After listening to Lin Xu's narration, Ruolan was simply stunned!
After a while, Ruolan said in disbelief: "We had such a big famine here last year, and now the people are looking forward to harvesting summer grain! Now, the seedlings in the fields have grown as high as their knees.
Well, if the imperial court forcibly changes rice to mulberry, it will inevitably destroy the seedlings! Can the common people agree?"
"Of course the people will not agree!"
"Since the people don't agree, how can the government implement this matter?"
"Strong recommendation!"
“How to push?”
"The method of forceful promotion is actually very simple. Just find some officers and soldiers and ride on the seedlings!"
When Lin Xu said this, he couldn't help but think of the scene of officers and soldiers riding horses and riding seedlings on their way to Hangzhou last summer!
"Ride on a horse?!"
Ruolan simply couldn't imagine that scene: "If the government really does this, how can the people sit idly by and ignore it? What should they do if they cause trouble?"
"This is also very simple, that is, find more officers and soldiers waiting nearby. If anyone dares to cause trouble, then arrest him! If you still can't control it, then kill a few on the spot to shock the people!"
Lin Xu said with a cold face!
Ruolan stared at Lin Xu with wide eyes. She couldn't imagine what the official said!
Can the government really do such cruel things?
"Official, I finally understand why you want Qinghai to buy grain at all costs! If this policy is rolled out throughout the province, I'm afraid the famine it will cause may be even greater than last winter!"
Ruolan said worriedly!
Immediately, she asked with great confusion: "Can't the imperial court see that something like this will obviously cause disaster?"
"Those high officials in the imperial court are not blind, of course they can see it!"
Lin Xu said with a sneer.
"Since they can see it, why do they still do it? Don't they care about the lives of the people at all?"
Ruolan couldn’t understand it at all!
"Hmph..."
Lin Xu smiled coldly and said: "The reason why they did this is, in the final analysis, nothing more than two words: profit!"
"After converting rice into mulberry, they weaved the raw silk into silk and sold it to Nanyang merchants, which can fill the national treasury and make everyone involved in all aspects of this matter make a fortune!"
"Either make money or get credit!"
"In addition, ordinary people destroy their fields to plant mulberry trees. Although planting mulberry trees is profitable in the long run, it takes time! However, in order to solve the immediate food problem, some ordinary people have to sell their fields to buy food! Some powerful families
Then we can take the opportunity to lower land prices, acquire fertile land on a large scale, and carry out land mergers!"
“In this way, it will be profitable both up and down!”
"Those who have lived in temples for a long time always look upward. As for the life and death of ordinary people, how many of them really care?" This chapter has been completed!