Li Guanqi turned around and called the old man who was holding the cow for himself just now, and asked softly: "Old man, tell these adults whether your family eats these things on weekdays!" ”

The old man was stupidly watching the actions of Li Guanqi and the ministers, but he didn't expect the emperor to ask his own words, and said in a panic: "It's not a mile! ”

"What?" This time, Li Guanqi glared, and in the first two days, he asked He Ziming to secretly go to the village on the outskirts of Beijing with his guards to collect relevant information. It won't take a long time, He Ziming The information they collected is wrong, right? It's a shame for yourself today.

Yang Bozheng stroked his beard, with an expression of "sure enough", straightened his sleeves, and waited to continue talking.

I didn't want the old man to say again: "The meal that the emperor and the adults eat is what ordinary farmers eat on weekdays. The old man and I are a tenant, and I only drink gruel on weekdays, and I can only eat a dry meal in ten days and a half months, not to mention that there are vegetables. ”

Silence, silence at the scene......

Yang Bozheng was stunned on the spot with a few beards in his hands, it turned out that the old man was so surprised that he actually pulled off his beard by himself.

After a long time, Yang Bozheng suddenly picked up the bowl in front of him and ate it in a big gulp. But after all, he is from a family, he has always been used to fine clothes and jade, and he is also old, this brown rice is really difficult for him to swallow, but at this time, he has to grit his teeth and swallow it desperately.

The other ministers, seeing this, knew that arsenic had to be eaten in front of them, and they ate the meal with bitter faces one by one.

Li Guanqi waited for everyone to finish eating, then turned around and asked the old man: "Old man, you just said that you are a tenant, are there many tenants in your village?" ”

"Many! Why not more? More than half of them are tenants. "The old man is not stage frightened, he will say whatever he wants.

Li Guanqi looked up at the people in a circle around him. He asked loudly: "Whoever is the tenant here, raise their hands and show me!" ”

"Boom!" One by one, the withered hands were raised.

Li Guanqi took a look and found that among the nearly 10,000 people who came today, nearly half of them were landless tenants, and his mood couldn't help but feel a little heavier. Such a high percentage of tenants. It shows that in this Gyeonggi area, land annexation is a very powerful thing.

As a person who has crossed over from modern society, Li Guanqi profoundly realized that land annexation was the main driving force for exacerbating the disparity between the rich and the poor in society and sharpening class contradictions. The end result would be the outbreak of peasant uprisings, and even the main reason for the demise of some dynasties. In feudal society, the war to change the dynasty mainly stemmed from the peasants' rebellion, why did the peasants rebel? It's they who don't cover their bodies. You can't eat on your stomach. Who the is idle and has nothing to do to rebel and play?

In fact, when it was decided to hold a pro-ploughing ceremony at the beginning, Li Guanqi had already made plans for land reform. Because he is very aware of the importance of carrying out agrarian reform in arousing the enthusiasm of the peasants. For the Great Qian, which was dominated by agriculture, the peasants were the foundation of rule. Only by grasping this fundamental can we truly do a stable position.

At that time, although Li Guanqi knew that the Great Qian Dynasty would definitely need to carry out land reform, he did not know that the land annexation was so serious that half of the peasants in the vicinity of Beijing had already become tenants, let alone other places.

Come to think of it. Li Guanqi further strengthened his determination to carry out reform.

Faced with such a serious land annexation situation, Li Guanqi's heart really couldn't continue to be calm. He didn't grow up in the deep palace since he was a child. In the hands of women and eunuchs, a dumb king who doesn't know anything. He comes from modern times and knows very well what the dynasties in history have come to an end.

Throughout China's more than 2,000 years of feudal history, the only Central Plains dynasty that was really defeated by foreign enemies and destroyed the country was the Zhao and Song dynasties (the Mongol army at that time was too strong, and the countries destroyed by him were all over Eurasia), and the others included the Ming Dynasty. Without exception, all of them are due to internal reasons.

The people in power in this era were the scholar class, so naturally they were more protective of the interests of the scholars and landlords, and often ignored the ordinary people. Even many "people of insight" also believe that it is the loyal ministers and righteous soldiers who can fight well to maintain the rule of the dynasty, and no one will think that the common people are the basis of the rule.

So, when the ministers present heard at first glance that the proportion of tenants was so high. Although they were all taken aback, none of them really paid attention to it. In their minds, the loss of land by the common people does not mean that everything has been lost, and tenants can still rent the landlord's land.

But Li Guanqi understands very well that land is the foundation of the people, and everything for the people must come from the land, and without land, it is only a matter of time before they lose everything else. When the common people have nothing to lose, the so-called scholars will not be able to survive alone. As long as someone raises his arms and shouts, the world is turbulent and the mountains and rivers change color. At this time, no matter how many loyal and righteous people are powerless, they will not be able to return to heaven.

As for the army, it is even more troublesome, although the army is subordinate to the ruling class, but most of the soldiers who make up the army are from ordinary people. When these ordinary soldiers can't even protect their own families, how can they be expected to defend the emperor and the society to the death?

Li Guanqi's heart at this moment seemed to be fried in oil, and he very much wanted to immediately solve this land annexation issue that would eventually shake the country's foundation. But Li Guanqi knew that he couldn't be in a hurry, and if he was in a hurry, he would be in chaos.

Many of the time-traveling people in the time-traveling novels I watched in my previous life tend to do things that ignore the reality in front of me and blindly focus on the millennium. I can't wait to completely solve the problems of his grandson's grandson and grandchildren in his own hands, leaving a peace for all eternity.

However, Li Guanqi knew that such a great leap forward would never work, and that no one could predict it, and that the idea of "merit in the future and suffering in the present generation" was very good, but there was nothing in this world that would be done once and for all, and if you take too big a step, you will be able to get to the egg. Li Guanqi hasn't had enough of the Yellow Emperor's addiction.

Li Guanqi knows very well that the problem of land annexation has existed for a long time, not to mention that there is land annexation now, that is, in the era before his crossing, the collusion between officials and businessmen to forcibly demolish the grass people's houses and forcibly occupy the people's cultivated land is also a fashion of the local government, because land is wealth. It's just that these rapidly accumulated wealth go into the pockets of those in power, and the people just keep losing, losing, and losing, until there is nothing to lose, and at that time, it is time for the sun and the moon to change their faces. (To be continued......)