On this day, Gao Huan was playing chess with Ruyi in the house, and Gao Zhongming said outside the door: "General Qiqi, there is an urgent report from Guangzong. Please let the general open it himself. ”

"What's the matter that even Erhu and Gao Yue can't handle?" Gao Huan said a little unhappily, now Li Erhu and Gao Yue are Gao Huan's right-hand men, and both of them are former military captains and partial generals. Ruyi said with a smile on his face: "Official, you are getting lazy and lazy now, and you have to push it on the two of you if you have anything, which is not good." After that, he said to Gao Zhongming at the door: "Why don't you bring it in and show it to the general." ”

Gao Zhongming reluctantly came into the house with the official document, and now he is Gao Huan's guard Sima, but he rarely comes in Gao Huan's inner house, so he can't help but look around a little secretly.

Ruyi took the official letter in Gao Zhongming's hand, tore it open and took it out for herself, Gao Huan is very fond of her, her own woman, or a woman who never abandons her sincerity, can do anything. Usually some official documents are too lazy to do it, they are all ghostwritten by this little girl, don't look at her is only sixteen years old, but her writing skills are very old, and she is also delicate and orderly. Usually you can accompany him to play chess, taste tea and poetry, and take care of his daily life. With Ruyi accompanying him like this, marching and fighting are not boring.

I saw Ruyi's brows getting tighter and tighter as he looked at the official letter, and it seemed that something was not quite satisfactory. Seeing this, Gao Huan asked strangely, "What happened?" ”

After reading the official letter, Ruyi breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Official, Guangzong Taishou He has rebelled, and he also contacted the Northern Xuzhou Thorn Shi An Bazan together. Now that the area around Gwangjong has been reduced to a battlefield, their troops are directed at our base camp commander Le. ”

After hearing this, Gao Huan hurriedly got off the couch, took the official letter and read it carefully, it turned out that He Du was dissatisfied with Gao Huan's tax reduction order, and partnered with several local forces to rebel, and there were quite a few people, according to the official letter, there were more than 30,000 people.

Gao Huan was a little surprised, it stands to reason that this tax reduction order is beneficial to the people, why are there still people who rebel? It's hard to understand what the ancients thought.

However, since the matter came out, Gao Huan couldn't be instigated, so he naturally ordered all the people to go south to Guangzong to quell the rebellion. Here Gao Huan was planning to prepare to send troops, and the Guan brothers who stayed in Anping County, Dingzhou, sent an urgent report, saying that the giant deer and Zhongshan areas in the state were in trouble, robbing homes and robbing officials and robbing the people, so it was not lively. The two brothers couldn't suppress the command and dispatch, so they had to ask Gao Huan for help.

Gao Huan was a little anxious, so he had to send Gao Yue and Li Erhu to lead his troops back to Dingzhou to clean up the bandits. In the past few years, the common people have lived a hard life, the imperial court has imposed heavy taxes and miscellaneous taxes, natural and man-made disasters, and there are layers of exploitation by local officials, and the people have long lived in dire straits. The whole country is full of beacon fires and wolf smoke everywhere.

Gao Huan secretly made up his mind: city by city to reform the rule of officials and persuade farmers to cultivate mulberry. Little by little, we will improve the lives of the people under our rule and let them live and work in peace and contentment. Don't let them be displaced and rebel again. Start with Guangzong in Jizhou, that's right!

When it comes to fighting, this He Du is not Gao Huan's opponent at all, Gao Huan used his little chicken thief to surround his 30,000 people and horses to fight the flowers, and the whole army was scattered. More than 30,000 of them were homeless and private soldiers recruited by Hedu, who had no combat effectiveness and coordination at all, and were about to collapse in the face of the battle-hardened regular army.

For Hedu's subordinates, Gao Huan did not order the massacre, but instead gave those captured soldiers money and sent them back to their hometowns, and Gao Huan, who was willing to stay, was all included and given preferential treatment. He Du himself died in battle, Gao Huan also buried him alive, and the pension that should be issued was also issued, and this play should be done in a full set. Gao Huan knows very well the consequences of countering violence with violence, you only have to be appeased, just catch one or two typical killing prestige, if the blow is too big, it will pull hatred, and it will be difficult to clean up at that time.

This Guangzong has always been a place for people and bandits. The reason is very simple, in troubled times, this is a military place, you can go south to fight to Yecheng, and you can use it as a bridgehead in the north, the people here do not have a day of peaceful life, always the city head changes the king's flag, you sing and I appear on the scene has made them tired and at a loss, only keep resisting, keep uncovering the rod, such a city you just rely on opening a warehouse to help the people is far from solving the problem.

Therefore, Gao Huan took Guangzong as a testing ground for the reform of his own official governance, starting with the rectification of Guangzong's officials, personally selecting officials from the county level, and trying to select those who have no background, are young but dare to do things and are willing to do things. The second is to persuade farmers to cultivate mulberry, reduce the various taxes of Guangzong, and give certain property immunity to the local tyrants who can take the lead in farming, and the government will pay for the purchase of cattle and seeds and lease them to the common people, and agree to pay them off within three years. For land and property that cannot be repaid, confiscation is made up for the loss. The army was stationed in the county capitals to prevent rebellion and banditry. The third is to build shelters for those displaced people from other places, distribute land assets, and ask them to work for Gao Huan in the form of preferential loans. The last item is to give money and food to those families who are living in difficulty, or the elderly who are lonely and widowed without children, and give them regular money and food every month to treat them well.

Less than three months after the whole of Gwangjong carried out this series of orders, the bandits in the territory were calm, and the people began to settle down and live and work in peace and contentment. Who is willing to rebel if there is a good leader, and who is willing to be a blind stream?

Gao Huan saw that the whole of Guangzong began to have a good trend, and once again ordered the county governments to vigorously support and develop benign commerce, crack down on black merchants who illegally hoarded goods to lower prices or raise prices, and reduced salt taxes and abolished tariffs. In the whole of Guangzong, the situation suddenly opened up within half a year, there were villages everywhere, farmland everywhere, everyone enjoyed the benefits brought by Gao Huan's decree, but they also strictly followed the regulations promulgated by Gao Huan and did not dare to violate them at all.

A year later, the population of Guangzong had recovered to the level of the peak of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and agriculture, animal husbandry and commerce were also very developed.

Under the leadership of Gao Huan, the whole Jizhou has a template precedent like Guangzong County, and everyone has invested in the thriving situation of peasant labor and production, businessmen making money properly, and soldiers defending their homes and defending the country.

Gao Huan also ordered the development of unique agricultural products in the administration, such as Leling County, which is rich in salt in the east of Jizhou near the Bohai Sea, which has always been a large financial revenue that can bring Gao Huan 150,000 silver in a month, and a large number of coal mines were found in Wuyi County, Jizhou, which relied on Yingzhou, Gao Huan sent people to deal with it a little and sold it to Luoyang and Guanzhong, and it was 150,000 silver a month. In addition, there are Guangzong's porcelain, Changle's silk and Anling's tea, which can more or less bring tens of thousands of silver money to Gao Huan every month, and then Gao Huan uses this money to lend to merchants for investment, or lend to rich peasants who need funds for production, and now just relying on the financial income of a population of 1.4 million in Jizhou, he can fully feed more than 30,000 people and horses under his command, and there is a lot of surplus. (Expenses of local governments in the state are not counted)

Someone said: Didn't you say that Gao Huan didn't understand business acumen, how did he come up with these money-making ideas? Ladies and gentlemen, let me explain, no matter how Gao Huan says it, he is also an elite cultivated in our modern society, no matter how talented he is, I believe that even if you travel through the past yourself, looking at these things in front of you, you will immediately think of how to make money, of course, we men may operate in detail, but it doesn't matter, don't forget that Gao Huan has Ruyi, a clever ghost, the identity of this little girl and the talent of women who are born to manage money, naturally help Gao Huan to make detailed arrangements and make it in order.

As the saying goes, the wife marries the virtuous, the concubine marries the beautiful, what does it mean, the wife who is the master of the house must find a virtuous helper to help you keep the red flag in your home, and then you are rich and are marrying a few young and beautiful concubines, which is called the fluttering of the colorful flags outside, of course, this is the feudal idea that men are superior to women in ancient times, even if Gao Huan is highly educated, he thinks that the status of the virtuous and the concubine is the same, and even thinks that the virtuous and the virtuous can also grow up very beautiful and talented. However, in those days, he could only do things according to his own preferences, and he could not make a public announcement that all the people under his rule should learn to be equal between men and women, which would cause serious social contradictions at that time.

As long as we do things well, we must not draw snakes to add to them, and we must understand the truth that things must be reversed, and when the water is full, it will be profitable.

The whole Jizhou is in Gao Huan's design step by step to run to a well-off, those homeless people have entered Jizhou to settle down, several other state and county governors around watched Gao Huan make money every day, they were all greedy to death, eager to kill Gao Huan, robbed his territory, and occupied his wife, people are so angry and laughing, even if he is a party to dominate the feudal official, it is no exception. But Gao Huan has a heavy army in his hand, he fights well, and he also holds Er Zhurong's chicken feathers as an arrow, who dares to really move him? Only at night in the room with the concubine whining, scolding, idle streets, reckless and majestic.

After the Jizhou tribes stabilized, Gao Huan set his sights back to his earliest base: Anping in Dingzhou. He is the assassin of Dingzhou, but he has not even taken good care of the people of Anping County until now, and he is very ashamed. The bandits in the Julu area are endless, and they can't be eliminated. Gao Huan then transferred Li Erhu and Guan Yi, Guan Er and others back to Jizhou, Li Erhu sat in Changle, Guan Yi was stationed in Nanpi, Guan Er was in Guangzong to keep an eye on it, and Ruyi took Gao Zhongming to look at Gao Huan's money bag in Leling.

He personally commanded the army back to Anping, and now only Gao Yue is left on the front line of the bandits, and Gao Huan hurriedly drove to Julu to support Gao Yue after resting in Anping for a few days.

Dingzhou is centered on Zhongshan County (now Dingxian County, Hebei), to the south is Julu, then to the south is Zhao County, to the east is Boling County (Anling City Station also belongs to Boling County), to the west is Lingshou, Xingtang and other large counties, to the north is Tang County, Wangdu and other places, the whole Dingzhou agriculture is not very developed, business is also general, only animal husbandry is a bright spot of financial income, in addition to several coal mines and gold mines, but they are still in the development stage, can not produce actual benefits.

After finding out the customs and customs of Dingzhou, Gao Huan felt that if he wanted to develop Dingzhou, he could only learn from the experience of Jizhou, update his thinking and change his path, and start with those local forces who did not obey him, and beat them until they were subdued. Then, step by step, we reformed the rule of officials, persuaded agriculture to cultivate mulberry, supported commerce, and developed pillar industries. In the end, everyone can have welfare and live a good life.

The Northern Wei Dynasty is a country mainly established by a small number of famous ethnic groups, so there are a large number of Xianbei, Gaoche, Di and Qiang people living in Dingzhou, how to arrange for these people to stay has become the biggest problem faced by Gao Huan, let them engage in agriculture and animal husbandry with the Han people It is estimated that nine times out of ten they will not be adaptable, and it is even more impossible to do business and mining, first, they do not have the business mind, second, they do not have the mining technology of the Han people, even if you teach them, it will take several years, all the eating, drinking and Lazar in these years are counted on Gao Huan's head, Dingzhou has a population of millions, Among them, ethnic minorities account for 40 percent, and these 400,000 people have daily food, and each person's clothing and hat are sheets...... Gao Huan felt scared when he thought about it.

Now I know how great the pressure of being a leader of the people is to keep them fed, clothed, and fed. It's completely different from what you do on TV, it's a real pressure in front of you, and you don't have time to think about it. Aren't many grassroots village officials, town heads, and even county magistrates in our country feeling like this? Receiving the military order to lead the people to get rich is not to solve the problem by saying a few empty words, the problem is really in front of you to solve, and the pressure will naturally appear.