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Chapter 259 Going out for fun

"Sister, where are you going?"

Li Shimin rode a horse to send Sanniang to the Ten-Li Pavilion outside Chang'an City, with reluctance in his eyes.

"Walk around and relax. If you stay here, you will be laughed at by the people. Besides, seeing that I am getting more and more haggard, father and you are also worried. It is better to listen to father's advice and walk around to relax. It will be a good thing." Sanniang reached out and patted Li Shimin's face: "Erfeng, you have to change your impulsive temper. No matter what happens, you should be patient and wait for your sister to come back to discuss it with you."

"Brother, I understand." Li Shimin sighed, "To be honest, I also want to go out for a walk with my sister. I've had enough of this place. It makes me sad to see those hypocritical people."

"Now that you are the heir, you have the heir's work to do. Don't act like a child again." Sanniang chuckled and pinched Li Shimin's face: "I will bring you some candy when I come back."

"Sister~"

No one in the world could make Li Shimin act like a spoiled child except Sanniang, no matter in any time and space. If Empress Ma was Zhu Yuanzhang's scabbard, then Princess Pingyang was the scabbard of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. In the official history, Li Shimin launched the Xuanwu Gate Incident three years after Princess Pingyang's death.

If the current situation continued and Pingyang really died, Li Shimin would immediately put Li Yuan under house arrest if things went wrong at all, and then lead his elite cavalry to kill Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, and then directly lead his troops to sweep across the north of the Yangtze River and rule the country according to the river.

He has the ability to do so. After all, the only ones in the entire north who can fight against him are the Shanhai Heavy Cavalry. The rest are all disgraceful, even the Jinyang Guo Family. After all, the Guo Family's Po Lu Heavy Cavalry is not in the north now.

Sanniang rode away on horseback with two guards. Although she had been deprived of military power in disguise, Li Yuan did not restrict her freedom. This was a good thing. She could just relax and unwind.

But she didn't seem to have any purpose, and didn't know where to go, so she asked the guard next to her: "Li Sun, you are from the south, do you know any fun places?"

"Princess, there is chaos and war everywhere right now... There is no place to have fun. But I heard from those merchants that there are many fun places in Jiangnan Road."

Princess Pingyang was allergic when she heard Jiangnan Dao. She waved her hands repeatedly and said, "No, no, that boy is not a good person. He is extremely bad."

"Hmm...what did the princess say?"

Who else could it be? Naturally, it would be Xia Lin. Princess Pingyang felt angry and amused when she thought of that guy. It is said that a scholar cannot explain himself when he meets a soldier, but when she met that guy, she became the scholar instead.

"Don't talk about it. Think about it carefully."

"I am from Guangzhou, where there are many Semu people and exotic customs. I heard that the King of Lingnan rebelled a few days ago, but I don't know what's going on now."

Princess Pingyang was silent for a moment, then pulled up the reins and said, "Then let's go to Guangzhou. It just so happens that I haven't been there yet, so I can spend the New Year there."

As she spoke, she pulled out a stack of bank notes from her bosom and said, "Well... I just don't know if the money is enough. Never mind, let's go there first. If it's not enough, we can go to the prince garrison in Guangzhou to ask for money."

After all, she is the Iron Lady on the battlefield. Although she suffered great injustice at home, she immediately turned into a fierce bandit once she got on the horse.

The Iron Lady's horse's hooves were ticking, and Xia Lin held a small dark room meeting. The main participants in the meeting were the Fuliang team, an alternative form of remote work. Basically, they went all the way to Quanzhou by water and then took a boat to Guangzhou.

Because this meeting is very important, it can even be said to lay the foundation for the development pattern of the entire South in the next twenty years.

This is not an exaggeration at all. After all, let’s first take a look at the main content of this meeting.

The first is the connection between merchant passes and the national treasury. The passes are linked to the central government and anchored with gold and silver.

The second is the development trends and directions of urban industry, handicrafts and commerce in the next five to ten years.

The second is the construction of road administration, postal and logistics systems and the division of shipping and maritime transportation.

The third goal is to complete the planning of a new starting point for the New Maritime Silk Road within two years, making Quanzhou and Guangzhou gateways to the outside world.

The last step is to explore and expand the business network and develop potential market strategies.

Just look at the contents of these topics. If any one of them is completed, Jiangnan Road and Lingnan Road will enter a new development model, but now they want all five to start operating at the same time.

Of course, this is difficult, but there is no sense of accomplishment when completing things that are not difficult. Xia Lin sat there and told them about future development plans and models, and then brainstormed together, using extreme wisdom to overcome the relatively backward productivity of the moment.

Not only that, Xia Lin also had a talent promotion plan that was proposed at this small black room meeting. That is, many businesses would jointly invest to reward a group of travelers who were willing to explore the outside world. They could go anywhere, as long as they could bring back the products and information from outside, whether by land or water, they could get rewards based on evaluation.

To what extent is this reward generous? To give the simplest example, if there is a monk who travels through the vast Western Regions to India, and brings back a bunch of spices and grain crop seeds that have never appeared here, then once his achievement is judged to be true, the Trade Federation will fulfill one of his reasonable wishes, whether it is an entire big temple or gilding the Longmen Grottoes.

If someone can bring back seeds of high-yield crops, local customs, regional locations and other information from overseas, the reward will be even more generous.

This plan has no time limit and no upper limit. The main point is that one can seek wealth and fame by taking risks.

In terms of industry, Xia Lin also determined the industrial development plan and radiation plan for Fuliang in the next two years. He planned to move some industrial projects from Fuliang to Guangfu, using the local logistics and distribution advantages to further reduce costs and solve the employment and livelihood of some people. Of course, he also considered agriculture, which was to pilot the abolition of all agricultural taxes, head taxes and well taxes in Fuliang, that is, to pilot the abolition of the public grain system of more than 2,000 years from the old cousins, and these taxes were converted into income taxes, that is, all grain output was converted into commercial grain and entered the market for rotation, and Fuliang conducted an annual survey to evaluate the grain price standard, and all merchants' grain purchase prices were not allowed to exceed this parameter.

Then farmers are charged taxes according to an income tax standard, and farmers whose income does not reach this standard do not have to pay taxes.

The same plan applies to small vendors and small workshops, which can greatly reduce the burden on local people.

This will indeed reduce the proportion of local taxes, but the total amount of taxes will definitely be higher, because the relatively relaxed environment will attract more people to settle down, and as the population base increases, taxes will naturally rise as well.

As for other places where people are running to, what should they do?
Xia Lin didn't care if they died. Didn't they have any idea of ​​how poor their governance capabilities were? Anyway, he would start by promoting the development of his own area, and then gradually radiate to the surrounding areas.

In short, it may take thirty or forty years to complete this task, but at least if we start now, there will be hope in the future.

When the last day's discussion was over, representatives from all the big and small businesses left one after another, and Xia Lin sat inside and began to count the accounts.

"Master, eat something. You still have to teach the gang members tonight."

Narcissus put the food on Xia Lin's table, then stood beside him obediently: "Master, you have been working hard recently. You have lost a lot of weight."

"Hey, what should I do? I also want to arrange tasks in Fuliang in peace and stability, but they insisted that I come here. The conditions are a little worse, but there is nothing I can do. Education, people's livelihood, medical care, commerce, and industry are five major sectors, each of which is a hard nut to crack. It's okay to pilot it in Fuliang now, but if it goes outside, I'm sure that I will be eaten up without leaving any bones. I tell you, there will be a battle between me and the world's aristocratic families in the future."

Narcissus laughed and gently kneaded Xia Lin's shoulders: "Master will win!"

"How can I be sure of victory? I have no idea." Xia Lin put one foot on the stool and sat there to eat. "Now we are just following the route of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. Who knows what will happen next."

How could Narcissus understand anything about Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia? She just stood behind and laughed. Anyway, what the master said always made sense.

After finishing his meal, Xia Lin strolled into the headquarters of the "Heaven and Earth Society" again. The situation had not been so tense these past two days. Some businessmen and officials who had previously been associated with the King of Lingnan were arrested in the name of a raid, but everything else seemed to have calmed down.

The brothers in the gang were also successfully moved out of the warehouse. They now live in the East Street compound prepared for them by Xia Lin. The population here is dense and the environment is complex, so it is relatively safer than other places.

When he entered, the people inside were eating. When they saw him coming, they all stood up and greeted him:

"military adviser."

"The military advisor is here."

Xia Lin waved his hand: "You guys continue eating, where's the princess?"

Liu Gouzi gave Xia Lin a look: "He's crying in there and refuses to eat."

"Okay, I'll go take a look."

As he said that, he went into the house. As soon as he entered, he could hear the whimpering sound of July 15th, a lonely ghost sitting on the roadside. Walking a little further inside, he saw Hong Yuan. There was food in front of her but she didn't eat a single bite. She just leaned against the pillar and cried.

After all, he is just a teenager, and it is normal for him to suffer from traumatic stress after seeing so many people die.

Xia Lin sat over and crossed his legs, and put a hand on Hong Yuan's shoulder: "Are you crying again?"

"you go……"

"Why are you leaving?" Xia Lin took back his hand and picked up the rice: "I'll feed you, eat a few bites."

"Don't eat."

"I won't eat it if you spank me." He patted Hong Yuan on the buttocks: "Do you want to eat it?"

Now Hong Yuan no longer shouted for war, but was rather submissive. After being frightened for a moment, she obediently picked up the bowl and started eating.

"Don't cry, think of a way to support the brothers below you. As the saying goes, help in emergencies but not in poverty. I will leave sooner or later, and you can't keep relying on my relief."

"Where are you going?" Hong Yuan raised her head and looked at Xia Lin pitifully.

"The money comes from the flood, right? Shouldn't I go out to do business and make money? Eat quickly, and I'll tell you later how the brothers should make a living in the future."

(End of this chapter)