Chapter 281 Immortal Brew

City Lord's Mansion, Council Chamber.

The high-level meeting of Qi State was held again.

Compared with the first high-level meeting, some newcomers were added this time. The first was Gu Min who joined with 30,000 soldiers, the second was Hetai, the governor of Yi'an County, and the general who defended the city. Fan also came first. Gongsun Shouxin, the county governor, and Miao Peng, the general defending the city.

After Song Yan looked around the crowd, he said loudly: "Today I have gathered everyone to announce two things, but, before announcing those two things, I would like to tell you good news, that is, the paper produced by us is in The state of Chu caused a huge stir, and so far we have received 37 million for paper alone."

Hearing the figure of 37 million dollars, Gu Min, Meng Bozhao and others didn't feel anything, but Song Xiu, Shen Du, Hetai and others who were in charge of internal affairs were extremely shocked.

You must know that the annual tax revenue of a middle county is only about 10 million yuan.

37 million dollars, which is already comparable to the tax revenue of the three counties in one year.

Song Yan continued: "The paper mill is currently expanding at an accelerated pace. However, the guard work must also be done well. After all, the wealth and silk are very attractive. Who knows if other countries will send people to steal our papermaking technology." Speaking of this, Song Yan Looking at Meng Bozhao: "General Meng."

"Subordinates are here."

"From now on, he dispatched 3,000 troops to give me an optimistic view of the paper mill."

"Please don't worry, General, your subordinates must be optimistic about the paper factory." Meng Bozhao said excitedly, the paper factory is now the chicken that lays the golden eggs of Qi State, Song Yan handed the paper factory to him to guard, this is a consideration for him .

After talking about the paper mill, Song Yan's words changed: "The first thing I want to announce today is to reduce the tax. From now on, the agricultural tax will be reduced from 50% to 10%."

"General, is 10% too low?" Shen Du reminded.

"It's not low. In the past few decades, there have been many wars in the mainland of China, and the life of the civilians has not been easy. As far as I know, more than half of the civilians can't even get enough to eat, and they can't even eat.

Of course, this agricultural tax is not reduced for free. There must be additional conditions. For the common people who want to reduce the tax, each person has to reclaim three mu of barren land for the country. If the people who reclaimed the barren land are willing, they can plant it by themselves. Grain, will enjoy tax exemption for three years.

After three years, the tax is 10%. "

When everyone heard this, their eyes suddenly lit up. This tax exemption method can definitely greatly increase the enthusiasm of the common people. At the same time, after three years, the country can have more than one million acres of fertile land.

"The general is wise!"

"The General's Vision!"

Everyone quickly flattered.

Song Yan waved his hand and began to say the second thing: "Then, the second thing is to build a school, which will be funded by the state. A school will be built in each county in the three counties. Anyone who is seven years old can come to the school for free to study. three years.

If you have excellent grades, you can enter the government schools in the three county towns. Once you pass the assessment, you are eligible to serve as a local official. "

There are too few scholars in this world, and those who can afford to read are the children of powerful families. It can be said that most common people are illiterate.

This is also the reason why Song Yan set up the school.

Except for Meng Bozhao and Shen Du and Song Xiu, all the others were enslaved by Song Yan using his puppet supernatural powers. Naturally, they would not object to his opinion. Therefore, the construction of the school was soon settled.

The general's two orders soon spread among the common people of the three counties.

When they learned that as long as three acres of barren land were dug out, their fertile land tax could be reduced to 10%. Everyone was so happy that they went to the government to register and expressed their willingness to open up the barren land.

While the land reclamation business was in full swing, the construction of the school was also proceeding in an orderly manner under the auspices of the government.

At the same time, Zhao Guo also learned that Gu Min defected to Qi, and that Yi'an County and Fan County fell into Qi's hands. Zhao Guo also spread.

For a while, the whole country was alarmed, Zhao Guo in the palace even threw several wine glasses, and even in anger, he raised his sword and killed a concubine.

In addition, the name of Song Yan, the general of Qi State, also spread in Zhao State.

According to the information obtained by the spy, the two defections were due to Song Yan having a meeting with the generals of the two armies and the senior officers of the army.

Just relying on negotiation, the two armies of the State of Zhao were turned against each other, which was very unbelievable to people, but such a thing happened.

Therefore, spies from various countries also spread the news to their respective countries.

For a while, Song Yan became angry on the mainland of Shenzhou.

Although King Zhao was angry, he did not continue to send troops to attack Song Yan. Who knows if the troops sent this time will be bewitched by him again, and then defect to the state of Qi. Besides, in the case of not counting the auxiliary troops, the state of Zhao would The number of soldiers in the battle was only 200,000 people. Now more than 50,000 people have been kidnapped by Song Yan, and there are only 140,000 people left. The 100,000 people will be used to garrison the major counties and cities. Therefore, there are only four soldiers available. Thousands of people.

Can more than 40,000 people be able to deal with the state of Qi with more than 50,000 soldiers and horses?

King Zhao is not confident.

Time, just like that, three months have passed.

Paper sales have been fully opened in mainland China, and every day caravans go to Linshui County to deliver paper to various countries.

Because Song Yan exchanged the money for buying paper for food, the food in the treasury of the three counties has already piled up in the past three months, and it will not be a problem for a hundred thousand troops to eat for five or six years.

Seeing so much grain, Song Yan had a new idea, that is, brewing high-quality liquor.

The wine in this world is not only turbid in color, but also has a very low alcohol concentration, which is not even comparable to the alcohol content of beer in the real world.

After writing the steps of winemaking and the required tools to Song Xiu, the winemaking will be left to him.

Song Xiu lived up to his hopes. In less than half a month, a high-quality liquor with a color as clear as water was brewed.

Anyway, the food in the treasury couldn't be eaten, so Song Yan waved his hand and directly set aside half of it for brewing.

After Gao Lijiu was produced, Song Yan did not plan to sell it wholesale.

Rather, it is intended to be used to develop a chain of restaurants.

Therefore, after half a month, three restaurants called Tianxialou opened in Yi'an County, Fan County, and Linshui County at the same time.

The dishes of Tianxialou are not much different from other restaurants, but his drinks are extremely expensive. A small bottle is priced at 100 yuan, and a jar is priced at 900 yuan. It was created by Song Yan, a general of the National University.

Because of the reduction of taxes and the construction of the school, General Song's prestige in the three counties was extremely high, and many people even paid him his immortal seat at home.

Therefore, when I heard that this fairy brew was invented by the general, anyone with spare money should go to the world to taste it.

This taste, the mellow but spicy wine taste, directly conquered them.

After drinking a sip of Immortal Brew, many people even patted the table and said, "This is the real wine, the general is indeed a god!"