Chapter VIII The Land Question
"Your Highness, the soldiers are waiting for this day. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
Lu Fei laughed heartily, today's King of Qi is different from the past, and he has more closeness to the soldiers.
He is a bold person, if it weren't for Xiao Ming's troubles in the past, he wouldn't have despised Xiao Ming so much, now he doesn't know why Xiao Ming's personality has changed a lot, but this is good news for him, maybe he can continue to follow Xiao Ming for a while.
Li Kaiyuan gnawed on a bone, and the special aroma of horse meat made him not bear to swallow the meat directly, but chewed it carefully in his mouth.
He asked with a look of hope in his eyes: "Your Highness, it is said that this Chang'an City is very prosperous, can the people eat steamed buns?" ”
"It's not necessarily possible to eat it, but life is always more comfortable than ours." Xiao Ming said with a deep groan.
In Xiao Ming's view, the people at the bottom of any place in this Great Chongqing Country will not be very rich, and the Juntian Law of the Great Chongqing Country has long since collapsed, the land annexation is serious, many people are displaced, and thieves are swarming all over the world.
Dayu is like an old man in the twilight, exuding an aura of decay.
Qian Dafu recalled the life of Chang'an, and said, "It's just a wealthy businessman, there are more children of nobles, and prosperity is also said, at least as long as there is silver, you can buy whatever you want, unlike Qingzhou, where you can't buy salt even if you have money, or Aster went to the fief of King Wei to buy some back." ”
"Salt?" Xiao Ming suddenly said, how could this horse meat be white water meat, it turned out that it was because there was no salt in the palace, he said: "The east side of the fief is the sea, don't you understand the method of boiling salt in seawater?" ”
"Your Highness, it's not that the people don't understand the method of boiling salt, but since ancient times, this salt has always been an official camp, and selling illicit salt is a capital crime, and Your Highness, you don't pay attention to the official salt of this fiefdom, so ......," Qian Dafu said euphemistically.
Xiao Ming blushed for a while, it turned out that this was all the sins created by Xiao Ming before.
In the fiefdom for five years, this guy has not asked about the world, and has not thought of how to build his own fief at all, but is just blindly greedy for pleasure, and many institutions in the fief have not been established.
With a long sigh, Xiao Ming said: "In this case, when Pang Changshi comes back, let him prepare for the establishment of this salt transportation department and set up official salt in Dengzhou and Laizhou." ”
"Your Highness is wise." Qian Dafu was overjoyed in his heart, and King Qi was finally enlightened now.
Twilight gradually enveloped Qingzhou City, and before the sun set, Lu Fei and Li Kaiyuan went back with their soldiers.
They still need to patrol at night, and there is a curfew in the night city of Dayu Kingdom, and the same is true for this Qingzhou City.
At this time, the palace was dark, only two or three rooms were lit by candlelight, and the lack of fiefdom materials also made the palace not have so many candles that were luxurious enough to light every corner.
In the side hall of the palace, where the servants lived, smoke was rising, and servants carrying firewood were coming in and out.
As soon as he turned the front hall, the pothos suddenly appeared in front of him, the night was dark, if it weren't for her green clothes, he really couldn't tell the difference.
"Your Highness, the hot water is ready, your Highness must be tired of capturing the barbarians today, Your Highness should take a bath and change clothes early and rest." Pothos said softly.
It has been three days since I came to this strange world, and every night is the time that Xiao Ming hates the most, and the night without entertainment is too boring.
Occasionally, one day is just a day, but now it's been like this for three days in a row, and he really can't stand it anymore.
He looked at the pothos, there was no way, if it continued like this, he would probably go crazy, and he could only tease the two maids.
The side hall on the side of the dormitory is where Xiao Ming specially bathes, and he followed the pothos back, a large wooden barrel of hot water has been prepared, and Aster is standing by the wooden pass waiting for Xiao Ming.
After three days of life that is not even as good as a sling, Xiao Ming is finally a little psychologically comforted now, at least this prince still has a maid to serve, which has to be envied by how many single dogs roll on the ground.
"Your Highness, the slave and maid are dressed for you." Aster and pothos stepped forward.
Xiao Ming straightened up and stretched out his arms, he didn't take a bath every day, in this evil ancient world, taking a bath was also quite a luxury.
Drawing water from the well and boiling water required a lot of servants, and there were only ten people in his palace who were rich and rich.
These ten men undertook all the sanitation, food, and miscellaneous work in the palace.
And the area of his palace is not small, there are two hundred meters from north to south and east to west, and in Qingzhou City, Qi Wangfu is the only luxurious building.
Squinting his eyes, Xiao Ming enjoyed the personal service of pothos and aster, and for the first time since the crossing, he felt that it was worth it.
Pothos and Aster blushed, they used to just serve Concubine Zhen, how had they ever seen a man's body, and their emotions such as shyness, fear, and curiosity were repeatedly intertwined.
But they knew in their hearts that since Concubine Zhen gave them to King Qi, they were already King Qi's people, and they could only suppress the shyness in their hearts.
"Do you want to wash together?" Xiao Ming smiled very evilly.
Luluo lowered her head, didn't dare to speak, and Zi Wan said crisply: "Your Highness, don't worry, Niangniang has ordered, when Your Highness gets married in the future, Luluo and I will be His Highness's people sooner or later." ”
Xiao Ming is just teasing them to find some fun in their boring lives.
Sitting in the hot water bucket, his eyes glanced at Aster more, this Aster is more bold than Pothos, and the explanation in Concubine Zhen's letter seems to have such a clause.
"Just kidding, don't take it seriously." Xiao Ming said while taking a bath that he was not yet a sperm worm and knew what the focus was now.
After a pause, he asked Aster, "Aster, this king asks you, if you want to make this king's fief rich, what is the most important thing at the moment?" ”
Aster was surprised that King Qi would ask her this question, and instinctively replied, "Aster is a woman, how can she understand these things." ”
"This king commands you to answer." Xiao Ming frowned, at this time, he still followed the principle that a woman is virtuous if she is not talented, and Aster's answer was not what he expected.
Stunned for a moment, Aster was afraid that King Qi would commit his previous perverse temper again, and said, "Land." ”
Xiao Ming nodded, the threat of the northern barbarians and the intrigue of the princes seemed to have little time left for him to develop.
In the past few days, he has been thinking about it, and the first thing he has done is to solve the matter of the land.
In ancient times, there was a strange phenomenon in any dynasty, that is, the people were always more than the land, and once a large-scale land annexation appeared, it basically heralded the end of the dynasty.
At present, the same is true of his fiefdom, a large area of high-quality land is monopolized by local nobles, and many people have no land to cultivate, and now he has to solve this problem first thing.
At the same time, the second problem he has to solve is the inheritance of knowledge, and he guards a science and technology library, which is simply a tyrannical thing.