The first implementation was to abolish the government soldiers system. The government soldiers in the five northern provinces, Beizhili, Shandong, Shanxi, and Shaanxi, have all been reorganized into a new army. Although the new army in Shaanxi is not fully equipped with flintlocks, it has been in accordance with the new army’s Salary is paid.
There was only one province in Henan, and there was no new army. Li Chunye immediately transferred personnel from the Ministry of War and rushed to Henan to form the 38th Army.
If the remaining soldiers and military households lose their land completely, or if the remaining land is not enough to feed the whole family, and the remaining land is temporarily handed over to the local government, they will all move to Liaoning Province. If they go faster, they can still catch up with the winter wheat. Planting.
At the same time, the people in the five northern provinces who had completely lost their land began to immigrate to Liaoning Province.
The First Avenue suddenly became busy. Although they left their hometowns, these immigrants basically moved out of the village. When they arrived outside the customs, they were still neighbors. The most important thing was that the court was outside the customs and allocated land for them free of charge, each of which was 30 acres. , To buy these land, but one hundred fifty taels of silver.
With this land, they can support themselves and their families, and no longer need to be exploited by others. In the future, their sons can normally marry a daughter-in-law, and their daughters can normally marry a good family.
Outside the customs, let them live a normal life that they haven't lived in for many years.
In order to encourage military households to emigrate outside the customs, the imperial court distributed a stone of grain to each of them. If they were frugal, they could spend the winter normally.
Zhu Youzhen occasionally pretended to leave Beijing and watched the endless stream of immigrants from Liaoning on the First Avenue outside Dongzhimen. For the first time, he felt that the revival of Daming was the real beginning.
At the same time, in the northeast corner of the capital, a newspaper called "Ming Pao" suddenly fell from the sky. The proprietor of "Ming Pao" was called Yangzi. He was a middle-aged man in his forties. It's just the editor-in-chief of Ming Pao, the real proprietor is someone else.
"Ming Pao" is a weekly newspaper with four editions. The first edition is news from various places in Ming Dynasty, the second edition is stories and novels, and the third edition is entertainment. It specializes in publishing all kinds of celebrity anecdotes. What people talk about is the fourth edition, named "Miscellaneous Tan", which is devoted to discussing various events in Ming's political life.
In the first issue of "Za Tan", the article "Dissolving the Clan Mansion" signed by "Li Sao" was published. The author is sharp in writing, but his views are not radical. He supports the dissolution of the Clan Mansion, because the Clan Mansion is already huge. The financial burden should be implemented slowly, so that the children of the clan can gradually adapt to being ordinary people.
In the same issue of "Za Tan", the article "The Important Role of Clan in the Political Life of Ming Dynasty" was published with the signature "Keep the Roots". The article believes that the clan is the foundation of the Ming imperial family. Not only are they born noble, they are also Talented and powerful, we must not fall to the opposite side of the imperial court.
The second issue of "Ming Pao" continued to discuss similar issues. The author signed "Yu Wanxin" sharply criticized the article "Keeping the Roots" "The Important Role of Clan in the Political Life of the Gate". I believe that dissolving the clan residence is not abolishing the clan’s royal status, nor is it the exile and expulsion of the clan’s children. On the contrary, it allows the well-educated clan’s children to have a better position in the service of the Ming Dynasty.
Jingshi is a place where literati gather. Some literati read the articles published in Ming Pao and their blood is boiling. They also want to join the comments and pass on their profile and aspirations to the whole society.
After much inquiries, they discovered that anyone can contribute to Ming Pao. As long as the point of view is clear and the argumentation is sufficient, they have the hope of being published. Once selected, Ming Pao will give the author corresponding remuneration, but all articles , The vernacular must be used.
As political articles are more sensitive, Ming Pao promises that they will remain anonymous as authors.
The literati boiled over for a while, especially some of the talented people who lived in the capital. They had nothing to do, and they picked up paper and pen to join the debate in Ming Pao.
"Ming Pao" itself does not hold any position on the dissolution of the clan government. They only publish the author's views. As long as it is not against the emperor or promotes treason, all articles may be published in the newspaper.
The fourth edition of "Miscellaneous Talk" unexpectedly surpassed the first edition of news and attracted more literati's attention.
The first two issues of "Ming Pao" were distributed free of charge, and anyone can get it from the "Ming Pao" newspaper. From the third issue, "Ming Pao" began to be sold for a fee, each with three copper plates.
Almost every other issue, Ming Pao will publish articles on "Yu Wanxin". In general, "Yu Wanxin" supports the dissolution of the clan government and the reform of Zhu Youjian. This has caused some passionate scholars. Idea.
These scholars opposed reforms, especially against national equality. They gathered together and talked about "Yu Wanxin", and they were immediately excited. So dozens of scholars took the lead and began to attack the Ming Pao newspaper.
Yangtze personally came forward to clarify that "Yuwanxin" only represented his personal views, but the scholars ignored it. They relied on a large number of people and insisted on Yangzi to hand over "Yuwanxin" and talk with him face-to-face.
Yangtze refused to confess the whereabouts of "Yu Wanxin" because he wanted to protect the privacy of the author. The two sides clashed. As a result, the people at the newspaper gave the scholars a beating.
The deflated scholars, the more they thought about it, the more angry they came to Shuntian Mansion and sued the Ming Pao for "demonstration to confuse the public", "shielding the chaotic party", and "beating up the juren scholars in public."
Shuntian Fuyin received the report and immediately dispatched yamen to detain Yangtze, the proprietor of Ming Pao.
What Yangzi saw was from Shuntian Mansion. He was not at all messy. First he called an entourage, whispered a few words, and then walked out of the lobby to meet the servants: "I am just running a newspaper to promote positive social energy. What a crime. ?"
"We don't care if you are guilty or not, we are just acting on orders. If you are guilty or not, you go and talk to the adults." The Ya Ya involuntarily said, and chained Yangtze.
Yangtze didn't struggle, just kept sneering.
The leader of the bureaucracy was furious: "You don't know what is good or bad. We treat each other with courtesy. You dare to laugh at us and offend that bunch of scholars. Do you think you have good fruit to eat?" A slap in the face hit Yangzi's nose and mouth. bleed.
Yangtze neither wiped the blood off his face nor argued with the yamen, he was like a pine tree, allowing the yamen to wrap chains around his body like a cane.
The servants kept cursing all the way, but Yangtze only looked up at the sky and did not argue with the servants.
In front of the Shuntian Mansion Yamen, more and more scholars gathered, plus the onlookers, there were a total of hundreds of people, and Fu Yin was facing tremendous pressure.
Yangzi did not squint, he strode forward and stepped into the gate of the mansion.
Fu Yin is already sitting in the hall. The master is wearing a felt hat and is watching Yangtze. On the eight or nine chairs in front of the hall, there are a few scholars sitting in front of the hall. Either they are wearing felt hats crookedly, or their noses and faces are swollen. Obviously It's the group of people who were beaten in the newspaper just now.
They all smiled and looked at Yangzi kindly.
"Who is in the hall? Kneel down and speak!" Fu Yin slapped the gavel, and the government officials on both sides also slurred "mighty".
"My Lord, Cao Min is Yangtze, the proprietor of Ming Pao." Yangtze didn't kneel, he just bowed his hand to Xiangfu Yin.
"Kneel down and speak!" Fu Yin slapped the gavel again.
"My lord, why don't they kneel?" Yang Zi pointed to the scholars sitting on both sides.
"Bold! They are talented people, but the plaintiff. You are the defendant. You won't kneel down and serve you with torture." Fu Yin was furious. He felt his authority was provoked by Yangtze.
Yangtze still didn't kneel: "My lord, according to Daming's New Deal, all citizens are equal before the law. Now that the plaintiff sits in the hall, why did the lord let the Caomin kneel?"
Fu Yin sneered: "You founded "Ming Pao," spreading coquettish words, confusing the people, slandering the court, and now beating the sanctuaries, still dare to talk about equality with the official?"
Yangtze argued with reason: "Sir, Daming is not convicted by words. Whether the Caomin violated Daming's law can only be known after the adult's trial. Now that the adult has not been tried, how can he know that the Caomin violated the law?"
"It seems that if you do not move the big punishment, you don't know what equality is, what is the law, come!" Fu Yin was too lazy to argue with Yangtze, he threw down a bamboo stick: "First hit twenty. If you commit another crime, double. ."
"Yes." The Ya Ya was like a wolf and a tiger, and he had to press Yangtze down.
At this moment, a government officer patrolling outside the Yamen rushed in. He came to Fu Yin, whispered a few words in a low voice, and handed Fu Yin a small piece of paper.
Fu Yin's expression changed suddenly, big beads of sweat appeared on his head, and his hands trembled constantly, "This..."
"My lord..." Master leaned over, wanting to read the words on the paper.
Fu Yin was shocked. He crumpled the piece of paper and threw it into his mouth. He swallowed two mouthfuls and spit, but he couldn't swallow. The piece of paper stuck in his throat, just like this "card".
Seeing Fu Yin roll his eyes, the master was terrified: "Quick, pour a glass of warm water."
The yamen found tea and let Fu Yin pour it down. Only then did Fu Yin’s "white eyes disease" have been resolved.
Master was puzzled, what kind of piece of paper is this? "grown ups… "
Fu Yin waved his hand and asked the master to retreat. He saw that the yaman had already pressed Yangtze to the ground and was about to execute the torture. He hurriedly stopped saying: "You should withdraw first, and it will not be too late to execute the sentence after the official inquires!"
The Ya Ya was in a state of uncertainty and had to let Yangtze go.
Yangzi was upset in his heart, but looked at Fu Yin and sneered slightly.
Fu Yin turned his head and pretended not to see Yangtze. "According to the Ming New Deal, all citizens are equal before the law. Since the defendant is standing, the plaintiff is not allowed to sit."
"My lord..." The scholars also found that the momentum was wrong. It turned out that this Yangtze was like a foggy figure.
Regardless of the doubts of the scholars, Fu Yin shouted: "Come on, remove all the seats!"
Eight or nine scholars stood on both sides of Yangtze, looking like guards.
Fu Yin asked the plaintiff and the plaintiff to recite their own statements.
After listening to the statement, Fu Yin gave a shocked shot: "It turns out that you went to the newspaper to make trouble, but you falsely accused the newspaper. You were beaten and you deserved it. But the newspaper has been registered with the Ministry of Industry and paid taxes to the Ministry of Households. How dare you attack the newspaper and disturb the newspaper. The normal social order, come on, drag down the scholars who are full and do nothing, each weighing twenty."