Abandoned Prince Survival Guide

Xiao Yu felt that he was still a little too immature. A small granary fire case was left at a loss, and Min Chong had to solve it in the end.

My own ability is insufficient, and there are too few capable people available. What should I do if I want to really govern a country in the future?

Pei Linzhi knows how to fight, but the country he conquered also needs to be governed.

No matter how capable Min Chong is, he is only one person, and it is impossible to cover everything.

After thinking about it again and again, Xiao Yu decided to gnaw at Wang Qi's tough bone.Small officials and officials can be replaced through the selection test, but it takes time for them to grow up. In this vacuum stage, he still needs the assistance of someone who can hold the field.

Wang Qi's popularity and prestige among the officials in Guangzhou seems to be quite high. This person is indeed smooth and sophisticated, but he definitely has abilities. If he can use it for himself, it would be great.

He felt that Wang Qi's attitude softened a little last time.It's just that Wang Qi may have too many worries. Although he is a branch of the Wang family in Taiyuan, this branch is also a big family in Anguo. If the news of him taking refuge in himself spreads to Jianye, it is estimated that the Wang family in Jianye City will suffer.

The next day is the winter solstice, the streets in the city are completed, and the festive atmosphere is unprecedentedly strong.Every house is decorated with lanterns and streamers, not only to celebrate the festival, but also to celebrate the completion of the street.

Xiao Yu specially invited Wang Qi's family to take a stroll along the main street of Panyu City.

Although he didn't get out of the car, Wang Qi could still see the scene on the street from the carriage. He was very surprised, but he said: "Every new official wants to build a bridge and pave a road to show his ability. , leaving behind a little political achievement.”

Xiao Yu smiled indifferently: "That's better than doing nothing, isn't it?"

Wang Qi also said: "The wool comes from the sheep. You paid all the taxes in Guangzhou and spent it in Panyu. Is it fair to other people?"

"I recruited all the peasants in Panyu City. All the tools and materials were paid for by themselves. I only ate some rice from the official granary. It seems that there is no unfairness to the people of Guangzhou." Xiao Yu said.

Wang Qi silently looked at Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu said: "By the way, I plan to abolish the poll tax from next year. Regardless of whether it is public or private, the tax will be uniform, and each mu will be charged two buckets."

Yazhou has three crops a year, so it takes three dou, and Guangzhou has two crops a year, so it takes two dou.

If it is not for preparing for war, there is no need to collect so much food.When the world is in peace, the tax can be reduced and exempted to recuperate.

Wang Qi squinted at him: "You started to cut taxes before the world is settled, so you don't want to fight this battle?"

Xiao Yu said with a smile: "Re-measure the land, and all the reduced taxes will be there." Over the years, the local tyrants have embezzled and concealed how much land, and there are many newly reclaimed land that have not been taxed. scope.

Wang Qi shook his head: "You can't do a new measurement."

"Why?"

"It's extremely serious in the local government to conceal and lie. The small official only reports the data, and you can't go and check it yourself. How can you be sure that what he reported is true or false?"

Xiao Yu said: "Prepare two sets of measurement teams to measure separately. If the reported number deviates too much, you will be held accountable."

Wang Qi said: "How do you ensure that the local government does not collude with them?"

"That doesn't bother Mr. Wang." Xiao Yu continued to smile.

Xiao Yu stopped the car and asked Ji Hai to go down and buy some snacks and toys for Wang Qi's children, a lotus leaf chicken for Mrs. Wang, and a jug of wine for Wang Qi, which was regarded as a winter solstice gift.

When sending the person back to the door, Xiao Yu gave Wang Qi a roll of paper: "I made this paper in Yazhou. Give it to Mr. Wang's children to practice calligraphy."

Wang Qi opened it, looked at the snow-white paper, stretched out his hands and twirled it, and was sure that it was not silk cloth. He said in disbelief, "This is paper made by His Highness himself?"

Even though he was born in a family, he has never seen such white, delicate and uniform paper, let alone for children, even he himself may not be willing to use it.

Xiao Yu said with a smile: "I also exchanged this paper for foreign exchange. In the future, I will use it to exchange horses with the barbarians in the north."

For the first time, Wang Qi felt that Xiao Yu might be a little naive, but he was definitely not a worthless idiot, and he had something to rely on.

Xiao Yu said: "Your Excellency, go home and have a good holiday, I won't accompany you."

Wang Qi waited for his wife and children to get out of the car first, and then said: "Is there a clue to the case of the granary fire?"

Xiao Yu shook his head: "Not yet. Sir Wang, would you like to mention something?"

Wang Qi said: "The method of weaving official grain sacks is different from that of the folk. Your Highness will observe carefully, and you may find some clues." He went down after he finished speaking.

After Xiao Yu finished listening, he laughed: "Thank you, Mr. Wang, for your reminder."

The children rushed into the yard with their toys, and Mrs. Wang stood at the gate of the yard waiting for her husband, and the husband and wife entered the yard when the carriage left.

Mrs. Wang said: "Your Majesty's temperament is extremely benevolent. I think he is a virtuous corporal."

Wang Qi turned his back: "How can a benevolent person gain a foothold in troubled times?"

Xiao Yu conveyed the information he learned from Wang Qi to Min Chong and Xiao Yao, and the two of them used this as a clue and contacted Lin Hong to start planning.

Min Chong sent people to Guangzhou to buy grain pretending to be grain merchants from the north. They first contacted the Lin family, and then found the Chen family. After comparing the two, they decided to buy grain from the Chen family.

The Chen family was worried about Chen Li's affairs and wanted to dispose of a batch of grain. It happened that this batch of grain was the official grain that had been burned in the granary in the north of the city.

While the transaction was in progress, Xiao Yao led his troops over and got all the stolen goods, and more than [-] catties of official grain from the Chen family's granary.

Xiao Yao interrogated Chen Li and the head of the Chen family, who had been detained for a long time, respectively. The two men had not ventilated beforehand, and their confessions were full of loopholes.

Xiao Yao frightened and lied repeatedly, and finally the two couldn't bear the pressure, and admitted that they had exchanged the Chen family's old grain for the government's new rice.

At about the same time, after unremitting efforts, Lai Feng finally found a breakthrough from one of Chen Li's followers.

After that guy lost all his money in the casino, he went to blackmail Chen Li's son, and was caught by Lai Feng. He confessed that he killed the two guards, and Chen Li was the one who ordered him to kill.

Chen Li exchanged the Chen family's moldy rice for new rice from the government. In order not to expose his whereabouts, he set fire to the granary and killed two guards who knew it.Chen Li was sentenced to death for false public benefit, knowingly breaking the law, killing for life, and punishing several crimes.

The Chen family disregarded the king's law and embezzled public food, and the amount was huge. In addition to confiscating the stolen food, they also confiscated their property.

The head of the Chen family made a decisive decision and broke up with Chen Li, saying that the [-] catties of grain belonged to Chen Li himself, not the Chen family, and Chen Li had already separated from the family.This food was also sold by the Chen family instead of Chen Li, and even the house deed and land deed were taken out.

Even if the more than [-] catties of grain are produced twice a year, it means that at least nearly [-] mu of land is needed to produce it.

The Chen family was also straightforward, cut off their wrists to protect the family, and handed over the land lease of two thousand mu of land.

When Xiao Yu saw the land deed, he sighed, "The Chen family is really rich, and the two thousand mu of land is only one-fifth of their property. This does not include shops and houses." He opened a farm in Baisha Village. With hundreds of acres of land, everyone feels that they are big landlords, but compared with the Chen family, it is really a piece of cake.

Pei Linzhi said: "With two thousand acres of land, there is no injury to the bones at all. But the effect of knocking the mountain and shaking the tiger has been achieved."

Xiao Yao asked: "Brother Huang, what are you going to do with this land? It's two thousand acres, and it's all connected with the upper fields."

Xiao Yu said, "Let's recruit those who have no land to cultivate."

People who farm land, regardless of whether they are government or private, pay two buckets of rice as a tax, but tenant farmers who lose their land will be exploited one more way, which is the rent from the landlord.

The landlord’s rent is usually much higher than the tax. Generally, the landlord requires tenant farmers to pay [-] to [-] cents, or even [-] to [-] cents to [-] to [-] cents.

In other words, tenant farmers are usually working hard for the landlord to make ends meet.

Chen Li's case has sent a signal to the rich in Guangzhou that Xindi is not a fuel-efficient lamp, so don't hit the muzzle of the gun, as long as you are caught, you will lose a layer of skin if you don't die.

For a while, the aristocratic families settled down a lot, and there were even fewer public security incidents of fighting and fighting.

After Chen Li's case was settled, New Year's Day had already passed, and spring had arrived.

The year's plan is spring, and everyone is getting busy.

Xiao Yu was busy preparing for the selection exam in March, and was preparing to open a school in Guangzhou; Pei Linzhi was busy training soldiers, trying to win Jiaozhou within this year; Min Chong was busy counting the population and land in Yazhou and Guangzhou.

Although the poll tax has been abolished, it is still very necessary to grasp the population size and structure. Manpower is the greatest productivity in this era, and military strength also depends on manpower.

Population statistics do not directly relate to interests, but it is easy to count, and perhaps only the servants raised by certain aristocratic families cannot be included in the statistics.

However, land statistics are directly related to tax collection. Aristocratic families usually deliberately conceal the amount of land in order to reduce taxes.

That's why Xiao Yu said to measure it twice.Once, the imperial court personally dispatched a surveying team to measure the total number of acres in a village, and a team composed of local officials to measure the number of acres in each family.

In the end, the quantities of the two sides are checked for the last time. If the difference is too serious, the local officials should be replaced.

The manpower to measure the land was selected by Min Chong from the army, and the selection examination had not yet started, and they were not available, and they could only use soldiers.

The method of opening schools is in accordance with the old law of Yazhou. The number of schools is counted, the government funds the construction of schools, and recruits scholars to be teachers.

As soon as these one after another policies were promulgated, the people of Guangzhou gradually realized that there were still some changes after changing the emperor.

Xiao Yu also planned to invite a group of master carpenters from Yazhou to come to Guangzhou to repair drum carts and improve irrigation and rice pounding conditions.

After the first month, scholars from other counties came to Panyu to take the exam.The brothels and brothels in the city are also becoming more and more lively, a bit like the ancient imperial examinations.