Chapter 652: The Most Fundamental Problem of Agriculture
Although the big families are all born with users and rarely buy people outside, there is one kind of person they need, that is, technical talents, such as cooks, such as embroiderers, and even some people who know carpentry. Because the family always eats food cooked by one person, it is easy to get bored, which requires buying a new cook; The same goes for embroiderers.
Because she has a genealogy about the factions in the capital, this work is relatively simple for Du Jinning, she only needs to provide a list to Qin Lao Liu. Snakes have snake paths, rats have rat paths, Qin Lao Liu has his own way to send these people into the house of the person she designated.
Du Jinning took this move, not for anything else, but to collect intelligence, and to prepare for the future when she disguised herself as a man and escaped after being exposed.
"Lord Du, the emperor is invited." At the end of the day, Deng Yi walked in with a eunuch and said to Du Jinning.
After saying this, he had mixed emotions.
He was also the champion, and he was in the limelight back then, and later he proved that he was worthy of this honor with his ability.
However, when he arrived at the Hanlin Academy, he sat on a cold bench for a while. I haven't seen the emperor for a year, and I only take on some hard things that I can't show my face to.
Later, there was an opportunity, Cheng Zhi was sick, and the predecessors of the Hanlin Academy also happened to have something, he received the decree and wrote an edict, and won the praise of the old emperor, Cheng Zhi did not dare to suppress him again, he was gradually reused, and now he is sitting in the position of Cheng Zhi.
He thought that Du Jinning, the champion, would also follow his path like this.
But he didn't want Du Jinning to go to Hanlin Academy for only one day, and the emperor summoned him.
This made Deng Yi feel mixed feelings.
Du Jinning didn't know that Deng Yi and everyone other than Qi Muyuan had all kinds of thoughts and speculations, and she knew that Zhao Yu summoned her definitely for the excerpt she handed in the day before yesterday.
She gave a salute and followed the eunuch to the main hall.
"Let's be flat." Zhao Yu did not sit on the throne in the main hall at this time, but sat behind the desk in the side hall, and on the desk was the fold written by Du Jinning.
In addition to Zhao Yu, Du Jinning and some eunuchs and palace maids, there were no other ministers in the main hall.
Zhao Yu usually discusses with the cabinet ministers, and the ministers are not all standing, so Zhao Yu will let them all sit down.
At this time, Zhao Yu also pointed to the chair under him and said, "Sit down, sit down and talk." ”
Du Jinning knew that today's conversation might be long. She was standing, and Zhao Yu was sitting, and she was also uncomfortable. She didn't refuse, thanked her, and sat down.
Zhao Yu didn't move the excerpts before the world, but said: "I read what you wrote, let's not talk about these." I want to ask you, now there is a lot of annexation of the fields, and there is not much land in the hands of the common people. What is the significance of your proposals to increase agricultural production? ”
He raised his head and looked at Du Jinning: "Last time you wrote about regenerative rice in your book, a minister jumped out and said that grain is cheap and hurts farmers, and then I changed the number of acres of grain cultivated in the farmland, and the family gave up." Do you think they will accept these methods of increasing production and income that you are writing now? After accepting it, what impact will it have on the entire Great Song Dynasty, have you considered it? ”
"Back to the emperor, Weichen once thought about this problem." Du Jinning said, "In disaster years, the grain harvest is not good, so the peasants will sell their land and real estate and become tenant farmers, and the big landlords will use all kinds of tricks to seize and annex the land. No matter which dynasty it is, as long as it has existed for a long time, this kind of problem will inevitably arise. ”
Her answer was completely beyond Zhao Yu's expectations.
A scholar who is immersed in hard study rarely pays attention to this kind of problem, especially when Du Jinning is still so young.
He asked with great interest: "Since you have thought about this problem, do you have a solution?" ”
Ever since he ascended the throne and held power firmly in his hands, he has been pondering this question. He also discussed it many times with Qi Bokun and other confidants.
If the land is concentrated in the hands of the big families, then the taxes will be less. In this way, it is the family that is rich, and the country and the court that are poor. When land annexation is serious, the contradictions between the peasants and the landlords, and between the court and the landlords, will intensify.
This is an extremely volatile factor. Once the peasants who had lost their land were forced to a certain extent, a peasant revolt broke out.
Zhao Yu was a very ambitious emperor, and he didn't want to compromise with the family like this. Otherwise, I really don't know when their Zhao family's dynasty will be overthrown by the peasant uprising.
That's why he cares so much about agricultural production.
If the peasants had enough to eat, they would live and work in peace and contentment, and society would be peaceful.
But most of the country's fields are in the hands of the big families, and the peasants on these lands cannot improve their production because of the methods proposed by Du Jinning to increase production and income. Their land was more productive, and the landlords were collecting more rent, and they were still hungry. In a famine, they would have to sell their sons and daughters and even starve to death.
Therefore, Zhao Yu feels that the most urgent problem to be solved now is not the problem of increasing production and income, but the problem of land annexation.
However, although he asked like this, he didn't expect much from Du Jinning's answer.
A group of high-ranking officials and ministers can't have any good way to solve this problem left over from history, Du Jinning, a fifteen-year-old child, what good idea can he put forward? It's remarkable to have thought about it.
Du Jinning is also thinking about how to come up with a solution.
Historically, there have been many reforms aimed at land annexation. In the early Tang Dynasty, the Juntian system was implemented, and Wang Anshi changed the law in the Northern Song Dynasty. After that, Zhang Juzheng of the Ming Dynasty drafted a whip law, the Qing Dynasty's Kangxi period of the stall into the mu system, the Republic of China Sun Yat-sen's three major policies of capital control, support for peasants and workers, and the United Russia and the Communist Party, the CCP's land reform in the liberated areas, the Kuomintang's land reform in Taiwan, etc., are all measures taken against land annexation.
However, there are some policies that are more suitable for the new dynasty. A new dynasty, a new policy, a new order.
And like this overhead Song Dynasty, it has existed for a long time, and there are too many shortcomings, so you have to carefully consider what method to use in order not to cause a backlash from the family.
Thinking of this, she shook her head and said, "I have to go back and think about this." ”
After speaking, she asked again: "How does the emperor plan to solve it?" What do the ministers say? ”
When Zhao Yu heard her first sentence, he felt more and more that this was a child who was not deeply involved in the world, with the innocence of a child.
He shook his head: "It's not that I don't know how to solve it, so I have a headache." ”
Du Jinning thought about it for a while and decided to prompt: "The land is in the hands of the family, and it must be very difficult for them to spit it out. Most of the officials in the DPRK and China are from wealthy families, and the measures adopted are too tough, which is likely to cause instability. ”
Zhao Yu nodded: "Not really." "If it is not as good as the will of the family, they will be able to pull him Zhao Yu off the throne and change him to a puppet to sit on. His five-year-old son is a good candidate.
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