Chapter 10: The Treasurers

After a while, Li Xiangqian sighed and said, "It's about four taels."

"One acre of land is about 660 square meters, so the average yield per mu of wheat land is ...... Three hundred and fifty catties, even if my harvesting position is on the side, it is too sparse, plus it will take two days to start harvesting, so add a little more, five hundred catties, it is already the limit, and the yield per mu is five hundred catties, that is, it can feed one person at most. ”

There is a lack of non-staple food in this era, and the future of the Celestial Empire, rice bags, vegetable baskets, and meat case projects basically have no shadow, so it is necessary to eat more staple foods, of course, ordinary people eat staple food, which must be mixed with a lot of miscellaneous grains or wild vegetables, which is a cliché, only for example, the Qian brothers went to Shandong together to go out of tolerance that kind of big thing, Qian's mother borrowed green onions and oil from the neighbor's house, and baked flatbread with flour.

What Li Xiangqian is worried about is precisely like this, they basically have no accumulation in agricultural science and technology, at least there is no person like Yuan Longping to follow them, and there is no way to build water conservancy facilities at all, as for how to water and fertilize, it is all a book on the book, as for them, they are all characters who do not touch the spring water with their fingers, let alone farming.

For example, chemical fertilizer, which kind of fertilizer is for which kind of soil, which kind of crop, are all particular, and even when to fertilize, it is a very fine science, and these, they don't understand, and the books are only general, which needs to be studied quickly.

Thinking of this, Li Xiangqian walked out of his tent and looked east at the night scene, it won't be long before he will lead these people to the northeast to sweep the frontier and open up that land.

There are three pieces of black soil on the earth, at least before Li Xiangqian crossed, the one in Ukraine has been damaged by the civil war that has lasted for decades, and the one in the United States is almost the food center, as for the black land of China, well, the Great Northern Wilderness has always been a large-cap stock of agricultural and animal husbandry stocks.

The reason why the presbyterians are so arrogant is because they can control the food, and having food means that they can control everything.

Of course, for a place like the imperial capital, where the tree has big roots and deep roots, it is impossible to completely control it with just food, and there is money here, very rich, very rich.

As the crown prince of the former dynasty, the position of chairman of the CPPCC in the future, Zhu Cihong received good care and education, and Wu Meicun, who was captured from the south, temporarily became the emperor's teacher, but there was no time to learn poetry and songs, and it was impossible for the Council of Elders to give him any power, but it was still good for the officials who surrendered to the imperial capital to convince him to submit.

"Is this really the case, Mr. Wu, my father has worked hard to govern the country, but the treasury is so empty, and those treasury officials who should be small officials are well-known in the entire imperial capital, rich and rival the country, and even the treasury that has controlled the imperial court for several generations is a group of rats?"

Wu Meicun was a little embarrassed, he had lived in the imperial capital for a while, and he naturally knew a little about the group of people who had become rich up and down the imperial capital by eating the flesh and blood of the empire, but that's to say, he didn't expect to be so rich.

"Zhu Maoshi, the treasury official in the household department, there is a second courtyard at the Xizhi Gate, there are more than a dozen gold and silver shops, the inner carrier warehouse is the imperial court to store satin, gold and silver, and precious jade, and the stolen treasury official Zhang Chengze, who opened 30 pawnshops, and the stolen goods were stolen by him and turned into a phoenix, and after being sold, he turned into a huge rich."

On the document, what is printed is the information of the "big tigers" and "mosquitoes" in the imperial capital that the elders have secretly visited these days, of course, they are now, the big tigers are not big, at least not as big as they imagined, but those mosquitoes, no matter how you look at them, they are all big trees with deep roots.

The so-called big tiger, that is, in the imperial capital, those who had no time to escape after Li Zicheng conquered the imperial capital, and could only kneel down to ask for surrender, such as Chongzhen's father-in-law, who betrayed his grandson in history and handed over his granddaughter to Li Zicheng, of course, there are also those hereditary nobles, such as Xu Da's descendants, the princes of Wei, etc., these generations of rich and noble families are naturally coveted and monitored by the Council of Elders.

However, these people have been low-key these days, and at the same time, the boldness and arrogance of another group of people have also made the Council of Elders decide to put the first shot of their imperial capital on these people.

These people are naturally the existence of the six ministries of the imperial court in the imperial capital for generations, if it is said that in the 21st century, someone knows that the central government, that is, not those with grades, but those low-level civil servants, is actually made by how many families and how many generations, it is simply envious to death.

Don't look at the fact that they have to meet the officials in the yamen every day, and they go home in private, but the little days are not to mention how moisturized, they are also hugged by the maids, the concubines warm the bed, and the family thugs hug each other.

You must know that the so-called iron-clad lord of the official government, for the scholars who were registered in the Ming Dynasty and entered the officialdom through the imperial examination, the triennial "Jingcha and Daji" system, through the evaluation, rating, and officials who do a good job, basically have the opportunity to be promoted to the next level.

In general, this is a good thing, and it will not let the chief executive of a certain department or a certain region be in the hands of a certain person, but the disadvantage is that the flow of personnel is unstable, and those subordinate officials have been working in these yamen for generations, that is, the father has finished doing it, and the son will do it again, so he is naturally so rich.

Of course, this kind of corruption that everyone knows naturally needs a protective umbrella, they basically have backers, of course, not those officials who are in general flow, nor are they those cabinet elders who are precarious and are likely to be finished in a few years, but the dukes in the imperial capital, the old, or the family members of the newly promoted favored concubines, with them as backers, naturally they are prosperous, and no one dares to govern.

No matter how good the iron-fisted emperor is, or the auxiliary ministers, Sanyang or Zhang Juzheng, they don't dare to make this move to deal with this seemingly small, but in fact deep-rooted interest group, for no other reason, who knows which little official is behind the backer is a certain military leader or a certain big eunuch? If you move him, aren't you looking for death, besides, every year's Bing Jing and Carbon Respect are thoughtfully sent, what else do you ask for?