She is different from the empress in the history books

Chapter 31 Resentment
"Dad, don't you think it's bad? I think that since the Princess Mansion has a stable livelihood, it won't exploit the people too much."

Zhou Xu has his own opinion.

Zhou Keping shook his head:
"That's not what you said. What do you use to make wine? Use grain. Our Chengyang County, and even the entire Taizhou, don't have a lot of land. If the Princess Mansion wants to make wine as a business, it must consume a lot of food. Not good."

"However, in the taxes His Highness receives every year, there is already a large amount of food, and you can't eat that much at all. You can earn more by selling food and wine."

Zhou Rui, who was listening to the argument between his father and brother, also nodded. Anyway, they are all those grains, and they can be sold at a high price in a different form. Isn't that good?
Zhou Leping sighed, thinking that Princess Chengyang probably had a similar idea. She had a lot of food, so she had to sell it out if she couldn't eat, and the price of food was not high, so she might as well sell wine.

But how can things be so simple?

The Princess Mansion sells a large amount of food, and the price of food in Chengyang County can be maintained at a low price, so that more people can afford to eat.

But the Princess Mansion does not sell food, and even buys food, and the price of food will rise.

Years with good weather are good, but once there is a natural disaster and the shortage of food in Chengyang County, it will inevitably cause serious consequences.

Therefore, Zhou Keping decided to talk to Pei Peng even though it was annoying.

What about changing jobs?He is willing to make certain concessions elsewhere.

Now that Zhou Keping has decided to go, he will not back down.

And this matter is indeed very urgent. Once Pei Peng opens the stall, he will persuade him, and then he will really become enemies.

"Affect food prices?"

Pei Peng was surprised, not because Zhou Keping came to stop her, but because he could see this and came to her without fear of power.

Zhou Keping thought it over, and carefully said to Pei Peng what he said to his son, but the wording was much more respectful.

Pei Peng showed appreciation.

She has seen many people talk about government affairs in a boastful way, and she has also seen many people who are disappointed with those in power, only blindly admiring the benevolent government of the past, saying "love the people like children" but saying "the people can carry a boat".

Pei Peng had admired these people when he was young, and once arranged official positions for them, hoping that they could truly cultivate their political ambitions in the fields and in the court.

However, only very, very few people can do it.

More people take this as an insult.

They don't care about Aduwu, how the fields are cultivated, how the people are educated, and they care more about whether they can sit down with the princes in the court and discuss the doctrine.

Little did he know that this Tao was also going to come out.

Zhou Keping finally finished his speech.

He looked at Pei Peng and saw that she was not displeased, and even smiled. He knew that maybe this matter would get the result he wanted.

He stood up irresistibly and saluted:

"Your Highness, I know that this matter is difficult for a strong man, but please still ask Your Highness"

Pei Peng got up quickly and helped Zhou Keping up with both hands, preventing him from making further pleas.

He also led him to look at the map hanging behind him, which showed the entire Taizhou.

Logically speaking, such a map could only be obtained by the emperor and local officials.

But the first emperor gave her this map when he granted Pei Peng the city of food for the last time.

So, from that time on, she was ready to come to Taizhou.

Just didn't expect it to be so fast.

Zhou Keping has been a county magistrate in Taizhou for so many years, and he has never seen a complete map.

But at this time, his focus was not on this. Instead, he was wondering why Pei Peng took him to see this.

Pei Peng gently traced the lines on it with his hands.

Here is Chengyang County, Shang County and Kangyi County to the east, Chongde County and Qingfeng County to the south, and Ninghe County, Ren County and Zhouxiang County to the west.

These are all her food places.

She turned to Zhou Keping and said:

"When I was in the middle of the capital, every year when the disasters continued and the fields were not abundant, the princes of the imperial court would always discuss the matter of restricting wine production. At that time, I was just a princess, and I just obeyed the imperial court's arrangements.

Now that I have come to Taizhou, eight counties are my food towns. I am supported by the people, so naturally I have to return the people to live and work in peace and contentment.

The reason why I want to find more property is because I have too many things I want to do, and these things cannot all depend on taxes.

Therefore, I will not raise the price of grain in Chengyang County or even other places for the sake of temporary benefits. This is putting the cart before the horse. "

Zhou Keping understood, but still had doubts:

"Your Highness is going to buy food from other places?"

Pei Peng smiled and thought to himself that the county magistrate was probably not very good at running a business this week, otherwise he wouldn't have asked such a question.

She pointed to several places on the map that marked the mountains and explained:
"Taizhou is mountainous, but it has not been used much. It is mostly used as barren hills for hunters to hunt some prey, or for medicine farmers to pick some herbs.

In fact, it is not easy to farm on the mountain, but it is suitable for planting fruit trees.Therefore, what I am going to let people try to brew is fruit wine. "

Zhou Keping suddenly realized, felt relieved, chatted with Pei Peng for a few more words, and then decided to leave.

Pei Peng didn't try to persuade him to stay. Xu Qing went out today and the wife of the Zhou family was not here either. It was not appropriate for her to invite Zhou Keping to a banquet.

Pei Peng found a detailed annotation of "The Book of Songs" and a detailed annotation of "The Analects of Confucius" from the study room. These are annotations made by Xu Shu when she was studying with Mr. Wu when she was a child, and they were placed here with Pei Peng.

Occasionally, she would look through it. After all, when it comes to the basics, she is not as solid as her daughter.

But she can't use it now, so after thinking about it, she handed it to Zhou Keping:

"I heard that the two sons of Zhou County Magistrate's family are studying these two books, so I can use them as a reference."

Zhou Keping didn't refuse either, and took his leave after taking it.

Since that day, Cheng Fei's winemaking plan has been on the right track.

There is no resistance from the outside, although the interior needs to be adjusted, but Cheng Fei has solved the service of the craftsmen, which can be regarded as a preliminary proof of his ability, and can arrange the craftsmen to do things according to their own requirements.

As for the servants who were sent over, they were well-behaved, knowing that Cheng Fei had something to say to Pei Peng, let alone offend her.

Pei Peng didn't pay too much attention to this matter, Cheng Fei laid the foundation, if she can't do it, then come back obediently and be a "counselor" who provides omens, if she can do it, then there will be more possibilities For Pei Peng, there is nothing wrong with the field of development.

Contrary to Cheng Fei, Xu Shu and the others encouraged farmers to open up wasteland, but the progress was not smooth.

At first, Xu Shu and the others did as Pei Peng said. They changed into light and simple clothes and went to Xiaoli Village. They asked the village chief Lizheng for his opinion, and also asked the villagers what they thought.

According to the news they inquired about, those families in Xiaoli Village who had converted from tenant farmers to farmers did not have an easy life.

There are not many acres of fields, and there are no farm tools.

What about savings?It is said that when the Feng family was tenant farmers, all they could get was enough food to eat seventy percent of their fill, which was the roughest kind, so they had no savings.

Even the house, the house located in Feng's farm, naturally cannot be given to them, even though it is just an earthen house.

After they became ordinary peasant households, they had no house to live in, so they had to help each other temporarily to build a house with thatch.

That means the weather has gotten warmer these few months, otherwise...

Therefore, these farmers did not feel much joy in regaining their freedom, but instead felt quite resentful.

Therefore,
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