Wei and Jin Cooks

  Chapter 1110 New Government Order

  After Zhao Hanzhang came to power, he did not go to court early every day, usually every three days, and on special occasions, other ministers would be called into the palace to discuss matters. At this time, the emperor also had to be present.

  The rest of the time, the little emperor only needs to follow Zhao Hanzhang to listen to the government in the palace and correct official documents.

  However, no matter which one it is, he must arrive before Chenzheng.

Before the cold weather, the little emperor had to recite texts before going to work in the main hall, in order to cope with the Taifu’s inspection in the afternoon, and then went to listen to the government; after the cold weather, the schoolwork was a little less, but...it’s really hard to get up, especially now It was still late at dawn.

  Wearing heavy clothes and a heavy crown, the little emperor braved the cold wind and walked to the main hall. The imperial guards came in and said, "Your Majesty, the great general is here."

  The little emperor pricked up his ears and heard the sound of saluting Zhao Hanzhang from outside, so he got up and stood up. The servant checked the time and then jingled the small bell on the side of the hall.

   All the officials outside fell silent. Someone announced that the emperor had arrived, and the outside immediately became quiet. Then the little emperor walked out with his back straight.

   Except for Zhao Hanzhang, all the officials knelt down and saluted.

  The little emperor asked all the officials to stand up, bowed his head slightly to Zhao Hanzhang and saluted, then sat down on the dragon chair, and began to play today's mascot.

  As soon as he sat down, Zhao Hanzhang announced several decrees, "Revise the female household system. From the first year of Jianxing, women also have the right to inherit and can be the head of the household."

  Hundreds of officials have long been mentally prepared, and there is no objection at this time.

Zhao Hanzhang continued: "Encourage marriage and childbirth, and announce to the whole country that all women who are fifteen years old and men who are over seventeen years old can marry. Women who have not married before the age of twenty-eight and men who have not married before the age of thirty will be fined double the tax. .”

He also said: "County governments in various places have the responsibility of raising their children. Therefore, the county governments in various places have been announced to order them to match men and women who have never married and encourage them to have children. Whoever gives birth to children, regardless of gender, will be rewarded with a bucket of grain for each child and a brick and a stone." Thousands; for a second child, two buckets of grain and three thousand bricks and stones; for those who have three children, they will be exempted from women's levy, and will be rewarded with five buckets of grain and five thousand bricks; Labor."

   Except for Ji Yuan and others who participated in the discussion, the ministers were all shocked, and then responded excitedly, "The general is wise!"

   Once this announcement came out, if you don’t believe it, they won’t get married and have children!

   What's more, Zhao Hanzhang ordered the county governments to open government doctors, and all women who gave birth could invite stable women and doctors from the government doctors, and the childbirth was free.

"Now is the first lunar month, and the spring breeze is coming. Order the counties and counties to make preparations and distribute seeds, farm tools and livestock to the people in time. The county magistrate should do a good job of persuading farmers and mulberry, and order Si Nong to go to the countryside to help the people," Zhao Hanzhang Said: "All the refugees, as long as they are willing to enter the household, they will be divided into fields, and they will be exempted from the small tax and donations of the year."

  Hundreds of officials responded respectfully.

   It can be said that the policy of these two years is to encourage agriculture, encourage marriage, and encourage childbearing.

  For this reason, Zhao Hanzhang sent all the censors of Yushitai to inspect the world to ensure that the things given by the court can reach the people smoothly.

  The Ministry of War and the garrisons in various places must deploy some troops to suppress the bandits and find out all the bandits and refugees hiding in the mountains. They should farm the land and serve their sentences.

  Oh, yes, now Zhao Hanzhang is particularly fond of reforming prisoners through labor. Except for those who have been sentenced to death and are waiting for review, the rest are all dragged to repair city walls, roads, canals, houses for the common people, etc...

   There are also those who are dragged to mine, which is very hard anyway.

  Anyway, she is short of people, so she will never waste any manpower.

   It is said that after this regulation came out, things like robbery and theft have decreased.

Government decrees were issued to various counties and counties at an extremely fast speed, and there were also several cases that arrived at the same time. For example, Zhongshu Lingmingyu and his servant Zhong Jiyuan were unable to get married because they were over the age, and they were ordered by the general to find them. If a suitable woman gets married, she will be fined twice as much, and because she is the prime minister, she will be fined twice as much because she cannot lead by example.

The notice of the case is posted together with the notice of the article. There are guards standing in front of the notice wall to read aloud for the common people, and some students in the school are assigned to read in every corner of the county every day. The township, and the head of the village spread downward, so people all over the country know this case.

  So the slogan for folk urging marriage became: "Do you think you are the prime minister? Can you afford to pay twice the tax?"

  Because of this funny case, people across the country have reached the highest point of interest in the county government announcement wall. At this time, another new announcement was posted.

  Zhao Hanzhang ordered that four families be one neighbor, five neighbors be one guarantor, and five guarantors be one mile, with a head. Those who are in the city are the workshops, those who are out of the field are the villages, and the neighbors of the villages and workshops are supervised by each other.

   This changed the policy of relying on local tyrants and Wubao to govern the region since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, because there were no three chiefs, most of the localities were self-governing, and most of the common people were attached to the nobles and tyrants.

For example, Xiping Zhao’s Wubao, before Zhao Hanzhang, Zhao’s Wubao was equivalent to an independent city, and it was difficult for the Xiping county magistrate to control Zhao’s Wubao. control.

  After Zhao Hanzhang came to power, Xiping County and Zhao Shiwubao had the same interests to a certain extent, so they could be merged into one.

Now, she designates all gathering places outside the city as villages, and orders the head of the village to work together with the people to select village elders to govern. Among them, four families are neighbors, five neighbors are protection, and the head of the village is responsible for the village elders. Village elders are responsible to the village chief, and the village chief is responsible to the county magistrate.

   In the event of a major event, the county magistrate can recruit village elders and village chiefs to discuss it, while neighbors supervise each other, and the chief may take responsibility. This directly cuts off the relationship between the common people and the local tyrants.

  Her announcement directly removed the local tycoon, and let the local county government replace the local tycoon, becoming the backer for all people to rely on.

  From then on, her government orders will be passed on to the villages by the county government, instead of going through the local tyrants and then to the village.

  Of course, this is ideal.

However, the chaos in the world was settled, and many villages were rebuilt, and the people were new. Even the tyrants were changed and weakened over and over again. Easy to implement.

  Of course, there are not many people in the world who can understand this, and everyone feels that this is much more convenient.

  The county magistrate found that he had found someone who could carry out government orders downwards, and the people found that they not only found someone who could confide in their problems, but also knew who to call when something went wrong, and had a target.

  After the decree, each newly-built village began to select the head of the village and the village elder. Don’t worry about the head of the village. Most of them are appointed by the yamen from the local people with prestige, and have little to do with them.

In a small village in Xuzhou, everyone huddled in the yard of one family. The small yard couldn’t fit, so everyone climbed on the wall of the yard and sat. An old man said: “Dashan, you are the only one in our village who has a lot of knowledge and people. Honesty, I think this village elder should be you."

  (end of this chapter)