Although it is in the process of large-scale development, Liaodong is still a relatively isolated place, which is determined by geographical conditions and is not transferred by human will. 【Reading.com】

Therefore, although the matter of Xie Hong's return to the sea shook Gyeonggi and then affected the world, here in Liaodong, except for a few people, it did not cause any reaction.

In addition to the geographical conditions, it is also related to the fact that the people of Liaodong have no time to watch, and now, the development of the black land of Liaodong has achieved fruitful results, and the minds of the military and people of Liaodong are all placed in the ground, because this is the hope of Liaodong.

Southern Liaoning was originally the focus of Tuntian. Not only did it start early, but also the participants were relatively effective, so the development was relatively thorough, and at least half of the newly reclaimed wasteland in Zhengde two years belonged to southern Liaoning.

And the Golden State is even more impressive. Today's Golden State, except for the so-called industrial area around Port Arthur, can no longer see the slightest wasteland, everywhere is green, looking at the past, as if you can smell the fragrance of wheat seedlings and ears of rice.

Zhao Yu, uh, now he has changed his name to Zhao Sheng, this is still the name changed for him before Lord Scholar left, uh, no, it should be said that it was Hou Ye who changed his name before he left Lushun. As a thousand households in Tuntian, the name Zhao Yu is obviously a little out of place, and the changed name is said to be a big figure in history, and the omen of victory is obviously better.

Of course, Zhao Sheng didn't care about this, there were too many places where Hou Ye made him grateful, what can a name be worth?

Originally, he, like most people in Liaodong, thought that Hou Ye had been sitting in Liaoyang City, who would have thought that Hou Ye would come to Liaonan in person, not only entrusted Lord Wang to listen to the opinions of the big guys, but also designed new farm tools with his own hands, and formulated such a good governance as a reclamation order, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a Buddha of ten thousand families.

Think about it, aren't all the stories that the old people have told them all like this? When the Son of Heaven is in the court, he will always send wise ministers to the people to pay a private visit, and after understanding the suffering of the people, he will give benevolent government, so that the old and weak can be supported, and the cultivators will have their fields.

Zhao Sheng clearly remembers that every time an old man tells a story, it is the most lively time in the village, and adults and children are quietly gathered around, whether they are telling stories or listening to stories, their eyes are the same eager.

For everyone, what the story says is the ultimate dream, it is an unattainable dream, and happiness only exists at the moment when immersed in the story, when the story is over, the day is still as hard as before, when you look up, the front is still dark and dull, and you can't see a trace of light.

Therefore, the appearance of happiness is so sudden that it is unexpected.

Zhao Sheng still remembers that morning, and even the meaningful look of Old Liu Tou has always remained in his mind...... After that day, everything changed, and Yuzi suddenly became prosperous, and everyone around him was full of expectations in their eyes.

Since that day, the smile on the mother's face has not been broken, with sufficient rations, the mood is also very good, and the old man's body is getting better day by day.

Work hard and you'll be able to live a good life in the future, whether it's in the field, in the workshop, or on the boat, the choice is yours, each one is a Cotai Strip.

The reclaimed fields are their own, and in a few years, even the tax will be reduced to such a low level as 30%, such a benevolent government, I am afraid that only in ancient times, the era of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors will have it, right?

Although most of the craftsmen in the workshop are skilled craftsmen, if there are young people who are interested in this, even if they know nothing about the craft, they can go in and become apprentices. Although the apprentice's salary is not as high as that of the skilled craftsmen, at least one or two pieces of silver per month is enough to make the family live quite nourishingly.

Not to mention that after the technology is high, the treatment of those skilled craftsmen and even craftsmen can scare people to death when they say it, if it is according to Zhao Sheng's original living standard, Guo and Yang only need to get one or two months of wages, which is enough for him to use for a lifetime.

Moreover, if you are talented, you can also be recommended to enter various colleges, not only in Liaodong, but even sent to the capital for further study! In the past, everyone probably couldn't have imagined such a good thing in their dreams, which is really a blessing.

Going to sea is very unfamiliar to most people, and there is no custom of sailing here in Liaodong, so although the wages of sailors and sailors are also very high, many people still turn away.

However, the prospects of this road are just as bright, not to mention others, just look at the four brothers of the Lu family, needless to say, the Hou Ye also relies on them very much. Before going to sea, the four brothers were already captains, and I heard that they will be further promoted in the future, and they may be promoted to the rank of fleet admiral!

Speaking from the heart, Zhao Sheng is very envious of them, he can follow Hou Ye to listen to the teachings, but he really has no talent in this area, and it is useless to envy, he can only do the work at hand well to repay the gift of God, as well as the kindness of Hou Ye and the emperor.

As long as you follow closely behind Hou Ye and follow his guidance, Zhao Sheng will be more and more prosperous day by day, Zhao Sheng firmly believes in this, and he is still infecting everyone around him.

In the past six months, his footprints have almost all over southern Liaoning, everywhere he goes, in addition to assisting the local government to implement new policies and teaching the locals to use new farm tools, Zhao Sheng has done more is to keep preaching the greatness of Lord Qincha, the sainthood of today's son, and guide people to recall the difficulties of the past, and compare with the current prosperity.

The facts are already in front of him, and then there is his appearance, he is enthusiastic and infected many people, and after getting the cooperation of the military and the people, the obstacles to communication and understanding have also been removed, and the new policy has been implemented smoothly, Zhao Shengshi has made great contributions, even Lord Wang said so.

But Zhao Sheng was not complacent because of this, he still put all his mind on his work, through the old man's teaching, he had a simple and a little silly idea: the Holy Son of Heaven may only produce one in hundreds of years, and a virtuous minister like Hou Ye will only produce one in thousands of years, otherwise why are those stories passed down from generation to generation and never changed?

If you don't cherish it, not only will you regret it for the rest of your life, but even future generations will complain about yourself, so you must work hard.

In southern Liaoning, most of the people he met were as convinced as he was, and in places like Liaozhong and northern Liaoning, although his enthusiasm was inferior, no one objected to his opinion.

However, there are also discordant factors, that is, the generals of Liaoxi have a lot of disrespectful words to Hou Ye.

Even if the great situation in other parts of Liaodong is in front of them, those people have no way to refute, but they still refuse to change their words, and they only say: The Son of Heaven is young, and he will be bewitched by the annihilation ministers, and there are all kinds of perverse actions, but it is said that the emperor will always grow up, and there will always be a day when he will wake up, and when the time comes, the annihilators led by the champion Hou will die without a place to be buried.

Although these angry words did not have much impact, Zhao Sheng and other generals in Liaodong were very angry, close to several guards in Liaoxi, and even had several conflicts with the guards in Liaoxi because of this, which was temporarily suppressed after Han Zongbing personally came forward.

In fact, Zhao Sheng can also understand the feelings of those people, Zu Shen will be blinded by lard, and if he has to go against the Hou Ye and even the emperor, those generals in Liaoxi can only follow helplessly.

But seeing that the rest of Liaodong is prosperous, everything is the same here in Liaoxi, whether it is the generals or the military households below, they are all envious!

Saying a few cool words can be regarded as their helpless struggle, otherwise what can they do?

In July, it is the harvest season, and after the harvest, how big the gap will be, everyone can't say well, but the general trend is undoubted, and the hearts of the military and civilians in western Liaoning are actually dripping blood.

Zhao Sheng is a shrewd person, and when he realizes this, of course, the response he adopts will not be so direct and reckless, and the roundabout method will not have immediate results, but after it is achieved, the effect is very good.

His method was very simple, that is, through the mouths of the military households in Liaozhong, the details of the new policy were transmitted to Liaoxi, and the target was also ordinary military households.

Liaodong's new policy is beneficial in many ways, and the degree of benefit is inversely proportional to the original status. Ordinary military households, like Zhao Sheng himself, originally had nothing, and even their personal freedom belonged to the generals, so they benefited the most from the new policy.

And the generals are not without profits, they originally accounted for the lion's share, and after being incorporated into the governor's plan, the overall profit growth, of course, they enjoyed more.

Relatively speaking, if you compare it with the military households, their profits seem to be less; In absolute terms, their gains are also better than before.

As for how the court benefited, Zhao Sheng couldn't say why.

Hou Ye not only lent ration seeds, but also lent new farm tools and cattle, horses and livestock, and when it came to the autumn harvest, the taxes collected were not much, and it was a question whether he could earn back the capital, let alone make a profit.

Cattle and horses, rations are okay, Zhao Sheng has also heard rumors, most of them were snatched back from the Tartars by Hou Ye, and Hou Ye also bears a lot of infamy because of this.

In this regard, Zhao Sheng, as always, resolutely supports Xie Hong's decision, why can he only rob us with tartars? They are poor, and our people in Liaodong are not rich, so if they rob them, they will rob them, and if they come back, they will rob them again, and it is only right that they will not dare to bare their teeth when they grab those tartars.

The main thing that really confused him was farm tools and taxes.

You know, the new farm tools are real iron guys, in the past, even if it was the kind of foot plow used by a single person, I am afraid it will cost a few taels or even dozens of taels, not to mention those large plows that can be pulled by a few horses or a few oxen, without a hundred and ten taels, how can it be built?

Even if the iron ore is ready-made, most of the people who open the mines are taken captive Tartar slave laborers, but the wages of the craftsmen in the workshop are quite huge.

Zhao Sheng is quite well-informed, he knows that in order to encourage the craftsmen to be active, the new farm tools have adopted the model of piecework! Corresponding to such a large number of tools, the cost during the period can also be imagined, plus the cost of transportation and other expenses, how much silver is needed, I am afraid that few people in the entire Liaodong can figure it out.

With a lot of money and a small tax, Zhao Sheng really couldn't think of how the governor's yamen, that is, the imperial court, could make a profit, and in the end he could only attribute the answer to the words of the Hou Ye.

"The people get rich first, and the country is strong!"

In a simple six words, Zhao Sheng himself is illiterate, but from these short words, he can understand Hou Ye's determination and his sincerity, because Hou Ye not only said it well, but also followed it steadfastly.

Maybe the benefits in the eyes of the court and the marquis are like this, right?

Zhao Sheng did not share the doubts in his heart with others, even Mr. Wang, who he respected the most except for Hou Ye, was vague about the truth that the people were rich and the country was strong.

He also consulted Mr. Wang several times, but each time the result was similar, and what he saw on Mr. Wang's face was only a thoughtful look, obviously, this truth made the wise Mr. Wang think a lot.

After realizing this, Zhao Sheng no longer asked for advice, but according to his own understanding, he shared the emotion in his heart with others, including many military households in western Liaoning.

Of course, the effect was as good as he expected, and by July and so, most of the doubts in Liaoxi had disappeared and become sparse, replaced by many reproaches for the ancestral family and the party's henchmen.

This kind of thing would not have happened in the past, and the military valued the superiority and inferiority of the superiors and subordinates, especially the soldiers. The ancestral family is deeply rooted in western Liaoning, and Zu Dahuan is the respect of the generals, how dare ordinary military households be dissatisfied with him? Even if you are dissatisfied, you can only suppress it in your heart, and if you bring it up, isn't it looking for death?

But now it's different, the power and position of the governor's yamen are far above the general's mansion, and the general trend in Liaodong is like this, only Liaoxi is very good at reading power, which is very criticized in itself.

If it weren't for the large number of champions Hou, General Zu Shen might have been dismissed from his post at this time, including the military and civilians of Liaoxi, most of the people in Liaodong thought so, so people's fear of Zu Dahuan had also decreased a lot.

Of course, until Zhao Sheng left Liaozhong and returned to southern Liaoning, the doubts in western Liaoning were limited to military households and low-level generals, and those at the top did not waver.

It is better to be still than to be still, and for them, there are benefits to not joining. First, it is necessary to rely on scholars to govern the world, and it is difficult for the Son of Heaven to last long, who knows how long this new policy will last?

Besides, who knows if there are any pitfalls in this new deal? Champion Hou has always been cunning, if he digs a pit in it, it will be bad to pit everyone into it, so it is better to maintain the status quo? The left and right are just collecting more food.

These people are the local masters, so despite the undercurrent at the bottom, the general trend of western Liaoning has not changed, and the implementation of the new policy here is also far away.

(To be continued)