Wanli Youming

Chapter 436

Chapter 436

After Zhu Yijun asked Zhang Jing to reorganize the Jinyiwei and set up an informant system, there was indeed a big change in the officialdom. So in addition to many people being convicted, one cabinet minister and two ministers were dismissed at once.

However, the intensity of the big blood exchange was much weaker than before.

The main reason is that since Daming has started to profit from the outside world, the degree of internal strife has also begun to weaken.

The crude way of increasing national funds by ransacking homes did not appear on a large scale.

It is also in order not to affect the worries of the people that they will only be taken by the court after they get money, so they are only obsessed with seizing power, pursuing short-term violent wealth collection and short-term luxury enjoyment, and do not make long-term financial management plans.

Pan Sheng, Xu Xuemo, and Yang Wei all returned to their hometowns for the elderly by taking away their official titles.

Zhu Yijun also specially bestowed a golden plaque of "Being Loyal and Virtuous" to the three of them, and specially ordered to build a memorial archway to show their merits, which can be regarded as recognizing their merits as an emperor, praising their virtues, and protecting their family honor.

And Zhu Yijun did this in order to let his family not do short-sighted things because of this honor, such as conniving their children to spend money, not being friendly with neighbors, not actively engaging in social undertakings, and not maintaining local stability for the court.

The remaining ruling ministers who have not resigned are also relieved.

They knew that the emperor didn't mean to be mean and ungrateful, so they were grateful for the emperor's kindness and didn't want to go back to seclusion. At the same time, they strictly restrained their children, hoping to stay in the high position for a little longer and realize their unfinished ambitions.

of course.

The reason why Shen Shixing and other ruling ministers did not forcefully oppose the informant system was not only because the emperor did not want to be mean and ungrateful, but because they got along with the emperor very close and knew that the real intention of the emperor to set up the informant system was to control the domestic bureaucrats and officials. At the same time, it prepares for the large-scale development of foreign interests in the future to benefit the people of the world.

And now.

Mining interests have begun to show signs of benefiting the people. As the ruling bureaucrats, they have naturally occupied the main part of the cake distributed to the people in the world, so they can bear it and are willing to restrain their children in order to wait for external benefits. Cash in, it's hard work.

Although the informant system puts all the officials and gentry in danger, and they have to strictly restrain their children to preserve their family reputation and their official careers, but for the common people, everyone is more peaceful and starts to work hard to earn money.

The self-healing ability of the Han people has always been very strong.

As long as officials and subordinates and gentry do not disturb them, they can quickly recover after being robbed. Even if they lose their land and property, they can still reclaim new fertile fields and open new workshops, turning a depressed place into a new one. Agriculture and handicrafts developed again.

In the late spring of the 13th year of Wanli, Li Rusong was on his way back to Beijing when his class teacher saw the towns around Jizhou, which were much more lively than when he went north last year.

There are many vendors, shops are scattered, and there are many more people farming. It is difficult to see lazy people, and many people have even started farming on the barren and steep mountain land.

He took the initiative to ask a commoner named Jie Bailiang: "What kind of plant is this old man?"

This Jie Bailiang said: "Sweet potatoes grown!"

Li Rusong couldn't help asking: "Sweet potatoes have been popularized for many years, why did the elderly just start planting them now?"

"In the past, it was planted for the gentry and officials, but now it is planted for yourself. Can it be the same?"

Explain twelve times.

"Why do you say that? Could it be that sweet potatoes are easy to plant now?"

Li Rusong asked.

Xie Shiliang said: "I can see that you, a nobleman, don't know the real situation. According to the previous situation, you cultivated soil and cracked rocks, and finally opened up a new land. As soon as you planted sweet potatoes, the officials came to tell you, where is this land? The land of the old man said that it has been listed in the fish scale book, if you want to plant it, you have to pay rent, otherwise you have to take it to the government office and put it in the prison to wait for disposal! In this way, who dares to open up new land to grow sweet potatoes?"

"So it's not that sweet potatoes are bad, it's that people's hearts are too bad!"

"Is it better now?"

Li Rusong asked.

Xie Shiliang said: "Anyway, it's much better than before! No country gentry or official dares to come to ask for newly cultivated land. If they dare to come to ask for it, they can go to the post station and sue the emperor. Offending the imperial court; therefore, the big guy dared to reclaim the mountain land to grow sweet potatoes again. Although I am already seventy years old, I don’t want to be idle any longer. In the famine year, you don’t need to gnaw the bark, and you can make dried sweet potatoes and sell them in the market for some money.”

"Selling very sweet dried potatoes!"

"Girl, do you want a bowl of roasted potatoes?"

"Potato broth, make it and eat it now!"

In the early summer of the 13th year of Wanli, the weather was warm and breezy, and the area around Jizhou was also lush and green.

While the people in this area began to actively develop sweet potatoes in the barren mountainous areas, the potatoes harvested from the barren mountainous areas have been sold by small vendors along the market streets.

Seeing this scene, Li Rusong told the emperor to know.

"It can be seen that in order to make farming and mulberry more developed and the world richer, it is not enough to discover high-yield crops and promote and encourage people to develop mountainous areas."

"It must be supplemented by a system that restricts officials and gentry from disturbing and plundering the people!"

"At the same time, the imperial court must uphold the principle of not taking the people's interests to the fullest to govern the country. Otherwise, no matter how hardworking the people are, they will be lazy and stubborn, and they will find high-yield crops, build water conservancy projects in vain, and build many new roads for the people's convenience. !"

Zhu Yijun also learned about the same sentiments from the governors from all over the country, so he spoke to Shen Shixing and other ruling ministers in the imperial court.

"What Your Majesty said is true, and this system is because of the new rituals before people are willing to recognize such a system. After all, the new rituals put more emphasis on respecting the common people and protecting the lives and property of the people."

"Therefore, it is necessary to clarify the status of the new rites, and compile a new "Daming Huidian" based on the new rites."

Shishi Xingdao.

Zhu Yijun nodded: "That's right, I ordered to compile a new code of association."

"According to the order!"

So, just like that, the Ming Dynasty began to really take the new rites as the key point and write new codes, which is equivalent to using this as the constitution to establish a series of new systems that truly benefit the people and strengthen the country.

While writing the new canon, Li Rusong and Liang Yuanlong also returned to Beijing in triumph.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun ordered Jin Li Rusong to be the marquis at the Xuanzhi Gate on the day he looked at the court, and his hereditary succession made the Li family one family and two marquises, in order to remember Li Rusong's achievements in opening up the desert.

At the same time, Liang Yuanlong, who survived the wind and cold and came back in summer, was also conferred the title of Doctor Fengzhi and directly promoted to the rank of member of the Examination Department, Wailang, to show his importance.

Besides.

Zhu Yijun also specially summoned the two people on the platform after the court was over.

The reason why Zhu Yijun valued them so much was naturally that what they did was of great significance.

Although Li Rusong and others only wiped out a tribe on the shore of Lake Baikal in later generations and erected many monuments, the martial virtues they brought to Wanli are immeasurable.

"Qing's helmet is also dented a lot!"

When Zhu Yijun summoned Li Rusong and Liang Yuanlong, he first looked at Li Rusong and said this.

(End of this chapter)