"I know that your husband has a grudge against me because of the cement incident a few days ago. Now I assure you that I really admire you from the bottom of my heart and will never use my status as a princess to force you to do anything.

thing.

"

Through the past few days of getting along with each other, the Ninth Princess had already gotten to know Jin Feng. She knew that Jin Feng liked a straightforward way of talking, so she said directly: "Sir, just speak freely, and you can say whatever you want!"

"Yes sir, in Wuyang's previous letter to me, he mentioned many times that he really admires him.

"

Qing Mulan said: "Sir, do you think she came to Xihewan really just to see me? In fact, she came to visit you!"

"In that case, I have something to say directly.

"

Jin Feng saw that the Ninth Princess looked sincere and didn't seem to be hypocritical, so he said directly: "Before the old gentleman talked to me about farming, he first told me the main reason why people don't have enough to eat.

"

"The old gentleman said that the common people today cannot have enough to eat. In addition to backward farming methods, the biggest reason is that excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes are too heavy. The court has to collect grain, local officials also have to collect grain, and bandits and squires are still exploiting them. How can the common people have anything to eat?

How many ounces of oil and water can you withstand such a search?"

Jin Feng said: "So the old gentleman said that if we can deal with the landlords and gentry and return the fields to the people, the people will naturally have enough to eat.

"

There were many officials in Dakang, and the total salary of officials across the country was a very large expense.

Decades ago, the national treasury began to become empty, and the imperial court had no money to pay salaries to local officials, so it issued a policy to allow local officials to increase taxes based on local conditions as expenses for local government offices.

As soon as this policy came out, it was regarded as completely releasing a beast that devoured the national destiny.

So officials in various places began to create clever names and collect taxes for various reasons.

Corruption is rampant, and all kinds of exorbitant taxes and levies are endless.

The people could not survive and had no choice but to go into the mountains and become bandits.

The bandits do not engage in production, but make a living by robbing the people, which puts a huge burden on the people everywhere.

Several counties around Jinchuan mainly cultivate mulberry and hemp, and spin and weave cloth. The landlords and squires exploit the people by collecting annual grains from bandits, so the problem of land annexation is not serious.

In the Central Plains, many farmers' land has been annexed by landlords in various ways, and they can only become tenants of the landlords and make a living by renting.

Most of the food grown with hard work every year has to be paid to the landlord as land rent, and then he has to bear various taxes and corvees.

Even in good years, we can only make ends meet.

If you encounter a year of famine, you may not even be able to pay the land rent, and you will have to send your children to the landlord's house to work as slaves to offset the land rent.

If you don't even have children, you will have to starve to death.

In fact, the money and food collected did not reach the hands of the court, but all went to the mouths of the landlords and gentry.

Although Dakang's farming methods are backward, it has a small population and a large amount of land per capita. If there is no exploitation by landlords, it will naturally be enough to eat.

"What the old gentleman said makes sense, but many landowners and squires are from wealthy and distinguished families. Their heritage is longer than that of Dakang. They are deeply rooted in the local area. Some squires also have children who are officials in the court and various places.

, how easy is it to solve them?"

The ninth princess sighed.

"Yes, it is difficult to deal with them, but they have gathered into a tumor. If they cannot be cut off painfully, they will surely bring down the whole world.

"

Jin Feng said: "If His Royal Highness does not believe it, just wait to see it. If the court does not recover, continue to increase taxes.

"Rebellion everywhere is too serious?"

The nine princess frowned slightly, and felt that Jin Feng was alarmist: "From the father of the father, only Jin Di rebelled this year.

It was still due to the poor soldiers of King Jin Wang.

"

The King of Jin was affected by the emperor, and he wanted to regain the lost land of Yanyun Sixteen State.

Whenever, fighting is to fight money.

Although King Jin has a great ambition, he does not have the ability to make money. In order to support the huge number of military expenditures, he can only strip the people.

Coupled with the heavy drought of the Jin Dynasty last year, it finally caused the people to unveil.

"Dance Yang, Mr. I once told me a story ..."

Seeing the attitude of Princess Nine Princess, Qing Mulan told the story of the camel and straw she gave her to the nine princess.

With the wisdom of the nine princesses, naturally understood the meaning behind the story, and asked: "The meaning of the gentleman is that this time the tax increase will be the last straw that crushes the camel?"

"Now this rain is added.

"Jin Feng's face was even more worried:" I don't know how big the rains are, but judging from the current understanding, at least a few counties in Guangyuan County are in the scope of disaster.

If it is heavy in winter this winter, the people may not even support this year.

"

"What should I do?"

Although Princess Nine still has some resistance in her heart, Jin Feng's analysis is reasonable, which is very likely to happen.

"It's easy to solve it. The court sent people to investigate the scope of the disaster. The food has never been mobilized in the affected area in advance to prepare for disaster relief.

"

Jin Feng said: "At the same time, the court promised to reduce the taxation of next year, or allow the people to be arrears for one year, and then lend the seeds of the people for spring farming and sowing, and they can pass the difficulty.

"

"Mr. Mr. said simple, but which one is implemented is difficult and difficult!"

The Princess Nine sighed, rubbing her eyebrows and sitting down.

"I naturally know it is difficult, but can His Royal Highness think of other better ways?" Jin Feng asked.

"I ..." Nine publicized opened his mouth, and closed helplessly.

There was also a touch of disappointment in Jin Feng's eyes.

It is just autumn at this time, the temperature is already very low, this year is the possibility of a cold winter.

Winter is a robbery for the people, and every winter is the time when the people die the most.

Especially in the disaster and cold winter, the situation is even more serious.

The reason why he told the nine princesses so much is to hope that the Princess of the Nine Princess can have a way to mobilize some food to deal with the disaster that is likely to occur.

Maybe it is possible to save the victims of tens of thousands of victims.

It now appears that Jin Feng is too high to see the Princess Nine.

She may be doing things sincerely, and there are also wrists, but this matter is too much, and the nine princesses are powerless.

"Oh, Mr. Jin, don't you want to say agriculture, why did you get to politics again?"

Although Wei Waya was medically medical, after all, he has lived for decades. It is very clear that this is a unsolvable situation. It doesn't make sense to discuss it.

Then he took the initiative to pull the topic back: "Mr. Jin, you haven't said yet, how do you tell you about the land?"

"Sir, are you also interested in farming?"

Jin Feng saw that the Ninth Princess had no choice, so he gave up and turned to talk to Wei Wuya.

"To be honest, Mr. Jin said that the old man did not start studying medicine until he was twenty years old, and he had been a farmer before that.

"

Wei Wuya said: "Besides, the old man's ability in tending crops is no worse than that of treating doctors. He has not neglected it in these years. Last year, he and his wife harvested almost 500 kilograms of wheat from the two acres of land they planted.

"

"So high?" Jin Feng asked in surprise.

He just followed Wei Wuya's words and changed the topic. He didn't expect that Wei Wuya also knew how to farm.
Chapter completed!