Chapter 655: 101: Renewed Vitality, As If Returned to the Glorious Tang Era

This does not mean that Gu Xuan is embezzling the interests of sea merchants, small businesses, and the common people. On the contrary—

Under controlled circumstances, the income of these people is actually more stable.

And the extra tax revenue at the Central Hub is taken from the hands of aristocratic families and major merchants.

Simply put, this control has deprived these people of the opportunity to continuously profit from systemic loopholes.

And this has absolutely facilitated Gu Xuan’s water conservation efforts during Daxing.

Of course, all this can only be temporary.

No system is perfect, whether it’s the effectiveness of the court’s control_capacity failing or this group finding other loopholes.

Various problems will be exposed over time.

But for now, this is already enough!

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The grand water conservation initiative once again unfolds, surpassing the scale of any previous efforts.

Work exchange for relief... recruiting refugees.

Including many monks who have returned to secular life secretly without identity.

Countless people participated in it.

The chain reaction it brings is to revitalize the entire Kyushu land with unprecedented vitality.

Land rental leads to food production.

Including the agricultural technology reforms followed by Gu Xuan have also shown significant effects.

And the court’s wages would further stimulate the circulation of grains, including the new granaries built by Gu Xuan in various places, all achieving a reasonable internal circulation indirectly.

Including various machinery needed for water conservation projects.

And the demand for cloth, salt, simple tools, and even food and drink driven by economic exchanges, all constantly drive the economic development of the entire Kyushu.

Many people can clearly feel the change.

——That is making more money.

Whether they are merchants or ordinary people, they are affected by this series of reforms.

Of course, this kind of change is only relative.

To say that the people are living particularly well is not entirely true.

Productivity here has already limited everything, but for the current people of the Great Tang, these are already rare good days.

This is the change that top internal leaders can bring.

In fact, Gu Xuan hasn’t done anything too advanced, he just followed the current Great Tang’s situation and ensured stability in governance as always.

This is most crucial.

Clear governance is the basis for all systems to be implemented.

What Gu Xuan has done since entering office has played a good role in this situation.

Whether it was killing Shi Siming and those people or subsequent campaigns against Tubo, ignoring the world’s condemnation and destroying Buddhism, these methods let the world see his cruelness.

Invisibly, this made everyone more wary of him, simply not daring to stir up too much trouble at this time.

The same goes for foreign races.

Although Gu Xuan never personally engaged in killing, his name is now extremely well-known among foreign races.

This is also the main reason why the current reforms have excellent results.

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Time continues to pass.

Gu Xuan has become increasingly busy, although he doesn’t need to personally handle everything, as the momentum of reform fully unfolds, he still has to keep an eye on everything and make minor adjustments.

This is destined to be a very mentally exhausting task.

And Gu Xuan is also instructing Li Yu.

Unlike the previous attitude of the Gu Clan towards emperors, Li Yu is not a child waiting for enlightenment.

For this Emperor, Gu Xuan is guiding him on how to let the people live well and strengthen the nation.

Based on the current new policy, guiding Li Yu to understand why it is done this way.

Although Li Yu is just a city-guarding ruler.

But if this city-guarding ruler can uphold a bottom line, it would be a great thing for both Kyushu and the Gu Clan.

Baoying, the fourth year, July.

Water conservation projects in various places have been completed, including the rental matters are also being implemented smoothly.

Not only is the Imperial Censorate closely monitoring.

Local people are also mutually supervising each other, no one would willingly let the opportunists take away their chances, which greatly promotes the speed of the system’s implementation.

It is worth mentioning—

After several years, punctuation marks have now gradually spread in the court, including being fully accepted in many scholarly circles.

No need to say much in court.

Faced with so many memorials, ministers can clearly feel the benefits of punctuation marks.

But in scholarly circles, this matter is still debated.

No matter when there are always conservatives in the world, this is also no exception.

There are constant debates among scholars about this.

However, Gu Yi does not care about these, such convenient things will eventually become people’s habits without notice.

Gu Yi does not bother to interfere in this.

He has already set his sights on another layer, waiting for everything to settle down, he will open another door for the entire Kyushu!

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Julu.

Despite the constant changes outside, this Julu remains as it was.

Since the Gu Clan entered this land in the past, no external chaoss has ever disturbed it.

Currently, inside Yunshao Pavilion, it’s as lively as ever, even exceeding the past.

Numerous scholars are engaged in vigorous debates, with the focus being the punctuation marks that recently stirred the scholarly circles—