Chapter 2041 Innocent Woman 15

In the end, Li Xiu could only ask people to draw the appearance of the old immortal as Lu said, and told his subordinates that if they saw such an old Taoist, they must report it to him. He wanted to find a way to get in touch with him and see. Can you invite the other party to help you or give you some guidance?

An Ran knew that Li Xiu was interested in the old god. After all, if he was not interested, Zhang Tiezhu would not have asked Zhang Tiezhu about the old god again and again and asked about his appearance. However, An Ran was not worried about telling Li Xiu about the old god. What will happen, so naturally tell the truth - of course, not talking about the intelligent robot, just the appearance of the old god as seen by outsiders - anyway, if you tell the truth, you don't have to worry about Li Xiu finding the old god, she situation will be exposed.

Time passed very quickly, and soon it was time for Li Xiu to be defeated.

By this point in time, An Ran's power had grown extremely large - she had built a total of fifteen bastions in the mansion where Pingyuan Town was located, as well as in several neighboring mansions.

Moreover, the prefectures she chose were all former food-rich areas. Now the weather has gradually returned to normal and everyone is resuming production. It is expected that when Li Xiu is defeated, she will rescue him. , and the food she has hoarded during this period, there is no problem in self-sufficiency. There is even surplus food to recruit more manpower to guard and counterattack the possible imperial encirclement and suppression, and continue to expand the territory. After all, it is a food-rich area, and the food produced It can definitely exceed what you use.

In these prefectures, she has implemented policies such as dividing the land, state-owned the land, and prohibiting the sale of land, so as to prevent the land from being concentrated again. In the end, the landless farmers will not be able to survive. In order to survive, they have no choice but to rebel. This is true in these prefectures. It is still easy to implement in the government, because all the people left here are poor, and the rich have already left.

And these people don't have to pay taxes. What they grow is all their own, and she doesn't charge a grain of grain or a penny in taxes.

Although her current source of income mainly comes from countering other forces, commercial taxes only account for a small part of it. But soon the weather will return to normal and business will become more and more prosperous. Then she will just collect commercial taxes. , with the commercial tax, what do the people do with the small amount of agricultural tax? It will also increase the burden on the government in the future. After all, tax collection, storage and the like always require manpower.

She has gradually found people to help her manage various affairs, and these people come from children who have gone to school for three years.

The textbooks these children learn are all compiled by An Ran according to some modern subjects, and the contents are all ready-made - she has compiled them in other mission worlds before, and they can be used now without having to start over - and then let Taught to children by those who could read.

Nowadays, children who have studied for three years, as long as they have a little foundation before and then study the textbooks she compiled, they are almost at the level of graduating from elementary school or junior high school, and they can handle simple things. After all, there is no high technology in this era, simple things As long as you can read and understand management work, you can handle it.

Basically speaking, every time she expands the scope of the several mansions she manages, the people can quickly live a life without starving to death. Now that the weather has returned to normal, it can get better and better, so the people treat her. I am still satisfied. After all, no emperor has ever collected any taxes from the people before. Those emperors not only collected taxes, but also performed corvee labor. Anron also built bridges and roads here, but Anron paid them to do it. , because there was nothing to eat, so every time An Ran spent food to hire people to do these things, some people signed up enthusiastically, and they did a good job. For fear of being lazy and slippery, An Ran would hire people to do things next time, and don't want him.

An Ran also deliberately asked everyone to build bridges and roads before the weather returned to normal. After all, just spending a little food now can allow everyone to do things, which is much less than what they would spend after the weather returns to normal. And At the same time, it can ensure everyone's most basic survival needs, so that people can have food to eat and survive. It is a win-win situation.

Therefore, in the past three years, water conservancy, bridges, and roads in several prefectures under Anron's rule have been repaired very well. Now the weather has returned to normal, and major reservoirs and ditches have quickly begun to work. If Anron had not repaired , reservoirs and ditches cannot be used at all due to drought for too long.

The improvement of these water conservancy projects has also made it easier for ordinary people to farm. In this regard, ordinary people are also very satisfied with Enron.

Of course, what is more satisfying is to divide the fields.

Since the rest are all poor people, basically no one in the family had three acres of land before. But now one person has three acres of land, and there is no tax. If he grows it, it is his own. Everyone is naturally happy, so everyone has land. Now that the weather has returned to normal, everyone can't wait to lie in the fields from morning to night tending to the crops. Everyone wants to grow the most food.

However, because each person only has three acres of land, those families with large populations, especially those with more adults, cannot afford so many people to cultivate the fields. At this time, some people sign up for the patrol team, or join the Enron engineering team, or Enron Work in some factories and earn extra income.

In the past, when there was no food, we only gave them food. Now that the weather has returned to normal, and everyone has food, we now pay wages. The wages are quite good, at least more than what you can earn from farming, and it is also very attractive. Fewer people come to work. After all, the family can get more income. Who wouldn't want to? All the people under Enron's control have gone to farm, and there is not even a worker to be found.

Of course, it is not only the labor force generated by the surplus of the population, but also those who do not like farming. After all, it is impossible for everyone to love farming. These people are also an important source of manpower for Enron everywhere.

Because there is food, there are people to manufacture equipment, weapons and other supplies, and there are people to manage affairs under the rule, all arrangements are basically on track, so Enron is not very worried about the upcoming crisis.

The general who defeated Li Xiu was certainly not an ordinary person, and he was very cautious in fighting. But for his own bastion, no matter how cautious the opponent was, it would be useless unless he had ten times the strength to attack.

If there was only one bastion, it would still be possible to defeat it with ten times the force, but her territory now has several mansions, and it would be impossible to attack it with ten times the force, because she could mobilize troops from other places to relieve the siege.

Don't think that you can surround a point for reinforcements. Her bastion was designed for cross-rescue. The method of surrounding a point for reinforcements does not apply to these forts of hers.

First of all, the basis of encirclement and rescue is that if the besieged object has no food for a long time, he will not be able to survive. However, in these fortresses, food can basically be self-sufficient. Generally, people who are hungry will not die of hunger. It won't be a problem for a few years. The main reason is that I am afraid that ten times the force will attack me. No matter how strong the bastion defense is, I will not be able to withstand it.

In this way, if the enemy besieges that bastion and you mobilize troops from other places to attack, it will only cause the enemy to be beaten and suffer constant losses, but nothing will happen to the besieged bastion.