Princess of the auxiliary country

The next day, there were still snowflakes in the sky, and the originally dry and yellow world was covered in white overnight.

Huo Junyao still followed her usual schedule. After getting up and washing up, she went to check on the situation in the greenhouse.

As soon as he left the room, he saw Wangxia and Hongxiu directing people to clear the snow on the roof of the greenhouse.

"Miss, it's been snowing all night. In the middle of the night, a lot of snow accumulated on the roof of the greenhouse. Wang Xia and his people would clean it up every once in a while, for fear that the snow would crush the greenhouse."

Listening to Xiaochan's words, Huo Junyao looked at both sides of the greenhouse, and sure enough, there was a lot of snow from the roof of the greenhouse.

The cloth shoes on the feet of Wangxia, Hongxiu and other servants were soaked by the snow, and their skirts were also quite wet.

"Everyone has worked hard, please stop for a moment and come to me."

Everyone stopped what they were doing and gathered around under the leadership of Wangxia and Hongxiu.

Seeing them like this, Huo Junyao felt a little moved. What a good person. They could do these things spontaneously without even telling her, especially since Wang Xia started doing it in the middle of the night.

"It's cold."

Her voice was gentle, and although she didn't say anything caring, Wang Xia and the other servants could feel that the young lady was feeling distressed.

"It was a bit cold at first, but it stopped being cold after the activities started."

As soon as Wangxia opened his mouth, the people behind him also smiled and nodded.

"Nonsense, your shoes and skirt are soaked."

"In this case, you all go back to find a pair of dry shoes and a dress. Miss will take everyone to take a warm bath together today."

There are seven or eight hot spring rooms at the back of her yard, and the two at the bottom are the largest. Although the water temperature is a little lower than above, it is still quite good.

"Miss, this is against the rules."

Only she and Xiaochan had soaked in the warm soup and red sleeves when they were with their own lady. It was already considered a gift.

Now that there were so many people, she was still a little worried that if Her Royal Highness the eldest princess knew about it, she would blame the young lady.

"The Hot Spring Villa belongs to your princess, and what she says are the rules. You can do whatever you are told."

Princess Ningyang also came at some point. When she heard Hong Xiu's words, she had no idea what Hong Xiu meant.

I feel a little dissatisfied. Why, am I such a mean person?
"I heard it all. Go back and find a change of clothes. Mo is catching a cold. The lady will have to count on you for help later."

Everyone then quickly thanked him and left.

Not long after, a group of more than 20 people followed Huo Junyao to the hot spring room at the back.

She first tried the hot spring pool in the bottom room, and felt that the water temperature was a bit too low.

This hot spring room is divided into four floors with a total of eight rooms. It is a triangular distribution with a narrow top and a wide bottom.

There is only one room on the top floor, and the water temperature is the most comfortable. It is a place where only the master is qualified to go. The few times Huo Junyao went there were all on the top floor.

There are two rooms on the lower floor, and the water temperature is quite good, but the pool is not very big, and each pool can only accommodate three or five people.

On the next floor, there are three houses. Although the water temperature is a few degrees lower, it is not bad, and the pool is large enough. One pool can accommodate eight or nine people, and there is still room for it.

As for the last floor, the floor where she had just tested the water temperature, there were only two rooms, but they were relatively large, and the pools were also big, just like those big bathhouses in the previous life. There were forty or fifty people in those two pools. All can be used.

But even if the water temperature is a little low.

"Wangxia like this, Hongxiu, I'm happy for you three to be on the second floor, and everyone else is on the third floor." Following her instructions, all the servants bowed and thanked her.

They all come from poor families, and they are all girls who are not welcomed by their families. When they were young, they were afraid that if they boiled some hot water to wash themselves, they would be criticized for using more firewood. They have never enjoyed warm soup in their lives.

Not to mention, warm soup in the capital city can only be enjoyed by those rich and powerful nobles.

They were all extremely excited about the reward for the capable young lady today.

"Go ahead, don't worry, I'll give you half an hour, that should be enough, right?"

Half an hour is an hour, she thought, that should be enough.

Everyone nodded.

Huo Junyao only turned around after Hong Xiu, Wang Xia, Nanny Xi and others brought the servants up.

"Daughter, it's still snowing. Why don't we go to the Imperial Mansion today?"

Hearing this, Huo Junyao thought for a while, shook her head and said, "Let's see if the snow will stop for a while. Didn't my mother arrange all my five hundred households in the imperial village? I need someone to manage it. And The matter of allocating land.”

"And my daughter doesn't even know how much land there is in the imperial estate."

"This is not simple. You don't know that Mom knows about it. When you go into the house, Mom has already asked the kitchen to prepare breakfast. Let's talk while eating."

The mother-in-law returned to the house, and Xiaochan went to the kitchen to serve breakfast.

"Does Yaoyao know what Huangzhuang is?"

"know."

Huangzhuang, as the name suggests, is the royal manor outside. It is similar to those in the houses of nobles, gentry, and noble ministers. There are land and people, and everything produced is always supplied to the owner's family.

It's just that in comparison, there are more royal people. Of course, the royal family also owns more land. Otherwise, how can we say that the royal family is the largest landowner in a dynasty.

"When the Yu Dynasty was just founded, our royal family had more than [-] imperial palaces, each of which covered an area of ​​tens of thousands of acres, or even hundreds of thousands of acres."

"At that time, our Yu Dynasty had just experienced war. Many people in the world died during the war. At one time, there was a situation where the land was outnumbered and there was no one to breed."

The Yu Dynasty was founded 20 years ago and the Supreme Emperor reigned for 17 years.

It is now the third year of Zhaowu.

Before the founding of the Yu Dynasty, there was a war period that lasted for nearly ten years on this land.

According to the census conducted during the founding of the Yu Dynasty, when the Yu Dynasty was established, the country's population was two-thirds less than that of the previous dynasty. It is conceivable how many people died in those chaotic ten years.

Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that there are many people but few people in the land.

Later, when the Supreme Emperor came to power, he strongly encouraged the people to diversify their land, and maintained and reduced many taxes. In the previous dynasty, taxes were very high, and in the last years they were so high that the people could not survive. Otherwise, there would not have been uprisings in various places. .

In the Yu Dynasty, the first tax standard designated by the Supreme Emperor was to follow the thirty-one tax policy from the Kyushu Empire.

That is to say, one pound of thirty kilograms of grain will be handed over. This is the edict issued by the Supreme Emperor to ensure the people of the world. This is the absolute red line for the taxation of the Yu Dynasty.

This helped him quickly stabilize the people's hearts, and then he introduced a series of tax cuts. So far, the tax rate of the Yu Dynasty is 35 per tax.

In the tenth year when the Supreme Emperor worked hard to govern the Yu Dynasty, although there were still some wars, the people also gained a lot of stability, and the population development rate also soared.

The original young children have also grown up, and the situation of human race has been greatly alleviated.