"Your Majesty, on the order of the regent Zhuolun, we have sent 5,000 fat sheep, 10,000 animal skins, 3,000 horses, and 4,000 kilograms of melons and fruits." Huo Ayi said, pointing to the carts of supplies.
"Thank you very much!" Liu Mo said excitedly, "Uncle, how is your injury? And Ayina, is she okay?"
"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. My subordinate has recovered a long time ago. Ayina is fine. I just miss you, Your Majesty!" Huo Ayi said.
"When I finish my work, I will definitely go to Xingluo to see you all!" Liu Mo promised him.
"The people of Xingluo are looking forward to it very much!" Huo Ayi said, "I wonder if the king has anything that requires me to wait?"
"Haha, don't tell me, it's true!" Liu Mo laughed, "I wonder if you can help us cut down trees and build houses?"
"This is acceptable…"
Liu Mo immediately took Huo Ayi to the south of "Xinrong City".
It was very busy here, with countless bonfires raising smoke pillars like fingers towards the pale sky. They built thousands of wooden huts and overused fur tents on the edge of the city walls.
Hundreds of thousands of people have joined the logging army. It is no exaggeration to say that all the trees within dozens of miles of Rongcheng have been cut down.
The southwest gate of Rongcheng is now a factory for firing green bricks. God is also very kind. There is a lot of clay near Rongcheng, which is enough for Liu Mo to build a big city.
When Hoa Yi came, it was time for lunch break, a big canteen, a big pot of rice, and an outcropping restaurant. Hundreds of thousands of people packed, ate, and took lunch breaks in an orderly manner. Huo Ayi was stunned.
"Your Majesty, how did you do it, bringing so many people..."
"Twin them into a rope and work, right?" Liu Mo said while biting the dry food. "After violent suppression, give some benefits."
The current situation is very special. Daxia is in a "state of division." Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces were governed by Liu Mo, and the Sixth Prince had great trust in him. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Liu Mo was made a vassal king with a different surname.
Either be obedient or get out of Rongcheng and starve to death irresponsibly.
In times of famine, if you have enough food to eat, you can accept an 18-year-old girl marrying an 80-year-old man. How can you still complain about doing some work?
Huo Ayi saw it in his eyes and was extremely impressed.
While they were chatting happily, one of their men suddenly came to report: "Your Majesty the Governor, Madam... she's given birth!"
Liu Mo said sorry and ran home excitedly.
In early June, Governor Liu gave birth to a daughter, the third child.
As for the name, he had already thought of it, the whole generation. Sons are born with the character Yuan, and daughters are born with the character Si. The youngest daughter’s name is Liu Siying.
"Hey, it's a pity that when you were born, you were extremely busy as a father." Liu Mo sighed.
After solving the temporary housing problem, he had to make plans for the coming year and the future.
Food is the most important thing for the people, and eating is the most urgent problem to solve.
In the cold weapon era, there was no other way except farming and raising pigs.
Just encouraging farmers to farm and focusing on agriculture and suppressing business will not yield results in the short term.
At the same time, land policy in feudal society: private ownership of land has great disadvantages.
Feudal lords owned land and managed the peasants and slaves in their fiefdoms. They could also keep their own trusted retainers. The free people in the fiefdom developed and farmed by themselves, and the feudal lords could also collect land rent from them in their own territories.
Such a system will eventually lead to land annexations that are difficult to contain.
Land annexation means that land is increasingly concentrated in the hands of big landlords and bureaucrats, while farmers are increasingly losing their land, or even having no land at all. Land annexation is a stubborn disease of centralized power in feudal society that is difficult to cure.
In order to own more land, large landowners use all kinds of despicable means. Especially in disaster years, landlords resort to plunder and force farmers who own land to sell their land and properties and become tenant farmers.
Liu Mo, who now holds great power and has been influenced by modern knowledge, will naturally not let such a situation occur.
So an order was issued that the land was state-owned.
All common people are allocated free land for farming based on their head count, and only need to pay a certain percentage of public grain every year. Not only that, every year’s rice seeds are distributed uniformly by the government.
No one is allowed to trade land in any way. Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed!
This system only applies to the original people of Rongcheng.
What about all the victims and immigrants?
It's very simple. Apply for a temporary residence permit according to the earth's system.
Aren’t the fields owned by the public? All “Xinrong City residents” have the same accommodation, work and farming, and participate in sign-in training.
A "good citizen" who has lived here for three years and has no absences from work, no crimes, and no bad records! Apply for official household registration!
Others who were lazy or had bad behavior were all driven out of Rongcheng and left to fend for themselves.
The system is confirmed, and the next step is the vigorous "Rongcheng Development Project"!
In order to speed up the progress and ensure a good harvest next year, Liu Mo even asked the Sixth Prince to mobilize troops from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Jiangyuan Town to devote themselves to the work of reclaiming the wasteland of Rongcheng.
Cattle and sheep bases, feed processing plants, orchards, grain planting bases, and tool production bases are all being constructed step by step.
Time flies and it’s July before we know it.
The rice in Daxia is harvested twice a year, and the rice planted in April yields a bumper harvest.
At the same time, Yang Yizhi was very interested in Liu Mo's new salt.
The business of exchanging salt for food was done perfectly, plus the food sent from Star Luo Kingdom.
Rongcheng's food ration problem this year, and even next year, has been completely solved.
After harvesting the early rice, Liu Mo immediately issued orders to mobilize the people of Rongcheng to plant late rice.
In order to inspire the people, whether it was harvesting or planting rice, Liu Mo set an example and joined in personally. He also gave instructions to all Rongcheng officials. For this reason, they would not be able to carry out farming tasks, so they would all be removed from office and would never be hired.
Under the leadership of Liu Mo, Rongcheng began to take shape.
The foundations of the new residential area have been laid, and the infrastructure of new fields and new commercial streets has also been completed.
The only fly in the ointment is Governor Liu's personal affairs.
Su Xiaowan married Liu Mo in November last year. Before returning to Rongcheng to serve as the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it can be said that she only drove a car once, so her chances of winning were not high.
But after returning from the Star Luo War at the end of April, Lin Shiqi wanted to take care of Su Xiaowan and let her have a child. For the past few months, Liu Mo had been driving behind closed doors in her room most of the time.
However, until the end of July, Su Xiaowan's stomach didn't move at all.
"Is Xiaowan in the same situation as Yuan'er?" Liu Mo couldn't help but worry.
After confirming that there was no such thing, Governor Liu's mood became even more complicated.
In ancient times, it was really troublesome for a woman to ask for a child.
What surprised and delighted Liu Mo even more was that Xin'er was pregnant with her second child.
Xin'er gave birth to her eldest daughter and has been taking care of the child. Liu Mo is also very busy on weekdays and rarely goes to her room.
Thinking about it carefully, I have never been "favored" by others from the beginning to the end. As compensation, Liu Mo stayed in her room for three or four days.
But in just three or four days, Xin'er was stunned to win again.
Such a strong "pregnant physique!" is beyond everyone's expectations!
