Chapter 54 (1/2)

Chapter 54

“Master, are you sure you will be able to bring back fifth lady?” Housekeeper Hong asked after Housekeeper Mo was sent out to rest Housekeeper Hong, Captain Hui and other sisters-in-law stayed to discuss and see if Xiao Yu’s plan was feasible

“Yes If she doesn’t come back then she will be married out to another fao Siwen

Xiao Yu sat on his chair and leisurely drank frolass He narrowed his eyes: ”I said I will do it! I said I would protect the town but you guys said I wouldn’t be able to resist Carrie What happened at the end?”

Everyone looked at Xiao Yu’s confident posture Recently, Xiao Yu had done a lot of things which seemed impossible Perhaps, Xiao Yu would still be able to carry out this seely impossible task

In the past Lion town and surrounding territories couldn’t be protected by the Xiao family It felt as if their toould be destroyed at any ti through rapid develop an ar faive up Siwen They saw that Xiao Yu was daring to challenge the wang family so he should have some kind of back up plan

Because of it, people of the Lion town began to prepare to send off Xiao Yu and Siwen

Xiao Yu had asked to leave after ten days because he had a lot to consider before es of the develops that he had to take care of He believed that Carrie’s father would coe in such a short time frame but he had to take preventive measures

In addition, three races would not follower a coone He had to think about new policies that he had to implement to attract people to his territory

wang family’s territory was about 2000 miles away from Lion town There were no airplanes, trains or cars so it would take them about a month for round trip It would be normal to spend a month in there It meant that Xiao Yu would be away from the Lion town for two months

He talked with Housekeeper Hong and Captain Hui about i the farmers and recruitment of farmers from close by territories

He was planning to attract population froest problem his territory faced was the number of population Xiao Yu had destroyed quite a few bandit camps and moved residents over However, the number of the population was still less than 50000

The main policy that Xiao Yu had come ere tax cuts and tax exe to send people to nearby territories to whisper into ears of others about the tax cuts and tax exeet three years of tax cuts They could row corps on lands This way they would be exeet everything that they grew and Xiao Yu wouldn’t ask even for a grain

In this era, the people or civilians didn’t own land All the land belonged to the nobles and lords In order to plant and grow corps the peasants had to borrow the land from Xiao Yu In short, they were tenants of Xiao Yu Now, Xiao Yu was giving thehts to use the land for free for the next five years which was an incredible policy on its own The privatization of the land hadn’t occurred in this era so it had caught attention of many others

Northas a barren land but it didn’tcorps was impossible It’s just the yields orse in coions However, by Xiao Yu’s ive taxes which rain was their own and the rate of return was ions Xiao Yu was a modern man and knew that development of the society would take a lot of time

He are that privatization of the land was an inevitable course of the history However, it wasn’t so to go with Shang Yang’s reforainst it Because of it they had dispute for a long tied to nobles How could they let peasants use it for free?