Xiao Beichen also agreed very much that thousands of acres of fertile land are not enough for those refugees to live in. At least nearly ten thousand acres of land must be taken out. Although Xiao Beichen is the lord of a country, most of the land is in the hands of ministers in the court or the tenants of the country, and they have to take out it out.

So, Xiao Beichen mentioned this matter in the morning court the next day, but the response was not great. The ministers in the court seemed to have no interest in this, or pretended to be deaf and dumb, saying that they had very little fertile land at home and only had enough food and clothing for the whole family.

This matter ended without success.

This made Zhang Zhiwen, Lin Xiu and Meng Mingde very angry and frustrated.

After returning home, Zhang Zhiwen told Su Jinse about this. His handsome face was full of anger. "These people are really hateful! They obviously have thousands of acres of fertile land in their hands, but they refuse to take it out. The rent is so expensive. They are feasting every day, but the people are hungry!"

"San brother, there is a secret to the way of being an official. You will be paid after just after. Those fertile fields are their property. If they don't want to take it out, we cannot force it. Of course, if they can have some benefits, I believe they will agree." Su Jinse pursed her lips and smiled.

Zhang Zhiwen sighed, feeling that his sister was very reasonable, and the next moment he couldn't help frowning: "What benefits should we give them? We don't have much money in our hands!"

Su Jinse showed a sly smile on his face: "You can propose to Your Majesty to build a merit monument at the city gate and record the names of every official who donated money or fertile land. I believe that those officials will donate some of them under pressure."

Zhang Zhiwen's eyes flashed quickly when he heard this, "This is a good idea. I will go to the palace and report to His Majesty now."

So Zhang Zhiwen changed into official uniforms and hurried into the palace.

After meeting Xiao Beichen, Zhang Zhiwen directly explained his purpose. Xiao Beichen smiled on his face when he heard this: "This idea is pretty good."

On the morning court the next day, Xiao Beichen and Zhang Zhiwen mentioned donating the fertile land or money. Some officials could not save face and could only donate some land to a certain extent. However, officials of higher grades naturally donated less than subordinates. So in Xiao Beichen's half-coaxing and half-threatening words, they donated the fields. Finally, they counted the top fertile land, plus medium and low-quality land, a total of more than 2,000 acres.

Many big businessmen in Shengjing City were very excited when they heard about donating the merit monument. They hurriedly took the initiative to leave their relationship and asked to donate while crying.

The reason is no different. Since ancient times, merchants have low status. Although merchants are rich, their status is lower than that of farmers. Now they have the opportunity to perform good deeds in this way, and can also be placed on the monument of merit to make His Majesty happy. You have to do it no matter how you do it!

So the donated land reached nearly 10,000 acres.

This made Xiao Beichen very happy. He privately made an appointment with Zhang Zhiwen, Lin Xiu and Meng Mingde to reward them on their merits.

Lin Xiu and Meng Mingdedao: "This idea was created by Zhiwen alone, and we both don't know."
Chapter completed!