Chapter 75: Rural Area Distribution and Educational Plans
Song Yang's balls ached when he watched the recruit training.
As I sat there, my thoughts turned back to the military academy.
Then I thought of education from military school.
"Your Majesty, the statistics of each village in the mansion have been summarized."
Fang Zhe's voice interrupted Song Yang's thoughts.
Song Yang looked up and saw that Fang Zhe had a stack of information in his hand.
After looking at the results, Song Yang's face showed joy.
"There are so many!"
Song Yang didn't even expect that the rural population of Jiangzhou Prefecture really reached 60,000!
Before, it was only estimated to be between 60,000 and 100,000, but now it is confirmed that there are so many people.
This is more than the population of the city currently controlled by Song Yang!
"It really is ancient times! There are so many country people!" Song Yang couldn't help but sigh.
Fang Zhe was confused. Ancient times?
What happened to the ancient people?
What does it have to do with ancient people?
"How about it, are the people willing to come to the town?"
Putting down the materials, Song Yang asked.
"Most of them are unwilling to come, especially the people in remote places who have never left the village in their lives." Fang Zhe shook his head and said.
"If you don't want to come to the city...then will there be any problems with moving to the village?"
In Song Yang's view, if farmers are unwilling to come to the city, relocation may become a problem.
Song Yang has already planned to be forced to relocate.
But Fang Zhe said: "Your Majesty, there is not much resistance to moving the village."
"Our villages in Jiangzhou are actually not too far apart. Many of the villages know each other and the surrounding villages, and many of them are related to each other by marriage."
"Now the population in each village has decreased. If the nearby villages are moved together, the reaction of the villagers will not be too violent."
"Moreover, relocating nearby will not be too far away from your own land. If we do proper land planning, we can allow people to relocate smoothly."
After listening to Fang Zhe's words, Song Yang nodded with satisfaction and said:
"Then organize the relocation to the village as soon as possible. You will be in charge of this matter, and the villagers in each county will also ask the county magistrates to come up with a plan."
"When the new village is moved, the map must be updated in time."
"By the way, when relocating a village, you must consider location and transportation."
Song Yang's mentality has been changing from the beginning.
When there was a natural disaster, we hoped to move everyone to Fucheng.
When we arrived at Douping Village, we had no intention of relocating the people.
After seeing De'an, I completely gave up the plan of moving the county seat.
This change in thinking may be regarded as a kind of progress with the times.
"My lord, I will definitely handle the matter of moving the village."
"There is something else that needs the prince's support."
"Tell me, what's the matter?"
"Your Majesty, there are several villages that don't have enough food to last until the autumn harvest, and they don't want to come to the city..."
Fang Zhe raised another difficult question.
If villagers come to the city, the government will arrange for them to engage in reconstruction work and receive corresponding food rations.
The last time I had a porridge to drink.
But it is more difficult to do this without coming to the city and without food.
Do you want to do nothing but eat and drink?
Do you need the city government to send you to the village?
How can such a good thing happen!
Song Yang thought for a while and said:
"Let's do this. Inform all the villagers that the court can lend them food if they don't have enough!"
"Borrow one catty and return two catties."
When Fang Zhe heard this, he immediately understood that Song Yang's move was so wonderful.
The biggest problem facing Jiangzhou Prefecture now is the shortage of manpower for the autumn harvest.
It is impossible to completely recover the food in the fields.
Rural people have borrowed grain now and can wait until the autumn harvest to harvest their fields.
Anyway, there is a lot of unowned farmland now, so go ahead and harvest it.
With more food available, the state of emergency may be lifted by the end of this year.
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Now that the rural population has been surveyed, the remaining rural land will also be available.
More than two million acres of land, 60,000 people!
According to the discussion at the last meeting, each person has fifteen acres, which is only nine hundred thousand acres.
More than one million acres of public land were added.
"If there are surviving landowners, don't worry about them. Just push forward the land distribution policy!"
Song Yang thought of a question and added.
Even if there are some rural landowners, they cannot stop their enthusiasm for allocating land.
Moreover, rural landlords may not have fifteen acres of land per capita.
A landlord with a hundred acres of land has a family of more than ten people, and the average is less than ten acres.
"Yes. I will definitely take care of it." Fang Zhe nodded in agreement. This matter is not difficult to handle.
"By the way, they still have to leave some places. If there are more refugees coming in the future, some of them may have to be divided up." Song Yang suddenly thought of this.
After the rural population is relocated and merged, large tracts of land will be vacated.
People will definitely have to move to these vacant lands in the future.
"I understand."
Fang Zhe had actually thought of this, but he naturally had to comply with Song Yang's instructions.
"You will be fully responsible for the rural work. In addition, you must gradually take over the work in the new city."
"In the future, the focus of Yu Ming's place will turn to the army, and you will be responsible for the government affairs."
After talking about rural work, Song Yang talked about government affairs again.
Because Fang Zhe had contracted the typhoid plague before, all affairs in the Xincheng camp were under his control.
But Yu Ming has always been a military commander, and his specialty is not managing people's livelihood.
It has taken a lot of effort for him to manage the new city to the present level.
After Song Yang went on tour, Yu Ming mentioned to him more than once that he wanted to hand over the governance of the people to Fang Zhe.
"Xiaguan understands. But Xiaguan is afraid that there will be too many things..." Fang Zhe hesitated.
After all, he has no experience in governing, unlike several other county magistrates, who are all veterans.
Even Zhang Heng was a well-known local landlord and tycoon.
"It's not like you have to take care of everything by yourself!"
"Don't those county magistrates and prefects also have assistant officials such as the county chief registrar to help them?"
"Let's do this. You pick a few good people to help you."
The problem of talent shortage has always troubled Song Yang.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have to hold Yu Mingfangzhe and use force.
"Most of the people are illiterate, so they are really useless." Fang Zhe was a little confused.
The literacy rate of civilians in the Daqian Dynasty was really low.
Being a handyman is fine, but managing government affairs is a bit inferior after all.
As soon as Song Yang heard that he could read, he immediately said:
"Speaking of literacy, this is what I was thinking about just now."
"In the past few days, please make statistics on all the children over the age of six and under the age of fourteen."
"Now that the world has basically stabilized, schools are about to start."
"In addition, for those adults who want to learn to read, we can also give them a chance."
"I plan to set up a night school so that people can learn to read and write at the night school after work."
"We don't ask them to make any fuss, as long as they can read and hyphenate."
"Since the people are illiterate, we must train them to be literate."
Regarding starting school and night classes, Fang Zhe didn't have any opinions.
Zhao Wenbin's previous escape took away all the scholars in Fucheng.
Even if the remaining people can read, they were not taught the correct way, and most of them have only a half-knowledge.
For future development, it is time to train a new group of scholars.
Song Yang discussed school matters with Fang Zhe again.
It was finally decided that Song Yang, Fang Zhe and Wei Nan would take the lead, with other literate adults taking turns teaching.
Speaking of Wei Nan, he is considered the most knowledgeable among the guards.
Although it is limited to the guards, literacy is not a problem.
After talking about education, Song Yang suddenly said:
"Huh? By the way, let Wei Nan help you. Isn't this kid also literate?"