"My subordinate (minister) Zhang Wenhua (Ma Ran) reported to His Highness that according to His Highness's order, we started to conduct a census in Guangtong Township, Gaochun County, Tianfu on May 21, the 40th year of Wanli. After two months and seven days

According to the inventory, it is now clear that Guangtong Township actually has a permanent population of 3,325 people, among which, men... Among the permanent residents, 2,635 people have local household registration, and some have foreign household registration, but

There are 432 people who have lived here for a long time due to business and other reasons. There are also 258 people who have no household registration. According to their own confessions, some have fled from military households, and some have gone bankrupt elsewhere and fled here...

In addition, there are still 215 people registered here in the township, but they have been making a living elsewhere for a long time, working as officials, or studying as scholars. According to His Highness's decree, this census only counts the permanent population to avoid repeated counting. Therefore, it will be reported hereafter,

The above 215 people are not included in the calculation.

When Guangtong Township submitted its household registration report to Gaochun County in the 39th year of Wanli, it reported a population of 2,035 people, a difference of 1,290 people. According to His Highness's order, in this inventory, only investigation will not be punished. Minister, etc.

Gaochun County has been ordered to re-register its population.

In addition, after investigation, there are actually three households of officials and gentry at or above Guangtong Township, including 46 upper households, 258 middle households, 601 lower households, and 13 odd households. Among them,

There have been a total of 305 cases of changing the upper household to the middle household, and the lower household to the upper household. According to His Majesty's decree, such acts must be severely punished. The ministers and others successively killed three people in charge and two people in charge, and replaced the people.

There are seven chiefs and one hundred and thirty-five chiefs. Those who fail to perform their duties will be severely warned and fined. The cumulative income fine is one hundred and twenty-five taels and four cents of silver. All new chiefs A and li,

Township elders are elected by local villagers themselves. The work team will submit the results to the Gaochun County Government for confirmation and filing.

In accordance with His Royal Highness's decree, I have re-registered the household registration book for each household and compiled the ID number for each person. All the exiles without household registration have been re-registered and naturalized locally...

After two months of investigation, the overall order in Guangtong Township was stable. Except for the family members of the killed Li Chang and Jia Chang who caused trouble and were quickly suppressed, there was no civil uprising. Many people enthusiastically supported it and went to the Nanhua Palace to pay homage to their grandson.

There are many people wishing birthdays. The present ministers have completed His Highness's instructions and hereby report and pay the order.

Census Team No. 235, captain Zhang Wenhua, deputy captain Ma Ran.

July 29, the 40th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty."

Starting from late July 1612, Zhu Youdong successively received reports submitted by various work teams. By early September of this year, all 400 work teams had completed their respective tasks.

In more than three months, although the eight counties of Yingtian Prefecture have generally maintained stability, there are still many resistances.

Some of them summoned their family slaves and neighbors to besiege the work team members, causing casualties among the work team members. Naturally, this quickly led to the suppression of the Henghaiwei and Chongming Shasuo troops.

The gentry of their own family and other gentry families were organized to carry out soft confrontation, such as market strikes and school strikes. For those who went on strike, Daming Haitrade immediately attacked the local market with huge quantities of materials. For those who went on strike, Yingtian Tixue Censor of the Ming Dynasty even more

He quickly arrived and dismissed the teacher on the spot.

There are also those who are in mourning and go to the county government offices, government offices, and even Nanhua Palace to kneel and cry. For these people, Zhu Youdong's order is: one persuasion, two, and three to kill! The men in your family have done so much by using the little power in their hands.

A good citizen who paid taxes for the Ming Dynasty has lost his family. It is already very merciful for me to just kill him! You family members don't know how to be grateful and rejoice and still complain? Then all of you will die!

After all, people are profit-seeking, and it is inevitable that there will be profit-making fools who dare to fight against Zhu Youdong's cruelty even if he is not ready to take the throne. Zhu Youdong will certainly not be soft on such people. However, when His Highness Taisun shows his

After the madness subsided, no one came to make trouble again.

In short, after more than three months, six people on the work team were killed and two to three hundred people were injured. And more than 300 civilians were killed due to various suppressions. The entire Yingtian Prefecture census work, the process

It's definitely not perfect, but it's still acceptable.

"Your Highness, according to the statistics of ministers and others, the eight counties of Yingtian Prefecture now have a permanent population of 2,350,833, including 197,300 military households and 60 people without household registration.

Thirty-nine thousand, seven hundred and fifty people.”

"Hehehe, Mr. Yang, when you took over as Yin Tianfu Yin, what was the population on the white list?"

"One million and thirty thousand."

"Then do you know how many people there are in Yingtian Mansion according to the yellow list of the 30th year of Wanli?"

"I also went to Huangceku with Your Highness back then, but it's been more than five years, and I can't remember it."

"Haha, not bad, 630,000."

"Hiss~~ Your Highness, this means that our eight counties in Yingtian Prefecture have concealed nearly 70% of the population? Calculating this, the more than 55 million people in the Ming Dynasty's yellow books really need to be investigated

When it’s over, wouldn’t it be more than 20 million?”

"It is estimated that there are not so many. After all, places like the south of the Yangtze River are secluded places with a lot of hermits and refugees. The proportion in other places is definitely not so exaggerated. But if we really check them all, I estimate that the actual population of our Ming Dynasty is at least

More than 130 million."

Zhu Youdong dares to say this, and of course there is basis for it.

In the 26th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, after the empire had completely unified the traditional Han inhabited areas, it completed the second and truly first revision of the Yellow Book. At that time, thanks to the high pressure of Lao Zhu, the entire Ming Empire

No one dared to explode. Therefore, the demographic data at that time was the most realistic: 60.54 million.

At that time, the most populous prefecture was Suzhou Prefecture: 2.35 million. The eight counties of Yingtian Prefecture had "only" 1.2 million people, 10,000 less than Songjiang Prefecture, and only ranked third in the country.

But who would have expected that this 1.2 million would be the highest population record of Yingtian Mansion in the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years before Zhu Youdong?

The same is true for Yingtian Mansion, and the same is true for the whole country. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, except for the raids by Japanese pirates on the southeastern coast and the frequent Mongolian invasions in the northern border areas, there have been no major wars, turmoil or plagues in the entire hinterland for more than two hundred years.

.However, after more than two hundred years, the Yellow Book of the 30th year of Wanli shows that the country's population is only 55 million, which is more than 5 million fewer than in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

On October 1, 1612, Zhu Youdong held a summary meeting in Nanhua Palace. All members of the shogunate and all work team captains attended the meeting.

"...Thanks to your loyalty and dedication, this Yingtianfu census was successfully completed... The census results are shocking. This shows that our work is very meaningful and is extremely important to this country and this nation.

!Next, we need to enrich and adjust the personnel of the work team. Each team should lead the new with the old, train more team members, and take turns to work in other provinces and chief secretaries to gradually carry out the census work. Everyone

, this is a hard and long-term job. As the census work progresses, the unscrupulous people everywhere will become more and more cunning and good at confronting you. But our work will be farther and farther away from our base camp.

As we travel further and further away, the support and protection we receive from the military will become smaller and smaller. But, even so, we must continue this work resolutely! We are going to use three to five years to effectively complete the nationwide

The census will make the whole world transparent again in front of the imperial court! Everyone, please tell me, do you have confidence?"

"I am willing to die for Your Highness! The world of Ming Dynasty will surely be transparent again!"

…

After the meeting, Zhu Youdong just stepped down from the main seat when he saw Wang Chengen waving to him desperately.

"Why are you so anxious?"
Chapter completed!