The first Taoist priest of the Tang Dynasty

With the joining of the Qiang people, as well as the joining of Tang soldiers, and later the Lizhou business group joined, more and more people began to rush to Chaka.

Although, Chaka's salt production can only supply half of Tang's salt.

But Chaka's salt is snow essence, refined salt.

Moreover, the price was so low that it suppressed the salt road of the royal family's family and almost couldn't lift their heads.

Even more.

Zhong Wen also sent a letter to the Lizhou business group, preparing to develop towards the Chaerhan Salt Lake.

As for the future.

Don't think about it, the output of the two major salt lakes completely occupied the entire Tang Kingdom. No matter what the royal family or any other gentry, don't even think about taking the part of the salt road.

In the past, the aristocratic family controlled [-]% to [-]% of the salt roads in the Tang Dynasty, and the price was so high that the common people could not afford salt.

But with Zhong Wen's intervention.

The price of salt is indeed so low that it was unimaginable before.

It's like the price of salt in Chang'an City or other prefectural cities. From the previous nearly five pennies a bowl, now you can buy fine salt for less than one penny.

As for bitter salt, or large pieces of salt, the price is as low as five or six pennies for a stone.

On the other hand, Lizhou.

Having Zhong Wen as the governor helps them seek good fortune.

The price of salt is even lower to a terrible level.

Twenty Wen can buy a bowl of salt, and it is fine salt, which makes the people of Lizhou talk about Zhong Wen as the governor every day.

Just like now.

In a salt shop run by the Lizhou Business Group in Jinggu County.

"Man, why did the price of salt drop again today? Wasn't it twenty yuan a bowl before? How did it become fifteen yuan today?" A commoner came to buy salt with his own box and jar. The price of today's salt was hanging outside, and he asked the shop assistant.

"Guest officer, you don't know this. From this year onwards, every month in the future, all the salt shops in Lizhou will reduce their prices for one month. This is a way to celebrate the joy of innovation in Lizhou. , and, besides the salt shop, there are also county taxes, which will be reduced accordingly. As for the specifics, you have to go to the bulletin board of the county government to have a look." The guy smiled and said The people responded.

"Ah? There's still this matter, then I have to go and have a look." After hearing the words of the salt shop, the commoner didn't even buy salt, and went directly to the Jinggu county government office.

When he came to the bulletin board on the side of the county government office, it was already full of people.

The bulletin board is a place to post some new policies about Lizhou.

As long as there are any new policies or announcements, they will be posted on the bulletin board here.

Even, there are report boxes, suggestion boxes, etc. are placed on the side of the bulletin board.

As long as you have any grievances, or ideas and suggestions, etc., you can vote in it.

Although most of the people in Lizhou are illiterate at present.

But the little ones in their family have basically gone to school to learn how to read, and if they want to write some simple things, they can still do it.

Let's talk about the promotion of universal education in Lizhou.

Zhong Wen also worked hard.

In the past, because Lizhou was poor, the construction of the school had been delayed.

And a year ago, Zhong Wen directly made the decision to set up schools in all seven counties of Lizhou.

Zhong Wen must promote literacy education for all, even if all the money from the Lizhou government is paid in, Zhong Wen must promote this new policy.

However, although Zhong Wen's idea was good, it still couldn't resist the thoughts of the common people, the clans in various places, and the officials.

In the end, Zhong Wen had to compromise.

Children in Quanli Prefecture, as long as they want to study, or if their families agree, they can be sent to the school.

Although the people in Lizhou are getting richer and richer, it is not easy for the people to change their minds.

Many schools have been built, and many teachers and teachers have been invited.

But the children who entered the school are still less than half.

After all, the little baby in the common people's family still needs to help the family with work.

Moreover, the money for the ink, paper and inkstone is really not a small amount.

Although it is said that the school distributes it free of charge, the tuition fee for admission cannot be waived, and the tuition fee is twice a year, which is regarded as the cost of training.

Lizhou can't do free education.

Even if the Lizhou business group makes more money, there are still many places that need money.

For this reason, it has to be like this.

Today, Quanli Prefecture has implemented a new New Deal.

Celebrate the several years of Lizhou's reform, salt price reduction, tax relief and other new policies.

As soon as the people rushed to the bulletin board, they eagerly asked others: "Dare to ask, what is written on this bulletin board?"

"Didn't you hear what others said? From today, the price of salt in Quanli Prefecture will be lowered, and the tax will be reduced by five dollars. If the children in the family go to school, they can go to the county government to receive a subsidy of two yuan per person. And..." The resident of Jinggu County who was asked looked at the person who was asking the question, and it seemed that he was not a resident of the county.

After all, he must be a farmer if he is carrying a box and looking badly dressed.

However, he didn't look down on the farmer at all, but happily told the man the New Deal on the notice.

Along with the man's words, the common people sighed that they were pedantic.

There are five children in his family.

Although two of them are over ten years old, the other three are all under ten years old.

Reading and literacy, of course he wants all the children in the family to be able to read and write, but the family is not rich, and he has to spend ten pennies a year to send five children to school, not only for money, but also for the family manual labor.

But today, after the new policy comes again, Xiaowa will be subsidized twice a year, isn't that just free?For this reason, he regretted not sending his own baby to school.

Such a new policy, of course, came from the hands of Zhong Wen.

A small child is subsidized twice a year.

In other words, Zhong Wen is also trying to promote the literacy rate in Lizhou.

There are only 15 babies in Quanli Prefecture, from newborn to [-] years old.

For this little money, Lizhou can still afford it.

As for the two pennies for admission, it is for masters and gentlemen, and Zhong Wen will not receive it in the treasury of the Lizhou government office.

Such a scene was staged in all seven counties in Lizhou.

Some regret it, and some praise it.

Likewise, there is abuse.

And these abusers are naturally those literati who have studied for many years, but have not been hired and have made a fortune.

Of course, there are some old scholars.

In their bones, they don't agree with Lizhou's current New Deal.

Both men and women can enroll.

For them, this is deviant.

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for these people.

Whether it is Zhong Wen or the officials of Lizhou, they are basically ignored.

Of course, it is not known whether there are any officials who do not support the New Deal.

However, Zhong Wen doesn't care about these people.

The New Deal must be implemented, even if all those officials who do not support him are replaced, Zhong Wen must implement the New Deal.

Literate.

This is of great benefit to the future of Lizhou.

Not to mention the current literacy rate.

As far as Zhong Wen knows, in his previous life, there were still 6000 to [-] million illiterate people, which is about the same as the population of Tang Kingdom today.

In that era, education for all had been implemented for so many years and still had such a huge base. It is conceivable how low the literacy rate was in ancient times.

Whether it is an official or an official.

In short.

It is necessary to implement the New Deal.

Zhong Wen is the governor of Lizhou, he has the power to make a decision with one word, no matter who it is, he has to obey his command, even if you appeal, there is no way.

With the changes in Lizhou in recent years, Baiqisi's reports are always sent to Chang'an from time to time.

For this reason, Li Shimin always has a smile on his face every time he sees Lizhou's memorial.

For Zhong Wen, the governor he appointed, he thought that he had chosen the right person, and, in such a short period of time, Lizhou could be managed like a wealthy state capital in the south.

Moreover, as far as he knew, the money of the Lizhou business group was almost enough for the treasury of the Tang state.

Li Shimin also had the idea of ​​assigning several states near Lizhou to Zhong Wen to manage, but as soon as this idea came out, it was severely resisted by those important officials in the court.

For this reason, Li Shimin felt very helpless.

As the king of a country, he needs to act according to the face of the officials below. The emperor's actions are indeed a little passive.

The aristocratic family is too powerful.

The hands are also extended enough.

On the contrary, the rise of Lizhou made Li Shimin feel relieved.

Xu Fu who is far away in Chang'an City.

The past two years have also been very tiring.

And two years ago, Xu Fudao really took a wife and started a family. Now, he also has a son who is less than one year old.

Every day, his face is full of excitement, and he always wants to hug his son from time to time.

Although Xu Fu has a son, he is busy in and out every day.

The four restaurants in Chang'an City make a lot of money every day.

He even opened restaurants to Luoyang and the south.

In two years, from the original four restaurants, it has grown to ten restaurants today.

If it wasn't for Xu Fu's ability, he would probably only be guarding four restaurants.

"Get ready, you will be leaving soon, don't worry about the time, the one-month trip, you have to arrive in Lizhou no matter what." At this time, Xu Fu was arranging the ceremony to be sent to Lizhou.

In another month, it will be the Dragon Boat Festival.

Every year, as long as it is before the festival, Xu Fu will buy some things as in the past and send them to Lizhou.

But at this time, Li Shan came to the outside of the County Marquis Mansion on horseback.

When Li Shan looked at the many carriages, he knew in his heart that this was a gift from Xu Fu to Lizhou.

"Commander Li is here, what can I order?" As soon as Li Shan came, Xu Fu rushed to meet him.

Li Shan, that's Xu Fu's witness.

When Xu Fu got married, because Zhong Wen couldn't come, he had to let his younger brother Li Shan witness the marriage, which was considered a loss of Xu Fu's face.

"Xu Fu, are you sending this to Lizhou?" Li Shan asked knowingly.

"Yes, Commander Li, it will be the Dragon Boat Festival in a month or so. I have prepared some gifts and sent them to Lizhou." Xu Fu replied.

"Well, I happen to have some things from my house to send over." Li Shan said.

What Li Shan gave was naturally a gift.

Because of his inconvenient position, he couldn't go to Longquan to visit his Master Jiao, so he had to be sent off by Xu Fu.

Only when it was New Year's Eve would he, Li Shan, go to Longquan Temple in person.