Han Yi, who was in charge of seeing these people, directly explained the current predicament of Ying Tianfu, and took the initiative to say with a smile: "You are all the big families with the most fields in the local area, and they are also famous families loyal to the imperial court, so you must not be able to bear to see the price of food in Ying Tianfu rise so high, so that the poor people have no food to eat, and the merchants have no foundation to stand on, so that there is chaos in the south of the Yangtze River, so the servant has come to ask you, you may take the grain to the market, or borrow it from the imperial court, and use it to stabilize the price of grain?"
”"I don't know!
We are undoubtedly a famous family, the ancestors left a lot of fields, but they can't stand the population, the food produced by the ancestral fields is not enough, and even sometimes, we have to eat porridge for a few days, there is really no extra food, otherwise, we will not ask the court to give the village again, but the difficulties of the court and the people, we also know, and we also want to help, who let us receive the grace of the country, Gu is willing to donate fifty stones of grain out, not to mention borrowing, only to donate to the court for the relief of the people. ”Gu Mingjiao said first, and turned back to Zhu Guobi with a smug smile.Zhu Guobi also smiled because of this, raised his eyebrows, and glanced at Han Yi, who had an ugly face.Then, Zhu Guobi couldn't wait to stand up, wanting to make Han Yi's face even more ugly, so he said: "Elder Ge, my Funing Marquis Mansion is the same, don't look at the fields, this population is also quite large, but if you donate food, I will also donate, who makes us loyal ministers, however, my family's field is not as much as that of Zhenyuan Hou, I will donate thirty stones." ”Zhu Guobi couldn't help but laugh as he spoke.Han Yi's cultivation is not bad, still smiling, but he can't help but say in his heart: "It seems that you can only support Your Majesty to use extraordinary means!"
These nobles are really selfish, what ancestors are not ancestors, Your Majesty and the court are willing to let you have you, and you are not willing to let you have it, if you want to take it away, you can take it away at any time. ”Xu Hongji stood up at this time: "Pavilion Elder, please tell Your Majesty that several Zhuangzi in my Wei Mansion have suffered a catastrophe this year, in order not to affect the imperial court, Xu has exempted the tenants of those Zhuangzi, and has to provide grain to the tenants, and now the entire Wei Mansion does not have much grain in stock, and can barely make up a hundred stones." ”Han Yi still just smiled.Then, the other nobles and great eunuchs also expressed their attitudes, and they were only willing to take out dozens of hundred stones of grain to send Han Yi and the emperor behind him."
Your Majesty is angry, these noble and wealthy families are also greedy for profit, so they don't care about the life and death of the court and the people, in the opinion of the ministers, they can only forcibly requisition their food!"
After Han Yi relayed to Zhu Youxiao the situation of meeting with the nobles and wealthy families, Xiong Tingbi first said a word to Zhu Youxiao."
What Elder Xiong Ge said is reasonable, although this is their own grain, but Your Majesty can increase taxes on them, and increase taxes on them, so that they can hand over their grain!"
Li Zhizao also chimed in.If Zhu Youxiao forcibly confiscated these noble and wealthy families for no reason from the beginning, it would make these military officials who stood on the side of Emperor Zhu Youxiao worry that they would also be taken away from their family property by the imperial court for no reason in the future.But now, because these noble and wealthy families are unwilling to give up their profits first, and there is a great possibility that they will corrupt the society, and it has nothing to do with the emperor's personal temperament, these military officials around Zhu Youxiao have also begun to take the initiative to support and suggest that Emperor Zhu Youxiao directly forcibly requisition the food of these noble and wealthy families."
It's not just them who have caused the price of food to be so high, there are other people behind it, even the clan relatives, taking advantage of this rise in grain prices, the court just has a lesson about these nobles and those clan relatives behind them who don't care about the foundation of the society!
Therefore, now is not the time to directly forcibly requisition their food, let them go crazy for a while, this time I let Han Aiqing see them, not because I begged them, but because I am giving them a chance, the last chance!
”Zhu Youxiao bit his lip lightly and said."
Yes!"
Xiong Tingbi and the others immediately replied.Then, Zhu Youxiao asked the minister beside him: "Is it expected that the first batch of grain from Suzhou has arrived?"
”Han Yi hurriedly replied: "It is expected to arrive in two days after tomorrow." ”After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao nodded: "Then first use the army's military rations to supplement the various businesses in the official camp, or wholesale to the grain stores, but require that the grain stores must be sold according to the price limit of the Grain Industry Bureau, and implement commercial military management!"
In addition, an edict was sent to Fang Congzhe to speed up the work of adjusting and raising grain in the process of clearing the acres of fields. ”"If the imperial court forcibly requisitioned grain, the old man would let everyone burn all the grain!
Anyway, it is impossible to escape the fate of being copied and killed, so no one should think about it!
”Xu Hongji replied directly after listening to the doorman Mei Shuangpu's advice that the imperial court was easy to forcibly requisition grain and straw because of this.Mei Shuangpu is not good to say more.And Xu Hongji also instructed his son Xu Jue: "You go to the village, tell the heads of the village, and raise the tenant rent to eighty percent!"
Then burn another batch of old grain in the barns of each village, and then let the tenants receive it!
”Xu Hongji said: "Even if you burn it, you will never put it on the market!"
”"Father, when the tenant rent is mentioned at eighty percent, will it be too high?!"
Xu Jue couldn't help but ask."
You know what!
Being able to give my Xu family as a tenant is a blessing that he has cultivated for eight lifetimes, even if Lao Tzu collects eighty percent of the tenant rent, he can still fill his stomach with coarse chaff without starving to death, much better than those untouchables outside who have no land, no food and no work, the entire Ying Tianfu, whose field has more than my Wei Guogong Mansion, if he is too high, he can give up my Xu family tenant status and go to other places to be a tenant, my Xu family will not stop!
”Xu Hongji said loudly."
Yes, boy, let's do it!"
Therefore, Xu Jue took his little servant to Zhuangzi."
Little Hou Ye, you can do it, the rent of seventy percent is high enough, the tenants in this village have long been unable to eat, and some of them don't even dare to have more children, just because there is not much food to feed, why is it going to rise to eighty percent now, and when the time comes, I'm really afraid that it will force them to rebel!"
The head of the Xu family, named Wu Guokun, excitedly advised Xu Jue because he learned that the Wei Mansion was going to increase the tenant rent to eighty percent.Xu Jue whipped this Wu Guokun impatiently: "What's the use of you telling Lao Tzu, this is the old man's order, where can Lao Tzu change it, but the old man said, if you dislike my Xu family's tenant rent, you will leave by yourself and go to another family to farm, the Xu family will not stop you, and there is no shortage of these tenants!"
”Wu Guokun didn't know what to say for a while.But when he saw the slaves of the Xu family piling up all the old grain in the warehouse outside and pouring fire oil, he couldn't help but say again: "Master!
Why do you want to burn grain again, even if you don't sell it, you can still send it to the tenants to live, doesn't burning it make us farmers work hard in vain?
”Xu Jue directly kicked this Wu Guokun: "Get out!"
And then to the tenants?
You can think of it, if you give it to the tenants, what rent will Lao Tzu add!
This is the grain of the Guogong Mansion, you can do what you want, you are a fucking head of the village, what do you say!
”Wu Guokun groaned and fell to the snow.And by this time, the pyre full of old grain had already lit a fire, and soon, the old grain was ignited into a fire, which was so big that it stained half the sky red.After all, the Xu family does have a lot of old grain."
Your Majesty, they are simply against heaven and human nature!
Daming doesn't know how many people still don't have enough to eat, and now there are people in the Jiangnan area who throw themselves into the river every day because they can't stand hunger, but they would rather burn the grain than put it in the market.Raid the house!
Directly raid the house and put the grain!
”Xiong Tingbi's personality is relatively impatient, so after he heard Wei Zhongxian of Dongchang report to Zhu Youxiao that there were often grain burning in the fields of Wei Guogong and other nobles in Nanjing, he couldn't help but speak loudly to Zhu Youxiao.Zhu Youxiao was not surprised by this, and only asked Han Yi: "What does Han Aiqing think about this?"
”Han Yi said: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister thinks that what Your Majesty said before is reasonable, and now is not the time to do anything about it, otherwise it will be easy to force them, because the most important thing for the imperial court now is not to clean them up, but to send the food quickly." ”"Your Majesty, the minister does not dare to agree!
These people are already burning grain, and when will it take for the second assistant to know how many people can be fed by these burned grains?!
”Xiong Tingbi immediately argued with reason."
Xiong Ge has thought about it, since they can burn old grain, can't they burn new grain after being forced to do so, the imperial court can use troops to confiscate it, but the court's top priority now is not to treat them well, but to let the people survive first."
Han Yi said: "Your Majesty, the military rations have been personally escorted by the officers and soldiers to the various merchants in Dongchang and the grain shops that intend to work with the imperial court to stabilize the price of grain, and the officers and soldiers have been responsible for maintaining order in the shops in accordance with the edict, preventing looting, preventing people from attacking the shops, and the shops responsible for selling cheap grain have been under military control. ”Colonel Zhu You nodded: "Very good, there are not enough officers and soldiers in the patrol battalion, the army will be used to maintain order first, I have already decided, let those people go crazy for a while, when will the second batch of grain from the Beijing Division arrive?"
”"Five days later."
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Han Yi replied.Continue to ask Fang Congzhe, how much grain did you receive after the three places of Shandong, Henan, and Huguang cleared the acres of land?
When will it be delivered to Gangnam. ”Zhu Youxiao continued to command.