The feudal lord is on Taobao every day

To be honest, Xie Jingan was more sad than shocked when he saw this scene. It's not that he has never seen people living in poverty, but it was just scattered, unlike in this era, where everywhere he looked, the people he saw along the way There were no fewer than a hundred people, but none of them was neatly dressed and had a ruddy complexion.

If it is said that Xie Jingan only wanted to live well in this era when he first time traveled, and he only wanted to use the Golden Finger to develop fiefdoms for a better life, then now he sincerely wants to use the Golden Finger to do something for the people under his rule, at least let They have no shortage of food and clothing, and have fields to cultivate.

With such a heavy heart, the team quickly came to the north gate. Because the feudal prince Shun Wang was going to travel far away, even with Xie Jingan's password, there were still many officials waiting to see him off on both sides of the official road at the north gate. Xie Jingan Lifting the curtain, I saw Wei Changshi who I met in the study last night.

Wei Changshi stood just after passing, but with a long beard, he looked a few years older than his real age, coupled with his short and fat figure, which is rare in this era, he was very eye-catching among the officials who saw him off.

According to Xie Jingan's initial thought, he would not stay at the north gate, so as not to accidentally miss out on greetings with many officials, but when the team went straight out of the north gate without stopping, Xie Jingan somehow thought of the dilapidated scene he had just seen , When my brain got hot, I yelled to stop.

There were attendants on both sides of the carriage, and when they heard Xie Jingan's voice, they immediately shouted an order, and the mighty team suddenly stopped slowly.

Xie Jingan suddenly yelled to stop, the accompanying officials of the royal residence and the Mozhou officials who were seeing him off at the north gate were startled. He beat him up.

After all, this King Shun has a violent temper, and his reputation for beating people when he disagrees has spread throughout the Zhou Dynasty. Even this time, the vassal was sent to this barren fief after being reprimanded and impeached by all the officials for beating people. Otherwise, depending on how favored that person is, no matter how bad it is, it will be a wealthy place like Fangzhou and Bazhou.

They didn't expect this ancestor to change, they just hoped that there would be fewer moths, and if they killed people in three days, they would be Amitabha Buddha. So this time King Shun was able to travel far, and they were more happy than worried. I want to be a little sorry for my colleagues in the three prefectures of Tanjiping, but a dead fellow Taoist is not dead, so long as this ancestor does not act as a demon in his own land, who cares where he is?

They even thought about sending the ancestor away at night and having a good meal in the yamen, as a celebration of getting a good night's sleep for a month or two, but they saw the ancestor leave the north gate and they The heart that had been carrying it all the time could be put down, but suddenly called to stop, and many people turned pale with fright.

Xie Jing'an, who was sitting in the carriage, didn't know what the officials outside were thinking. He was now thinking about what method to use to make the people feel better. He originally planned to wait until he came back from Tanzhou and spend a whole winter from The aristocratic family made some capital, so that he could start to implement his plan in the spring of next year.

But now that I have seen the situation in his fief, I feel that it is too slow, one autumn plus one winter, half a year, how many things can be done if it is used well.

But now that he was about to leave, he didn't have much time to think hard, so after much deliberation, Xie Jingan decided to start with the fields.

Like other dynasties in ancient times, the Great Zhou Dynasty was also dominated by agriculture, and its industry was still in a period when its strange skills and tricks were considered inferior and unacceptable by the whole people. Even though the development of industry could make his fief prosperous the fastest, he was not in Mo If the state sits in town, everything is in vain.

But vigorously developing agriculture and reclaiming land is different. Since ancient times, food has been the most important thing for people. Even the wealthy families of the current aristocratic families still spend a lot of money on farming. His decrees on industry may be ignored by the people below, but he Promulgated on agriculture, it will definitely be fully implemented.

Xie Jing'an has always been a man of action, he will do it when he decides, so he has thought about what decree to issue in his heart, and immediately raised the curtain of the car, and asked the followers in the car to call Wei Changshi over.

Hearing from the subordinates that when King Shun called him over, not only Wei Changshi was upset, but other officials from Mozhou also raised their hearts in their throats. They looked at Wei Changshi with sympathy, which seemed to be a foresight. When it comes to him, there is no return.

Even Wei Changshi himself felt a tragic emotion for no reason, his back straightened even more, and he thought about it for a while and waited for King Shun to lose his temper to find a doctor to see the injury. Unexpectedly, he had just arrived In front of the carriage, King Shun did not wait for the whip to be whipped, but he heard King Shun ask: "Now this king has thirteen prefectures, how many households and how many fields are there in total?"

Wei Changshi obviously did not expect that King Shun, who has always been indifferent to the management of the fiefdom, would suddenly ask these two sentences, and he was stunned for a moment, and then he was shocked when Xie Jingan asked again impatiently, feeling a little weird in his heart , said with trepidation and trepidation: "Reporting to Your Highness, there are 76 households in the thirteen prefectures under His Highness's jurisdiction, and 90 hectares of cultivated land, of which about [-] hectares are irrigated land, and the rest are all dry land."

While listening to Wei Changshi's reply, Xie Jing'an calculated in his mind that the number of households is 76. According to the minimum standard of three persons per household, it is 220 million people, 90 hectares of cultivated land, one hectare and one hundred mu, or 9000 million mu , In this way, on average, one class Dingfen field is about 39 mu.

At first glance, it seems that there are quite a lot of points for each class, but it is not the case. After all, the Great Zhou Dynasty is now an imperial society, and most of the interests of the entire country are controlled by the royal family and wealthy families, and the rest will be plundered by wealthy businessmen. Evenly divided into the hands of the people at the bottom, almost very few.

Not to mention that people in this era have a natural sense of fanaticism for farmland. Which aristocratic family has hundreds of acres of land in their hands, so every dynasty develops to a certain period, and there will always be more people than fields.

Once the people lose their fields, they either sell their sons and daughters to survive, or they go up to the mountains to find a mountain to fall into the grass and become bandits. In the long run, there will be fewer and fewer people who can pay taxes, and the taxes collected by the court will not be as good as one year. Year.

Taxes are less, but officials have to pay salaries, and the royal family has to eat and spend. In addition, if they don’t pay their classes, they have to support the huge lineage of clans. If the money is not enough, the court will increase taxes, which forms a vicious circle. .

Therefore, the demise of each dynasty was caused by the monopoly of farming land by wealthy families, and the common people had no land.

Although Xie Jingan's fief has 90 hectares of cultivated land, in fact, if you really count it, I'm afraid at least three-quarters of it are in the hands of wealthy families, and the population is not only as small as Wei Changshi said, half of Shandong, Although it was in ancient times, the population could not be as large as in modern society, but it is not enough for half of Shandong to have more than 200 million people. Even if Xie Jingan thought about it with his ass, he knew that there must be many who were bought by wealthy families and became unclassified.

Otherwise, how can we say that the wealthy family is the enemy of royal children like them?If they get more points, he will get less points, even if it's for profit, anyway, Xie Jingan will never be lenient when he tricks them.

He was full of malice in his heart and planned how to deal with those wealthy families in the future, but Xie Jingan didn't show it on his face, his expression was still indifferent, and his legs were weak when viewed from the outside, and he said, "This king wants to issue a government order to encourage the people to open up wasteland. All the barren fields reclaimed will be recorded in the name of the reclaimer, from generation to generation, and tax will be exempted for three years, what does Wei Changshi think?"

After Xie Jingan finished speaking, Wei Changshi remained silent for a long time. It wasn't that he objected, but that he was frightened. Whoever assisted a dude prince who only knew how to eat, drink, play and fight for several years, and was not interested in political affairs at all, suddenly Seeing that he was able to govern the fiefdom when he was enlightened, he would have been shocked and thought he was dreaming. If he hadn't been sure that the one in front of him was indeed King Shun, he would have thought that King Shun had been handed over.

Faced with Wei Changshi's shock, Xie Jing'an was also very guilty. He didn't know that his sudden actions would destroy the original owner's avatar and make Wei Changshi suspect him. I'm sorry for my status as a time traveler, and he later thought of the rights of the ancient vassal kings in the fief, and the prestige of the original owner over the years, so after hesitating for a while, Xie Jingan finally gritted his teeth and said .

Anyway, the body he is wearing is the King of True Shun, and it is not a fake. Don't be afraid that a King of True Shun will jump out to fight with him in the future, not to mention that his sudden temperament change is not unreasonable.

After comforting himself in this way, Xie Jingan's cautiousness was quickly brought to the bottom of his heart, and he continued to imitate the character of the original owner and said impatiently, "What? Is there anything wrong with this decree that the king wants to issue? "

It was only then that Wei Changshi was brought back to his senses by Xie Jingan's words, and he hurriedly cupped his hands and said respectfully, "Return to Your Highness, there is nothing wrong with His Highness's decree, I am just afraid that I will not be able to take on this important task, and bear His Highness's entrustment."

This sentence is really Wei Changshi's self-effacing, Xie Jingan naturally wouldn't take it seriously, but since his subordinates said so, Xie Jingan didn't listen to it and was unmoved, so he comforted him patiently, and urged him again and again. Under the watchful eyes of the officials in Mozhou, they slowly started to go north again.

After all, Xie Jingan still underestimated the bumps of the official road and overestimated the shock resistance of the carriage. He originally thought that by gritting his teeth, he could at least hold on until the team reached Zhuozhou, but after only two days of journey, he had already disregarded Master Liu's dissuasion. All have to ride horses.

Fortunately, even though the memory did not inherit from the original owner, the physical instincts were still there. Xie Jingan tried to ride the horse cautiously for half an hour, and he got used to it very well. Yes, you can gallop for a while when you are interested.

After walking like this for more than ten days, and it rained several times, Xie Jingan and his team finally arrived at the border of his fiefdom, Tanzhou.