The imperial court bought land and divided it in the name of hundreds of officials......

When Zhu Youzhen put forward this concept, the officials suddenly turned pale.

Like Feng Quan's thoughts, Zhu Youzhen made two preparations.

Hundreds of officials like fame, and in order to fight for the fame of Qingliu, they can often resist the emperor's anger to advise, even if the advice fails, they feel honored when they are beaten.

At present, Zhu Youzhen proposed that the imperial court spend silver to buy the land in the hands of officials, and then distribute the land to the people in the name of officials donating land.

Everyone knows that the current situation is "the rule of the apocalypse", the world is healthy, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, so the soaring land price is certain.

Don't look at the current fertile land in Zhejiang has risen to 821 acres and feel that it has come to an end, in fact, this fertile land still has a lot of room to rise, including other places.

At present, Zhu Youzhen wants to pay money to buy land and distribute it to the people, which makes many officials in the temple feel painful.

At present, if you sell the land, you will have to lose more than a dozen taels of that acre of fertile land, and you will have to lose seven or eight taels of ordinary land.

Even if it is not the land of Zhejiang, the officials will have to lose two or three taels to eight or nine taels, and the amount of land in their hands is needless to say.

The Three Ladies case, the Shaanxi Civil Revolution case, the number of acres copied from the two cases is jaw-dropping, and the land in their hands is less than one-tenth of the gentry Haoqiang's hands.

If a few hundred acres of land are sold, the thousands of taels of silver will be gone, which is even more uncomfortable than killing them.

But they also know very well that today's affairs, not only do they have to grasp public opinion and let the people below spread it, but Zhu Youzhen will be very popular.

Just one imperial store of the imperial horse supervisor only needs to post the notices and meetings of the imperial court in the store as usual, and it is enough to tear off the fig leaf of the officials participating in the court today.

At present, Huangdian is distributed in more than 1,600 states and counties in the world, and more than 20 million urban people rely on Huangdian to buy things.

In terms of the influence of public opinion in the city, Huangdian is much stronger than the gentry, and it is not the city that gives Zhu Youzhen a headache, but the countryside.

The urban population of Daming is only 10 million or 20 million, and the urbanization rate is at most 15%, and this is the result of Zhu Youzhen's Daxing factory, shipyard and officialdom.

Using Huangdian to grasp the public opinion of the prefecture and county, and using the division of land to promote public opinion in the countryside, in this battle of public opinion, Zhu Youzhen could not lose to the gentry Haoqiang.

Therefore, Feng Quan and the others above the temple all drummed in their hearts.

In response to Zhu Youzhen's words, the officials of the four provinces of Beijing and Beijing had to lose millions of taels of silver.

If Zhu Youzhen hadn't been judged, their reputation would have been ruined the next day.

All of a sudden, everyone began to weigh up......

Looking at them, Zhu Youzhen felt a little contemptuous in his heart.

In fact, this game is not difficult to break, what is difficult to break is that this group of guys want to set up a chastity archway when they are bitches.

"The people are poor because they are lazy, even if the court buys the land and divides the land, the lazy people will still idle or rent the land in exchange for that little profit......"

Cui Chengxiu couldn't help but speak, but his opening instantly made Shi Fenglai, Feng Quan and others turn dark.

Knowing that Zhu Youzhen would announce the contents of the court meeting to the world, Cui Chengxiu's words were simply a lore against the bureaucracy.

"The people are poor because of their laziness?" Zhu Youzhen sneered, glanced at the people above the temple, and then shouted softly:

"Is this kind of contempt what you should say as a parent official?!"

"If you open your mouth and close your mouth, the people are lazy, so how can you ever think about whether the people are voluntarily lazy or passively lazy?"

"Don't the lazy people of your mouth try to find a chance to work?"

"Ladies and gentlemen, when you are in charge of the affairs of the country, have you not met the victims and refugees who came to pray for a job when you returned home?"

"As far as Gu knows, all of you here, there are hundreds of slaves in the house, and there are dozens of widows, so many people, have you given them a chance to develop?"

Zhu Youzhen glanced at the crowd, watched them lower their heads and looked at their noses and noses, and couldn't help asking, "Poor, who doesn't want to reach?" ”

"Among them, there are not a few people who are from poor families, why don't you ask why you are so lazy when your family is poor? Why are your parents lazy? ”

"Are you waiting to work hard? Or is it as you are saying now, that you and your parents were not motivated at that time? ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at this group of people, and he was already disappointed in his heart, so he simply took advantage of this time to scold this group of meat-eaters.

"Like you, the poverty of the people at present is due to the unwillingness of the gentry and the strong and strong, and they are not allowed to develop."

"The gentry are unwilling to give the poor the opportunity of development, and they are even more unwilling to share the fine clothes and food with the people."

"I have been a country for 260 years, and it is true that there are stupid people and smart people among the people, but the court should not despise the people, and you should not regard poverty as a shame."

"If the court regards the poverty of the people as a shame, can people like Ruer still be able to take the meritorious examination and obtain today's status and power?"

"In order to seek development, the people are conscientious and hardworking, and they ...... hard"

"Farming the fields, making use of the tools, doing business, learning and reading, everyone is good at themselves, but except for a few scholars such as Er, who can gain fame, most of the others still live in poverty."

"But if Ver Er and the others can uphold their original intentions before they are admitted to fame, they will not say such things!"

scolded Cui Chengxiu and his party, and Zhu Youzhen also continued to get back to business:

"It is the national policy of the imperial court to divide land for the people, whether it is to immigrate to the real border or to buy land and divide land, it is always necessary to let the people have an income."

""Officials Dinglu" is not only to circumvent bad rules, but also to prevent the people from being exploited by corrupt officials and corrupt officials."

"There is no room for negotiation in this matter, and it will be issued from now on, and the fields in the other four provinces of Beijing will be temporarily shelved."

"From now on, if anyone objects to this matter, despite the resignation, Lonely and Long Live will allow it one by one."

"But if someone is disobedient to the state policy below, then the three divisions will naturally take action."

After that, Zhu Youzhen stood up, and when he stopped, the others had to stand up.

"The court discussion ends here, and the "Official Dinglu" will be issued and implemented from now on."

"The lower officials receive the order...... Bi Ziyan and Gu Bingqian, as well as the officials of the Yanshan faction and the Qi Wang Party, can only respond head-on, and Feng Quan and others can only echo and follow.

Zhu Youzhen turned around and left the main worship hall, and on the way he left, the officials of the Wenhua Hall lowered their heads one after another.

With his departure, the national policy of "Official Dinglu" was also officially implemented.

This news spread quickly throughout the palace like a cold winter wind, and spread to the imperial city, the inner city, the outer city, and Zhili at a faster speed.

When the news spread to the East Palace, Kim Hyun was testing Zhu Ciran's archery.

"I see, you step down......"

After listening to the words of the eunuch of the East Palace, Jin Xuan bowed slightly, and then stepped forward and said to Zhu Ciran:

"Your Highness, that's all for today's lesson, let's go to the outer city and the outside of the capital."

"Huh?!" Hearing that he could suddenly go to the outer city and the surrounding areas of the capital, Zhu Ciran was stunned for a short time, and then immediately became excited.

He didn't think about why Kim Hyun said a few days ago that he would not be able to go to the outer city until he was ten years old, and he could only go to the surrounding areas of the capital when he was older, but now he suddenly allowed it, and he didn't know the deep meaning of Kim Hyun's doing.

He just felt very excited, and urged the eunuchs in the palace to hurry up and prepare the carriage.

Half an hour later, when he got into the car and walked out of the palace with Jin Xuan, there were still hundreds of soldiers and horses waiting at the gate of Donghua Gate, and they were guarding them to the southern city.

Nancheng was once the only outer city in the capital, and it was also the oldest urban area, which was full of people of three religions and nine streams.

If it weren't for the fact that the matter of "Official Dinglu" had been finalized, Jin Xuan might have waited a few years before bringing Zhu Ciran to Nancheng.

With excitement, Zhu Ciran, under the leadership of Kim Hyun, walked through the corridor of the inner city, and then came to the southern city.

It's just that compared with the clean and tidy inner city in his impression, the style of the southern city disappointed him greatly.

The potholed green brick road, from time to time you can see some stolen green brick pits, surrounded by low houses, few two-story buildings.

The people in the inner city will cover the courtyard wall with lime powder or some white powder, but here in the outer city, the colors of the courtyard wall are varied, and even the wooden door of the courtyard is the old appearance of the new tung oil that has not been applied for more than ten years.

The sky was gloomy and gray, with snow and a lot of dirt on the road, and some of the corners of the courtyard walls were covered with snow and yellow snow.

Such a look of Nancheng made Zhu Ciran very disappointed, but he found that the people on the street were brightly dressed.

"Sir, why do these people live in such poor places, but they are better dressed than the people in the inner city?"

Zhu Ciran asked, and when Jin Xuan heard this, he just lowered his eyes and replied:

"Does Your Highness want to hear the truth or a lie?"

"I want to hear it all." Zhu Ciran didn't have such an environment that made people very heavy, but found it very interesting.

Looking at his appearance, Jin Xuan also bowed slightly when he heard this, and said, "Then let's tell a lie first......

As he spoke, Jin Xuan looked around and explained to Zhu Ciran: "Compared with the Wanli period, the income of many people has been greatly improved. ”

"In the case of continuous improvement of material conditions, some people want to pursue a higher quality of life, so in terms of food and clothing, we must try to maintain exquisiteness."

"In addition, there is a comparison among the poor, so that in order to show their money, they will give preference to more expensive silk and satin."

"But in fact, most of them are swollen and fat, and the satin clothes are rented, and the courtyard is also rented, and in order to rent these things, they also take on some debts for this."

"They are all trying to save face and make their lives poor, which is not advisable......"

"A person who is truly strong in heart will not care about what he wears......"

"This is a lie...... Jin Xuan finished speaking, and he and Zhu Ciran began to look at each other, and Zhu Ciran said ignorantly:

"Why does it sound so reasonable?"

"Then do you want Your Highness to hear the truth?" Jin Xuan asked Zhu Ciran rhetorically, and Zhu Ciran hesitated for a moment before nodding.

Seeing Zhu Ciran nodding, Jin Xuan began to expose the so-called lies in front of him, pointed at the people and said:

"Your Highness can observe that although some people are brightly dressed, they are slightly old and low in spirit compared to the people in the inner city."

"For the people of the inner city, it is not surprising that they often wear luxurious clothes, and people around them have such clothes, and for the people of the outer city, such clothes are the only clothes they can get their hands on."

"Your Highness, looking at their expressions and steps, unlike the people in the inner city who take a leisurely stroll, most of the people in the outer city are in a hurry."

"The reason why this is so is that they have to run for a living, but if they don't work for a day, they have to endure a day of hunger."

"Then why don't they wear more tattered clothes, if they are changed to rice, they can eat for a long time." Zhu Ciran still remembers the words of the last time he sold oil, and he also knows the price of rice among the people.

If such a set of clothes of seven or eight hundred wen is sold and used to buy rice to eat, it is enough to live comfortably for two or three months.

"Your Highness......" Kim Hyun took a deep breath, then shook his head and said, "This dress can't be sold." ”

"Why?" Zhu Ciran frowned, while Kim Hyun explained:

"People rely on clothes and horses to saddle them, and the reason why Your Highness sees them in a hurry is because most of them are on their way to work."

"Wearing clothes like this to work?" Zhu Ciran couldn't believe it, and Kim Xuan shook his head when he saw this:

"Your Highness will understand in a moment......"

After that, Kim Hyun asked the soldiers and horses of the Wanping battalion to tell a well-dressed man that he would follow the man to see his day, and if he did well, he would be rewarded with a hundred yuan.

The man was a little frightened at first, but when he heard that there was a hundred rewards, he immediately showed a flattering smile to the soldiers in front of him, and kept bowing.

This distance is only a dozen steps, and Zhu Ciran can clearly see the words and deeds of the two.

After a while, the carriage moved again, and this time followed the well-dressed man towards the eastern city.

When passing through the South City leading to the East City Xunli Gate, Kim Hyun also deliberately explained:

"In the early years, when His Royal Highness King Qi did not abolish the city entry tax, this city gate tax had to collect three cents from this man."

"Is it three articles a day?" Zhu Ciran asked curiously, and Jin Xuan shook his head and said, "Three texts at a time." ”

Zhu Ciran nodded subconsciously, not feeling how heavy the money for entering the city gate was for this man.

The group followed the man to the east city, and when they passed by the Baiwangfu Fang and the officials' Fang, the man cowered, for fear of encountering some dignitaries.

When Zhu Ciran passed by the two squares, his mind was in the Baiwangfu Fang, and it was not until he was far away from the Baiwangfu Fang that he had the heart to observe the street.

Compared with the southern city, the streets of Dongcheng are neat, not to mention the paved blue brick and stone roads, and the neat neighborhoods and houses are also pleasing to the eye.

Not only that, but the people living in the eastern city are also dressed in the same way as the inner city, although they are not expensive silk, they are confident and generous, and they talk and laugh on the streets.

On the other hand, the man was obviously dressed better than the people around him, but he was timid, and he was completely unworthy of the clothes on his body, which was very disobedient.

Zhu Ciran and the others followed the man all the way, and finally everyone stopped not far from a yamen at the gate of Changle Gate in Dongcheng, and the noblely dressed man came to the door of the yamen with a smile, and the official at the gate of the yamen did not have a good face for him.

This man bowed and bowed again, humbled to the extreme, and finally walked into the yamen under the wave of the officer's hand.

Zhu Ciran looked at the plaque of the yamen, and then found that this was the yamen that was in charge of the Caoyun Wharf of the Tonghui River in Dongcheng.

While waiting, Kim Hyun didn't speak, while Zhu Ciran was letting go, looking at the people around him.

After a stick of incense, the man walked out of the yamen, continued to bow to the official at the door, and then walked towards the Changle gate with a wooden sign in his hand.

"Keep up with ......," Kim Hyun began, and the convoy continued to follow.

Under the gaze of Zhu Ciran and others, the man walked out of Changle Gate with a wooden sign, and he was accompanied by a group of men who were dressed as noblely as him.

It's just that after this group of people walked out of Changle Gate, they began to undress one after another, and after taking off the luxurious coat on their bodies, they revealed extremely cheap linen clothes, and there was no cotton at all.

The cold wind blew, and a group of people shivered into a courtyard, and when they came out again, the clothes in their hands were gone.

Zhu Ciran looked curiously, and then found that this was a shop renting clothes, and there was a notice board at the door, indicating the price of renting clothes.

For the clothes that the man was wearing, he had to pay ten cents a day.

"Sir, why do they spend ten cents on renting clothes instead of taking them to eat?"

Zhu Ciran looked at Jin Xuan and asked puzzled, and Jin Xuan also sighed:

"Without these clothes, they wouldn't have been able to enter the yamen just now."

"Oh......" Zhu Ciran didn't understand the deep meaning, but only Jin Xuan knew that these shops that rented clothes were related to Caoyun Yamen.

Clothes are the name of the Caoyun Yamen, if you don't rent clothes, you can't enter the Yamen, you can't enter the Yamen, and you can't continue the following things.

Kim Hyun didn't say much, and the convoy followed the crowd shivering in the cold wind to the Tonghui River pier.

During this period, the officials and officials of the Tonghui River Wharf all discovered the convoy, but after they came forward, they were persuaded by Kim Hyun to let them go.

The convoy followed the crowd to the edge of the pier, and even in the cold of winter, the Tonghui River was extremely busy.

The group of people dressed in coarse linen clothes came to the dock, and after the wooden signs were verified by the officials, the officials next to them were given them an iron pickaxe.

The people who got the iron pickaxes tied the soles of their feet with the straw ropes next to them, and then began to walk down the dock one by one, came to the ice, and walked carefully to the middle of the ice.

"What are they going to do?" Zhu Ciran asked curiously, but Jin Xuan said calmly: "Dig the ice and carve out a channel for the ship to return." ”

Saying that, Kim Hyun explained to Zhu Ciran:

"The canal is an important waterway for the south-to-north grain diversion of the Ming Dynasty, so the imperial court attaches great importance to the canal transportation."

"However, every year when winter comes, the northern canal will be covered with a thick layer of ice, and even the canal south of the Yangtze River will encounter ice from time to time, hindering the passage of boats."

Therefore, in order to prevent freezing on the way back, generally before the end of October every year, the ships transporting grain from the south to the north will unload the goods as soon as possible after arriving at the destination, and the empty ships will rush back, which is called "returning to the air". ”

"If the river isn't completely frozen, you can use a pickaxe to smash the ice and dredge the river to allow boats to pass."

"If we are unfortunate enough to catch the freezing period, then the boat can only run aground on the Grand Canal, wait until the next year's ice and snow melt and then recuperate and return to the south."

"But waiting until you have a break to return will not only become very costly, but you will also miss the transportation task."

"Therefore, the south will generally send other ships north first after the ships can be navigated in the spring of the following year to minimize losses."

"In the past two years, due to the severe drought in the north, the Cao transport ships have had to insist on transporting grain north, so it is a big project to dig the ice and keep it all the time."

"Even in winter, the grain ships in the south will go north by sea, take the Lu River into Beizhili, and then unload the goods and use small boats to transport grain to the wharf along the Yuhe River."

Jin Xuan said, and also motioned for Zhu Ciran to get out of the car, and took Zhu Ciran to the dock under the arch guard of more than 100 soldiers.

When they looked down, they could see tens of thousands of people standing on the ice, occasionally smashing the frozen ice with iron pickaxes, and beside them someone netting out the broken ice with something.

In this way, two rivers that were no more than one zhang wide were barely guaranteed, and in the middle of the river, boats six or seven feet wide and two zhang carried bags of grain to pass.

Most of the people on the ice were wearing a layer of cotton clothes, but some of them were simply dressed in coarse linen clothes like the man just now.

They are faster and more diligent than the man in cotton clothes wielding an iron pick.

"It's so cold, how much money can they make a day......

The cold wind blew Zhu Ciran's cheeks red, and he held the small copper stove handed by the eunuch in his hand.

"If there is no deduction, it is fifty wen, and if you rent clothes, it will only be forty wen." Jin Xuan looked at the people working on the ice and calmly spoke to Zhu Ciran.

"Is that all?" Zhu Ciran was a little surprised, after all, although he was small, he also had a monthly salary of one hundred taels a month, and on weekdays, he rewarded the little eunuch with a few taels of silver and a few taels of silver.

"Your Highness now knows how the life of the people is, right?" Kim Hyun said, and admonished:

"The few taels of silver that His Highness gave the eunuch at will are enough to recruit hundreds of people to work hard for a day in this cold winter against the cold wind and ice water."

"If it weren't for King Qi's deduction of miscellaneous items and various taxes, their group of people would have to pay more than a dozen yuan in taxes for a day of work, and they could only get more than twenty yuan."

"Twenties......" Jin Xuan sighed, while Zhu Ciran saw that there were even some children who were twelve or thirteen years old, eight or nine years old on the ice.

They weren't much older than Zhu Ciran, but they walked around on the ice with a basket of things on their backs.

When they heard the call of the people, they hurriedly ran over, and the people opened the basket, took out a roasted sweet potato from it, and gave the children a penny.

The child who got the money carefully packed it up, and the smile on his face was very happy.

"Don't they read?" Zhu Ciran pointed to the group of children, but Kim Xuan said:

"They should have studied in government education, but they can't afford to pay the miscellaneous fees for government education, and their parents are both making a living on both sides of the strait, and among those people, it may be their parents."

Kim Hyun pointed to some middle-aged couples on both sides of the canal with roasted sweet potato stoves, but his words suddenly relaxed a lot:

"They were all people's husbands, but the emperor taught them how to roast sweet potatoes for free, and they sold stoves and carts for roasting sweet potatoes cheaply, so they were able to make a living."

"There are no less than thousands of people like them in Beijing."

"In addition, I heard that His Royal Highness King Qi is already preparing to rectify the official school, and I hope that after the official school is rectified, these children like His Royal Highness can go to school to study, so as to reduce the burden on the family."

"Hmm......" Zhu Ciran nodded ignorantly, and he could feel that Jin Xuan's long-suppressed mood was rare to relax.

Although he didn't know what his Uncle Qi was doing, it seemed that after these things were done, the lives of these people in front of him would be better.

Thinking so, he turned his head to look at the ice on the dock of the Tonghui River again, looking at the children as big as him walking back and forth with more than a dozen catties of sweet potatoes on their backs, and he had an indescribable feeling in his heart......

It's still six o'clock in the afternoon

(End of chapter)