At this time, the other miners in the canteen were eating very sweetly.
For the natives here, the most satisfying thing about working as a miner is that they can have enough to eat!
Otherwise, they would not be willing to work in Daming Mining Area.
"Give it to him! How can he do it without eating? How can he have the strength to work without eating?!"
The foreman gave an order at this time.
The two supervisors therefore came behind Xu Niancun.
The supervisor pinched Xu Niancun's mouth and pressed Xu Niancun's shoulder with one hand, making him sit on the stool unable to move.
Then, another supervisor grabbed a handful of mashed potatoes and poured it into Xu Niancun's mouth.
The supervisors who come to the Daming mining area are all selected from veterans of the Daming Dynasty, so they all have a lot of strength.
Xu Niancun felt his throat was very uncomfortable for a moment, and couldn't help but struggle desperately, but because he was weak, he couldn't struggle.
It wasn't until he swallowed the first bite that he hurriedly waved his hands to express his willingness to eat by himself.
So the two overseers let him go and let him eat by himself.
Xu Niancun could only eat the potato feast with runny nose and tears.
He really felt aggrieved now.
You know, in the past, he had at least a dozen kinds of delicacies on each table, and he only tasted each dish, and when he tasted it, the maid fed him.
But now, he wants to eat it by himself, and the key thing to eat is this potato that only has a salty taste.
"This dress is so shoddy! It has no embroidery work! I won't wear it!"
When Xu Niancun received his work clothes and saw that his work clothes were too simple and too rough, he found it difficult to accept them. After all, as a man who once wore silk and brocade clothes, he really couldn't accept this kind of clothes that even his servants were not willing to wear. rough clothes.
But because of this, Xu Niancun was beaten severely again and had to wear work clothes.
What made Xu Niancun even more crazy was that after he finished eating potatoes and working for a day, he still had to study.
"China has great etiquette, so it is called Xia; it has the beauty of uniforms, so it is called Hua. As Chinese people, we should respect and love China and care for the people of the same race..."
Xu Niancun now had to sit in the classroom and listen to the old scholar talking about national character and benevolence.
As a descendant of the Jin gentry after a famous official, if Xu Niancun was interested in any literary things throughout his life, it would be thick lyrics and colorful songs, or explicit and exaggerated large-scale market stories.
As for national character, this is what wealthy children like him lack and have little motivation to accept.
After all, for him, enjoying the pleasure of spending money like water is the most important, and what does the nation mean to him.
Therefore, learning at this time was an uncomfortable behavior for Xu Niancun. He had to receive national education like other miners.
"I don't understand. I'm asked to mine, and I'm asked to learn these great principles and learn these skills on paper. Now I don't have to take the scholar exam!"
Xu Niancun complained in his heart because of this.
When he woke up early the next morning, Xu Niancun discovered that the miners were actually doing exercises and singing songs with the theme of determined to make the Ming Dynasty strong or to showcase Chinese culture.
The style of the song is quite uplifting.
Moreover, in the mining area where he worked, the newly invented portable gramophone would continue to play this kind of Chinese music.
But Xu Niancun was very resistant to this kind of education method that constantly instilled serious content into him.
Sometimes, he wanted to shout and block out the music that he found boring.
"ah!"
"It hurts!"
"Stop fighting! I'll get up right away, woohoo!"
Because of this, Xu Niancun didn't really want to get up in the morning.
That morning, the supervisor whipped Xu Niancun, who was lying in bed, so that he couldn't help but cover his face with his hands, and then started crying.
In the end, Xu Niancun got up because the supervisor whipped him too hard, sobbed and came to the mining area square.
And then, Xu Niancun lived in this mode almost every day.
For him, who just came here, his days here are like years, and life is worse than death.
Of course, the more Xu Niancun thought about it, the more aggrieved he became. He still didn't understand why his defeat of his family had anything to do with the imperial court! So much so that he was reduced to this point.
In Xu Niancun's view, if the court did not prohibit landlords from privately increasing land rents and trading land, he could maintain a luxurious life for the rest of his life by selling the land and other properties inherited from his Xu family ancestors. How to live in poverty, he didn't bother to think about it.
But Xu Niancun didn't expect that the court insisted on stopping him from losing his family, and suddenly intervened when he just wanted to live a luxurious life. Now his family's land has become the property of the court, and he himself has become a miner for the court. .
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"Trying to prevent the rich from returning to poverty is also what the court needs to do!"
"If you are unwilling to produce because of your family's wealth, and are unwilling to live a prudent life, and wantonly spend money, you will have to contribute to the court after losing your family, accept labor reform, and then learn to use labor to create wealth, and even earn back what you have lost. Lost fortune!"
"This is the purpose of the imperial court, and we also hope that through this method, the wealthy and idle people in the world will know how to be frugal, and not really want to accept reform through labor."
Zhu Youxiao also issued corresponding instructions in the political affairs hall on how to manage the wealthy.
As an emperor, he certainly would not hate the rich, nor would he really want to rob the rich and give to the poor. He also clearly recognized that private property should be protected by the imperial government.
Moreover, he also hopes that the rich can stay rich for a long time.
But the rule of "the entropy increase is irreversible" contained in this sentence is still very difficult to break.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao had to rack his brains and use various methods to prevent the self-degradation of the wealthy and prevent them from being annexed by the richer.
"What your Majesty is saying is that although there is a saying that it doesn't hurt to sell one's father, even if the imperial court significantly increases the tax on luxury goods, it cannot stop the wealthy and luxurious people from continuing to spend extravagantly, which will lead to the downfall of the family. But it is better for the court to take care of it than to leave it alone. Even if the family falls into decline in the end, the ruined property will still be in the hands of the court, rather than being annexed by powerful powers."
Liu Hongxun therefore echoed.
Zhu Youxiao nodded, and after pondering for a moment, he asked: "The land tax has been waived for one year. How is the current situation of grain collection and storage in the world?"
Liu Hongxun looked at Lu Xiangsheng, who was in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture.
Lu Xiangsheng replied: "Grain collection and storage have increased a lot compared with before the land tax was waived, and grain prices have also dropped a lot. Now it seems that people all over the world have not reduced their farming diligence because of the land tax exemption. According to the minister's investigation, We know that some people who no longer work in farming due to old age, but because they heard that the imperial court would permanently exempt them from land tax, they thought that whatever they planted in the future would be their own, so they resumed farming. There are also some people who had already stopped farming due to old age. People who have moved to cities to work after the household registration system has been abolished are still cultivating the fields at home while going out to work."
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but sigh: "The virtue of hard work of our Chinese people is really deep in the bone marrow!"
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