So fast! Zhu Linmiao was a little surprised when she heard this.

You know, there is no modern laser rangefinder at the moment, dozens of miles of square land are measured with knotted ropes, and the search for title deeds and files also depends on a pair of human eyes, and its efficiency can be imagined.

He originally thought that Feng Kang would come to ask for merit after only finishing one province, but he didn't expect that he had already measured most of the southern land. This speed definitely embarrassed the officials in the court who were born in the imperial examination.

"Well done." He nodded his head first, then suddenly frowned in confusion and said, "I gathered the four political envoys so quickly, but I have been careful and have not missed anything, right?" ”

Feng Kang hurriedly knelt on the ground, "Grandpa Wang, there are more than 90,000 slaves and maids before and after, and there are more than 600 people just who manage the field books and calculate the size, and they have been working day and night for dozens of days, so they can have such a speed, and they dare not be careless." ”

"Ninety thousand?" Zhu Linmiao squinted at the eunuch, "I allocated a total of 30,000 taels for the inventory of Huangzhuang's acres, how can I hire so many people?" ”

"Back to Grandpa Wang, before the slave maid left, the princess was worried that the slave and maid would be stupid and would miss a big thing, so she took out seven thousand taels from her room and gave it to the slave maid. A few of our slaves and maids who did the work exchanged some silver by themselves, and most of the people used were summoned by the slaves and maids from the old clan in their hometowns, and they gave them food, so they dealt with the matter and got it done. ”

Zhu Linwei stepped forward to help Feng Kang up, and couldn't help but be a little moved in his heart. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the officials who talked about "saving heavenly principles and destroying people's desires" all day long were all trying to get money out of their pockets, and these eunuchs actually took out their private money to do business......

He remembered that when Chongzhen was hanged on the coal mountain, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty went to welcome the new master Li Zicheng, but only one eunuch Wang Chengen accompanied him to die.

It is no wonder that the eunuchs in the final Ming Dynasty have always been in power, probably because the courtiers are not allowed, and the emperor's helpless move.

Zhu Linmiao patted Feng Kang and said, "Go back and hand over the accounts for the flowers to the household department, and let Yang Tinglin report the money from a few of you." The imperial court is not rich, but it is not easy for you to save some money, so you can't set this precedent. ”

Feng Kang immediately waved his hand gratefully, "This is all a little loyalty of the slaves, Grandpa Wang doesn't have to ......"

"Alright, that's it." Zhu Linmiao interrupted him and said, "Let's talk about how much land has been collected in various imperial villages." ”

"This, yes." Feng Kang hurriedly took out a thick booklet from his body and opened it, "Zhejiang is 187,000 dumps." Jiangxi 150,000 dumps. Fujing is 108,000 poured. 115,000 in Guangdong.

In addition, Gui, Guizhou, Yunnan, and Shu only measure four or five percent of the ground, and there are 44,000, 30,000, 26,000, and 87,000 acres of land respectively.

"At present, the Huangzhuang that has been completed has a total of more than 740,070 tilts."

Zhu Linmiao nodded happily, there are still four provinces that have not been measured, and the terra nullius, the land of the convict and the various contributions, totaling more than 700,000 yuan, are basically not much different from what he expected. This is almost one and a half times more than the 320,000 dumps counted by Tobe Zeng Sakura at that time! It seems that these eunuchs are really doing their best.

According to Zhu Linmi's estimate, the terra nullius in the entire south of the Yangtze River should be at least more than one million dumps, and considering that Nanzhili has not yet counted, it should steadily exceed this number at that time. You must know that Nanzhili includes the two provinces of Anhui and Jiangsu in later generations, but they are all large cultivated households, and they can draw more than 300,000 dumps to say the least.

In other words, more than 1 million hectares of "contracted fields" can be set up in the south alone. According to the fertility of the land, each household is contracted to 20 to 25 acres – which is enough for a family of four to five to feed – and these fields can support four or five million households! At present, there should be less than 7 million households in the entire southern part of the Ming Dynasty, and the living conditions of the people at the bottom of the entire Ming Dynasty will be greatly improved.

This is only the case in the south, and after the outright invasion of the north, there will definitely be more terra nullius.

All the social contradictions of the feudal era can ultimately be attributed to the distribution of land. After the previous dynasties conquered the territory, most of them gave rewards or distributed them to individuals, completed the distribution of land, and temporarily reached a state of social equilibrium. However, after hundreds of years of land annexation, arable land will be concentrated in the hands of a small number of people, the majority of the population will lose their source of livelihood, and social inequality will increase, eventually leading to various uprisings and riots.

However, the "joint production contract responsibility system" brought by Zhu Linmiao from later generations put the cultivated land in the hands of the state and distributed it to the people for cultivation by the state agencies, thus eliminating the possibility of land annexation from the root.

After the industrialization of the Ming Dynasty was completed and the importance of arable land declined significantly, the country would not be thrown into turmoil due to the issue of land distribution.

Feng Kang continued: "Grandpa Wang, it's just that due to this year's military disaster, many of these lands are barren or water conservancy is wasted, and I'm afraid I still have to invest a lot of energy to restore output." This is especially true in Jiangxi, Fujing, and Zhejiang. ”

Yes, I'm afraid I will have to invest a lot of money in the early stage. Zhu Lin said in his heart, it seems that it is not something that can be done simply to completely solve the living problems of the people at the bottom.

He asked Feng Kang again: "How much of the farmland that has been included in the register has been contracted?" ”

"This ......" Feng Kang smiled on his face, bowed his head and said, "Back to Grandpa Wang, there are less than 80,000 households that have signed the contract deed, and a total of 17,000 is a little more than 17,000." ”

"So little?!" Zhu Linmiao couldn't help but be surprised.

According to his expectations, Huangzhuang only paid 10 to 15 catties of harvest per mu, and the rest of the output was the contractor's own. Why are there only so many people contracting now?

"Grandpa Wang." Feng Kangzhi said, "In fact, there are many landless people at the moment, and there are many people who want to contract Huangzhuang." Just ......"

"Just what?"

"The 'imperial grain' collected per mu in our Huangzhuang is less than 30% of the rent of tenants in various places." Feng Kang glanced at him, "If the people have contracted the land of Huangzhuang, the big landowners over there will not be able to find people to cultivate it, so ...... This contracting has been subject to many constraints in various places. ”

"Constrained?" Zhu Linmiao frowned and said, "How to restrain it?" Who dares to restrain it?! ”

"Back to Grandpa Wang, it was done by landlords and gentry from all over the world. They are all powerful in various places, and they only need to threaten and intimidate the contractor, and those honest people dare to mention the matter of contracting the Huangzhuang again. What's more, there are rumors in private that if you plant the imperial village, you will sell yourself to the royal family as a slave, and then pay the annual increase in the harvest, and when you pay half a cent, you will cut off the whole family and bury it in the ground to fill the fat......"

"The royal family dares to interfere in recruiting people to farm?!" Zhu Linmiao was so angry that she shot the case, "It's unreasonable!"

"Say, who is this from? Let's see how many heads he has! ”

(End of chapter)

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