When the new dynasty was first established, the war continued, and all the officials in the dynasty felt a lot of pressure.

Not only are local officials responsible for local tyrants and food dispatchers running, but central officials are also running. On the one hand, there are emperor's decrees to be responsible, and on the other hand, they are also responsible for providing basic support for the army. Many military supplies need to be transported from the capital to the battlefield.

The officials were so tired that they were still fighting during the Chinese New Year this year. The emperor pityed the officials for being too tired and gave them a day off. They had a reunion dinner together on New Year's Eve. They allowed a day off on the first day of the first lunar month, and then they started working on the second day of the first lunar month.

Because the army is still marching and fighting.

The soldiers gave up their lives to reunite with their families and quelled the rebellion for the country. Officials such as you should not be lazy and should not take the sacrifices of the soldiers to heart.

Xiao Ruxun made such a stern statement.

The officials did not dare to violate the emperor's orders, so they could only come to work overtime honestly, day and night, and were busy with the sky and the earth and tired without knowing why.

Officials of the Qin Empire were not dissatisfied with their vacation.

Because Emperor Xiao of the Great Qin carefully examined the holiday systems of the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, he found that the Song Dynasty was too relaxed. To calculate, an official could take a vacation for one-third of the year, while the Ming Dynasty was too strict, and only a few days a year was a holiday.

The vacation system of these two dynasties was not desirable, so Xiao Ruxun formulated a new method for officials to take a bath, first resting on one day of rest every ten days, and then stipulated the method for resting on holidays on this basis.

Work on New Year's Eve, but you don't have to work overtime at night. Starting from the first day of the first lunar month, you will get five days off during the Spring Festival, one day off during the Lantern Festival, two days off during the Cold Food Festival, one day off during the Qingming Festival, one day off during the Shangsi Festival, one day off during the Dragon Boat Festival, one day off during the Chinese New Year, three days off during the Mid-Autumn Festival, one day off during the Double Ninth Festival, one day off during the Cold Clothes Festival and Laba Festival, one day off during the Winter Solstice, and one day off for the Emperor's birthday.

These holidays can be rested or adjusted during holidays. It depends on how the emperor arranges it. It can be calculated in a row, and there is more than a month to rest a year. With such rest, officials are much more relaxed than the previous morning, so they have no complaints.

During these holidays, the emperor would also organize banquets or celebrations to reward the people and ministers. In short, their lives were better than before.

But all this requires one premise, that is, there will be no major disasters or military use. Once there is a major disaster or military use, the emperor personally stipulates that even his birthday will not be possible, so he will not think about it during the holidays and come back to work honestly.

This is now. This war has been fighting for the whole first month. The officials have worked hard for more than the whole first month. They have prepared for this war since October. The major festivals starting in October not only did the emperor not hold a grand celebration, but also the people were affected and did not make a grand celebration.

But for Daqin, no one complained.

For officials, after winning the battle, the emperor will naturally compensate for a bigger celebration and more rewards. Everyone knows that for the people, they can also get preferential policies that are exempt from one year of taxation, so why not?

I can live every year during the Chinese New Year, but it is no big deal. However, exempting one year of taxes is a great benefit. Maybe I can live a good life of three full meals and leave more seed grain and reserve grain for the coming year.

The Qin Dynasty exempted many harsh taxes and explicitly prohibited the addition of the taxes. Local governments were not allowed to increase tax items. Only the central government had this power and instead added these taxes to merchants, imposing heavy taxes on merchants to increase fiscal revenue and reduce the burden on farmers.

The people of the three southeastern provinces were the first to receive the favor of this policy. Their burden was greatly reduced and their living conditions were significantly improved. They were grateful to the Emperor of Qin. This time, the people of the three southeastern provinces also made the greatest efforts.

Now that the war is over and they are winning, they can cheer and excite.

When Xiao Ruxun received the news, it was the third day of the second month. The people in the capital had just spontaneously organized the sacrifice of the dragon raising its head on the second month of February. This year's sacrifice was not organized by the official, and the people were somewhat confused, but thinking that the country was fighting, the people also understood it somewhat.

On February 2nd, urban and rural people sacrificed their gods related to agriculture, praying for good weather and good harvests in the coming year. This is a symbolic festival. The official should actually make some reactions, such as sending people to organize, etc.

However, this year, the official did not send someone to organize the organization, but directly held a spring plowing meeting under the leadership of Zhang Zhihe, the Minister of Agriculture who left the Civil Affairs Department.

Led by Zhang Zhihe, officials from the Ministry of Agriculture scattered and conducted investigations throughout the northern Zhili to estimate the agricultural harvest situation in the north.

Spring plowing is a major event. According to the convention of the previous dynasty, at the beginning of spring, the emperor and the prince needed to go to the fields to cultivate themselves, and the queen needed to raise silkworms and silk. The royal family set an example and made good wishes for the harvest for the coming year. No matter how ridiculous the emperor was, he would not be absent.

Xiao Ruxun naturally could not be absent. Since last year, although no one had sent to organize sacrifices, he still took Zhenbang and Yingying to the farmland outside the capital to cultivate the land for half a day, and asked Caiyun to lead the palace maids in the palace to raise silkworms by themselves, setting an example for the people of the world, indicating that the country's dynasty's emphasis on agriculture will not change.

Unlike the past emperors who performed show and pushed farm tools back and forth four times, Xiao Ruxun asked Zhenbang and Yingying to follow him for half a day of farm work, plowing the land, sowing seeds, and not being allowed to rest for a moment until the three acres of land is completed.

The emperor took the lead in farming, and civil and military officials and their families did not dare to show off. One tenth of the arable land in the imperial village was handed over to civil and military officials and their families for farming and sowing.

Of course, Xiao Ruxun also knew how effective this was. So after they worked so hard, Xiao Ruxun also sent the eunuchs who managed the royal farm to reorganize the land.

The establishment of the royal village was not for profit, but for supplying a certain amount of vegetables and fruits to the royal family, and to reduce the burden on various places to pay tribute to the royal family.

When Xiao Ruxun went to various places, he knew very well how exhausting the people's efforts were to supply local tributes to the emperor. He needed a lot of manpower to spend on this matter, because the tributes offered must be perfect, and sometimes even cause trouble to cause the people's family to be destroyed.

So after ascending the throne, Xiao Ruxun ordered the abolition of the two-thirds of the local offerings, and only retained some local specialties that must be offered, such as tea, silk, porcelain, and other things that cannot be produced by the capital.

More things that are indifferent will be simply abolished, or only one-tenth or one-twentieth of the supply is retained, as long as the royal family is enough.

In order to enrich the goods in the palace, the imperial villages and the imperial manors that Xiao Ruxun took down from the Ming royal family and the Ming nobles became the main supply places, and eunuchs were sent to manage, eunuchs to cultivate land, plant fruits and vegetables and other crops that were not usually planted.

A large amount of land in the local area is used to grow grain, but people can't support them. Let alone fruits, vegetables and other non-staple foods. Only after the grain production increases greatly can people use some land to grow more non-staple foods.

At present, the royal family cannot make people have no food for their own selfish desires, so these royal families can play their due role.

It just so happened that there were no need for so many palace maids and eunuchs in the palace, so Xiao Ruxun set the rules. The young eunuchs and young palace maids who had just entered were sent to the imperial village to farm or raise silkworms and silk for the purpose of the palace, and then transferred to the palace for service after two years.

The little palace maid can be released when she is over 23 years old, but the eunuchs cannot do it. They will stay in the palace all their lives.

Sometimes there are no need for so many eunuchs to serve in the palace. Keeping them is a waste of food and money, but without the descendants below, it is impossible to put them among the people, but there must be a place to go.

Then the royal villages and mining land in various places are the best places to go. There is a lot of land in the royal village that can be cultivated and specially provided to the royal family. Eunuchs are sent to the royal village to cultivate fields and farm, which can reduce the burden on the people and save the royal family's expenses.

In addition, Xiao Ruxun also nationalized all existing iron ore copper ore and other metal mines, and private mining is not allowed. He also sent experienced miners and eunuchs to form prospecting troops to explore metal deposits everywhere and establish new imperial mines.

There are some large mineral deposits that Xiao Ruxun remembers deeply, and he also specially marked them for the prospecting troops to focus on investigations.

It turned out that Emperor Wanli's mines and local tyrants were all nationalized. The best managers were these eunuchs, the emperor's slaves, and all the money obtained from mining minerals was filled into the treasury.

It’s not that he was greedy for money. The emperor was nominally rich and had absolute power. Nominally he had the final say. Nominally he had the life and death of everyone. But only the emperor himself knew how many tricks and how many mute losses were.

But there is only one thing that is true. The emperor himself is the most lacking in money and always lacking money and can never lack money.

Rewards during festivals and festivals, rewards and disaster relief for various names are truly spent on a lot of money, so Xiao Ruxun quickly understood the significance of the existence of the emperor's treasury.

All kinds of rewards, rewards of various names, and all expenses within the palace are all separated from the treasury and not the treasury, making more money and more consumption.

It is indeed very important for the emperor to retain the treasury and property. Otherwise, if the money bag is pinched, it would be a hard time for that.

In order to avoid royal slaves going out to bully the local area, Xiao Ruxun also gave the local Central Investigation Department branch the power to restrain the eunuchs. Once he found that corruption and illegal oppression of local goodness or detained the salary and food his subordinates should have, he would immediately escort him to Beijing.

There is nothing else to be told when you are executed.

Xiao Ruxun knew the needs of these eunuchs.

Without the roots of descendants, there is no big enjoyment, and there is no hope for life. The only enjoyment is to spend money on food, and there is no need for future generations. If you have money, you will definitely spend it and have fun in time. Therefore, for the royal family, eunuchs are the best slaves.

They definitely hope that the dynasty will continue to survive and provide them with protection. If the dynasty is gone, they will be gone.

For themselves, they will serve the emperor more loyally than ministers, especially those who can get involved in the position of local mining and farm managers, which is even more clear about this.

The emperor did not treat them unfairly, and gave them everything they should give. They got more work outside the local area than they did in the palace, and it was a rotation system. There was no punishment and was sent to the local area to work, but a serious rotation system.

People who work are changed every year, and people who manage them are changed every three years, and they can also be transferred to Beijing for service at any time.

Putting the remaining labor force in the palace into use, not raising idle people, and at the same time it can promote the flow of people and prevent the eunuchs and old female officials from forming a community of interests in the palace from deceiveing ​​their superiors and concealing their subordinates. Only when the flow of water is not corrupt.

Doing so can also train a group of capable domestic slaves, train a group of domestic slaves who are good at managing their assets, and better deal with the royal family's property. Xiao Ruxun does not have to spend a lot of energy on these things and can do his best to deal with state affairs.

If the royal family's money bag is activated, the emperor has money and has no dependence on the national treasury, then the binding force on all officials will be stronger, and he will have good fortune and face. Can he not even afford to invite a meal during festivals and even send red envelopes? What emperor is that?

The civil and military officials had nothing to say about this, and even if they had something, they naturally did not dare to say it.

The emperor is now vigorously consolidating the imperial power, and various tricks are emerging one after another. He firmly controls power, acts decisively and does not hesitate, and has extremely high requirements for officials. Under such a high pressure, officials are forced to move forward at the same pace as the emperor, otherwise they are very likely to be thrown away and even the ninth-class banquet cannot be eaten.

Although the Qin Dynasty has only been established for a year, its new atmosphere and trends have been clearly revealed, and the ministers are so proud of it.

Now, the news of the great victory of the Bozhou Battle, which is regarded as the Battle of Founding, has been sent back to the capital. The Yang family, who was disobeying the control of the southwest, was completely wiped out. The prestige of the Qin Dynasty has increased greatly, and its local deterrence has increased greatly. All officials immediately realized that the emperor was about to attack the southwest.

The emperor will inevitably carry out land reform in the southwest with the power of great victory, and will completely take the southwest into his hands.

While feeling happy, they also had a premonition that a busier future was coming.

The pressure on the central government is really great.

Most of them didn't know that Xiao Ruxun had the idea of ​​large-scale immigration to fill the southwest, but they only knew that the emperor would definitely not let go of the things held by the toasts in the southwest.

Killing Yang Yinglong, who has the strongest military strength, will greatly encourage the emperor and the military's will to fight. The war may not end in a short period of time.

However, in one year since the founding of the Qin Dynasty, the family foundation was not strong enough, and there were still many places where food was needed. The only storage in Luzon and Myanmar could be used was left.

Until now, many officials have seen the significance of the emperor operating the two "wild places" of Myanmar and Luzon. After a few years of development, it is equivalent to gaining the productivity of the two provinces again.

A large amount of grain entered the Yangtze River through sea ships and was transported directly to the Bozhou battlefield, which did not know how much pressure the several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River were alleviated.

In the previous Liaodong crisis, a large part of the grain was supported by Myanmar and Luzon. The grain production in these places is really powerful and can be used as a blood transfusion to the mainland of Daqin. Therefore, it is really important to build a powerful navy to control the two places.
Chapter completed!