Chapter 124: Agricultural Law is Born!
Outside the imperial city, ten young men with yellow mud on their legs lingered outside the palace gate with nervous expressions.
They were all dusty, and they seemed to have come from far away.
Seeing them wandering around, the guards guarding the palace could not stand, and one of the guards walked over calmly, and after a question, one of them hurriedly took out a piece of silk paper from his arms.
The silk paper is the paper used by the emperor, and it is summoned by the emperor at first glance.
Recently, the emperor and even beggars have personally met with thousands of people, and this time he summoned the mud legs, and the guards have long been surprised.
The group was successfully released into the palace by the guards, but the ten people were shocked.
The guards took them directly to the inner hall where the emperor's affairs were located, and after waiting outside for a while, and after the guards went in to pass the word, it was useless in a few blinks of an eye, and the group heard the guards say:
"Go in, the emperor has been waiting for you for a long time."
These ten people are the winners of the previous imperial examination in Yangzhou City.
Ma Changyuan, who had already extinguished his desire to get ahead, suddenly received a handwritten letter from the emperor, and Ma Changchang thought that he hadn't woken up yet.
Standing in the palace this time, oh no, standing in front of Yuwen Shihong, Ma Changchang still woke up like a dream, and he couldn't come to his senses for a long time.
The stunned crowd forgot to even salute, just stood there so stupidly, Yuwen Shihong smiled helplessly, and took the lead in opening his mouth politely:
"I've been busy lately, so I summoned you too late, but I haven't forgotten you."
Ma Changchang finally "woke up", and when he heard the emperor talking to him, he hurriedly knelt on the ground and said "Long live the emperor" in a trembling voice.
"Excuse me," Yuwen Shihong waved his hand, and went straight to the point with the intention of a quick decision:
"I not only tried the imperial examination in Yangzhou City, intending to give scholars a way to rise, but also tried to state state land in Yangzhou City, but both things failed."
"First, there were those who were bullied by the local gentry, and then there were all the fields that were given to the peasant households, and they were heavily endowed by the Taishou Mansion and humiliated by the landlords and gentry in the form of 'voluntary' 'returning' of the land, and voluntarily became tenants!"
Speaking of which, Yuwen Shihong punched the dragon case with a fist!
"How can this be true? I really thought I was a big Zhou country! The sky is high and the emperor is far away! Can't manage the place?! ”
Ma Changchang and the others hung their heads and listened silently, and when they heard that the emperor mentioned it, it was actually their personal pain!
From ancient times to the present day! The peasants are the ones who are bullied!
Now I heard with my own ears that the emperor was so angry about his "little things"!
Ma Changchang couldn't help but tremble with excitement, and when he came back to his senses, there were even two lines of unstoppable tears on his face.
"Your Majesty! The ancestors of the grass people have been farming for generations, and this has been ...... I've been used to it for a long time......"
"What a habit!" Yuwen Shihong turned around and shouted angrily:
"How can you be bullied after! Do you think you deserve to be bullied? Habit? Why are you accustomed to the wicked doing evil? ”
"I won't allow it!"
At this moment, Ma Changchang couldn't help but cry, and Cui Lin, Ma Zhou and others were also crying, crying snot and tears.
They look back on their lives in the past 30 years, and they are not anxious about food and clothing one day, and they are not even willing to order a fuel-efficient lamp at night!
Several people held a book in the moonlight and read it together!
During the day, I have to go to the landlord's land with the old father and mother at home, make a living as a tenant, and go through several deductions from the landlord when the harvest is harvested!
But......
What if they are not angry, they simply do not know what they can do to change this!
Except for forbearance, except for accepting the mandate of heaven, they have no way at all!
"I summoned you for the sake of Sinong Temple."
When they were almost crying, Yuwen Shihong handed them a piece of silk paper.
Seeing that they were reluctant to even use silk paper, they folded two stacks and stuffed them into their breast pockets, and then wiped their tears and snot with their sleeves.
Yuwen Shihong paused, and then continued:
"You are all farmers and even tenants, and no one knows the suffering of farmers and tenants better than you."
"I decided to set up Sinong Temple, and after the establishment of Sinong Temple, all counties across the country will set up county-level agricultural bureaus, and the cattle and donkeys and farm tools that farmers need to rent will be borrowed by the Si Agricultural Department free of charge."
"After the harvest, the grain production will be purchased by the Department of Agriculture at the market price."
"In addition, Sinong Temple will also set up state-owned grain stores in various places, assuming that the grain price of grain is five dollars a liter, then the purchase price of grain is also five dollars a liter, so as to benefit all farmers in the country, so that farmers will no longer be able to make ends meet, and work hard all year round, but even food and clothing have to worry!"
If this is really implemented, suppose the peasant family has 10 acres of land, and the annual grain yield is 100 stones, that is, 10,000 liters.
If all the grain production is sold, it can be sold for 50,000 yuan?
Fifty thousand dollars!
Ma Changchang has never seen so much money in his life!
And it's only been a year!
If the emperor's idea comes true! That day will really be more and more energetic!
No wonder the emperor was so anxious to be in Yangzhou City Juntian before, it turned out that the emperor was thinking so long-term!
"Don't worry about the surplus of grain purchased, there are many people who can't afford to eat meat in the Great Zhou Kingdom, and the surplus grain production can be led by Sinong Temple for animal husbandry and poultry breeding in addition to filling the treasury for half a year."
"Suppose the raised poultry eats five liters of millet and one liter of meat, then if the price of meat is thirty yuan a liter, the people of my Great Zhou Kingdom can also afford to eat meat!"
"Meat ......"
Just hearing this word, Ma Changyuan's saliva was more than tears and snot.
The last time I ate meat, it was still a matter of the previous life, maybe I have never eaten meat in my previous life, and eating a bird's egg every year is considered to be open meat.
"The emperor is wise!"
At this moment, they only have endless worship for Yuwen Shihong!
"Now that you have understood the purpose of the establishment of Sinong Temple, dare to ask you, can you have this ambition, from the establishment of Sinong Temple, and the subsequent implementation?"
Ma Changchang was immediately shocked! Summoned! It's for reuse!
Before, he never imagined that he could go from a farmer to the national capital, and he never thought about being an official!
Now it's just a "middle lift", and it is so used by the emperor!
No matter how timid you are, you shouldn't live up to the emperor's wisdom!
"The grass people have a shallow vision, and now they are fortunate in three lives! Listen to the emperor's personal statement! Suddenly, the skull is like a mouth, and it opens up overnight! ”
"Such a hero! If the emperor looks at the drafters! The grass people go to the soup and the fire! Don't give up! ”
"Never give up!" Everyone knelt down and said heroically.
"It's just ......" Thinking of the almost inexplicable status quo in Yangzhou City, Ma Changchang still dared to take the initiative to say:
"Your Majesty, you have also seen the scene of Yangzhou."
"Too stubborn at the top with harsh taxes, and the local gentry are so domineering below."
"It's going to be a lot of difficulty to implement your idea."