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In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Xia Yun finished reading the disaster report on Zhejiang Province that Jiang Wen had resubmitted.

There are a total of twenty or thirty prefectures, counties and districts in Zhejiang Province.

According to Jiang Wenzhong's investigation, the number of people affected by the disaster in the province is currently about six million households, which is close to half of the province's population.

"Sir, in my opinion, although the disaster in Zhejiang Province has been temporarily under control, the daily consumption of disaster relief grain is too great, and even the Dai County treasury can hardly support it."

"For now, under the premise that no one in Zhejiang will starve to death, we should let the people of Zhejiang become self-reliant."

In front of Xia Yun, Jiang Wen expressed his thoughts again.

"Wen Zhong, what you said makes a lot of sense."

Xia Yun nodded on the spot.

Relying on government allocation of grain for disaster relief is not a long-term solution. However, if we want the disaster victims to be self-reliant, the first thing to solve is their land problem.

After a major disaster, most people in Zhejiang no longer had their own land, as all of it was taken away by the big landowners at low prices.

Now it seems that he was still a little lenient towards those large landowners.

"Wan'er, how is the implementation of the order that officials and gentry should pay taxes together?"

After thinking for a moment, Xia Yun shifted his gaze to Xu Wan'er beside him.

"The land in the three counties near Hangzhou has been surveyed and measured, and the survey work in the remaining counties is still in progress."

Xu Wan'er replied immediately.

"Spread the word. Any wealthy family that resists the government's land survey and measurement will have their property confiscated and their entire family will be forced to work in the Hangzhou Construction Bureau and the Clothes Washing and Weaving Bureau!"

Xia Yun made a decision with a gloomy face.

"In addition, potato seedlings will be distributed to all residents in Zhejiang to guide them in sowing."

"In the whole province of Zhejiang, all land purchased by large landowners in the past three years must be returned to the original owners, and the money and grain earned from selling the land must be repaid in five years. Anyone who disobeys this order will also have all his property confiscated!"

In just a few words, Xia Yun decided to make all the large landowners vomit out what they had eaten.

"Yes, my lord!"

Xu Wan'er nodded respectfully. Xia Yun's series of orders clearly indicated that he had decided to solve the famine problem in Zhejiang from the root.

But in this way, Xia Yun would really become the enemy of all the big families in the whole province of Zhejiang.

The so-called cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents.

Xia Yun asked those big landowners to spit out the land they had consumed, which might be more painful than killing their parents!

"I'll leave this matter to you personally. You must ensure that all the people in Zhejiang have their own land within half a month!"

In the end, Xia Yun handed the task over to Jiang Wenzhong.

Jiang Wen is as decisive as Qin Tianye in killing people, and he is the only one who can treat all the lands equally and generously.

"I will definitely live up to your trust!"

Jiang Wenzhong stood up respectfully and bowed solemnly to Xia Yun.

......

Time flies and several days have passed.

Under Xia Yun's hard work, the entire Zhejiang Province has regained its prosperous state.

It is not just about solving the problem of people affected by the disaster.

The business situation in Hangzhou has basically recovered completely. In particular, various private capitals, with the strong support of Xia Yun, have directly returned to Hangzhou's heyday.

Naturally, this also brought considerable indirect benefits to Xia Yun.

In order to avoid more trouble, Xia Yun did not get involved in all the businesses, but only asked the merchants to pay taxes regularly every month.

As time just entered September, Xia Yun collected nearly one million commercial taxes from merchants in Hangzhou city at one time!

One million in business tax per month!

What is this concept? !

For a whole year, that would be a total of 12 million taels of silver!

You know, nowadays, the total amount of tax that can be collected in the entire Daliang Dynasty throughout the year is only more than 50 million taels.

Xia Yun’s income from Hangzhou’s commercial tax alone reached one-fifth of Daliang’s tax revenue!

On the other hand, under the personal leadership of Qin Tianye, the Hangzhou Military Academy also underwent a complete transformation.

The first is the campus of Hangzhou Military Academy. With the strong support of Hangzhou Construction Bureau, the overall campus has taken shape.

Secondly, in the Military Academy, there are a total of 12,000 Hangzhou city defense troops, who are under Qin Tianye’s almost strict training standards.

It quickly evolved from a ragtag force into a city defense force with considerable combat effectiveness.

According to Xia Yun’s next plan, it is to thoroughly arm these twelve thousand people.

The armor made by Hangzhou craftsmen a few days ago has passed Qin Tianye's review and fully meets military standards.

On this day, outside the city of Hangzhou, in a newly mined mine, Xia Yun was inspecting the progress of mining.

"Your Excellency, according to the current mining progress, we can mine 100 tons of iron ore every month, and the amount of iron smelting can reach 50 tons..."

Zhou Quan, the person in charge of the mining area, is giving a detailed report to Xia Yun.

After a quarter of an hour, Xia Yun finally had a general understanding of the current affairs in the mining area.

"From now on, the Hangzhou Iron and Steel Plant will be established, and Wan'er will continue to serve as the director of the Iron and Steel Plant."

After figuring out the plan, Xia Yun immediately issued an order to establish the Hangzhou Iron and Steel Plant.

Of course, letting Xu Wan'er take on the concurrent role does not mean that she will personally be in charge of the iron-making project.

Xia Yun had already found a suitable candidate.

Twenty tons of iron per month was totally insufficient to meet the construction needs of Zhejiang Province, so he had to further expand the iron ore mining progress.

"Sir, who will be the deputy director?"

Xu Wan'er couldn't help but ask.

"Xiao Haiyang, just let him come."

Xia Yun smiled. The construction of Hangzhou Shipyard has been basically completed, and the shipbuilding will officially begin in the next few days.

As an official born and raised in the Daliang Dynasty, Xiao Haiyang probably knew nothing about building new warships.

Instead of doing this, it would be better to assign him a suitable task. It just so happens that iron smelting has existed since ancient times and is not beyond Xiao Haiyang's knowledge at all.

"Okay, sir. The Hangzhou Shipyard has been completed and is preparing the wood urgently."

Xu Wan'er nodded, and the confusion on her face disappeared instantly.

Xia Yun and his team stayed in the mining area until evening, and only returned to Hangzhou city after arranging all mining and iron smelting tasks.

When passing through the Hangzhou city gate, a large amount of scaffolding had been erected on the Hangzhou city wall.

From the outside, the original Hangzhou city wall looks like it has turned into a bamboo wall.

"Sir, the Hangzhou city defense expansion project has now entered the official expansion phase, and it is estimated that the project will be completed earlier than originally scheduled."

Behind Xia Yun, Qin Tianye, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke.