Each walled city must complete a high-standard trunk road from xx to xx within a limited time of 7 days and 4 days, and this task is included in the political performance of each walled city chief - of course, the political performance is a clan hereditary system for NPC chiefs, not a system of county and county official appointments. In terms of blood, they are also uncles, uncles, cousins, cousins, etc., of the current NPC King Hime. Even if their political achievements are in shambles, they are still the chiefs of the various walled cities, managing their own domains.

In order to make the walled cities have enough enthusiasm to build roads, the king made a special stipulation: all the walled cities that completed the road construction task on time could be exempted from a part of the local taxes paid to the national treasury. Any walled city that fails to complete the road repair task on time will be subject to an additional part of the punitive tax.

This regulation greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the great chiefs in various places to build roads. Although some chiefs were dissatisfied with this rule, the king's orders could not be ignored.

The prelude to Yan's economic reform began to unfold in the territory of Yan for the first time. The transportation industry is only the first bone in Yanguo's economic reform, and it is the easiest bone to gnaw. Whether it is a king, a new minister, an old minister, or a player, the call for improving the transportation roads of Yan Kingdom is very high, and there is little resistance. A little troublesome is the cost of building the road, manpower and other issues, which is not too difficult for the chiefs and players to collect by themselves.

Yan has been relatively calm recently, with neither natural disasters nor large-scale wars. There is not much consumption, and the walled cities in various places still have some money and food to do big things.

After the first step of Yanguo's economic reform was tentative, the response from all quarters was relatively good, and there were far more favors than opposition.

The reputation of the King's Land has steadily increased due to the road construction mission.

This made the king full of confidence, and began to implement the second step of economic reform planned by the Zhoushui Alliance, which stimulated the development of agriculture and animal husbandry.

The geographical location of Yan is in the north, mainly plains, mountains, and grasslands. It is suitable for both agriculture and animal husbandry. But because of the lack of effective policies. The level of agriculture and animal husbandry in the Yan State is not high, compared with the other eight vassal states, the level of agriculture is average, and the level of animal husbandry is also average.

Therefore, it is necessary to build a number of water conservancy projects in various rivers in Yanguo. Improving irrigation of farmland can avoid a drastic reduction in grain production due to drought and flood. There have been no large-scale natural disasters in the past few months. But that doesn't mean it won't be in the future. In the event of a prolonged drought or flood. Then the impact on farmland and grain production will be very huge, and then affect the security of the entire Yan country.

Moreover, the construction of water conservancy is also beneficial in peacetime, which can greatly increase the grain yield per mu, as long as the grain output of Yan is increased by about 5% 0%, it will be a huge grain figure, hundreds of millions of catties of units.

However, such water conservancy projects are very costly, labor-intensive, and public welfare. Relying only on the national treasury or basement, it is necessary to build such a large water conservancy project. It's all struggling. It is necessary to mobilize players from all over the world to participate.

Qin Xiaobai's planning. It is to add a number of water conservancy engineering tasks to the national and local task system in Yanguo. Give players a variety of benefits to attract their organizations to participate in the construction of water conservancy projects. Some player organizations are even more powerful than the walled cities in various places, and they are fully capable of undertaking such a large-scale task.

In addition to water conservancy, there is also animal husbandry, with a focus on cattle and horses. The efficiency of using bronze or steel to make plough tools and then using oxen to plough the land is more than 50% higher than that of human ploughing, and because of the depth of the plough, the yield per mu is more than 10% higher than that of human ploughing, and the yield is very considerable. Horses, on the other hand, were an important tool for long-distance transportation and expeditionary warfare in the era of cold weapons. At least during the Iron Age, they were vital strategic materials. It wasn't until the Steam Age that they were phased out.

King Yan forcibly promulgated and implemented a series of laws on the protection of agriculture and animal husbandry in the whole Yan country, and ranchers were exempted from all taxes, and no taxes were levied by the state and localities. Encourage the import of ploughing cattle and war horses from other places, and exempt all import taxes. It is forbidden to kill ploughing cattle and war horses, and to be imprisoned for violating heavy fines. It is forbidden to leave the country for ploughing cattle and war horses, and they will be fined and imprisoned.

This decree has the same effect on NPCs and players. If the player commits the above crimes, they will also be punished by imprisonment, and depending on the seriousness of the circumstances, they will be locked up for 1 day and 0 days. In order to prevent some profit-interested merchant players from selling the cattle and war horses of Yan Kingdom to other places.

The second step of economic reform involves a very large scope and is much more complicated.

But this second step of reform is still of great benefit to the NPCs and players of Yan Kingdom, and not many people have suffered losses in this step of reform, but the vast majority of people have been able to get benefits, so they are far more in favor than against.

It can be said that when planning the steps of economic reform, the Zhoushui Alliance was very cautious and gradually deepened, trying to gain the approval of the majority of the people, and avoiding causing problems; The biggest benefit of the above two-step reform is the vast majority of players, farmers, kings, and the entire Yan Kingdom. The Zhoushui Alliance itself did not gain any benefits from the above two-step reform. Because the main business of the Zhoushui Alliance is not in these two aspects.

Originally, the Zhoushui Alliance also planned to implement a unified 10% grain tax for the whole Yan country, with the state treasury taking 5% of it and the basement taking 5% of it. However, considering that the resistance is likely to be very large, it has not been implemented for the time being.

Because at present, the grain tax in each walled city of Yan is different, the lowest is 5%, and the highest is even as high as 15%. And all this grain went into the basement, and was under the control and use of the chiefs of the various walled cities, and was not handed over to the state treasury. It's just that a tribute to the king is required once a year. The grain in the treasury of Yan State comes from the grain produced in the farmland around Jicheng. The population of Jicheng is 10 times higher than that of ordinary walled cities, and the grain in the treasury is about 10 times more than that of ordinary walled cities, which is not a lot - although this tribute system of Yan State is very backward, but this is the way it is. The local chieftains paid tribute once a year to the princes and kings, and the princes and kings also paid tribute once a year to Zhou Tianzi.

If the grain from the basement is forcibly taken to the treasury, there is a certain chance that the local walled city chiefs will rebel, and the NPC chiefs will refuse to submit to the king's jurisdiction, thus causing local unrest.

Local rebellions are not terrible, the problem is that when the old king went on an expedition to order the Zhiguo and the Guzhu country, he spent more than half of the grain and money in the national treasury. The current treasury of Yan is very "barren", and there is not much food and money to quell local rebellions. The time is not yet ripe, and the army of the Yan government is not strong enough, so it is necessary to avoid local rebellions as much as possible.

Considering these factors, Qin Xiaobai discussed with Da Situ Guo Kui, Da Sima Leyi, and Wang Ji Zhi, and decided to postpone the formulation of a unified national tax, and there was no need for the local government to hand over the grain and money to the basement for the time being.

When the Yan government army implements military reform and is strong enough, it will implement the unified tax of the whole Yan, and it is not too late to hand over half of the revenue from the basement to the national treasury.

The exhibition to promote agriculture and animal husbandry in the whole Yan country lasted for about three days. In the past three days, policies related to all aspects of agriculture and animal husbandry were formulated, and they were promoted in various walled cities throughout the Yan Kingdom, requiring all localities to strictly implement the king's new policy. The second step of economic reform is to stabilize the transition.

At this time, through the survey of various walled cities, it can be seen that the satisfaction and support rate of players in all parts of Yan Kingdom to Yan Zhaowang began to rise significantly. From less than 10% at the beginning of King Yan Zhao's accession to the throne, it quickly rose to about 20, doubling in a few days. The current NPC Yan King is obviously a lot better than the old Yan King, and in just a few days of ascending to the throne, he has done a lot of things that are very beneficial to the players of Yan Kingdom, so that the economic foundation of Yan Kingdom - transportation and agriculture and animal husbandry have been vigorously expanded.

In the era of feudal dynasties, whether the strength of the country was strong or not depends on these most basic data. A vassal state of ten thousand times is not comparable to a vassal state of a thousand times. A large country with an annual output of 100 million tons of grain is not comparable to a small country with an annual output of 1 million tons of grain.

Transportation and agriculture may seem trivial to many, but they were the cornerstones of the rise of empires. If these two aspects are not reached, the strength of a country will not be much stronger, let alone become a strong feudal empire.

The Great Revolution of Yan and the cause of hegemony started from these two most basic links. These two links are solid, no matter how effective the subsequent changes can be, Yan can still become one of the nine powerful vassal states of the Zhou Dynasty, and its strength has jumped significantly, and even if it is ranked at the top, it may not be unwilling to do it - unless other vassal states, the surrounding countries such as Russia, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Japan do better than Yan.

But now that the economic revolution of the Yan Kingdom has gone to the front of other princes and other surrounding countries, and is about to enter the Iron Age in an all-round way, how can it be backward!