"This...this..." Zuo Guangdou was still hesitant and his face looked a little ugly.

The Ming Dynasty lacked workers, so he, the Minister of Revenue, knew of course. All the families were recruiting people, but they were still missing. This led to an institution called intermediary.

What the agent does is also very simple, which is to recruit people for various workshops. To put it bluntly, it is to go to various places to recruit these poor tenants or vagrants and let them work.

In the past, these things were done by the government, but now the agency is very active. Because if someone is brought over, the workshop will introduce money.

Now the government strictly prohibits signing slave contracts, which means that there is no contract to sell people and no transactions are allowed.

Therefore, employment contracts are now very popular, and the contracts of every workshop must be notarized at the government office.

Your contract must be this. If it is replaced with another contract, it requires the consent of the government. This is a standard contract to a certain extent and is not allowed to be changed at will.

This policy was not difficult to implement in the Ming Dynasty. After all, those who do business were wealthy and huge stocks, and they could find people. The laws of the Ming Dynasty were different from those of later generations. If you fool the court, the outcome would not be very good.

Everyone can still accept this strict management system now.

But even in this situation, Zuo Guangdou was still a little worried.

If all the people leave the land, who will farm in the future? What should I do if there is any problem with the grain?

Food is the foundation of the country. Agriculture-based means food as the foundation. This has been the case since ancient times, without food, is unstable.

As for farming as the basis, they never regard farmers as the basis, but as the basis of farming. To put it bluntly, they farm honestly, produce grain honestly, and pay tax honestly, and do not have any unreasonable thoughts.

Although I have a lot of thoughts in the past two years, this traditional idea cannot be changed for a while.

Zhu Youxiao looked at Zuo Guangdou and said, "What, is there anything else I don't understand?"

"There is nothing to be unclear." Zuo Guangdou nodded and said, "I am just a little worried. If this matter is really done, will the people flock into the city and waste the fields? Then there will be no one to cultivate the fields, and then there will be a shortage of food."

Zhu Youxiao really thought about this kind of thing, for example, the salary in the city is high and the salary is good, and the salary of a month of working is comparable to that of a farm in the countryside for a year, and many people will run to the city in a vast way.

In this way, a wave of migrant workers will form and the land will be abandoned.

You should know that such things have happened in later generations. Without people arable land, the country needs to use money to subsidize farmers and let farmers farm. This kind of thing is not absurd at all.

If you want to solve this problem, you can only be an agricultural worker. To put it bluntly, it is a landlord who farms to work for the landlords.

If it is a small peasant economy, each family only has a small land area, which is not possible. The foundation is the big landlord and the big manor.

"Don't worry about this, those landlords will pay more money by then." Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "As for the barren fields, that is wasteland, and the court can reclaim it."

After hearing this, Zuo Guangdou shivered directly.

The emperor's move is quite ruthless.

In a word, if you dare not plant the land without planting, the court will have the right to take back the land. To put it bluntly, if your land is deserted, it will not belong to yours.

As long as you do this, who dares to waste the land?

Unless the land is worthless.

"Then I understand." Zuo Guangdou said quickly: "After I go back, I will come up with a plan."

"Then do it well." Zhu Youxiao nodded and said.

Zuo Guangdou stood up and said respectfully: "That minister has sued him."

After saying that, Zuo Guangdou turned around and walked out.

He glanced at him, but Zhu Youxiao didn't say anything.

Many things cannot be expected in advance, and can only be solved after the matter begins.

Moreover, this is a long-term thing and cannot be solved in a short time. All things must be taken slowly in industrial upgrading, foreign wars, and foreign colonization.

The only thing that can be done as soon as possible now is to check the land and collect grain from officials and gentry.

After looking at Wei Chao standing beside him, Zhu Youxiao said, "Come Chen Hong and Wei Zhongxian."

"Yes, the emperor." Wei Chao quickly agreed and went out to find someone.

Not long after, Wei Zhongxian and Chen Hong walked in from outside.

Although both of them had smiles on their faces, their eyes were a little cold when they looked at each other.

These two guys are now eager to kill each other, but there is nothing they can do.

The two of them had a bit too intense fight, and Zhu Youxiao was too lazy to care about it, so let them fight. As long as they didn't do anything too out of line, it didn't matter.

After the two of them knelt down, Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and said, "Get up."

When the two of them got up from the ground, Zhu Youxiao looked at the two and said, "The news should have spread now. You both should know, right?"

In fact, Wei Zhongxian knew it earlier, after all, he arranged the matter with Cui Chengxiu.

Wei Zhongxian and Chen Hong hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, I already know."

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "That's good. Since that's the case, I don't need to say anything more. This time I'll give you an errand to check below to see if anyone is doing something about counting the fields."

"The Jinyiwei and the people from the East Factory are secretly investigating, and the people from the Tongzhengsi and the Censorate will investigate on the surface. In short, I must know how many places there are in this world, and no one is allowed to hide them anymore!"

"If there are people in the local area who dare to make false claims, or if officials collude with the local area and hide it from reporting, you must find out for me. Can you do this well, right?"

"Don't worry, I will definitely do a good job!" the two of them said in unison.

Although Zhu Youxiao's prestige is now at its peak, no one dares to provoke the authority of the central government, and he also holds an invincible army in his hand, but he is not so arrogant that he thinks that the world will listen to him.

The central government has been difficult to control the local area since ancient times. People below always think that the emperor is far away. For example, if I did nothing, even if I did something, the emperor could not find me.

Moreover, the speed of information transmission in this era is slow, so these people are even more unscrupulous.

This time, Zhu Youxiao wanted to tell them that there is no way to be unscrupulous in this matter.

"Wei Zhongxian, this time you go to Jiangnan. Chen Hong, you are responsible for Jiangbei. Seven southern provinces and six northern provinces. You two are responsible for one area. Do it well and don't let me down." Zhu Youxiao said expressionlessly.

"Yes, the emperor." The two of them agreed quickly.

"Okay, go and prepare. The news will spread soon, and you two will set off as soon as possible. If you mess up this time, you should know the consequences."

After the two saluted respectfully, they retreated together.

After the two left, Zhu Youxiao glanced at Wei Chao and said, "Tell the Ministry of Internal Affairs and let them stare at them too. Don't stare at the local government office and those rich families, just stare at the Jinyiwei, the East Factory, the Tongzhengsi and the Censorate. If they have anything wrong, let the Ministry of Internal Affairs report it in time."

"Yes, the emperor." Wei Chao quickly agreed, turned around and ran outward.

He was very fast and even a little excited.

He now hopes that Chen Hong and Wei Zhongxian will fight. At that time, he will be able to reap the benefits of the fisherman. Anyway, the Ministry of Internal Affairs supervises them, and the news will come back quickly.

Wei Zhongxian and Chen Hong walked outside together. The two looked at each other and snorted coldly.

The struggle between the two has become more and more intense in the past two years. Wei Zhongxian has been suppressed by Chen Hong and cannot raise his head, but this time he has the attitude of turning over, which makes the relationship between the two even more tense.

"Why don't you leave?" Wei Zhongxian glanced at Chen Hong and said angrily.

"Our back pain, let's stop and take a break." Chen Hong glanced at Wei Zhongxian and asked, "Why don't you leave? What are you doing when you stop?"

"Our legs hurt." Wei Zhongxian also said expressionlessly: "Stop and take a break."

The two looked at each other and snorted coldly.

Then Chen Hong said, "Don't play this game, who doesn't know who? To be honest, what are you waiting for our family here?"

"Who is waiting for you? You are clearly waiting for our family." Wei Zhongxian said angrily: "If you don't say anything, our family will leave."

"You can leave, let's go, our family doesn't keep you." Chen Hong snorted coldly and said unhappy.

"Then our family is really leaving?" Wei Zhongxian said again.

"You can go, just leave. What do you ask our family for?" Chen Hong also said directly.

"Then why don't you leave?" Wei Zhongxian glared at Chen Hong and said.

"Our back pain." Chen Hong said again.

"Don't do this." Wei Zhongxian curled his lips and said, "Don't pretend. If you're fine, you can wait for our house here? You can also see this time that the emperor is serious. Let's work together, right?"

"How to cooperate?" Chen Hong said with his shoulders in his arms, "Our family doesn't want you to take advantage of it."

"Can you speak well? If you want to speak well, our family is really gone." Wei Zhongxian glared at Chen Hong and said unhappy.

"Then tell me." Chen Hong's tone softened.

"South and South and North Six, we are divided in this way, and no one can interfere with each other. The emperor does this, so that we should not undermine each other and do things well."

"Why don't we help each other this time? If we break up each other and let the emperor know, you will also know the consequences."

Of course Chen Hong knew, otherwise he wouldn't have waited for Wei Zhongxian here.

Both of them knew what the emperor had. So both of them knew what they should do.
Chapter completed!