? Because the welfare issue distributed to the people before the Chinese New Year was successfully resolved, Zhao Xing suddenly felt relaxed, so he opened the door of the mansion and began to receive all gentry from all walks of life in Jin State, generals from military ranks who visited relatives and other famous figures from other prefectures and counties in the Han Dynasty.

Zhao Xing was not worried that assassins or people who were eating and drinking would touch his mansion, because all the people who could be seen by Zhao Xing were finally able to see Zhao Xing after being verified and understood by Shadow three months to six months in advance, and after approval by Chen Gong, Li Jinsi, Pang Tong and others.

With Zhao Xing's current status, if everyone is met, I'm afraid he won't even have time to hold his wife, let alone use his brain to plan for the future. Zhao Xing's reception is mainly to listen to the voices and recent situations of all walks of life and prevent being deceived by officials from various counties and counties. This is also the prototype of the initial reception and petition.

As the New Year approaches, officials and gentry from all over the country who came to visit Zhao Xing were about to break the threshold of the Taifu Mansion. It is not a big deal that these visitors are too enthusiastic. It is really a rare opportunity to visit the Taifu Master. Perhaps just a moment of meeting can help people or groups representing the visitors to gain opportunities for development, investment funds, or opportunities to seek justice.

When Mr. Zhao saw a guest, he had a rule that he would not accept any gifts, but he could accept all kinds of strange products, handmade products and even fantastic ideas. For example, a few years ago, someone brought back a bag of plant seeds called alfalfa from the Western Regions. It is said that Zhao Xing was very surprised at that time, and he gave him 10,000 taels of silver and awarded the honor of the second-class meritorious service of Jin State.

It turns out that this item called alfalfa, also known as alfalfa, is native to Asia Minor, Iran, the Transcaucasus and the Turkmen Heights. Alfalfa has strong stress resistance, cold resistance, heat, drought, saline and alkali, thin, has a wide range of adaptability, and has a high potential yield. It is known as the "king of forage". After Zhao Xing got this bag of grass seeds, he immediately ordered the Wohu Academy of Agricultural Sciences to open a fertile plot, which is specially used to plant this species, and then immediately handed over the collected seeds to the Huang Xuan and Yan Sheng tribes at that time to plant them in large quantities in the barren areas of the Hetao area. However, in just five years, the amount of beef and mutton produced in the Hetao area doubled!

There is another example. A few years ago, a Persian merchant from the Western Regions brought a powder and seed seeds called pepper (Note 1), which was regarded as a treasure by Zhao Xing and immediately began to try planting. Then, as a new condiment, it was listed as the four major seasoning vegetables in Jin Dynasty, along with onions, ginger, and garlic that was introduced in earlier years. Since then, it has been on the dining table of ordinary people, especially when eating mutton hotpot in winter.

In view of this, all the guests who come to visit Zhao Xing will carefully prepare some items or handmade products, or some fantasy ideas before coming. Once they are favored by the Taifu, the guest will have unexpected gains.

After entering the 20th day of the 12th lunar month, Zhao Xing gradually stopped meeting visitors from Jin, but instead devoted his energy to visitors from Youzhou and Liangguo. He wanted to hear how the people of Youzhou and Liangguo spent this winter.

On the third day after Zhao Xingding issued welfare shopping vouchers, two well-equipped cavalry divisions, one heading east and the other heading west, escorting real silver and shopping vouchers worth more than 10 million in total, heading towards Yuyang City and Gaoping City.

According to Zhao Xing's request, because Youzhou and Liangguo are far apart, people must be sent to send them as soon as possible because the people in the two places need to ensure that they receive the welfare red envelopes before the New Year.

The general responsible for escorting to Youzhou was Song Xian, the commander of the Third Division of the Dragon Cavalry Army. He led 3,000 people to deliver the three million taels of real gold and silver and the equivalent of three million real gold and silver to Sima Zhi; the general responsible for escorting to Liang Kingdom was Hao Meng, the commander of the Second Division of the Dragon Cavalry Army. He also led 3,000 people to deliver the two million taels of real gold and silver and the equivalent of two million taels of real gold and silver to Sima Zhi.

Why does this account feel a bit like a tongue twister? It's actually very simple. Because Youzhou has a population of more than Liangguo, Youzhou has received three million taels of silver, and Liangguo has received two million taels of silver. These silvers will not be distributed to the people, and they will be distributed to various shopping coupon exchange points. When the people who received the shopping coupon meet the exchange conditions, they will exchange the silver home with the pieces of paper in their hands.

In other words, a family of five in Youzhou can get a welfare shopping voucher worth ten taels, but this thing cannot be eaten or drunk. It must be completely exchanged after the family spends 100 taels of silver.

Then the question arises again. If the Zhang San family has a good relationship with Li Si's family in private, then Zhang San bought a donkey from Li Si's family and used ten taels of silver. After a few days, Zhang San secretly returned the ten taels of silver to Li Si, and then Li Si bought the donkey from Zhang San family. The transaction process generated a transaction amount of twenty taels of silver. Can Zhang San and Li Si get one tael of silver each from the silver exchange point?

The answer is that you can't get it. Not only can you get the silver, but you will also get an additional reward of ten whips for each person! The condition for receiving the silver is that all transactions must be conducted in the market opened by the local government and you can take out the tax payment certificate. In other words, those who receive money from selling things will eventually pay a certain proportion of tax to the Market Management Office. The tax amount was set by Zhao Xing to 11%. If as mentioned above, the donkey from the Li Si family will be turned around and then returned to Li Si's hands, although he and Zhang San received the benefit of two taels of silver, they have to pay two taels of tax to the government!

From this point of view, this kind of shopping voucher is not much more affordable to poor people. After all, many poor families cannot afford ten taels of silver to consume. What is the point of giving this thing to them?

Of course it makes sense. You should know that Zhao Xing does anything and needs to look at least three steps forward. These shopping vouchers may not be directly used by the poor people, but Jin State has a measure that can monetize the shopping vouchers in their hands. That is, when merchants outside Jin State enter Jin State for trade, if they hold such shopping vouchers, they can not only pay a part of the fee according to the ticket, but also get the right to purchase first!

Don’t underestimate this priority purchasing right. It is a preferential condition that many foreign merchants have broken through the preferential conditions that governments in various parts of Jin cannot obtain. Nowadays, many items in Jin are monopoly operations, and these merchants have tasted great benefits from doing business with Jin. If they can purchase limited-selling goods in Jin every time, they will naturally make money first.

For example, white paper, books, pepper, sheepskin coats produced in Jin State, sturdy and durable farm tools, exquisite gold jewelry, marinated beef and mutton, windproof glass lamps... In short, Jin State has many novel, useful, delicious and beautiful products released every year. Whoever can get the priority shopping right will be able to make a fortune in advance!

Therefore, the worst way out for these shopping coupons distributed to the people is to sell them to merchants who come to buy them at the original price. Of course, as long as the people with a little wealth are slightly unsuccessful, they will not easily sell these shopping coupons to foreign traders. They also need to consume and buy a lot of fresh goods.

The reason why Zhao Xing gave money to Youzhou and Liangguo is mainly because the governments at both the Youzhou and Liangguo are so poor that they all allocated more gold and silver to help these places to make money, so as to prevent officials from being too troubled and boldly take the initiative to get the people.

The guests who came to visit from Youzhou and Liangguo all mentioned the shopping coupons sent by the Taifu before the New Year's Day in front of Zhao Xing, which caused a huge response. Many refugees who didn't even have a house changed their purchase coupons after receiving the shopping coupons, and then took the money to find a place to stay. The family no longer wandered and could eat hot meals at the New Year's Eve dinner, instead of licking their faces and embarrassingly eating the government's daily relief porridge.

After hearing this, Zhao Xing felt very comfortable and said to himself: Fortunately, I didn’t waste my brain cells for several nights. Now the poor people can share the benefits of Jin State. This winter, there will not be too many people who have become hungry on the roadside because of the cold weather, right?

The fact is indeed as Zhao Xing imagined. In the winter of the second year of Guangxi, in the Jin State, Youzhou and Liang State, except for the people in a very remote place who did not receive the benefits distributed by Zhao Xing in time due to poor information, most of the people in the three places enjoyed the sunshine of Jin State again, allowing them to see the hope of life and their longing for a happy future life.

Judging from what Zhao Xing understood, the people of this era were really simple. Many later generations of greed and corruption, corruption and other behaviors of corruption and corruption, and corruption of public and private sectors did not have a large market. Whether it is ordinary people and officials at all levels, after drawing boundaries for them and formulating clear rules, everyone will honestly implement them. In addition, Zhao Xing is accustomed to thinking about problems from the perspective of human nature. Every time a policy is introduced, the first thing he considers is how to punish corruption and corruption of corruption, so he has well controlled many of the senile phenomena and the moral decline of the people that are hated in later generations.

The ancients said: When the granaries are full, etiquette is known. In the farming era where productivity is relatively low, the realization of this sentence seems much easier than today's information, globalization and technological development. In the final analysis, because people have fewer people, they are more likely to be satisfied. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the ideal of the people was to be able to eat enough, wear warm clothes, and not be affected by war and diseases.

Such a requirement is not difficult for Zhao Xing to realize, so Zhao Xing is destined to go further and further on his ideal path, and even to a point that many Han people in later generations could not imagine.
Chapter completed!