In the hall of the Lord's Mansion, Ye Feng was listening to Zhou Wei's report on the development of the territory in the past half a month.

During this period, Li Kui successively transported more than 50,000 people to the territory, and the ratio of carefully selected talents reached one-tenth.

And after careful hiding, it did not attract the attention of the Zhang'an County government, because it is normal for refugees to disappear during this time.

With the increase in the population of the territory, many problems have arisen, and although Zhou Wei is already a third-order chief official, there are still many things that need to be consulted from him.

It seems that occupation and rank cannot fully represent a person's ability, and Zhou Wei still needs a lot of knowledge and experience accumulation.

More and more people have joined the territory, and the subsidy for newcomers has been reduced from one month's ration for each person to only half a month's ration for each person.

Even so, up to now, more than one million units of the territory's reserve grain have been consumed, and although it only costs more than 1 gold to purchase it, the grain consumption is a little less.

Fortunately, the territory has been purchasing the grain of the people in accordance with Ye Feng's instructions, and now the storage has reached more than 20 million units.

It seems like a lot, but it is not enough for the current half-year consumption of 100,000 people, so Ye Feng asked Zhou Wei to continue to buy.

The new entrants are all refugees, and their enthusiasm for land reclamation is very high, and now there is a large amount of farmland within a 5-kilometer radius of the territory, with a total amount of more than 500,000 mu.

If it weren't for the territory's stipulation that each laborer could only have a maximum of 10 acres of farmland, after all, this was basically a farmer's cultivation limit, and the amount of farmland would have increased.

So many farmlands brought a large number of problems, each of which needed to be solved by Ye Feng according to realistic knowledge, and it took more than an hour to preliminarily complete it.

The large increase in farmland will inevitably lead to a decline in planting efficiency, and many people can't actually take care of so much farmland, which will lead to a decrease in yield per mu that outweighs the losses.

In response to this situation, Ye Feng felt that it was time for the territory to take over the distribution of farmland.

He proposed that according to the current average yield of 120 units per mu of farmland in the territory, any average yield per mu below the standard will be reduced according to the situation.

In fact, the quality of the land in the Great Wilderness is not high, except for the 80% bonus of the territory, the farmland can only be regarded as medium at best.

If it is not cultivated properly, the quality of the land will deteriorate and deteriorate, which is absolutely not allowed.

The number of new entrants is too large and the composition is complex, which has caused a lot of security problems.

However, with the assistance of the martial artists among the former leaders, the situation slowly improved, and Ye Feng proposed to give them rewards and praise, and at the same time increase the promotion of martial arts halls.

In the future, the territory will inevitably integrate more people, and improving the strength of the people can also speed up this integration, after all, it is easier for people to recognize the strong.

If the people are powerless, not to mention being occupied by the latecomers, they will inevitably be despised, which will deepen the contradictions between the two sides.

Finally, with the increase in population, there are more and more private transactions between the collar and the people, which is something that Ye Feng has always paid attention to Zhou Wei, and now there are signs.

Ye Feng knew that the commerce of the territory had begun to appear, and as his policy of hiding the wealth from the people continued, it would inevitably become more and more developed.

In ancient times, agriculture was heavy and commerce was light, and the Han Dynasty did not have commercial taxes, and many new heroes started with business.

Commerce eroded a great deal of the dynasty's interests without generating any value, so the contradiction between merchants and the regime always existed.

As a modern man, of course, he would not have such thoughts, but put commerce on an equal footing with agriculture.

He immediately instructed Zhou Wei to set up a trading market in each of the four directions of the city, where all transactions in the territory must be carried out, and a 10% tax was temporarily levied on each transaction.

This is the first time that the territory has been taxed, and some people may not understand it, but it must be firmly enforced.

The imposition of a commercial tax not only eliminates the contradiction between commerce and the development of the territory, but also monitors the income level of the people.

What's more, Ye Feng has a more long-term plan, that is, to suppress the germination and development of the territorial power.

With the development of the territory, the appearance of merchants is inevitable, and then it will develop into a powerful one, and finally the family is unavoidable.

You can only guide them to contribute to the development of the territory through taxation from the beginning, and suppress their development speed as much as possible.

Finally explaining the task of recruitment, Ye Feng stood up and moved his body, feeling that the whole person was going to sit down.

It was already getting dark, and it took him a whole afternoon to deal with the backlog of territory, and his thirst for government talents was getting stronger and stronger.

The next morning, Ye Feng gathered 500 soldiers and began to work hard to control a radius of 100 kilometers.

This time is different from the usual cleaning of strange beasts, you need to be very careful, you can't let go of every place, even the mountain wall has to be checked clearly, who knows if there is a 'Taoyuan Village' hidden inside.

I didn't know how difficult it was to do it, and I didn't clear 10 square kilometers in a whole morning, less than one thousandth of the target.

The requirements for control are too high, and this can also show how powerful the Great Qin Dynasty is, at least all the forces within the territory must recognize its rule.

And such a powerful imperial dynasty has fallen, and it can only be said that the embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in the anthill, and no matter how powerful things are, there will always be weaknesses inside.

Now they are still less than ten kilometers away from the territory, which is a mountain forest.

The trees are tall in the wilderness, so this place is a little gloomy, Ye Feng walked cautiously in front, ready to use [military blessing] at any time.

Suddenly, he noticed that there were traces of people walking on the ground, and there were very few traces, no more than 5 people at most.

It wasn't like it was left behind by the soldiers when they were cleaning up the beasts, and he immediately sent the soldiers out to search the neighborhood, leaving only 100 soldiers around.

Soon Ye Feng heard the sound of a fight, and quickly followed the sound to find it.

Finally he stopped in front of a mountain wall, and there were obvious signs of human cover-up, and the sound came from inside.

He immediately opened the vines, and inside was a cave, and a group of ten soldiers were struggling to defend the entrance of the cave.

It seems that the strength of the enemy is good, so they have no chance to report by manpower.

Without hesitation, Ye Feng immediately rushed in using [Military Power Blessing], only to see that there were five middle-aged men opposite, and the most conspicuous thing was that they were all wrapped in yellow scarves.

"Ma Dan, I'm running into this bunch of troublesome things right now."

Ye Feng cursed in a low voice, rushed up and put them all down after dividing them by two, and the soldiers behind pounced on them and captured them alive.

The strength of these five people is still good, there is a 4th-order fighter, and the rest are 2nd-order soldiers, and they are very bold, and they dare to go deeper into the Great Wilderness for more than 200 kilometers.

Now Ye Feng is very depressed, since the Taiping Dao people appeared, he has made the territory strictly prevent and control.

After Li Kui recruited refugees, he would secretly execute the Taiping Daoists inside every time, not only for the stability of the people's hearts, but also to prevent the Taiping Dao from discovering the existence of the territory.

And Ye Feng didn't dare to put things on the bright side, the power of Taiping Dao was about to sweep the world, even the branches in the Jiangnan area could easily crush him.

Unexpectedly, these pervasive guys still appeared, and the conflict between the territory and Taiping Dao seemed to be inevitable.

These guys are very hard-mouthed, they seem to be fanatical religious elements, and they don't answer anything, they can only be brought back to the territory for interrogation.