Since the emperor spoke, Yang Fengfan led the team and took the people around to watch.

Even he was often surprised when it came to the development of Pingwan County.

He was also in the Hanlin area before, and he did not take the power of business seriously.

But facts have proved everything, and now it is time to repay political achievements!

"What is the current population of Pingwan County?" asked Emperor Jing.

"Report to Your Majesty, Pingwan County's population today is more than three times that of me since I took office, reaching a huge amount of 180,000."

Li Yansong and others looked at each other, no wonder they were so chaotic, it turned out that there were as many as 180,000 people in Pingwan County?

It is actually not difficult for many medium and large counties to reach such a population, but Pingwan County does not have such a level of strength from the regulations of the outer walls and past impressions.

Seventy or eighty thousand people are considered too many!

"Oh? Why is the population growth so rapidly?"

"Since I took office, I have implemented the policy of lenient business in accordance with the court's lenient business plan. As soon as many documents and procedures were cancelled, many merchants came to hear the news. Therefore, it is convenient to handle things and the road is smooth, so the workshop is set up here.

Finally, we recruited a lot of workers.”

"This has attracted many people to come and work."

"Later, more and more merchants came here, and they formed competition with each other, and their wages continued to rise, which attracted more people, and later all kinds of treatment became higher and higher."

"The craftsmen from other counties and townships around me, I heard that as long as I do from Si to Hai every day, I can rest for six days, and I can earn at least two taels a month. They all come to work, and they are still the same, and the population is still there.

Increase."

Fang Zheng nodded in praise, and the treatment was indeed good.

When you reach the hour of Hai, you can rest for one day for six days. This is a reporter-level treatment!

For ancient people, ninety-nine six was pure blessing! Where did you get the first six and one off in the past?

"Not only that, people also saw business opportunities and started selling some food on street stalls. These things seemed inconspicuous, and they were small in profits. But I personally inquired that the income of this mere stall can actually be achieved by a month.

It’s as high as five or six taels of silver, it’s really amazing!”

"But it's really tired, and there's almost no time to spare."

Five or six taels a month, that’s simply a little rich man hidden among the people!

Xu Wenshu was secretly shocked in the crowd. He was in charge of the Ministry of Revenue and naturally knew more about business.

But I think it is only possible to achieve such a harvest by relying on a large number of intensive population labor.

"Business is prevalent here, how did you solve the problem of officials exploiting merchants? This is a hidden danger in many other places." Xu Wenshu asked.

Yang Fengfan smiled slightly: "This part comes from the strict discipline of the yamen, and the other part depends on the Jinyiwei sent by Lord Fang."

"There is a Jinyiwei and ward station in Pingwan County, which is specialized in handling officials' secretly extortion of merchants. After several rounds of severe punishment, the past trend of light business and low businessmen was reduced a lot."

"And if the merchant has any grievances, he can report it directly to the Jinyiwei Station. After a long time, no one dares to touch this brow."

Xu Wenshu said in surprise: "How dare merchants report officials?"

"Of course, there is a public toilet near the Jinyiwei Station and there is a mailbox in the toilet. As long as someone sends an anonymous letter, there will be Jinyiwei to deal with it later."

Emperor Jing felt a little funny.

Anonymous letters are reported, and the mailbox is set up in the thatched cottage, so I don’t worry about anyone taking revenge.

"You set this set of Jinyiwei?" Emperor Jing asked Fang Zhengyi.

Fang Zhengyi nodded: "Yes, officials deceive the people, and the people have no means to counterattack. Their only tool is to use the law to defend their dignity. The Jinyiwei is the sword in His Majesty's hand, and naturally it is also a powerful tool to protect the law and discipline and protect the people. If the law and discipline are not

If you keep it, there is no way to talk about the rise of merchants."

"Secondly, I am afraid that the people are timid and afraid of trouble. Even if there is legal protection, I dare not uphold justice for myself. So I thought of this solution. It is impossible for someone to stare at someone in a few cottages every day and vote anonymous letters."

"After waiting for a long time, the people know that the law is in their hearts, and this method can be given up. I believe that in the future, the environment where everyone obeys and abides by the law can be implemented, and the people can openly protect their rights and interests."

Emperor Jing nodded in approval, feeling very satisfied.

Li Yansong and other old ministers were also slightly admired.

Fang Zhengyi is annoying, but he really has no choice but to do things!

Xu Wenshu asked, "Why didn't I see this in the capital?"

Fang Zhengyi bowed and said loudly: "Your Majesty is in the capital, and the emperor is at the feet of the emperor. The world is bright and bright. All the sins will be brought to justice. Isn't this a waste of time in the capital?!"

Xu Wenshu's old face collapsed and he felt deeply complaining.

I will ask you extra for a doggy life, just take a photo if you have the opportunity!

Li Yansong pondered: "But... Pingwan County is so crazy about absorbing the surrounding population, so it is probably a problem to abandon the fields?"

When the abandoned place was lifted, the atmosphere began to become a little calmer.

It is related to food plans. No matter how much money you have, this is the foundation of the country!

However, Yang Fengfan was not panicked at all and smiled and said, "What Mr. Li said is reasonable. Pingwan County absorbs the surrounding strong laborers, the elderly, sick and disabled, etc., and they stay at home. At first, the officials also had such concerns."

"But later it was discovered that when these people had money, they would actively buy livestock and send them home. In this way, the lack of labor has been quickly alleviated, and there was no way to talk about the abandonment of the fields. This ox is better than a person

Used too much."

"We just conquered the Jin Kingdom, and the pasture over there was feeding cattle for us... This is not a problem." Fang Zhengyi reminded in a low voice.

Everyone was extremely relieved, and it seemed that the most worrying situation did not exist, that would be great.

"You keep talking." Emperor Jing said.

Yang Fengfan said: "In addition to the prosperity of industry and commerce, Pingwan County's greatest achievement is education."

"In two years, 32 new schools have been added to Pingwan County."

Thirty-two? Everyone was shocked.

"How is this possible? This is all built with taxed silver?" someone said in a lost voice.

It would be too amazing to add more than 30 new schools in two years!

"Half is built by the county and the other is built by merchants."

"The merchants are still concerned about education?" Li Yansong didn't pay attention and pulled his beard down.

"Of course! Many people here come here with them. They are busy with work and have no intention of raising them. They are even more distracted by the work. When the county government learned about this situation, it began to take the lead in the merchants to convert to children to build schools."

"And some of these schools are prepared for the working people... In fact, many jobs need people who read and read, but this type of people is often extremely lacking, so they build university schools to teach literacy, and it can also be done.

Learn the ways of sages.”

"Now, many motivated people are willing to spend some money to study and learn calligraphy in the university during their rest, so as to increase their income in the future."

The ministers were in an uproar and fell into discussion.

"Incredible! Incredible!" Li Yansong murmured.

They have never heard of such achievements... The ideal that scholars are longing for is easily realized by merchants?

Yang Fengfan was already extremely proud. Suddenly, he saw Fang Zhengyi winking at him and suddenly remembered something.

Yes, the county has also arranged a school project specially designed for tailoring for His Majesty.

Now is the time to add icing on the cake!

Yang Fengfan held his fists: "Your Majesty! In order to deal with future changes, the county has invested in the construction of the largest school, which can accommodate 3,000 people! It has all the canteens, dormitories and libraries, from five to fifteen years old.

You can study in a school, the most important thing is that the tuition fee is extremely low, so you can try to make every student of the right age have books to read.”

"The place where this school was built was widely praised by the people in the city. Everyone is grateful for the kindness of the court. Everyone says that Your Majesty loves the people as much as his son and cares about the people very much, so he specially gave this school a very good name...

.”

The ministers were smiling happily, and Emperor Jing was overjoyed: "What's the name?"

"Enlong School!"
Chapter completed!