In a flash, two bowls of hot soup were poured on Li Jinglong's thighs without any bias.

Hiss......Woo.........

Li Jinglong clenched his fists with both hands, stood there grinning, jumping his feet with a look of pain.

The official is sorry, I didn’t do it intentionally! When the guest was scalded, Widow Xu was also panicked and grabbed the apron and was about to wipe it off. But the hot place was really indecent...

Hiss! Ah! Li Jinglong's legs trembled quickly, like noodles in the storm, and his face was ferocious.

On the one hand, Fu Rang's silent eyes quickly picked up a scoop of hot water and poured it on.

In an instant, Zhu Yunqiu seemed to see the faint white smoke.

Ah! Hiss! Li Jinglong was breathing heavily, spread his legs, sat down dejectedly, and water dripped from his trouser legs.

After a while, Zhu Yunxi asked, "Is it okay? Is it burned?"

Li Jinglong pulled two pieces of mutton off his pants, and bounced the falling green onions, so it should be nothing!

Can you make trouble even if you drink some soup? Zhu Yunxiu suddenly said angrily, thinking.........As old, so old and frivolous, how can you let you go out with confidence! As he said that, he waved his hand, and I will talk about that later!

Li Jinglong pulled his pants with both hands to prevent it from sticking to his skin, and said in his heart, it’s okay, it’s okay! It’s a blessing in disguise!

Widow Xu was so anxious that she cried out. The people on the table looked like Fuguiren. The clothes on her body were made of good materials, and she couldn't compensate her for how much mutton soup she sold.

Don’t blame me, I have no eyes! Widow Xu cried, if you don’t touch my hands, how could I burn you!

OK OK OK No one blames you. If you cook a few more bowls, it will be considered money for you! Zhu Yunxiu frowned.

No, no, no, it’s my family’s fault, how can I ask for money? As he said that, Widow Xu walked to the stall again and started to work hard.

I don’t know if it’s because she is scared or why, the more she is, the more she is busy.

Are you from Fengyang? Zhu Yunqiu didn't want to scare her and asked softly.

I got married here. My family has a miserable life. After just three years of marriage, my husband died, leaving behind the orphans and widows of five families! Widow Xu said, her eyes turned red and she felt a little pitiful.

Is the business good on weekdays? Is there no land at home? Another bowl of soup was brought up. Zhu Yunyu broke a pot of water and asked in the soup.

If there is land, a woman from the Immortal family would not be willing to show up! Widow Xu continued to rectify her food and said, "I don't know what happened here when I hear the accent of the official, but I don't know what happened here!"

Zhu Yunxiu took a bite of the soft Guokui. What do you mean by saying, Fengyang’s land, what else is there?

Widow Xu carefully put the soup on the table and wiped her hands and said, "There is nothing else, the land here is too expensive. A person in my family is a small businessman who can't afford five acres of land even if he gets up early and goes to bed late in his life!

How much does acre of land cost? Zhu Yunxiu asked.

This year, the market costs five silver dollars for the slightly smaller slopes, and the better river beach costs fifteen silver dollars!

So expensive? Zhu Yunxiu stopped chopsticks. The land around the capital was not as expensive as this!

Fengyang has many imperial villages and noble families have a lot of land! Widow Xu collected other people's money from the stall and said, "There is only so much good land, all in the hands of the officials." If the people don't have it, it will naturally be expensive!"

Besides, this is our Ming Dynasty Zhongdu. Master Hongwu is thinking about his hometown feelings. He is exempt from tax every now and then, so the land price is naturally higher than elsewhere!

Zhu Yunxiu silently put down his chopsticks, and the land in Fengyang Zhongdu was in the hands of a few people, which means there were a large number of farmers without land in this place.

What do people who don’t have land to live on? Zhu Yunxiu pondered and asked.

They are also tenants in the villages of various officials, or in the imperial villages. Widow Xu stroked her hair and lived a bitter life. A few years ago, when she was building the city, there was a place where she worked hard. Now the city is no longer built, and there is no place for her to work hard!

In other words, the grace of the state's tax exemption has not actually benefited the people! Zhu Yunxiu sighed that the people have no land, let alone the people's land. The royal farmer and the land of the nobles did not pay taxes. Even the large households with self-cultivated land, the tenants in their families could not pay less to the landlord at all!

It would be nice if you didn't pay more! Widow Xu said next to him that the land in the imperial village and the land of nobles would be a fixed amount every year. They did not care about how much they harvested, no matter whether God rewarded them or not, they would not be able to lose a grain of rice! In the early years, when my husband was still there, he had to owe others a year of land to plant rent!

How much land does Fengyang's imperial village occupy? Zhu Yunhuang asked Gou Ren with a cold face.

At the beginning, it was 1386 hectares! Gou Ren bowed and said.

Now! Zhu Yun's expression was a little colder.

Gou Rendao, more than 20,000!

It turned out that the biggest landlord in Fengyang was actually the Zhu family itself.

Zhu Yunxiu had no intention of eating, stood up and gave her money! After saying that, he left with his hands behind his back, and the followers around him quickly followed.

How could there be so many? As he walked, Zhu Yunqi suddenly turned around and asked Gou Ren, and he had read the archives of the Ministry of Revenue. Isn’t Fengyang’s imperial village only more than 300 acres? Why are there so many?

That was the year of Hongwu. At first, the imperial village was decided to support the people who saw the imperial tombs and the imperial city. Gou Rendao, but later, the emperor confiscated many noble families, and many tenants who were originally rewarded to the nobles became tenants of the imperial village!

Fengyang was the old land of Huaixi, and after the founding of the country, many nobles were enfeoffed here. Later, the cases of Li Shanchang, Hu Weiyong and others broke out, and the senior ministers of the Huaixi Group were killed one after another, and the land under their names was naturally confiscated.

For example, Li Shanchang was from Dingyuan next to Fengyang. In the early years of the country, his fiefdom in Fengyang had 2,000 hectares of land, and he rewarded him with a total of 5,000 tenants.

Moreover, these criminals occupied many lands invaded the people during their lifetime, so all these lands became imperial villages. So the farm that was only a few hundred hectares at the time has now expanded to more than 20,000.

What's wrong with owing rent? Zhu Yunxiu said angrily again, how can he still owe debts after planting a tenant for a year?

Gou Ren said that the rent of the imperial village was all set by the Lords of Guanglu Temple. After the annual output calculation, the Zhongdu Imperial City was left for use. The rest were sent to the Huaixi General Administration Office for military rations stationed in Zhongdu and 40,000 troops!

Because it is used as military rations, even if the year is not good, it will not be less collected, right? Zhu Yunxiu sneered, the royal farms are like this, and the farms of the nobles' families are probably even worse! Speaking of this, the anger is overwhelming. Fengyang Zhongdu, the good land is in the hands of the imperial farms and the nobles, as well as the fields of the disabled old army and the military guards, and the warehouses must be guaranteed to have sufficient storage every year.

For the sake of Zhongdu's decency, everything is in place, but the people suffer! The people have to be tenants if they have no land. After a year of hard work, they have paid the land rent!

Gou Ren dared not speak out and said carefully, Your Highness, this is the rule. Fengyang is Zhongdu, where the imperial tomb is located!

Stop talking! Zhu Yunxi interrupted with cold eyes and shook his hands forward.

Several people behind him looked at each other and quickly followed.

Your Highness, my family also has a fief in Fengyang, about 700 hectares! Li Jinglong walked around the circle and said carefully, Your Highness mercy on the people, I can offer it, and after verification by the Ministry of Revenue, I will send it to the people for farming!

A drop in the bucket! Zhu Yunxiu continued walking and said casually.

Fengyang has trouble. It is not only the hometown of the old man, the place where the army was raised, but also the homeland of the Huaixi Group of the Ming Dynasty.

This is not a wealthy place. If you just seal all the heroes here, you will create a situation where people have no land to farm today.

Moreover, because there are too many nobles, the land granted to the people by the government is not good.

It was obvious that Zhu Yunxiu was not at ease. After returning to the imperial city, when Li Jinglong and others were left alone, he said, "Your Highness, why not give me a memorial to ask the court to take back the fief."

At the beginning, Zhu Yunhuang asked Li Jinglong to play this trick, joining forces with some nobles to return many mines and fields.

This time it’s different! Zhu Yunxiu sat on the throne, rubbing his temples, and Fengyang’s fiefdom was all the land where the nobles exchanged their lives for their families. This is their hometown again. If they were willing to teach them back, Grandpa Emperor would have taken it away long ago!

Moreover, you can’t take the lead in this matter, you don’t have enough prestige, and you can’t talk about those people at all!

Li Jinglong's heart moved. Your Highness, Mr. Tang, Duke Xinguo, used to be raised in his hometown. Anyway, this matter is too urgent. Why would you communicate with Duke Tang then?

Tang He is the personal choice, but the biggest obstacle for the people of Fengyang to have no land to plant is actually the imperial village.
Chapter completed!