Hand over the jade seal first [Infrastructure]

Xiao Xuexing turned to look at Xiao Zirong and said, "I thought you were going to give it to me as a New Year's gift."

He didn't hide that Jinling had his people, and he had already heard about it.

Xiao Zirong stood up, bit him on the neck and said: "It's too difficult for you to keep secrets. Last time when I was in the water, I gave up the strength of the boss. Only the newcomers can surprise you. At that time, I wanted to catch up with you." You, just worry about it, now you are all mine, so you are lazy."

Xiao Zirong hugged Xiao Xuexing and spoke confidently, but Xiao Xuexing's heart rose when he heard the first sentence.

He always told himself that no one likes to be completely controlled, and he could somewhat restrain himself when facing his subordinates, but he couldn't restrain himself at all when it was about Xiao Zirong.

However, Xiao Zirong didn't seem to care about these things, he just told him that there would be no surprises in the future, and there would be no special gifts for the Chinese New Year, and he would give them away as soon as he came up with something interesting.

Xiao Xuexing hugged Xiao Zirong and said helplessly, "Let's pass it for a while."

Xiao Zirong was a little strange: "Isn't it quite stable recently?"

Xiao Xuexing's expression was indescribable: "Chaoshang has restarted the affairs of female officials."

Xiao Zirong was a little surprised: "Isn't it? It's been more than a year, and they are still discussing this matter? Is it over?"

Xiao Xuexing sneered as he led him out, "It's just them, they didn't discuss this matter before, but later they became jealous."

It's no secret that Jinling is currently engaged in construction, but even Xiao Xuexing is a little surprised by the progress of Jinling's construction, let alone others.

You must know that Jinling doesn't really have everything, and he has to spend money to buy a lot of raw materials from other places.

Those minerals around Jinling were directly driven to make a lot of money, and the local county magistrates were very happy.

Later, there was Xiao Zirong who wanted to spend a lot of money to build the road to the Nvguo. Of course, this road is still under construction, and it is estimated that it will not be completed in a short time.

According to Xiao Zirong's estimate, no matter what, it will take five years to make a foundation.

Such a huge project, King Jinling would do it as he said, if it wasn't for making money, where would he have the confidence?

For a while, their thoughts were different, but Jinling is now making money to drive the surrounding area. The surrounding area of ​​Jinling is only a big place, and the planning of the king of Jinling is very simple. It means that the construction period will last about 20 years.

It sounds like a long time, but in terms of national development, 20 years is really a snap of the fingers.

After 20 years, Jinling will probably reduce construction and start to develop the economy.

By that time, the surrounding benefits brought about by the construction of Jinling will be reduced or even eliminated.

But money still poured into Jinling continuously.

If this money is allocated by the imperial court, there will be many places where construction can be carried out.

Of course, even if they can do construction, they may not be able to do it, and it is likely to fall into the pocket of the aristocratic family, but it is precisely for the sake of their own pockets that they bring this matter up again and again.

In fact, they still have a hidden point, which is that they are worried that if this continues, Jinling will be more developed than Jiankang in the future. With so many powerful people in Jiankang, it turns out that they are not as good as Jinling's group of brats. Where do they put their face?

Xiao Zirong was very clear about what these people were thinking, immediately rolled his eyes and said: "They are getting more and more unhappy."

Xiao Xuexing said: "The more people there are, the easier it will be."

Every time this matter is brought up again, it is at the Dachao meeting. This proves that many people are really greedy for money but do not want to really give in. If they really make up their minds, they will discuss a charter at the Xiaochao meeting. It’s enough to issue a decree, but wouldn’t it make people noisy if it was put in the court meeting?

Xiao Zirong was leisurely: "Let them quarrel, and if we quarrel a little longer, I can make more money."

Xiao Xuexing smiled lightly: "It's early."

Xiao Zirong couldn't help complaining and said: "In this case, what's the matter with them tying you here?"

Xiao Xuexing sighed: "Anyway, it's a big deal."

Xiao Zirong asked without saying a word, "How long will this fight be?"

Xiao Xuexing pinched his fingers and said: "There will be a result within half a month."

Half a month, that's worth the wait.

It's just that Xiao Xuexing changed his words the next day: "The result may be out within three days."

Xiao Zirong was a little surprised: "What?"

Xiao Xuexing said uncertainly: "This time it's my judgment, I'm not sure if it's accurate."

In fact, Xiao Xuexing's judgment was never inaccurate, and the result came out two days later: the court agreed to set up a women's department to manage these matters.

Xiao Zirong was a little surprised: "I thought it was going to die without a problem this time, are they enlightened?"

Xiao Xuexing said: "It's about the population, if they delay it, something will happen."

While talking, he gave Xiao Zirong a document and said, "I guess you haven't looked at the population structure of Jinling recently, so take a look at this."

Xiao Zirong was a little guilty. He has been busy building a boat recently, and he has only made some progress so far. He can sail far away, but his ability to withstand wind and waves is still very low.

Everything in Jinling is developing smoothly, so of course he can't pay too much attention to it.

Xiao Zirong picked up the document and took a serious look at it, and then found one of the most important things - most of the newly increased population in Jinling are young ladies.

Combined with those petitions to buy a house, he felt as if he understood something.

He said why so many people suddenly want to buy a house. Many people have houses in their hometowns, and many of them are ancestral properties. Ordinary people rarely sell their ancestral properties to buy houses. People actually don't have this ability.

Therefore, most of those petitioners are young ladies. Anyway, the house in their hometown has nothing to do with them, and they just wait to get married when they go home, and then they will work hard for a lifetime.

Of course, they are not singles, they still have to marry when they get married, but the atmosphere of Jinling is open, they can find a job, and they have enough confidence if they have money, and even the house bought before marriage will be protected by the imperial court.

There is no such thing as a loan these days, and there is no such thing as a down payment on a house before marriage and a dispute over joint loan repayment after marriage.

Therefore, many young ladies who are not doing well but are still determined are willing to come to Jinling even if they are far away.

Xiao Zirong hurriedly asked Chai Shuren to bring the Huang Lin book, and after a careful look, he found that the ratio of males to females was infinitely close to one to one.

This is basically unimaginable in this era. Even if so many methods are used in later generations to ensure the birth of baby girls, the ratio of male to female has always been unattractive.

Now in Jinling, as long as the families are not too poor, they are not likely to prey on baby girls. As long as they can afford to raise them, it is still a labor force to raise them.

Coupled with the attraction of women from other places, this made the gender ratio of Jinling tend to be balanced.

And these little ladies who go to Jinling are generally not too young, and those who are too young seldom have their own ideas, so folk marriages abound, which attracts more labor——Jinling can make money and pay more money. Can marry a wife.

If the focus of everyone's discussion before was whether to get female officials to earn this money, everyone was still calm at that time, and Qi State was not so short of money. Although there will be some crises in the future, there is no need to worry now, and you can discuss it slowly.

But the issue of population is much more important than money. When some people would rather not use Luyin than official status and go to Jinling as refugees, no one can sit still.

It is impossible to drive people away in Jinling. Recruiting refugees has always been a national policy. At first, refugees will be punished. Later, with the war and the turmoil in the court, after the population has decreased, it is used for refugees to actively register. Encouraging attitude.

If these people lead the way, they can still ask the king of Jinling to send them back, but if they are refugees, Jinling will be happy to give them an identity, okay?

Previously, this wave of "refugees" only affected the surrounding area, and later even the east was affected. The caravan of King Jinling spread a lot of rumors along the way. Everyone yearned for Jinling, and some simply followed the caravan gone!

Now everyone can't figure it out, but it's just the issue of establishing diplomatic relations with the women's country, how can it have such a big impact?The size of the population is related to the promotion of officials.

In the past two years, three of the county magistrates under King Jinling have been promoted to county guards, and Xie Junsheng has been promoted from the original Jingkou county magistrate to the household secretary of Jinling Kingdom.

These people are naturally grateful to King Jinling, and they will write to King Jinling when they encounter any difficulties. Although they are not their own subordinates, King Jinling usually helps if they can.

Sometimes Xiao Zirong just gave a casual order, and maybe he could help others through a big difficulty.

Now there are at least three county guards who are completely devoted to the King of Jinling. It is estimated that someone will be promoted this year. In addition, the King of Jinling under the regent's command is also quite caring, and he is also very convinced. Qi is the confidant of King Jinling.

If this continues, who owns the world?

What's even more exasperating is that neither the emperor nor the Bashan King seem to care too much, especially the Bashan King, who is really worrying. Bashan King is already in his 30s, and he has two sons. Even if he is not a talented person, he is not bad, no matter how you look at it, he is enough to establish a prince, but the emperor does not speak, so he is not in a hurry!

He didn't worry about others and had nothing to do, so he finally had to create a women's department to deal with women's country.

But even so, these officials of the women's department have been in the women's department all their lives, and they can only be promoted internally. The officials of the women's department can only be the chief steward if they are top-notch, and it is impossible to enter the formal promotion system.

Xiao Zirong has no opinion on this matter. Being able to let women participate in the normal production system is already a collision with tradition, and it is impossible to directly let them come up and occupy a high position.

What happens next can only be up to these little ladies, that's all Xiao Zirong can do for them.

However, he originally thought that this matter would end here, but he received another letter from the eldest princess, and the words of the eldest princess in the letter were rare and intense.

After watching it, Xiao Zirong rolled up his sleeves and went to the court meeting to prepare for a quarrel.