Daming heir

It’s time for the busy summer farming season.

The entire Yingtian Mansion, or rather the entire people in Jiangnan, are engaged in the intense farming work.

The people need to harvest the rice that is already full of ears in the rice fields before it rains, and pack the grains of rice into the granary before the weather changes.

Then after a few rains come down, we will continue to be busy planting the rice seedlings harvested in the autumn into the ground.

This is the busiest season every year for people in the Jiangnan area, and it is called double robbery.

Rush to harvest and plant.

While the people were looting, the government was not idle either.

The tax requirements designated by the court are still recorded in the accounts, but today's officials do not dare to rush into people's homes and pull the undried grain back to the government's warehouses.

Officials and servants in the government now have to accompany the officials of the taxation bureau in various places to count the average grain yield per mu of the local area that year, and also review the local water conservancy situation, etc., to help the people complete the double grab.

As for the summer and autumn taxes, late collection is not unacceptable.

It's just that the government is so considerate of the people's sentiments, but it actually makes the people more active in paying taxes. There is no need for the government to go to the villages to constantly urge the people.

The young master of Shanglinyuan Prison is a powerful man.

Nowadays, the ears of rice in whose field are not so cute?

The heavy and full ears of rice bent the rice stalks, but made everyone's waists straighten.

After paying the quota set by the court, the family can still have a lot of surplus food.

No longer have to worry too much about what the family will get to eat after paying taxes.

"It is difficult for the number of grains on the ears of rice to increase anymore. Lao Chen and his colleagues at Shanglinyuan have no way to change the current situation. They can only continue to improve the farming methods and find new ways to increase soil fertility."

Outside Yingtian City.

Yuan Sutai, a young master of great merit in the Ming Dynasty, was wearing an official uniform, but his legs were pulled up high. His straw sandals were covered with mud and looked half dry. He accompanied the emperor who was used to sneaking out of the palace from time to time and introduced him. current situation.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face was full of joy.

From a long time ago, summer has been the emperor's favorite season.

Although it was hot, and although people would sweat profusely just by going out, it still couldn't stop him from loving it.

Because summer is the harvest season.

The air surges everywhere you look like a heat wave, but it also brings a strong aroma of ripe rice.

Reach out.

Zhu Yuanzhang already held several ears of rice in his hands.

There are plump rice grains on the ears of rice.

Use your other hand to pinch one and squeeze it slightly until the husk falls off the rice.

Rice was put into Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth.

It's a little hard and needs to be chewed slowly to taste the sweetness of the crops.

The emperor did not dare to waste it and stretched out his hand holding the ears of rice.

Sun Gou'er, the chief steward of the inner palace who was following the emperor, immediately stepped forward, carefully wrapped the rice ear in the emperor's hand with a piece of silk, and placed it close to his chest.

Zhu Yuanzhang said softly: "It is already very good now. I still remember that at times like this, how could I see smiles on the faces of the people. They were all worried about the food harvested from the fields. It’s not enough to pay taxes this year.”

Yuan Sutai was also elderly and was very familiar with the extortionate expropriation during the Yuan Dynasty, so he just gave a silent bitter smile.

Behind the two men was an official in a red robe.

Zou Xueyu smiled, stepped forward and cupped his hands and said: "Now His Majesty's benevolent government is not only forcing the government to postpone the collection of taxes, but also based on the time and place. If some people suffered a disaster that year, the taxes can be reduced accordingly. All kinds of things like this Under benevolent government, how can the people not smile?"

There were no major disasters in Yingtian Mansion this year, but a few villages near the river were flooded before summer.

The crops in the field were already bearing ears at that time. Although the harvest was not as good as other fields, it was not without harvest.

Ying Tianfu just reported the situation and the number of acres of land to the Ministry of Household Affairs truthfully.

Unexpectedly, Xia Yuanji, the Minister of Household Affairs, changed hands and sent the memorial to the cabinet.

After some calculations, the taxes on those fields were reduced by half.

This is real good governance.

Yuan Sutai nodded, but gradually frowned: "Your Majesty's widespread benevolent government is a blessing to the people of the world. But the veteran is worried that this move can be implemented in Yingtian. If it spreads all over the world, I am afraid that local officials, gentry and dignitaries will take advantage of it. This is used to enrich one’s own pockets.”

Zou Xueyu also looked sideways at the emperor.

The young master's worries are not unreasonable.

Most of the time, the policies of the central court start from the lowest level of the people, but when they are passed down through the layers of administrative systems, they always change.

The people below will always have countless ways to deal with it.

Zhu Yuanzhang was not worried at all.

Looking at the golden field in front of me, there are also the people who are bent over and busy in the crop fields.

There was only that rich joy on his face.

"There are more people in Jinyiwei, and the tax office's stall is getting bigger and bigger. Now I am expecting someone to jump out."

Yuan Sutai stopped talking.

The emperor is good at everything, but he always likes to seduce those below him to do things like beheading.

Zou Xueyu glanced at Zhuangzi in the distance and blinked.

He glanced at the emperor secretly again.

Then he tentatively said: "Your Majesty, I have something to do..."

"Just tell me if you have anything to say. When did you, the grumpy prefect Yingtian, become hesitant?"

Zhu Yuanzhang kept walking and led a group of people on the field ridge. He turned slightly and glanced sideways at Zou Xueyu.

"I think... the imperial court should discuss the household registration system..."

After finishing speaking, Zou Xueyu knelt on the ground.

The air instantly became hotter.

The smile on Zhu Yuanzhang's face remained, but his eyes gradually darkened.

He stopped, turned around, and looked at Magistrate Yingtian who was kneeling in front of him.

The bad-tempered prefect Yingtian was originally in the emperor's mind, and he was already preparing to put him in the position of Zhili Road before the seals of various government offices were made at the end of the year.

just now...

"Who brought this up?"

In the early years of the Republic of China, in order to quickly stabilize people's livelihood, the nearly 300-year-old household registration system of the Ming Dynasty was quickly adopted and adopted by Zhu Yuanzhang, and then implemented throughout the Ming Dynasty.

The effect is remarkable.

The country is stable and the people perform their duties.

After experiencing the wars in the early days of the Republic of China, the local area quickly recovered its strength.

There is no big problem with this system.

But now, the prefect Yingtian, who has fallen into his eyes, wants to discuss it.

The meaning of the discussion is not to say that the current household registration system of the Ming Dynasty should be brought to the court and discussed with the officials to change it.

This is the foundation of Ming Dynasty.

If it is done easily, people's livelihood will be in chaos.

Zou Xueyu felt a little nervous.

In fact, this matter was not the first thing he thought of.

However, he should be the first to bring it up in front of the emperor.

Zou Xueyu knelt on the ground, not daring to raise his head.He could only say in a low voice: "At the beginning of the country, His Majesty decreed the national household registration system. This was good governance. After many years, the country became stable and the people performed their duties.

But today is different.

The national power is at its peak and the New Deal is like a fire.Can a weak son of a military household join the army to defend the country?The son of a farmer who is strong but unwilling to farm cannot guard the country's borders?
The son of a craftsman may not be able to inherit his father's ambition.

People's minds change, and they must abide by public morality and order, but they must not be swayed by the household registration system.

The Ming Dynasty will become stronger and stronger, and there will be more and more land.

I am the magistrate of Yingtian, and I don’t know how the people around me are doing.Looking at Yingtian and Earth alone, among the people living in the city now, there are three or four families out of ten, and half of the population is working in workshops.

Inside and outside the city, there are strong and ambitious men who like to hear about the country's frequent victories, but they have no way to join the army.

His Majesty.

People are people, not vegetation.

As the saying goes, a dragon gives birth to nine sons. The nine sons are different, and so are people.

The country's fiscal and taxation is based on acres of land and business, not household registration.

Nowadays, the land tax varies from place to place.But speaking from a natural perspective, business tax far exceeds land tax.

In the past, I went to Suzhou, Yangzhou, Hangzhou and other places, and this was the case everywhere.

Changing the household registration is not to indulge the people's wantonness, but to increase the vitality of the people.

I think this is also the reason why Your Majesty should implement good governance. "

Zou Xueyu’s calling voice echoed in the surrounding crop fields.

What he meant was simple.

The son of a mouse may not be able to dig holes.

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at the officials accompanying him, his expression did not change, and he just asked again: "Is this what you are thinking about?"

He needed to make sure that what Zou Xueyu said was not someone or some important ministers in the court who wanted to use his mouth to say it to him, but just this young official who had done a very good job in the position of Yingtian Prefecture. political thoughts.

Zou Xueyu finally raised his head.

Facing the emperor's scrutinizing gaze.

Zou Xueyu nodded heavily.

"These are all what Weichen himself saw and heard, and then said them."

Zhu Yuanzhang did not say anything, but once again looked around at the accompanying officials.

Everyone lowered their heads, and no one dared to look directly at the emperor at this time.

The household registration system was decided at the beginning of the People's Republic of China.

In everyone's perception, almost no one thinks that the Ming Dynasty will change this policy.

Zou Xueyu spoke again at this time: "Your Majesty, the sons of farmers do not necessarily have to farm, they can also join the court as officials and serve your Majesty, the court, and the world!"

This sentence really spoke to Zhu Yuanzhang's heart.

Most emperors are rebellious.

Especially for Zhu Yuanzhang.

He doesn't want to see the people suffer, and would rather see them all live a good life.

Let the sons of common people also be able to serve as officials in the court and do things for themselves, the Zhu family, and the people of the world.

This is what Zhu Yuanzhang is happy to see.

Why can only those families who have been studying for generations be able to become officials?

Why can't the son of a farmer be an official?
In fact, it is precisely this kind of 'rebellion'.

This is the reason why a craftsman like Zhang Ergong, who was born as a craftsman, could become the minister of the Ministry of Industry in the Ming Dynasty, wearing a red robe and reaching the second rank.

The emperor just wanted to let the world's scholars and those so-called thousand-year-old and century-old families take a good look at it.

A craftsman he promoted can also be an official, and he can do better than them!
Change the current household registration system in Ming Dynasty?

Zhu Yuanzhang had already begun to think about how to change the current household registration system in an orderly and stable manner while ensuring the stability of the world.

"What do you think, Young Master, of what this boy said?"

Unexpectedly, Zhu Yuanzhang did not confirm or deny, but asked Yuan Sutai's opinion with relish.

Yuan Sutai thought for a while and did not rush to speak.

Instead, he made a gesture of invitation to the emperor, leading the emperor to continue walking forward while pressing the ridge of the field under his feet.

Zhu Yuanzhang was not anxious either.

He and Yuan Sutai can be considered as people of the same era. They both experienced the seemingly endless disaster in the late Yuan Dynasty.

The two walked at the front, surrounded by the rice that had not yet been harvested.

The busy people in the fields were no strangers to the emperor.

Seeing the emperor walking on the ridge of his field, he had no intention of approaching him to talk. He just looked at him from a distance and then continued with the work at hand.

The crops should be taken back home as soon as possible and then handed over to the government, so that the government can give them to His Majesty the Emperor.

Yuan Sutai walked forward for a while.

Then he slowly said: "What do you think of our current rice production in Ming Dynasty?"

"It's not what it used to be."

Zhu Yuanzhang gave an affirmative answer.

It is precisely because the present is different from the past that Yuan Sutai became the number one civil servant in the current dynasty.

It is said that his power is not great, and his official position is still limited to Shanglinyuan Supervisor.

But even those in Wenyuan Pavilion did not dare to ignore Yuan Sutai's occasional words.

Yuan Sutai added: "Yes, things are different now. To make His Majesty laugh, I feel like I am dreaming even when I look at this now."

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled slightly: "I am not like that."

It really feels like a dream.

It is even more dreamy than when I, a mud-legged person, became the emperor.

Yuan Sutai smiled: "I don't understand the affairs of the country, but I know that even if it is difficult to increase the number of rice ears now, there are definitely ways to increase production. This is what I will do for the rest of my life."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said: "Young Master will always be the Superintendent of Shanglinyuan Prison in the Ming Dynasty. At any time, the hundreds of millions of people in our Ming Dynasty should remember the merits of Young Master in their hearts. On the day when I am laid to rest in the grave, The young master also has to stay close to me."

Inadvertently, the emperor gave Yuan Sutai a great favor.

Yuan Sutai bowed to thank him, and then said: "Since farming is like this, I believe that state affairs should also be like this. Although I am old, I have taught several apprentices now, and they have done very well. I believe that they will definitely He will do better than Lao Chen."

After saying this, Yuan Sutai rolled up his sleeves and walked into the open space on one side that had been harvested.

This old man, who was more like an old farmer than an imperial young master, bent over the field and picked up the rice scattered in the field bit by bit.

The farmer not far away saw it and was a little confused, but did not step forward to stop it.

It was just a few kilograms or taels of rice, so the old official just took it.

It would be best if I could let His Majesty taste the crops grown in my own land.

Zhu Yuanzhang stood on the ridge of the field and laughed.

As a rebellious person, I have never had the temperament to stick to the rules.

So, he also took off his shoes, and under Sun Gou'er's fearful gaze, jumped into the field nearby, and followed Yuan Sutai to pick up the scattered rice in the field.

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