Ke Zhiming replied without hesitation: "The people's lives are very stable. According to the information provided by the Tiandihui and the Jinyiwei, the lives of the people in various places are much better than those in the deaf years."

Zhu Jinsong also felt something was wrong.

When I was traveling north with Qiandian Laogou, I had never seen the lives of ordinary people at home. Although I didn’t ask about the price of grain, I didn’t see anyone who couldn’t eat, and I didn’t hear anyone complain about the price of grain.

After thinking about it, Zhu Jinsong simply said to Zeng Cheng and others: "Everyone has changed into clothes. Our monarch and ministers will have a private visit today and have a meal at the people's houses."

After someone brought the clothes and asked Zeng Cheng and others to change them in Wenhua Hall, Zhu Jinsong took Zeng Cheng, Liu Huaiwen and others out of the Forbidden City, and shot them in the south of the Beijing direction and then rushed to Yanjiao.

When the group arrived in Yanjiao with rushing horses, it was almost noon. Zhu Jinsong took his people to the home of an ordinary citizen in the name of Wanyan Agutai, took out some treasure money and said he wanted to have a meal.

It’s just that the chickens, ducks and geese raised by this old man Kang’s family were all affected after Zhu Jinsong took out a hundred-yuan bill.

While constantly praising the smell of meat, Zhu Jinsong said to Old Man Kang intentionally or unintentionally: "I heard that the rice in Guanzhong costs two or three cents per pound?"

Old Man Kang, who was pulled to the table by Zhu Jinsongqiang, smacked his lips and said, "Indeed, this rice is cheap now. It has dropped from more than ten cents to two or three cents per pound - I didn't expect that the noble man would still know the price of rice? I thought that a noble man like this would not know the price of rice."

Zhu Jinsong laughed and then asked, "Didn't it mean that rice is cheap and injured farmers? The food is cheap, what should you do with your livelihood? Why don't you wait for me to arrive in the capital and talk about this with the emperor?"

Old Man Kang laughed and shook his head and said, "It's useless to tell the emperor about this? You can tell anyone you want to tell me! The food is at this price now. Not to mention the emperor, the Jade Emperor is here, is it still the price?"

Zhu Jinsong's heart sank. Just as he was about to speak, Old Man Kang continued, "Can you know the reason why the cheap grains hurt farmers, and the noble grains hurt farmers even more? Besides, the cheap grains hurt farmers. How many years of old age has it been?"

"The food is cheap now, and everyone can afford it. We have less money to grow food, but I am not just growing food and doing nothing else."

"Look, in addition to growing grain, I also planted an orchard under the guidance of the Farmers Association and raised chickens in the orchard."

Speaking of this, Old Man Kang pointed to the chicken in Zhu Jinsong's hand and said, "The chicken that Guiren eats now is raised in my orchard. He eats some insects on weekdays, and in winter, I go to the county to buy some bran and feed. This sells eggs and chickens every year, but it is also a lot of money."

"Now life is better and eggs are sold well. Although it is a little cheap, it is also easier to sell than in the Qing Dynasty."

"So, this food is cheap, it's cheap. Anyway, I don't expect that little bit of land."

Zhu Jinsong shook his head and said, "That's not what he said."

"Look, your father-in-law, you plant the land, the fruit trees, and the creatures of chickens, ducks, geese, etc. But the other people can't be like you, right? If the food in the whole world is cheap, wouldn't those people who can only farm land lose?"

"So, the value of the grain hurts the farmers, and the value of the grain hurts the farmers. There is still some truth to this - don't think I'm outside the pass for a long time, but I have also read books."

Old Man Kang laughed, gave Zhu Jinsong a thumbs up, and praised: "It's all the uncles of the current dynasty. The nobles are actually concerned about the lives and deaths of our mud legs. This is really rare."

"However, noble people don't know what it is. It depends on how cheap food is. If it were like the Qing Dynasty, the food was so cheap, the people would have been unable to survive because other things are expensive and money is not worth it."

"But it's different now. Now everything is cheap, and the money is valuable. The money you earn from growing food seems to be less, but you spend less money, especially the court has reduced taxes. So, by farming, it's okay to make the family and have no worries about food and clothing."

Speaking of this, Old Man Kang couldn't help but feel happy again: "This is the right way. When I was a child, I heard my grandfather talk about ancient times. The price of grain was not high before the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, especially before Wanli, the price of grain was similar to ours now, and the lives of ordinary people are good."

"Later, it gradually became impossible. The natural disaster was like a year, and the food prices gradually rose. Later, when Jianlu entered the pass, the food rose completely crazy."

"It's strange to say. Logically, with high-yield things like corn and sweet potatoes, the price of grain should fall, but it's really amazing that it can't fall."

"Don't believe it, nobles, don't believe it. The old man's grandfather passed the exam and studied. He didn't look like the old man, I have never entered the school since I was a child."

Zhu Jinsong asked curiously: "If the old man had passed the exam for a scholar, how could the father-in-law not go to school?"

Old Man Kang sighed and said, "What are you doing when you go to school? You know more about your words. If you know more about them, you will feel annoyed. I heard that during the Ming Dynasty, scholars were fine for scolding the emperor, but they could still be praised, but what kind of bird was the Qing Dynasty?"

"If you write the word Ming in your poem, he can even arrest you as a thief who has anti-Qing and restored Ming Dynasty. My grandfather has talked about the illiteracy of Qingfeng, saying that the more you read, the more you will be, the more you will be, and it is better to be honest and illiterate."

Gu Wu/span    Zhu Jinsong nodded thoughtfully, but Old Man Kang continued: "Look, at this age, he is prone to nonsense. Just as he was talking about Gu Jiu's injury to farmers or not, it ended up involving the Qing Dynasty."

"Anyway, I don't know about other places, but this is the price of our Zhao family fu. During the Qing Dynasty, it cost more than ten cents per pound. From the time when we first returned to the Ming Dynasty, it gradually dropped to two or three cents per pound. It has not changed much in the past two years."

"At the beginning, I didn't think that this food is cheap, does it mean that the family can make less money?"

"Later I found out that this was not the case at all. The food price has indeed dropped, but our family life in Zhao was much better than that in the Qing Dynasty."

Zhu Jinsong suddenly became interested and asked, "What's going on?"

Old Man Kang said, "What else can happen? Because the emperor is good."

"Think about it, when you planted acre of land and collected 100 kilograms of grain, you had to pay the rent for 60 kilograms of grain, and then 30 kilograms of grain for the imperial grain. After working hard for a whole year, you only had ten kilograms of grain in your hands. How do you think you can live?"

"Okay, you may say that many people have their own land and don't have to pay rent, right? But think about it, even if you don't have to pay rent, the remaining 70 kilograms of food belongs to you, then you won't eat or spend it?"

"Besides, the Qing Dynasty government was so sophisticated. When Qian Death had been forty years, they dared to collect taxes for ninety years. I heard that some places had received Qian Death with one hundred and forty years. And Qian Death had gone to Jiangnan for five times. Where did the money come from?"

"No matter how hard they exploit those mud legs that do not have their own land, they can't afford to take out money. The landlords are not something that the yamen runners can provoke. In the end, they exploit those who have their own land?"

"So, over the year, if there is no land, a mu of land can be deposited with about ten kilograms of grain, and if there is land, it will be deposited with about ten kilograms. If there is more than 30 kilograms, you will live as long as you are good. If the year is not good, you will become a refugee. It depends on the will of God."

Zhu Jinsong nodded and said, "That's right. For example, our Soren tribe was used to being bullied by the Qing Dynasty. You can still farm, like you can only fish and hunt, and you don't even let us plant the land."

Old Man Kang said, "Look? Look? That's the case? By the way, you should divide the land now, right?"

After receiving Zhu Jinsong's affirmative answer, Old Man Kang continued: "This land has become the people's own homes. You don't have to pay rent to the landlord. If you collect 100 kilograms of grain per acre of land, you only have to pay ten kilograms of imperial grain. The remaining 90 kilograms are yours. Can you live a good life?"

Zhu Jinsong nodded, but then asked, "Then the government will not do anything?"

Old Man Kang curled his lips and said, "What are you doing? When it comes to handing over the food, the Tiqi of the Jinyiwei, the inspector of the Censorate of the Censorate, and the Censor of the Governor's Court came to the village one after another. Who dared to make tricks under their noses?"

"Besides, isn't there a farmer's association? The emperor said in the newspaper that the government is doing tricks, and the farmer's association will take the lead in resisting taxes and donations, and will tie the official to the capital for trial. What else can the official dare to do?"

Zhu Jinsong nodded and said, "What my father-in-law said makes sense. From this point of view, as long as the burden on the people is reduced and the government has less trouble, the lives of the people will be better. As for the expensive and low grain, it is not that important?"

Old Man Kang nodded, but the following words aroused Zhu Jinsong's interest: "Don't make trouble? How can the government not make trouble? If it doesn't make trouble, then it can still be called the government?"

Zhu Jinsong hurriedly asked, "What has the government been trying to do?"

Old Man Kang said, "What are you trying to do? Build a society, build roads, dig ditches, dig reservoirs, plant trees, and encourage the people to have more children. Anyway, there is only one I can't imagine, and there is no one who will not do anything about his government."

"Also, the government let us who don't know a few words to join the literacy class. My mother, you said that I am an old man in my seventies and eighties, and I have never been to school in my life. Before I got into the soil, I was persuaded to study and read. I was also in the same class as my son in his fifties. What do you think this is called? Isn't this a problem?"

When talking about the literacy class, this old man Kang, who was over 70 years old, was so angry that he swears.

Zhu Jinsong laughed loudly and then asked, "That government has caused such trouble to affect the livelihood of everyone? Let me tell you, father-in-law, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty is my brother-in-law. I went to Beijing this time to see him. If you have anything to do, I can convey it to the emperor for you."

Old Man Kang shook his head and said, "What impact can it have? Those officials who are not sons of man will do their best in the slack farming process, and they will not do these messy things during the busy farming process, and they will have no impact on us."

"By the way, if you can meet the emperor, then you have to bring him a good gift for me? Please tell him for me that the people of Zhao's housework are all looking forward to his longevity and a long life."

Zhu Jinsong nodded and smiled and said, "Okay, I will definitely bring you something. By the way, since the government is busy with social studies, has your child ever entered school?"

Old Man Kang looked at Zhu Jinsong like a fool: "What is the noble man saying? Since he has the opportunity to study, how can he not study?"

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