The summer harvest is in full swing, and this year's harvest is really not very good.

As Chen Yu expected, after the impact of this rainstorm, a large number of locust plagues appeared in the north and south of Zhili, and the six officials and cabinet elders headed by Fei Hong of the Ministry of Rites immediately found Zhu Houzhao.

Such a big battle, not to discuss how to provide disaster relief, but to take the Taichang Temple as the lead, set up a treasure case in the Temple of Heaven, kneel three times and bow nine times, and perform a big ceremony to tell heaven and earth, Sheji, mountains and rivers.

The comfort in my heart is done, but the actual thing still has to be done, this time the disaster is too serious, His Majesty Zhengde is also rare to go to the early dynasty, he is not in a good mood, his brows are furrowed, and he said loudly: "Now the north and south of the country have been affected by this disaster, I am very heartbroken, can the cabinet have a countermeasure?" ”

"Back to the emperor, the affected prefectures and counties have asked the local political departments to make statistics, and after getting an accurate conclusion, the local Xia Tian tax and grain will be exempted." Yang Tinghe bowed and replied.

"How many prefectures and counties are there in the statistics of the various political departments now?" Zhu Houzhao asked.

Yang Yiqing, the secretary of the ministry, said: "Back to the emperor, according to the statistics of the north and south, the forty-eight counties in Kyushu have been seriously affected. ”

"Your Majesty, if you are exempt from tax grain, the household department should be tight this year! The military expenses of the nine sides, the clan and the internal transport warehouse are all huge, and there are strange things in the remaining July, and there are few silver taels to spare. Hubu Shangshu Sun handed over the worried words of the train.

Zuodu Yushi Hongzhong also went out of the train and said: "Besides, this is only the impact of the flood, my Metropolitan Procuratorate has already started to inspect the imperial history to investigate the disaster area, and most of the people have become displaced people because of the disaster and joined the army of the Liu family's anti-thieves." After the flood, plagues occurred in various places from time to time, especially in the north. And now Lao Chen is most worried...... It's the overwhelming locusts! Lao Chen personally went to the area of Beizhili to see, once the locusts passed, there were almost no dealers! ”

Zhu Houzhao's brows furrowed even deeper, he didn't feel why things happened, and he didn't complain about the injustice of heaven and the disaster from heaven, because he knew that it was useless to say this, it was better to think of something that would work.

The top priority now is to solve the locust plague, otherwise the only summer harvest will eventually feed the locusts.

"Three days, I give you three days, how to put an end to the locust plague, you come up with a way for me!" Zhu Houzhao flicked his sleeves and left the hall, leaving everyone to discuss.

Three days? How can a problem that has not been solved for hundreds of years be solved in three days? Isn't that nonsense?

"Lord Yang, the three-day limit depends on your cabinet!" Zuodu Yushi Hongzhong walked over with a smile.

"Lord Hong, this locust plague was proposed by you, you must have a way to limit it to three days, and my cabinet also needs to count the floods, plagues and follow-up disaster relief work, and this matter is naturally proposed by whoever proposes it." Yang Tinghe saw that Hong Zhong's face was full of embarrassment, and continued: "But it's not that there is no turnaround. ”

"Oh? What do you mean by that? ”

"If you want to completely eradicate the locust plague in three days, you and I both know that this is a fantasy, why don't Lord Hong write a letter to prevent this kind of thing from happening again in the future? If it weren't for the emperor's indulgence in frolicking all day long and offending heaven and earth, how could Daming suffer this catastrophe! Yang Tinghe sighed and left.

Hong Zhong looked at his back, and there was a deep look of disgust in his eyes. As a cabinet minister, he only thinks about shirking responsibility for such things, and he schemingly said these words to the old man, because he wants the old man to be thundered?

The more you get to a high position, the more active your mind becomes, and the more you care about, it's not as real as Chen Tingyu!

With Fang Xiaomei's observation, she knew that the heat was almost over, so she asked Chen Yu to write about Yang Ruoxi's suffering in the Xu family one by one, and then sent it to Beijing quickly.

And not a day after Chen Yu's letter was gone, Yang Ruoxi's other family letter was also submitted, and then Xu Yangong also wrote a letter, and Yang Ruoxi's family letter left Dantu before and after.

"It is said that it is better to demolish a temple than to demolish a marriage." Chen Yu looked a little remorseful, "Will there be retribution for doing this!" ”

"My lord, look at what you said, you are breaking down one bad marriage and fulfilling another good marriage, this is doing a good deed, how can there be retribution?" Shen Fei admonished Chen Yu in his ear like a psychological counselor.

Chen Yu glanced at Shen Fei, but still reminded kindly: "Yang Ruoxi is not as simple as you see, but no matter what, as long as the two of you are happy with each other, it will be fine, but after marrying her, I am afraid it will be enough for you!" ”

Because he felt that Yang Ruoxi and Fang Xiaomei had a lot of similarities, that guy had a high IQ and EQ, although her mind was imprisoned in terms of feudal etiquette, it didn't mean that she didn't want to break through them, as long as she did it properly, she would definitely do it, and she wouldn't live the rest of her life like this.

Smart and strong people will have such thoughts, maybe Yang Ruoxi has already started to do it now, and I just provide a role as a promoter!

Shen Fei replied with a smile, "I also want to find someone who loves each other to marry, like adults, instead of facing a stranger every day." ”

Chen Yu patted him on the shoulder, "Young man, your mind is very fast!" ”

"My lord, where are you going? Wait for me ......"

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In the east of Niujiazhuang Village, adults and children are all standing on the ridges, holding long reeds, driving away those hateful locusts, and their faces are no longer worried about a few days ago, replaced by a happy smile.

Chen Yu didn't know why, obviously they had just gone to the flood and the locust plague, and the harvest was almost minimal, how could they still laugh?

The man seemed to recognize Chen Yu, and walked over with a smile, "Big brother has time to come around?" ”

"yes, brother, why are you laughing? We can't laugh at anything. Chen Yu looked at the locusts with fluttering wings with a sad face.

"Hey, big brother, you didn't get the news!" The man's face was full of joy, and he made a mysterious look on his face, and said in a soothing voice: "The township is spreading the word of the new county official, Your Majesty has canceled the summer grain tax in our county!" Although the harvest is smaller, but the less is handed over to the government, it is enough for us to eat for a long time. ”

It was a heartfelt, very sincere and happy smile, the demands of the common people were very simple, hundreds of years of slavery had made them oppressive and could not cause any major opposition at all, but as long as they could eat a little food, no one would embark on the road of rebellion.

"Huh? Really? That's a great thank you to the Son of God! Chen Yu is also sincerely happy for the man, and it seems that Zhu Houzhao also attaches great importance to this disaster.

The family was happy and the family was sad, and they were ready to rely on this disaster to collect the hundreds of acres of fertile land in the east of the village, but the government wanted to cancel the summer grain tax with a piece of paper?

Xu Yangong was very angry and was furious at Niu Geng's house!

This Niu Geng is Niu Ruhong's father, that is, the old fat man who manages Niujiazhuang, with a big belly and a round waist, a fat head and big ears.

"Don't be angry, it doesn't matter." Niu Geng smiled mysteriously.

"If you have a fart, don't you see that you are in a bad mood?"

"Yes, yes!" Niu Geng hurriedly said: "Actually, the government doesn't levy summer grain tax, but don't forget, but don't levie summer grain tax, as long as we transfer all those men out to serve as errand labor, who will collect Zhuangtian?" Women? Child? Or a child? ”

Xu Yangong's eyes gradually lit up, "Same as that group of tenants?" At that time, in order to escape from forced labor, they will definitely take the initiative to surrender the land to us! ”

The donation of land was already a very common phenomenon in the Ming Dynasty, and the various enslavements of the Ming Dynasty were too onerous, of course, this kind of onerous enslavement was only for the peasants.

The other class, the gentry class, who had just started from the show, were exempted from servitude by the imperial court.

Then some peasants, overwhelmed by the burden, in order to escape forced labor, surrendered their land to these gentry classes, and committed themselves to tenant farmers, using the shadow of the gentry to escape forced labor.

However, the court was afraid that the people would ignore production and become lazy. Therefore, the "Da Ming Law" stipulates that all the donors and the donors are caught, it is a major crime to kill the head.

However, there are policies and countermeasures, just like the group of tenants in the west of the village, they also had their own land before, but they were really overwhelmed, so they first went to the government to make a delivery, handed over the land to Xu Guogong's name, and then took the initiative to farm for them to become tenants.

This method is reasonable and legal to a certain extent, in fact, for hundreds of years, the government has also been well aware of these things, but as people of the same class, they will definitely not write these things down and discuss them in the court.

The two discussed for a while, and Niu Geng said, "It's just a little bit of Ma Dianshi, and you may need some money." ”

"You can rest assured that you can do it, after the fertile land is in hand, you will be divided into dozens of acres, as for how you will divide it with Ma Dianshi, you can decide for yourself." Xu Yangong said lightly.

These days, especially when it comes to Dantu, nothing is pleasing to people!

On the other side, Qiongxian Tower.

Chen Yu made an appointment to dine here with Yang Ruoxi at noon today, but he missed the appointment, and now he is eating wild game with a mouth full of oil at the farmer's house.

And in the Qiongxian Building, Shen Fei and Yang Ruoxi were sitting looking at each other, and it was difficult to talk about this heart!