Allure of a Country Maiden

After hearing this, Jingrui didn't hide anything and directly stated his plans before coming.

Shangguan Xuanyi nodded from time to time after hearing this.

There is a lot of rain in the south and the flood season is long, and Jingrui catches it just in time, so building water conservancy dams is a must.

After all, it is just an earthen dam. If it is broken by the river, it will not be the people and crops that suffer.

With the advent of concrete, earth dams are destined to be gradually replaced.

The construction of concrete embankments is a major event. First of all, it is a technical issue how the embankments can withstand the power of powerful floods.

However, Jingrui has studied with Xiaoer for so many years, and Xiaoer has also taught him a lot about construction engineering and construction mechanics. There is absolutely no problem with a dam, and it is reinforced on the basis of the existing dam.

In fact, the basic construction of a place is all about building roads, bridges, and water conservancy. The last priority is to develop the economy and bring a peaceful and contented life to the people.

These are the things that every new official will strive to do when he takes office.

Although the direction is the same, everyone's methods are different.

How to develop the economy and allow people to live and work in peace and contentment is the top priority of a prefect.

Jingrui said several ways to help people get rich, one of which was highly praised by Shangguan Xuanyi.

In the Minze Dynasty, sugar was produced from beets in the north and sugar cane in the south.

For some unknown reason, there are fewer sugar workshops in the south, and it is made from sugar cane. There are only ancient brown sugar and granulated sugar, and sugar in the south is twice as expensive as in the north.

Jingrui thought that the south was suitable for growing sugar cane, so he planned to let the people grow more sugar cane. He planned to find a place nearby to build a sugar cane workshop and a paper making workshop.

The sugar cane grown by the people was harvested directly and sent to workshops to squeeze juice and boil sugar.

The remaining bagasse is sent to papermaking workshops to be made into paper.

"This is a good idea. The factory is built near the place where sugar cane is grown, which saves a lot of freight and ensures the freshness of the raw materials. The paper factory is built near the sugar factory, so it can make full use of the bagasse." Shangguan Xuanyi listened. nodded.

Planting sugar cane can increase income for farmers, open workshops, and provide employment opportunities for people who have no land. If people can earn money, their lives will gradually get better.

As for the sugar produced, Jingrui is not worried about selling it. First of all, his family has supermarkets in all major states and counties across the country. Secondly, it can also be sold overseas, which happens to be close to Haikou.

"Since we want to open a workshop, we will make more varieties of sugar. We can make granulated sugar, rock sugar, brown sugar, cube sugar, red granulated sugar, born sugar, brown sugar, etc."

"There are so many kinds of sugar?" Shangguan Xuanyi looked at Xiaoer, confused.

Jingrui looked at Xiaoer with admiration in his eyes: he knew that Xiaoer would have a better proposal when he proposed it.

"Of course!" Xiaoer was a little excited. Sugar is a necessity in life. Although it is not expensive, it is definitely a volume-based business. She is not worried that no one will buy it. She is very interested in this business.

"Brother, I'll open this workshop, and you'll be part of it!"

"You can do it if you want. You don't have to count me in. I'm actually too busy." After hearing this, Jingrui immediately found an excuse to refuse. He couldn't take advantage of his sister for nothing!

"After all, my time here is short. I have to rely on my eldest brother to help me look after this workshop. Don't refuse. Do you have any other ideas?" Xiaoer did not allow Jingrui to refuse and decisively changed the subject.

"I once heard you say that if the imperial court could nationalize the land and then allocate it to each household, this would not only better mobilize the people's enthusiasm for production, but also solve the people's food and clothing problem more quickly. I think The policy of allocating farmland to each household can be tried out in Shenyang County."

The previous magistrate of Shenyang County was incompetent and was faked. The fake magistrate did all kinds of evil and stole the land of many landlords, and even had their families confiscated and exterminated. For this reason, many fields in Shenyang County are now ownerless. Everything was in the hands of the imperial court, which could take advantage of this opportunity to try out the distribution of farmland to each household.

After hearing this, Shangguan Xuanyi pondered for a moment and then said: "I have thought about this. It is impossible to implement it all over the country, but the current situation in Shenyang County is special, so we can really try this."

The current national situation is that most of the fields are in the hands of a small number of wealthy people. This is a typical form of enclosure.

It is considered good for ordinary people to have one or two acres of land at home. Many people live by renting land from landlords.

In the past, food production was low. Even if people had one or two acres of farmland at home, it was not enough to feed the family.

It is also necessary to rent the land from the landlord to live.

But now that food production has increased, people who have fields at home, even if there are six or seven people in the family, even if it is only one or two acres, they don’t have to worry about starving to death.

Those with a few acres of fields have more food than they can eat all. They can sell a lot of food every year, and they can even use the food to feed poultry and earn some money by selling more poultry.

"How does the eldest brother plan to divide it?" Xiaoer did mention it, but she knew at the time that this method was not feasible here, but she didn't expect that she just mentioned it casually, and both of them became concerned about it.

"Let's divide it according to the number of people in the family. Each person has two pieces of land."

"That's right! Two points for each person, that's enough. What do the Second Emperors think of this?" Shangguan Xuanyi nodded after listening to Jingrui's words.

"I have already mentioned this matter to King Xian, and he agreed. If I think it is feasible, I will go ahead and do it." After listening to Shangguan Xuanyi's words, Jingrui couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth. What ideas does King Xian have? Before departure, he came to the door and directly asked me to take care of Shenyang County. I wished I could take care of everything.

But for the prefect, he actually wanted to be the magistrate of Shenyang County, a place riddled with holes that was more challenging.

Because of this, even if King Xian asked him to help advise Zhenyang County, he would not agree.

Seeing Jingrui's expression, Xiaoer guessed that Shangguan Xuanhao wanted to be the shopkeeper.

That man had little interest in anything except medicinal herbs. As early as when he had a fiefdom, he asked himself to help the people in his fiefdom find a way to get rich.

Then she proposed planting unicorn fruits. After hearing this, he only said one word: "Okay."

Then there was nothing further, and no one was sent to investigate the actual situation of the fiefdom. Otherwise, if he had paid more attention to such a big thing in Zhenyang County, how could he have discovered it only after they arrived!

Anyway, Shangguan Xuanhao was not interested in anything other than the word "medicine". He would only speculate if he could.

Xiaoer is used to this.

The emperor also hates this son with hatred!

Shangguan Xuanyi also had no choice but to deal with this imperial brother: "Since he has no objection, then you can go ahead and pay the test."

"Yes." Jingrui nodded.

Today’s update is a bit late, good night my cuties~