She only wants to do infrastructure construction

"The policy you introduced isn't called a run, is it? You snatched away all our tenants!"

The Patriarch of the Mu Family couldn't help but raise his voice eight degrees higher.

Li Yewu was dumbfounded, did the Patriarch of the Mu family take pride in being favored because of the kindness she owed her?Look at this tantrum, it's all roaring.

After all, she is a nominal princess, right?

The Patriarch of the Mu family seemed to realize that he was out of control, he let himself take a deep breath, calm down, and then put on a wronged face: "Princess, your policy will really drive us to death! You can't do this! "

"It's really too small for everyone to say that. I'm not forcing you to death. I'm clearly creating opportunities for you!"

"What chance?" Everyone's eyes almost rolled to the sky.

"The nobles of the past no longer exist. You are the newly rising nobles in Taihe Prefecture. The most important thing for nobles is to build a good reputation. Now is your chance to show yourself!
Leaving aside the noble sentiment of "If you are poor, you will benefit yourself alone, if you are rich, you will benefit the world", at least let everyone realize the difference between you and the old aristocrats. "

"Is...is it necessary?" Everyone was speechless.

They are just merchants, merchants value profits, and making money is important.

But Li Yewu is talking about word of mouth and character with them...

They are not real nobles, who cares about these false names.

Moreover, what does her policy of poaching their people have anything to do with building their reputation?
Would it be impossible for them to take the house and farm together!
"You can't say that, you don't think about the present, you have to think about the future. Even if your son doesn't want to be an official, what about your grandson? What about your grandson's grandson? Don't any of your children and grandchildren consider becoming an official?"

"What... is there any necessary relationship?"

"Of course it has something to do with it. I believe that you all hope that future generations will become officials, but do you only rely on pens to become officials? As far as I know, children from highly respected families in the local area will be treated differently when they come to the Golden Luan Hall, right?

How did he become so respected?Isn't it just relying on the character accumulated bit by bit? "

"What does the concubine want to express by saying so much? Don't go around the bush, just say it."

The silent head of the Xu family sealed his throat with a sword, breaking Li Yewu's eloquence.

Li Yewu was not annoyed, and looked at them with a smile: "Actually, there is only one reason why you can't retain talents. You don't give enough. If you are anxious about what the people are anxious about, and what the people want to be at ease, they will naturally give up on you, and you They will also be promoted to the high altar by them, so why not do it."

The faces of the four Patriarchs twitched, and they understood what Li Yewu wanted to express by making such a circle.

"Wangfei wants us to follow your lead in giving away houses and fields? The princess is backed by the treasury, but we have nothing behind us. It's hard for others to do so."

"You are much richer than me. After all, you only received more than 100 million taels each not long ago, didn't you?"

"!"

Seeing that the veins of the four masters are full of veins, and their blood vessels may burst at any time, Li Yewu smiled and comforted them: "Oh, you can't take jokes anymore, I'm just joking, don't be angry.

How about this, for the sake of the deep friendship between you and the palace, I will give you a face and implement this double exemption policy in the whole state.

All farmers in Taihe Prefecture can be exempted from taxation and corvee for three years!

As for the land rent, after all, I can't get it from me. You can control it yourself, and it's up to you whether you can keep people or not.

I'm doing the best I can, right? "

Li Yewu's words really shocked the four of them. They didn't expect this girl to implement the double-sided policy throughout the prefecture. Wouldn't the yamen have nothing to gain in the past three years?

What about the annual tribute?Could it be that she paid for it all by herself?

Is this girl panicked by burning too much money or is she crazy?What good would it do her?Is this virtuous name really so important?

Everyone was puzzled.

Li Yewu smiled again: "You don't need to worry about this. In short, all I can do for you is here. If there is nothing else, I will leave first. After all, I still have a lot of work to do. , See you later."

Until Li Yewu disappeared, everyone still hadn't recovered from her promise to cut the mess with a sharp knife.

At the end, the Patriarch of the Liu family said with emotion: "This princess... is indeed quite virtuous."

"Returning virtue, hmph, you are still complacent when someone takes advantage of you."

The Patriarch of the Xu family is in a bad mood today. Usually, nothing can stop him from being an invisible person, but today he is extremely irritable.

The head of the Liu family looked confused: "When did I get taken advantage of? Did the princess do something I don't know about?"

The Patriarch of the Mu family scratched his head, also looking curious.

The wealthiest patriarch of Sifang thought for a while before he realized it, and couldn't help frowning: "Okay, this girl is really scheming, even I almost fell into her way!"

"???"

Patriarch Liu and Patriarch Mu were even more puzzled, what exactly did Li Yewu do?
Didn't she exempt the people of the entire state from paying taxes?
Right now, as long as everyone lowers the rent a bit, I believe the tenants will not leave. After all, Li Yewu's place is already full, so they can't go if they want to, can they?
Patriarch Xu replied angrily: "Li Yewu exempted farmers from taxes and corvees, but didn't say that merchants were exempted."

"!"

Now the two of them reacted.

Thanks to their sympathy for the yamen's lack of revenue in the past three years, Li Yewu had to pay in advance.

Those who dare to love others are exempted only by farmers, and merchants still have to pay.

Speaking of merchants, they also have to pay poll tax, and not only themselves, but also the servants in the yard, the workshop staff, etc., as long as the deed of sale is in their hands, they all have to pay taxes for others.

Of course, this is Da Chu's policy to prevent wealthy nobles from keeping a large number of slaves in captivity, so whenever it is time to pay taxes, it is the time when merchants bleed profusely.

Moreover, in addition to the poll tax, they had to pay additional exempt money if they did not perform corvee, and even [-]% of the land rent had to be surrendered.

All in all, although they oppressed the tenants, the yamen also oppressed them a lot.

Just now everyone didn't realize it, they only thought that Li Yewu exempted everyone from corvee, but after a long time, Li Yewu kept saying that she was benevolent to them, but in fact her double exemption policy was only beneficial to the tenants, not to them I didn't take advantage of any cheapness, and even had to lose a wave of rent!
But they didn't react right now, and it's too late to react now, that girl ran away, and there was nothing to say!

"This girl, dare to blatantly affect our interests! I really want to kill her!" Patriarch Mu couldn't help but pat the table.

"Indeed, Li Yewu has only been here for a month. If she is allowed to gain a firm foothold in Taihe Prefecture, our life will be even more difficult."

"What do you guys think..." Patriarch Liu had a bad feeling, with shock and panic in his eyes.