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The perennial war has greatly damaged the vitality of the Central Plains and displaced the people. Hunger is everywhere, and it is not speculation that children are eaten. It is precisely because there is no way to live that the common people will follow Li Zicheng to rebel for a mouthful of food, like leeks, cutting stubble and stubble, endlessly.

Obviously, how to solve the hungry people has become Gu Zhenhua's most important task, otherwise he will be like Chongzhen, falling into the quagmire of death and unable to get out!

"There are two difficulties, the first is the problem of food, at present, the grain seized from Xu Dingguo is only enough for ten days, and more and more hungry people are coming to hear the news, there must be a sufficient supply of food."

"No problem, ten days is enough!" Gu Zhenhua said with a smile: "The grain sold by Xu Dingguo to the Manchu Qing has already begun to be shipped back, and another batch of grain is being prepared, and within two months, 500,000 loads will be in place." In addition to supplying the needs of the army, it can also provide 300,000 quintals to help the people. ”

"There are 300,000 loads of grain, and I have a score in my heart." Xu Fang said with a smile: "Although it is good to work for relief, it is a small guide, the project is limited, and you can't just work and don't want to eat." In the final analysis, the most important thing is food, and among all the hungry people, 20 percent is used for projects, and 80 percent is used for farming, which is about the right proportion. I have food in my hand, and I don't panic in my heart! ”

Xu Fang said with a smile: "Now I have missed the sowing period of rice, it is too late to plant rice, I am ready to plant sweet potatoes and potatoes, which mature quickly, although they are not delicious, but at least they are hungry." As long as we hold on until the beginning of spring next year, we will wait until the new grain is planted. As soon as qiē there is a turnaround! ”

Sweet potato! Sweet potato!

Gu Zhenhua originally wanted to act as a magic stick and point out Xu Fang, but he didn't expect this person to think of it first. Gu Zhenhua was also a little depressed.

"Mr. Xu, I heard that sweet potatoes do not choose the land, the yield is good, and they are the treasures that survive the famine years, do you want to prepare more varieties?"

Xu Fang shook his head: "Grandpa Guo, sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes were planted in the early Ming Dynasty, in the twenty-second year of Wanli. Jin Xuezeng, the governor of Fujian, once vigorously promoted it and helped the people of Fujian to survive the disaster year, so this sweet potato was called a golden potato again. Since then, it has been cultivated everywhere. However, sweet potatoes need to be planted on higher slopes, and the yield is not high on flat land. And even at the highest yield, it is less than a third of the wheat. ”

When Gu Zhenhua heard this, he immediately frowned. Isn't sweet potato a recognized high-yielding crop? Isn't the prosperous era of Kangqian the prosperous era of sweet potatoes, why was the yield so low at the end of the Ming Dynasty?

"Mr. Xu, it stands to reason that this flat soil is more fertile, why can't the yield go up?"

Xu Fang smiled bitterly: "That's true, but when I was in Beijing, I heard the missionaries say that the origin of this sweet potato is the mountainous plateau. I must have arrived on the flat ground, but I didn't adapt to it. Fujian is mountainous. This is also the reason for the success of Jin Xuezeng's introduction. Crops and people are the same, there is a water and soil adaptation, I think if it is cultivated for a period of time, maybe it can be achieved, but the world is troubled, and the court has long had no such thoughts. ”

There seems to be no silver bullet! Gu Zhenhua also sighed secretly in his heart. If sweet potatoes were really like the yield of later generations, the Ming Dynasty would have planted them with all their might. The introduction of crops is indeed not a simple matter, and in an agricultural society, it takes decades or hundreds of years of exploration.

The crops introduced at the end of the Ming Dynasty turned out to bear fruit in Kangqian, and let the Tartars pick up their reputation in vain!

Of course, Gu Zhenhua didn't have a good way to do this, so he could only say: "Since this is the case, what is suitable, plant it." Of course, the work of improving the improved varieties also needs to be done, Mr. Xu, I think I will hire a few agronomists to come over, plus experienced old farmers, and work together to find a way to produce sweet potatoes with high yields. ”

"Speaking of agronomists, I really have a friend, his name is Shen Junshan, he is a partial talent, he has consulted with the university scholar Xu Guangqi for miscellaneous studies, and he also followed Mr. Xu's disciple Sun Yuan to learn the calendar arithmetic of Westerners. One of his most famous sentences is a moral article, which is no match for firewood, rice, oil and salt. Because of this sentence, it attracted a lot of criticism, and he was kicked out of the capital early, and his home is in Ye County, Nanyang Prefecture, Henan, not far from Guide. ”

Gu Zhenhua suddenly became interested, and said with a smile: "I don't care about anything else, whoever can help me grow more food and make better weapons is a great talent." Mr. Xu, you repair the book immediately, please come over to this Mr. Shen Junshan, and there are as many miscellaneous talents as there are! ”

Xu Fang smiled and nodded: "Grandpa Guo, I am sure to invite Shen Junshan over, but there is still a big trouble in front of me that has not been solved, otherwise I can't do anything." ”

"Oh, tell me about it."

"It's a matter of land." Xu Fang said: "There are many fertile fields in Guide Mansion, but all of them are concentrated in the hands of large households. The Central Plains has always been a place to annex Yan zhòng, especially since Wanli, disasters have continued, and in every major disaster, countless ordinary people have gone bankrupt and had to sell their land to large households and become tenant farmers. By the time of Chongzhen, even the small and medium-sized landlords were all bankrupt, and only the strongest, fiercest, and most powerful could hold the land. ”

What Xu Fang said is not bad at all, Gu Zhenhua has long felt that any crisis is the most affected by ordinary people, and they are the first to go bankrupt. Just like him, who plays real estate, the relationship is as dense as a spider's web, and the general crisis can't hurt at all, on the contrary, he can use the crisis to make a big windfall!

Of course, after the change of status, Gu Zhenhua became more aware of the damage that these powerful families had done to the country. They bully and deprive the common people, and at the same time do everything possible to avoid taxes and responsibilities. The interests were exhausted, but the sins were blamed on the court.

The so-called official persecution of the people, in fact, the persecution of these big families is no less than that of the government, and it is more ruthless!

"Mr. Xu, Benjue will not be like the imperial court, carrying the notoriety for these big families, on the contrary, I will clean them up and take all the land, they dare to resist, Benjue doesn't mind letting them try my knife!"

"Grandpa Guo, do you dare to cut anyone?"

"Of course!"

Xu Fang suddenly laughed and said, "How is the vassal king? How are the children and grandchildren of the old Zhu family? ”

"The people are the most important, the community is second, and the king is light!" Gu Zhenhua was stunned word by word, but every word weighed a thousand catties.

Hearing Gu Zhenhua's words, Xu Fang finally breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "With the support of Grandpa Guo, I am not afraid of anything." Sixty percent of the land in Guide is in the hands of Xu Dingguo, and these lands have fallen into our hands, and another thirty percent of the land is in the hands of several major vassal kings. Including King Jianguo Fu, King Lu, King Tang and others, although they ran away, Zhuang Tian was still there. If these lands are rashly distributed to the common people, most of them will jump out. ”

Gu Zhenhua sneered: "The old Zhu family's country was dragged down by their insatiable fat cats, and they abandoned their fiefdoms themselves, if they still have the face to beg, Benjue will reason with them." ”

"Grandpa Guo, the word fat cat is really wonderful. The many vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty have long been a burden to the country, but no one dared to touch them in the past, and now it is time to change them! ”

After Gu Zhenhua and Xu Fang discussed it properly, they immediately perfected the new decree, combining work relief with Tuntian to save the people. All displaced people can sign up with An**, if they choose to work, in the first half of the year, they will only eat and not be paid. Half a year later, three pieces of silver per month, and it continued to increase in the future.

Those who choose to farm can participate in the manor of An**, and each hundred families are a group, and the principle is that each person is divided into 30 acres of land. The output of these 30 acres of land will be handed over to 70% in the first three years, 50% in seven years, and then reduced to 30%. After 10 years of farming, the land is his own.

To put it bluntly, the so-called tuntian is to turn the peasants from the original homesteaders into semi-serfs. But as long as you work for ten years, you can get rid of this identity. This is also to give the people hope that in ten years, this land will be yours, so you must take good care of it and manage it carefully.

In the first three years, the tax rate of seventy percent was opened, compared with the proportion of thirty taxes and one in the Ming Dynasty, which was simply as high as Mount Everest! But don't worry, the tax rate of An** is real, that is, after paying in full, all other miscellaneous taxes will be exempted.

And for the average tenant farmer, their burden is not thirty taxes at the face rate. As far as Henan is concerned, tenant farmers have to hand over more than half of their income to the landlords, and they also have to bear all kinds of exploitation and forced labor, which is actually unspeakably miserable.

The clean tax rate may be a little higher, but it is reassuring, and it can be gradually reduced, so everyone is very enthusiastic. In the final analysis, Gu Zhenhua just turned An ** into the largest landlord, took the interests swallowed by the landlord into his own hands, and gave the people more soup to drink when appropriate.

It was this soup that had made all the hungry people crazy, and the queue to join the Tuntian was like a long snake, twisting and turning, and there was no end in sight.

Gu Zhenhua and Xu Fang's original plan was eighty-two points, eighty percent of the farming, and twenty percent of the work, but now that they look at it, more than ninety percent of the people have to farm, and their enthusiasm is almost boiling!

Seeing Gu Zhenhua scratching his head, although farming is good, but it can't be done if he is too enthusiastic, he still needs people to produce munitions, reclaim mines, pots and pans, and chairs and benches.

After Gu Zhenhua and Xu Fang urgently consulted, they immediately announced several supplementary policies, the first of which was to abolish the artisan registration, work, farming, and joining the army, all of which were equal, and there was no distinction between high and low, and all enjoyed equal treatment.

In view of the large number of farmers, the people of Tuntian Tianzhuang have to participate in two months of voluntary labor every year during the slack season, and the young and strong receive one month of military training, and every ten households must send one militia.

The leverage adjustment of the policy, but it could not stop the enthusiasm of the hungry people, and the people who participated in the Tuntian Grange still accounted for more than ninety percent. But fortunately, there are enough people from all over the country, and Gu Zhenhua is not worried that the number of troops and workers is not enough, so he simply chooses by the people.

"Grandpa Guo, there have been more than 30,000 hungry people who have flocked to Guide in the past two days, and we are short of food, and we can only hold out for five days." Xu Fang's worried report.

"Don't worry, the food is already on the way, and it will arrive soon."

Just as Gu Zhenhua spoke, a huge fleet was heading upstream, heading straight for Guide. (To be continued......)