Wang qi nodded his head.
"Locusts like to put eggs in the land, so even in winter, unless it is extremely cold and snowy, they can survive. Farmers lack farm tools and cannot turn over the soil in winter. Once it is not cold in winter, they cannot freeze to death the eggs in the deep soil.
Now, every winter, the farmers’ association will organize farmers to turn over the surface soil regularly, and even if it doesn’t snow and wind, it can still kill many pests, so that pests will be greatly reduced in the spring. "
Lu you was silent for a while after listening, which was quite touching.
"Oh, I really haven’t heard of this place."
"There are many ways to manage civil affairs, but many problems can be solved. If the court is determined to make progress, these problems can be solved, even if there are enough water conservancy projects in the face of floods and droughts."
Wang Qi smiled and pointed to the east. "Here is a water conservancy project construction site to the east. Hongwu started construction in three years and is expected to end the project by the end of this year. Four rural peasant associations led twenty-one village farmers to meet twenty-one able-bodied men to undertake this project.
The imperial court allocated funds to send engineering guidance, but a village able-bodied man rushed through the work during the slack season, and this project is finally about to be completed. After the success of this project, the cultivated land in four townships will benefit from it, and land irrigation will be much easier.
And similar water conservancy projects have been built in more than 500 counties since the first year of Hongwu. More than 500 of them were funded by the government, and the rural peasant associations were responsible for coordinating the labor force. Everyone Qi Xin worked together to complete it. "
"That much?"
Lu You was shocked. "Is this peasant association too effective?"
"Farmers’ associations were defeated by a big country, and the emperor attached great importance to the founding of the country. Even when the county government was in charge, it needed a lot of farmers’ associations to help the county government. This is equivalent to curbing the possibility of Hu Fei in the county government."
Wang Qi is quite proud of the advantages of the national system and laughs. "Because the farmers’ associations in the whole big country are organized and mobilized to do big projects, how can Qi Xin not do things?"
Lu you dengyuan eyes for a long time did not return to absolute being.
It never occurred to him that China’s system has such a function that it can organize the whole country’s farmers and let them work together in Qi Xin to build projects. Is this such a powerful force?
"There are so many things to do, so many water conservancy projects to be built, and we have to go on a big construction campaign everywhere … Is there no problem with the national finance?"
This has become the biggest doubt of Lu You.
And this is what Wang Qi feels most proud of.
"Still can maintain agreement lu think it’s strange to collect taxes with less and spend more? It’s not so big. It’s really not much to collect taxes on a single farmer, but the total amount is far ahead of the previous dynasty. "
"What is this?"
Lu you is puzzled
"The landlords, gentry and corrupt officials were wiped out because of the great destruction."
Wang Qi put away his smile and said positively, "The profiteers who cheated the imperial court and farmers will be eradicated from their department to directly manage farmers’ taxes. Although the tax collection for individual farmers has been greatly reduced, the total amount has been greatly increased."
At first, I thought it was incredible, but I soon learned that so many taxes had been eaten by landlords, gentry and corrupt officials, and their levies far exceeded that of the imperial court.
Farmers’ land was taken away by them and became their tenants. They produced food, and the government could not manage the tenants. They could directly ask the landlords to collect taxes. The landlords were often powerful and the government was unclear, so the taxes were unclear.
Some officials do their duty more or less, and some officials hide the landlord as poverty when they take advantage of it. For example, a landlord has 10 thousand mu of land, but because he bribed the official with the government, the official hid his land and collected a little tax as poverty
In this way, the agricultural tax on 10 thousand mu of land was swallowed up by landlords, gentry and corrupt officials, and the imperial court could not get this part of the tax. This is a situation in one place, but if we look at the country, what is the tragedy? Does the court still collect taxes? Will be less and less. "
Chapter 979 Don’t get too close to Chinese people.
After listening to what Wang Qi said, Lu You was shocked and speechless. His mouth was slightly open for a long time and he could not close it.
And Wang Qi’s words haven’t finished yet.
He saw Lu You’s shock and planned to give him a final blow.
He organized a speech.
"Great positions led the war against such a situation, and the peasant association system, which has gone through hardships, replaced this situation. Leading the imperial court, the peasants called on the peasants to rebel against the landlords and uproot the landlords and gentry, thus destroying the peasant associations all over the country.
As a result, the great court controlled the farmers and the land tax paying population through the peasant association, which greatly increased. Even if the tax on individual farmers was greatly reduced, the total tax amount was still far ahead of the DPRK.
Not only that, but because the imperial court collected less, farmers had to plant more and get more in the end, so farmers produced more actively and the total grain output rose year after year, and taxes rose more and more.
Ambassador Lu, do you think there is no money in the conference? No, the big system guarantees that if this situation continues, the big court will never be short of money and farmers will never go hungry.
They can eat three dinners, all of which are dry on holidays, and they can also eat meat. There is still money left to buy some things they want, candy and fruit, and they can buy some things they used to be afraid to eat. "
Lu You felt a little numb and his head was white.
This feeling hasn’t happened for a long time. He vaguely remembers the time when this happened or when his mother forced him to divorce his ex-wife Tang Wan.
At that time, his body was numb and his head was white, and he didn’t know what to do.
But once it was personal, and this time it was business.
Did Wang Qi lie to him?
Lu You looked at Wang Qi’s expression and looked at him with a hint of fanaticism in his excitement.
This is not an emotion that a liar can express.
If he lies, he must be a top liar, and such a person should not be just in this position.
It can be said that there are still many people in this country, and there are many people like Wang Qi, who are full of this court and make it more lean.
And what they do is true.
Such a thing has really happened. Farmers in this land are living an unexpected life because of their efforts and struggles.
Chinese farmers are becoming happy.
Lu Youfa suspects that unless he really sees a picture that does not belong to this situation, then he will doubt it.
However, Lu You suddenly realized that he sincerely wanted to believe that Wang Qi was telling the truth.
If Wang Qi’s words are true, it means that everything written in Su Yonglin’s "On Hongwu Politics" is also true, and all this is true.
Because of the eradication of the landlord and gentry class, the country can develop to this point.
The country is so strong!
And all this …
It is completely different from what the Southern Song Dynasty officials claimed and what most of them would like to believe.
Chen Kangbo and Yu Yunwen believe that all this is false or a lie deliberately fabricated by China.
But if all this is true …
Lu you suddenly felt thirsty and a little excited.
He also wants to know more about China.
"Can you tell me more about the country? Of course, if you don’t think it’s appropriate, don’t talk about something less important. "
Lu you express his desire.
Wang Qi smiled.
"Of course, but let’s talk about this post."
"post?"
"For the post, it is mainly for the officials of the imperial court to prepare for the long-distance business trip. Of course, some long-distance business travelers can also stay in the post with road guides. However, the court officials are responsible for the long-distance business trip by themselves.
At the beginning, we carried out a wave of rectification of the post, and stipulated the functions and daily consumption limits of the post. The regulations were very detailed, paying special attention to the things that officials eat and drink, such as when two dishes and one soup, when three dishes and one soup, four dishes and one soup, and so on. Is there more than four dishes and one soup?
At first, the cooking level of the post chefs was different. Some post chefs cooked delicious food, and everyone was happy to eat it. Some post chefs cooked so badly that no one wanted to eat it for a long time. Officials also compiled a map to mark all the post chefs who cooked delicious food. "
"Is there such a thing?"
Lu you couldn’t help laughing.
"Yes, this thing really happened."
Wang Qi laughed. "Later, because of the officials’ physical reaction, they decided to launch a reform to send the incompetent kitchen department to the army to exercise cooking with the old rotor in the army."
The old cooks in the army are all delicious, and the royal chefs are all selected from the old cooks in the army. After a period of training, these chefs are allowed to return to their original posts, and their cooking is much more delicious.
This is a good thing. Officials on business trips never worry about eating again. Everyone appreciates this. This is another interesting thing … "
Wang qi said Lu you while listening.
Speaking of interesting places, Lu You can’t help laughing.
Speaking of serious places, land travel will be very serious.