The green mantle sedan chair stopped when it reached the flower platform on the right side of Wenyuan Pavilion, Wu Yan got off the sedan chair, and after sending the sedan chair driver, she walked straight to the library.

Wenyuan Pavilion is a huge library of books, but now this pavilion is rebuilt after Jiashen, and most of the books in it were destroyed in the war of that year. Although there are many books in the new pavilion today, it is a pity that the precious classics that have been destroyed can never be recovered.

The building of Wenyuan Pavilion is very unique, using building materials covered with masonry, because it is not only a library storehouse, but also a national archive, and many confidential documents are also stored here, so it needs to be conducive to fire prevention. Moreover, the Wenyuan Pavilion was built in the inner garden of the deep palace, and officials were also prohibited from entering and exiting casually.

As a close attendant, Wu Yan can walk in the library with the emperor's permission, otherwise she will not have the opportunity to connect with the outer court as a female official in the inner court. After she entered the library, she quickly found the person she was looking for - Li Daoru, Zishuoshi, Wuxu Xinke Champion, and Hanlin Review.

Li Daoru was consulting the classics, and when he looked up and saw Wu Yan coming, he immediately understood why she came, and couldn't help but smile helplessly.

Wu Yan walked around and asked, as if he asked casually: "Li Jian is very busy, the dragon is not seen on weekdays, can you remember that you have debts that have not been repaid?" ”

"How dare you forget, you can't owe anyone's debt to Yan Sizhen, don't you come to pay off your debt today." Li Daoru said with a smile.

"Yo~ Remember, then bring it, the official will take a look first, but the bad words are ahead, if you look at the wrong version......"

"Right edition, right edition," Li Daoru hurriedly replied, pulled out a few more pages from a pile of books and materials, and handed them to Wu Yan.

"Please don't hesitate to give me advice," Li Daoru said politely.

Wu Yan didn't shirk it, took the pages and sat down, and read them carefully...... The title catches my eye: "Land Price and Contribution Discussion", she stopped talking, this is a sensitive topic of public opinion!

She looked up at Master Li Daoru, and the words 'I'm surprised' were written all over her face: "You...... If you want to publish this article, the newspaper must also write a disclaimer. ”

"Hehe, look first, then talk about it."

Wu Yan continued to browse, and the first sentence of the opening sentence was 'The field system is not established, and the merger is not suppressed; Tian Chou Mansion is not limited'......

It's over, my culture is not good, I can't teach, Wu Yan suddenly felt ashamed.

I continued to look down and only chose the parts that I understood by myself...... It took a lot of time like this, and I only watched one note.

After reading it, Wu Yan herself was also thinking, in fact, there were a few things she understood, such as why 'not to suppress annexation', as long as the state can ensure the stability of land income, in fact, it doesn't care much about who owns the land.

Is that so?

However, if the gentry wanted to use their power to seize the people's land, the cost would be high, and it would be easier to directly seek the state's public land with their rights. Or maybe the magistrates wanted to plunder the wealth, which could be done directly by adding an additional tax to the regular state tax, rather than plundering the land of the people......

Isn't it the local tyrants and shoddy gentry who directly occupy the people's land? Wu Yan was surprised, because it was a bit subversive of her previous perceptions.

"Do you think a gentry would pay money to buy land, rather than to take someone else's?"

"That's right, the so-called 'choose a good land and house market, and establish a permanent business for your descendants', the land is obtained from buying and selling, and once it is forcibly occupied...... You have to think like this, in fact, the most difficult thing to last for a long time is power, once the power is gone, the risk of being settled after the autumn is very high, and the gains outweigh the losses...... Eh, Yan Sizhen, is it okay to look at the point? ”

"Ah, what's the point?" Wu Yan was stunned for a while, and quickly lowered his head to find the key point in the article......

The corners of Li Daoru's mouth grinned, and he said after a while: "One of the key points is that the land lease in my dynasty is different from that of previous dynasties, the landlord only needs to collect rent, and does not worry about what the land is used for. ”

Isn't "Oh ......" just the transfer of land use rights?

"Once Xu Zixian discussed Emperor Gaozu and thought that 'Tian Bujing was conferred', I think we should restore the ...... of 'the whole world, it is not the king'"

Yes? This is a bit profound, what do you mean?

"So you think that if you want to annex, the court should also annex? The land of the world is returned to the imperial court, and then the bottom of the field is separated, is this what it means? ”

Li Daoru smiled, did not answer, and continued: "The second point is that when the imperial court pays too much tax, it will affect the price of land sales. After the implementation of the 'One Whip Law' in the Wanli year, land prices quickly recovered, and in the last years, taxes increased again, and land prices fell again...... Who wants to have a lot of land in their hands when the taxes are heavy? So mergers don't stay the same forever, it's just about the buying and selling market, and the price of food. ”

In other words, the decrees of the imperial court affect the sale and purchase of land, and the sale and purchase affect the annexation? But what does it have to do with giving? ”

"The contribution is happening under the condition of increasing taxes, in fact, the life of the peasants after the contribution is better than when they did not contribute, this is from the standpoint of the peasants, if it is from the standpoint of the imperial court, it will have a great impact on the tax income."

"So the point is, the court only needs to clean up the illegal contributions? But eradication is the key, right? ”

"Do you know what fire consumption is?"

"You know, it's a surtax...... Oh, I see! It's like the big and small officials in Caoyun, who grab wealth by relying on positive endowments to increase their fire consumption? Therefore, it is in their interest to increase fire consumption! ”

"This fire consumption can even be as high as dozens of times of the positive endowment, but at the same time there is another problem, that is, the original and discounted collection, the natural color of the fire consumption is more, so many times I would rather choose to pay silver taels, but there is a discount rate problem for silver, which is not as simple as a stone can be converted into silver taels. To put it simply, if the imperial court really wants to govern Caoyun, it must not only change the operation law, but also change the entire ......."

"It's going to be a game-changer!"

"Yan Sizhen reacts very quickly, and can draw inferences, although I don't know what the rules of the game are, but the meaning is probably about the same."

"If you want to reduce the tax, you will reduce the consumption! But how hard is it to achieve? ”

"Well, so that's related to my second post......"

"And a second one?" Wu Yan was shocked again.

"Well, it's just that this article hasn't been written yet, but the content can be discussed with Yan Sizhen first. We spent a lot of effort looking at the classics for this article, and this is why we didn't finish it. ”

"Let's talk about it first!" Wu Yan was really interested when he heard it.

"From our reading of many texts, we have noticed that there is a natural disaster that can have a great impact on the growth of crops in the field, but this disaster is not drought, flood, locust, disease, etc., eh...... I'll call it chilling. ”

"Cold damage? Is cold also a disaster? ”

"Yes, for example, there are some records in the classics, about the Shang period, when Henan began to plant rice in early February, more than a month earlier than now, which at least shows that the weather was warmer than now, otherwise rice would not have been planted in early February. By the beginning of the week, the weather must have changed, at least in the literature I consulted, there was no record of rice being planted in early February. In spring and autumn, it is recorded that the winter wheat harvest is earlier than now, which indicates that the weather has changed again. In the Han Dynasty, winter wheat sowing in Xi'an began in early September, indicating that the weather began to get cold again. ”

"There is also such a record in "Qi Min Yaoshu", that is, the emergence of spring phenology in Shuntianfu and Henan is half a month to 20 days later than now, which shows that the era was a cold period, and then to the Sui and Tang dynasties, it was a warm period, and after that, it is not good, it is a long cold period."

"In the past 500 years, there have been many records of this type of chilling injury, most of which are reflected in the records of disasters and agricultural planting, and this is also the focus of my review. For example, in the winter of the fourteenth year of Hongzhi, the lychees in Putian were frozen and withered; In October of the fourth year of Zhengde, there was a heavy frost in Ningde, Fujian, and most of the people around the lychee longan died; In June of the 40th year of Jiajing, heavy rain and hail in Jianning, Fujian, killed many birds and beasts...... Although there are ups and downs in the cold and warmth, it is still cold overall. ”

"It is very unfortunate that when it came to Wanli in our dynasty, this kind of cold damage suddenly intensified, and in the Chongzhen Dynasty, it can be said that the cold damage has reached its peak. In fact, to this day, it is still in the cold damage period, but it is not as violent as in the past. ”

Wu Yan listened to it word for word, his eyes widened, isn't that what he said...... Xiaoice period!

"How many classics have you consulted?" Wu Yan asked in surprise.

"Hehe, I've almost flipped through all the books in the collection, but this is not something I can do alone, as well as Lao Xie and Lao Yang."

Hoy! It's all talent, awesome......

"And then, go on."

"The reason why I set it as a cold injury is because during this period, all kinds of natural disasters occur frequently, drought and flood locust plagues alternately, in case of drought will lack seedlings and broken ridges, and late rice can not be planted if there is a lack of water in the tillering stage, and the seedlings will wither due to lack of water at the tillering stage, especially in the jointing and booting stage and the filling and maturity stage, if there is a lack of water, the yield will be directly reduced. Rivers and lakes flood during flooding, like the plum rain is in the heading and flowering period, if the heavy rain continues, it can directly cause losses; When the late rice enters the tillering joint, the rain will make the seedlings rot, and the wheat is the most afraid of the rain, once the rice enters August and September, the water will rot the roots...... This kind of thing is related to chilling injury. ”

"In addition to natural disasters, chilling damage can also shorten the growing season of crops, which is more direct and can either reduce or eliminate yields. So you see, is this cold a harm? ”

"Count! You just said that you are still in the cold damage period, but is it true? ”

"Yes, there is no obvious change in the cultivation period and growth period of crops, and the chilling injury is a very long period, which can last for hundreds of years, but there will also be a small range of recurrence during the period, almost ten years, alternating between cold and hot. During the years of His Majesty's accession to the throne, it was relatively warm, which is relatively in the past, but in the next ten years, we should pay attention to it, and it is very likely that it will return to a colder period, when various disasters and epidemics will be more frequent than now. ”

"Does that mean that crops in the fields are reduced and there is a high probability that there will be a shortage of food? Even ......"

"Yes, so it is imperative that we do a good job of food disaster preparedness in the past two years, and we must not be negligent."

"So how do you do that?" Wu Yan asked again.

"Hehe, it's like building more granaries."

"Hiss......" Wu Yan hugged his arms and showed a thoughtful look on his face: "No, you should mean more than that......"

Li Daoru smiled again and said, "Then please guess Sizhen?" ”

Wu Yan tilted his head, squinted his eyes and thought for a long time, and said, "Repair the granary and store it on the spot?" ”

"Yan Sizhen is right, this one is also very important."

"But I have a question, it is indeed a good way to store it on the spot, but have you ever thought that the decrease in the amount of grain shipped to Beijing will directly affect the price of rice?"

"Will it affect?" Li Daoru asked rhetorically.

"Of course it does! Nowadays, the price of rice in Jingshi is lower than that of the Jiangnan origin, why? Because the supply is abundant. Local storage is equivalent to reducing the transportation of grain to Beijing, and if the supply of goods is less, the price will naturally rise, which is the simplest market law. ”

"The laws of the market?" Li Daoru listened with some curiosity.

"Buying and selling is the market, which has its own laws, and it is not something that can be interfered with by humans. It's like the price of rice has gone up, but I don't want the price of rice to go up, is it possible? This is determined by supply and demand. ”

"What do you think of Sizhen?"

"Local storage is a good way, which can greatly reduce fire consumption, and more importantly, it can also play a role in market regulation. But the two most important conditions are information and transportation, information is transmitted quickly, and it is quickly known where there is a shortage, and the traffic is smooth, and the shortage of grain can be quickly filled, so that the price of rice can be stabilized, and the people will not panic. ”

"It's a pleasure to communicate with Yan Sizhen, and you can learn a lot," Li Daoru said with a smile.

"That's it!" Wu Yan became proud again.