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Chapter 244: About the Development of the Fiefdom (2)

We must take one step at a time and do things one by one.

After Chen Zhao got those booklets, he did not explain all of them at once, but chose to start with agriculture. After all, agriculture is the foundation of development.

In ancient society, when grain production was low, many dynasties introduced policies that emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce, which shows the importance of agriculture. However, Shi Lidie would not emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce. She emphasized both agriculture and commerce.

Thanks to the fact that Chen Zhao opened a factory in this place three years ago, which brought real economic benefits to the local people, his agricultural policies were quickly accepted by everyone.

Over the next three months, agricultural reforms were carried out at a rapid pace within the Princess Zhenguo's fiefdom.

He took the drawings to the R&D department, where a team of carpenters led by Zhu Xinghe made all the farm tools and transportation tools, which were welcomed by the people.

Under the guidance of Chen Zhao and the Ministry of Agriculture, the farmers in the fiefdom saw new hope.

Once agricultural reforms have stabilized, it will be the turn of industry and commerce.

First is the industrial part.

While maintaining the previous factories unchanged, agriculture and industry were combined to build several factories producing agricultural and sideline products, adapting to local conditions and combining them with the conditions of the fiefdom itself.

Shi Lidie's fiefdom was located in the south, where several places were rich in citrus fruits and several places were rich in tea.

So, she proposed to set up a canning factory and a jam factory to turn the leftover citrus fruits into cans and jams, so that they could be preserved for a longer time. She also set up a tea processing factory and asked the system to exchange the tea-making methods of different varieties of tea.

In addition, sugar and salt are needed to make canned food and jam.

It was natural that sugar factories and salt fields were built.

The raw materials used in a sugar factory would be sugarcane or beets. Shi Lidie drew a blueprint and asked her subordinates to look for them. If they found them, they would be distributed to farmers to plant. If they really couldn't find them, she would look for an opportunity to exchange them with the system later, and then use the excuse that they were found in the mountains.

As for the salt fields, she asked the system to exchange for a map of the entire Central Plains, circled out all the places suitable for salt mining, presented them to the court, cooperated with the emperor, and then got a share of the pie for herself.

She can come up with more sophisticated salt-making methods, such as solar-drying salt, distillation, etc., which can turn coarse salt into fine salt.

In this way, industry and agriculture can be closely integrated. Unsold agricultural products can be transported to factories for processing, and the raw materials needed for processing can also be grown by farmers.

The second is the commercial part.

Shi Lidie wants to develop business because business can increase tax revenue.

After she reduced agricultural taxes, she believed that only by promoting business prosperity could the fiefdom develop better. So in the booklet she wrote, she proposed many plans for business development.

First, I wrote a lot of delicious recipes.

For example, barbecue, spicy hot pot, stinky tofu, fried gluten, etc., as long as the raw materials could be found and made in ancient times, she would ask the system to exchange the recipe.

Then, she asked Ye Zhao to find those who didn't have much land and whose crops were not enough to support their family, or those who were too weak to do heavy work, and ask them if they were willing to do business.

If they wish, they can learn these recipes for free first, and once the business is really established and starts to make profits, they can hand over half of the profits from the first six months to the fiefdom as a deduction for the previous tuition fees.

Of course, if this is done, a contract will definitely be signed with the people.

The second is to engage in urban planning.

She plans to divide the market into day market and night market.

The day market is a normal business where people from all walks of life can do business during the day, but the night market specializes in snack streets and various handicraft stalls.

However, the night market must be held in the suburbs and must not affect people’s normal routines or disturb others’ sleep.

Of course, this also involves public security issues, which is what Chen Zhao needs to worry about.

In short, judging from Shi Lidie's plan, she intends to turn agriculture, industry and commerce into a virtuous cycle, with the three complementing and supporting each other.

Macroeconomic regulation is carried out by the administrative departments of the fiefdom, and then divided down to the lower levels——

Those who have land and the strength can farm. With agricultural support policies, agricultural tax reductions and exemptions, good seeds, tools, and scientific planting methods, farming will no longer be just enough to fill one's stomach as it was before.

More importantly, the establishment of factories and the development of industry have increased the demand for local agricultural products. As demand increases, prices naturally rise, and farmers earn more money.

In this way, farmers and workers will have extra money and will pursue a better quality of life. In addition to three meals a day, they may also be able to buy something else.

For example, making some new clothes for your little daughter, buying some snacks for your grandchildren, etc. With business, the business will develop further, and the development of business is inseparable from industry and industry.

After all, when a businessman fries tofu, he needs a tofu factory to make it, right? When a businessman sells spicy hot pot, the meat, eggs and vegetables in it need to be planted and raised by farmers, right?

She believed that as long as the execution process was proper and incidents of deceiving superiors and corruption were prevented, the fiefdom would surely get better and better in time.

Chen Zhao was impressed by Shi Lidie's plans, but he faced a big problem.

He remembered that Shi Lidie had said that if he had any difficulties, he could go to her, so he took the booklets, found Shi Lidie, and said, "Princess, your plans are very beneficial to the country and the people, but..."

"But what's wrong?" Shi Lidie asked.

"But where will the budget come from?" Chen Zhao asked, and then explained, "You know, Fengping County has been losing money since the famine a few years ago. Even if other places have factories in recent years, most of the profits have been used for military expenses. If we want to support such a large-scale reform, I'm afraid it will take a lot of money. So, should I write a memorial to the emperor to request funding?"

"No, the emperor has allowed me a high degree of autonomy. If I still ask him for money, it would be too unreasonable. The officials in the capital would also have objections." Shi Lidie stopped him and said, "These budgets come from my personal treasury. You ask the finance department to draw up a budget table. As long as the money is used in the right way, I will pay any amount."

Shi Lidie may lack talent, but she definitely does not lack money.

Ever since she opened her first tavern and private tailor-made business in Luoyun Town, she has never been short of money. Moreover, all the businesses she does are highly profitable. With an investment of a few taels of silver, she can sell for hundreds of taels, which is directly hundreds of times the profit.

What's more, when she left Ye State, she plundered a lot of property there, and now it is all in her space. She has never told anyone about this.

Then there were the various rewards from the Emperor of the Dayin Dynasty, the dowry he had given her, the dividends from the two shops in the capital, and the bonuses for her completing the elegant missions...

All in all, she is not short of money.