"It's all right." Chen Zuocai said with a smile: "There is no way to divide the mansion to them, unless they find a bachelor on the island to form a family, otherwise they are all divided according to five women and five children, and they are arranged to live nearby, but they are not allocated to them, just temporary residence." If you want to talk about income, in fact, it's okay, servants, cooks, and chores are all provided with food and clothing, and they can eat enough, and they still have a monthly income of 500 yuan to the same money. I told them that if there is a bumper cotton harvest in the future, they can also borrow a single pedal machine, eat some hard work, do three or four more hours a day, and earn two more yuan a month. ”

"I'm afraid that a woman at this age will not have any obsession with buying a house."

"That's right." Although Chen Zuocai didn't understand the meaning of Xu Zixian's words too much, he still said with a smile: "Before they came to the island earlier, they were mostly sad and miserable, crying and crying, which made people so impatient. Now, it's all right, everyone has a smile on their faces, and many women want to find a reliable man to start a family again, but now the island is still in chaos, and I'm afraid they won't be able to do it for a while. ”

"It's up to them to do it themselves." Xu Zixian showed a smile on his face and said to Chen Zuocai: "So that the old and the young can be supported, and the women can also be returned. ”

"This is the realm of Mencius's Datong." Chen Zuocai was very calm and said with admiration: "I saw that Mr. Wei Xiu wanted to speak several times today, maybe he just wanted to praise the prince like this. ”

"It's not even close." Xu Zixian said with a smile: "And it can't be so ideal, Nan'an Hou Mansion can't stand on its own outside the Great Wei in the end, detached from reality, and the people also have to pay taxes on food, but I hope that even if there is a continuous war in the future, the people will not suffer too much." ”

Chen Zuocai silently said yes, he knew in his heart that if the Eastern Domain wanted to be safe, it would not be safe, this was when he was in Beijing at the beginning of last year, Chen Zuocai personally said to Xu Zixian, if he saw that the capital of the Eastern Domain was very good, and he had the idea of being peaceful, sooner or later a catastrophe would come.

In troubled times, all benevolent gentlemen must also hold bows and arrows and spears to rise up, otherwise they can only hang their heads and wait for death, this truth, even Confucian scholars also understand.

After a while, Lin Shaozong led more than 30 people over, old and young, all of them were yellow and thin, and they were tired.

But there was not much fear in their eyes, and everyone wanted to bow down, but Xu Zixian stopped them.

Xu Zixian said: "You are all Liu Zhiyuan's close relatives? ”

A man in his forties and nearly fifty stepped forward, his figure was thin and weak, and he staggered: "The villain is Liu Zhiyuan's cousin. ”

He also said: "On that day, the prince broke into the mansion, and I was escorted to meet him, and the prince also ordered the military guards not to beat and insult their relatives at will. ”

Xu Zi thought about it first, the person in front of him was obese and mediocre, how could he have a deep memory? But as soon as he said this, he faintly remembered, and he said to the person in front of him: "It seems that you have suffered a lot." ”

Liu Zhiyuan's cousin said: "I don't have much to say about my brother's guilt, it's just that in prison, I ate glutinous rice, drank swill, and was whipped and scolded at every turn, which is really worse than death." After being imprisoned for half a year, five men from the Han family died, seven women died, and several infant babies died. ”

The rest of the Liu clan, regardless of men and women, were mostly numb.

From this, these people know that Liu Zhiyuan was killed by Xu Zixian, and they must be unfortunate here, and they have put aside life and death.

There are only a few women, holding a three- or five-year-old child, who is also as thin as a dried radish, with hope in their eyes, and they all plead when they look at Xu Zixian, it seems that they want to intercede to save the child's life, but I don't know if there is still hope.

Liu Zhiyuan's cousin sighed: "I know that the sin is big, and I don't dare to beg for mercy, I just ask the prince to give us a good time." ”

"The Son of Heaven sent you to the Eastern Domain, just to want to have dozens of fewer insiders in the world." Xu Zixian said to everyone: "You should have some understanding of the situation here, it is nothing more than a man ploughing and a woman weaving, and there are acres of land, even a woman can support herself on her own." It's impossible to enjoy Waifu like you did back then, it's always okay to feed yourself and be fed and clothed. No one will make things difficult for you, and I will not kill you, but if anyone dares to make a decision and make things difficult for you, I will be severely punished after I know it. ”

After Xu Zi finished speaking, he said to Chen Zuocai: "These women first asked those women in Qizhou to take them, and after a while they got used to it, and then rearranged it." ”

"Yes, don't worry."

Xu Zixian nodded, turned over on his horse, and rode back to the courtyard.

When he rode away, there was the howling of dozens of people behind him, which was the joy of the rest of his life, although he cried, but he was full of hope.

The sky is blue and the sea is wide, the scenery is still beautiful, but Xu Zixian's mood is a little gloomy, the ruthlessness of the Son of Heaven, coldness, and lack of responsibility can really be seen from this little thing.

Liu Zhiyuan was not intentionally executed by the Son of Heaven, but died in a political dispute, no matter what his ability and integrity were, he was always running for the Son of Heaven, who would have expected that after his death, the Son of Heaven would abuse Liu Zhiyuan's family in order to cooperate with Han Zhong without suspicion, and now he is sent to the Eastern Domain, and his intention is not asked.

Of course Xu Zixian would not be fooled like this, doing such a dirty thing for the Son of Heaven, this kind of Son of Heaven is not worthy of being called an emperor, not even an official.

Xu Zixian also realized that all power under the centralization of power belongs to the center, and there is no check and balance, the prime minister's power and the emperor's authority are still impossible to oppose, Han Zhong is only subservient to the will of the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven is also a person who needs the stability of the center and needs to run for it, so there is stability after the bloody night of the Jingshi.

If it weren't for the Son of Heaven to go on the Northern Expedition, what happened at that time, after Liu Zhiyuan, Han Zhong and Xu Zixian and others were inevitable.

Compared with the pre-Qin monarch and the enemy, if the minister feels that the monarch cannot be assisted, he can choose the monarch he likes among the countries, and the monarch can only restrain himself in order to seek the return of the virtuous government.

This is also after the Han and Tang dynasties, Huaxia is not only more and more rigid and conservative academics, only serving the monarch, that is, ministers, generals, scholars, students, all classes can only be prostrate under the imperial power, the more concentrated the imperial power, the whole dynasty will become more and more ossified, sooner or later into a mass of scattered sand, and the dynasty after the early rise and vitality, gradually towards ossification and stagnation, and finally decay and extinction, which is inevitable.

It is no wonder that the descendants are angry, the emperor, the only one in the world. Husband.

Since the feudal system was replaced by the county system, centralization has become the only choice, with the size of China, the feudal system can indeed not maintain stability for a long time, but the harm of centralization is not under feudalism.

Since the Han and Tang dynasties, the situation has deteriorated, and he has been repeatedly deceived by foreign races, which is proof.

The best way is to have a real restraint on the imperial power, and it is not possible to collect all the local wealth, power and military power, but there must also be checks and balances on the localities, and after this balance is found, the country can be full of vitality, and all strata can get their own benefits, and the lower strata can reach the top, and the upper can sympathize with the lower, instead of blindly merging the upper strata, and when the lower strata rise up, the upper strata will be slaughtered, and the most bloody method will be used to complete the class replacement.

Great Wei Taizu has actually done a lot of things, but the details that can be done are still far behind.

Running back to the courtyard, the banquet is happy, participating in the welcome of Wu Shizhong are all the scribes of the Hou Mansion, talking about knowledge, the history of the dynasty, everyone can also answer, Xu Zixian has even ordered, one person and a few, not luxurious, only four dishes and one soup per person, with a small pot of wine, Wu Shizhong is very happy, so the guests and hosts are happy.

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"Eat, eat, eat......"

A farmer made a sound of eating and steering the two horses forward.

He stood beside the red horse on the left, and on the right was a blue-white horse, both of which were very strong, with short thick legs and fat bellies, and as they moved forward, they kept neighing and shouting, as if they were impatient to move forward so slowly.

Even if the horses are impatient, they can be considered a miracle.

Xu Zixian, Marquis of Nan'an, Fu Qian, who was in charge of the craftsman's work, Cao Lin Jiusi on the right, Zhang Zhong, Zhang Xin, Zhang Yi, several industrial officials, these famous craftsmen and officials of the Eastern Domain are all lined up.

Everyone looked a little excited, but they couldn't talk about being nervous, Xu Zixian was chatting with Fu Qian and Lin Qunsi.

Lin Jiusi smiled at Xu Zixian and said: "I said that the time was too late, I was afraid that I could only waste one season, but now it seems that I can still catch up." ”

Lin Jiu was about 60 years old, and he was already a famous master on Fujian Road, long in the construction and repair of palaces, woodwork is also a masterpiece, and he is a good hand at erecting beams and repairing pavilions. Wood work is divided into several grades, the one that can repair the palace and the pavilion is the first class, the second is the one that can repair the shipbuilding and only the vehicle, and the second is the one that can only build furniture, which is called a small work.

Xu Zixian smiled and said: "It's still Lin Gong, you are powerful, in the end, it is a large-scale production of horse yoke plows, if it weren't for this, there would be no way to be so fast!" ”

The plough should be deep, according to the previous method, the ox pulled the plough in front, the compacted clods of soil were moved away like waves, and people used various jobs to beat and break them behind, and at the same time, they also had to pick up and throw away foreign objects such as grass roots, tree roots, broken stones, etc., so that the new land could be completely opened.

It is not an easy task to open up wasteland, otherwise all dynasties will not encourage wasteland, and use tax reduction and exemption to encourage the people to open up wasteland.

During the reign of Zhou Tianzi, the core ruling area was only the Guanzhong land of Chang'an, Luoyang was developed later, and the entire Chinese civilization was developed along the Yellow River, and the Qin people in Longshang were the herdsmen who herded sheep for the Zhou people, and the Chu State in the south was only a viscount, sealed in the land of Jingman, far away from the Yellow River civilization area, and was considered to be a barbarian barbarian.

At that time, Dongyi was active in the Yangtze River Basin, Dongyi was the wild man who carried the bow in the east, not to mention the later generations of Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangzhou, Yunnan and Guizhou, in the Zhou Dynasty, even the south of the Yangtze River was also the land of Yiren.

Later, the countries strife, the population breeded, and even Wu and Yue fought for hegemony, and then the Qin army went south, and the Han and Tang dynasties opened up, and China had such a large territory so far.

Whenever the Han people go to a land, they will promote agriculture and open up wasteland for farming, which is the top priority.

If the land is cultivated purely by manpower, and the manpower is poor, a man carrying a plow, and a few men and women helping, can open up 20 acres of land in a day, even if it is too much, but in fact it is very difficult to do.

Because burning is the first step, then the fields are burned with lime to remove insect pests, and then after several years of slow sowing and fertilization, the land is planted with trees, shrubs and wild grasses, and slowly becomes fertile land.

The development of the Han people is not measured in years or ten years, but in hundred years.

In fact, even in the core area of the Chu State at that time, many places were sparsely populated and full of Yi species, until the early years of the Great Wei Dynasty, Jinghu North Road was slowly developed, and in the middle of the Great Wei Dynasty, the Yunnan-Guizhou place was barely stable, and then moved into the Han people, and gradually became the Han land.

The cultivated land of Yunnan is only more than 2 million mu, only the core area of Kunming has a large area of cultivated land around Dianchi Lake, and most of the places behind it are still the land of Yi seedlings, the hillside is burned, and the stone plough and other agricultural tools are used, which is quite wild and backward.

Obviously, the development of the Eastern Domain cannot be so slow.

Xu Zixian didn't even have the intention of waiting for three or five years, there are more than 6,000 sturdy horses on the island, and more than 1,000 cultivated cattle, so it is not difficult to open up a large area of wasteland.

The burning has been going on for two months, and large areas of the plains have been burned to the ground, and it is time to plough deeply.

It's already the end of April, in fact, the farming time has passed, and it must be too late to release water to soak the fields and plant rice, but Xu Zixian has other plans, and he can't call out the large acres of fields, all of which are deserted.

Fu Qian replied at this time: "If you plough by people, even if you mobilize tens of thousands of strong men and work tirelessly, you can open up two or three hundred thousand acres of qualified fertile land within one or two months, which is considered a good result." Now, with more than 1,000 oxen and more than 6,000 horses, plus more than 30,000 strong men and 20,000 women, it is not difficult to complete the development of one million acres of fertile land in mid-May. ”