"A powerful minister means someone who is in power and is domineering."

Yan Yang shook his head, "You are in power, but you are not domineering, and you don't like to get things done."

If it was his usual style and all four poisonous salt mines were occupied by you, how could you give up Zhuxichuan and Longqing Mountain?Nowadays, many salt merchants, as well as the noble families who support them, have begun to send people to Zhuxichuan and Longqing Mountain for exploration.

"Report - a secret letter from Baidi City Express, please sign for it by Her Royal Highness the Princess."

A messenger delivering official documents at the post station rushed to the Hubu Yamen at high speed. His face was dusty and dusty, his face was covered with sweat, and his hands were holding a secret letter that was covered with customs protection and sealed with fire paint.

"Thanks for your hard work."

Mu Tingxue gave the station officer ten taels of silver and a bowl of iced sour plum soup.

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

The officer was overjoyed after receiving the reward.

It was already mid-June, and the sun was blazing. Thinking that it was a secret letter to the eldest princess, he didn't dare to delay, and his clothes were soaked with sweat.I drank a bowl of ice-cold sour plum soup. I felt refreshed, sweet and sour, with enough sugar but not greasy. It felt refreshing and refreshing, and the heat was mostly gone.

Mu Tingxue opened the secret letter——

[His Highness saw the words as if he had met: The work entrusted to him has been completed. Three thousand refugees came from Huaizhou, which was hit by drought. They were given rice porridge and pickled mustard and paid the labor wages.Now [-]% of the city wall has been repaired, and these three thousand households have all registered in Baidi City in memory of Your Highness's kindness.

The number of military camps increased to two thousand, and banditry became rampant in the suburbs, causing harm to the people for ten years.Huangzhu led the army camp to suppress it. The bandit leaders "Pangolin" and "Jin Daya" were captured and killed, and more than [-] people were captured.

Two months ago, His Highness visited the Xiao family's ancestral home to pay homage and had a long talk to give 50 silver. However, there was still 28. Plus His Highness's food and town tax, the remaining 30 silver was used. Special, hope to come back soon.

Disciple Huang Zhu and granddaughter Xiao Jinyu wrote their greetings.Xiao Wangzhi, governor of the imperial city]

After reading it, Mu Tingxue felt very comfortable: "With this master and apprentice, I am like a tiger with even more wings."

Baidi City is her base camp.

In just over two months, Xiao Wangzhi has already managed it so well. The city wall has been repaired and [-] additional household registrations have been added!What a precious population resource this is. Population is productivity, taxation, and the foundation of urban prosperity!

Yan Yang also read it and couldn't help but sigh: "The population of Yunhuang Kingdom has dropped by 200 million in the past ten years. Even the population of Yundu has dropped from 11 to [-]. Your Baidi City can actually achieve a reverse growth in household registration."

Mu Tingxue was ecstatic: "The Jian Barracks undergoes an assessment every three months and recruits another 400 people. Their master and apprentice actually led these 2000 people to wipe out the bandits. I asked for credit for them in the previous post. Xiao Jinyu is the head of Jinchi County. I will give their master and apprentice some gold and silver and a cart of potatoes."

Yan Yang raised his eyebrows: "Isn't this reward a bit heavy?"

Xiao Jinyu comes from a branch of the Xiao family and was a little beggar two months ago.Jinchi County is one of the nine counties in Baidi City. The county owner is not an empty title, but has a food town!

Even the Princess of Nishang County, the daughter of the King of Wu, and the Princess of Xianya County, Cui Jiangjiang, the daughter of the eldest sister Yan Lan, are just false names.

"It's not serious. Xiao Jinyu is the only surviving descendant of the Xiao family in Lanling. The position of marquis of the Xiao family in Lanling has ended with Xiao Wangzhi. Giving the only daughter of the Xiao family a real-name county head is not only reasonable, but also completely It is worthy of the meritorious achievements of Xiao’s master and apprentice in Baidi City.”

Mu Tingxue has her own rules for employing people. "It's just right. It can also be used to tell the world that the heroes under my princess will never be let down!"

Why do employees change jobs? Their salaries are reduced and they feel aggrieved.

If the rewards are in place and there is no talk of ideals or pie-in-the-sky, capable employees, they will not leave.Doing so can also attract more capable people to take the initiative to serve under her.

*. *. *

White Emperor City.

Under the tall and towering city walls, migrant workers were carrying bricks, lumber, or mixing glutinous rice mortar.The ancient method of building walls with glutinous rice mortar can make the city walls extremely strong.

If you look closely, you will find that not only the refugees from Huaizhou are working, but also the surrendered bandits.Those who surrender will not be killed.

Outside the city gate, a hundred or so strong Yongzhou people came.

"Are you still recruiting migrant workers here? I heard that you can eat pickled mustard and pay the wages."

"His grandma is a bear. People from Yongzhou are also here to grab their jobs. Get out of here!" The surrendered bandit was holding a dozen stacked bricks in his mouth, holding a piece of steamed bun and pickled mustard in his mouth, and glared fiercely at the Yongzhou people who formed the group.

"What's your attitude? He's just a captured bandit. They're all here to make a living, no one is more noble than the other!"

"More noble than you, I am a native of Baidi City after all! I used to be a bandit, but now I have a job, and I am a good local citizen who has reformed his evil ways! King Qin Ling is not a good thing, and you Yongzhou people are not good things either. Son." The surrendered bandit activated the map cannon.

The anger is rising, and the two sides are going to fight with bricks.

"stop."

Xiao Wangzhi came to the city wall to inspect the progress of the project, and he was accompanied by Xiao Jinyu, a seven-year-old with braided hair. "When we surrendered, I said that those who kill will die and those who hurt others will be punished."

The bandit immediately stopped, the brick in his hand fell to the ground, and he knelt down and begged for mercy: "Master Xiao, please have mercy. I didn't hurt anyone."

When Xiao Wangzhi saw that the young man from Yongzhou was not injured, he did not punish the bandit severely. He only fined him two meals and let him continue building the city wall.

"Master Xiao, please take me in."

About a hundred young people from Yongzhou knelt on the ground like making dumplings, begging bitterly, "How dare we make trouble? I just heard that the refugees in Huaizhou have all registered as Baidi City, and we also want to... also want to come." Make a living by working hard in Baidi City."

Xiao Wangzhi frowned slightly: "The city wall is almost completed. You should go back to Yongzhou to farm well."

"Please have mercy on Mr. Xiao, the common people are all tenants, and the land has long been sold to King Qin Ling."

The sturdy man's eyes turned red and he began to cry. "In the past, as long as we paid the prince [-]% of the rent, the family could barely survive. But since last month, the prince suddenly asked all the tenants to pay an additional [-]% for each acre of land." The small family has to pay an additional three taels of silver to rent ten acres of land. How can they get so much money? There is no way to survive, so they came to the eldest princess's city to make a living..."

Xiao Wangzhi was shocked: "King Qin Ling actually added the land tax that should be paid to the treasury to the tenant farmers?"

He was always paying attention to the movements in Yundu, and also heard about the eldest princess forcing the noble family to pay land tax to the temple.

I just didn't expect that King Qin Ling would be so shameless in order not to pay taxes!

Peasants are divided into landowners and tenant farmers. Homeowners own land, while tenant farmers rent land from powerful landowners.If the tenant farmers help the big landowners to pay an additional three cents of silver tax, they will really be completely screwed and will be farming at a deficit.

"There are loopholes in the national policy of Her Royal Highness the Princess. We must write to her immediately to tell her!"

Xiao Wangzhi looked extremely serious, and at the same time ordered to take in all the peasants who had fled Yongzhou, and allowed them to go to the south of the city to open up wasteland, and the reclaimed wasteland would be farmed by themselves.

On the same day, the news spread to Yongzhou.

More tenant farmers who were forced to have no other way out rushed towards Baidi City, dragging their families and families with them, as if they were fleeing from famine.

"Grandpa, how good is King Qin Ling?" Xiao Jinyu pulled Xiao Wangzhi's sleeve and blinked her beautiful eyes like black grapes.

A seven-year-old girl may not know about taxes or court struggles, but at least she knows what good guys and bad guys are.

The eldest princess is a good person. Without her persuasion, my grandfather would not have returned to secular life, nor would he have searched for the Xiao family's orphan. He would have been a female beggar in the dog tail grass alley, fighting for food with wild dogs.

The beggar girls who begged with her were dragged away by the old madam from Yaozi Street when they were fourteen or fifteen years old.

"Yes."

Xiao Wangzhi rubbed his little granddaughter's furry little head and added in his heart: Not only is he not a good person, he is also a rebel.

This forced the local tenant farmers in Yongzhou and imposed exorbitant taxes must be to raise military expenses.

at dusk.

Mu Tingxue sent palace officials to come to Baidi City to convey Yi's decree.

The eunuch who delivered the order took a step forward, opened a roll of imperial silk in his hand, and read loudly:

"In memory of Xiao Wangzhi, the governor of Baidi City, and the commander-in-chief of Baidi City, Huangzhu, who suppressed the bandits and managed the local area, I have made Xiao Jinyu the Lord of Jinchi County, with a settlement of [-] households. I admire this!"

Xiao Wangzhi raised his head in disbelief, feeling extremely excited: "Quick, Jin Yu, kneel down to accept the order, and thank the Queen Mother and the eldest princess."

After the Xiao family was rehabilitated, their granddaughter was given a title.

What an honor!

Mr. Xiao knew very well that as the leader of the Yan Party, Queen Mother Yan was always on guard against the Xiao family and would never take the initiative to ennoble Jin Yu. This head of Jinchi County must have been won by Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess!

"I would like to thank the Queen Mother for her kindness. Jin Yu would like to thank Her Royal Highness the Princess for her kindness."

The little girl kowtowed respectfully and accepted the decree.

The father-in-law who delivered the order was all smiles on his face and said with emotion: "Jinchi County Lord, please come up quickly. I'm afraid you don't know that there are many noble girls from aristocratic families in Yundu who are envious of you."

This father-in-law was from Dongchang. He took out a secret letter from his sleeve and handed it to Marquis Lanling, "Master Xiao, this is what the eldest princess asked our family to bring to you."

Xiao Wangzhi hurriedly took it and opened it. There were only three words in the letter - Jianxiang Study.

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