After Xie Zhi gave advice to Emperor Hongzhi again, Emperor Hongzhi immediately convened a think tank in the cabinet and began to improve the matter.

After giving further concrete suggestions after careful consideration by the three scholars of the Cabinet, the Household Department was directly entrusted with the handling of the matter.

Just when those farmers with a large amount of fertile land were anxious, a new policy of the imperial court was introduced.

Whoever needed labor to harvest the grain in the field, the imperial court could organize people to help, and the imperial court would pay for these laborers, and the main family would have to pay one stone of grain for every ten acres of land.

At this time, the income per mu of land was two or three stones, and it was really not cheap for the imperial court to charge one stone per mu and only be responsible for harvesting.

Except for the spring planting, plus such a long period of management, it is much more hard than just harvesting.

But if you can harvest it, it's better than stinky to the ground and even lose your capital, right? It is more cost-effective to ask the imperial court to come forward to take charge of the harvest.

But after all, there is a stinginess, not to say one stone per acre, even if a total of one stone is needed, they are not willing to pay.

"One stone? So much, it's better to grab it, instead of having this stone grain, you can harvest it yourself, and tomorrow you will mobilize the family to go to the field, and each person will harvest three acres of land every day, and if you don't harvest it, you are not allowed to eat, and you are not allowed to sleep. ”

In fact, all walks of life need a skill, if you don't master this skill well, even if you vomit blood, you may not be able to do it well.

The housekeepers looked like they were very strong, but if they were to harvest the grain, they might not be able to catch up with the thin tenants.

After the introduction of the imperial court policy, officials from the household department began to be stationed in various places.

When these officials arrive, they have to organize the available manpower.

How many farmers are from and how many have tended to the crops must have a specific statistics.

Around the clouds, there are mostly ceramics and oil workshops, and in the south, there are some cotton workshops, silk workshops, and tea workshops...

No matter what the products produced by these workshops are, the word "yunzhong" is added in front, and the monthly money and even the settlement policy implemented by these workshops are the same as those in the clouds, and labor can be attracted.

If you can attract people, it is naturally not difficult to attract someone who knows the trick.

There is a process that others can't get out, so can the objects that come out be bad?

If the object is not bad, it will naturally be able to spread the word-of-mouth.

After a portion of the manpower was recruited, he began to be willing to harvest from the families who provided the grain.

Originally, the autumn harvest was imminent, and if it was too late, those crops would be too ripe to land, so it was natural to grasp it tightly.

In Liujiawan, Xi'an Prefecture, one side of the ridge is the manpower organized by the imperial court, and on the other side is the family members who are responsible for harvesting.

Both families have children who have won fame, the houses are next to each other, and the fields are also next to each other, and they are fighting openly and secretly on weekdays.

"Brother Liu, how much did you harvest this day?"

"It's not much, there are fifty acres now, and it is estimated that at least one hundred acres can be harvested today, and the remaining one hundred and twenty acres tomorrow should be almost completed."

"You have to hand over 220 stones, right?"

"Yes, two hundred and twenty stones."

"How many people can these two hundred and twenty stones feed? It's enough for your family's one-year-old ration, right? I didn't have to pay taxes in the first place, but now I gave it to the court for nothing, what a pity. ”

Two days later, when all the 200 acres of fertile land of the Liu family were loaded into the granary, the people who felt that it was a pity to hand over grain to the imperial court were jealous.

The more than 50 people he raised were like those who ate dry rice, and 10 acres were confiscated in two days, and there were more than 170 acres left, if this was counted, his remaining grain would take at least nearly a month.

He can wait, but can he wait for the grain?

However, even so, he still felt sorry for the grain that was handed over to the imperial court in vain, and did not immediately go to the imperial court to solve the problem of collecting grain.

On the third day, I went directly to the field to supervise the work.

The guy who had collected the grain early knew that the food for the other family had not been confiscated, so he was very happy, moved a chair, and sat directly in his field to watch the jokes on the other side.

"Brother Wang, you haven't got this grain yet, you have to hurry up, it seems that you planted this land more than ten days earlier than I have here, right? If you don't collect it again, a heavy rain will fall, and you will probably have to lie on the ground, how big is the loss, but it is much more than the stone given to the imperial court, right? ”

Don't blame the crow's mouth, it's all true.

The man who was called Brother Wang, named Wang Xiao, faced with the facts in front of him, what else could he say in the face of ridicule, he could only wave the whip in his hand and hit his own family.

"Dry quickly, everyone must harvest ten acres today, and if they can't harvest it, they are not allowed to eat."

This Wang Xiao is a little stingy, but it is not bad, the amount set at the beginning was not completed, and in the end, he did not really let the family eat and sleep.

Those family members wanted to speed up and give their masters a long face, but the fact was that it backfired, and it was not something they could speed up if they wanted to.

One day later, more than 50 families sweated and worked hard for a day, and they harvested ten acres.

The rest of the ones are about to stink to the ground.

The surnamed Liu looked at it for a day, and it was boring, and when he was leaving, he specially advised: "Brother Wang still went to the court to harvest, right?" If it is delayed like this, it may be difficult to harvest it all, and even two stones will not fall into his own hands at that time, and because of this, he will be hated by the court, and he may have to be worn by the court in small shoes in the future. ”

In fact, needless to say, the imperial court must have this meaning, using the imperial court to harvest and give the imperial court this stone of grain, everything is easy to say.

But if it is better to mold the grain in the ground than to harvest it by the imperial court, the imperial court will really be concerned about such an alternative.

Although Wang Xiao didn't say much in person, he quickly went to the official in charge of the grain harvest here when he returned from the field.

This person's name is Yu Rong, who was just promoted in the thirteenth year of Hongzhi, and is now in the Hanlin Academy, and he was seconded by the Ministry of Households.

It is also the same science as Xie Zhi.

There are a lot of people needed to do this now, and it is difficult to fill the household even if it sends out people of all sizes.

There was no way, and after Emperor Hongzhi agreed, he began to recruit people from everywhere.

With Emperor Hongji's will, it was naturally much easier to recruit.

Wang Xiao prepared the gifts, and when he arrived, there was a long queue in front of the door.

When the imperial court first introduced this policy, those who owned land must have been unconvinced, and they were not without people, and it was not a simple matter to harvest it?

If you don't need a stone of grain per acre, you might as well find someone to harvest it yourself.

After nearly five days, they finally discovered that they had people and could send them down, but it was not so easy to harvest them.

If this grain is left there, it will be enough to harvest as long as it is done, and they will not have to wait a few more days and eat more.

But now the grain is lying in the ground, and if it is delayed for one more day, it will be lost one day.

There is no way, and now the only solution is to come to the court.

I heard that the harvest rankings are all done in the order of registration before and after, and those who come to register later are all lined up.

So the only way to do that is to hurry up and sign up.

This Qin is not allowed to enter the oil and salt, no matter how many heavy gifts are not accepted, and he does not accept cutting in line, everything has to be in the order of registration.

In this way, the prescient mention of finding the imperial court to harvest is earned.

Like those who are more stingy, they have to try whether they can harvest it before they think of finding the court to solve it, which is just like Wang Xiao.

Wang Xiao couldn't get in line for so long, so he directly began to squeeze forward to find those errand soldiers, thinking that he should go in early.

This is a big matter that the court is concerned about, not to mention that those Qin cha dare not open the back door, even those errand servants dare not let people in casually.