Zhao Shuo said this, and deliberately paused for a while.

looked at Chen Dong deeply.

"Your Majesty is thoughtful, the ancients went first before the grain and grass were moved, and the lower officials received His Majesty's teachings today."

"It's empty." Zhao Shuo waved his hand and said, "I don't want to hear these vain words from your mouth. ”

"I'll tell you right now that the court needs a capable minister in charge of grain, and you know what I'm looking for you for, right?"

After hearing this, Chen Dong lowered his head with some shame.

He thought he was upright.

I didn't expect Emperor Zhao to be more upright than himself.

He just flattered him, and he was rebuffed by the emperor on the spot.

At this moment, he no longer greeted, but said in shock: "Your Majesty wants to let the lower officials supervise the grain of the Great Song Dynasty." ”

"That's right, but I'll test you again."

"Your Majesty, please."

"After I asked you to build a granary, where are you going to collect grain from?"

Chen Dong's cheeks twitched, thinking to himself such a simple question, didn't Your Majesty treat me as a nerd who doesn't eat fireworks in the world?

Thinking about it, Chen Dong replied in 1510: "I should purchase from the DPRK businessman." ”

"In addition, a small part is levied from the people, according to the practice of the Great Song Dynasty, no, to be exact, it should be in accordance with the law set by His Majesty, the court and the people should collect grain, and they should pay an extra 20% of the grain and silver."

"Hmm." Zhao Shuo nodded.

He had only recently drawn up regulations for the supervision of grain.

The embarrassing thing is that the scholars and doctors of the Great Song Dynasty don't understand.

Now I understand that it is actually a weak scholar who is studying in the camp.

This Great Song!

It's so funny.

Zhao Shuo asked again: "Then you tell me that the main output of grain is a merchant or a farmer?" ”

Your Majesty the Emperor, I'm really confused!!

Since ancient times, Shinong industry and commerce!

The status of the merchant was clearly lower than that of the peasant.

According to the standard of the holy monarch to govern the world, the status of the peasants was second only to the scholars and doctors in the court.

After all, empires throughout history have had agriculture as their main tax revenue.

However, the status of farmers is higher than that of the latter two, which is obviously the ideal picture.

This is not the case.

Even so, Chen Dong replied affirmatively: "Your Majesty, grain is cultivated by farmers, farmers harvest abundantly, and merchants make profits, but it is just a goose plucking." ”

"Yes, yes, yes."

Zhao Shuo nodded one after another.

It can be seen that this Chen Dong is an angry young man.

With someone like him as a backer for the peasants, the self-esteem of the common people will rise.

"Where does the grain come from?"

"The land grows ...... in the land"

Chen Dong hurriedly retracted his words, and he suddenly found that his super high IQ was like a fool by the emperor.

This kind of question can be answered by any child caught in the Great Song Dynasty.

So the emperor asked one after another, what are you going to do?

Just when Chen Dong was embarrassed and confused.

Zhao Shuo gave Li Huai a look next to him.

Immediately, Li Huai took a land account book and handed it to His Royal Highness Chen Dong.

Chen Dong turned the first page tremblingly.

At the same time, the Emperor's narration also came!!

"If you look at the homepage, the treacherous minister Cai Jing worked as an errand for the imperial court, and he actually hoarded one million acres of fertile land, and it was all fertile land."

"The second is the eunuch Tong Guan, that guy is not a complete body, but a crazy accumulation of money, his corruption and silver are incalculable, and it is already a bad debt, but you see, how much good land has he occupied?"

"700,000 acres of fertile land."

When Zhao Shuo spoke. Chen Dong happened to see the sum of the land under the names of Cai Jing and Tong Guan.

In an instant, the whole person seemed to have been struck by lightning, and he was stunned like a dumb melon at a loss.

I was even more stunned!

It's so damning!

It's really hateful.

The unbalanced anger in Chen Dong's heart was instantly hooked up by Zhao Shuo.

I think that when he was young, his family only had half an acre of land.

It was all up to the mother to mend the seams and grow the grain.

In exchange for two taels of silver a year, I have to give him one tael.

Nourish his studies.

Ten years is like a day, and I have studied hard in the cold window.

He went from his hometown of Guidi to the capital to take the exam.

Take all the savings of the family at once.

Six taels of silver!

Once the title of the gold list, he could have gone to his hometown to be a county magistrate, but he wanted to change the country, and he resolutely stayed in the Central Plains to seek a six-grade civil official.

What to do is to be clerical.

Chen Dong clearly remembers his first year as an errand boy, riding a horse back to his hometown to visit relatives.

Half a month of trekking.

When he returned, his mother was gone.

His family's half an acre of land was also occupied by the local Haoqiang.

He went to the local county government to ask why.

Although he also has an official body, the county order does not bird him at all.

So angry, he returned to the Central Plains and kept writing to impeach the shady scenes of that place.

It's a pity that in the past five or six years, Song Huizong has been in power, and he is busy painting, drinking, and doing creative photos with gold medal technicians.

How can you care about the suffering of the people?

In addition, at that time, the Great Song Dynasty had already declared war with the Great Liao.

Civil uprisings in the territory have occurred one after another.

In fact, Chen Dong's impeachment was suppressed by officials at all levels.

As the saying goes, being poor is not terrible.

Incorruptibility is not terrible.

The scary thing is to take out a huge greed for comparison.

This time!

Chen Dong was completely furious.

Cai Jing alone owns more than one million acres of fertile land.

The Tongguan, who lost the battle and ate a basket, still has more than 700,000 acres.

Two people can feed 3.4 million Chen Dong.

The instantaneous gap provoked his vascular colleagues and burned with anger.

"You turn to the second page and take a look, there are still more than 100,000 acres of the king of Chaopu!"

"But that guy has been beheaded by me."

"You can also take a look at it later, this is the property of those corrupt officials and corrupt officials that I copied when I ascended the throne."

"I'm sure you'll feel something after reading it."

With Zhao Shuo's point.

Chen Dong looked at Tian Ji and sketched a map in his mind.

Those green fields, endless fertile fields.

It can stretch from Bianliang City to the south and northwest.

So the question is, so many fields are in the hands of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, how did the people of the Great Song Dynasty come over these years?

Only Chen Dong understands this, and only Zhao Shuo understands.

Zhao Shuo said: "After reading this, you should be able to understand why I am preparing the granary, right? ”

Chen Dong shook his head in confusion.

It's not that he doesn't understand, it's that he knows it very well.

But at this moment, he was completely stunned.

But soon Chen Dong nodded categorically.

Zhao Shuo said with satisfaction: "Build a granary and hoard the grain belonging to my Great Song Dynasty in the granary." ”

"In this way, those corrupt officials will have a lot less room to operate."

"Now, I'll tell you the truth."

"I think that nine out of ten of the officials in the court are clean now, and they are in collusion with the traitorous businessmen to seize profits from the people."

"Harm the people, force how many wives in the world to be separated, and families to be ruined."

"What's even more odious is that they control the channels through which the people can impeach from above."