Based on Xiangkai's research, if Xu Wei hadn't known Xiangkai for several years, he would have thought that Xiangkai was a time traveler!
Xiangkai said: "This is what the members from various places said about their local situation, and then I put it together. This is not my credit!"
Xu Weidao: "Master, give me these written memorials, and I will have a deeper understanding of the internal problems of Daqian. If it really comes time to change, I will not be stubborn!"
Xu Wei knew that what Xiang Kai said was most likely true. After all, numbers can explain everything. Now the people in Daqian can have enough to eat. Xu Wei has no doubt about this. The soldiers are not Xu Wei who is strong, but the world. There are many resources per capita and there are no strong external enemies. It is very simple to have enough food for every land, but if you want to live a good life, even Xu Wei cannot guarantee this.
To ensure the development of Daqian, Xu Wei has been keeping the price of food low. An ordinary household only has an income of 4,000 yuan a year, which is really not much in Daqian. It can only be said that there is food in hand to eat enough, but the food is not enough. It’s so valuable that with the food in the hands of the tribe, it’s very difficult to even ensure that children go to school!
But if you want to change this rashly, it is also a very big thing. Daqian has set a policy of 30 acres per household since Mayi. Now there are millions of households like this. If the expansion is tripled all of a sudden There is a lot of work to do in the fields, whether in villages or counties. If you act rashly, big troubles will definitely occur!
The next day, Xu Wei followed Xiangkai to a small village called Hanshan Village.
The village is very desolate, with basically thatched houses looking like shacks from a distance.
Xiangkai said: "The land here is not fertile. This is probably the poorest village in Ji County! So it is the most representative!"
Then the two of them continued to move forward. Xiangkai stood in front of a low thatched house, but this thatched house was already the largest in the village. There were at least three rooms connected to each other, and there was a cowshed outside with a cow inside. !
Xiangkai stood outside the door and shouted: "Old Zhao, I'm here to see you!"
At this time, an old man walked out of the house. When he saw Xiangkai, he was surprised and said: "I didn't expect the Taoist priest to come to my place. Come in and sit down!"
After saying that, Xu Wei followed the two people into the thatched house. Once inside, it was dark immediately. Xu Wei found that it was surrounded by earthen walls, but they could barely keep out the wind and rain. The earthen kang was connected with the stove, and the whole house was dark. It’s almost in line with everyone’s imagination of a poor village.
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Then Old Man Zhao looked at Xu Weicai and said in surprise: "Isn't this a ruling party?"
Then I felt a little panicked and didn’t know what to do!
But Xu Wei smiled and said: "Old man, have you seen me?"
Old man Zhao said: "When there was a war in Youzhou, this old man was a man of the people. If the government hadn't let us go and paid us travel expenses, he would have died on the battlefield long ago!"
"And after the governor came to Youzhou, our good days have come. Old man, I have lived for decades, and I have only had a few good meals in the past few years. The governor is the savior of our whole village!"
After saying this, Old Man Zhao wanted to kneel down to Xu Wei, but Xu Wei immediately helped Old Man Zhao up, and then looked at Old Man Zhao with a surprised look on his face. He looked like he was in his sixties or seventies. He actually went to the battlefield a few years ago?
However, Xiangkai understood Xu Wei's thoughts and said: "Old Zhao, he is 50 years old this year. He was only over 40 years old on the battlefield in Youzhou! Although he couldn't fight, he could still transport grain and grass! There weren't many young people in Youzhou back then. used!"
Then Xu Wei said: "I came to your village this time to see how you are living?"
When Old Man Zhao heard this, he said happily: "Our life is much better now, and this is all brought about by the administration!"
After speaking, Old Man Zhao led Xu Wei to the cellar of his home and said with a smile: "This year our family has collected 40 shi of food, which is enough for the whole family to eat for a year. It was impossible for Old Man Zhao to have such a family business in those days. Thanks to the government's support We reduce taxes so that this old man can accumulate such a family fortune!"
For Old Man Zhao, having 40 shi of grain is an unprecedented family fortune, which is enough to make him feel proud! Da Gan’s 30% tax seems to be a lot, but there are no other taxes. Although Da Han takes 1 in 30, but what? Between oral calculations, corvee labor, excessive corruption and expropriation by local officials, and all kinds of inexplicable taxes, 80% of Old Zhao's annual harvest was taken away by these people.
For Old Man Zhao, Xu Wei's tax has been reduced by more than half. To him, Xu Wei is naturally an unprecedented wise king!
Then Old Man Zhao led Xu Wei to visit each family. In Xu Wei's view, this was simply a house with only four walls. The villagers here barely had some food and a few metal farm tools. They were considered a wealthy family, but nothing else! And like A village head like Old Man Zhao has an old scalper who is already the richest man in the village.
Xu Wei asked Old Man Zhao: "Why don't you go to the money shop to borrow money? You can borrow money to buy farm tools and cattle at very low interest rates!"
In order to quickly restore agricultural production, Xu Wei specially formulated agricultural loans for farmers, but it seems that there is no trace of them in this village!
Old man Zhao was horrified when he heard this: "Old man's good days have just begun, but you don't dare to borrow money to print money. The profits will be compounded, and it will not only destroy people's families, but also affect future generations!"
This made Xu Wei speechless. Qianqing still knew about this and actually regarded their agricultural loans as loan sharks!
Xiangkai explained: "Although this village is still a common people under the rule of Da Qian, they still live according to the lifestyle of the Han Dynasty. For them, printing money is something that will ruin their families. Serious people dare not get involved in it. !”
Xu Wei said helplessly: "Isn't there anyone who can explain to them? I remember I said before that every village should have a village chief who has been trained by our cadres, so it seems that there are no officials who have seen my cadres!" "
Xiangkai said helplessly: "Someone may have told them, but obviously Lao Zhao and the others do not understand the agricultural loans they made. They may even understand, but they dare not make loans. After all, everyone has been fooled by the big man's money-printing profiteers." They were so scared that they didn’t dare to borrow other people’s money. And no one here explained it to them in detail, so it became what it is now!”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Although the ruling party wants the imperial power to go to the villages, it is difficult to do so. The number of officials is too small. We could barely do this in Bingzhou, but after occupying Youzhou , only half of the villages can have large-scale officials, and after occupying Jizhou, less than 30% of the villages can be stationed with officials. Now that the government has attacked Sili and Yuzhou, only 2,000 officials can maintain the two states. Operation, officials' visits to the countryside are already at their limit.
Now there are less than a hundred officials in a county in the Central Plains. With such a small number of officials, it is impossible for every village to be governed by officials! Although Youzhou is better than the Central Plains now, it is obviously difficult for remote mountain villages like this There are officials stationed there.
Everything here still operates according to the traditions of the Han Dynasty, except that some excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes are missing. Now I am very short of officials, and there is an even shortage of officials with outstanding talents. If you can keep a place running, you are already a qualified official."
Xu Wei was stunned when he heard this. Although Xiangkai explained it this way, Xu Wei understood that few officials were willing to come to such a poor village, so there was such an unintentional paradise.
Obviously, the officials of Daqian were not as conscientious as Xu Wei imagined! Although he had uprooted the powerful gentry in Youzhou, in this village, it was still operating according to the traditions of the Han Dynasty!
For a moment, he was filled with emotions. It turns out that it is not that easy to change the world. It was even difficult for him to change his own men.
The territory is still expanding too widely, and officials can no longer keep up with the expansion of Dagan. Even the territory so close to Jixian County, Dagan has not been completely consumed, let alone the vast Central Plains, I am afraid that such a village will appear there. There will be more!
Then Xu Wei asked Old Man Zhao to take him around the village. Xu Wei went from house to house to count the household registration, houses, food, and fields. Obviously the results were not very good. Every household in this village had no supplies except food. There are not even many metal farm tools, and even grain is not too much.
Due to the lack of farm tools and large livestock, it is difficult for this village to cultivate 30 acres of land even according to Daqian's policy. The way the villagers here come up with is to cultivate the land they are busy with intensively, but not for the land that is too busy. Just sowing extensively and harvesting little is nothing. In this village, if there are not enough advanced farm tools and large livestock, even if they are given a hundred acres of land, they will not be able to take care of it!
The villagers in this village are also extremely ignorant. They dare not get involved in things like agricultural loans, and they don’t know much about the outside world. The synonym of paradise is isolation from the world. This is what this village would be like. Without outside power, If you break the order here, I'm afraid this village will continue to live like this!
The only thing that makes Xu Wei happy is that the population of this world is not large, and there is no shortage of productive resources such as land. It can even be said that the world is full of worthless land. As long as Xu Wei is willing to occupy it, there is no need for it. No one is competing with Xu Wei. The external conditions of Daqian are, in game terminology, the lowest level of simplicity. If the mountainous areas do not continue to develop, then move to the plains.
But after Xu Wei told Old Man Zhao what he thought, Old Man Zhao said: "Our ancestors have lived here for generations and we don't want to leave the village!"
Old Man Zhao even looked outside with a hint of fear. It was obvious that there was a long way to go to change this village!
After Xu Wei saw the village, he said to Xiangkai: "To really change everything, we can't just divide the fields. Just like this village, they don't have the ability to cultivate hundreds of acres of land! Just like the thirty acres of land now, None of them can do intensive farming!"
What this village faces is not a shortage of means of production, but a lack of productivity, coupled with land poverty in mountainous areas, resulting in the current situation!
It is extremely simple to change the current situation of this village and make these villages rich quickly. Just move them away from this mountain village and find a place with convenient transportation, fertile land, and close to water sources for them to settle down again.
This may be the only advantage that Daqian has over the Celestial Empire. Daqian has enough fertile land for these villagers to relocate. Now Daqian, Liaodong, Jizhou, Yanzhou, Sili and Yuzhou all lack population, so they can completely relocate a village. But the prerequisite for relocation is that the people in this village are willing to come to the outside world!
This village needs a leader who has seen the world to lead them out of such a poor paradise. There are even countless such villages in Daqian that need a knowledgeable village leader to lead them out of poverty!
Xu Wei was busy investigating in this village for a day, and then returned to Jixian County. In the next few days, Xu Wei followed Xiangkai to several villages in Youzhou. Some villages are in the underworld with fertile land and have more food in their hands every year. , but because the food cannot be sold at a high price, it is not very wealthy. It can only be said to be better than Hanshan Village. However, the villagers in these villages generally do not stick to the village, but work in nearby towns to support their families.
There are also some villages along the river bank that are even richer. As long as these villages build wharves to facilitate the docking of fleets, they can become commodity distribution centers and circulate the goods shipped by sea to the inland. Such villages already have villages and towns. It seems that the villagers here are even richer than those in ordinary counties.
But there are only a few such towns after all. Most of the villagers are still similar to what Xiangkai said. Although one household can only earn 4,000 yuan, after all, these villagers can still work, but their income is generally difficult to exceed tens of thousands, which is not the same as that of large cities. Compared with workers, the income of farmers is still relatively low!
After half a month of research, Xu Wei summoned Niu Gui and other senior officials from Daqian to tell everyone about his experience in Hanshan Village!
Then Xu Wei said: "We have occupied Youzhou for several years, but even there are such poor villages around Jixian County. This is our dereliction of duty! It is also the result of our expansion too fast!"
Niu Gui had no idea that Xiangkai would take Xu Wei to the poorest village in Ji County. This was a seven-inch blow to Niu Gui. He could only explain immediately: "It is impossible to govern and completely eradicate poverty. Things, let alone in mountainous areas, if you look at the villages along the Sanggan River, the lives of those villagers are better than those of factory workers!"
Xu Wei nodded and said: "I believe what you said, but I know even more clearly that there must be countless villages like Hanshan Village in Daqian. We must change their current living conditions! We must arrange a village like Hanshan Village A village chief and a wife, so that they can change their destiny in the future! While destroying the old world, we must also build a new world."
Old Man Wang said helplessly: "But our finances cannot support it. There are hundreds of villages like Hanshan Village in a county in Daqian, and there may be thousands of such villages in a state. If we really follow the methods of governing, I'm afraid We have to arrange tens of thousands of officials in one state, and now we have 70,000 to 80,000 officials in seven states. We simply cannot afford to support so many officials!"
Xu Weidao: "Then change this situation and relocate the villagers out of the mountainous area. We can combine several villages into one large village, with about 10,000 villagers gathered together. This will make management easier!"