Just after the fourteenth year of Hongwu, the court of Qi was tight.

A year's war almost exhausted the accumulation of several years in the Qi country, and even if there was a bumper harvest in the autumn, it did not completely relieve the Qi country.

And since this year, Qi has too many places to spend money, and Yang Hao must be careful in every decision he makes.

Funding for weapons research and development, which does not matter for the time being, has been cut by nearly half.

Even if he knew that advanced weapons could bring more security to the Qi country, but now there were no strong enemies around the Qi country, so he could only give priority to putting the limited resources in more important places.

For example, the ironworks, the construction of roads, and the land reform in the South.

After half a year of governance, most of the south has settled down, and only those Miao people who do not want to be under the control of the Qi State hide in the inaccessible mountains and old forests, living an isolated life.

For these people, as long as they don't jump out to make trouble, the imperial court will not interfere with them too much.

The warm and humid south, from the beginning of the year, began to divide the task of land reclamation for each county town.

Unlike in the north, in Yang Hao's plan, the main crop in the south is rice.

Land reclamation is also carried out according to the method of rice cultivation.

Combined with the local traditional rice planting experience, coupled with Yang Hao's understanding of rice planting, the two combined to come up with a planting technique that seems to be quite conditioned.

The rivers in the south are vertical and horizontal, and the water area is developed, which provides a good environmental foundation for the reclamation of farmland.

However, the south is mountainous, and the plains occupy only a small part, so there is not much land that can be used.

However, the population in the south is far less than that in the Central Plains, and except for the tribes who hide in the deep mountains and old forests, most of the Miao people who return to Shun live in gentle places.

Counties, towns and villages have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and half of them have appeared on the land of the south.

In order to get to the bottom of the actual situation under their rule, officials in the south had to go over the mountains and mountains to inspect the Miao people under their rule.

After more than ten years of development in the north, although all roads have not been made to Chang'an, the roads that extend in all directions are not at all comparable to those in the south where there are no decent roads.

Therefore, among the many state capitals of Qi State, being an official in the south is almost a disguised distribution to the frontier.

Mosquitoes are rampant, dampness and heat are rampant, and for more than half a year, the young officials who were originally high-spirited have smoothed out the edges and corners.

I only hope that I can survive three years faster, wait for the appointment of the imperial court, and never come to this ghost place again in this life.

Although these officials have a higher grade than them, there is a shortage of materials here, and even if there is more money, they can only look at it, and it cannot be turned into useful physical objects at all.

Even though there are all kinds of bad things in the South, there is one thing that all officials are satisfied with.

That is, there are far more wild games in the mountains than in the Central Plains, not only that, rhinoceros skin, ivory and other extravagant ornaments, just like the cheap Chinese cabbage.

This also led to the fact that after the arrival of the Qi people, these beasts would also be wiped out.

Unlike the Miao people, who only hunt for survival, the Qi people, who have a higher degree of civilization, have a higher spiritual and material pursuit in addition to this survival.

These natural resources, which are lacking in the north, have become the main source of income for most counties.

Even some county towns, in the name of the government, used the equipment in the army to hunt these beasts inhumanely.

Within half a year, countless prey died at the hands of Qi people.

The state of Qi, like all civilizations in the early stages, is playing the role of a species destroyer.

Under such a large-scale hunt, it is conservatively estimated that in a few years, there may be no more large-scale beasts in the Jiangbei region.

It's just for their own political achievements, where would the officials of Qi pay attention to this, didn't they see that the trees around Chang'an City were about to be cut down, and their own destruction was nothing.

When it comes time to pay taxes after the year, who may be able to rely on the upper grades in the annual assessment.

Animals miserable? Joke, the only contribution of animals is to provide flesh and fur, which is the common cognition of all Qi people, including Yang Hao.

In the social structure of the four towns in the south, the highest status is the Qi people who followed the officials to the south, followed by the Miao people who submitted, and the lowest level is not those prisoners of war, but the special group of Jiangnan Yue.

The Yue people were an extremely embarrassing existence in the Qi State, they were not recognized by the imperial court, and they were basically equivalent to de facto slaves.

Engaged in the most tiring and dangerous work, but can only barely fill his stomach.

The Yue people who were trafficked over were naturally dissatisfied with this, but their number was too small compared to the Qi people and Miao people, and no one cared about their emotions at all.

With the contrast of the Yue people, the life of the Miao people is much better.

From the fourteenth year of Hongwu, the Qi government began to allocate land to these people, and exempted them from agricultural taxes for the first year, as long as they worked hard, they could also live a good life.

Moreover, compared with the original Miao tribal alliance period, the arrival of Qi also arrived with more diverse materials and more advanced technology, and the overall living environment was better than before.

And as long as they don't commit adultery and don't violate the laws of Daqi, then after two years, their identities will be the same as those of Qi, and excellent people can also be recommended to be some low-level officials.

And their own children can even learn the knowledge of Qi people.

Qi's Huairou policy plays a pivotal role in stabilizing the seedlings.

For example, those who fled into the mountains to the west found that there were fewer and fewer Miao people willing to follow them to resist the imperial court.

There were even a few times when he almost revealed his hiding location because of the betrayal of people of the same clan.

The cruelty of reality made those Miao people grief and scolded those people for being soft bones.

But the Miao people, who don't have much cultural identity, don't care much about the curse of their own race.

Some people even wonder why these people continue to resist.

The Qi people did not come to steal their food, occupy their hunting grounds, and play with their women, as those big clans advertised.

In the past six months, these propaganda seems to verify that the former aristocratic lords are the exploiters who press on the heads of the toiling masses.

And the image of the Qi people has the contrast of these resistors, and without brainwashing propaganda, they have changed from an aggressor to a liberator and savior-like existence little by little.

This is undoubtedly a great irony.