The ministers begged me to ascend the throne

The auspicious day selected by Tai Shiling is five days later.At that time, Emperor Wu of Zhou will take the civil and military ministers and sons of the Manchu Dynasty to plant rice seedlings in the fields outside the capital.

Every year during the spring plowing period, Emperor Wu of Zhou would take his ministers and sons to the fields to plant rice seedlings.This is an activity created by Emperor Wu of Zhou himself, in order to let the people know that the imperial court attaches great importance to spring plowing.

Although it was a little pretentious to do so, the common people were naturally very moved when they saw that the emperor attached so much importance to Chun Geng.

Spring plowing is related to a year's grain harvest.Farmers are very concerned about spring plowing every year.Seeing that the emperor cares so much about spring plowing now, the common people will naturally treat spring plowing more seriously.

In addition to this aspect, the imperial court also showed its emphasis on spring plowing in other aspects.For example, if the grain seeds of the people's homes do not produce good seedlings, they can "borrow" good seedlings from the local government office.If the grain seeds at home are gone or broken, you can also "loan on credit" from the local yamen.When the grain is harvested, just pay back the loan on credit.

This "credit loan" was established by the first emperor.When the Great Zhou was first established, not to mention food, even the seeds of food were almost eaten up in many places.Many grain seeds were also destroyed.

In the ten or twenty years before the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there were either natural disasters or man-made disasters. In addition, there were wars every year, and food was very scarce.At that time, people were starving to the point of death, and could only eat the grain as seeds.

In the first year of the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the first emperor ordered the yamen in various places to report how much surplus grain and how many grain seeds there were in the local granaries.The number reported at that time was surprisingly small.

In order to allow the common people to have seeds to grow, the first emperor at that time very strongly asked the powerful families to donate grain seeds.Of course these people are not willing to donate. It has nothing to do with them whether the people have food to grow, whether they have food to eat, or whether they starve to death.

The Xie family was the first to volunteer to donate food seeds.It stands to reason that if the Xie family donated, other aristocratic families should also donate, but these aristocratic families want to exchange benefits with the imperial court by donating food seeds, so they have not donated for a long time.

Naturally, the imperial court ignored the idea of ​​these aristocratic families wanting to exchange benefits.If there is no benefit, the aristocratic families are of course unwilling to donate.The first emperor directly ordered them to be arrested and put in prison, and their families were asked to redeem them with food seeds.If no food seeds are given, it will be closed all the time.

When they are locked up, they are not given food, so that they can deeply experience the feeling of being hungry.If within the stipulated time limit, no one from their family redeemed people with food seeds, then they would have only one end—death.

At the beginning, these people thought that the late emperor was just trying to scare them and didn't dare to kill them. In the end, the late emperor really killed them, and he dragged them to Caishikou to kill them in front of the whole world.

At that time, many people were killed, and they were all the heads of powerful families.

The first emperor was courteous before soldiers, and politely asked these aristocratic families to donate seeds.If they don't agree, then he can only come hard.

Before the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the first emperor led his troops to fight countless battles, big and small, and he was a person who walked out of the sea of ​​corpses and blood.Furthermore, on the battlefield, he has seen all kinds of people. If these powerful families want to play tricks in front of him, it is up to him to ignore them.

The first emperor was a decisive person, he would kill as soon as he said, without mercy.When the Great Zhou was first established, seeing that the first emperor was from a grassroots family, those aristocratic families thought that he was easy to manipulate and suppress, but they were the ones who were manipulated and punished.

Because of the donation of food seeds, the first emperor killed many people from powerful families, which naturally angered them.Just when they wanted to take revenge on the first emperor, the first emperor directly sent troops to suppress it.

Although these aristocratic families are very powerful and have their own trilogy, how can their trilogy compare with the court soldiers who have experienced many battles.

More than half of the trilogy of those families who were unwilling to donate grain seeds were killed by people sent by the first emperor, and those families who were killed were afraid.They believed that if they donated food seeds obediently, they would be ransacked and exterminated by the first emperor.

In order to avoid the catastrophe of extinction, they didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and obediently donated grain seeds.Since then, the court asked them to donate things, or let them do other things, and they dared not take Joe again.

Until now, every year, the aristocratic family will take the initiative to donate some good grain seeds.In fact, after Emperor Wu of Zhou ascended the throne, the imperial court and the local yamen had a lot of grain seeds.Emperor Wu of Zhou did not force the aristocratic families to donate grain seeds like the first emperor did, but these aristocratic families voluntarily donated very obediently.

Compared with the first emperor, the aristocratic families in the capital are more afraid of Zhou Wudi.

Don't look at Emperor Wu of Zhou always smiling, but he changed his face as soon as he said it, and didn't give them a chance to react at all.By the time they react, disaster is imminent.

Before doing things, the first emperor would first salute, and then retreat.However, Emperor Wu of Zhou was not, he fought first and then paid respects.Emperor Xian was ruthless, and Emperor Wu of Zhou was even more ruthless.The most frightening thing is that Emperor Wu of Zhou was still very smart. If a powerful family wanted to play smart in front of him, it would be tantamount to playing tricks.

They can't play tricks and tricks, and they can't fight hard. The aristocratic families can only be obedient in front of Emperor Wu of Zhou.Fortunately, Emperor Wu of Zhou didn't keep suppressing them. As long as they didn't do too much, Emperor Wu of Zhou would usually turn a blind eye.

Back then, when the first emperor and his son established the Great Zhou, the aristocratic families in the capital saw that their father and son were farmers, thought they were easy to handle, and decided to let their father and son be their puppets, even the Xie family thought so.

After they saw the methods of Emperor Xian and Emperor Wu of Zhou, they didn't dare to underestimate Emperor Xian and them any more, and they didn't dare to show off their power in front of them or threaten them with their status as aristocratic family.

What made the aristocratic families in the capital completely afraid of Emperor Wu of Zhou was the year when the first empress died of illness. Emperor Wu of Zhou ordered the killing of many eunuchs, maids of honor, and concubines.

These people were the eyeliners inserted in the palace by powerful families, and they were all pulled out at that time.

In addition to a purge in the palace, there was also a purge in the officialdom, and many officials were eliminated.These officials were either beheaded, exiled, and thrown into prison.These officials are all people from aristocratic families, or they have been carefully trained by them.

Emperor Wu of Zhou directly said to these aristocratic families with a smile in the early morning court, don't play smart in front of him, let alone make small moves in front of him, and don't arrange some people who are there or not under his nose.When he is in a good mood, he can forget about it.However, when you are in a bad mood, don't blame him for being cruel.

In the early morning of that day, many people were so frightened that their faces were ashen and their legs were weak.When the morning morning ended, many people were so frightened that they collapsed on the ground and couldn't stand up for a long time.

After this incident, the aristocratic family did not dare to test the bottom line of Emperor Wu of Zhou.Because the consequences after the temptation are not something they can bear.

Over the years, the aristocratic families have gradually figured out where the bottom line of Emperor Wu of Zhou is, so they didn't dare to make big things.

In addition to food seeds, the first emperor also forced powerful families to donate land.

These aristocratic families have already occupied a lot of fields.Taking advantage of the chaos in the previous dynasty, they occupied a lot of fields, leaving the common people with no land to plant.

The first emperor took back a lot of fields from them forcefully, and distributed these fields to the common people for planting.Emperor Xian and Emperor Wu of Zhou also encouraged the people to dig wasteland.The land opened up belongs to the pioneers themselves and will not be taken away by the yamen.In addition to this, the local yamen will also reward some things to the pioneers, such as grain, seeds, and tax exemption for three years.By the way, another biggest advantage is that you can settle down.

Because of the war, many refugees appeared in various places.These refugees are running around and living in no fixed place.

When the Great Zhou was first established, there were not many people in the capital.In the former dynasty, at its peak, the population of the capital was more than 100 million.However, in the early days of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the capital only had a population of 30 million, which was only one-fifth of the population in the heyday of the previous dynasty.

In order to increase the population of various places, the first emperor formulated a policy.As long as the refugees cultivated the fields and lived there for one year, they could settle in the local area.

Because of this policy, the refugees did not move around, but stayed in the local area and actively cultivated the fields.This not only increased the local population, but also increased a lot of arable land.

So far, Dazhou has cultivated 600 to [-] million hectares of cultivated land.At first glance, this number sounds like a lot, but it’s actually not that much.According to the total population of Dazhou, it has not reached the point where everyone has arable land.

In fact, during the most prosperous period of the previous dynasty, more than 700 million hectares of arable land were reclaimed.However, due to wars and natural disasters, many reclaimed farmlands were destroyed.Most of these destroyed cultivated lands have been completely turned into useless wastelands and cannot be restored to cultivated land.

In the early days of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there were only two to three million hectares of arable land that could grow grain.After more than ten years of hard work, the arable land in Dazhou tripled to 300 million hectares.Also, the population has doubled everywhere.However, it was still far from the goal that Emperor Wu of Zhou wanted.

Emperor Wu of Zhou and He Xiang and the others decided to take another five years of recuperation, and by then the arable land and population would double again.This is why He Xiang told Shen Hu and the others why they could not attack Shu in the past five years.

The next five years will be very important to Da Zhou.As long as within these five years, the population, arable land, and food reach the goals set by Emperor Wu of Zhou and the others.Then, it will be no problem to recover the land of Shu next.Also, there is no big problem in resisting the Huns.

Having said that, of course, the first emperor encouraged the people to reclaim wasteland. He himself took the lead and led Zhou Wudi and his soldiers to reclaim several acres of land.

The fields that Emperor Wu of Zhou plowed and planted rice seedlings every spring were reclaimed by their father and son.

Of course, Emperor Wu of Zhou also asked the prince and Dai Wang to reclaim a field of their own.

Emperor Wu of Zhou stipulated that every adult prince must reclaim a piece of land of his own within one year.If the fields they open up produce more grain, they will be rewarded.

The few fields that he and the first emperor reclaimed are quite fertile, and they produce quite a lot of grain every year.

Whenever he had time, Emperor Wu of Zhou would come to these fields to check the situation.If there are a lot of weeds growing in the fields, he will go to the fields to weed them himself.If there are worms, he will also go to the field to remove the worms himself.When it was harvest time, he also went to the field to cut the rice himself.

When the first emperor was alive, he often said that they were farmers, and they must not forget their roots, let alone how to farm.Even if you become the emperor, you can't forget these, because this is the root of their Zhao family.If their Zhao family loses their country in the future, they can go back and continue to be farmers farming the land to support themselves.

Emperor Wu of Zhou often helped his family with farm work when he was a child, and he has been a good farmer since he was a child.He naturally also asked his sons to be able to do farm work since childhood.

All the princes, except the youngest son Zhao Yao, did not go to the fields to do farm work.The other princes do it every year, and they all do well.If they did not do well, Emperor Wu of Zhou would beat them up unceremoniously.

The third prince and the others were almost beaten to death by Emperor Wu of Zhou because they didn't do farm work well.Also, when they went to the fields to do farm work, if they dared to complain about suffering, tiredness, and resentment, Emperor Wu of Zhou would beat them.

The emperor and the princes all farmed and worked, and the ministers naturally did the same.Although Emperor Wu of Zhou did not force the ministers to learn from them, the ministers dared not learn to do it.

They are definitely not as good as farmers in farming, but they can at least farm.In addition, they can deeply understand the difficulty of farmers, and understand that every grain of grain is hard to come by.

The most down-to-earth emperor.

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