Chapter 324: The Opening of the Heavens and the Earth

Suffocation.

To be honest, the thing called a sherpa is probably relatively unknown to people in later generations.

But in this day and age, it is familiar.

Even those who do not believe in Buddhism know quite a bit about it.

After all, in Buddhism, relics are used as the result of a monk’s perfecting his practice.

It is for this reason that almost all temples will immediately begin to create a buzz whenever a monk produces a relic after he has been seated.

The effect of this word-of-mouth propaganda leads to the fact that regardless of whether one believes in Buddhism or not, one tends to know the sherpa by heart.

This golden relic is the rarest of almost all relics.

People only hear about it in legends.

But the major temples, however, have never had a monk sit down and be able to burn a gold relic.

This is actually understandable, after all, there are many elements in the human body.

But the only thing, man can’t make gold, ah.

At this moment, everyone only felt their hearts shake.

This golden relic, yet like a glaze, not only that, the size is still huge.

This …… is only afraid that the real Buddha may not be able to burn it.

When Zhu Di looked at this relic, his tears stopped at once and turned to an expression of extreme relief.

In any case, the monk got the good fruit, and look at the relics, I’m afraid that now is enjoying happiness in the Western Paradise, at least it should be a level of the Lohan.

The monks were even more surprised that they were all speechless, and they could not care less about losing decorum in front of the king, and one by one they began to recite the scriptures.

Hundreds of officials shocked, the news of this gold relics, Yao Guangxiao will be considered a thousand years hard to come out of the real virtues of monks.

After this point, only people will be celebrating his legend.

With the sound of a bell and a drum, someone cleaned up this golden relic, while the monk was then in a bit of a quandary.

Originally they had prepared a treasure box to hold the relics, but now it seemed that the box was too small, who would have thought that such a thing had been practiced?

At that moment, he had to find a surplice to hold this golden relic and enshrine it in front of the Buddha.

People began to rumor about the golden relics, and the monks of the Temple of the Rooster, all trembling, so they recited the scriptures.

For a moment, this chicken temple was solemn, the hundred officials were shaken, Zhu Di was so happy that he glanced at Zhang Anshi and beckoned.

Zhang Anshi then busied himself.

Zhu patted his shoulder, “Hard work.”

Zhang Anshi said, “It’s not hard.”

Granted, it’s pretty physical work to practice sherbet.

If not for the consideration of the fireplace, Zhang Anshi actually wanted to practice a bigger one.

Unfortunately …… technology is limited ……

Zhang Anshi could only recite in his heart, “Master Yao must not blame me, I have done my best.”

Zhang Anshi thought again, from now on, we have to set the rules according to the standard of Master Yao’s sherpa.

In the future, if you refine relics again, you must never exceed Master Yao’s standard, and the heavenly kings, too, must be smaller than it.

And it is never allowed to refine the golden shekels.

Zhang Anshi thought like this in his heart and couldn’t help but feel sad again.

When I think of …… Master Yao becoming a relic, since then, truly everything is empty, I can not help but weep.

By midday, after eating a fasting meal, Zhang Anshi accompanied the driver down the mountain.

Zhu Di inquired about Zhang Anshi’s construction of a pagoda.

Zhang Anshi said, “Don’t worry, Your Majesty, it’s all been stabilized, and I’ve already recruited enough craftsmen to build a pagoda that’s second to none in the world.”

Zhu Di said, “My mausoleum ……”

He looked hesitant.

According to reason, the emperor ascended the throne, we must begin to build the mausoleum, but Zhu Di’s tomb, is delayed.

This is because Zhu Di had his own selfishness, from the beginning of his ascension to the throne, he intended to move the capital to Beiping, therefore, the address of the mausoleum, it is hoped that after moving the capital to choose in Beiping.

The matter has therefore been delayed.

But now, Yao Guangxiao want to enter the ancestral temple, accompanied by Zhu Di, that the construction of Zhu Di’s mausoleum can not be delayed.

And right now, the site of Zhu Di’s mausoleum will have to be finalized quickly.

As soon as Zhang Anshi heard Zhu Di mention this matter, he couldn’t help but say, “Long live your majesty, the matter of the mausoleum, naturally, there is no need to consider it in a hurry.”

Zhu Di smiled and said, “What long live, that’s a lie, Taizu high emperor still can not escape old age and disease, how can I escape …… I intend to move the capital of Beiping, but now think carefully, the enemy of the north, has not been my Ming heart and soul. On the contrary, the enemy at sea, worrying, the capital city in Nanjing, is not bad, here is the ancient capital of several dynasties, down the river, it is the Songjiang River to the sea, connecting the north and south ……”

“Ai, it’s time, it’s also time to prepare for my mausoleum, I will order the ceremonial officer to go and explore, choose a place close to the filial piety mausoleum. Master Yao’s pagoda, within my mausoleum, let him accompany me forever in the future.”

Zhu Di’s this mind, Zhang Anshi since also understand, then busy said: “comply with the decree.”

“Pacific House ……”

Now it is a private talk, so Zhu Di spoke without taboo: “Taipingfu …… I grant you full powers, do you understand what I mean?”

Zhang Anshi said, “I understand.”

“Do it well.” Zhu Di looked deeply at him, then continued: “What will become of this world, hope in your body, you rely on yourself alone is not. But to achieve things, the first thing is to choose talent, cultivate the talent around you, and let them do their best to achieve great things.”

Zhang Anshi nodded and said, “In fact, on my side, the first batch of official school academies are about to graduate, and I intend to keep a batch of them into the various government offices and county offices in Taiping Province, in addition to the ones that will go into the Jinyiwei.”

Zhu nodded: “Well. This is not a bad way to use this reader …… who can use it.”

Zhang Anshi said, “What does Your Majesty mean ……”

Zhu Di said: “Do not regard all the readers, as your enemy, if you push them all to the opposite side of yourself, how can it work? There are so many readers in the world, some are happy, some are disillusioned. Down and out readers can be quite a lot, you this government and the county want people, you can recruit some. But …… don’t use them greatly first, teach them to start from the clerical officials for selection.”

Zhang Anshi said: ”I also have this meaning, so …… I intend to raise the treatment of clerical officials again. There is also the minister intends to directly in the Taiping Province, promulgated the mandarins law, the status of the civil officials will be determined. Once upon a time, although there is treatment, but after all, still let them do not feel at ease, directly set up a law to protect, it is more to teach them to feel at ease.”

Zhu Di smiled, only the smile remained somewhat forced. Yao Guangxiao’s death had touched him greatly.

More than a month passed in a row.

It seems that all of a sudden, the world has calmed down during this month or so.

Even the former Ningguo Mansion is gradually beginning to settle down.

With the presence of Young Yin Gao Xiang and others, new county magistrates have taken office, and these magistrates, almost all of them subordinate officials of the former Taipingfu, are mostly the original county ministers and chief magistrates.

As for the other officers, they were filled by some of the Secretaries of Departments.

In this way, there are again vacancies in the Secretaries of Departments, and new clerical staff will be appointed to fill them.

It’s pretty much a major realignment of the entire Pacific House.

Quite a few people were suddenly promoted in a haphazard manner.

If once upon a time, the promotion to the capital made them rise two levels in a row, then this time, a large number of clerical officials who did their best to do their job, also suddenly had a future.

In the meantime, those who have changed from clerks to officials are all smiling and happy.

Even those who didn’t get a boost couldn’t help but blink now.

This kind of thing is like this, once upon a time, they were all clerical officials all their lives, and it was impossible to have a future, so people naturally had their own perceptions, and it was enough to muddle through.

But now, if you want to muddle along but cannot, because everyone is on a roll, who does not want to leap over the dragon gate and change from a mandarin to an official all of a sudden?

Just because someone else can, it means they can.

Now the new system of Taipingfu is a thousand things, as long as things are done skillfully, there are many opportunities, this time if you do not fight, then it is really sorry for the ancestors, but also sorry for their own offspring.

Besides, you want to lay flat, but you can’t afford to have people around you who want to roll.

As a result, not to mention the three fires of a new official, even the lower clerical staff, now are also full of energy.

The six counties have finally been thoroughly mapped out.

At this time, Gao Xiang specially came from Xuancheng County to have a secret talk with Zhang Anshi.

Zhang Anshi had looked at piles and piles of data, including the latest yellow book information, information on the cultivated land in each county, all the numbers, very detailed.

This, of course, needs to be meticulous, and there can be no mistakes, because in the old days, statistics only involved the basis of taxation, but now, there is more to take the basis of the land.

Leaving any of them out is a sure way to make a scene.

When Zhang Anshi read it, he said heartily, “Well done.”

He was a bit distressed by those civil officials who cleared the population and land, this is the most cumbersome data, and still have to check over and over again to make sure that everything is correct, is extremely painful things.

Gao Xiang said, “the lower head of the people, almost sleepless, not to mention the clear abbot’s, even if the verification of the clerical officials, are not tired of visiting the nine lie, is worried about mistakes.”

Zhang Anshi nodded, “At the end of the year, all those involved are given a stipend, this should be noted down.”

Zhang Anshi has always been generous to those who do their best.

Gao Xiang laughed and said, “The work of the Gong Gong is just atmospheric.”

“It’s not that I’m atmospheric, but when you do something, you have to pay.” Zhang Anshi said, “That said, everything is ready now, all we need is the east wind.”

“I’ve thought about it, and the next thing I should do is have the model battalion go to the six counties to drill.”

“The one million seven hundred thousand acres of cultivated land, which can only be divided among the six counties, excluding the non-farming households, those who already have camps in the city, and those whose land is thirty acres or more, totaling three hundred and twenty thousand households?”

Gao Xiang immediately nodded, “Yes.”

Zhang Anshi mused, “The situation of each village and village is different, some villages and villages have more land, some have less, but if we let the neighboring villages and neighboring villages share it, this is not good, not only is it easy to cause conflicts, but …… the land is too far away, and it is not good for cultivation.”

“That’s actually the hardest thing right now.”

Zhang Anshi said, “Then we can only take the situation of each village and each village, so that the per capita share of the …… Of course, but also to reserve some land, returned to the Taipingfu, as the future construction of workshops, as well as other uses, but try our best not to take up arable land.”

“Each village and each village to divide?” Gao Xiang said, “If there are villages that may divide thirty acres per household, while some …… can only divide a dozen acres.”

Zhang Anshi said, “There is no way out of this, if we don’t divide it up like this, we can’t plow the low near our home today, and then walk a few manor houses to plow the land that is more than ten miles away.”

Gaoxiang thought for a moment and said, “I thought that the division of land can not be simple to the household, but also according to the number of men in the family, if the family has many brothers, a household divided down, I am afraid to suffer losses.”

“Right, this should also be noted down.” Zhang Anshi said, “Think about it again, what else do you suggest, now that the fire is almost ready, when the time comes, choose an auspicious day and directly promulgate the implementation. The model battalion went to the six counties, also lest anyone cause trouble. As for the original three counties of Taiping Province, this side is not land divided, I am afraid that they are not happy in their hearts, but …… opened the precedent of these six counties, for them, it may not be bad.”

Gao Xiang then said, “There is also the Brocade Guards, the Brocade Guards these days, I’m afraid that they will also have to work a little harder, Your Excellency must put out on those days and keep watch at all times, just in case.”

Zhang Anshi nodded, “That’s for sure, dare to make trouble in my Zhang Anshi’s territory, don’t even look at how many kilograms they have.”

Gao Xiang smiled, Zhang Anshi’s words also gave him a lot of confidence.

This new policy wants to open up the situation, is not easy, and only the public master such a person to come, otherwise any court officials, want to open up the new situation, will be everywhere constraints.

At this time, Zhang Anshi added: “Also thanks to these six counties of the squires and township sages to make their own death, and now …… all cut out together, if not, this is really not good. Hey …… after all, it is still Master Yao …… who has cleared the obstacles for us.”

Mentioning Yao Guangxiao, Zhang Anshi could not help but feel sad again, and thinking of what Yao Guangxiao had done for this, he was even more touched.

These six counties have become almost a perfect control group for the moment.

The six counties are almost devoid of squires and sages, and the land will be divided up; and as to what will happen next, or whether there will be any disorder in a six counties which are almost devoid of squires and sages, it will not be many years before the result will be seen.

This is never envisioned road, which is full of the world, there is no lack of many people have put forward their own ideas, for example, that famous Fang Xiaoru, has not proposed to restore the well-field system of the Zhou Dynasty?

As for the land system in the six counties, it has never been practiced, but now …… a most favorable condition has been created by a great case.

This is a path that Yao Guangxiao spelled out with his life.

At that moment, Zhang Anshi told Gao Xiang to go and rest first.

After three days, Zhang Anshi, wearing a python robe, personally summoned the officials.

Today, he was extraordinarily serious, and the officials in the government office did not know what had happened and whispered.

But at this time, Zhang Anshi wind and fire came in, immediately split his head and said: “Taiping province under the jurisdiction of the new six counties, by the former corrupt officials exploited, the people are displaced, to live. From today …… I have a charter, all the publics look at it.”

A clerk then circulated a copy of the charter.

The officials are busy is to see, this look, one of the jaws of fear.

Zhang Anshi took in their reactions, but said calmly, “How was it?”

Only then did the crowd notice that the Duke of Wei was wearing a python robe, but he also came wearing a sword.

This Taiping House up and down all the officials, now has long been ‘body and reputation’, they are almost outside the Taiping House, is in the form of clowns, once upon a time those friends and relatives, there are many of them despise them.

But this is how people are, in the Taiping Mansion dry, out of such a big force, naturally and slowly, the Taiping Mansion formed a sense of identity.

You look down on me, and I look down on you!

People think differently when their minds and horizons are open.

But even so, that Li Zhaomu still stood up first, said, “Gong master, in that case …… will not be too hasty? I’m only afraid that if this matter is released, it is necessary to stir up a lot of rumors.”

Zhang Anshi only looked at him faintly and said, “Are you afraid of naysayers?”

This rhetorical question directly ground Li Zhaoshao to a halt.

Zhang Anshi laughed, ”Don’t all outsiders say that we are great traitors and evil people? A person who is a great traitor and a great evil person will still be afraid of criticism? We can not be a gentleman, but we have our principles and reasoning, and that is …… to govern a real paradise on earth.”

“If you gentlemen feel that there is a problem with any of the measures here, but you can raise it, but if it is because you are afraid of stirring up controversy, you don’t have to mention it.”

Li Zhaomu heard, also want to open, so continue to look down to see the initiative, after a careful look, then said: “I think there is no problem, but Zhaomu, have to send some people to the six counties, good supervision, for fear that this sub-division of the land halfway through the error.”

“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that either.”

“If the people can get ten to thirty mu of land per household, I don’t know how grateful they should be. This act of the Duke of Wei is no less than the rebirth of a saint.”

Zhang Anshi said, “Don’t come bragging about all this, since all of you think it’s proper, doesn’t anyone have any other suggestions?”

After a few moments of silence, one of the ambassadors of the Kuraji stepped forward.

This warehouse division ambassador, but is a ninth-grade official, not into the stream, obviously also not the right way to science and technology origin.

He thought about it, then said: “Your Excellency, divided the land, just the first step, this land is divided, but the water conservancy, but also can not not do. According to my opinion, land, water conservancy, grain seed, these things, for agriculture, are indispensable things, here said, to set up a land office in each county, not as such, but also need to have a water conservancy, a grain silo, the land office planning land, records, as the basis for the future collection of taxes, and water conservancy need to be co-ordinated in all counties of the irrigation and diversion of water, which is a matter of sloppy not to do. ”

After a pause, he then said: “Once upon a time when the big gentry in the time, because they have more land, so their own will be recruited, the establishment of a reservoir, so as to give their own fields to draw water, but now the land one point, everyone only dozens of acres of land, rather than may be deserted water conservancy, there are water conservancy, co-ordination to solve the problem, more water canals as irrigation, and more reservoirs to build a rainy day. There is also this granary, the counties to build warehouses, both for the collection of food, but also responsible for the promotion of grain seed, the next official some days ago, has been to Qixia farms have seen, where the cultivation of grain seed, not ordinary people can be compared to ……”

He rambled a lot, but the idea is there, but that the owner of the land has changed, then the mode of production may also produce changes, the government should save for a rainy day, to strengthen the function of certain directions, to replace some of the functions of the former big squire.

Zhang Anshi smiled, admiration in his eyes, and said, “That’s a good idea, what’s your name?”

Upon hearing Zhang Anshi ask for his name, this ambassador of the warehouse division was flattered, “My humble servant Liu Wending.”

Zhang Anshi said cheerfully, “You readers, you like to bring a text to your name. Haha, this matter, you to draw up a charter, the government and the county, follow it.”

“Ah …… this …… inferior officer… inferior position …… where… …”

Zhang Anshi said with a smile, “Soon you won’t worry about your humble official position, think about getting things done first.”

Liu Wending didn’t expect that one of his own initiatives would directly change his fate, and was momentarily giddy, so he busied himself with, “As you command.”

Many people could not help but turn their eyes enviously towards Liu Wending.

Zhang Anshi again looked at the reactions of the others, at this point he said: ”Any other initiatives, you can find a way to send them in. But right now, the most important thing is to get this done without any mistakes, all the yamen have to move, whoever makes a mistake, I will go to whoever at night. But when the thing is done, it is a great merit.”

The crowd perked up and boomed, “Yes, sir.”

In less than a day’s work, the entire Taiping Prefecture, from the prefecture to the county, even in the poor townships, have begun to post the list.

The magistracies also began to take action, especially the six new counties, where the county magistrates began to urge the lower officials to divide up the land according to the yellow book. Clerks went to the townships to supervise the chiefs of each village, and the oracles sent people around to preach, while the lieutenants brought their men to guard the townships for fear that they might cause trouble. The county chancellor often sat in one of the more important townships and personally handled matters. The local chief bookkeeper, on the other hand, led the people in the county’s various houses to deal with miscellaneous affairs.

Because it came so suddenly, everyone was unprepared.

But when everyone’s two eyes are closed, the government sends up detailed land data and population data, and sweetly tells you what to get.

As a result, although it is chaotic, but always still did not make too much of a mess.

At this time, Zhu Yong’s model battalion, too, was drilling somewhere in the mountains of the six counties.

Immediately afterward, there was a seal of the report, which was sent to the palace with fire speed.

Inside Wen Yuan Ge.

When the university sergeants read the sangha, they were dumbfounded one by one.

Hu Guang was directly confused, froze for half a day, then took the sonata and hurriedly sent it to Yang Rong: “Yang Gong …… Yang Gong ……”

Yang Rong glanced at the sangha and smiled bitterly at him, “I have already seen it.”

Hu Guang tensed his face and said, ”It’s so uncharacteristic, it’s really uncharacteristic. Did you see what this zhangzhi said? Taking by force, taking by force ah.”

“Who was taken by force?” Yang Rong said.

“This ……” Hu Guang froze.

That was a question that instantly put Hu Guang on the spot.

Yang Rong said, “This is unclaimed land, the original owners of these lands, all of them have been copied for conspiracy, is it not a fact that they conspired against the government?”

Hu Guang blinked, but calmed down, then said, “In that case, it is really …… eh, this imperial history, it is really wonderful. When I first looked at it, I had a nameless fire in my heart.”

“But ……” Yang Rong uttered the two words but, then smiled bitterly again, “This Duke of Wei is really bold! There’s really nothing in this world that he doesn’t dare to do, and with this, you have to admire him!”