Chongzhen and I became partners

Chapter 919 Frightened
When Emperor Chongzhen heard the movement, he immediately turned his head and looked over, and asked with a smile, "How is everything done?"

After hearing this, Princess Kunxing just smiled, but didn't reply. She turned around, took the tray from the maid who was following her, and handed it to Emperor Chongzhen.

Seeing this scene, everyone turned their heads to look at the tray in Princess Kunxing's hand, but the tray was covered with a red cloth, so they couldn't see what was inside.

But they can all guess that the things on the tray are definitely related to what they did in the back hall before.

Thinking of this, they were very curious and wanted to see, what kind of thing came out?
However, there is one thing they are certain of.If this thing is not important, the emperor will not bring them here in person.

Emperor Chongzhen stretched out his hand, took off the piece of red cloth, handed it to the waiter who was waiting beside him, and then took an object from the tray to look at it.

Sun Chuanting and the others were all staring at it, and immediately saw what the emperor picked up, which seemed to be a booklet, very thin and small, only about a quarter of the size of an ordinary book.The cover appears to be made of rubber though.

What is this?
Immediately, everyone had such thoughts again.

As they thought about it, they saw that Emperor Chongzhen had already got the booklet, and opened it casually to read it.

"Not bad, not bad!" Emperor Chongzhen nodded with a smile and said, "This is the effect I want! It's done!"

After finishing speaking, he looked up at Sun Chuanting, the chief assistant of the cabinet, and said, "Sun Qing, this is yours, keep it!"

After finishing speaking, the servant next to him quickly took it, and then handed it over to Sun Chuanting.

Everyone turned their heads to look over, and saw that the booklet in Sun Chuanting's hand was a rubber cover with a few words printed on it, which were relatively large, and they could all see clearly. Among them were three words written vertically in the middle of the cover: ID card, and then Write a line of smaller characters horizontally below: Produced by the Daming Household Department.

Sun Chuanting could see it clearly, and couldn't help but have a doubt in his heart, ID card?What is this?Proof of identity?
With such thoughts in his heart, he quickly opened the cover to take a look, and was immediately stunned.

I saw that there was a portrait exactly like him in the middle of the upper part of the opened page. To be precise, it was a shrunken portrait, absolutely lifelike.If I really want to say it, it's a little worse than the photo taken by the emperor's treasured mobile phone, because this portrait is black and white.

Below this portrait, there are rows of small characters.

The first line is, name: Sun Chuanting, character: Boya.

The second line is, household registration: Mingzhaofang, Chang'an Avenue, East Chang'an Street, Beijing.

The third line is, ID number: 010101 Wanli 2111.

After Sun Chuanting finished looking at it, he turned this page again, and found that there was a line of small characters on the back page that said, in November of the 23rd year of Chongzhen, Sun Chuanting served as the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty.On these words, there is also a small red seal, which is the words of the Ministry of Households of the Ming Dynasty.Then it was blank, and there were two more blank pages behind.

After that, there is another rubber bottom with a line printed on it: March of the 26th year of Chongzhen.

After reading it, Sun Chuanting could probably guess what it was, but there were still many things he didn't understand, so he quickly raised his head and asked Emperor Chongzhen, "Your Majesty, is this identity... certificate used for the population management of the Ming Dynasty?"

Although there used to be household registration and the like, but to be honest, it was just a little text description, which was very vague.The same is true, there are many hidden households.

Although it has been rectified on a large scale, such bad habits will inevitably still exist. If the management is lax at any time, there may be a large increase in hidden households.

It is said that in Fujian and Guangdong, many people from the Nanyang feudal kingdom have become hidden households of local big families.

And this ID card, with this portrait and detailed information, if someone becomes a hermit, it will not be easy.

In any case, population management has been very important in all dynasties, but it is also a very difficult thing to understand.

After all, everything needs to be done by people. If you don't even know how many people are under your command, and who are there, basically things will be difficult to handle!

At this time, upon hearing Sun Chuanting's question, Emperor Chongzhen said a little proudly: "That's right, this ID card will be used for population management in the future. All Ming people, excluding feudal states and others, must have this ID card." ID card. In other words, only the local people of Ming Dynasty can have this ID card, and they can enjoy the rights and obligations they still have!"

The Kingdom of the Heavenly Dynasty must look like the Kingdom of the Heavenly Dynasty, otherwise, people from the vassal state will flock to the mainland, and wait until there are too many people to deal with it, and there will be a lot of trouble.

After hearing this, Sun Chuanting quickly asked again: "Then, is there anything special about this ID number?"

He didn't know about the others. The Wanli 21 in the middle should refer to the year of Wanli 21, the year and month of his birth. He could still guess this, and because of this, he also felt that the other numbers had some meaning!
"That's right!" Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said after hearing this: "The first two represent provinces, the third and fourth represent mansions, the fifth and sixth represent counties, and then the date of birth of the ID card holder, and then the 1 It means that the person is male, 2 means female, and 3 means other. The last digit is the check digit, which can be obtained according to certain rules, and can be used to initially verify whether the ID card is genuine or not!"

Hearing this, the people at the Supervisor of Rituals silently classified themselves as 3.

After Sun Chuanting listened to it, he asked again: "What is written on the white paper behind is what this person is going to do now, or what is going to be done?"

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said, "That's right, if there is something to leave the place of residence, it must be noted after this, it is for the way."

"Then what if it's all written?" Sun Chuanting obviously planned to ask the rhythm clearly in one breath, and immediately continued to ask.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he immediately smiled, and said again: "If the paper is full, you have to go to the government to change it again. The first ID card is issued for free, but if you want to change it later, you will have to charge money!"

After a pause, he thought for a while, and then added: "If you are only traveling within the county, you don't need to indicate it. If you leave the county, you have to go to the county government to indicate the situation!"

Fifteen years before Chongzhen, or before the steam train was invented, and before the cement official road was rebuilt, most of the people lived their whole lives around the place where they were born, within a radius of twenty miles, and the farthest they could go to the county town was actually. .

After the invention of the steam train and the rebuilding of the cement official roads, the transportation became more convenient, and the cost of travel was reduced, so the range of activities of the people would be wider.However, no matter how big it is, it is actually limited. Most of the people probably will not leave their own county.

Those who often appear are either students studying, but more businessmen.As for travel, in this era, it is only the ability of officials and rich families that can have it.

Therefore, if this first ID card will be used up voluntarily, it is estimated that it is a rich family.For the vast majority of people, the three blank pages, estimated based on the existing small characters, would never be finished in a lifetime.

For these, Sun Chuanting only thought of it in a blink of an eye. Originally, he wanted to ask for this identity certificate because he didn't know how much it would cost, but now he didn't ask.

Those rich people's money will never be taken seriously as a proof of identity.

After thinking about all these, Sun Chuanting couldn't help saying with emotion: "The identity certificate set up by His Majesty is amazing to me, and it is actually the most important tool for governing the country!"

It was the first time for him to see this identity certificate, so he couldn't think of any flaws at all for a while. What's more, it was the solution of this identity certificate to the previous governance problems. up.That's why he felt so emotional!

The other senior officials of the Ming Dynasty could only take a glance at Sun Chuanting, but they didn't know what was in the booklet. Listening to the conversation between Sun Chuanting and the emperor, they became very curious.

Especially after hearing from Sun Chuanting that this brochure was the most important tool for governing the country, they were so hooked that they wanted to snatch the brochure from Sun Chuanting's hands. Let's see what it was that received such high praise?

However, this is in front of the imperial court, and the object is the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, the idea of ​​grabbing it can only be thought of in the heart.

Fortunately, they didn't have to wait too long. After finishing talking with Sun Chuanting, Emperor Chongzhen signaled Princess Kunxing to pass the plate directly to the servants below, and asked Sun Chuanting to roll the name and issue all these identity certificates.

After a while, all the high-ranking officials of Ming Dynasty who had been photographed got their identity certificates, and each of them looked at them without saying a word, especially staring at the portrait, which looked very strange.

Among them, Ni Yuanlu, Minister of the Ministry of Households, saw the information on the identity certificate, and immediately understood that the production of identity certificates in the future would be handed over to the Ministry of Households, and she was even more overjoyed.

He was different from Sun Chuanting. After reaching this conclusion in his mind, he remembered that Emperor Chongzhen had told Shoufu that this identity certificate would be free.Thinking of the current population of the Ming Dynasty, my heart skipped a beat, and I hurriedly said to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, this identity certificate is probably not cheap. If everyone has a free identity certificate, this... this household Are you afraid you can’t afford it?”

This thing is definitely a good thing, and what Shoufu said is the most important tool for governing the country is definitely not just what he said.However, if he thought it was free, it would be too painful!

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen certainly understood what he meant, and immediately said with a smile: "The current cost, just such a booklet, costs about ten taels of silver!"

"What?" Ni Yuanlu was shocked when she heard this, "Ten taels of silver? This... this...how can it be free? No, even if it's not free, most people probably won't be able to afford it!"

(End of this chapter)