Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

As Ji Zha said, throughout the ages, the greatest vision in people's hearts is to learn to be taught, to earn income from work, to be treated for illness, to be cared for when they are old, and to live in a place to live.

In the present state of Wu, people can already earn money from work and live in a place to live.

The rest is still up for debate.

After leaving Yanling, Qingji and his party returned to the capital Jinling.

At the Great Court Meeting the next day, Qingji began to issue a series of edicts.

"The decree of the widow is that from now on, Jinling will set up the Huimin Medicine Bureau. Chen Huan (Bian Que) will be the director of the bureau. He will work with all the imperial doctors of the Taiyuan Hospital to determine the prices of medicinal materials and the amount of consultation fees."

Qingji looked around for a week, and set his sights on Imperial Physician Ling Bian Que, saying: "All consultation fees and medicinal materials must be lower than one-half or two-thirds of the market, or even lower."

"Huimin Pharmacy will be piloted in Jinling first. If the effect is acceptable, it will be gradually promoted to the whole country after half a year. It must be implemented in every county, at least one Huimin Pharmacy!"

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

All the ministers followed the compliments of the mountains and the tsunami.

After all, Qingji did not adopt the "official medicine workshop" proposed by Ji Zha before.

Why?

The cost is too high, not to mention that it will squeeze the living space of other doctors and pharmacies, the key is that in this way, the government-run government of pharmacies is destined to not last long.

The added burden to Wu is too great!

Qing Ji thought to himself, if Wu Guo ruled the world in the future, there would be no need for too much expenditure in other areas, and even free medical care for all...

However, now Qingji had no choice but to fight a price war with the doctors and pharmacies in Wu State through Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau.

If they do not follow suit to lower prices, they are destined to be eliminated by the market.

"Your Majesty, where does the Huimin Pharmacy get the money from?"

Zhi Su Nei Shi Zeng Dian asked rather puzzled.

"The early stage is the treasury appropriation."

Qing Ji said slowly: "The national treasury allocates funds to build Huimin Pharmacy in various places. After maintaining normal operation, the local government will be responsible for all doctors' consultation fees and the use of medicinal materials."

"promise."

There are now more than 200 counties in the country of Wu, and there are at least one or two Huimin pharmacy in each county, which is really a lot of money.

However, as the saying goes, what is taken from the people is used for the people.

Such a policy of benefiting the people is understandable!
Qingji said again: "There are many widowed and lonely old people in my country of Wu, and they haven't been treated well."

"It is the will of the widows to set up a nursing home so that the widowed and lonely elderly can enjoy their old age in the nursing home."

"In a county, at least one nursing home should be set up, which is also funded by the national treasury in the early stage. After normal operation is maintained, the county where it is located will be responsible for taking over."

"The affairs of the nursing home are the responsibility of the detainee."

"Sir, obey the king's orders!"

The Shaofu was quickly agreed by Li.

"Respecting the old and caring for the young are the traditional virtues of China, and they must never be lost. Not just the widowed and lonely old people!"

Qing Ji said in a loud voice: "In order to make the elderly have something to rely on and support, the widow has decided that those who are over 65 years old will be allowed to have a son to take care of them, and they will be exempted from servants."

"For the old man, give him two bolts of cloth, [-] cash, and ten stones of grain and rice a year."

"If there is someone who takes the initiative to support the elderly, the reward will be as above!"

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

All the ministers expressed no objection.

Be it the Huimin Pharmacy or the Nursing Home, they are all welfare policies aimed at people's livelihood. How can they object?

With Wu's current wealth, there is really no need to search and search.

Wu State is indeed a country that respects the old and loves the young.

Orphans and widows are supported by nursing homes.

If they are orphans, they will be specially raised by the government, and they will be brought into the military camp, and they will exist as reserve soldiers...

Now, with the decree promulgated by Qingji, the elderly in the folk are not only supported, but also have special pensions!

Since he wanted to be kind to the people, why didn't Qingji do it more thoroughly?
"Two or three sons."

Qingji looked around for a week, looked at the officials and officials under the majesty's platform, and said slowly: "In the past two years, the number of newborns in my country of Wu has been less than in previous years. What's the reason?"

"I have thought about it, but the funds for encouragement are still not enough!"

"Originally there was no oral gift in the State of Wu. It was purchased in order to increase the revenue of the treasury and maintain the frontline war and people's livelihood."

"Now that the national treasury is full, in order to encourage childbearing, the widow has decided to abolish the oral tax. All children under the age of 14 do not need to receive the oral tax!"

You know, children from the age of three to 14 in Wu State were charged an oral tax of [-] yuan.

Not many, but the win is that the number of newborns is large enough!

This "calculated tax" is the head tax for 15 to 56 years old, usually 120 yuan.

In one year, only the oral tax will increase the income of the national treasury, which is about 380 million yuan...

After a pause, Qingji said again: "In addition, Chinese people should have as many children as possible."

"If you give birth to a son or a daughter, you will be rewarded with two bolts of cloth a year, and the money will be [-] Wen; if you have two sons or daughters, you will be rewarded with four bolts of cloth a year, and the money will be [-] Wen. And so on!"

In order to encourage Li Shu to have children, Qing Ji spared no expense.

As early as the beginning of the reform, the state of Wu had clearly ordered Li and Shu: All Wu people, who give birth to a son, can reward two jars of fine wine, one dog, and give birth to a daughter, reward two jars of fine wine, and one dolphin (pig).To express condolences!
When the pregnant woman gives birth, doctors are sent to deliver the baby and help her to give birth smoothly.

Now, on this basis, Qingji will also reward money and cloth!

Survival?

Don't be afraid!
The country helps!
The more you give birth, the better.

Such a welfare policy is not unreasonable.

The more children you have, the more rewarding you will be, so you don't have to worry about being unable to support them.

On the issue of whether to open the wisdom of the people, Qingji never mentioned it.

Even if Qingji brought it up to discuss with the officials, it would be difficult to get everyone's approval.

Why?

Because it is totally inappropriate to open up the wisdom of the people now.

For example, Shang Yang in the Warring States Period had five policies to fool the people——

One people, weak people, tired people, humiliated people, poor people.

What is "One People"?
Unity of thought!

What is "weak people"?
When the country is strong and the people are weak, the way to govern the country is to focus on the weak people.

What is "tired people"?
Finding things for the people, exhausting their lives, so that the people can take care of other things flawlessly.

What is "humiliating the people"?
One is that they have no self-esteem and self-confidence; the other is that they incite each other to report and expose each other, living in an atmosphere of fear all day long.

What is "poor"?
In addition to the necessities of life, deprivation of surplus silver and surplus wealth (that is, inflation or crazy printing of money).

To sum up, poor people have short ambitions!
If the five things don't work, kill them...

Qingji will not go too far, but still believes that Shang Yang's policy of obscuring the people does have some merits.

Such a state of Qin is destined to be a huge state apparatus, and everything must serve the military (militarism).

Wu Guo is not the case.

What Qingji considered was that there were advantages and disadvantages to opening up the wisdom of the people, but for Qingji, and for the Wu royal family, the disadvantages definitely outweighed the advantages.

Every time more dogs are slaughtered in righteousness, most of them are scholars in their hearts!
Qingji can't guarantee that once his future ruler appears to be a foolish person, whether he will be overthrown by the scholars cultivated by the state of Wu...

Therefore, under the influence of selfishness, Qingji turned a deaf ear to Wu's enlightenment of people's wisdom.

Even if he knew to do so, he still couldn't guarantee that the King Wu's family and his descendants would be in the same line forever, so he had to guard against the passing of time...