In fact, the investigation of hidden households and re-measurement of land carried out in Fengyang Prefecture has already been done in the north.
The Gyeonggi area started after the victory of the Battle of Jizhou; the Central Plains area started when Sun Chuanting led his troops to take up residence in Kaifeng.
Also, on the Qin side, the reason why Du Yinxi, the governor of the three sides, did not lead his troops out of Sichuan to reinforce the Jiangnan battle was because he wanted to sit in Qin and Shu and carry out military and political reforms, which included checking hidden households and measuring land.
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These places have one thing in common. They were either ravaged by bandits or invaders. Due to natural and man-made disasters, the population was greatly reduced. Not to mention ordinary people, even the local gentry also died in countless numbers.
Therefore, it is much easier to carry out the work of inventorying households and measuring land in these places.
Sun Chuanting was based in Kaifeng, arranging his troops from west to east and advancing steadily southward, also to ensure that local governance could be carried out in an orderly manner.
Compared with the north, the south, especially the area south of the Yangtze River, was relatively less ravaged by bandits, let alone plundered by the built-up bandits.
The local gentry and clan systems are relatively complete. And because of the strong power of the imperial examination, there are many officials in almost the larger states and counties. It is said that the ancestors of the family have been officials.
Implementing the national policy of inventorying hidden households and measuring land in these places is definitely much more difficult than in the north.
Under the advice of Liu Weichao, Emperor Chongzhen's main purpose was to weaken the power of local powerful people in the south through bandits.
No, after Emperor Chongzhen completed the reorganization of several armies under the command of the Governor of Baoding, he sent them to Fengyang Mansion to provide escort for the investigation of hidden households and the measurement of land.
As for the results, Emperor Chongzhen was not sure, and therefore, he was very concerned about the governance of Fengyang Mansion.
As for why Fengyang Prefecture was chosen as the pilot project for Jiangnan governance, it was mainly determined by the current situation of suppressing bandits.
The location chosen cannot be far away from the chaos, nor can it be too close to the chaos.
If you are far away, it will become far-fetched to use the excuse of rogue thieves to clean up the place; if you are close, the local tyrants may be anxious to lure the rogue thieves to come and cause trouble.
As for the candidates, it was mainly in the hands of Emperor Chongzhen, and no civil servants could be sent out who could be trusted. Du Yinxi, Sun Chuanting and others had already been sent out by him.
Ma Shiying coincided with this meeting, and he also left a strong mark in the original history of Nanming.
Liu Weichao once analyzed Ma Shiying's reputation for Emperor Chongzhen. Although Ma Shiying's reputation in history books is not good, he felt that the most important thing is to analyze this person through what he did.
For example, Ma Shiying definitely had good vision. Compared with people like Shi Kefa, King Fu could not become emperor originally. It was because Ma Shiying first attracted the general soldiers of the four towns and had the support of the army that he could stand out.
In addition, Ma Shiying refused to surrender even though the emperor surrendered to the rebels, and finally died for the country. For this reason, his integrity is definitely better than most people.
Judging from his previous actions, Xuanfu was the territory of the eight major Shanxi merchants. He was impeached and resigned within a month of going there. It may also be seen that at least he was unpopular with the eight major Shanxi merchants.
After all this, Emperor Chongzhen asked Ma Shiying to try it first. Of course, he was still worried, so he sent the commander of the Jinyi Guard and the admiral of Dongchang to Fengyang Mansion together.
On this day, he received Ma Shiying's memorial and read it immediately.
This sight made him very happy. He felt that he was right that Ma Shiying was a capable person.
What surprised him the most was the script and the article "The Way of Science is the Way of All Peoples" attached to the memorial.
The first one was a script, which was the first time Emperor Chongzhen saw such a naked promotion of the necessity of paying taxes.
Talented, the court needs such talents!
If everyone had such a high consciousness as him and there were fewer people who evaded taxes and failed to pay taxes, Emperor Chongzhen would not have to worry about lack of money!
After reading about the screenwriter, Ruan Dacheng, to be honest, I don’t have much impression on him anymore.
After all, Ruan Dacheng has only been an official for three years in total, basically during the Tianqi years, and he has not done anything earth-shattering. It would be strange for Emperor Chongzhen to have an impression!
Later, he saw that the article was written by Ruan Dacheng again. This was the first scholar with a Jinshi background to praise him, and he even praised him thoroughly.
This article was written from left to right and top to bottom, and it still used simplified Chinese characters. What surprised Emperor Chongzhen was that he only read it once, and there were no typos in his impression!
This person really has a lot of heart!
Emperor Chongzhen understood the content of this article better than Ma Shiying.
Generally speaking, Ruan Dacheng cited some examples from those textbooks to illustrate that they are closely related to the lives of the people. If changes are made, it will greatly change the lives of the people, and lead to the conclusion that if the people are prosperous, the country will be strong. The final argument is that
This scientific way is the point of view of the way for all peoples.
As far as Emperor Chongzhen was concerned, he felt that Ruan Dacheng's understanding of science, especially chemistry, was not very clear. However, his writing style was indeed good and he spoke in an orderly manner.
As for the entire article, it was written by Emperor Chongzhen. Apart from him, there is no other best article related to this science.
Of course, if Song Yingxing were to write it, he would definitely be able to write it better than Ruan Dacheng. After all, no one can compare with Song Yingxing in terms of his understanding and absorption of science.
However, the key problem is that Song Yingxing has no time to write such articles at all. He has been busy on the front line and rarely even spends time in the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Ming Dynasty.
As a result, Emperor Chongzhen became very interested in Ruan Dacheng.
So, he immediately asked the eunuch on duty to find out information about Ruan Dacheng for him.
As a result, just by looking at it, Emperor Chongzhen frowned again.
Judging from the recorded information, Ruan Dacheng's reputation is quite bad! He is unfaithful and duplicitous. In short, he is not a good person.
Of course, today's Emperor Chongzhen is no longer the same as the previous Emperor Chongzhen.
If the former Emperor Chongzhen saw that Ruan Dacheng was once a criminal of Wei Nizhong, he would definitely throw it aside and not consider it at all.
However, since Emperor Chongzhen contacted Liu Weichao, and under Liu Weichao's training, he has realized that in the past, whether the Donglin Party or Wei Ni, they were actually fighting for power and profit, and used him as an emperor like a fool.
The so-called Qingliu does not necessarily mean a good official or a good minister; the so-called eunuch does not necessarily mean a model of treacherous ministers who do all evil!
However, no matter what, this information about Ruan Dacheng still made Emperor Chongzhen hesitate.
After thinking about it for a while, in the end, I turned to Wei Chao when everything was in doubt. This was his habit!
Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen immediately sent a video request to Liu Weichao.
After a while, the video was connected, and Liu Weichao appeared on the phone.
When Emperor Chongzhen saw it, he smiled and said, "How is your postgraduate examination going?"
When Liu Weichao heard this, he also smiled and replied: "I just checked the information and found that there is a postgraduate program in ancient Chinese history. I will apply for this later. What do you think?"
This was actually said before, so Emperor Chongzhen immediately nodded and said, "No problem!"
"By the way, what do you want to see me for?" Liu Weichao just answered casually. Knowing that Emperor Chongzhen contacted him during the day, there must be something wrong, so he immediately asked, "What do you want to see me for?"
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After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen immediately replied: "Wait a moment, I will show you two things!"
When Liu Weichao heard this, his head suddenly hurt.
To be honest, he really didn't want to read those ancient articles. They were from top to bottom, right to left, and there were no punctuation marks. There were so many traditional Chinese characters that it was hard to read!
However, since Emperor Chongzhen wanted him to read it, there must be something wrong. He also thought that he would have to take a test on ancient Chinese history in the future, which would inevitably involve dealing with ancient articles, so he nodded and said: "Okay, then you can send it over!"
After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen hung up the video communication first, took photos of the drama and the article "The Way of Science is the Way of All Peoples", and sent them over easily.
Then, he sent a voice message saying: "Read it first, and then contact me after you finish reading it!"
When Liu Weichao received the message, he clicked on the picture and was a little surprised.
It's not that he hasn't read the content yet, but that the layout format is modern.
As a result, Liu Weichao's interest immediately rose, and he started reading immediately without replying to Emperor Chongzhen's words.
After reading it, he probably knew what Emperor Chongzhen was going to say to him, so he immediately contacted Emperor Chongzhen via video call.
Emperor Chongzhen had been waiting for a long time. As soon as he saw the video communication request, he immediately connected it.
Seeing Emperor Chongzhen appear on the mobile phone screen, Liu Weichao smiled and asked: "Do you want to discuss with me whether Ruan Dacheng is available?"
"Yes, that's what I mean. I'm a little unsure!" Emperor Chongzhen replied immediately after hearing this.
Later, he told Liu Weichao the information he had seen about Ruan Dacheng, and also expressed his own thoughts to Liu Weichao.
To be honest, Emperor Chongzhen also despised people like Ruan Dacheng.
At the end, he asked Liu Weichao: "Please help me check, what was this person like in the original history?"
This is almost a question that Emperor Chongzhen would ask Liu Weichao before appointing someone.
After hearing this, Liu Weichao nodded immediately and said, "Okay, wait a minute, I will check all the information about Ruan Dacheng and contact you later!"