Chapter 688: A Harvest Year
Yang Zheng ascended the throne, Sima Yan and Sun Hao did not say anything at all, which made Yang Zheng feel a little faceless.
There was neither a scolding nor a military provocation at the border, and it was surprisingly quiet.
Of course, if Sima Yan scolds first, he can only bring humiliation on himself.
Yang Zheng has tirelessly exposed all kinds of black materials of the Sima family for so many years, and one black pot after another has been buttoned up, and Sima Yan can't wash it if he wants to......
I have done too much bad things, but I have some self-knowledge.
Instead, the bell sent a congratulatory watch.
After this guy entered Jiangdong, he was like a fish in water, and the wind and water were mixed.
Sun Hao regarded him as a life-saving benefactor, outsiders couldn't intervene at all, and his henchman Wan Yu was jealous and sowed discord, claiming that Zhong Hui was the reincarnation of Dong Zhuoye, and he was uneasy and kind.
But Zhong will play intrigue and tricks, which can be called the grandfather.
Wan Yu is not an opponent at all, and he is not from the scholar clan, and he has no background, but he was slandered by Zhong Hui and wiped out the three clans by Sun Hao.
Jiangdong was much quieter in an instant, and no one dared to trouble Zhonghui anymore.
Subsequently, Sun Hao took Lu Kai as the left prime minister and Zhong Hui as the right prime minister.
State affairs were handed over to Lu Kai and Ding Feng, and he concentrated on hunting with Zhong Hui.
On the contrary, the state of Wu settled down a little.
Originally, Sun Hao intended to move the capital to Wuchang, but was dissuaded by Lu Kai, Lu Kang, Ding Feng and other ministers, and Zhong Hui also said that Wuchang arrived at the front line, the city was ruined, and the materials in Jiangdong were inconvenient, which was not as rich as Jianye.
Sun Haoran said that, under the welcome of Ding Feng, he returned to Jianye with Zhong Hui.
The Zhonghui tribe remained in Chaisang.
The Jiangdong clan originally had lingering palpitations about Zhong Hui, but he went to Jianye alone, and strongly persuaded Sun Hao, and also brought back fat as a dowry, Wu Guoqun's ministers gradually had a good impression of him, and Ding Feng had nothing to say to him.
Zhong Hui made friends with the Jiangdong scholars, and his literary and martial arts were the best choice in the world, and he looked like a good old man, and became famous in the Wu Kingdom.
Originally, there were many scholars in Jiangdong who fled from the Central Plains at the end of the Han Dynasty, and they had a natural affinity for Zhong.
The Wu people compared it to Lusu.
Sun Hao and Zhong Hui's thoughts, Yang Zheng knew it.
I didn't want to provoke either the Jin State or the Qin State too much.
The war between the East and the West is getting closer and closer, and they just wait and see what happens.
This doesn't matter to the Qin State, in the current situation, the Qin State will definitely not take the initiative to attack the Wu State.
Time is on the side of the Junda system.
Everyone guards their own one-acre and one-third of land.
In April of the first year of Huangwu, in the hazy spring rain, spring ploughing began.
Without the need for government persuasion, many people reclaimed the wasteland on their own.
In each mile there was a peasant cooperative, which had ploughing cattle and iron farm implements, which were rented to the common people for land reclamation at a price close to free.
The farmer's function is not limited to this, but it also sells seeds at the lowest price in the market.
Loans for the poor.
Yang Zheng once read an article in later generations that the most direct means of land annexation in ancient times was usury.
Especially in natural disasters, when the peasants failed to harvest, the landlord Haoqiang issued usury loans, and the interest rolled, and within two years, all the nearby land was owned by Haoqiang.
Usury had already appeared in the Western Zhou Dynasty.
Meng Yanjun issued loans to the people in the fiefdom, as a source of money to support 3,000 guests, and the harvest of the fief was not good in a certain year, but Meng Shanjun still "got 100,000 yuan in interest".
In the Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Qi of the Han Dynasty quelled the rebellion of the princes, and even the generals in the army borrowed usury.
Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty also set rules for the level of loan interest.
The Qin State was already commercially prosperous, and the disasters that lasted for two years made many people see business opportunities and reach out to the people.
However, Yang Zheng's control over the people is unprecedented.
The lieutenant chiefs, even chiefs, and military chiefs at the local grassroots level are all from Yang Zheng's own army, and some of them are still Xuanyi Peng.
Xuanyi Peng did not have a good fortune, but he became a symbol of their honor, and took the initiative to report to his superiors all kinds of unhealthy tendencies in the locality.
All Yang Zheng can react in the fastest time.
What kind of big earholes, donkey rolling, lamb breathing, sitting on the ground and other means, Yang Zheng was amazed.
Times are different, but human greed is the same.
Wei Qian soon formulated a decree that all interest rates exceeding 1/20% were usury, and the lender would be fined 10 times the principal, and the whistleblower would get 30%.
Qin's strict law is still very deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Just let out the rumors, and the private loan sharks disappeared.
Ordinary people can go to the agricultural cooperatives to borrow money for farming, and businessmen can go to Su Hong's money bank for commercial loans.
The atmosphere among the people has improved greatly.
I don't know if Yang Zheng was the emperor and really gave Qin Guo a joy.
From March to May, the solar terms are normal, and it rains when it should rain, and it clears when it should be sunny.
There is a lot of rare tranquility in Guanzhong.
With the support of the peasant cooperatives, the cultivated barren land was used to grow mulberry hemp, and the sunrise and sunset were resting, and the courtyards of every household raised chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs, fish in ponds, and sheep on the back hills.
Some of the family members of the soldiers also kept cattle and horses.
Yang Zheng inspected the villages in Weibei and heard only the barking of dogs and the laughter of children everywhere.
The disaster for two consecutive years covered an area north of Weishui, and the drought was not a thousand miles away, and the government coped with it well, at least there was no scene of starvation everywhere.
So this year, the year is getting better, and the people are instantly full of vitality.
Yang Zheng can feel that the national strength is in a state of explosion.
One of the most obvious signs is that there are more young people and children.
Populations don't grow out of the ground, they are influenced by the environment.
The taxes are too heavy, the pressure of survival is too great, and even if the people are born, they will drown.
Qin's duty was to provide a relatively loose and orderly system.
Let the cultivator have his field, the weaver has his clothes, the old have something to rely on, and the young have something to raise.
Those who have aspirations and abilities can be promoted through legitimate channels.
The people themselves will push the Qin State to a prosperous era.
Secretly visiting Jingzhao and Fufeng counties, Yang Zheng's biggest feeling is that the people in this land are too diligent.
But if they are given a little hope, they will work day and night.
The original wasteland was reclaimed into fertile land, the slopes were planted with mulberry hemp, and the puddles were dug into ponds......
Yang Zheng could hardly find a reason why the Qin State did not rise.
Although there have been disasters in the past two years, they have also been blessed by disasters, and a large number of tribes in Mobei and the Western Regions have taken the initiative to migrate to Guanzhong, and the population has always been increasing.
The stable and orderly environment is also very attractive to grassland herders.
After all, people's greatest need is survival, and in the face of survival, everything else stands aside.
The state of Qin is one of the few forces that does not discriminate against them.
When you are a slave for five years, you can be turned into a returnee, and if you are a slave for another five years, you can be turned into a ruler.
Taxes are reduced level by level, and if you want to take shortcuts, you can join the army and make contributions to Daqin.
However, Qin Jun's selection is extremely strict, and the physical fitness of ordinary grassland people is quite the same.
Therefore, he could only join the herding cavalry, and the herding and riding establishment of Malon was soon full.
The Sima family in the east was not so kind, and paid seven taxes out of ten to the Han people, and eight taxes to five for foreign races such as Wuhuan, Xiongnu, and Xianbei.
Yang Zheng didn't know how they survived.
The endurance of the people is outrageously high.
Fortunately, no major natural disasters broke out in Kanto in the past two years, otherwise the Sima family would be full of rebellions like in history.
(End of chapter)