Chapter 208 Real Economics... Begin to Become a Real Revolutionary
As soon as Jiang Yao came back, the first thing he did was to preside over the Prime Minister's Mansion meeting.
An order was issued, and all the officials of the imperial court rushed to the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Even Lan Sheng, Feng Ji and others who had never dealt with Jiang Yao also came.
This time the monthly vote list was restarted and announced throughout the entire Shenzhou in one day. Lan Sheng and others were shocked to find that Jiang Yao was ranked 25th on the Herringbone monthly vote list, which was simply unbelievable to them.
The deep-rooted and heartfelt contempt I had for ginger medicine suddenly disappeared and turned into deep jealousy and even fear!
However, the middle and low-level martial arts cultivators in the Jiang Party and the Qing clan's thirteen counties were greatly encouraged.
No matter in the city or in the countryside, countless people talk about Prime Minister Jiang with admiration. This greatly enhances the prestige of Jiang Yao in both the government and the public.
Jiang Yao’s peerless genius began to be officially known.
This point is extremely important for the stability of the new regime and the stability of people's hearts!
It can be said that only after the monthly vote list came out, Jiang Yao truly became the well-deserved pillar of Qing Clan.
In the remote Qiunan area of the Western Region, in this small place, the reputation of ginger medicine is unparalleled.
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Chu Heng, the chief secretary of the Prime Minister's Office, makes regular reports as usual:
"I would like to report to the Prime Minister that various county governments have begun to organize herdsmen to serve as directors. According to the Prime Minister's charter, we are currently recruiting casual cultivators with martial arts skills to serve as police officers and set up patrol offices to maintain local security."
"Duel arenas have also been set up in each city. From now on, private killings and treasure grabbing are not allowed. It is lawless. You can only duel in the arena..."
"Since allocating resources to benefit the people, people have made breakthroughs one after another. Now, in the thirteen counties of the Qing clan, there are more than 170,000 new martial masters, more than 8,000 new martial sects, and more than 100 new martial arts masters.
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"The prime minister spent five billion spiritual jade, but it was all in vain. My Qing clan has more than seven million martial arts cultivation, and the overall cultivation level has improved a lot. The average cultivation level is also much better than that of the surrounding martial arts clans!"
"After statistics by my subordinates and others, my Qing Clan's average martial arts cultivation level has reached Samurai Perfection!"
When Jiang Yao heard this, he suddenly became excited.
The money was really not wasted. The huge sum of 5 billion, money that even a super powerful vassal would feel sorry for, finally paid off in the form of an overall improvement in strength.
In today's martial arts circles, the average level of martial arts cultivation is in the late warrior stage.
But Qing Clan's average cultivation level has been raised to Samurai Perfection!
This is equivalent to saying that the overall quality of the Qing clan's citizens is already a step above that of other martial clans.
This means that the Qing clan army has better soldiers and will be stronger than the enemy army! In terms of morale and combat power, it is not comparable to the enemy army.
If we get another military master to seriously train military formations and military domains, within three years, we will be a tiger and wolf warrior!
Can you fight one against two or three like the Xuanfeng Army?
"Very good." Prime Minister Jiang was very satisfied, "You continue."
Master Chu continued: "The real stone resources of the Cultivation Cave have been distributed according to the Prime Minister's method. It won't be long before there will no longer be a problem of being homeless."
"The construction of Mingshan Academy has begun, and professors and teachers have been selected. The Four Books, Five Classics and martial arts teaching materials that the Prime Minister personally ordered have also been published and recorded. The selection of students has also begun."
"As soon as the academy is built, it can be opened."
"In addition, all resources such as mines, spiritual veins, manors, and medicinal gardens in each county, city, and county, with a scale of level three or above, have all been returned to public ownership. Only small and medium-sized industries of level one and level two are left, and private purchases are allowed."
"As a result, the imperial government's public property has accounted for 80% of the Qing clan's industry. It is expected that next year, the imperial government's wealth will still exceed 500 million under the prime minister's benevolent policy of reducing and exempting two taxes!"
Although Jiang Party officials all know this, they still sound proud and excited.
While reducing the tax rate by 70% and greatly easing the burden on the lower class, it can still double the court's income!
This is the power of the Prime Minister’s reform and new policies!
As Jiang Party members, they also understood a lot of truths after following Jiang Yao.
In the words of the Prime Minister, the so-called reform is to improve production relations, improve distribution mechanisms, and establish a more fair and just system.
When production relations and distribution mechanisms are improved, productivity will be improved, and civilization and education will be improved accordingly.
These principles were not very clear before, but in the process of implementing the New Deal, they finally realized it deeply.
Today's Qing clan is very different from before.
The effect is immediate.
In the past, there was no "Da Qing Law", killing was uncontrollable, killing for treasures was everywhere, every day. The cruelty of the weak and the strong could not be increased. It was simply that everyone was in danger and did not know what public security was.
At that time, a martial artist with a low level of cultivation had a half chance of dying in a foreign land if he traveled thousands of miles from his hometown. Even in the same city and hometown, it was not uncommon for people to be killed because of vendetta or seeking money.
People with low levels of cultivation are fearful because of the precarious situation. Those with high level of cultivation and powerful people are unscrupulous and have heavy blood debts, but they cannot be brought to justice.
All over the world, this is not the case!
This is the deliberate inaction of the big shots in order to control the growth of the martial arts population at the bottom, in the name of saving resources.
It is also to ensure that the upper class has the power to deprive the lower class of life and property at will.
But today's Qing clan, those who kill people for no reason are guilty!
Harming innocent people is a capital crime!
The one who punishes murderers is the imperial court! The county government! The county government!
This is Yousi who upholds justice for the vast majority of people!
After the "Da Qing Simplified Code" is promulgated, anyone who dares to rely on his cultivation and power to kill people and commit evil will be brought to justice and will not be tolerated.
This is what the Prime Minister called "Legalist government". There are laws to follow, and laws must be followed. If there are no rules, humanity will not work!
Nowadays, wanton murderers are rare. Low-level casual cultivators also dare to travel far away. The county governor's office and the imperial prison are also full of murderers and people who oppose the New Deal.
The Prime Minister has long said that he has a right heart and a right path: "We cultivate Taoism to eliminate violence, protect humankind, strengthen our body and live a long life, and enjoy a long-lasting family relationship. We do not do it to kill each other, enslave the weak, be good at power, and do whatever we want."
"If there are those who commit many evil deeds and are persistent in their evil deeds, they will have their own imperial laws and regulations, and the official laws will be like furnaces. And those who are filled with righteous indignation will rise up in groups and attack them."
It can be said that the thirteen counties of the Qing clan are already the safest and most orderly areas in the world.
Even Yu Shu had to admit this, although she didn't think Jiang Yao did it right.
In addition to public security, the situation of low-level casual cultivators has also been greatly improved.
At the same time, more and more people know the Four Books and Five Classics, which is the so-called "Confucian teaching."
"The government of Legalism, the teachings of Confucianism; equal emphasis on martial arts and morality, and the world is for the common good" is the essence of the New Deal.
Chu Heng also reported a new phenomenon: "Prime Minister, now in the neighboring martial arts clans, many casual cultivators have left their hometowns and moved into our clan, and the number is gradually increasing. May I ask how to deal with it?"
Jiang Yao had long expected this to happen, and this was the inevitable result.
"Let nature take its course, there is no need to stop it." Jiang Yao said, "Our clan is full of waste and is waiting to be revitalized. The various industries in the imperial court also need manpower. The miners alone need millions."
Most casual cultivators are producers. Of course, they do not farm and collect food, but produce spiritual jade and other cultivation resources.
In Shenzhou, there are large and small spiritual mines all over the world, just like the fields cultivated by serfs. If the serfs don't work, the manor will have no food. If the casual cultivators are not miners, the spiritual mines will not produce spiritual jade.
Spirit ore is like iron ore, it cannot be dug out and used. The entire process from mining, mining ore, to crushing the ore, and refining it under the refining formation requires a lot of labor.
In addition to spiritual ore, there are also many commonly used and necessary real ores such as real iron ore and real stone ore, which also require a lot of labor.
There are also the grazing of various spiritual beasts in the pastures, the catching of spiritual fish in the major fishing grounds, the refining of real clothes in the major real clothing workshops, the major spiritual tea gardens, spiritual fruit orchards, medicinal yam gardens, weapon workshops, etc., all of which require martial arts labor.
In the past, most industries were monopolized by the Qing family of the Junfu and the wealthy families, so the remuneration was very low, the exploitation was heavy, and the personal control of labor was also relatively strict.
This is the most important reason for the hardship of casual cultivators.
But now, most industrial ownership is publicly owned, but the court and government do not directly participate in production and management, but are allocated to casual cultivators for management. That is, the separation of property rights and management rights.
After paying taxes, whatever remains is yours. Casual cultivators are more motivated and produce more various spiritual items.
The originally strict personal control over labor has improved a lot, and is now controlled only by law and government.
By doing this, the Qing clan's 50,000-mile territory and resources are enough to support 30 million martial arts cultivators, and they can still do well.
However, Qing Clan's current population of casual cultivators is only over seven million, so it can be said that the land is vast and sparsely populated.
Not only the Qing Clan, but the entire Divine Continent is like this. Only in large cities can Jiang Yao see the prosperity of the earth's metropolises.
Everyone knows that the population of martial arts cultivators in the real world is getting smaller and smaller every year.
Jiang Yao consulted Qing Clan's information from thousands of years ago and recorded that the population of martial cultivators at that time was fifteen million. In ancient times, the population of martial cultivators would have been even greater.
But now, tens of thousands of years have passed, and the martial arts population has been reduced by half.
This is a common phenomenon among all martial clans. Obviously, the strength of the human race has been declining with the sharp decline in the martial arts population.
However, not only did the martial arts clans, big and small, turn a blind eye, they were even happy to see the martial arts population decrease.
Why is this?
This is related to the real economics that Jiang Yao has studied for a long time.
The big shots believe that spiritual energy and vitality are getting thinner and thinner, and the speed of generating new spiritual veins is getting slower and slower. The speed of Tiandi Dao in generating new spiritual veins is less than the consumption speed of spiritual jade, so the population of martial arts must be controlled.
Eliminate casual cultivators with poor qualifications and low backgrounds.
It seems to be right, it seems to be a macro-consciousness out of desperation.
But the problem is that although the rules of the true world are lacking, which causes the spiritual vein regeneration rate to drop significantly, the Divine Continent is so vast that the population it can carry far exceeds the current population.
In Jiang Yao's view, instead of reducing the population, it is better to increase productivity, reduce unnecessary resource accumulation rates, increase utilization rates, redistribute circulation, and restore the population to a reasonable range.
Isn’t this better than Wu clan storing massive resources and sleeping in a warehouse?
Once a large amount of spiritual jade is used by someone, it will turn into true essence, and the true essence will turn into spiritual energy and vitality, scattered between heaven and earth, and return to nature. Then won't the concentration of spiritual energy and vitality increase?
Doesn’t the speed at which heaven and earth generate new spiritual veins increase?
This economic issue is not complicated at all. It is not that the big shots cannot see it, but it is because of the selfish nature of the slave owners that they are unwilling to do it.
Because the prerequisite for doing so must be redistribution. Without redistribution of resources, there will be no conditions for increasing productivity and increasing population.
So the only thing I can say is: "After I die, let the floods come to the sky."
The old forces will never withdraw from the stage of history willingly.
But no one knows that the initial motivation for the Jiang Yao Reform that took place in a remote corner of the Western Region was not to be a savior and break the shackles of slave owners, but to earn power, or for selfish purposes.
However, when the New Deal reached this point, when he saw the hope of millions of people ignited, when he saw the growing power released by the changes, Jiang Yao's mentality changed involuntarily.
He couldn't give up halfway, he had to keep going, even if it wasn't for his will power!
From now on, no one knows, Jiang Yao begins to transform into a real revolutionary.
After the meeting at the Prime Minister's Mansion, Jiang Yao said to everyone: "The reform has not been successful yet, you still need to work hard."
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