Wanli 1592

Chapter 1254 This is the Holy King

At the beginning of May of the second year of Longwu, Yuan Huang, who was supervising the construction of Dachi Road in Liaodong, received the news.

A group of strong laborers arrested and sent from the Wa Kingdom will arrive at Tianjin Port, and Yuan Huang is asked to receive a batch of strong laborers for management and speed up the construction progress.

Since the start of construction for more than a year, the Dachi Road in Liaodong has completed the sections from Tongzhou to Sanhe, Sanhe to Jizhou, and Jizhou to Malanyuguan. It is now on the way from Malanyuguan to Jizhen. Depending on the construction period, it is estimated It will take about half a month to complete this road.

Along the way, the people were indeed tired. They put in a lot of effort. In order to repay the kindness of the emperor for giving them land and teaching their children to go to school, they also tried their best to contribute their labor to help the emperor build the Dachi. road.

However, their strength is limited after all. During the spring plowing season, they also need to complete their own spring plowing tasks. Otherwise, if this task is not completed, everyone will have nothing to eat.

In other words, Yuan Huang will soon face a shortage of labor.

The weather in Liaodong is very cold. Once winter comes, the land will be frozen and it will be difficult to start construction. The long winter is an unavoidable problem in Liaodong.

So now Yuan Huang is not only supervising the construction of the road from the capital to Liaodong, but also asking another construction team to start building the Dachi Road from Shenyang, and build it opposite him.

What is lacking now is time, and what is lacking is labor.

It is undoubtedly a great thing that a group of strong Japanese laborers came here at this moment. Yuan Huang still agrees with Xiao Ruxun's use of the Japanese labor force without interfering with the people's spring farming in his own country. There is nothing to say about this.

Xiao Ruxun has been emperor for more than a year, except for treating officials harshly and setting off a wave of purges of thousands of people, everything else has been done very well.

Reforming bad governance, strengthening centralization, severely punishing corrupt officials, reducing the burden on the people, overhauling the world, building schools to let children go to school, etc., all of these are his own promises.

He didn't break his promise.

However, this is no longer the reason why Yuan Huang can forgive him. Yuan Huang will never forgive Xiao Ruxun. In Yuan Huang's view, Xiao Ruxun should be qualified as an emperor, and it is the bottom line for him to accept all this. No matter how good it is, it should be done.

If Xiao Ruxun can't do what he imagined, if Xiao Ruxun is an evil tyrant who poisons the people, he will rise up without hesitation and sound the clarion call for the demise of the Great Qin Dynasty.

Xiao Ruxun is doing a good job at the moment, effectively reducing the burden on the common people. Usually, when Yuan Huang panted in coarse clothes and talked with the common people who came to work, the common people would all praise the new Great Qin Dynasty.

The common people have said that after so many years, it is the first time that they really own their own land, as long as they pay less taxes than before, they can get more than before, and even if they are doing military service, they can also get tax relief , the pressure is not great.

After the introduction of new crops, under Xiao Ruxun's vigorous promotion, many people began to plant new high-yielding crops, and the harvest was extremely high.

It is no longer a big problem to have a full stomach now. Although it is still an unattainable dream to eat well and eat meat and oil, at least I will not be hungry.

For the ordinary people who have just escaped from the exploitation of the landlords, gentry and court, the days now are already a dream life.

An old man once said.

"Back then, we were looking forward to the stars and the moon, and we only wanted to save more money to redeem the land from the masters so that we could live a more comfortable life, but no matter how much we saved, we just couldn't keep up with the rising price of the land. The whole family lived frugally for many years and went hungry every year, but there was no way to redeem the land.”

When Yuan Huang asked the reason, they said——during the famine, they sold the land at a low price to survive, but in good years, the land could not be bought back, so they could only be tenant farmers, working for the landlords for generations.

Even a full meal is a luxury.

So now His Majesty led them to overthrow those devoid of conscience landlords and gentry, took the land back, gave them real land autonomy, guaranteed their land ownership, and gave them high-yield crops so that they can eat enough Stomach, and read to their children, this is the Holy King!
When the common people mentioned the current Great Qin Emperor and former Marshal Xiao, they all praised him with a pious face, and there was no falsehood in his words.

And indeed, they can indeed fill their stomachs, eat potatoes and wheat rice, they can always have a full stomach, have some spare money, and can buy some meat to eat.

Xiao Ruxun promoted livestock breeding in the northern Zhili area, encouraged the people to raise poultry, and also raised a large number of chickens, ducks, fish, and pork in his own Huangzhuang, which lowered the price of meat in this area, so that some ordinary people can also eat meat. Buy some meat and go home for a tooth-beating festival.

Don't say how good it is, you can always eat it.

In addition, the large-scale planting of peanuts and soybeans has provided soybean oil and peanut oil to the market, increasing the supply of oil plants in the market.

Many government-operated oil shops sell oil relatively cheaply, and ordinary people can eat oily vegetables every now and then.

From these little things, Yuan Huang can see that Xiao Ruxun really cares about the common people. Xiao Ruxun in Burma and Xiao Ruxun in Beijing seem to have never changed on this point.

This is also the reason why Yuan Huang was willing to give up everything to follow Xiao Ruxun back then.

He deeply sympathizes and cares for the people at the lowest level. The army he commands will never harm the people. It is quite a bit like the Yue family's army froze to death and did not demolish the houses, and it is still the same now.

Within his jurisdiction, what he cares most about is whether there are people who starve to death, whether there are people who are not full to eat, and whether there are farmers who have no land to cultivate.

During the years in Myanmar, no one was starved to death, so when Xiao Ruxun suffered a catastrophe, the whole of Myanmar used full power to support the [-] troops for the Northern Expedition to help him defeat the imperial court.

This is also the reason why Yuan Huang believed in him so much, and was willing to make suggestions for him to calm down the place and solve everything, and was even willing to die for him.

But in the end, this is the result.

Countless midnight dreams, Yuan Huang was thinking, if Xiao Ruxun didn't take that step and didn't proclaim himself emperor, what would happen?

He didn't know, he thought about it countless times, and he didn't know what it would look like. The only thing he knew was that it probably wouldn't be like this, because no emperor could tolerate a general controlling 50 troops.

The current Xiao Ruxun could not tolerate it either.

The only difference is probably that after Xiao Ruxun became emperor, he still has a heart of kindness and care for ordinary people. He killed officials, military generals, nobles, and inferior merchants, but he never harmed the people, and even recruited them to serve. corresponding tax incentives to make up for it.

The original service is obligatory, most of them are in charge of food, and there is no reason to make up for it. Xiao Ruxun is the first time to make up for the people who serve the country financially. As long as they are recruited, they will definitely make up for it. This is an important reason why the people are willing to serve the Great Qin. one.

(End of this chapter)