Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 673 The most fundamental problem in agriculture

Although aristocratic families all use their families to give birth to children and rarely buy people from outside, there is a kind of people they need, that is technical talents, such as cooks, embroiderers, and even servants who know carpentry.Because the family always eats meals cooked by one person, it is easy to get bored, so it is necessary to buy a new cook; the same is true for Xiuniang.

Because she knew the factions in the capital, this job was relatively simple for Du Jinning. She only needed to provide Qin Lao Liu with a list.Snakes have snake paths, rats have rat paths, Qin Lao Liu has his own way to send these people into the homes of the people she designates without knowing it.

Du Jinning took this move not for anything else but to collect information, and also to prepare for her escape when she disguised herself as a man and was exposed in the future.

"Lord Du, the emperor invites you." Deng Yi walked in with a eunuch at the end of the day, and said to Du Jinning.

After saying this, he had mixed emotions.

He was also the No. [-] scholar, and he had a good time in those days. Later, he proved with his ability that he was worthy of this honor.

But when he first came to the Hanlin Academy, he sat on the bench for a while.I haven't seen the emperor for a full year, and I only do some hard work that I can't show my face.

Later, by chance, Chengzhi was ill, and the seniors of the Hanlin Academy happened to be busy. He accepted the decree and wrote an imperial edict, which was praised by the old emperor. Chengzhi dared not suppress him anymore. Later, he was gradually reused. , and now sits in the position of Chengzhi.

He thought that Du Jinning, the No. [-] scholar, would follow his path.

But he didn't want Du Jinning to come to the Hanlin Academy for only one day before the emperor summoned him.

This made Deng Yi feel mixed feelings.

Du Jinning didn't know that Deng Yi and the others except Qi Muyuan had all kinds of thoughts and guesses. She knew that Zhao Hu must have summoned her because of the note she handed in the day before yesterday.

She saluted and followed the eunuch to the main hall.

"Let's get back together." Zhao Yu was not sitting on the throne in the main hall at this time, but behind the desk in the side hall. On the desk was the notebook written by Du Jinning.

Apart from Zhao He, Du Jinning and some eunuchs and court ladies, there were no other ministers in the hall.

Zhao Hui usually discusses matters with the cabinet ministers, and the ministers don't all stand, Zhao Hui will let them all sit down.

At this moment, Zhao Wei also pointed to the lower chair and said, "Sit down, sit down and talk."

Du Jinning knew that today's conversation might take a long time.She was standing and Zhao Min was sitting, which was also uncomfortable.She didn't refuse, thanked her and sat down.

Zhao Wen didn't touch the booklet in front of the table, but said: "I read what you wrote, let's not talk about it. I want to ask you, there are a lot of mergers in the fields now, and the fields in the hands of the common people are not Not much. What’s the point of your proposals to increase agricultural production?”

He raised his head and looked at Du Jinning: "Last time when you wrote about regenerated rice in your storybook, some ministers jumped out and said that the low price of grain hurts the farmers. Later, I changed the number of acres of grain cultivated in the farmland, and the aristocratic family just now Let it go. Do you think they will accept the methods you are writing to increase production and income? After accepting it, what impact will it have on the entire Song Dynasty? Have you considered it?"

"Back to the emperor, I have thought about this issue." Du Jinning said, "When the disaster year comes, the grain harvest will not be harvested, so the farmers will sell their land and properties and become tenant farmers, and the big landlords will use various tricks to seize and annex the land. No matter which Dynasties, as long as they exist for a long time, this kind of problem will definitely appear.”

Her answer was completely beyond Zhao Yu's expectations.

A scholar who is immersed in his studies seldom pays attention to this kind of problem, especially Du Jinning is still so young.

He asked with great interest: "Since you have thought about this problem, do you have a solution?"

Ever since he ascended the throne and firmly grasped the power in his own hands, he has been thinking about this question.He also discussed with Qi Bokun and other confidant ministers many times.

If the land is concentrated in the hands of aristocratic families, then the tax paid will be less.In this way, the rich are the aristocratic families, and the poor are the country and court.When land annexation is severe, the conflicts between peasants and landlords, courts and landlords will intensify.

This is an extremely unstable factor.Once the peasants who lost their land were forced to a certain extent, peasant uprisings would break out.

Zhao He is a very ambitious emperor, he doesn't want to just compromise with the aristocratic family.Otherwise, I really don't know when their Zhao family's dynasty will be overthrown by the peasant uprising.

That's why he cared so much about agricultural yields.

If the peasants can have enough food, they will live and work in peace and contentment, and the society will be peaceful.

However, most of the land in the country is in the hands of aristocratic families, and the farmers on these lands cannot improve their production because of the method of increasing production and income proposed by Du Jinning.The output of their land has increased, and the landlords have also collected more rent, but they are still hungry.In times of famine, they would have to sell their children or even starve to death.

So Zhao Wei feels that the most urgent problem to be solved now is not the problem of increasing production and income, but the problem of land merger.

But even though he asked this question, he didn't expect much from Du Jinning's answer.

A group of high-ranking officials and ministers can't find a good way to solve this historical problem. Du Jinning, a 15-year-old kid, can he come up with any good ideas?It's amazing to think about this question.

Du Jinning was also thinking about how to come up with a solution.

There have been many reforms in history, which are aimed at the issue of land annexation.The land equalization system was implemented in the early Tang Dynasty, and Wang Anshi's reform in the Northern Song Dynasty.After that, Zhang Juzheng drafted a whipping law in the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty’s Kangxi period’s apportionment system, the three major policies proposed by Sun Yat-sen in the Republic of China to control capital, support agriculture and industry, and unite with Russia and the Communist Party, the CCP’s land reform in the liberated areas, the KMT Taiwan's land reform, etc., are measures taken against land mergers.

However, some policies are more suitable for the new dynasty.New dynasty, new policy, new order.Opposing voices were directly suppressed by force.After all, the new dynasty was established by force.

And like this overhead Song Dynasty, it has existed for a long time and has too many accumulated disadvantages, so it has to carefully consider what method to use so as not to cause the rebound of the aristocratic family.

Thinking of this, she shook her head and said, "I have to go back and think about it."

After finishing speaking, she asked again: "How does the emperor plan to solve it? What do the ministers say?"

Hearing her first words, Zhao He felt more and more that this was an inexperienced child with the innocence of a child.

He shook his head: "It's just that I don't know how to solve it, so I have a headache."

Du Jinning thought for a while, and decided to remind: "The land is in the hands of aristocratic families, and it must be very difficult to get them to spit it out. Most of the officials in the court are from aristocratic families, and the methods used are too strong, which can easily cause instability. factor."

Zhao He nodded: "That's not it." It's not as good as the aristocratic family wants, they can pull Zhao He from the throne and replace him with a puppet.His five-year-old son is a good candidate.

　Calvin, that's all for today, sorry everyone.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)