The atmosphere of the folk festival in Yangzhou is becoming more and more festive year by year.

This year, because "Shennong Essence" has begun to guide the use, especially Guantian, almost all of them use "Shennong Essence".

Coupled with Bai Tu's passive strategy, the average yield per mu in Yangzhou is now nearly fifty percent higher than before the Jian'an year, and the grain tax on the people has also been lowered to five taxes - it is already lower than those years of the Yellow Turbans.

Although the tax rate has increased by 10% compared with that time, the output has increased by 50%, and in the end, the remaining harvest in the hands of ordinary farmers is 30% more than in previous years!

As for the comparison with other princes of the same period......

Even if it is Hanzhong and Yizhou, in front of Yangzhou at this time, there is no comparison!

At the same time, because of the salt introduction policy of the general's government, a large amount of grain was recycled by salt merchants and used to exchange salt for salt introduction from the government, which also ensured that grain prices did not plummet.

The grain of the government, especially the chaff, is invested in the breeding of livestock, and the people who have spare money are ready to save money to buy cattle, after all, although the cattle of the government are enough to rent, they also need to be rented, and they ...... Other people's things are not as solid as their own hands.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs also encourages farmers to buy cattle and have their own farming cattle, which is also convenient for farmers to improve their agricultural efficiency.

Ordinary peasant households, as long as they pay a down payment of 30% first, can buy cattle from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and then repay the loan in three years.

Of course, only ordinary farmers who do not have cattle......

There are also quite a few of them, who will be appropriately "chic", especially during the Chinese New Year, buying meat and silk cloth are due to the righteousness.

In fact, in the Western Han Dynasty, the protein intake of the Han people was also extremely high in the feudal dynasty, which made the Han people's physique significantly better than that of the surrounding countries, so there is a saying that "one Han is five Hu".

It's just that during the Eastern Han Dynasty, the national strength and people's strength were weakening, and meat was becoming more and more rare on the people's tables......

However, in Yangzhou, the people have been able to taste meat every once in a while, and the New Year is even more "big fish and big meat", and the sales of various other light industrial products that are not usually necessities have also increased - if Liu Bei is selling straw shoes in Jinling now, it is estimated that he will be able to have a wife and children in two years!

At the same time, civilian workshops have gradually sprung up, which is a sign of the gradual recovery of the small commodity economy.

On the contrary, compared with the people, the general's mansion is a little "deserted" this year.

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu in Jiangxia can't come back, Gan Ning in Donglai can't come back, and Zhao Yun in Nanyang hasn't come back either, only Jia Xu came back to report on behalf of the North Route Army, not to mention Jingnan - the transportation is inconvenient, and he won't come back to catch this New Year's Day meeting easily.

Judging from the situation of the war in various places this year, the General's Mansion is not only no longer a standout, but also has some "declining momentum", Jingzhou's offensive has been blocked, and it has not touched the edge of Nanjun until now, and even Jiangxia is about to be counterattacked.

The four counties of Jingnan, which in the eyes of the vast majority of Central Plains people, belong to the poor countryside and barbarians, and they all dragged the offensive of the General's Mansion in Changsha County!

On the contrary, in Qingzhou, the general's mansion copied a cheap, and when the navy returned, he picked up Donglai County, and now he is still very unhappy with Xuzhou because of this matter......

And Cao Liu in the Central Plains is Dafali City this year!

Cao Cao enjoyed the sense of glory of defeating Yuan Shao's "million army" in the eyes of the world, and Xu Du, who usually had a lot of "noise", was a lot quieter at this time, and many of the courtiers who were not used to Cao Cao were withdrawn by Cao Cao without any care.

Originally, Cao Cao still cared about some influences, and he knew best that most of these people were just "Yan Yi to save the country", and they could be monitored, so they didn't need to be too careful

It's just that this time he defeated "Yuan Reverse", and his reputation was unmatched for a while, and he was also tough in the court!

Liu Bei defeated Yuan Tan in Qingzhou, although it did not cause Cao Cao to defeat Yuan Shao such a big repercussion, but it got benefits, and now most of Qingzhou is in hand, and the strategic depth has finally become thicker, and it is not as angry as when he was in Xuzhou before.

It is just the opposite of last year's "no harvest" in the Central Plains and the "Dafali City" in the General's Mansion......

Therefore, the staff of the various ministries of the General's Mansion have also restrained some of their nostrils to look at people compared to last year - not how arrogant they were last year, but they all feel that they have made great contributions to the General's Mansion under the source of the rainbow, and this year's ...... The battle situation in the General's Mansion is not good, and they are naturally a lot weaker.

Even the Ministry of Industry, many projects this year, have reached a bottleneck.

Although there are a lot of new things, there is no such eye-catching thing as the True Qi Crossbow......

On the contrary, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, which was somewhat low-key last year, raised its eyebrows this year.

The projects in various localities have been carried out step by step, grain output has increased significantly, the per capita meat intake of the people has increased significantly compared with last year, and the income from workshop tax and commercial tax has increased significantly......

Coupled with the foil of other departments, the eldest cousin Lu Su can be described as a spring breeze this year.

Jian Yong originally also used the General's Mansion as his bargaining chip to defeat the general's mansion in Jingzhou this year, and even ...... Before he left, Liu Bei also instructed him to try to persuade Bai Tu to stop the army, at least not to move Nanjun and withdraw from Jiangxia!

If Bai Tu agrees, and spreads the word to the world and forms an alliance with Liu Biao of Nanjun, Liu Bei is not only willing to cooperate with Bai Tu and assert his control over Nanyang and Jingnan, but also can cede the entire Donglai County to Bai Tu to garrison the navy.

Of course, Jian Yong was not so naïve, he understood that Bai Tu had not been forced to make peace with Liu Biao!

Besides, why do you want to give up your own Donglai for Liu Biao?

He dares to negotiate like this, isn't he afraid that the next time he sees Second Master Guan, he will be squinted and will break out in a cold sweat on his back?

On the contrary, taking advantage of the unfavorable situation of the General's Mansion in Jingzhou as an introduction can make his waist straighter when fighting for the interests of Xuzhou Mansion, which is Jian Yong's plan.

It's just that......

The "gloomy clouds" that Jian Yong was expecting did not appear, or rather...... Only on the faces of some of the staff of the General's Palace!

Generally speaking, the unfavorable situation of the war not only means the casualties of the soldiers, but also means that the princes will further squeeze the potential of the people to maintain and increase the strength of the front, which will also cause the people to be worried and weakened.

However, in Jinling, or all the way that Jian Yong saw along the way, this scene did not appear, but was full of wealth and peace.

Even made Jian Yong suspicious, could it be that this Jinling person didn't care about the front-line war? Or was the news blocked by the General's Office?

However, within two days, this possibility was also deleted by Jian Yong from his heart, because ...... On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, on the day of the new year, Bai Tu held a grand sacrifice at the Humin Temple outside Jinling City!