Quan made the inn in the palace and Quan made the study room, the Crown Prince Yuwen Weicheng and the Prince Yuwen Weining were reporting to their father Yuwen Wen and completing the "homework" assigned by their father.

During this tour, Yuwen Wen arranged several "homework" for his son to do, and visiting the people's conditions was one of them.

Yuwen Wen did not expect that the two brothers could visit the most authentic people's sentiments, because the visits were basically the "people's sentiments" specially displayed by grassroots officials.

The fellow villagers/public opinion representatives who meet must have memorized the lines and "confessions". If you go around the door, you will see "ordinary houses" that have been arranged in advance, and even a family of three and five are "temporary families" that are pieced together.

Unless you visit privately on a private server, hide your identity, bypass the local government, and spend several months to carefully investigate among the public, you can obtain first-hand information. However, there are risks in the White Dragon Fish Suit, and Yuwen Wen does not intend to let his son take such risks.

Therefore, the results obtained from visiting people's sentiments are not important. What is important is the process. Yuwen Wen wants his son to understand the various aspects of the world from the process and become a normal person who can live on earth, rather than a politically indifferent person who "why not eat meat minced".

Yuwen Wen's requirements were not high, but Yuwen Weicheng and Yuwen Weining paid great attention to the homework assigned by his father. During this period, the two brothers walked around with the help of the assistant officer and visited seriously. Finally, they visited a crucial people's sentiment, so they reported to their father anxiously.

This people's sentiment is "the low grain hurts farmers."

The grain prices in the Han Mian area have continued to fall in recent years, and now they have fallen to an outrageous price of 50 cents per stone (coarse rice), which has also affected the grain prices in the entire Jingxiang area.

If this continues, people may suffer from misery and something big will happen sooner or later.

When Yuwen Wen heard this, he asked: "Sooner or later, something big will happen? Who summarized this conclusion?"

"Back to my father, it was the child's summary." Yuwen Weicheng replied. When he saw his father ask, he felt a little nervous, but because he was ready, he was not nervous.

"Based on the argument that 'guard harms farmers', it is true that "a big thing will happen sooner or later." Yuwen Wen finished speaking and looked at Yuwen Weining: "Sanlang thinks so too?"

Yuwen Weining nodded: "Yes, father."

"Okay, the argument comes from the argument, the argument comes from the facts, so who can tell me how Gujian hurts the farmers?"

This task must be Yuwen Weicheng, so he summarized the gains one by one and wanted to introduce in detail how Gu Jian hurt the farmers.

Farmers rely on farming to support their families, and men farming and women weaving are the norm. Therefore, farmers' income comes from the grain grown in the fields, as well as planting mulberry and silkworms, planting hemp and adding silk and cloth to the textile.

Grain and cloth are the most fundamental income for farmers. In addition to ensuring their family’s food and clothing, they also need to sell the extra grain and cloth to obtain copper coins, and then use the money to buy other daily necessities to cope with necessary daily expenses.

Of course, it is also possible to use grain and cloth as hard currency.

Grain is very important for farmers. So when the grain price is too low, farmers' income will be seriously affected. Although the amount of grain increases after a bumper harvest, the income from selling grain is lower than before.

In addition, due to the large-scale promotion of hydraulic textile technology, cloth prices have also fallen year by year. Traditional hand-made textile fabrics cannot compete with hydraulic textile fabrics at all, so farmers' income sources are increasingly relying on the income from selling grain.

The food price is lower than the income, and the daily expenses are unsustainable. At the end of the day, you can only borrow money.

However, in a good harvest, we cannot save enough money and food. We should not even think about it during the disaster. Therefore, more and more farmers are unable to repay their debts and can only sell their land, turning from self-cultivated farmers into tenant farmers.

Self-cultivated farmers are the country's "tax base" and the foundation of the country. This is the concept that Yuwen Wen repeatedly instilled in his sons. Therefore, Yuwen Weicheng and Yuwen Weining felt that the grain prices in the Han Mian area were too low. In the long run, the grain would inevitably hurt farmers and cause serious consequences. Therefore, the court should pay necessary attention.

When Yuwen Wen heard this, he began to "close the case": "Being able to visit the people's situation to this point means that you two have really put their heart into it. This is very good, and my father is very happy..."

Yuwen Weicheng and Yuwen Weining were of course very happy to receive praise from their father, but were not too excited because they knew that their father liked "but...", and sure enough, "but" came.

"But when the argument is wrong, the argument must be wrong."

Yuwen Wen began to educate his son: "The court set up regular warehouses to settle warehouses, and purchase grain reserves in a good year to prevent low grain from harming farmers, and release grain relief in disaster year to prevent high grain from harming the people."

"But the storage period of grain storage is only three to five years, and the expansion of the granary is not endless. In order to ensure the operation of the granary, there is also a need to increase the manpower, and these expenses are real."

"If the three-year cycle is used as a cycle, the grain prices continue to fluctuate and the position is often closed, and the position can be closed by buying low and selling high, and the expenses can be maintained. However, when the grain prices continue to fall for many years, there is nothing we can do about the position often, and the position is closed."

"When the supply of goods in the market is oversupply, the price of such goods will inevitably fall. This is an irresistible rule. This is the case in the Han Dynasty and the entire Jingxiang region."

"So the situation of 'guqiu' will inevitably occur, and 'harm farmers' may not be."

"You said earlier that farmers need to rely on the income from selling food to maintain necessary daily expenses. Once the food price plummets, it means that the income will be greatly reduced and it will be unsustainable."

"This conclusion is based on the fact that farmers must sell grain, silk thread, or use grain, silk thread as hard currency."

"However, it's different now, they have a few more options."

Speaking of this, Yuwen Wen asked back: "Do you know what their choice is?"

"Well...."

The two brothers didn't know that, and they looked at each other in a speechless manner. Seeing this, Yuwen Wen began to answer questions and answer questions:

"That is to go to the workshop and work in the workshop during the slack season, and rely on working to obtain copper coins to maintain daily expenses. This is the choice."

"Or, under the witness of the government, sign a contract with the trading company, and transfer the right to use your own land to the trading company for a fee, collect the agreed physical rent every year, and then go to work by yourself regardless of the slack farming or busy farming, earn wages to maintain the daily expenses of the family. This is the second choice."

"Even after the farmers transfer their land use rights to the trading company for a fee, the trading company shall bear the annual rent and tuition of the farmers, and then in turn hire the other party, allowing these people to cultivate designated crops on the land held by the trading company as ‘hire workers’. This is the third choice."

"Now, workshops and workshops in Jingxiang all over the world recruit workers all year round, with better benefits, mostly for food and accommodation. With the long-term decline in grain prices and cloth prices, the phenomenon of farming being worse than working has already occurred."

"Farmers give up farming and choose to work, use their wages to buy grain and eat clothes, buy cloth and make clothes, which is more cost-effective than farming by themselves.

"Then they used another part of their wages to pay for their health, buy grain and pay for land rent, buy silk and hemp to pay for household transfers, and their lives were still very good."

"Since ancient times, it has become common sense to hurt farmers because farmers have no choice. But now, even if they have a choice, they can always think clearly about what to do even if they are ignorant."

"Taking Jingxiang area as an example, because the grain prices are low and farming is not as good as working, there are more and more farmers signing land use rights transfer contracts."

"A family of five, the two elders were at home to look after the house and raised their grandson. By the way, they watched the trading company hired workers to farm on their own land every day, and the couple went to the workshop to work and earn money. This situation became more and more common, and the Han area was no exception."

"At the current salary level, relying on the couple's income from working, it can fully maintain the daily expenses of the family of five, and there is still a slight surplus. Therefore, the situation of low grain damage to farmers is not very serious."

Seeing the two sons confused, Yuwen Wen understood something in his heart, sighed, and began to stimulate the other party: "Why, the officials and fellow villagers below, no one mentioned these things to you?"

"Well....."

Yuwen Weicheng and Yuwen Weining were silent. They really didn't hear anyone talk about these things.

However, both of them were very smart. Then they figured out something, so they felt like they were poured into cold water on their heads. They felt cold and then their anger rushed up.
Chapter completed!