Chapter 18: Subverting Cognition

Li Ming looked at the title deed in his hand and couldn't help but sneer.

He knew the land ownership thing all too well.

If he is a good person and returns the land deeds to these peasant women, it will not take three years, and these land deeds will be concentrated in the hands of a large family.

Land annexation, dynastic cycle law, every feudal dynasty can not avoid cancer.

Although this trial of the crown prince was only one month, Li Ming was thinking about the inheritance of eternity.

The so-called one who does not seek a lifetime is not enough to seek a moment!

"I won't issue the title deed, but I can plant the land for you, and you will all help me farm in the future!"

The woman raised her head and looked at the crown prince Li Ming boldly, didn't she say that the new county magistrate was the prince? How can she even see the thin land in her house?

"And you have to plant as I say, and you can only plant the crops I let you plant!"

The woman was stunned when she heard this, she didn't have so many rules even if she was a tenant farmer for a big family, can a prince on the other side know how to farm?

When the time comes, won't the whole family drink the northwest wind?

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, if you insist on this, the women might as well die in this hall to avoid more crimes!"

When the woman had finished speaking, she was about to hit the pillar by the side of the hall.

Li Ming had to signal to the officials, "Stop her!" ”

The people at this time are really rotten, and they don't care about your emperor and prince when they roll up!

"What are you anxious about, wait for me to finish, when the time comes, you will bump, I won't stop you!"

The woman was a little confused, the conditions you opened are so harsh, their family can't survive, what else is there to hear?

"For example, my rent is exempt from state taxes as long as you pay twenty taxes and pay my royal rent!"

The woman's eyes lit up when she heard this, she used to be a tenant farmer for others, 30% of the tax, 50% of the rent, and she only got 20% of the work in a year.

If it's really twenty taxes and one, whatever you grow by yourself will be enough to feed the family.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince won't lie to the people's women, right?"

"I'm going to lie to you, so why bother? Who are you worthy of me to deceive? ”

That's right, I'm just a folk woman, and someone else is a prince, deceiving? I think too much of myself.

"I haven't finished yet, if you cultivate strictly in the way I gave, the yield per mu of land will be at least thirty percent higher, if it is less than thirty percent, I will not only not charge you rent, but also make up the difference!"

The women opened their mouths widely, where is this prince, it is clearly Guanyin Bodhisattva sent by God to save them!

"Still bumping?"

The woman shook her head, there is such a condition of land planting, a fool can commit suicide!

"Then go back, go tell your folks, and then pick someone you can trust who can read and write, and sign and sign with the prince!"

After the woman left, Wu Yong came over worriedly.

"Your Highness, your subordinates understand that you want to perform quickly, but is this too much of a concession to the people?"

"Twenty taxes and one, this is such a low tax that has never been seen in all dynasties?"

Five percent of the agricultural tax is less? Li Ming could only say that he had no knowledge, and if he knew that there would be no agricultural tax at all in the future, he was afraid that his head would explode.

"You don't have to worry about this, Prince Ben knows it. This trial was a trial for them, but for Prince Ben, it was a test before taking charge of the artifact! ”

Li Ming showed unprecedented confidence, as if the crown prince had already sat firmly on the throne.

"The output can be increased by three percent, and the court will make up for the shortage, this kind of thing is known to the ministers of the court, I'm afraid it will be bad for you!"

Li Ming smiled, "Sancheng, do you think I will lose?" ”

"I'm still a conservative estimate, today's cultivation is too extensive, there is no intercropping, the natural yield is low, and the reasonable and scientific cultivation increases the yield by more than three percent!"

Although Li Ming said it with confidence, Wu Yong still couldn't believe it.

This is not to blame him, Li Ming has in mind the combination of experience handed down by thousands of years of farming people and modern science and technology, and the current agricultural technology is not only a star and a half.

"Don't worry about what you shouldn't think, arrange for someone to register the farmers who are willing to accept my conditions!"

Wu Yong nodded, "Yes, my subordinates will do it!" ”

As Li Ming expected, less than half a day after the woman returned, the landless peasants in the county town gathered towards the county government one after another.

Li Ming arranged for several clerks and set up a few tables in front of the county office, on which were pre-prepared notes.

Although the original county order was not good in every way, he was professional when it came to scraping.

The land that was scraped by him was also divided into upper, middle and lower grades according to the output of the lot, which invisibly helped Li Ming save the effort of measuring the land.

"Zhang Sheng, there's no problem with what you said above, right?" A yellow-faced and thin-skinned farmer asked eagerly to a white-shirted gentleman.

Zhang Sheng is a rare person in Guang'an County who has studied for two years, but unfortunately his family fell into the middle of the road, so he became no different from a homeless person.

But he still stubbornly wore a white shirt to show that his identity was different, although he had not been washed for a long time, the white shirt had become a "gray shirt".

Zhang Sheng looked at the generous conditions on the note, and thought about it over and over again, but he still didn't see any traps.

"If there is anything you don't understand, you can ask Prince Ben directly, but you'd better choose a representative to ask, otherwise it's a mess, and no one can hear clearly!"

Li Ming walked out of the county government and shouted loudly to the gathered homeless people.

Everyone looks at me, I look at you, and in the end, they unanimously elected Zhang Sheng, who can read and write, as a representative.

Zhang Sheng was very excited, although he had no fame, but contacting the prince was also a shortcut to becoming an official!

But at the moment, he is trusted by everyone, and he still has to ask clearly.

"Xiaomin Zhang Shengdou dares to ask Your Highness, what does the so-called cultivation according to His Highness mean here?"

Zhang Sheng read the notes carefully, and the words in them were very clear, the only thing that made people feel vague and had room for operation was this sentence "Cultivate according to what the prince said".

"It's literal! Your farming methods are too inefficient, your farming methods consume too much fertility of the land, plough for a year and raise a year, and some of the land is ploughed for a year and raised for two years! ”

"You don't know how to farm! And no one in the world knows how to farm better than me! ”

"So is there anything wrong with Prince Ben guiding you?"

As soon as Li Ming's words came out, there was an uproar in the audience, they were all old farmers who had been farming for decades, if they said anything else, they would naturally think that they were inferior to Li Ming.

But when it comes to farming, they are better than Li Ming, who was born with a golden key!

"It's about the livelihood of the people, does the prince have proof of what he said?"

Zhang Sheng is now out of the way, and the way to attract attention is not only to flatter.

What if the crown prince likes this kind of person who asks for his life for the people?

"Absolutely!"

In order to make these people obedient, Li Ming decided to subvert their cognition!