Li Dingguo, the bandit leader who was kneeling on the ground, looked up at Xia Jing in a little surprise, and seemed to be surprised to say this.

It was the first time he had seen someone in power who cared about the lives of his subordinates.

In fact, for the common people, it doesn't seem to matter who sits on the dragon chair in the imperial court.

No matter the change of dynasties, as long as they can let the people at the bottom live and work in peace and contentment, and have enough to eat, they will be satisfied.

The people at the bottom of the society live not just for three meals a day, and they do not hesitate to go out early and return late for food, and work hard.

If the imperial court can't even meet this requirement of the people, and the wolf smoke is everywhere, and the corpses are all over the place, to the point where they can't sell their children and daughters, then what if the people in the world turn around?

For example, he couldn't live at the beginning and was forced to go to Liangshan.

Now that he has been caught by those in power, it can be regarded as fate arranged in this way.

Li Dingguo was very resigned, kneeling on the ground silently, as if waiting for them to deal with it.

Xia Jing looked at him curiously, "Hey, this person's breath seems to be very peaceful, and a bandit who has no anger can be the leader of the bandits?" ”

Wei Dong thought that Xia Jing suspected that they had caught the wrong person, and hurriedly explained: "Princess, this person's name is Li Dingguo, a native of Annan, who has been wandering between Annan and Lingnan to commit crimes, don't be deceived by his appearance, he has been a bandit for more than ten years, a proper hardcore bandit." ”

In order to prove that what Wei Dong said was right, Ding Dazhuang and several other captains all nodded their heads, for fear that Xia Jing would not believe it.

"Oh, sure enough, people are not to be seen." Xia Jing stared at Li Dingguo, who was kneeling on the ground, "I don't know what you think at this moment?" Or is there anything you want to say? ”

Li Dingguo raised his head and looked at Xia Jing and King Qian blatantly, as if he was evaluating the ability and value of the two in his heart.

Xia Jing's expression was calm and let him look at it, and King Qian didn't have such a good heart, as a superior person, he thought that Li Dingguo was blaspheming them.

Just as King Qian was about to get angry, Li Dingguo spoke.

He asked, "Why do you want land reform?" Break the tradition of thousands of years and become the enemy of the squires of the whole world? ”

King Qian's anger stagnated, and he didn't seem to expect Li Dingguo to ask this question, and he didn't know why for this question?

All along, he has been listening to Xia Jing's arrangement, and when she proposed this decree, he could only obey orders.

He turned his head to look at Xia Jing blankly.

Xia Jing raised her eyebrows, a little surprised that he asked this question.

She asked rhetorically, "What do you think I'm for?" ”

Li Dingguo shook his head, in fact, he wanted to say that it was to collect more taxes, but he felt that his cognition was too shallow to understand the deeper meaning of the superiors doing this.

Xia Jing chuckled: "Cleaning up the hidden households, re-measuring the land, and registering the acres of land are the far-reaching effects of this decree on Lingnan." If I have to give a reason, I originally just wanted Lingnan to be prosperous and prosperous, believe it or not? It may seem cliché, but it's what I really thought at the time. ”

By clearing the hidden households and remeasuring the land, the government increased its tax revenue.

The government tax revenue has increased, so as to achieve a light tax on the people.

When the burden on the people is lighter, life can be slowly improved.

Life has improved, and the babies born to the people can grow better.

If the baby grows better, Lingnan will be prosperous and prosperous.

When the people's lives are good, who wants to go back to the dire situation of the past?

Whoever wants to do something to Lingnan, first of all, the tens of millions of people at the bottom will not agree.

All in all, it is to consolidate its position and rule over Lingnan.

But this political purpose, she has no need to explain it to Li Dingguo.

"You moved the squires and powerful families, they hate you in private, how can you contribute to Lingnan, it would be good if they didn't make trouble for the prosperity of Lingnan."

Li Dingguo still didn't understand, and what he heard today was contrary to his previous understanding.

Didn't the ruler serve as a squire?

When will a ruler think about the sake of the people?

Xia Jing looked at him with a smile, "The squire is only a minority of people in this world, and the majority are still the people. Will the Qianwang Mansion give up the people for the benefit of a few? ”

When the lives of the broad masses of the people improve, that represents the population.

The population of this base is comparable to that of the squires?

In the age of cold weapons, population is everything.

With a population comes a military force, a tax, a man, and a peasant.

In this feudal society, especially in the years of famine, human life is like a mustard, and it is not worth anything at all.

But Xia Jing knows that the population is very important, and she wants to make the life of the people under her rule a little better, so that they don't have to live so hard.

Reform is the way to go if this is to be achieved.

Li Dingguo shook his head, if it is a show of hands in the cottage to vote, it is the minority to obey the majority.

If according to the rules in the cottage, there is nothing wrong with Princess Qian's words.

At the same time, Xia Jing's words shocked him unparalleled.

In this questioning, Xia Jing restrained the smile on her face and asked seriously: "Speaking of which, I don't know what you think in your heart?" Or do you decide how you want to spend the rest of your life? ”

Ding Dazhuang, Wei Dong and the others were stunned when they heard this, and at this time, they were also recalled.

The princess wanted to subdue Li Dingguo and let him be used by her.

However, Ding Dazhuang, Wei Dong and others looked at Li Dingguo seriously, all the way over, the wind and dust, this man except for his stubble and sluggishness, I really can't see that he has anything different about him worthy of the princess to recruit him?

Of course, when they were in Jigong Mountain, they saw him for the first time, and this man was still very elegant.

If it weren't for him standing in front of the bandits with a big knife in his hand, they would all think that Li Dingguo was a scholar who was taken captive by the bandits.

Could it be because of his elegant temperament that the princess decided to recruit him?

Li Dingguo listened to Xia Jing's words, his eyes flashed with a bright light, knowing that if he could survive, who would want to die?

Xia Jing noticed this and waved her hand for Ding Dazhuang to untie the rope on his body.

"What do you think?"

Li Dingguo's two arms moved, and when the numbness of his arms passed, he fell on the ground and kowtowed: "The grass people Li Dingguo knocked to see the princess, if the princess does not dislike it, the grass people will be sent by you in the future." ”

"Hahaha!"

Recovering a general, Xia Jing was sincerely happy.

can occupy one side of the territory in two provinces and ten cities for more than ten years, must not be mediocre.

If Li Dingguo refuses to submit today, Xia Jing may feel regretful. After all, it's a pity that capable men are cut.

Now this situation is the best, everyone takes what they need, and everyone is happy.

"I'm an eclectic person who recruits talents, I believe in heroes and don't ask where they come from, as long as they have real skills and pass the character, I can give him a chance."

Saying that, Xia Jing stared at Li Dingguo's eyes and said, "I hope you don't live up to my expectations, and please cherish this opportunity to reform yourself, there is only one chance for one person." ”

"Thank you princess for giving the little one the opportunity to be a new person, whether it's sincere or not, wait for time to witness."

Li Dingguo opened his mouth and didn't guarantee anything, and whether he was sincere or not was left to time to witness.

Xia Jing listened to his words, but looked at him highly, if he opened his mouth to promise anything, maybe she would really doubt his sincerity.

"Follow you back with the bandits, you go and gather them, and if you want to stay, stay behind, and then reorganize the team and become my personal guard. If you don't want to stay, you can go to the grange to farm. If you don't even want to plant the field, you will go directly to the mine to mine. ”

Li Dingguo bowed down and kowtowed again gratefully, "The little one thanks the princess for her grace of not killing the brothers, and when I go back, the little one will persuade them to change their ways, and follow the princess to be a good person in the future." ”

Xia Jing asked Ding Dazhuang about their trip this time, and asked them to take Li Dingguo back.

King Qian put down the teacup, "The princess is really bold, anyone dares to use it, it really responds to what you said about recruiting talents in an eclectic way, you are not afraid of sudden backlash in the future?" ”

"Don't use suspicious people, don't use suspicious people. Your guard battalion should also be moved, don't be reluctant to use it all day long, and then become an indolent soldier. ”

King Qian humbly asked, "Does the princess want the king's guard battalion to also go to suppress bandits?" ”

Xia Jing: "Lingnan bandits are rampant, relying on my personal guard battalion alone I don't know how to exterminate the Year of the Monkey, besides, many bandit forces in Lingnan are quite numerous, and I can't eliminate the 1,000 people in my personal guard battalion alone." ”

In fact, the best way is to be the vanguard of the guard battalion, and more than 10,000 recruits are behind the mat, and all of them are scattered out for exercise.

Let the bandits in Lingnan be the whetstone for these more than 10,000 recruits.

When the matter of Lingnan's land reform was introduced to Jiankang City, the emperor and courtiers did not take it seriously, but in the early dynasty, King Shenqian was willful and reckless, and the good Lingnan was disturbed.

Now the emperor may be unwilling to give Lingnan to King Qian, but if the new emperor wants to take back the rule of Lingnan splitting the feud, he does not have the courage at the moment.

The new emperor's mind was more on the north.

It has been two months since the Quadriport coalition encircled and suppressed the rebels, and so far no favorable news has arrived.

It can be seen that the imperial court's control over the localities has gradually weakened.

And the northern state capitals are like a plate of scattered sand, and trying to gather the hearts of the people and the army has become an unattainable dream.

Unless the imperial court had the ability and courage to recover the large tracts of land occupied by Beidi in the north, the imperial court would move back to Gyeonggi.

It's just that now I want to move the capital back to Gyeonggi, and according to the current situation, I am afraid that it will be difficult to complete it for several generations.

When an era reaches the end of a dynasty, no monarch wants to admit that the dynasty has counted down.

When the news of Lingnan reached the imperial court, the news of the Jiankang Southern Imperial Court also reached Lingnan.

King Qian's Mansion: At the strong request of King Qian, they have chosen an auspicious day for the zodiac and moved into the original Lou family's ancestral house, and now the Qian Palace.

The joy of the housewarming of the Qian Palace, naturally a grand event in the whole Lingnan, and all forces were forced by the power of the palace to send the masters of the directors of each family to participate in the banquet.

I felt the miserable end of offending the palace, not only the whole family couldn't save the seedlings, but even the ancestral house where I had lived for generations changed hands.

Who can accept this?

So in the whole banquet next, all the forces were very honest, just to finish the meal peacefully, and go back to be a good person without offending King Qian.

In the afternoon, after sending all the guests away, Li Chengshang beat his sore back and went back to the backyard with the eldest lady.

The spacious yard is refreshing both physically and mentally.

The eldest lady enjoyed the scenery in the courtyard for a while, and then helped Li Chengshang into the house, "Finally, there is no need for the family to be crowded in one courtyard, can we really gain a foothold in Lingnan?" ”

Li Chengshang sat down slowly, and had to lean back in his chair for more comfort.

He listened to the words of the eldest lady and said with a smile: "The current situation is the best situation for our Qian Wangfu. The accommodation is not crowded, so that people can really feel at ease, our palace justifiably owns the territory of Lingnan, which can be regarded as having the capital to settle down. ”

The future is promising!

The husband agreed with her, and the eldest lady was delighted.

"Now that each room has the opportunity to recruit 5,000 soldiers, how is the training of the 5,000 soldiers recruited by the husband?"

Speaking of 5,000 private soldiers, Li Chengshang was more sad than happy, as for the reason?

Of course, it takes a lot of money and food to raise soldiers, and he, a prince with no name, has no money and food to support these soldiers when he has no family?

Now that I think about it, how naïve and ridiculous he was when he asked for brothers to be treated equally.

He frowned, "Now the daily training has been persistent, but if our big house doesn't have a fast industry, it won't be long before our big house will be dragged down by these five thousand soldiers." ”

"Husband, do you have any good ideas?" The eldest lady was also worried.

Li Chengshang shook his head.

The eldest lady frowned and pondered, racking her brains to find a way, but she had learned from her mother since she was a child, but it was okay to be in charge of affairs and settle accounts, so that she really didn't know anything about business.

I can't think of a way to make money, but there are people in the house.

"The princess sells ice and makes money, such a way to make money, but she doesn't bother to rent the shop, and sells it directly in the salt shop. And I observed that the princess had no intention of expanding the ice shop. You said that if we went to discuss with her and we opened a branch in another town, I wonder if she would agree? ”

The business of the ice shop, if it had been Li Chengshang's old-fashioned temperament before, might not be interested.

But now he is no longer the same person he used to be.

Now the drag of 5,000 soldiers has made him know the importance of firewood, rice, oil and salt.

It made him eager to have a hen that would lay golden eggs, so as soon as the eldest lady brought it up, Li Chengshang hesitated for a while, "Don't do this matter, I'll go and discuss it with my father first." ”

Xia Jing didn't know that anyone was already thinking about her ice shop business.

At this time, she was testing the results of the guard's training in the guard camp.

Since the pro-guard battalion arrived in Lingnan and settled down, it insisted on practicing every day and did not dare to slack off for a day.

The squadron leaders are even more scrupulous in their duties, vowing to train a strong soldier to protect the safety of the princess at any time.

The newly joined Jigong Mountain bandits, who used to rob the road with wild road kung fu, now have the opportunity to let them systematically learn to arrange the formation, and they are all very excited.

"The new group of guards has good adaptability, as long as the systematic learning team fights, I believe it won't be long before they will be as strong as the other guards."

Li Dingguo listened to Xia Jing's praise beside him, his heart was happy, and he was not modest, "Thank you princess for your trust, I also think they will become better." ”

Xia Jing smiled and nodded, "We'll see!" ”

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