"Honours, Dingguo Duke and the British Association will participate. I will also send people to the royal family. The specific arrangements will be handled by the cabinet and the Ministry of Revenue," Zhu Yijun said.
In fact, there was no other way to let the Honours and the royal family participate.
They couldn't let the Honours and the royal family fight. The Honours might not be enough, but it was really hard to say for the royal family.
There wouldn't be a problem if they were suppressed. Zhu Yijun glanced at Zhang Jing and said, "You go with them. Tell me directly if there's anything!"
Zhu Yijun asked Zhang Jing to keep an eye on it because he didn't want anyone to cause trouble here.
In fact, Zhu Yijun was very worried that someone would cause trouble here, and it wasn't impossible. Someone would really cause trouble here.
There must be a lot of people who didn't want to see this thing go on smoothly. Zhu Yijun was ready to beat up a few Honours.
Even on the royal family, Zhu Yijun was ready to deal with them severely.
"Your Majesty, I will keep an eye on this matter!"
Seeing that Zhu Yijun had made so many arrangements, Zhang Juzheng naturally understood his worries. He said, "It's going to be spring plowing soon. This matter needs to be arranged."
"It needs to be done before spring plowing, and then the accounts will be officially cleared after the summer harvest."
Zhu Yijun nodded. In this era, the farming season couldn't be delayed. No matter how big the matter was, it was not as big as the farming season.
The emperor approved the memorials of the ministers and prepared to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the land of the Honours and the royal family. He transferred people from the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Court, and the Imperial Censorate to all the Honours and the royal family's land accounts.
This time, the accounts were not in the capital region, but the whole country. Honours and the royal family of the whole country were counted.
After the news came out, it could be said that there were wails everywhere, and countless people began to cause trouble.
Zhu Yijun was sitting calmly in the palace, but the harem hadn't been quiet for the past few days.
Queen Dowager Li always sent people over, even Queen Dowager Li's father, Li Wei, came to the palace.
It was unknown whether this greedy old man was reluctant to part with that bit of money or he was bewitched by someone else.
However, everyone was blocked by Queen Dowager Li, including his father. No one came to disturb Zhu Yijun.
The Honours side was much quieter this time. The Dingguo Duke and the British Duke had put in a lot of effort. With them keeping things under control, they couldn't make a fuss.
In addition, the matter of the Martial Arts Lecture Hall and giving power to the Commander-in-Chief's Office of the Five Armies allowed them to know what to do.
The most important matter for the Imperial Court this year was to settle the accounts of the Honours and the lands of the Imperial Clan. This matter had been decided at the beginning of the year.
Zhu Yijun didn't cause trouble. He sat quietly and supported Zhang Juzheng.
After the summer harvest, the settlement of the accounts and lands officially began, and the number of impeachment memorials increased all of a sudden. Those who used their power to bully others, those who bullied the Honours, and those who bullied the Imperial Clan all came at once.
Zhu Yijun flipped through these memorials, leaving only a sneer, especially when he read the impeachment of the civil officials, he was even more disdainful.
Back then, you were the ones who impeached the Honours and the Imperial Clan, and now you are the ones who are complaining for them.
Not to mention that there was no bullying, even if there was, Zhu Yijun didn't intend to care. It's good to let you be bullied, lest you don't know the severity of things and have fear in your heart.
In reality, Zhu Yijun had always been paying attention to this matter. On the surface, it seemed like Dongchang's Zhang Jing had brought people to keep an eye on it, but in private, the Imperial Court was also keeping an eye on it.
Many people didn't want to hand over their hidden lands, so they had to guard against land transfers and transactions. Zhu Yijun specially issued an edict that after the seventh year of Wanli, all the lands of the Honours and the Imperial Clan were not to be sold.
The sold lands would also be deemed invalid. Once this edict was issued, there were even more cries of distress.
The servants of the Honours had a lot of messy people under them, so they were very familiar with distributing the land to them.
This time, Zhu Yijun wanted to clear out all their lands.
Determining the exact number of acres of land would lay the foundation for the future inspection of the entire country, and also for the collection of land taxes in the future.
This was something that Zhu Yijun wanted Zhang Juzheng to do. If he waited until he ascended to the throne to do it, who knew what would happen.
There were policies at the top, and countermeasures at the bottom. It wasn't like there weren't people who deceived and manipulated things.
Right now, Zhang Juzheng's reputation was unparalleled. After so many years, his henchmen were all over the country.
It should be known that Zhang Juzheng's people weren't just people he had promoted. From his teacher Xu Jie, to Gao Gong, and even after he became the Grand Secretary, his henchmen were all over the country.
There were many low-level officials who were willing to curry favor with him and do things for him.
Many times, it was a tragedy. They didn't care about the Emperor's orders, but they didn't dare to disobey the orders of the powerful officials and eunuchs.
Zhu Yijun had thought about it before. The Emperor had to follow the rules. This country belonged to him. If he didn't follow the rules, how could he expect others to follow the rules?
But powerful officials and eunuchs were different. Their standpoints were different.
The entire matter progressed smoothly. By the fourth month of the eighth year of Wanli, all the Honours and lands had been settled.
On the day that the Fish Scale Booklet was delivered, Zhu Yijun met with Zhang Juzheng at Wenhua Palace.
After a year of work, Zhang Juzheng had clearly aged quite a bit. In this year, he had to worry about the entire country's operations, big and small, and he had to worry about all of it.
Adding on the matter of settling the debts and lands, he was also quite tired.
However, after so many years, Zhang Juzheng's foundation was revealed. He had a group of civil officials who were willing to work for him.
Whether it was the local officials or the Cabinet of the Six Departments, no matter why these people gathered around Zhang Juzheng, these people were willing to follow Zhang Juzheng's orders, even if they were slightly discounted.
To be honest, Zhu Yijun was very envious of this. This was also the reason why he didn't dare to abandon Zhang Juzheng.
If he did it himself, he would need to nurture his own trusted aides and people. That would take a long time.
However, if he didn't nurture them, what could he do if his subordinates didn't listen to him?
"Bring a chair for Mister!" Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng, who had white hair on his temples, and said gently, "Mister, you've worked hard."
Zhang Juzheng smiled tiredly, "Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. The most important thing is to finish this matter.
The Fish Scale Booklet on the newly cleared lands are all the hidden lands that were cleared from the Honours and members of the Imperial Clan. "
"After deducting the land that was forcibly returned to the people, the total amount of land that was hidden this time is 367,826 hectares."
Zhu Yijun was stunned. He looked at Zhang Juzheng hesitantly and asked, "So much?"