The Central Plains attaches great importance to the Spring Festival is incomparable, just entered the wax moon, every household began to prepare, the purchase of New Year's goods is essential, but due to the turmoil of these years, so that the people have no time to spend the New Year comfortably.

The situation in Henan Province this year is very different, after the new prefect took office, he focused on the people's livelihood, and the people were able to eat a full meal by breaking records, and the biggest change was in the taxation, in fact, the land tax of the imperial court was very low, and the people could basically bear it, the key was that many additional taxes were levied, all kinds, so that the peasants could not bear them, and now they have all been canceled.

The officials of the yamen in Fuzhou and county also carried out a large-scale rectification, and the unqualified officials and officials were removed from the army, and some were even directly imprisoned, and no official dared to directly bully the people, at least the yamen demanded so.

The common people are very content, although they say that life is average, far from reaching the standard of prosperity and happiness, but they already feel that the prefect is the best Qing official, thinking of this prefect, who once gave disaster relief in Henan and gave the people the greatest benefits, and the people of Henan Mansion feel that they are very lucky.

This also led to a slow increase in the population of Henan Province.

The policies of each place are different, that is, Ruzhou, Huaiqing and Nanyang Mansions, which are close to Henan Prefecture, because of such and such problems, the common people are a little dissatisfied, and the bold people simply secretly move to Henan Mansion.

Even Pingyang Mansion in Shanxi Province and Xi'an Mansion in neighboring Shaanxi Province have people coming over.

At the beginning of its establishment, everyone thought that the Jinong Warehouse was just an ornament, and it was impossible for Fuzhou County to really provide relief to the peasant households. But that's not the case.

Before the autumn harvest, the Jinongcang played a huge role, and the officials of the yamen of Fuzhou County went to the villages and towns to learn more about the situation, and decisively provided relief to those peasant households who really could not survive and had no food. Subsidies are given according to the number of families and the amount of grain consumed, and peasant households go to Fuzhou County every month to receive grain with the certificates issued by the yamen, the lichang, and the head of Jia.

The introduction of this policy shook all rural households.

Jinongcang began to distribute grain, and almost overnight, the displaced people in Henan Province completely disappeared.

No one wants to be an outcast, let alone a rebel, and the government cares so much about the people. What reason do the people have to rebel, live in peace, earn money to eat with their own ability, they really can't live anymore, and there is a Jinong warehouse, which guarantees that they will not starve to death, in this case, personal ability. It can be fully reflected.

Niu Er and others, famous in Henan Province. It's even bigger than Su Tiancheng.

They are already very familiar with the planting techniques of sweet potato and maize, and through their own exploration, they have slowly explored some new methods, which are conducive to increasing the yield of sweet potato and maize.

Niu Er's fame is not in these aspects. The main reason is that he learned to make seeds, which was also specially arranged by Su Tiancheng, and he gave money to let Niu Er and others go to Fujian to learn the seed production method of sweet potato, as for the seed production of maize. There are ready-made ways to learn in the South.

The farmers in Henan Province have never planted maize and sweet potatoes, they have always planted wheat, and at the beginning they did not pay attention to sweet potatoes and maize, so that when Niu Er and others planted and promoted, everyone simply ignored them.

Many of the families of the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion planted maize and sweet potatoes, and the planting area was very large, and the farmers who had a good relationship with these families tried to plant some sweet potatoes and maize, but they were still worried, and some farmers even got up in the middle of the night to watch, afraid that something would happen.

During the autumn harvest season, the harvest of sweet potatoes and maize shocked farmers.

Niu Er and others gave some sweet potatoes and maize to nearby farmers, after everyone tasted it, they felt that this thing was even better than wheat, and some farmers put sweet potatoes and maize millet in accordance with the requirements put forward by Niu Er and others, carefully kept them, and waited until the Spring Festival to eat.

More farmers approached Niu Er and others and begged for some seeds, which must be planted next year.

The biggest sensation is still Shaanzhou.

Shaanxi Hongnongwei adjusted the defense, followed to exterminate the Liukou, the official land was temporarily recovered by the state yamen, leased to the people for farming, this time the leasing policy is different, in strict accordance with the 20% of the cultivated land harvest handed over, and is 20% of the actual income, the state government according to the previous year's average cultivated land harvest, take the lowest standard, if it suffers a disaster, but also consider the factors of the disaster, appropriate reduction or exemption of field rent, in this case, many peasant households compete to lease cultivated land.

The success of sweet potato and maize cultivation has made farmers understand that it is not just heavy wheat.

Sweet potatoes and maize are produced in large quantities, especially sweet potatoes, and the leaves that grow can also be eaten and fed to pigs.

These are the farmers of Henan Province, who did not dare to think of it before, no one has anything to eat, and they still talk about feeding pigs.

Qu Qingze, the governor of Shaanzhou, knew that some peasant households in Pingyang Prefecture and Xi'an Prefecture had secretly moved to Shaanzhou, and he welcomed such a situation, and there were many people, so secretly, he asked the officials of the state government, Lingbao County and Ruxiang County, to open the door of convenience for these peasants to settle down.

Land is the foundation of the peasants, and the official land should basically be tilted towards these peasant households, and Shaanzhou strictly implements this policy, so the foreign population has increased by a large margin.

Hongnongwei adjusted the defense, there was no competition between the sergeants and the peasants for interests, and the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion even helped the peasants to do things during the busy farming season.

All these changes have absorbed the foreign population to the greatest extent.

The tenth day of the lunar month.

Officials from the prefecture and county all went to Luoyang to attend a meeting held by the government office.

This is Su Tiancheng's first initiative.

The governors, tongzhi, judges, and officials of Shaanxi, and the magistrates, counties, and lords of various counties all arrived in Luoyang.

There are three themes of the meeting, one is to summarize the work of the year, the second is to make arrangements for the work of the coming year, and the third is to arrange some things that need to be done during the Spring Festival.

Such a meeting is similar to the economic work conference of a few hundred years later, but fortunately, the number of officials today is small, including officials from the government government, and the number of participants is less than 60.

Yin Hotel has long been prepared, the living arrangements are very good, according to the prefect's requirements, this meeting, is also the meaning of all the officials of Henan Prefecture in advance of the New Year.

Moreover, at this meeting, the government will also give rewards to the states and counties that have done well, and this reward will be directly implemented on the heads of individuals, and the government will take out the silver for nothing.

The meeting was naturally presided over by Su Tiancheng, and the process was very urgent.

First of all, the state and county report on the situation, and according to the requirements, the governor and the county should speak for no more than a quarter of an hour.

Everyone can hear the situation reported by the state and county, and everyone can make comparisons with each other, and the figures such as grain harvest and tax revenue are clear and cannot be falsified.

Shaanzhou and Luoyang counties are in the best situation.

More than 20,000 migrants have been absorbed in Shaanzhou, and all of them have been properly settled.

Luoyang's business development is the most rapid, less than a year, the newly opened shops reached 2,000 households, the small Luoyang County, has been difficult to accommodate, the county government made a decision, has been in the suburbs to start planning land again, planning to build the outer city, expand the scale of Luoyang County, now the construction of the outer city, started more than a month, has had obvious results.

Of course, it is the family of the soldiers of the Jiangning Battalion who support the construction of this outer city, and after a few months, a market town has been formed around the Jiangning Battalion station, and the construction is expected.

The people of Luoyang County, thanks to such construction, go to the construction site to do things during the slack time, and can earn income and subsidize their families.

Fortunately, such a report is still true, Henan Mansion is not big, everyone understands the situation between each other, and no one will falsify, plus most of the counties are people trusted by Su Tiancheng, their purpose is to let the people live a good life, so that Henan Mansion can settle down and become rich, with such a purpose, everyone mentioned some deficiencies in the process of reporting.

Concentrated views, the spearhead is still pointed at the gentry and wealthy households, who have made too little contribution.

As the person in charge of the Zhongxing Society, Liu Zongzhou naturally attended the meeting.

For the convening of such a meeting, Liu Zongzhou did not understand for the first time, in his impression, the imperial court did not have such a system, there was no such form of meeting, Fuzhou County was in strict accordance with the requirements of the imperial court and the province, and it was enough to do their own work, so this meeting also aroused his high interest.

The state and county reports shocked him first.

Although everyone did not talk for a long time, they all talked about the main achievements of the work, the shortcomings, especially the living conditions of the people, the problems that need to be solved urgently, and this form of meeting can grasp a lot of information.

Liu Zongzhou's hand writing is a little sour, and he recorded in detail the questions raised by the state and county, in fact, this matter does not need to be done by him personally, but he still has a task.

Next, Zhang Pu made a speech on behalf of the government office, and he will put forward clear requirements for the work of all prefectures and counties in Henan Prefecture in the coming year, and will also give answers to some problems that need to be solved urgently, and he will have half a day to discuss.

It's a group of heroes.

Liu Zongzhou sighed, I don't know how Su Tiancheng came up with such an idea, it is simply wonderful, although the situation of each prefecture and county in Henan Province is somewhat different, but the overall development idea is still the same, summing up the experience of the state and county, on this basis, clear focus of the work in the coming year, this is a very good way, twice the result with half the effort.

If the government offices in all parts of the Ming Dynasty can do things according to this practice, I believe that the efficiency of work will be greatly improved. (To be continued......)