Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 584 Jiuyuan County

Jiuyuan County did not exist at first, but it was Sun Xiangfu who opened up nearly one million acres of plowland in the plains along the Yangtze River Lakes and resettled [-] households, so it was a newly established county-level administrative region. Therefore, apart from the fields, With [-] households, there is not even a county seat, let alone a county government. Everything starts from scratch. Of course, the construction of the county seat and county government started a few months ago, and now it has begun to take shape.

"I thought you would show your face when you went to Dingxiang. How did you get dismissed from office?" Then he found Sun Xiangfu's carriage, rode his horse and came up to meet him.

Sun Xiangfu lifted the curtain, sat side by side with Liu San who was driving the car, and said, "Killing Wang Hao, even at the expense of the official rank, is worth it in my opinion."

Hearing this, Lawyer Pei nodded and said, "That's the reason, as long as you don't lose His Majesty's trust, it will be a matter of time before you recover."

"It's hard for me to say anything about trust. Now I want to do something in Jiuyuan County to prove to His Majesty that my proposition is correct and strengthen His Majesty's trust in me."

"Really? Is there anything I can help with? You just say that although my subordinates do not belong to the Jiuyuan County Government, they are in charge of the construction of the embankment. In this regard, I will definitely be able to ensure that the plan will continue according to your previous plan." built."

"The matter of building embankments, after Mr. Zhao took office, he should step up his efforts and continue to implement it. Moreover, there will be many people who will settle here in the future. It is estimated that by the end of the year, you will not know where you will be transferred.

However, building the paddocks is only the foundation for the development of this place. The paddocks in our Jiuyuan County have all been built, and we are about to start the next step of development and construction. It is best that we implement it before Mr. Zhao takes office. Go on, let him see the results, and make it a model county in the Shannando area and all the fields in the future. "

"Model county?" Lawyer Pei had never heard of the term.

Sun Xiangfu explained, "It is to let them manage according to the policies, management systems, and management methods implemented by our county."

Lawyer Pei suddenly said, "I understand, you are here to guide Brother Dali on construction and development."

Sun Xiangfu nodded and asked, "What about others?"

"It's at the construction site of the county government!"

Soon, Sun Xiangfu, led by lawyer Pei, came to the Jiuyuan County Government Office under construction.

This guy Sun Dali, if you ask him to work well, if you ask him to be a serious official, he will not have that consciousness at all. The emperor gave him an appointment, so he came here as a last resort. He began to build the county government office as his home. He didn't travel far, and he felt like he was wandering outside without a nest. He now has three concubines and seven children. The house is not big enough.

"Wearing a new official robe to do mud and water work, you are really not afraid of losing the dignity of the court!"

"I don't know what is decent or not. I only know that since I started working a few days ago, the workers here have worked harder. In less than a month, people will be able to live here, just in time for entry. Before winter, our family can live in the new house."

The characteristic of Sun Dali is simplicity. With him in Xingfu Village, the labor productivity in the whole village will be driven by him. If it wasn't because of Sun Xiangfu, Li Shimin forced him, he would be willing to stay in Xingfu Village for the rest of his life people.

"You, the county magistrate, are working in person, and those workers dare to be lazy. By the way, didn't your mother come with you?"

"No! She is all about the chicken farm in the village, and she doesn't want to go there. The village also needs to keep some older generations to keep those younger ones under control. By the way, when I come, I will leave the warehouse in the village. I handed over all the keys to Zhao Da, and let him temporarily take charge of the village's public property."

"Those things are actually not worth a lot of money. If you give them to him, just give them to him! The things that will be produced in the future will definitely be more high-end."

"By the way, isn't your plowed field about to be harvested? Why come to me when you have time?"

"There are some things I want to talk to you about."

"Then I'll ask your sister-in-law to cook a few dishes. Let's have some drinks at noon. Brother Pei, you can come too."

"Okay." Attorney Pei smiled and nodded.

Jiuyuan County should currently be the county with the largest population and the highest land utilization rate in the entire Tang Dynasty except Jing County. Almost all the land except for roads, irrigation ditches, and living places can be invested in agriculture. livestock production.

Now, 100 households are divided into nine large embankment fields, planting a total area of ​​about 25 million mu of fields. Each household has 90 mu of paddy fields and [-] mu of dry fields, which is almost [-] mu.

In addition, there are public lands, fish ponds, lotus root ponds, and forest farms allocated to each village, which are about [-] to [-] mu, and about [-] to [-] mu of official land. of.

At present, these official fields are cultivated by the army led by lawyer Pei, and will be returned to the county government when the embankment construction work is transferred to further places in the future.

In addition, the wide dikes and the berms on both sides are regarded as the livestock breeding area in the county, and basically buffaloes are mainly used for farming.

Of course, the largest area is the Yangtze River beach and the big rivers between the embankments. Large-scale duck farming.

There are nearly [-] people living in this area with a radius of tens of kilometers. During the day, no matter where you are in Jiuyuan County, you can basically see houses, fields, and a certain number of people.

After Sun Xiangfu and Lawyer Pei settled down in the tent where Sun Dali was temporarily staying, they started speaking directly.

"Brother Dali, I have a few suggestions on how to govern Jiuyuan County, please listen carefully."

"You still don't know me? Tell me to be obedient and do things. This is successful. Ask me to be the master of so many people and lead them to develop. I will definitely not succeed. Anyway, I will do what you say. Listen to you, you must be wrong No."

Sun Xiangfu nodded and said, "That's fine, I'll just say it straight. First, you have to establish a new rule."

"What rules?"

"Open, the rules of publicity."

"Public, public announcement?" Sun Dali asked in surprise. He has seen a lot of things in the world these years, and he is no longer a small farmer a few years ago, but he is still very unfamiliar with these two words.

"Yes, open means that any political or industrial projects led by your Jiuyuan county government will be publicly explained to the people of the whole county.

Publicity means that any financial affairs, resource expenses, and balances are made into forms that the common people can understand, and publicized to the common people, so that they can know what is in the county government, and what is used for the usual expenses and expenses. place, how much is the balance.

The entire Jiuyuan County is actually not very big, with a radius of less than 150 miles. If you go in any direction, it will take dozens of miles to reach the end.

Moreover, all the land boundaries have well-built cement roads, canals for boats, and embankments for cars and horses. It can be said that the traffic is very developed, which is a bit better than that in Guanzhong. With a large embankment and a central location, any news of your government orders can be conveyed to the entire county, or even all the villages, within a day. This is your advantage in governance. "

"So specifically, what are we going to do?"

"The first is to establish a subordinate administrative unit to communicate and publicize your government orders. In the past, most of them were called Li, but townships are better. If they are divided into Li, there can be more than a dozen. It is not easy to unify, and they are directly divided into nine townships according to the embankment. That's fine, the embankment where the county seat is located is under your direct management.

Then, according to the current structure of a village of about two to three hundred households, there are about 100 households, or more than [-] villages. In the villages, there are village chiefs who are directly managed by the township chiefs.

Regardless of whether it is a town or a village, it is necessary to do a good job of publicity and publicity, so that the people can clearly see at a glance all the things that should be borne by themselves and enjoyed by themselves. "

"I understand what you mean by this system, it's a means to prevent corruption!" Sun Dali suddenly said!
Sun Xiangfu was very pleasantly surprised by Sun Dali's comprehension, and said with a smile, "Elimination of corruption is only a function of this policy. The government orders are smooth, so that all ordinary people can quickly know what they should do, so their cohesion will be greatly improved." It will improve, and the production efficiency will increase. At the same time, the publicized data will give them a certain level of competition comparison, which will give some incentives to their production.

Moreover, people who grew up in this environment are prone to management talents to further promote production progress, because they are usually familiar with various policies in the county. Some reflections and better suggestions will enable everyone to make more progress in actual production. The county will also reward all the people who put forward useful suggestions. "

"Well, then I'll do as you said!" Sun Dali nodded repeatedly after listening.

After so many years in Xingfu Village, he has long been accustomed to this mode of everyone's opinions. However, this mode can only be carried out within Xingfu Village before. Officials in other places are generally not willing to let the people dictate to the government. It is a good situation if they can complete more than half of the decrees issued, let alone make the decrees more advanced and in line with the actual situation.

In this way, under the ebb and flow, there will be a very large contrast. One is to discount the original basis, and the other is to go further on the original basis.

Of course, when Sun Xiangfu came today, he definitely didn’t just talk about this issue. After several concubines of the Guo family and Sun Dali brought a table of dishes, Sun Xiangfu said again, “This open and public announcement system is just for everyone. It is a basis for the implementation of the system, and on this basis, we must do a good job in several other internal affairs management and people-benefiting projects in order to truly make Jiuyuan County a model county in Shannan Province."

"Those projects?" Sun Dali asked again.

Sun Xiangfu said one by one what he had thought about a long time ago, "First of all, it is the medical security and pension systems. Our Jiuyuan County will imitate the factories in Weinan and take the lead in implementing these two systems."

"Medical security and pension system? It takes a lot of money to get it. This county is poor and empty now, and there is only a little money you allocated to build the county seat and county government. How can you afford it?"

"Hehe, who said that it would cost a lot of money to implement this system? According to the tax standard of 100 million mu of land and two seasons per year, how much agricultural tax does Jiuyuan County need to pay to the imperial court a year? But about 30 stone grain, The value is less than 75 guan, and how much is our output? Just 700 mu of paddy fields. According to the output of more than [-] shi of rice in the last season, that is more than [-] million shi of grain. With so much output, we It’s impossible to just pile it up at home and eat it! You have to sell it, get money, build a property, let all the people buy shares, invest, and get income.”

Speaking of doing business, not to mention Sun Dali who is familiar with various industries in Xingfu Village, even Lawyer Pei probably knows the intention of Sun Xiangfu's disclosure and announcement just now.

(End of this chapter)