"Hey, we've finished our meal, why are you still here with us?"
After the two men had had enough wine and food, the old man lay comfortably on the rocking chair, looked at Zhu Yunxi and said with some surprise.
"Hurry back to the harem and find your wife!" The old man said while changing to a more comfortable position. "The Zhu family is still too small. You have to work harder now that you are young!"
Zhu Yunxi took a blanket from Pu Bucheng's hand and carefully covered the old man, "Grandpa Huang, it's still early and it's still daylight!"
The old man squinted and said, "What does having a child have to do with dawn and dusk?"
Zhu Yunxi smiled, sat on the round stool next to the old man, and said, "Grandpa Huang, have you read the booklet my grandson gave you?"
"Which book?" The old man squinted his eyes, as if he was about to take a nap.
"That's it..." Zhu Yunxi looked at the old man's face and said, "Fengyang Duhuangzhuang's treasure, my grandson only found out when he went to the capital that the good land in Fengyang, Chengdu, is in our Zhu family's Huangzhuang."
Two and a half percent of the land is in the hands of honorable nobles. There are so many people in Fengyang, but only the remaining 15% are still in slope fields and mountain fields. Life is really difficult!"
The old man opened his eyes and said, "Fengyang, this is our hometown!"
"Precisely because it is our hometown, my grandson feels that we should be kind to the people!" Zhu Yunxi continued, "You think, if the people in my hometown have become tenants of our Zhu family, then what kind of kindness is that?
The common people may not be proud of the fact that Fengyang has a Zhu family!"
"You brat, are you going to bully us as soon as you come back?" The old man sat up and said as if he was displeased.
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"How can this be a squeeze on you?" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, "The whole world supports us, why do we need to build so many farms in our hometown?"
"Our ancestral grave is in Fengyang!" the old man said. "Don't say that we are the emperor. Even if there is a wealthy family in this world, there is a cemetery title of 100 acres. If we become the emperor, we will not do these things well.
If you die, how can you have the honor to see your ancestors?"
As the saying goes, death is as important as life. Even a heroic man who believes in nothing will still have respect and filial piety for his ancestors. In this era, people with status do not just bury people after they die.
Large families all have a village next to the cemetery. Firstly, they let the tenant farmers guard the grave. Secondly, the annual output of the village is used for family memorials and other things. Furthermore, it is where the family spends their time.
Capital in times of crisis.
This is still the case among the people, let alone the royal family.
The mausoleum is a kind of ceremony, and those places are actually dedicated to ancestors.
"My grandson understands what you mean!" Zhu Yunxi continued with a smile, "But my grandson seems to have taken too much of it. After all, the royal family is different from the common people. The world is the first, not the honor of one family. You have also
I have said that I hope that every family in the world will have land and property. In recent years, you have been frivolous and underpaid, and you have granted land to the people. This is a virtuous policy praised by the people. How come you have changed it in Fengyang?"
"In the Imperial Village, there are so many noble houses. The common people have no land and can only be tenants. You know the hardships of the tenants. The people's life is not good, and you will definitely want to poke the backbone of our Zhu family!"
"You kid, you are talking as if we have robbed the people's fields!" The old man became angry, "Those lands were all taken back and transferred to the royal estates. We didn't touch a single ridge of the people's land! The emperor, the emperor, mausoleum
With so many people in the city, how can Zhuangzi make a living without these people? There are also the soldiers and horses of Huaixi General Manager's Office, and Du Dacang, don't they all rely on the achievements of Huangzhuang?"
"Then just keep less idle people!" Zhu Yunxi advised, "My grandson went back to Fengyang. The city is tall and the imperial city is magnificent, but it's all a matter of face. It's not a strategic place, and we don't need so many soldiers.
Ma. Why does the imperial court spend huge sums of money year after year for the sake of the capital? Just to look good?"
"Think about it, what would it be like if Fengyang didn't have so many imperial mansions, not so many idle people in the palaces and imperial tombs, and not so many soldiers and horses? Not only does it not need money from the court, but it can be self-sufficient."
The old man suddenly became furious, "We ask you to go back to your hometown to worship your ancestors, so that you know the hardships of your ancestors, not to let you search for your ancestors!" After saying that, he took off his cloth shoes and said angrily, "I'm going out for a trip, and when I come back, I'll scold your grandpa.
Now. Are we in charge now, or are you in charge?"
Zhu Yunxi did not hide, but looked at the old man and said with a smile, "Grandpa, Fengyang is not only the hometown of our Zhu family, but also the hometown of Fengyang people!"
The old man's hand hesitated, but did not fall after all.
"In the past few years, you killed so many people who did not abide by the law in Fengyang, and you also ordered the princes repeatedly not to occupy people's property, not to abuse farmers, not to buy or sell by force. You have the people at heart, how come you don't
When it comes to our own home, why can’t we get around this?”
"My grandson didn't say that he didn't want the imperial village, but he wanted to make it smaller. Not only our Zhu family's village, but also our noble village must find ways to make it smaller. Only by letting the people of Fengyang have good land can the people be happy.
When the people are happy, our Zhu family will be worthy of our hometown and our ancestors!"
"We don't need you to preach!" The old man was still angry and threw away his shoes. Suddenly, he seemed to understand something and asked, "You said that you want all the noble Zhuangzi to...
..?"
"Yes, Xungui has too many fields. Credit is credit, and fields are fields and cannot be confused." Zhu Yunxi said, "Actually, the imperial village is not bad. After all, it belongs to the heavenly family. No matter how harsh it is, there is a limit. And Xunxun
Expensive ones are different, my grandson heard in Fengyang. The tenants have farmed the land for them for a year, but if the times are bad, they will still owe them rent!"
"Whose family is it?" the old man asked, "Who is so bold as to ignore our words?"
"The nobles and nobles are all in the capital, so they may not know it. But those in charge of their affairs in Zhuangzi are very difficult to deal with!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, "There are many people in the world who rely on human power, and it's not like you don't know it!"
The old man pondered for a moment and said, "Your honorable land is no small matter. They worked hard for it in exchange for it. We have taken back a lot of it over the years, but if you really want to move it, you have to have a good explanation!"
"My grandson has already thought about it!" Zhu Yunxi said, "If you allow me, my grandson will ask Ling Han and others to make a speech first and talk about the matter of Huangzhuang first. When we agree to give the extra land to Huangzhuang,
After allocating the pieces to the people, let Fang Xiaoru and the others do the bidding..."
The old man said, "Let them submit a letter to Xungui that there are too many fields in Fengyang, which will affect the livelihood of the people?"
"Grandpa Emperor, Holy Ming!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, "In this way, my father and I will take the lead, and the nobles will have nothing to say. My grandson will talk to Cao Guogong and others and ask them to take the initiative to return the fields and mines. This will
There won’t be any trouble!”
"Moreover, the imperial court didn't want them for nothing. We have a good idea of what they worked hard to get!" Zhu Yunxi continued, "We can redeem them, or we can favor their descendants and give them official titles. In fact, Huaixi in Beijing is
My dear, no one lives on that kind of rent. Having land in Fengyang is just a matter of face. We will give them some benefits, and they will take advantage of it!"
The old man thought for a long time and looked at Zhu Yunxi, "What exactly are you thinking about?"
"Du is the place where the dragon of the Ming Dynasty rose. My grandson thought that it would be a good place to implement virtuous government!" Zhu Yunxi said, "Land is distributed to the people according to their capita. The previous tax on ding is cancelled, and taxes are collected on a land basis.
By collecting taxes based on land, there will no longer be any hiding of the population, and there will no longer be the problem of people selling themselves into slavery because they cannot afford the tax!"
"You have said this a long time ago, and we have thought about it for a long time!" The old man lay down again and said, "But this is difficult! Even the richest people in the world are not willing to make such a change. They have a lot of land, and they have to pay for it.
There are more people. Without the Ding tax, the people will no longer ask for their protection. This is not a trivial matter, it affects the whole body..."
"Are you afraid?" Zhu Yunxi smiled.
"Humph!" the old man sneered, "Whether it's nobles, officials, or other wealthy people, they are the only ones who are afraid of us!" He said with a look in his eyes, "Yes, eldest grandson, you are right. That's right.
This kind of thing should be done directly while they are afraid of us!"
Having said this, he turned to look at Zhu Yunxi again, "Although we are old, it would be really difficult for you to handle this matter without us! I have been scolded by others all my life. When I get old, I don't have the time to pretend to be a Bodhisattva, so I just do this.
