He finally saw the scene he least expected to see. Grandpa Huang was old after all...

This night seemed ordinary, but for the entire Ming Dynasty, it was the last tranquility before the storm.

The next day, Zhu Yuanzhang did not go to court and threw the entire court to Zhu Yunxi.

The first thing Zhu Yunxi did when he took charge of the government was to conduct a comprehensive inventory of the number of acres in the country.

Although the officials in the court did not dare to object openly, none of them was willing to cooperate secretly.

The military commander Xungui also had mixed feelings and tried his best to hide his property, not wanting to be traced out.

More officials sneered silently and decided to be a good person to the Pope's grandson.

Because in this era, the only way to inventory acres is to use the tactic of a sea of ​​people and manually measure acres one by one.

Let’s not talk about whether there are so many people in the court who know arithmetic. Even if there are so many people, how to measure the land and obtain first-hand data is still a massive project.

Chen Zongli, the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, originally hoped that the court would have a clear account, but he also knew how difficult it would be to do so, especially when the local government and local gentry colluded with each other.

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Therefore, he was the first to stand up and question.

"Your Highness, measuring the land is a good thing, but where can the Ming Dynasty find so many talents at once?"

"In addition, the land hidden in the mountains and fields, unless there is a native person to lead the way, otherwise the outsider does not even know where the land is, so how can it be measured?"

"If a squire in the countryside has no time to hide his land, how can he take the initiative to tell it?"

As soon as Chen Zongli finished speaking, everyone in the court nodded their heads.

"What Chen Shangshu said is reasonable. How could the Emperor Taisun ask someone to go against human nature and proactively tell him where the land was hidden?"

Zhu Yunxi smiled coldly in the face of everyone's doubts.

"I never thought they could cooperate!"

"Zhongshu Sheng drafted the imperial edict according to what Gu Gang said, and then spread it to all the chief envoys, prefectures and counties of the Ming Dynasty, and officials from the other six ministries cooperated..."

After Zhu Yunxi said these words, he announced the dismissal of the court, which aroused everyone's surprise.

After a group of officials crossed the Wulong Bridge, away from the surveillance of the guarding officers and soldiers, they all began to complain crazily.

"The emperor's grandson is young and energetic after all. I don't know how deep the water is!"

"Back then, His Majesty the Emperor only used hundreds of thousands of troops to conduct an inventory of the land south of the Yangtze River. The fields were filled with soldiers. Only then did he conduct an inventory of the land south of the Yangtze River."

"The emperor's grandson is not prepared at all now, so he wants to check the land across the country. Maybe it will be the same as the one two years ago, and it will end in nothing..."

"We don't know how the cleanup will be done. All we know is that we have to write a letter to my family and ask them to cooperate with the government. Hehehe..."

As soon as this was said, everyone laughed and agreed.

"This is very true. It is our bounden duty to cooperate with the emperor's grandson to track down the land. I have to go back and write letters to my family..."

On the day Zhu Yunxi announced the nationwide land inventory, thousands of letters flew out of the capital and were delivered to every province and county in the Ming Dynasty.

Some fell into the hands of the local county magistrate, some fell into the hands of the heads of local powerful families, and some fell into the hands of the chief envoy.

In short, before the official document from the imperial court was issued, all county officials and squires in the Ming Dynasty knew that the emperor's grandson wanted to inventory the land across the country, and knew that this was a test for the emperor's grandson by the old emperor.

Therefore, before the official arrival of the imperial documents, households in all prefectures and counties began to get busy, and various land transactions, pawns, transfers and other procedures were carried out quickly.

After receiving the official document from the imperial court, the Jinhua County Magistrate just sneered and threw the letter on the desk.

"Inventory of acres?"

"The emperor's grandson's thinking is too simple. Do you think you can force people to hand over hidden property with just a piece of paper?"

"Sir, what should we do?"

"Post notices as usual, ordering all district chiefs, township chiefs, and grain chiefs to come to the county to study..."

"Although the Emperor's grandson's decree is too childish, as ministers we still have to do our best to cooperate..."

"Best regards, sir!"

At the urging of the Jinhua County Magistrate, all the township heads, li chiefs, and even the grain chiefs of Jinhua County came to the county government office to listen to the announcement.

"I would like to inform you, common people, that the imperial court is now conducting an inventory of all the land in the country. If there is anyone who has hidden land, they will automatically report to the county government and transfer the ownership. From now on, they only need to pay taxes in accordance with the new law."

"If you fail to report it and are found out by the government, the government will treat it as an ownerless wasteland!"

"Anyone who dares to obstruct it will be punished for treason!"

After listening to the announcement read by the Yamen officials, all the district chiefs and township chiefs immediately started beating Xiao Jiujiu.

The timid Li Zheng, when he thought of the dozens of acres of wasteland he had cultivated by the river, his heart pounded, and he wondered whether he should go to the government to report in advance.

As for those bold Li Zheng, they did not take the imperial notice to heart at all.

After all, the government also conducted an investigation two years ago, but only a lonely one.

After everyone dispersed, groups of three or three gathered together to discuss.

"Zhao Lizheng, your family seems to have a lot of hidden land, right?"

"No way, don't talk nonsense..."

"Hey, you are still afraid that I will sell you, my family has a lot of hiding places..."

"How much have you hidden?"

"Not much, just seventy or eighty acres..."

"Oh, so many?"

"My family has less than fifty acres of land, and we rent it all to people in the same village to help with farming..."

"Tell me, will the court send officers and soldiers down to investigate this time like it did in earlier years?"

Tian Lizheng chuckled when he heard this.

"It's useless even if we send people down to check. My land is hidden in the ravines. Unless the officers and soldiers of the imperial court can fly..."

The two were talking about meeting when they suddenly heard a noise from the people around them.

"Look, there's something flying in the sky!"

When the two heard this, they quickly looked towards the sky and saw a huge spherical object flying slowly above their heads.

"This...what is this?"

"No...I don't know..."

Above the sky, Huang Wenjing and Lu Qingshu, students of Hope School, were sitting in a hot air balloon. One was looking down with a telescope, and the other was responsible for writing and drawing on paper.

"There is a field in the southeastern mountains of Jinhua County, estimated to be about a thousand acres in size. It is not on the original fish scale atlas."

"Remember it, is there any other place?"

"We can't see clearly other places at the moment. We'll have to wait until we fly over!"

"Xiao Zhang, please change the direction and fly straight south..."

"Okay!"

The hot air balloon flew in the sky for a while, and Huang Wenjing suddenly shouted in surprise.

"Found it!"

"There is another field to the south, planted with mulberry trees. It is estimated to be several hundred acres in size. It is not in the fish scale atlas!"

Lu Qingshu exclaimed as he wrote and drew on the paper.

"Good guy, just in Jinhua County, the hidden fields are twice as many as those in the Fish Scale Atlas. If we were to inventory all the fields in the country, wouldn't we have to look through them twice?"

"I don't think I know what to do..."

"The land in Jiangnan was inspected very thoroughly in the early years. These should be lands that were subsequently reclaimed."

"There has never been a thorough inventory in the north, and the hidden property there may be astonishing!"

"However, this is also thanks to the hot ball created by the emperor's grandson. Without the help of this hot ball, given us ten years, we would not be able to completely inventory the land of the Ming Dynasty!"

"yes!"

"Who would have thought that the emperor's grandson could really go to heaven and survey the land in the sky!"
Chapter completed!