Your Majesty Checked the Desolate County and Found an Industrial Prosperity

The emperor paid a private visit to Qinghe County incognito. He originally thought that this was a dead county with "disaster victims everywhere and asking for relief every year" according to the records. Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the county, he was stunned by the smooth official roads, two cents of refined salt, free schools, a thousand pounds of output per mu, glass soap, muskets and artillery. The people have enough to eat, can afford to read, and can afford medical treatment. It is not the people of Qinghe County who are really starving to death, but the conscience of the corrupt officials in the court.