Standing on the top of the city, I watched the green mountains and forests around me begin to be dyed yellow, making it extremely colorful. Wang Xiaolie stretched out his arms, feeling a surge of pride in his chest. Since arriving in Ruzhou, the most difficult thing for Wang Xiaolie was how to deal with Niu Gao. Now that he has joined the army, he no longer has this fetter, and everything has become cheerful.
Baofeng is surrounded by mountains, with endless mountains and mountains. The mountains are not high, and there are many hills and forests. Only near the official kiln in the west are the trees sparse due to logging for kiln burning.
This area is very rich in coal resources and is known as the Central Plains Coal Sea. However, coal had not yet been fully developed at this time, charcoal was mostly used as fuel, and deforestation was serious. With a thousand years of experience, Wang Xiaolie plans to develop the coal here.
Yang Shen went to the top of the city and saluted in front of Wang Xiaolie. Said: "Xiaoshiren, all the nearby villages have arrived in the city. A few days ago, you said you wanted to build a school in Baofeng. I don't know what to teach."
Wang Xiaolie said: "No matter what we want to teach, who will teach them? We are short of teachers now, in all walks of life, and the teaching methods can only be changed. Someone organizes and encourages students to study on their own and have full discussions. The so-called one-person plan Short, the two chief planners used the wisdom of everyone to discuss how to build a new village. Not only this school, but many other schools in the future will be like this."
Yang Shen couldn't help but feel embarrassed after hearing this: "This - this, how to do this? My subordinates can't figure it out."
Wang Xiaolie turned around, looked at Yang Shen, and smiled: "It's not that I can't think of it, it's just that I haven't thought in that direction. The most important thing when we do things is to do real things, not empty words. As long as we focus on solving real problems, It’s not that difficult.”
Seeing that Yang Shen still looked confused, Wang Xiaolie said: "Okay, it's getting late, let's go down and take a look."
Do things in a down-to-earth manner and be an honest person. Although it is simple to say this, it is difficult to do it. And in real society, people who do this are often ostracized and have little benefit. Wang Xiaolie is the one in a superior position, he can ask for it, and he can insist on doing it. If you change your identity, it would be very difficult to stick to it.
Things in the world are so helpless. People live in the world and are subject to various constraints. Even simple principles are often difficult to stick to. It’s simple to do things down-to-earth, but it’s not easy to do it consistently for a long time.
Just like this, Zhao Gou and Wang Xiaolie had a bad reputation in their previous lives. But at this time, including the Southern Song Dynasty for more than a hundred years, there was a revival, and it was a rare wise king in the Song Dynasty. Even in the Ming and Qing dynasties, its reputation was not too bad. As long as the government insists on such propaganda and ignores all news that is not good for itself, what can others do?
Zhao Gou's reputation lasted for hundreds of years before it was reversed.
After getting off the city tower and arriving at the county government office, Wang Xiaolie went back and changed into official uniform. Niu Gao took several important generals under his own command to a nearby hall. The village chiefs from the surrounding villages have already gathered here. When they saw Wang Xiaolie coming in, they saluted together.
Wang Xiaoyou went to the front and sat down, looking at everyone. Said: "I said a few days ago that I would build a school in Baofeng and talk about how to build a new village. However, it is easy to build a school, but it is difficult to find people to teach you. The only way is to rely on Everyone, figure it out on your own.”
After everyone heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other, wondering what Wang Xiaolie meant.
Wang Xiaolie added: "I only want to make a few requests. How to do it, you have to come up with a way. The school is held every ten days, and the village leader and deputy village leader take turns to come here. There are ten people in a group, and they come here every day. We discussed several requirements in groups. Someone recorded the content of these discussions and sorted them out later. With so many people, we can always come up with a solution."
After hearing this, Cui Zhi in front couldn't help but frowned and said: "Zhizhou, we are all people who don't read poetry and know nothing about politics. How can we come up with anything through discussion? Or Zhizhou understands Xiao's instructions, so we just do it."
Wang Xiaolie shook his head slightly: "Do I know what to do? I only know what kind of village I need, and what kind of village the people need. This village needs to allow the people to live and work in peace and contentment, and it needs to pay indispensable money and food to the government. , need to be able to withstand the attack of thieves. How can it be done? You can only think of a way. Poems and books cannot be said to be useless for these things, but they are not of great use."
The village leaders below couldn't help but stare at each other, not knowing what to say. Originally, when Wang Xiaolie talked about building a school, they thought they would go to the school to study for a few days, understand all the rules, and then go back to work. It turned out that we had to discuss it ourselves. What should we discuss?
One of Wang Anshi's reforms was to change the imperial examination system into a school system. Instead of taking the imperial examination, the school's upper-level students were born and the lower-level students were selected. So people of this generation are no strangers to school. But at this time, the school had a great scholar as a teacher, so it was not like this.
Seeing everyone's confused expressions, Wang Xiaolie didn't care. Said: "The village I want is like this. The land in the village and all the forests, lakes and other species are owned by the government. The villagers only farm and are not allowed to buy or sell! The output of the village is firstly taxed, The government must have money and food. The second is to ensure that the villagers have enough food and clothing, and have enough food and clothing. The third is to have rural soldiers to guard against thieves. In the current village, all the land is wasteland or bought by the government. You must remember this."
Everyone agreed. Everyone understands this. There was certainly a reason for Wang Xiaolie to do this when everything started and the government was in a tight situation of money and food. Many people vaguely guessed Wang Xiaolie's purpose in doing this.
In the early Song Dynasty, the Song army occupied Sichuan. The army's indiscriminate killing and looting aroused the people's resistance. Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun gathered the people and clearly put forward the slogan of equalizing equality between high and low, and equalizing wealth and poverty. Although the uprising was quickly suppressed, the slogan has since become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Soon after, Zhong Xiang rebelled and still used this account to win the hearts and minds of the people. I just know it in my heart, but I can't say it out loud.
Wang Xiaolie added: "The number of men in the village is divided into twenty acres of public land for each man. All public fields require the men to cultivate and harvest together. After harvesting, part of the land will be taxed, part of it will be kept in the village, and part of it will be distributed to the village." Villagers. When planting public fields in this way, the crops must be simple and not all kinds of crops must be planted. These crops must be conducive to working together. Now it seems that they are nothing more than rice, wheat, millet, millet, beans, etc. In addition, each household has It is up to you to decide what to plant in the ten acres of private land. Speaking of which, cloth and silk should be paid for this private land. However, it has not been decided yet. How to pay is still to be discussed. What to plant on the private land and how to deal with it is up to the villagers themselves. It has the final say. In addition, the uncultivated fields in the village can be used as pastures to raise cattle and sheep. They can also be used as ponds to raise fish and shrimps. But they must not be cultivated!"
Everyone said yes together. I just don't understand why this is happening.
Wang Xiaolie said: "When the days are peaceful, the population will grow. When the village was first built, so much land must be enough. As time goes by, children are born and the population increases, the land must not be enough. These idle lands, It is prepared for the children and grandchildren of the villagers. What if it takes too long and there is not enough free land in the village? This requires the government to find a solution, and you don’t need to discuss it."
With limited land and increasing population, we will inevitably face the contradiction of more people and less land. The development of human society will definitely reach a certain stage where the population will no longer grow. Wang Xiaolie doesn't need to think about it now, he just needs to point it out.
Wang Xiaolie said: "For the government, the village must achieve these points. How to achieve it depends on you village leaders. I'm afraid it's not possible to do it alone, so let's get you together and work together. Think about it. Let’s see, there’s still half a year between now and spring plowing. You rotate every ten days and use half a year to establish the rules.”
After speaking, Wang Xiaolie looked at everyone. Seeing that they all looked stunned, as if they didn't expect that they would do this, I sighed slightly in my heart. I really don't know what to do. Does anyone know? The so-called ready-made experience actually has many shortcomings. If we want to adapt to the times and the geography here, we have to change.
How to run the country? Great scholars, thinkers, politicians, and sages from past dynasties can only provide one principle. Specific rules still depend on the people. The people, and only the people, are the masters of society. Only the people working together can solve all the difficulties facing society. Whoever mobilizes the people, whoever relies on the people, whoever liberates the people, whoever wins the support of the people will have the basis for victory.
