287: Desire to get rich overnight [asking for monthly ticket]
All in all, all her troubles are caused by "poverty". If she had money, everything would be solved.
Shen Tang couldn't help but daydream and talk in his sleep: "Wangchao, do you think I can get rich if I use the word 'spending money like water'? Hehe, I can turn stone into gold..."
Gu Chi poured cold water on him without mercy.
"Squander money like water? Maybe turn gold into dust?"
That is really a sinful and prodigal son.
Shen Tang: "..."
Unbearable: "I'm afraid you are not the reincarnation of ETC!"
Are all these literary scholars proficient in choking her to death? They are all self-taught and not "child-loving" at all!
Gu Chi intuitively felt that "ETC" was not a good word. He heard it from Shen Tang's heart more than once. If he didn't understand it, he asked about its quality. He asked "sincerely": "What does C mean?"
Shen Tang: "One bar will take off and land automatically."
Can hurting her make Gu Chi happy?
Gu Chi: "..."
With such a master, he is actually under a lot of pressure.
After the mutual harm that they loved to see, the sadness caused by poverty faded a lot, and Gu Chi turned his mind to business. It has to be said that his lord is still very reliable at times. Yanzi's work to revitalize the people, He also knew it, but what he learned on weekdays was so complicated that it was difficult to remember it for a while.
If you have the money, this is indeed a good idea.
It can solve people's livelihood and economy in the shortest time.
The goal of building the Fugu in the government office has been achieved, and the people have enough food to feed them. They even have surplus grain and money that can be bought and sold. Over time, the economy can gradually recover and revitalize this stagnant water. However, the method is a good method, but the poor are poor. poverty.
A penny can stump a hero.
And what they lack is more than a penny?
Lin Feng saw that Shen Tang and Mr. Gu were worried about money and food.
Then he asked: "Why not allow wealthy people to donate?"
Shen Tang: "Donate?"
Lin Feng said in a low voice: "In my early years, I followed Jia Ci at home to learn how to manage household affairs. Every winter, Jia Ci would ask the family steward to allocate a batch of last year's old grain from the public account. Each family would also take turns to hold banquets and donate, and build tents to serve porridge. , build bridges and roads.”
The nature is similar to that of a charity dinner.
Every family came together to provide relief to the people affected by the snowstorm.
When Shen Tang heard this, he didn't comment.
Gu Chi also laughed bitterly.
He knew this was not Lin Feng's problem.
As a housewife, the housekeeping duties she learned from her mother were just dealings in favors, spending on people, and managing only the people in the house. With Lin Feng's family background, if not for those changes, she would still be a clan wife in the future, considering the clan. The incense is prosperous and the family is passed down, but this is far from enough.
Perhaps from the perspective of a housewife with a relatively simple living environment, allocating old grain, setting up a shed to serve porridge, allocating money, building bridges and roads, this behavior can already solve the problem.
But, can it really solve the problem?
Let’s not talk about big places, just talk about the area of Heyin. How many people are struggling to starve to death? How can such a little thin porridge and water be saved? They were lucky enough to survive this winter, but they still had no land to plant the next year. , there is no food to eat.
The difference between the two is that they will starve to death early or freeze to death, or they will freeze to death or starve to death after suffering countless hardships.
Although Lin Feng didn't understand yet, she could tell that Lang Jun and Mr. Gu did not agree with her immature suggestion.
So, I apologized quietly.
"...Feng made a mistake, please sir, please don't be angry."
Shen Tang said: "I'm not angry, I don't blame you."
She just asked Lin Feng: "Why are common people hungry?"
Lin Feng said: "There is no money or food at home, the weather is bad, the harvest is small, the field tax is heavy, the officials are corrupt...and..."
She tried her best to think of various reasons.
But Shen Tang said: "No, no, no, these are the reasons you mentioned, but they are not the most fundamental reasons."
Lin Feng blinked: "Please let me clear my doubts."
Shen Tang said: "There is no land to plant."
Lin Feng was stunned for a moment: "No, no land to plant?"
She didn't expect this reason.
Shen Tang did not regard Lin Feng as a nine-year-old child. He could just teach him some lessons and there was no need to wait for Lin Feng to stumble.
"Yes, there is no land to farm."
Shen Tang softened his tone: "I don't deny that the original intention of people like your father-in-law who set up tents to serve porridge and build bridges and roads must be to do their best to help the suffering people. Maybe it's for reputation, maybe it's for pity. This kind of The spirit is worthy of recognition and encouragement. However, the royal family is the royal family, and a powerful family belongs to a powerful family. The two are completely different!"
Mobilize powerful families with money and food to donate to disaster relief? Haha, it’s a good idea if they don’t stand in the way.
What Shen Tang said overturned Lin Feng's previous understanding: "For powerful families, disaster relief is something that has no substantial benefit to them and even damages their interests. In addition to reputation, what other benefits can be gained?"
Lin Feng choked.
She remembered that when her mother-in-law did those good deeds, she was indeed ridiculed openly or covertly by various houses, and it was thankless. In this world, food is precious, why should the common people be given free money? But mother-in-law always thought of "praying for XX" If they do it in the name of something like that, they can't object to it openly, but they just feel unhappy in their hearts.
If it is really profitable, why are there so few people doing it?
Shen Tang continued.
“Disaster relief is always about treating the symptoms rather than the root cause.”
Lin Feng asked for advice: "How can we cure the root cause?"
“If we want to truly solve the plight of the common people, there is only one way, which is to give the common people their own land to farm.”
Lin Feng said: "Can't we reclaim wasteland?"
Shen Tang asked: "How much land can be cultivated? These lands are not fertile enough, and the crops will not grow well, so the harvest of the common people will naturally be poor. If it were a fertile land, it would have been occupied by others long ago."
Let people form a good self-sufficiency cycle.
However, land is a limited resource.
There is more land for common people, but less land for powerful families.
Besides, if all the common people farm their own land, who will farm their land? It is not cost-effective to hire people to farm it.
Only when the common people lose their land and cannot financially support their families will they sell themselves at a low price to farm land for them. This is a good deal.
As for the consequences of doing so?
It’s not them eating it anyway.
They still live in mansions, are served by hundreds of servants, have no worries about food and drink, and are bright and beautiful. Will the starvation of common people affect them from eating a bowl of polished rice? There are so many common people in the world. If this group dies, there will be another group, and their own
The land does not care about race.
Lin Feng was silent for a long time after hearing this.
She thought that she had gained the "Essential Skills of Elevating the People" as a scribe, and that she would have a place in the world, and that she would be able to compete with the world's great men in the future. But now it seems that the road she has to go is far longer and more difficult than she imagined.
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Lin Feng believed that the common people were suffering because of bad weather conditions and insufficient field fertility. Yan Ling might be able to solve the problem and the common people would no longer suffer from cold and exhaustion. As for the frequent man-made disasters and the constant corruption of low-level officials, these could also be dealt with carefully.
But Lin Feng never thought about it.
What should the common people do if they have no land to farm?
Why is there no land to plant???
Shen Tang: "Anyone would want to grab a good thing."
For example, when she sees extremely wealthy people, she also wants to pick up the sword and transfer their assets to her own name through various means.
[Robbing the rich and giving them to me]
Lin Feng's face was filled with shame.
Shen Tang didn't think it was a big deal.
No one is born omniscient and omnipotent, and everyone's vision is limited by their own position and environment. She cannot harshly blame Lin Feng, who was raised in a house and was forced to live among the people overnight. Suddenly, he can empathize with the people at the lowest level.
Even the common people themselves often cannot see clearly why their lives are so difficult, so they think it is "fate".
Shen Tang asked Lin Feng to get something.
Seeing Lin Feng leaving, Gu Chi spoke up: "Master, why don't you let Ling De follow Wu Hui and the others to settle the common people?"
The more exposure you have, the faster you will understand.
Shen Tang shook his head.
It was she who deliberately transferred Lin Feng from Chu Yao, so that Lin Feng could be busy organizing the administration and temporarily separated from the people of Fugu City. Her purpose of doing this was also very simple: "Looking at the tide and observing people's hearts, how could it be possible?"
Do you think common people are good people?"
Gu Chi: "Of course not."
On the contrary, the evil deeds of many common people are even more disgusting, but they are ignorant and do not think that their actions are wrong.
"Although Ling De is young, he can be compared to nine years old, but in the eyes of some ignorant people, nine years old is already an age that can be taken home for fun and obscenity." Shen Tang's tone was calm, and his expression was calm, "I can't guarantee that Ling De
De is safe when he is traveling to study. If someone doesn't pay attention and an accident happens... you can study slowly. I am not short of people to the extent of exploiting child labor. Based on the current situation in Fugu City, Wang Chao thinks this possibility is very small.
?"
Gu Chi: "..."
He really didn't think so carefully, or in other words, he also made the same mistake as Lin Feng. Shen Tang did not linger on this topic: "Act as quickly as possible before Zhang and the others can react. During the Chinese New Year, behead The fat pig adds some flavor to the New Year."
After saying that, he put aside the accounting books of the office.
From a general glance, the deficit is appalling.
No more money could be seen.
If the Zhang family "gives generously", Shen Tang will have enough food and money to engage in work-for-relief, revitalize Fugu's economy, and then spread throughout Heyin County. Zhao Feng and Gong Shuwu are two super capable warriors and humanoid bulldozers. , only then can it be useful.
Gu Chi: "..."
Fortunately, these two couldn't hear their master's voice.
If you knew it, why wouldn't you run all night? Oh, in the Lord's words, you probably bought some kind of station ticket and carried the train on your back?
Literary scribes are full of action.
Kang Shi and Qishan stayed up all night.
Finally, the accumulated files were sorted into categories.
Early the next morning, several officials came to work at Dianmao early yesterday, but were tricked by Gu Chi into going out to do errands.
When Qi Shan and the two came over, Shen Tang rolled up his long sleeves with a black looped arm, fixed his shoulders, exposed his two white arms, climbed up to a high place with a hammer, and repaired and strengthened the crumbling beams. Fix leaky tiles.
Watching their blood pressure soar.
"Lord!"
"Ah, it's Yuan Liang and Ji Shou."
Shen Tang tucked the wooden handle of the hammer around his waist, wiped away the dust on his palms with both hands, jumped down, and landed steadily without shaking. Behind the two Qi Shan, more than 20 soldiers carried There are more than a dozen large and heavy wooden barrels.
"Have you finished sorting it out?"
It's only been one night, and these two are too lazy.
Shen Tang wiped away the hot sweat and leaned forward to take a look.
Good guy!
All the barrels are filled with dossiers and letters!
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???
The previous chapter’s four thousand plus this chapter’s three thousand, that’s seven thousand words.
Ah ah ah, I'm still short of three thousand, Gan
I will add another 2,000 words in the early morning.