"What do you mean? Who are the great men?" When Zhao Hai heard this, his face froze.

"yes, the one above." He pointed up a little vaguely.

"Those of the Li family and the Situ family, there are 10,000 acres of fields and houses at home, there are officials in the court, and there are those big men who are doing business outside."

"We have all sown their land, and the harvest of a year depends on their countenance, and how much we can get in our hands."

"This year, they said they wanted to be sympathetic to us."

The old man said, also sincerely happy.

The faces of the many cabinet ministers who followed behind Zhao Hai changed.

Under the nose of His Majesty the Emperor, playing a trick to entrap the people? This is just too arrogant.

The next step, is it time to reward the three armies for the emperor?

At this time, Jiang Xiaoyue scolded with a dissatisfied face, "Old man, what do you mean by this? The land of these people? Isn't all the land the Son of Heaven?"

"What are they? Do you really think of them as the Great Masters of the Blue Sky?"

The powerful momentum made the old man's face pale with fright, and the whole person knelt on the ground, "Master Guan! I was wrong! I can't read, I don't know, I don't speak."

"I'm guilty, please raise your hand and spare my life, I was wrong, I don't dare to talk nonsense anymore."

Zhao Hai glanced at Jiang Xiaoyue, he quickly shut up and retreated to the back, not daring to speak again.

Then, Zhao Hai stepped forward, picked up the old man, and said, "Uncle, you don't have to be afraid, we are not bad people."

"He spoke too recklessly just now, don't blame him."

"If there is anything wrong, I will apologize for him."

Hearing this, all the ministers were shocked, and hurriedly came up to stop them, but they were all glared back by Zhao Hai.

In the end, Jiang Xiaoyue had to come and apologize in person.

The old man looked at Zhao Hai and the others, only feeling flattered and not daring to gasp.

He'd never been treated so well.

"Uncle, you just said that several big men want to distribute grain to the farmers, what is going on?"

The old man knew that Zhao Hai was the leader of this group of people, and he was even more respectful when he spoke.

He leaned on his back and quickly explained, "This master, this matter is not something I said nonsense."

"Anyway, Chief Zhuang, as well as the township chief, and some big people like the villagers, all say so."

"Those big men, looking at us pitiful, decided to give up more than 10% of the grain from the spring harvest this year to give us a life."

When he said this, he seemed to remember something sad, and said, "A few years ago, our people here often couldn't fill their stomachs."

"My son died of starvation because he paid rent."

"The conscience of heaven and earth, how many people have a chance to survive with this abundance of food."

Seeing this situation, Zhao Hai only felt extremely moved.

What happened to this old man must have happened to other people as well.

It should be the vicious result of the continuous natural disasters in the past few years, coupled with his own negligence in government affairs, and the chaos of the dynasty.

"Uncle, but I remember that today, I have repeatedly ordered you to reduce your rent."

"You guys, it's almost all free."

"Why are you still living so ......," Cao Jingchun asked with some confusion.

The old man wiped his tears and said with a smile, "This master, you have a point."

"In recent years, the imperial court has been much better than in the past."

"It's just a pity that it doesn't work very well."

"Being exempt from taxes is not the same as sending us food."

"We are hard-working people, we don't have enough food and rice to eat, and we don't get much in the first place, so it's a drop in the bucket to be exempt from land and taxes."

"Everyone in the countryside says that Your Majesty is going to war, what is lacking is food, and it would be good if we didn't levy it, where can we care about our life and death

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"If we want to fill our stomachs, we have to rely on the tenants and the adults of the big family, after all, when the land harvest comes up in a year, how much rent we pay and how much we can keep in our hands depends on their rewards."

"We're just helping to plant some."

He sighed deeply, his face full of not easy.

At this moment, Zhao Hai's heart seemed to be touched by something.

Although he is not a moral saint, he still feels extremely uncomfortable when he sees that under his rule, it is still difficult for some people to fill their stomachs.

Including Shi Zongzheng, these people felt even more ashamed in their hearts.

He is in charge of the world's grain, grass and financial affairs, but he cannot let the people have enough to eat, which is really ashamed.

He gritted his teeth and said, "This is still the case at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and I don't know that there are various counties and counties."

Hearing this, Zhao Hai's face froze.

A seed quietly began to sprout in his heart.

From the experience of previous lives, the reason for the final decline of various feudal dynasties was because of land annexation.

What I am facing now is also this tricky situation.

The land is now basically monopolized in the family gate, and if it continues like this, sooner or later an uprising will break out.

"This master, I still have work to do in the field today, so I won't tell you first, will it be done?"

"Today, the chief of the village is coming to hold a meeting with us."

The old man said, his face very serious.

Zhao Hai was a little puzzled, "What do you mean? What will he say?"

"This master, you don't know anything." The old man said mysteriously.

"He's the one who counts in our whole estate."

"This lecture is to discuss the matter of grain distribution and rent reduction for the gate valve family, if you want to get this benefit, you must go over to listen to the training."

After speaking, he saluted Zhao Hai and the others, and then left with a smile.

It seems that the mood is very good.

Standing in place, Zhao Hai's face was cloudy.

Cao Jingchun, who was on the side, stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen looks, I'm afraid this matter is not simple.

"First of all, several major valve families united and sent you a letter of guilt."

"Then, we carried out this set of grain distribution models to mobilize these ordinary people."

"Wechen used to be a commoner, and he knew very well that these people were eager to take all the skins off the tenant farmers, so how could they be willing to give the tenant farmers more food?"

Wei Qian on the side also said, "Your Majesty, what he said is right."

"Weichen thinks that among them, I am afraid that there is a big reason, and I have to guard against it."

The people on the side were angry, "The people could not distinguish between good and bad people, but only saw favor."

"What's more, these people want to take advantage of the momentum to make something big, I'm afraid that when their momentum rises, we won't be able to parry."

When the words landed, it was as if a thunderclap had exploded.