Chapter 367: Farming is the most important thing in the world

Zhu Biao instructed the Qianhu of the Governor's Mansion beside him: "The interrogation is okay, but he must not be allowed to die in the edict prison."

After giving the order, Zhu Biao left the prison.

did not go back to the palace, but took a chariot to the Confucius Temple next door to Lin Che's Mansion.

I waited for half an hour.

Zhu Yuanzhang finally took Liu Sanwu and came to the mansion.

And in the next room, Zhu Zhang's flattering greeting sounded very punctually.

"Sir, this is the roast duck that was baked a quarter of an hour ago, come and taste it."

Lin Che, who was dozing off, heard Zhu Rong's greeting and subconsciously turned his head.

Sniffing, he lazily came to the table full of delicacies and sat down.

The taste of freshly baked roast duck is indeed unusual.

Lin Che quickly dealt with most of the oily ducks.

When he was eating cold dishes to relieve his greasyness, he casually asked like Zhu Fan and Zhu Bai: "Did you come up with the answer to your homework yesterday?" ”

Hear the words.

Zhu Bai raised his little hand confidently.

After getting the agreement, he hurriedly replied: "Sir, I think that if you want the low-level officials to become honest people." ”

"The best way is to strengthen supervision, and each county must send a lieutenant to keep an eye on it."

"If anyone can't do something, they will be directly arrested and brought to justice, and these small people will be deterred by severe laws."

Zhu Fan couldn't help but pout when he heard his stinky brother say an answer similar to what he thought in the past:

"How can you guarantee that when the Emperor is far away, the captain will not be in the same stream as those moths?"

"In my opinion, we still have to add a whistleblowing system, and if you report a corrupt official, you can get part of the other party's property."

"In this way, those who are corrupt and pervert the law will inevitably look like everyone and those who have bad intentions towards him, so that these corrupt officials and corrupt officials will fall into a situation where everyone is in danger and dare not stretch out their hands at will."

Zhu Bai's answer made Zhu Bai's eyes widen in shock.

Unexpectedly, there is such a way to clean up corrupt officials.

However, Lin Che directly gave him a brain meltdown.

"You kid is quite good at saving trouble, just take out what I talked about before, and take it out as it is."

"Don't consider the difference between the corrupt officials in the center and the corrupt officials at the bottom?"

"Even at the bottom, I am afraid that the most common situation is not the exposure of some corrupt officials, but the sudden death of some officials."

Zhu Fan was reprimanded by Lin Che for splitting his head and covering his face, neither angry nor showing the slightest look of shame.

Instead, he said confidently: "Sir, I have lived in Yingtian since I was a child, how do I know what the low-level officials of the Ming Dynasty are like?" ”

"So could you please explain to us how to clean up these court moths?"

Lin Che couldn't help but be amused by Zhu Zhang's cheeky words.

He didn't sell it, and gave the answer straightforwardly.

"The supervision and reporting system is just a necessary condition for curbing corrupt officials."

"Whether it can play the desired role, only God knows."

"And to really solve this problem, which has existed for thousands of years, we need to do two things."

As soon as these words came out, Zhu Fan immediately held his breath and waited for Lin Che's clever plan.

Zhu Yuanzhang and the others in the next room also cheered up their spirits, waiting for his answer with sideways eyes.

"The first thing is to start a factory."

"The second is to emigrate as much as possible."

Lin Che took a sip of wine and gave two very simple countermeasures.

Zhu Fan was not disappointed, he knew that his husband, every seemingly ordinary strategy had a deep meaning behind it, and it was very targeted.

Zhu Fan thought for a while and said, "Sir, I know the benefits of running a factory, which can increase employment and allow the people to have one more way to starve to death in addition to farming." ”

"It's the same with immigrants, but when they emigrate overseas, who will plant the vacated fields?"

"If there are not enough people to farm, won't I have a food shortage?"

In today's era of smallholder economy, farming is the most important thing in the world.

If we only care about developing the economy and expanding our territory.

And forget the most important thing about farming.

No amount of money, in the vast territory, is just a flash in the pan.

Lin Che smiled and didn't answer Zhu Zhang's question.

Instead, he asked Zhu Fan and Zhu Bai: "Do you know how much land is cultivated by a family now?" ”、

When Zhu Fan was watching politics, he saw relevant data on the excerpts.

However, just when recalling the specific number of acres.

Zhu Bai was the first to say: "Sir, I am an ordinary person in the Ming Dynasty, and the average cultivated area is about five to ten acres, and the area fluctuates according to the advantages and disadvantages of my cousin. ”

This data is not very accurate, but it is close to the correct answer.

Lin Che nodded with satisfaction and asked again: "Before the Tang Dynasty, the people had to have an average of more than twenty acres of land in order to grow food for the survival of the family. ”

"And now my Ming people only need three to a quarter of them, do you know why?"

Zhu Fan was lagging behind just now because of the recall data, and this time he almost didn't think about it, and Bai Bai replied: "Sir, this is because of the Quyuan plough in the Tang Dynasty." ”

A similar problem was discussed by Lin Che in a previous class.

Therefore, in his spare time, Zhu Fan read the classics of the Han and Tang dynasties.

Lin Che also gave Zhu Fan an affirmative look.

nodded and responded: "Yes, it is because of the development of agricultural technology that my people in the Ming Dynasty now have less land, but as long as they cultivate intensively and serve the crops well on weekdays, they will be enough to feed their families." ”

This kind of words that the current dynasty is better than the previous dynasty, Zhu Zhang, who listened to it, couldn't help but smile.

But then Lin Che changed his words and said, "However, this intensive cultivation is not a good thing. ”

"Although it feeds more people with less land, it also completely binds them to the land."

"Let the people of the world not dare to slack off in the slightest in the matter of farming, have no time to care about other things, and dare not resist the exploitation of low-level officials."

Hearing this, Zhu Zhang's face suddenly burned like pain.

Unexpectedly, what made him proud just now was actually the culprit that breeds low-level corrupt people.

Zhu Fan couldn't help but ask: "Sir, if you don't cultivate intensively, how can the people grow enough rations?" ”

"The answer to this question comes back to the one we just talked about working in a factory."

Lin Che ate a piece of roast duck deliciously.

He took a sip of wine and said, "I can answer you clearly, within a certain limit, whether the people are workers or immigrants. ”

"It will not affect the output of grain, but it will also allow the imperial court to receive more grain taxes."

"And the officials at the bottom will be more honest and dare not easily oppress the people."

(End of chapter)