Traveling through famine: The space peasant girl

If Wang Shiyu had not burned a copy of these precious books in advance, these things would have been completely lost to the light of day due to improper storage by the Zhang family. However, they did not know why the Zhang family had so many ancient books. This thing was even more outrageous than the genealogy of the Nine Clans Candy Crush Saga. It was indeed an inducement to confiscate the property and exterminate the clan.

Now the dispute between the Regent and Zhou Qingyun has reached a white-hot point, probably because Wang Shiyu and Yu Xiuming had never concealed the existence of these two kinds of seeds with extremely high production, which led to the collapse of their idea of ​​monopolizing these seeds, so now they are using these things to bestow favors on their subordinates, especially since the two of them were originally hostile.

In addition, the emperor has a better view of the overall situation than the regent, so these grain seeds will first be sent to those remote war areas. However, there are not many of them, and they may just be the leftover scraps.

However, in terms of the overall view, Zhou Qingyun did a good job, much better than the Regent who only cared about his own subordinates, but he was just the tallest among the short ones.

But even so, the two of them didn't have many seeds in their hands, and even if they wanted to, it would take time, so Zhou Qingyun and the Regent mostly came with the most elite part of their subordinates. After all, they still had to show favor to their own people, and they couldn't say that they ignored the people, because the benefits that the people could give them were really too little.

It was also because the two parties were restraining each other that Yu Xiuming seemed inconspicuous among them, and even successfully acted as a catalyst and troublemaker.

In addition, Yu Xiuming now has a better method of steelmaking, which has been applied to ships. This has also dealt a heavy blow to many ship companies competing with Yu Xiuming. This thing is simply better than existing materials.

After all, Yu Xiuming's boat not only travels farther, but also lasts longer, and consumes less than those ordinary boats, which leads to different costs, so their prices are also different, and even Yu Xiuming suffers a lot of losses, because of the low cost, long sailing time and greater safety. It is not noticeable at first, but over time, the gap gradually emerges. There is no way to avoid it. In the past, even if an iron boat wanted to sail normally on the sea for a month, it would be a waste of time. If it is longer, it would be working for its life. Ordinary fishermen or people going out to sea are unwilling to do this. However, after Yu Xiuming improved the steel, the effect was too obvious.

Especially after the cost has dropped, people here will be more humane. For local merchants who need to use boats, the price will be cheaper than that for those from other places. However, because of this choice, his reputation in Jizhou City has become better. Many local merchants even like Yu Xiuming more, and even people from other places like Yu Xiuming's boats more.

At the same price, who doesn't like to choose better service? Yu Xiuming has always been good to the fishermen under his command. Even if the defense of the ship was not good before, he was unwilling to let them risk their lives. He would rather earn less and ensure his own safety.

But now Yu Xiuming took the initiative to extend the sailing time, but after he came back, the corrosion of the ship was better than the previous one after sailing for one and a half months. This spread his reputation immediately. A person's reputation and the shadow of a tree are the best ways of publicity. Many people began to inquire about Yu Xiuming's method of maintaining the ship and how the iron used on the bottom of the ship was forged. They were not stupid. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the outer skin of the ship was definitely forged using other methods.

In addition, Yu Xiuming was frantically promoting these high-yield and high-quality varieties locally, mainly to the poor people, and tried his best to let them open up the wilderness and open up more land in the mountains and at the foot of the mountains. In this way, even if they only planted some sweet potatoes and potatoes, they could ensure their own survival. He even ordered people to open up the land in the shorter bushes. He saw the condition of the land. Maybe the situation was not very good in the first year, but the land was very fertile.

The methods of cooking sweet potatoes and potatoes have all been distributed, which makes many people who cannot afford food very happy. Even though they know that the court has arranged people to let ordinary people start growing these things, Jizhou City is far away from Jinling City after all. At the same time, Jizhou City is located in a remote area and there is not much space for growing them. Especially when there is a policy, it is basically the last to be implemented here. This time they are the first to take the lead and are very happy.

This is just like when everyone discovered gold ore. They originally thought that it would be in the powerful city of Jinling, but in the end it was found in their wilderness. How could they not be happy? They were simply going crazy. Their peaceful life for so many years was once again interrupted by these high-yield crops, but no one was unhappy.

And now, the mayor of Jizhou City is also supporting everyone to reclaim wasteland. At the same time, the reclaimed wasteland can be exempted from taxes within five years, and taxes will only be levied after five years. As for taxation, no one will be active except the court. After all, one-third of the tax is not something that ordinary people can afford. One acre of land only produces that much grain. If they didn't think that it is much better now than the four-fifths tax levied in the previous dynasty, there would probably be many people who rebel.

You know, generally speaking, taxes will be collected on reclaimed wasteland starting from the third year, and this is also the benefit that Yu City Lord of Jizhou City has fought for everyone. At this time, the taxes that the people have not paid will be made up by Jizhou City itself, and it is not taking advantage of anyone, so even Zhou Qingyun couldn't say a word about Yu Yu's family, and even had to praise them. After all, people are hungry now, so where would they get the energy to reclaim wasteland? If the reclaimed land is barren, it will not be enough to pay taxes. Therefore, generally no one is willing to reclaim wasteland. Who would be willing to take the taxes of good farmland and occupy barren land?

Because the previous tax law of the Dazhou Dynasty was to levy one-third of the tax on good farmland. No matter what kind of land you cultivated, it would be calculated as good farmland. It was simply outrageous and left no way for people to survive. This was why after Wang Shiyu came, his family stopped farming, otherwise they would starve to death sooner or later.

It was only after Zhou Qingyun registered and changed the country's name that the land grades began to be separated. However, it was difficult to implement. Who would be willing to pay more taxes? Everyone was trying to turn the land in their hands into medium-sized fields. They all followed the court's path, and many corrupt officials were discovered all of a sudden. In the end, Zhou Qingyun angrily withdrew his decree, and all taxes were still collected according to the good land. I don't know if these people are mentally ill.

At the same time, in order to make the appearance of showing his favor spread throughout the Great Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Qingyun had no choice but to agree with the words of the mayor of Jizhou City. At the same time, he also implemented a policy in other places that no taxes would be paid within five years. For those who reclaimed land in the deep mountains and forests, they could just keep it secret and not pay taxes, but basically no one was willing to keep it secret for that little bit of money. After all, the punishment was too severe and it was not something that ordinary people could accept.

This policy actually made Zhou Qingyun famous all of a sudden, which made the regent very angry. But no matter how angry he was, there was nothing he could do. After all, the emperor had a natural advantage over him. The newly reclaimed wasteland did not yield much harvest, which made the people very happy. This immediately aroused people's enthusiasm, and almost all the places that could be reclaimed in the mountains and plains were reclaimed by people. Even if it was far from home, some people were willing to go there. Even if it was far away, some people were willing to build a small shed and live in the wilderness in groups of three or five.

The Regent actively cooperated with Zhou Qingyun's decree and ordered his men to open up wasteland. In fact, the ones who benefited from it were the aristocratic families. After all, they had sufficient manpower, which gave them an advantage over the common people. But it also left a way to survive for the people of the world. At least they would not starve to death because they did not dare to open up wasteland due to lack of land.

Instead, it made Yu Xiuming and Wang Shiyu laugh. The fights between these two people in the court had spread to the people. Even Wang Shiyu, who usually didn't pay attention to these things, heard about it at home and realized how fierce the fight between these two people was.