Chapter 385 Re-register the land?

"Yes! All this is thanks to His Majesty and Her Royal Highness!"

……

It took quite a while to listen to these ministers' various flatteries.

By the time Yunshu and the others finally returned from the fields, the kitchen had just prepared all the dishes that Yunshu had ordered.

Of course, she can make all kinds of dishes made from potatoes. She can also make corn and sweet potatoes in various ways.

Vermicelli, noodles, pancakes, and dried sweet potatoes were all taken out.
She didn't speak until everyone was so full of food that they secretly loosened their belts. Then she smiled and said:

"You all know that these grains have been brought back to Tiansheng three or four years ago. Why did my father and I suddenly bring you here only today?"

“Such a high yield of grain will benefit Tiansheng beyond words.

I think it's because the yield was not high before, and Your Highness is still working hard to increase their per-acre yield. He is worried that if the news leaks out during this process, there will be spies from other countries who don't want to see us become stronger and deliberately sabotage us, so Your Majesty and Your Highness decided to keep it secret first?"

After the minister finished his speculation, he did not forget to give another round of flattery as a conclusion:

"Your Majesty is wise! Your Highness is wise!"

"Master Cui is also very smart."

Yun Shu raised his eyebrows:

"Master Cui is right, but besides that, the main reason why my father and I decided to bring all the adults here today is because,
After this year's bumper harvest, the seeds of these new crops have finally been cultivated and can be distributed to the people of Tiansheng."

"That is to say, next spring, the people will be able to plant such high-yield crops?"

Upon hearing this, Lord Tian couldn't help but exclaimed:
"Doesn't that mean that starting next year, the people of Tiansheng will never go hungry again?"

"That's about right, but if we want to see a bumper harvest of new grain in people's homes, we may have to wait until the year after next."

Yun Shu smiled and explained:
"After all, the seeds we have now are only enough to give each family a little bit, and they have to wait for another year to plant the seeds themselves."

“That’s great too!”

Mr. Tian nodded heavily. Seeing that his emotions seemed to be rising again, he stopped talking in time.
He turned his head and pressed his wet eyes with his sleeve, then grinned and repeated:
“That’s great too!”

"It's pretty good."

Yun Shu agreed with a smile, and then finally said the purpose of her doing this today -

“However, the imperial court distributed grain seeds to the people for free in order to provide welfare to the people.

If someone wants to profit from it and grabs all the grain seeds by various means,

But the people who were supposed to get those grain seeds got nothing, which went against the original intention of the court.

Therefore... I want to recalculate the land ownership of each household before the spring.

After that, based on the latest statistical results, we will distribute the grain seeds according to the amount of one grain seed per acre of land.

What do you think, my Lords?" "Your Highness has considered this very carefully. This is how we should do it!"

Yun Shu's words made sense, and even... were of some benefit to them, so naturally these ministers would not have any objections.

After returning from the manor, many ministers from aristocratic families immediately sent letters to their family members.

Although people like them who had achieved fame and held official positions did not have to pay agricultural taxes,
But because in the past few years, His Majesty wanted to curb land annexation and encourage the development of wasteland,
In particular, Her Royal Highness, who was still a princess at the time, also came up with a lot of things and policies that were conducive to the development of wasteland.
So the people under them have also opened up a lot of wasteland in the past few years...

Of course, a lot of land was still seized from the people.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, they had not reported or registered this part of the land before.

But now so much time has passed, and some things may not be found out even if we want to.

In this situation, the imperial court wanted to issue new grain varieties, and they wanted to get more and gain greater benefits.
Naturally, that part of the land must be registered.

It's not just them.
As the news that the imperial court would distribute high-yield new grain seeds for free according to the amount of land in the spring of next year spread in the Tiansheng Weekly,

After discussing it together, the wealthy businessmen and landlords from all over Tiansheng reported and registered all the land they had hidden to avoid taxes.

The only people who can still have time to spare during this period of time are probably the ordinary people who have no means or ways to commit fraud from the beginning and have all their fields registered early on.

But they are not completely idle, they can also chat and gossip -

"Have you heard? Yesterday, Mr. Liu's family in the west of the city went to the government office to register more than 70 acres of land!
Oh my God! More than 70 acres of land! I never dared to imagine what it would be like to have so much land! "

"We can't imagine how much money these gentlemen have.

But fortunately, we have His Majesty and Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess, and life is getting better now!
I still can't believe that there is a high-quality seed in the world that can produce 10,000 kilograms per mu!

If there really is such a good thing, why didn't our ancestors discover it thousands of years ago?"

"Is it possible that ordinary people have the ability that Your Highness has?
Isn't it rumored that Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess is a deity sent down from heaven to save people from suffering and help them live a good life?
Can our ancestors be compared with the gods?"

"That's right! Don't worry!
If the grain seeds were fake, why would these gentlemen rush to register all the fields?

Isn't that stupid?"

"I didn't say it was fake! Am I not too shocked and too happy?

I heard that the new crops are not only high-yielding, but also very delicious!"

……

The recounting of the fields continued until the end of the year.

Emperor Xuanwu knew that such unregistered farmland must exist, and the number was estimated to be quite large.

But when he actually saw the number of new registrations that had been sorted out, he was still so angry that he slammed the dragon table in the imperial study room loudly:

"What a bunch of bastards! No wonder my treasury was always so poor in the early years!
If one or two people hide so much land and don't pay taxes, the national treasury will naturally have no money!
They even have the nerve to say that these are wastelands that were only reclaimed in the past two years...

Do you really take me for a fool?
They clearly know that the law does not punish everyone. There are too many people doing this, and I simply cannot punish them all!"