It has been three days since I entered Taoyuan County. What impressed Cao Yun the deepest is that the more I walked inside, the more prosperous it became. The desolate scene has slowly become the background. After arriving at Taoyuan County, a vibrant city has already appeared in front of him.

The city walls are still dilapidated, and some places are even missing large holes and have not been repaired. Instead, some people can be seen pushing small carts, plucking bricks from the city walls there, and then dragging them away. Not only did the nearby soldiers not stop them, but sometimes they would smile and help pull out some more complete ones.

Looking at the huge gaps on the city walls and looking at the soldier on duty in the small city gate cave, Cao Yun felt very funny. What was this fun? It was completely useless!

"Your Highness, the city gate is set up to show everyone that you have entered Taoyuan County City. This is the place of kingly law, and there are many rules. As for that gap, in fact, there are more than one wall in Taoyuan County City, you can see this gap everywhere. This is just a command from you back then. It was destroyed so messy. Now we don't have the energy to build the city wall."

"But can those people use it at will?"

"Why can't it?" Ben Kuan smiled and said, "It's also idle. It's useless if it's windy and sunny for a few years. These bricks are of good quality. It's better for ordinary people to drag them back and do anything here."

"But in this case, it will cost more money to repair the city wall in the future." Cao Yun shook his head and said in confusion.

"Taoyuan County is not ready to repair the city wall." Ben Kuan said lightly: "So, if you need these city wall bricks, you can demolish them and use them. If you can't finish them, stand here, reminding us of the disasters we have suffered in the past and telling us that if we are not strong, there will be a second or third time like this."

"Without the city wall, wouldn't this kind of thing happen again in the future be even more harmful?"

"People's hearts are like a city!" Ben Kuan smiled confidently: "And I firmly believe that similar things will not happen again in the future. Taoyuan County will not need a city wall in the future."

Cao Yun was silent. He noticed that almost everyone coming and going here carried weapons. Even those women who helped their families to tear bricks had some short swords and other things on their waists. After looking at the city gate for a while, except for not seeing weapons such as crossbows, they could basically see various individual weapons.

"Is this the case in the Ming Dynasty? If you spread weapons like this, aren't you worried that it will lead to a major accident?" Cao Yun pointed at those people and said.

"Nothing scary." Ben Kuan explained: "The key point is not these weapons, but people's hearts and systems. If the government cannot make the people eat and wear and wear, and cannot make the people live better day by day, then even without these weapons, they can still rebel with some wooden sticks. When Molo encouraged the people of Changyang to rebel, how many of the hundreds of thousands of people had weapons? Most of them just held sticks, but they still beat Changyang to a ruin, and fought and left disasters to several counties. It can be said that the reason why the Former Yue destroyed so quickly was that the Molo Rebellion was the origin. So we never worry about this, because as officials, the most basic point is to make the people live better day by day, so that they can see hope and hope."

"It makes sense!" Cao Yunshen nodded with emotion, "It's a pity that many of our officials in Daqi have not seen this yet. They still adhere to the principle of preventing the people than preventing rivers."

Ben Kuan smiled slightly and said, "Our Emperor Majesty once said something, and Ben believed it deeply, and he didn't know if His Highness the Prince wanted to hear it."

"I was just thinking of listening to the great speech of His Majesty of your country." Cao Yun immediately raised his ears. As Qin Feng usually said to his ministers, it was actually his concept of governing the country, and these concepts would eventually be implemented by his ministers in action. The Ming Dynasty was so powerful that it must have an inseparable relationship with Qin Feng's concept of governing the country.

"Our Emperor Majesty said that different ideas will inevitably have different horizons, match different actions, pay different costs, and ultimately lead to different endings. Therefore, what is important for our Ming civil servants is not just knowledge, but concepts. This is also a truth that students of the Beijing University where our Ming Dynasty trained officials need to know when they enter school." Ben Kuan said.

Cao Yun chewed these short sentences carefully, but he didn't say much, but the meaning inside was too profound and long. If he really wanted to interpret these sentences, he would be afraid that he could write a masterpiece from Hong Wei.

"His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty was very talented and very wise. In just a few short words, he said a great truth." Cao Yun said with emotion.

Ben Kuan laughed loudly, "You want to tell our Emperor, but Your Majesty will never admit it. Your Majesty often tells us that for the millions of Ming people, there is no need to talk about the ambition to unify the world, or the dream of opening up a prosperous empire. Because these are useless, we must talk to the people about how to grow more food, how to make your wallet more fulfilling, and how to make your family richer. The needs of the people have always been these. The principles are useless to them, and the most basic needs are the driving force that drives our Ming forward. Therefore, the basic national policy of our Ming Dynasty is how to make the people richer. The more you go inside the Ming Dynasty, the deeper you will feel about this. Our respected Emperor often says that he has no talent and strategy, but just knows what everyone wants. He is just a person who follows the flow."

"Your Majesty the Emperor of your country is too humble!" Cao Yun shook his head and said.

"It's indeed too humble." Ben Kuan nodded and said, "Our Emperor is the most wise leader I have ever met. Prince, let's not talk here. Look, it's all blocking the people's way. Let's go into the city. The inn has already been prepared in the county town. Although it's a little dilapidated, it's still very clean."

"Let my family and followers go to the inn. Can the governor of County Ben accompany me to take a look in this Taoyuan County? Of course, if it is inconvenient, forget it." Cao Yun asked Ben Kuan inquiring.

"What's wrong?" Ben Kuan said: "The General even let His Highness visit our military camp at will. Is there any secret to my little Taoyuan County? But there is really nothing to see. Let's take His Highness to see the school here. If you want to say that this is the proud work of Ben. Although Taoyuan is poor, it also responded to Mr. Xiao's call. Children must be allowed to read, even if they can't read any names? Even if they simply recognize a few words, that's good."

The convoy was divided into two, and the carriage headed towards the inn. However, Cao Yun, accompanied by Ben Kuan, only brought two followers and wandered around the street.

The houses were basically new. When the Qi army retreated, a fire almost burned the place clean. But now, except for the broken city walls outside, there are almost no sign of the war. Rows of new houses with uniform formats are neatly lined on both sides of the street, with extremely clean roads, and people coming and going on the streets, which are particularly lively. There are a wide range of goods in the shops on both sides. Cao Yun walked away with several houses, almost everything was available.

"The goods here are much more expensive than those in Wuling. The main reason is that the transportation is inconvenient and the roads are not smooth. The cost of transporting them is much higher. As a border area, Taoyuan cannot produce these things, so they can only be transported from outside, so it is a little more expensive, and there is no way to do so." Ben Kuan acted as an instructor.

Is it expensive? Cao Yun didn't think it was expensive at all. Many of the daily necessities inside were much cheaper than Daqi.

"Are these houses built by the government?" he asked.

Ben Kuan nodded: "Yes, when I came here, it was like a ghost realm. There was no one to see anyone. There was no one, so naturally there was no revitalization. So in the past two years, my biggest task was to attract people to Taoyuan County. The court allocated a large sum of silver, so I built these houses here. At first, there was only one street. I gave these houses for free to those who were willing to come to live in for three years. Three years later, I would like to buy or rent them before discussing. In this way, I gradually gained popularity. Later, more and more houses were built, and finally they reached their current scale."

"Will the government lose a lot of money?"

"Loss?" Ben Kuan laughed: "How could he lose? When I built these houses, each one cost only a dozen taels of silver. At that time, most of the building materials could be found here, and they could be picked up in the ruins. The labor was even cheaper. Just keep food. The craftsman was found from the army. But now, there is no need to talk about any house here without a hundred or eighty taels of silver. So the government made a big profit. Now there are many other things we no longer sell, and we only collect rent. The rent collected can be used to pay charity work such as the tuition fees of the students in the school. His Royal Highness should know that we did not have corvee service in the Ming Dynasty. If we need to collect people, we must take out real money and silver. So, this money is used to do this."

"If you want to take it, you must first give it to it. The governor of Ben County is well aware of the samadhi!" Cao Yun sighed.

"Hello, I, everyone, everyone gets their place, and everyone is happy." Ben Kuan said. "Your Highness, our Ming officials, do this, not what Ben did. If you really want to make money, our current Minister of Revenue, Geng Jingming, is the best player in Tianzi. Compared with him, we are not the ones."
Chapter completed!