After three years of enfeoffment, the waste prince shocked the court boss

Li Su explained.

In order to make it easier for Pan Wanyi to see the scenery outside, Li Su simply put on a horse, hugged Pan Wanyi in front of him, and walked towards Prince An's Mansion.

"His Highness is back, this is the princess, she is so beautiful!"

"Your Highness, you are finally back, I miss you so much, when did you accept me?"

The people by the road greeted Li Su warmly when they saw Li Su.

Li Su also responded one by one, but some people's words made Li Su a little overwhelmed.

The folk customs of Lingnan Mansion are simple but aggressive, after all, it is Li Su who is tender-faced.

Prince An's Mansion.

"Your Highness, Ziyuan misses you so much!"

As soon as Li Su entered the door, he was thrown into his arms by a soft and soft jade body.

"Okay, I'm back now."

Li Su fondled Zi Yuan's head.

Ziyuan was a little beggar Li Su picked up on the road when he came to Lingnan three years ago.

A disgraced little girl back then is now slim and graceful.

For the past three years, Ziyuan has been taking care of his daily life, this time he didn't take her to the capital, which made Ziyuan unhappy for a while.

"Come and see the princess."

Li Su pulled Zi Yuan to Pan Wanyi.

"The slaves see the princess."

Ziyuan bowed to Pan Wanyi.

Pan Wanyi quickly took Zi Yuan's hand, she also liked this clever little girl very much.

On the way here, Li Su gave her a general introduction to the people in Prince An's Mansion.

Among them, from the way Li Su introduced Ziyuan, it can be seen that this little girl is very important to Li Su.

Pan Wanyi, who was born in a family of officials and officials, naturally knew how to be slick in all directions, whether it was Ziyuan or other people in Prince An's Mansion, they all felt like spring breeze.

Chapter 32 Labor shortage

Since returning to Lingnan, apart from taking time to accompany Pan Wanyi to get acquainted with the surroundings for half a month, Li Su devoted himself to the government affairs of the fiefdom.

Now that we have decided to do something for this era, let's start by changing Lingnan.

Chamber.

"Your Highness, since the cultivation of corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes was promoted three years ago, these three crops have now been spread throughout Lingnan Prefecture."

Cao Youde bowed and reported to Li Suhui.

The current operating system of Lingnan Prefecture is somewhat nondescript.

Originally, Cao Youde was just a county magistrate randomly sent by the imperial court to manage the city of Lingnan Prefecture, but now Li Su has arranged to take charge of the government affairs of the entire Lingnan Prefecture.

In addition to the prefectural city, Lingnan Prefecture also has jurisdiction over the four prefectures of Miaozhou, Yunzhou, Hezhou, and Jiazhou. It stands to reason that there should be a prefect, four prefectures, and supporting officials.

However, the imperial court did not have enough control over Lingnan at the beginning, and the other four prefectures were basically covered with mountains and forests, sparsely populated, and the people were rebellious.

People in various states have never paid taxes or food, and depended on the sky for their food, and have nothing to do with the imperial court. Some people even don't know what the current reign name is.

It was only after Li Su came that he took the opportunity of promoting the seeds of the three crops to get in touch with the mountain people in various states.

It was not until a year and a half ago that government offices were established in each state, counties were demarcated, and Li Su appointed officials to be in charge of the affairs of each state.

Later, Li Su saw that Cao Youde was a good hand in managing government affairs, and the states basically had no major issues at present, so he simply let him continue to be in charge of the government affairs of the four states.

Therefore, there is also a strange phenomenon that a Qipin county magistrate acts as the mansion master and manages the government affairs of the whole territory of Lingnan.

The vassal king did not have the power to appoint prefects and prefects, and had to be appointed by the court, so whether it was Cao Youde or the officials of the four prefectures, their names were not right.

"It's all popularized, isn't that a good thing?"

Li Su sat at the head and said.

"It's a good thing. At present, the grain production around my Lingnan Prefecture is oversupplied, and ordinary people have tens of thousands of catties of grain piled up in their homes. But...

But the weather in Lingnan is hot and humid, so I really can't keep so much grain. I went to see the grain purchased from the official warehouse, and even some of last year's grain was moldy. "

Cao Youde said bitterly.

"This is indeed a problem." Li Su pondered.

Everywhere in Dagan is worried about not having enough food to eat, but in Lingnan Prefecture, the worry is that there is too much food to keep, and everyone has their own worries.

"Your Highness, the number of merchants who have come to my prefecture recently has doubled compared to last year.

After I inquired, they were all businessmen from the capital. Many of them came here for spirits, glass, soap, etc. from my Lingnan mansion. The order volume increased sharply, but at present, the output of my Lingnan products can't keep up. up. "

Wang Fu Liu Lindao, he is mainly responsible for the taxation and business of Lingnan Prefecture.

"That's not right, spirits need food, so increase production capacity.

That soap also needs a lot of lard, so that people can raise more pigs, and it can also consume food. Isn't this killing two birds with one stone? "

Li Su was puzzled.

"My lord, the key is that there is no one! The city is full of people, but the population is only [-], and the rest are merchants.

Now it's spring plowing time again, everyone has gone home to farm, let alone raising pigs, even the workshops are hard to recruit now.

Some workshops and wharves offered a salary of three taels of silver for recruiting workers, but they still couldn't recruit people. "

Cao Youde complained.

When the capital economy develops to a certain scale, there will inevitably be a shortage of labor, especially in the current era when the people's thinking of small farmers is relatively heavy.

"It would be great if the people could be freed from farming."

Li Su sighed.

At present, agriculture still mainly relies on manpower and ox power. Due to the countless land reclamation in Lingnan Prefecture in recent years, manpower and ox power have long been stretched.

"Oh, yes, there is a solution." Li Su suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of a solution.

"You just need to be like this, like this." Li Su said to Cao Youde and Liu Lin.

……

The capital is thousands of miles away.

East Palace.

"boom!"

A front-facing vase was slammed onto the ground.

"It must be him! It must be him! I'm going to kill him!"

Li Yan's hair was unkempt at this time, as if he had lost the demeanor of a prince.

After returning from the Peach Blossom Temple banquet, he discovered that something was wrong with his body.

At first, I thought I was overworked, so I asked the imperial doctor to prescribe some medicines.

But after half a month, his body still hasn't improved, and he has realized something.

No matter how many women he found, there was no response.

Reminiscent of the scene he saw before he fainted that day, he had faintly realized that he might have drank the poisoned wine.

After he came back that day, he asked the princess what happened after he fainted, and the princess only said that she was too drunk to fall asleep.

At this moment, he didn't know where he was, he must have been poisoned.

Thinking that he would not be able to have his own children in the future and lose the qualifications to be a man, Li Yan felt a chill.

"No! There must be a way! There must be a way." He said to himself.

As the crown prince of a country, if he has no fertility and cannot leave offspring, then the important ministers in the court and Emperor Qian will never support him as a prince.

A prince who can't let Guozuo pass on stably should not stay in that position.

"No one should ever know about this."

Li Yan became crazy when he thought that he was found unable to leave any descendants and was deposed by his father as the crown prince.

"That bitch must not be telling the truth!"

Li Yan remembered that he watched the four of them drink down the wine.

Even if the wine had been changed, someone must have taken that estrus drug.

Thinking that he might be greened, and it would be equivalent to personally sending him to Li Su's door to let Li Su green him, Li Yan became furious.

He rushed to Zhong Minyao's bedroom.

At this time, Zhong Minyao was sitting in front of the dressing table looking at herself in the mirror in a daze.

That mirror was bought by myself at the Lingnan Fair.

Seeing the mirror made in Lingnan, Zhong Minyao unconsciously thought of that man and what happened in Peach Blossom Temple.

The corners of the mouth subconsciously rose slightly.

"Bitch! You tell me what happened!"

The prince rushed into the bedroom full of anger, and walked towards Zhong Minyao.

Before Zhong Minyao could react, she was pinched by Li Yan's neck with one hand, unable to speak.

"Did something happen to you and that bastard Li Su? Tell Gu! Or Gu will kill you!" Li Yan said with red eyes.

"No, no~ yes~ you let go~ let me go." Zhong Minyao couldn't breathe from being pinched.

During the recent period, she has already known about the inhumanity of the prince, and also vaguely guessed that it might have something to do with the Peach Blossom Temple.

Looking at the prince's crazy appearance at this time, I couldn't help but feel contempt in my heart.

"I~have~pregnant~." Zhong Minyao looked at the prince and said.

She was betting that the prince would not dare to spread the matter, betting that the prince needed a child now.

"what!"

Hearing this, Li Yan's eyes regained a bit of clarity.

"Is it that beast's!" Li Yan increased his strength.

"It's ~your~" Zhong Minyao said.

"Yes, it's an orphan, that is, an orphan child!" Li Yan had already regained his senses at this time.

No matter what the truth is, this child must be his, otherwise he will lose the crown prince.

"Huh~" Zhong Minyao breathed a sigh of relief, she was right.

Both yourself and the child are safe.

……

Chapter 33 Come, I'll Teach You to Be an Official

Xingzhou belongs to Guangyang Prefecture and is next to Lingnan Prefecture.

The two places are separated by mountains, and the only official road connecting the two places was cut off because of the earth dragon turning over.

On a small road leading to the farmland, two rich middle-aged men in long gowns were strolling along.

"Shenxi, you will also become an official in the future, the old man will tell you a reason today."

The slightly fat middle-aged man stroked his beard.

"My lord, please speak, and the students are all ears." The middle-aged man named Shen Xi said respectfully.

The two were none other than Lu Daoji, the magistrate of Xingzhou, and Sun Shenxi, his aide.

This time, the two came to the field to observe the people's sentiments and check the spring plowing.