Ming politicians

() Qian Qianyi didn't eat at the county government office, excused that he had something to do, got up and left.

Su Tiancheng didn't try to persuade him to stay.

He did pay attention to the fourth son of Donglin, except for Liu Yunqing, the other three were out of the same nostrils as Qian Qianyi, and they were very dissatisfied with themselves. When they left, there was no smile on their faces.

Liu Zhongji still respects Qian Qianyi very much. After all, Qian Qianyi is very famous and has a lot of influence in the academic circle, including the scholastic team.

After Qian Qianyi left, he was a little curious and asked.

"My lord, Mr. Qian has learned a lot from the rich, and what he said is very reasonable. You don't seem to be interested."

"Liu Dianshi, if you think that you are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and you can have food and clothes if you just talk about it and pretend to be noble, then you don't need to touch the reality. Just be cautious about independence. Cooking small fresh food, acting as an agent for government affairs, I worry about specific things, such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea, everything is indispensable, whether the common people have food to eat, whether they are warmly dressed, whether they can marry a wife, what difficulties are there, what do we need? To solve it, in the process, if you still think about being noble, and still think about the teachings in books, and follow the scriptures, it will kill people."

"But the theories in books are also necessary. For example, prudent independence and benevolent government are all the words of sages."

"Your head is too poisoned. It seems that you want to go to the village to farm and experience the hardship. Theory comes from practice. Don't you know such a simple truth."

beijing, the Forbidden City.

Zhu Youjian sat in the Huangji Hall, where he listened to politics.

During this period of time, his life was relatively comfortable. The trilateral governor Hong Chengchou defeated the rogues in Qingyang Western Australia, beheaded the leaders of the rogues Du San and Yang Laochai, and won a great victory in Western Australia. Attacking Dengzhou in Shandong, the rebel general Kong Youde was terrified and asked for appeasement. Hou Jin was also much more stable and did not continue to harass.

Such days are rare.

Of course, there are still things that are dissatisfied. The faction within the imperial court has intensified, and he is a little confused. The chief assistant of the cabinet, Zhou Yanru, and the second assistant, Wen Tiren, attacked each other. He believed that Zhou Yanru was doing his own thing, and Chen Yutai, the number one scholar in the imperial examination, was Zhou Yanru's in-law. He relied on his connections and bribed Zhou Yanru to become the number one scholar in high school. Covering up his behavior, he deceived the emperor, and was able to find a flower in high school.Both Chen Yutai and Wu Weiye went to the forum to defend themselves, and Chen Yutai directly pointed the finger at Wen Tiren, saying that some people attacking others must have ulterior motives and tried to slander others to save themselves.

Zhu Youjian suppressed these memorials, not taking sides.

Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren criticized each other, and many ministers were implicated, but there was one key person who was at ease at the moment, and that was Su Tiancheng, the second place in the imperial examination.

Zhu Youjian will not forget him.

Now that I think about it, Su Tiancheng took the initiative to ask to be released. Could it be that his eyesight won't grow after he grows up? Both the No. [-] scholar in the palace examination and Tanhua were impeached, but this second place is safe and sound, far away from the capital, and far away from the place of right and wrong.

Of course, there are still some memorials about Su Tiancheng. In less than a month since he took office, Jin Yiwei has already reported several cases.

The most important thing is a big event that Su Tiancheng is going to do, which is directly played by Ma Jiagan, the magistrate of Ying Tianfu.

Many ministers withdrew, and beside Zhu Youjian, Wang Chengen was left.

"Father-in-law, Su Tiancheng is courageous and resourceful in beheading without getting muddled. I thought he was just a whim, but I didn't expect that in Jiangning County, he adjusted most of the officials in half a month without causing any fluctuations. , but gained support, and even Ying Tianfu thought it was done well, isn't it a pity to release such a strategy to the outside world?"

"This is the emperor's discernment of talent. I think Mr. Su, who bears the emperor's favor, must do his best. If it is done well in Jiangning County, the emperor will promote him, and the ministers in the court will have nothing to say."

"Well, Su Tiancheng doesn't worry about it. Before he took office, he lingered on the Qinhuai River. As a minister of the imperial court, he should pay attention to such a place of fireworks. This expansion of inspection department sergeants without authorization will cause criticism. , even though Ma Jiagan was dismissed, and defending him, I think it's still a bit inappropriate."

Wang Chengen lowered his head and did not answer.

Zhu Youjian looked at it, feeling a little unhappy.

"Father-in-law, you and Dong Aiqing both care about Su Tiancheng. If you have anything to say, just say it. I just want to hear the truth and not fool you with lies."

"The emperor forgives the sin, but the servant thinks that these two things are nothing at all."

"Tell me why."

"When we arrived at the Qinhuai River, it was very clearly stated in the secret report that Su Tiancheng did not spend the night at the Qinhuai River. Also, the slaves thought that Su Tiancheng was able to control himself, which is very good. Besides, the matter of expanding the sergeants of the inspection department was obviously aimed at maintaining the law and order in Jiangning County. Jiangning County is a place in the capital, and the law and order situation is complicated. It was the Wucheng soldiers and horses who were in charge. In fact, it was the yamen servants of Jiangning County, Cao Lao. , said that Su Tiancheng harbored evil intentions, the slaves thought that his intentions could be punished."

"Oh, why do you see that?"

"Su Tiancheng is the second place in the imperial examination. He took the initiative to ask to be released. He only wanted to do things and avoided talking. Even when facing the great scholar Qian Qianyi, he was not polite, and he didn't think about attaching himself to Donglin Academy. The slaves thought that Su Tiancheng was all-hearted. Those who are loyal to the emperor and expand the Jiangning County Inspection Department are actually considered to be malicious, and the servants really don't understand. Could it be that Su Tiancheng did nothing when he arrived in Jiangning County, just sit and talk about it and go along with their request."

"Haha, father-in-law, this is Aiwujiwu, who actually defended Su Tiancheng like this."

"The slave girl lost her composure, the emperor forgives her."

"What's wrong with my father-in-law? It's best to tell the truth. I don't think the officials in the six departments of Nanjing have anything to do. They just talk about irrelevant things, but they can't come up with insights. Instead, they repeatedly persuade me to be cautious. At the beginning Liu Zongzhou raised these things, and I was very annoyed, there are so many things in the court, and I don't want to think about specific solutions, so I just talk big."

As if expressing the depression in his heart, Zhu Youjian stood up and walked a few steps in the hall.

"The matter of the land is no small matter. Su Tiancheng and Qu Qingze discussed and planned to move the official land. The official land policy is the ancestral system. The official land of the Nanjing Jingying is not easy to move. I can't make up my mind. .”

"Your Majesty, this servant thinks that we can still try it. When Su Tiancheng was in Pingyang Mansion, the tenants rented and cultivated land and got a bumper harvest. It seems that he also wanted to implement it in Jiangning County."

"I know that Su Tiancheng even thought of relying on the good harvest in Jiangning County to solve part of the famine in the north. I'm a little surprised by such a big idea."

Wang Cheng'en stopped talking. The emperor needs to make a decision on such a matter.

Su Tiancheng was also courageous enough to think of using part of the official land to cultivate it by himself. Although the situation of abandoning the official land in Nanjing Jingying was very serious, this was the ancestral system. It can be moved, besides, these official lands, to a large extent, offset the food and wages of the Nanjing Jingying.

It is not a simple matter to use these official fields.

Su Tiancheng was already overwhelmed by the matter of the field.

The many tenants he brought were actually here to farm the land, but looking at the many lands in Jiangning County, he couldn't do anything about it.I found Qu Qingze to discuss it, but this time, Qu Qingze didn't dare to express his opinion.

The cultivated land in Jiangning County, according to the county government’s statistics, is 60 hectares, a total of 140 mu. In fact, it is far more than this figure. For nearly a month, he asked Su Pingyang to make a careful statistics, and searched all the information. The records in the early Ming Dynasty , Jiangning County has 80 million mu of arable land.In other words, during the reign of Chongzhen, [-] mu of cultivated land disappeared.

These cultivated lands must be good, and there is only one reason to explain it, that is, they have been annexed.

After getting these data, Su Tiancheng's teeth were almost broken. The gentry and wealthy households in Jiangning County are simply a group of cannibal bastards. The land tax of 140 million mu of cultivated land depends on 60 mu of cultivated land. How to live, this situation cannot be changed, don't think about stability at all.

The matter of money is important, and the matter of land is even more important. After all, it is an agricultural society. Most people rely on the land to survive. If they can't make the tiller have their land and can't reduce the burden, there will definitely be more refugees. .

However, it is absolutely impossible to directly use the arable land of large gentry households. In this case, we should first make a fuss about the official land.

Most of the official fields are in the Tokyo Daying and Xijing Daying of the Nanjing Jingying.

The two big camps occupy 30 hectares of arable land, a full [-] mu.

The sergeants of the 35th Guards occupy [-] hectares of arable land, which is indeed not much, and it is still a little small, but the burden of official land is far greater than that of ordinary civilian land. It is not an easy matter to plant these arable land well.

What's more, the two battalions actually have all the sergeants. I don't know how many there are. I heard that there are more than 5 people. , There is no way out.

Su Tiancheng suggested that [-] hectares of official land should be taken back and organized by Jiangning County for cultivation. Some subsidies could be given to the two battalions, but they must not follow the previous policy. Daying, he might as well not have these cultivated lands, after all his hard work, he made wedding clothes for others.