Leaving Xingyang to go to Mount Tai, in fact, whether you take the Yellow River or Jishui, the waterway is faster and more comfortable. But the emperor still insisted on advancing by land along the official road of Jishui, and even insisted on riding horses all the way. Everywhere he went, he didn't go into the city to rest, and even passed by several Yang Guangxiu's palaces on the way, but he didn't go to live.

As one of the four desecrations, Jishui originated in Taihang, and the mainstream is in Shandong, but its flow does not match the name of his four desecrations. Fortunately, the imperial court has attached great importance to Jishui in recent years, deliberately dredged and widened the river, and also diverted and increased the Jishui to become an important canal in Shandong.

At the time of the great unification, the canal is the place where the wealth is gathered, on both sides of the canal, there are commercial ports and wharves, many cities because of the rapid development of the economy, the economic prosperity of the town market, so that the original city can no longer accommodate so many people, and the city in the original city can not accommodate the current commercial development.

As a result, many cities on the side of the canal were outside the city walls, and many new houses were planned to be built, accommodating more residents, and even many workshops and warehouses were also built, in order to protect the people and houses and workshops outside the city walls, because the development was too fast, the government could not even immediately build a city wall outside these residential areas, so it could only simply build a circle of earthen walls, and then build a few city gates.

The cities along the river, no matter how big or small, almost without exception, have now broken the pattern of the old square market, and the city wall has been torn down and turned into a street market. Even the new district of Waiguo City is also set up along both sides of the road.

Even many larger cities have begun to have night markets, from day to night, the market is not closed at night, and the government has only strengthened patrols, but it has no longer implemented a curfew.

On the official road, there was an endless stream of businessmen, and Luo Cheng seemed to feel a feeling of the Qingming Riverside Map coming to his face.

The world is at peace, and the people are at peace.

Through the relocation of the people and the strict policy of restricting land, the imperial court greatly increased the number of yeoman farmers in the Central Plains, with an average of five or six people having 100 acres of land, which means that as long as there is no famine, then after a year of hard work, the life will definitely be able to have food and clothing and even some surplus.

When people have surplus in their hands, they can't help but want to live a more enjoyable life.

With some money in hand, I want to repair my house, or buy some big livestock, or during the New Year's holidays, I always want to buy some fabric to make new clothes, or buy some wine and meat to improve my life.

People are no longer satisfied with having two meals a day, and they will not be satisfied with two meals regardless of whether they are dry or thin, and they will have food to eat, or even three meals a day, so they still want to have two vegetable bowls on the dinner table, and even think about being able to eat two meals of meat in the first ten years.

I also want to add sauce and vinegar to the dish, and put more oil and salt.

The clothes on his body also want to be decent.

The implementation of free primary school education, although it is only free to study for three years of primary school, but everyone is also willing to send their children to open their eyes, although there is no tuition fee, but they also have to send some bundles to the teacher, and they also have to buy some paper, pen, ink and inkstone for the child, but everyone is willing to grit their teeth and send their son to open their eyes.

With a little money in hand, you will find that the demand has also increased innumerably.

On the other hand, in addition to cultivating their own land, the people no longer need to bear free labor because the labor is now spread out in the fields and folded into the land tax, so that everyone also has a lot of free time in the agricultural slack. You can accept employment from the government to do some civil engineering, or you can go to the town to do odd jobs, which can increase your cash a lot. Even those with smart minds or a bit of craftsmanship will take advantage of this time to do some side hustles.

Women will also develop some family breeding at home, feed pigs, chickens, ducks, or rabbits, and usually sell eggs or rabbits to the market, which can also increase some income.

For these situations, in fact, this has always been what Luo Cheng has promoted and hoped to see.

It was no longer just pure agriculture, but industry and commerce, which would make the market prosperous, promote consumption, and in turn allow the imperial court to increase taxes. Not to mention the development of industry and commerce, the circulation of commercial goods can also make the people's lives better.

If all the people in the world only cultivate the land, then when the grain is harvested, the grain is actually worthless. But if some people farm the land and some people work and do business, then the exchange of grain and commercial goods, the price of grain for the peasants can be stable, and their income can be guaranteed, and at the same time, they can use the money from the sale of grain to buy many commercial goods that they need, and the price will not be expensive.

In Jiyin, Shandong, this is the hometown of Queen Shan.

The fathers and elders of the queen's hometown sent many hometown specialties, and Luo Cheng and the queen received representatives of the villagers, including the elderly who were over seventy years old, as well as representatives of local scholars, as well as representatives of government soldiers or military families, as well as many local businessmen and craftsmen.

There are several old people Luo Cheng still knows, in the past, when he came here to suppress bandits, these people were local powerful representatives, and they also drank with him, and Luo Cheng also raised money and food from them.

"How have you been living all these years?" Luo Cheng asked.

"Well, life has never been better." The one who spoke was an old man in his seventies who was Shan, this was the ancestor of Queen Shan, and his rank was the highest in the Shan family. "Previously, the imperial court carried out tax reform, changed to two taxes, and had to be apportioned into the mu, to be honest, at that time, I was still very confused and took the lead in going to the government to make trouble a few times, but then Xiongxin wrote to me saying that this is a good thing, and I also said at the time that I would give Xiongxin a face, but now it seems that this is indeed a good policy."

At first glance, the old man does levy a lot of taxes every year, but this is all in the clear, how many two taxes should be paid, and they are also clear, in addition, the government has not had any apportionment over the years, even the emperor passed through the eastern tour, and the people in the county did not have to bear half a cent, and they did not need to pay half a cent.

Although the imperial court limited the land of the Central Plains Daojun later, and the excess had to be replaced to the border land, the old man was not very happy at first, but a few years later, the family of the old man Shan Jiaguang has now placed tens of thousands of acres of land in the frontiers of various places, far more than the 1,800 acres of land at home in the past, and the frontier land is almost there, but now the frontier is stable, and after buying slaves, the farm production is adopted, and the income is not small.

The grain produced in the frontier farms is directly sold to the military government, and it can also be exchanged for precious materials such as salt, tea, wine, etc., and you can go to the Central Plains to sell it with the introduction of official salt and official tea, and you can make a lot of money.

"The big river is full of water and the small river is full, and now the little old man has just understood this truth. I think I am now in my seventies, and I will be eighty soon, I have gone through several dynasties of Wei, Qi, Zhou, Sui, and Qin, and my single family has not grown much in the past, and the family business has not grown much, but in less than ten years in Qin, the small old family business has increased several times. ”

Speaking of this, the nearly eighty-year-old man Shan was full of red light and was very proud.

Luo Cheng nodded with a smile, many policies of the imperial court have damaged the interests of these powerful landlords on the surface, such as the two tax laws changed to tax according to Ding, and the tax is levied according to the number of acres of land and the wealth of the family, and then the apportionment into the mu, the officials and gentry cannot be exempted from tax if they pay taxes together, and then the Central Plains is limited to land, and even the restrictions on usury in the past, etc., there is indeed a loss on the surface, but in fact, over the years, they have found that their days have become more and more flavorful, and their industries have increased a lot.

The environment is better, and there are more opportunities to make money.

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