Chapter 387: Teaching a man to fish is worse than teaching him to fish
"Father, please let me finish my words." Meng Yi said, "The village chief is still here."
When Meng Wu reacted, he saw Ying Zheng and found Ying Zheng staring at him angrily. He immediately lowered his head and said: "Village Chief, this villain deserves to die. Please forgive me, Village Chief."
Ying Zheng said in a deep voice: "From now on, don't speak. If you want to ask questions, just wait until Qin An finishes speaking."
"No." Meng Wu sat down, no matter how dissatisfied he was, he would not dare to disobey Ying Zheng.
Qin An shook his head and said: "General Meng, you are right, it is indeed too much to feed adulterated sand to ordinary people.
So if you want to eat delicious food, go to work. The place where you work not only has delicious food, but you can also get wages.
For those who like to eat and are lazy to cook, it is already a mercy of the county magistrate to have a meal of porridge mixed with sand.
If it were me, I would feed them wheat husks directly. They have hands and feet but don’t know how to eat with their hands. What’s the difference between such people and beasts?
In addition, if the county magistrate provides food and drink, does he have so much money? In addition, people are lazy. Once the people have enough to eat and drink, how can we support them for a lifetime?
This reminds me of another story. "
"Oh, what's the story?" Li Si asked curiously.
Qin An shook his head and said: "This story is called Good people don't get good rewards. The thing is like this, there is a village, and there is a very rich family in the village. This big family has enough money to buy the entire village.
The owner of this large household is very kind-hearted and likes to do good deeds.
Villagers would invite him to weddings and funerals, and he would also spend money to make gifts and so on. As long as the villagers asked him for something, he would help without expecting anything in return.
Even if a gambler asked him for money, he would give it to him. Such a wealthy and kind man helped the villagers without any bottom line, so he developed the character of the villagers who are lazy and lazy.
Until one day, he used up all the wealth of the wealthy family and could no longer help the villagers. This made the villagers immediately angry. Why didn't he continue to help them?
So the angry villagers robbed all the money of the wealthy family and killed everyone in the wealthy family.
I was very curious. Why did this wealthy family suffer such a disaster even though they were doing good deeds?
Are the villagers too bad and don't know how to repay gratitude? Or is it because the owner of a wealthy family just has a bad guy? Can this outcome be avoided? "
Regarding Qin An's question, everyone frowned slightly. They had never been aware of this problem.
When Qin An saw that everyone was silent, he continued: "There is nothing wrong with helping others, you have to know who can and cannot help you.
Beggars can help, disaster victims can help, but gamblers cannot help, and ruffians cannot help.
There is a certain level of helping people. As the saying goes, there are only three things that can be done. Helping villagers like a big family without any bottom line will only end up creating a group of lazy and unruly people. "
Everyone nodded.
Meng Yi said: "I finally understand why the county magistrate gave him porridge mixed with sand, because only in this way can we prevent people from being too lazy to eat.
The only people who can really eat porridge mixed with sand are those who are really hungry.
But after they are full, when they want to eat a second time, they will feel that such porridge is not edible at all, so they will look for work. "
Qin An nodded and said: "It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them how to fish. Sending porridge and aid are temporary and cannot be done for a long time.
But if you just let the other person do the work, you will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life.
The first step of the county magistrate was to attract investment and use thirty years of road rights to obtain a certain amount of money. The second step was to buy food to support the people.
The third step is to let the well-fed people work. "
"Will the common people have any work for a while?" Li Si asked.
"How is it possible?" Qin An said, "My father-in-law, you have forgotten that the county needs to build roads, which requires people. Road construction requires cement, and this cement workshop needs people.
This suddenly gave some county residents something to do.
The fourth step is to continue to attract investment, and businessmen from all walks of life will appear, such as restaurants, inns, restaurants, etc.
As long as there are people, there is business, so there are more and more merchants, and the next step is to feed the officials.
When there was no money, officials had no choice but to make money. Now that they have money, they will definitely try their best to make money. "
"Officials who dare to do this are simply seeking death." Qin An said solemnly.
Qin An sighed and said, "Although my father-in-law said it was inappropriate for officials to do this, how dare they do it if the court gave them sufficient salary?
So sometimes you can't blame the officials, you can only blame the court.
The county magistrate understood this and formulated a series of measures to improve the treatment of officials, and would never allow officials to make money on their own.
Once officials make money at will, it will damage the interests of businessmen and affect the credibility of the government.
Therefore, the county magistrate directly issued an order that any official who dared to extort money from businessmen and people privately would be punished for treason.
Conspiracy is punishable by the Nine Clan. So every official is very scared and angry.
In order to appease the officials, the county magistrate issued a decree stating that whenever officials go to socialize, they can be reimbursed. I don't know the amount of reimbursement, but the officials are very satisfied anyway.
Not only that, officials can also provide other subsidies, including high temperature subsidies in summer. There are cold subsidies in winter, monthly housing subsidies, car subsidies and a series of other subsidies so that officials no longer worry about money, but also attract businessmen to do business in their counties.
There are more and more industries in the county, the people are getting richer, and the county's tax revenue is also increasing.
In one year, the entire county has undergone earth-shaking changes.
Because there was no one, the county called all the refugees and disaster victims from next door to work in the county.
The county that originally had less than 10,000 people has become a county with hundreds of thousands of people.
Everyone, can you understand the content of my story? "
Li Yanran was the first to say: "Mr. Sir, I have made three points in total. The first point is to attract investment, and the second point is to teach people to fish so that the people can survive if they have work to do.
The third point is to feed officials so that they no longer have to worry about money and can better serve the county. "
"Yes." Qin An smiled, "If you want services, you can't do without anyone. The most indispensable thing is businessmen.
In ancient times, everyone believed that restricting the development of merchants and developing agriculture would solve the problem of food and clothing for the people, and ultimately allow their dynasties to last forever.
But otherwise, they would basically be overturned within a few hundred years.
The biggest reason for this situation is land annexation. Whether it is aristocratic families, princes, officials, or landlords, they all buy up large amounts of land from the people, leaving the people with no land.
Just like this, hundreds of years later, a large number of people have no land in their hands. If they encounter famine and a foolish and ruthless emperor, will the people still have a way to survive? "
Some people died, but not completely...
