Forty miles north of Yuejing City, you will enter Kunwu County. A straight road that can accommodate two carriages in parallel connects it with Yuejing City. In the past two years, with the rapid development of Yuejing City, Kunwu has also taken advantage of the east wind to run forward. Because the land prices and housing prices in Yuejing City are getting more and more expensive, many workshops that were originally in Yuejing City began to transfer to the surrounding county seats. Yuejing is not easy to live in Yuejing City. Many merchants can save a lot of costs after transferring the original workshops and warehouses to these places, and convenient transportation conditions will not have much impact on their business.

County towns like Kunwu are naturally welcomed by things like this because it will bring them a lot of taxes. The Ming Dynasty's tax on farmers was quite low. In order to encourage agriculture, the tax was thirty taxes, and the population tax was abolished, but land was used as the basis for taxation. The more land, the higher the tax rate was paid. This policy was mainly to curb the merger of land. So far, everything seemed to be good.

Such a low agricultural tax rate is naturally a drop in the bucket for local governments. It has forced local people to turn their attention to other tax sources. The main focus is commercial tax.

Commercial tax is one of ten taxes. As business becomes more and more developed, the taxes will naturally be collected. In the past two years, the central government of the Ming Dynasty was so poor that it was dying due to years of war. The Political Affairs Hall did not hesitate to use the taxes paid by the local government as an important reference for officials' performance evaluation. If you have more taxes, your political achievements will be great and you can expect to be promoted. In one of this background, developing industry and commerce will make businessmen richer and thus being able to collect more taxes has become the biggest source of motivation for people-friendly officials in various places.

The population of county towns like Kunwu has doubled several times in the past two years, and the population statistics at the end of last year have actually reached tens of thousands. This is a very terrifying data. Like the situation facing Kunwu County now, it is actually no different from Yuejing City, with rapid development cities and lagging urban construction.

But the central government has no money to solve this problem, and a small Kunwu County is naturally powerless to do anything about it.

"The tax paid by Kunwu County last year is worth the tax of a county in a remote area." Quan Yun, the chief minister who was riding a horse, introduced the current situation of Kunwu to Qin Feng. "But there are many problems. Kunwu also has problems facing Yuejing City. Yuejing City does not have problems, such as public security issues. Yuejing City started a major sweep to remove the dirt and stubborn stains. Yuejing City has changed its appearance, but places like Kunwu are even worse, because many bastards escaped from Yuejing City to these places."

"Development always comes at a price." Qin Feng did not think there was any big problem with this. He was thief, robbery and blackmail. Can it be less even in the great rule? There are still people. Such people can only hide in the dark and work quietly. When the court wants to harvest them, they will wield a big knife to cut one, and then they can control it for a while. After the new crops grow, they will wield the knife.

"Kunwu County Magistrate Ban Dingyuan has already submitted several memorials to complain, saying that Kunwu's prisons are already overcrowded and have to release some of the ones who have been arrested before, but after these people go out, they still have to commit crimes! He thought well and wanted to escort a group of criminals to Yuejing City. Don't you know that Yuejing City's prisons can't be locked up?" Quan Yun shook his head and said.

"Has it actually reached this point?" Qin Feng said in surprise.

"Your Majesty, there are countless lazy people in this world. They can obviously make a living by their strength, but they just want to go to the wrong place. In fact, the activities of the Eagle Nest hosted by the Eagle Nest last year have different opinions. Although these gangs are illegal, they also manage a large number of illegal people for the court, and can limit these things to a controllable range. Now, Eagle Nest has swept away the leaders of the big gang in Yuejing, and the lower part is lost."

"The Chief Auxiliary's words are biased." Hearing this statement, Qin Feng frowned: "These gangs are extremely harmful to the country. Some gangs are like another court. It is the responsibility of officials to govern the place. If they actually rely on the underworld and gangs to do things, it can only be said that the local government is very incompetent. Crisis on these gangs is only the first step. The next step is to clear the Wulin sects in the Ming Dynasty."

Quan Yun was shocked when he heard this: "Your Majesty, you have to be cautious about this matter! These people are a powerful force, and more of their disciples are now in the army, and most of them are officers."

Qin Feng glanced at Quan Yun and smiled and said, "Don't worry, the chief minister, I will naturally not be so bored like this. I will pay attention to strategies and slowly make plans. However, I will never allow another Wanjian Sect or the Nantian Gate in the Ming Dynasty. With a sect, it can actually affect the government affairs and even threaten the court."

Quan Yun was silent.

"I am already planning to set up a martial arts garden in Shangjing City." Qin Feng said lightly: "Those powerful sects in the Ming Dynasty can all come to the martial arts garden to preach."

"What if someone doesn't want to come?"

"Don't want to come?" Qin Feng called out, "I'll come because I don't want to come, and the court will tell him how to be a human being."

Since the emperor had already made plans, Quan Yun did not intend to be the emperor on this issue. Compared with other major events in the court, these things were just small matters. The martial arts sects in the Ming Dynasty were not very popular, and although there were many sects, they did not have such great sincerity as the Nantianmen and Wanjian Sect. Moreover, many of the children of the sects are military officers in the army, so it would not be too difficult to implement the policy of the Wuyuan. Moreover, with the emperor's nature, they should have thrown out a big cake to catch them. Now in the Ming Dynasty, several masters are the minions of the court, and they can't make big waves. As long as the army can control it, there will be no major problems. At most, some small waves will be drawn.

"Your Majesty, those criminals still have to think of some ways to come out! Just letting them go like this is not a solution. Kunwu County has proved that this approach will not work." Quan Yun continued the previous topic.

"The chief minister said this, he must have had an idea. Don't hide it. Just say it!" Qin Feng glanced at Quan Yun and smiled.

"I actually have some ideas." Quan Yun said: "Your Majesty, instead of putting them in prison for free and the country still needs to support them, it is better to send them out."

"Dispatch it? Where to send it? What do you mean is to drive them out of the capital and to other places to harm the people?" Qin Feng smiled: "Sincere assistant, this is a treatment of symptoms but not the root cause. You are out of sight, but the people in other places will suffer."

"No, no!" Quan Yun shook his head repeatedly, "Of course not. Your Majesty, I think so. Places like Wuling, Taoyuan, and Yiyang are severely damaged by Qi people. The population has dropped sharply. A large number of strong men and rich families have been taken away by Qi people. Now a large number of fields are abandoned and no one has cultivated. Although Your Majesty has given a large number of fields to soldiers with military merits and organized military families to immigrate, compared with the abandoned land in these three counties, it is still a drop in the bucket. Therefore, I want to organize these illegal people to settle down."

"Cultivation?" Qin Feng raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, select the guys who are not the most sinful among those guys, organize them into a settlement group, and use military law to restrict them to them, and send them to Yiyang, Wuling, Taoyuan and other places to organize settlements and reclaim land. In this way, they can evacuate the prison and allow these guys who listen to the rice in the prison to create value, which can be regarded as atonement for the crimes they have committed!"

"Can local officials accept it?" Qin Feng smiled.

"Of course they can accept it." Quan Yun said with a smile: "They are so happy. When these people go to settle down, the value they create belongs to the local area, and these people just want to make them eat and wear warmth. Wherever they go, can they find such good things? Moreover, there are a large number of troops in these three places. Wherever these people go, if they are not honest, there will always be troops teaching them how to be human!"

"Everyone has a good plan!" Qin Feng laughed: "Since that's the case, the chief apprentice will do it. Let these people work hard and let them know that it is not easy to work! However, the pressure is still not enough, so we should give these people hope. According to their sentence, if they are well renovated in the reclamation group, they can obtain the cultivated land they have reclaimed during the reclamation period after their sentences. Of course, these reclamation lands are not allowed to be bought or sold for at least ten years. Perhaps with land, these people will be more honest in the future."

"Your Majesty is wise. In this way, the implementation of this settlement strategy will be smoother." Quan Yun was overjoyed.

"This strategy is first tested in Yuejing City, Kunwu, Nanyang and other places. The first phase of the reclamation team will be placed in Taoyuan, which borders Qi. The reclamation team must be protected by the army, so that they will be more honest. If it works, it will be promoted to various places. In the future, any criminals can be handled according to this."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, if this happens, the world's punishment will be in short supply, and this is the rule of prosperity." Quan Yun flattered.
Chapter completed!