"Okay, let's hear it. If you can't justify yourself, you should be punished for corruption! ”

Zhang Fu stared at Yang Congyi, his eyes were sharp, as if he wanted to see through the secret in his heart.

After sorting out his thoughts, he only listened to Yang Congyi say slowly: "Yiwu is located in the south of the Yangtze River, with sufficient sunshine and abundant water, and the grain is generally planted twice a year and harvested twice a year. The cultivated land is divided into paddy fields and dry fields, one acre of paddy field can harvest about 10 quintals of rice a year, one acre of dry field can harvest about six quintals of grain a year, this place is on both sides of the river, there are very few dry fields, most of the nearly 3,000 acres of fields borrowed by the election camp are fertile paddy fields, the election camp has borrowed land since July last year, and it is necessary to delay the people's harvest of 3,000 mu of land in two seasons, that is, the harvest of a whole year, one mu of land is calculated according to the annual harvest of 10 quintals of rice, and the 3,000 mu field will produce 30,000 quintals of rice less in a year, and the price of rice is two quintals of money and one load. 3,000 acres of land will be reduced by 60,000 yuan a year. The 60,000 yuan was distributed to the people who borrowed the land according to the amount of the borrowed land, so that they could use the money to buy food to live when they lost their fields. ”

Among the three adults, except for Zuo Shilang Zhonghuang, the other two don't farm, and they won't buy rice in person, so they naturally don't know the geometry of the field and the value of rice, they are smart people who don't know how to pretend to understand.

So only Lord Huang nodded slightly and said: "It's February, and the election camp has not yet returned the land to the people, and the rice will not be planted in the first half of the year, so it is reasonable for you to borrow the field for a year." But can one acre of paddy field produce ten quintals of rice a year? As far as this official knows, there are not so many! ”

"We all know that the mountains are high and low, the fields are fat and thin, the output is different with fat and thin, the fields are divided into upper, middle and lower grades, and the grains produced by different grades of fields are different each year, and the imperial court levies field taxes according to the quality of the fields, and the people's own fields borrowed by the general camp are almost all high-grade fields in the tax book, and the compensation we borrow from the people's fields can only be paid according to the output of the high-quality fields."

When the words fell, Zhang Fu immediately asked: "Since the superior field costs more money, why do you spend a huge amount of money to build a camp for the selection of generals on the superior field, why don't you go to the lower field to build a camp?" ”

"My lord, all the people in the inferior fields are wealthy families, these fields are in the middle of the flat river valley, and they are close to the county seat of Yiwu, but the big families are not short of those money, we can't borrow their inferior fields, and those places are not suitable for camping."

Yang Congyi said very tactfully, but the meaning was very clear, the three adults present were all smart people, so they could naturally understand what he meant.

Master Li was speechless from beginning to end, and Zhang Fu was silent.

Lord Huang coughed dryly, broke the embarrassment, and then asked, "Even if these 60,000 guan are reasonable, what do you say that there are still 100,000 guan?" ”

Yang Congyi immediately replied: "Nearly 3,000 acres of fields borrowed by the election camp are under our feet, you should have seen it, these fields are now trampled by the soldiers, and the ground is hard, even if he returns it to the people in the next day and re-reclaims, it is impossible to restore the previous grain output in three years, and the yield will definitely be reduced. ”

"Well, this is also said in the past, it was not easy to reclaim the land barren, it often took decades. This kind of trampling on land for half a year is like digging roads for farming, and it is difficult to produce again in a few years, and the subsidy per mu is not much. How do you say that there are still 70,000 kan? ”

Lord Huang explained two sentences, and then continued to ask.

In addition to 3,000 acres of land, there are also more than 3,000 acres of other land, including people's houses, yards, dojos, vegetable gardens, etc., all of which require money. Before the election camp was built, it was expected that more than 20,000 soldiers would live in, and the people living in the election camp would have to move out, but they had lived in these places for hundreds of years, dozens of generations, and there were too many things to give up. This money is divided into two parts, one part is directly distributed to the people, this part of the money to buy their houses, yards, dojos, vegetable gardens and other places, a room regardless of the old and new, directly to the people 30 yuan, to ensure that they can come back in the future to build a new house, this time the general camp bought a total of more than 1,000 new and old houses of the people, with more than 34,600 yuan, yards, dojos, vegetable gardens more than 1,500 acres, each mu of 10 yuan, with more than 15,000 yuan, this part of the house, yard and so on a total of about 50,000 yuan. The last 20,000 yuan was originally intended to be used to build temporary shelter for thousands of people, because the energy of the election camp was limited, so the government was entrusted to resettle the thousands of people who moved out due to the construction of the election camp. The resettlement price of the camp entrusted to the government was calculated according to the standard of 40 wen per person per day, and the government received 20,000 yuan for more than 1,300 people, and they could be resettled until July and August this year. ”

Yang Congyi finished speaking in one breath, which sounded a little messy, but the reason in it was also clear.

Lord Huang thought for a moment and asked, "Isn't it expensive to have an ordinary house for thirty times?" As far as I know, a dozen yuan is enough to build an ordinary house in the countryside, so why do you need thirty yuan? ”

"I wonder where and where you are saying?"

Lord Huang pondered for a while before replying, "Texas Shanghe." ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Fu was slightly startled, and turned his head to look at him, even Master Li was slightly surprised.

Yang Congyi's thoughts turned sharply, and then he immediately replied: "The old land of Dezhou is not far from Liaojin in the north, and the war is raging, and it is indeed enough to build a house with more than a dozen yuan." But Yiwu is different from the north, there are mountains in the north and south, there are rivers running through the east and west, the climate is suitable, the land is fertile, there has been almost no war for thousands of years, and it is very suitable for living in peace. After the Jingkang Rebellion, many northern people moved all the way south, and many settled in Yiwu, and now there are few people in the land, and the price of 30 can only build a very ordinary house in the mountains. When you have your spare time, the lower officials can accompany the adults to walk along the Dachen River outside the camp to see the pastoral life of ordinary people. ”

Hearing this explanation, the three of them were speechless, Dezhou is the old Hebei East Road, the Liao State was not destroyed when it was connected with the Nanjing Road of the Liao State, it was a place of war, after the Liao was destroyed, it was returned to the Jin State, the house in this place is naturally worthless, but there is no war in the south of the Yangtze River, the house does not know where it is expensive, if you want to have a fixed place in Lin'an, you can get three or five miles outside the city of Lin'an, even if there are few high-ranking officials in the court who can buy a house in Lin'an City, most of them still rely on the emperor to reward the house.

Thirty yuan for one to buy the people's old houses, Zhang Fu and the other three were powerless to refute, thinking about it carefully, thirty yuan is really not much for building a house and buying a house.

"Houses, yards, vegetable patches, the 50,000 yuan you spent is reasonable. But the 20,000 yuan you gave to the government doesn't make sense, how much money has you already given to the people before and after the election of the generals? There are more than 1,300 of them in total, and you gave them 140,000 yuan, and each of them has more than 100 yuan, so they can't live with less than 40 yuan a day? ”

Huang is sensitive to numbers and immediately asks new questions.

Yang Congyi straightened his thoughts for a moment, and quickly replied: "The adults have agreed that the 140,000 guan given in front should be given, as for the last 20,000 guan, the lower officials also said before that it was originally to build temporary shelters for the people who gave up the old land of the houses nearby, but the general camp had to build barracks, school fields and handsome camps, and the energy was limited. In addition, if the people live near the camp for the election of generals, it is difficult to ensure that they will not be in a mood when they see their fields trampled by soldiers and the houses they have lived in for hundreds of years being demolished. After many discussions with the county government, they agreed to assist in the selection of the general camp to resettle the people, and the prestige of the county government among the local people is not comparable to that of the general selection camp. As you all know, things that have always involved the people's housing are very troublesome, and if you are not careful, you will make a big mess, and you will entrust more than 1,300 people to the county government for resettlement for a year with 20,000 yuan, and you can do something that 50,000 or 100,000 yuan can not be done, isn't it worth it? Is it unconscionable? ”

"There is a reason for that. The number of popular uprisings in ancient and modern times was not caused by the government's improper handling of issues related to the survival of the people, and there were not all popular uprisings last year and the year before that. After a civil uprising, there will be as little as one county, and as many as several counties and states, which will soon be eroded, and the imperial court will lose more than millions of dollars and grain, and this kind of lesson has been seen a lot. I thought it was the right thing to do, and 20,000 yuan was not a lot of money. ”

Lord Li, who never spoke, finally opened his mouth, he was the right Shilangzhong, and he knew very well about the affairs of the military department, every time there was a civil uprising, after the forbidden army went to suppress it, it was the box army that cleaned up the mess, and the imperial court not only had to allocate money and grain from the treasury, but also reduced taxes, *, the money and grain lost by the imperial court were huge figures.

Zhang Fu and Lord Huang did not refute or raise objections.

The three of them tacitly acknowledged, and no one said anything more, and they had already reached a conclusion in their hearts.

"Yang Congyi, even if you spend 160,000 yuan reasonably. There are still a few grain and grass problems, and you have to explain it to us clearly. ”