After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 141 The Word of the Sage
That night, Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma stayed up all night in the imperial study.

They were carefully sorting out the points Qin Yu told him during the day.

The next day.

Fengtian Temple.

All civil and military officials went to the court, and this time the court meeting was unprecedentedly large.

There are more than 1000 people in total.

Only officials of the fourth rank or above had the opportunity to stand in the Fengtian Hall and have a direct dialogue with the emperor.The rest of the officials could only stand outside the hall.Qunchen Yin Shi had already gotten up, and then lined up outside the palace gate, waiting for the bell to ring, and then entered the hall one by one.

All of them were wearing red official uniforms and black official hats.

"Long live the emperor, long live!" When the burly Zhu Yuanzhang, wearing a yellow dragon robe, appeared on the main hall, the ministers bowed to him together, and the voice was soaring.Inside and outside the hall, a large area of ​​black kneeled down.

"Be flat!" Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

……

"All ministers." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Today we have a few strategies for governing the country, and I would like to discuss with you. This court meeting may be a little long, so please be patient."

The general court meeting is only open from six o'clock to nine o'clock. After the court is over, the ministers can still get snacks from the emperor. They come hungry.Once the court meeting is held for too long, the ministers will be hungry in the middle.In addition, not being able to go to the toilet on the way is also a terrible thing.

"Please show the emperor." The ministers said.

"Everyone think, whose world is this world?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked first.

"Your Majesty, the "Tai Gong Liu Tao" says: The world is not the world of one person, but the world of people. Those who share the benefits of the world will gain the world; those who are good at the benefits of the world will lose the world..." Liu Bowen said.

Although everyone thinks that the world belongs to the emperor, Jiangshan also belongs to the emperor, that is, his old Zhu family.But this kind of truth still cannot be stated clearly, and some high-sounding words must be said.

"Tang Taizong said that the way to be a king must first save the people. If the people are harmed to honor their bodies, they will cut off their shares to eat their stomachs, and die when they are full... Therefore, the old minister felt that the world belongs to the people." Li Shan said long.

"Mencius said: The people are the most valuable, the society and the grain are second, and the ruler is the light..."

"The Book of History says that the people are the foundation of the state, and the foundation is solid and the state is peaceful!"

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The ministers began to play, and the classic sentences in the book of saints and sages were easy to come by.

In a word, the general meaning of what they said is that the world belongs to the people of the world, or to the people, not the emperor.The king must put the people first, and he must be diligent in government and love the people.

"Since this world belongs to the people of the world, shouldn't the land in the world also belong to the people?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"That's right," said the officials, "Isn't this the case in all dynasties? The land in the world belongs to the common people." In ancient times, land was privately owned, so they said there was no doubt about it.

"Since this is the case, the ministers think, how much land should the common people own?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked again, "What we are asking is, how big should each household's housing area be."

The ministers did not understand what the emperor meant, so they could only follow the emperor's words.

"Your Majesty, for a family of five, at most one-third of the land is enough. For a family of seven, a quarter of the land is enough. The southwestern region is now booming, and a family of ten has appeared, and a half-acre of land should be used for housing. Let's go." Lu Chang said.He is the Minister of the Household, and he has a more detailed understanding of the housing area of ​​the common people.

"I also feel that, for each household, one-fifth of the land, that is, half an mu of land is enough." Gao Qi said.

"Lu Chang is the minister of households, and the figures he gave are more accurate." Liu Bowen said.

Hearing the words, the rest of the ministers also nodded in agreement.Although they are not from the Ministry of Households, it is still conceivable just by imagination how much housing each household needs.

"Half an mu of land is indeed enough. There are too many people to live in a two-story building." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "In our opinion, half an mu of land is not only enough for them to live in, but also allows them to have a small yard. Vegetables, raising chickens or something."

"Your Majesty is absolutely right."

The minister said.

"When we were hunting in the mountains before, we saw that those birds have their own nests, hares have rabbit dens, wolves have wolf dens, tigers have tiger dens... Basically, every creature has its own nest. Since everyone says that the world belongs to the people of the world, shouldn't the land occupied by the people of the world also belong to them?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"As it should be." Liu Bowen said, even if he was as smart as he was, he couldn't figure out the emperor's intentions when he said this.

"Your Majesty's words are the words of a sage!" Li Shan said long, "A sage will benefit all beings in the world, including humans and birds and beasts."

"The so-called Taoism is natural. Your Majesty thinks that everyone in the world should have a place to build a nest for them, that is, a place to live. It conforms to the way of heaven, and it conforms to the way of humanity. It really conforms to the principle of nature." Song Lian said.

"Whether it's a bird's nest, a wolf's den, or a tiger's den, it's a place for them to shelter from the wind and rain and raise their offspring... Once this place is violated, those wolves and tigers will recklessly bite the incoming enemy to death." Zhu Yuanzhang road. "So it's the same for the people of the world. No one can trespass on the one-third of an acre of their house, and the trespasser can be attacked by the owner without breaking the law."

"Your Majesty's words are very true." The ministers agreed.

"Since all the ministers and workers feel that this statement is reasonable, then Lu Chang, you will draw up a will on our behalf." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "From today onwards, all the people of the Ming Dynasty will have half an mu of living space in every household. No one is allowed to enter.”

"People are not allowed to buy and sell housing land at will. If they do need to buy or sell under special circumstances, they must be approved and verified by the government. This will needs to be added to the "Daming Law"."

"The minister obeys the order." Lu Chang said.

When the ministers heard the words, they did not express any objection.After all, it is already a fact that the people's housing land is privately owned, and Emperor Zhu specifically decreed that he just added this fact to the laws of the Ming Dynasty.

Make this fact more legal.

After Lu Chang finished writing the imperial edict, Zhu Yuanzhang read it and continued: "Since everyone in the world has a piece of land that belongs to them, who should own the rest of the land?"

After a pause: "The Book of Songs says that under the whole world, there is no king soil."

The ministers did not speak when they heard the words, because they had already heard something strange from the sentence "Is there a king under the heavens".

"Don't all the land in the world already have a destination?" At this time, Geng Cheng, the doctor of the censor, stood up from the train and said, "Whoever the minister thinks the current land belongs to, that's who it belongs to."

"This is a recognized fact, and everyone has land deeds and land deeds. I don't know why the emperor asked this question."

"Geng Cheng, your family has a lot of land, right?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked indifferently.

(End of this chapter)