Back Off, Let Me Come

All in all, all her troubles are caused by "poverty". If she had money, everything would be solved.

Shen Tang couldn't help but daydream and talk in his sleep: "Wang Chao, do you think I can get rich if I use the phrase 'spending money like water'? Hehe, I can turn stone into gold."

Gu Chi poured cold water on him without mercy.

"Squandering money like water? Maybe turning gold into dust?"

That's really a prodigal son who commits crimes.

Shen Tang: "..."

Unbearable: "I'm afraid you are not the reincarnation of ETC!"

Are these literati well versed in choking her to death? All of them are self-taught and don’t “love children” at all!

Gu Chi intuitively felt that "ETC" was not a good word. He heard this thing from Shen Tang's heart more than once. If he didn't understand it, he asked about its quality. He asked "sincerely": "What does C mean?"

Shen Tang: "One bar will take off and land automatically."

Can hurting her make Gu Chi happy?

Gu Chi: "..."

With such a lord, he is actually under a lot of pressure.

After the mutual harm that they loved to see, the sadness caused by poverty faded a lot, and Gu Chi turned his mind to business. I have to say that my protagonist is very reliable at times. He also knew about Yan Zi's efforts to revitalize the people, but what he had learned was so complicated that it was difficult to remember it for a while.

If you have the money, this is indeed a good idea.

It can solve people's livelihood and economy in the shortest time.

The goal of building the Fugu in the government office has been achieved, and the people have enough to eat, and even have surplus grain and money that can be bought and sold. Over time, the economy can gradually recover and revitalize this stagnant water. However, the method is a good method, but it is poor and poor.

A penny can stump a hero.

And what they lack is more than a penny?

Lin Feng saw that Shen Tang and Mr. Gu were worried about money and food.

Then he asked: "Why not allow wealthy people to donate?"

Shen Tang: "Donate?"

Lin Feng whispered: "In my early years, I learned from Jia Ci at home to manage household affairs. Every winter, Jia Ci would ask the family steward to allocate a batch of last year's old grain from the public account. Each family would also take turns to hold banquets and donate money, and build tents to serve porridge. , build bridges and roads.”

It's similar in nature to a charity dinner.

Every family came together to help the people affected by the snowstorm.

When Shen Tang heard this, he didn't comment.

Gu Chi also smiled bitterly.

He knew that this was not Lin Feng's problem.

As a housewife, the housekeeping duties she learned from her mother were only dealing with favors and spending expenses, and she only took care of the people in the house. Based on Lin Feng's family background, if those changes had not happened, she would still be a clan wife in the future, considering the prosperity of the clan and the inheritance of the family, but this is far from enough.

Perhaps from the perspective of a housewife with a relatively simple living environment, allocating old grain, setting up a shed to serve porridge, allocating money, building bridges and roads, this behavior can already solve the problem.

But, can it really solve the problem?

Let’s not talk about big places, just talk about the area of ​​Heyin. How many people are struggling to death from starvation? How can a little thin porridge and water save him? Fortunately, they survived this winter, but the next year they still had no land to plant and no food to eat.

The difference between the two is that they will starve to death early or freeze to death, or they will freeze or starve to death after suffering countless hardships.

Although Lin Feng didn't understand yet, she could tell that Lang Jun and Mr. Gu didn't agree with her immature suggestion.

So, I apologized quietly.

"...Feng made a mistake, please don't be angry, sir."

Shen Tang said: "I'm not angry, I don't blame you."

She just asked Lin Feng: "Why are common people hungry?"

Lin Feng said: "The family has no money or food, the weather is bad, the harvest is small, the field tax is heavy, the officials are corrupt... and..."

She tried to think of every possible reason.

But Shen Tang said: "No, no, no, these are the reasons you mentioned, but they are not the most fundamental reasons."

Lin Feng blinked: "Please let me clear up my confusion."

Shen Tang said: "There is no land to plant."

Lin Feng was stunned for a moment: "No, no land to plant?"

This reason had not occurred to her.

Shen Tang didn't treat Lin Feng as a nine-year-old child. He just said some lessons that needed to be said. There was no need to wait for Lin Feng to stumble.

"Yes, there is no land to farm."

Shen Tang softened his tone: "I don't deny that the original intention of people like your father-in-law who set up tents to serve porridge and build bridges and roads must be to do their best to help the suffering people. Maybe it's for reputation, maybe it's for mercy, this kind of The spirit deserves recognition and encouragement. However, the royal family is the royal family, and a powerful family belongs to a powerful family. The two are completely different!"

Mobilize wealthy and powerful families to donate to disaster relief? Haha, it’s good if they don’t jump out and hinder us.

What Shen Tang said overturned Lin Feng's previous understanding: "For powerful families, disaster relief is something that has no substantial benefit to them and even damages their interests. In addition to reputation, what other benefits can be obtained?"

Lin Feng choked.

She remembered that when her mother-in-law did those good deeds, she was indeed ridiculed openly or covertly by various houses, and it was thankless. In this world, food is precious, so what are the people doing for free? But the mother-in-law did it in the name of "praying for XX", so they couldn't object openly, but they just felt unhappy in their hearts.

If it is really profitable, why are there so few people doing it?

Shen Tang continued.

“Disaster relief is always about treating the symptoms rather than the root cause.”

Lin Feng asked for advice: "How can we cure the root cause?"

“If we want to truly solve the plight of the common people, there is one and only one way, which is to give the common people their own land to farm.”

Lin Feng said: "Can't we reclaim wasteland?"

Shen Tang asked: "How much land can be cultivated? These lands are not fertile enough, and the crops will not grow well, so the harvest of the common people will naturally be poor. If it were a fertile land, it would have been occupied by others long ago."

Let the people form a good self-sufficiency cycle.

However, land is a limited resource.

There is more land for the common people, but less land for the powerful families.

Besides, if all the common people farm their own land, who will farm their land? It’s not cost-effective to hire someone to do the planting.

Only when the common people lose their land and cannot financially support their families will they sell themselves at a low price to farm land for them. This is a good deal.

As for the consequences of doing so?

It’s not them eating it anyway.

They still live in mansions, are served by hundreds of servants, have no worries about food and drink, and are glamorous. Will the starvation of common people affect them from eating less than a bowl of polished rice? There are so many common people in the world, and if this group dies, there will be another group. The land of one's own family does not have to worry about the race of the people.

Lin Feng was silent for a long time after hearing this.

She thought that she had acquired the "Essential Skills of Elevating the People" as a scribe, and that she would have a place in the world, and that she would be able to compete with the world's great men in the future. But now it seems that the road she has to go is far longer and more difficult than she imagined. .

Lin Feng believed that the common people were suffering because of bad weather conditions and insufficient fertility of the fields. Yan Ling might be able to solve the problem and the common people in the world would no longer suffer from cold and depression. As for the frequent man-made disasters and the constant corruption of low-level officials, these can also be dealt with carefully.

But Lin Feng never thought about it.

What should the common people do if they have no land to farm?

Why is there no land to plant? ? ?

Shen Tang: "Anyone would want to grab a good thing."

For example, when she sees extremely wealthy people, she also wants to pick up the sword and transfer their assets to her own name through various means.

[Robbing the rich and giving them to me]

Lin Feng's face was filled with shame.

Shen Tang didn't think it was a big deal.

No one is born omniscient and omnipotent, and everyone's vision is limited by their own position and environment. She cannot harshly blame Lin Feng, who was raised in a house and was brought up among the people overnight. Suddenly, he can empathize with the lowest common people.

Even the common people themselves often cannot see clearly why they live such a difficult life, so they think it is "fate".

Shen Tang asked Lin Feng to get something.

Seeing Lin Feng leaving, Gu Chi said: "Master, why don't you let Ling De follow Wu Hui and the others to settle the common people?"

The more exposure you have, the faster you will understand.

Shen Tang shook his head.

It was she who deliberately transferred Lin Feng from Chu Yao, so that Lin Feng could be busy organizing the administration and be temporarily separated from the people of Fugu City. Her purpose in doing this is also very simple: "Looking at the tide and observing people's hearts, do you think that the common people are all good people?"

Gu Chi: "Of course not."

On the contrary, the evil deeds of many common people are even more disgusting, but they are ignorant and do not think that their actions are wrong.

"Although Ling De is young, he can be compared to nine years old, but in the eyes of some ignorant people, nine years old is already an age that can be taken home for fun and obscenity." Shen Tang said calmly, with a calm expression, "I can't guarantee that Ling De De is safe when he is traveling to study. If someone doesn't pay attention and an accident happens... you can study slowly. I am not short of people to the extent of exploiting child labor. Based on the current situation in Fugu City, Wang Chao thinks that this possibility is very small. ?"

Gu Chi: "..."

He really didn't think so carefully, or in other words, he also made the same mistake as Lin Feng. Shen Tang did not linger on this topic: "Act as quickly as possible before Mrs. Zhang and the others can react. It's Chinese New Year, so let's kill the fat pig to add some flavor to the new year."

After saying that, he put aside the accounting books of the office.

From a general glance, the deficit is appalling.

No more money could be seen.

If the Zhang family "gives generously", Shen Tang will have enough food and money to carry out work-for-relief work, revitalize Fugu's economy, and then spread throughout Heyin County. Only Zhao Feng and Gong Shuwu, two super capable warriors and humanoid bulldozers, have their place.

Gu Chi: "..."

Fortunately, these two couldn't hear their master's voice.

If you knew, why wouldn't you run all night? Oh, in my lord's words, maybe I bought a station ticket and carried the train on my back?

Literary scholars are full of mobility.

Kang Shi and Qishan stayed up all night.

Finally, the accumulated files were sorted into categories.

Early the next morning, several officials came to work at Dianmao early yesterday, but were tricked by Gu Chi into going out to do errands.

When Qishan and Qi Shan came over, Shen Tang rolled up his long sleeves with a black looped arm, fixed his shoulders, exposed his two white arms, climbed up to a high place with a hammer, and repaired and strengthened the crumbling beams. Fix leaky tiles.

Watching their blood pressure soar.

"Lord!"

"Ah, it's Yuan Liang and Ji Shou."

Shen Tang tucked the wooden handle of the hammer around his waist, patted the dust off his palms with both hands, jumped down, and landed firmly without shaking. Behind the two Qi Shan, more than twenty soldiers carried a dozen heavy wooden barrels.

"Have you finished sorting it out?"

It's only been one night, and these two are too lazy.

Shen Tang looked forward while wiping off the hot sweat.

Good guy!

All the barrels are filled with dossiers and letters!

The previous chapter’s four thousand plus this chapter’s three thousand, that’s seven thousand words.

Ah ah ah, I'm still short of three thousand, Gan

I will add another 2,000 words in the early morning.