Because the welfare issues distributed to the people before the Chinese New Year were successfully resolved. Zhao Xing suddenly felt relaxed, so he opened the door of the mansion and began to receive all kinds of people from all walks of life in the Jin Kingdom, such as gentry from all walks of life, generals in the army who visited relatives on leave, and celebrities from other states and counties in the Han Dynasty.

Zhao Xing was not worried that assassins or people who were eating and drinking would enter his mansion, because all the people who could be received by Zhao Xing were finally able to see Zhao Xing after being verified and understood by the Shadow three months to half a year in advance, and after getting the approval of Chen Gong, Li Jinsi, Pang Tong and others.

With Zhao Xing's current identity, if he receives everyone, I am afraid that he will not even have time to hold his wife, let alone use his brains to plan for the future. Zhao Xing's reception was mainly to listen to the voices and recent situation of all levels of society, and to prevent being deceived by the officials of various counties and counties, which can be regarded as the prototype of the initial reception.

Seeing that the end of the year is approaching, the officials and squires from all over the country who came to visit Zhao Xing are about to step on the threshold of the Taifu Mansion, no wonder these visitors are too enthusiastic, it is really too rare to visit the Taifu Lord. Perhaps just a brief meeting can win the opportunity for development, investment funds, or redress for the people or groups represented by the visitor.

Mrs. Zhao has a rule that he does not accept any gifts, but he can accept all kinds of strange products, handmade products and even whimsical ideas. For example, a few years ago, someone brought back a bag of alfalfa plant seeds from the Western Regions, which is said to have caused Zhao Xing to be very surprised at that time, rewarded this person with 10,000 taels of silver, and awarded the honor of second-class meritorious service to the Jin Kingdom.

It turns out that this item called alfalfa, also known as alfalfa, is native to Asia Minor, Iran, Transcaucasia, and the Turkmen Highlands. Alfalfa has strong stress resistance, cold resistance, heat, drought, saline-alkali, thin, wide adaptation range, high potential yield, and is known as the "king of forage". After Zhao Xing got this bag of grass seeds, he immediately ordered the Crouching Tiger Academy of Agricultural Sciences to open up a fertile plot for planting this species, and then immediately handed over the collected seeds to the Huang Xuan and Yansheng tribes at that time, and planted them in large quantities in the barren areas of the Hetao area. However, in just five years, the amount of beef and mutton produced in the Hetao area has doubled!

Another example, a few years ago, a Persian merchant from the Western Regions brought a powder and seeds called pepper (Note 1), which was then regarded as a treasure by Zhao Xing, and immediately began to try to plant, and then as a new condiment, along with green onions, ginger, and garlic that came in in the early years, it was listed as the four major seasoning vegetables of the Jin Kingdom, and since then it has been on the table of ordinary people's homes, especially when eating shabu mutton in winter.

In view of this, all the guests who come to visit Zhao Xing will carefully prepare some items or some handmade products, or some whimsical ideas before coming. Once you get the favor of Master Taifu, then this guest will have unexpected gains.

After entering the twentieth month of the lunar month, Zhao Xing gradually stopped receiving visitors from within the Jin Kingdom, but devoted more energy to visitors from Youzhou and Liangguo. He wanted to hear how the people of Youzhou and Liangguo lived this winter.

On the third day of Zhao Xingding's issuance of welfare shopping coupons, two well-equipped cavalry divisions, one to the east and the other to the west, escorted real money and shopping coupons worth a total of more than 10 million silver to Yuyang City and Gaoping City.

According to Zhao Xing's request, because Youzhou and Liangguo are far away, if you want to ensure that the people in the two places receive the welfare red envelopes before the New Year's Festival, you must send someone to send them over as soon as possible.

The general in charge of escorting to Youzhou was Song Xian, commander of the Third Division of the Dragoon Army, who was responsible for delivering 3,000 people to Sima Zhi's hands with 3,000 people who were responsible for delivering 3 million taels of real money and silver and welfare shopping coupons equivalent to 3 million taels of real money and silver;

How does this account feel like a tongue twister? It's actually quite simple. Because the population of Youzhou is larger than that of Liangguo, Youzhou received three million taels of silver, and Liangguo received two million taels of silver. The money will not be distributed to the people, they will be distributed to the various shopping voucher redemption points, and when the people who get the shopping vouchers meet the exchange conditions, they will exchange the silver with the pieces of paper in their hands to go home.

In other words, a family of five in Youzhou can get a welfare shopping coupon worth ten taels, but this thing can neither be eaten nor drunk, and it must be fully exchanged for after the family spends a hundred taels of silver.

Then the problem comes again, if Zhang Sanjia has a good relationship with Li Si's family in private, and then Zhang San buys a donkey from Li Si's family and uses ten taels of silver. A few days later, Zhang San secretly returned ten taels of silver to Li Si, and then Li Si bought the donkey back from Zhang San's house. The process of this transaction resulted in a transaction quota of twenty taels of silver, could Zhang San and Li Si receive one tael of silver each from the silver exchange point?

The answer is that not only will you not receive the silver, but you will also be rewarded with an additional ten whips per person! The condition for receiving the silver is that all transactions must be carried out in the market opened by the local government, and the proof of tax payment must be presented. In other words, people who receive money from selling things will eventually have to pay a certain percentage of taxes to the Market Management Bureau. This tax amount was set at 11% by Zhao Xing, and if according to what was said above, the donkey of Li Si's family turned around and returned to Li Si's hands, then although he and Zhang San received the benefit of two taels of silver, they had to pay a tax of two taels of silver to the government!

After all, many poor families can't afford to spend ten taels of silver, so what's the point of sending them this thing?

Of course it makes sense. You must know that Zhao Xing does everything, he has to take at least three steps forward. These shopping coupons may not be directly available to the poor people, but there is a measure in the Jin Kingdom that can monetize the shopping coupons in their hands. That is, when merchants outside the Jin Kingdom enter the Jin Kingdom for trade, if they hold this kind of shopping coupon in their hands, they can not only offset part of the cost according to the face value, but also get the right to purchase first!

Don't underestimate this preferential purchasing right, it is a preferential condition that many out-of-state merchants can not get from the government of the Jin Kingdom. There are many items in the Jin Kingdom that belong to the monopoly business, and these merchants have tasted huge benefits from doing business with the Jin Kingdom, if they can give priority to buying the limited sales of goods in the Jin Kingdom every time, they will naturally make money first.

For example, white paper, books, pepper, sheepskin coats, sturdy and durable farm tools, beautifully made gold ornaments, pickled beef and mutton, and windproof glass lamps produced in the Jin Kingdom...... In short, there are many novelty, good-looking, good-looking, good-looking goods in the Jin Kingdom every year, and whoever can get the priority shopping right will be able to make a fortune in advance!

Therefore, the worst way out for these shopping coupons distributed to the people is to sell them at the original price to merchants who come to buy them. Of course, as long as the people have a little bit of money, they will not easily sell this kind of shopping vouchers to foreign merchants, and they also need to consume and buy a lot of fresh goods.

The reason why Zhao Xing gave real money and shopping coupons to Youzhou and Liangguo one-to-one was mainly due to the fact that the government at the county and county levels in Youzhou and Liangguo was poor, and it was equivalent to helping these places to build a family foundation, so as not to make the officials too bitter and bold to fight the people's ideas.

The guests who came to visit from Youzhou and Liangguo all mentioned in front of Zhao Xing the shopping coupons sent by Master Taifu before the New Year's Festival, which caused a huge response. Many homeless people, who did not even have a house, after receiving the shopping vouchers, changed hands and exchanged the shopping vouchers for the merchants who shouted at the big voice, and then took the silver to find a place to stay, and the family no longer flowed, and could eat hot meals at the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, instead of eating the government's daily relief porridge with a shameful face.

After Zhao Xing listened, his heart was very comfortable, and he secretly said to himself: Fortunately, without Lang Fei I thought about the brain cells for several nights, and now the poor people can more or less share the benefits of the Jin Kingdom, and there will not be too many people who will become hungry on the side of the road because of the cold weather this winter, right?

In fact, as Zhao Xing imagined, in the winter of the second year of Guangxi, in the three places of Jin, Youzhou and Liangguo, except for the people in a very few remote places who did not receive the benefits issued by Zhao Xing in time because of poor information, the vast majority of the people in the three places enjoyed the sunshine of the Jin Kingdom again, allowing them to see the hope of life and the vision of a happy life in the future.

Judging from Zhao Xing's understanding, the people of this era are really simple, and many later generations of greed and malpractice, damage to the public and private interests do not have much market, whether it is ordinary people and officials at all levels, after demarcating the boundaries for them and formulating clear rules, everyone will honestly implement them. In addition, Zhao Xing is accustomed to thinking from the perspective of human nature and evil, and every time he introduces a policy, the first thing he considers is how to punish corruption and malpractice, so he has well controlled many corruption phenomena and people's moral decline that people hated in later generations.

As the ancients said, in the era of agriculture with a relatively low level of productivity, the realization of this sentence seems to be much easier than today's informatization, globalization and technology. At the end of the day, because people have fewer desires, it's easier to get satisfaction. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the ideal of the common people was only to be able to eat a full stomach, wear warm clothes, and not suffer from war and disease.

Such a requirement is not difficult for Zhao Xing to achieve, so it is destined that Zhao Xing will go further and further on the road of his ideals, and even go to a point that is unimaginable to many Han people in later generations.

Note 1: Pepper, also known as jade pepper, floating pepper, and fuzhi. Native to tropical Asia, the Tang Dynasty Duan Cheng style "Youyang Miscellaneous" said: "Pepper out of the Maga country, called the flavor of the branch". When the fruit at the base of the ear begins to turn red, the ear is cut off, dried or dried, that is, it is black-brown, and the fruit is removed, commonly known as "black pepper"; if all the fruits have turned red, harvested, macerated with water for several days, wiped off the exocarp, and dried, the surface is grayish-white, commonly known as "white pepper". Black pepper and white pepper are both edible spices and traditional Chinese medicines.