The auspicious day chosen by Taishi Ling is five days later. At that time, Emperor Wu of Zhou would take the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty and his sons to the fields on the outskirts of the capital to plant seedlings.

Every year during the spring ploughing period, Emperor Wu of Zhou would take his ministers and sons to the fields to plant seedlings. This was an activity made up by Emperor Wu of Zhou himself, in order to let the people know that the imperial court attached great importance to spring ploughing.

Although this is a bit pretentious, the people are naturally very moved when they see that the emperor attaches so much importance to spring ploughing.

Spring ploughing is related to the harvest of grain in a year. Every year when spring ploughing, farmers are very concerned. Now seeing that the emperor cares so much about spring ploughing, the people will naturally treat spring ploughing more seriously.

In addition to this aspect, the imperial court also showed importance to spring ploughing in other aspects. For example, if the grain seeds of the common people do not produce good seedlings, they can "borrow" good seedlings from the local yamen. If the grain seeds at home are gone, or if they are broken, they can also be "borrowed" from the local yamen. When the grain is harvested, it is enough to repay the account on credit.

This "credit loan" was set by the first emperor. When the Great Zhou Dynasty was first established, in many places, not to mention grain, even the seeds of grain were almost eaten. Many of the food seeds were destroyed.

In the ten or twenty years before the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there were either natural disasters or man-made disasters, and in addition to the wars fought every year, food was very scarce. At that time, the people were dying of hunger and had to eat the grain as seeds.

In the first year of the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the first emperor ordered the yamen in various places to report how much surplus grain was in the local granary and how many grain seeds there were. At that time, the number of reports was surprisingly small.

In order to allow the people to have seeds, the first emperor was very tough at that time to ask the family of gate valves to donate grain seeds. Of course, these people are not willing to donate, and it has nothing to do with whether the people have food to grow or not, whether they have food to eat, whether they will starve to death or not.

The Xie family was the first to take the initiative to donate food seeds. It stands to reason that if the Xie family donated, other families should also donate, but these families wanted to donate grain seeds in exchange for benefits with the imperial court, so they delayed donating.

Naturally, the imperial court ignored the idea that these families wanted to exchange benefits. There is no benefit, and the families are certainly not willing to donate. The first emperor directly ordered them to be arrested and put in prison, and let their families take grain seeds to ransom people. If you don't give food seeds, then it's always closed.

When they are locked up, they are not fed, so that they can deeply experience the feeling of hunger. If, within the specified period, there is still no one in their family to ransom people with grain seeds, then they will have only one end - death.

At first, these people thought that the first emperor was just scaring and scaring them, and did not dare to kill them, but the first emperor really killed them, and they were dragged to the entrance of the vegetable market and killed in front of the people all over the world.

At that time, he killed a lot of people, and they were all the heads of the gate valve family.

The first emperor saluted and then the soldiers, and politely asked these families to donate seeds. If they don't agree, then he'll have to do it.

Before the establishment of the Great Zhou, the first emperor led his troops to fight countless battles, large and small, and was a person who came out of the sea of blood in the mountain of corpses. Moreover, on the battlefield, he has seen all kinds of people, and if these gate valve families want to play tricks in front of him, it is up to him to ignore them.

The first emperor was a decisive person, and he killed when he said he would, and he showed no mercy at all. When the Great Zhou Dynasty was first established, those gate valve families saw that the first emperor was from the grassroots, so they thought that he was very good at handling and clamping, but they were the ones who were punished.

Because of the donation of grain seeds, the first emperor killed many people from the gate valve family, which naturally angered them. Just when they wanted to take revenge on the first emperor, the first emperor directly sent troops to suppress it.

Although these gate lord families are very powerful and have their own tribes, how can their tribes be compared with the court soldiers who have experienced a hundred battles.

Most of the families who were unwilling to donate food seeds were killed by the emperor, and those who were killed were afraid. They believed that if they did not obediently donate food seeds, they would be destroyed by the emperor.

In order to avoid the disaster of annihilation, they did not dare to hesitate any longer and obediently donated food seeds. Since then, the court has asked them to donate things, or let them do other things, and they dare not take Joe again.

Until now, every year, the gate valve family will take the initiative to donate some good grain seeds. In fact, after Emperor Wu of Zhou ascended the throne, the imperial court and the local yamen had a lot of grain seeds. Emperor Wu of Zhou did not force the gate valve family to donate food seeds like the first emperor, but these gate valve families took the initiative to donate very obediently.

Compared with the first emperor, the gate valve family in the capital was more afraid of Emperor Wu of Zhou.

Don't look at Emperor Zhou Wudi always smiling, but he said that if he changed his face, he would change his face, and he didn't give them a chance to react at all. By the time they reacted, disaster was already on the horizon.

Before the first emperor did something, he would salute first, and then the soldiers. However, Emperor Wu of Zhou is not, he is the first soldier and then the salute. The first emperor was ruthless, and Emperor Wu of Zhou was even more ruthless. The most terrifying thing is that Emperor Wu of Zhou is still very smart, if the gate valve family wants to be smart in front of him, it is tantamount to an axe.

You can't play intrigue and trickery, and you can't beat it hard, and the gate valve families can only be obedient in front of Emperor Wu of Zhou. Fortunately, Emperor Wu of Zhou did not suppress them, as long as they did not do too much, Emperor Wu of Zhou would generally turn a blind eye.

Back then, when the first emperor and their father and son established the Great Zhou, the gate lord family in the capital saw that their father and son were farmers, and thought that they were easy to handle, so they decided to let their father and son be puppets in their hands, and even the Xie family thought so.

After they saw the methods of the first emperor and Emperor Wu of Zhou, they didn't dare to underestimate the first emperor and them, nor did they dare to show off their might in front of them by relying on their status as a family, or threaten or anything.

The family of the gate lords in the capital was completely afraid that Emperor Wu of Zhou was the year when the first empress died of illness, and Emperor Wu of Zhou ordered the killing of many eunuchs and palace maids, as well as concubines.

These people were all eyeliners inserted in the palace by the gate valve family, and they were pulled out at that time.

In addition to a purge in the palace, there was also a purge in the officialdom, and many officials were eliminated. These officials were either beheaded or exiled and imprisoned. These officials are all members of the gate valve family, or they have been carefully cultivated.

Emperor Wu of Zhou directly said to these gate valve families with a smile in the early court, don't be smart in front of him, let alone make small moves in front of him, and don't arrange some people under his nose. When he's in a good mood, he doesn't care. However, when you're in a bad mood, don't blame him for being ruthless.

In the morning of that day, many people were so frightened that their faces were like earth, and their legs were weak. When the morning court ended, many people were directly paralyzed on the ground in fright, unable to stand up for a long time.

Since this incident, the gate valve family has not dared to test Emperor Wu Zhou's bottom line again. Because the consequences of temptation are not something they can bear.

Over the years, the gate valve families have gradually figured out where Emperor Wu Zhou's bottom line is, so they didn't dare to do big things.

In addition to grain seeds, the first emperor also forced the gate valve family to donate land.

These gate valve families originally forcibly occupied a lot of land. Taking advantage of the great chaos in the previous dynasty, they occupied a lot of fields, so that the people had no land to plant.

The first emperor forcibly took back a lot of land from them and distributed it to the people to plant. Emperor Xian and Emperor Wu of Zhou also encouraged the people to open up pits and wasteland. The land that has been opened up belongs to the people who have opened up the wasteland themselves, and will not be taken away by the yamen. In addition to this, the local yamen will also reward the pioneers, such as grain, seeds, and exemption from paying taxes for three years. By the way, one of the biggest benefits is that you can settle down.

Because of the war, many displaced people have appeared in various places. These displaced people are on the move and have no fixed place to live.

When the Great Zhou Dynasty was first established, there were no fewer people in the capital. In the former dynasty, at its peak, the population of the capital was more than one million. However, at the beginning of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the capital had a population of only two or three hundred thousand, only one-fifth of the population of the previous dynasty.

In order to increase the population of various places, the first emperor formulated a policy. As long as the displaced people reclaim their fields and live there for a year, they can settle in the local area.

Because of this policy, the displaced people did not move around, but stayed in the local area and actively cultivated their fields. This not only increased the local population, but also added a lot of arable land.

So far, five to six million hectares of cultivated land have been reclaimed in the Great Zhou. At first glance, this number sounds like a lot, but it's not much. According to the total population of the Great Zhou, it did not reach the point where everyone had arable land.

In fact, during the most prosperous period of the previous dynasty, more than 7 million hectares of cultivated land were reclaimed. However, due to wars and natural disasters, much of the cultivated land was destroyed. Most of these destroyed farmlands have been turned into useless wasteland that can no longer be restored to farmland.

At the beginning of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there were only two or three million hectares of arable land that could grow grain. After more than ten years of hard work, the cultivated land of Dazhou has tripled, turning into five or six million hectares. Also, the population has doubled. However, it is still a lot short of the goal that Emperor Wu Zhou wants.

Emperor Wu of Zhou and He Xiang decided to recuperate for another five years, when the arable land and population would double again. This is the reason why He Xiang said to Shen Hu and them before why they couldn't attack Shu in the past five years.

The next five years will be very important for Da Zhou. As long as in these five years, the population, arable land, and grain will reach the goal set by Emperor Wu of Zhou. Then, it is no problem to recover Shu land next. Also, there was no big problem in resisting the Huns.

Having said that, of course, the first emperor encouraged the people to reclaim wasteland, and he himself took the lead and led Emperor Wu of Zhou and his soldiers to reclaim several acres of land.

The fields that Emperor Wu of Zhou plows and transplants in spring every year are reclaimed by their father and son.

Of course, Emperor Wu of Zhou also asked the crown prince and the acting king to reclaim a field of their own.

Emperor Wu of Zhou stipulated that any adult prince must reclaim a piece of land of his own within a year. If they have more grain in the fields they have cultivated, they will be rewarded.

The fields reclaimed by him and the first emperor are quite fertile, and the annual grain production is quite large.

Whenever he had time, Emperor Wu of Zhou would come to these fields to check the situation. If there are a lot of weeds growing in the field, he will go down to the field himself to weed. If there are worms, he will also personally go to the field to get rid of the worms. When it was time for the harvest, he also went down to the field to cut the rice himself.

When the first emperor was alive, he often said that they were farmers, and they could not forget their roots, let alone how to farm. Even if you become an emperor, you can't forget these, because this is the root of their Zhao family. If their Zhao family loses their country in the future, they can go back and continue to farm as farmers to support themselves.

When Emperor Wu of Zhou was a child, he often helped his family do farm work, and he was a good hand at farm work from childhood to adulthood. Naturally, he also had to ask his sons to do farm work from an early age.

All the princes, except for the youngest son Zhao Yao, did not go to the field to do farm work. The other princes do it every year, and they do it well. If they don't do well, Emperor Wu of Zhou will beat them unceremoniously.

The three princes were almost killed by Emperor Wu of Zhou because they were not good at doing farm work. Also, when they were doing farm work in the fields, if they dared to complain about being tired and complaining, Emperor Wu of Zhou would also beat them.

The emperor and the princes all worked in the fields, and the ministers naturally did too. Although Emperor Wu of Zhou did not force the ministers to learn from them, the ministers did not dare not learn to do it.

They are certainly not as good at farming as farmers, but they can at least be able to farm. In addition, they can deeply understand the difficulties of farmers, and they also understand that every grain of grain is not easy to come by.

The most down-to-earth emperor.

Today's April Fool's Day, have the old irons been deceived?

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