The sky is clear and the atmosphere is clear.

Taking advantage of the cool morning, Liu Jun set off for the return with two thousand selected soldiers in the past two days.

After walking for more than two miles, he looked back at Jingshan Pai, which was sandwiched between the mountains, and thought to himself that he would come back in two or three months.

And then, it was the battle of life and death that was related to Jingzhou.

Five days later, a mighty team arrived in Jingyang City.

After entering the city, he ordered Xue Shi to arrange two thousand soldiers to the Guardian's camp for the time being, waiting for artillery training.

"Your Highness, you are back."

Liu Jun arrived at the palace before his feet, and Li arrived at the foot of his feet.

Putting a stack of official documents on Liu Jun’s desk, Li Ran said: “Your Highness, these are all government affairs accumulated over the past few days, and you need to read them by yourself.”

After Gao Hongyun's death, Jingzhou's government affairs system officially returned to normal.

In the past, Liu Jun handed over all the government affairs to Gao Hongyun and did not ask for anything.

But now it is not possible. He must learn to handle government affairs like a real King Jing.

Fortunately, Li Ran will propose some solutions in advance on these government affairs documents.

If he matches his wishes, he will approve it. If he is not satisfied, he will call him back and ask him to propose a solution again, or make a decision directly by himself.

After turning on the official documents, Liu Jun picked up the red pen and read it one by one.

As usual, it is mostly about money, and someone commits a crime and needs to be beheaded.

Because the beheading in Jingzhou requires the remarks of King Jing to be executed.

After reading more than 30 official documents in one breath, Liu Jun frowned when he saw the last official document, "After the distribution of the fields, there are still 360,000 acres of land left in Jingzhou."

Li Ran said: "This is just reported by the four governments below. The officials came for this matter. I wonder how to deal with the remaining 350,000 mu of fertile land."

"Three hundred thousand acres are enough to distribute them to 70,000 people." Liu Jun said.

After getting up and walking for a few steps, he thought that Jingzhou is now sparsely populated, so he said: "As the saying goes, people are the foundation of the world. In recent years, the population of Jingzhou has been continuously lost. If this continues, it will eventually lead to great trouble."

Li Ran nodded after hearing this, deeply agreeing.

He thought that the land of the four prefectures was not enough, but he didn't expect that there would be some left.

This reflects the current dismal population of Jingzhou.

"So the officials thought that they should use these lands as bait to recruit refugees from all over the world to enter Jingzhou to engage in farming and sericulture." Li Ran pondered for a while and said.

"You and I have come to go together." Liu Jun said with a smile.

Nowadays, Jingzhou's land needs to be cultivated, so that the land cannot be left idle, so that the food in Jingzhou can be self-sufficient.

However, Jingzhou will inevitably become rich by relying on industry and trade in the future, and this requires the people to put down their hoes and enter the workshop.

This is a contradictory problem, and the solution to this problem is to attract people from other states to settle in Jingzhou.

After all, he cannot now plunder slaves and act as serfs like the countries in the West.

"If this is the case, Jingzhou will now formulate policies to attract refugees." Li Ran has been reading the "The Rich Country" copied by Liu Junrang Hu Wei these days, and his mind is much more enlightened than before.

"Then Li Zuofu will make a plan when he goes back, and I will give it to me for a look." Liu Jun did not make a decision directly, but decided to let Li Ran think about it.

His purpose was to see if the old minister had learned something new.

Holding the official document, Li Ran bowed and left.

As soon as he left, Liu Xuan and Yu Jin came.

Seeing this, Hu Wei smiled at Liu Jun and said, "Now Your Highness is the backbone of Jingzhou. Your Highness is no longer there, so I guess they are all panicked."

Yu Jin heard this and said, "The Hu escort's words are good at all."

"It's still the Hu escort who can talk." Liu Xuan smiled at Hu Wei.

Liu Jun shook his head and said, "What's wrong with you?"

Liu Xuan was about to come forward, dragged a book of accounts, and Hu Wei took it and presented it to Liu Jun.

"Your Highness, this is the goods produced by the workshop during this period, the number of raw materials used, and the number of spinning machines and craftsmen needed to expand the spinning workshop next." Liu Xuan said.

Liu Jun patted his head and remembered that the Industry Department and the Business Department were directly under him.

These things must be reviewed by him.

Liu Jun glanced at him and said to Yu Jin: "Did your Business Department and the Industry Department match the goods?"

At this time, Yu Jin also came up with a book and said, "The officials will report the goods they need to the Industrial Department every day."

Liu Jun nodded, opened the two books at the same time, and found that the Business Department had requested a lot of rouge and cotton yarn in the past ten days, while the Industry Department was unable to provide so much goods.

Therefore, Liu Xuan suggested that he continue to expand the spinning workshop and rouge after the account book.

"Why does it take so much more rouge?" Liu Jun was surprised to see the 600,000 rouge in the account book.

After all, he sold a lot of rouge continuously during this period, and he thought the shipment volume would go down.

Because a bottle of rouge can last about half a year.

Yu Jin smiled and said, "Your Highness, what is more than what Rongchao merchants want, but the goods that foreign merchants such as Japan, Xiqin, and Beiyan are needed."

Liu Xuan nodded with a smile.

Yu Jin continued: "After two days after Your Highness went to Jingshan Pass, a large wave of foreign caravans rushed into Jingyang City. According to them, the rouge they brought back was loved by women and had reached a difficult situation to find."

"As a result, many foreign businessmen saw profitable, set off on sea boats or took horse teams to Jingyang City. And this was the first batch, and there would be a steady stream of merchants to arrive later..." Yu Jin couldn't stop his mouth, with an excited look on his face.

"I'm going to get rich again." Hu Wei's eyes were about to turn into a copper coin shape.

Liu Jun was also said to be full of passion. There are many powerful countries in the world, and there are many richer countries than Rongchao.

So Rongchao was just a market for him.

This market is limited, and other countries add up to the real big market.

Just like Britain during the Industrial Revolution.

If you rely solely on your own market, the industrial revolution will be insufficient in its fundamental momentum.

It is precisely because of the large amount of overseas markets that make a lot of money that they can continuously build factories, improve technology, and ultimately be at the forefront on the industrial path.

So for him, the markets of these extraterritorial countries are very important.

"How did you deal with these exotic merchants?"

Restraining his excitement, Liu Jun asked.

"When you go back to Your Highness, just like the chamber of commerce in Rong Dynasty, the officials also asked them to set up a gang station in Jingzhou." Yu Jin.

Liu Jun nodded with satisfaction. If Yu Jin didn't even have the ability to learn from others, he would not have to do as the head of the business department.

Liu Xuan took the opportunity to say, "Your Highness, there will be more and more merchants in Jingyang City in the future. Now we should expand the workshop immediately, otherwise wouldn't we be willing to make money without making money?"

Liu Jun naturally understood, but this returned to the question raised by Li Ran.

The influx of merchants will inevitably stimulate the crazy expansion of Jingzhou's industry, requiring a large number of people to give up their land and enter the workshop.
Chapter completed!