Tang Yin disliked Xie Zhi and was covered with copper stench, but the beef on the table was not less.

Don't look at the fact that these people are from extraordinary backgrounds, but since they came to this cloud, they can't eat meat for a long time.

I haven't seen meat for a long time, and once in a while, I will feel that it is delicious.

After he was full of wine and food, Wang Shouren made a report to Xie Zhi on the affairs of Yunzhong for the time being.

On top of the diversion of water for irrigation, Yunzhong County collected more than 50,000 taels of silver from all the powerful gentry and gentry.

Look at these black-hearted people, they can collect more than 50,000 taels just by irrigating, and after so many years, how much tax do you owe to the imperial court!

Xie Zhi couldn't help but complain a few words when he heard this, and said: "Until now, all those people involved in King Ning's rebellion have been arrested, and the remaining private fields in the clouds have geometric statistics. ”

Wang Shouren replied: "If there is no cloud in the clouds, the rest of the land is unknown. ”

Also, the one who occupies the most land in the clouds is the Ma family.

The Ma family was overthrown, and those fields were either returned to the hands of ordinary people, or in the hands of the government.

Xie Zhi nodded and said, "It's good if you don't have it, it's easy to save trouble, but the situation in other states and counties is not very optimistic, right?" A certain and His Majesty advised that the confiscated lands that had participated in the rebellion could no longer be divided between the powerful and the imperial family, and that all of them should fall into the hands of ordinary people, so that a part of the common people could be fed, and the court could receive taxes from them.

The only way for those common people to be unable to buy these lands is to let them rent them, for example, one acre and eight quintals, which can be repaid in eight years, and as long as they pay enough every year, the land will be their private property after eight years.

In order to protect their worries, it is necessary to agree with them that these rented lands will only be taxed after the autumn harvest, and will not increase any taxes in normal times.

You must know that the most important reason for the increasing amount of land in the hands of those powerful gentry is that there are too many harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes imposed on ordinary people, and some common people work hard for a year, and in the end, the whole family not only can't fill their stomachs, but also owes the court taxes. ”

What Xie Zhi said is not an exaggeration at all, Wang Shouren and Tang Yin are also people who can understand the people's feelings, and they know that what Xie Zhi said is true.

Sighing, Xie Zhi said again: "If you want to enrich the people and strengthen the country, you can only do it in such an orderly and gradual manner, otherwise, you will be counterattacked by those powerful people, and at that time, your majesty may not be able to withstand such pressure." ”

Wang Shouren and Tang Yin were willing to give up their fame and follow Xie Zhi to govern a small cloud, and they also wanted to do something with him because they agreed with Xie Zhi's idea.

Speaking of this, Wang Shouren asked, "Then rent out these fields and plant them next?" ”

Xie Zhi nodded and responded: "Well, this matter should be resolved as soon as possible, Your Majesty only verbally agreed to this matter, and there is no will to issue it, and we can't do this thing." ”

After all, it is not the realm in the clouds, Xie Zhi has the identity of several Qincha, but he is not without the identity of renting land.

Even if Xie Zhi wants to do it, he is just a magistrate, and the chiefs of other states and counties have to agree.

Emperor Hongzhi can issue a decree to rush him to office, can't he also make this decree?

Whether or not to leave it to him, there must be some explanation, right?

Isn't it a waste of time to drag on like this?

Since this matter cannot be solved, what needs to be considered is the matter of one acre and three points of land in the clouds.

"Don't dwell on this matter, Your Majesty agrees, no matter who is appointed to deal with this matter, it will soon be able to issue a will."

After a pause, Xie Zhi asked mysteriously, "Is there still continuous real estate in the cement workshop?" ”

Wang Shouren is responsible for most of the things in the county, so when asked this question, Wang Shouren also replied, "Yes, it has been producing, and after solving the ditch matter for the land of Guanzhong, the production process is also quite familiar, and the daily output is almost twice as much as the beginning of the period, but so much cement has been piled up in the warehouse, or stop first..."

Cement is such a wonderful thing, it is not easy to get out, how can you say stop and stop.

Xie Zhi hurriedly waved his hand and refused, and said, "Don't, haven't you thought that this thing will be useful for anything other than making ditches?" ”

I have to say that insight will limit the horizon.

Even the famous Wang Yangming was a little stunned when Xie Zhi asked this question, and it took a long time before he spoke, saying, "There are other uses, what is it?" ”

Tang Yin's intelligence is all in poetry, calligraphy and painting, and he can't consider these practical issues.

There was no way, since they couldn't think of it, then only Xie Zhi would have to demonstrate it to them in person.

Xie Zhi greeted outside and shouted, "He Liang, He Liang..."

greeted He Liang, and then said: "Go and get a bag of cement, then take the lime that builds the wall on weekdays, and then those green bricks." ”

Although He Liang was a little puzzled by these things, he still responded and quickly moved these things to the county government.

A large number of things were placed together at the same time, and it was only now that Wang Shouren and Tang Yin reacted, and said one after another: "Can this cement still build a wall?" ”

It's not stupid, but you can figure it out for yourself.

Xie Zhi was noncommittal, and personally squatted down and began to use these green bricks to build about 20 layers of walls in the courtyard with cement and lime.

After the masonry was completed, Xie Zhi used cement and lime to apply a layer of cement to the outside.

He has an advantage in this cement, and if it is a competition, it must be treated equally.

Otherwise, if he wins with cement, others will think that he is cheating.

After everything was completed, Xie Zhi clapped his hands and said: "Okay, tomorrow I will let you know the wonderful use of this cement, this cement will definitely make my Ming infrastructure I don't know how much stronger, if it is used well, on the city wall, even if you use artillery, you will never be able to help him." ”

After getting the cement thing done, a few people didn't talk much, and went back to their rooms to sleep.

Since escorting Zhu Chenhao back to Beijing in January, Xie Zhi has not slept well.

I finally had a chance today, and I had to sleep enough.

slept until three o'clock in the morning, Wang Shouren and Tang Yin didn't go out, waiting to see the wonderful use of this cement wall.

Seeing Xie Zhi wake up, he didn't allow Xie Zhi to wash up and pull him up.

When he arrived at the two walls in the courtyard, Tang Yin looked suspicious and said, "This wall is no different, right?" What is the use of your concrete wall? ”

Being able to disagree with each other is often a true friend.

Before the truth came out, Xie Zhi was also allowed to have different opinions.

Regarding this doubt in Tang Yin's heart, Xie Zhi didn't say much, just beckoned Li Jia and said, "You go find a sledgehammer." ”

Xie Zhi handed over the matter of captive farming cattle to He Liang, and He Liang went to work early in the morning.

Cattle are not scarce, but they are not so easy to buy.

After all, whoever has cattle is used for farming, and there is no intention of buying or selling.

Li Jia listened to Xie Zhi's orders and soon summoned a sledgehammer.

After the sledgehammer was summoned, Xie Zhi didn't say much, and directly pointed to the wall made of white ash and said, "Smash it down!" ”

Xie Zhi said this, Li Jia thought that he had heard it wrong, and he tightened the sledgehammer in his hand and forgot to do it for a while.

Tang Yin, who was standing beside Li Jia, couldn't wait to witness the effect, looking at Li Jia's mother-in-law like this, without saying a word, he snatched the sledgehammer from Li Jia's hand and said, "Come down." ”

Tang Yin smashed the wall, and Xie Zhi was really a little worried.

It's no problem to smash down this lime masonry, but it's different with cement.

If you don't succeed in smashing the wall, but you hurt yourself, that's really not good.

After all, now is the time to employ people, and one less person can delay a lot of things.

But if Xie Zhi stopped it, Tang Yin would inevitably think that he had made trouble with this cement wall.

Forget it, smash it, how can you be so unlucky, you happen to get hurt.

Tang Yin, who took the sledgehammer, raised it above his head and smashed it directly towards the strong.

However, the lime wall was also quite acquainted, and Tang Yin smashed four or five hammers before the wall finally fell.

After smashing down the lime wall, Tang Yinzhi also said hello to Xie Zhi and said, "It's really smashed in the bottom?" ”

Smash it, smash it, it's not fake.

Xie Zhi nodded in response: "Smash it." ”

With Xie Zhi's consent, Tang Yin raised the sledgehammer and smashed it against the concrete wall again.

The sound of the concrete walls is noticeably different from the lime walls.

The sound of this concrete wall is more dull.

Tang Yin probably already noticed the difference when he smashed the first hammer, and he was shocked, and tightened his hand on the hammer.

But this time, after smashing it nearly a dozen times, the cement wall still didn't move.