The tenth year of Jianwen was destined to be written into Chinese history, including world history, because of the end of the First Five-Year Plan.

This is definitely the first country under the sky to implement and complete the planned policies.

A great country built by 70 million smart and hard-working people through sweat, struggle and hard work.

As the head of the ten ministries, the Ministry of Personnel was the first to stand up to report. Xu Buji, the Minister of Personnel, had just cleared his throat when he heard Zhu Yunwen speak first.

"Sit and talk."

On and off, more than a dozen young eunuchs had moved over a dozen chairs of the Grand Master. Not only that, a coffee table was added between every two chairs of the Grand Master, and hot tea and snacks were served.

This report will never be short.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

More than a dozen people bowed to thank the gifts, and then sat down according to their identities.

After all the time he sat down, Xu Buji continued to speak.

"Report to Your Majesty, the 'First Five-Year Plan of the Ming Dynasty' was launched in the early sixth year of Jianwen, to the present, the Ministry of Personnel has sent inspections and inspection teams to local provinces in order to fully implement the "Regulations on the Retirement of the Court Officials and Clerks, Dings, Dings and Dismissals".

A total of three-level redundant staff in local provinces, prefectures and counties were eliminated, with more than 17,400 officials over the line, and 5,800 officials in the six provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Jiaozhi were replenished.

Every year in Beijing, the pass rate of the provincial chief officers reached 96. The unqualified chief officers have drafted a list according to the procedures of the Ministry of Personnel to submit the cabinet for approval for dismissal.

Local government investigations and counties investigated the chief officials at all levels. The pass rate of clerks was 91 per cent. A total of more than 13,000 unqualified officials were eliminated. Now, the difference has been completed through the provincial examinations.

Now, except for the three Duhuhu, Jiaozhi and Taiwan under our jurisdiction, our Ming Dynasty, the three places of Moting, Jiaozhi, and Taiwan, the remaining provinces have completed the comprehensive investigation. The Ministry of Personnel has not disappointed the holy hope. With the guidance of the cabinet, the assistance of each department, and the cooperation of each province, the First Five-Year Plan."

Officials are the foundation of a country, and states must first govern officials in great times.

In the past five years, the Ministry of Personnel has successively lifted and removed the total number of officials at all levels has reached more than 30,000, which has almost reached 20% of the entire Ming Dynasty official system.

But soon, relying on the increasingly mature local provincial examination system, the batch of differences was quickly filled, ensuring the normal operation of government affairs in local provincial, prefecture and county-level yamen.

The new officials who passed the provincial examination were not the traditional scholars and Confucian scholars who had passed the provincial examination and were not the first and fifth-year plan before the 19th Five-Year Plan.

This is a group of sincere young people who have been tested in the "Jianwen Ceremony" and "Collection of Quotations from Emperor Jianwen".

They not only know how to shout slogans, but also understand what customs and political innovation is.

It can be expected that as this group grows and grows, new and similar groups continue to pour into the Ming Dynasty’s political arena to enrich the local officialdom. In China, the traditional bureaucratic system that has been maintained for nearly two thousand years will completely collapse and be replaced.

What are the characteristics of China's traditional bureaucratic system for two thousand years?

It is to use the bureaucratic system as the public instrument of the state and society to carry out universal rational governance, but this so-called rational governance has non-institutional characteristics.

The system of filial piety and integrity was adopted during the Han Dynasty, the nine ranks of Wei and Jin Dynasties, the imperial examinations and family coexisted with the family, the Song Dynasty shared the world, and the Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism of the Yuan and Ming dynasties were all non-institutional bureaucratic systems.

This bureaucratic system has strong circle and mountainous characteristics. They are stubborn and powerful, with strong autonomy and operational capabilities. There were many examples of emperors not attending court in the Ming Dynasty, but the country's operation is still normal and effective.

This is the fundamental reason why the power of scholars suppresses imperial power.

It is a great emperor that has emerged for thousands of years, but the innovative system left behind often leads to the crux of death after his death.

Some people may worry that after Zhu Yunwen's death, the reforms he left behind would die and let the traditional system rekindle. This is inevitable. Zhu Yunwen himself would not fantasize that the Ming Empire could ensure that he would still implement his will for hundreds of years after his death.

However, during his reign, the Ministry of Personnel ordered the Ministry of Personnel to strictly investigate the bureaucracy and continuously supplement the new reserve team into the bureaucracy. At least it can ensure that even after Zhu Yunwen's death, the new learning group who learned the spirit of speech he left behind would still carry out his will to every corner of the Ming Empire.

Even if this group will begin to turn evil in the future and gradually form a new bureaucratic class, it will not be important to use the power in political operations.

Because at that time, the Ming Dynasty society must have changed its appearance and embarked on the path that Zhu Yunwen wanted to see.

Therefore, the work of the Ministry of Personnel is not as intuitively reflected in numbers like the data management departments such as the Ministry of Revenue. However, it has always been the top priority in Zhu Yunwen's eyes and heart, and it is also the place where he devoted his efforts the most, including participating in the compilation and revision of the two works "Jianwen Encyclopedia" and "Collection of Quotations from Emperor Jianwen".

After talking about the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Revenue will follow. Logically speaking, at the end of the year, the Ministry of Revenue should have all the tax and silver and grains of each province escorted into the official warehouse at the foot of Nanzhili. The Duzhilang took the official documents of each province to check it, and only after it was confirmed that it would be sent to the cabinet as a fixed number.

However, this time the Ministry of Revenue did not intend to report the income of money and grain, but only reported two hard indicators: land and Dingkou.

"There are 7.7 million hectares of land in all provinces across the country, and more than 73.14 million hectares of land in the mouth of Ding."

Are these two sets of numbers exploding?

Quite explosive!

Whether the authenticity of this data is credible is based on whether the foundation of the Hongwu Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty is really strong.

The main sources of research on this point are "Ming Shilu", "Ministry of Revenue", "Ming Huidian", "China's Population History", "History of China's Population Development", "Geographic History" (not a modern geography, but a development history of specific regions in ancient times) and the reverse reversal of the number of corvee service and grain taxes recorded in provincial government journals.

In the literature of various provinces compiled and summarized by a series of later generations, such as "The Collection of Historical Materials of the Ming Dynasty, "The Collection of Historical Materials of the Ming Dynasty, "The Collection of Historical Materials of the Ming Dynasty, and "The Collection of Historical Materials of the Ming Dynasty, Zhejiang Province", although these data are biased and different, they can generally be verified by each other.

In the late Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the registered population of the Ming Dynasty reached 60 million (some say 65 million), with acres of land of four million hectares (excluding the fields of military households and garrisons), with an actual levy of more than 30 million stones.

The foundation is quite solid, and it can be regarded as the peak of national strength in the past three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty.

Because the chaos was defeated in the fourth year of Jingnan, the population in the second year of Yongle was only 51 million.

In the records of "The Records of Ming Dynasty", this internal battle directly led to the devastation of life in Hebei, Shandong, Nanzhili and other places. Zhu Laosi attacked Shandong and held a grudge because of the strong resistance of Sheng Yong and Tie Xuan. Although "The Records of Taizong" did not record that Zhu Laosi had a massacre of the city, he admitted that after stealing the throne, Zhu Laosi carried out strict labor service on the people of Shandong, exhausted from death and starved to death in various fortifications.

If a man is conscripted to serve labor, the elderly and weak in the family will starve to death.

‘A man is in prison, and his family is abandoned’. The labor service is no less than the prison, and it is even more than that.

This directly triggered the rebellion of the White Lotus Sect in Qilu.

References cannot be simple and can directly quote the familiar "History of China's Economics". After all, this is a book edited by Mr. Qian, a man born in the late Qing Dynasty. At least there are serious problems in the deviation and contradiction of authenticity. For example, in terms of population in the late Ming Dynasty, the population of the Ming Dynasty recorded in the economic history of China was only 21.06 million, and the Qing Dynasty entered the pass and 19 million, which concealed the crime in this way.

This is a huge gap between this and the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty Records.

Moreover, there are many contradictory aspects. In this book, the population of dynasties before the Qing Dynasty was mentioned many times. The reason why the population of dynasties before the Qing Dynasty basically did not exceed 10 to 20 million was that the system was backward and the officials did not care about the people, and the Qing Dynasty had a population of 40 million and the treasury was once nearly 100 million. It was simply a perfect ruling dynasty and a prosperous era.

But Mr. Qian himself may have forgotten that when he copied the Sui book, he wrote down the number of the national population of the Kaihuang period of the Sui Dynasty, which was "nearly 60 million".

Including the early days of Emperor Yang of Sui's great cause, the national taxes were also slightly increased.

When writing about the two prosperous eras of Zhenguan and Kaiyuan, it also said that "the prosperous era of Tang has restored the level of the Kaihuang year of the Sui Dynasty."

This is enough to show that the number of Ding dynasties in the Sui and Tang dynasties had exceeded the 60 million mark.

Even Yuan Dynasty revised the history of the Song Dynasty and admitted that the prosperity of the Southern Song Dynasty was far superior to that of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and his words were more than ten thousand. Mr. Qian turned a blind eye to this point.

‘Before the Qing Dynasty, no one had a population of more than 20 million in all dynasties.’

Well, I don't know if he is embarrassed.

He did not deny that Emperor Yongzheng's integrated food and the policy of stimulating the population and relaxing the personal control of the people by Emperor Yongzheng, and the positive contribution of the population to the big explosion, but he blindly denies the achievements of the Han dynasties in the past dynasties, and did not see that Emperor Puyi of the Qing Dynasty, who was once restored in the three eastern provinces, granted a title of Grand Secretary to Mr. Qian.

"The summary of the Ministry of Revenue, I remember that the cabinet suggested levying the provinces at that time, right?"

Zhu Yunwen asked with a smile: "Which province has the best achievements in each province?"

"Shanxi and Jiangxi."

Qi Zhu, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, took out a report from the 'report card': "Among them, Shanxi has the largest increase in the number of Dingkou, which is more than 1.34 million people than in the sixth year of Jianwen, and Jiangxi has the largest increase in the number of land acres, with more than 300,000 hectares of additional exploration and integration."

The interests of coal merchants and shopkeepers in Shanxi and local gentry in Jiangxi were completely destroyed by this 15th plan.

The only shame is that these two provinces have not seen them jump out and commit a rebellion.

Otherwise, we can take advantage of the situation to fight the landlords and divide the land.

"Your and I will die now, and you can still smile at your ancestors with your head held high and your chest!"

Zhu Yunwen couldn't help but sigh insincerely, and Xia Yuanji and Qi Zhu stood up to flatter him with a smile on their faces.

"Your Majesty's achievements in governing the Tang and Song dynasties will last forever!"

"Your Majesty's achievements are worthy of all ages!"

Everyone rushed to follow this flattery. The title of the Emperor of the Eternal Eternal is considered to be for Zhu Yunwen, and it is a pristine place!
Chapter completed!