"Your Highness has just recovered from a serious illness, so you should rest in bed."

A burst of rapid steps came, and Xiao Ming saw an elder wearing a round head and big ears, wearing a blue round neck robe, jogging over and bowing in front of him and saying.

This person is Qian Dafu, the housekeeper of the royal palace. In his royal palace, he is basically responsible for all matters.

Xiao Ming trusted Qian Dafu very much. Before he came to his fiefdom, Qian Dafu was the most trusted guard of his mother Concubine Zhen. Concubine Zhen sent him to Xiao Ming to have a servant who could be at ease to provide him with a servant.

"It's okay." Xiao Ming waved his hand, "I've prepared a carriage, I'm going to take a walk in Qingzhou City."

"This..." Qian Dafu hesitated for a moment, but he knew that the prince had always been rude and dared not disobey, so he called his servants to prepare a carriage for Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming went straight to the main entrance of the palace, and a slightly old carriage had already parked at the door. The carriage on the carriage was very small, like a box.

Such a shabby carriage is a bit out of place than the King of Qi's identity, but Xiao Ming knew that the financial resources of the royal mansion can only be like this.

His current fiefdom has a total of six states, namely Qingzhou where the Grand Governor's Office is located, Laizhou on the peninsula to the east, Yizhou on the south, Cangzhou on the north, and Yanzhou on the west.

There are many places in the six states, but in fact the territory is not large. The fifth prince Xiao Quan's Shu area has sixteen states under his jurisdiction. Relatively speaking, he belongs to a poor peasant.

Moreover, none of these six states are rich. According to the division of Shangzhou, Zhongzhou and Xiazhou in the Great Yu Kingdom, only Qingzhou, where his royal palace is located, is considered Shangzhongzhou, and other places are Xiazhou.

This is very different from the upper, middle and lower levels, which is basically the same as the difference between municipalities, prefecture-level cities, and county-level cities.

Especially Cangzhou in the north, it is visited by barbarians on the grassland every year, and some barbarian cavalry even go deep into the fiefdom. Three years ago, barbarian cavalry kept looting to Dengzhou before they stopped.

The people in the fiefdom were poor and weak and could not farm with peace of mind, so the taxes would naturally not be collected. In addition, he still had troops and officials from six states to support him, so there was no need to mention the finances of the fiefdom.

Although Xiao Ming was naughty in the past, he was also aware of the situation of his fiefdom. If Concubine Zhen had not given him some silver every year, he might have really drunk the northwest wind.

After leaving the royal palace, the carriage slowly walked along the streets of Qingzhou City.

Xiao Ming lifted the curtains of the carriage and carefully examined his fief...

Qingzhou City is twenty miles north and south, and twenty miles east and west, with a total of four city gates. The city is divided into thirty-six fang districts, and there are two markets on both sides of the east and west, namely East City and West City.

This yard area is similar to the current community structure. It has a wall and some houses are scattered inside. However, each yard area is the same size, like tofu blocks placed in a box.

"The King of Qi is here, go quickly, go quickly."

The carriage passed by a Minfang, and the three young men who were basking in the sun were so scared that they crawled back to the yard.

Xiao Ming smiled bitterly, these are all people who were afraid of being bullied by Xiao Ming before.

But now he is not paying attention to this, but his worn-out clothes on them with patches.

Through the perspective of a modern person, the people he sees are basically the same as beggars.

When he arrived in Dongshi, Xiao Ming asked the carriage to stop and walked towards the market with his hands behind his back.

When Qian Dafu saw this, he immediately followed carefully and patrolled around him vigilantly.

This East City and West City are similar to modern vegetable markets. Along the way, Xiao Ming saw very few products in East City.

Basically, wheat, soybeans, millet, clay pots, cloth, and bamboo baskets are all very different from the dazzling array of goods in Chang'an City.

After walking around the East City for a while, Xiao Ming went to the West City again. It was basically the same. Overall, the people's livelihood was in decline.

And this is the most prosperous Qingzhou City on his fiefdom.

After walking around for a morning, Qin Le basically walked around Qingzhou City. At noon, his stomach started to "gurgle".

I had to go back to the palace for dinner.

"Your Highness, I have specially prepared vinegar celery and white flour steamed buns for you."

After covering her stomach and hungry for a long time, Xiao Ming finally waited for lunch. As I remember, such a meal was good.

Just looking at Qian Dafu rubbing his hands and rolling his Adam's apple, he knew how greedy he was.

This is the reality of his fiefdom. There is a serious shortage of daily necessities. It is not that he has no money, but that he cannot buy even if he has money. Being able to eat a full meal means happiness.

It’s nothing to eat like this once a while, but eating it every day is a fatal death. In fact, although Xiao Ming is a prince and is very arrogant, his living standards are really not as good as modern-day squid.

Xiao Ming is now hungry. He usually eats boiled amaranth and boiled spinach. He wants to eat stir-fry dishes, but I'm sorry, there are only vegetables and no oil.

Today, this vinegar and celery is rare, otherwise Qian Dafu would bring it here as much as he seeks credit.

"Rare, rare." Xiao Ming pretended to be very happy, and ate jealous celery with tears in his hands.

In modern times, what he hates is vinegar and celery, and now it is a luxury to eat it.

I thought it was a pleasure to travel over, but I didn’t expect that the landlord’s family would not have any surplus food.

In the next three days, Xiao Ming was not idle, so he went to the county near Qingzhou City, where there were basically a mortar wall surrounded by several thatched huts.

Not to mention the people, there are many people who cannot eat enough, and it is already quite tall and proud to be able to eat steamed buns leisurely.

On the way back and forth, he often saw the people digging wild vegetables in the wilderness to satisfy their hunger.

When he arrived in Dayu overnight, Xiao Ming had no lofty ideals, but his fiefdom was as difficult as the slums in modern times, which made him very upset.

When he was in school, he liked to play the game of territory construction, and watched his territory go from desolation to prosperity little by little. This is a spiritual enjoyment.

And now he has a real fiefdom, and this fiefdom is still so down and out, how can he bear it?

What's more, the northern grassland barbarians always threaten his fiefdom. Although his territory is not the place where the grassland barbarians focus on plundering, his fiefdom is small in size and cannot withstand tossing.

It is a big deal for him to drive away the grassland man now, but he still has to do the things of building fiefs, strengthening cities, and hiding wealth among the people, otherwise he may not be able to eat by himself and have to wait to die.

Besides, even if it is not for the people, he has to work hard to eat eggs every day and occasionally grill a skewer.

Otherwise, I would have come over and suffered.

The three-day inspection gave him Xiao Ming basically an understanding of his fiefdom and also clarified the first problem he needed to solve... that was the farming issue.
Chapter completed!