"Your numbers are not right, these two townships, I have been there myself in the past few days, far away from the Iron Mountain, and the terrain is low-lying. Even if it is rectified, it is only more polders, and it is good to grow rice, so how can it be possible to plant corn instead? How can there be so many seed loans in advance locally? ”

"Also, in these three townships, I have also seen this year's harvest, at the end of August, the late rice is already being harvested elsewhere, but the local area is not yet ripe. After asking the old farmers, I learned that there was not enough irrigation there, and the land near Tieshan was relatively barren.

They only plant one season of late rice every year, and replace early rice with bean grass, and in previous years, most of them were recorded as lower fields in the fish scale book! This kind of land, although potatoes can be grown, the growing period is not right! You can only plant one season of fast-growing vegetables or potato transitions! ”

Shen Shuren carefully looked at the statistics and atlases submitted by Daye County officials and gentry, at first it seemed that people and animals were harmless, and he went through the motions, but soon his eyes narrowed.

also changed the casual state of this time, and said a lot of things that were wrong.

Shen Shuren's unannounced visit during this period of time is impossible to really clear the land in detail and divide the use, the workload is too huge, and the land inspection must be specially organized, and it may not be completed in a year.

Therefore, he can only make a qualitative and general observation, rather than a quantitative verification. Use your superficial laxity to lure the people below who are working hard to come out on their own.

This kind of fake account, if it is not bad, but the details of the data are slightly changed, Shen Shuren really can't see it.

But obviously, Daye Zhixian and Hao Shen have a great appetite, and they misjudged that Shen Shuren was not a pragmatic dog official, and almost involved the entire township and the entire township of fields that are not suitable for promoting new crops, or the land that has no time to change crops in the growth cycle, and fraudulently apportioned seed loans, which is easy to see.

If this kind of person is placed in the Northern Song Dynasty, it is obviously the group of people who most actively support Wang Anshi's strong promotion of the Qingmiao Law, because they can not only help the court change the law, but also take the opportunity to get more oil and water.

Shen Shuren said this, although his tone and expression were not severe, but it also made Liu Minsheng, the magistrate of the county, and the people of the Qin family, the gentry, a little discolored, and they could only admit their guilt:

"Daotai-sama Mingjian! Maybe I didn't check it well before, and I was in a hurry, and there were some mistakes and omissions......"

"The Ronin Who Started from Douluo"

Shen Shuren's face turned cold at this time: "Although Daye is a mining area, compared with the rest of the counties in Wuchang, there are many mountains and few fields, but there are more than one million acres of cultivated land!" 100,000 farmers involved! That's how you count the scale of the people who need to borrow money to grow food!

Now that Zhang Xianzhong is in the west, he will invade the hinterland of my Huguang at any time, if the officials take the opportunity to exploit the people with interest, how many thieves will be created for Zhang Xianzhong at that time!

I don't think you know anything about the times! In the final analysis, Governor Fang and I love the people too much and are too active in driving away thieves! Let you be born in peace, and know no suffering!

Look at Henan, before Li Zicheng fell into Luoyang, King Fu also amassed wealth, and asked him to take some silver out to sacrifice the army like cutting his flesh! It's good now, I heard that Luoyang has been under siege for more than two months, Li Zicheng has taken a break to reorganize, relieved his strength, and wants to continue to invade Kaifeng in the east - you shouldn't care about the military situation of the northern thieves, right? Then guess what, did Kaifeng hold it this time? ”

Liu Zhixian and the Qin family, as well as several other chief officials from Jiaye County, were scolded by Shen Shuren's words, and they were worried.

But Liu Zhixian also knew that it was politically correct to say that the imperial court soldiers could win the battle. So even if he felt that Kaifeng would probably be more auspicious this time, he could only say:

"The defeat of Luoyang must have been due to the cunning of the people, the soldiers and bandits who did not notice it for a while, and the greed for money and thieves, which occasionally led to defeat. Kaifeng has the governor of Henan Wang personally in charge, and the soldiers will definitely be able to defend it with their lives......"

Shen Shuren patted him on the back of the head with a fan, and snorted coldly: "As a result, you are right, Kaifeng will not be so easy to be attacked by thieves, but the reason is that people like you must not be able to think of it-

It was the king of Zhou who was sitting in Kaifeng, and finally figured out that wherever the thief Zhang Shun went, he would definitely kill all the vassal kings, officials, and wealthy households. This time, as soon as Li Zicheng was about to come to the city, King Zhou took out several pieces of property to reward the whole army and help the people to fight strong! The governor of Henan and the following officials are also rarely relieved! I think this battle of Kaifeng has to be fought.

Yang Ge Lao commanded us to fight hard to keep one side safe, if there are still people who don't know what to do, that is counting on Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers to come to the city, and they are willing to stop exploiting the people! ”

These people were not guilty of the government's organization of the distribution of seeds and loans, but they were nothing more than a forcible apportionment of overcharge of interest, and after being discovered by the Shen Shuren, it was at most an attempt.

Therefore, it is also impossible to remove the official position directly on the pretext of the reason.

Shen Shuren needs to describe the matter more seriously in order to deter people, so that everyone's subsequent relatively harsh measures against him will not be too rebellious.

Sure enough, after he took the far-fetched reasoning that "at this moment, looting and forcing the people to rebel is equivalent to collaborating with the enemy", it really made everyone silent.

Only then did Shen Shuren continue to push down, and Tiekou announced bluntly: "Come here, call all the gentry who have been the grain chief of a township in Daye County here, and the official will personally inspect it."

Liu Zhixian, this official will send another person to check this matter, you can directly let the county Cheng and the history of the code cooperate, you and Master Xiao don't have to ask! In a moment, too, these squires! ”

Today, the Daotai Lord came to inspect, and there were naturally many people who cheered, and the squires who had served as a grain chief or above in Daye County were also among them.

It's just that most of them are not qualified to enter the inner courtyard and sit in the same room with the Daotai Lord. Only those summoned by the Shen Shu people are eligible to come in.

Therefore, when the people of the sinking tree were not polite to them, they let their relatives send paper and pen to these squires, and then asked a few questions, and asked them to write down the outline of the fields in each township, which places are suitable for promoting new crops, and the rhythm of the original crop harvest and sowing season, without too much detail.

It is too time-consuming to ask questions one by one, and it is easy to give people the opportunity to adjust the cover according to the answers of their predecessors, and it is most convenient to write them down directly by surprise test.

Everyone didn't expect that Lord Daotai would suddenly change his previous state of extravagance and mud, and come to such a dismount to bypass Liu Zhixian and others, so they had to do it one after another.

After a while, Shen Shuren looked at them one by one very diligently, and found that there were indeed some more realistic ones.

The one with the best performance even wrote some suggestions for persuading farmers based on the actual situation, and said sincerely: Wuchang Prefecture has a warm and humid climate, and there are few mountainous areas, and most of the remaining townships in Daye County are not suitable for planting corn except for the surrounding areas of Tieshan.

He also analyzed the growth cycle of corn, and believed that the time required for corn to grow was slightly embarrassing, and from the experience heard in Huangzhou and other places in the past two years, corn generally grew for four to five months, which was comparable to late rice and more than a month longer than early rice.

However, the planting time of corn is earlier than that of late rice, and it must be planted in April at the latest, so it is not suitable for the rice planting areas in the south. If you plant corn, you can't grow rice in the morning and evening, and you can only plant fast-growing vegetables that can be harvested within one or two months after the beginning of spring. Although the yield of corn is high, it replaces two crops of rice at once, and in the end it does not make much more yield.

In the north, however, wheat can be grown after the autumn harvest, while winter wheat is overwintered, taking up a shorter spring and summer growing period. After the beginning of spring, it can be harvested as summer grain in March and April, and then it can be planted with corn, which can achieve two crops of early summer corn and winter wheat a year.

The squire's final conclusion was to implore the Shenshu people to consider the actual situation the more they went to the southern water towns, and not to forcibly promote the planting of too much corn, but to continue to promote potatoes in the mountainous land as a supplement.

After Shen Shuren read it, he didn't immediately express his position, and he was ready to scare the people around him.

After all, these squires had just come in, and they had not had the opportunity to confess with Liu Zhixian and others in the inner hall before, and they did not know their attitude towards agricultural politics.

Shen Shuren said, "Who wrote this answer sheet? Corn has a higher yield than rice and wheat, and the promotion of this official is also for the benefit of the country and the people! Someone is against a variety of corn? ”

Everyone was a little stunned and looked at each other, and the last middle-aged man in his thirties and forties stood up and replied, "The students don't dare to oppose the good governance of Lord Daotai, but they just tell the truth.

Although corn is good, it is not well connected with other crop seasons in the south, and if it is to be promoted, it must also be carefully calculated, otherwise even if there is an increase in production, it will not be as heavy as the people who borrow seeds and pay an extra 20% of the interest on the harvest out of thin air.

If in order to pursue more interest, blindly lend more seeds, what is the difference between it and Lu Huiqing's distortion of the original intention of Wang Anshi Qingmiao Law in the previous dynasty? ”

A bunch of squires and officials next to him couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat when they heard this, but they were more gloating, as if this guy was not social.

Some people saw that he was only reasonable and did not report to his family, so they helped him report: "Lord Daotai, don't be like this nerd, his name is Song Mingde, his ancestral home is Nanchang, he only moved here more than ten years ago, and he has always been incompatible with our locals." ”

Shen Shuren pretended to twitch his expression a few times, as if he was annoyed by the loss of face, and then returned to normal and asked Song Mingde: "Are you still a foreigner?" How did you come to Wuchang Mansion in the first place? ”

Song Mingde truthfully stated: "During the Apocalypse, Wuchang Mansion expanded the production of Daye Iron Mountain, and the government spent a lot of money looking for people who knew how to understand the geography and prospecting and drilling wells.

Although I am a scholar, after I won the show, I didn't want to learn from the saints, and followed the elders of the clan to learn some miscellaneous studies. After coming to Daye, for more than ten years, he gradually saved his family business by doing things for the government, and he also served as the chief of several township grains. ”

Shen Shuren nodded, and said unexpectedly: "You can stab the official in the face and point out that the corn and the two seasons of the southern paddy fields are inconsistent, but it is also realistic. Then the official will give you a chance. This year, your family will be responsible for the loan of corn and potato seeds in Daye County, and the collection of loans after the autumn harvest.

Each township will report how much you borrow, you go to the statistics first, and the official will let people stare at you, don't want to cheat and play tricks! Otherwise, after the autumn harvest, the official will liquidate himself, and don't think about it next year. ”

Shen Shuren will not be stupid enough to completely believe the other party because of his good performance in the interview for a while. There must be follow-up verification and supervision.

Seeing this, some gentry and officials next to him also felt that it was quite unreasonable, and Liu Minsheng, the county magistrate, fanned his lips a few times, but he didn't make a sound.

But his expression fell on Shen Shuren's eyes, and Shen Shuren turned his head and asked very kindly, "What?" What is the official's thoughts, what is Liu Zhixian's opinion? ”

Liu Minsheng hurriedly waved his hand: "No opinion, no opinion!" Adults misunderstood! ”

When he said this, he was a little worried in his heart. Although this Shen Shuren has the titles of Daotai and Yudu Yushi, he theoretically does not have so much power over the civil affairs of Wuchang Mansion and Hanyang Mansion, and it is impossible to appoint and replace people at will.

Now that he is so domineering, does Governor Fang have no opinion?

Everyone decided to wait and see how other counties in Wuchang reacted to Shen Shuren's arbitrariness in the future.

Everyone still understands the truth of shooting the first bird, and if others don't make trouble, then they will endure it.