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The old man chuckled, showing his yellow teeth and said: "All the gentlemen around you are wearing official boots, how can they not be from the official family?"
In fact, the old man did not really regard Zhu Youxiao as an official. After all, Zhu Youxiao was too young, not yet seventeen years old this year, and he was as pink and white as jade, very handsome, and he even had bodyguards!
???????????????? So the old man only thought that he was a young master from some noble family, who went to the fields to have fun when he had nothing to do. As for saying that he was an official, it was just a means of flattering him!
Zhu Youxiao really didn¡¯t know that this seemingly honest old man could have so many tricks up his sleeve, so he looked at the official boots at the feet of the guards and just smiled!
"I didn't expect that you, old man, have such good eyesight! Are they all your sons?" Zhu Youxiao praised the old man, then pointed at the three timid young people and asked!
"Yes!" The old man nodded, his face immediately fell down and he said: "They are all debt collectors, waiting to suck my old bones dry!"
"How do you say this?" Zhu Youxiao was stunned and asked curiously.
"Alas!" The old man sighed and said: "The boss is twenty-three this year, the second is twenty-one, and the thirty-eighth are all old enough to marry a wife, but the old man's family is so poor that they don't even have a reed mat. Who dares to Marry the girl over?"
Zhu Youxiao frowned, looked at the old man's land, and asked, "There are almost twenty acres of land. Do they all belong to your family?"
The old man didn¡¯t expect that Zhu Youxiao could tell the size of his land at a glance, so he nodded and said to please, ¡°The official has good eyesight, my family has twenty-one acres of land!¡±
Zhu Youxiao asked again: "How much grain can be harvested from one acre of land now? How much tax do we have to pay?"
The old man looked at Zhu Youxiao. He didn't know what the handsome young master was asking for, but he still said truthfully: "The current situation is not good, and one acre of land can only cost a little more than three stones. These lands are my own." Yes, so there is no rent. Last year, Mr. Wang of Shuntian Prefecture issued an order, saying that hidden fields and donations would be strictly inspected. He also said that from now on, all taxes in Shuntian Prefecture would be paid on a per-household basis. In this way, my family would pay sixty dan. For food, five stones is enough, and the rest will not only feed you for a year, but you can also find a wife for the boss!"
Having said this, the old man seemed to see hope, and the smile on his face became even brighter, but the smile was no longer flattering or pretentious, but rather a sincere joy!
When the old man¡¯s eldest son heard that his father wanted to find a wife for him, he also laughed and looked very honest!
Zhu Youxiao is aware of Wu Bingrui¡¯s decree, and he is very supportive of it. Although Shuntian Mansion is a place in the capital, there are a lot of hidden fields and contributions from nobles and scholars!
Wu Bingrui pointed out very bluntly in the memorial that the taxable acres of Shuntian Prefecture should be 370,000 hectares, but in fact, most of the taxable land of Shuntian Prefecture was donated to the homes of nobles and scholars, and now there are not many acres left. To two hundred thousand hectares!
According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, taxes are collected based on the area of ??cultivated land. In other words, no matter how much cultivated land is left in Shuntian Prefecture, the tax on the 370,000 hectares of cultivated land will be collected. , had to concentrate on a small number of farmers who did not contribute. Wu Bingrui¡¯s method was very direct, which was to use a ruler to measure!
??Originally, if you do such a thing, the honorable nobles and the scholars are bound to make trouble, but Zhu Youxiao, the little emperor, doesn't follow the routine. He actually arranged for Jinyi Weinan Town Fusi to be the yamen servant of Shuntian Mansion!
?????????????????????????????????????? When Wu Bingrui was measuring the land, there were always people standing beside him in Jinyiwei. With these living kings of hell suppressing the formation, who would dare to come out and make trouble?
What¡¯s more, the British Duke Zhang Weixian took the initiative to clear out all the land donated by his family, and became the Minister of the Ministry of War with peace of mind. When facing the nobles who approached him to communicate, he also spoke with righteousness!
The meaning behind the words is: you are so stupid to go and see, His Majesty¡¯s imperial estate is taxed. It¡¯s not enough for you to have your own tax-free land. You also have to compete with the court for cultivated land. If you want to die, find a cool place to die. , don¡¯t drag me into the water!
It was under this overt and covert oppression that Wu Bingrui successfully completed the land survey of Shuntian Mansion, and actually increased the tax land of Shuntian Mansion to 420,000 hectares!
You must know that in the sixth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng measured the land across the country and found 7.01 million hectares. This was 3 million hectares more than the land acres registered in the Ming Dynasty before!
And Li Jinzhong went to Datong and actually obtained 500,000 acres of arable land from the Dai Wangfu family. This was the result of retaining a considerable part of the land for them!
It can be seen that it is not that there was no cultivated land in the Ming Dynasty, but that the cultivated land was concentrated in the hands of a few people. It would be nothing if it was just a simple land annexation, but these?Holding huge amounts of farmland but not paying taxes!
On the contrary, those farmers who owned a small amount of arable land bore the heavy financial burden of the entire Ming Dynasty. Under such circumstances, it would be unreasonable for the people not to rebel against the Ming Dynasty!
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao unconditionally supported Wu Bingrui's land clearing work, and at the same time strictly ordered Dongchang to look for high-yield crops such as corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes in the south.
In Zhu Youxiao's idea, he used power to force the northern nobles and scholars to give up their extra land, and then widely plant high-yielding crops to completely solve the food shortage crisis in the north.
By that time, the north will be the new granary of the Ming Dynasty, and with the help of the supply of food from the north, the Ming Dynasty's army can march further afield!
Zhu Youxiao was in a trance when he thought about this. The old man didn't know what was wrong with the young master in front of him. He stared at his own land without saying a word. Could it be that he was interested in his own land?
Just when the old man was feeling uneasy, Zhu Youxiao suddenly looked at him and asked, "What would happen if one acre of land could produce ten stones of grain?"
The old man was startled for a moment, then he laughed: "You are really joking, sir. How can an acre of land produce ten shi of food? If that were the case, the old man would laugh even if he died!"
Zhu Youxiao said firmly: "There will be, there will be!"
Just as he was talking, suddenly there was a rapid sound of horse hooves on the official road. Zhu Youxiao's guards immediately rushed to the horse, took out their crossbows, pulled the string of the crossbow, loaded the crossbow arrows, and aimed at the horse where the sound of horse hooves came. In the direction, the other guards also pressed their hands on the hilts of their knives and looked around with solemn expressions!
The old man and his three sons were immediately frightened by this gesture. The four father and son gathered together tremblingly, not knowing what to do!
Zhu Youxiao comforted him: "Don't worry, it'll be fine."
At this moment, the sound of horse hooves was approaching, and the rider was a young eunuch wearing eunuch clothes. Seeing Zhu Youxiao and others, the young eunuch immediately reined in the galloping horse and jumped off the horse!
The little eunuch's horse riding skills were quite good. After landing, he didn't stagger at all. He hunched over and ran to the outside of the guards. He knelt down directly and shouted in the eunuch's unique drake voice: "Your Majesty, the prince has asked the servants to invite your majesty." Returning to the palace, the people from Dongchang came back from Nanjing with new grain seeds, and many red-haired men with red eyebrows and green eyes also arrived. Xu Shangshu took them to see him outside the Meridian Gate!"
When Zhu Youxiao heard that the new grain had arrived, he jumped up happily and shouted: "Go back to the palace quickly!"
After shouting, he did not forget to laugh at the old man and said: "The food worth ten stones per acre of land has arrived. From now on, the people of Ming Dynasty will no longer have to go hungry!"
Ignoring the frightened old man and his family, Zhu Youxiao and his family mounted their horses and galloped away with their guards, and disappeared in a flash!
The old man¡¯s family looked straight at the direction in which Zhu Youxiao disappeared, and they didn¡¯t react for a long time!
Finally, it was the old man¡¯s eldest son who said, ¡°Dad! Is that little brother just now your Majesty?¡±
But the old man didn¡¯t answer his son because he had already fainted! (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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