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Chapter 494 Development of the court

Xincheng has made great progress in the past six months, and Datang has also been making progress!

At the beginning of the year, Feng An had already repelled the Liao people, and he repelled the Liao people with minimal losses.

After repelling, Feng An sent his military divisions to lobby the Liao people, promising them the status of commoners in the Tang Dynasty.

This is just one point, but also a necessary point.Liao people don't value this, but the imperial court does!

Liao people are rarely engaged in production, and all resources basically come from nature!
There are few things like farming, and in the deep mountains and old forests, the breeding technology is also very backward.

The consultation lasted for a month, and Feng An offered to provide the Liao people with good land cultivation, and they were led by experienced personnel.

Liao people do not have to pay taxes for five years, and they are provided with food subsidized by the imperial court for the first two years.

Under the promise of a series of benefits, Liaoren finally came out of the mountain!All the promised conditions have been fulfilled, but...

The Liao people were divided into hundreds of small villages and distributed in various states and counties in Lingnan. This is also for safety reasons. Who knows if these Liao people will give birth to a rebellious heart again!

The reason why the imperial court was able to provide enough food to the Liao people was because the first batch of food in Linyi had already been harvested!
Linyi is not a big place, but it can't bear to produce grain!

The first batch of grain was tributed to Datang with 50 shi, which is not much for the entire Datang, but it is enough to meet the needs of those bureaucrats!

And this is only the first batch, Linyi's rice is cropped three times a year!

Calculated in this way, there will be 150 million shi of grain a year!
When the court got the news, it almost went crazy!

All the officials were happy, and praised each other for the correctness of the policy of helping Lin Yi.But few people thought that such a big receipt could come from one person's proposal!
It is impossible to transport so much food back to Chang'an, so half of the 50 stone generals from Linyi were handed over to Feng An to appease the Liao people, and half were transported to Shannan Road.

The same is true for the subsequent grain arrangements, which are transported to Jiangnan Road and Huainan Road respectively.

And these three grains were all shipped to the north to supplement the counties and counties in the north that lacked grain.

There are two kinds of corn and potatoes. Now potatoes are slowly spreading in the north of Datang, while corn is spreading in the south.

Due to the order of the imperial court, all the potatoes and corn received in the past two years were used as grain.Those farmers who cultivated these two kinds of fields at home were also exempted from some exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes.

Potatoes and corn did not occupy the people's permanent land, but were planted in private land.

After two years of accumulation, potatoes and corn have been planted all over Guannei Road, Henan Road, Hedong Road, Shannan Road, and Huainan Road.

After the goods are received this year, the people of Datang will be able to eat these two new grains!

Regarding some taboos about these two new grains, the government is also actively informing the people.

In order to avoid unnecessary losses after the advent of new grain.

The development of the imperial court in the past six months is more than that. The road construction plan has now spread throughout Jingzhao Mansion.

With the experience of Chang'an County, the Ministry of Communications dispatched more than a dozen teams of experienced officials from the Ministry of Communications to start road construction in various states and counties of Jingzhao Prefecture.

In order not to hinder the road construction plan, Li Er and several close officials decided to increase the toll time limit to 15 years, so that those who contributed to the road construction can have some benefits.

In addition, the imperial court came forward to erect monuments to all those who contributed to the road construction to show their merits. For a while, private merchants, wealthy households and even some nobles actively participated.

The people of Jingzhao Mansion also joyfully joined in the upsurge of road construction!
Guannei Road and even the surrounding roads hope to be repaired by them as soon as possible, but the project is too big, and the output of cement cannot keep up!

In this way, the imperial court no longer controls the cement formula. As long as you can produce qualified cement, the Ministry of Communications will send people to buy it.

As for the cement formula being lost to neighboring countries or hostile countries, Li Er has no fear at all!

Because his military base has now developed a bomb, not black powder!

The road repair plan is going smoothly, and the compensation plan is also going on!

In addition, Gaochang has sent cotton and seeds, and the fruit and vegetable garden in Chang'an County has now been built.

The people gathered from all the villages under the jurisdiction of Chang'an County are already plowing and fertilizing the land, and the fruit trees can be planted in the second half of the year.

And some greenhouses were built in the fruit and vegetable garden, and the people also began to grow various vegetables that were out of season or not suitable for growing in Chang'an County under the training of the personnel from the new city.

Cotton was also planted on the Guannei Road, all of which were planted on private plots, which did not delay the people from farming, and even removed some of the previous hemp and the like.

The common people knew little about cotton, but the imperial court ordered it to be planted and exempted miscellaneous taxes, so they were happy to accept it.

Because of Ding Yi's proposal to improve the tax policy, Zhongshu Sheng also worked out a plan.

But for the sake of caution, try it out in Shiping County first!
On the one hand, Siping is close to Xincheng, which is easier for the common people to accept. After all, this tax system was proposed by Sipinghou. After the revision by the Ministry of Education, it is still [-]% similar to Xincheng's taxation.

The taxation system revised by Zhongshu Province has eliminated the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes of the people, and there is no need to bite the bullet and complete the farming task every year in order to complete the tax!
The current tax system even lures the people to farm independently with various benefits, and at the same time introduces a large number of rotary tillers and other machinery from Junfeng Machinery.In this way, it can help the people to cultivate faster, and it can relieve people from the heavy farming affairs.

The annual labor labor of the people in Shiping County is also gone, but some taxes have been added, which is insignificant.

Taxes for the common people have been reduced, and taxes for merchants have also been reduced, but if you calculate them carefully, their taxes have increased!

However, the imperial court also imposed various restrictions on the merchants in Shiping, so that they could better develop their family business and business.

The people of Shiping rejoiced at this move of the imperial court, but there was opposition from many old scholars and some people who advocated maintaining the hierarchical system in the imperial court.

Forget about the new town, it's been abandoned there, there's no way around it, and you can't afford to mess with it!

And when Shi Ping did this, wasn't he announcing to the world that this scholar, agriculture, industry and commerce was going to be completely overthrown?
Three, six, nine, etc. are going to be completely broken?

In this way, wouldn't it be a joke for them to spend ten or even decades studying in vain?
After the book is finished, it becomes a joke to go all out to enter the court?

For this point, the Ministry of Education has already responded!

Shiping officials no longer enjoy the original salary, but redefine it!

A new assessment system was set up to assess the officials of Shiping, and the salary of qualified officials was increased by half, and they were eligible to recommend a learned person to the court to enter the officialdom in the year of qualification!
As a result, there was no voice of opposition from the DPRK and China.After thinking about it carefully, they will be able to develop their party members better by doing this!

However, all of this has long been calculated by Li Er!
These recommended people have a three-year inspection period before they can officially enter the court.

How could someone as intelligent as Li Er fail to think of this!
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(End of this chapter)