But the emperor naturally has his own plans, and there is no need for Xiao Che to worry too much now.
At the end of the dinner, the emperor waved his hand to stop the singing and dancing. He smiled and said: "I have an idea. Since the grassland nomads in the Jin Kingdom have learned how to farm, why don't we farm well?
?We still have a lot of wasteland in Daqin. These lands are prohibited from being occupied by anyone in any name. They must be registered and reported to the court. Then the court will plan in batches. This task will be handed over to the princess. When the time comes, the county will
The Lord decides which ones can be used to build a farm and which ones cannot be used, and they must be registered."
Everyone was a little stunned when they heard this. What is His Majesty going to do? Why did he suddenly mention the wasteland?
Isn’t it time to discuss the issue of Japanese pirates on the eastern coast?
Why did they suddenly arrive in the wasteland? Everyone felt that they couldn't keep up with the emperor's thoughts.
Xiao Che was even more shocked, because this meant that the emperor would give Shen Mingzhu greater power.
This is simply greater power than the Ministry of Household Affairs.
But Shen Mingzhu is not willing to take on such a problem, because the current Daqin is also full of contradictions. Local officials and gentry are occupying local land, making some people displaced and can only become tenant farmers.
The class conflict is getting more and more serious, so the court will naturally have to restrain it a little at this time.
This restraint can only restrict those gentry and officials from occupying people's land, but it only treats the symptoms rather than the root cause and cannot be controlled at all.
After all, the government and businessmen colluded, and the people could only be preyed upon by them. Even if the emperor wanted to take care of it, the local voice could not reach the heavens.
Therefore, the collusion between local officials and gentry to seize people's land will only become more powerful.
On the other hand, some policies issued by the court will also restrict them from occupying people's land, so they will turn to reclaiming some ownerless wasteland.
Those wastelands themselves belonged to the imperial court. Once they were reclaimed, they would be exempt from taxes for three years, but they would still have to pay taxes after that.
But the collusion between officials and gentry can be hidden and not reported, and the court will not know about it.
The imperial court kept prohibiting it, so it had to find a way.
The best way is to find a person with high authority and prestige to carry out the plan. Killing one person will serve as a warning to others, which can at least stop the bad trend for a while.
But this person will completely offend the officials and gentry, which will make them resentful, and they will wait for an opportunity to counterattack. This person will often end badly.
For details, you can refer to the pioneers in history who devoted their lives to the new policies of the imperial court.
Shen Mingzhu felt that she and Xiao Xian did not want to be the swordsmen of the Emperor of Qin.
Even if this matter is to be done, it is naturally best for the emperor's own son to do it.
So she immediately stood up and said: "Your Majesty, if you want to build a farm, it is best to have fertile land. In fact, we don't need to divide a special area, we can just build it in the royal field. The farm technicians here are becoming more and more mature, and we can build it immediately.
Putting it into use does not require observation. Therefore, it is best to be near the capital, which is easier to manage and can also develop fertile farmland near the capital. This also avoids that there is always insufficient food near Kyoto and needs to adjust grain from the south of the Yangtze River every day. If the farmland near Kyoto
If half of it is built as a farm, the food problem in the capital can be solved to a great extent."
Although it cannot solve the rice problem, at least...
