After a few more words, Skye stepped aside, and the others came up to report.

It turned out that this time, Lian Zining took advantage of the opportunity to come out and call out the heads of some key departments, and by the way, listen to the progress of everyone's work during this time.

It has been half a month since the announcement of the new official system and the comprehensive allocation of funds for various tasks, and some work should also be fruitful.

"This year, the wind and rain in Songjiang were smooth, and the officials below went to various counties to investigate, and there was no disaster in any place. The spring ploughing situation in various places is very good, and it can be expected that in autumn, it will be another bumper harvest. ”

"The Department of Taxation has sent officers to various places to supervise and control the collection of commercial taxes."

"The Salt Mining Bureau has found a large salt pond in the dense forest north of the Yaoqi Station, the salt is snow-white and delicate, and the sound and color are excellent, and they have already shipped it over, and they are about to send it to the adult's mansion to see."

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Everyone replied, and Lian Zining commented one by one, although it was only a few words, but it was to the point, or encouraged, or reprimanded, or ordered to correct.

Unconsciously, Lian Zining has also changed from a simple general who can only lead troops to fight to an all-rounder in the military and politics.

After retiring everyone, Lian Zining asked Hong Chaojiao: "How did the matter of the 'reclamation order' go?" ”

Hong Chaojiao took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and handed it to Lian Zining: "It's been changed three times, and I'm about to show it to the adults to see if there is something wrong in it?" ”

Lian Zining took it and shook it away, carefully read it from beginning to end, pondered for a moment, and said, "Your plan is already good." But there are three other inaccuracies. ”

"First, you only speak of the wasteland that the people have cultivated. It is his own, but he has no restraint on it. You need to know. The fields we are now giving to the people are 70 acres for men, 40 acres for women, and 50 acres for cattle. Yes. The regulations must be clear, and the farmers must have 'surplus energy' before they can be reclaimed. ”

"Second, the boundaries must be clear, once the reclamation is completed, the local government will erect boundary monuments for its fields, and some people in the province will stir up trouble in vain."

"Third, the land of reclamation. Why should it belong only to these people for three years? We have countless lands in the northeast, to be honest, not to mention the current millions of people, it is ten times more people. There is also land that can be cultivated and cultivated. After three years, it will be taken back and disposed of separately. If you do that, who will really bother to do it? It takes a lot of mental effort. It only takes three years, and even the cost may not be recovered. You say, don't you? Let them go, we have it! Set the rules, as long as it is the land that is opened, life and generation, children and grandchildren, all belong to this family, and they will never be taken back! Of course, heavy taxation is necessary, so let's set it at seven out of ten! ”

Hong Chaojiao sighed, and was convinced: "My lord, Xia Guan is really convinced, but there are so many twists and turns in such a thing." If you do this, the people will feel as if the land had fallen from the sky, and they will be happy to pay a high tax if they have picked up a big bargain! ”

"Just." He glanced at Lian Zining: "According to the first article, how do you define the farmer who 'has spare power'?" If power is decentralized, won't it give local officials some opportunities to take advantage of? If it is taken over to the center, a new yamen must be established. ”

"Lao Hong, I'm very relieved that you can think of this!"

Lian Zining patted Hong Chaojiao's shoulder, sighed, and looked a little worried: "No matter which dynasty, no matter how good the system is, as long as people are still in power, corruption and fraud are something that cannot be broken." This is also a helpless thing, people, such a creature. Emperor Taizu hated corrupt officials the most, and he embezzled dozens of taels of silver and then picked up the skin and filled it with straw and hung it in the temple, is this trick ruthless? Is it still the same or is there an endless stream of major corruption cases? Guo Heng, the head of the household department, and his gang were greedy for 24 million grain from the Shihu department! ”

"If you want to completely eliminate corruption, it is impossible, you can only rely on the system to circumvent and reduce, you see I have set so many rules and regulations, why? To put it bluntly, isn't it just to reduce the rule of man and try to follow the rules? According to the rules, if there is less opportunity for them to get up and down, they will naturally be less greedy. There is also to increase the intensity of supervision, now our MI6, I heard that many people privately call them Xiaojin Yiwei! If you want me to say, our MI6 is better than Jinyiwei in terms of investigating corrupt officials! But even so, there are still people who are corrupt! ”

A trace of anger flashed in Lian Zining's eyes, and he rubbed his back molars fiercely: "Then kill!" If you don't kill a batch, there will be no officials and no greed. If you kill them and they are afraid, there will always be some who are not so bold and will not dare to be greedy. The official gave them Gao Yulu and gave them Lian Tian to raise Lian Tian, why are they not fucking satisfied? ”

Seeing Lian Zining's murderous expression, Hong Chaojiao couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

Just as he was about to speak, the sound of horses' hooves behind him, he looked back, but it was King Liang who came over with a horse, and Hong Chaojiao hurriedly saluted: "I have seen His Royal Highness King Liang." ”

"Excuse me, excuse me." King Liang waved his hand casually, pointed to the side and asked, "Uncle Wu Yi, are you about to reach the ground?" ”

Lian Zining looked in the direction he was pointing and couldn't help but smile dumbly.

There is a huge stone monument standing on the side of the road, which must be six or seven zhang long, three zhang high, the size of the Nine Dragon Wall, and there are four big characters engraved on it - Wanqing Manor. The word iron painting silver hook is obviously from the handwriting of a famous artist, and a word is afraid that there must be no one zhang two or three feet square. This stele is huge, and it stands on a small hill on the side of the road, it is very conspicuous, if he didn't just care about talking to Hong Chaojiao, I am afraid that he would have seen it from afar in the morning.

"Who is this famous name?"

Lian Zining asked Shi Dazhu on the side.

He knew that although Shi Dazhu was silent, there were few things that could be hidden from him.

Shi Dazhu said: "I have heard of it under the mark, it seems that it was given to your manor by Zhenyuan Mansion, as long as it is beyond the boundary of this stone stele, it will be regarded as entering the category of your manor." ”

The Zhenyuan Mansion he is talking about here is worth the yamen that manages the Zhenyuan Mansion - similar to the Shuntian Mansion. Of course. Due to the particularity of Zhenyuan Mansion as a military city, the scope of the Yamen of Zhenyuan Mansion is only the surrounding villages and towns.

"There's a lot of variation." Lian Zining scolded with a smile. He is not a saint after all, for these small means of flattery. It's still very useful in my heart.

King Liang asked, "Uncle Wu Yi, do you really have 10,000 acres of land in that grange?" ”

"Isn't it just ten thousand acres?" Lian Zining laughed: "Your Highness also underestimates me too much, my Wu Yijun is rich in the north and south of the Songjiang River, and the lower official is the master of this place, only a few thousand acres, isn't it too embarrassing?" ”

In the face of Lian Zining's remarks, King Liang's eyes widened and his lips moved. I almost threw out the word insatiable.

In the capital, where land annexation is extremely fierce, it is very decent for wealthy families and princes to have tens of thousands of acres of land. A shabby prince like him only has a few hundred acres of land under his name. Ten thousand hectares of land, that's one million acres, this Wu Yibo is still not satisfied?

Lian Zining laughed and raised his voice: "Old Dai." ”

"Eh, here we are."

An old man came on a big green donkey. Wearing an indigo blue robe and a Liuhe unified hat, although he is not young, he is very energetic.

Old Dai is Dai Xian. The one who helped Lian Zining take care of the Grange is in his sixties this year, and he is very old and reliable. For several generations, his family was born to Dai Fu. Later, Dai Zhangpu entered Beijing as an official and brought him with him. Dai's Mansion also has a lot of manor properties outside the capital, and he has always been taking care of it. I have been in this business for more than 40 years, and I am very experienced. Later, Lian Zining got married, and their family came over together as a dowry, and when Lian Zining returned to the customs, Qinglan specially sent him over.

It is not an easy task to manage the farmland, and there are many doorways, getting along with the tenants, collecting rent on time, giving the tenants to write things during the New Year and festivals to win people's hearts, and even if the scale of the grange is larger, you have to worry about water irrigation, cattle farming tools, etc., which are trivial, not inferior to managing a city.

It is often seen in later TV dramas that tenants are forced to die by landlords, in fact, not all landlords can do more than tenants. It is not uncommon for the owner to be deceived by the tenants, and even some of the tough tenants resist the rent and do not pay.

Guan Zhuang wants to win people, the same rice raises a hundred kinds of people, not everyone is down-to-earth and willing to work, and there are also quite a lot of treacherous and slippery bankers who are in a bad mood. Don't think that the small people are easy to bully, calculate that their family has enough to eat, and then there are many people who ignore everything, the landlord and the villager are divided in half, and the harvest is less, and the ruthless landlord will force the farmer, even if the tenant is starved to death. Some tenants bully honest landlords, pay less and conceal revenues, and deliberately cheat, and this kind of thing is not uncommon.

Therefore, whether the people in charge of the village are effective or not is the key to a year's harvest.

Can farming make money?

Of course you can, otherwise what are those wealthy families desperately trying to annex and occupy land? Don't talk nonsense about the most important land for Chinese people, if you don't make money, no matter how powerful the tradition is, it will die out.

In fact, in this era, in addition to ocean trade, the most profitable thing is farming.

Many wealthy families have thousands of acres of land at home.

How much is the harvest? This is not accurate, in a disaster year, or even beyond the ends of the income, in vain put the money of livestock and cattle in it. But if it is a good year, a harvest will be hundreds of thousands of millions of stone rent, and these grains will be silver for nothing!

It is precisely because of the stimulus of this huge profit that those powerful families are desperately merging, accumulating abundant funds, and then opening money banks, pawnshops, silk factories, cart shops, etc., to make profits in many ways, but in terms of fundamentals, it has to fall on the cultivated land.

Today, Lian Zining came out to inspect Zhuangzi, and Dai Xian naturally followed.

Lian Zining said with a smile: "Lao Dai, please tell His Royal Highness King Liang how much land our family has." ”

"Look, you're being polite, isn't it?" Dai Xian said with a smile.

He turned to King Liang, first saluted, then pointed to the big stone tablet, and said with a smile: "So that His Royal Highness King Liang will know that from this stone tablet to fifty miles away, it is the property of our aunt." When Zhenyuan Mansion was first built, our family had 20,000 hectares of land, and then one after another, another 10,000 hectares were reclaimed, and three lakes and eight rivers were also reclaimed. Two mountains and forests were widened in. ”

When King Liang heard this, he was stunned: "Uncle Wu Yi, the ground under the jurisdiction of this Wu Yi Army." It's all your private property. You have taken so much land and you don't pay taxes. Isn't it to the detriment of one's own own interests? ”

"His Royal Highness King Liang has misunderstood." Lian Zining waved his hand: "Within the jurisdiction of my Wuyi Army, no matter whether you have an official position, whether you have fame or not, or what your identity is, as long as you have land and land in your family, and there is grain and rice in the field, you have to pay for food." The tax in this land shall not be exempted from a penny. To tell you the truth, last autumn grain was taxed. Just the official family paid more than 4 million stones, but it was solid and the score was not bad! The big warehouses that I led you to see this morning were filled with grain paid by my family. ”

After hearing what Lian Zining said, King Liang was really shocked.

A person, with such authority in his hand, can say the same in the thousands of miles north and south of Songjiang. It's really more emperor than the emperor, do whatever you want. And judging from the degree of control he has over the army and his subordinate officers, there is simply no one to restrain him, and he is not even qualified to persuade him. He is above all else. And such a person, on the basis of having such power, can still self-denial and self-examination. Restrain your desires and lead by example. It's a rare thing.

He looked Lian Zining up and down a few times and sighed. Heartfelt: "Chengbi, many people in Beijing say that you are fortunate to enter, if you don't have the appreciation of your father, I'm afraid that you are still a white man in the capital." It's just that now this king knows that you are a great person, and wherever you put it, you have to come out. If you study, you will enter the cabinet, and if you are in the army, you will be a general. Let's not say anything else, just if you can make the people and gentry pay for the food, this king admires you! This is something that our dynasty can't change no matter how many major changes it makes! ”

Lian Zining could naturally see whether King Liang was sincere or false, he was silent for a while, and smiled faintly: "These people are cheap, if he is disobedient, you will kill them, and there are many people killed, so naturally no one will object." ”

After a pause, he suddenly laughed: "What I said is also cool, the reform of the country and the dynasty is not easy, the resistance is too great, and it is much easier to do it here in Songjiang." ”

King Liang sighed: "How easy it is to talk about! ”

Lian Zining said lightly: "There are too many concerns. Could it be that His Royal Highness really believed the words of those civil officials, and the gentry could really shake the country's foundation by paying food in one piece? ”

He sneered coldly: "It's all!" ”

King Liang couldn't help but be silent.

When I looked up again, the manor had arrived.

Ayisuli and a group of people from the Ilgen Kyora tribe were already there to greet him.

Seeing Lian Zining and others coming, Ying Ying bowed down: "The slave has seen the master." ”

This woman is wearing a long red dress today, which is still gorgeous, mature and charming to the extreme.

When Lian Zining saw him, his heart was pounding, and he only felt a burst of fire. When I saw her again, I unconsciously thought of the plump breasts and fat buttocks, and the silky eyes of the eyes, and I only felt a hot current in my lower abdomen.

It's been almost a year since the last time, and I haven't tasted this beautiful woman for a long time.

He turned over and dismounted, and helped him weakly: "Madame, please get up." ”

"Thank you, master." He was originally a false support, but Ayi Suli stood up with a squeeze of his hand, and scratched his little finger in his hand, with a smile on his face.

I don't know if it's an illusion, Lian Zining felt that there was some resentment in her eyes.

He collected his mind and said with a smile: "Come, I will introduce you." ”

He pointed to King Liang: "This is the angel of Qincha who came to Zhenyuan Mansion to announce the decree this time, His Royal Highness King Liang, the twenty-sixth son of the emperor." ”

"Your Highness, this is the elder of the clan of Ilgen Jueluo, and the mother of Nurhachi, the general of the Second Army of my Wuyi Army."

As soon as her eyes moved away from Lian Zining, Ayi Suli was face turned straight and smiled faintly: "Ayi Suli, a foreigner, has seen His Royal Highness King Liang." His Royal Highness King Liang is a nobleman of Tianhuang, and the small people are really fortunate to have three lives when they see it today. ”

When she was coercive in bed, she was debauched and demonic, but now she has a little more holiness that rejects others thousands of miles away, and this completely different attitude towards others and herself also makes Lian Zining very comfortable.

Even with a vision like King Liang, he couldn't help but lose his mind for a moment.

From his point of view, Ayi Suli and Lian Zining's small movements happened to be in full view. He couldn't help but show a weird smile on his face, and he was still a little envious in his heart, this Uncle Wu Yi should live up to his reputation, not only did he have many beautiful wives and concubines in the family, but he also raised such a glamorous outside, which made people look like a big index finger.

However, he has no shortage of women, and he doesn't want to displease Lian Zining. waved his hand, with a bit of self-restraint. said lightly: "Madame, please get up, no need to be formal." ”

The group entered the manor. This manor is like a large-scale village, the buildings are not neat and regular, but scattered and distributed, all are blue brick houses, and the front of the house is also fenced, and there are chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep in it, and some are on the side of the road, and a vegetable field is opened, in which some seasonal vegetables are planted. The green is very gratifying.

This is where the Ilgenjura and some of the Grange stewards live.

They have settled down now, every family has a lot of fields, and some families still have men in the army, and they can bring back a lot of silver taels every year, so their lives are very good. Last year, it was an adobe house, but this year it is a brick house.

This change is very welcome.

When I heard that the master was coming, all the men, women and children in the tribe came out to pay their respects and did not mention it.

The horses and wagons of the people were taken care of. Su Li led everyone inside, and soon arrived at Lian Zining's other courtyard. This courtyard has also been expanded, and the large mansion with five entrances in front and back is enough to accommodate hundreds of people.

If not. These people really can't fit it, mainly because King Liang is difficult to serve, not only does he have to go to the house. I have to be alone.

When I came, it was already early, and I arrived at the land. It's already dusk.

The house is cleaned every day and is extremely clean. After arriving, Su Li arranged for them to live separately.

Lian Zining's residence is in the West Cross Courtyard, which is the quietest place in the back.

Su Li came over with him, pushed open the door for Lian Zining, and said with a smile: "Master, come in and take a look, this year's renovation of your courtyard, although the bedroom is also flat, but the furniture in your bedroom, the slaves and maids have all moved here." ”

Lian Zining went in to take a look, and sure enough, the bedroom that suited him last year was the same, and even the furnishings were the same. The delicate texture of rosewood is very soft under the light. The weather is getting hotter, the thick Persian carpet has been removed, the floor is clean terrazzo bricks, a pull-out bed is the most conspicuous, there is a dresser, mirror, etc. next to it, and a small door next to it leads to the bathroom, and the toilet is also placed there.

He smiled slightly: "You have a heart." ”

But he didn't hear a response, Lian Zining was slightly stunned, and then he felt that his waist was hugged by two slender jade arms, and his back felt two huge softness that were extremely elastic, and then Su Li's heavy gasp sounded in his ears: "Master, I want to die as a slave." You are really ruthless, you made people so cool, so you never returned, so that the slave maid was so waiting, for a full year, I didn't know how to come and take a look. ”

The bursts of evil fire in Lian Zining's heart rushed up after saying this, and his lower body was already as hard as iron, he suddenly turned his head and stared at Su Li: "You sassy fox." ”

Su Li was not angry, she licked the corners of her mouth gently, teased Lian Zining with silky eyes, and said softly: "If the master doesn't like the slave and the slave fox, why didn't he even bring his wife this time, and came by himself?" ”

As she spoke, she glanced at Lian Zining, turned around, and the long skirt outside was piled up at her feet, revealing the beautiful flesh inside.

She wore only a belly pocket and a tiny pair of trousers, and her white and tender thighs and arms were exposed, shining in the light.

The flesh is shiny and seductive.

"Are you playing with fire?" Lian Zining stared at him and shouted in a low voice.

"That's right, the slave is just playing with fire!" Su Li stared at him without fear, and there seemed to be a flame burning in her eyes: "The slave knows that this is playing with fire, and if she is not careful, she will burn herself to death!" But when I saw the master, I just couldn't control myself, so I wanted to sleep with the master, and I wanted to ......"

She licked her lips lightly, and said in a hoarse voice: "The slave doesn't ask for anything, just to be pressed on the bed by the master and hard......"

Lian Zining couldn't hold back any longer, turned around and closed the door very quickly, then picked up Su Li and threw her on the bed.

Her body was terrifyingly hot.

Su Li ate and smiled, and knelt on the bed, her thin waist and limbs sunk down, and her plump buttocks were raised high.

The obscene pants are similar to the thongs of later generations, the front is a small piece of cloth less than the size of a palm, but the back, it is just a thin strip of cloth, at this moment, the strip of cloth that is at most a finger wide has been deeply inserted into Su Li's two huge fat buttocks, and can only be faintly seen.

Su Li's waist twisted, and the two plump buttocks drew a circle in the air, and suddenly a snow-white buttocks waved.

Lian Zining only felt that his nose was about to spurt out, he strode to the side of the bed, his clothes had been taken off, he reached out and gently flicked the strip of cloth to the side, and then stabbed forward with a gun!

"Ahh ~" Su Li let out a sharp scream. (To be continued.) )