Red House Shoufu

Chapter 357

Miaoyu explained to the two of them that she had cultivated herself since she was a child and the reason for coming to the capital, which made both Gao Yunwan and Daiyu sigh.

But when Daiyu heard Miaoyu say that the master pointed out that Miaoyu's future is in the capital, it reminded her of Zhen Yinglian who lived in the mansion.

Xiangling returned to her relatives and regained her name Zhen Yinglian. Doesn't this prove the magic of Master Ran?Thinking about it, Master Miaoyu will really be in the capital in the future.

However, the matter of Zhen Yinglian was a family secret after all, and Daiyu didn't tell Miaoyu, she just said a few words of comfort, and then talked about the affairs of Buddhism.

Although the two are considered to be from the same hometown, they don't have any fellowship, they just met by chance.Daiyu is not as fond of Buddhism as Xichun, and she finds it boring after talking for a while. On the contrary, Gao Yunwan has been asking Miaoyu about her life experience in Buddhism.

Because it was a first-year banquet, many guests came to Rongguo Mansion for the banquet.

A few days ago, there were wars and disasters, and the atmosphere in the capital was always in a state of low pressure.After finally having an excuse to indulge a little bit, those relatives and friends in Rongguo Mansion would naturally not let this opportunity pass.

Jia Amnesty was not there, and Jia Jing didn't go out to socialize very much. The elders who came to the mansion for banquets were entertained by the second master, Jia Zheng, while Jia Lian brought a group of brothers and nephews to entertain the younger generation.

"The son is free today, why didn't the concubine come over? There is a new play going on today."

Today's theater troupe of my family is borrowed from Zhongshun Prince's Mansion, but Jia Baoyu has rehearsed a new play, and with Princess Cui's temperament, of course the new play must be appreciated immediately.

Jia Lian invited Gao Wanjiang, the son of Prince Zhongshun, to the pavilion in the front garden. The gurgling water brought a little bit of coolness, and the incense burner was burning in the pavilion to drive away the mosquitoes.

Gao Wanjiang leaned on the railing, and while enjoying the opera on the stage, he said: "Everything is complicated, and the mother and concubine can't be free. My father went to Prince Yizhong's mansion yesterday, because the servants of the mansion didn't take good care of me, so that brother Jin There are bed sores on the back. The concubine mother is planning to go to the palace today to ask the imperial concubine to issue a decree to clean up the backyard of Prince Yizhong's mansion, and it is estimated that she will be busy."

There was a gleam of shock in Jia Lian's eyes, but it passed by in a flash.

"It's the lord and the empress who are merciful. Prince Yizhong has been in a coma for almost a year, so the lord and the empress have been thinking of him like sons, and they go to visit and take care of him from time to time."

This is not Jia Lian's compliment. Prince Yizhong's residence has a special status. The other clans basically stay away if they can to avoid suspicion and misfortune.

The Tai Hospital couldn't revive Gao Wanzhen, so he asked people to search for doctors everywhere. It is said that the servants of Prince Zhongshun planned to go to the West with the merchant ship to see if there was any famous doctor.

Gao Wanjiang shook his head and sighed: "It's just doing your best and obeying the destiny. Last time I went to visit Brother Jin, he was so thin that he was almost unrecognizable."

"Hey, there is no way around this. After all, I have been in a coma for a long time. People do not eat and only rely on ginseng soup to hang their lives. It is really not a way. My family has found a few doctors in Ping'an Prefecture, and they are rushing to the capital. When the time comes, the son will take them The Wangfu is a gift from my family."

The two chatted for a while, and the servants reported that Daiyu and Gao Yunwan had arrived at Rongxi Hall.

"This girl, I asked her to come with me in the morning, she insisted on going to the temple fair to play first..."

Gao Wanjiang explained to Jia Lian with a wry smile: "Yesterday she heard that there were many novelties in the temple fair of Maniyuan, so she clamored to go there early this morning to have a look. She never wanted to come to your house with Lord Lin. She My sister is too spoiled at home, if any jokes are made, don't blame brother Lian."

"Don't dare, if you talk about coddling, my daughter was spoiled by my father when she was only one year old, and she took off a lot of my hair two days ago..."

Jia Lian smiled wryly and showed Gao Wanjiang the hair on his forehead, and Gao Wanjiang looked a little bald indeed.Recalling that Gao Yunwan also liked to play with his father's beard and her own hair when she was young, and she had a lot of hair ripped off. She was a brother and brother, and felt that his closeness to Jia Lian would greatly increase.

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Today is not a rest day, Lin Shu is busy with summer and autumn floods in the Ministry of Industry.

This year's rain is much more than previous years. Fortunately, the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry jointly arranged a large amount of money in advance to prepare for the summer and autumn floods in various places. So far, a total of 130 local flood disasters have been received. There were 31 disasters, and a total of more than [-] people were killed or injured.

However, due to repairs made last year to the Yellow River embankment, only a section of the embankment in Kaifeng overflowed this year, and the river backflowed. After several days of hard work, it was considered a temporary success in emergency rescue.

Lin Shu collected the documents by category and took the latest disaster prevention measures to the cabinet.Wei Qinghe did not immediately approve his disaster prevention strategy, but instead handed him a memorial sent by the Shaanxi chief envoy.

"What about the Wei River and the Jing River?"

Lin Shu opened it and saw that someone had impeached the government officials in Chencang, Chang'an, Jingyang, Huaxian and other places to distribute the river control bank and cut corners, causing the Weihe and Jing rivers to flood. Thousands of miles away, the people were displaced.

The Wei River and the Jing River are the most important tributaries of the Yellow River. The first batch of river control money allocated by the Ministry of Household Affairs has long been sent to the state capitals along the river. I did not expect someone to be so bold as to withhold the money from the hands of the Supreme Emperor.

This great cause of river regulation is related to the posthumous reputation of the Supreme Emperor. These people really want their lives for money.

"Old Ge, did the Shaanxi Provincial Procuratorate and Chief Political Commissioner not act?"

According to the fact that the officials of the state government are guilty, it is enough for the provinces to handle the report according to the procuratorate and the chief envoy. Why did the Shaanxi chief envoy himself send the impeachment memorial, but the procuratorate did not respond.

Wei Qinghe asked Lin Shu back: "It's been a month since the flood, and the Shaanxi chief envoy just sent the impeachment. Don't you wonder why it was sent so late?"

Lin Shu quickly looked at the time in the memorial. The flood occurred in the middle of May in the ninth year of Zhide. The continuous rain in Guanzhong for more than half a month caused the entire Guanzhong river to swell...

The flood receded in early June, and even the localities have gradually resumed life. In mid-June, the Shaanxi chief envoy sent officials to inspect various places, and the impeachment memorial was rushed to the capital by eight hundred miles in early July.

In the middle of nearly a month, the disaster-stricken state capital in Guanzhong actually experienced a blank period of nearly a month.

Unheard of!
And the most important thing is that the procuratorate in charge of supervision did not move, but the chief minister in charge of administration proposed impeachment, which is even more puzzling.

"No, there is a problem here!"

Lin Shu's eyes suddenly focused on a record in the memorial: Fengxiang Mansion was severely flooded, and thousands of hectares of fertile land around Yong City were destroyed by floods...

"Look, Mr. Ge, the Fengxiang Mansion here was hit by a disaster... and here, because the river flooded the fertile farmland with serious salinity, Chang'an County had no choice but to replace the land with the local knowledgeable gentry and resettle the victims. I hope the imperial court will issue a decree to commend his virtue... Here, the county magistrate of Jingyang was impeached, saying that he used the military ration reserves privately to cook porridge to help the victims, which caused the Hexi army to lose food and grass supplies..."

Lin Shu frowned tightly, and explained to Wei Qinghe: "Among the counties under the Fengxiang Mansion, Yongcheng is not on the edge of the Wei River at all, but in the area of ​​the Taiwan Plateau. Not to mention the Wei River, even the Yellow River can't be flooded. Go up. The fields in Chang'an County have turned into saline-alkali land due to floods. That's even more nonsense. As for Jingyang's unauthorized use of military rations, Hexi has been leveled, and the captured rations and grass alone can supply the army for more than two months. In the four prefectures and twelve counties, the memorial sent by the chief envoy has several places that are in the air, Mr. Ge, you need to check!"

Wei Qinghe looked at the eloquent Lin Shu with satisfaction, motioned him to sit down, and said: "This pavilion has never been to Guanzhong, and I didn't find any problems here at the beginning. Sure. He is from Chang'an County. He traveled all over the world when he was young, and he pointed out several inadequacies in this memorial. Basically, the problems you see are consistent."

"Then you show me this memorial..."

"This pavilion has quickly ordered Wang Huan and others to leave the land of Henan and go to Guanzhong first for inspection."

Wei Qinghe had someone fetch a map, and said to Lin Shu: "Guanzhong guards the main road on the west of Hexi, East and West Tongguan passes to Dasan Pass in the west, and the fertile fields are thousands of miles away. They are important grain-producing areas. Last time you told me that your family has a kind of Grain seeds are suitable for farming in dry land, and the yield is quite large. This pavilion plans to try planting here after the government of Guanzhong has been cleaned up."

It turned out to be the idea of ​​hitting corn!

This old man is quite good at mobilizing people's emotions, and he got himself into it step by step.

However, Lin Shu is willing to start trial planting in Guanzhong. There are potatoes in Gyeonggi, Shandong and Henan, and there is no time to try corn planting. Guanzhong, which has a lot of dry plateaus, is more suitable for planting corn.

Moreover, Guanzhong has just experienced floods, and the summer harvest is hopeless. It is a good idea to plant corn in autumn, and the first season will be harvested in late autumn.

Thinking of Guanzhong where refugees are everywhere, Lin Shu hesitated again.The dynasty has been established for a hundred years, and large tracts of land are occupied by gentry and landlords. After successful corn planting, will there be a situation where "there is no idle land in the world, and the farmers still starve to death"?
"Master Ge, I have a question that I have to ask..."

Wei Qinghe asked curiously, "What's the problem?"

"How much of the thousands of miles of fertile fields in Guanzhong can be occupied by ordinary people? How much can the gentry occupy? Can the government restrain land annexation?"

Lin Shu sighed, "I'm afraid that the corn will end up as mildew in the gentry's powerful grain storehouses, and those poor people will starve to death under the walls of the high-walled courtyard."

Wei Qinghe couldn't help but laugh: "You have entered into a misunderstanding, Jinyu. Don't forget about the official land. Guanzhong is no different from Gyeonggi and Jiangnan. There are only a million people there, and there are a lot of official land and wasteland that no one cultivates. Of course, this The water conservancy has been in disrepair for a long time and there is a lack of water. But if the imperial court repairs the water conservancy first, digs wells and repairs canals, and then issues land reclamation orders by controlling the floods, it is fully capable of settling the poor and landless people.”

"Guantian?"

Lin Shu has never been to Guanzhong and other places, and his more experience is the knowledge he got from the memories of his past life and the books of his current life.

Hearing what Wei Qinghe said, he was a little confused.

Fortunately, Wei Qinghe was free today and was willing to teach a few words, so he explained to Lin Shu the current situation in Guanzhong and the origin of the official land and the land reclamation order.

Originally, Guanzhong was abandoned at the end of the Tang Dynasty. After wars and environmental deterioration, the population of Guanzhong dropped sharply.Out of the Xi'an Prefecture area, there are some people along the Weihe River, Jinghe River and other prefectures.

The powerful gentry did occupy a large amount of fertile land, but many common people still had enough land to grow crops under their names.The only problem is the serious lack of water. After all, the top-grade fields near the river have been occupied by the gentry and powerful.

Ordinary people have no strength to build rivers, canals and wells, they can only rely on the sky for food.Due to millennium development in Guanzhong, the groundwater level has dropped, and it is difficult to dig wells. The more you plant, the more barren you will be. If you don’t plant, you will be hungry. Under the vicious circle, many people become poorer as they plant, and finally go up the mountain to become bandits. Looting astray.

If the imperial court took the lead in building water conservancy to make these lands moist with water, it would be impossible to restore the situation in the Han and Tang Dynasties in a short period of time, but it is really not a big problem to grow corn, a drought-resistant grain, to feed the people.

After all, there are still potatoes at the bottom, the big deal is that one year of corn and one year of potatoes will definitely not be a problem to feed a million people.

The two discussed in the cabinet for nearly an hour. Lin Shu proposed the strategy of letting the government soldiers open up wasteland, and the land obtained would be state-owned, and then handed over to the poor people to adopt the household contract responsibility system to prevent landlords from being merged by powerful landlords.

Wei Qinghe was very interested in this novel land system, and asked Lin Shu to go back and write a detailed report for the cabinet to discuss and discuss, and told Lin Shu not to spread the matter to the outside world.

Until Lin Shu left the cabinet, Wei Qinghe was still thinking about the land policy proposed by Lin Shu just now.

"The land is state-owned, and the household contract responsibility system... Lin Jinyu, Lin Jinyu, I'm afraid your idea will cause huge disturbances and resistance, so let me stand in the way for you!"

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Lin Shu was thinking about Wei Qinghe's last confession on the way to Rongguo Mansion. It seemed that the old man was still interested in his proposal, but he was still hesitating.

It is estimated that after this Zhazi is sent up, it will be changed beyond recognition by the cabinet. The land has been privately owned for almost 2000 years. Who wants to hand over their land to the imperial court?After all, there has been a great man in thousands of years!

The most likely thing is to implement the magically revised household contract responsibility system on the official land and the new land obtained after the wasteland reclamation order. First, it will settle the poor and landless people. Second, it can increase the government's control over the local area and restrain land mergers. , so as to prevent the tyrants from becoming powerful and threatening the rule of the imperial court.

"I'm really stunned. I'm a landlord class, but I think about fighting the land gm every day..."

Lin Shu laughed at himself, but he understood a little bit.

Now is not the time to carry out land reform. After all, the imperial court still relies on the gentry to rule the people. Unless the royal power goes to the countryside, it can only improve the land system instead of completely overthrowing the original system.

Moreover, the gentry and landlords play a vital role in the stability of the current society, and it is enough to implement appropriate reductions in rent and interest. For example, the households of the Lin family and the people who lease their own land are much better off than the self-cultivating farmers?
As the carriage traveled southward leisurely, Lin Shu had already made a rough draft in his stomach.He is going to carry out a magical reform of the land reform in his previous life, and make a complete long-form policy on the optimization and reform of the land system in line with the actual situation of Da Chu.

Regardless of whether the cabinet and officials agree with it or not, the emperor will definitely agree with his strategy, because the royal power going to the countryside is probably one of the most desired things of the emperors of all dynasties, and he does not believe that the emperor will not be moved!
(End of this chapter)