City Lord's Mansion, Council Hall.
The high-level meeting of Qi State was held again.
Compared with the first high-level meeting, some new people were added this time, firstly Gu Min who joined with 30,000 soldiers, secondly the governor of Yi'an County Hetai and the city guard general Ye Xian, and Fan The county's governor, Gongsun Shouxin, and the city's general Miao Peng.
After Song Yan looked around the crowd, he said loudly: "I have gathered everyone together today to announce two things. However, before announcing those two things, I want to inform everyone of good news, that is, the paper produced by us is in Chu has caused a huge stir, and so far we have received 37 million just from buying paper."
Gu Min, Meng Bozhao and others didn't think much when they heard the figure of 37 million yuan, but Song Xiu, Shen Du, Hetai and others who were in charge of internal affairs were extremely shocked.
You know, the annual tax revenue of a central county is only about 10 million yuan.
37 million dollars is already equivalent to the annual tax revenue of three counties.
Song Yan continued: "Currently, the paper mill is accelerating its expansion. However, guarding work must also be done well. After all, money is attractive. Who knows whether other countries will send people to steal our papermaking technology." At this point, Song Yan He looked at Meng Bozhao: "General Meng."
"My subordinate is here."
"From now on, he will dispatch three thousand troops to guard the paper mill for me."
"Please rest assured, General, my subordinates must be optimistic about the paper factory." Meng Bozhao said with excitement. The paper factory is now the chicken that lays golden eggs for Qi State. Song Yan gave him the paper factory to guard, which is a sign of his respect. .
After talking about the paper mill, Song Yan changed his subject: "The first thing I want to announce today is to reduce taxes. From now on, the agricultural tax will be reduced from the original 50% to 10%."
"General, isn't 10% too low?" Shen Du reminded.
"It's not low. In the past few decades, China has been in turmoil with wars, and the lives of civilians have been difficult. As far as I know, more than half of the civilians now don't even have enough to eat. They don't even have enough to eat, so where do they find the strength to work!
Of course, this agricultural tax reduction is not free. There must be additional conditions. Civilians who want tax reduction must reclaim three acres of wasteland for the country. If the civilians who reclaim the wasteland are willing, they can cultivate it themselves. Grain will enjoy tax exemption for three years.
After three years, the tax will be 10%. "
When everyone heard this, their eyes suddenly lit up. This tax-free method would definitely greatly increase the enthusiasm of the common people. At the same time, in three years, the country would have millions more acres of fertile land.
"The general is wise!"
"General's vision!"
Everyone quickly flattered him.
Song Yan waved his hand and started to talk about the second thing: "Then, the second thing is to build a school. It will be funded by the state. A school will be built in each county in the three counties. Anyone who is seven years old can come to the school to study for free. Three years.
If you have excellent grades, you can enter the government schools in the three counties and cities. Once you pass the examination, you will be qualified to serve as local officials. "
There are too few scholars in this world, and those who can afford to read are the children of powerful families. It can be said that most civilians are illiterate.
This is also the reason why Song Yan established a school.
Except for Meng Bozhao and Shen Du Song Xiu, everyone else was enslaved by Song Yan using his puppet power. Naturally, they would not oppose his opinions, so the construction of the school was quickly decided.
The general's two orders quickly spread among the civilians in the three counties.
When they learned that as long as three acres of wasteland were dug out, the tax on their own fertile land could be reduced to 10%, everyone was so happy that they went to the government to register and expressed their willingness to dig out wasteland.
While the land reclamation business was in full swing, the construction of schools was also proceeding in an orderly manner under the auspices of the government.
At the same time, the whole Zhao State also learned that Gu Min had defected to Qi, and that Yi'an County and Fan County had fallen into the hands of Qi State.
For a moment, the whole country was in shock. Zhao Guo in the palace even threw several wine glasses. In anger, he even picked up a sword and killed a concubine.
In addition, the name of Song Yan, the general of Qi State, was also spread in Zhao State.
According to the information obtained by the spies, the two defections were due to a meeting between Song Yan and the chief generals of the two armies and senior military officials.
The two armies of Zhao State turned against each other through negotiation alone. This sounds incredible to people, but such a thing happened.
Therefore, spies from various countries also spread the news to their respective countries.
For a while, Song Yan became popular on the mainland of China.
Although King Zhao was angry and angry, he did not continue to send troops to attack Song Yan. Who knows whether the troops sent this time would be deceived by him again and then defect to Qi State. Moreover, not counting the auxiliary troops, Zhao State There are only 200,000 soldiers who can fight. Now that Song Yan has kidnapped more than 50,000 people, there are only more than 140,000 left. One hundred thousand people have to be used to garrison major counties and cities, so there are only 4 available soldiers. More than ten thousand people.
Can more than 40,000 people deal with Qi, which has more than 50,000 troops
King Zhao has no confidence.
Three months passed like this.
The sale of paper has been fully opened in mainland China, and caravans go to Linshui County every day to transport paper for sale to various countries.
Because Song Yan exchanged the money for buying paper into grain, after these three months, the grain in the three counties' treasury has piled up like a mountain, and it will not be a problem for a hundred thousand troops to feed for five or six years.
Seeing so much grain, Song Yan had a new idea, which was to make wine and brew high-quality liquor.
The wine in this world is not only turbid in color, but also has an extremely low alcohol concentration, not even comparable to the alcohol content of beer in the real world.
After writing the steps for brewing wine and the tools needed to Song Xiu, the brewing process was left to him.
Song Xiu lived up to his hope. In less than half a month, high-quality liquor with a color as clear as water was brewed.
There was not enough food to eat in the treasury anyway, so Song Yan waved his hand and set aside half of it for making wine.
After producing high-quality liquor, Song Yan does not plan to sell it wholesale.
Instead, it is intended to be used to develop a chain of restaurants.
Therefore, half a month later, three restaurants called Tianxialou opened in Yi'an County, Fan County, and Linshui County at the same time.
The dishes at Tianxialou are not much different from other restaurants, but its drinks are extremely expensive. A small bottle costs 100 yuan, and a jar costs 900 yuan. It is said that this drink called Xianrennong is made by the world-famous Qi Created by Song Yan, the great general of the country.
Because of the tax cuts and the construction of schools, General Song's prestige in the three counties was extremely high, and many people even paid tribute to his longevity in their homes.
Therefore, upon hearing that this fairy brew was invented by the general, anyone with spare money should go to Tianxialou to try it.
Once they tasted it, the mellow but spicy taste of the wine won them over.
Many people even took a sip of Immortal Brew and slapped the table and said, "This is the real wine. The General is indeed a god!"
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