"However, have you ever thought that if the Ming Dynasty has more acres of land and more population, the taxes, silver, and labor collected by the imperial court will be less and less day by day?

Do you think Your Majesty will not be able to detect it? Or will His Royal Highness King Yan not notice it? ”

Hearing this, the gentry directly became uneasy.

Guo An sighed lightly, "Now, His Royal Highness King Yan has already noticed it!"

Ladies and gentlemen, what kind of person is the Korean Princess? Now, what a ...... end?"

"As long as there are meritorious people in your family, your family will last for a long time."

"We have also learned about those things that donate land, even if it is to donate 2,000 acres of fertile land, or even 5,000 acres of fertile land, how much money can you earn in a year?"

And you should also understand what this kind of act means to the court. As long as there is a slight mistake, the meritorious people in your family will inevitably be punished by His Majesty, and the future will be lost......"

"You are not short-sighted people, for the sake of such a little money, it is really worth it to take the future of those who are famous in your family, or even the future of your entire family?"

The expressions of Huang Bi, Zheng Jun and others changed again and again.

"Guo Changshi, this matter is a benefit given by the imperial court to the famous. Since ancient times, all families have been like this......"

Guo An smiled lightly, and then changed the topic, "Okay, we just found out about this, and I am worried that you have gone astray, so I can't help but remind you, so that you can have a number in your heart." ”

"Thank you, Guo Changshi, for still thinking about me."

Huang Bi, Zheng Jun and other gentry hurriedly said.

Guo An hurriedly smiled and said, "No hindrance, no hindrance, fellow villagers should be together, so as to avoid being bullied by outsiders!" ”

All the gentry breathed a sigh of relief, and a smile slowly appeared on their faces.

That's right, after all, Guo Changshi is also a gentry.

Guo An asked again: "Everyone, now that His Royal Highness King Yan's farm is on the right track,

Do you want to start a farm in your own township? Raising some chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep, and cows? ”

"Guo Changshi, can we really start a farm?"

Huang Bi, Zheng Jun and the others' eyes suddenly lit up, and their faces were full of anticipation.

Although they don't know the specific account books of the farm, they can guess how profitable it will be to start a farm just by looking at it every year, up and down the Yan Wanggong Palace, and the improvement of Yan Shanwei's meat.

"Naturally!"

Guo An nodded slightly, "Beiping Mansion is so big, just with the hands of the people in King Yan's Mansion, it will definitely not be able to cover it."

Moreover, most of the chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep on the farm have to be supplied to Yan Shanwei, or up and down the Yan Wangfu, and they cannot be sold to the people of Beiping Mansion.

After you set up a farm, the meat produced by the farm can be sold to the people of Peiping Province.

Presumably, you have also seen that according to the development of Beiping Mansion, within a few years, half of the people in Beiping Mansion, especially Wanping County, can eat meat twice in three days.

When you get there, you're going to make a lot of money! ”

"Thank you Guo Changshi!"

Huang Bi, Zheng Jun and others hurriedly thanked.

"No need to be so polite."

Guo An chuckled, "But although you are the major gentry of my Beiping Mansion, and the children of my family are also the leaders of my Ming scholars, it has taken a lot of effort and a lot of manpower and material resources to open a farm in my Yanwang Mansion, so that we have today's results."

If you want to learn from my Yanwangfu Farm, you also need to pay tuition to Yanwangfu.

Each family paid 2,000 yuan, and one or two people could go to learn how to start a farm.

These people can study for a year, and then they want to start a farm, or if several companies jointly start a farm, then you can wait! ”

"This ......"

Hearing the two thousand guan, some gentry's eyes flashed with a hint of embarrassment.

Although they have small assets in their family, they can't be such a loser!

However, Huang Bi and Zheng Jun directly responded to the gentry.

"Guo Changshi, don't worry, I'll send the money in a while! Plus, send two clever people to the farm to learn! ”

It's not easy to get involved with Yan Wangfu, don't say it's 2,000 guan, even if it's 10,000 guan, Huang Bi and Zheng Jun, the gentry with rich backgrounds, will grit their teeth and pay money.

"Hmm!"

Guo An nodded slightly, "If you don't study, it won't affect the start of the farm." You should also know that to start a farm is to raise some pigs and sheep in a place where the grass is abundant, so that these flocks can eat and drink well.

Just wait for them to grow fat and then slaughter them, they are full of treasures, enough to make a lot of money on the farm! ”

The faces of Huang Bi, Zheng Jun and the others instantly stiffened.

Huang Bi couldn't help but ask: "Guo Changshi, this farm raises pigs......"

"What's wrong?"

Guo An asked with a puzzled expression.

Huang Bi forced out a smiling face, "Thank you Guo Changshi for your teachings, the old man just thinks that killing pigs is a little too cruel!" ”

Guo An shook his head slowly, "Huang Yuanwai is too kind-hearted. Pigs are greedy, and they grow fast and fat.

When there is no meat in the owner's house, or if he wants to eat pigs, he will naturally kill it, and no one will be as kind-hearted as Huang Yuanwai! ”

Huang Bi, Zheng Jun and other gentry shivered together, and some gentry didn't know what to think of, and their faces turned pale directly.

Guo An sat on the side by himself, leisurely drinking herbal tea.

"Please also ask Guo Changshi to save me and wait!"

Suddenly, a gentry knelt down in front of Guo An and kowtowed repeatedly.

Seeing this, Huang Bi, Zheng Jun and other gentry also hurriedly got up and saluted respectfully at Guo An.

"We will take Guo Changshi as the leader, and ask Guo Changshi to save me."

"Forehead ......"

Guo An smiled faintly, "Didn't you misunderstand?" This official really wants to sell you the techniques of the farm, so that you can follow the Yanwang Mansion to start a farm, and you can make money, so that the people of Beiping Mansion can eat meat. ”

Huang Bi said: "Guo Changshi, don't play dumb riddles, we all understand what you mean." ”

Guo An was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized, "It's a farm...... Oh, no, it's a contribution? ”

Finally, don't pretend to be confused.

Huang Bi and Zheng Jun and the other gentry breathed a sigh of relief, and nodded again and again: "Guo Changshi Mingjian, we don't want to make that money.

It's just that, as you know, our gentry have a big family and more people.

When a Jinshi finally appeared in the family, naturally many clansmen or villagers would come to the door.

And for us, giving is just a small thing.

In addition, everyone is a relative, and it is not easy to refuse! ”

"This official also understands this matter!"

Guo An nodded slightly, "Since ancient times, every big family has been very grouped, and only in this way can we avoid being bullied by outsiders."

This is especially true in the countryside. ”

Huang Bi, Zheng Jun and other gentry subconsciously nodded straight.

However, if you accept the donations in a big way, you should also understand what impact it will have on the taxes of the Ming Dynasty.

One day, every one of you will have thousands of acres of fertile land, and there will be mountains of grain in your homes.

And the imperial court, even to those who are famous in your family, can't even give out the money, can you speculate what will happen? ”

The gentry were full of embarrassment, "But Guo Changshi, those who came to offer were either relatives or ...... from the township."

Guo An smiled faintly, "Have you ever heard the words that fighting rice to raise grace and bear rice to raise hatred?" ”

"This ......"

Huang Bi and Zheng Jun and other gentry couldn't help but be stunned.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the less favors there are, the more valuable they are. Sometimes, it is good to take proper care of the family and the village.

However, if you take care of it too much, you will be taken for granted.

In the end, no matter what you do, you may become not human inside and out......"

Saying that, Guo An got up directly, "Okay, that's all the official has to say, you can do it yourself!" ”

Huang Bi, Zheng Jun and other gentry were stunned, and then slowly got up to say goodbye and salute.

"The villain waits for the others to say goodbye!"

……

After these gentry left, Zhu Di came out of nowhere, looked at Guo An, and looked at him with a mocking expression.

"We didn't expect that Guo Qing would bluff people like this!"

Guo An saluted Zhu Di and said seriously: "Your Highness, Weichen has never deceived those gentry. ”

Zhu Di smiled and said, "Guo Qingyan is a gentry, and I am a farm, and in the end, ......."

As he spoke, Zhu Di was suddenly stunned and stared at Guo An with a solemn expression.

"Guo Qing, if peasant donations are prevalent, will there really be a big problem with taxes and labor in my Ming Dynasty?"

Guo An said: "Your Highness, do you know how many talents, lifters, jinshi, or officials are there in my Beiping Mansion now?" ”

"More than twenty."

Zhu Di said lightly.

Guo An continued to ask, "Your Highness, what if it is ten years later?" ”

Zhu Di replied: "Then it is sixty!" ”

Guo An nodded slightly, "Your Highness, Weichen has the courage to calculate, if a Xiucai can accommodate 2,000 mu of donation land under his name, 10,000 mu of donation land under the name of a person, and 50,000 mu of donation land under the name of Jinshi, as for those officials' homes, it depends on their official position."

In this way, with the prosperity of the academy, I Beiping Mansion Xiucai, Juren, and Jinshi continue to appear.

Last year, there were ten jinshi in my Beiping Mansion, and there were more than a dozen people, as for Xiucai, the fame is too small to count.

In this way, as long as they contribute to the wind of prosperity, they can take more than 600,000 acres of land, plus those few officials' homes.

Weichen counted less, and 700,000 acres of fertile land were contributed.

Then, ten years later, 20,000 hectares of fertile land will be contributed.

Your Royal Highness, now there should only be more than 60,000 hectares of fertile land in my Beiping Mansion, so it is less than 30%! ”

Zhu Di's expression became solemn directly.

Guo An continued: "The most important thing is that even if there are only 10,000 hectares of donated land, the taxes and labor added to the remaining farmers will be increased by 20%.

For those farmers, it was like the sky was falling.

As a result, more and more farmers will rush to donate ......."

"In this way, those who have achieved fame and are not officials have become moths on my Da Ming?"

Zhu Di said hatefully, "We must play the emperor's brother and father!" ”

Guo An hurriedly said: "Please also ask Your Highness to hide the name of Weichen!" ”

Zhu Di said: "Guo Qing is afraid of offending the gentry of the world? ”

Guo An nodded slightly, "Your Highness is wise." ”

"Those officials in the DPRK and China are really difficult."

Zhu Di nodded slightly.

Immediately, he walked down.

Half an hour later, a piece written by Zhu Di himself was sent directly to Jingshi Yingtiancheng.

And the gentry who returned from the Yanwang Palace, as soon as they returned home, hurriedly asked the housekeeper to withdraw two thousand yuan, and found two henchmen, after giving an explanation.

Let those two henchmen, with two thousand guan, be sent to the palace of King Yan.

……

(End of chapter)