Wanli Youming

Chapter 81
In the fourth year of Wanli, the season of golden osmanthus fragrance.

Great Ming capital.

Zhao Zhenji and Hai Rui, the two senior officials who supervised the Qingzhang Tianmu pilot project in the north and the south, have both entered Beijing during this time.

"Your Majesty!"

"Beizhi Qingzhang added 360 acres of cultivated land."

"Nanzhi Qingzhang added 570 mu of cultivated land."

"The total number of acres of cultivated land has increased by nearly [-]%."

And because of this.

On this day, inside the Yuntai Gate of the Forbidden City.

While drinking tea, Zhu Yijun listened to Wang Guoguang, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, report on the achievements of the Northern and Southern Straight Trials.

Gradually, after Zhu Yijun heard that the north-south two direct Qingzhang alone had increased more than 900 million mu of cultivated land, he, Zhang Juzheng, Lu Tiaoyang and other ministers present all laughed.

You must know that the increase of more than 900 million mu of cultivated land in the north and the south means that a large amount of land tax will be increased.

"Very good, Qingzhang is really effective!"

Zhu Yijun then nodded, said something, and then asked: "I think the increase of more than 900 million acres of cultivated land and the increased taxes will be enough for this year's various expenses?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, it will not only be enough for this year's expenses, but also save some three million taels of silver and more than one million stone grains."

Hubu Shangshu Wang Guoguang replied.

Hearing what Wang Guoguang said, Zhu Yijun began to read "Guofeng" at this moment:

"The big rat, the big rat,
No food for me!

Three-year-old girl,

Mo I am willing to care. "

After reading it, Zhu Yijun said: "Is there a new policy to benefit the people that needs to be implemented as soon as possible? It should be implemented as soon as possible while the national funds are abundant."

"In order not to store a large amount of money and food in the warehouse, it will be stolen by the corrupt officials in charge."

"So, it's better to use the money and food to benefit the country and the people as soon as possible. As the saying goes, take it from the people and use it for the people!"

Except for Zhang Juzheng, all the ministers were shocked when they heard what Zhu Yijun said. They thought that His Majesty was so unimpressive about the integrity of the officials in the world, instead of thinking that most of the officials in the world are honest and upright.

Zhang Siwei even glanced at Zhang Juzheng.

He hoped that Zhang Juzheng, the only person who could force the emperor to change his mind, could correct the emperor's inappropriate idea in time.

The so-called king does not keep secret, then loses the minister;

The emperor now wants to use the surplus state funds to benefit the people immediately, just because he is worried about the officials who take care of the money and food.

What is this like?

However, Zhang Juzheng did not make such remonstrance after getting up at this time, but cupped his hands and said:
"Reporting to Your Majesty, the river course has not been dredged for many years, and this time during the Nanzhi Qingzhang period, it was reported that many dams in Jiangxi area were in disrepair for a long time, and due to the excessive rain in Jiangxi this year, many dykes burst. As for a large number of civilian fields being flooded."

"So in my humble opinion, it is better to send officials to be Prime Minister He Dao, and first go to Jiangxi to control the floods and provide disaster relief. The part of the Fu that has not yet been transported to Beijing and collected in Nanzhi can be used as Jiangxi's flood control and disaster relief. Great savings on road transportation."

"allow!"

Zhu Yijun replied.

Zhang Siwei looked at Zhang Juzheng in surprise because of this.

He didn't expect that Zhang Juzheng was already prepared to use the surplus state money to do something to benefit the people!
Zhang Siwei has reason to suspect that the emperor does not believe in the integrity of the world's officials, I am afraid that they are taught by Zhang Juzheng.

"This time, the officials responsible for implementing the New Deal have made great contributions to the clearing of the two acres of land in the north and south. They should be rewarded to encourage the officials who have not cleared the land."

At this time, Zhu Yijun mentioned rewarding reformist officials again, and then issued an edict: "The executive officials will be rewarded with an additional level of casual officials, double salaries below prefectures and counties, three salaries above Daotai, and governors and general soldiers. 1 taels of silver, and 2 taels of silver from the governor.”

Zhu Yijun's doing so is equivalent to raising honest money, and it saves the officials who implement the reform from being offended by the imperial court too much, but because they get too little reward, they are prone to psychological imbalance, and are more likely to be abused by powerful families. Hao right corrosion.

"His Majesty!"

Hai Rui stood up at this moment and said: "In my humble opinion, the increase in state funds should not be used to reward officials generously. It is the duty of officials in the world to act according to the imperial order. If the imperial court appreciates their achievements in governance , It’s enough to be promoted to an official position, why should there be a big reward, wouldn’t that violate the sacred teachings? Who reads the sage books and becomes an official, not for the sake of the common people, but for wealth?”

Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "It's not that everyone is you Haigangfeng. The generous rewards now are also for the sake of punishing anyone who dares to plunder the people's wealth in the name of the New Deal in the future. In this way, it is not regarded as punishment for not teaching."

"Yes!"

Hai Rui responded with joy in his heart, without striving.

He admitted that the emperor was right, that not everyone could be an official like him and follow the requirements of a saint.

"In addition, next, in addition to promoting the clearing of land and acres across the country, there is also the matter of opening the sea. Once the sea is opened, more naval forces will be trained. The cabinet should discuss with the Ministry of War to determine the number of naval vessels that need to be trained. The size of the division, and who needs to be recommended as the commander of the training division! I have decided that all the new divisions will be called the Yongwei Battalion."

At this time, Zhu Yijun talked about the training of sailors again, and all the ministers quickly said "obey the order".

Then, Zhu Yijun said again: "Recently, I ordered my servants to conduct investigations and statistics on the native places and family backgrounds of those who won the first place in the palace examinations of the Kingdom Dynasty."

"As a result, I found out that the number of mid-rankers who were born as common people has become less and less in the previous palace examination quotas, and an imbalance has begun to appear now!"

"This is of course because scholars from common people have less opportunity to come into contact with famous writers and famous works of the time than the children of bureaucrats and gentry, so scholars from common people are more likely to fail."

"But if this situation is allowed to continue, it will not help me and the court to know the sufferings of ordinary people."

"Therefore, I have decided to add another [-] Jinshi quotas on the basis of the existing Jinshi quota, as a special quota for recruiting scholars of common people's origin."

"By analogy, the number of such places in the township examination and the hospital examination should also be increased."

"As for this, we should set a standard for judging that a certain scholar can be classified as a child of common people's origin, such as no more than one hundred acres of land in the clan, or no one who is more than filial and honest within three generations."

"After the cabinet meeting with the Ministry of Rites, it will be played immediately."

Zhu Yijun gave orders after speaking.

Therefore, this time, not only the other ministers except Zhang Juzheng were surprised, but even Zhang Juzheng himself was quite surprised.

He has to admit that the Son of Heaven is really good at finding out what should be done in all kinds of chapters and files, especially loves to do various surveys and statistics.

Zhang Juzheng was happy about this, but he actually neglected to teach the emperor to pay attention to mathematics and statistics.

But governing the country is not only about finding current problems from history, but also finding problems from various figures.

And now, his emperor's student has mastered this skill on his own initiative, so he is naturally happy.

　I am going to Sanjiang, thank you for your follow-up and support so that I can go to Sanjiang.However, it happened to be positive at this time, which caused the update to fail. Not to mention that the temperature reached 39.6 the day before yesterday, and it also reached 39.2 last night. The strain I encountered is definitely the most poisonous strain. Low-grade fever, dizzy head, but after all, it was the first day of going to Sanjiang, and I couldn’t stop changing, so I gritted my teeth and wrote a chapter with my mobile phone, but I could only update one chapter, so as not to be affected by fatigue, so forgive me , there is only one update tonight.

　
(End of this chapter)