Chapter 3

"Your Highness has just recovered from a serious illness. You should rest in bed."

A rush of steps came. Xiao Ming saw an old man with a round head and big ears, wearing a blue round collar, trotting over and bowing in front of him.

This man is Qian Dafu, the housekeeper of the palace. In his palace, he is basically in charge of all the affairs.

Xiao Ming trusted Qian Dafu very much. Before he came to seal the land, Qian Dafu was the most trusted bodyguard of his mother, Princess Zhenfei. Princess Zhenfei sent him to Xiao Ming to have a servant who could help him.

"May as well." Xiao Ming waved his hand. "I'm going to Qingzhou City to have a look."

"This..." Qian Dafu hesitated for a moment, but he knew that the prince was always grumpy and didn't dare to disobey. He called his servants to prepare a carriage for Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming path to the main entrance of the palace, a slightly old carriage has been stopped at the door, carriage is very small, like a box.

Compared with the status of the king of Qi, such a shabby carriage is a bit out of place, but Xiao Ming knows that the financial resources of the palace can only be like this.

His current fiefdom has a total of six states under his jurisdiction, namely Qingzhou, where Dadu Dufu is located, Laizhou and Dengzhou on the peninsula in the East, Yizhou in the south, Cangzhou in the north and Yanzhou in the West.

The six states seem to have a lot of land, but in fact they are not big. The Shu land of the fifth Prince Xiao Quan governs 16 states. Relatively speaking, he belongs to the poor peasants.

Moreover, none of the six states is rich. According to the division of Shangzhou, Zhongzhou and xiazhou in the state of Dayu, only Qingzhou, where his royal residence is located, is regarded as shangzhongzhou, and other places are xiazhou.

There is a big difference between the upper, middle and lower levels, which is basically the same as the difference between the municipalities directly under the central government, prefecture level cities, counties and cities.

Cangzhou in the north, in particular, was visited by the barbarians on the grassland every year, and even some of the barbarian cavalry would go deep into the fiefdom. Three years ago, the barbarian cavalry plundered until they came to Dengzhou.

The feudal people were poor and weak, and they could not cultivate at ease, so the taxes could not be collected naturally. In addition, he had the army and officials of six states to support.

Although Xiao Ming used to be naughty, he also knew the situation of his fiefdom. If the princess didn't give him a little silver every year, he would have really drunk the wind from the West.

Out of the palace, the carriage moved slowly along the streets of Qingzhou City.

Xiao Ming lifted the curtain of the carriage and examined his fiefdom carefully

Qingzhou City is 20 Li from the north to the South and 20 Li from the east to the west, with a total of four gates. The city is divided into 36 districts. There are two markets on both sides of the city, namely the East market and the west market.

This block is similar to the structure of the present block, with a wall and some dwellings scattered inside, but each block is the same size, just like tofu blocks in a box.

"Here comes the king of Qi. Go, go."

The carriage passed a private square, and the three young men who were originally basking in the sun were scared and went back to the square.

Xiao Ming gave a bitter smile. These are the people who were bullied and afraid by Xiao Ming before.

But now he is not concerned about this, but their old clothes full of patches.

From the perspective of a modern man, the people he sees are basically the same as beggars.

When he got to Dongshi, Xiao Ming stopped the carriage and went back to the market.

When Qian Dafu saw him, he immediately followed him carefully and inspected his surroundings with vigilance.

The eastern and Western markets are similar to modern vegetable markets. Along the way, Xiao Ming saw few commodities in the Eastern market.

Basically, it's all wheat, soybeans, millet, pottery pots, cloth, bamboo baskets, which are very different from the various commodities in Chang'an city.

After a visit to the East market for a while, Xiao Ming went to the west market again. It's almost the same. Generally speaking, the people here are in dire need.

And this is the most prosperous Qingzhou City on his fiefdom.

After a whole morning, Xiao Ming basically walked around Qingzhou City. At noon, his stomach began to cry.

I had to go back to the palace for dinner.

"Your Highness, I specially prepared celery with vinegar and steamed bread with white flour for you."

After covering his stomach and starving for a long time, Xiao Ming finally waited for lunch. In my memory, this kind of food was good.

Just look at Qian Dafu rubbing his hands and rolling his Adam's apple to see how greedy he is.

This is the reality of his fiefdom. He is in serious shortage of living materials. It's not that he has no money, but that he can't buy it with money. To have enough food is happiness.

It's nothing to eat this kind of food once in a while, but it's fatal to eat it every day. In fact, although Xiao Ming is a prince, he is very arrogant, but his living standard is not as good as modern one.

Xiao Ming is hungry now. He usually eats boiled amaranth and spinach. He wants to eat fried vegetables. Sorry, he only has vegetables, but he can't buy oil.

Today, the vinegar celery is also rare, otherwise Qian Dafu would also take credit for it.

"Rare, rare." Xiao Ming pretends to be very happy and eats celery with vinegar and tears in his hands.

In modern times, he hated vinegar celery, but now it's a luxury.I thought it was a pleasure to cross over, but I didn't expect that the landlords had no surplus food.

In the next three days, Xiao Ming didn't have a spare time either. He went to the County near Qingzhou City for a walk. It was basically a mud embryo wall surrounded by several thatched cottages.

Not to mention the common people, there are plenty of people who can't eat enough. They can still eat steamed bread leisurely, and they are already quite tall.

On the way back and forth, he often saw people digging wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger.

When he arrived in Dayu overnight, Xiao Ming didn't have any lofty ideals, but he was so embarrassed that he was not as happy as the contemporary slums.

When he was in school, he liked to play the game of territory construction, watching his territory from barren to prosperous, which was a kind of spiritual enjoyment.

Now that he has a real fiefdom, how can he bear it if the fiefdom is still so miserable.

What's more, the local tyrants are rampant, and the northern grassland barbarians invade at any time, which is a threat to him.

It's a big story for him to drive away the grassland barbarians now, but he still has to do things like building fiefdoms, strengthening cities, refining troops, and storing wealth for the people. Otherwise, only the local aristocrats will be enough for him to drink.

In addition, even if he didn't want to get rid of the rich family and stabilize the fiefdom, he had to work hard to eat eggs every day and bake a kebab occasionally.

Otherwise, I will suffer.

After three days of investigation, Xiao Ming basically understood the situation of his fiefdom and clarified the first problem he needed to solve That's farming.

The majority of the common people no longer go to cultivate land for the haos, which can weaken the strength of the haos and agglomerate the people.

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