Emperor: When will the Seventh Prince rebel? I will open the city gates to welcome him.

"Another thing is to open all the granaries in the north so that they can have grain seeds. Only in this way can there be a virtuous cycle."

"Only in this way can we have a bumper harvest next year. Only in this way can our Zhenbei Palace have a steady supply of food to expand our military strength."

"If anyone dares to obstruct this process, then Minister of Justice Hou Youming, you will punish these people with a felony or even death!"

Zhenbei Wang Hongxuan has perfectly explained the problem of people and food.

In this era, the people are the vulnerable group.

All the officials prostrated themselves on the ground and shouted:

"The King of Zhenbei is a famous monarch throughout the ages, unprecedented and unrivalled!"

Zhenbei Wang Hongxuan smiled. Actually, he didn't do anything.

He just did some insignificant things, but for officials of that era, it was incredible.

It's incredible.

Hongxuan said to all the officials:

"Only when the people are rich can the country be strong! You need to open your minds and horizons, and stop thinking about exploiting the people, squeezing the people, and collecting heavy taxes from the people."

"If we really treat the people as slaves, then one day they will abandon us, and the country will soon be destroyed."

"In the land of Northern Yan, no official can collect excessive taxes from the people! Only 30% of the food grown by the people will be collected, and 70% of the food will belong to the people!"

The ministers in the hall were in an uproar again.

An official prostrated himself and said

"King of Zhenbei! You absolutely cannot do that! The tax revenue of Dafeng is 90% of the food produced by the common people! Now we only collect 30%, what food do we have left in the treasury? Although the food does not need to be handed over to the treasury but directly to the King of Zhenbei's government, we only collect 30% of the food produced by the common people, so what food do we have left?"

Zhenbei Wang Hongxuan sneered and said:

"That's because you exploited the people too harshly before. They have no motivation to produce. Do you know what motivation is? The people have to hand over 90% of the land they have worked so hard to grow, and keep only 10%. Who would have motivation?"

In Hongxuan's previous life, land could be bought and sold, but that was a fair society, not a feudal society at all.

But this society has too much power and too many officials who only treat the people as leeks to be harvested.

Hong Xuan said loudly:

"When the enthusiasm of the people for production is mobilized, in fact, 30% of our harvest is already very, very much. You will never imagine how much food this is, and it will be unbelievable!"

"Once this reform policy is implemented, basically all the fields will be cultivated by the people. The enthusiasm for production will be mobilized at that time, and it will be many times better than it is now."

"Now most of the land has fallen into the hands of the rich and powerful. They try every means to evade taxes and enrich themselves, just like rats, stealing the grain of Dafeng State.

"This kind of thing must not happen within this king's territory."

King Hongxuan of Zhenbei looked around at all the officials in the hall and once again set his sights on Minister Wang, the grain official.

"Minister Wang, can you now answer the question I just gave you?"

Wang Liangqing, the Minister of Food, bowed and said:

"Your Majesty, I understand. Only by allowing all the people of Beiyan to have access to land can we motivate them to be more motivated!"

"Let them have food to grow, then they are real grain officials. The original intention of the prince to establish grain officials was to ensure that the people have land to grow, not to oppress the people and collect exorbitant taxes!"

"Your Highness has collected all the farmland and unified its management in order to protect the people's good farmland. From now on, it will no longer be taken away by powerful nobles."

This is the best way to distribute land in this era.

If the land is to be reclaimed in the future.

Hongxuan did not intend to let the people open up the wasteland, but to form an army to open up the wasteland.

Moreover, the land to be reclaimed in the future will not be reclaimed on a small scale by a hammer here and there, but a vast area will be designated and reclaimed under unified management.

Of course, this question is a bit far-fetched.

"The three of you listen to my orders. Take 500 prison guards with you. If anyone is blind enough to stop us, let these 500 prison guards take him to prison. Hou Youming, you are responsible for this."

"Now you should quickly supervise and count all the fields and hand them over to the government for management!"

"Let those people who are not starving get the land as soon as possible. I mean, let them get the land as soon as possible."

The three men took the order and left.

"Everything is difficult at the beginning. Let's take the first step first. After that, the rest of the road will be wider and easier to walk on! Now you can go back."

Hongxuan only said a little at this court meeting; it would be useless to say more.

Talking too much is not only useless, but also makes it difficult to remember, so just talk about one problem until it is solved, and then move on to the next one.

After all the officials had left, Hongxuan summoned the Qilin Guards.

Now Hongxun has to do something very important, which is to look for iron ore in Beiyan.

The importance of iron ore is self-evident, it is too important.

If there is insufficient iron ore, the number of composite military crossbows it can produce will be extremely limited.

Not only that, but the lack of iron ore will also result in many equipments, although they can be imagined in the mind, but due to the lack of iron ore, they cannot be produced.

Because a lot of weapons require metals like iron.

Hongxuan gathered his men and horses:

This time, Hongxuan brought two teams, Qilin One and Qilin Nine, with a total of two hundred people!

"Qilin One, Qilin Nine, if I want to find iron ore, what method do you think can be used to find it the fastest?"

Qilin Yi responded respectfully, "Your Majesty! The land of Northern Yan is vast. If we search aimlessly, how long will it take to find it? Moreover, the war is tense now, and we absolutely cannot waste too much time looking for iron ore."

Qilin Jiu replied respectfully:

"Your Majesty Qilin Yi is right!"

Hong Xuan shook his head and said, "Of course I know and understand what you said!"

"I would like to ask you how to find it the fastest!"

At this time, a Qilin Guard in his team said:

"Your Majesty! I can offer you a suggestion!"

Hong Xuan looked at the members of Qilin One and said:

"Tell me quickly, so I can take a look and see if it's the same as what I think!"

The members of the Qilin clan said respectfully:

"Your Highness, the only way to untie the bell is to find the person who tied it. If we are looking for it aimlessly, we might as well go directly to the blacksmiths in the north."

"Blacksmiths need iron ore to forge things. They must know where the iron ore comes from. If we follow the clues, wouldn't it be twice the result with half the effort?"

Not only King Zhengbei's eyes lit up, but also the eyes of other Qilin Guards.

King Zhenbei looked at the Qilin Guard with some admiration.

"May I have your name!"

"Reporting to the king, my name is Wei Yufang!"

Hong Xuan nodded: "I will reward you with 500 taels of gold! You will be the captain of Qilin Team 1!"

Wei Yufang was overjoyed: "Thank you, King Zhenbei, for the reward!"