can't say that you are poor, and you have a reason not to repay your debts, and that is wrong.

Gu Renyi replied in a deep voice, "I can only return it slowly. There is no other way. A sum of money is divided into years and returned, and only part of it is returned each year. This way, life can be lived on first."

Life can go on!
"Hey. This is not only a matter of dividing the land, but also a matter of litigation. Can you be busy with this?" After all, Han Ziren has some experience.

The repayment in a few years must be coordinated by the government and the creditor, otherwise these people would not have negotiated such a condition on their own.

"I can't keep busy..." Gu Renyi looked at the people on the side of the slope and happily dividing the fields, "I have to be busy."

Still the same sentence, things might as well be done.

If the fields are really divided, the people will start to dig the soil. It happens to be March, and once the land is cleared, the wheat seeds will be sown quickly.As long as the weather is suitable, it can be harvested in July and August.

If you miss this season, you can only plant winter wheat again, and if you have to wait for it to ripen, you may only be able to eat disaster relief food this year.

So in the divided fields, many people ran to measure the fields, but Gu Renyi led people to divide the fields two days ago, and people from their families had come to dig the soil with farm tools.

Eh?Everyone saw that this was behind.The old farmers all know the season, and know that this is the critical time, and there is no delay, so they cooperate very well.

So while there are still some doubts, things are going fast.

When Gu Renyi got busy, he forgot many things.

This piece of land with more than a thousand mu is quite large. He led people to go through it one by one, and brought the people in charge of each family over to make it clear that no more than ten feet of land was allowed to be taken from any side to which side.

Some people even get the land deed in the morning and start working in the afternoon.

So the scene on the field is like a goose leading a group of geese, how many people are left behind after two steps, and the few people left are divided into square fields to work, either weeding or turning the soil. , the figures are sparse, back and forth, and there is a sense of busyness at sunrise.

Gu Renyi sometimes feels tired, but it's worth looking behind her.

Few people who become officials can really save the people in the world, but if they can save people in a county or a prefecture, that is considered very powerful.

At a certain moment, some women following him in the village rushed to wipe his sweat for the official. They were all from poor backgrounds and didn't pay much attention.

The [-]-year-old daughter of Zhang Laizi's family is the happiest. She has been following her from the first field, carrying water all the time. The little figure will be unsteady if she is not careful on the dirt road, but she is not afraid. He didn't even shake the dust off his body when he got up, and continued to run.

Gu Renyi drank Baijia's water and asked people to surround her like this.

"Keep working hard, divide up a few more households today, and after the division is done, I can go to the next village. I just feel sorry for the folks. Although some fields are also Zhuangtian, we can't divide them. Zhangji Village In the end, there may be a dozen households short. Some people with reasonable conditions are most likely not to be assigned."

"This little old man is already very satisfied."

"Yeah, it's only a little bit close. Mr. Gu shouldn't blame himself. Mr. Gu is the best official in the world."

These words are plain and unreasonable, but these peasants are willing to speak.

When it's time for lunch,

There was a girl in her 20s who was a little shy, but she mustered up the courage to show him what she had.

The girl wore pigtails, her forehead was still a little disheveled, and there was a lot of dust on her face. Even her big eyes were like black stones, and the blush on her face was covered by the dust.

"what is this?"

"Eggs. I kept them for several days and I couldn't bear them."

Gu Renyi looked at the egg, and then at her, "Have you eaten it? Or take it back and feed it to the man in the family. After the land is divided, there will be heavy farm work, which is very tiring."

"Master Gu is also very tired. Just put it away."

As he spoke, he put the egg in his hand, then turned around and left.

Xie Pi came over and said, "Gu Fuzun, this is not considered bribery."

Knowing it was a joke, but Gu Renyi could only smile hard, and said: "Actually, the common people can see clearly who treats them well and who treats them badly. Only by practicing this kind of benevolent government in my Ming Dynasty can I be able to enjoy the benefits of a hundred generations." Jiangshan."

The egg in my hand is still warm.

In fact, the common people have no good solution. When they meet him, he is hope.

"Thank you, attendant. I would like to share with His Majesty, and then divide the farmland of honored ministers and ministers."

"This memorial has always been uploaded."

"I want to advise His Majesty to be more ruthless in his methods and more thorough in his determination! He who wins the hearts of the people wins the world. Now that the people's hearts are like this, how can there be any instability in the court? What is there to worry about?!"

Since ancient times, which prosperous age was created by joking and laughing in harmony, and some people really feel that they can't afford to offend them if they don't kill a few people!

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