Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 263 Abandoned Registration
Zhu Youjian in the Qianqing Palace was looking through the new playbook by Wen Tiren, the first assistant, about the abolition of the household registration and low-level registration systems implemented since the founding of the Taizu.

Of course, Wen Gelao's memorial was written under Zhu Youjian's behest.As the emperor's most caring first assistant, Mr. Wen Ge has always followed Zhu Youjian's orders like a standard.Although the outside world criticized his behavior of flattering the emperor, and some officials accused him of being unprincipled, Wen Tiren acted as if he had never heard of it, and remained the same.In his heart, as a courtier, having no principles before the emperor should be the most upholding principle.

The reason why Zhu Youjian wanted to abolish the current household registration system in Ming Dynasty was related to his dabble in both official and unofficial history of Ming Dynasty.After knowing a lot of inside information, Zhu Youjian, who came from later generations, hated Daming’s lowly household registration system. Under this perverted household registration system, how many good people died with hatred, and how many innocent people were in extremely miserable situations. The value of Zhu Youjian can not tolerate, especially for the so-called humble.

The untouchables, also known as untouchables, do not belong to any of the four peoples of scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen.Untouchables are not allowed to intermarry with the four peoples, and they are not allowed to study and take scientific examinations. If there are corvees and apportionments in the locality, they must first be selected from the untouchables.

Although the cheap family was not the first of its kind in the Ming Dynasty, its abnormality reached its peak during Taizu and Taizong's time.

Taizong seized his nephew's country in the name of Jing Nan, and hated Emperor Jianwen's loyal fans after he ascended the throne.In order to punish these so-called civil servants and generals who are ignorant of current affairs, Zhu Di put the female relatives of these people into the Jiaofang Division, or sent them into the army to become camp prostitutes.

Zhu Youjian once read some of the preserved documents related to this. Although the content is brief, the scene is indeed filled with righteous indignation after careful consideration.

For example, there was a Si Tiao Chen at that time: On December 11, the second year of Yongle, Jiaofang Si Ti (played), Zhuo Jing's daughter Yang Nu, Niu Jing's first wife Liu Shihe Wu (should not) follow Xie's promotion of his wife Han Shi , Send Qi Guogong (Chinese Army Governor's Mansion) to transfer to a camp for adultery.On the [-]th day of the first month of the [-]th year of Yongle, our secretary, You Shaowu, Deng Cheng, etc., played in Youshunmen: there are four wives, the treacherous Qitai sister, two nephews and daughters-in-law, and Huang Zicheng sister. One night, twenty men guarded the house, and the younger ones were all pregnant. Except for the birth order to be a little turtle, there were also historians, and there was a little girl from Tiexuan's family. She was three years old and asked for an imperial edict.

Zhu Di's imperial decree replied: Let him deal with it according to the past, no (wait) when he grows up, he will be a prostitute.

It also plays that Huang Zicheng's wife gave birth to a young servant, who is now ten years old.

Imperial decree: All by him (according to the old rules, that is, to be a little turtle).Tiexuan's wife Yang's age is 35, Mao Dafang's wife Zhang's age is 56, and they were sent to Jiaofang Division.

Played again: Mrs. Zhang died of illness, and the director of Jiaofang played in Fengtianmen.

Zhu Di's imperial decree: Order Shangyuan County to carry it out of the house and eat it with dogs.This is it.

Huang Cheng, Niu Jingxian, Qi Tai, Tie Xuan, Mao Dafang and other important ministers at the time of Jianwen ended up dead, and their relatives and children would be prostitutes and slaves forever, being abused and humiliated by others, and even eaten by wild dogs after death. In the end, this is simply the destruction of human nature.It is lamentable that in such a harsh environment, the descendants are still tenacious and have survived to this day. The current Lehu in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces are descendants of these people.

Another example is the lazy people and beggars in Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang Province. Because their ancestors supported Fang Guozhen who competed with Taizu for territory, they were demoted by Taizu as pariahs and beggars for generations.

Zhu Youjian felt extremely disgusted with this practice of humiliating women and children and harming future generations.Therefore, the Shanxi merchants and Zhu Chunchen he dealt with in the early stage, except that the culprits must be punished, their female relatives did not serve as slaves to the Jiaofang Secretary, but adopted the method of exile.

These evil policies against humanity must all be eliminated, especially places like Jiaofangsi where the evil people and evil people hide their evil deeds must be banned.

There are also the military household and artisan household systems, which are also abolished this time.No matter where the territory of Ming Dynasty extends, as long as people abide by the laws of Ming Dynasty, they will be regarded as citizens of Ming Dynasty and enjoy the same rights and obligations as others.

Food, clothing, and equality are the most basic human rights. Talking about human rights apart from these two points is as ridiculous as a group of eunuchs discussing sex life.

Of course, the equality here is not the kind of unrestricted liberalism, but the rights that should be enjoyed by special groups of people who are artificially distinguished from normal people. Such groups of people will not exist in future generations.Moreover, according to the current situation, in Daming, where the illiteracy rate is above 90.00%, the vast majority of the people have no concept of freedom and equality at all, nor do they have the desire to pursue rights in this regard, so it will not cause uncontrollable phenomena.

Since the gods let me time travel, I should do some things within my power, and try to improve people's livelihood in all aspects, so that the life of ordinary people in Shengdou will gradually improve, so that it is worthwhile to time travel.

Zhu Youjian summoned Ge Laoshangshu and other important officials to record Wen Tiren's memorial and distribute it for everyone's discussion.This time, no one objected to the matter by saying that the ancestral system cannot be changed. On the contrary, everyone expressed support for the emperor's good governance.

These important ministers all know the reasons for the formation of the low status of this dynasty. Among other things, the descendants of those civil servants who were severely punished in the Jianwen Dynasty have also heard of the extremely sad situation. The plight is deeply sympathetic.This time, since the chief assistant suddenly came up to talk about this matter, and the emperor summoned everyone to come to discuss it, it must be an imperative policy, otherwise the emperor would have kept the memorial.

Since it is going to be abolished, then the other lowly statuses should be abolished together. Establishing a life for the people is also an oath made by the former sages on behalf of the scholars, and now is the time to practice it.

Therefore, with the unanimous approval of the elders and ministers of the cabinet, an imperial decree on the abolition of base, military, and craftsman registration, and the abolition of the Jiaofang Division was issued in the form of an edict, and it was immediately executed by the officials and officials who received the decree.

Zhu Youjian believes that this move of his will not only change the fate of many people, but may also fully mobilize the enthusiasm and production enthusiasm of more people, and greatly promote the development of productivity and social progress.

At the same time that the imperial edict was sent from the capital to other places, news of the great victory in Yizhou also reached the capital.

This time, Hong Chengchou deliberately adopted the form of Lubu's victory to deliver the victory news. His intention was first to boast of his merits, and second, to make the court look good, and take the opportunity to stimulate the morale of the army and stabilize the hearts of the people.

The victory team consisted of dozens of cavalry and more than a hundred soldiers from the supply battalion. The first two knights held Lubu in their hands, and on one side was written in large black characters, "Yizhou Great Victory Formation Killed Jiannu Jia Lazhangjing, a member leader." Several and thousands of real slaves", on the other side it reads "Yongweiying officers and soldiers regained Yizhou Bingfeng pointed to Guangning to recover Liaodong just around the corner".

The soldiers of the supply battalion drove hundreds of open carts, and on the more than ten carts in front were piled up thousands of heads pickled with lime, including those who were slaves and those who were coated by Han people.

A row of carts at the back were piled with various seized weapons, armor, flags and other ordnance supplies. The long team entered the capital from Deshengmen under the leadership of the officials of the Ministry of War and the escort of the Shuntian government servants.

Both sides of the street that the team passed by were full of onlookers, most of them were ordinary people, there were also many idlers from noble families who had heard the news, and there were even many officials and scholars.

Although there was a great victory in Changping in the ninth year of Chongzhen, because it was a defensive battle between the government and the army, the head of Jiannu was not harvested that time.For the vast majority of people who have never seen the true face of Jianlu, they heard that there were real slave heads this time, and there were quite a few of them, so they came to watch with strong curiosity, and some daring ones even Get up to the cart and touch these heads with your hands.

"It is said that Jiannu with three heads and six arms is invincible. Doesn't this look normal? It's almost the same as my Ming people!"

"Bah! How can such barbarians compare with my enlightened people! Look at that mouthful of big yellow teeth, it's disgusting to see!"

"The big yellow teeth are not as good. It's really unsightly to see the tail dragging behind his head! Don't you hear that the body, hair and skin are given to their parents, these barbarians are really like animals!"

"I heard that those Han people who were taken captive from the Ming Dynasty to the north were also forced to be sent by Jiannu. With such a appearance, how can they have the face to meet their ancestors after death? If it were me, I would rather die than follow along. !"

"The Yongwei Battalion is really a strong army! It was defeated in Changping last year, and now it was killed in Yizhou! It can be seen that the day when we regain Liaodong is not far away!"

"Brother Ren Xi is right! At this time of national calamity, the Yongwei Battalion came out of the sky and won many battles. It is indeed a first-class strong army! Since the Apocalypse Years, the official army has been repeatedly defeated in Liaodong. Earth, how many good men of my Ming Dynasty died in foreign lands! How many good families of my Ming Dynasty were insulted! How many innocent people were killed by slaves! I hate those who study, I have no strength to bind chickens, and I can’t leap horses, slash swords, and slash angrily Enemy Chieftain! Thinking about it really makes me very sad and indignant! Today, fortunately, Ming Jun is in power, and he first rose up to eliminate the troubles in Daming's heart, and now he raised his eyebrows and pointed his sword at Liaodong. When he thought about it, he felt extremely refreshed! Brother Ren Xi! Today's little brother treats you, You and I went to a restaurant and had a drink, thinking that I, the emperor, congratulate! Congratulate the saint! Congratulate the officers and soldiers!"

(End of this chapter)