Poor family mother and son

Chapter 447 The family has tens of thousands of dan grains

After accumulating rumors and abuse for three or four days, they disappeared in more than an hour. Xiaobao slapped his hands like dirt on his hands, and left in satisfaction.

I have to say that Niangqin's trick is easy to use.

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The palace, the imperial study.

"Chu Qing's method is very effective!"

The emperor looked at the memorial and sighed like Xiaobao.

Eunuch Li leaned aside and said nothing.

This is not the time to take a call.

As a slave, you should always analyze when is the best time to answer the conversation, and when to just express that you are a living thing.

For example, now, although the emperor is appreciative, he is determined not to respond, because the disaster is a disaster, and it is something that makes the emperor worry. Is it a good way for me to respond to the severity of the disaster or to respond clearly?
So, don't make a sound, but move your body slightly to show: Emperor, I am alive, and you can order something!Will suffice.

Eunuch Li can keep silent, but Liu Ju, Minister of the Household Department, has to remain calm: "What the emperor said is that the situation in Chuqing is fine, and the north is not optimistic."

Seeing that the emperor's eyes were attracted, Liu Ju continued: "Until now, the chickens and ducks in the suburbs of Beijing are only one month old, and the number is far from enough; let alone other places."

The emperor's mood was brought back to reality by Liu Ju just when he was in a better mood, which was really disappointing.

For nearly a whole month, almost every day Hu Hengqiu would send new news to the emperor, all from Yibin Mansion.

Chu Qing's various actions were clearly presented in front of the emperor, and the emperor was very happy. However, similarly, the disaster situation in other places was also increasing day by day.

The six prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River are better, the drought is not too serious, and the locusts are not too rampant, but there are reports of insect disasters of varying degrees in the entire northern and central northern part of Daxuan.

As May entered, the locusts in the north also hatched, and reports from all over the fields were densely covered with locusts.

The court meeting in the past few days has also carried out heated discussions around this topic, especially regarding the breeding of chickens and ducks.

The officials really wanted to say that raising chickens and ducks was a waste of money, and Chu Qing’s advocacy of these things was really not a joke, but when he thought that the emperor had issued decrees all over the place to dig up the soil and mow grass, raise chickens and ducks, and stabilize food prices, they changed their mouths to Chu Qing’s ignorance Current affairs, don't argue about urgency.

The officials are choking on one point: waste of people and waste of money.

This point is very eloquent, and even the Minister of the Ministry of Finance has no way to refute it.

Why, because large-scale breeding is not something ordinary farmers can do, even if it is only a small scale of fifty.

First of all, it is difficult for farmers to feed themselves. What do they use to feed their livestock?
Usually, a farmer raises two or three chickens, which is a good family, but the farmer raises chickens and ducks entirely for the purpose of laying eggs, which is a nutritional supplement for those who cannot afford meat.

Not to mention raising pigs, pigs eat too much and can't afford it.

Leaving aside the large livestock, we only talk about poultry. Compared with chickens, no farmer wants to raise ducks and geese.

As the saying goes: If a family has tens of thousands of dans of grain, it does not support the king of flat mouths.

Flat-billed king refers to relatively large poultry such as ducks and geese.

Although this sentence is exaggerated, it also vividly illustrates the difficulties of raising these poultry.

It’s better to raise three or two. If you raise more, you must have a clean water source, and the requirements for water quality are relatively high.

Especially for the north, most of the farmers are far away from the water source, which makes the breeding subject to certain restrictions.

Furthermore, ducks and geese eat a lot, whether they are eating during the day or at night, especially ducks or rectal meat, which can be eaten wherever they go.

Besides geese, farmers often say that raising three big geese is equivalent to a pig's food intake, and if they are fed less, they will not lay eggs.

For farmers, food is the most precious, and ordinary people are reluctant to raise it.

Even a slightly well-to-do farmer usually keeps them in circles. If they run out and grab something to eat, they may destroy the vegetables and food grown in other people's homes.

Also, it’s okay to raise one or two chickens, ducks, and geese free-range. If there are too many, a group of chickens, ducks, and geese will die if one gets sick, and farmers can’t afford it.

In addition, in terms of egg production, although the eggs of ducks and geese are relatively large, they lay fewer eggs than chickens, and they have a fishy smell and are not as delicious as eggs. This is also the reason why people are unwilling to raise them.

To sum up, combined with the fact that it has only been a month since the emperor ordered the breeding in the north, the chickens and ducks of the farmers have not grown up, and the inhibitory effect on locusts has not yet been seen, so the voices of the officials are loud in the court very.

But the contradiction still focused on Chu Qing.

Last month, the censor Zhongcheng collected a lot of "black materials" of the most arrogant censors and submitted them to the emperor, relegating many officials, but Chu Qing was still the target of the officials' fire.

Not only speech officials, older civil servants also became the main force.

However, although today's court attacks still focus on the reason why women are officials and the burden brought by farming to farmers, the essence has changed.

The discussion in the court today was not about how much food and money the people spent on raising chickens and ducks in various places, but: wherever Chu Qing intervened, regardless of the north and south, the disaster situation was less serious than other places.

To give a simple example, the same Jizhou, but different counties have different disaster situations.

Xingtang County and Huaian County are the two counties with the least locust plague and drought, while other places are similar to those around Kyoto.

The locust plague in Kyoto is relatively light because of the dense population of Kyoto, so the locusts are all in Ji County and neighboring prefectures.

But in the same state capital of Jizhou, there is such a big contrast that people have to think about it.

I have to start with a few letters written by Chu Qing more than a month ago.

Apart from the one submitted to the secret investigation department, there were four other letters from Chu Qing, which were addressed to Song Tingshan, the magistrate of Xinlun Prefecture, Qi Zhizhou, the magistrate of Jizhou, Xuzhi County of Xingtang County of Jizhou, and Youzhi County of Huai'an County.

The same letter, different people treat it differently.

After Song Tingshan received the letter, he felt that Chu Qing was a little too worried, but he still took it seriously.

Because Chu Qing said in the letter that her warehouse can buy chicken and duck seedlings, give them to farmers for breeding on credit, and then buy chickens and ducks from the farmers in autumn, deducting the part owed on credit.

This does not require the state government to pay for it, so Song Tingshan, who has always been happy to cooperate with Chu Qing, even though he felt that Chu Qing's worries were unnecessary, he still did it.

Youzhi County and Xuzhi County in Jizhou are more trustworthy and clear. This still has the basis of past cooperation and the consideration of official positions.

Of course, the more "pious" is Xu Guangze from Xingtang County, who is almost "trusted by fans" Chu Qing, as long as Chu Qing says, he will do it, and even rushed to Xinlunzhou with a letter to find Song Tingshan, for fear Chu Qing didn't write to him, or he didn't pay much attention to the letter.

But the new Qi Zhizhou in Jizhou is different.

At the beginning of the year, he went to see Chu Qing once because of the fact that Chu Qing was intercepted and killed by bandits a year ago. At that time, Chu Qing gave him a bad feeling.

That's right, not long after the new official took office, he encountered this kind of "dropping", which made him feel that Chu Qing was a trouble.

Of course, it is not only the reason for trouble, but also the reason for clarifying gender.No matter who it was at the time, as long as it was a woman, he would be awkward.

Moreover, after the meeting, Chu Qing's proposals for the construction of the "Five Counties of Fist" and so on, although he thought it was good, but he felt a feeling of "being dominated by women", which made him very uncomfortable.

(End of this chapter)