Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

She said, "I'm in charge. You don't have to pay back the fat money this year. Just like taxes, I'm exempting everyone from it."

"Really??? Sir, are you telling the truth??"

Everyone looked at her in disbelief. They didn't expect that this thing could be exempted like taxes. You know, they actually used these fertilizers on their own fields.

Zhou Guo said, "Really? I'm in charge of this matter. We're all victims. It's not your fault that you can't pay it back. The court hasn't ignored you. Everyone, cheer up. By next year, when the fields are planted with crops, we'll be back on track."

The people were grateful and exclaimed that the emperor was so good.

Because the locusts were disinfected in a timely manner, there was no large-scale migration of locusts, no serious consequences were caused, and the affected area was not large.

The national treasury could provide the relief, so Zhou Guo did not use the food in the granary.

She used the food to open many orphanages all over the world, specifically to take in beggars who were stranded outside, so that they could learn to read and write, and learn a skill, so that when they grew up, they would be able to choose what they wanted to do.

In just one year, hundreds of orphanages were added, and money was spent like water. All the money was collected from the grain shops. With so many grain shops, the annual income was still considerable.

Since there is no need to spend extra money to buy food, the expenses are much less.

And sometimes there are donations from kind-hearted people.

For example, this time, she looked at the five big boxes on the ground, which were filled with glittering gold, silver and jewelry. They looked so beautiful.

Zhou Guo asked happily, "Mother, why are there so many donations?"

The Queen smiled and said, "I just told everyone that you set up an orphanage with over a hundred children. With so many children, the expenses were high, so they came to donate money. Look, these are all donated by me and the families of all the officials. Count them."

Zhou Guo asked, "Where's the booklet? Don't you have it?"

The queen handed her a memorial and said, "Here it is. All the money you donated is on it."

Zhou Guo happily took it and said as he looked at the booklet, "I'll print it out later and post it at the city gate for a few days to make everyone happy."

The queen smiled and nodded.

With the orphanage, beggars who have nowhere to go now have a place to stay, but what about the elderly?

She also took out part of the money from the grain shop to build a nursing home where childless and elderly people who had no one to rely on could go. They were provided with food and accommodation, and were also given a large piece of land for them to cultivate and grow their own crops.

The nursing home is full of elderly people who have no one to rely on. They gather together, grow crops and vegetables, and live a stable and good life. They sigh that the court is really good. They actually spend money to support people like them who are so old and can't move for a few days.

Life in a nursing home is good, there are many elderly people, and they provide food and accommodation. It is inevitable that there will be some unfilial sons who abandon their own elderly parents and send them here.

The imperial court also issued an order that once such a case was discovered, the entire family, young and old, would be imprisoned and forced to do hard labor.

Although Xu Xiushan's parents are no longer with us, they would never allow anyone to be disrespectful to the elderly and filial. Filial piety has been a serious crime since ancient times.

In this way, the number of elderly people thrown out was greatly reduced. When strict investigations were carried out in various places to serve as a warning to others, the source was basically blocked.

Both of these were done in the name of the royal family. As soon as the orphanage and nursing home were established, they received rave reviews from all over the world, and the royal family's good reputation grew like a rocket.

Xu Xiushan was delighted and proud, and said to the Queen, "Look, everything this child has done is a big deal. We are lucky to have this child. He is a lucky star for our family."

The Queen said, "That's great, but when I asked you to allocate funds before, didn't you donate a penny?"

Xu Xiushan touched his nose and said, "How can I easily touch my inner treasury? She has her own money. Let her solve it herself."

Zhou Guo really had no shortage of money at this time. One tenth of the annual income from the grain shop was enough to support these people, not to mention the large amount of donations received every year, which was more than enough.

As Feizhuang blossomed everywhere, the escort agency also kept pace. By the time she brought Feizhuang under the royal ownership, the escort agency had already completed the most basic layout throughout the world.

At that time, he had no money at all. It was not until the third year after the escort agency completed its infrastructure that he could make a profit and pay off all his debts.

Since then, the Feizhuang or Escort Agency in her hands has officially entered the profit-making period.

The escort agency is different from the grain shop. The income does not all belong to her. It belongs to everyone. In addition to the heads of the Zhou family, the brothers of the escort agency also get 10%. Even this 10% is a huge amount every year.

The brothers work hard every year for the money. They are working for themselves. Only when the escort agency does well, they will be better off and get more.

As a result, the escort agency prospered. In the fifth year after it blossomed everywhere, the Haoguo Escort Agency could even go to every county and even every village in the Dasheng Dynasty.

It truly became the largest escort agency in the world, supporting hundreds of thousands of people and tens of thousands of families behind them.

It is worth mentioning that the employees in the escort agency include both male and female workers. For the same type of work, female workers are paid no less than male workers, and those who are capable may even be paid more.

Everyone in the escort agency is used to it. Everyone makes a living by their abilities, not by their gender.

After the grain shop and escort agency were on track, Zhou Guo began to trade in grain seeds.

As a princess, she could tell her what kind of grain she wanted with just a word.

As a result, within a few years, she found all the grain seeds she wanted, as well as sweet potatoes, potatoes and many other vegetables, which greatly enriched the people's dining tables.

After growing sweet potatoes and potatoes for two years, she began to promote them all over the world through grain stores.

When the common people planted the crops in the first year, they dug them up and weighed them in the autumn and were stunned to find that one mu of land could yield about 920 kilograms!!!

Even the highest-yielding grains sold in grain stores can't even come close to this. They only need to plant one acre of this every year and eat it along with their staple food, and they won't have to worry about starving to death anymore!

Some elderly people cried while holding these sweet potatoes. If this thing had been discovered earlier, their relatives would not have starved to death. How many people could they feed with this thing?

Zhou Guo personally visited various places to check the per-acre yield and the size. The highest yield he had seen was 980 kilograms, and the lowest was over 800 kilograms. He couldn't help but say, "The yield is still not good enough, but we have tried our best. This thing can only be achieved slowly, and we can't rush it."

Everyone was stunned when they heard her say that the yield was not good enough. "Master, how many kilograms do we need to produce from this acre to be considered good enough?"

Zhou Guo said: "If it can reach 1,300 to 1,400 kilograms, it would be considered good."

Everyone gasped. They had never heard of anything that could produce 1,300 to 1,400 kilograms of crops per acre. Even if it was a dream, not even when praying to the Buddha, they would not dare to imagine such a beautiful thing!

Just one acre is enough for a family's food supply for a year!!!

Zhou Guo poured cold water on him and said, "It may not work yet. I'm just estimating."