As the saying goes, there must be brave men under the heavy reward, and the same is true for the recruited workers of the Qi State, although the money given is not much, but for people who have difficulty making a living, it is an extremely happy thing to be able to fill their stomachs.

Yang Hao knew that the cheap labor force that he was thinking about now would gradually disappear with the slow development of the Qi Kingdom.

This process may take five years, ten years, or even longer, but it will eventually disappear.

If, in ten years' time, most of the people under his rule sell their dignity and labor just to fill their stomachs, then his rule is a failure, and the next edict should be self-inflicted.

However, in the winter of the second year of Hongwu, shortly before the New Year of Qi, the first paper in human history that really had a writing function was finally interviewed.

The quality of the paper was not good compared with the paper produced by mechanization in later generations, but after Yang Hao's experiment, it was not a problem to use it for writing.

Armed with handy writing tools, Yang Hao separated the papermaking workshop from his private research center and placed it in District 51.

This fifty-first district has the most advanced technology in Qi country, and Yang Hao doesn't want to leak out any of it, which is the exclusive technology of Daqi.

After being assigned to District 51, the papermaking workshop immediately expanded from more than 10 people to more than 30 people, and the new craftsmen were strictly examined, and their families were strictly forbidden to leave Chang'an City.

However, for these craftsmen, it doesn't matter if they can't leave Chang'an City, Chang'an City is the most prosperous city they have ever seen, and at this time, no one is idle and feels that the world is so big that they want to see it.

Yang Hao asked them to make a certain amount of paper before the beginning of spring, at least to meet the needs of daily writing.

As for the folk application, it is no longer within Yang Hao's consideration.

The people who can write now in Qi State, in addition to officials, are those students who are still in the academy, and the people are almost all illiterate people who don't know a single word, not to mention paper, even bamboo slips rarely appear in front of ordinary people.

In the hearts of the people of Qi, those who can write represent a superior status, and words are endowed with special meanings.

In human society, whether it is a backward primitive era or a future scientific and technological society, knowledge is always sacred, whether willing or unwilling, in everyone's heart will be more or less in awe of it.

On the New Year of the third year of Hongwu, after Yang Hao held a banquet in the palace, he summarized the achievements of the year for the first time.

And a large amount of supplies were taken out from the household department and distributed to the officials of the various ministries as a New Year's reward.

Although he set the name of the year as Hongwu, he did not learn from Zhu Yuanzhang's side.

In his point of view, if you want the horses to run, you must let the horses eat first, and the officials of Daqi enjoy far superior material conditions than ordinary people, and if there is corruption under this high salary policy, it is very unreasonable.

For this kind of insatiable person, Yang Hao's endurance is very limited.

He doesn't easily kill people, and when he wields the butcher's knife, it's a human head.

The officials of Great Qi also know this in their hearts, although Yang Hao did not say it explicitly, but the bigwigs who are deep in the center of the power of Qi State, how could they not know that there is a mysterious department in Yang Hao's hands.

This department, which is hiding in the shadows, is like a sharp sword hanging over their heads at all times.

Some officials even felt that maybe they knew exactly what they ate every day and which woman Yang Hao pampered at night.

It's just that the officials are thinking too much, although Yang Hao has cultivated a large number of secret agents, where will he always monitor them.

After several years of development, the secret agent formed by Yang Hao has become quite mature.

Maybe one day, Yang Hao will bring this secret agent organization to the surface and become a department that only serves the emperor, as for the name, he already has one in his heart, that is, the famous Jinyi Wei in later generations.

When it comes to Jinyiwei, I have to mention Dongchang, but Qi Guo doesn't have a creature like a eunuch, and he doesn't want to make this kind of species that makes people's crotch cool when they hear it.

The most important reason why eunuchs will appear in later generations is that there are too many women in the harem of those emperors, and it is conceivable what those women who can't bear loneliness will do.

But Yang Hao is different, although Yang Hao is also lustful, he has strong self-control, and there are only four concubines in the harem so far.

Although he was fortunate to have a few women when he conquered Youxin, that was only to solve his physical needs, and he left Youxin and never saw those women again.

As for what happened to those women, it was not something for him to consider.

Yang Hao can allow his ministers to have full wives and concubines, but for the royal family, he has already formulated a family law in his heart.

Each person who inherits the throne can only have one queen, and as for the harem concubines, there can only be four people at most.

As long as there is no one like Wang Anshi, Yang Hao feels that his ancestor's law has to run for at least several generations.

A person's influence can be maintained for such a long time, and when he thought of this, he was a little complacent, and secretly said that this is the benefit of being the founding monarch.

In the second year of Hongwu, the sound of crackling firecrackers in Chang'an City gradually faded away.

The officials and people of Qi are looking forward to the new year.

Because at the end of this year, the State of Qi carried out large-scale reforms, and according to past experience, as long as the imperial court has a new policy, its own small life can be better.

The people in the neighborhood sometimes gather together in twos and threes after dinner to discuss the policies promulgated by the imperial court.

It's just that with their shallow knowledge, most of the opinions they say are just nonsense, and occasionally passing by officials just smile meaningfully and walk away.

In the Western Regions, Xia's team heading west was attacked by the local tribes, and after desperate resistance, only more than thirty people escaped from the enemy's pursuit.

When Daqi was celebrating the New Year, these more than 30 unkempt Xia people were attacked again. Only this time, these Xia people lost their good luck.

Those who died in the battle will be buried forever in the yellow sands of the Western Regions, and the remaining living will become captives of the local tribes.

For these people from the East, they have become a rare species in the Western Regions, although they have become slaves, but because these Xia people have their own strengths, they have not done lowly work like those local slaves, but have become the private property of some nobles.

Although there is no freedom, there are no worries for the time being.

And Xia Qi also seemed to have forgotten that he had sent such a team, and his face became more and more gloomy after listening to a series of news about Qi State.