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Chapter 390 The Red Line of Grain in Lantian County
The stability of food prices is more decisive than the stability of other non-staple foods, because as long as the price of food is stable, as long as the people can eat, then the ruling foundation in this era will be stable, because other regimes cannot satisfy other requirements. The problem of food and clothing for the ruled people, because of this, food is the most important thing in this game of Ming Dynasty.

After entering the grain store, five or six strong young men in the grain store were pouring corn kernels into a huge grain storage. Today, the corn in Lantian was high again, so the main product of the Lantian grain store is still corn.

A huge wooden grain hoard is full of corn. The grain hoard is actually surrounded by a wooden fence and wrapped with a layer of cloth to prevent the grain from being exposed.

The grain store mainly deals in several kinds of staple food, the most of which is corn, followed by wheat, and a small amount of rice. The grain store does not deal in potatoes and sweet potatoes, because they are not easy to store, and these two kinds are usually more in vegetable stores.

Corn is the best-selling grain, and there are five grain stores in the grain store. Rice and wheat are fine grains and are very expensive. Usually, they are bought when there are guests at home, or when they want to improve their food. , Families with average conditions simply cannot meet the living standards of eating fine grains every meal.

"Yo, guest officer, you are here, let's see what you have here."

At this moment, the manager of the grain store came out and looked at Li Chaosheng with a smile. Li Chaosheng looked at the manager of the grain store and said, "What's the price of corn today?"

The shopkeeper of the grain shop said with a smile, "Eight coins a catty."

Li Chaosheng nodded after hearing this. This price was set by him, and the price of corn should not exceed ten cents. This is the food first policy proposed by Li Chaosheng at the Lantian Grain Conference. Ministry of Commerce, the death regulations set by the Ministry of Commerce.

Due to the rapid economic development of Lantian in recent years, it is obvious that farming is not very profitable. Those guys from the Ministry of Agriculture are jealous of the dividends of Lantian, and want to change the agricultural land to plant cash crops.

This is definitely more profitable than growing corn, so the Ministry of Agriculture submitted this idea to Li Chaosheng. After Li Chaosheng read it, he held this meeting. The theme of the meeting was the Lantian Food Security Conference.

Li Chaosheng was furious at the meeting, angrily scolding these bastards for getting into the eyes of money, scolding these students who graduated from Lantian College dare not say a word, finally Li Chaosheng said: "I don't care how you want to toss, how to develop, but I just have one request. The price of corn, the staple food in Lantian, can never exceed ten yuan a catty. If it exceeds this price, if it is more than one yuan, you will resign collectively. If it exceeds three yuan, you will be sent to prison. See."

Second, the grain store in Lantian must be able to buy grain at any time. If the supply is cut off, the crime is the same as above.

After Li Chaosheng's policy was finalized, he basically drew a red line for Lantian. The corn must be enough for the people of the county, and the price should not be too high. This red line is also called the grain red line by the Lantian government.

Why is the price of corn set at ten cents a catty?

There is a reason for this. The people at the lowest level in Lantian now of course have to throw out the peasant households, because the peasant households grow corn themselves, and they will not be short of food. Those who are short of food are full-time households living in the city.

The lowest level of these full-time households is the group of people who work as clerks for major companies. The daily salary of this group of people is [-] Wen. Li Chaosheng's idea is that according to the minimum living standard of these people, if there are five people in a family, He had to be able to feed the family of five by himself. To put it bluntly, Li Chaosheng did not allow a single person under his rule to starve to death.

Of course, this family of five cannot only point to one person to eat. This family of five must have at least two or three laborers. After all, women workers in Lantian can also find jobs. Lantian's embroidery, weaving, and even some restaurants are researching whether it is possible. Hire some women as men.

Of course, the latter one was still rejected, because the society has not developed to that level, so this is not accepted. When Lantian develops further, it is not a big deal for women to show their faces.

Of course, this requires a process. People in Lantian have already adapted to women working in factories, and even in the commercial street, where women can do business. This is a little subtle, and gradually women can get fairer job opportunities, but this is a long way to go. Even if Li Chaosheng is the county official and has privileges in Lantian, he cannot interfere with these matters.

The food red line is the guarantee to ensure the basic life of the people. The most difficult person who has just turned from a refugee to an ordinary person without land in Lantian can also obtain food through his own work, and even feed a family of five.

Of course, based on the calculations of Li Chaosheng's think tank, the general situation in Lantian is that a family with an average of two laborers can earn about [-] yuan a day.

And a family of five can eat about three or four catties of cornmeal a day, and buy some vegetables, which means that the average day's salary can eat well, and the remaining half is savings.

Li Chaosheng listened to the budget of the Political Department and said: The life of the people is still hard, and we should try our best to make the people earn more.

Li Chaosheng's considerations are divided into two aspects. The first is that Li Chaosheng hopes that the people under his rule will be better off, not all sallow and emaciated, and not let all the children be malnourished. Only on the New Year's day can they eat a big piece of fat.

Don't let the young guy fail to marry his beloved girl because of the bride price. The people in Lantian don't spend much, and basically spend on food. Li Chaosheng hopes that the proportion of food can be reduced to one-third of the people's daily expenses. Let them have more money, make them richer.

This may be one thing that the emperors of all dynasties hoped to do, to hide wealth among the people.

Secondly, only when the people have money in their hands can Lantian’s business develop. Money is not very important to a political system. If the Lantian warehouse is full of gold and silver, it is a pile of heavy metals.

But when it is distributed to the people, this thing is called money, because this thing can drive people to work. What is wealth? Wealth is the fruit of people's labor. Money will be generated, and the essence of money is the exchange of people's labor results.

In the previous bartering, there was no sense of money at that time, but can you say that those people have no wealth in their hands?

Then the common people's money becomes shells. What does the value of shells represent? It represents scarcity and can be converted. This is the meaning of money.

Because I exchanged a sheep for you two apples, and you can’t find them. What should I do? Give me the apple tree?

So find something to convert. This thing can be stone, shell, metal, or even paper. In fact, the purpose is for conversion. As long as it is convenient for conversion, everyone will agree, and anything will do.

Therefore, one of the important responsibilities of the government is to allow money to circulate, because only when there is money can the people's consumption be stimulated, and when the people spend money, the commercial economy will naturally grow steadily.

This is also the reason why the government will always come up with policies such as 'big water release' to stimulate economic recovery whenever there is an economic crisis or other changes.

And Li Chaosheng is also doing the same. Grain is an important strategic material in Lantian. If he transports a large amount of grain outside of Lantian, he can definitely make a fortune. However, Li Chaosheng left a large amount of grain in Lantian. The first is to ensure the food security of the local people, and the second is to drive down the price of food so that the common people have spare money.

People have spare money in their hands, what will they do?
First of all, eat some good food, then the catering industry in Lantian will develop, and then buy some good clothes and wear some good clothes, which will help the rapid development of the textile industry in Lantian.

Eat well, dress well, what's next?

If you live in a good house, you can develop the construction industry in Lantian, and finally you need entertainment, so that the performing arts and tourism in Lantian can be greatly developed.

The development of these industries can drive the relief of the surrounding areas. With such a step-by-step development, the prosperity of Lantian is just around the corner.

The prosperity of Lantian means that there will be a lot of taxes in Lantian. If there are more taxes, various policies to benefit the people will be introduced one by one, whether it is people's livelihood, military, education, medical care, etc. This is a virtuous circle.

Lantian is getting better step by step, while Ming outside is festering step by step. One will ebb and flow. It won’t be long before Lantian is the orthodox world, and Daming will be abandoned by the people. There is no way, who doesn’t want to live a good life?
This is Li Chaosheng's administrative strategy. The territory is not won, but the people beg to accept it. What does the army do?The army is used to protect these people who ask for help.

As more and more people come to him for help, his territory will grow larger and his army will grow larger. When the people all over the world need Li Chaosheng to help them govern, then Li Chaosheng will be the co-lord of the world.

Li Chaosheng never thought of rebelling. Rebellion is for people without technical content, such as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. These rogues are also suitable for doing rough work.

And Li Chaosheng, that is a person who does meticulous work, and what he does is people's hearts.

It is not just an empty slogan, but what Li Chaosheng really wants to do.

Only by doing this, can Li Chaosheng return to the heart of the world.

Caring about people's livelihood is an important homework for Li Chaosheng, because Li Chaosheng can see the real life of the people under his rule.

Li Chaosheng looked at how tall these two people were and said to the shopkeeper, "Give me two buckets."

Dou is still the standard unit of measurement in this era. Although Li Chaosheng announced the unit of measurement, catty, common people still like to use dou, so the dou in grain stores are all weighed according to the standard.

One bucket can weigh ten catties of corn.

At this time, the man heard this and immediately climbed the ladder to the grain store, took out a boxy wooden box, filled a bucket full, and then scraped the top layer of corn kernels with a scraper.

After filling two buckets, the shopkeeper looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "Can the guest weigh you, our bucket weighs ten catties, of course there may be some discrepancies sometimes."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng said: "Then weigh it."

Seeing this, the shopkeeper waved his hand and asked the clerk to take the pockets. Normally, the common people don’t weigh the weight, because they only recognize the bucket. What does this count.

Of course, there are also some new-school scholars, such as those from Lantian Academy. When these students come to buy food, they all like to use catties. This is handed over by Lantian Academy.

Li Chaosheng has always wanted to re-unify the weights and measures, cancel all the lifting stones used before, and unify them into unified units such as catties, kilograms, and tons.

It's a pity that the common people are not used to it, so they have no choice but to start teaching from Lantian College and popularize it from Lantian Primary School. Li Chaosheng believes that as long as these children grow up, the weights and measures will be unified again slowly.

The clerk quickly took out a bag of two buckets of corn, and then he took out a scale and weighed it for Li Chaosheng. Twenty catties was more than one or two.

If you don't weigh it, the shopkeeper will give it to you, but if you weigh it, you can't add more than one or two, otherwise it will be the loss of state-owned assets, which is an order issued by the Ministry of Commerce.

Li Chaosheng nodded when he saw this. Li Chaosheng agreed with this order. There is a limit to the benefit to the people. If the government gives benefits to the people regardless of the cost, the government will suffer a crisis.

But now the people's life is really hard, and Li Chaosheng also wants to help them, that's why you can take out as much as you have, and forget it if you don't.

This is a loophole. Li Chaosheng knows it, the Ministry of Commerce knows it, the grain shop knows it, everyone knows it, so they monitor each other to prevent things from getting worse and getting out of hand.

And the above is also changing, unifying the meaning of weights and measures, which is a very important aspect.

Because of the volume measuring tools such as lifting buckets, the error is very large, and there is no such convenience as direct weighing.

Li Chaosheng's series of operations made the "Mr. Ma" who followed him look stupid. She didn't understand Li Chaosheng's operations, and she didn't understand the deep meaning behind Li Chaosheng's actions. However, she always felt that Li Chaosheng had a kind of I don't know what is going on, and every step is very profound.

Why is this man not like an ordinary family member? On the contrary, he looks like a talent for helping the world, and he is not bad-looking. It would be great if Li Chaosheng, the respected leader of Lantian County, had him like him, alas~
Thinking about it, Li Chaosheng asked about the price of the grain at the grain store, and he was very satisfied. His subordinates did not obey the policy, which was a good omen.

This means that Li Chaosheng's leadership team is still pure and efficient. Only a pure and efficient leadership team can be invincible in doing things.

Some people say that fighting a war is fighting for national power. This sentence is true, but it is even more important to fight the leadership. Due to various conflicts of interest, a good policy may violate the interests of a certain interest group and cannot be implemented.

For example, Chongzhen and his generals Wencheng, such as Li Zicheng and his gang of bandit leaders who support themselves.

If you want to rank the policy implementation in order, Lantian is the first, the policy implementation rate is close to [-]%, the Tarzi second policy implementation rate can reach [-]-[-]%, the bandit is the third, it can reach [-]-[-]%, Ming, huh Regardless of whether it is mentioned, Chongzhen's order can leave BJ City except for a very small number of loyal ministers, so he is very powerful.

This is also the reason why Lantian is small, but can stand shoulder to shoulder with the heroes of the world.

(End of this chapter)