Xuande

Chapter 263 "Light of Civilization"

Liu Bei set the tone for this matter, and the subordinate officials had nothing to say but nodded in agreement.

However, many local officials have some doubts about this "collective farm" that is said to have been born out of the policy of the army and the people, especially the statement that the land belongs to the collective and not to the individual. They are very concerned, but they don't know how to say it. .

Only a few people have noticed in a short period of time that if the land is attributed to the whole and not to the individual, then how to increase personal assets by acquiring land and plundering it?

At that time, the acquisition and sale of land will need to be carried out under the supervision of the government, and it will need to be registered and recorded. Private one-to-one trade will not be recognized, and once the land is purchased in this way to increase assets, how can the property be hidden? , Avoiding taxes?

This is not a friendly policy for big households who are interested in expanding their personal and family wealth.

But for the government that wants to expand tax sources and consolidate the tax base, the benefits are great.

Because of the implementation of this policy, which is obviously promoted for the sake of justice, their doubts can only be buried in their hearts, and they cannot be brought out, because this kind of consideration itself is not something that can be declared.

Later, the Liangzhou government began to register the population controlled by the government in accordance with the basic principles set by Liu Bei.

According to the records of the Han Dynasty, there were regulations on the establishment of households at that time. Generally, five families were neighbors, five neighbors were miles, four miles were clans, five clans were parties, five parties were states, and five states were townships.

In other words, [-] households are the party, and [-] households are the township. The words township and party are used together to refer to the township, that is, fellow villagers.

However, in terms of actual operation, with the changes of the times, wars, natural disasters, plagues, etc., such a standard household registration model cannot be implemented, especially in border areas like Liangzhou, where grassroots organizations exist in some places, and some places have been abandoned .

Now that it's deserted, follow my plan.

Liu Bei stipulated that collective farms need to ensure a certain production capacity and number of people. Three hundred households should be used as a collective farm as the basic unit. The establishment of neighbors and the like should be eliminated, and the collective farm should be directly linked to the county government personnel. Modernized management reduces management costs and improves management efficiency.

If you have something to say, do it directly, save those boring intermediate links, minimize unnecessary management personnel, and save a lot of dirty things.

Therefore, the officials of Liangzhou Prefecture and Hanyang County followed Liu Bei's order to make a comprehensive overall plan and cover for the restoration of agricultural production in the abandoned fields. The initial rations of farmers belonging to collective farms were also allocated by the government on a per capita basis.

Until they harvested the first batch of food.

Because this group of captured population includes Han people and Hu people, some who have mastered agricultural production technology and some who have not mastered agricultural production technology, some are honest and some are dishonest, so Liu Bei decided to adopt militarization in the initial collective farm management to establish order.

From his own army, he looked for elite soldiers who were literate and experienced in farming to serve as "instructors" of collective farms with weapons.

He wants to use militarized management methods to let these guys in remote places who are not very willing to obey the management feel the "light of civilization" from the Central Plains.

Those who live under the law of the jungle should be treated harshly, thunderous means should be used, and severe punishment should be severely punished. If order is not established through strict management, there will be no order in the collective farm.

As Dong Huang once said, Liangzhou people sleep with knives in their arms since they were young. It doesn’t matter if they don’t know how to plow the fields.

Facing such a group of people, only the bloody and chilling Han army that defeated them could deter them.

While deterring them, we must also provide them with a certain amount of cultural education. The government and the army can sing the good face and the bad face, so that they can learn to read characters, learn agricultural production techniques, and do some activities to send warmth from time to time.

Come and go, after a while, these rebellious guys got used to the stable days of sunrise and sunset, and the order of the farm was established, and they naturally evolved into rules and order. good people".

A series of supporting measures were issued, and a series of supporting resources were issued. One after another, state officials ran in and out, running around in order to implement the will of the state shepherd Liu Bei.

At the same time that the agricultural production and civil affairs began, Liu Bei also had a comprehensive understanding of the iron and steel smelting and animal husbandry in Liangzhou.

There is nothing to say about iron and steel smelting. It is basically the same as Youzhou. Private operations are allowed, and the government sets up iron officials to collect taxes. However, due to the war, the production of iron and steel smelting has been severely damaged, so it also needs to invest in this area to resume production.

As for the animal husbandry, it is mainly in the hands of the powerful, the Qiang, the Huns and other groups, leaving relatively few state-level animal husbandry facilities for the Liangzhou government.

As before, due to poor management and war damage, many animal husbandry industries have been destroyed. Whether it is the court or the local government, they have suffered a lot. The government-run animal husbandry facilities in Jincheng County, Longxi County were destroyed by the rebels. Take a lot.

On the contrary, this five-county conquest plan has captured quite a lot, especially Zhang Fei and Xia Houyuan. Together, these two people captured more than [-] livestock for Liu Bei, including cattle, sheep and horses.

Therefore, Liu Bei is not worried about not having enough livestock to use for the time being, and plans to resume the construction of the Liangzhou government's own animal husbandry institution in Liangzhou to raise a large number of cattle, sheep and horses.

After Lin Lin finally figured it out, Liu Bei sighed a little.

Fortunately, he is not a person who pays attention to personal material enjoyment, but anyone who pays attention to personal material enjoyment will not be willing to spend such a large amount of money on Liangzhou to resume production and construction.

Really, destruction is a matter of one day and one night, but it takes a long time and a greater initial investment to restore it. How about killing people and setting fire to gold belts, repairing bridges and paving roads without corpses?
Liangzhou was destroyed enough and bad enough that Liu Bei wanted to start rectifying it, but found that there were problems everywhere, and there were places where money needed to be spent everywhere. It was a bottomless pit.

Whether the [-] million yuan of wealth he brought can support the initial results of the Liangzhou renovation plan, it really needs to be carefully evaluated.

During that time, Liu Bei was quite a bit lazy, and spent every day calculating with his subordinates. All kinds of calculations and speculations made him feel that the future was not very good.

Until one day, Liu Bei overheard someone from his subordinates talking about the bitterness of Liangzhou salt compared to Luoyang's salt, and he was not very well during this period of time.

This complaint awakened Liu Bei's memory.

Yeah, why did I forget the salt?
In fact, at the earliest time, he realized that the salt he ate was not right, a bit bitter, but at that time he couldn't afford to eat, so how could he think about salt?

Just deal with it in one go.

Later, when he became rich and developed, he began to care about the problem of salt, and he was able to spend money to buy some salt with slightly better quality and less bitterness.

After observation, he realized that these salts were boiled or precipitated from salty brine that had not been filtered of impurities. There were many impurities in it, so the taste was bitter.

At that time, he thought about taking advantage of the fact that there was no salt and iron monopoly policy during the Eastern Han Dynasty to produce fine salt and sell it, so as to obtain huge wealth and reach the pinnacle of life.

But he immediately thought about the matter involving salt. If he ran the business rashly without any strength, he might be making wedding dresses for others... No, he must be making wedding dresses for others.

Maybe it's hard to save my life.

And he was used to eating this kind of salt at that time, so he put the matter aside for the time being.

Afterwards, I continued to calculate and continue to drill, and I didn't think about making money at all.

Until now, he has achieved fame and become a heavyweight among the group of people standing at the top of the Han Dynasty. He has blossomed in military politics and academics, has military power, and has direct contact with the emperor and great eunuch Zhang Rang.

No matter from which point of view, Liu Bei realized that he seemed to have the qualifications to manage the salt industry.

And he further thought that just a little west of Jincheng County is Qinghai Lake, and there is a big salt pond next to it.

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