Lord Shen is not only worried about the wages of the workers, but also the question of who will cultivate the fields.

There are only 600,000 people in Datong Province and counties, and now there are 500,000 men digging coal!

What does this mean?

It shows that the men in Datong Mansion and the following counties have come to dig coal! There are no more men in the counties! If there are no men, there will be no one to farm! If there is no one to farm, then there is no food to eat!

The existing land policy is contract-based, and tenants are not allowed to be hired, subleased or sold. If you want to farm, then go and tell the government that you want to farm, and the government will give you the land according to the population.

The men have gone to dig coal, and there will be no one to farm!

Lord Shen is now the governor, and since he is the parent official of this Datong, he has to think more about the people.

So Lord Shen went to a few colleagues and expressed his concerns, and found that these colleagues thought the same as him, thinking that digging coal would inevitably lead to no one cultivating, so they decided to go together to find the emperor's advice and tell them what they were worried about, and they decided to use Chongzhen's policy of dividing the land to talk about things, so it became like this.

"Your Majesty, will the imperial court's policy of dividing the fields still be implemented in Datong?"

"Divide, what not? If you don't divide the fields, won't the fields be barren! Chongzhen replied in wonder, why would these officials ask him such a question, this Datong has his emperor in charge, this field is recovered quickly, Datong and various counties have begun to divide the land, Chongzhen has also inspected a lot of places these days, according to this progress, the field will be distributed to the hands of the people before the New Year. Now these officials are telling him what these things are!

Chongzhen has read "Big Comrade", this Datong Mansion and the counties under its jurisdiction also have 4 million mu of land, and 4 million mu of land can produce 6 million stone of grain!

"Your Majesty, Weichen is worried, no one will do anything to cultivate after dividing the field, and now the men from all counties have come to Datong Mansion to work as coal diggers, and there are only old people, women and children left in the village.

Chongzhen understood, it turned out that Lord Shen didn't dare to directly say that he recruited workers to dig coal, so he took this policy of dividing the fields to talk about things, these literati had a set of rhetoric, and they never explained it directly.

So Chongzhen also pretended to be with them, and said: "This division of land is a national policy, as long as there are people who want to divide the land, the court will give them the land, as long as it does not violate the "Land Sharing Law", does not invite tenants, does not sublease, does not desolate, will give the land!" ”

Lord Shen saw that the emperor didn't understand what he meant, so he said: "Your Majesty, now that the men have come to dig coal, there are only women and children left in the village, so many fields, can the women be busy?" ”

"What am I doing?" Chongzhen thought that there was some problem with the division of the fields, so he said lightly: "This Lord Shen can rest assured, when the farming is busy, it is good to give these workers a holiday to go back to farming and harvesting, these workers, they also have two days off every ten days, and they can also go back to help the women, and it will not affect the farming." ”

"Your Majesty, each person in Datong can divide eight acres of land, and a family of five is calculated, which is forty acres of land, so many fields, can a woman with the old and the young be busy?" Lord Shen asked suspiciously, these emperors are all in the deep palace, how can they know about farming, and they know about the people's suffering!

Chongzhen made a very speechless expression and said, "Aiqing doesn't believe it, let's find a few craftsmen to ask." ”

Chongzhen is also sighing: Alas, these scholars will only die reading, far away from the people, these agricultural things don't know, how to serve the people! He decided to teach these officials a lesson who could only read and command blindly! Chongzhen thought of his previous life, although many officials in his previous life were putting on a show, wearing suits and white shirts hanging in the air to experience farming.

So, Chongzhen said: "Lord Shen, you go to the mine and invite a few craftsmen to come over, and I asked them to tell you the answer back then!" ”

Lord Shen asked people to go to the mine and invite a few craftsmen to come over, and after a while, several craftsmen were taken to the General Soldier's Mansion.

Chongzhen asked one of them, "What's your name?" ”

The craftsman saw so many big people for the first time, and replied nervously: "Back to the emperor, the villain's name is Liao Da." ”

"Where are you from?"

"The villain is from Zuoyun County." Liao Da answered honestly.

"Zuoyun County, Zuoyun County is a good place, I heard that there is a person named Liao Bao there of you, who is kind and charitable, and donated eight hundred taels of silver during the Yongle period, which will flow through Nanguan and overflow outside the West Gate, dredge the river, return to one place, and facilitate the people to walk. In order to show its enthusiasm for public welfare, the government named the river Liaojiahe, that Liao Bao, is your own family, you have to learn more from Liao Bao, don't learn from Li Zicheng to be a rogue! Chongzhen saw that Liao Da was too restrained, and remembered that there was such a character in Zuoyun County, and the emperor was so kind, so these craftsmen were not so restrained.

"Mm-hmm" Liao Da touched his head and smiled embarrassedly, and said, "Your Majesty, we now have land to cultivate, and we can also dig coal. ”

"Has Zuoyun County divided the fields?"

"Back to the emperor, the field has been divided."

"You came from so far away in Zuoyun County to be this coal digger, doesn't it affect the farming?"

These craftsmen all said happily: "Go back to the emperor, it will not affect the cultivation of the fields, when we came, we heard that we can rest for two days every ten days, and when the farm is busy farming, please take a ten-day leave to go back to help my mother-in-law plow the field, and when it is time to harvest, go back to help harvest!" Usually those weeding chores on the field, the mother-in-law can do it herself! We are idle, I heard that coal diggers are recruited here, thinking that it is a coal kiln opened by the emperor, which will not deceive people, and the salary is more, so we came to dig coal! ”

Lord Shen and the officials asked in disbelief: "A family of five can get forty acres of land, and they can rely on women to plant?" ”

Liao Da said: "My lord, don't say forty acres, even one hundred acres, we can also be busy, this farming work is only busy when plowing and harvesting, and there is nothing to do at ordinary times." ”

Lord Shen and a few colleagues looked at each other, speechless, the emperor turned out to be right!

Chongzhen chatted with the craftsmen again, and invited them to dine together, and finally these craftsmen went back happily, before I only heard that the emperor ate with the people in the capital, and now they have also eaten with the emperor, and they have to brag with the villagers when they go back!

After sending off the craftsmen, Chongzhen said to these officials: "You are the official of Datong's parents, you must go to the people to see more, only can you know what the people are anxious about and help the people need." ”

"Yes!" Lord Shen and those officials said ashamedly.

Xie Shanshan, Xie Tingting and a few other girls found out that the emperor in the deep palace also knew so much about farming, and they couldn't help but start admiring!

(End of chapter)