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Chapter 499 The people get rich first, and the country is strong

Although it is under development, Koudong is still a relatively cold place, which is determined by geographical conditions and is not diverted by human will.

Therefore, although Xie Hong's return to the voyage shocked the capital and even more so the world, there was no reaction in Liaodong except for a few others.

In addition to geographical conditions, it is also related to the fact that people in Liaodong have no time to watch. Now, the development of the black soil of Liaodong has achieved remarkable results, and the thoughts of the Liaodong military and civilians have also been put in the ground, because this is the hope for Liaodong.

Southern Liao was originally the focus of military farming. Not only did it start early, but the participants were also relatively effective, so the development was relatively thorough. At least half of the newly reclaimed wastelands in the second year of Zhengde belonged to southern Liaoning.

Jinzhou is even more amazing. Today, Jinzhou, except for the so-called industrial zones in the area of ​​Lushun Port, there is no more wasteland. It is full of green everywhere. Looking from a distance, you can smell the fragrance of wheat seedlings and rice ears.

Zhao Sheng, uh, now he has changed his name to Zhao Sheng, this is still the name that Lord Shutong, uh, no, it should be said that it was changed for him before the Marquis left Lushun. As a military farmer, the name Zhao Sheng is obviously a bit out of place, and the name he changed is said to be a great figure in history, and the omen of the word "Sheng" is obviously better.

Of course, Zhao Sheng didn't care about these things. There were too many things that made him cry. What could a mere name be considered?

Originally, like most people in Liaodong, he thought that the Marquis had been sitting in Liaoyang City. Who would have thought that the Marquis had come to Liaonan in person. Not only did he entrust Lord Wang to listen to the opinions of everyone, he also designed new agricultural tools and formulated a land reclamation order. Such a good policy as saying that it was a Buddha of thousands of families.

Think about it, isn’t this a routine in the stories told by the elderly? In the court, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty always sends wise ministers to visit the people in a miserable manner. After understanding the sufferings of the people, they will implement benevolent policies, so that the elderly and the weak can have a place to support them, and those who plough the farm have their own land.

Zhao Sheng clearly remembers that every time an elderly person tells a story, it is the most lively time in the village. Adults and children are quietly surrounded by, regardless of whether they tell or listen to the story, their eyes are the same eager.

For everyone, what the story says is the ultimate dream, an unattainable dream and happiness only exists in the moment when you are immersed in the story. When the story is over, the days are still as hard as before. When you look up, there is still darkness in front of you so that you can't see a trace of light.

Therefore, the emergence of happiness was so sudden that it was unexpected.

Zhao Sheng still remembers that morning, and even the meaningful look of Lao Liu's head has been in his mind. After that day, everything changed, and the days suddenly became prosperous. Everyone around him had full of hope.

Since that day, the smile on my mother's face has never stopped. She is in a good mood with enough food. The old man's health has improved day by day and sees all this, and Zhao Sheng's motivation has become even more intense.

Work hard and you can live a good life in the future. Whether in the fields, workshops, or on the boat, you can choose from, and every one is the Golden Avenue.

The land that was reclaimed belonged to oneself, and in a few years, even the tax would be reduced to such a low level of 30%. Such benevolent policies will only be there in ancient times, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors?

Although most of the workshops are craftsmen, if a young person is interested in this, even if he knows nothing about craftsmanship, he can still be an apprentice. Although the apprentice's salary is not as high as those skilled craftsmen, he can at least have one or two taels of silver every month, which is enough to make the family live a very comfortable life.

Not to mention that after the skills are improved, the treatment of skilled craftsmen and even craftsmen can scare people to death. If Zhao Sheng’s original living standards are based on Zhao Sheng’s original living standards, Guo and Yang’s masters only need to pay for one or two months of wages, it will be enough for him to spend his whole life.

Moreover, if you have talent, you can be recommended to various academies, not only in Liaodong, but may even be sent to the capital for further studies! In the past, everyone might not have thought of such a good thing in their dreams. It is a great blessing.

Going to sea is very unfamiliar to most people, and there is no custom of sailing here in Liaodong, so although sailors and sailors have high wages, many people still look down on their feet.

However, the prospects of this road are also bright. Not to mention others, you can tell just by looking at the four brothers of the Lu family. Needless to say, the Marquis also relied heavily on them. Before going to sea, the four brothers were already captains. I heard that they will be further promoted in the future and may be promoted to fleet admiral!

To be honest, Zhao Sheng envied them very much. He was able to follow the marquis and listen to the teachings. However, he really didn't have the talent in this regard, and envying was useless. He could only do his job well to repay the gifts of God, as well as the marquis and the mercy of the emperor.

As long as you follow the Marquis closely and follow his guidance, your life will be more prosperous day by day. Zhao Sheng firmly believes in this and is still infecting everyone around him.

In the past six months, his footprints have almost spread across southern Liaoning. Every time he goes, in addition to assisting local governments in implementing new policies and teaching local people to use new agricultural tools, Zhao Sheng does more, and constantly promotes the greatness of the imperial envoy, as the wise wisdom of today, and guides people to recall the difficulties of the past days and compare them with the boom today.

The facts are already in front of him, and with his own opinions, he was so enthusiastic that he infected many people. After receiving the cooperation of the military and civilians, obstacles in communication and understanding were eliminated. Zhao Shengshi made great contributions to the smooth implementation of the new policy, and even Lord Wang said so.

But Zhao Sheng was not complacent because of this. He still focused all his thoughts on his work. Through the old man's teaching, he had a simple and a little stupid idea: the Holy Emperor may only produce one in hundreds of years, and a wise minister like the Marquis will only produce one in thousands of years. Otherwise, why are those stories passed down from generation to generation and never changed?

If you meet both of them at the same time as the people of Liaodong, it is a blessing in your previous life. If you don’t cherish them, you will not only regret it for the rest of your life, I am afraid that even your descendants will blame you, so you must work hard.

In southern Liaoning, most of the people he met were as convinced as he did. Although the enthusiasm in central Liaoning and northern Liaoning was not as good as that in northern Liaoning, no one opposed his opinion.

However, there are also factors of discord, that is, the generals in western Liaoning have many disrespectful words to the Marquis.

Even if the good situation in other parts of Liaodong is in front of me, this person has no way to refute it, but he still refuses to change his words and says: Only when the emperor is young will he be punished by his ministers, he will have all kinds of counter-intentions. But in the future, the emperor will always grow up and there will always be a day when he wakes up. The slander headed by the Champion Marquis will die without a place to bury him.

Although these infuriating words did not have much impact, Zhao Sheng and other military generals in Liaodong were very angry. Several garrisons near the western Liaoning and even had several conflicts with the western Liaoning. After General Han personally came forward, he was temporarily suppressed.

In fact, Zhao Sheng could understand the feelings of those people. General Zu Shen was angrily worried and insisted on going against the Marquis and even the Emperor. The military generals in western Liaoning could only follow him helplessly.

But seeing that the rest of Liaodong is prosperous, but everything is the same in western Liaoning. Whether it is the military generals or the military households below, they are all envious!

Saying a few sarcastic words can be regarded as their struggle in helplessness, otherwise what can we do?

It is July to see that it is the harvest season. Everyone can’t say how big the gap will be after the harvest, but the general trend is certain. The military and civilians in western Liaoning are actually bleeding in their hearts.

Zhao Sheng was originally a shrewd person. When he realized this, the response methods he took were of course not so direct and reckless. The roundabout approach would not be effective immediately, but after achieving it, the effect would be very good.

His method is very simple, which is to pass the details of the new policy to western Liaoning through the mouths of the Liaoning military households, and the targets are also ordinary military households.

Liaodong's new policy is profitable by many parties, and the degree of profit is inversely proportional to his original status. Just like Zhao Sheng himself, ordinary military households originally had nothing, and even their personal freedom belongs to the military generals, so they benefited the most in the new policy.

The military generals are not without profits. They originally occupied a large part of the market. After being incorporated into the governor's plan, they certainly enjoyed more of the overall profit growth.

Relatively speaking, if compared with military households, their profits seem to be reduced: but in terms of absolute numbers, their gains are better than before.

As for how the court can benefit, Zhao Sheng can't tell me why.

The Marquis not only lent out grain seeds, but also new agricultural tools, cattle, horses and livestock. When the autumn harvest is over, they don’t collect much taxes. Whether they can make money back is a question, let alone profit.

It’s okay to say that the cattle, horses and food rations are ok. Zhao Sheng has also heard the news. Most of them were snatched back from the shoes by the Marquis, and the Marquis also bears a lot of infamousness for this.

In this regard, Zhao Sheng firmly supported Xie Hong's decision as always. Why can only the Tartars rob us? They are poor, and the people of Liaodong are not rich. If they rob, they will rob them. If they come, they will rob them again. If they rob, they will rob them again. If they rob those shoes, they will rob them again.

What really made him mihuo was mainly agricultural tools and taxes.

You know, the new agricultural tools are all solid iron guys. In the past, even the plough used by a single person would probably take a few taels or even dozens of taels, not to mention the big plows that can be pulled by a few horses or cows. How can it be affordable if there are not a hundred taels?

In the large-scale development throughout Liaodong, countless agricultural tools were used. Even if the iron ore was ready-made, most of the miners were born with shoe slave workers, but the wages of the craftsmen in the workshop were quite huge.

Zhao Sheng was quite well-informed. He knew that in order to encourage the craftsmen to actively pursue the new agricultural tools, the Marquis adopted the piece-based wage model! Corresponding to such a large number of tools, the cost can be imagined. In addition to the transportation and other expenses, I am afraid that few people in Liaodong can calculate how much money they need.

Zhao Sheng could not think of how much money the governor's yamen, the court, could make a profit. In the end, he could only attribute the answer to the Marquis's words.

"The people will be rich first, and the country will be strong!"

Zhao Sheng himself is also illiterate in six simple words, but from these short words, he can understand the Marquis' determination and his sincerity, because the Marquis not only said it well, but also followed it steadily.

Maybe this is the benefit in the eyes of the court and the marquis?

Zhao Sheng did not share the doubts in his heart with others. Even Mr. Wang, who was the one who respected him the most, was vague about the principle of the people who were rich and the country strong.

He also asked Mr. Wang several times, but the results were similar each time. All he saw on Mr. Wang's face was a deep expression. Obviously, this truth made the wise Mr. Wang think a lot.

After realizing this, Zhao Sheng stopped asking for advice. He just shared his feelings with others based on his own understanding, including many military households in western Liaoning.

Of course, the effect was as good as he expected. Around July, most of the doubts in western Liaoning had disappeared and became sparse. Instead, many criticisms were caused by the extremely skeletons of the ancestors.

This kind of thing would never happen in the past. The military values ​​the superiors and inferiors in the upper and lower levels, especially the scholars. The Zu family is deeply rooted in western Liaoning, and Zu Dahuan is also the magistrate of the general. How dare ordinary military households be dissatisfied with him? Even if they are dissatisfied, they can only be suppressed in their hearts. Isn’t it that seeking death?

But now it is different. The power of the governor's yamen is far above the governor's mansion. However, Liaodong is in such a situation, and only Liaoxi's independent special operations are independent, which is very criticized.

If it weren't for the large number of champions, General Zu Shen might have been dismissed from office now. Most people in Liaodong, including the military and civilians in western Liaoning, think so. Therefore, people's fear of Zu Dahuan has also decreased a lot.

Of course, until Zhao Sheng left Liaozhong and returned to southern Liaoning, the doubts in western Liaoning were limited to military households and low-level military generals, and those at the top were not shaken.

It is better to be quiet than to move. For them, there are benefits to not joining. First, those who rule the world have to rely on scholars and officials. The emperor and his close ministers will never last long. Who knows how long this new policy can last?

Besides, who knows if there are any traps in this new policy? The champion Hou has always been a cunning well. If he digs a hole in it and gets everyone in it, it will be bad. It would be better to maintain the status quo? The left and right are just collecting more food.

These people are the masters of the local area, so despite the undercurrents at the bottom, the general trend in western Liaoning has not changed, and the implementation of the new policy here is also far away!
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