Chapter 82 The Food Problem
The first wind and rain drifted away
After the killing stick, the effect is very good. Killing three courtiers with a rod at one time is unique during the Chongzhen period.
Fame comes at a cost of life, and people calculate the cost.
Especially the righteous men and gentlemen in the court, how do you say it, don't gentlemen stand under the dangerous wall?
Of course, the most important thing is that with the exit of Emperor Chongzhen's word Confucianism, I don't know how many people are frightened.
The Son of Heaven has made a decree, and once this label is glued, those who are killed by the rod outside will be role models.
Emperor Chongzhen saw that the courtiers were honest, and continued to discuss the interrupted grain issue.
If a country wants to have a wide range of soldiers, the premise must be to build on the condition of adequate food and wages.
The problem of salary is not big, and Emperor Chongzhen is fully sure that it can be solved.
But the problem of food is very big, and more attention needs to be paid to it.
Borrowing grain from vassal states is only a last resort, and it cannot solve the fundamental problem.
Only when Daming himself has enough food is the right way.
But this fucking God, in collusion with man-made disasters, caused a serious shortage of food in Daming.
To solve the grain problem, we should proceed from these two points.
At the following court meeting, Emperor Chongzhen proposed three measures to increase grain production.
First of all, he ordered the Water Conservancy Department of the Ministry of Industry to build water conservancy projects near Gyeonggi, that is, in the whole territory of Hebei.
As for the rest of Daming, he can't take care of it for the time being, and he doesn't have this ability.
It's better to concentrate money and food one by one.
At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen also clearly stipulated that the Ministry of Industry must hire displaced people to participate in water conservancy construction to solve the living problems of the displaced people.
Secondly, Emperor Chongzhen issued an edict requiring Ming officials to grow grain on no less than eighty percent of their land in the coming year, and no less than sixty percent of their private land.
He also instructed the Imperial History of the Left and Right Houses of the Imperial Palace, and the main responsibility of the Imperial History in the coming year is to inspect the completion of the state capitals and counties.
However, those who fail to complete it proportionally will be arrested and imprisoned and exiled to the nine sides.
This order of Emperor Chongzhen is actually mainly aimed at the wealthy families and big landowners of the Ming Dynasty, and has nothing to do with ordinary people.
Nowadays, the land annexation of the Ming Dynasty has been serious to the point that it is not wanted, and the wealthy and big landlords control the vast majority of the land.
So, what is so much land for?
Is it all used to grow food?
Impossible, is it stupid to be a man?
With so much land, if all of it is used to grow grain, it will not be able to eat it all, and it is not easy to store it, and not everyone is a grain merchant?
How to maximize the benefits of land is not only understood by future generations, but also by them.
These wealthy and large landowners, depending on the fertility of the land, either planted fruit trees, or grew vegetables and various crops.
Let's not talk about him for the time being, after all, they are all things that can be eaten.
The point is that they also grow a lot of things that they can't eat.
Cotton is grown in the north, and mulberry is planted in the south to raise silkworms.
The Ming Dynasty did not count how much land there was, and no one cared about it.
But Emperor Chongzhen knew that cotton silk was a luxury item of the Ming Dynasty, not only for the domestic supply, but also for the whole world by sea ship, and the supply exceeded the demand.
Among them, how much land is needed is self-explanatory.
Especially in the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, a large amount of fertile land is used to grow mulberry trees, and the land used to grow food is naturally reduced.
As a result, this has also become one of the reasons for the shortage of food in Daming.
Therefore, natural disasters alone are not the cause of food shortages in the Ming Dynasty.
It is a large country, rich in natural resources, vast in territory, and strong in self-regulation, which is far from being comparable to the country of projectiles.
In later generations, the US emperor blockaded and sanctioned the Celestial Empire, and the same was true for Lao Maozi, but in fact, it was all in vain.
None of this is useful to the big powers.
Emperor Chongzhen also walked back and forth on the earth a few times before crossing over, and only then did he realize that the area is really the lifeblood of the country.
If a country does not have an area, then the country will be destroyed in minutes.
Even if the country does not die, state affairs are controlled by the hands of big powers, and they cannot be the masters.
After talking about the first two questions about increasing grain production, no courtiers had any opinions.
After all, it's a matter of political correctness.
Daming is an agricultural country, and the food problem has always been the top priority, and any matter to increase grain production is the first thing to be solved by politicians.
Third, Emperor Chongzhen's method was to increase food channels.
He ordered Yang Sichang, the governor of the navy, who was in the process of forming the naval governor's office, to immediately set up a fishery department to be responsible for going out to sea to fish and serve as food.
"Your Majesty! With a multi-pronged approach, Daming has no worries about food shortage since then!
In particular, the establishment of the Fisheries Department is the finishing touch.
The minister is ashamed, the minister is derelict in his duties! I only know how to stare at my feet, but I don't know how to look up at the sea, where there is also a vast world, and there is a lot to do. ”
Emperor Chongzhen's successive wills, the more Shoufu Wen Tiren thought about it, the more clever he felt, and there was no difficulty in operating to executing.
In particular, the establishment of the Department of Grain and Fisheries, which borrowed from vassal states, was immediately effective and could be seen immediately.
The food problem that has plagued Daming for many years finally sees hope for a solution.
"Aiqing and the cabinet must implement these points one by one, if something goes wrong, my board will hit you."
The dragon fart of the gentle and treacherous film, Emperor Chongzhen is still very useful.
This is also half serious and half joking.
"Obey the Divine Commandment! The minister is personally responsible for this!
If there is a mistake, all the blame will be borne by the minister. ”
Wen and treacherous ministers took care of everything, and in front of all the courtiers, they made a military order.
"Aiqing is loyal to national affairs, and I am very relieved!
Enjoy two hundred-year-old mountain ginseng, three thousand taels of silver, and give his son a thousand households in a gentle jade brocade robe, and a betta suit. ”
The sun shone on Wen Treacherous's body, and the sharp-eyed Emperor Chongzhen suddenly woke up when he saw the white hair on his sideburns.
If I am not mistaken, this thing seems to have died in the eleventh year of Chongzhen.
Of course, it is estimated that it is related to the depressed mood of being deposed, but who can say clearly about Shouyuan?
Emperor Chongzhen, who found his conscience, immediately rewarded him.
"The emperor's grace is vast, thank the emperor for his reward!"
I don't know why I don't know why, and I leaned over to thank him with a face full of emotion.
"Strike!"
The person who holds the meeting does not do the work, and the person who does the meeting does not hold the meeting.
Everything has been arranged, Emperor Chongzhen's dragon robe waved, and Mei Zizi returned to the harem to let herself fly.
"Brother Feixiong, the Son of Heaven Shengming, is not inferior to Emperor Chengzu, this is my blessing!"
Although Wen Xiangxiang said this to Wang Yingxiong, he was just a little louder, and the courtiers who had not yet dispersed in the court listened to it sincerely.
When the ministers heard this, their hearts were all in shock.
Looking at the emperor's actions in recent times, it is really as the gentle and traitorous minister said, there are really the means of a wise monarch.
For a moment, the courtiers bowed their heads in contemplation and walked slowly to the outside of the hall.
PS: Thank you to the sad two dogs, the fantasy world, the 20170206013603245, and the starry night gentleman for the reward, I admit it!