Chapter 669: Implementing Reform

Jing Yu is good at employed people and is good at governing politics, but it does not mean that he is good at managing local areas.

After Guo Zhun took office, he immediately carried out drastic reforms.

He recounted the population and measured the arable land for the counties in Qinzhou.

In fact, his approach was actively targeting the land merger of landlords and gentry.

During the invasion of Qinzhou by the Xifan people, many farmers sold their land to the landlords and powerful people at extremely low prices in order to eat in one bite.

This caused a large number of farmers to lose their land, while the landlords and powerful people all had thousands of hectares of fertile land.

Now, Guo Zhun, on behalf of the provincial governor, came forward to help the farmers redeem the land. The money spent is considered to be owed to the provincial capital by the farmers and will be returned in the form of taxes.

Of course, the landlords and powerful people were unwilling to spit out the land they had obtained, and tried every means to find reasons to shirk them.

In response to this situation, Guo Zhun implemented the second reform measure, levied taxes based on the area of ​​land.

The area of ​​arable land is about small, and the lower the tax rate, the lowest level is thirty tax one.

In other words, farmers only need to take out three percent of the harvest for a year to pay taxes.

The larger the area of ​​arable land, the higher the tax rate will be. The highest level can reach three or four of ten taxes.

The annual harvest must be paid for 30% to 40% to pay taxes.

In order to prevent the landlords and powerful people from deceiveing ​​their superiors and concealing their subordinates, Guo Zhun also specially sent a large number of selfless state officials to various places to measure every inch of land.

These reform measures of his undoubtedly stepped on the tail of the landlords and powerful class, and the letters of impeachment and reporting Guo Zhun were sent to the Prince of Wu's Mansion like snowflakes.

After Li Yu learned about Guo Zhun's policies, he didn't see any letters that impeached and reported Guo Zhun, and he directly burned them all.

Although Guo Zhun's political philosophy offended the landlords and powerful class, it greatly won the hearts of the people.

In addition, for some uninhabited lands, Brigadier Guo took them to the state prefecture.

The state government then distributes it to farmers in the form of leasing, and stipulates that as long as the farmers can rent for ten consecutive years and maintain cultivation, the leased land will automatically be owned by individuals after ten years.

This policy can be regarded as the first step in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

After learning this news, many farmers who were displaced due to war and lost their land began to migrate to Qinzhou with their families.

During Jing Yu's tenure as the governor of Qinzhou, Qinzhou had a large-scale population return.

After Guo Zhun took over as the governor of Qinzhou, Qinzhou ushered in another large population outbreak.

Originally, the population of Qinzhou was similar to that of Liangzhou, with more than four million, but in just a few months, the population of Qinzhou soared to seven million.

The changes in Qinzhou are changing with each passing day and are obvious to all. Li Yu is naturally very happy and he pays more and more attention to the talents recommended by Tao Yuan.

During these months, the Ministry of Works, led by Du Jiang, built a simple imperial palace in Qincheng.

Of course, the Qincheng Palace and the Beijing Palace are completely incomparable, and the scale is much smaller, and it is not even a pocket version.

Currently, there is only one main hall in the Qincheng Imperial Palace, and there is also a side hall on both sides of the main hall.

The main hall is the place for ministers to discuss the affairs of the ministers. Two side halls, one belongs to the Secretariat and the other belongs to the Secretariat, and the other belongs to the Secretariat. They are for office use by officials of the two provinces.

In the main hall, on the innermost high platform, there is a golden dragon chaise.

Because there is no emperor, this dragon throne is purely a decoration.

There is also a relatively smaller chair under the dragon chaise. This chair was prepared for Li Yu.

Li Yu's current title is still King of Wu, a state supervisor.

In other words, without the emperor, he can perform the post of the emperor.

Guo Zhun was doing well in Qinzhou, and Zhang Hong was still living his life comfortably in Liangzhou.

He did not intend to follow Guo Zhun's restructuring.

Guo Zhun attaches great importance to agriculture and does not attach much importance to cash crops like sugarcane.

On the contrary, Zhang Hong attaches great importance to the cultivation of cash crops. As for farmland, his attention is much lower.

The characteristics of the two of them just complement each other.

This day.

The Palace of King Wu.

Tao Yuan came to see Li Yu and brought a memorial with a few words he had for Li Yu.

Seeing that Li Yu was about to be twenty years old and was about to hold a crown ceremony, he would also have his own handwriting.

Li Yu took the memorial and looked down.

Tao Yuan gave him several words and asked him to choose it himself.

Among them are Zixiao, Wenju, Gongtai, etc.

After seeing it, Li Yu put down the memorial and said with a smile: "Thank you, Mr. Tao, for bothering me, I have thought of a word myself."

"oh?

I wonder what your Highness is thinking about?”

"Ziyu!"

"Ziyu..." Tao Yuan stroked his beard, revealing a thoughtful look.

Li Yuhan smiled and said, "Zhuangzi said, "If you are not a fish, how can you know the joy of fish?"

The word "ziyu" comes from this."

Tao Yuan pondered for a moment, smiled with his face, and said, "This word your highness has given him is very good!"

Li Yu also thinks this word is very good.

Li Yu and Li Ziyu were also catchy when she screamed.

As they were talking, Jinwu hurried in from outside and said, "Your Highness!"

"What's the matter?"

"His Highness Zheng has just sent someone to send a letter!"

Li Yu was stunned, Brother Sixteenth was writing!

He reached out and took the letter.

When he opened the envelope, took out the letter paper, and looked closely, Li Yu's face changed.

It turned out that this was a letter of help written by Li Yuan.

In the letter, Li Yuan wrote that King Li Jin of Chu has sent 200,000 troops to invade Zheng County.

At present, the situation in Zheng County is in jeopardy, and Li Yuan requested Li Yu to send troops to rescue him.

After seeing this, Li Yu frowned.

Tao Yuan asked, "Your Highness, did King Zheng have an accident?"

Li Yu handed the letter to Tao Yuan.

The latter quickly took it, looked it from beginning to end, and couldn't help but take a deep breath.

But soon, he nodded slowly again, and he said meaningfully: "Zheng County, the fief of King Zheng, is located between Chuzhou and Weizhou. The King of Chu has always wanted to lead his troops north and annex Weizhou. The Zheng County, which is separated between Chu and Wei, naturally became a stumbling block that blocked the King of Chu from going north!"

Li Yu pondered for a moment, looked at Jinwu, and asked, "Where is the person who sent the letter?

Where is now?"

"Your Highness, the messenger is outside the courtyard!"

"Bring him in!"

"Yes! Your Highness!"

Jinwu went out and brought the messenger in.

The messenger came on a long journey. Because the situation was urgent, he traveled day and night. At this time, he looked so dirty that he looked like a native.

After entering the lobby, he immediately knelt down, kowtowed forward, and cried, and even swallowed: "The villain greets His Highness the King of Wu! Now, Zheng County is in danger. His Highness the King of Zheng is on the verge of life and death. Please send troops to rescue quickly!"

Li Yu stood up, walked to the messenger, and asked, "What is the current situation in Zheng County?"

"When the villain left Zhengcheng, five counties in Zheng County were captured by Li Jin's troops! Now... Li Jin's troops may have already reached Zhengcheng!"

There are only seven counties in Zheng County, five of which have been captured. It has been so many days since Li Jin's troops have long surrounded Zheng City and are at the city.

Li Yu said: "You go down and rest first!"

The messenger knelt on the ground and kowtowed, then stood up with the help of Jinwu and walked out of the lobby tremblingly.

Li Yu waved to Huang Zhao beside him and said, "Call the ministers immediately and go to the palace to discuss matters!"
Chapter completed!