"Leave a thousand people to wait for my king's order. You will lead the remaining two thousand people. First, build a military camp and a school building a hundred miles outside the city."
"Subordinates take orders."
"Prefect?"
"The official is here, the official is here."
Yun Fei continued to issue orders: "Improve the decree and all the police officers and soldiers under the jurisdiction of Jingcheng will undergo major reforms!
The two deputy generals Shi and Chen led 300 people each and went from county to town. They found those who were waiting to die and bullying the people! All of them were punished by me.
For those who are missing, we train them for a month and then decide whether to stay based on their performance."
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Within the jurisdiction of Jingcheng, the gates of government offices in one county and ten towns were covered with notices in just a few days.
"Sister who is literate, read it to us all. Is it all written on it?"
The time has come to show off their talents!! The literate women stood up one after another and read the notice to everyone.
Accept everyone’s respectful gaze!
"From today on, Jingcheng is recruiting skilled craftsmen, leaders in house building, carpentry, pulse searching, and well digging. You are welcome to sign up at the government offices in various places!
Once hired, all will be rewarded with silver, generous wages, and those with outstanding abilities can be granted official positions.
For those who have not yet sown in spring plowing, if they receive seeds from the government for planting this autumn harvest, the tax will be reduced from 30% to 10%! (Note: Newly opened wasteland can also be exempted from tax for three years.)
In the reform of government offices in various places, those who have grievances can beat the drum to redress their grievances. If local officials have committed corruption, they can go to the city government to file a complaint. If the crime is proven, they will be rewarded with ten taels of silver!
Note: Everything is done according to the law. If an official oppresses a man to favor a woman, he can go to the city lord's palace to file a complaint."
After hearing so much, the people's focus fell on recruiting skilled craftsmen and reducing taxes!!!
"What kind of seed does this government have?"
"If the seeds cannot be planted, then doesn't it mean there is no harvest?"
"Isn't it written above? The newly opened wasteland will also be opened, and it will be tax-free for three years!"
"How about we go to the government and ask?"
"I don't dare... Why don't you go back and discuss it with the village chiefs?"
"That makes sense!"
Someone else asked: "What does a skilled craftsman mean? Does my mother's thirty years as a carpenter count?"
"Then let's forget it..."
There are many people who want to move, but few who take action!
A woman in the crowd, wearing a patchwork linen skirt, gritted her teeth and walked to the county government office, thinking of her five husbands and their young son who were waiting to be fed at home.
At the yamen gate, I walked around a few times before finally making up my mind to go in.
Hearing that she was here to register, the arrogant officers and soldiers in the past changed their arrogance and enthusiastically asked her to register her name, surname, and address...
She also made an appointment to come to the county office early tomorrow and arrange a carriage to take her to Jingcheng for the assessment.
After walking out of the Yamen, she was still confused!
Are these the same officers and soldiers who usually put their eyes above their heads and do things perfunctorily? They thought they would be embarrassed!
It should be because of the decree that reformed all yamen officials!
His Highness Prince Jing?...The daughter of the Tian family!
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Not everyone has the courage to walk through the official door, but under the heavy reward! There must be brave men.
The money Yun Fei brought was spent as if it were not silver but turned from stone...
After spending a large amount of money, the results will be gratifying!
When the nearby villagers saw that everyone had actually received the money, they all went to the city to find jobs.
First, the construction of the military camp is completed! Then the wells are dug, the ditches are dredged, the river dams are built, and the storage tanks are dug!
The carpenter took the rough drawing of the simple waterwheel and studied it day and night!
Pulse seekers, guarded by elite soldiers, searched all over the mountains and fields for various places where wells could be dug, and collected the ores described by Yun Fei.
After the barracks were built, the elite soldiers began to help rebuild the city wall!
If a city is not strong, the first hurdle to look at is the city wall.
And under the temptation of three years of tax exemption, many people have begun to open up wasteland with their families!
Jingcheng is a vast area with few people, and the most important thing is land. However, the fertile land is not profitable yet, and no one is willing to open up wasteland!
Yunfei squats in the backyard of the city lord's mansion every day, secretly raising sweet potato seedlings!!
Thanks to Qin Xing, my daughter-in-law who fled famine in her life. She may have been frightened by hunger, so she later planted a lot of sweet potatoes...
In order not to eat sweet potatoes every day, he often sneaked into the cellar.
It’s not much, it’s more than a dozen square meters, so it’s probably enough for a room!!
When they were grown, a large number of sweet potato seedlings were transported by horse-drawn carriages to the counties and towns below!
Miaomiao is so important that she arranges the personnel to hand it out in person!
People who receive seedlings need to register with their household registration and are supervised by the village chiefs. If you dare to ruin the seedlings, you will go directly to jail.
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After the seedlings were planted, Yunfei published the recipe for retting the leaves.
As long as you are a non-lazy family, it shouldn't be difficult to get some fertilizer to grow the land.
During the autumn harvest of the first year, those families who planted wasteland to grow sweet potatoes shocked everyone!!!
Not to mention the bumper harvest of fruits underneath! The sweet potato vines and leaves alone are great.
The sweet potato leaves can be used for cooking and feeding chickens and ducks, while the vines can be kept to raise seedlings and feed pigs.
The fruits below are sweet, soft, glutinous and filling! Much better than the wild vegetable soup they drink every day.
People who had no seeds felt regretful and stopped what they were doing one after another to organize their families to open up wasteland!
All the sweet potato vines from the first season were taken back by the government, which was equivalent to deducting the seedlings sent by the government in the first place.
Then, specialized personnel will raise the vine seedlings and distribute them to the villages and towns below!
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With wells, storage tanks, and water trucks! In the first year of Jingcheng’s reform, there was no shortage of water in the fields.
Every household dares not be lazy for the sake of the fields, and attaches great importance to the time of releasing water into the fields.
After people ease their food and clothing.
Yunfei spends money again!
Recruiting soldiers and generals, hiring people to build roads! The savings in the house were flowing out at a very fast speed again.
Gong Liusu was so worried that she turned over and over every day and every night, and her mouth became angry!
As the side princes of the house, of course they should take care of their master! What's more, they get along very well now.
On weekdays, the five of them interact with each other like good friends.
Knowing that there was a problem with the government's accounts, Ye Lian'er suggested: "How about we also go farming? I heard that the sweet potatoes grown by His Highness can fill every household's stomach!"
Hibiscus rolled her eyes angrily, "Every household has these sweet potatoes, so what's so rare about growing them?"
And His Highness said that she bought two farms and grew a lot of food to supply the military camp."
"Then what can we do? I don't know how to make money!" Ye Lian'er held her chin in distress.
After Bai Ruyue rolled her eyes, she seemed to have an idea in her mind, she calmly raised her tea cup and started drinking tea.
Others were still thinking distressedly that Gong Liusu, who had just been comforted, now had to comfort them in turn...
"Brothers, don't think too much. Let's just stay in the backyard and not cause trouble to His Highness. As for the rest, we have to trust His Highness!"
"That's right, the wife is so powerful, she must have a way." Ye Lian'er can be said to blindly worship his wife.
He thinks his wife is the most powerful woman he has ever seen!
Lan Nianqing has been in a daze, not knowing what she is thinking.