"This Chen Shujian is indeed not as easy to deal with as Chen Shuling at that time! He has always regarded Li An, who was the Taishou of Xunyang County, as an enemy, after all, we were also invested in Chen Shuling's disciples at the beginning, so in the past two years, Brother Li has indeed lived too aggrieved! However, for the sake of the young master's big event, Brother Li also persevered, and because their Li family was also a local force in Jiangzhou, and there was Li Yan, an old general who had saved Chen Baxian's life, in charge, so this Chen Shujian's move against Brother Li did not have much effect! Zhou Chao said with emotion.

"It really made Ang Lee feel wronged, he was originally a bold person, but now he wants him to be in the middle of a dark and insidious political struggle, I will definitely compensate him well in the future! As for this Chen Shujian, then let him jump for a few days first, who made him a subordinate of the crown prince Chen Shubao, but now I have become the assassin of Xuzhou, then above the imperial court, we must have someone who can confront the prince Chen Shubao! Xiao Yao squinted and thought about it.

"What does the young master mean is that we want to help Xingwang Chen Shuling so that he can return to Jinling City, and then directly confront Chen Shubao in the imperial court?" Zhou Chao asked.

"Yes! Two years ago, because of Zhang Dabao's rebellion, my defeat was caused, and this Chen Shuling had an unclear close relationship with the Zhang family, so Chen Xu was angry with him and transferred him to Xiangzhou in a fit of anger! I heard that in order to vent the bitterness and dissatisfaction in his heart in Xiangzhou, he often burned high candles in the palace in Changsha, stayed up all night with a group of his wives and concubines, and many guests to have fun all night, and his life was quite enjoyable! Xiao Yao said disdainfully.

"What he did in Xiangzhou is not only these debauchery, debauchery, and nighttime life! Because we dedicated all the General Firms to Chen Xu at that time, all the profits were collected into the treasury, poor this Chen Shuling, who nominally withstood the big boss of the General Firm, but in fact he never got much profit, and was even often defrauded of a lot of his silver by Zu Yuan for various reasons! So after he arrived in Xiangzhou, he focused on killing and looting! He didn't dare to take action against Zhou or even Jiangling, so he could only bully those small tribes of different races around Xiangzhou, harass the local people, indiscriminately levied labor, and wantonly looted property, which made the people of Xiangzhou complain! Zhou Chao said angrily.

"Yes, this Uncle Chen relied on Chen Xu's favor for him, and he did nothing in Xiangzhou, and the state and county officials under his jurisdiction were afraid of his revenge and did not dare to report to the court! So he travels day and night every day, as the assassin of Xiangzhou, he completely ignores the political affairs of Xiangzhou, and the subordinate officials do not dare to deal with all kinds of official affairs on their own, resulting in the accumulation of large and small cases and government affairs can not be handled, and those who commit crimes, no matter how serious or light the crimes are, have all been put in prison by him, and they have not been tried until now! Now the people of Xiangzhou are living a difficult life, and many people have fled to Jiangzhou! Gao Yuan, who didn't talk much, couldn't help but say out loud.

Even Gao Yuan spoke out to denounce him, it seems that this Chen Shuling is really a big scourge! For the sake of the people of Xiangzhou, we really have to operate as soon as possible, let Chen Shuling be transferred back to Jinling, in the capital of Gyeonggi, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, there is an emperor watching, he should be restrained and dare not do anything wrong! And in the imperial court, he has to fight with Chen Shubao against Maimang, and the two tigers can not only divert their attention and make them unable to take care of us who are developing in Xuzhou, but also let them suffer internally, so that we can reap the benefits of the fishermen! Xiao Yao said with a sneer.

"Young master, your move is really good, although Chen Shubao is sitting on the throne of the prince, his position is not very stable, so Chen Shuling has returned to Jinling City, then we can watch the show well!" Zhou Chao nodded and smiled.

The next day, Xiao Yao, who had a general idea of how to develop Xuzhou and how to proceed with the next plan, officially started his work as the assassin of Xuzhou!

In terms of people's livelihood affairs, the first thing Xiao Yao has to do is to restore production and population!

Because of the more than 100-year-long southern melee, the main battlefield is basically in the Jianghuai region, so the economic development here in Xuzhou has suffered serious damage, and a lot of cultivated land has become wasteland because no one cultivates it!

And because of the war to catch strong men, a large number of light and strong men were captured as soldiers, and finally died on the battlefield, which led to a greater shortage of labor, many villages were left with only old people and women, and the population became increasingly scarce, and finally formed a vicious circle!

This is also why when Xiao Yao was in Huainan, when he offered to use the free labor of those prisoners of war to exchange grain with the local landlords, they would not hesitate to agree, because they also knew that if there was no labor, even if they had more and better fields, they would not be able to grow food without farming!

So now that the two countries are armistice, Xiao Yao is the first time to resume production and restore the population as soon as possible, anyway, there are few people here in Xuzhou now, Xiao Yao counted those wastelands and borderless lands, and then issued a decree, whether it is the original inhabitants of Xuzhou or the new immigrants who have just come to Xuzhou, as long as you are from Chen, you can go to the government to register, and then pay a hundred copper coins, you can get an acre of land, and within two years, this field does not need to levy any taxes!

As soon as this news came out, the displaced people who lost their land in other parts of Chen Country rushed to Xuzhou, after all, many ordinary people in this era, their lifelong wish, is actually to have a small piece of land of their own! As long as they have their own land, they are very content, and they only want to cultivate well and survive on this land!

However, even if the method of sending land for free was used, a large number of displaced people were attracted to Xuzhou, but Xiao Yao still had a large amount of wasteland left in his hands, but Xiao Yao did not directly distribute these lands to the soldiers under his command, because Xiao Yao did not want his soldiers to become landlords so quickly, and then did not want to forge ahead, and only relied on these lands to benefit future generations, and slowly, he became the landlord class that exploited the peasant tenants!

So Xiao Yao directly used these lands to set up a collective farm, and then distributed the shares of this farm to his soldiers in proportion!

The collective farm has a special person to manage and cultivate, so that the harvest and profits obtained by the farm can be distributed to the soldiers in proportion to the shares, so that the soldiers become professional soldiers, and they do not need to think about how they will manage and cultivate these fields, and they can put all their thoughts on making meritorious contributions!

As for the people in charge of farming, Xiao Yao still has tens of thousands of Qi prisoners of war in his hands, and now is the time for them to become prisoners of labor reform and serve as free labor!

And Xiao Yao will also give them a hope, telling them that as long as they accept the labor reform, after three years, they can officially become Xuzhou people, and they can get a piece of land of their own by paying a hundred copper coins like everyone else!