When Emperor Chongzhen heard the movement, he immediately turned his head and looked over, smiled and asked: "How is it, everything is done?"
After hearing this, Princess Kunxing just smiled but did not reply. After turning around, she took the tray from the hand of the maid who was following behind her, and then sent it to Emperor Chongzhen.
When everyone saw this scene, they turned to look at the tray in Princess Kunxing's hand. However, the tray was covered with a red cloth, so they couldn't see clearly what was inside.
But they could all guess that the things on the tray were definitely related to what they had done in the back hall.
Thinking of this, they were very curious and wanted to see what kind of thing they had made.
However, one day they were still very sure. If this thing was not important, the emperor would not bring them here in person.
Emperor Chongzhen stretched out his hand, peeled off the piece of red cloth, handed it to the waiter beside him, and then took something off the tray to look at it.
Sun Chuanting and others were all staring at it. They immediately saw what the emperor picked up. It seemed to be a booklet. It was very thin and small. It was only about a quarter of the size of an ordinary book. However, the cover seemed to be made of rubber.
of.
What is this?
Immediately, everyone had this idea again.
As they were thinking this, they saw that Emperor Chongzhen had already obtained the pamphlet, and then he opened it and started reading.
"Not bad, not bad!" Emperor Chongzhen said with a smile and nod, "This is the effect I want! It's ready!"
After finishing speaking, he raised his head and looked at Sun Chuanting, the chief minister of the cabinet, and said: "Sun Qing, this is yours, keep it!"
After he finished speaking, the chamberlain beside him quickly took it and forwarded it to Sun Chuanting.
Everyone turned to look over and saw that the booklet in Sun Chuanting's hand was a rubber cover with several large words printed on it. They all saw it clearly. There were three words written vertically in the middle of the cover: ID card, and then
A line of smaller characters is written horizontally below: Supervised by the Ministry of Household Affairs of Ming Dynasty.
Sun Chuanting could see it clearly, and he couldn't help but have a doubt in his heart, ID card? What is this? Proof of identity?
With this thought in his mind, he quickly opened the cover and took a look, and was stunned immediately.
I saw in the middle of the upper part of the page that I opened, there was a portrait that was exactly the same as him. To be precise, it was a shrunken portrait, absolutely lifelike. If you really want to say it, it was better than the emperor's mobile phone treasure photo.
It came out a little worse because the portrait is in black and white.
Below this portrait, there are rows of small characters.
The first line is, name: Sun Chuanting, courtesy name: Boya.
The second line is, household registration: Mingzhaofang, East Chang'an Street, Beijing.
The third line is, ID number: 010101 Wanli 2111.
After Sun Chuanting finished looking at it, he turned over the page again and found that there was a line of small characters on the back page that said, in November of the 23rd year of Chongzhen, Sun Chuanting became the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty. Above these words, there was also a
The small red seal is the name of the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Ming Dynasty. Then it is blank, and there are two blank pages after it.
After that, there is another rubber bottom with a line of words printed on it: March of the 26th year of Chongzhen.
After reading it, Sun Chuanting could probably guess what it was, but there were still many things he didn't understand, so he quickly raised his head and asked Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, is this identity card used for population management in the Ming Dynasty?"
Although there was household registration in the past, to be honest, it was just a little text description, which was very vague. The same is true, there are many hidden houses.
Although large-scale rectification has been carried out now, this bad habit will inevitably still exist. If management is relaxed at any time, there may be a large-scale increase in hidden households.
It is said that in Fujian and Guangdong, many people from the Nanyang vassal country have become hermits for local wealthy families.
And this identity certificate has this portrait and detailed information. If someone becomes a hidden person again, it will not be easy.
No matter what, population management has been very important in all dynasties, but it is also a very difficult matter.
After all, everything has to be done by people. If you don’t even know how many and who people are under your jurisdiction, things will basically be difficult to handle!
At this time, after hearing Sun Chuanting's question, Emperor Chongzhen said slightly proudly: "Yes, this ID card will be used for population management in the future. All people in the Ming Dynasty, excluding vassal states and others, must have this
ID card. In other words, only local people in the Ming Dynasty can have this ID card and enjoy the remaining rights and obligations!"
The Kingdom of Heaven must look like the Kingdom of Heaven. Otherwise, people from the vassal state will flock to the mainland and wait until there are too many people to deal with, and there will be a lot of trouble.
Sun Chuanting listened, and then asked quickly: "Is there anything special about this ID number?"
He didn't know the rest. The Wanli 21 in the middle should refer to the year and month of his birth, the twenty-first year of Wanli. He could still guess this, and therefore, he also felt that the other numbers had some meaning!
"That's right!" After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen nodded again and said: "The first two represent the province, the third and fourth represent the prefecture, the fifth and sixth represent the county, then the date of birth of the ID card holder, and then 1
It means that the person is male, 2 means that he is female, and 3 means others. The last digit is the check digit, which is obtained according to certain rules, and can be used to initially verify whether the ID card is true or false!"
After hearing this, the people on the other side of the Bureau of Ceremonies silently classified themselves as 3.
After Sun Chuanting listened, he asked again: "Then what is written on these white papers at the back is what this person is currently doing, or what he is going to do?"
After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said, "That's right. If you have to leave your place of residence for something, you must mark it behind this as a road guide."
"What if everything is filled up?" Sun Chuanting obviously planned to ask the rhythm clearly in one breath, so he immediately continued to ask.
When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he immediately smiled and said: "When it is full, you have to go to the government again to change it. The first ID card issuance is free, but if you need to change it later, you will have to pay!"
After a pause, he thought for a moment, and then added: "If you are only traveling within the county, there is no need to indicate it. When you leave the county, you must go to the county government office and indicate the situation!"
Fifteen years before Chongzhen, or before the invention of the steam train, or before the cement official road was rebuilt, the vast majority of the people lived their entire lives around the place where they were born, within a radius of twenty miles, and the furthest they could actually go to the county seat.
That's all.
After the invention of the steam train and the reconstruction of the cement official road, transportation became more convenient and travel costs were reduced. The scope of activities of the people will be wider. However, no matter how large it is, it is actually limited. Most people probably will not
Leave your own county.
Those who often appear are either students studying, but more often than not they are businessmen. As for traveling, in this era, only officials and wealthy families may have the ability.
Therefore, if this first ID card will be used up on its own initiative, it will probably be a wealthy family. For most people, three blank pages, based on the existing small characters, will not be able to finish writing in a lifetime.
Regarding these, Sun Chuanting just thought of it in the blink of an eye. Originally, he wanted to ask about this identification certificate, which was probably not cheap. He didn't know how much it would cost, but now he stopped asking.
The money of those rich people will never be looked at as it is just used as proof of identity.
After Sun Chuanting considered all of this, he couldn't help but sigh and said: "The identity certificate set up by Your Majesty is astounding to me. It is actually the most important tool for governing the country!"
It was the first time for him to see this identity certificate. Therefore, he could not think of any flaws for a while. More importantly, he thought of how this identity certificate could solve various previous governance problems.
. It’s the same, that’s why he felt so emotional!
Other senior officials of the Ming Dynasty could only take a glance at Sun Chuanting's book, and had no idea what was in this booklet. Listening to the conversation between Sun Chuanting and the emperor, they became particularly curious.
Especially when they heard Sun Chuanting say that this booklet turned out to be the most important tool for governing the country, they were even tempted to snatch the booklet from Sun Chuanting's hands to see what it was that had received such high praise?
However, this was in front of the emperor, and the target was the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty. The idea of grabbing him could only be thought of in his mind.
Fortunately, they didn't have to wait too long. After Emperor Chongzhen finished talking to Sun Chuanting, he signaled Princess Kunxing to pass the plate to the servants directly to the ministers, and asked Sun Chuanting to roll their names and hand out all the identification certificates.
After a while, all the senior officials of the Ming Dynasty who had taken the photo received their identity certificates. Each one of them remained silent and turned over the pages, especially staring at the portrait, which was very strange.
Among them, Ni Yuanlu, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, saw the information on the identity certificate and immediately understood that the production of identity certificates would be handled by the Ministry of Revenue in the future. He was even more happy.
Unlike Sun Chuanting, he came to this conclusion in his mind and remembered that Emperor Chongzhen had told the chief minister that the identity certificate would be free. When he thought of the current population of the Ming Dynasty, his heart suddenly skipped a beat, and he quickly said to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty,
I’m afraid this identity certificate is not cheap. If everyone has to have a free identity certificate, then... the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Affairs won’t be able to afford it, right?”
This thing is definitely a good thing. What the First Assistant said is the most important tool for governing the country is definitely not just what he said. However, if he thinks it is free, it will be too painful!
After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen certainly understood what he meant, and immediately smiled and said: "The current cost is about ten taels of silver for just such a booklet!"
"What?" When Ni Yuanlu heard this, he was shocked and said, "Ten taels of silver? How can this... this... be free? No, even if it's not free, I'm afraid most people can't afford it!"