Are you stupid?

"What do you think, Your Majesty?"

Mu Huaiyuan hugged Shenlong from behind, his eyes swept around the mottled neck of Shenlong, completely ignoring the bags of grain seeds that would not be exchanged for money.

Shenlong was overjoyed, turned around and hugged Mu Huaiyuan involuntarily, kept expressing his joy with kisses, and hurriedly said a long sentence, "Before the battle in Liaodong, I have long thought about the next battle." It takes a few years to recuperate. If there are new types of grain, the time for grain storage can be greatly shortened. The most important thing is that with more grain output, even if the people do not have extra money, natural disasters will not easily destroy the small homes of the people. .”

Mu Huaiyuan grabbed Shenlong, made him stand firm, and reminded him in a low voice with a hint of reproach, "Your Majesty should not remind His Majesty what to do except the sleeping hall."

"Ahem." Shenlong pretended to cough a few times, and then, taking advantage of people's unpreparedness, rubbed his elbows on Mu Huaiyuan's waist a few times, and glanced at him, "What Aiqing said is very true, I really should Watch your words and deeds."

"——Aiqing is familiar with the classics, why not let Aiqing personally explain the virtues of the emperor to me tonight, so that I can understand more."

Mu Huaiyuan: "..."

This little bastard, I haven't seen him for a few years, but his tongue has become even sharper.

Mu Huaiyuan gave Shenlong a look of "cleaning you up at night", grabbed a handful of ears of wheat in his palm and held them up to Shenlong's eyes, his eyes changed, as if a high-spirited scholar became a seasoned politician in an instant, "Is Your Majesty still the same?" Are you planning to reduce the power and status of the officials and eunuchs for many generations?"

Speaking of serious business, Shenlong immediately cleared his expression and nodded seriously, "It has been done once, although it can't be said that it hurt them severely, but at least ten or eight years ago, they dare not do anything wrong."

Mu Huaiyuan pushed the ears of wheat in his palm towards Shenlong's eyes again, and his smile showed a murderous look, "Your Majesty, my minister's Jiahe grain can save your Majesty's fields."

Shenlong couldn't understand Mu Huaiyuan's meaning for a while, but soon, he connected the three things of "grain seeds", "dutian" and "cutting officials".

The biggest characteristic of official families is that as officials obtain fame, they will have varying amounts of tax-free land under their names.In this way, even if the officials are from poor families, as soon as they fly to the Tianzitang, wealthy households who want to fill the land under the official's name to evade taxes will flock to it.As long as they are human beings, few can resist the charm of money and power; even if officials themselves want to live in poverty, their clans will use the name of officials to run amok.

If this is the case for officials from poor families, it is even worse than that of those officials and eunuchs who have lived for many generations.They not only evade tax "hidden land", but also simply take in young and strong "hidden households".

Shenlong can set up a bureau once to pick up the opportunity to kill corrupt officials, but no matter how outstanding his ability is, he can't completely eliminate the situation of "hidden fields" and "hidden households". Even after being emperor for a few years, Shenlong Gradually comprehending the truth that "when the water is clear, there will be no fish". Since he still has to use the officials under his hands, he can't force the officials too much.

——Yes, the two-pronged approach of "high salary to maintain integrity" and "killing officials" has indeed made officials less daring to commit corruption, but officials don't think that hidden fields and hidden households are considered corruption at all. This is a conceptual problem, and Shenlong can't help it Get out of the era to address this.

Officials will do these things, in the final analysis, for "money", and Mu Huaiyuan's grain seeds are just the way to break the situation for Shenlong.

The new grain has a large yield and strong lodging resistance. As long as the officials who are not unclear about the new grain will definitely want to get this batch of grain seeds as soon as possible, and Shenlong can work with Mu Huaiyuan to set up a Bureau.

The emperor can say, "This kind of seed is really good. I will plant it myself first, and then share it with my courtiers after planting it." If you say you didn't stay, no one will believe you.At that time, the courtiers who can't get new grains from Shenlong will rush to Mu Huaiyuan's side.

As the so-called "deceive the superior and not conceal the inferior", the courtiers did not tell the truth to Emperor Yuanhe, but how could they maintain a high level of vigilance against Mu Huaiyuan, who was all subordinates of Emperor Yuanhe, who naturally aligned with them?As long as Mu Huaiyuan generously expresses "there is, there is, as much as you want", then the courtiers will definitely not be tempted. At that time, the amount of land in the hands of officials will not be able to hide it.

However, there is a small problem with this method.

Shenlong hesitated and said, "I'm afraid the courtiers won't be able to take the bait in just one year?"

Mu Huaiyuan put the grain seeds in his hands back into the cage, pinched Shenlong's still round face, "I didn't intend to give anyone a grain seed in the first year."

"Huh? How did you say that?" Shenlong didn't understand again.

Mu Huaiyuan pointed to the grains that were packed in different boxes, and explained to Shenlong, "Your Majesty, when I was farming, I found that every year there would be a group of grains that seemed to be prolific and only ordinary grains would be produced when they were fringed. I simply collected this kind of grain, and those jujube boxes are filled with this kind. As long as your Majesty planted it continuously in the first and second years, and let all the courtiers see the results, I will announce the grain to the outside world. The seeds must be redistributed every year, otherwise the high yield cannot be maintained, and the courtiers will believe it-many dealers I found in Sichuan also agree with this rhetoric."

Therefore, as long as the courtiers believe that they took the grain seeds once and still need to take them again in the future, after they are sure that the new grain seeds will definitely have high yields, they will have no way to hide their greed when they come to ask for grain seeds for the second time. I can only tell the truth to Mu Huaiyuan.As long as people expose themselves for the first time, they will not be so wary of people who know their secrets in the future. With Mu Huaiyuan's ability, he can ask whatever he wants.

——Even knowing how many fields there are, it is easier to infer how many people need to do farm work.

The slaves and maidservants of each family have to go through the list in the government. Once the total number of people does not match, they can be dealt with whenever they want.

The matter of Yintian and Yinhu can be big or small. If it is small, it is just a trivial matter of demotion and fine. If it is big, it is feasible to frame officials for raising soldiers and plotting wrongdoing; look at the emperor sitting on the dragon chair. The tolerance of the officials and the personal virtues of the emperors.

"Heming is really my good wife!" Shenlong spoke faster than his brain, and froze as soon as he spoke.

He cautiously turned his head to look at the expression on Mu Huaiyuan's face, and when he got a smile from Mu Huaiyuan that made him shudder, Shenlong wanted to slap himself twice.

In the evening, Shenlong was severely taught by Mu Huaiyuan, so that he was restless when he was dealing with government affairs in the study the next day.

In order to apologize to Mu Huaiyuan, Shenlong took advantage of Mu Huaiyuan's research and development of high-yield food and feasted for Mu Huaiyuan. The loud voices spread the high yield of new grains.

Immediately, the eyes of the courtiers all turned green like hungry wolves.