"Dad, I heard that each of us can get a pound of meat. Is this true?" In a huge civilian settlement, a four or five-year-old boy looked at his father who had just come back from outside with longing eyes.
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This room in the resettlement site, that is, this room in the military camp, is countless times better than their hometown in the Central Plains.
Here they don't have to endure the cold wind and can wear clothes made of cow and sheep skin. It's very cold outside, but after putting on the clothes, they don't feel the cold anymore.
Moreover, they can eat fragrant rice every day and one or two small pieces of meat every once in a while, which makes them feel as if they are in heaven.
But today they heard news from outside that each of their households would be given a pound of meat, not one pound for each family, but one pound for each person.
In other words, their family of five can get five kilograms of meat. If they save some food, they can eat meat in the next few days.
If they have some doubts about this news, it is because there are too many civilians in the settlement. No matter how rich Xiliang is, it is impossible to give them so much meat to the civilians who have just arrived in the northwest.
They only asked King Li Xiang of Xiliang to reward them with a piece of meat during the Chinese New Year so that they could spend the winter in this warm house. This was their biggest wish.
But children are children after all, and they can ask whatever comes to mind. In this cold winter, women and children do not need to go out, but young adults need to help Xiliang soldiers go out to shovel the snow.
Xiliang does not raise them in vain, they need to do some things, such as clearing the snow in the streets and alleys.
Jiuyuan County is far colder than most areas in the Central Plains. When it snows, the snow can be more than half a meter thick. If the snow on the road is not cleared away in time, it is likely to cause traffic jams.
If the snow is not cleared for a long time and it solidifies into ice, it will become more difficult to walk, so these young adults followed the soldiers from the Xiliang headquarters to go outside to clear the snow.
Women and children can stay in warm rooms, and each household in Xiliang has been equipped with daily necessities, such as pots and pans.
They no longer need to eat from a big pot like before, but each household has a ration of food. Every seven days or so, they can go to the military supplies office in Xiliang to get some food.
The man could already smell the aroma of rice, but he looked at the little boy who asked the question and nodded with a smile: "It's true, Your Majesty, he has issued an order. After we finish our work, everyone can receive the meat."
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"At that time, everyone can still receive money, and I will buy some cloth for you and your sister to make clothes." The man touched his son's head with his generous hand: "When spring comes next year, you and your sister will go to school to study together.
If you have martial arts talent, then you can become a glorious Xiliang soldier; if you don’t have martial arts talent, then you must study hard and become an official serving the people in the future!"
"Can we still study in the school?" The little boy looked at his father with wide eyes: "Didn't Grandpa say that if you want to enter the school, you need a lot of money?"
"That's in the Central Plains, here in Jiuyuan County. The king has issued an order three years ago that all children of school age must go to the school to study. We don't need to pay any money, and you can eat in the school.
It’s delicious to eat and drink, the only thing you have to do is study hard and repay the king in the future!”
The man's eyes flashed with admiration when he said: "You must repay the king in the future, because the king and his family can survive!"
"In this case, Your Majesty, does he have enough money?" After hearing what the man said, the woman was a little worried: "You go to work now. Your Majesty needs to pay your wages. We now have everything we need to eat, drink, and wear."
Your Majesty provides the capital. I heard that there are still wars on the front line every day. Your Majesty needs to support the army, and then you have to support a large group of idlers like us. Will we bring down your Majesty!"
"I don't know about this, but if the king dares to support so many people, he must have enough food and money. What we have to do now is to work hard and serve the king. After the land is allocated in the next spring, we will work hard to farm.
The man sat on the chair and said, "I asked around. Farming here in Xiliang is different from farming in the Central Plains. The water here can be harvested once every three months and can be planted four times a year."
"And the yield of these rice is still very high, more than twice as much as the yield of the rice we have in the Central Plains, so we both have to work harder, four times a year, to leave enough for ourselves.
Except for the food, donate all the rest!" The man had already thought about how to repay Xiang Li. He did not have the martial arts of a practitioner, nor any special talents.
He only has brute strength, but this standing may be very strong in the eyes of ordinary people, but it is weak in the eyes of those practitioners and has no special talents.
What can be done is to increase the amount of grain and then contribute this grain to the king, that is, Li Xiang, the king of Xiliang.
He never thought about selling the extra grain. He knew that Xiliang no longer collects agricultural taxes. In other words, how much grain they grow will not be given to the local farmers in Xiliang. How much grain is left?
It's all theirs.
As for why part of the grain is handed over to the farmers in Xiliang, it is because the rice seeds they plant are cultivated by these farmers themselves, and only the rice cultivated by these farmers can have high yields, and the planting time only takes three months.
Otherwise, if they use ordinary grains to plant them, the final result will be that the grains will die directly due to the cold climate. In the vast land of Jiuyuan County, there are very few places suitable for growing crops.
Only those seeds cultivated by farmers in Xiliang can germinate and grow in such a poor and cold land.
Li Xiang just took back the grain taxes paid by these farmers through another method. Although this method was a bit tortuous, he could get a very good reputation, which can be seen from the attitude of the common people towards him.
How good his method is.
"What a wonderful place. If we had made up our mind to come to Xiliang before, we should have our own house and farmland by now!"
Although the land allocated to these civilians in Xiliang does not really belong to these civilians, because they only have the right to use it but not ownership.
The ownership still belongs to Li Shang, and they only have the right to farm on this land. However, in the eyes of these civilians, these lands are already theirs, and they will not sell them, even if they want to buy them.
It can't be sold either.
Because there is no land trading in Xiliang.
This is one of Prime Minister Li's methods to restrict the emergence of big landowners and local tycoons in the area. Without this restriction, it won't be long before a large number of landlords and local tycoons appear in Xiliang.
Never underestimate the financial and material resources of the businessmen in the Central Plains. Even if Prime Minister Li drives them away, they can still find a spokesperson in Jiuyuan County.
All you need to do is seduce an ordinary person with huge property, and let the ordinary person use the huge property given to them by these businessmen to buy a large amount of land, and you can easily create a super rich man with thousands of acres of fertile land.
At that time, those people can use merchants to take away all the food produced in these farmlands. Li Xiang will get nothing, no, he can only get a little grain tax for cultivating seeds.
It is very likely that he will become a worker for those businessmen, and the land he opened will be bought by those businessmen, and in the end he will get nothing.
Therefore, land sales are refused in Jiuyuan County. Any land that wants to be converted must go through the local government. Even if you don’t want to plant it, you still need the government’s consent to give the land to others. If the government does not agree, these lands
It will be recycled to the Xiliang headquarters.
If you don’t want to plant it, then the farmers in Xiliang will plant it themselves. Anyway, the farmers in Xiliang will leave a large piece of good land in each village for the farmers in southwest China to plant.
If someone stops farming, the land will return to the farmers in Xiliang. Anyway, it is not difficult for them to plant more land.
Moreover, when the land returns to the hands of farmers in Xiliang, Xiliang will harvest more food.
"Who would have thought that Jiuyuan County, which was considered a deserted place by countless people, would become the paradise it is now, and become a paradise in the eyes of countless people!" The man couldn't help but sigh and said: "We are lucky. If we hadn't met
The merchant ship in Xiliang, we are probably on the way to escape."
As he spoke, the man couldn't help but hesitate for a moment, looked at the woman and said softly: "Should we write a letter to the clan leader and the others? I asked around when I was outside. There is also a post station here in Xiliang, and you can send the envelope through the post station.
It spreads to the Central Plains, and then spreads to various places in the Central Plains through the channels of some chambers of commerce in the Central Plains, but the cost is higher."
"I calculated it when I came back. The money I got from clearing the snow was enough to buy you and your two children a set of clothes, and there was just a little extra to write a letter and send it to my hometown."
"We left our hometown because of food. If it hadn't been for the clan leaders, who gritted their teeth and squeezed out some food for us, we might have died on the way. Xiliang is really as advertised by many people, it can make everyone who comes to Xiliang
People on the earth can live and work in peace and contentment.
The good days are coming soon. Why don't we write a letter to the team leader and ask them to come together? I remember that the family seems to have five or six large ships, but they have been parked at the dock because of the war. Now we can take them with us.
Come to Xiliang."
The woman frowned as she listened: "How can we write a letter to persuade the clan leader to move the clan? My husband, I know you also want the clan to live the life we live together, but the status of the two of us in the clan
It’s already light, and no one is going back. How can we get the clan leader and others to come together with just a letter?”
Is it time for the general to take action?"
An officer next to the commander of Xiliang in the jungle asked, "The soldiers of Xiliang headquarters are gearing up and ready to fight these trolls."
When the Xiliang soldiers met these trolls, a battle broke out between the two sides, but due to the suppression by the top leaders of both sides, there were no deaths on either side.
However, from the beginning of the fight, the Xiliang soldiers regarded these trolls as their enemies, and the pressure these trolls put on them was far stronger than the pressure put on them by the coalition soldiers.
The combat effectiveness of the elite troops of the coalition soldiers is similar to that of the soldiers of the 7th, 8th, and 9th legions of Xiliang. Only the ace troops in their hands and the monks from Xuanjie Buddhism put strong pressure on them.
The pressure is greater than the pressure put on them by the trolls in front of them, but those people will be handed over to the more powerful army in Xiliang. Ordinary armies like them can only deal with people like the seventh and eighth at most.
Enemies like legions.
Although strong men put a lot of pressure on them, they still like to fight against strong men. Only by fighting against strong men can they improve themselves, just like the guards who follow their lord.
They travel around and fight all year round, and their level and strength increase much faster than their other legions. Even the legions in the dark world cannot keep up with the imperial guards who follow their lord.
Moreover, the military merits obtained by killing those powerful enemies are much more than those obtained by killing ordinary soldiers.
The merits of killing these trolls in front of me are somewhat less than those of the two armies besieged in front of the mine, but only a little less. And destroy this troll race and take away the territory owned by this troll race.
Come down.
They will obtain a greater amount of military exploits. There are a large area of spiritual fruit trees in the area where these trolls are located. Those things are valuable and can be exchanged for a large amount of military exploits.
By taking down this spiritual fruit tree, their legion will receive a large amount of weapons, equipment and training resources, and these things will be given to them first when the time comes.
As a pure Xiliang Headquarters soldier, every Xiliang Headquarters soldier wants to become a Xiliang Cavalry and a Templar Knight.
But if they want to become cavalry, they need to go through layers of screening and have strong combat effectiveness, all of which require the support of weapons and equipment.
To improve combat effectiveness, you need to practice skills and kill enemies to gain experience points to increase your level. Just like in the chaotic world, most creatures can gain strength by killing other creatures.
These soldiers from the system already had such power when they were in the Mysterious World, so they improved their strength very quickly.
On the Chaos World side, the power gained by leveling up seems to be similar to the power they get. In fact, the gap between the two is very large. The power gained by the soldiers of Xiliang headquarters is far better than the power gained by leveling up here in the Chaos World.
