82. Chapter 82

In the palace, Zhang Dian, who rushed in later, expressed his gratitude to Du Long on behalf of the people of Fengli County, and then the group sat down and began to discuss business!

Since I am a newcomer now, I don't know much about many affairs in Fengli County, and now that all the corrupt officials and corrupt officials in Fengli County have also been punished, I hope you can put forward your own opinions on how to implement some relatively urgent decrees next!" Du Long smiled at the still somewhat restrained Zhang Diandao.

Nodding, Zhang Dian reined in his heart and said in a deep voice: "Before this, the villain has something unclear, the lord of Shicai has promulgated the latest field tax policy, and he actually only collects 20% of the field tax, you must know that 20% of the field tax is to be handed over to the state, and you only collect 20% of the tax now, doesn't that mean that the lord not only did not earn a little, but also posted half of the country's field tax?!"

Obviously, Zhang Dian asked the key point, and the people who had long been puzzled by this decree all looked at Du Long, waiting for his reply.

Du Long nodded and chuckled: "Hehe, the reason is very simple! Princess Huofeng is His Majesty the Emperor's favorite daughter, since she has been given such a poor fiefdom, she naturally has to have other preferential treatments!"

"One of its preferential benefits is the holy decree of the full management of the fiefdom to enjoy the power of first cutting and then playing, and the second preferential is taxation, the emperor promised Her Royal Highness the princess, as long as Fengli County no longer loses, the empire will only collect one percent of the tax from Fengli County!"

"Sizzle!" After listening to Du Long's explanation, Su Jinbao gasped on the spot and said eagerly: "Could it be that in addition to the land tax, which is only one percent, other industrial and commercial taxes, including mineral income tax, are also not successful?!"

Du Long didn't answer his question, just nodded proudly in acquiescence, and Su Jinbao couldn't help but roar: "Damn! Your kid has really picked up the treasure! With these preferential conditions, aren't you equivalent to the soil emperor of Fengli County?"

"Hehe, that's His Majesty the Emperor's beloved son-in-law, equivalent to half a child!!, what is a mere county fiefdom?!" Zeng Wan'er teased with a grin.

"Hahaha......"

A few young people teased there, and Zhang Dian also rubbed his hands together and said excitedly: "It's really good! In this way, the 20% field tax is really not a problem!"

"In that case, please hurry up and talk about it, Fengli County is planning for the future, what aspects should be used to deal with it first?!" Du Long said eagerly, his time in Fengli County can't be too long, so he naturally thinks about how to solve the problem as soon as possible, and then he can withdraw and return to the capital!

"Well, then the old man will say a few words!" Zhang Dian stroked Meisu and nodded: "Since there is such a preferential land tax policy, I will immediately issue a notice to the three seven villages of the nine towns under the jurisdiction of Fengli County, release the latest field tax policy, and redistribute the fields in each village and town reasonably......"

It really deserves to be the teacher of Fengli County, Zhang Dian began to talk about it there continuously, it seems to be an ordinary field tax policy, but the specific implementation is a thousand things!

For example, how to scientifically distribute the fertile land that no one cultivates, how to prevent corruption in the process of land distribution, how to arrange supervisors to go to the countryside to supervise the fair and reasonable distribution of fields, and so on!

In recent years, the business of Fengli County has been suppressed by those corrupt officials, and individual businesses and foreign merchants have almost no room to survive, and finally have to evacuate the city!

As a result, most of the basic livelihood economy of the entire Fengli County was completely controlled by the gang headed by Qian Jinlong, not to mention that the shops along the streets of Fengli County, which were included in Qian Jinlong's name, reached more than thirty or forty percent!

The other fifty or sixty percent were in the hands of the nobles who were close to him, and only a small part remained in the hands of others!

This time, the title deeds of those shops naturally all fell into the hands of Du Long, that is to say, from today onwards, seventy or eighty percent of the shops in Fengli County are the lord's!

According to Zhangdian's opinion, if we want to start slowly restoring the business of Fengli County, we must first rent out those shops at a lower price, and then increase the rent appropriately when Fengli County prospers!

Of course, several industries that were cut off by the former county guard Qian Jinlong Gong must be lifted, so that more people can participate, and only by forming competition can we promote the prosperity of the entire business environment and let the people of Fengli County have more jobs!

In this regard, Du Long definitely has no opinion, he directly handed over to his future supervisor in Fengli County, Fu Bo, and asked him to act according to the advice of the chapter and the corrupt officials and those who were confiscated by the nobles who were raided from the house, and lease out the shops at the most favorable price possible!

In addition to restoring the business of Fengli County, the next thing is the gold mining that Du Long is most concerned about, according to Zhang Dian, on the surface, the gold mining in the Demon Beast Forest is disorderly, but in fact it is not!

A secret force led by the county guard Qian Jinlong has long mastered the three largest gold mines in the Demon Beast Forest, and the gold mining there has not stopped to this day.

That is to say, although Qian Jinlong was beheaded, the three gold mines in the hands of him and a group of mysterious people still continued to mine gold, and before the fat man was beheaded, in addition to pulling him out to parade in the streets every day, he would also be interrogated, and he also mastered the specific location of the three gold mines, as well as some of the circumstances inside!

In short, after arranging Fengli County's government affairs, Du Long had to go to the Demon Beast Forest for a trip, and it was a major event for him to take back several gold mines in the boundary of Fengli County!

In addition, there is another urgent thing to reorganize the Fengli city defense army, the number of city defense troops in the former county guard period is only a few hundred, and most of them are unreliable, and must be reorganized!

The Royal Forest Army brought by Du Long this time is not his private army, and he will follow the princess back to the capital in a few days, even if the group of Du Mansion generals can stay, they can't stay here for a long time!

Therefore, the establishment of the Fengli County City Defense Army, and by the way, the establishment of a private army directly under the jurisdiction of Du Long has become a problem that must be solved as soon as possible.

Since there are a large number of unemployed people in Fengli County who can't even solve the problem of food and clothing, as long as Du Long is willing to pay military salaries, it is naturally not a problem to pull up a private army, and with the huge wealth confiscated by the raiders, it is not a problem for him to form a regular army now!

After probably discussing, Du Long made a decision on the goal of building the army, the local army led by the county guard is 1,000, and the private army led by Du Long is 3,000, of course, the current county guard has no money to raise the army, and the 1,000 local army is actually no different from the private army that Du Long paid for himself!

Soon a conscription order notice was issued to all parts of the county, which also included various levels of treatment to become a territorial private army, which was definitely a high-income occupation, and many young people who couldn't even eat enough to eat applied to join the territory's private army or city defense army!

The total population of Fengli County is more than 100,000, and there are tens of thousands of people who want to join the army, but unfortunately, Du Long naturally cannot recruit all of them, these tens of thousands of young people are a small half of the county's labor force, if they are all recruited into the army, I am afraid that the fields outside will be no one to cultivate!

In line with the principle of excellence, try to recruit those young people with corresponding specialties, of course, the Haotian Empire has become a practice of martial arts, and the stronger the strength in martial arts, it will naturally be recruited first!

Finally, after screening, among the tens of thousands of people, there are five or six who have reached the cyclone level, hundreds of them are at the qi level, and the rest are ordinary people, at most, they are stronger!

After all, it is a region close to the Forest of Demon Beasts, and the people here have to fight with the sky and the earth every day, and also fight with those powerful demon beasts that come and go from time to time, even if the strength of martial arts cultivation is not very good, at least the body is still very strong, otherwise they would have died in the mouths of those demon beasts!

It only took two or three days to screen out 4,000 people, and 1,000 were drawn to the city defense army, and directly received the original city defense army headquarters, which still had thousands of sets of military uniforms.

The remaining 3,000 private troops set up a camp outside the county town, led by Sun Lin, the captain of the Du family, as soon as this guy heard that he was willing to stay, he was immediately promoted to the commander of the private army of the 3,000 territory, and agreed to stay in this remote territory on the spot.

As for the equipment of the private army, the military supplies stored in the original city lord's mansion were used, and the former county shou Qian Jinlong used the excuse that Fengli County was constantly attacked by demon beasts every year, and applied for a large amount of military funds from the empire, which was originally intended to establish an army with moderate strength, but he was reluctant to raise a large group of soldiers in Fengli County, so those materials fell into his pocket, but now it is cheaper Du Long!

It's also that money-greedy guy who deserves this fate, otherwise he has to build an army of thousands of people, and Du Long won't be so easy to attack him!

In the past few days, the interior of Fengli County can be described as reborn from the ashes, the distribution of land in villages and towns is in full swing, and many people who were originally Fengli County have rushed back from the homes of relatives and friends in the next county after hearing the news!

The two newly established armies of Fengli County began to train in full swing, and the team of soldiers in bright armor began to train, and the loud horn shouted made the people in Fengli County feel extremely relieved!

The low rents of the shops in the county town not only attracted a large number of locals, but also attracted many merchants from other places to come to rent after hearing the news, and then shops selling various products sprung up like mushrooms after a rain!

Just as the Emperor Taishang said to Princess Huofeng at the beginning, Fengli County is backed by the forest of demon beasts, and the forest of demon beasts is also defeated!

The resources of the Forest of Demon Beasts have attracted a large number of merchants to gather here, bringing countless business opportunities to this land, but also because of the large number of demon beasts in the Forest of Demon Beasts, countless disasters have been brought to the people of this land!

In the past, in Fengli County, several important money-making commodities were monopolized by the former county guard Qian Jinlong, and it was difficult for other merchants to intervene, but now the lord Du Long has completely opened this market, and many merchants who were excluded in the past naturally couldn't wait to rush back after hearing the news.