Since the Qin Dynasty, the status of merchants has been very low.

In the Han Dynasty, if the government encountered a war, what measures would the government take when the supply of troops was insufficient?

The government will have merchants and criminals, sons-in-law and others gather together to form a team and go to the frontier to fight and die.

Well, the identity of a businessman is already equivalent to that of a criminal, which shows how low it is.

And now Lu Bu has promoted the status of merchants, although it is only a step up, but for those merchants, it is a huge progress.

At the same time, Lu Bu also issued a decree that when merchants pay more than one million in taxes, they can enjoy certain privileges.

These rights are basically the rights that only some scholars have.

In other words, if you are successful in business and can make a lot of money, your social status will be further improved.

As soon as these decrees were introduced, the merchants of the entire six counties of Koto rejoiced.

The Gu family, the Lu family and the Zhu family were also excited.

The promulgation of these decrees made these three families finally have a trace of confidence in their hearts.

And because of the addition of the Lu family and these three major families, the construction of Jiangdong has injected a large amount of money.

Jiangdong has reached self-sufficiency in grain, and even if it is insufficient, there are so many merchants anyway, of course they can go to other places to buy grain and sell it in Jiangdong.

As a result, Jiangdong has entered a period of rapid development.

Moreover, Lu Bu is ready to lead several major merchants and let them organize a chamber of commerce on their own.

The Chamber of Commerce was established to protect the rights and interests of all merchants.

With these decrees and the Chamber of Commerce, the commercial development of the nine counties of Koto can gradually get on the right track and continue to grow and develop.

Of course, at this stage, you expect the businessman to be completely self-disciplined, regardless of the impossibility of not asking.

For example, if there are businessmen in Jizhou, Jingzhou and other places who buy grain at high prices.

Then the merchants of Jiangdong bought a large amount of grain in Jiangdong and sold it, so that Jiangdong's grain would be seriously insufficient.

What if it's wartime?

In the same way, there are also weapons, iron tools, tools, and other goods, which, if left unchecked, will flow into other states and counties in large quantities.

In this way, there is no doubt that it is an enemy.

Therefore, Jiangdong implements a planned economy.

Many commodities are controlled by the Nanjing government.

If we want to make commodities completely dominated by the market and form a market economy, it will be possible to do so at least until the whole country is unified.

It's just a possibility.

……

Since the four major families donated a large amount of land, the land in the six counties of Jiangdong suddenly increased a lot.

Of course, the four major families also donated a large number of black households.

Lu Bu unified the household registration of these black households, distributed land and houses, and ordered them to cultivate their own households.

These black households are naturally grateful to Lu Bu.

Lü Bu distributed a portion of the land, but there was still a large amount of land in the hands of the government.

Lü Bu was not prepared to distribute all the land.

At present, the population of the six counties in Jiangdong is far from being saturated.

It can also accommodate a lot of people.

If war continues in the north, it is estimated that there will be a steady stream of displaced people entering the six counties of Jiangdong.

These lands are for these displaced people.

The land in the hands of these officials, Lu Bu ordered the people's children and soldiers to take turns cultivating it.

At this time, the Chinese Academy of Sciences finally produced a new type of farming tool according to the drawings given by Lu Bu.

These tools have been experimented with and at least doubled their efficiency.

At present, these tools have been put into production on a large scale, and they will soon be available and will soon be in the hands of the people.

These tools include lighter curved ploughs for deep ploughing of iron towers.

There are high-efficiency agricultural tools such as manure cocoon, push sickle, water transfer and continuous grinding that are suitable for the operation of paddy fields in the south.

Dry land, paddy field farm tools, complete facilities.

The speed of construction of water conservancy construction is also extremely rapid.

At the same time, the scientific research institute has also improved rice varieties, which can achieve double cropping in one year.

The technology of rice seedling raising, transplanting, roasting and raking has developed in an all-round way.

It is believed that by next year, there will be a bumper grain harvest.

At that time, the grain produced by the six counties of Jiangdong will be able to feed at least three times the total population of the six counties of Jiangdong.

Some of this grain can be sold, but the rest needs to be stored in case of emergency.

In the six counties of Jiangdong, several large granaries need to be built.

Every year you have to stock up on enough food, and then replace the old one with new one every year.

Although it is inevitable that some of the food will be consumed in doing so, it must be done.

……

As the days passed, the development of the six counties in Jiangdong was really changing with each passing day.

Every day, Lu Bu is very busy.

Although a bumper harvest of grain cannot be achieved in a day or two.

However, due to the great development of the whole Jiangdong, Shanghai is under construction, and the city of Nanjing is under construction.

Lujiang County and Jiujiang County are also under construction.

Water conservancy facilities are still being built in the entire six counties of Jiangdong.

So many projects require countless manpower.

Now it's a time of slack again, and almost everyone is engaged in the construction of the project.

As long as you have hands and feet, and are diligent and willing to work, you don't have to worry about finding a job to do.

The pockets of the common people began to bulge little by little.

For Lu Bu, the common people are rich, and they are even happier than he himself is rich.

When the people are rich, the country is strong!

……

At the same time, Cai Yan's stomach also bulged a little bit.

It seems that the day of childbirth is in these days.

In the past few days, Lu Bu has thrown away all the work at hand and accompanied Cai Yan every day.

On this day, Cai Yan's stomach suddenly became severely painful.

It is estimated that it is about to give birth, Lu Bu is like a great enemy, hurriedly helped Cai Yan into the bedroom, and invited the three stable women who were waiting in the house every day.

After checking Cai Yan's situation, Wen Po confirmed that Cai Yan was about to give birth.

While preparing to deliver the baby, Wen Po ordered the maid to bring hot water and be ready to stand by at any time.

Diao Chan, Yan Rui, Zhang Ning and other women have already entered the house to serve.

Especially Yan Rui, who has production experience, can also guide Cai Yan one or two.

And Lu Bu was more anxious than anyone else in the house, busy with this and that, but he was doing a disservice.

In the end, he was kicked out by three stable women.

Lu Bu also knew that in this era, when a woman gave birth to a child, a man could not be in the house.

Soon, Cai Yan's painful moans could be heard in the room.

Every time Cai Yan shouted, Lu Bu was moved, as if he had been stabbed in the heart.

Cai Yan's production didn't seem to be going well, and he screamed for half an hour.

In half an hour, the clothes on Lu Bu's body were soaked with sweat.

How's it going?

What the hell is going on?

Why hasn't it been born yet?

Yan'er, shouldn't there be any danger, right?

Just when Lu Bu was sitting still, almost unable to control himself, and wanted to rush into the house regardless of it, suddenly, a loud baby cry sounded.

(End of chapter)