Zhu Houzhao looked at the "Picture of Refugees" in front of him by the cabinet chief Wang Hua, who was spread out. He knew that moving to a foreign land, especially to a bitter and cold place outside the Great Wall, was indeed a very painful thing for the Han people who had relocated to the land, but he never thought of immigrating these people in a forced manner.

Therefore, although Wang Hua, the chief minister of the cabinet, placed a picture of "The Refugees" presented by the censor Xue Fengming in front of Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Houzhao only asked:

"I remember that since I formulated the policy of immigrating and implementing borders, I have never issued an edict to force immigration, and all guided it with interests. Should I move the border and let the people voluntarily, and the people I moved are all landless people, and many of them are refugees who fled to famine! Why is there any tragic situation in the "Immortal Picture"?"

"I have been in the center for a long time and I don't know the details below, so it is difficult for Your Majesty to be the best. However, the court has not issued any orders for forced immigration. However, I am worried that the officials below will have misunderstood and did some excessive things to please Your Majesty, which led to the scene presented in the "Immortal Picture". Your Majesty might as well ask the person who presented this picture."

The chief minister of the cabinet, Wang Hua, had no objection to immigration to the real border. He was a shareholder of the Royal Bank and was consistent with the emperor's interests and did not need to compete with the country for profit. But because of this, he needed to maintain national stability. Therefore, after seeing this "Imitation Picture", he impatiently presented this picture to Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao then summoned the censor Xue Fengming.

"Your Majesty, this picture was painted by Zhang Cong, the governor of Hetao, when all the people from Shanxi moved to Hetao. This was painted by Niu Kai, Yuncheng, Shanxi. I presented this picture to impeach Zhang Cong and brutal harm to the people!"

Xue Fengming said and took out the memorial.

Impeach Zhang Cong?

Zhu Houzhao took the memorial, took a look at it briefly, and thought about what these civil servants were thinking about.

But no matter what, Zhu Houzhao felt that it was necessary to figure out whether there were any people who were killed during the process of moving the border.

At this time, Liu Yu, the second assistant to the cabinet, handed over a memorial: "Your Majesty, here is a memorial to Gong Dingjin, the Censor of Ningxia Jigong. He said that immigrants gathered as thieves, besieged cities and attacked forts, and robbed merchants and civilians' wealth. He also said that the customs of the people in the north and south of the court should be restored and the people should be restricted from leaving the county to avoid the harm of refugees."

"Is this saying that immigration is not good for real borders? Or is it saying that the road induced system is not good for banning it?"

Zhu Houzhao fell into deep thought, but didn't say much, just asked: "How did you vote for it?"

"I ordered local governments to arrest thefts and calm the people, abide by their duties, and do not discuss the government affairs in a rash manner. The refugees are also citizens of the Ming Dynasty. They naturally have no choice but to leave their hometowns. As for the gathering of thieves, there should be people who have not yet settled. As the censor, they should resolve their grievances and blame the people! They have no land and no food in their hometown, so why do they go to a foreign land to become thieves!"

Liu Yu replied.

Zhu Houzhao nodded, and he naturally would not re-establish the road-induction system, because in fact, even if he had to strictly implement the road-induction system, the court and local gentry could not control more people to become refugees, because people always had to survive. If he could not survive in one place, he could only escape to another place, otherwise he would have to rebel!

Zhu Houzhao knew that his clear order to ban the road-guiding system would damage the interests of the gentry group, because the escape of the people was a way to resist the exploitation of the gentry, which would make the gentry lose the opportunity to control them. The loss of a large number of tenant farmers would mean losing a large amount of rental income.

If they do not ban the Luzhi system, these gentry can justify the people on the grounds that they are guilty of exile, and even force these people to be exploited by them locally.

But once the road-guiding system was banned, the refugees became legal people, and the people also wanted the freedom to escape the control of gentry. In addition, with the development of industry, a large number of people would definitely go from the fields to factories, and the gentry would definitely lose a large number of tenants.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao also knew that there would definitely be civil officials who had any objections to the cancellation of Lu Yin and would find various legitimate reasons, but he would not obey it because he knew that if the people were not allowed to become legal refugees, the people would only become thieves.

The second-in-commissioned vote of the cabinet intends to agree with Zhu Houzhao's meaning, so Zhu Houzhao nodded, but what made him Zhu Houzhao start to be a little vigilant was that with the development of industry and more and more people transformed from peasants into workers, the gentry who still hoped to rely on the clan to control the villagers and maintain their own land interests did not realize that they were going to transform, but felt that their interests were getting worse and worse, so that their desire to prevent the court from immigrating and liberating civil rights became stronger and stronger.

Zhu Houzhao walked away for a while and saw that Xue Fengming was still standing in front of him, he couldn't help but smile: "You retreat first. I will send someone to investigate this matter in detail. I will not wrongly accuse innocent ministers, nor will I sit back and watch the people be harmed by cruel officials."

Xue Fengming retreated.

At this time, Wang Qiong, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, frightened and trembled for a moment. He looked at Zhu Houzhao, knowing that if His Majesty the Emperor knew about this memorial, it might be a head of people.

But the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet Wang Qiong did not have the courage to submit a memorial, so he had to come to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, there is a memorial here. I dare not write it out. It is the six memorials of Dai Guan, the head of the Ministry of Revenue.

First, stop the imperial shop, saying that the court will collect money from the world first and take advantage of the world, so that the people will benefit the world;

The second is to guide the road, follow the ancestors to establish the law, restrain the people in the countryside, and avoid the desolation of the fields;

Third, return to the Tatars, and cultivate peace with neighbors, and do not conquer other countries to avoid resurgence of border troubles;

Fourth, ban maritime affairs, ordered Xia Yan to return to the court, suspend the action of Shouning Hou sailing the world, and save financial resources;

Fourth, eliminate commercial taxes and relieve the suffering of commercial and civilian food transportation;

Fifth, the school is closed, saying that today's schools are becoming more and more disrespectful;

Sixth, respect the ways of Confucius and Mencius, strictly educate and ban folk operas!"

After the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, Wang Qiong lowered his head, fearing that His Majesty would vent his anger on him, so he added: "Your Majesty, these are the six things Dai Guan said, I have finished reporting it!"

The cabinet chief Wang Hua and the second assistant Liu Yu both took a step back and unconsciously started to feel cold.

Zhu Houzhao just smiled slightly: "Very good, my Ming Dynasty civil servants still have such a tough person, go and tell me that Dai Guanlai!"

After saying that, Zhu Houzhao took the memorial from Wang Qiong.

Zhu Houzhao is not as angry as before. He knew that with the development of the Ming Dynasty's commodity economy and industry, there will always be many contradictions between the new production relations and the old production relations, and the contradictions will become more and more intense, and even wars will occur.
Chapter completed!