There was a deathly silence inside and outside the Governor's Palace.

Everyone looked at Zhu Chun in disbelief.

Zhu Chun is still calm and calm, and he still has an elegant atmosphere between his gestures.

Everyone thought they had misheard.

That Ying Tianfu Yin Deng Wenda smiled and said, "Your Highness...... Your Highness...... What did you say? ”

"Investigate the hidden fields and hidden households!" Zhu Chun replied crisply.

Deng Wenda: "......"

On the other hand, the praise of the Taiping Mansion is equivalent to directly and firmly standing on the side of the Taiping Mansion, and since then, for the new policy of the Taiping Mansion, he, Yang Rong, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, has vouched for it.

For Hu Guang, these are indeed seen with his own eyes, and he has to admire Zhang Anshi, but ...... He couldn't help but feel sour in his heart, because ...... The prosperity of the Taiping Mansion comes at a price.

This price is precisely the community of interests from which Hu Guang himself came from.

Thinking of this, Hu Guang couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Hu Guang is not stupid at all, of course he knows that if he also affirms Yang Rong, it means that he has completely cut off many people in the past, and he can be regarded as turning against him.

Can he deny it?

Hu Guang is an honest man, if he hadn't seen this kind of thing with his own eyes, he could still pretend to turn a blind eye to it...... How can you deceive people?

After sighing faintly, Hu Guang had a grievance of a good wife entering the Qinglou to laugh, but he still said honestly: 6 What Yang Gong saw...... The sentence is true, the minister...... It's the same as what you see! Knife.

This time, buy and leave.

Zhu Di wanted to show you the recital, but you flatly refused, is this still Yang Rong?

Zhu Di frowned, faintly angry, so he continued to stare at Yang Rong and said, "Yang Qing's family...... Why? ”

Yang Rong said: "Your Majesty has learned that all the provinces have reduced production on a large scale, but when the minister and Hu Gong went to the Taiping Mansion, they found that the situation was very different. In this way...... Then the minister was thinking...... This incident may not be a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster. ”

These words were undoubtedly like dropping a bomb here, and everyone was shocked in unison.

Jin Youzi, Xia Yuanji, Jin Zhong, Jin Chunren, etc., all had several different expressions on their faces.

Natural disasters are the responsibility of the imperial court, and you can even say that it is the responsibility of the emperor, after all, from the perspective of heaven and man's induction, this must be the ruler who has done something angry and angry with the heavens.

Therefore, what the emperor has to do is to pinch his nose and honestly grant amnesty to the world, or reduce or reduce the grain, and this matter can be covered up.

But if it is a man-made disaster, then it is the responsibility of the specific person.

Subsequently, the eunuch led Yang Rong and Hu Guang to meet them.

If this is said by ordinary people, it may only be to vent anger.

But if it comes out of the mouth of the scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, it may mean that a big prison has quietly begun.

Zhu Di frowned and said, "Isn't this drought a reality?" ”

Zhu Di paced a few steps, and the look of cover on his face could not be concealed, and then he said: "Nanzhili is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, not the ends of the earth, whether it is a drought or not, everyone knows in their hearts." ”

Yang Rong took a deep breath, he was indeed very cautious, this was organizing his own language in his heart.

But Hu Guang smiled bitterly in his heart, because he found that in fact, Yang Rong could have chosen other words, because the same fact, with different words, people feel completely different.

For example, Yang Rong can completely report what happened in the Taiping Mansion by reporting the good news.

And Yang Rong didn't, he only regarded what happened in Taiping Mansion as normal governance.

Since it is normal governance, then the other provinces.

Yang Gong...... On weekdays, he treats people gently, and never offends people, but today he ...... But it was like a sword, showing its edge, and it was like a big cat that was originally docile, but it suddenly showed its fangs. Suddenly, Hu Guang realized that he was actually a tiger.

When Zhu Di saw them, he was full of haggard and dusty appearance.

Yang Rong said: "In the land south of the Yangtze River, why are you afraid of drought? ”

Zhu Di said: "What the Qing family means..."

Yang Rong asked calmly: "Dare to ask Your Majesty, how much has the production of each province been reduced?" ”

Zhu Di said: "The serious ones are Huai'an Mansion and Fengyang Mansion, where the output has been reduced to more than forty percent, and the other prefectures have also reduced their output by two or three percent. ”

Yang Rong said directly and neatly: "But according to the situation investigated by the minister in the Taiping Mansion, the Taiping Mansion has increased production by more than seventy percent. ”

As soon as these words came out, the monarchs and ministers of the palace were directly dumbfounded.

The increase in production is more than 70%.

But he heard Yang Rong continue: "This does not include the reason for the new grain, these new grains also occupy the land, but for the sake of fairness, the minister only calculated the yield of 6 meters of rice. ”

Zhu Di thought he had heard it wrong.

Even Xia Yuanji was dumbfounded: "What did you say, seventy percent?" Is it an increase or a decrease in production? ”

Fang Cai's anger dissipated a lot.

"Increase production." Yang Rong raised his voice, and then said categorically: "It is also a drought, and Taiping Mansion does not have much less drought than other provinces, but why is there such a big difference?" If we say that there is a great drought in the north, all the rivers are dry, and there are no lakes, this is in the past. But in the south of the Yangtze River, there are water towns everywhere, and the rivers have not stopped, and although the lakes everywhere are shrinking, there is still a lot of water. ”

"After the beginning of spring, there were signs of a great drought, and the spring rains that were supposed to fall did not fall for a long time, so from that time on, the Taiping Province organized countless laborers, began to dig irrigation canals, and began to do everything possible to store water to build reservoirs. In the nine counties of Taiping Prefecture, in just half a year, the irrigation canals built are hundreds of miles long, and water trucks are also built to divert water to the higher places, and there are 16 large and small reservoirs in the nine counties, so it is easy to cope with such a small drought. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone couldn't help but be shocked.

Yang Rong's words were obviously not finished, and he continued: "In the process of investigation, Chen and Hu Gong almost didn't hear about the water shortage, even if there are places, which are dry land, there is indeed a shortage of water, but this year I took this opportunity to solve it together. The head of each village has a special county clerk to liaise, and the county magistrate is responsible for liaison with the village that has difficulty in diverting water, and the government gives money and grain, and levies and distributes the people to overhaul water conservancy. ”

"Such a drought situation in the eyes of the Taiping Mansion, but Erer, not only that, but the head of each village also digs manure tanks for fertilizer, and the livestock raised by each village, its pig manure and cow dung, can also be used as fertile land. Encouraging the people to use farming tools and provide grain seeds not only easily coped with the drought, but also greatly increased the grain production, the original ten acres of land, the grain production of 30 stones, now, can produce as much as 50, this is what the minister sees, dare to ask Your Majesty...... Whether the other provinces are man-made disasters. ”

When Zhu Di heard this, his eyes widened slightly, his face looked a little stiff, and he was shocked.

Xia Yuanji and the others also frowned, but they were silent.

Yang Rong said: "In fact, if it is said that the provinces are seriously affected, the ministers ...... In fact, I don't agree with it, because ...... Other provinces, which also have irrigation, how can the output be reduced so much? According to the minister's opinion, it is the self-cultivated farmers who are only afraid of the reduction of production! When the drought hits, their land cannot be irrigated at all, and large-scale irrigation measures cannot be undertaken by their small farmers with a few acres of land. ”

"And people who have thousands of acres of fertile land, they have enough manpower and material resources, they can definitely build water conservancy, they can bring water to their own fields, how dare small farmers who cultivate themselves rob them? Therefore, on the way back, the minister also looked at some nearby prefectures and counties, and also roughly knew some general points, not that the grain production has decreased a lot, but that the grain production has indeed decreased, and the ordinary self-cultivated small farmers have suffered heavy losses. But on the other hand, the loss of large families is very light, but these land ...... As far as the ministers knew, there was no purging at all, it was the so-called hidden field, so the local government reported that on the surface it was a reduction in production, but in their report, it was impossible to mention the situation of the hidden field. ”

When Zhu Di heard this, he was furious.

"You don't have to salute, the Qing family has worked hard." Immediately, Zhu Di said bluntly: "The two Qing families have not been on duty recently, and many of them don't know about the affairs of the court. ”

He smiled coldly, and at this point he only felt extremely funny.

Xia Yuanji said on the side: "Is this all the truth? ”

"Of course it's true." Yang Rong said: "Just to prevent it, what we learned was not the truth, so the minister and Hu Gong not only went to the grain station in Taiping Mansion to understand the situation, but also found a way to go deep into the village and talk with the farmers." And then there's ...... Here, there is also the latest amount of grain requisition released by Taiping Mansion...... The situation of this year's summer grain collection can be described as well-organized in Taiping Mansion......"

"Why didn't you say it sooner!" Zhu Di hurriedly said: "How much summer grain is in Taiping Mansion this year?" ”

Yang Rong was silent for a moment, and then he reported a number: "Two million six hundred thousand stones."

f.....

All of a sudden, everyone was silenced.

Everybody was silent.

What is the concept of 2,670,000 stones?

In the entire summer grain tax system of the Ming Dynasty, Nanzhili's tax was the largest, accounting for 20% of the world, and when there was no Taiping Mansion in the past, it was around 22.3 million stones.

Zhu Di paused, and then said: "The disaster in Nanzhili is even more serious than I imagined, I thought it was just a few days of drought, Jiangnan is a water town after all, there is always a way to solve it." But now the situation reported by the various governments is very critical...... Come, take the music of the various provinces of Nanzhili and show it to the two secretaries first. ”

And now, the Taiping Mansion has expanded to become nine counties, but it is more than the entire Eleven Prefectures of Nanzhili.

Although the nine counties of Taiping Province are indeed the important grain producing areas in the southern Zhili. It can be said that the taxes of these two prefectures are only about four or five hundred thousand stones at most, accounting for only two or three percent of Nanzhili.

And for example, more than 20% of today's grain endowment actually comes from the nine counties of Taiping Prefecture.

Yang Rong said seriously: "The minister has checked, on the one hand, the Taiping Mansion has found a large number of hidden fields, and the number of hidden fields in the nine counties is extremely considerable. On the other hand, the food endowment of Taiping Mansion is very small, so it is a few percent more. In addition, after the land was divided, the Taiping Mansion added a tax of 10% to all the land that was divided. The people don't have to pay a rent but only one percent more tax, fully supplied, plus this year's bumper harvest in Taipingfu, under various measures, the summer grain of the South Zhili, the minister has calculated, if it is calculated according to the field endowment of the world in previous years, only nine counties, the income of the endowment, will occupy two or two of the entire world. ”

This is an extremely frightening number.

It's far beyond everyone's imagination.

The hall fell into a deathly silence.

Zhu Di felt like a dream.

At the beginning, the three counties of Taiping Mansion were enough to impress him, but in this year of drought, there were such achievements, which can no longer be described as capable officials.

Into the fuck, this is Guan Zhong and Le Yi.

The eunuch who was accompanying him bowed down and wanted to go to fetch the music.

I'm just afraid that it's Guan Zhong and Le Yi, but that's it.

Zhu Di's pupils contracted, but he couldn't speak, and he sat down on the royal chair.

But at this time, Xia Yuanji, as the head of the household, felt that he still had to ask clearly.

Because this is different from what other household departments know about grain collection.

So he said: "Yang Gong, I have some questions, and I hope to be able to solve them." ”

Xia Yuanji paused, and then said: "What Yang Gong said said is that in this Taiping Mansion, so much labor has been levied for the construction of water conservancy, which is ...... Isn't it...... Increased burden on the people? How can the people take care of their fields when they serve forced labor, and judging from the past situation, this may cause the people to complain. Furthermore, after levying so much grain, will the people be overburdened, and will there be people...... Because of the government's expropriation and expropriation, chaos has arisen. The old man didn't know much about the situation in Taiping Mansion, so he had this question. ”

Yang Rong seems to have been confident for a long time.

In fact, Xia Yuanji's question is only a question from everyone in the hall.

Zhu Di also looked at Yang Rong suspiciously.

Oh, yes...... Collected too much, although Zhu Di has always been disgusted with insufficient taxes, but now there are so many taxes suddenly) Zhu Di felt a little hot.

Yang Rong said suddenly: "Your Majesty, you don't have to look at it." ”

After all, there were too many lessons in the previous dynasty because of conscription and excessive levy.

Yang Rong said: "What Xia Gong said is indeed ...... That's right, large-scale construction of water conservancy has appeared at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, such as the Yuan people building the Yellow River. ”

When I said this, everyone laughed dryly.

Speaking of which, without the Tartars building the Yellow River, the Ming Dynasty may not have the world.

Yang Rong said: "But...... The situation that Xia Gong said, if it is in other places, is indeed not wrong, and the rampant expropriation will inevitably cause civil unrest. It's a pity...... This Taiping Mansion is very different, because ...... Taiping Latin ...... Really give money and food. ”

When Yang Rong said the word "true", he deliberately accentuated it.

All:

Yang Rong said: "The minister also carefully found out clearly, levy a strong man, give three dollars a day, two catties of grain, one or two taels of cured meat, three dollars of salt, and settle it on the same day, in addition to the reward, if it can be completed on time and in quantity, when it is finally completed, you can also give each strong man a reward of 100 to 500 wen." Your Majesty, Ladies and Gentlemen...... The price...... The people are recruited to eat and drink for themselves, and they can barely get some money to subsidize their families. Because of this, the people are willing to go and are willing to go to build water conservancy. ”

Of course, in fact, this amount is not much if it is put into you who are working, especially if there is no reward, it is only barely ...... It's just that you're well fed, and there's definitely no surplus. But on the other hand, these water conservancy projects built in Taiping Mansion are not to benefit one family and one surname, but to be spread out in all counties of Taiping Mansion, and the farmers in Taiping Mansion almost every family have land, and the people know the benefits of water conservancy and irrigation. Knife. ”

"Therefore, the government recruits, although there are occasional complaints, but the vast majority of people, but in the agricultural slack is very enthusiastic, willing to contribute and work hard, even when the project is urgent, the strong men are still building water conservancy, the land at home, even when the farm is busy, often the strong men are outside, the women and the old people at home fiddling with the crops, it is really a last resort, the strong men only take a few days off to go home."

As soon as this remark came out, many people were surprised.

"The third is the government, the government has drawn drawings of the water conservancy situation in various places as early as possible, and posted it to the villages after the water conservancy is built, and the fields that have benefited are mostly clearly understood, and everyone has seen that this water conservancy also benefits their own homes, and with the reservoir, they can use the reservoir to store water when it rains heavily for days, so that their crops will not be flooded with irrigation canals, and their own land can be irrigated when the weather is dry, so that there is no water available, and they will be more demoralized."

"Your Majesty, during the Han Dynasty, there was a system, that is, the six counties of Longxi, Tianshui, Anding, Shangjun, and Xihe were selected to Yulin and Qimen, and they were officials with material strength, so they had the reputation of being more famous. Most of these good families have little money and own land. Once selected to serve in the army, all orders are forbidden, and they work together. Therefore, there was a great Han to pacify the civil strife, to fight against the South Vietnam, to punish the Xiongnu in the north, the four provinces in the world, and to hear the name of the Han Dynasty, all of which were wars. At the end of the Han Dynasty, the prosperity of the military was not weakened even at the end of the Han Dynasty. ”

"When the minister read Hanshu, he still had doubts in his heart, and he always felt that the name of the good family of these six counties was exaggerated. Whether they are in the army or working, most of them are unwilling to violate the law, and they can work together. ”

And this Taiping Mansion, in fact, is to turn the entire Taiping Mansion up and down hundreds of thousands of households, all of them have become good families with property and industry, not only when the government is organized, everyone is enthusiastic, when paying money and grain taxes, there are no complaints, but also rarely opportunistic, most of them are pragmatic. These hundreds of thousands of strong men only took half a year to complete all the water conservancy that had not been completed in the entire nine counties for decades since the founding of Emperor Taizu Gao, and the quality was far beyond imagination. In the countryside, there are very few bandits in the Taiping Mansion, and these good families, even without the government, will take on the responsibility of protecting the territory and the people, if there are outsiders, although they are vigilant, they are also willing to take out the good wine and meat at home to entertain. ”

"That's right, the minister also learned that many people, after getting the land, life is older than last year, can be said to be a leap of thousands of miles, in the past are the people's dishes, but in this Taiping Mansion, most of the people are relatively healthy, now most of the families, not only can support a family, plus the government levies, or the agricultural slack into the county or Qixia to work, every family has surplus wealth this year, the markets everywhere, generally prosperous, women's rouge, combs, hairpins, flower cloth, sell well, as well as pigs, chickens, farming tools, cattle market, also compared to other provinces, I don't know how many times. Such a situation is very rare, not to mention others, often in the nine counties, in the past, at the beginning of the month, in the middle of the month, at the end of the month on the third day, there will be a market in each township, but now, among the townships, there are actually a lot of merchants, standing markets, on January 30, all sell commercial goods, such a situation, in the countryside, almost rare, but in the townships of Taiping Province, it has become a common practice. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Rong seemed to sound something, paused, and then continued: "The minister also heard that the young people in the townships have a strong desire to join the army, just like the good families of the six counties, although they are also honest and responsible for working on the farmland, they are also quite ambitious. Willing to enter the model camp and the government academy and make contributions...... This is almost impossible for other provinces, and most of the people in other provinces are only thinking about the fate of the next meal today, not to mention their ambitions, or tomorrow's things, and they are rarely willing to plan, but this situation is completely opposite to the Taiping Mansion. ”

Yang Rong talked eloquently.

The others looked at Yang Rong in a daze as if they were listening to a book from heaven.

Yang Rong obviously didn't care about the reaction of other people, and continued: "If the minister didn't see it in person, it would be hard to imagine that the Taiping Mansion had changed so much, and the minister had walked in the counties of the Taiping Mansion for six or seven days, although he didn't dare to say it, and he fully understood the situation, but he could be here to vouch to His Majesty with a head, and there was absolutely no poverty and weakness of the people in the Taiping Mansion, and no people were resentful because of the tyrannical expropriation." The minister dared to guarantee that there were no bandits, no hunger, and no resentment in the nine counties of Taiping Prefecture. ”

These three nos are really like a fantasy.