Domineering Daming

Zhu Ciye's small face was stunned, as if he had thought for a while, and said: "If you want to treat both symptoms and root causes, you have to pay equal attention to grace and power."

Sun Chengzong smiled and did not comment.

It stands to reason that Zhu Ciye's answer is the most comprehensive, normal, reasonable, and appropriate, but it seems to be worse than His Royal Highness's.

Zhu Cixiu didn't realize it, he was still young, seeing that Sun Chengzong didn't speak, he suddenly wanted to ride a horse, so Su Yinyin arranged for a guard to ride the horse with him.

Zhu Ciye watched the fourth brother go out, took out a book from his arms, and looked at it self-consciously.

Sun Chengzong noticed this detail and smiled calmly.

When Sun Chengzong returned to his hometown, Liu Wentian's memorial to exterminate Li Zicheng also flew into the cabinet, which naturally caused a shock in the cabinet.

The court has been looking for this person for many years, and finally eradicated him, which is considered to have eliminated a heart disease.

Sun Chuanting took this opportunity to once again strictly order the Ministry of Security to carry out a nationwide sweep of bandits, vowing to wipe out all bandits in the territory!

The matter of Sun Chengzong diverted Daming's attention for a short time, but when Sun Chengzong left, the attention of the ruling and opposition parties still fell on the "New Deal".

The Ministry of Officials is adjusting officials in Henan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, and Shandong, especially at the magistrate level. It is planned to take four months to complete the adjustment.

This kind of shock is far better than last year's adjustments to the three northern provinces, and it indicates that the imperial court will make major changes to the bottom-level counties across the country.

At the same time, the "division plan" was advanced to the three northern provinces, and the imperial court was almost doing its best to promote the land division plan of the three provinces of Beizhili, Shandong, and Shanxi. Whether it was manpower, material resources or energy, they were all concentrated here.

This is the beginning of the customs. The imperial court does not allow any accidents to happen, and must be dealt with properly and quickly.

Sun Chuanting, Fu Changzong, Zhou Yingqiu and other cabinet ministers came out of Beijing one after another, entered and left the front line, and vigorously promoted the progress of various tasks.

The disasters in these three provinces were equally serious, and the land annexation was fierce. As the imperial court began to divide the land, it naturally ushered in an extremely enthusiastic response. I don’t know how many people began to take the initiative to help the court divide the land, which solved a lot of headaches.

With the progress of land division, the problem of more people and less land began to emerge, especially in Beizhili, where the problem was particularly serious, with millions of acres more than the imperial court's pre-planned!

The same is true for Shandong and Shanxi. There are many places that are directly vacant, and the population is not as large as the court estimated.

Chapter 1532

Jingzheng ten years, June.

Daming was extremely hot in June this year, and the early heat wave swept over Daming.

Shandong, Yanzhou Prefecture.

Governor Feng Jiangfeng, accompanied by the prefect Zhou Zhikai, is inspecting the situation of the division of land in Yanzhou Prefecture.

With the sun above their heads, a group of people were sweating profusely, their clothes were drenched, their horses were tired and their people were exhausted.

Zhou Zhikai stood at the top of a field, looking at the sparse wheat fields that were not in a state of harvest, frowned and said: "My lord, last winter was colder than usual, with knee-high snow, I don't know how many grains were frozen to death, even if The same is true for sweet potatoes and corn, and I am afraid that it will be another year of reduced production.”

Feng Jiangfeng, as the governor of Shandong, naturally knew the situation, and said with his hands behind his back: "Well, when I entered Beijing last year, I reported to the cabinet that there may be further tax cuts this year."

Zhou Zhikai could only do so, but said: "Your Excellency, you can't always rely on the imperial court to reduce taxes. The imperial court's '[-] million silver plan' will always bottom out, and we have to find a way by ourselves."

Zhou Zhikai was a member of the first three sessions of the Royal Political Council. Under the current environment, reaching the prefect level can be regarded as a person with outstanding ability, which is an exceptional promotion.

Feng Jiangfeng nodded and said: "In the past, we always felt that the cabinet was moving too quickly and wanted to slow down, but now it seems that it is still slow."

The change of public opinion on the "Jingzheng New Deal" in the Ming Dynasty was not only due to the court's persistent propaganda, but also due to practical reasons.The worsening of the disaster has prompted many people to reflect and change their positions.

Zhou Zhikai was silent for a while, and said: "Although the weather was very cold last year, fortunately, the Ministry of Industry did its best to repair the water conservancy projects and did not cause floods. The situation in Shandong is better than other provinces."

Feng Jiangfeng glanced at the officials behind him, looked at their fatigue, and said with a smile: "You don't have to worry so much, Qin Tianjian has been observing and studying the disaster situation for these years. They said a few years ago that it will happen in the next few years These are the worst years, and the situation this year is already weakening, maybe it will be more obvious next year, and in a few years, the disaster will pass."

Sure enough, after listening to Feng Jiangfeng's words, the expressions of the group of people improved a little, with more smiles on their faces.

Seeing this, Zhou Zhikai said, "My lord, the distribution of land in Yanzhou Prefecture is relatively smooth, and the household registration situation is relatively good. It is estimated that the distribution of land will be completed within two years, and the policy of the imperial court will be implemented. It is estimated that there will be a buffer of one to two years. back to normal.”

Feng Jiangfeng looked up at the sun, and said: "Well, this is about the same as the court's prediction, but we still need to step up the pace. Especially the problems discovered, don't cover up, focus on solving them, and spread them out so that other places can avoid them. "

Dividing land is an extremely complicated matter, involving such great interests, not to mention officials, big gentry households, even ordinary people want to share more land and get more subsidies.

It is a group of demons dancing wildly, and all the means of demons and ghosts are used. Feng Jiangfeng, as the governor of Shandong, has already learned the lesson.

Zhou Zhikai, as the specific executive and guardian, naturally has a deeper understanding, nodded solemnly and said: "Your official understands."

Feng Jiangfeng looked at the withered fields and said, "Go a few more places and have a look."

Zhou Zhikai nodded, and followed Feng Jiangfeng to brave the scorching heat and walked forward.

Shanxi, Taigu County.

The county magistrate Gu Qianli, who had been in office for less than a year, looked at the household registration in his hand, and stared at the group of people in front of him with a livid face.

They have county magistrates, chief bookkeepers, pawns, prison team captains, etc., all of whom are high-ranking county officials. At this moment, their heads are bowed, and their expressions are changing.

Gu Qianli suppressed his anger, slowly closed the household registration book, and said sullenly: "In this household registration book, there are 3000 more people out of thin air, that is to say, there must be at least [-] mu of land. Can it really be hidden from me? Or can it be hidden from the inspection of the imperial court?"

A group of people bowed their heads and did not speak. The things inside were unspeakable, and it was not just one or two people involved.

Gu Qianli is an outsider after all, and he still can't sort out the complicated power network in the local area, but he can use those new government offices to start a new stove and break through these obstacles.

This time, he also used the Law Enforcement Bureau to discover the tricks. The group of people in front of him were huddling together to set him up!

Gu Qianli's expression was suddenly surprisingly calm, and he said: "You guys will live in the yamen for the time being, and I will deal with it after I investigate clearly."

A county magistrate's expression changed drastically, and he said, "My lord, are you going to put us under house arrest?"

The other people were equally astonished. If they were placed under house arrest, they might not be able to get out again!

Gu Qianli did not speak, a team of Law Enforcement Bureau members strode in, and the leader raised his hand to Gu Qianli, saying: "My lord, the prison team has been impeached, and other relevant government officials have also been ordered to stay in the county government. Move. The county police team has already assembled and is expected to arrive in a quarter of an hour."

The faces of the group of people changed rapidly when they heard this, and cold sweat broke out on their heads.

The magistrate of Gu County has mobilized such a large force without saying a word, and controlled all their forces, and they can no longer tolerate their resistance.

Gu Qianli stood up and said calmly: "Invite them to the back office. From this moment on in the county office, no one is allowed to leave the house, and not a single fly is allowed to fly out!"

The leader of the law enforcement team replied in a deep voice: "Yes! Do it, whoever dares to resist will be killed on the spot!"

Under the leadership of Wang Zhou, the Law Enforcement Bureau was murderous and killed many people.These small officials like the county magistrates were also frightened by the news, they dared not resist, they were uneasy, pale-faced and were crushed into the backyard.

Gu Qianli had already planned to leave the government quickly, borrow people from the magistrate's yamen, and at the same time arrange his manpower and the new yamen to act quickly to investigate the fraud in the "division plan".

Situations like this have occurred one after another throughout the three northern provinces, and almost no county is clean, with demons and ghosts coming out.

The reason is that these county magistrates are all outsiders, and the time they have come here is too short to sort out the relationship network and control the situation.

But the imperial court gave great support, especially the support of the Law Enforcement Bureau and the garrison, which suppressed the local officials and gentry to death.