The next morning, the Ganqing Palace met in front of the imperial court.

"Since the edict of exempting the lowly people was sent to various provinces, Zhejiang Province was the most active. The Provincial Administration Commission sent the Iron Dingshi Censorship Office to entrust Jing Qing to quickly verify the number of lowly people and give them to the good man. There was a fishing song for the people of the nine surnames who drifted on the water for generations by fishing and were unwilling to live ashore. The patrol commander Han Kezhong allocated fields and houses to the water in the Yuhuan Island Water Port and promised him and others to farm and fish!"

Li Zhigang, the Minister of Rites, sat on a round stool, peeking at Zhu Yunxi's face and speaking, "Huguang, Jiangxi and other places reacted slightly slowly, and they are still counting the number of people. There may be some difficulties in the northern part of Shaanxi, Mountain, Luyi and other places!"

As he said that, he paused, "If the Shandong Provincial Administration Commissioner submitted a memorial, he had a low-key family to obtain good people, and had many disputes with ordinary people to buy land and houses. Among them, there were a family of people who had returned the good people. They bought houses and fields in the countryside, but were blocked by local old men and young men and women and were not allowed to enter the village. If the local officials had not handled it in time, they would have caused deaths on the spot!"

The old man Li Zhigang mentioned is not a real old man, but a term for human identity.

Since ancient times, the imperial power has not fallen below the county, but after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the old man felt the miserable experience of his youth. It was precisely because the imperial power has not fallen below the county that colluded with local tyrants and bullies and corrupt officials, so he imitated the Three Old System of the Han Dynasty.

In the countryside, people who recommend good character, high prestige and powerful people to convince the public, and those who know the words of the text are the elderly in the countryside. The role of these elderly people is to coordinate and handle disputes and litigation in the countryside and assist the government office in governing the countryside.

Of course, it also has the role of supervising officials. The Ming Dynasty law said that if any official dares to do evil.

For example, extortion, privately trespassing, beating people without authorization, abuse of power to make things difficult for the people, neglecting duties, etc. As long as it is verified, the elderly in the countryside can directly tie up the young and strong and sent them to the capital to beheaded.

At this time, the world is still ruled by man, so the elderly selected from these places play a great role in stabilizing the localities and coordinating the relationship between officials and the people.

But there are advantages and disadvantages. These elderly people are extremely protective of their neighbors. Their own one mu and three places are never allowed to be seen by outsiders. In many places in Guangdong and Guangxi, rural elderly people organize armed battles among villagers due to disputes over land and water sources, which makes the government very troubled.

They regard their own people as human beings, their surname as relatives, and their outsiders as enemies. Not to mention these cheap people who have never seen them before, but have suddenly turned over.

"How to deal with this matter in the end?" Zhu Yunxi asked with a calm face.

"The local government coordinated and finally returned the money for buying houses and land, so that the lowly people who had just obtained the status of good people would find another place!" Li Zhigang said, "There is also the area of ​​Ningguo Mansion in Zhili. The exemption of lowly people had just begun, and many gentry in the countryside started to make trouble, saying that the government was robbing their tenants, and the government had no choice but to arrest a few people who made trouble to calm down."

"Didn't the local governments post notices to encourage these good people who have just obtained their identities to immigrate?" Zhang Feng, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, who was listening, said, "No one is willing to move?"

"This... people are all their hometowns and cannot be separated from each other!" Li Zhigang said with a smile.

"The reason why the hometown is hard to leave is still not good!" Zhu Yunxiu spoke, looking at Zhu Gaochi among his ministers and said, "What's the matter you ordered?"

"The writing has been sent to the provincial governing offices of all provinces in the world for 800 miles!" Zhu Gaochi stood up and said, "All good people who are exempt from lowly belong to the country are willing to immigrate to Liaodong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places. Each person will be given five acres of land and five silver pieces, and exempted from land tax for five years."

"Why don't I know about this?" Li Zhigang's heart skipped a beat.

Although he was the deputy to exempt the vacant family from the poor, he had always been doing it himself. On the surface, Zhu Gaochi was a hand-off manager. But he didn't expect that today he suddenly issued a government order involving immigrants.

This is not a simple government decree, it involves rewards of land and silver dollars.

"The emperor still doesn't trust me completely!" Li Zhigang was upset, and at the same time, he kept pinching the strip Chen in his sleeve.

"Snap speed up!" Zhu Yunxiu told Zhu Gaochi, "It is a good thing to exempt the lowly book, and good things cannot turn into bad things."

"I obey the order!" Zhu Gaochi bowed, "I have something else!"

"Come on!"

Zhu Gaochi pulled out a note from his sleeve and presented it with both hands, "After the autumn trial last year, there were 7,200 prisoners across the country. In addition to 120 people who were murdered, there were people who stole oxen and committed crimes, those who were idle and traitors, those who were idle and abused the country, and those who fought against taxes and beat officials..."

"The murderer will pay his life!" Zhu Yunxiu frowned and said, "As for the other prisoners, they were sent to Luzon Island in 5,000 people, and the rest went out to sea with the fleet to build a harbor in Myanmar!"

As he said that, he thought for a while and continued, "In the future, except for the unforgivable crimes, prisoners in various places are not allowed to be exiled without authorization. All must be reported to the Ministry of Justice and then placed!"

"What a big deal! You obviously want to send all the illegal prisoners overseas to harm others!" Zhu Gaochi complained in his heart, but he was respectful and said, "I obey the order!"

At this time, Zhu Yunxi suddenly realized that Li Zhigang's expression was a little wrong.

The throne was high above, and the expressions and movements of the ministers were all in his eyes.

"Li Aiqing has something to say?" Zhu Yunxi asked.

Li Zhigang quickly stood up and said seriously, "I have something to do, it is important, and it is also about the decency of the court. Therefore, I have no choice but to..."

"What's the matter?" Zhu Yunxiu didn't like this person's behavior. He would talk about things whenever he had something to do, and he would deliberately make things mysterious before he talked about things.

A person who is a mysterious person simply wants to show his own contribution or cover up his true purpose.

"It's also a matter of Shandong!" Li Zhigang frowned, with a look of distress, "It's a matter of Qufu, Shandong. There is a Lehu who has recovered his good citizenship. He just got his household registration and went to the yamen to complain..." As he said, he seemed to be in a dilemma, "Accuse him of Yan Shenggong!"

Kong family?

Zhu Yunxiu suddenly felt energetic, "Tell me carefully!"

"Yes, the family of the Lehu has been a Lehu for generations. His mother was a famous local singer and she saved a lot of money. Having money is like buying land, but according to the Ming Dynasty, the Lehu family is not allowed to buy land. So they privately gave a child from a branch of Yansheng Gong Mansion a sum of money and hanged the purchased land in the name of the child of this branch!"

Zhu Yunxiu listened silently, it was not a complicated matter. It was like the purchase restrictions in later generations. Many of them bought houses and placed them in other people's names.

"Lehu Family has purchased land for five consecutive years, and it has been calculated that it is about 50 hectares in total. It has agreed with the son of the Confucius family that 30% of the annual land production will be used as a reward, and the rest will be returned to Lehu Family."

Fifty hectares are not a small amount. If it weren't for the identity of the descendants of Yan Shenggong, it would be difficult for the Lehu and even ordinary gentry to buy these lands, and even if they have money, they would not be able to buy them.

"In the end, the land was swallowed by the Kong family?" Zhu Yunxiu asked at a loss.

"The emperor is wise!" Li Zhigang said, "In July of the previous year, Yan Shenggong repaired the temple. The descendant of the Kong family, who had these fifty acres of land under his name, sold the fifty acres of land to Yan Shenggong's Mansion as land for the public to worship his ancestors!"

"After the incident, the Lehu family naturally refused to give up, but their complaints ignored it. Moreover, because they were a lowly family, they could only temporarily endure the threat from the Confucius family's son."
Chapter completed!