Chapter 652 It’s hard to be the emperor!

Before the birth of iron tools, farming was not easy, and a "coupled farming" farming method was formed. People often worked together to cultivate fields, "public fields and public plants", which is the so-called well-field system.

There is a square liter of well, with 900 acres of wells, of which are public land, and eight families all have 100 acres of private land. They raise public land together. After the official business, they dare to deal with private affairs.

This means that under the well-field system, one-nineth of the land belongs to public land and must be offered to the emperor.

In the case of insufficient productivity, people can only rely on collaborative work to "couple farming". Under collective labor, people naturally cultivate open fields together.

But with iron tools, the family can reclaim wasteland and cultivate grain. In this case, no one is willing to work more for public fields. Even if they work hard, they will be perfunctory to make time to cultivate their own private fields.

Not only ordinary people, but also the princes. Even if the "well fields" are fertile, they are more willing to send slaves to reclaim private land, and they also collect rent and taxes for the private land they reclaimed by the people.

After all, you don’t have to pay tribute to the emperor in private fields. The food you planted is all your own. Isn’t the rice delicious? Who would be willing to give it to me?

This trend is extremely obvious. At the beginning, some remote princes did not report to the emperor and secretly reclaimed private fields. With the popularity of iron tools, this trend became more and more obvious.

Although the emperor's reputation is in full swing, few people dare to abandon public fields and not cultivate them, but the public fields are overgrown with weeds, and reducing grain production has become inevitable.

The summer dynasties became rich overall, but the emperor was poor.

Not to mention anything else, food is the top priority. The nine Yunshi under the emperor's command is the nine fifth-rank elite troops, and each army swallows huge grains, which led to the emperor's death and the cause of the financial crisis.

After hearing Yao Yun and Sun Muyue's explanation, the bald dragon suddenly realized his mind, his face was quite strange, and he looked at the second elder Wu Tong: "Wu Lao Er, it seems that the emperor is meaningless. If nothing else, Di Mu is also fighting in all directions to protect the Heavenly Dynasty. As a result, no one will cultivate grain for him."

The bald dragon looked like a tone of contempt for the people of the world. Although he didn't like Di Mu, he stood on Di Mu's side this time. This time he conquered the Western Rong, the emperor led the Yunshi to fight with the Western Desert countries for more than a month, and the great victory was right in front of him. As a result, he encountered this destructive incident, which was quite ironic to say.

The bald dragon shook his head and said to Yao Yun: "It's boring, it's boring. Prince, we won't be the emperor anymore, and we can't stand this grievance!"

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and even Sun Muyue, who is known as the Iron Lady, smirked and said, "Mr. Long, the king is not the emperor yet. What are you fucking about?"

"Then I won't fight anymore. Prince, if you were the emperor, if you were the emperor, you would be worried about labor when you saw these guys who were in the terrible flies, you would lose money. No wonder the emperor's son had a long time ago. It was not worth it, not worth it!" The bald dragon seemed to understand the true meaning of life at this moment, and was indifferent to the previous ambition to pursue "support the prince to ascend the throne."

Yao Yun couldn't help but be happy. I have to say that what the bald dragon said makes sense. The common ruler of the world sounds wonderful, but only after he truly sat on the throne, he realized that the emperor was not easy to be a emperor.

However, there were some predictions about the collapse of the well-field system, and Yao Yun was not surprised. This was an objective rule.

"Mr. Long, it's not really the fault of the people and the princes of all sides. Most creatures seek benefits and avoid harm. This is nature. People cannot eat enough. Who has time to devote themselves to the overall situation of the Celestial Empire?"

"That's true. The people in the world live in poverty. With iron tools, they can cultivate more food, so they naturally need to tighten their survival needs." The bald dragon nodded slightly, agreeing with Yao Yun's statement.

The second elder smiled and said, "The problems exposed by this expedition to the Western Rong may have attracted the attention of the Emperor Di Mu. I am afraid that the emperor will make some noise soon and warn the princes in the world not to abandon their land. At that time, the princes will inevitably be punished."

When the second elder said this, he looked relaxed, and he looked like a person who was watching the fun was not serious.

Due to land reform in Xi'an, the well-field system was destroyed in name only. All the land was distributed to the people to cultivate, and there was no saying that public land was at all. However, in order not to "put the people's words", people were given a handle. Xi'an was based on the "well-field system", and took one of them and provided it to the emperor.

Not to mention other rare tributes, just grain, the food offered by Xiguo is definitely among the best, and no one can tell the problem.

No matter how angry the emperor is, he will not be able to exude Xiguo.

No one is worried that the emperor will hold Xiguo accountable and the country will change the well-field system without authorization. Paying tribute is the hard truth. The country of Xiguo has many offerings, so the emperor naturally has nothing to say.

In this situation, the emperor hopes that all the princes in the world can pay tribute like Xiguo.

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In the imperial capital Yunshi, the Emperor Jin Hall, the Emperor Di Mu, who returned to the court, was furious and asked his ministers.

“In recent years, grain production in the summer months has increased year by year, so why is the only food in the public fields not increasing?

What is the reason for the food paid by various countries to decrease year by year?

With iron oxen plowing, the cultivated land that has been reclaimed by various countries has doubled day by day, so why are there very few new fields reported to the Celestial Empire?

Dear families, tell me, what's wrong with the world... Can't they want to rebel?"

At the end of the story, Emperor Di Mu's tone became cold. Although his voice was not loud, it gave endless pressure to the ministers below. The ministers were silent and did not dare to speak. The atmosphere in the Golden Palace suddenly became cold.

The ministers in the hall naturally understood in their hearts, but no one dared to say it out loud. Should they tell the emperor that the princes and the people secretly cultivated private fields and had no intention of farming public fields?

Isn’t this asking for death?

If you spread the matter, there are not many princes in the world who are clean.

Once this layer of window paper is pierced, it will be a flood that will flow thousands of miles away.

In the hall, the ministers looked at their ears and noses, and their hearts, and they could not even hear the sound of breathing, and they could hear the needles.

Emperor Di Mu looked around and saw that everyone did not answer. He pointed at the Situ Xixing Hou and asked, "Xixing Hou, as Situ, what's the reason?"

When the Majesty Xixing saw the emperor's name, his face looked even worse than crying. He stood up and hesitated for a long time before he put on a sentence: "Your Majesty, it's because of the collapse of the well field system."

"Why did the Wellfield system collapse?" Emperor Di Mu continued to ask.

"This..." The Queen of Xixing was about to sweat: "I think it is because the world is able to cultivate private fields alone with iron tools, so I am unwilling to cultivate the king's fields."

Emperor Di Mu naturally knew this, so he continued to ask:

"Since you know very well, why is the public land abandoned, concealed private land and watched the well-field system collapse!"

Faced with the emperor's questioning, the ministers turned pale and were panicked inside, and the emperor was furious!

At this moment, Mr. Jiang stood up and said, "The emperor, the collapse of the Wellfield system is caused by someone who has brought a bad idea."

"Oh~ Mr. Jiang, do you tell me, who is the one who takes the lead?"
Chapter completed!