In the vast territory of Yangzhou, the days of spring ploughing in the north and south are different. In the southernmost part of Yuzhang and Huiji counties, spring ploughing began in March, but few people in these places did not talk about it, and the development was not very sufficient, and there was not much arable land.

Gradually to the north, until the end of March, Shouchun and other places also entered the spring ploughing.

Zhang Yi also attached great importance to this spring ploughing, and personally inspected the spring ploughing situation in nearby counties.

As the two counties of Jiujiang and Lujiang, which are relatively war-torn, have recovered quite well in the past two years. Especially around Chaohu Lake, a large amount of farmland has been reclaimed, and the family has undergone cleaning, and a lot of land in their hands has been in the hands of the government.

The families that control a large amount of private land no longer exist, and there are still many families with a large number of private fields in the three counties of Danyang, Wu County, and Huiji, which are stable.

Especially Wu County, because when Zhang Yi attacked Sun Quan, he did not use many troops against Wu County, so the family is relatively well preserved.

But it doesn't matter, the degree of development in Jiangdong is not enough, and it is completely possible to continue to develop official land, as long as there are people who can reclaim the land, no matter how much private land in the hands of the family will not affect the government.

What's more, the last turmoil in Wu County wiped out many families. It also made Wu County now enforce many of Zhang Yi's regulations, such as limiting the number of slaves, and the number of slaves that are not used by the family shall not exceed one-tenth of the number of acres of cultivated land, and the number of acres of cultivated land shall not exceed 1,000 acres.

For a large family, 1,000 acres of arable land is a small amount. This forced them to make a workaround, which was to divide the family into two or even three parts for presentation.

This disguised separation temporarily achieved Zhang Yi's goal, and then Zhang Yi waited for these families to make mistakes themselves. As long as they make mistakes, Zhang Yi has an excuse to move them elsewhere, so that the family is really separated.

Zhang Yi will never allow too big a family to exist, he will allow you to be a high-ranking official, scholarly, and wealthy, but he will never allow you to have 10,000 acres of fertile land.

The reason for this is because of the nature of China itself. For thousands of years, China has been an agrarian civilization, and this nature will never change. But Zhang Yi didn't want to establish a political regime that he only wanted farming, he also wanted something else, such as animal husbandry, commerce, oceans, etc., what he wanted to establish was a pluralistic regime.

But no matter how diverse it is, the roots will never change, and that is farming. Therefore, Zhang Yi will definitely keep the bottom line, and he must limit the amount of cultivated land per person.

Zhang Yi is also looking for new planting species, and in Shouchun's personal estate, he has planted seeds for others to collect to see if these things have any value. And let people sort out some planting tips, these are some farmers who have read a little bit of books.

Not only farming, but also craftsmen, businessmen and so on, Zhang Yi has set up various small industry associations in Shouchun, and specially approved a piece of land for these industry associations to use. Let all walks of life have a place to communicate, and also deliberately set up a department in the city ahead of its time, called the Intellectual Property Department, to protect the legal status of inventors and creators for 50 years.

This intellectual property, in ancient times, was both good and bad. For example, some craftsman skills, each family cherishes the broom itself, and does not disclose it to the outside world at all, and it is all passed down from generation to generation.

Although this can feed a large family for several lifetimes, it is not conducive to the spread of technology. Zhang Yi set up this for the sake of technology dissemination, and he deliberately set up the term patent, and in the past 50 years, all goods that use this technology need to pay the patent holder a patent fee, ranging from one five baht to ten five baht.

Of course, it won't be easy at first. However, Zhang Yi has begun to form a strong judicial department, and with advanced awareness, Zhang Yi naturally knows the importance of the judicial department, which is an important symbol of modern civilization.

The judicial sector is mainly in several aspects, criminal justice, that is, the interrogation and arrest system; Tax justice is to inspect the tax department; Justice of interests, that is, litigation justice, but because this involves Zhang Yi's newly established patent, an additional patent supervision department has been added on the basis of the court, and they act together with the tax judiciary; Inspecting the judiciary, this is the procuratorate, inspecting all management and judicial institutions, and directly responsible to Zhang Yi.

Zhang Yi originally wanted to get a system of three provinces and six ministries, but after thinking about it, this system of three provinces and six ministries was still lacking, so he directly set up a modern government framework.

This change cannot be completed overnight, but Zhang Yi already has a blueprint in his heart, and is ready to complete the construction of this government framework in about 20 years.

At the end of spring ploughing, Zhang Yi ushered in another good news, that is, Da Qiao was born.

Zhang Yi is also very happy that he has an extra daughter. He named this daughter Orange, and his love for it has not diminished at all.

However, his subordinates were a little dissatisfied with this, because neither woman gave birth to a son for him. Without a son, he has no heir, and without an heir, Zhang Yi's foundation is not stable.

As Zhang Yi's half-housekeeper, Liu Ye's mind once again became alive, and he began to marry Zhang Yi and Zhang Luo concubines again.

From the various families, Zhang Luo beauties, the first to bear the brunt is Buqi's sister, this is a dignified and virtuous woman. The Bu family is also the family that first took refuge in Zhang Yi, no matter what, it is necessary to give these families a reassurance, you must know that Zhang Yi's three women are all from Jiangdong, what does this make others think?

Similarly, Di Qing, who has no family power, also wants to consolidate his position in Zhang Yi's mind, so he found a beautiful woman in Lujiang. This beauty is Qin Luofu that Zhang Yi saw in Lujiang at the beginning, she is just fifteen years old this year, and many people want to marry her. However, there was no suitable candidate for his family, so he kept dragging it out, and now he was directly sent to Zhang Yi by Di Qing.

The third candidate is more special, she is a daughter of the Huiji Luo family, but she has been married once, but her husband died, and she returned to her parents' family because of her young age.

At this time, there was not much prejudice against widows. Not to mention Cao Cao's example, it is recorded that after Liu Lanzhi and Jiao Zhongqing divorced, Taishou's son was going to marry her.

But Zhang Yi did not directly agree to these three marriages. He doesn't mind how many wives he marries and how many concubines he takes, and of course he is willing to have a full house of children and grandchildren.

But he won't be in a hurry to marry a newlywed wife just after Da Qiao gave birth to his daughter. This period was put by Zhang Yi in June, that is, two months later, so that he showed some respect for Da Qiao.