Chongzhen Chat Group

Uncle Liang was serious about his matter, and it was of great importance. No matter what, it was impossible for Liu Wa and others to turn a deaf ear.

The next day, Liu Wa went to the county town in person. What he saw and heard naturally overturned his previous impression. If life could be easier, who would be willing to hide in the mountains and forests as a hermit?

Not to mention other things, daily necessities and medical treatment cannot all be solved in the mountains and forests. They are not fools. They naturally know that they have made a lot of money from Liangcun people in the process of exchange with them.

Therefore, when Liu Wa took what he saw and heard to the deep mountains and old forests, without any surprises, they decided to register with the government.

Examples like this happened all over Ming Dynasty.

Some of the hermits hiding in the deep mountains and old forests learned the news from the outside in time, and most of them chose to register with the government. Only a very small number were still stubborn and refused. There are also some hidden households who do not know the news from the outside world, and then they are reported by people who know them, and the local army sends out the army to deal with them.

Fortunately, Emperor Chongzhen mentioned when he issued the edict that the army would assist in the investigation of hidden households, and those who captured alive would have the greatest credit and the best assessment. Therefore, the local army usually surrounds and captures hermits alive. Unless they encounter strong resistance, they will use swords and guns.

Before the army was dispatched, and when it was time to pay to register as a hermit household, Emperor Chongzhen used chat groups to keep track of what was going on across the country. He then discovered that the national population statistics seemed to exceed expectations.

This is of course a good thing! Different from the original history, there was no war disaster in the Ming Dynasty at this time. Although it was still the Little Ice Age, high-yielding crops had been promoted for four or five years, and the varieties had been improved a lot. The most important thing was that they did not occupy the original cultivated land, which was an additional of supplement. In addition, Nanyang was controlled by the Ming Dynasty, and a steady stream of food flowed into the Ming Dynasty, and countless people flocked to Nanyang. This entry and exit greatly reduced the food pressure of Ming Dynasty. Basically, it can be said that there was no man-made disaster and the government responded appropriately, Xiaobinghe was nothing!

At this time, the number of people in the chat group alone has reached more than 5,000. However, Emperor Chongzhen still felt that there were too few members in the chat group. Excluding factory guards, there are quite a few registered members across the country.

When the government reaches the county and township levels, at this level, members of the chat group must register for household registration. Moreover, there cannot be only one person in a place, there must be checks and balances and supervision. This is common sense to future generations, and it is naturally impossible for Emperor Chongzhen to make such a low-level mistake.

This is only the most basic. In addition, in this world, there is also a distinction between men and women. If conditions permit, a place must have two registration personnel, one male and one female, responsible for registering the local male and female population respectively.

In order to satisfy the most basic registration personnel, as long as the members in the chat group can be recruited as registrars after passing the most basic assessment and evaluation, Emperor Chongzhen transferred them to them. But even so, some places don't have any, and they have to be sent from other places.

If it weren't for the heaven-shattering artifact like the chat group, just this kind of national population registration work would probably not be completed without three or four years of effort. But even if there is such an artifact as a chat group, it has been almost a year and it is still not completed. The main reason is that there are relatively few available members in the chat group.

For this reason, Emperor Chongzhen began to add more people, adding a hundred people at once.

Unfortunately, the main chat area of ​​the chat group will not refresh automatically. That is to say, if you want to see the chat history, you can scroll up. You can view it for as long as you want. If no one is talking, it will refresh all at once, and then you have to scroll up again. Turn that kind of thing. The newly added chat history can only be seen after it is pulled up. It will be automatically updated when it is restored to the state where it was not pulled up.

The current Emperor Chongzhen will no longer inquire about the basic information of the new members one by one. There are special factory guards who are responsible for asking and recording the basic information of the new members. After summarizing the information, they will send it to the East Factory Admiral Wang Chengen or the Jinyiwei Commander Liu Xingzuo. The two of them were responsible for verifying it, and then sent the personnel information directly to Emperor Chongzhen for review. Among them, Wang Chengen and Liu Xingzuo would make it clear whoever they could use. If Emperor Chongzhen thought there was no problem, they could be recruited as factory guards or people in other positions.

I forgot to mention that Dongchang and Jinyiwei take turns doing this job.

Of course, during this process, as long as Emperor Chongzhen was interested, he could check it at any time. Because he has the right to see all the private chats of the chat group members. There is no other reason, because he is the leader of the group!

No, Emperor Chongzhen felt a little bored after adding people, so he just clicked on a few private chats to take a look. In these private conversations, it was the captain of the Imperial Guard who took his turn to ask about the newcomers. There was a private chat among them, which immediately caught his attention.

This newcomer's name is Li Dongyang. He seemed a little uneasy. He asked the Jinyi Guardsman who was chatting with him privately: "Excuse me, is this...is this a household registration? I...I didn't mean not to register. It's our master who didn't register." I asked you to register, but I don’t know how much you have to pay?”

At this time, it has reached the stage where you need to pay money to register as a hidden household. Obviously, this person named Li Dongyang did not register. He was still a hidden person. He was suddenly selected in the chat group and someone asked about basic information, which made him a little confused.

Jinyiwei Xiaowei was not responsible for registering hidden households, so he ignored the question. He only focused on his duties and continued to ask Li Dongyang for basic information. Emperor Chongzhen saw that this man named Li Dongyang was from Yingtian Prefecture and was a servant of the Zuo Shilang family of the Yingtian Prefecture's official department.

Seeing this information, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but frown.

Since the registration of hermit households, at first they were all hermit households in various cities. Those who had left their place of origin and escaped from the control of the government began to register one after another. Because all parts of the country are registering as hidden households, those who have deregistered their citizenship know that they cannot escape, so they basically register. It can be said that these people were the main ones who initially registered as hermit households. So much so that Emperor Chongzhen thought that all the hidden households in the city were basically registered.

In the second stage, the main registered hidden households are those who fled to the deep mountains and forests. In Emperor Chongzhen's mind, he felt that everything that should be registered should be almost done. But when he looked at it, he suddenly came back to his senses, as if he had forgotten the wealthy slave of a powerful family. Among these people, there are probably many hermits like Li Dongyang.

With this in mind, he chatted with Li Dongyang privately and said, "How many people in the Li family have a recluse like you?"

When Li Dongyang saw the person who had sent the private message, he recognized him as the owner of the chat group. I didn’t know what it was about in reality. For a moment, I didn’t dare to answer and fell silent.

When Emperor Chongzhen saw it, he continued: "No one will see our private chat. Telling the truth is good for you. If you don't tell me about this kind of thing, I have other ways to ask. I believe this It shouldn’t be a very secret thing!”

When Li Dongyang saw this private chat, he thought for a moment and finally replied: "To reply to the group leader, we are all children of the Li family, and generally we will not go to the government to register. Unless one day in the future, the master can let us If you go out to start a family of your own, or if you have merit and gain a job as a foreigner, you may register with the government depending on the situation. As far as our Li family is concerned, there are a total of five people who have not registered with the government!"

Obviously, since he decided to answer, he said a lot in one breath and in great detail.

When Emperor Chongzhen saw it, his thoughts were as expected. Then, he asked: "Situations like Li's house should be very common, right?"

"Of course, this is the case in many houses. Generally, no one will report a child to the official to register." As a servant of an official family, Li Dongyang naturally has more knowledge than ordinary people, so he continued to introduce, " Under normal circumstances, there will be more wealthy families; more land for long-standing aristocratic families; more land for dignitaries and royal relatives."

Seeing these words, Emperor Chongzhen thought for a moment, nodded, and understood the reason.

After being silent for a moment, he said to Li Dongyang: "I told you, it will be beneficial for you to tell the truth. From now on, you will serve as a spy for the Dongchang Division and be under the direct jurisdiction of the Dongchang Admiral. Are you willing?"

There are rumors in later generations that the private conversations between Ming officials and their wives in bed could be known to the emperor the next day. There was a high probability that there was a factory guard spy in this official's house, and Ting Qianggen heard about it and reported it.

Whether to become a servant or a member of the factory guard spies is a choice that many people can make without even thinking about it. The previous emperors had such a layout, and Emperor Chongzhen had this chat group, which made the layout even easier.

Li Dongyang was stunned after hearing what Emperor Chongzhen said. Because this is a text display, only one person in the world can use the word "I". It was a little hard for him to believe that the person he just chatted with would be the wise and powerful Emperor of the Ming Dynasty?

Those who have never seen the world may be stunned, may have doubts, etc. But for Li Dongyang, he could immediately figure out how to respond. Therefore, he was just silent for a while and then quickly agreed. Anyway, even if this thing is false, he still has a lot of roots. If it is true, that would be great!

Emperor Chongzhen ignored Li Dongyang and thought about the situation of the two men under his command.

Wang Cheng'en, the admiral of Dongchang, has always lived in the palace. There should be no family members to give birth to children, and no private households to raise children in secret.

Liu Xingzuo, the commander of Jinyiwei, came to Beijing alone in his early years and was not from a wealthy family. When I was alone, I was basically in the government office all day long. Later, he issued an order to Lu Xiangsheng and rescued his family, and then he had his own mansion. In the past few years, there must have been slaves, but it should be unlikely that the family would have children, and the probability of having a hidden house should be small. Even if there is, not much.

On the side of the capital camp were all the original New Army soldiers who had made contributions to the pacification of Liaodong. They were all newcomers to the capital, and most of their original family backgrounds were poor. There would be no hidden households in these people's homes. Of course, if it takes more than ten years or something, it will be difficult to say.

This means that there is no problem with these manpower.

With this in mind, Emperor Chongzhen privately chatted with Wang Chengen and Liu Xingzuo in the chat group and asked them directly if they had hidden households?

"Your Majesty, I have always lived in the palace. Even if I was given the courage to do so, I would not dare to keep a private household in the palace!" Wang Chengen's answer was the fastest, with almost no hesitation.

Liu Xingzuo was a little slower: "Your Majesty, there are two servants in the general's house who are only about a year old and have not yet reported to the government for registration. I wonder if this is considered a hidden household?"

In this era, the mortality rate of young children was still very high. Emperor Chongzhen himself had many premature deaths in his original history. In this plane, for some unknown reason, his hit rate is very low, but as long as he is hit and is born, he seems to have never died.

In the previous decree requiring registration, it was based on the age at which children can attend children's schools. In other words, before this, there was actually no requirement to register.

After Emperor Chongzhen knew this, he replied to Wang Chengen: "Wang Daban, please conduct a secret investigation to see who is in the palace outside and who has how many hidden houses. I want to know clearly, do you understand? Remember, don’t let anyone know about this!”

"Your Majesty, don't worry, I will act with caution!" Wang Chengen agreed immediately upon seeing it.

He knew in his heart that the emperor repeatedly emphasized that it meant that no one could know, not even his godfather.

The emperor gave such a decree, and Wang Chengen actually did not dare to violate it. Because he didn't know who else was in the chat group in the palace and who was the emperor's direct informant. If you dare to sneak around behind the emperor's back, you don't even know when the emperor will know about it. Such a risky thing is not worth it.

Of course, there was another reason. The emperor said this, and combined with the recent affairs of the imperial court to register hidden households, he knew that this matter was actually his opportunity. It is impossible for him to continue in the position of admiral of Dongchang. This is something that no emperor would allow. But other good positions are owned by others, so there is a conflict of interest.

After Emperor Chongzhen ordered Wang Chengen, he ordered Liu Xingzuo: "According to the previous requirements for hiding households issued by the imperial court, let me count the princes, nobles, civil and military officials in the capital, as well as the wealthy merchants, in their mansions, How many hidden households have not registered? Remember, this must be done quickly and secretly, you know?”

Liu Xingzuo's task was obviously much more important than Wang Chengen's task of only checking people in the palace. However, Liu Xingzuo didn't hesitate at all and agreed immediately. If you have difficulties, just go back and overcome them.

Sure enough, Wang Chengen completed the task first. Three days later, a list was submitted to Emperor Chongzhen through the most secret chat group contact method.

After Emperor Chongzhen verified the list through other channels, he read it with confidence.

This list is sorted according to the number of hidden households. Emperor Chongzhen only glanced at the beginning and thought to himself, it is indeed so!

Thanks to Yi Ye Zhi Qiu 111, StarkQidian, Cats are the treasures of the world for the reward!