Of course, the household registration statistical report not only records the number of subjects and potential subjects, but also the type of work in the territory, personnel division of labor, number of households granted land, etc. that Xia Duo is more concerned about.
At present, all the reserve citizens of the territory have been incorporated into the development department, and they are continuously developing from Codex Square to the north along the [Bactria-Saville Passage].
Needless to say, the formal citizens, those who have been granted land, have already lived a comfortable and comfortable life. Some of them continue to participate in the development and earn double wages; some cultivate their own land in peace and enjoy the rich harvest every season.
Some entrusted the land to the village collective, and joined the territorial workshops to learn a craft and work hard to improve themselves; others had the ambition to learn magic that they had never had in the past, and worked hard with their children or at night classes in the territory. study.
Some actively exercise and join the Territorial Guard to protect this hard-won happy home; some continue to study the code of law to seek opportunities to join the Government Affairs Department.
Of course, there are those who live actively and those who enjoy passively, but the positivity and negativity here are only seen from Xia Duo's perspective.
During the land granting ceremony, the subjects who have been granted land will be rewarded with certain gold coins based on the amount of merit accumulated during the development period. Some people have never seen it before, let alone actually owned so many gold coins. Suddenly they got rich and forgot about everything. Unbridled enjoyment.
In this regard, Xia Duo is not prepared to interfere. To be honest, the conditions that those who are greedy for pleasure can enjoy now are actually not as good as the basic welfare that he can enjoy as a member of the general public in his hometown!
He just felt a little regretful that those people did not seize the opportunity of the great development of the territory and actively participate in the construction of the territory or self-study. It would be regretful to enjoy the future now.
But this is only his personal opinion. He is not prepared to impose his ideas on everyone. He has already given the choices that should be made. Whether to choose or not is a personal matter.
As long as it does not violate the Daxia Code, the territory can fully accommodate those who want to lie flat. In fact, just lying flat is actually very empty.
He is more inclined to think that the people in the territory are just a revengeful rebound after becoming rich. Once they get used to the current enjoyment, it is actually very boring.
Because there are so many things in this world that are more interesting than the enjoyment of simple sensory stimulation, such as the magic of magic, the vastness of the main plane and even the vast universe.
He doesn't care whether ordinary citizens are greedy for enjoyment. In many cases, the more they like enjoyment, the more they can stimulate their desire for higher-level pursuits in the future.
If the individuals in a civilization or society do not even have the right to enjoy themselves, then this civilization and society are indeed a bit low-level.
The more advanced the state of civilization, the less restrictions there are on individual freedom, which of course also includes the freedom of enjoyment. The legendary distribution on demand undoubtedly corresponds to the extremely advanced state of civilization.
At present, Xia Duo's territory is far from being distributed according to needs. As for the things that the people in the territory are content to enjoy, Xia Duo feels a little sad when he sees it. Is this it?
These territorial citizens who have the opportunity to see real prosperity only settle for a small amount of sensory or vanity stimulation. How can this make Xia Duo not feel sad and regretful?
If these people come up with the idea of creating art, even if they just make up some ballads or draw some graffiti, then Xia Duo will look down on them.
Of course, the people are gradually awakening to high-level enjoyment. In this process, the territory will not force them to do anything, but necessary guidance is also indispensable.
For example, the upcoming art festival may be able to inject a bit of humanistic vitality into the mechanical and impetuous atmosphere of the territory.
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As Chateau's most trusted territorial governor, Leiden is undoubtedly very competent in his work. In his household registration statistics report, he not only recorded in detail the current living conditions of the people who had been granted land, but also made many suggestions on this.
For example, for the people in the territory to learn magic, Leiden suggested establishing a formal junior magic school in the territory. In addition, the night school can also be expanded in scale and add daytime courses, not just legal education or literacy.
For example, if residents entrust land to village collectives, Leiden suggested piloting cooperatives in villages with a large amount of entrusted land.
Another example is that in response to the emerging trend of hedonism among the people who have been granted land, Leiden suggested increasing the consumption tax to force those people to calm down, plan a new life, and avoid sitting on nothing.
Some of Leiden's suggestions that do not involve current legal changes have already been implemented, such as cooperatives, which Chateau mentioned long ago in the "Agricultural Book". Many territories in the mainland have already organized cooperatives. The Great Xia leader did not proceed because of Xia Duo's instructions.
Nowadays, many residents are unwilling to farm. They entrust the land to the village collective and learn the crafts themselves to be workers. When there are many such people in the same village, it is natural to organize cooperatives for cooperative production. Of course, this is agricultural.
When there are more people learning crafts in the village, we can also try industrial cooperation.
After Leiden saw the signs, he has already begun to implement pilot cooperatives in the territory.
Another example is the official junior magic school and full-time school. The Ministry of Culture and Education has also started related work. However, due to factors such as manpower and teaching materials, the new school is also in a pilot state.
Consumption tax, on the other hand, is a new tax. Leiden's Government Affairs Office can only formulate administrative regulations under the law. Although it will not be changed overnight, the regulations are still much more flexible than the code.
There is no doubt that adding new taxes requires amending the tax law part of the current code. Of course, Leiden cannot make the decision. Only Chateau has the power to amend the law.
However, seeing Xia Duo here, he did not make a decision directly. He was considering the impact of enacting a consumption tax. The current development of the territory was far from reaching the era of commodity economy, and there was no need for a consumption tax to guide consumption.
A word he says may be more useful than a law written on paper.
Raising taxes rashly may give residents a sense of unstable life and uneasy development, which to some extent undermines public sentiment.
But this consumption tax must also be implemented. The current economic structure of the territory is very simple, and it can be said that it is completely in his hands. However, as the territory develops, especially after the civilian use of magic becomes popular, the economic volume of the territory will expand rapidly, and the structure will also change. It will be more complicated.
At that time, it will not be so easy to intervene directly. Appropriate economic laws must be used to carry out macro-control in the general direction. Otherwise, random intervention may cause influence to go in unexpected directions, making the development of the territory a mess.
After careful consideration, Xia Duo also felt that it was necessary to improve the law. Not only the consumption tax, but other things that had not been added before due to territorial development could also be added.
If it were in the past, the citizens might have felt that there were traps in unfamiliar laws that they had no idea about. However, since the Daxia Code has been implemented, the citizens have a high sense of identification with the Daxia Code.
Now is a great time to build a solid foundation!
(End of chapter)
