Xian Yuping was surprised and said: "Yuyang County?"
Although the Xianyu family used to be a powerful force in Yuyang County, after taking power, all relations with the family have been severed. Even because of the relationship between Xianyu Yin's uncle, the family has been in trouble with the government. There are very few people in the family who stand out among the big cadres. He is The captain of the whaling ship is already considered to have the highest official position in Dagan, equivalent to the mayor of Dagan with a salary of 600 shi!
Factory director Zhou Jin saw his surprised look and said, "It was the newly appointed governor of Yuyang County, Xi Zhong, who said he wanted to recruit you, otherwise I wouldn't have lost you as a captain outside the customs!"
"Xi Zhong!" Xian Yuping suddenly realized that when they were farming in Liaodong, they often interacted with Xi Zhong. During this year, he often heard Xi Zhong's name. Compared with his unknown self, Xi Zhong has now become His fame spread all over the world, and he even became the prefect of Liang Qianshi.
This made Xian Yuping envious. You must know that even during the Han Dynasty, his family was just a small powerful man in Youzhou. Because of its Hu people's blood, it was ostracized by everyone in Youzhou. It was better to wait until Liu Yu came to power. Their Xianyu family only made some progress. Xianyufu became Liu Yu's confidant, but even his uncle Xianyufu did not become the prefect of two thousand stones. It can be said that the current drama loyalists are stronger than his family's efforts in hundreds of years. Got it!
Zhou Jin smiled and said: "Don't think so much. It's a good thing to be able to return to the pass. Not to mention that you have been promoted now. You are still being reused this time. Don't embarrass our whaling factory by returning to the pass." , if you have any difficulties, you can write to me and tell me, I still have some connections in Daqian, even Niu Gui will give me this face!"
Zhou Jin of the Whaling Factory is also an old member of Daqian. He has followed Xu Wei since Jizhou. It can be said that he has seniority and most of the senior officials of Daqian know him. The grade of the whaling factory is also very high. After all, it is a business. A pillar industry with a turnover of more than 10 billion yuan, it can also be ranked among the top 10 factories in Daqian. Zhou Jin's current grade is also the prefect level of 2,000 shi. It is not impossible to further become a state animal husbandry. After all, there is already an example of Xu Juan. It's in front.
With such a backer, Xian Yuping said happily: "My subordinates will definitely not embarrass the factory director!"
Xuantu County, Gaoxian City! Beixiang!
The county magistrate Wang Lei personally approached Lu Min and said with a smile: "You are lucky. It would have taken you two years to become a county magistrate in Liaodong. Now the court wants to recruit you to Yuyang County to become the county magistrate of a pilot county. You must know that this is the focus of governance. As long as you make some political achievements, you can become a prosperous person!" Wang Lei also looked envious when he said this.
Lu Min finally looked blank, and then asked: "I wonder who recommended the official?"
His family background, not to mention the county magistrate, even the prefect is just like this in his opinion. Back then, his father was still the Shangshu Ling of the Han Dynasty, and his power was as powerful as the Three Dukes of the Han Dynasty! Of course, it is the new dynasty now, not to mention his senior brothers. Liu Bei turned out to be a great man and became a great general.
Lu Min knew that the Lu family should disappear from the eyes of the ruler now, and he also planned to stay in the cold and miserable place of Liaodong for the rest of his life. When the Han Dynasty was completely defeated, the second generation of the Lu family would enter the officialdom of Daqian. Now let His entry into the museum like this messed up his plan!
Wang Lei said with a smile: "He is a drama loyalist. He is now famous. Even the governor personally named him to be the governor of Yuyang County to preside over the new policy. If he succeeds, he may even become the governor of Daqian in the future!" Wang Lei said this. I am envious because he is also an old member of Mayi and an official from Litian. Apart from his farming ability, he is not very outstanding. He worked hard for nearly 10 years before becoming the county magistrate.
"Xi Zhong!" Lu Min's heart felt complicated when she heard this name.
He is a arrogant person. If the world had not changed drastically, Lu Min thought that the position of the Three Lords and Nine Ministers of the Han Dynasty would not be difficult for him. However, he truly realized that the ability to deal with Xi Zhong was better than his own. , My talents are not as high as I thought. When I was working in the fields in Liaodong, Xi Zhong's camp was better developed than his. In recent years, Xi Zhong's development in the officialdom of Daqian has been even better than his own. This is It confirmed my original opinion.
However, Wang Lei did not notice the complexity in Lu Min's heart, but smiled and said: "After returning to the pass, you must work hard. You are the first batch of officials from Liaodong to go out, so you can't embarrass us in Liaodong!"
Lu Min said: "I understand!"
In addition to Lu Min, Gongsun Xu and Tian Chou who were in the army were also recruited to Yuyang!
In the second year of Jian'an (A.D.), Youzhou, Yuyang County, Yuyang City, and Lelang County!
Within a month, Lu Min, Xian Yuping, Gongsun Xu, and Tian Chou came to Yuyang County one after another.
The opera lovers warmly entertained them and spent several days playing in the countryside of Yuyang County.
After waiting for all four of them to arrive, Xi Zhong summoned nine county magistrates from Yuyang County!
Looking at these county magistrates, Xi Zhong said: "Everyone must know that the government wants each of my Daqian farmers to have 100 acres of land. Our Yuyang County thought it had become a pilot county for Daqian. Everyone can now Tell me, is there any way to achieve this goal?"
Everyone began to think deeply when they heard this. The news that Yuyang County has become a pilot has been circulating for a month. The county magistrates in Yuyang County have long begun to understand the situation in Yuyang County. According to their statistics, Yuyang County The combined land of the nine counties is more than 5.4 million acres, and the population is more than 800,000, with nearly 100,000 households, 25,000 of which are urban residents, mainly in the salt fields, shipyards, steel plants, etc. in Yuyang County Working in factories, their work is enough to feed their families. What really needs to be solved is the 75,000 households of farmers in the countryside. According to the government's requirements, one household needs 100 acres, which requires 7.5 million acres of land, which means they need to reclaim land. 2 million land.
Thanks to Xu Weiwei's great efforts to promote mathematics, the county magistrate present could calculate this number even if he was not very literate but not bad at mathematics. However, it is not a simple matter to cultivate 2 million acres of land. You must know this It is not enough to just open up wasteland. The government obviously does not want them to just hand over a piece of wasteland to the people. Instead, they must build a series of water conservancy facilities such as canals, water trucks, and elevated water canals in accordance with Daqian standards. This cost is extremely huge. , you must know that even in Jizhou, which has the best conditions for building water canals, Zhang Baiqi spent tens of billions to popularize water canals throughout Jizhou.
Now, although Yuyang does not have to spend tens of billions like Jizhou, it is impossible to reclaim these 2 million acres of land and build the original water conservancy facilities in Yuyang without a few billion! So everyone has not thought of a way. He didn't speak before.
After half a day, Lu Min asked: "How much income does our Yuyang County have?"
Xi Zhong smiled and said: "1.8 billion yuan, this fiscal revenue is among the top ten counties in Daqian!"
Then Xi Zhong said: "The biggest income of Yuyang County is agricultural tax. Even though it was affected by drought and locust plague this year, Yuyang still harvested 5 million shi of grain, which is worth 500 million yuan, and then the salt field factory, This year’s revenue is more than 400 million yuan, including 300 million yuan for the steel factory, 200 million yuan for the fish and meat processing factory, and then there are some other factories and taxes, which add up to 1.8 billion yuan!”
Having money makes it easier to do things. This is the consensus of the entire Daqian officialdom. Unlike the big men who are ashamed of talking about profit, Daqian officials do not care about talking about interests. Xu Wei often tells them that when doing things, they must pay attention to the combination of profit and justice. Officials are ashamed of talking about money. It's not that they don't like money, otherwise there wouldn't be so many corrupt officials in the Han Dynasty. They are ashamed of talking about money because they want to teach the people to delegate their own interests so that they can easily occupy what belongs to the people. Benefit. A real hypocrite.
The officials in Daqian all agree with Xu Wei's view. Therefore, if you do things in Daqian without clearly explaining your interests, you are a hypocrite who wants to spread the pie. It is people like this that everyone should guard against in Daqian. people.
Lu Min asked again: "How much funds can we mobilize?"
Although a county's fiscal revenue is high, some must be turned over to the national treasury, and some must be maintained for local expenses. It is impossible to sell all the grain, and some must be kept as a constant storehouse to prevent droughts. In addition, The maintenance and construction of aqueducts and roads may cost more than 1.8 billion, but not much will actually be left behind!
Xi Zhong said: "Yuyang County has to hand over nearly 600 million yuan to the court every year. However, I proposed to the governor that this money should be reduced in Yuyang County to implement the village merger. In addition, Yuyang County has about 100 million yuan every year. With a fiscal balance of more than 100 million, if nothing unexpected happens next year, the money we can use will be about 700 million!"
700 million is a big number. At that time, Jizhou, the granary of the Han Dynasty, had an annual fiscal revenue of about 700-800 million. Yuyang, a county, was equivalent to the fiscal revenue of Jizhou, which was already very powerful. , but compared to what they have to do, the wealth of 700 million is small.
Everyone knows that building water conservancy facilities and reclaiming new land can really increase the wealth of a country and delay the decline of the country, but not many people are willing to do it because it is extremely expensive to build a water conservancy facility that will be famous throughout the ages. costly.
When Zheng Guo built the Zheng Guo Canal, it consumed the entire national power of the Qin Dynasty, making it difficult for the Qin Dynasty to launch military wars in the past ten years, and South Korea's national destiny was extended for several more years! The area that the Zheng Guo Canal could irrigate was only 4 million acres.
And now what they want to add is 2 million acres, which is equivalent to half of the Zhengguo Canal. Even the geographical location of Yuyang is not as good as Guanzhong. Back then, the Qin Dynasty mobilized hundreds of thousands of people to build the Zhengguo Canal, but Yuyang obviously did not have this powerful.
Lu Min thought for a while and said: "According to our experience in Liaodong, the cost of land reclamation and the construction of canals is generally 1,000 yuan per acre, but if you build cement canals, the cost will be doubled, and if the fields are far away from the rivers, , it is necessary to build elevated water canals to transport water sources, which will cost twice as much. However, Yuyang County has more undulating terrain than the Liaodong Plain outside the Pass. Even if we place all the newly reclaimed fields near the water sources, I am afraid that the cost of land reclamation will be too much. It will exceed 5 billion! Judging from the fiscal revenue of Yuyang County at this time, plus the room for future growth, as well as the tax increase brought by the construction of water conservancy facilities, it will take 5 billion for us to complete the policy of governing each household with 100 acres of farmland. -6 years to complete!”
Jiang Xu, the magistrate of Pinggu County, shook his head and said: "The ruling party regards Yuyang as a pilot project, and they definitely want to see the results quickly. It will take 5-6 years to complete. How long will it take to promote it throughout Daqian? You must know that we had Daqian at the beginning It didn’t take 5 years to conquer the entire Bingzhou. If it really took that much time to conquer, we would not only achieve nothing but also make a mistake!”
Other county magistrates also nodded in approval. You must know that they fought with the Han people and the Hu people, but they occupied the entire desert and half of the Han people in more than ten years. Now a pilot project actually takes 5-6 years. With this Time, I am afraid that the world will be unified by them, which cannot be regarded as completing the tasks assigned by the government!
Xian Yuping said calmly: "I think everyone has gone in the wrong direction. It would naturally cost a lot to irrigate the land with high standards like Mayi. It is simply not what we in Yuyang can afford to live in. Moreover, such high-standard water conservancy facilities Maintenance is also a big problem. I'm afraid that most of the people in Yuyang don't know how to maintain these water conservancy facilities. Even if we build these water conservancy facilities, it won't last long.
But if we just want to divide the fields, it won’t cost much. We only need to divide the wasteland among the tribesmen, and they will cultivate it themselves. We only need to slowly build the canals.”
"The main thing we do is to teach people advanced agricultural techniques and provide them with advanced agricultural tools to speed up the progress of people's land reclamation and help them solve the problems they encounter during land reclamation. This is what we should do. matter!"
As a native of Youzhou, Xian Yuping spent his entire life in Youzhou. He knew very well that the disadvantages of Youzhou during the Han Dynasty were that the powerful gentry hindered the development of the people, but now it is the stubborn minds of the people that prevent them from accepting advanced technology. The technology, and the officials of Daqian are not enough to teach the millions of people in Youzhou!
Youzhou is a vast and sparsely populated area, and most of the area is half-cultivated and half-pastoral! A large part of the people's farming method is also slash-and-burn farming. When they want to open up wasteland, they will set fire to the grass to burn the weeds in the land, and then scatter the seeds. That was enough. Later they learned to spread chemical fertilizers, but the land became more fertile and no longer fell fallow. However, the extensive farming model did not change much, or in other words, the change was too little.
Now Daqian recruits 3,000 officials every year, while Youzhou can allocate less than 300 officials every year. Most of these simply trained officials have to stay in counties and serve as minor officials. Only officials who can really become village chiefs in the local area There are probably less than a hundred people, and there are only tens of thousands of villages in Youzhou. This number of officials is not enough to affect the entire Youzhou.
Therefore, today's Youzhou can be said to be a coexistence of advanced and backward, with both advanced and modern farming techniques that are almost the same, as well as the slash-and-burn farming techniques of ancestors thousands of years ago.
Therefore, Xian Yuping believes that under such circumstances, instead of opening up wasteland, it is better to find ways to expose more people in Yuyang County to advanced farming technology, which will allow them to develop more quickly!