Uproar.

The entire civil and military forces in front of Fengtian Gate were in an uproar.

Regardless of whether these people knew what the tax office said in advance or not, they must behave at this time.

Many things in the court are negotiable.

But only money is the most sensitive issue.

Zhu Gaochi said that a large family spent money, and only eight cents of an acre of land were registered. This could not be false, and even the two cents of land were hidden.

They are all people who have been eating rice for countless years. Who doesn't know how evil and ruthless the people underneath are.

It was just that someone reacted quickly.

Today's long court meeting has been divorced from the original debate from the beginning.

Whether it's the river accident or the land being taken out by Zhu Gaochi.

Everything actually revolves around the Hongwu New Deal.

In order to attack the New Deal, the opposition took advantage of the river accident to extend its reach and try to destabilize the New Deal in the DPRK.

And supporters like Zhu Gaochi exposed certain corruption and illegal things to prove the necessity of the New Deal.

Up to this moment, the court meeting was almost approaching noon.

In front of Fengtian Gate, the officials did not feel tired. Instead, after Zhu Gaochi told the situation obtained by the tax office, everyone's spirits were lifted again.

The chief minister of the cabinet, Ren Hengtai, kept flashing his eyes.

Originally, for Ren Hengtai, the New Deal was a feasible but not inevitable thing. The emperor really wanted to implement the New Deal, and he was in charge of the cabinet, so he naturally weighed the slow and steady implementation.

Even if there is some opposition from both the government and the opposition, something must be done after all.

As for the local area, with the emperor's orders, even if there is opposition and dissatisfaction, it won't be too intense.

What the chief assistant never expected was this.

Just the matter of clearing the father-in-law's land, which has been going on for several years, can still cause such a big problem now.

People without money are literally having their fields measured.

This is understandable. The taxes levied by the imperial court were based on the amount of land.

However, those wealthy families, or the wealthy gentry families with connections, could use their money to bribe officials and record eight cents per acre when measuring the land. Such a shrinkage made Ren Hengtai feel frightened.

Whether it is a new deal or maintaining the status quo, Ren Hengtai, the chief minister, only hopes that the government and the opposition can always be stable and peaceful, without causing trouble.

This is probably related to his temperament.

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Not everyone has this temperament.

Wearing a distinguished red robe, Yuan Sutai, the young master of the Ming Dynasty who was second only to Ren Hengtai on the North Korea-China train, the supervisor of Shanglinyuan, walked out with trembling eyes, a sad look on his eyebrows, and bowed his waist in slow steps.

Is he going to talk too?

When people saw Yuan Sutai, who had a dark complexion and worn-out hands and feet because he had been working as a farmer all year round, walking out with his waist bent, they couldn't help but feel shocked.

This old man could be said to be at the pinnacle of civil service, but he had never made any remarks in court.

Everyone knows that Yuan Sutai only thinks about the things in Shanglinyuan Prison.

A few years ago, Shanglinyuan Supervisor was just a dispensable yamen within the imperial court.

But now, no one can ignore the existence of Shanglinyuan Prison.

In other words, no one can ignore the existence of Yuan Sutai.

All the civil and military officials at the Fengtianmen court meeting were watching Yuan Sutai, who was walking slowly. No one urged the old man, and no one dared to criticize him just because he was married to Nongsang.

Zhu Yuanzhang also sat upright under the palace gate.

Yuan Sutai walked very slowly, so slowly that he even frowned.

Wearing the official boots that were covered with sand in the land of Shanglin Yuanjian, they made a squeaking sound when they stepped on the stone slabs in the palace.

Delicate, yet very peaceful.

Yuan Sutai finally reached the middle.

He held the ivory tablet in his arms, raised his arms, and bowed down. With trembling movements, he rigorously completed the courtesy of the Ming Dynasty ministers to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, Yuan Sutai, the Supervisor of Shanglinyuan, please give me a report."

After saying this, Yuan Sutai held the wat board in one hand and his robe in the other, and slowly knelt on the ground.

Yuan Sutai's voice seemed like a green pine on Zhongshan Mountain outside Yingtian City, or like the continuous golden crops growing in the wilderness.

The voice reached Fengtianmen.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "I agree."

"Farming is the root of the disease, food is the source of the people, God gives birth to things, and people feed their strength."

Yuan Sutai opened his mouth and after finishing his sentence, there was silence in front of Fengtian Gate.

Whether it is people like Ren Hengtai, Xie Jin, Zhu Gaochi, Yu Xin, Wang Jun, Ji Kai, etc.

Everyone was listening quietly.

Master Yuan made a big and big proposition today and opened a big and big memorial.

"Your Majesty, the hardships faced by the people are as great as a foot of earth.

The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors were the beginning, the land was divided into centimeters, and the clans shared their food.

By the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, all the land in the world was the land of the king. The shores of the land were the land of the king and his ministers. The scholar-bureaucrats, ministers and ministers shared it. There was a well in every square mile, and the well had 900 acres, of which it was public land. Eight families all had 100 acres of private land, and they cultivated it together.

Public land, public affairs are done, and then private affairs can be managed.

Shang Yang of the former Qin Dynasty abandoned the mine fields and opened Qianmo, and gathered the remaining warriors of the sixth generation of Lao Qin in Guanzhong to become one of the first emperors in the history.

As for the later Han Dynasty, there was Wang Mang Wang Tian. In the Northern Wei, Sui and Tang Dynasties, there was equal land.

Although the governance of the country was good at the beginning of the country, in the successive dynasties, the rich ended up with their fields separated from each other, while the poor had no place to stand.

The Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties implemented the system of tribute and tax, and in the Spring and Autumn Period, Guan and Zhong implemented the system of commemoration of the land and the decline of conquest. In the Han Dynasty, households were organized to equalize the people, and they were divided into land rent, tax calculation, oral tax, corvee service, and military service. The Wei, Jin, and south were engaged in rent transfer, and the Sui and Tang envoys were rented.

In the Song Dynasty, taxes were collected and distributed on farmland.

Eternal land is in the Central Plains, thousands of years and dynasties, why did the people mourn at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and built our Ming Dynasty to reshape it.

I am an old man, just like an old farmer walking in mulberry mud, walking in the mud and facing difficulties. I have received the favor of Your Majesty and am honored as a young teacher.

The sincerity expressed by this veteran should not be called regretful words.

The Central Plains are as powerful as the Emperors of Qin and Han, the ancestors of the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, the ancestors of the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, and the people who founded the country for hundreds of years. How can the country be destroyed? The place where the country was founded, who was named after it when it fell?

Rice is planted in spring and harvested in summer, and plowing is resumed in autumn. Wheat is planted in winter and harvested in spring, and taxes are paid in summer and autumn. The people move around at all times and do not rest all year round.

Your Majesty has personally experienced Qianmo, starting from farming mulberry trees, and experienced the troubled times of the Yuan Dynasty. He knows that in the troubled times, people changed their sons and suffered disasters.

The best is like water, and the people are like water.

If there is insufficient grain cover, there will be insufficient food; if there is insufficient food, the people will not be able to fulfill their destiny. Things are so precious. If you don't take care of them in time, how can you get farmers? You should know how powerful they are."

Yuan Sutai's figure swayed in the wind under the open Fengtian Gate.

He has finished the recital, but the sound of this long recital is still echoing in front of Fengtian Gate.

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were solemn, and he quietly recalled what Yuan Sutai had just said.

Yuan Sutai's remarks in public today did not mention anything about the people and events in the government and the public. There was only one core in the whole article, and that was the hardship of the people and the difficulties of farming.

But the emperor understands.

The man who is now the first civil servant in the court is explaining to himself that the New Deal must continue.

Don't do it.

The Ming Dynasty cannot even implement the New Deal now, and it will be even less likely to be accomplished in the future. If it cannot be accomplished, the Ming Dynasty will one day become like the strong and prosperous Tang Dynasty, and become a bit of writing in the hands of historians.

"His Majesty!"

Xia Yuanji, the Minister of Household Affairs who had already left work earlier, immediately raised his eyebrows and shouted loudly.

Immediately, Xia Yuanji lifted up his robe with both hands, shook it forward, and knelt heavily on the ground.

"I ask your Majesty to investigate strictly! The country cannot condone such illegal things, and the country cannot condone such unfair things!

Taxation is the source of the country. The people are loyal and pay taxes on time. However, the wealthy gentry hides it, harming the country's interests and enriching the family's prosperity. The court will never allow this!

Today he hides one part of the profit, and tomorrow he hides two parts of the profit. If things go on like this, the Ming Dynasty will be like that thousand-mile embankment, and it will eventually be destroyed by the hands of these termites!"

Let me ask you where the New Deal has brought about the biggest changes.

From top to bottom, it can be said that the household department has undergone the biggest change.

The Ministry of Household Affairs' large warehouse outside Yingtian City is becoming more full every day, and more and more documents are submitted to the Ministry of Works for expansion.

Hangzhou warehouse and Huai'an warehouse supply all the needs from north to south.
To be continued...