But this cannot be done in summer.

After all, most of those local powerful people have officials in the court, so Emperor Taihe could not start a big war, otherwise it would easily cause a big chaos.

At that time, the Xia Kingdom had just taken over the Yan area, which was already unstable. Once there was chaos in the Xia area again, the Yan people would definitely take the opportunity to cause trouble.

Therefore, whether it was Emperor Taihe, Situ Yuan or Xie Ying, they all acted very cautiously.

Emperor Taihe first spent nearly four years to deal with corrupt officials and local tyrants in Yan in batches, and gradually distributed land to the people in Yan and distributed the land tax according to the acreage.

At the same time, schools were built to allow students from Yan to take the imperial examinations.

Four years later, the people of Yan were inclined towards Daxia and less likely to cause trouble, so the government began to implement the tax system in Xia, forcing wealthy households to pay taxes according to the amount of land they owned.

This move naturally caused an uproar in the world. The rich were dissatisfied, but the poor people secretly applauded.

In order to prevent these wealthy families from causing trouble, Emperor Taihe, at the suggestion of Situ Yuan, promulgated the Patent Law, established a Patent Office, publicized successfully applied for patent inventions, encouraged people to invent and apply for patents, and open factories.

If wealthy families wanted to open factories, they had to apply to local authorities first. There were also strict requirements for the location of the factories, which could not occupy arable land or destroy forests.

Those wealthy families were originally gnashing their teeth at the land-based tax system, but after seeing the many patents published by the Patent Office, they immediately gave up their resistance.

Those published patents include not only patents for firing glass and colored glaze, but also patents for making glass mirrors and perfumed dew. Each one is a goose that lays golden eggs!

However, the content disclosed is not complete. If you want to see the complete formula and process flow, you have to spend money to purchase the patent rights.

The wealthy families were naturally very excited, so they called their friends to discuss purchasing patents and opening factories.

However, when they went to the government to inquire, they found out that if they wanted to open a factory, they had to obtain approval from the government and were not allowed to occupy arable land.

The government also selected suitable wasteland for them to build factories, but in order to obtain the wasteland from the government, they had to exchange their farmland for it.

Some people were hesitant, while others resolutely changed land, bought patents and opened factories.

Once these people made a lot of money, the rest of the rich families naturally followed suit.

With the profits brought by the factory, these wealthy families naturally would not make trouble over that little land tax.

As more and more factories were built, commodity prices naturally went down.

As a result, even the poorest people benefited greatly. Not only were their land taxes lowered, but they could also work in factories and earn wages.

Many things, including pressurized water wells, bicycles and rickshaws, also became popular.

Rickshaws are rickshaws used to pull people on the streets, also known as Taiping cars. To distinguish them from private cars, the roofs are uniformly painted in a khaki color, making them more resistant to dirt.

Because of the existence of the market, the people of southern Xinjiang could hardly watch as the people of the neighboring Xia Kingdom lived better and better lives.

As the saying goes, people worry not about scarcity but inequality. We are all the same people, but our neighbors are getting richer and richer, while we continue to live a hard life of eating coarse grains and vegetables. Who can be willing to accept this?

In recent years, more and more people in southern Xinjiang have wanted to marry their daughters to the Xia Kingdom and become relatives with the Xia people.

The wealthy families in southern Xinjiang were also proud to marry women from the Xia Kingdom.

When Song Xingzhou saw this situation, he immediately realized that the time was ripe, so he specially found Xie Ying and proposed to attack southern Xinjiang.

Xie Ying naturally also wanted to take over Southern Xinjiang, but she couldn't do it without a legitimate reason.

Song Xingzhou then found evidence that people from Southern Xinjiang had secretly bribed and lured Xia State craftsmen, and Xia State used this as an excuse to declare war on Southern Xinjiang.

After the war broke out, they did not encounter much decent resistance and often encountered people from southern Xinjiang surrendering voluntarily.

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