Longevity Begins with Jinyiwei Chapter 519

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The sound of the abacus rang out incessantly. In the hall, a table was placed like a private school. A **** who was proficient in arithmetic was all intently looking at the account books and fiddling with the abacus.

There are still many eunuchs in the hall, or carry the account books to the tables of the eunuchs, or stack the calculated results neatly together.

"Be careful, and you can't be wrong at all. Each account book must be verified by three people before it is presented to the Qianqing Palace!"

"A little bit wrong, it's a matter of beheading."

Wang Wu walked slowly and leisurely, uttering a few words from time to time.

After speaking, Wang Wu seemed to remember something, turned to look at the little **** beside him, and asked:

"How many more places have not been submitted?"

"There are still one hundred and eighty-two counties that have yet to be submitted, and they should still be on the way..."

"If you have to travel around 800 miles in a hurry, all the guards have already arrived."

The little **** replied immediately.

"Um…"

Wang Wu nodded, and then looked at the results of the piled up audit.

"You guys, take these and present them to Your Majesty with this Master."

With an order, several eunuchs immediately followed, picked up the account book, and followed Wang Wuchao's Qianqing Palace.

"Your Majesty, some of the results have been audited."

After arriving at the Qianqing Palace, Wang Wu immediately trotted to the emperor's side and said respectfully.

The emperor glanced at these account books: "Have the audit results of the guards in various places come out?"

"Parts have already come out, that's all."

Wang Wu immediately replied.

"Bring them all!"

The emperor nodded, and Wang Wu immediately instructed the little **** on the side to put a stack of account books on the table.

The emperor picked up an account book, flipped through it for a while, and frowned suddenly.

The so-called audit, of course, is not as simple as simply calculating the total number of people and land reported by various places.

The foundation of reform lies in land and population.

The land inventory and population inventory of the former Ming Dynasty have long been useless.

Just like the Yellow Book of Land and Population of the Ministry of Households, from the thirty-two years of Wanli to the four years of Chongzhen, there have been many thorough investigations over the years.

The number of land population has not changed much, and even, in many places, the registered land registration has not changed for many years, not even the single digits!

Obviously, the population and land inventory of the former Ming Dynasty has already been completely eroded.

It is conceivable that when a country, and it is still a country dominated by agriculture, has no statistics on its own country's land and population, what will it be like?

The first thing he has to do in this reform is naturally to check the number of fields and population in the world.

There is no doubt that even if there is no follow-up reform policy, just checking the population and fields will inevitably violate the interests of many, many people.

Of course, now, no one dares to resist.

But in the dark, there are plenty of places where you can do tricks.

After all, there are nearly 1,000 counties in Daheng today, and each county is basically made of iron-clad squires and sloppy magistrates.

To ask the counties to investigate is to let the squires of the counties check themselves, not to say that they are completely perfunctory, or to conceal a little bit casually. Nearly a thousand counties are a huge number.

It was precisely to avoid this that he made such a big battle.

The biggest reason for wanton involvement in the taxation case was to attack the squires and landlords!

But now, whether it is the twelve inspection teams, or Jin Yiwei, or let the hands of the inner court completely extend to the world, or publicize it to the whole world, and reward those who report!

It's also all to avoid people colluding, concealing and underreporting!

And the hundreds of people in the palace are auditing round-the-clock day and night, and it is precisely for this.

The Yellow Book of Land Hukou of the former Ming Dynasty was naturally not enough evidence for reference.

But over the years, he was not at all unprepared.

For example, during the military reform in the past, a large number of guards have changed from non-existent to real soil guards. These lands, including the wasteland reclaimed by the guards in various places over the years, are recorded in the book, and they are also backed up in the palace.

In addition to the major cases over the years, the land that was confiscated and distributed, as well as the initial attack on the former Ming clan, all had a large population of land and were re-registered.

In addition, the border towns where the military and government are integrated, all these years, under his will, he started the population and land inventory early, which is why the taxes paid by these governments every year can far exceed the most taxation of the court. important reason.

In addition, Jin Yiwei's many years of unannounced and unannounced visits to the land of the landlords and squires all over the world.

With these huge data as support, it is enough to calculate an approximate figure of the population of Tianmu in the world. In addition, he ordered that every seven days, all localities must summarize and submit the inventory books, which can also be used as a certain data support.

In the end, if the gap is not large, and the multi-pronged monitoring has not found any problems, it means that even if there is concealment, it is definitely in a very small range, and the problem is not big.

However, if the numbers are too different after summarizing and comparing, then there must be a problem. At that time, we will send people to conduct targeted inspections to see if there is any problem and what the problem is.

And the account book in front of him is obviously not right.

Ningzhouwei, the former Ming Jingwu restructured in one year, recovered 9,865 acres of occupied fields.

In the second year of Jingwu, the first year of Zhaowu, 925 acres of wasteland were reclaimed, and 10,865 acres of land were received from the former Ming clan.

In March of the second year of Zhaowu, there was a severe drought in Ningzhou, and some people were displaced. refugee.

This time, the population of Anning Town increased by more than 1,000 people, and the number of fields not only did not increase, but it was also more than 2,000 mu less than the amount of land allocated by Ningzhou Wei.

What's tricky in this is already obvious.

"Go check!"

The emperor threw the memorial book to Wang Wu, and after spit out two words coldly, he picked up another account book.

"Old slave, go now!"

Wang Wu resigned respectfully, and the emperor still focused on reading these piled up account books.

Daheng has nine hundred and sixty-eight counties, two hundred and seventy-two guards, and one hundred and nine.

All are related to the country's fundamental fields and population.

Under the bureaucratic system of this era, no matter how rigorous the inventory is, it is impossible to achieve perfection.

The Son of Heaven is naturally clear about these, and he can even imagine that under his high-handed policy, the squires and landlords with a large number of fields in various places, whether for good or evil, have definitely become fat in the eyes of many people.

And still eat fat without any side effects.

Just like this memorial book in his hand~www.mtlnovel.com~Xinning County He, Chang, Hou three landlords, concealed and missed the report, hindered the reform policy, violated the holy will...

Everything seems to be well-documented, and no loopholes can be seen.

If he drops a single stroke, he will copy the house and distribute it.

Perhaps these three landlords were all wronged.

But that's the way it is!

Under the general trend of reform, there will always be victims of the times.

No matter how good a policy is, there will always be injustices.

The great injustice and the great injustice are not worth mentioning under the overall situation!

There is nothing he can do!

Regardless of the policy, the most important thing is to

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