Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 623 Sun Dali's Office

Coming out of Liu Wenkai's reception room, Li Shimin understood why when Changsun Wuji reported the situation in Jiuyuan County to him, why he wrote here the same as the world of Datong. It turned out that this place is really similar to the world of Datong, Li Shimin It is difficult to pick out some faults.

In the end, he still stepped into Sun Dali's office. The grassroots officials played a connecting role, but the chief officer was always at the helm, and what was Sun Dali, the chief official, doing?

Meet the people.

Sun Dali's office is not small. There is a sand table with a size of more than ten square meters. In it, nine fields, nine towns, more than 100 villages, ditches, roads, ponds, and fields in each field are realistically planned. At this time, he was holding a long indicating pole in his hand, explaining something on the sand table, and around the sand table, there were dozens of people gathered together, and there were officials from various divisions wearing official costumes , There are yamen servants, and most of them are ordinary people in ordinary clothes.

Li Shimin didn't directly interrupt their speech, but just looked around the office. He learned from Liu Wenkai that Sun Dali was discussing the construction of bridge roads with representatives of the people in Wuyuan Town. , meetings with representatives of the local people as the main members are held almost every day.

The first thing he saw was a table on the wall that recorded the water level of the Yangtze River, which was detailed down to the morning and evening of each day. That is to say, he would know immediately if there was any change in the water level of the Yangtze River. He has a notation marked on it.

Then, he saw a graph drawn by irregular line segments. Next to the atlas, it said 'population growth K-line graph'.

Li Shimin didn't know what the "K line" meant. He just saw each point and the corresponding number. After taking office, the number of people has increased from 781 per month at the beginning to 1272 per month now, and it has been steadily increasing every month. In other words, this county with 1 households may increase its population by more than [-] per year in the future. people, more than [-]% of the current total population.

Population development is in a stepwise manner. The larger the base, the faster the growth. It will be more than 1 a year, and it will more than double in ten years. Magnify several times, because those children will marry again and have more children.

In Jiuyuan County, since Zhen Qian was invited by Sun Xiangfu to set up the medical system and keep a few of her disciples here, the survival rate of newborns has almost been guaranteed to reach more than [-]%. After the marriage age of young children is controlled to the false age of eighteen, the survival rate may increase a little bit. Therefore, Li Shimin saw a row of large characters written with a brush next to this drawing.

'How to solve the problem of survival after population growth? '

Seeing this row of familiar Song style characters, Li Shimin knew that it was written by Sun Xiangfu. This typesetting immediately reminded Li Shimin of what would happen if the population of Jiuyuan County continued to grow like this, ten to twenty years later?A large family with more than ten mouths and 20 acres of land can live well?

It turns out that there are many problems hidden behind the seemingly harmonious world, and they have already begun to think about solutions to the problems.

Not long after, the whole office fell silent. It turned out that when the discussion reached the final stage, a show of hands voted. However, when Sun Dali was counting the number of people and counting everyone's opinions, he saw Li Shimin wandering around his office. Waiting for others, everyone's eyes also looked at him.

"Oh, we're not here to attend your meeting. You can continue. I can wait for you to finish the meeting."

Li Shimin only thought that his makeup could deceive everyone, but he didn't want his voice. Sun Dali was still familiar with it, and immediately knew that it was the emperor Li Shimin who came. After looking at today's proposal, it was basically completed, so he announced, "Then , The proposal to build an arch bridge on the main canal that can be used by ships was passed unanimously. Starting tomorrow, the county government will send an officer Cao to implement it for democracy. The document will post the voting results and resolutions in an announcement. Today Let's end the meeting here!"

When everyone heard the words, they turned around and left the venue one after another. When they left, some people said happily, "In this way, it will be much more convenient for our village to go to the fields and main roads, and we don't have to punting."

"Yes, yes! Every time my stubborn ox gets into the boat and crosses the river, it takes a long time. Now, the whole village doesn't have to worry so much."

"In the future, we will build more carts, so that the agricultural tools can be pulled to the field in one cart. When harvesting, there is no need to move them up and down on the boat, and they can be pulled directly from the field to the home..."

It turned out that Sun Dali held a bridge repair hearing today. Since there are many rivers and ditches in Jiuyuan County, farmers need to cross the river when they go to the fields. However, although the villages here are located along the river, But it has not reached the point where every family has a boat, and they can use the boat to reach all the fields when they go out.

And if every family punted their boats to the river near their fields and tied the boats to the river to work, it would block the passage of passenger ships and cargo ships. The road is not far away, but it takes a long detour to get the cattle and agricultural tools into the field. When harvesting, they have to carry them up and down by the river.

But with the arch bridge erected on the river, all these problems can be solved. Boats can still travel on the river, cars can travel between the fields, and people can take a shorter road to their fields to produce and live. , the whole is convenient and efficient.

However, the construction of stone arch bridges covering various villages is not a small project. Who will pay for the bridge repairs?Some fields may be occupied, who will provide these lands?How will the government make up for it after leaving the land?This needs to be discussed with everyone.

Today, Sun Dali called representatives from various villages to discuss and vote, and the minority obeyed the majority.Problems like this are not only in No. [-] courtyard, but also in other courtyards. It is a relatively common job that Sun Dali deals with on a daily basis.

"Your Majesty, why are you here?" Sun Dali waited for the people and officials under him to leave before bowing to Li Shimin.

"Come and see you! How about it, it's not easy to be a county magistrate in charge of more than [-] people!"

"Hehe, don't you know the little ink in my stomach? Xiangfu told me a skill, 'serving the people'. As long as what I do is serving the people, the people will support me and help me. I think of all kinds of good ways to make their own homes better, so! Don’t look at me as if I sit in a county and manage all the people. It seems very majestic, but in fact! The first problem that Xiangfu let me solve is, I haven't solved it yet! Now, in Xiangfu's words, it's the wisdom of the common people that is pushing me forward." Sun Dali pointed to the row of words on the wall that Li Shimin was looking at just now.

Li Shimin liked Sun Dali's sincerity, patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Your problem is not difficult to solve. My Tang Dynasty is big enough, and there is no matter how much land there is, as long as you have nine embankments If the county needs it, I can allocate land to you at any time."

Who knows, Sun Dali didn't see how happy he was when he heard the words, and said, "Well, that's what the minister told Xiangfu at the time, I said, our Tang Dynasty is so big, there are good lands that can be reclaimed everywhere , In the northern grasslands, there are tens of millions of acres of land, so there is no need to worry about too many people, who knows, but he slapped him on the head."

Li Shimin said with interest, "Why did he slap you on the head?"

Sun Dali touched his forehead, as if that place was still hurting, and said aggrievedly, "He said, my thinking direction is wrong."

"Then did he say how to correct it?"

"Say it! He said, we farm well so that more people can study hard and don't need to farm in the future. What we need to think about is how to improve the happiness index of the people, rather than thinking about how to make them live. More children will contribute productive forces to the development of the country, and they cannot be allowed to bear the pain of being separated from each other. If the two cannot be organically combined, problems will arise after a long time. Therefore, my answer is incorrect. However, I don't know what an 'organic combination' is."

Sun Dali's answer was incorrect, so Li Shimin's answer, who had the same idea as him, was naturally wrong too. This reminded him of what the yamen servant at the county yamen gate had said to him earlier, that the people here were all planning to live in the world. People who have lived here for generations have lived a comfortable and beautiful life here, and they have gradually gotten used to it. Will they be willing to let them move out when the time comes?
What the government is most afraid of doing is this kind of large-scale violation of public opinion.

"Since he pointed out that your answer was wrong, why didn't he just tell you the correct answer?" Li Shimin thought for a while, but couldn't think of another way to go, so he asked again.

Sun Dali scratched his head and replied, "He said that what he is doing now is to find the correct answer, at least, to improve the production technology so that less land can feed more people and relieve our future pressure. If we can transition to another society in a few tens to a hundred years, maybe the problem will be solved."

"Another kind of society? What kind of society?" Li Shimin asked hurriedly as if he had heard some key words.

"He asked me to think for myself, and said that after the reserve land in our county is used up, I will naturally know."

"Of course you know?"

Li Shimin was even more confused by what Sun Dali said. After thinking for a while, he couldn't figure it out, and then asked, "Then how long can you use the reserve land in Jiuyuan County?"

Sun Dali spread his hands and said, "It's only tens of thousands of acres, and it won't be long. According to the regulations of Jiuyuan County, newly married couples have to go to the government office to obtain separate household registration, receive land and homestead, and reach the age of 45. couples, they can choose whether to retire the land according to their own wishes, and enjoy pension security. many things."

The current new accounts are actually not too many. The most frightening thing is that ten years later, the children born in the first wave of population growth in the paddock will reach the stage of adulthood of sixteen or seventeen dollars, and it may happen every year. Thousands of new accounts will be added, and according to the current division of [-] mu and one piece of homestead, then there will be [-] mu of land a year. Some points.

Li Shimin listened to Sun Dali's narration, firstly he felt that the household registration policy in Jiuyuan County was good, in this way allocating land and homesteads to the common people, the common people would have a high willingness to separate families and set up households, and would not oppose the imperial government's policy of establishing new households upon marriage, Over time, it prevented the family from growing bigger and forming a local powerful force.

But when I heard Sun Dali say that the results will be seen in more than a year, I suddenly feel that my brain is not enough, and if I don’t add new land, how do you solve the land and homestead problems that these newly registered people need? ?
(End of this chapter)