After Zhao Hanzhang came to power, he did not attend court in the morning every day, but usually once every three days. At special times, ministers would be summoned to the palace to discuss matters. At this time, the emperor also needed to be present.
The rest of the time, the little emperor only had to follow Zhao Hanzhang in the palace to listen to politics and correct official documents.
But no matter which one it was, he had to arrive before Chen Zheng.
Before the weather got cold, the little emperor had to recite the text before going to work in the main hall in order to cope with the afternoon inspection by the master, and then go to listen to the government. After the weather got cold, the homework was a little less, but... it was really hard to get up, especially
It's still relatively late now.
The little emperor wore heavy clothes and a heavy crown and braved the cold wind. After walking to the main hall, the imperial guards came in and said: "Your Majesty, the general is here."
The little emperor pricked up his ears and heard the sound of saluting Zhao Hanzhang outside. He stood up and stood up. The servant looked at the time and then rang the small clock on the side of the palace.
The officials outside became quiet. Someone announced that the emperor had arrived. The outside immediately became quiet. Then the little emperor straightened his back and walked out.
Except for Zhao Hanzhang, all the officials knelt down and saluted.
The little emperor asked the officials to stand up, bowed his head slightly and saluted Zhao Hanzhang, then sat down on the dragon chair and began to play the mascot today.
As soon as he sat down, Zhao Hanzhang announced several decrees, "Revise the female household system. From the first year of Jianxing, women also have the right to inherit and can be the head of the household."
All officials had already been mentally prepared and did not object at this time.
Zhao Hanzhang continued: "Encourage marriage and childbirth, and announce to the whole country that all women over the age of fifteen and men over the age of seventeen can get married. Women who have not married before the age of twenty-eight and men who have not married before the age of thirty will be fined twice the Ding tax."
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He also said: "County governments in various places have the responsibility of raising the people. Therefore, they announced the announcement to all counties and counties, ordering them to match unmarried men and women and encourage childbirth. Anyone who gives birth to a child, regardless of male or female, will be rewarded with a bucket of food per child, and a reward of bricks and stones.
Thousand; for the second child, two measures of grain and three thousand bricks and stones; and those who give birth to three children will be exempted from the maternal tax and will be rewarded with five measures of grain and five thousand bricks and stones; those who give birth to five or more children will be rewarded with eighty thousand bricks and will be exempted for three years.
Labor service.”
Except for Ji Yuan and others who had participated in the discussion, the ministers were all shocked, and then responded excitedly, "The general is wise!"
As soon as this announcement came out, I didn’t believe that they didn’t get married and have children!
In addition, Zhao Hanzhang ordered county governments in various places to open official doctors, and any woman who gave birth could hire a doctor and a doctor from the official doctors, and the childbirth was free of charge.
"Now is the first month, and the spring breeze is coming. We order all counties and counties to make preparations and distribute seeds, farm tools and livestock to the people in time. The county magistrates have done their duty to encourage farmers to teach mulberry farming, and ordered the farmers to go to the countryside to assist the people," Zhao Hanzhang
He said: "As long as all the refugees are willing to settle down, they will be given land and will be exempted from taxes and donations for the year."
All the officials responded respectfully.
It can be said that the policy in the past two years has been to encourage agriculture, marriage, and childbirth.
For this reason, Zhao Hanzhang sent out all the censors from the Yushitai to patrol the world to ensure that the things given by the court could reach the hands of the people smoothly.
The Ministry of War and the garrisons in various places must allocate part of their troops to suppress bandits and find all the bandits and refugees hiding in the mountains. They should cultivate the land and serve their sentences.
Oh, yes, now Zhao Hanzhang especially likes to reform through labor. Except for those sentenced to death who are in jail waiting for review, the rest are all dragged to build city walls, roads, canals, build houses for the people, etc...
There are also those who are dragged into mining, which is quite hard anyway.
Anyway, she is short of people, so she will never waste any manpower.
It is said that after this regulation was issued, robberies and thefts have become less common.
The decree was issued to various counties at an extremely fast speed, and several cases also arrived at the same time. For example, Zhongshu Ling Mingyu and his servant Zhong Jiyuan were unable to get married because they were old. They were ordered by the general and were not found.
A suitable woman gets married, so she is fined twice the Ding tax, and because she is the prime minister and cannot lead by example, she is fined twice as much.
Announcements of legal precedents and articles were posted together. There were officers who stood in front of the announcement wall and read aloud to the people. There were also students in the school who were assigned the task and read the notices in every corner of the county every day. Sometimes they had to read the notices.
Townships, coupled with the spread of the case downwards, people all over the country knew about this precedent.
So the slogan among the people to urge marriage became: "Do you think you are the prime minister? Can you afford twice the Ding tax?"
Because of this funny precedent, people across the country's interest in the county government notice wall reached its highest point. At this moment, another new notice was posted.
According to Zhao Hanzhang's order, four families are a neighbor, five neighbors are a bailor, and five bailors are a li, with a chief. Those in the town are called villages, and those in the countryside are called villages. Villages and squares are neighbors, and they are inspected by each other.
This changed the policy of relying heavily on local powerful people and Wubao to govern local areas since the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Because there were no three chiefs, local governments were mostly self-governing, and the common people mostly relied on the powerful nobles.
For example, Zhao's Wubao in Xiping. Before Zhao Hanzhang, Zhao's Wubao was equivalent to an independent city. It was difficult for the Xiping County magistrate to control Zhao's Wubao. Even the people in Xiping mostly relied on the Zhao family and were not subject to the Xiping County Yamen.
control.
After Zhao Hanzhang came to power, Xiping County and Zhao's Wubao County had consistent interests to a certain extent, so they could be merged into one.
Now, she has designated all gathering places outside the city as villages, and the village chief will work with the people in the village to select village elders to govern. Among them, four families are neighbors, and five neighbors are the protectors. The elders are responsible for the village elders.
The village elders are responsible to the village chief, who is responsible to the county magistrate.
If a major event occurs, the county magistrate can recruit village elders and village chiefs to consult with each other, while neighbors supervise each other, and the chief security officer may take responsibility. This directly cuts off the relationship between the common people and the local powerful.
Her announcement directly removed the local tycoons and replaced them with local county government officials, becoming the backer for all the people to rely on.
From now on, her decrees will be disseminated by the county government to the villages, instead of having to go through local powerful officials before reaching the villages.
Of course, this is all under ideal conditions.
However, the world was in chaos. Many villages were rebuilt, and the people were new. Even the powerful were replaced one after another, and were weakened over and over again. At this time, the new decrees were quickly replaced, and finally
Good practice.
Of course, not many people in the world can understand this, so everyone thinks this is a lot more convenient.
The county magistrate realized that he had found someone who could execute the decree, and the people found that they not only found someone who could talk to them about their problems, but also knew who to call if something went wrong and had a target.
As soon as the government decree was issued, each newly built village began to select its security chiefs and village elders. There was no need to think about the village chiefs. They were mostly appointed by prestigious people selected by the yamen from the local area and had little to do with them.
In a small village in Xuzhou, everyone was crowded into the courtyard of one house. The small courtyard couldn't fit in, so everyone climbed up to the courtyard wall and sat. An old man said: "Big mountain, you are the only one in our village who has the most knowledge and the most people."
Integrity, I think you should be the village elder."