When the Gyeonggi area fled last year, most of the population moved south.
There was a heavy snowfall last winter, and the earth was nourished by snow water. At the beginning of spring this year, a small number of people were reluctant to leave their family business and returned to Gyeonggi.
However, this small population is scattered in the Gyeonggi area, just like a handful of sesame seeds thrown into the soil. It is basically difficult to find people.
It can be said that Ding Dazhuang led his soldiers to plow the ground and sow seeds without any scruples, because there was no one cultivating the large fields outside the capital, so they could plow the land and sow whatever they wanted.
The soldiers plowed the ground faster than plowing oxen. On the vast fields, teams of soldiers stood in rows and waved hoes to plow the ground at the command. The efficiency was really impressive.
"You said, if I could be divided into several hundred acres of this vast field, I would be a landlord and wait for the autumn harvest, and my life would be stable."
"Then you work hard to kill enemies and perform meritorious service. When you kill enough enemies, maybe the princess will reward you with hundreds of acres of land, let you marry a wife and live the life of a landlord."
"Ha ha."
The other soldiers digging in the ground burst into laughter!
This wish is very beautiful, they can dream at night and dream all night long.
"It's not easy to make meritorious deeds. As long as you are skilled and brave enough to kill the enemy on the battlefield, it will only be a matter of time before you achieve great military exploits and gain an official title. But at the moment we are busy farming, so we won't have a chance to make meritorious deeds!"
"What can we do if we don't farm? You must know that food is the most important thing for the people. The drought in the past three years has already resulted in no harvest for three years. If we don't follow the seasons this year and farm, you will be waiting to eat the soil in autumn!"
"If we don't have food, we can go to the rebel territory next door to grab it! Growing food ourselves is hard work and there isn't much harvest."
"From what you said, I know you are ignorant. Let me ask you, everyone has no food left at home. Whose house are you going to rob? Whose are you going to rob?"
"Make enough food and clothing by yourself. Don't just think about getting something for nothing all day long. Do you know that this idea of yours is very dangerous!"
"Okay, the landlord has no surplus food. Let's work quickly. When the land is planted, the princess may take us to sweep the battlefield and make achievements."
"Brother Cui, are you saying that after we finish farming, the princess will take us to seize the rebels' territory?"
"There is no clear explanation above. These are just my guesses. Please stop nagging and work quickly!"
Ding Dazhuang was so busy with farming that he had no time to spare.
Sitting in the palace, Xia Jing was also overwhelmed by the complicated government affairs.
Forgive her. In the last days, she is a person who speaks more than words. She really doesn't have much patience to let her come here to handle government affairs.
Hongmei watched her press her temples and said with concern: "Princess, please rest for a while when you are tired. I will go to the kitchen and bring you a bowl of white fungus soup for you to enjoy."
Xia Jing leaned on the back of the chair and waved her hands. When Hongmei left, her eyes inadvertently fell on Ye Fei who was standing aside.
"princess?"
Ye Fei lowered his head and quickly checked his clothes. There was nothing wrong with them.
After sitting for an hour or two dealing with government affairs, Xia Jing was so tired that her back ached. She leaned on the back of the chair, holding her cheek with one hand, and hooked him with the other.
Ye Fei hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward: "Princess, do you have something to give me?"
Xia Jing stared at his tall figure and handsome face, and sighed slightly in her heart.
"princess?"
"Well, go find Wei Dong!" Xia Jing slowly closed her eyes and put her feet on the footboard.
Seeing her closing her eyes and concentrating, Ye Fei didn't dare to disturb her. He turned around and left the study, telling his men to be on duty, and then he went to the guard dormitory.
Wei Dong worked the night shift last night. He had just fallen asleep and was sleeping soundly. In his dream, he was proposing to the girl he liked. The girl's family didn't want to see him and disliked him for not being able to support his future wife.
His uncle even kicked him away.
He flew out of the door and fell to the ground so hard that his butt almost broke into two pieces.
"Ouch!"
The pain made Wei Dong wake up from his dream. As soon as he opened his eyes, he looked at Ye Fei with a pair of joking eyes.
"Hey, I'll go!"
With a roll, Wei Dong rolled to the inside of the bed and glared: "What do you want from being so close to my face?"
"Are you awake?" Ye Fei looked at him with a half-smile but not a smile: "What are you dreaming about? Your saliva is drooling?"
Wei Dong did not take the bait and wiped his mouth, frowning and asked: "How do you know what I had was a sweet dream? What if it was a nightmare?"
"Hey, if it's a nightmare and I can't wake up, I guess it must be a sweet dream that keeps me from waking up!" Ye Fei turned around and found a chair to sit down on.
Wei Dong rubbed his buttocks, came back to his senses, and said angrily: "It was you who kicked me!"
Ye Fei raised the corner of his mouth slightly, "Did you dream that someone kicked you?"
Wei Dong: "."
He threw off the quilt and jumped out of bed, poured himself a glass of water, drank it in a gulp, and then asked: "Tell me, what's the matter with coming to see me?"
Speaking of business, Ye Fei also corrected his attitude and said truthfully: "The princess is looking for you!"
"Damn! Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
As a result, the two of them are still wasting time here.
Wei Dong bent down and picked up the cloth shoes on the ground and threw them at Ye Fei's face.
Ye Fei tilted his body slightly to the side and easily dodged it, "Hey, why are you so grumpy recently?"
Wei Dong didn't bother to pay attention to him, quickly put on his coat, combed his hair, and put on a new pair of shoes before going out.
"No wonder you dare to throw your shoes at me. It turns out you bought new shoes!"
The envy shown in Ye Fei's eyes is not a lie, he is really envious. Ever since they came to the Gyeonggi area, it has been extremely difficult for them to buy a piece of underwear or underwear because there are not many people in the entire Gyeonggi area.
Goods coming?
Beidi returned to the grassland and took away the small number of people who had returned to the capital.
Xia Jing's soldiers and horses only rescued a smaller number of people, and among these people there were even fewer women.
In this way, the needlework in their ranks was idle, and individual soldiers with ingenuity would sew their own clothes.
But most soldiers didn't have this skill, so they could only stare when their clothes were torn.
"Don't worry about it, this is the last pair I brought from Lingnan!" Wei Dong shook the broken hair that fell on his forehead and asked with a smile: "Hey, do you know why the princess is looking for me?"
"I don't know!" Ye Fei passed him and walked out the door first.
Wei Dong smiled and quickly followed.
"Princess, Wei Dong and Ye Fei are here." Hongmei came in to remind.
Xia Jing drank the last mouthful of white fungus soup and said, "Let them in."
Two guards of about the same stature walked in. Due to their different personalities, they both had their own strengths and weaknesses. They looked seductive and pleasing to the eye.
I just don’t know which girl will be cheaper in the future?
"My subordinate Wei Dong has met the princess."
"No need to be polite, just sit down."
After the maid served tea, Xia Jing asked: "If I remember correctly, Wei Dong, you should have passed the merit examination?"
Speaking of fame, Wei Dong felt guilty: "My subordinate failed to live up to his parents' expectations and only passed the examination as a scholar. Later, when he was preparing for the government examination, he encountered successive years of drought and never had the chance to take the government examination again."
Xia Jing nodded: "It's a pity, but there are more opportunities in life than the imperial examination. If the imperial examination collapses, we can find another way. There is always a road to the top in the world, don't you think?"
This was the first time Wei Dong heard about this bowl of chicken soup for the soul. He was slightly stunned and said with a smile: "That makes sense. Thank you, Princess, for enlightening me."
Xia Jing smiled: "We occupied Gyeonggi. In fact, the Gyeonggi region is just an empty shell standing here. If we want to make the Gyeonggi region prosperous, we still need to work hard."
"The original officials in the Gyeonggi region all moved south to Jiankang with the imperial court, which resulted in no one to handle the government affairs in the Gyeonggi region."
"I've been handling it all by myself these past few days. I was almost exhausted after a few days of handling it, but the efficiency was extremely low. So I thought about asking you to help me."
Xia Jing's words shocked Wei Dong: "Princess, I'm just a scholar. I can help you with your correspondence. If you want me to handle government affairs, I'm afraid I won't be able to shoulder this important task."
"No one is born with it. If you don't understand, you can ask. Let's learn slowly. And according to my observation, your ability is not bad." After saying that, Xia Jing looked at him with a smile: "Also, fame is not the same as ability.
Equal sign, don’t let your reputation as a scholar limit your abilities, I’m optimistic about you!”
After Wei Dong heard the last sentence, he wanted to laugh, but he couldn't. It was so serious.
Ye Fei had an envious look on his face. He stood nearby and saw how he was trying to laugh or cry. He really wanted to step forward and punch him twice!
Xia Jing didn't care about Wei Dong's mood, and pushed all the government affairs in the Gyeonggi region to him that day.
After working for a few days, Wei Dong discovered something unusual, that is, how the princess had given him all the government affairs in the Gyeonggi region, and the princess did not care about anything and became the boss.
The cement factory in the Gyeonggi area was successfully put into production under Wei Dong's management.
The cement produced can temporarily be used for the repair of city walls and palaces.
If there was any extra, Xia Jing wanted to save it, and when the city walls and palaces were repaired, she would send people to build all the main roads in the capital into cement roads.
The capital in the north is different from the Lingnan Prefecture in the south. The main streets in Lingnan City are paved with bluestone slabs. However, in the capital in the north, several main roads are not paved with stone slabs, and the main roads are still yellow mud roads.
Xia Jing found out from her memory why these main roads were paved with yellow mud.
Because every time the royal family has a large-scale ancestor worship or the emperor travels, in order to ensure the dignity of the royal family, Zhuque Street will be cleaned, the road will be paved with loess, and the street will be splashed with clean water.
The major main roads in Beijing are much higher than other streets.
Such thick loess has been laid over many years. If it rains continuously, several avenues in the capital will become muddy.
Although Xia Jing could travel by carriage on rainy days, she was unhappy when the road was muddy.
If all streets in the capital were paved with cement roads, it would greatly facilitate people's travel.
Xia Jing considered the current situation. She had the treasure left by Beidi but lacked labor, so she temporarily suppressed the idea of paving all the streets into cement roads.
After the cement plant was completed and various repair plans were carried out smoothly, Wei Dong turned around and devoted himself to land registration and re-measurement in counties in the Gyeonggi region.
The most important thing is to check the population size and distribution in the entire Gyeonggi region.
The accumulation of these things caused him to spin continuously. Since taking over the government affairs in the Gyeonggi region, he has not taken a breath.
No wonder the princess was so tired that she left the government affairs to him. If Wei Dong didn't take advantage of his youth, he would have wanted to be the boss.
However, Xia Jing still had a conscience. Before Wei Dong was so busy that he vomited blood, she sent Long Yutian, who had finished the logistics, to help.
"The princess re-registered the fields in the Gyeonggi area. Is she sure that powerful families will not come to Gyeonggi to claim them?"
Xia Jing glanced at Wei Dong, who was working hard, and smiled: "How can I be sure of the uncertainty of the world? I am just preparing first. If a powerful family comes to claim it, as long as they can get the land deed, then I will give them another
No problem, as long as they pay taxes every year based on the number of acres I registered, everything else is fine."
Long Yutian clicked his tongue, "Nothing is left out!"
According to the princess, as long as the fields are re-registered, those who come to claim them within a month will have relevant procedures and no one will make it difficult. The procedures will be completed soon. In the future, they will have to pay taxes according to the current registration.
to implement
But when the one-month deadline came and no one came to claim it, Xia was going to take it into state ownership.
It is said to be state-owned, but the actual person in charge must be Xia Jing herself. Otherwise, if it is state-owned but there is no one to supervise it, it will be equivalent to helping those corrupt officials.
Now she kills two birds with one stone and gets a lot of money for free.
What a good plan!
"For now, let's not consider the issue of the return of powerful aristocratic families. Let's talk about the population issue in the Gyeonggi region."
Long Yutian, known as Sai Zhuge, poured Xia Jing a cup of tea and continued: "There is no definite number of the population in the Gyeonggi area, but it is estimated that the population will not be too large. Does the princess have any good strategies for this?
Can the population of Gyeonggi area be increased in a short period of time?”
Regarding this matter, Xia Jing also racked her brains to find a way. After three years of disasters, the population of the Yu Dynasty dropped sharply. It is not possible to increase it in a short period of time if you want to.
The most direct impact of the lack of population is that the fields are uncultivated, taxes are reduced, and even if you want to expand the army, you can't find people to join the army.
"There are two reasons for the population loss in the Gyeonggi region. One is that natural and man-made disasters caused the population to migrate south or die of illness and starvation; the other is that they were taken away to the grasslands by Beidi soldiers and horses and worked as slaves in the grasslands.
We cannot force the people who have gone to the south to return to their hometown. Then we can only snatch people from the northern grasslands. I wonder if you dare to go deep into the grasslands and go to the Beidi people to plow grass and valleys? "
Long Yutian and Wei Dong looked at each other and saw the light in each other's eyes.
This is the light that the prairie wolf only has when it sees its prey.
Sure enough, men are unwilling to be lonely!
Long Yutian suppressed his excitement and coughed twice: "Ahem, it's dangerous to go deep into the grassland to fight. Since the princess has this idea, we have to make some preparations before the farming is over to protect our team.
As many people go in as there are people who come out!"
Reduce casualties.
Xia Jing nodded: "I will also send a letter to Jiankang, asking Jiankang to station troops on the border of Yangzhou during our expedition to the grasslands, so as to hold back the rebels and prevent them from taking advantage of the opportunity to capture the Gyeonggi area!"
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