In the early morning of the next day, the hundred officials of the West Palace gathered in the West Palace, this time they sat down according to the departments and departments and the counties and counties.

Today's court meeting is presided over by Zuo Zongtang, on the main hall of the West Palace, each of the two compartments is the position of the six Shangshu, Zuo Zongtang's position is the first place under the steps, Zuo Zongtang has the whole court clothes, after the hood, he got up and bowed slightly to the West Wang, Xiao Yungui smiled and signaled him to start. At that moment, Zuo Zongtang cleared his throat and said loudly: "At the beginning of the establishment of my heavenly kingdom, the king of heaven set the capital of Tianjing, and the king of the west was ordered to march eastward, and now he is blessed by his father, and the king of the west is in a good way, and the soldiers and hundreds of officials use their lives to expel Hu Nu in southern Jiangsu, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and restore the clothes of my Han people." Now the swords and soldiers in southern Jiangsu, Jiangsu and Zhejiang have rested, and the king of heaven ordered the king of the west to sit in Suzhou and build a province of Sufu, and ordered the king of the west to arbitrarily decide the military, government, officials and people of Sufu Province. Sufu Province was newly established, and the industrial and commercial industries here are prosperous, and the King of Heaven specially approved the invitation of the King of the West to promulgate a new policy in Sufu Province to settle the people, revive agriculture, rectify industry and commerce, and prosper all industries. Today, the official was appointed by the King of the West to be the left minister of the West Palace, and to lead various new policy affairs. ”

Xiao Yungui looked at Hong Yun'er, followed by an evil smile at her, and the vulgar took the lead in applauding, and the hundreds of officials under the rank had to applaud along with it.

Zuo Zongtang frowned slightly, standing there not knowing what to do, Xiao Yungui couldn't help but smile and bowed his head slightly to Zuo Zongtang, signaling him to continue. Zuo Zongtang waited for the applause to stop for a while, and then continued: "Since ancient times, the people have taken food as the sky, and Sufu Province has been newly established, and this top priority is naturally agricultural affairs. Since last year, under the order of the king of the west, the number of land people in various places has begun to be counted, in order to find out the number of family backgrounds. There are more than 36.5 million mu of fertile and thin fields in Sufu Province, and the population of the army and civilians, men, women, and children totals more than 18.4 million people......

Speaking of this, Xiao Yungui got up and interrupted: "The number that Zuo Xiang said is an approximate number, when this king heard that the number of people in the fields was checked this time, many people concealed the number of fields and the number of Dingkou, do you colleagues know about this?" ”

After hearing this, the officials of the counties and the officials of the Xiwang Mansion who were in charge of this matter couldn't help but feel shocked in their hearts. It is true that there are many people who conceal the report, or conceal the population, or conceal the number of fields, in short, the number of zuihou remitted to the left prime minister is not accurate enough.

Xiao Yungui didn't wait for the hundred officials to answer, and then said: "This time the number of people in the field is verified. The purpose is to find out our own family background, how many fields we have in Sufu Province. How many people to feed. To know these numbers, we can prescribe the right medicine, if the actual number is not accurate, the slightest mistake will be a thousand miles. This time, because the verification time is short, the king does not blame the big guys, but the king has a word first. Only this time is not an example, in the future, all the numbers needed in the west hall must be accurate, and if there are false reports or concealments, this king will not spare them! The system of township officials and two horses has not yet been built into the townships and villages. After this conference, the horse was quickly built for the king, and the township officials and two Sima were in charge of twenty-five households, and it stands to reason that the number of people is the most easy, and it is reported layer by layer, at most it is a slight error, and the king does not want to see more than 10,000 or more than 1,000 words in the future! ”

All the officials were startled and bowed down together to receive the order, but Xu Naizhao secretly thought in his heart that the township official system of the Celestial Dynasty was indeed ruthless, and it was comparable to the armor protection system in the Kangxi period.

followed Xiao Yungui and paced a few steps with his hand in his hand and said: "Everyone has heard the number that Zuo Xiang just said, more than 30 million acres of fields, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and southern Jiangsu are mountainous and watery, although the fields are fertile, but the fields are less, it is a fact, rivers and lakes occupy a lot of land, plus mountains and hills and other unsuitable places for farming, there are indeed so many fields in Sufu Province, and this king estimates that even if the real number is reported, it will be about 40 million mu. And how many people to feed? More than 18 million mouths! This is still incomplete, and there are also omissions and concealments that are not counted. Have you ever thought about how many acres of land do you need to feed a person? ”

Xu Naizhao was shocked when he heard this, he used to be poor, he studied hard to take the eight shares, and after becoming an official in high school, he was mostly painstakingly drilling for an official, and the local government affairs were planned with the help of Master Gu, and for a while he really didn't know how many acres of land it would take to feed a person.

In fact, many of the officials under the rank also knew, but they didn't dare to get up and speak, many of them saw the king of the west for the first time, the vicious face of the king of the west and the broken voice of the gong, but people were shocked, and they didn't dare to get up and answer.

However, Huang Chunsheng, the county guard of Ningbo County, was quite bold, got up and replied: "Back to the king of the west, his subordinates had land in the countryside in the early years, and there were also tenant farmers who followed their subordinates to eat mixed rice, but they also knew that to feed a person, there must be at least four acres of land, and less than this number will be starving." ”

Xiao Yungui nodded and said: "What Huang Junshou said is right, in the future, everyone in our West Hall can speak freely, and those who speak are not guilty!" Then he paused and said: "Yes, four acres of land is the bottom limit, the bottom limit that can only fill the stomach, and the degree of clothing?" And what about diesel salt tea? Four acres of land is just the bottom line! Everyone has heard what Zuo Xiang said just now, more than 30 million acres of land feed nearly 20 million acres, and less than 2 acres of land per capita, how can this land be divided? According to Tianjing's "Tianchao Tianmu System", how to divide this land? Well? No matter how much you divide it, it's not enough to feed people! ”

Speaking of which, the palace was silent for a while, and no one made a sound. Although Jiangsu and Zhejiang are rich, they are also denser than other places, and the situation of insufficient land is actually the same as in other places. Xu Naizhao secretly thought to himself, this king of the West is also pragmatic, in the past, the slogan played by Taiping was Juntiandi, and this slogan was shouted from Chen Sheng and Wu Guang at that time, now, when has the land been all over the field? Moreover, according to the current situation, even if it is divided equally among the heads, this field is not enough, can it still be transformed into a field and divided it?

Wang Minyun of the Political Department of the Shanghai Navy stood up and said loudly: "Your Royal Highness the King of the West, although the land in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is not enough, it has always relied on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water. Of the more than 18 million mouths mentioned by Zuo Xiangshicai, only 50 percent of them rely on the fields for food, the remaining 30 percent rely on industry and commerce to eat, 10 percent eat mixed rice on salt and water, and one achievement is a rich tenant. Moreover, the fields in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have not all been grain-grown, and tea, raw silk and other things are abundant. These goods were exchanged with foreigners for money, and then wheat and rice were used for grain. ”

Xiao Yungui said with a smile: "Renqiu did a good job, these numbers are all memorized." Yes, this king was indeed a little alarmist just now, but in fact, more than 18 million soldiers and civilians did not all rely on the fields for food, some of them were engaged in business in the city, some were transporting goods, some were running boats, some were coolies, and some were soldiers to eat food. What are they? It's all kinds of industries! ”

"Let's have a new deal in Sufu Province, weishenme? It is because Tianjing's original land and department stores are returned to the Holy Treasury, these strategies are not suitable for our Sufu Province, and more than half of the population of our Sufu Province actually lives on industry and commerce, if the department stores are all returned to the Holy Treasury. Who are the most of the population going to eat? What Xiao Yungui said was all in the vernacular, and Xu Naizhao shook his head secretly. Reckless birth is reckless birth. There is no literary decoration at all, but this vernacular is understandable, Xu Naizhao is also very useful, indeed according to Tianjing's practice, in fact, when the Zhou Dynasty was restored, the world's fields and department stores were owned by the king, and the people had no private property. How's that going?

Xiao Yungui said that these words were nothing more than to those old brothers in Guangxi, and that the soldiers were just that they had clothes to wear, food to eat, fields to cultivate, and money to make these sentences deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the new policy of the West Palace must reverse the minds of these people. That's why Xiao Yungui has to spend so much effort to win the support of Tianjing's new policy in Sufu Province. He had to spend time investigating, and it was his old brothers who he had to convince.

Li Kaifang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, saw that the corner of the West King's eyes looked at him from time to time, knowing that the West King wanted to get up and answer by himself, and the West King had talked to him for a long time beforehand, and also knew that the core of this new policy was nothing more than to break the holy treasury system and allow the military and civilian people to have private property.

At that moment, Li Kaifang got up and saluted and said: "What the King of the West said is very true, most of the people in Sufu Province rely on industry and commerce to live, if the surplus money of the department store is returned to the holy treasury, the people have no way to make a living, how can they feed so many people?" Moreover, since the West Temple set out from Changsha, the people along the way have also volunteered to donate the holy treasury, and have not done it in accordance with the "Regulations on Treating the People". When the Qing demon ruled, when the people were in good times, they still had surplus food and money in hand, why did they have to hand over the holy treasury at all when they arrived in our heavenly kingdom? ”

Before the words fell, Ji Wenyuan on the side stood up and said: "Li Shangshu's words are wrong, although the people's surplus money and grain are paid to the holy treasury, but all the withdrawals are also in the holy treasury. ”

Seeing Ji Wenyuan jump out, Xiao Yungui didn't feel strange at all, although this Ji Wenyuan was just and selfless, but he was too fair and selfless, too old-fashioned, among the old brothers in the West Palace, a group of people led by him often wrote to the King of the West in the past, asking the King of the West to follow the policies of Tianjing. Although Ji Wenyuan and others admit to death, these people are absolutely loyal to the King of the West and the West Palace, which can be known from Bai Zetang's inquiry. Xiao Yungui also understands that within a group, there will always be different opinions and opinions, but the starting point of these opinions and opinions is just for the good of the group, because Xiao Yungui did not give up on Ji Wenyuan and these people.

Following Li Kaifang, he immediately ridiculed each other, Ji Wenyuan did not show weakness, the two argued, and followed the old brothers of the West Hall into two groups of people and began to argue lively, one side still hopes that the world is one family, and the other side hopes to have private property, and they quarrel with each other.

Zuo Zongtang couldn't help but get up and shouted: "Your Royal Highness of the West King, when the court is discussing, what kind of system is it for you to have such a dispute?!" "Since Zuo Zongtang joined the Taiping Army, he has been on the horse to manage the army and the people to govern the people, and the ruthlessness of the Hunan people has been brought into full play, even Li Kaifang and Ji Wenyuan, these old brothers in Guangxi, are afraid of him, because Zuo Zongtang has the full support of the King of the West behind him, and Zuo Zongtang is also iron-faced and selfless. Once even quarreled with Li Kaifang, Zuo Zongtang really beat Li Kaifang's military stick, and afterwards the old brothers in Guangxi said that Zuo Manzi just couldn't be provoked, and everyone in the West Hall respected Zuo Zongtang. At this time, Zuo Zongtang stopped drinking, and both sides sat back.

Xiao Yungui has been sitting on the throne watching the two gangs of people arguing, and after seeing Zuo Zongtang come out to drink, he smiled and got up and said: "Let's set a tone first, since it is a new policy, it is to change the law, and we will change some of the outdated practices in the past, so it is the new deal, if it is still the original set, what new policy will we discuss in the West Palace?" Wouldn't it be over if you directly follow the laws and regulations of Tianjing? Then Xiao Yungui looked at Ji Wenyuan and the others and said warmly: "The world is for the public, it is very good, the people want to take the things of the holy treasury, you do everything possible to check whether you need to use it, and you also do everything possible to proofread whether it is suitable for use, but all of you who are in charge of the holy treasury ask yourself, if my king of the west wants to take the things in the holy treasury, which of you dares to come to check whether this king needs to use it?" Does it work? Well?! ”

As soon as these words came out, the palace suddenly became surprisingly quiet. (To be continued......)