The barbarians in Yunnan like to eat insects, such as venomous scorpions, spiders, snakes and insects, but it is not easy to eat some locusts there.

"When I arrived at the capital, I really had to taste the locusts. Various methods were emerging one after another. The locusts in our capital were even in short supply. It is said that there were those brave merchants who built their own sheds and set up nets to raise them, and they made a lot of money. The locusts sold more expensively than food."

Over the years, the court, which has always attached great importance to food security, has been very tightly focused on grain, and granaries are everywhere. The court has to purchase tasks in a unified manner every year. The result is that the grain reserves are extremely abundant. Moreover, because the court regulates grain prices, it has formed that the grain prices in various places are equivalent today, with no differences. Even the food prices have been stable for ten years and there have been no ups and downs. Because in the bumper years, the court will raise prices to collect grain to ensure farmers' income. In the disaster year, the court will make preparations to adjust grain in advance and open warehouses and markets in advance.

The price of rice is ten cents, and this price has been maintained for ten years.

From Luoyang to Chang'an, from Taiyuan to Liaoyang, from Fanyang to Jinling, from Jiaozhi, which produces grain to Wuwei in the northwest, and then to Gaochang and Yili in the Western Regions. Throughout the year, the price of grain sold in the official warehouse is maintained at ten coins of rice.

Behind this is the imperial court's strong grain reserves and an extremely powerful grain transportation and allocation system. Even the disasters in more than ten counties will not be the case where refugees are everywhere in the past.

Every year, there are many grain ships among the boats running on the sea and canals. These policies of transporting grain from south to north and transporting grain from east to west ensure that there is enough storage of grain in various places to cope with once-in-a-century disasters.

The food prices in various places are stable, but those non-staple foods are not cheap, just like the famous snacks in Luoyang City, roasted locusts, roast ducks, and roast gooses, which are very expensive, while pigs and sheep are in a large supply, but the prices are stable and not expensive.

This is the unique logic of the court to ensure people's livelihood. All the necessary items for people's livelihood must be sufficient in quantity and not high in price. Those that are not necessary may be more expensive, because the court will not participate in these non-essential products in depth, but the court will strongly participate and control food, beef and mutton, cloth, fur, medicinal materials, etc.

For example, farmers buy oxen. Not only is it not too expensive, but there is no need to pay taxes. After buying it, there will be additional government subsidies. However, if you buy horses as mounts, you have to pay additional tax on carriages, horses, boats, and deeds, and annual inspections every year.

If you buy more than just home use, you have to operate and do business, then you have to pay additional operation tax, transaction tax, etc.

This is the logic of the court.

Just like buying land, the basic amount of cultivated land for the people must be guaranteed. For the additional land transactions of landlords, the heavy deed tax is required. Even the deed tax is rising step by step. For each level exceeding one level, the higher the deed tax is paid, from the first level, the 1st level, to the second level, to the third level, the tenth level, and twoth level, to the fourth level, and to the fifth level, the tenth level, and fourth level, the maximum can reach 40% of the transaction volume.

The same is true for housing in the capital, which is distributed to residents in the city with a specified number of homesteads, but for purchases by outsiders, the tax will be high.

This leads to the fact that local residents can have the minimum housing security, but the residential or land that is circulating in the market is ridiculously expensive.

Many Beijing officials who work in Beijing outside the country cannot afford to buy a house and can only live in the back hall of the yamen or the official residence built by the government.

A small courtyard costs at least a few million yuan. If it is the main urban area of ​​the capital, especially the Shangdongcheng District and Shangxi District in the golden area, it will be even more expensive, and any house will be thousands of yuan.

Luo Cunxiao patted his big belly, "I think our Qin Dynasty does not suppress industry and commerce, but suppresses mergers. Although the business and business are rich, even hundreds of millions of people are everywhere. But the best thing the court did is to care for the lower-level people and give them the most basic guarantee, at least to make sure that those who plough the land and those who live in the house."

"Yes, our capital has millions of people, but the streets are neat and the people in the city are in a hurry, but no one has any food."

In a metropolis with a population of millions like Luoyang, even a beggar cannot be found.

It is impossible for you to be a beggar if you have no property. If you really have no property, the government will arrange for you to work, and even immigrate to the newly conquered border area to settle down and divide the land. If you are disabled, lonely and widowed, there will be a special agency to adopt it, which will allow them to do some work within their ability in exchange for food and clothing care.

Even those people who have gone bankrupt due to illness and are poor can apply for interest-free loans for serious illnesses and some subsidies from the court.

At least it doesn’t have to be as before. As one person is seriously ill, he may drag his whole family to bankruptcy, or borrow usury due to famine and illness, and ultimately he is not allowed to sell houses and land, or even sell children and wife.

The court was very kind to the ordinary people at the bottom. For this reason, although the court has been using troops continuously over the years and even has a lot of taxes in industry and commerce, the people still support the court and are still loyal to the emperor.

It is because everyone feels that they are living a secure life now. If you have money, you can buy a house and buy a carriage. If you don’t have money, you will be content with poverty and at least you can live a stable life of food and clothing.

What's more, the popularization of compulsory education in primary schools in the early three years has also given countless children from poor families an opportunity to get education. The vigorous promotion of the Royal Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau and Anle Hospital has also benefited millions of ordinary people.

Under the two tax laws, ordinary people do not bear heavy taxes, nor do they have personal constraints and bondages such as Yaofu. Everyone has land to farm and can work hard when they have time to make some money. The prices of grain are stable, and there are no heavy taxes. For the people, this is the time when the sage king is alive and has great rule.

"The emperor has been the emperor for another forty years, and the people are happy, but the emperor is only sixty years old and in such good health, and he is thinking about abdicating. I really can't figure it out."

Cunxiao patted his belly and sighed, if he had the ability of his brothers to govern the country, win the hearts of the people so much, and be so healthy, he would have wished he could be on the throne until the end of his life, so how could he still think about abdicating?

"No, the emperor issued an edict, and I don't know how many people were alarmed. Over the past few days, countless local officials and people wrote to the court every day to ask the emperor to succeed to the throne. Many people even came to the capital and knelt in front of the imperial city!"

"The hearts of the people!" Cunxiao sighed. Although he had a high prestige in Yunnan and Lishui, it was all bad reputations. The people feared him and feared him. The emperor was truly supported by the people.
Chapter completed!