The continuous traveling made everyone very tired, leaving only the maids in carriages and horses, who were responsible for organizing the manpower, singing and dancing.
The temperature in Huaiyuan is relatively stable, neither hot nor cold. There is no chance of water turning into ice in the winter, and there is no chance of your head getting so hot that it smokes in the summer.
The weather was perfect a few days after the beginning of summer. The children among the common people were sleepy and went to sleep in tents. Those who still wanted to continue drinking chatted around the campfire and watched the palace ladies dance.
People are just looking for fun. Normally, it is impossible for everyone to get together to eat and drink like this, especially from each village. If there is a big event in the same village, it is just a lively village.
Villages asked each other about how many chickens, ducks and geese they raised, and whether they also used bran to raise pigs and bamboo rats. How many big animals did you buy?
Also, what are you going to use to make silage this year? Why is your village buying cement? Your village sells cement-burning stones for a lot of money, right?
Each village wants to compare with each other, and also wants to inquire about other people's technologies and ideas, including how many people will be dispatched to build roads and river embankments this year.
Zhu Wentian was in the tent looking at the information provided by the sergeant who was teaching the people here. It was written on paper, and it was in the format of a test book.
Obviously, when the sergeant knew that he could teach others, he worked hard to improve his writing skills in preparation for being an official in the future. Anyway, the cake was drawn like this, and he could be an official.
In fact, that's right. When they get older and can no longer fight, they will work as officials in various counties. There is not only one official in a county.
Nowadays, few officials are engaged in war. Some counties have no civil servants, not to mention county captains and county magistrates. They only have county magistrates who are busy with the chief clerk, and then find illiterate people to serve as yamen servants.
Once the sergeants retired and spread around the Ming Dynasty, the overall quality of the Ming Dynasty improved instantly. Now they are teaching the people to read!
“The local officials are good and smart. They know how to burn cement to build roads. Otherwise, local rainfall would cause the river water to overflow the road and make it muddy, which would delay transportation.
There is no coal here in Huaiyuan, but there are many stones for burning cement and quartz stone for burning glass.
But where Bagong Mountain is located, yes, to the east of it, there is a lot of coal. It happens that after mining, it is shipped down the river to Huaiyuan. "
Zhu Wentian looked at the information and spoke. Now there is no name for Huainan City, nor Huaibei City.
There is coal in Huaibei, but it cannot be transported to Huaiyuan. Huainan is right next to the main stream of the Huaihe River, so it must pass through Huaiyuan. Is there any more convenient transportation condition than this?
So every village built cement roads, and also built open ditches and culverts with cement to facilitate cleaning.
Then he made the latrine pit of his own house made of cement, making it easier to dig out manure. At the same time, he built a fermentation tank in the field to prevent children from passing through.
After the road was repaired, they planned to build a house again, using local granite as the foundation and paving gravel on other paths.
The climate is good and there is no shortage of water. It is suitable for planting, breeding, and selling food. The roads and mines are not good, so we are working hard to repair them.
The head of the village gathered together to watch and praised: "The local people have so many ideas. They don't need to work for a month every year. They go to work when they have time and bring their own dry food."
It is written in the information that when the village chiefs saw that there was no busy farming, they immediately went to the county officials and asked the officials to dispatch craftsmen to direct the work, and the people in the village did it.
The people in the yamen wrote down who came and worked for how many days. Some people even took note of who came and worked for half a day. Then they would have half a day to spare, and they would have to feed the pigs when they got home!
When the people did this, the county officials were also responsible. They wrote a booklet and sent it to Nanjing, and asked them to post a notice at the convenience store. If there is anything in the county, they can come and collect it. The price is not high.
As a result, the people in Huaiyuan County sell more things, make more money, and continue to raise money.
After the cement is fired and milled with water, the cement is loaded onto ships and sent downstream. There are places downstream where there is no limestone and coal, so I just buy the ones from Huaiyuan.
When merchants come, they naturally bring goods that are in short supply locally. When there are no department stores, the head of each village leads people to purchase them together, and the price is lower than buying alone in the county.
"This is the result of the interaction between village officials and county officials. The entire Ming Dynasty should be like this, instead of seeking personal benefits.
Let's go back and study how much money local officials can lead local people to earn, and give them bonuses according to a certain proportion.
For example, one thousandth can be reflected in the tax. If you charge a tax of 10,000 guan, you will get an extra 10 guan.
If people live a good life and have more money, consumption will increase and taxes will increase. But if we don't look at GDP, that will be ineffective. "
Zhu Wentian is considering whether to link local economic development with the additional income of officials. Without raising additional taxes, the more taxes there are, the more benefits will be given.
People do not pay taxes when they sell pigs, poultry, eggs, grain, and vegetables.
But they will buy what they need after making money. At this time, whether it is a restaurant, a butcher shop, or a store, they have to pay taxes.
The manager frowned and didn't understand: "If the growth is not good in the second year, won't there be less money again?"
"Regardless of growth, when an official works in this place, as long as the tax is paid, he will be given one thousandth of the tax. Even if he is transferred, the tax here will still be paid, but it can be changed to one thousandth.
The tax revenue added by new officials on his basis is counted as the newly arrived officials, referring to the appointed administrative officials, the county magistrate, the chief registrar, and the county magistrate. Whoever contributes more will get more.
For example, some county magistrates said that I will not leave. I will wait for the new officials to continue to lead the people to increase income and raise taxes, so that I can get the money again.
This is okay, which means that he at least cooperates with the new magistrate to do things. Otherwise, if he is demoted, he will be demoted first.
Officials who leave are more willing to go to poor places, where they can perform better, get promoted more, and save a lot of money when they quit. "
Zhu Wentian said that such measures become more difficult the further they go, requiring officials to have higher abilities.
As for someone committing fraud, that is the job of the Ministry of Personnel and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Ministry of Revenue is also keeping an eye on it! If you want to make a counterfeit, you have to bring me the tax. You can make it!
"Then I'll go back and write the title book and send it to Your Majesty via telegram. Depending on what His Majesty wants, people from our village should become local officials and make money."
The head of the village was about to go back. He felt that according to this idea, people in the village could lead the people to get rich wherever they went, and then they would have endless money to spend.
"It's early! We have to wait for His Highness the Crown Prince. The other older people in the village should just take care of other things!"
Zhu Wentian shook his head. People in the village who were forty or fifty years old could not wait until Zhu Biao ascended the throne to become officials. It was not about longevity, but that they were too old to be able to work.
At the age of forty, after ten years of waiting, Zhu Yuanzhang was unwilling to work anymore. He was tired. He was only over fifty years old. How could a fifty-year-old man in the village go to the local government to become an official?
Those who are now in their thirties, plus their own and future children, are the most suitable to cooperate with Zhu Biao. When the time comes, we will consider how to do it. We cannot control the court!
The chief opened the tent curtain, looked around, said "I understand" and returned to his tent.
Outside the tent are people from the village who are looking for wives sitting here eating and chatting, and they are responsible for keeping an eye on it.
(End of chapter)
