Traveling through books: Traveling through time with a golden finger to become a soft rice man

Combined with the current situation in Daning Dynasty, Yang Yuanzu understood the other party's intention, which was to behave with his tail between his legs and protect himself wisely.

After asking the patrolling guards on the way, Yang Yuanzu came to the Agriculture Department to report. The farmer took him to the office and ignored him. He was afraid that he would familiarize himself with the environment first and ask his colleagues if he didn't understand anything.

The onboarding process can be said to be much the same as the modern intern onboarding process.

The difference is that modern interns have to do all kinds of chores when they first join the company, and any veteran employee can do it.

Although Yang Yuanzu was not a high-ranking official, he was at least high-ranking. The people in the Agriculture Department really did not dare to deal with him casually, but they were busy doing their own things and ignored him.

Although there was no mission assigned by the superiors, Yang Yuanzu was not idle either. He found some books to read in the Agriculture Department.

The books in the Agriculture Department were basically about land area and crop cultivation. Yang Yuanzu didn't feel bored when he read them, and even found them a bit interesting.

Colleagues always chatted for a while during breaks. Yang Yuanzu pretended to be reading with his eyes, but his ears were not idle.

Through the chats of these people, Yang Yuanzu learned about the emperor's plans to build a summer resort and go south for vacation next year.

Other departments have little impact, but their household department has been under great pressure recently.

Whether it is a summer resort or a vacation south, the expenses are not small, especially with the recent empty state coffers.

The emperor was quite wise when he was young. While developing agriculture, he did not forget to make the country rich through commerce.

But since others began to enjoy life when they got old, the luxurious life of the emperor was enough to affect a country's revenue and expenditure.

As a gentleman of a country, you should be strict with yourself in everything you say and do, but today's monarch is doing the opposite regardless of the safety of the country.

He squandered the money in the treasury and watched the princes fighting below him.

Maybe it's because when people get older, they feel unwilling to let the rights they have fought for all their lives fall into the hands of others.

In short, the emperor is living a beautiful life regardless of the life and death of his household. The ships going south have to be built with all the grandeur, including pavilions, flowers, plants and trees.

The existing waterways cannot directly connect the north and south. In addition to ship repairs, going to the south also requires building waterways and roads, as well as housing issues along the way.

When taking the land route, the emperor would not be able to stay in the inn if it was not of high quality, so they had to build a resting place for the emperor, and the specifications and models should not be lower than royal standards.

Of course, construction is basically the responsibility of the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Household Affairs is responsible for paying for it.

In addition to the labor force for these tasks, it is also a large expense, and everything such as food, clothing, housing, and transportation costs money.

These are still apparent expenses, and there are still many miscellaneous things that have not been taken into account.

Yang Yuanzu wholeheartedly agreed with the construction of rivers and roads, as they were important transportation routes connecting the north and the south.

There is also a summer resort built by the royal family that may make money if it is used for tourism in the future, but the royal summer resort is not open to ordinary people according to the rules, so its investment is destined to not recover the cost.

In addition to these, the emperor also asked people to collect precious exotic animals and built the Baishou Garden.

It was originally called Baishou Garden but the emperor changed its name to Baishou Garden.

However, the Ministry of Construction of the Baishou Garden is also troubled, because various animals have their own living environment. If the construction is not good, the rare and exotic animals that were finally caught will not be in vain.

Working in vain for a while doesn't count. I don't know how many people up and down will be guilty of dereliction of duty or neglect.

In addition to the household department itself, there is still a lot of work to do, so everyone in the household department has been complaining a lot recently, busy and worried.

When Yang Yuanzu came, the Agriculture Department was trying their best to get the people to increase crop yields so that they could increase tax revenue.

The methods they used to increase production were still the fertilizer method mentioned by Yang Yuanzu before, and the Sixth Prince Microbiology Instrument, which was the high-yielding crop that Mr. Yi brought back from him.

These alone are not enough to quickly make up for the treasury expenditure, and the main part is still in taxation.

The tax administration department wanted to increase taxes, especially on merchants.

The taxes paid by merchants were already higher than those paid by farmers, and now they were much more taxed, which directly overwhelmed many merchants.

Lin Ting'an also received information about tax increases recently. Since business is good here, he can cope with the tax increase. Everyone in the chamber of commerce is in a similar situation to him.

Many small businessmen with average business are in misery, especially those who are still struggling to make ends meet. Some even want to abandon business and join farming, but their household registration leaves them with no way out, so they have no choice but to bite the bullet. Business continues on one path.

Many local small traders in the south heard about Lin Ting'an's Chamber of Commerce and came here for help.

If the current predicament is not solved, it may be their turn next, so Lin Ting'an and everyone in the chamber of commerce began to discuss a way out, and even began to study merger and acquisition strategies suitable for the current situation.

Closer to home, no matter how big the storm is outside, Yang Yuanzu is reading quietly in the years.

He is a new man, and those important things do not fall on him.

Yang Yuanzu read the fish scale book, that is, the land area book, for several days, and found no problems. The book was perfect.

The number of acres of land owned by those farmers at the bottom is almost the same. The amount of land is basically within a numerical range, and the area is evenly distributed, just like how the land was divided at the beginning.

But Yang Yuanzu knew that the land area of ​​the people was actually changing. For example, when his family was poor, they sold the acres of land owned by the family, and then redeemed it back after things got better, and even added some more acres.

The area of ​​the people's fields recorded in the fish scale book has basically not changed. At first glance, there is no problem. Yang Yuanzu flipped through the updated fish scale book in the same place, and the area also remained unchanged.

Yang Yuanzu guessed that there must be something wrong with this book. It would be very troublesome to verify the specific problems. He would need to re-measure the land himself.

This is not easy to say, and even harder to do, so Yang Yuanzu just looked at the fish scale booklet.

Other colleagues didn't care when they saw the newcomer Yang Yuanzu reading the fish scale booklet. It's impossible for a newcomer to just sit around and always find something to do to pass the time.

It was the same when they first came. Unless they were particularly diligent people, they would take the initiative to follow their bosses and compete for performance.

Yang Yuanzu came in as the number one scholar. Even if he was a bit stubborn and didn't do much, people just thought he was a scholar and was aloof and unwilling to curry favor with his superiors.