Du is very busy these days.

Shu and Wu were incorporated into the Great Wei construction list at the same time.

This undoubtedly increased the workload of Du Pre, especially the situation in these two places, which are not very optimistic, the Hanzhong of Shu has almost been beaten into ruins, and Chengdu is better.

As for Wu here, Jingnan, Jiaozhou, Lujiang, Wuchang

There are too many places that have been reduced to ruins and damaged by the war.

As the head of the Ministry of Engineering, Du Yu only felt that his ears were buzzing every time he saw these recitals from all over the country that required construction and repair.

All parts of the Great Wei Dynasty did not stop, and they were all playing, asking for all kinds of construction.

But Du Zhen didn't dare to pass.

There are a lot of errands, and in addition, he has to visit Ma Jun from time to time.

Because of His Majesty's attention, Ma Jun's current mansion has already undergone tremendous changes, and the scale of his mansion is getting bigger and bigger, almost reaching the scale of some three-level ministers' mansions.

And more and more people are moving in his house.

Cao Chao intends to send all those who are engaged in scientific research to Ma Jun, and asks Du to pre-select some bright young people to learn from them and help them do things.

Ma Jun is quite happy.

He has never received such attention in his life, he is doing his favorite thing all day long, there are many people around him, no matter what ideas he has, the Ministry of Industry is fully supportive, and he does not dare to slack off at all.

Du Yu frowned and stood aside, watching Ma Jun show off his new invention here.

When the old man talked about his invention, he didn't stutter at all.

Speak that is called a Liso.

With people coming and going, Cao Chao almost turned his place into a large laboratory.

Today, the best inventors of the Great Wei Dynasty are gathered here, led by Ma Jun, who are engaged in scientific experiments in this huge mansion.

Cao Chao also gave their mansion a very powerful name, called the House of Good Deeds.

The name is taken from the phrase "if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools".

As for why it's not called the Sharp Weapons Mansion, it's probably because the name sounds unlucky.

Ma Jun was talking, and suddenly found that Du Yu who was standing next to him was in a daze.

Ma Jun suddenly didn't say much.

Du Yu woke up suddenly, and he hurriedly saluted Ma Jun, "Please don't blame me, I didn't mean to despise it."

"No, no, no problem."

Ma Jun's eyes looked at him quite softly, and he said seriously: "This, these days, thanks to Du Shangshu, we have today's results." ”

"The entire House of Good Deeds has prospered because of you."

"I, I know that what Du Shangshu is thinking about is a big deal, I don't know if there is an old man who can help?"

Du Yu smiled bitterly, "Ma Gong, it's not a big deal, it's just that the southern country has just been pacified, and there are too many things to do, and I don't know how to choose for a while." ”

Ma Jun pondered for a moment, and said thoughtfully: "These days, I, I see that Du Shangshu is very tired, it turns out that it is because of this incident. ”

Du Yu was even more ashamed, "Ma Gong, I will definitely not do such a rude thing in the future." ”

"Alas, Shang, why did Shang Shu say that? How could the old man ever blame you? Up and down the house, who has not received the grace of Shangshu? ”

Ma Jun didn't say anything more, but when Du Yu left here, he gathered everyone in the mansion.

Ma Jun sat on the top seat and looked at the famous craftsmen around him.

"Ladies and gentlemen, although I have become the lord of this house because of Your Majesty's grace, I have never told you anything, and I have always let you do whatever you want."

"But today, Du Shangshu talks about the affairs of the southern country, his eyes are full of sorrow, over the years, Du Shangshu has been very supportive of us, and has never been neglected, today he has a big event, and we should do our best to help."

"We don't understand the matter of distributing money and food and gathering people."

"But we may be able to help with the tools, raw materials, transporters, etc., used in this construction, I wonder what you think?"

These celebrities glanced at each other a few times, and then said resolutely: "We were originally just unknown people, because of Your Majesty's love, we were able to come here, and we got such a courtesy from Du Shangshu, if we can't repay him at this moment, then what face do we have to stay here?" ”

Everyone hit it off and prepared to give Du Pre a big surprise.

And at this moment, Du Pre, sitting in the carriage, still had the "construction list" of various places in his mind, and when he walked off the carriage with his head down, the servants on the side hurriedly dragged him, and Du Pre noticed Lu Zhi standing in front of him.

Du pre-hurriedly bowed and saw him.

Because of his experience when he was young, Lu Zhi was not very optimistic about the children of these big clans with famous people's diseases.

The only exception is Du Pre.

Although Du Yu is also from a super family, he doesn't have the slightest celebrity disease, this person is very pragmatic, and he doesn't have those unobtrusive habits, his personality is very gentle, and he doesn't look like a child of a big clan at all.

Lu Zhi helped him up and stroked his long beard, "I've been waiting for Du Jun here for two whole hours!" ”

Du Yu was taken aback, "Why don't you enter the mansion?" ”

Lu Zhi replied, "I came here to visit the sage, and the sage is not here, so what is the difference between inside and outside the house?" ”

Even Du Yu was a little embarrassed by this, and hurriedly invited someone in.

The two sat in the study, Du Pre's study looked a little messy, there were a lot of documents piled up here, all of which were the work of the Ministry of Engineering, Lu Zhi saw these, not only did he not blame, but he also looked at Du Pre Gao a few points.

The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then Lu Zhi talked about the purpose of his visit.

"Du Jun probably knows."

"Lu Gong might as well be called Yuan Kai."

"Well, Yuan Kai may also know that in the past two years, the tax of the temple has not increased as much as before, and after the tuntian system was completely abolished, the cultivated land in the world began to pour into the hands of the big clans."

"If they use the method of robbery, the temple can still intervene, but what they have purchased is not public land, and second, the formalities are complete, even if Your Majesty has the intention to blame, there is no reason to deal with them."

Hearing Lu Zhi's words, Du Yu immediately frowned.

Of course, he understood what Lu Zhi meant.

Peasants who paid large amounts of taxes were bought off their arable land and became tenants who did not pay taxes, and paid taxes per capitation, even if one person occupied more arable land, he still paid the same tax

This will lead to a serious reduction in the income of the temple, and the big families will be rich and flowing.

In the past two years, the increase in the grain income of the Great Wei has begun to become less obvious, because of the crazy land annexation.

This is also a situation that Cao Chao and others have expected for a long time.

If the tuntian system is continued and the cultivated land is firmly controlled in the hands of the temple, then the tuntian officials composed of the big families will continue to increase their efforts to suck blood, and if the tuntian system is abolished, it will be a fair annexation.

That is, Cao Chao turned a large amount of public land into rented seeds, so as not to make the looting of the big clan more rampant.

Historically, when Sima Anshi abolished the tuntian system, the speed of the annexation of the great clan magnates made the big clan magnates in the court feel that it was too outrageous!!

A small general dared to occupy thousands of hectares of cultivated land, and the crazy annexation almost bankrupted the treasury of the Great Jin.

In the end, these clans had to come forward to discuss a solution to the land annexation problem

Now this group of people is very restrained, and they have not started to enter the state of merger crazy, all because of their respect for Cao Chao.

But even so, it can't change the fact that Great Wei's fiscal revenue is decreasing.

If they are indifferent, then one day, the blood of the entire Great Wei will be sucked dry.

Lu Zhi said solemnly: "I gave a lecture to Your Majesty, I was originally going to open up more than 5,000 hectares of land in Ji County, and also set up a plan for the reclamation of other places, as well as the repair of some important canals. ”

"But Your Majesty told me that the problem of today's grain production is not that there is not enough arable land, but that arable land is too concentrated, and many farmers have no arable land at all."

"What does Du Shangshu think?"

Lu Zhi didn't go to others, because he knew that those people themselves were from a big clan, and it was difficult for them to betray their clan and stand on Lu Zhi's side, but they were afraid that as soon as Lu Zhi spoke, they would have to persuade them that these things were not important, as long as they opened up more wasteland.

But Lu Zhi believes that Du Zhen will not be such a person.

Du Pre opened his mouth and said, "Lu Gong, what you said is very reasonable!! ”

"Originally, I was thinking about this problem, in recent years, all over the country has been constantly open up wasteland, and water canals have been built, and it stands to reason that the grain in these places should have increased dramatically, but I found that the counties that focused on investing in the final results were not very effective."

"That's why I'm hesitant to face a lot of demands for construction."

"Now that you've said that, I've finally figured it out."

"Of course, the local government hopes that we will do more construction, and if we build more, the local officials will have political achievements, and the big clans will have benefits that can be embezzled, and they don't need to do it themselves, and those people will participate in the conscription, but in the end, they will not get any benefits!!

"It's not going to work!"

Du Yu stood up, "If all the cultivated land in the world is gathered in the hands of that part of the people, then is this world His Majesty's or theirs?" ”

"Today's rental, although it is effective, there are too many loopholes that can be exploited, not to mention the big clans, even if they are so strong, they can easily deal with these things."

"Lu Gong, do you have any solution?"

Looking at the indignant Du Yu in front of him, Lu Zhi couldn't help but praise: "I know that Du Gong is such a virtuous person!" ”

"Who else in the entire temple but you would have such thoughts?"

Du Yu was stunned for a moment and said casually.

"Zhonghui!"

At this moment, Lu Zhi's face became a little ugly.

"I don't think there's any need for Zhong Shangshu to know these things."

Du Yu hurriedly said: "Lu Gong, I know that Zhong Shangshu is not easy to get along with, but he will definitely not watch those people merge wantonly, and he must have a way to solve these things!" ”