Chapter 0048 Why not eat minced meat?
"How can I help?"
Zhu Youxiao became curious instead.
"I thought that Your Majesty could design some houses for the victims to rest!"
Zhang Haogu smiled and said: "There are also mathematical problems and accounting. Most people are not as good as the emperor. Secondly, the design and improvement of tools also require the emperor!"
Zhu Youxiao touched his nose and smiled: "That's right. So, I just have to do it?"
"It's difficult to do anything, you must do it!" Zhang Haogu said with a smile: "Your Majesty, I have another suggestion!"
"you say!"
Zhu Youxiao became interested.
Zhang Haogu said: "I would like to ask Your Majesty to go out and take a look at these victims. Then, we need to pick a place to build a brand new administrative agency. What does Your Majesty think?"
"It's good to go out and take a look!" Zhu Youxiao nodded: "It just so happens that I have been staying in the Forbidden City for a long time, so I just want to go out and get some fresh air!"
Naturally, this is a private visit incognito.
Even so, there are countless people around Zhu Youxiao secretly protecting him.
In addition, Zhang Haogu still took Zhang An with him.
Although his servant is lazy, greedy, treacherous and greedy, he is loyal to himself and is extremely powerful.
Zhang Haogu originally thought that after traveling through time, he was struck by lightning and strengthened his physical strength.
However, he is still no match for Zhang An.
This guy is born with supernatural powers. Zhang Haogu once saw this kid lift a stone mill, throw it into the sky, and then catch it firmly with both hands. He is truly a Wu Song-level existence.
Last time, when I was taking the imperial examination, I had a conflict with someone. This encore was beaten by more than a dozen people by myself.
Only a few people knew that Zhu Youxiao had left the palace.
Frankly speaking, Zhu Youxiao was severely shocked when he left the capital.
The three views are fragmented!
The four words "people are in dire straits" sound like four simple words.
However, when he actually saw the groups of refugees lying weakly under the big trees outside the capital, Zhu Youxiao admitted that he was shocked.
Zhu Youxiao still felt his heart twitching.
Not to mention Zhu Youxiao, Zhang Haogu was severely shocked by the scene in front of him.
It’s not like I’ve never been to remote areas in my previous life, and it’s not like I’ve never seen poor people.
However, no matter how poor they are, they are still not as poor as this era.
Some prayed for food, while others knelt on the ground and took out their children to sell.
It can be said that these refugees are extremely poor. They have left their homes and have no food. They just gathered together and saw a group of people coming, and stretched out their dirty hands to pray for a little food.
A bag of millet can be exchanged for a yellow flower girl.
This millet is still moldy.
I saw You Yaxing carrying a bag with his hands behind his back, pinching the faces of these girls, looking at their teeth, then looking at their bone development, and then discussing the price.
Zhu Youxiao was already a little angry.
This is the Ming Dynasty, my Ming Dynasty? The best place in the capital? Damn it, how could it be like this?
The farther away from the capital and the weaker the control, the more miserable it will be.
There are tens of thousands of people.
Selling sons and daughters.
There are also people who swollen to death after eating Guanyin soil.
"May I have your name?"
Zhu Youxiao squatted on the ground and looked at the thin beggar in front of him and asked slowly.
I?
This beggar was only eleven or twelve years old, and his clothes were in tatters, which could barely cover his body. At this moment, he was looking at Zhu Youxiao with curious eyes.
After a long time, she slowly said: "I don't have a name, people call me Qiqi!"
"Why is it called Qiqi?"
"Because I am the seventh child in my family!!"
"Where is your home?"
"My home is over there!" Qiqi pointed in a direction.
Zhu Youxiao followed the direction of her finger and couldn't see anything.
"Why did you leave your hometown?"
"Because there is no food, I am hungry every day. My father and mother are starving to death!!"
"Why do you starve to death?"
"Brother Zhu!"
Zhang Haogu couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to drag Zhu Youxiao away. This question was simply idiotic.
"Answer me, why did you starve to death?" Zhu Youxiao pushed Zhang Haogu away and stared at Qiqi.
Qiqi was startled: "Just, just, there's nothing to eat, just, I'm starving to death!"
"Why is there no food?"
Zhu Youxiao's eyes were already red. It was not that he didn't know that Daming had problems, but he had never thought that Daming's problems were so serious.
"Because they don't have land, because they can't collect food due to this year's disaster, and because of the government's excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, they have to sell their land to landlords and gentry in order to find food and clothing. But now, they can't food and clothing. Brother Zhu,
This is the answer!”
Zhang Haogu on the side directly answered Zhu Youxiao's question.
Zhu Youxiao seemed to have lost all his strength and sat slumped on the ground.
Then, Zhu Youxiao raised his eyelids and looked at Zhang Haogu: "Master, is this why you want to take your disciple out to have a look?"
"emperor!"
Zhang Haogu said: "The people are having a hard time, just four words. It can be seen everywhere in history books and memorials. If you don't see it with your own eyes, how would the emperor know that the people are not having a good life? What kind of people are not having a good life?"
Zhu Youxiao was silent, and then said: "I don't understand. You just said that because of the government's excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, they had to sell their land to landlords and gentry in order to have enough food and clothing. But now, they can't have enough food and clothing?"
Why?"
"The worse the famine, the more they hoard food and cannot sell it out. If the food is sold and the price drops, how can they use a small amount of food to occupy the land?"
"I would rather this land be barren and not even have a good harvest. This will naturally raise the price of food. The higher the price, the greater the benefits they will get. They will have more and more land, and their wealth will become more and more concentrated.
How much profit will they get when the disaster year is over?!"
"The more concentrated the land, the more refugees there are. They have no food and no land to live on. The only thing they can do is to flee. In the process of fleeing, if you are lucky, you may meet some kind-hearted landlords.
You will be rewarded with a mouthful of food and rented an acre of land. Those who are unlucky will starve to death or fall into the trap of a bandit."
boom!
Zhu Youxiao stood up and punched a big tree.
"How could this happen? Why did this happen?"
Zhang Haogu looked at Zhu Youxiao silently, knowing that this boy was too stimulated now.
In his memorial, he said that farmers should be allowed to reclaim wasteland. In fact, wherever the common people still had wasteland to reclaim, it would have been annexed by these landowner bastards.
The best way is to kill these landlords, old wealthy bastards.
Even if you want to industrialize, you must have land for industrialization.
"emperor!"
Guessing that the mood was almost over and Zhu Youxiao had thought enough, Zhang Haogu said: "Why does your Majesty think that my great ancestor, Emperor Gao, raised an army to rebel?"
Zhu Youxiao was silent: "I understand, I understand!"
Then he laughed at himself and said: "Master Sun told me that one year there was a famine. The people had no food to eat. They had to dig grass roots and eat tree bark. Many people starved to death as a result. The news was quickly reported to the palace, and Jin Hui
After the emperor sat on the high throne and listened to the minister's report, he was very puzzled. He asked: "The people have no corn to satisfy their hunger, why don't they eat minced meat?"
Then, Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhang Haogu: "Master, tell me, what is the difference between me and Emperor Hui of Jin?"
"This is just because Your Majesty does not have a comprehensive understanding of things!"
Zhang Haogu said: "The emperor may not be unintelligent, but he has seen less of you!"
"Let me go, let me go!" At this moment, Qiqi's shouting voice reached the ears of several people, and they saw several men surrounding Qiqi with their claws and teeth.
One of them reached out and gave Qiqi a slap in the face: "You bitch, you sold yourself to us yesterday, and you still want to run away today?"
"I'll fuck you!"
Chapter completed!