I, the younger brother of King Zhou, lead the Taoist ancestors to do business

For food, Zisheng needs to solve several problems.

First, how to expand food production?

Combining with history, Zisheng thought of two ways.

First, expand the area of ​​cultivated land.

This is easy to solve, and there are such cases in history.

There is a lot of wasteland around Chaoge, as long as he promulgates a decree, all the wasteland reclaimed by the people can be owned by him.In this way, there is only insufficient manpower for grain cultivation, and there is no such thing as insufficient farmland.

However, Zisheng will face a problem.Because this decree is too loose, there must be nobles who are only interested in profit taking the opportunity to make profits for themselves.

At that time, nine out of ten nobles will take the opportunity to hoard land.They might ask their slaves to exploit the seemingly fertile land first. If there is not enough manpower, they may not plant the land, and even if they let their land go uncultivated, they will not be able to make themselves lose money.

If there are common people who want to plant fertile land, I am afraid that nobles will take the opportunity to exploit and squeeze the common people.

Zisheng has worked so hard for so long, how could he allow moths to take advantage of him?

So this decree has to add a restriction: nobles are not allowed to participate.

But if restrictions are imposed, the nobles are bound to make trouble.Even if Zisheng doesn't explain it, a lot of filth will arise in the nobleman's heart.

The lights flickered at night, Zisheng thought for a long time and turned off the lights.

In the early morning of the second day, the regent was furious.

The reason is that the regent asked the courtiers to report the situation of the people's livelihood. As a result, either some people hesitated and couldn't answer, or some people falsified.

Although Zisheng was short and his words were leaky, he slammed the table and the whole hall fell into silence.

He suppressed his anger and questioned everyone in the hall, "You all want to be officials, but what is an official? An official is to make decisions for the people. Is this what you have been doing for so many years?"

After finishing speaking, he threw a fold on the ground.

"Let's not talk about the distance, let's talk about this year. Three adults in Chaoge will starve to death. Chaoge is the capital of a country! Is this what a dynasty should look like? This is a sign of subjugation!"

As soon as this remark came out, the courtiers were so frightened that they knelt down one after another.

Zisheng let out a long breath, "What do you say? How to keep these people alive?!"

People were silent.

Zisheng closed his eyes and leaned on the throne.

Although his voice is soft, everyone can hear it.

"The food is gone, and it can't be changed, but this matter can't be done casually. We have to set an example for the people."

When the courtiers heard this, their hearts turned cold, and they didn't know what it meant.

Zisheng said: "Since this is the case, all officials who are temporarily dismissed from their posts related to this matter will be dealt with as crimes. This king is not biased, and will be interrogated one by one afterwards. If someone really does his best, this king Then let his official return to his original post. If he does well, the king will even add an official to his rank, if he does not do well..."

Zisheng sneered, opened his eyes, and a sharp light flashed in them.

Immediately, someone's brain was buzzing, and they were at a loss.In this corrupt court, how many people can be innocent?

Immediately, dozens of people came forward and knelt down, "Your Highness, this matter is indeed my fault, and I am willing to make up for it! I... I am willing to donate two thousand catties of grain to save some people first. Your Highness, there are still... three months left." The grain is about to mature, and two thousand catties of grain can help some people survive until then."

The rest of the people heard it, and rushed to say: "Your Highness, I am also willing to pay two thousand catties. This matter is indeed my fault, and I am willing to make amends."

"His Royal Highness... I have two thousand catties..."

Seeing that Zisheng was not as angry as before, everyone knew that their words had worked.

They breathed a sigh of relief, and it was good that they had room to maneuver.

Zisheng lowered his eyes, glanced down, and said in a calm voice, "Everyone has a good plan. Just two thousand catties of grain is trying to wipe out your sins? How can there be such a good thing in the world?"

Cold sweat ran across everyone's foreheads, and they were at a loss.

However, there are always a few of their relatives who are old men, and when they see the regent's temper restrained, they know that this move is effective.

So an old man stepped forward to salute Zisheng, "Your Highness, calm down, I am a fool who is not good at things, and I am willing to give another two thousand catties of grain to make up for the fool's fault."

Zisheng didn't speak, but seemed to be thinking.

The rest of the people naturally knew what to do when they saw it, and they stepped forward one after another, willing to give another two thousand catties.

Zisheng finally put this matter aside for the time being, but when his voice changed, he turned to another matter.

"The people don't grow much food, and even when the food is harvested, it's not enough to eat. Do you think you should blame the people or...?"

Zisheng didn't say the last two words, but everyone knew what Zisheng meant.

It seems that if they can't solve this matter, today's matter cannot be exposed.

But right now the fertile land is limited, no one is willing to give up their land, and no one said anything for a while.

"Why, you can't solve such trivial matters?"

Courtiers:  …

Is this a trivial matter?

It was already dawn, and everyone was exhausted together, and many people's stomachs were growling with hunger.

What Zisheng meant was that if the food problem could not be resolved, there would be no need to go to court this morning.

At Sishi, that is, at 9 o'clock in the morning, the morning morning still hasn't set off, and people's legs are sore from standing.

Finally, Zisheng spoke.

He told the courtiers about the previous plan, and the courtiers' eyes lit up after hearing this, and they all praised Zisheng.

Shangrong Bigan and the others also looked at Zisheng with surprised eyes.

This kid is really smart, he might be comparable to his ancestor Cheng Tang Wuding.

The nobles were also very moved when they heard the words. They wanted to take advantage of the loopholes in the rules to get a share of the pie, but Zisheng was the first to speak out their thoughts.

"This move was specially formulated to make the people have enough to eat. You said that if someone takes advantage of the loopholes, what should they do if they hoard the land when there is no shortage of food?"

The nobles were startled, they raised their heads, only to see Zisheng looking at them with a smile on his face.

They feel cold.

Because Zisheng got angry just this morning, they still have lingering fears.Just now they were only a little greedy for money, but when Quilt Sheng looked at it like this, the thought was instantly dispelled.

They were so hungry that their eyes were dimmed. Although they felt empty and missing something in their hearts, they still assured Zisheng that they would never think about Tuntian in the future.

Zisheng was also unceremonious, promulgated a new decree on the spot, and added a special one: nobles are not allowed to participate.

Although the nobles felt sorry, they still agreed.

Really wanting to starve these people to death will not do them any good.

After the court, the white fox was waiting for Zisheng at the door with a chicken leg in its mouth.

As soon as he saw him come out, he rushed over to give Zisheng the drumstick.

The white fox was getting heavier and heavier, and Zisheng almost couldn't hug such a big lump.

He took a bite of the drumstick and walked out.

Last night, he remembered the spirit of compromise that Mr. Lu Xun said.

If at first you want to open the window, but people won't allow it.But if you say you're going to take the roof down, people will let you open the windows.

At the beginning, Zisheng was just acting, trying to get the nobles to give up hoarding land on their own initiative.

But he didn't expect that he was cheated out of [-] catties of grain by a simple fraud, which was a surprise.

At first, in order to keep some people from starving to death, he chose to use work as relief.

The ten-day construction period is not only ten days, but he can't let one person do it for a long time, he has to let people rotate, every ten days is a batch.One batch is one hundred families.

However, [-] catties of food seemed to be a lot, and there were quite a few people in Chaoge, plus it would take three months to survive, which was even more stressful.

At this moment, Zisheng's "Longtong Express" arrived!

Excitedly, Ao Bing pulled the cart to the gate of the palace and asked someone to call Zisheng.

When Zisheng arrived, Ao Bing pointed to the cart of crops and said to Zisheng: "Is this the sweet potato you mentioned? The kind that is sweet and glutinous when steamed!"

Zisheng's heart skipped a beat, and he leaned in front of the car.

Ao Bing wrung his fingers and said, "Besides that, there are fried potatoes and chicken nuggets stewed with potatoes..."

Before Ao Bing finished speaking, he was hugged by the quilt.

Ao Bing was almost pushed down by Zi Sheng, he lowered his head, and saw the little baby bending his eyes and saying to him with leaky teeth: "Ao Bing, you are so powerful, I will make you a big meal right away!"

They had a good meal, and Ao Bing lay on the ground clutching his stomach and let Longsheng fly.

Zisheng cut the potatoes by himself according to the edges and corners.Potatoes Sweet potatoes are not like other plants. They have no seeds. Among them, sweet potatoes are planted whole, while potatoes need to be cut into pieces and planted in the soil.

The number of these crops is not large, and Zisheng processed all the "seeds", so he only got two big baskets, which is not enough for sowing at all.

What's more, there is a shortage of food now. Although Zisheng puts his short-term goal on Chaoge, he still wants to feed the people of the whole country as soon as possible.

Just when Zisheng was at a loss, Ao Bing poked him and said in a low voice, "Don't you know magic? Why don't you make a few baskets?"

Zisheng:?

Zisheng rummaged through the books and finally found the art of transformation.

There are two kinds of techniques of transformation, one is to deceive the eyes, and the other is to change the real thing.

Both have a common limitation, that is, there must be a reference.

Zisheng felt that this was a bit like copying.

Naturally, Zisheng didn't need the former, but the latter was extremely exhausting.

Zisheng tried his best to conjure up three baskets.

Ao Bing is better than him, he can conjure six baskets after a long time.

Two vegetable chickens: ...

The white fox also kowtowed its head and tried to turn it into food, but it only turned out one sweet potato after a long time of transformation, and it just smashed its head, causing a big bump to protrude from the white fluffy fox fur.

The white fox got angry, and it lay down in front of the basket and yelled "Aww".

It shouldn't be this weak!

No matter how small a fly's leg is, it is still meat.From this day on, Ao Bing and Zisheng began to turn into sweet potatoes every day.

Zisheng is fine, but when Ao Bing closed his eyes, he dreamed that potatoes were hitting him.

Zisheng originally thought about finding foreign aid, but Ao Bing's family is all civil servants, so it is not easy to participate in it.

Zisheng thought carefully, if a person with strong spells came, would it be possible to turn hundreds of baskets of sweet potatoes into hundreds of baskets of sweet potatoes in minutes?

He bit his lip, thinking about it.

At the same time, Ao Bing came to him.

"Zisheng, I suddenly remembered that if you can find water from the fairy pond, even if there are only a few drops, as long as you mix it with ordinary water and water it in the farmland, the things planted in the field will grow quickly, and It looks good and big."

Zisheng: "Xianchi? Where is Xianchi?"

Ao Bing rubbed his head, "Xianchi is just a name, as long as it is the divine water in the sky, it can be used."

33 In the sky, Zisheng carried a small pole with sweet potatoes on both sides.

Standing in front of the pavilion, he fiddled with his fingers nervously, "Could the Immortal Master help Zisheng change some sweet potatoes?"

Hongjun sat in the pavilion for a long time, he said: "No."

Zisheng hesitated for a while before responding politely, "Thank you, Master Immortal."

The path in front of the pavilion is narrow, with lotus ponds on both sides.

Zisheng put down his shoulder pole and moved his sore arms.

Suddenly, his foot slipped, and water splashed in the lake.

"Gudu... Gudu Gudu...", Zisheng sank into the lotus pond and choked on the water in his belly, he kept rolling and struggling in the pond.

"Master Immortal, save me, Zisheng is about to drown..."

With a burst of force, Zisheng was picked up from the pool, and he was lying on the side of the lake soaked.

When Zisheng recovered, he hurriedly apologized to Hongjun.

"It's really troublesome for the fairy master, Zisheng messed up the fairy master's palace."

Hongjun said lightly, "No problem."

Hongjun was reticent, and Zisheng was too embarrassed to stay here.He bid farewell to Hongjun, and then left Zixiao Palace with a shoulder pole.

As soon as he left the palace, his wet clothes dried instantly, and Zisheng's hair was tied up again.

Zisheng groaned secretly, but he wasn't so flustered in his heart.

Unexpectedly, a gust of wind blew up in the air, and the wind seemed to turn into a hand and press on his bulging stomach.

Zisheng: ...

Pressing down with his hand, Zisheng spit out all the water he drank.

[It's over, stealing water was discovered. ]