"Holy Lord, according to the records of the three households of the previous dynasty, the total number of fields is 12,680,000 hectares, but the actual number of fields is only 6,700,000 hectares.

However, after the rereclamation, the amount of cultivated land has reached 8.59 million hectares this year, and it is believed that it can reach 10 million hectares next year. ”

Li Daifu and Lu Chensheng carefully reported the values.

Since Lu Chensheng asked the county magistrates and prefects everywhere to go to the countryside to take a look, the number of acres of fields counted has become more and more accurate.

What made all the ministers feel a little chill in their hearts was that the total number of fields in each place was so small.

Just these fields combined, if they are evenly apportioned to less than two acres of land per person, they can't feed the people of the entire Xinghan Empire at all!

If this drawback hadn't been discovered early, I'm afraid it wouldn't be long before the Xinghan Empire, which seemed extremely peaceful after the unification, would have been involved in the flames of infighting and counterinsurgency.

At that time, even if the Holy Lord didn't want to kill the people who rebelled, he would have to kill them.

If you don't kill, everyone will know one thing, that is, rebellion can be fine, so it can't deter people in the future, and there will be more and more rebellions.

But once killed, once someone rebels, this is tantamount to discrediting the saint, and it will be recorded in the history books in the future.

This is unacceptable to all ministers.

Now the saint who can complete the great unification has thousands of honors, and if such a thing happens, the previous honor and the prestige of the saint will be damaged.

This is something that all ministers do not want to see.

After all, they are also ministers of the DPRK and China, and if there is such a thing, they will be recorded in the history books in the future.

This is absolutely unacceptable to them.

"So little?"

Lu Chensheng frowned, when he asked the people in the household department to count the cultivated fields earlier, the number of acres of fields reported at first was acceptable, but now it has become so small in a blink of an eye.

"Yes, most of the earlier data were based on the household classics of the previous dynasty, and there were no specific statistics, so there were doubts about the data, and it was only once in the first month."

Li Daifu knew that this was his dereliction of duty, and he was busy with official business before, so he wanted to save some effort, so he took out the household classics of the previous dynasty, made a statistic, verified it a little, and then handed over an approximate value.

What he didn't expect was that the records of this household department were so different from those of his own recount.

I thought that if there was not much difference, he was taking out an accurate number of acres, and the saint would naturally not say anything, and a little error in such statistics would not be anything at all.

Li Daifu was drenched in cold sweat, this is the most outrageous thing he has ever done since he took office.

Therefore, he did not dare to raise his head at this time.

Lu Chensheng glanced at this Li Daifu and snorted coldly, "Don't make such a mistake next time, cultivated land is related to the people of the world, if even your number of acres is not right, the ministers of the court, I only think that the people have fields to cultivate, and they all think that the people have a full stomach."

When the time comes, the people who can't eat enough will starve to death, the county magistrates everywhere will hide it from the prefects, and the building will fall in just a moment. ”

Lu Chensheng's words made Li Daifu drench in a cold sweat, but he also knew that what the saint said was not wrong.

Although the county magistrates in various places have only just taken office and are conscientious, if they encounter a large number of people starving to death and facing famine within their jurisdiction, they may really conceal it and not report it.

After all, this matter is too serious, and the imperial court is also careless about such a thing.

After all, all the ministers and saints only thought that with so much arable land, even if the harvest was not good, it would never starve people to death.

The imperial court doesn't collect much tax, and as long as the people are willing to farm, how can they not be able to support themselves?

"The minister is guilty!"

Li Daifu said in a trembling voice.

"Punish you for half a year."

Lu Chensheng waved his hand and gave the other party half a year as a punishment.

In terms of the other party's position at this time, half a year is a lot.

In fact, now those in the court who take a lot of money can get a lot of money a month, even if it is some basic positions, there are a lot of money.

Therefore, once you encounter such a thing as being fined, it will basically give the ministers a lot of headaches, and it is estimated that they will have to eat steamed buns and pickles at home for a long time.

Li Daifu also had a headache at this time, now he lives in the courtyard of the mansion, there are many people in the yard, his parents have been taken over, and he has recruited a lot of maids to serve.

This time, he was punished, and life was sad, but fortunately, nothing major happened here.

"Thank you for your grace."

Li Daifu didn't dare to hesitate, and the punishment of Yu Lu was not investigated by the saint in the end, and the matter had not been caused by a big mistake.

"The previously abandoned fields are reclaimed for the next year, and then they are handed over to the people of the Ministry of Industry to do, and you only need to count them and hand them over to the Ministry of Industry.

As for the people of the Ministry of Works, if there are not enough people, now the five major legions are also resting, except for the corps of the Gongwei Jing Division, the rest of the legions are called at will and used to plough the land. ”

Lu Chensheng said one by one.

Now that it is farming, there is not much money in the imperial court, and the money cannot be used to reclaim the fields, but it can be used by the people in the army.

Wang Tianxun and the people from the military department all received the orders one by one.

"The people in the Ministry of Engineering also took the trouble to make some canals for the reclaimed fields to ensure that the water was sufficient."

Lu Chensheng rubbed his head and said, it was fortunate that this happened earlier, otherwise Lu Chensheng would have thought that there were a lot of fields that could be cultivated now.

When Wang Tianxun heard this, he hurriedly bowed down to receive the order.

"This year's grain harvest must be kept an eye on, there is too little arable land, and there are many people who do not have arable land, so the financial allocation will be more to the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Industry will recruit more people and create some jobs when building water conservancy roads."

Not having arable land is not too scary, as long as there are some jobs in the work, so that the people have a job to do and a bite to eat, it will be much better in the coming year.

The cultivated land still needs to be expanded, and the people will have more land, and they will harvest more and more grain, so that they will become rich.

Today's fields are only enough for the people to have food and clothing, and it is good to get more arable land.

Li Daifu also knew the important relationship here, and nodded hurriedly.

In addition to the Ministry of Industry, by the way, I also had more exchanges with those family merchants, and recruited more people in the workshop.