Chapter 103 Yan Zhong is right, the grain is returned

This beating turmoil has subsided. People who watch the excitement can't understand it, people who try cases can't hear it clearly, and even people who are fighting lawsuits don't feel like it. Luo Zun looked at the corpse of his old father spread on the side of the yamen, "Master Gong, can we still sue Yang Fan**?" ”

Gong Bupo was a little embarrassed, and now those few people can't wait to wrap it tightly, and they don't want to stand up again. "I'm afraid it's going to be difficult." Luo Zun was silent for a moment, but this time he didn't have the ruffian spirit he used to have, "The corpse of the ancestor ......"

Gong Bupo shook his head and said, "No matter how much you check, you can't find out why it's here, so let's go to the ground." He bowed to Luo Zun, "He took people's money, but he didn't get things done." In the next sentence to the son, the son will listen to it if he is willing to listen, and if he is not willing to listen, he will give up. ”

"Master, please."

Gong Bupo pressed against Luo Zun's ear, "The sharpest knife, wait until the enemy is the weakest." Otherwise, you'll never know how many hole cards your enemy has. His voice amplified, "This is also the most undefeated master in all these years...... No, the secret to losing once, haha. ”

The sun fell, Luo Zun and Gong Bupo went their separate ways, and finally each said a word.

"Taught."

"Farewell."

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Yang Fan returned to the old shop, the butt was not yet hot, and Luo Yangxing, who was dressed in a flying fish suit, came uninvited. Jinyi Wei is the commander of the envoy, this is Zhu Youzhen's personal secretary. I didn't drink tea when I came in, I didn't sit down, just a sentence, there was a decree from the saint, please invite Ling Hebo to enter the palace to meet him, so he drove the carriage in the palace and took Yang Fan into the palace.

Since the last time they met in the imperial study, Yang Fan had never entered the palace to face the saint. Being summoned to the palace this time is probably not a good thing. The two arrived at the Qianqing Palace one after the other, and Luo Yangxing opened the door and motioned for Yang Fan to enter. Yang Fan nodded, and secretly said in his heart that it was really good to be an emperor, he changed places every day when he had a meeting, when could he do this. Damn, I haven't asked the brothers of the Thirteen Stations recently, and I don't know how the tube building is built.

Unconsciously, he had already walked very close to Zhu Youzhen, and when he saw the bright and dangling steps, he felt that he was rude, and took a few steps back. Zhu Youzhen raised his head and said, "You are still so absent-minded when you come, you are also perfunctory enough, Yang Fan." My good lord. ”

"How dare you. I am just thinking about the national plan so that I can share the worries of the saints. Yang Fan modestly stood at the foot of the steps. Zhu Youzhen sneered, "Thinking about the national plan? Saying this word from the mouth of your Yang Dashan person, I just thought it was funny. A person who is unwilling to study and get into the office, but is only willing to play conspiracy for his own selfish interests, what do you talk about thinking about the national plan? ”

"I just want to prove a fact to the Holy One."

"Can business really change people's livelihoods?" Zhu Youzhen sneered.

"That's right."

Zhu Youzhen said with a smile: "Anyone can speak verbal vernacular." This man has gone to business, who will farm the land? Agriculture is the foundation, and I will not do anything that is left to the end. ”

Yang Fan said: "The saint doesn't have to argue with the lower, this country is holy, how to govern it, how to implement the policy, that is the matter of the saint." Can the saint know that the South China Sea is a small country, called Luzon? ”

"It's just a small country that claims to be a vassal, how do you know it?"

"The rice there is the same as Guangdong, it can be harvested three times a year, Shengshang, how about we do it verbally now?" Yang Fan smiled. Zhu Youzhen didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Yang Fan's gourd, so he smiled and said, "You still have this deal, right?" Well, I'll have some fun with you today, and see what you use to convince me. ”

"Now there are a thousand people in the hands of the saints and in the hands of the people. Since the saint said that agriculture is the foundation and business is the end, then the saint takes advantage of it, and these thousand people are young and strong laborers, and each person can cultivate 30 acres. And the people who are distributed to them are all old people, and cultivating five or six acres of land is the kind that breaks the sky. ”

"His Majesty has 30,000 acres of fertile land, and the rice is harvested twice a year, with three stones per mu, which means that the saint can harvest 180,000 stones in a year."

Zhu Youzhen's business is very unusual. Just nodding there. Yang Fan said: "Now the strange things in the old shop street, half of the wine, just a few people's workshop, just a few days ago, the transparent glass bottle, the daily output can reach hundreds, when the farm is slack, let this thousand people go to the wine shop, strange things to make wine, make bottles, and so on to the spring equinox is approaching, a thousand people, with a glass bottle containing good wine, as long as five Zheng He treasure ships, go to Luzon. By the time we arrived in Luzon, the first wave of early rice was about to ripen. Although this glass bottle can't be sold for three taels of silver now, it will be sold for one tael below, and this wine is also counted as one tael. ”

Zhu Youzhen laughed and said, "According to what you say, each of you has to sell forty-five bottles of water and wine to earn back the food." This method is okay for 1,000 people, but what about 10,000? What about 100,000 people? Yang Fan, your little cleverness, let's put it on the right path. Luzon is a small country with a small population, how can there be so much food for you in exchange for these insatiable things? ”

"It seems that the saint is also quite good at business, so he can see through it at once. The minister knew that if the ships of the Ming Dynasty were dispatched, they could be all over from Guangzhou to Luzon. Although this is an exaggeration, has the saint ever thought about it, what if the ship arrives in Luzon, leaving the 900 people in Luzon to cultivate, and only sending 100 people to transport the grain back to Tianfu? ”

Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said, "It's better to cultivate it directly." If the ship goes to sea, it is too risky, and if it is only for food, the profit is far less than that of tea and porcelain sales. But now what Daming lacks is grain, and the whole country is short of grain, so I choose to cultivate grain honestly. Yang Fan hit it off with Zhu Youzhen's thoughts in his heart, it turned out that the little emperor was not stupid.

"Since the Holy One knows that there is a shortage of food, and there is a great drought in Shaanxi. What is given under is the fertile land, but what about the reality? How many places do not harvest the grain. Not only that, when there is no food, the imperial court will also collect grain, serve forced labor, and the officials will force the people to rebel.

This came and went, and the grain was not caught, but the excess production was consumed. If this continues, the national strength will gradually decline, and the overturning of Yuxia is inevitable. In the next method, although it sounds funny, it seems that it can't sell so much wine and so many glass bottles, but it does solve the disaster of 900 people for ten or even twenty years. ”

"You mean to let all the people of the Great Ming Shaanxi Land move to Luzon?"

Yang Fan said with a smile: "Wouldn't it be better for the saint to change his way of thinking and let the land of Luzon become a corner of the Ming Dynasty?" At that time, Luzon will be another granary of the Ming Dynasty, and there will even be a granary as big as half of the Ming Dynasty, in the southwest of Luzon, and it is deserted.

When the time comes, the granary will be full, the people will be prosperous, and the food will be returned, why should the Ming Dynasty not be strong? ! ”