After being favored by the bosses, she made a lot of money

Chapter 46 Land Enclosure System
They pity others, but they don't know that others don't feel that they are more pitiful.So in their eyes, death is not necessarily liberation.

Feng Chupin's lips twitched into a faint smile, and he poured a cup of hot tea for Feng Jiaojiao, his voice was still steady: "I never thought Jiaojiao could understand so well."

She is indeed a delicate person.

The atmosphere became gloomy again, Feng Youlan said haha: "Auspicious snow heralds a good year, maybe next year the weather will be better?"

She hoped without malice, but Feng Jiaojiao took the cup of hot tea that Feng Chupin handed over, and said with a sip, "Natural disasters are easy to deal with, and man-made disasters continue, but look, the suffering of the people is not over yet." .”

Although it is true that the suffering of the people is caused by natural disasters, it is man-made disasters that dominate.The disaster relief ability of the ruler collapsed, the courtiers were bent on playing tricks, and the people were helpless in the face of natural disasters.

Feng Chupin's eyes moved slightly, and he asked without a trace: "If my sister is one of the thousands of victims, how should I deal with myself?"

The corner of Feng Jiaojiao's lips curled up into a sneer, if she was one of the thousands of victims, she would: "Put them to death and then live, never break or stand, never die!"

As soon as she raised her eyes to meet Shangfeng Chupin's deep gaze, she felt a pain in her heart, and she quickly moved her eyes away, it's too bad, she was tricked by this fox again.

Feng Chupin smiled lightly, unable to hear the emotion, said: "Sister is really different."

Feng Jiaojiao frowned, she secretly took out the Baoxin pill she carried with her and stuffed it into an entrance, it seemed that she had to find a way to solve the problem that her mental age was different from her peers.

Otherwise, a slight negligence is a flaw.

The carriage soon drove into the vicinity of the village government office, but Feng Jiaojiao said to the outside world: "Chongming is here, go around first, don't startle the snake."

Feng Chupin was curious: "What is my sister going to do?"

Feng Jiao smiled lightly: "Listen to the play."

Chongming is a quick man, but there is no news about him yet, so it can be seen that there is something wrong there.

It can be difficult for Chongming to solve it for a while, so it is not an easy matter, but before she left, she specifically told Chongming to come back and tell her if there was something she couldn't solve, but Chongming didn't, which means it's not a big deal, but troublesome, or not Well, she came forward to solve it, so she listened first and then spoke.

"Yes." An Qiao accepted the order.

Shu Ying drove the carriage to the back of the government office.

After a while, Chongming came, and he knelt beside Feng Jiaojiao's carriage, and said to Feng Jiaojiao: "Princess, there are two nobles from the government office who came to take over the land today, so the return of my subordinates is late, please forgive me crime."

Feng Jiaojiao opened the curtains and said to him: "It's okay." Then she waved her hand and said to him: "You come up first, if you have something to say, speak slowly."

"Yes!" Chongming accepted the order.

After a while, Chongming told Feng Jiaojiao what happened in the government office.It turned out that there was a conflict between the land requisition of the local tyrants and the local people, and now the government office is in chaos.

The nobles and gentry wanted to grab the land with Feng Jiaojiao, but the local people were crying and fighting for the land, and were beaten with sticks.

The cause of the matter is this.

This place is located at the intersection of the port and the farmland, and the land is not very fertile, so most of the nobles and gentry are not here.At first, it was all deserted.

The local people couldn't bear the heavy taxation and the food left over from farming for the nobles was not enough to support their families, so they took a fancy to this piece of land that no one wanted and opened up wasteland privately.

Because ancient tools were inconvenient and it took time to open up wasteland, the local people withdrew the government's grain for one year, saying that the harvest from their own land would be returned to the government in the next year.

But who knows, last year there were floods in the south and severe drought in the north, and the people's land did not have a good harvest.The food grown in their fields is not enough to pay back one-third of the officials.

This made the local magistrates detain them forcibly, coerce and lure them to donate the land they had finally reclaimed to offset their debts.

In this way, the land they worked so hard to develop for a year was confiscated by the government, and they had to continue to work for the previous nobles.And because this year's harvest was all returned to the government, and there was no food to survive, so there was a commotion in the government.

Feng Youlan felt that something was wrong: "I made an explicit order from the government that local officials can only borrow 2000 deniers of grain from civilians at most. How can they have such a heavy burden? They can return these grains with just a few harvests! Don't let those troublemakers do it on purpose. Don't pay it back, what a trick!"

Because she almost died here last time, she has a lot of prejudice against the people here.

Chongming said: "The county lord is right. Our government has indeed stipulated that local officials can only borrow 2000 deniers of grain from civilians at most, but the county lord does not know that the government borrows 2000 deniers of grain to farmers, but farmers need to pay back 5000 deniers of grain. Then The excess is called interest, and farmers are overwhelmed."

Feng Youlan couldn't help being surprised: "Then isn't this taking advantage of the fire to rob? Can the local people be willing?"

Feng Jiao said indifferently: "They can only be willing.

Farmers want to have their own land, not be exploited by nobles, and have enough food to survive, so they can only waste a year of labor to cultivate it.

And it is not so easy to cultivate the land. They not only need to weed, cut down trees, plow the land, fertilize, but also ensure that there will be no serious illness and delay the construction period this year. This is not an easy task.

However, these are not important. If these peasants are willing to work hard, they can barely overcome it. But the peasants cannot solve the problem of not farming land for the nobles for a year, failing to pay taxes, and having no rations for a year.

They can only borrow from the government.

But who knows, natural disasters and man-made disasters continued last year, and a natural disaster broke their last chance of life. They could only become fish on the chopping board of the government, let them carve up the last piece of meat on his body, and then continue to become slaves of nobles. Turn over. "

Feng Jiaojiao was quite suffocated when she said this, even Feng Youlan on the side was silent, Feng Chupin looked at her seriously for the first time, his eyes were full of admiration and seven points of thought-provoking.

He knew she was smart, but he didn't expect her to be so smart!

Since he was a child, he felt that this land enclosure system was particularly problematic, but he never seriously thought about the exploitation it would bring to his people.In other words, after he has been in the upper position for a long time, he can no longer see the suffering of the people below.

He couldn't help thinking of what his mother often taught him: If you want to be a good king, you must be able to eat delicacies from mountains and seas, and at the same time swallow the pickles and taro of the poor.

Mother called this empathy, and he didn't understand it at the time, but now he suddenly understands.

Feng Youlan was also silent for a long time, and after a while, she seemed to make up her mind and said: "We will go and decide for those people now, let the magistrate exempt them from taxes, and return the land to him, isn't that all right? "

She seemed to have thought of a solution to the problem.

But Feng Jiaojiao said: "This is not a problem of one family at all, but a problem with this system.

(End of this chapter)