After bidding farewell to Wang Yan, Wang Xiaolian returned with his army. Not far away, Wang Ruohai on the side couldn't help but asked: "Jie Shuai, are we going back to Xiangyang like this? Are we really going to leave Junzhou's emergency to Wang Yan?"

Including the military rations we worked so hard to transport here?”

Wang Xiaolie said: "What do you want? It is not cost-effective for us to have to work hard to transport the military rations back."

Wang Ruohai was stunned for a moment. After a while, he sighed and said: "Jie Shuai has a generous character, which I have never seen before. As the saying goes, good people are rewarded. I hope that one day, God will repay you.

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Wang Xiaolie said: "When you do good deeds, you shouldn't ask what kind of reward you will get. Just do it if you need to do it. Think of the benefits, just like burning incense in the temple and spending a few cents on it. Gong Bodhisattva will bless you.

, bless that one, as if a Bodhisattva is worth just a few pennies. When we do things, we should only do things with a clear conscience, and don’t think too much about other things."

Wang Ruohai nodded and said nothing more.

Thousands of stones of food and grass are of little use to the current Wang Xiaolie. But for Wang Yan, it can solve his current big problem, why doesn't Wang Xiaolie do it as a favor? It's too tiring to worry about everything.

Wang Xiaolie did not gain anything from this attack on Junzhou. In addition to training his army, he also had captured Li Zhong's men and horses. Li Zhong's combat-ready soldiers were selected from the coerced common people, and most of them could be incorporated into the army.

Those who cannot join the army are also a population that is in urgent need now.

After several years of development, the area around Dengzhou and Tangzhou is still vast and sparsely populated. Arranging these people to go over and cultivate idle fields will be a big help to you. In this era, population is wealth.

In a normal year in the Song Dynasty, rural customers accounted for more than 30%, first- and second-class households accounted for less than 10%, and the rest were self-cultivated farmers. Among the self-cultivated farmers, those with more than 70 to 100 acres were considered wealthy, and those with 40 to 100 acres were considered wealthy.

Seventy acres is considered relatively wealthy, twenty to forty acres is average, and less than twenty acres is considered poor. Under Wang Xiaolie's rule, ordinary farmers were based on thirty acres of land, which was based on this.

However, in addition to thirty acres of land, Wang Xiaolie was also allocated ten acres of mulberry fields and vegetable fields per household. Most of the homesteaders lived a relatively comfortable life.

In the past three years, Wang Xiaolie has been insisting on cracking down on local tycoons, resulting in a significant decrease in customers and a large increase in homesteaders. Because although the proportion of upper-class households is small, most of the customers work for them. After cracking down on the upper-class households, many customers have become homesteaders.

The fact that the Song Dynasty did not establish a land system and did not suppress mergers does not mean that the land in the Song Dynasty was highly concentrated. Due to various constraints, the land concentration in the Song Dynasty was far less serious than that in the Ming and Qing dynasties. In addition, there were no restrictions on people's migration, so the lower class people were relatively less concentrated.

To say that life is better. Starting from the fact that the land system was not established and annexation was not suppressed, it is unrealistic to conclude that land annexation was serious in the Song Dynasty and land conflicts in rural areas were acute.

Wang Xiaolie said to Wang Ruohai: "In addition to the soldiers who killed Li Zhong this time, there were also nearly 30,000 people who were held hostage by him. If they could survive with Li Zhong, these 30,000 people would not be old, weak, sick or disabled.

If arranged properly, it will be equivalent to adding several more people to the county."

Wang Ruohai said: "It costs money to arrange these people. What Commander Jie said is right, but money is like water. How difficult--"

Wang Xiaolie said with a smile: "In the past three years, although we have been short of money from time to time, we have not delayed anything. The Huizi printed in Xiangyang is of excellent quality and is now spread all over the world. This is a huge amount of income. This money cannot be saved.

Once you get down, you should spend it in time."

Wang Ruohai said: "Huizi is doing well now, who knows in the future? When Cai Jing was in power, he changed the money law and brought in a lot of money for the court. But a few years later, the people suffered and the court could no longer collect the money.

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Wang Xiaolie said: "Senior Councilor, the past is never forgotten and the past is the guide for the future. This sentence is correct. However, specific problems must be analyzed concretely and we cannot copy previous experience. As long as we know how Huizi came to be, we can

Whatever the role, you can continue to do it with caution."

The reason why Wang Xiaolie's Huizi is strong is not because of its exquisite printing, but because of banks and, more importantly, the rapid economic development. As the economy develops and business prospers, more Huizi are needed. Control the printing scale of Huizi

, not only has there been no depreciation in the past two years, but prices have also dropped. In the final analysis, if the government wants to collect more money, it still depends on economic development.

However, with huizi and banks, economic development has an amplifying effect. With an extra thousand guan in taxes, Wang Xiaolie can issue thousands of huizi. Wang Ruohai and others always think that huizi is a debt

Issuance, thinking of repaying the debt as soon as possible. In fact, why bother to pay it back? The debt is just a number, and the government controls the scale of huizi issuance. As long as the economy continues to develop, more and more huizi will be printed.

It is precisely with the support of Huizi, coupled with the expansion of economic scale and increase in tax sources, Xiangyang's finances began to become more abundant this year. In addition to government and military expenditures, Wang Xiaolie had the remaining energy to spend money on government affairs. Even if

Xiangyang now dares to invest in projects with higher costs and slower repayments. Government-run site services, coupled with the expansion of industrial and commercial taxes, have solid financial resources.

In the economy, there must be both government-run and private-owned enterprises. The ownership debate is a product of ideology. Who does Wang Xiaolie need to argue with? Those with large investments, large scales, and slow returns must of course be made by

Official investment. Including some industries with mature and stable technologies and stable profits, the government can boldly enter. For some projects with high risks and rapid progress, the government can support private operations.

The government-run economy not only provides the government with income other than finance and taxation, ensures social stability, and gives the government a hand in directly managing the economy, it also has a role in narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor.

In industries that have stable profits, such as house rent, land rent, roads, bridges, etc., the government will of course take the lion's share. This can not only reduce taxes and relieve the burden on the people, but also prevent this wealth from flowing into private hands, creating a large number of landlords and rentiers.

And a large number of industries related to people's livelihood can be controlled by the government. The more money the government makes, the less taxes it collects. Of course, if there is a problem with the government, no one can save it.

When they arrived at Tutaiyi, they set up camp and had dinner with Wang Xiaolie, Li Yanxian and Wang Ruohai.

Dinners were a system of the Song Dynasty, especially in the army. There were regulations on how often several important generals should have dinner together. Those who did not attend the dinner without any reason would be punished. This system was to familiarize the generals and exchange information at the same time.

set up.

After drinking a glass of wine, Wang Xiaolian said: "There is nothing important on the way back to Xiangyang this time. We can't be idle all day. Let's pick the most ordinary city in the army and we will stay there for a few days. We will eat and drink together with the soldiers.

Stay and listen to what they say and think."

Li Yanxian said: "That's fine. When I was in Shaanzhou, I always ate and lived with the soldiers without distinguishing between them. Now that everything has a system, generals and soldiers are just different, which makes me not used to it."

Wang Ruohai couldn't help frowning after hearing this: "After all, there are few things to do when we return to the army, but there are still many things that we need to make decisions about. What should we do if there is an emergency in the army after we leave? The so-called leaderless group is prone to trouble."

Wang Xiaolie said: "It doesn't matter, there are three of us in shifts, and one of us can be on duty every day. If there is really a big event, it won't take much time to report it on Pegasus. A general cannot be completely separated from his soldiers, and he doesn't know the situation below. If possible
Chapter completed!