I am the king of the dead

In the question book, there are 6 lines in each page, 20 characters in each line, 18 characters in horizontal writing and 2 characters in header.

The word "Title" is written in the middle of the top of the first picture. This is the real face, just like the work summary written by Zhu Qiyu before coming to Daming, which needs a cover.

Beginning with the second piece, it is the main text. At the beginning, write the official title and name of the person who wrote the title and the reason for the report, and then describe the origin, circumstances and handling opinions of the reported matter.

The year, month, and day of the inscription are written in the middle of the last panel. Below the month and day, the official title and name of the inscription are listed. The cover and the end of the article must be affixed with the official seal.

This is a complete question book.

Everything that officials in Beijing do, and every government affairs they handle, must be inscribed, and it must be in line with the case records of various ministries.

What Beijing officials have done during the year in Beijing will be written one by one inscriptions, with six volumes as a box, sealed and sent to Wenyuan Pavilion to unseal and play.

The Minister of the Ministry of Officials, the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Minister of the Sixth Division, the Chief Constitution of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Yushi of the Left and Right Capitals, the Counselor of the General Administration Department, the General Administration, and the General Administration Envoy, all attended the meeting and held a closed-door meeting. It was presented to the emperor in person by the envoy.

The entire Beijing inspection time is about fifteen days, and it is no later than five days to check the inscriptions in Beijing, and within ten days to check the old records.

The entire capital's officialdom immediately started to move, and fell into the busy end of the year.

Of course, it seems that among the officials above the fifth rank, only Li Binyan is busy, and he is very busy.

All the other officials took out a box of old records from under the table for inspection by the Ministry of Officials, the Department of Examination of Officials, the Department of Examinations, and the imperial historians.

Most of the officials actually knew that Chen Qingshu couldn't get over it in the past, and His Majesty's punch would come sooner or later.

It's better to prepare yourself, and the officials of Jingcha in the province will write scribbles for them.

Write it yourself, let them check it, at least some ambiguous things, write clearly the reason yourself, to avoid misunderstanding.

There are case records for each and every case, and the six books are also at the bottom. If it is scribbled, it will be a crime of concealing mistakes in the first place.

The colleagues of the Metropolitan Procuratorate prepared the old records for more than a year at the fastest speed. Everyone continued to chat happily, and then looked at Li Binyan who was running around and investigating the case.

"Li Yushi, take a break? I still have the Pepsi Daji Box from His Majesty here, do you want to try it?"

"Li Yushi didn't plan to come here to drink saliva, soothe his throat, drink tea, and write before it's too late. Anyway, there are still five days."

"Hey, let me talk about Li Yushi. You can ask your colleagues in the Qing Dynasty to write it for you. They can still frame you. At most, it's just a matter of business."

"Have you heard? Zongxian Wang will be the Censor of Zuodu after the new year. The position of Censor of Zuodu, which has been vacant for a long time, will finally come to an end."

"Wang Zongxian is still in charge of the general administration, and some are busy. After so many new policies this year, my legs have become numb legs, and I have lost more than five catties."

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The chat was still going on, and Li Binyan at this moment looked very much like those classmates who didn't do their homework at the beginning of school.

Everyone said on weekdays that I hadn't done my homework yet, and when it was time to hand in my homework, Li Binyan was the only one who didn't do it.

While the Jingcha was going on, Zhu Qiyu stopped the salt and iron meeting for two months and held it again as scheduled.

Zhu Qiyu was still sorting out his meeting summary, and the ministers were chatting in low voices at the long table in Juxian Pavilion.

When the emperor walked in, he immediately became quiet.

"See Your Majesty, is Your Majesty blessed?" All the ministers saluted.

Zhu Qiyu nodded and said, "An, sit down. Let's start."

Jin Lian, Minister of the Household Department, stood up and said, "Ma Zheng of Ming Dynasty, Minister of the Taipusi Xia Heng, let me introduce you."

Taipu Siqing is ranked among the nine ministers, and he is the third rank. Before Xia Heng, he was the Chancellor of Shuntian Mansion, and he was the fourth rank.

This is not how fast Xia Heng has been promoted, but that Shuntian Mansion is where the capital is located. The Fucheng and the prefect of Shuntian Mansion have always been ranked fourth rank, but they are actually one level higher.

This is not uncommon, for example, the city-level teams of the four municipalities directly under the central government in later generations are at the same level as other provincial-level teams.

So Xia Heng was promoted from the third rank to the third rank.

Xia Heng stood up and said, "Da Ming's Ma Zheng is dead."

Xia Heng used extremely simple two words to describe Ma Zheng's corruption succinctly. He was so blunt because he was really rotten.

Can't find a more precise word to describe it.

Prospering Wen and Wu, Ma Fang Nanshan, military preparations are not prosperous, Ma Zheng has, but only a little bit.

"Your Majesty, please tell me that in the fifth year of Hongwu, in the Battle of Lingbei, the Ming Dynasty suffered a disastrous defeat. Eighty-nine out of ten of the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty were lost. Emperor Gao, the Taizu, was determined to revitalize the horse administration to meet the needs of the Northern Expedition."

The Battle of Lingbei in the fifth year of Hongwu was the battle of Zhu Yuanzhang's ambition to destroy the Beiyuan regime and attack Helin.

It is He Lin under Hanghai Mountain who is also running back now.

There is the Dragon Court of Mongolia.

The Central Route Army was led by Xu Da, the East Route Army was led by Li Wenzhong, and the West Route Army was led by Feng Sheng.

The Central Route Army was defeated and returned, the Eastern Route Army gained very little, and the West Route Army advanced triumphantly, but in the end all the captured territories were given up.

The Battle of Lingbei in the fifth year of Hongwu opened the prelude to Zhu Yuanzhang's 20-year battle to destroy Beiyuan.

It didn't end until the Battle of Yuerhai, when Lan Yu wiped out Bei Yuan's royal court, and Bei Yuan went to the emperor's title.

"In the sixth year of Hongwu, five herd supervisors in Chuyang were set up to lead 48 herds. In the same year, the law of raising horses was stipulated. It was stipulated that eleven households in the south of the Yangtze River and five households in the north of the Yangtze River should raise one horse in total."

"In the 28th year of Hongwu, Beiyuan had already been destroyed, but Emperor Taizu Gao still set up 98 groups of horse farms, such as the Million Horse Farm in Shunshengchuan, which was set up at that time."

"In the 17th year of Yongle, Emperor Taizong Wen checked the horse affairs of the world. There were more than 16 army horses in the border town, 20% of which were poor horses, 12 garrison horses in the capital, 13% of which were poor horses, and [-] horses for the officials and people to supply [-] post horses. More than ten thousand, two capitals and [-] provinces, the total number of horses is about one million.

"To this day."

Xia Heng paused for a moment, took a deep breath and said: "Today, the compilation of horse heads is tied to the number of acres of land, and the number of acres of land is recorded in the horse book. .”

"Today's county and county horse books have not been edited for a long time, and the number of land and mu is unreliable. How come horse politics?"

After Xia Heng finished speaking, he sat down, leaving behind the silent group of officials.

It cannot be said that there is no Ma Zheng in Ming Dynasty, but there is only a little bit, most of which are cleverly set up to collect taxes.

It is an inevitable trend to release horses to Nanshan and promote culture and martial arts.

Zhu Qiyu sighed and said: "The state raises horses, and the folks send them every year. The Taipu Temple went to the old year, and the horses were reported to be 630% fat. There are more than [-] horses. In March and April, I will order Xia Heng to re-inspect, and then stop. One thousand six hundred and thirty-eight horses, the difference between the ups and downs is hundreds."

"It's okay to fool around, but there are no horses in the Taipu Temple and the Yumajian, so you can go there by fooling around?"

This is an old account. Zhu Qiyu said that this is not a settlement with Xia Heng. Last year, the Minister of Taipusi reported [-] seven-cent-fat horses, but the actual result was [-] horses.

The difference is ten times.

Liu Rong, the Shaoqing of the Taipu Temple, also died in the Tumubao last year. He was martyred for the country. After seven years of orthodoxy, all the war horses of the Ming Dynasty were purchased by the people in the Xuanfu.

Zhu Qiyu clapped his hands again and said: "Actually, I investigated this matter in detail. In fact, the root cause is that it was the Taiping of the Ming Dynasty. The population became more and more prosperous. In the past, the pastures gradually turned into acres of land to support the people."

The corruption of the horse administration is not only due to the adjustment of the general direction, but also the general trend of the development of the times. At that time, 98 groups of horses could be raised, and the world was sparsely populated. Naturally, horses can be herded freely. Now the population is prosperous, and the pastures have become acres of fields. , is also a trend.

"Your Majesty is wise." The ministers hurriedly bowed their heads and said.

The corruption of the Daming horse government did not happen overnight, nor did it happen overnight, and the blame was not on the head of a certain person, but a systemic collapse.

Zhu Qiyu took out a book of memorials and said: "But fortunately, the Mongolian short-footed horse can carry and pack, is fat and strong, and the price is cheap, which makes it common for officials to overthrow the people."

"Xing'an, please read this book "Morning and Frontier Affairs in the Qing Dynasty" written by Zhu Chun, who read the Xuanfu Frontier Affairs Zuozhi Shizhong."

Xing'an picked up the memorial and said in a vibrating voice: "I am sincere and fearful. A fool who has a lot of worries will surely gain something. Today, the minister said in the memorial: Huma can't be used for a long time."

This Zhu Chun is a painter from Jiangxi. What kind of horse politics does he know?

But Zhu Chun does understand Ma Zheng very well.

Since the first year of the orthodoxy, he has been doing the side affairs of the Xuanfu government. He didn't stay at home all day to be a painter, but he has been doing this job well.

It is no more difficult to be an official than the capital, but Zhu Chun still made the problem very clear.

Xing'an continued: "First, the Taipu Temple gave Ma Yin 11 taels in the previous year. At the beginning, the officials who bought the goods detained one or two tenths of the intruders. After that, the officials in the preceding paragraph detained sixty-seven out of ten. , the horses are replenished and fallen. The silver is exhausted, and the army will not be able to get a cent."

The Taipu Temple gave 11 taels of silver, but ten thousand taels were deducted in the capital, and sixty-seven out of ten were embezzled by various officials.

Then the horses were bought, and the money was spent, but the army had no horses to use.

"Secondly, the bureaucracy is prevalent. Since there is no land to raise horses, we have to buy and sell privately. The upper and lower are integrated into one, and profit from it. Shuai said that the horse will not die, but why should the horse I raise be sold? The benefit is that the horse will not die, but Where did I get the money for inspecting horses? The army said that horses never die, but how did I get the profit from collaborating with horse households and helping the whole family to buy them? Both the officers and the army, there is no one who does not curse the speed of the horse's death."

"Soldiers are the only ones to receive it, and there are those who will fall; if they are raised for two or three months, or for several months, they will become old and weak.

"That's why Huma is not available."

It's not that Huma can't be used, it's that you can't buy good horses.

Zhu Qiyu put away Zhu Chun's memorabilia, which can be said to have explained the current problems of the Daming horse administration in a penetrating manner.

"Therefore, the civilian market is already widespread, and smuggling and selling are very profitable. It is urgent to establish a mutual market."

"As Zhu Chun said, Huma is unusable. It's not that it can't be used, but that you can't rely entirely on Huma. Then I would like to ask, why are the people unwilling to raise horses?"

"Actually, this question, and the previous question, why the people abandon their basics and waste their fields, is a problem."

"How much is enough for the people?"

Chapter 215 Your Majesty Has the Legacy of the Great Ancestor

At the last salt and iron meeting, Zhu Qiyu talked about a grain rent, high taxes, and private demands from the township department, that is, the composition of commodity prices is: grain rent, profit, and labor compensation.

Once the township department asks for it privately and makes the labor remuneration extremely low, immediately, the people will abandon their basics and chase after the waste, and more than half of the cultivated land will be abandoned.

Zhu Qiyu's current salt and iron meeting asked, what is the pricing of the labor remuneration of the people of Ming Dynasty?

Obviously, the courtiers here have never thought about this issue.

This is the corrupt financial affairs of the Ming Dynasty, and this is also the strength of the Ming Dynasty. Even with such corrupt financial affairs, the Ming Dynasty still lasted for more than 270 years.

For more than 200 years, Daming's financial affairs have been muddled, just a messy and bad debt, but Daming still lasted for so long.

Even in the first year of the Republic of China, when Sun Wen became the president, he immediately went to the Xiaoling Mausoleum of Ming Taizu and told Ming Taizu that the anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty had succeeded!

Why is Ming Dynasty invincible?

Because Daming is truly invincible.

Zhu Qiyu sighed, and made the courtiers think for a while, before he said: "Young plants grow, but under the conditions of poor land and harsh climate, they will die soon."

"Xuanfu doesn't accept more than [-] people at night. They run amok in the desert and grassland, and they don't return until after the autumn burns. They brought a lot of information about Yibei, which made our lecture hall, five The military governor's mansion..."

"When formulating a combat plan, we have support and basis for where we can fight and how far we can fight."

Zhu Qiyu paused for a while when he talked about the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies. He was especially distressed by the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

The construction of the Ming Dynasty's political system is extremely complete. Except for financial affairs, which have inherited the unmanageable atmosphere of the Yuan Dynasty, the rest of the affairs are extremely complete.

But it failed, just like the Yumajian, Taipu Temple, and Yuanma Temple, it was systematically corrupted.

Zhu Qiyu continued: "I heard that in Mobei and Lin, a mother gave birth to twenty children, and only one child survived."

"Children from the Oirats can't even supplement the number of dead soldiers, but near the barracks, you can see countless children running like a flock of free-ranging sheep."

"These children, most of whom died under the age of four, died of poverty, and in many places were under the age of nine, and very few of them grew up to the age of 14, when they could ride horses and fight in battle."

In fact, Zhu Qiyu has been unable to understand a question.

That is the rather troublesome Wala woman, Mo Luo, the Wala woman brought back by Zhu Qizhen.

Why did Mo Luo have the guts to follow Zhu Qizhen back to the capital?

Even on the way back to Beijing, he was stronger and fearless than Zhu Qizhen.

It wasn't until Yebushou sent the news back that Zhu Qiyu knew that the environment in Mobei was so harsh.

Even if she returned to the Longtan and Tiger's Lair in the capital, she would have to fight hard to make the child live like a human being.

It's not that the face is full of pockmarks, and after years of not washing the face, the fingers and ears are covered with black ash. Maybe one day I will die and I don't know where it is.

Mo Luo made a calculation, the child is in the capital, and his chance of surviving is higher than that of Mobei.

Morrow was clearly betting right.

Zhu Qiyu continued: "Poverty will undoubtedly not encourage having children, but it cannot prevent having children, but it is obviously not conducive to raising children."

Zhu Qiyu raised a question again: "Do you know how many children in the nursing home have grown up?"

The Nursing House is one of the benevolent governments of the Ming Dynasty. Before Zhu Qiyu was outside the walls of the Taichang Temple, before hearing Tang Yunyan play and sing the Resentment of the Emperor Ji, he saw the servants of the Shuntian Mansion taking away the beggar who was freezing in the street.

The officials were silent again. This question was very sudden.

Your Majesty's question has nothing to do with the previous question. When talking about labor compensation, why did it suddenly involve the issue of the survival of the children in the nursing home?

They have no prep.

Yu Qian sat up straight and said confidently: "Three out of ten."