Chapter 368: The Prosperous Era of the Ming Dynasty

Zhu Fan's eyes widened in shock.

Puzzled, he asked: "Sir, if there are not enough people to cultivate the land, a wide range of crops and small harvests can maintain a certain amount of grain output." ”

"But this is certainly different from intensive farming, how can it not affect taxes?"

Regarding Lin Che's question about the corruption of officials, Zhu Fan felt that it was completely fantastical.

The number of people who farmed the land made it impossible to reverse the evil intentions of these people.

If grain production is reduced, the people who remain in their hometowns to farm will be subjected to heavier labor.

With their sweat, they will make up for the reduced food.

"How many times have I said it, in matters other than the military, use more thought."

"And when you think about it, don't keep getting into the horns."

Lin Che was a little speechless by Zhu Zhang's rhetorical question.

He tapped the table lightly with his index finger and said, "I'm afraid I didn't say it before?" There is a great deal to do with curbing corrupt officials at the bottom and changing the social pattern with chemical fertilizers. ”

"One of the most important points is to go back from intensive farming to extensive farming."

"With the blessing of chemical fertilizers, the production of grain will not be reduced much."

With the same output of the land, the more people entered the factories and migrated.

The people who stay in the countryside to farm are more precious.

Zhu Fan showed an expression of sudden realization.

He said excitedly: "Sir, I understand, the acres and carrying capacity of the world are limited. ”

"But if the number of people is lower than the upper limit of acres, then there will be a situation where there are fewer people on land."

"If the landlords and squires want to farm, they have to cut the people who remain, not like now, the people beg the landlords and lords to be tenants."

There is no need for Lin Che to tell it carefully, after the chemical fertilizer was popularized among the people.

How the social landscape of the countryside is changing.

Zhu Fan has already promoted the promotion of chemical fertilizers according to Lin Che's previous lessons, and the life of the people may not be much better than now.

After all, the greed of the landlords and gentry is obvious to all.

But the only benefit is after using chemical fertilizers.

No longer like serving your father, you don't have to wait for the crops day and night.

You can get a good harvest.

In this way, as Lin Che said, more people can be sent to factories and emigrated overseas.

"I'm right, you kid don't just focus on military affairs, you can figure out a lot of problems."

Lin Che heard Zhu Zhang's analysis and gave a high evaluation.

He coughed and said, "As you said, only the people have a way to ensure that they do not starve to death except for farming." ”

"Only then can we have the right to bargain with the landlords and gentry, instead of being slaughtered by others."

"And the officials at the bottom, if they didn't lose their black hats because of tax collection, they wouldn't have exploited the people too much."

"Otherwise, people will directly pick their children into the factory, or join the immigration team."

"The old man's field is no longer planted, and it will be them who will be unlucky when the time comes."

Lin Che knew very well that in the feudal era, he wanted the low-level officials not to bully the people with the gentry and landlords.

Basically, the local people are full of martial virtues, so that these moths dare not act rashly.

Other than that, want to curb fucking greed.

The only way to go is to increase the choices of the people and reduce the land.

After all, in the early years when many troubled times were calm.

Because there were few people and more land, the squire landlords had to beg the tenants to cultivate the fields.

Otherwise, they have been abducted and deceived for generations.

It's going to be a wasteland that no one planted.

Due to the scarcity of labor, the status of tenants was improved in a short period of time.

Some of them can eat at the same table as the landlord and squire.

This is also one of the proofs that many people boast that landlords are good people.

It's a pity that this kind of harmony didn't last long.

After the population grows and the countryside is more populated and less land is in place again.

will become a tenant again, begging the landlord to farm the land.

Now Lin Che proposed to go to work in the factory and immigrate.

It is to forcibly advance the good life of the people only after the troubled times are calmed down, and once again see it in the countryside.

……

In the secret room next door.

After Prince Zhu Biao silently wrote down Lin Che's words, he couldn't help but sigh: "Mr. Lin, you always see things so thoroughly. ”

"As a gentry landlord in the Ming Dynasty, my desire for land is almost limitless."

"Therefore, whether it is a report or a school inspector sent to the governor's office to supervise the low-level officials, it cannot completely solve the problem of the people being oppressed."

"Only by taking the initiative to reduce the population of farming, so that the Ming Dynasty once again has a situation of less people and more land, there is no need for the imperial court to bother and bother, and the people's lives will be better."

In the face of this alternative strategy.

Zhu Yuanzhang finally fully understood what Lin Che preached before, the importance of the factory to Daming.

If you can build factories such as textiles, fertilizers, and white sugar factories all over the Ming Dynasty.

Numerous colonies with fertile land and abundant products overseas...

The attitude of the gentry in the world towards the people will inevitably change 180 degrees.

Daming will also become a paradise for everyone to live and work in peace and contentment.

Entering the Han and Tang dynasties, it belongs to the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang knows that there is still a long way to go to achieve this goal.

But he had already made up his mind to see the beginning of such a prosperous era at least in his lifetime.

So he instructed Zhu Biao: "In the land of Henan, the people must pay close attention to the matter." ”

"Try to take advantage of the drought to move as many people out as possible."

"Mr. Lin has already given us a way to the prosperous dynasty, but how far we can really go depends on the efforts of you and my father and son, do you understand?"

Zhu Biao was also full of confidence at this time.

Regarding Zhu Yuanzhang's order, he naturally agreed to it without discounting.

……

Let's talk about the other side.

After summarizing the topic of factories and immigrants, Lin Che was very interested and raised the question of the sailor fleet.

"Do you know that although our Ming Dynasty used a large number of ships in the water battle of Poyang Lake."

"But that doesn't mean they're suitable for sailing at sea."

"If the huge defects in it are not corrected, the colonization of the New World may be just empty words."

Zhu Fan is still wondering whether to be in Yingtianfu.

Let's take a small range of immigrants to test whether the people's lives will be better.

Unexpectedly, Lin Che suddenly threw out this thunderous question.

Although Zhu Fan believes that the Daming Sailor is invincible in the world.

After incorporating the fleets of Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng, Fang Guozhen and Qianyuan, the strength of the Ming Dynasty's sailors is unprecedented.

However, Lin Che suddenly had a defect in the Ming fleet, and it also seriously affected the colonial affairs.

Although Zhu Fan didn't believe it very much.

But he hurriedly gathered his mind and asked, "Sir, what is the problem with my Da Ming Water Master?" ”

(End of chapter)