Zhu Yu's account book to the crown prince Zhu Cihong, in addition to telling about the situation of the bureaucrats and gentry in Miyun County, also explained to the prince Zhu Cihong the issue of the Ming Dynasty's officials.

After introducing how the bureaucrats and squires control the place, and how to pass on the three classes and six rooms from generation to generation, the next thing is the crime of the household house.

Over the years, the house has been in charge of the case, and it has been a lot of crimes.

He often secretly replaced his moldy old grain with new grain in the granary of Miyun County and sent it to the border soldiers in the north of Miyun County.

Even these moldy old grains are mixed with a lot of sand and stones, and they can lose their teeth when they eat them.

Originally, the imperial court had already distributed new grain, but because of these bureaucratic squires who dared to do anything for the sake of greedy ink and silver, the soldiers at the border gates were allowed to eat moldy pebble grain.

Still in the name of the imperial court, the border soldiers thought that this was the food distributed to them by the imperial court, and they had a lot of resentment in their hearts over the years.

What is even more vicious is that in order to ensure the price of food, these bureaucratic gentry often drive the people out of the land and turn them into outcasts.

When the crown prince Zhu Cihong saw this, the blue tendons on his head burst out, and he couldn't wait to slaughter all the bureaucrats and squires in Miyun County now.

He finally understood why the imperial court spent so much food and salary every year, and there were so many famous generals to exterminate the rogues, but they couldn't do it all.

The root is here, as long as the class of bureaucrats and gentry is in one day, the rogue of the Ming Dynasty will never be exterminated.

It has strengthened the determination of the crown prince Zhu Cihong to carry out land reform, and no matter what, he must sweep away the bureaucratic and gentry class, so that he can return the Ming Dynasty to a bright future.

Zhu Yu knew that relying on a simple account book alone could not let the crown prince Zhu Cihong intuitively see what kind of miserable life the common people of the Ming Dynasty were living in, so he walked back to his little donkey and took out a few coarse cloth plackets with patches from the bag.

Zhu Yu handed over these pieces of coarse cloth to the crown prince Zhu Cihong, and said seriously: "Your Royal Highness the prince, if you want to see what kind of life the people of Daming are living now, please change into these coarse cloth clothes and go to the village of Lianghe Village." ”

Even those ordinary bureaucratic squires would not wear such cheap and dirty coarse cloth clothes, but the crown prince Zhu Cihong did not hesitate at all, and changed his clothes directly in the pavilion.

After changing into coarse cloth clothes similar to those of the common people, Zhu Shun and the three of them left the pavilion and rushed to Lianghe Village.

Now is the time to sow seeds, and a large number of people have gathered in the fields to sow seeds, but most of these people are shirtless, wearing only a patched green cloth shirt and pants.

Even if it is a patched green cloth shirt and pants, it can be regarded as a brocade dress among the common people, and many people's green cloth shirts and pants are broken one by one, and there is no silver to buy cloth to make up for it.

The thighs inside were exposed, and there were even many ordinary people with half of their buttocks exposed.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong couldn't help but be a little confused when he saw this scene, with the wealth of Lianghe Village, even if the people were poor, they would not even be able to afford to wear clothes.

But thinking of the actions of the bureaucratic squires recorded in that ledger, I also figured out that there were almost no yeoman farmers in Lianghe Village, and all of them were tenants of the bureaucratic gentry.

Grain seeds had to be borrowed, as well as oxen and ploughs, and at the end of the year, not only did there be no surplus grain, but more and more money and grain were owed.

In the end, they could only sell their sons and daughters, and return the money and grain they owed to the squire, and those who couldn't afford it became homeless.

Ordinary people can't even afford to eat, and where do they have the money to buy clothes, which is why most of the people working in the fields don't even have a shirt.

The most shocking scene for the crown prince Zhu Cihong was that after entering the village, many children and teenagers gathered under an old tree at the entrance of the village.

They all lay motionless on the ground, and only then could they eat less food.

What shocked the crown prince Zhu Cihong was their eyes, these future and hopes of the Ming Dynasty, there was no popularity in their eyes, they were all empty.

Obviously they are living people, more like dead people than dead people, if it weren't for these children and teenagers turning over from time to time, Prince Zhu Cilang really thought that these were corpses.

Instead of a living person, it is impossible to be the future and hope of the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing the children of the common people of the Ming Dynasty actually looking like this, the prince Zhu Cihong felt a little sour in his heart inexplicably, and almost shed tears in his discomfort.

He has lived in the deep palace for a long time, but he never thought that the common people would live this kind of life, and live this kind of life is worse than death.

Zhu Yu sighed and said: "It's okay like this, many people may not even be able to live such a day." ”

"Because they could not afford the food they owed to the bureaucratic gentry, or to ensure that the price of food would not become too low, they were driven out of the land where they had lived for generations and became vagrants."

The crown prince Zhu Cihong suddenly clenched his fists and turned his head to look at Zhu Shun: "Sir, when will we carry out land reform." ”

Zhu Shun has long been accustomed to this kind of scene, and his family used to live this kind of life, and his face was very flat: "How to carry out land reform, and the length of time for land reform, are all decided by the prince." ”

The crown prince Zhu Cihong nodded, and did not continue to the next village, Lianghe Village, a wealthy village with a large amount of water to irrigate the fields, not to mention how miserable the situation of other villages lacking water was.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong walked back to the pavilion in silence, changed into a set of official clothes to supervise the imperial history, looked at this fertile land and said, "You immediately go and invite the people of Lianghe Village over." ”

"Pay attention, please, if anyone dares to be rude to the people, Lone will definitely not spare him."

The students of the army martial arts hall have all learned the three major disciplines and eight points of attention, and they are completely different from those officers and soldiers who have a nest of snakes and rats, as the children of the people of the Ming Dynasty, how can they be rude to the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Most of the people in the township are centered on the ancestral hall, which is already poor enough, and there is no way to live without the help of the ancestral hall.

Half a day later, the common people gathered and saw an official standing in the pavilion, all of whom were frightened and kept retreating.

These ordinary people have been looted by the bureaucrats and squires too many times, and as long as they see the officials and masters in official uniforms, they will think that they have come to loot them again, and of course they will be frightened and retreat.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong just wore this official uniform to supervise the imperial history, and he still had a sense of novelty, but now he hates this official uniform very much.

The bureaucratic squires led by the Donglin Party used this skin to raid the common people of the Ming Dynasty over and over again, so that the common people had no way to live but to become rogues.