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.
To be continued...