Let’s not talk about anything else for now, just talk about the emperor’s card, it is still quite strong now.

When Wang Buxu showed his cards, everyone in the Ma family was instantly convinced.

You are all ordinary people living at the grassroots level. The emperor has sent people to apologize to you.

If you don't give me face at this time and continue to make things difficult for other people's mother and son, then you are being shameless.

Furthermore, no matter what happens between them, the child is your family's offspring.

Although there is no DNA testing technology these days, since the emperor said it is your family, it is your family, and it has to be.

It is not difficult to solve Ma Biao's matter. The moment Wang Buxu decided to take action, it was destined to be easily solved.

But the hard part is how to solve other similar things?

Next, Wang Buxian kept thinking about this issue.

What follows is a turnaround in counties that have only begun to increase development efforts in recent years.

Due to conditional constraints, although development has begun for several years, progress is still somewhat slow.

For the people living here, there is actually not much difference from living in their hometown.

What it was like back home is what it is like here.

The only difference is that the walls of every household are made stronger and more durable, and the village walls are also erected.

Because of the many village walls erected in these newly developed counties, a unique style has been formed in these newly developed counties, which are mostly named villages.

For example, Wang Zhai, Sun Zhai, Zhang Zhai, Li Zhai and so on.

The purpose of doing this is naturally to prevent some animals in the surrounding area. Apart from their normal production and life, these people are organized to go hunting together almost all the other time.

While subsidizing the household, we also clean up the surrounding wild animals and improve the living environment.

Seeing this, Wang Buxin lost interest in continuing.

So far, the overall situation he has seen is quite satisfactory.

There may be problems, but no one is a god and cannot make no mistakes at all.

As long as it is not a principled error, as long as it can be discovered and corrected in time, it is fine.

The history of human development is actually a history of human self-correction.

Wang Buxu is still very open-minded about this.

It was already a month later when I returned to Luoyang.

The sun is high in the sky, the sun is scorching, and droughts of varying degrees have occurred in various places.

However, the degree of drought is not serious, and with the laying of water conservancy facilities, if we use it sparingly, we can basically guarantee the water source for farming.

"Your Majesty, there have been droughts of varying degrees in various places recently, so the next harvest will definitely be affected to a certain extent, but the impact is not big and will not have a big impact on the people and the court. However, the court's income this year may be.

It is lower than last year. How much less it will be depends on the development of the drought!" Zhang Cang, the minister of household affairs, was the first to report it.

The Ministry of Household Affairs is in charge of money and food. As the most stingy person in the entire imperial court, Zhang Cang would certainly not let this opportunity pass him by.

Ahem...

Mainly due to Zhang Cang's manipulation, the imperial court now played another trick.

If you don't have enough money, you need food.

Therefore, the salary of most officials in the court was paid by one-third of the coins and two-thirds of the grain.

Although everyone is reluctant, there is nothing we can do.

The most valuable thing these days is food. After several years of bumper harvests, the Han Dynasty is full of food.

If the imperial court hadn't kept a tight grip on prices and refused to let go, the price of food on the market would have continued to fall.

Now, there are basically only a few grain merchants left in the city, and the business in front of the door is still very bleak. It is estimated that they cannot even support the labor force.

Therefore, when Zhang Cang said this, his main purpose was to tell the emperor to take it easy as the budget for next year has been reduced...

"I also looked at it when I came back. Although the water volume in the river has decreased, control measures have been adopted in various places, and strict restrictions have been placed on each household's water use. The reduction in production is certain, but the impact will not be too great.

!" Wang Buxu said bluntly.

Of course he knew this. The so-called influence was nothing more than controlling water consumption.

Originally, you could just pour a ladle of water over it, but now you have to change to the original watering method, which is to use a little water to water each plant one by one.

There will indeed be an impact, but it really doesn't mean that production will be cut in half or nothing will be harvested.

Although the simple water conservancy facilities installed by the imperial court are very crude, in fact, the Han Dynasty has been able to have bumper grain harvests every year in recent years because of this set of very inconspicuous and very cheap facilities.

The cultivated land is also divided into paddy fields and dry fields. The paddy fields here are different from the paddy fields in later generations. The water here refers to being relatively close to the water source, or close to the water source. Water can penetrate here through the ground and change the moisture of the ground.

environment.

But now, the distinction between paddy fields and dry fields is no longer so clear.

The ditch was built directly to the edge of the field. The biggest headache in the past was having to walk a long way to get water, and time was wasted on getting water.

Nowadays, you can get water from your own farm. In this way, a strong man can water three to five acres of land in one day without any problem.

Even a half-grown child can work an acre of land in a day.

"Your Majesty..." Zhang Cang looked at Wang Buhung with a melancholy look on his face.

As soon as he said these words, Zhang Cang knew what Wang Buxu meant. He had obviously seen through his own thoughts and gave him an excuse to block himself.

"I found several problems when I went out this time. Since Zhang Shangshu is so anxious, let's solve Zhang Shangshu's problems first!" Wang Buxu did not dwell on this issue.

He casually glanced at Zhang Cang, who was still confused, and continued: "I found that the current currency system has some flaws. Copper coins are so valuable that ordinary people don't know how to spend them when they go out? Even if it is

In Luoyang, you can buy thirty steamed buns with one dollar, who can eat so many in one sitting?"

"So although this currency reform is convenient, it is currently very inconvenient in terms of use, so I decided to add a new kind of money, ten of which are equal to the face value of one copper coin. Regarding the selection of materials, I have no plans

I will continue to use copper. I am more inclined to use iron. The output is not low, it is not easy to deform, it is also wear-resistant, and it is very convenient to use. However, iron easily rusts when exposed to water, so now, you are all trying to figure out how to solve it.

The problem of iron rusting when exposed to water."

"If it really doesn't work, I'll look for a new metal. The requirements are just three things: the output is large enough, the material is hard, and it can't rust."

"Okay... Your Majesty, this is a good idea..." Zhang Cang suddenly felt his eyes light up, this is really a great idea.

Apart from anything else, the newly added money will make the Ministry of Revenue happy.

Of course, the reason why the imperial court was poor was not because the casting speed of copper coins could not keep up, but because the output of copper could not keep up.
Chapter completed!