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And the ministers above the imperial court were only afraid of Jin Yiwei.

Not to mention that Wei didn't take much action to arrest ministers. This matter was handed over to Jin Yiwei, and there was still a division of labor between the two.

The common people don't know the twists and turns in the squires and the court.

I just know that the imperial court really cares about them, not only exempting most of the taxes, but also extremely concerned about the cultivation.

When I came to the countryside, I visited the surrounding villages several times and asked about the living conditions of the people.

This kind of care is something that the officials in the past did not have.

But it was also because of this that the common people felt more and more the changes in the Xinghan Empire.

After the great unification, the people at the bottom of the hierarchy can feel the series of reforms and changes made by the current emperor, and they can feel that life is really getting better day by day.

This makes them look forward to the days to come.

The only bad thing is that the holy majesty requires women to marry, and the age for men to marry has increased a lot.

Although women can earn money to subsidize the family at home nowadays, according to their inherent thinking, it is good to marry early, otherwise what should I do if the good people are all selected?

Or maybe it would be better for my son to get married earlier, so that he can have a baby earlier!

I think about the children in the next door, because they got married early, they were married before the Holy One, and now the children can talk.

Comparing myself, because I was one step late, there is no way to get my child to marry now.

It is said that this is good for the child's health, and it is not easy to have dystocia when giving birth, and kill two people.

It's just that there are many genius doctors in Xinghan City, if you are pregnant and take them to Xinghan City to give birth, basically there will be no problems.

Xing Seoul's medical skills, even if it is a dystocia, can still save the child and the adult together.

Since there are such medical skills, why bother to limit when to get married?

The old man and many common people have the same idea, they all want to let their children get married earlier, but they don't understand this purpose.

However, even if they don't understand, they dare not offend. The common people respect the current sage very much, and few people dare to say that the sage is not.

Even when chatting in private, I dare not do this.

After inspecting the village one by one, many officials of the county magistrate and magistrate recorded the situation in each place one by one, turned and left after confirming that there was nothing else.

The mountain roads in the countryside are not easy to walk, and it is extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive to visit various villages.

Fortunately, the imperial court reached an agreement with many merchants from aristocratic families and handed over the cement formula to them, and these merchants from aristocratic families will help build roads.

Building roads is also of great benefit to these aristocratic merchants.

The two hit it off, presumably soon there will be cement roads in the village.

7 Chapter [-] Acres of Arable Land

"My lord, according to the records of the three household departments of the previous dynasty, the total number of fields is 1000 hectares, but the actual number of fields is only 68 million hectares.

However, after recultivation, the number of arable land this year has reached 850 million hectares, and it is believed that it will reach 1000 million hectares in the coming year. "

Li Daifu and Lu Chensheng carefully reported the various values.

Ever since Lu Chensheng asked the magistrates and magistrates from all over the country to go to the countryside to see more, the calculated number of acres of fields has become more accurate.

What makes all the ministers feel a little chilly is that the total number of fields in various places is so small.

Adding up these fields, the average distribution is less than two acres per person, which cannot feed the entire Xinghan Empire at all!

If this malpractice hadn't been discovered early, it might not be long before the Xinghan Empire, which seemed extremely peaceful after the unification, would be involved in internal strife and fighting against rebellion.

At that time, even if the Holy Majesty does not want to kill those rebellious people, he will have to kill them painfully.

If you don't kill them, everyone will know one thing, that is, rebellion can be fine in the first place, so it can't deter people in the future, and there will be more and more rebellions.

But once it is killed, once someone rebels, it is tantamount to discrediting the Holy One, and it will be recorded in future history books.

This is unacceptable to ministers.

Now the Holy Majesty who can complete the great unification has thousands of honors added to his body. If something like this happens, the previous honor and the prestige of the Holy Majesty will be damaged.

This is what all ministers do not want to see.

After all, they are also the ministers of the court. If such a thing happens, they will be recorded in the history books from now on.

This is absolutely unacceptable to them.

"So few?"

Lu Chensheng frowned. When he asked the people from the household department to count the cultivated fields earlier, the number of acres reported was acceptable at first, but now it has become so small in a blink of an eye.

"Yes, most of the previous data were calculated based on the ancient books of the household department of the previous dynasty, and there were no specific statistics, so there were doubts about the data. It was only in the first month that all statistics were collected."

Li Daifu knew that this was his dereliction of duty. He was busy with official duties before, so he wanted to save some effort, so he took out the ancient books of the household department of the previous dynasty, made a statistics, verified it a little, and handed in an approximate value.

What he didn't expect was that there was such a big difference between the records of the household department and his own re-counting.

I thought that if the difference was not too big, the Holy Majesty would not say anything if he came up with an accurate number of acres. A little error in such statistics is nothing at all.

Li Daifu was dripping with cold sweat, this was the most outrageous thing he had done since he took office.

Therefore, he didn't dare to raise his head at this time.

Lu Chensheng took a look at Li Daifu, and snorted coldly, "Don't make such a mistake again next time. Cultivated land is related to the people of the world. If even your mu is not right, ministers in the court, please wrap me up. They all thought that the common people had fields to cultivate, and that the common people had enough to eat.

At that time, the people who were not full enough to eat would starve to death, and the magistrates and magistrates all over the country would not report it, and the collapse of the building would only take a moment. "

What Lu Chensheng said made Li Daifu sweat coldly, but he also knew that what the Holy Majesty said was not wrong.

Although the county magistrates in various places have just taken office not long ago, they are all dedicated to their responsibilities, but if many people under their jurisdiction starve to death and face famine, they may really hide it and not report it.

After all, this matter is too serious, and the imperial court also accidentally learned about such matters.

After all, all the ministers and the Holy One only thought that with so much arable land, even if the harvest was not good, people would definitely not starve to death.

The imperial court doesn't collect taxes much anymore. As long as the people are willing to farm, how can they not support themselves?

"My minister is guilty!"

Li Daifu said tremblingly.

"Punish you with half a year's salary."

Lu Chensheng waved his hand and gave the other party half a year's salary as punishment.

Considering the other party's position at this time, half a year's salary is quite a lot.

In fact, those who receive salaries in the imperial court can get a lot of money in a month, even for some basic positions, the salaries are also quite a lot.

Therefore, once encountering such a thing as fined salary, it will basically cause a lot of headaches for the ministers, and it is estimated that they will have to eat steamed buns and pickles at home for a long time.

Li Daifu also had some headaches at this time, now he lives in a big mansion, there are many people in the yard, his parents have been taken over, and many servants and maidservants are hired to serve him.

This time the salary was fined, and life was hard, but luckily nothing major happened.

"Thank you for your grace."

Li Daifu didn't dare to hesitate, he didn't go into the details of the punishment of the salary, and this matter has not yet caused a big mistake.

"The fields that have been abandoned before have been recultivated by people for cultivation in the next year. At this time, they will be handed over to the people in the Ministry of Industry. You only need to count them and hand them over to the people in the Ministry of Industry.

As for the people in the Ministry of Industry, if there is not enough manpower, the five major armies are currently resting. Except for the army guarding the capital, the rest of the army can be used at will to plow the land. "

Lu Chensheng spoke one by one.

Now it is time for farming, and there is not much money in the imperial court, and the money to recultivate the fields cannot be used, but the people in the army can be used.

Wang Tianxun and the people in the Ministry of War received the orders one by one.

"The people from the Ministry of Industry also took some time to build some canals for the recultivated fields to ensure sufficient water sources."

Lu Chensheng rubbed his head and said, it is also fortunate that this happened earlier, otherwise Lu Chensheng would have thought that there are so many fields that can be cultivated now.

Wang Tianxun heard the words and hurriedly bowed to receive the order.

"You must pay close attention to this year's grain harvest. There is too little arable land. Thinking about it, many people do not have arable land. The Ministry of Industry will allocate more funds to the Ministry of Industry. When the Ministry of Industry is building water conservancy roads, it will recruit more people and create more. post."

Not having any arable land is not too terrible, as long as some jobs are found, so that the common people have work to do and a mouthful of food to eat, it will be much better in the coming year.

The arable land still needs to be expanded, and the people will grow more land, and they will harvest more and more food, so they will become rich.

Today's fields are only enough to feed and clothe the common people, so it would be better to get more arable land.

Li Daifu also knew the important relationship here, so he nodded quickly.

Apart from the Ministry of Industry, by the way, I also communicated more with those merchants from aristocratic families, and recruited more manpower for the workshop.

Chapter 721 Sword Washing Pond

There are more and more people in Star Seoul.

Although Xinghan City gave many products to the merchants of aristocratic families to produce, Xinghan City is still the most affluent city, and it is also the place with the most opportunities and the easiest place to get ahead.

There are the most opportunities here, and naturally more people come here.

In addition, the lack of officials in various places is still serious, and Star Seoul will conduct an assessment every year.

All talents can have the opportunity to be assessed, and if they are appreciated, they will be trained and appointed.

If luck is better and he is favored by the court ministers, he may be able to stay in Xinghan City as an official. At that time, it is not impossible for someone to support him and enter the temple.

After coming to Star Seoul, there are too many things to get ahead, and the teahouse should be a little bit more now.

It seems that I know that many people like this, so I will talk about these things.

Some are made up by myself, and some are facts, but no one knows if it is true or not, but many people like to hear it.

Listening to such deeds, I also imagined that one day, I could also become the person in the mouth of the storyteller.

"The spring plowing has passed, and it will soon be early summer."

Lu Chensheng lifted the curtain and took a look into the city, just outside the city.

The fields outside were not idle either, and the seedlings grew extremely strong, which was due to the fertilization.

He just came back from Taohuawu. He went back before Qingming and paid homage to Jiuniang. Lu Chensheng's mother's tomb and the people of the Lu family were all moved to the newly built imperial mausoleum.

Worshiping them is much simpler, Jiuniang's tomb has not been moved to the emperor's mausoleum.

Lu Chensheng felt that Jiuniang probably liked Taohuawu, and after thinking about it, he had no intention of moving Jiuniang back.

After glancing at the current Xinghan City, Lu Chensheng waved his hand, and the attendants carrying the sedan chair continued to walk towards the palace.

The guards around Jinyi looked around nervously to prevent anyone from approaching.

When Lu Chensheng came back, there was no fanfare, so there was no one who knew the identity of the sedan chair.

Just seeing that the specification of this sedan chair is unusual, knowing that there are no ordinary people inside, the common people dare not approach it casually.

"Xing Seoul is getting busier every day."

Lu Chensheng came back after making a round of inspection, and secretly sighed.

It's been a long time since I saw this city of Seoul, and just now I got interested, and I asked the attendants to carry the sedan chair around.

Passing by the place where I used to buy steamed stuffed buns, I even asked someone to buy a few.

The hot steamed buns were full of pork when he took a bite. The taste was very fragrant, and the taste hadn't changed much from the one he used to eat.

Gu Zhifang looked helpless, but fortunately he was on guard against the Holy Majesty's tricks. He had someone follow him for every food shop in Xinghan City.

The reason is that he is afraid that the Holy Majesty will rise up one day and want to eat food from outside. These shops that have been followed can at least make him feel at ease.

"Nowadays, there are many benefits in Star Seoul, such as seeing a doctor, going to school, becoming an official, etc., all of which have some resources, and there are more and more natural people. Other places do not have so many benefits here."

Gu Zhifang watched the Holy Master eating the steamed stuffed bun, and wanted to persuade him, but the words changed when he reached his mouth.

Lu Chensheng was startled when he heard this, and sighed, "The national treasury is empty, otherwise, every place should have these benefits."

Lu Chensheng also had a bit of helplessness on his face. According to his thinking, in fact, every city should be treated equally.

For example, schools, clinics and so on can take care of the common people.

However, after a series of changes, the money in the treasury has not been sufficient.

Everywhere is still asking for money, so Lu Chensheng can't promote this matter at will.

The construction of medical clinics in various places, the purchase of medicinal materials, and the monthly salaries of doctors all require money.