After the officials retreated, Zhu Houzhao turned to look at Yan Chengjin:

"Old Gao, do you really issue an imperial edict to go to the Tang and Song dynasties?"

The Ministry of Rites wanted to arrange ceremonial guards and sent envoys to accompany him, but he was reluctant to give up the money.

"The new emperor is casual, but I have another thing to discuss with the new emperor."

Yan Chengjin raised his eyes slightly, it didn't matter if he didn't make an order, and Zhu Houzhao didn't talk about the emperor's virtue. The dukes were used to cheating on this guy, and the diligence that he had agreed to have been reduced from the original four hours to three hours.

Anyway, as long as you are thick-skinned, you will have no choice.

Zhu Houzhao's eyes lit up slightly: "What?"

"Inspecting the population of the Yellow Book, most of the vassal kings have moved away from Zhongtu, and they may take away the people in the fiefdom. The last time the Yellow Book was investigated was five years ago, and it was time to investigate."

The investigation of the yellow book requires the whole country's efforts and consume countless manpower.

However, Yan Chengjin came from his previous life and knew the importance of the census and could find out the proportion of men and women, the population distribution in various places, and the aging situation.

The policy of governing the country was obtained from here, and the vassal kings took away a large area of ​​the people, and they needed to know the distribution of the people in order to reasonably guide farming.

"My father has been in power for twenty-three years, and I have only checked it three times. I have checked it three times so far. What are you going to check the yellow book again?"

But when I thought about it, the light in Zhu Houzhao's eyes gradually lit up.

I don’t know how good governance has increased the number of people over the years. If it is to double it, it is...

"My partner of Gu went to the cabinet to pass on my decree."

………

Cabinet Value Room,

"I haven't seen the new emperor's imperial edict yet. Do we want to urge me?" Zhang Sheng looked at Li Dongyang.

Li Dongyang shook his head, "The new emperor was a spy from the Tang and Song dynasties, so how could he issue an imperial edict?"

At this time, the little eunuch walked into the duty room, placed the imperial edict on Li Dongyang's desk, turned around and ran out.

After the new emperor ascended the throne, he became lazy and did not recite the imperial edict.

Li Dongyang picked up the imperial edict and took a look, "The new emperor wants to investigate the yellow book."

"It's good to check the yellow book, but it's a bit expensive and labor-intensive." Xie Qian nodded.

Yellow books are usually checked every four years.

However, thorough investigation of the Huangcai requires the power of the whole country. Some emperors only checked the Huangcai once when they were in power, such as Zhu Zhanji, the emperor who promoted the reign of Renxuan, once every ten years.

In order not to waste people's wealth, the government does not need to cover up bribery.

"Since the new emperor ascended the throne, he has checked three times. Are you too diligent?" Wang Qiong cried and opposed it with some tactful opposition.

Since he served as the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, he has begun to have black circles, and it has become heavier and heavier, and there are many ghosts when he sees the sparse music.

If he was asked to liquidate the Yellow List again, he might not be far from being loyal to the court.

He was a little scared.

"Do you know why the new emperor's will? Let's go to the Ministry of Revenue."

Li Dongyang sighed, it was useless to ask for begging for Zhu Houzhao's order.

Xie Qian exchanged glances with Han Wende and others, remembering the bet with the new emperor, and the population, land acres and national treasury silver doubled.

Now, the number of land in the Tang and Song dynasties has been reached.

After discovering the golden state, the treasury's silver reserves will be achieved sooner or later.

Only people are left!

The civil servant did not dare to be negligent and quickly sent it to the duty room of the Ministry of Revenue.

After Wang Qiong was promoted to the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, the position of Minister of Revenue was vacant. After receiving a memorial, Qiao Yu, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, stroked his beard slightly.

"The new emperor and the dukes had a bet to double the population of the Huang Book, but I'm afraid that this population would be difficult to investigate."

It was said that King Shou moved to the fiefdom of the Western Regions and took away nearly ten thousand people.

Dozens of vassal kings may have to take away hundreds of thousands of people, or even more.

"After Lord Yan was promoted to the prime minister, the Ministry of Revenue delayed choosing the Secretary of the Household Department, just because..." Another chief clerk spoke with a profound meaning.

The position of the Minister of Revenue is vacant, and it is obvious that Yan Chengjin wants to install his own people.

Nowadays, the two people who can serve as Minister of the Ministry of Revenue are the left and right ministers of the Ministry of Works, Song Jing and Xie Pi.

Qiao Yu took a deep breath, and a firm look flashed in his eyes, "No matter what he wants, I will fight for it!"

...

Censorate, duty room.

Yan Chengjin opened the yellow book of Shuntian Mansion, and Zheng Gan walked in with him: "Sir, Lord Xie is here."

Xie Pi was a little confused and bowed to Yan Chengjin: "I wonder if Lord Yan is looking for a senior official?"

Putting aside his official position, he sincerely admired the science subject just by giving the science college many drawings to him.

"I want to recommend you to serve as Minister of the Ministry of Revenue."

Zhu Houzhao checked the yellow book, in order to understand the population of the world, to see the marriage status of men and women, and to make policy adjustments.

Secondly, it was to recommend Xie Pi as the Minister of Revenue.

Qiao Yu and Jiang Mian belong to the same type of person, and were Jinshi in Chenghua for 20 years. They were important chaebol departments such as the Ministry of Revenue. Yan Chengjin did not want him to be the Minister of Shang, which hindered the change.

Xie Pi said: "The seniority of the officials is still very low, and it may cause trouble for adults."

There are many ministers in the court who are older than him.

If Yan Chengjin recommends him, he will be charged with forming a clique.

"Zhang Xian is more decisive than you. He never asks about the reason for this official. The court puts excellence first, so there is no need to care. I will give you a copy of the yellow book." Yan Chengjin said.

Xie Pi's heart moved slightly, took the yellow book from Shuntian Mansion and walked out of the office.

A month has passed since the imperial court ordered people to investigate the yellow books, and various prefectures and prefectures and counties have successively sent the number of yellow books to the Censorate's Office first, and then distributed it to the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Industry.

Qiao Yu sat on the official hat chair, picked up the accounts with his right hand, and looked at the clerk who was sending the yellow book:

"Why send it to the Censorate first!"

"The minister obeys the order of the Chief Auxiliary!" The civil servant muttered to himself, this is indeed unruly, but what can he do?

Guessed it.

This son really wanted Xie Pi and Song Jingzhong to be the Minister of Revenue. I also wanted to calculate the population of the Yellow List as soon as possible, otherwise the position of the Minister of Revenue would be stolen by the two.

The officials, households, military and punishment work, the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of War are all people of this!

If you add the Ministry of Revenue...

Qiao Yu's heart moved slightly.

At this time, a small eunuch walked in outside the door: "Mr. Qiao, the population of Huangcai has been calculated. The new emperor summoned six ministries to the Donghunting Pavilion to discuss matters."

Calculate it?

Qiao Yu looked up in surprise and put down the abacus in his hand. "I am not slow in arithmetic, and with the chief clerks of each department, I have only finished the twelve provincial governors. Who can be faster than me?"

"It's Lord Xie."

………

East Warm Pavilion,

Li Dongyang looked up at Zhu Houzhao's book.

The court has made a lot of good governance, but I wonder if the population has increased or decreased?

"Xinhuang, I wonder if the total number of people in Huangcai is?" Zhang Sheng looked at Zhu Houzhao. There were more than 65 million people in the Yongle period, and by the Xuande period, there were only more than 50 million people left.

The population will decline.

Their faces were nervous and expectant.

Zhu Houzhao did not answer, but flipped around and led the two men to feel quite upset.

Qiao Yu strode into the hall, saluted Zhu Houzhao, and looked at Xie Pi again: "I heard that Lord Xie has calculated the Huang Book?"

Xie Pi nodded: "I have checked with Lord Song, and the number of people is 18374,927."

Li Dongyang was stunned.

The last emperor was at its highest time in the first year of Yongle, with more than 66 million people, and never breaking through 80 million.

"So many people?" Zhang Sheng frowned, a little disbelief.

Wang Qiong smiled and said, "I also want to ask, how did Lord Xie calculate it? I remember it once, and there are less than 80 million people."

"Forget the hidden household and the children, Lord Wang can compare the accounts." Xie Pi pulled out the backup from his cuff.

Wang Qiong looked around for a few times and saw that every account was clearly written.
Chapter completed!