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CHAPTER VIII THE PROBLEM OF LAND

"Your Highness, the soldiers are waiting for this day."

Lu Fei laughed heartily. Today's King of Qi is different from the past, and he has a more intimate feeling with the soldiers.

He is a generous person. If Xiao Ming hadn't made things difficult for him in the past, he wouldn't have looked down on Xiao Ming so much. Now he doesn't know why Xiao Ming's personality has changed a lot, but this is good news for him, and he might be able to continue to follow Xiao Ming for a while.

Li Kaiyuan gnawed a bone. The special fragrance of horse meat made him unable to bear to swallow the meat directly, but chewed it carefully in his mouth.

He asked with hope in his eyes: "Your Highness, it is said that Chang'an City is very prosperous, can all the people eat steamed buns?"

"It's not necessarily possible to eat anything, but life is always more comfortable than ours." Xiao Ming said after pondering for a moment.

In Xiao Ming's opinion, the people at the bottom of this Dayu Kingdom would not be very wealthy. The current equalization law of Dayu Kingdom has long collapsed, land annexation is serious, many people are displaced, and thieves are rising from the world.

The Great Yu Kingdom is like an old man in the twilight years, exuding a decayed atmosphere.

Qian Dafu recalled his life in Chang'an and said, "It's just a wealthy businessman with more noble children. There are more prosperous people. At least as long as you have money, you can get whatever you want. Unlike Qingzhou, you can't buy salt even if you have money. It's still Ziyuan who went to the fief of King Wei to buy some back."

"Salt?" Xiao Ming suddenly realized that he said how could this horse meat be white water meat? It turned out that it was because there was no salt in the royal palace. He said: "The east side of the fief is the sea. Don't you understand the method of boiling salt in this sea water?"

"Your Highness, it's not that the people don't understand the method of cooking salt, but that since ancient times, this salt has been an official business, and selling private salt is a death sentence. Your Highness, you don't pay attention to the official salt in this fief, so..." Qian Dafu said tactfully.

Xiao Ming blushed, it turned out that this was all the evil that Xiao Ming had committed before.

In the fiefdom for five years, this guy has not been concerned about the world and has never thought about how to build his fiefdom. He just blindly seeks pleasure, and many institutions on the fiefdom have not been established.

With a long sigh, Xiao Ming said, "Since that's the case, when Pang Changshi comes back, he will ask him to establish the Salt Transportation Department and establish official salt in Dengzhou and Laizhou."

"Your Highness is wise." Qian Dafu was delighted. King Qi was finally enlightened now.

The dusk gradually enveloped Qingzhou City. Before the sun set, Lu Fei and Li Kaiyuan took their soldiers back.

They also need to patrol at night. There is a curfew in the city of Dayu Kingdom at night, and the same is true for this Qingzhou City.

At this time, the royal palace was dark, with only two or three rooms lit up candles. The lack of material in the fiefdom also made the royal palace not as luxurious as it could light up every corner.

In the side hall of the royal palace, it was where the servants lived. At this time, the servants were emitting smoke and carrying firewood.

As soon as he turned to the front hall, the green ivy suddenly appeared in front of him. The night was dark. If it weren't for her green clothes, he wouldn't have been able to tell it.

"Your Highness, the hot water is ready. Today, Your Highness must be tired from capturing the barbarians. Your Highness should take a shower and change clothes early and rest." Lu Luo said.

It has been three days since I came to this strange world. Every night is the time when Xiao Ming hates the most. The night without entertainment is so boring.

It's just one day, but now it's like this for three consecutive days, he really can't stand it now.

He looked at Luluo, and there was nothing he could do. If this continues, he would probably go crazy and could only tease the two maids.

The side hall on the side of the bedroom is where Xiao Ming takes a bath. After following Luluo, a large wooden bucket of hot water was ready. Ziyuan was standing by Mutong waiting for Xiao Ming.

After three days of life that was not as good as a dangling, Xiao Ming finally felt a little psychological comfort now. At least I was still served by a maid, so many single dogs rolled around the ground with envy.

"Your Highness, I will dress you with undressing." Aster and Green Ivy stepped forward.

Xiao Ming straightened his body and stretched out his arms. He didn't take a bath every day. In this evil ancient times, taking a bath was also a very luxurious thing.

It took a lot of servants to get water from the well and boil water. There were only ten people in his palace with money and money.

These ten people are responsible for all the hygiene, food and labor work in the royal palace.

Moreover, his royal palace is not small in area, with a total area of ​​200 meters north and south and east. In Qingzhou City, the Qi royal palace is the only luxurious building.

Squinted his eyes, Xiao Ming enjoyed the personal service of Green Ivy and Aster. For the first time since he traveled through time, he felt it was worth it.

Luluo and Ziyuan blushed. They used to serve Zhenfei, but they had never seen a man's body. The emotions such as shyness, fear, and curiosity were repeatedly intertwined.

But they knew in their hearts that since Concubine Zhen gave them to King Qi, they had already been King Qi's people and could only suppress the shyness in their hearts.

"Do you want to wash together?" Xiao Ming smiled very evilly.

Luluo lowered her head and did not dare to speak. Ziyuan said with a crisp voice: "Don't worry, Your Highness, the Empress has given you instructions. When Your Highness gets married in the future, Luluo and I will be your Highness's people sooner or later."

Xiao Ming just teased them to find some fun in his boring life.

Sitting in the hot water bucket, his eyes looked at Aster more. This Aster was much more courageous than Green Ivy. The explanation in Zhenfei's letter seemed to be like this.

"Just just kidding, don't take it seriously." Xiao Ming said while taking a shower. He is not a sperm and knows what the key point is now.

After pausing, he asked Ziyuan, "Ziyuan, I ask you, if you want to make my fiefdom rich, what is the most important thing at the moment?"

Ziyuan was surprised that King Qi would ask her this question, and instinctively replied: "Ziyuan is a woman, how could she understand these things?"

"I order you to answer." Xiao Ming frowned. At this time, he was still following the virtue of a woman without talent, but Ziyuan's answer was not as expected.

After a moment of confusion, Ziyuan was afraid that King Qi would become more rude in his previous temper and said, "Land."

Xiao Ming nodded. The threats of the northern barbarians and the intrigues of the princes seemed to be less time for him to develop.

After thinking about it these days, the first thing he did was to solve the problem of land.

In ancient times, any dynasty had a strange phenomenon, that is, the people were always more surplus than land, and once large-scale land annexation occurred, it basically foreshadowed that the dynasty had reached its end.

At present, the same is true for his fiefdom. Large areas of high-quality land are monopolized by local prominent families, and many people have no land to cultivate. Now the first thing he has to do is solve this problem.

At the same time, the second problem he wants to solve is the inheritance of knowledge. He keeps a science and technology library without using it, which is simply a waste of resources.
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