Agricultural production in Beijing should start with Zhu Yuanzhang's encouragement of land reclamation and the exemption of rent and tax, when 'there is too much land to be cured, people are recruited to cultivate, people are given 15 acres, 2 acres of vegetable land, and three years are exempt from rent' and 'those who are extra open up will never be able to afford to work'.

After that, he was exempted in Hongwu for seven years, and in the ninth and sixteenth years due to disasters, he was exempted from the disaster, and in the 20th year, it was stipulated that all the people should do their best to cultivate the land, and they would always be a business, and they would not start a discipline.

During the Yongle period, large-scale immigration to the north and military and civilian cultivation led to a rapid increase in the population of Beijing, and the area of cultivated land also expanded a lot compared with the previous generation. Therefore, in the early Ming Dynasty, the land in Beijing was dominated by private land and there was little official land.

After the middle period, the concentration of land began to intensify, and the rise of the Huangzhuang began in the Tianshun period, and the Huangzhuang in the Gyeonggi of the Mujong Dynasty has covered an area of more than 37,000 hectares, which is unprecedented.

The palace was originally Renshou, Qingning, and Weiyang, and then all of them were returned to the harem, and they continued to expand, so that they reached today's scale.

Most of the Sangong Zhuangtian are distributed in Gyeonggi with excellent water and land transportation, such as the Qingyuan County of Baoding Prefecture, which has Cining Palace Zhuangtian; Jinghai County in Hejian Province, Sangong Zhuangtian adds up to 100,000 acres, Jinghai County is located on the North Canal, and the next stop is Tianjin Sanwei; There is also Ningjin County in Zhending Prefecture, where there are 200,000 acres of farmland in Cining Palace alone, and there is a large lake nearby.

Every year, the three palaces collect as much as 60,000 taels of silver, an average of 20,000 taels for one palace, in addition to the nine gates of the Beijing Division, unified under the Chongwenmen Tax Division, which is collected by the emperor, and the Hushu North Banknote Pass is also solved into the inner treasury, and the Zhengyang Banknote Pass of Fengyang Mansion collects the ship material silver is dedicated to the high-walled people of Fengyang, and it is not solved to the capital.

In addition to land and miscellaneous income, there are also official houses, collapsed shops, and shops run by the royal family, some of which do not go to the female treasury.

Therefore, when Wu Yan recounted and looked back, he found that the emperor's own small treasury was not very abundant, and to put it mildly, he was a little poor. In the past, gold and silver was the largest head of the palace finances, but based on the experience of the previous emperors, today's gold and silver emperors basically do not make withdrawals, in fact, the earliest gold and silver is solved to Nanjing, as a military general, and later solved to Beijing to receive in the inner treasury, and now it is equivalent to returning to the original use.

Therefore, without the bulk of gold and silver, land revenue has become the main source, followed by the Jiumen tax and the income of the imperial store, and then the supply and mining of local states and counties.

And most of the emperor's expenses were spent on rewards and harem wives and concubines, especially the latter was a bottomless pit. The source of private money has become smaller, but the cost is not much at all, and in the long run, it is natural to have to 'borrow to make a living'.

The emperor borrowed money to live, this is nothing new, the two temples of Taifu Temple and Guanglu Temple are the biggest creditors, but generally speaking, they are the most bullish in debt, and the money lenders are more temperless.

Of course, don't count on the household department, the income is beyond the end of the year and the deficit is still hundreds of thousands of taels to make up for the gold and silver, and the household department is also a master who demolishes the east and makes up for the west.

The biggest feature of agricultural production is that it takes a long time and the output is limited, and the return is too low from the perspective of return on investment alone, and the only way to increase the return is to find another way.

In fact, Wu Yan wanted to suggest to the emperor very early on to increase his income by 'transferring land use rights', but he didn't know the land situation at that time, and now this opportunity is just right, and he also has some ideas in his heart.

Emperor Yongming was really interested when he heard this: "Land use rights? This statement is new, so how can it be sold? ”

"Your Majesty, you can understand it as 'one field and two masters', that is, the separation of ownership and use rights, in popular terms, 'the bottom of the field' and the 'field' are separated, the bottom of the field still belongs to the landlord, and the field belongs to the cultivators. As for how to sell, it can be auctioned, and the one with the highest price will get ......"

"How much revenue can I increase in this way?" Emperor Yongming continued to ask.

"When the right to use is transferred for 70 years, the landlord collects a one-time 'rent', which is equivalent to an increase in income for 70 years."

Emperor Yongming was a little suspicious: "To whom?" Who can pay the rent for seventy years at a time? ”

"Give it to those who can use it."

The emperor still doubted that it was someone else's stupid or my stupidity to rent a piece of land at a high price and pay a tenant rent for 70 years at a time.

Wu Yan looked at the emperor's skeptical expression and knew that his old man didn't believe it at all, and if he didn't believe her, he couldn't help it, he didn't understand the logic of making money, he didn't know it, and he was afraid that the explanation would be useless.

"In fact, this method can solve the shortage of financial funds, but it is not suitable for use at present."

"Why?" Emperor Yongming asked again.

"If you want to pay a high price for land, unless the geographical location is superior, and there are mature industries and businesses around, and the road is unobstructed, etc., at present, we don't seem to have such a piece of land that looks 'valuable'."

Only try to put it another way.

Emperor Yongming couldn't help but laugh when he heard this, he wanted to talk about business again.

"I listen to you...... Which passage do you want to tell me? ”

"Hehe...... Wu Yan couldn't help but laugh embarrassedly: "If the minister doesn't say the scriptures, the minister wants to tell His Majesty ......"

"Say what?"

"Actually, the minister wants to talk about how to make the land valuable."

"Okay, you can change it."

"Based on the three points just listed by Xiaochen, if there is no prosperous industry and commerce, we will build a prosperous one, and if there is no convenient transportation, we will upgrade the existing roads and plan in advance. For example, in this plan, we need to consider: for example, how to develop industry and commerce? How is agriculture developing? How much tax revenue can the imperial court increase each year? Whether it will affect the price of land, the price of food, and even consider factors such as water planning, weather conditions, etc. ”

Emperor Yongming raised his eyebrows and asked, "Do you need to think about it so much?" ”

"Natural needs, after all, are for the livelihood of the people, so you can't just pat your head and make a decision, right?"

"Okay, so how do you say to do this plan? Isn't it a slap on the head? ”

"Based on real data, and then refer to the records of the past years, such as the accounting records, archives, and records of the household department."

Wu Yan suddenly remembered those two articles, and said: "By the way, Your Majesty, the two articles submitted a few days ago were written by Li Jian of the Hanlin Academy, so they have to be ...... like that."

Emperor Yongming read the article, and he also planned to recruit people to come and ask, but after thinking about it, he had an idea.

"Companion, send a message to the Hanlin Academy Li to review it, and I want to ask him."

Zheng Dajue hurriedly responded: "Yes, the emperor, the slave and maid will pass it on." ”

The Hanlin Courtyard was quite far away, so he didn't dare to delay for a moment, and arranged the carriage to follow out of the palace.

Zheng Dajue called someone to go, and Emperor Yongming continued: "I have read all the articles. ”

"What does Your Majesty think of the article? Do you think he's very powerful? What a talent. ”

"Do you think he's amazing?" Emperor Yongming asked with a smile.

"Yes," Wu Yan was not exaggerated: "He asked the minister to point out at the beginning, but after reading his article, the minister couldn't point out, and his self-proclaimed level has not yet reached that point. ”

The emperor couldn't help but laugh a little, and pretended to regret it: "Tut-tut, what should I do if my female official is so 'ignorant'?" ”

"By the way," he turned, "I remember something...... Yan Sizhen, is it time for you to go to school? ”

"Huh? School? Wu Yan was stunned for a moment, feeling that he had not kept up with the rhythm.

"That's it, you will go to the Guozijian in two days, don't shake in front of me all day long, and look at it with a headache."

Which one is this singing? Wu Yan's heart exploded, and he only felt that the hair on his body was like static electricity.

She slapped her head and pretended to suddenly realize: "I almost forgot about this!" Your Majesty, in fact, the minister has been looking forward to it! ”

The colorful expressions are lined with insincere words, how fake and how fake!

"Haha......" Emperor Yongming still couldn't help laughing, this girl looks so 'stupid'?

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【Answer】

The Hanlin Academy is like the emperor's think tank, but not everyone has the opportunity to face the saint, and Li Daoru was able to come forward to reveal the post, not because of Wu Yan, his outstanding personal ability took the lead, after all, he was the champion.

When he came, he bowed first, and Emperor Yongming allowed him to get up and speak, and then stood aside to answer.

The topic returned to just now, Emperor Yongming asked: "I have read both of your articles, about the cold injury, Yan Sizhen said that you also used the method of analysis, then tell me how you carried it out?" ”

Li Daoru's face was calm, and he replied: "Back to Your Majesty, Weichen was completed with the two of them, namely Xie Zhaowei and Yang Dingchen, and both of them are now Jishi in the museum. The three of us consulted almost all the classics related to it in Wenyuan Pavilion, and then screened out the relevant information one by one, and then marked each change one by one with the horizontal axis of time and the degree of cold damage as the vertical axis, and came up with a trend chart......"

"All the texts? That's a lot, right? "Emperor Yongming was a little unconvinced.

"Mainly consult the class book department, the music department, the Zhiyan department, the skills department and the miscellaneous agricultural books, these departments, the rest of the departments are mainly browsing, check and fill in the gaps, just rely on the past memory to consult, fortunately, Xie and Yang have a good memory in the same year, but it didn't take too much effort."

The Wenyuan Pavilion collection is the scale of a national library, a large number of books, by memory! Mom, is it hard to use quantum memory? Wu Yan complained a little in his heart, it can't be compared, it really can't be compared!

"It's really well-read," Emperor Yongming couldn't help but praise, and asked, "What do you think after reading it?" ”

"Uh......" Li Daoru thought to himself, what did His Majesty ask about his thoughts?

Weichen has some ideas about the compilation of the bibliography, although it has broken the previous four-part classification method according to the subset of scriptures and histories, but he always feels that it is still too simplistic. For example, in the Song Dynasty, the style of the "Chongwen General Catalogue" was relatively rigorous, and the small preface, the major preface, and the general preface were all available, but since the compilation of the "Wenyuan Pavilion Bibliography", it is no longer this style ......"

This topic seems to be far away......

"Okay, tell me how you analyzed it?"

"Yes, to analyze the trend chart, it is necessary to use the degree calculation, and the equation of the degree calculation basically comes from the methods listed in the works such as "Equation Theory" and "Degree Calculation Interpretation Examples", which is the family inheritance of the two brothers, Mei Yingcheng and Mei Yucheng, who are friends of the minister, are all from their great-grandfather Mr. Be'an."

"Oh? It turned out to be Mr. Mei of the Mei family, "Emperor Yongming was a little surprised.

"Degree is to make judgments and avoid guessing. I have also discussed it with the two of them in the same year, mainly because I want to summarize and analyze the statistics of disasters over the past thousand years, crop growth, cold and warm changes, and rainfall, the main purpose is to have a roughly accurate judgment of future weather changes, and then make targeted disaster preparedness and prevention accordingly, so as to minimize the losses of the court and even the people. ”

Wu Yan secretly gave a thumbs up when he heard this, knowing that with rigorous scientific methods to guide disaster prevention, preparedness and relief, this Master Li really has a pattern!

"Since Aiqing thinks that the weather will be colder and more disasters in a few years, then you can tell me, what should I do now?"

What to do? This is exactly what the emperor came to him to ask.