Arranging for Xu San to take the manpower to protect the old lady and Minglan as they headed south to Youyang was just an interlude.
After sending the people out, Sheng Changbai felt relieved.
Whether they are robbers or thieves, their purpose is just to make money.
Murdering an old lady and a half-grown girl will not add any benefit to these people.
It is enough for dozens of people to protect a caravan, but it is unlikely that anything will go wrong if only two people are protected.
The worst case scenario is that even if some belongings are thrown away, the Sheng family will still suffer losses.
Because they have always lived a prosperous life, apart from Lin Zongshuang, there is no one in the Sheng family who would rather give up their life than their wealth.
The next thing Sheng Changbai was busy with was farming. In feudal society, there was nothing more fundamental than farming.
If the fields are cultivated well, most of the problems of feudal society can be solved.
When summer sowing came, Sheng Changbai was still busy with the most important task of officials, persuading farmers to cultivate mulberry trees.
"Ming Gong, how do you feel about this land reclamation?"
After coming up with a plan, Sheng Changbai came to the state government office again to find Huang Zhizhou.
Documents signed by the state government officials need to be stamped by the state magistrate and the general magistrate to be effective.
Only a state magistrate who has no general constraints can truly control a state.
"Encouraging land reclamation, tax exemption for three years, and half tax for three years is a stronger effort than before. However, since I took office, I have also issued land reclamation orders, but the results have not been very good."
Normal officials all know the benefits of supporting land reclamation and increasing acres of land.
Huang Zhizhou has also been an official for more than ten years, so it is not surprising that he has this basic operation.
"Ming Gong, during this period, I visited the countryside. The common people's concerns about land reclamation are that they are still worried that the land that has been reclaimed will eventually become mature land and be occupied by large landlords. When handling the land deeds, they will be made difficult by subordinate officials.
As long as these two points can be ensured, people's enthusiasm for land reclamation will naturally increase."
Most of the policies are good policies, but because they are implemented by people, various problems will always occur.
The most important thing is to do a good job in supervision. It is obviously unrealistic to rely on a simple system to ensure the perfect implementation of policies.
Therefore, how people live their lives has a lot to do with whether their parents and officials are willing or not, and whether they can manage the officials well.
Officials who have no ability to govern do not actually need to interfere too much. They only need to manage the officials to reduce the exploitation of the people.
The people themselves can live a good life, and governing by doing nothing is also a way.
Therefore, although some "literary youth" have no political ability, their moral level is high enough and they can not disturb the people.
If you spend the whole day eating, drinking, traveling, and enjoying yourself, you will be called a good official by the people.
In fact, Taizu and Taizong of the Zhou Dynasty were all people who could "pick up bargains" to gain the throne and the country.
He is very scheming and scheming, and of course he is not stupid. When formulating the legal system, he also made a lot of reference to the experience of the previous dynasty.
The systems formulated at the time all made sense and had certain merits, but most of them had problems with their implementation.
It was formulated by the Zhou Dynasty, which did not establish the land system and did not oppose land annexation. This was an abnormal policy against feudalism.
In fact, it is not as useless as it seems, because a large amount of land has been annexed by officials and gentry.
This gave rise to many landless farmers.
Some people became servants and tenants of the landlords.
However, a large number of these landless farmers have also invested in industry and commerce, which has promoted the improvement of productivity, the development of industry and commerce, and the prosperity of industry and commerce. The current commercial tax only accounts for one-tenth of the tax revenue of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
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But it is obvious that a lot of potential has not been tapped.
Ignoring the land tax, if a large part of it is collected in kind, grain, and cloth.
The cash income provided by commercial taxes can easily exceed that of land taxes.
Another group of farmers, unable to develop the wasteland near their hometowns, chose to leave their homes and go to remote areas where no one owned the land, where they developed wasteland on a large scale. From an objective perspective, this system does promote further land development.
Those government and business landowners who annexed fertile land naturally developed wasteland near villages.
Both landlords and poor people went to reclaim wasteland, which objectively accelerated the land reclamation speed of many great Zhou dynasties.
Although the process was quite cruel, most of these developed wastelands were turned into hidden fields, and the court did not receive much direct benefit.
But in fact it also greatly increased the grain production of the Zhou Dynasty.
"Then let's leave this matter to you, Shengpan."
The cooperation between Sheng Changbai and Huang Zhizhou can be considered pleasant. Sheng Changbai just wants to do things, not to seize power.
With the relationship between the Hai family and the two of them giving each other face, there is no conflict when they cooperate.
After watching Sheng Hong's graceful appearance and long-sleeved dance for so many years, Sheng Changbai's communication skills in official circles are not bad at all.
No matter how hard Sheng Changbai worked, it was impossible that the political achievements achieved in Xuzhou would be attributable to Zhizhou, the top leader.
After handing over the land reclamation propaganda work.
Sheng Changbai held a banquet to express his gratitude on the grounds that the summer tax collection went smoothly.
We summoned all the officials, gentry, businessmen, and big landowners from Xuzhou.
Of course, it's not that delicious when officials take the initiative to invite people to eat. Inviting these people over is to promote seeds.
It is very efficient to use power to directly advance progress.
No matter what they thought in their hearts, each of these squire and landowners still purchased a lot of seeds.
More or less every household needs to plant some new species.
For the first time, you need to force the Changbai trees to flourish. After seeing the effect, these trees will be planted on a large scale.
After all the big families have changed to improved seeds and increased their production, it will naturally easily affect and radiate ordinary homesteaders.
"Liu Tao, how is the matter of buying a village in the suburbs going?"
Sheng Changbai was naturally setting an example, besides replacing all his farmland with improved seeds.
We are also planning to buy property and build a farm to serve as a demonstration farm for the people.
"Sir, there are very few large-scale farms available. Our family does not use its power to overwhelm others, so it is not that easy to buy. We only found a small farm with twenty hectares of land."
"Two thousand acres, that's it for this summer. It's enough for the time being."
The money Sheng Changbai paid for Zhuangzi came from Sheng Hong's family sponsorship. When Sheng Changbai went out, he received 50,000 yuan from the Sheng family.
All Sheng Hong's cash was wiped out.
The money given to Sheng Changbai was to enable Sheng Changbai to purchase real estate.
After all, it is necessary for a person who goes out to be an official to have certain financial capabilities.
Otherwise, just relying on Sheng Changbai would result in a monthly salary of less than a few dozen dollars.
It is a big pressure for Sheng Changbai to raise servants dozens of years older than him in his family.
Not to mention some necessary official activities, communication, and entertainment.
When I can't give gifts to people, I just write a bad poem, inscribe a few words, draw a few straws, and this kind of fooling around.
Officials in the Great Zhou Dynasty were highly paid and received various subsidies, but they were not to the extent that low-level officials could support dozens of families.
There are a large number of low-level officials who are clamoring that they can't make a living, can't afford to rent a house, and can't afford to hire servants.
Probably because there is a large family, a family, and a village to support.
This depends on how many people contribute to provide a Jinshi.
Next, Sheng Changbai will be supervising the summer sowing to ensure that crops across the state are sown in season.
After Xia Bo was finished, Sheng Changbai also received letters from Youyang and Kaifeng respectively.
In the letter, the old lady expressed her praise and thanks to Sheng Changbai.
The world outside is far less peaceful than the old lady thought.
When returning to Youyang, the old lady still encountered water bandits.
Although these water bandits were forced back by a few rounds of bows and arrows led by Xu San.
But if we follow the old lady’s original plan of only bringing the maid and the mother-in-law.
Xu San was not with the old lady. He intercepted the old lady's words as soon as he left Kaifeng Mansion.
A group of old, weak, women and children, a few servants, and almost zero strength. The consequences of encountering water bandits are still unimaginable.
It is not appropriate for a rich old lady to go out with a group of maids for an outing, let alone a long trip.
Although most bandits do not easily offend officials and their families in order to avoid revenge.
But there are always some people who hate the government and act without any scruples.
The old lady was an old lady from a wealthy family. She brought a lot of belongings and went out without force.
For all kinds of bandits, they are just a big piece of fat.
Then the old lady wanted to stay in Youyang for a while.
The explanation is that given the old lady's age and physical condition, it will become increasingly difficult for her to travel far away in the future.
This return to Youyang may be the last time the old lady returns to Youyang.
The reason that was not stated was that the old lady wanted to choose a suitable in-law for Minglan.
In order to avoid the consequences of marrying someone blindly, only listening to rumors and rumors, and not knowing the person well.
The old lady must be more cautious when choosing a husband for Minglan this time. She needs a period of contact and personal judgment.
After Minglan returned to Youyang, she actually had a lot of fun.
After leaving home, Minglan no longer needs to be sandwiched between Mo Lan and Ru Lan, and be affected and bullied by both of them.
After moving to the big house, I don't have as much pressure as living at home. I have to always think about how to play scheming house games.
My mentality will definitely be much more relaxed after living in a big house.
Not surprisingly, Minglan became friends with Pinlan, who was similar in age and had no scheming intentions, and they played together.
Most of the letters from Wang Ruofu and Ru Lan in Tokyo were daily greetings and family gossip.
After getting rid of the pleasantries, Sheng Changbai read the letters from the two people.
Some useful information was also discovered, and Qi Heng and the head of Jiacheng County were officially engaged.
The Sheng family received an invitation from the Duke of Qi, but Sheng Hong did not go there to avoid the suspicion of King Yong.
However, they still had some bad dealings with the Qi family, so Wang Ruofu and Ru Lan went to attend Qi Heng's engagement ceremony.
Just for two people to get engaged, there were so many princes, nobles and court ministers from Bianliang attending, and it was so luxurious and dignified.
Ru Lan was just watching the celebration, but everyone could see how powerful King Yong was now and how high his support rate was in the court.
Looking at the names of the important ministers one by one, it is enough to show that King Yong has already taken the lead in the competition for the position of crown prince.
The second one is about Gu Lao Er Gu Tingye.
Gu Tingye was already in his twenties, already considered an older man, and he was in a hurry to bring his concubine, illegitimate son, and illegitimate daughter into the Hou Mansion, so he did things in a hurry.
When Sheng Changbai left Tokyo, the progress of Gu Tingye's marriage was far worse than that of Qi Heng.
Now Qi Heng has just gotten engaged, and Gu Tingye has already married Rong Feiyan.
It's a top honorary home. Going through the wedding process in such a short time is a bit rushed.
Sheng Changbai had to suspect that Gu Tingye used money power in order to marry a wife as soon as possible.
The Rong family is a family of foreign relatives. That is to say, as the old emperor wanted to have a baby, the Rong family started to tremble after Concubine Rong was favored.
In terms of real background, it is far inferior to other noble families.
Although once you have rights, it is easier to pursue money.
However, the Rong family has only been prosperous for a short period of time, and they have not yet accumulated any strong family assets.
The assets in Gu Tingye's hands are more than a few million, including one or two hundred thousand taels. As long as he can marry a wife quickly, Gu Tingye won't care.
What Gu Lao Er inherited was not only a large sum of money, but also a hen like Yanzhuang that kept laying golden eggs.
As long as the powerful ones can protect these salt villages, Gu Laoer will have endless money to spend.
Needless to say, the Rong family is of course willing to give Gu Laoer money to their family.
Not everyone is good at business and can make money easily.
The Rong family is only developing in the Forbidden Army. It has a little influence, that is, it can drink some soldiers' blood and eat some free money.
However, the military discipline of the Zhou Dynasty had not been completely corrupted, and the Rong family did not dare to go too far. They were only able to make a small amount of money, so how could they possibly withstand Gu Er's money-making ability.
Ningyuan Houfu, the founder of the country, is willing to marry the daughter of a merchant family as his official wife for 500,000 taels.
It is not unacceptable for a nouveau riche like the Rong family to spend a lot of money and prepare for the wedding in a hurry. It is not unacceptable to marry a daughter early.
Sheng Hong's letter first expressed her relief at Sheng Changbai's concern for the old lady.
Then he talked about the situation in the imperial court, although he said it euphemistically.
But Sheng Changbai still understood what Sheng Hong meant.
At the beginning of the year, the old emperor imprisoned Sheng Hong for two days, using it to frighten the officials and intimidate the tigers.
As a few months passed, the effects slowly faded away.
The princes in the imperial court are already planning the next round of persecution against the old emperor.
Forcing the old emperor to appoint a heir as soon as possible, the ministers were united in their will on this point.
Regardless of whether it is the Ongwang Party, the Yanwang Party, or the Neutral Party, this attitude is the same.
Whether the old emperor was unwilling to give up or was in love with power, he was already on the verge of death, and it was indeed a bit inappropriate for him not to have established an heir.
At the end of the letter, Sheng Hong probably thought that Qi Heng was Sheng Changbai's junior brother and Gu Tingye was Sheng Changbai's friend, so he told Sheng Changbai a lot about the two of them.
Wang Ruofu and Ru Lan spent the whole day hanging out in the back house, and all they got were some gossip.
The situation is far less clear, detailed and accurate than what Sheng Hong learned.
In order to win over the Duke of Qi and a group of distinguished nobles from Qi, King Yong hoped that the two families would get married as soon as possible. Qi Heng's marriage would not be delayed for too long and they would get married before winter.
After Gu Tingye married his wife, he did not stay in the Marquis Mansion and live a good life with his wife. Instead, he stayed outside all day long, which made a big joke. Sheng Hong hoped that Sheng Changbai would take this as a warning and not imitate others.