Husband and wife night talk,

Zhu Di and the three listened to the root of the wall.

Su Yang continued to talk under the urging of the little girl.

"At that time, there was a lot of noise at the scene, and the grandfather didn't hear it clearly for a while, so he said to the officials and ordered: 'Come on, go to the Hubu Treasury and get hundreds of hoes to distribute to the people, how can the peasants lose their farm tools.' ”

"It turns out that in order to encourage the common people to reclaim wasteland and resume production, Grandpa Tai issued many encouraging policies. For example, as long as the peasants return to their hometowns to reclaim the wasteland, then this wasteland is yours, not only that, but the imperial court also gives subsidies and distributes hoes, seeds, cattle and donkeys and other production materials, so the imperial court has built a lot of agricultural tools for this purpose, which are stored in the large treasury of the household department. ”

Hearing this, Zhu Di nodded subconsciously.

Because Grandpa Tai really loves the people like a son, in order to encourage the people to cultivate the land and reclaim the wasteland, he has also done a lot of benevolent and good deeds in Su Yang's mouth.

At this point, Zhu Di still has the impression that Su Yang is telling the truth.

"Then the officials took hundreds of hoes from the treasury of the household department and distributed them to the peasants present one by one, and the great grandfather thought, "He is kind to the people, and these people will surely praise themselves greatly, so he asked: 'Fathers, these hoes that I have waited for, can you still have them in your hands, just like your original hoes?' ”

"After the grandfather said this, he waited for the people to kneel down and sing praises to him, and the officials next to him were also looking forward to it with a smile on their faces, who knew that the people were very real, and said: 'The emperor, this is different from our hoe, our hoe is longer than this, the emperor gave us this hoe, the people of the government have already issued it a few days ago, but this hoe is too short and useless, and we can't do farm work at all, so we can only go to the river to find our own hoe." ”

Is the hoe too short and too unused?

Or do you have to fish for your own hoe in the river?

What the hell is this?

Zhu Di was stunned, looked at Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaoxu, and the two brothers shook their heads in unison.

The father and son were full of confusion, and they didn't understand what kind of medicine was sold in Suyang's gourd.

"When the great grandfather heard this, he was immediately surprised, how could there be such a strange thing, let's see how much longer your hoe can grow than my hair, so he shouted to the servants: 'Come on, you go down, get the hoe up for me, and see if what the people say is true!' ”

"When the guards accompanying him heard the order, he immediately jumped into the moat against the cold, and after a while, he really fished up dozens of hoes, and the grandfather took it in his hand and looked at it, and then compared it with the hoe in the government treasury, it was really longer than the one issued by the imperial court, and it was the iron part of the head of the hoe, which was much longer."

"Grandpa Tai is such a wise and martial character, comparing the two hoes, he immediately understood the cattiness, and he was immediately furious......

Su Yang paused strategically, and then asked with a smile: "Xiaowan, why do you say that Grandpa Tai is angry?"

The little girl was stunned when she heard this, and the three of them at the root of the wall also fell into deep thought.

Then Zhu Wanqiu recalled Su Yang's scolding that day, and immediately reacted.

"Xianggong, are you saying that those officials deliberately threw the people's hoes and farm tools into the river for corruption?"

"That's right!" Su Yang smiled, "It was Grandpa Tai who issued the instructions of the government to issue farm tools to farmers in order to encourage the reclamation of wasteland, so that the local officials found a means to make a fortune. ”

"The imperial court said that it encouraged reclamation, and which states and counties cultivated more, they would receive more subsidies from the imperial court, and they also set up models in the whole country and were greatly rewarded; If there is little reclamation in any prefecture or county, the imperial court will send a large number of officials to inspect the local area to see whether the wasteland has been reclaimed and whether the state and county officials have vigorously promoted the emperor's policy. ”

"As a result, there are some 'brain-active' magistrates, who not only want to be rewarded by the imperial court, but also want to put these subsidies into their own pockets, and can also avoid the imperial court sending ministers to investigate, wouldn't it be more than one stone."

"So what's the idea? As soon as these Fuzhou and county officials turned their minds, they came up with a good idea, they used the silver issued by the imperial court to create a large number of defective agricultural tools, and forcibly distributed them to the people, and the silver saved naturally went into their pockets! ”

"And those defective farmers have short, some rotten, the people use these farm tools, the farm work that can be done in one day, now it can be done in three days, of course they don't want to use it, but the people don't have to do it, how can the local officials continue to find an excuse to continue to ask the court for subsidies and continue to be corrupt?"

"The common people refused to use it, so the local officials forced them to use it, snatched away all the original hoes, shovels and other farm tools of the common people, and forcibly issued them the inferior farm tools of the imperial court, as for the original farm tools of the common people, they were either hidden by the government or thrown into the river, in short, you can't find it, you have to use it if you don't use it, and you can't delay the officials' plans to make a fortune!"

Zhu Wanqiu was dumbfounded when she heard it, and for the first time she saw the methods of official corruption!

And the father and son at the root of the wall were already full of anger, especially Zhu Di, the king of Yan, who almost scolded him with a "bastard", but fortunately, Zhu Gaoxu covered his dog's mouth in time.

Zhu Di's face was full of iron, and he sat on the ground in silence.

It wasn't until this moment that he finally understood why Su Yang was telling this story!

In order to encourage agriculture and farming, Grandpa Tai deliberately implemented such a benevolent and good deed, but what was the final result?

Did the common people get any benefit?

Not at all!

Instead of benefiting from it, it delayed the spring ploughing plan!

On the contrary, it was those corrupt officials who were killed by God, who borrowed this benevolent and good deed, and made a lot of money from it, and ate a mouth full of oil!

What a bastard!

As for whether this story is true or not, it doesn't matter that much.

Because Su Yang just wants to borrow this story to expose the ugly faces of those corrupt officials in the Ming court!

But what does this have to do with Zhu Yunwen?

Zhu Di's heart moved, forcibly held back the anger in his heart, and continued to listen.

Su Yang's voice sounded, and his tone was a little low.

"That's why I said, Zhu Yunwen sits on that dragon chair, and the people's lives will not only be better, but more sad!"

Zhu Di's pupils shrank suddenly, and he faintly had some thoughts.

"The reason is very simple, Zhu Yunwen is a scholar emperor who idealizes everything!"

"Let's say that he is a faint king, he really can't be counted, after all, people still pretend to be ordinary people in their hearts, and after he ascended the throne, he implemented various benevolent and good deeds!"

"But the problem is that he is too idealistic, thinking that these benevolent and good deeds will be implemented, and they will really fall on the heads of the people!"

"However, this is not the case, during the Hongwu period, the grandfather cracked down on official corruption so severely, and there are still many corrupt officials and corrupt officials, who use various policies of the imperial court for personal gain, not to mention that after the new emperor ascends the throne?"

"Our new emperors, Your Majesty, are 'kind-hearted', officials in the Hongwu period were severely punished for their crimes, and when they arrived at Zhu Yunwen, they became 'crimes reduced by one degree', as long as they are not heinous crimes, they can be punished lightly, which will undoubtedly promote the arrogance of officials and gentry to be corrupt and take bribes!"

"Look at what kind of people are around Zhu Yunwen, let go of the auxiliary ministers left by his grandfather, and reuse some scholars and talents who are also on paper, which determines that no matter whether their intentions are good or bad, the common people will not be able to get any benefits, and they will only cheapen those officials and gentlemen!"

"Emperor Scholar, Xiucai Imperial Court, will they care about the lives of the common people?"