Daming: The system rejected my request for salted fish

The tenant farmers paid grain every year, but they always owed it. If they couldn't pay it back, they had to mortgage their own fertile land.

If they could not pay the rent, they would sell themselves as slaves and continue to serve the Kong family, allowing them to enjoy a high-quality life.

In the end, their own fertile land became the Kong family's fertile land, and free people became slaves.

It can be said that they maintain the superior life of the Kong family by drinking blood and sucking marrow and exploiting the lower classes.

But if crops like potatoes become popular, tenants will not have to worry about paying grain at all.

In the past, in addition to paying grain, tenants were also required to leave enough food for their own families.

Once potatoes became popular, tenants could hand over all their grain and eat potatoes at home.

As long as there is enough food to sustain life, you can find some wasteland and turn it into farmland.

The Ming Dynasty encouraged the people to open up wasteland, not only exempting them from rent but also from taxes for three years.

If the people have enough surplus grain to open up wasteland, then who would rent the Kong family's land and who would pay grain to them?

Unless they pay others to farm the land, the Kong family's millions of acres of fertile land will soon become worthless wasteland.

This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that if this continues for a long time, how will the Kong family develop in the future?

You have to know that the Kong family did not have so much land at the beginning. They had acquired it from the people over a long period of time.

If this cannot be done in the future, the development of their Kong family will not stagnate, but will regress.

So, after Kong Xizhang finished speaking, the faces of the core members of the Kong family all looked unhappy.

The same is true for Kong Ne, the contemporary Duke of Yansheng. No, it should be said that his expression is uglier than anyone else's.

"I'm well aware of the drawbacks of this matter, but do you think we have the ability to stop it?"

"Zhu Yuanzhang was once a beggar, born into a peasant family. His entire family died of starvation. Food was the most important thing to him in his life."

"The grain seeds that Wei Wu has presented to him are truly heartfelt. Anyone who stands in the way of popularizing grain seeds will die."

After Kong Ne finished speaking, he let out a long sigh.

But at this moment, Kong Xizhang spoke again and gave him an idea.

"Master, we don't need to openly prevent the popularization of potatoes. As long as we eliminate all those grains, everything will be fine."

"As far as I know, Wei Wu didn't bring out many grain seeds at first. Even after one round of planting, he only harvested more than 600 kilograms."

"It is definitely impossible to promote such a small amount of grain, so Zhu Yuanzhang must have to plant several more rounds before the grain is sufficient."

When saying this, there was no sympathy for the common people in Kong Xizhang's eyes, only selfishness and indifference.

But that’s nothing. What he said next was truly unscrupulous.

"I believe that in order to popularize potatoes, Zhu Yuanzhang would have planted them immediately and increased the quantity of both varieties as quickly as possible."

"All we need to do is send someone to sneak into the imperial farm after sowing and sprinkle quicklime and concentrated salt water on the soil."

"It's best to destroy the fields and let the crops wither and die. If that's not enough, then pour kerosene on them and burn them all!"

"As long as the grain is gone, there's no need to worry about it affecting us. The worst that can happen is that some people will die. The last thing the world needs is people!"

After hearing Kong Xizhang's words, the core members of the Kong family all nodded in agreement.

Such precious grain seeds were about to be destroyed, and none of them felt any pity.

Instead, everyone felt that what Kong Xizhang said made sense and that it was a good way to solve the problem once and for all.

Just when everyone nodded in agreement, the current Duke Yansheng, Kong Ne, suddenly spoke.

"No, this grain is so precious, it would be a shame to destroy it all. I decided to only destroy part of it."