What is the crux of the famine?

Speaking of natural disasters, it is just an introduction.

The real problem should come from the fact that in the 100 years since the establishment of the Dragon Dynasty, the land of the rich nobles in various places was annexed, and a small number of people controlled 90% of the land, and the common people had no land of their own, so they had to rent the landlord's land with extremely high rents.

Even in the case of a bumper harvest year, it is enough to live, and after a busy year, there is no even food in stock, which leads to the fact that whenever there is a natural disaster, the people at the bottom have no emergency food at home.

The root of the problem is still in this exploitation of capital!

Thinking of this, Chen Mu felt that he must take advantage of this famine to solve this root problem, otherwise, the people will be displaced in the event of a natural disaster, and the country will be dragged down sooner or later.

"You go down first."

"Yes."

After the matter of the Ministry of Works' Shangshu was over, the entire Shangshu room fell silent again.

It's dusk, but for some reason, the afterglow of late autumn is refracted in people's eyes, always giving people a feeling of depression.

The autumn breeze was bleak, Chen Mu carried the stool by himself, came to the house and sat down, closed his eyes and listened to the autumn mood and listened to the wind, speaking of which, he was a little tired after all.

"Your Highness, the weather is cold, let's send you back to the palace in the west night."

I don't know when, the girl in the west night suddenly appeared next to her, speaking of which, Chen Mu finally regarded this girl as a godsister, and never asked him to abide by too many palace etiquette.

Chen Mu glanced at the little girl's face and said with a smile: "Girl, who bullied you?"

Nishiya shook his head.

"What's wrong with that? Crying and mourning. ”

Xi Ye finally couldn't bear the guilt in his heart, and knelt down directly towards Chen Mu: "Your Highness, I'm sorry!"

Next, Xiye told Chen Mu everything that happened in the afternoon, the prince was her savior, even if the prince didn't know, she had to say it to her face to ask for forgiveness.

More importantly, if Brother Mo told him to the prince one day, how would he face it? Therefore, it is better to be sincere, so that not only will not make the prince angry, but can exchange sincerity for more goodwill.

Sure enough, after hearing this, His Highness saw his crying expression, not only did he not get angry, but rubbed his head dotingly.

"After all, you suddenly jumped into this sea of eunuchs, it's normal to not understand, get up, it's cold on the ground."

Xiye smiled obediently, and then said, "Your Highness, do you want Xiye to rub your shoulders for you?" Xiye used to rub it often for the elders in the family, and it was very comfortable. ”

Now that he was idle, Chen Mu smiled and waved his hand: "Come, let this palace try your skills."

"Okay."

As he spoke, Xiye ran behind the prince and stretched out his hand to pinch it.

This is such a close encounter with a man with a different surname in the West Night, especially ...... is still His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and even more so at this moment, the Crown Prince is still closed, and she can clearly appreciate the contours of his eyebrows and eyes.

Pinching and pinching, Xiye's face became a little hot.

Sometimes in the East Palace, when she sees His Royal Highness embracing the crown princess, in fact, in her heart, she thinks about it...... I was held like that by the prince.

Thinking of this, the corners of Xiye's mouth showed a hint of shyness, in terms of appearance, he is not ugly at night, as for this chest......

Xiye looked down at this Ma Pingchuan, and in the end, the reason was pushed to age, and it is estimated that it will grow in a few years.

Of course, when he looked at the calluses and scars on his hands, he couldn't help but feel a little inferior, he was only a slave, compared to His Royal Highness, I am afraid that I can only sneak a few glances like this in this life.

"What are you giggling at there?"

Thinking too much, he waited for the west night to look at the prince again, and at this time he was looking at himself with a strange look.

"I didn't ...... It's nothing. ”

"By the way, Mo Xun has taught you to read recently, how are you doing?"

"Brother Mo specially found a private school gentleman for Xiye, and he can basically recognize all the words."

Chen Mu nodded with satisfaction, then got up and walked towards the bookshelf, rummaged for a long time, and then walked back with a book.

"Take this book and read it, you are now in the army, and you can read and write, if you can learn a little bit of the things in this book, I can't say that you will be able to mix with official positions such as generals in the future."

Xiye looked at the four big characters on the book curiously: "Sun Tzu ......"

"The Art of War should be read in succession."

Xiye took the book and smiled: "Okay, what His Highness ordered, Xiye will definitely do!"

Seeing that it was getting late, Chen Mu slowly got up: "Walked back to the palace."

"Oh...... Good. ”

In the night, after Chen Mu fell asleep, Xi Ye found an oil lamp, and sat in front of the door in a daze, and after a while, she suddenly remembered the book that His Royal Highness gave her before.

When I had nothing to do, I took it out and looked at it.

It was meant to pass the time, but when I watched it a little, I was instantly attracted by one of the philosophical thoughts.

"Potential? Most of the generals who are good at fighting can use the momentum and take advantage of the situation? Bravado? ”

In the silence of the night, the west night was very serious about what the book said.

No one knows, but I'm afraid that even the initiator Chen Mu won't know how much impact today's book donation will have on the life of this slave woman.

The next day.

Chen Mu began to deal with the famine that spread throughout Jiangbei.

The purpose of Chen Mu this time is not only to provide disaster relief, but also to solve the problem of land annexation that has been plagued for thousands of years by taking advantage of the famine.

This thing is the real culprit of the demise of every feudal dynasty, and it is also the root cause of the current misery of the people of the Long Dynasty.

Why is it that a dynasty is unprecedentedly powerful in the first two generations of emperors? That's because social resources have been reshuffled, and the cards dealt to everyone's hand are about the same, and there is not much class difference.

If the problem of land annexation can be solved this time, then the Dragon Dynasty may be able to move towards the road of Zhongxing in a short period of time!

But at this time, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu took a piece of text and suddenly came to the Shangshufang.

"Minister Zhang Zuo, meet Your Highness!"

Chen Mu said lightly: "What's wrong?"

Zhang Zuo's face was solemn, and then he presented it to Chen Mu's table, without giving Chen Mu any face: "This is the policy of destroying the country, and I ask Your Highness to take back your life and think again."

As soon as he heard this, Chen Mu immediately clapped his hands and said angrily: "This palace told you to do it, you just took the order, where did you get so much nonsense!"

The people of the Liu Party scolded themselves, but now why are their own people starting to choke themselves? Is this left deliberately giving himself this different feeling to attract his attention?

Zhang Zuo did not retreat, but still said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, do you know how ridiculous this reclamation order you wrote? There are millions of peasants in Jiangbei, do you think that the landlord's land rent is too high now, and the people can't eat enough, so they simply dig out millions of acres of land, not to mention whether it can work, which is extremely manpower and material resources, even if His Royal Highness smashes the entire treasury into it, I am afraid it will not be enough! ”

"Your Highness, don't come nonsense, let's distribute money first and raise food for disaster relief!"