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There was a rush of footsteps, and Xiao Ming saw an elder with a round head and big ears and a blue round-necked robe trotting over and bowing in front of him and said.

This person is the housekeeper of the palace, Qian Dafu, and in his palace, he basically takes care of all the big and small affairs.

Xiao Ming trusted Qian Dafu very much, before he came to the fiefdom, Qian Dafu was his mother Concubine Zhen's most trusted guard, and Concubine Zhen sent him to Xiao Ming's side, also in order to have a subordinate who could support him with peace of mind.

"Might as well do it." Xiao Ming waved his hand, "Prepare the carriage, I'm going to go around Qingzhou City." ”

"This ......" Qian Dafu hesitated, but he knew that this prince had always had a good temperament, so he didn't dare to disobey, so he called someone to prepare a carriage for Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming walked to the main gate of the palace, a slightly old carriage had stopped at the door, and the carriage on the carriage was very small, like a box.

Such a shabby carriage is a bit out of place compared to the identity of King Qi, but Xiao Ming knows that the financial resources of the palace can only be like this now.

His current fiefdom has a total of six prefectures, namely Qingzhou, where the metropolitan governor's mansion is located, Laizhou and Dengzhou on the peninsula to the east, Yizhou to the south, Cangzhou to the north, and Yanzhou to the west.

The land of the six states seems to be a lot, but in fact, the territory is not big, the Shu land of the fifth prince Xiao Quan is under the jurisdiction of sixteen states, relatively speaking, he belongs to the poor peasantry.

And none of these six states are rich, according to the division of Shangzhou, Zhongzhou, and Xiazhou in Dayu, only Qingzhou, where his palace is located, is counted as Shangzhongzhou, and all other places are Xiazhou.

The difference between the top and the bottom is very large, and it is basically equal to the difference between municipalities directly under the central government, prefecture-level cities, and county and city levels.

Especially in Cangzhou in the north, it is patronized by the barbarians on the grassland every year, and even some barbarian cavalry will go deep into the fiefdom, three years ago, the barbarian cavalry has been plundering until Dengzhou.

The people of the fief are poor and weak, and they can't farm with peace of mind, so they can't collect taxes, and he still has six state armies and officials to feed, so it goes without saying that the fief finances.

Although Xiao Ming was stubborn in the past, he also knew the situation of his fiefdom, if it wasn't for Concubine Zhen rewarding him with a little silver tael every year, he might really drink the northwest wind.

Out of the palace, the carriage slowly moved along the streets of Qingzhou City.

Xiao Ming lifted the curtain of the carriage and carefully examined his fiefdom......

Qingzhou city north and south twenty miles, east and west is also twenty miles, a total of four city gates, the city is divided into thirty-six square districts, in the east and west sides of each two markets, respectively, the east market and the west market.

This square area is similar to the structure of the current community, with a wall and scattered houses, but each square area is the same size, like tofu blocks in a box.

"King Qi is here, go, go."

The carriage passed by a private square, and the three young men who had been basking in the sun were so frightened that they slipped back into the workshop.

Xiao Ming smiled bitterly, these are all people who were bullied and scared by Xiao Ming before.

But now he wasn't paying attention to that, but to their shabby and patched clothes.

Through the vision of a modern person, he saw that the people were basically similar to beggars.

When he arrived at Dongshi, Xiao Ming stopped the carriage and walked towards the market with his hands behind his back.

When Qian Dafu saw it, he immediately followed cautiously and looked around vigilantly.

The East Market and the West Market are similar to modern vegetable markets, and along the way, Xiao Ming saw very few goods in the East Market.

Basically, they are all wheat, soybeans, millet, clay pots, cloth, bamboo baskets, and the dazzling array of goods in Chang'an City are very different.

After walking around the East Market for a while, Xiao Ming went to the West Market again, which was basically the same, and generally speaking, the people's livelihood here was withering.

And this is still the most prosperous Qingzhou City in his fiefdom.

After a long morning, Qin Le basically walked all over Qingzhou City, and at noon, his stomach "growled".

I had to go back to the palace to eat.

"Your Highness, the old slave specially prepared vinegared celery and white flour steamed buns for you."

After holding his stomach and starving for a long time, Xiao Ming finally waited for lunch, and in his memory, such a meal was good.

Just look at Qian Dafu rubbing his hands, and the Adam's apple rolling, you can know how greedy he is.

This is the reality of his fiefdom, there is a serious shortage of living materials, not that there is no money, but that money cannot buy it, and it is happiness to be able to eat enough.

This kind of meal, it's nothing to eat once in a while, but it's terrible to eat it every day, in fact, don't look at Xiao Ming as a prince, very arrogant, but the standard of living is really not as good as modern **.

Xiao Ming is hungry now, he usually eats boiled amaranth and boiled spinach, and wants to eat stir-fried vegetables, I'm sorry, I only have vegetables, I can't buy oil.

Today's vinegared celery is also rare, otherwise Qian Dafu would have invited him to bring it over.

"Rare, rare." Xiao Ming pretended to be very happy, took the steamed bun and ate vinegared celery with tears in his eyes.

In modern times, he hated vinegared celery, but now eating it is a luxury.

I thought it was a pleasure to cross over, but I didn't expect that the landlord's family had no surplus food.

In the next three days, Xiao Ming was not idle, and went to the county near Qingzhou City, where there was basically a few thatched houses surrounded by earthen walls.

Not to mention the common people, there are many people who can't eat enough, and they can still eat steamed buns leisurely, which is already quite tall.

On the way back and forth, he often saw people digging wild vegetables in the fields to satisfy their hunger.

arrived in Dayu overnight, Xiao Ming didn't have any lofty ideals, but his fiefdom was like an embarrassment, and it was not as good as the contemporary slums, which made him very unhappy.

When he was in school, he liked to play the game of territory building, and watched his territory go from barren to prosperous little by little, which was a spiritual enjoyment.

And now that he has a real fiefdom, this fief is still so down, how can he bear it.

What's more, the steppe barbarians in the north always threaten his fiefdom, although his territory is not the key place for the steppe barbarians to plunder, but his fief is small and cannot withstand the toss.

Driving away the steppe barbarians is now a big deal for him, but he still has to do the things of building fiefdoms, strengthening cities, and hiding the wealth from the people, otherwise he may not be able to mix and eat, so he can only wait for death.

Besides, even if it wasn't for the people, he had to work hard to eat eggs every day and occasionally grill a meat skewer.

Otherwise, he would not have come to sin.

The three-day investigation allowed Xiao Ming to basically understand his fiefdom and sort out the first problem he needed to solve...... That's the problem of farming.

Although his scientific and technological knowledge contains a lot of industrial knowledge, everything is in vain if he does not have enough to eat, and this industrial country has also developed from an agricultural country.