There were still many nobles in the Zhou Dynasty, but not every noble could make money from as many industries as Zhou Tong. Even Zhou Tong did not have these industries before.
If they want to have enough expenses, they must rely on the people in the fief. Only the more taxes these people pay, the more money they can get.
But at this time, Zhou Tong no longer needs to ask these people to pay taxes. After all, even if those farmers pay taxes, all they can pay is food. When a place's business develops, the tax revenue that these food can bring Compared with the interests in business, it is just a drop in the bucket.
Because of this, Zhao Feng directly exempted these people from grain taxes on their farmland, mainly in the form of commercial taxes, and also made some corresponding reductions in commercial taxes.
But this did not make the tax revenue here less, but instead increased the tax revenue here.
After all, Zhao Feng's policies are all about encouraging commercial activities. If those businessmen do business elsewhere, they will have to bear high taxes. But here, their taxes are not as high as in other places, so the businessmen are I would like to start my own business here.
In this way, although there are fewer individual families, there are more companies combined, and even the previous gap has been smoothed out.
When the people saw that there was no need to pay taxes for farming, they began to cultivate more land. At the same time, more and more people moved here spontaneously.
However, since there is not much arable land here, in order to survive, the people must earn money from the jobs provided by the businessmen.
Money is only called money when it circulates. The circulation of money promotes local commercial activities in another aspect and also increases business taxes.
A virtuous cycle has been formed here, which is the most important thing among Zhao Feng's policies.
After experiencing such changes, the number of people living in Zhoutong's fiefdom became more and more, and many people chose to settle here.
Zhao Feng therefore started his second step of reform. If the first step was to attract businessmen to come here to develop their own businesses, then the second step was to create some unique businesses here.
After all, more and more people are coming here. If we only rely on the previous businesses, there is no way to meet the needs of these people.
And the businesses in this era are indeed a bit disdainful to Zhao Feng.
Even the businesses of those big merchants cannot escape the scope of traditional manual operations. This method is not only inefficient, but is also affected by many factors.
What Zhao Feng wants to do is not only develop Zhou Tong's fiefdom, but also change this era. Nothing can change this era more than changes in basic industries.
Take Zhoutong's pork processing factory for example. No one ate pork before, but now pork has become a rare delicacy on the tables of thousands of households.
Soon, Zhao Feng waited for his opportunity.
"Husband, it seems that you are living well here!"
At this time, Zhao Feng was standing outside to greet him, and saw Shen Chuchu jumping off the carriage.
Zhao Feng nodded, walked over directly, and hugged Shen Chuchu.
Shen Chuchu's face was a little red, looking at Zhou Tong and others standing behind Zhao Feng, struggling slightly before breaking free from Zhao Feng's arms.
"Oh, my husband, there are so many people here, how embarrassing!"
Zhao Feng, however, couldn't restrain his joy.
"Your Highness the Princess is not an outsider, and we have been waiting for you for a long time. You are finally here!"
Zhou Tong also came over, and Shen Chuchu quickly saluted and said hello.
"The daughter of the people has met Her Royal Highness the Princess!"
Zhou Tong quickly stretched out his hand to help: "Oh, we don't have to be so indifferent to outsiders. Mr. Zhao is right, I am not an outsider."
"Mr. Zhao has helped me a lot during this period, and now you are here too."
"Let's go in and talk first!"
Shen Chuchu nodded slightly and followed Zhou Tong and Zhao Feng to the princess's manor.
When Zhao Feng came here, Zhou Tong's manor was still very dilapidated. Although there were so many empty shelves, the furniture and so on had already been pawned.
But now Zhou Tong also made a lot of money with the help of Zhao Feng, so he renovated his manor. Only a small part of the place used to grow vegetables was retained, and some were planted in the remaining place. Flowers and trees.
Seeing Zhou Tong's manor, Shen Chuchu's eyes showed a little envy.
"Your Highness, Zhuangzi, you are so beautiful!"
Zhou Tong smiled and said directly.
"You don't even know how miserable my manor was before. If you come here this time, stay here for a few more days, otherwise Mr. Zhao will have to guard the empty house alone again!"
Zhao Feng suddenly touched his nose in embarrassment. Although he did miss Shen Chuchu and Chen Rou, the reason for letting Shen Chuchu come over this time was not to accompany him.
Soon, Zhou Tong brought Zhao Feng and Shen Chuchu to the main hall. After they sat down, Zhao Feng turned to Shen Chuchu and said.
"I wrote to you before and asked you to call in some unskilled workers. Did you bring them this time?"
Shen Chuchu nodded vigorously.
"Don't worry, I brought 100 workers this time, which is enough."
"Before, I had to ask them to carry out some handovers of work. You didn't know that in order to get these workers, I was in short supply in our dyeing workshop."
After Shen Chuchu said this, she looked at Zhao Feng with some doubts.
"By the way, husband, what do you want me to do with these workers? Do you want me to move my business here?"
Zhao Feng smiled and nodded.
"Why not?"
Shen Chuchu was stunned for a moment, then thought for a moment.
"Recently, I heard from some businessmen in the capital that Her Royal Highness's fiefdom has many discounts for businessmen, so much so that many businessmen have moved their workshops here."
"But aren't we developing well in the capital? Why do we come here?"
Seeing Shen Chuchu's confused eyes, Zhao Feng smiled and waved his hand, and then pointed to the flowers in the vase.
"Don't refuse in a hurry. Let me explain to you slowly. What do you think this is?"
Shen Chuchu turned around and saw that the flower was white and fluffy. Shen Chuchu suddenly laughed.
"Husband, isn't this cotton? Many dignitaries regard cotton as an ornamental plant!"
Zhao Feng smiled and nodded. Before that, those people did only regard cotton as an ornamental plant, but cotton has more than that.
