Kuang Yihe's level is Zhengsanpin and one province, and his annual salary is 1,200 stone plus 500 taels of silver, plus he is the political envoy of Zuobu in Sichuan, and he can receive a subsidy of silver from Sichuan Province every year, which is about 300 taels.

In this way, it is quite objective.

Eight hundred taels of silver, 1,200 stone of grain, two people in a high hall, seven wives and concubines, nine children, plus Kuang Yi and himself are nineteen mouths.

Can't you feed it?

Obviously not, but looking at the current prices in Sichuan, you can eat well and eat well, but when it comes to the quality of life, it is obviously impossible to be very high.

That's why Kuang Yi and Fang Cai laughed at themselves for their 'loss of personal morality', when they were young, they were lustful and married a few partial concubines, so that they are now living in poverty, and they are not bad, but they can't talk about a good word.

"After returning farmland, a large number of relocated households were born in Sichuan, and among these relocated households, ordinary people accounted for more than ninety percent, and they actually did not have much impact on the rise in prices in Chengdu."

Kwong Yi-wo does not talk much about his own living difficulties, but tells the problem from another perspective: "But there are still about 10% of the number of landlords who own a lot of land.

Most of these landlords are at the county and township levels, serving as village chiefs and clan elders with clan surnames, or as grain chiefs at the provincial level in various prefectures for many years, and they hold as little as 3,500 mu of land, and more than 1,000 mu to 10,000 mu.

This group of people used to make a living by producing and selling grain, and with the decline in grain prices, their income has not been very objective, but this time they have turned into hundreds of thousands or even millions of huge riches in furniture.

In the city of Chengdu, it was to see what to buy, and the official heard that there was a landlord surnamed Jia, who had to buy several carts of fruits and pastries to fill home in a day, and there were so many that he could not eat them to feed the family's cats and dogs.

Other foods are also high, chickens, ducks, fish, meat, eggs, sugar and milk and other edible materials have been eaten raw by such a group of people who have become rich due to returning farmland to become sky-high.

The tea used by this official in his home today was two taels of silver a pound before returning to farmland, and now, eighteen taels of silver! ”

Everyone was shocked and startled by the number in Kuang Yihe's mouth.

"Not to mention that when the children are older and want to study, the official has to find teachers and invite them to a home school."

Speaking of this, Kwong Yihe sighed.

"There is a school in Chengdu, but the imperial court has clearly decreed that the children of officials above the fifth grade are forbidden to go to school, and the quota must be given to ordinary people and children of grassroots officials who cannot obtain knowledge and have no way to obtain learning, and the official cannot take the lead in violating this rule, so this is also a lot of money."

From this point of view, with Kuang Yihe's Yulu to support the food and drink of the whole family, the children's schooling is indeed barely able to drink such tea.

"The feudal platform is honest and honest, and it is really a model for my generation."

Everyone thought that Kuang Yihe was crying poor and miserable, in exchange for a good official voice, so they all opened their mouths to send good words.

However, Kuang Yihe shook his head, but said: "This official is not sticking gold powder and jade on his face, saying that he will listen to his colleagues, let alone using your mouths to promote how honest and poor this official is.

Instead, I want you to reflect on how to control and guide the current soaring prices in Sichuan, and I also hope that you can spend more time thinking about stabilizing prices, rather than boosting the soaring prices. ”

Everyone who said this was a little unbearable, and they all knew in their hearts where Kuang Yi and the last sentence of 'boosting prices' were pointed.

The rise in prices in Chengdu has nothing to do with the bureaucrats here.

Maybe their money is not enough for them to spend all their time drinking at the moment when prices are soaring, but how can they eat and buy, how can they go out of their own pockets?

What kind of official is it called if you don't spend public money?

As long as you can find a suitable excuse to take the money out of the public account, then who will feel distressed to spend the money?

If you can't eat at home, you go to the restaurant and go to the big canteen of the provincial yamen, if you want to eat and drink, there is no reason not to buy it, you can't buy it.

The emperor is not a hungry soldier, but as the old saying goes, it is impossible for Jianwen to let the horses run again, and he is not willing to give the horses grass, and the money that officials eat during the office is always justified by the officials themselves.

"The big guy should be glad that a few months ago, the central government allocated tens of millions of stone of grain into Sichuan, which ensured that the grain price in Sichuan Province has not risen so far, otherwise the grain price will soar, and that is really the erosion of a province."

The words made Kuang Yihe say this, and the big guy sighed in his heart.

I thought it was the New Year's season, a group of people sat together to drink, chat, and talk about the elegance of the snow and the moon, who would have thought that it would be better to talk about work and government affairs.

Can't officials have a little private life?

Kuang Yi and such a leader are too unqualified.

"I think so."

At this time, Qian Anping, the prefect of Chengdu, opened his mouth to pick up the conversation and expressed his views on the price issue mentioned by Kuang Yi and Fang Cai.

"I don't know if you have paid attention to the price of alcohol in Chengdu recently."

Zuo Shenzheng said: "I have heard that the price of wine is high first and then low, and in just a few months, many large and small wineries have popped up in Chengdu. ”

"I understand this matter relatively well, and I will tell you about it."

Qian Anping said with a smile: "There is a Lijia village outside Chengdu, and after the village returned to farmland, it did not say what the whole village did when they entered the city to make a living.

They raised funds from the whole village and built a large brewery at the site of their village, which was the Jiannanchun that was particularly popular some time ago.

It happened to catch up with the skyrocketing price of alcohol and made a lot of money.

This is good, other farmers who have returned to farmland see that they can make money by making wine, so they have rushed to the wine industry, resulting in the price of wine in Chengdu first high and then low. ”

The chief official of Sichuan who is in charge of commerce understood at this time, so he followed suit.

"What Qian Zhifu means by this is that the reason for the current high prices in Chengdu is because the people only consume and do not produce, as long as the production is reached, then the price will naturally fall."

"That's right."

Qian Anping nodded, and then said: "There is another point, that is, the people were originally farmers, they had no education and only knew how to farm, even if they returned to farming and had money in their hands, they didn't know how to use it."

Nowadays in Chengdu, all prices are rising, why is no one doing it?

It is because of the lack of leaders, the people like to blindly follow the trend, see that people make wine to make money, they all go to make wine, but no one to see, now the cultivation of fruit trees can also make money, breeding chickens and ducks can also make money, learn the craft, make a pastry workshop, garment workshop, these can make money.

Wouldn't that cause prices to skyrocket?

His Majesty wrote in a book of holy words that the ignorance of the people is not true ignorance, but because they lack the courage to accept failure and the ability to bear the risks that it brings to their lives.

Therefore, the people often like to see others make money first, and then they will rush to do the same thing, and a small number of bold people do the first, and His Majesty decrees this group or individual to be 'the first to eat crabs', and they make a fortune.

Chengdu Prefecture and Sichuan Political Envoys are the political institutions of Sichuan, and all of you here, your own officials, and the feudal lords are the leaders of the people, not those businessmen.

Since we know that prices are rising because there is only consumption and no production, then why don't we guide the people to produce? Which materials are rising or in short supply, let's guide the people to produce what materials, look at the problem broadly, and solve the problem in a targeted manner. ”

A full house of words.

Qian Anping's highlights and views made everyone look at him with admiration, and even Kuang Yihe nodded frequently, never thinking that Qian Anping's current level of economic development is not low.

"But what if you don't make money?"

Some people timidly questioned: "If the people are engaged in a certain production, but there are risks in the production process, resulting in unsatisfactory and unsatisfactory output, which makes it impossible to sell, is it not even difficult to maintain their lives?" ”

"The yamen will come forward to purchase or give subsidy policies, encourage the development of private self-employment, and promote the rapid conversion of farmland households."

Qian Anping threw a bombshell: "Or, the yamen will provide special funds, and we will engage in production, as long as we make money, the people will flock to it, whether it is a family workshop, or a cluster workshop like Lijia Village, we must let the people have a livelihood to do."

In addition, before the Ministry of Industry sent a commissioner to form the Zigong Salt Well Supervision Division, these months has been recruiting a large number of people to clear the external difficulties around the Zigong Salt Well, and now the progress is rapid, presumably this year's expansion will be put on the agenda, we don't have to worry about the problem of salt, the rest of the living materials, seasonings, ingredients including onions, ginger, garlic and other things, can be produced, planted.

In this way, in less than three years, Sichuan will achieve self-sufficiency, and some of the things that have no output can be supported by other provinces, but what we produce more can also be sold to other provinces, and the cycle will go back and forth.

With their own livelihoods and low prices, is it still difficult to achieve the prosperity that His Majesty wants to see, with enough food and clothing, good food, and a stable and comfortable life? ”

Qian Anping's remarks about Zhu Yunwen were published in the Di Bao before the end of the year, and Zhu Yunwen and the cabinet formulated several level indicators on the development and construction of the people's livelihood in various provinces.

The most basic is of course the layer of food and clothing.

Not hungry, not freezing.

This is the easiest to achieve, there are India, Siam, Cochin, the people of the Ming Dynasty, including the southwest and northwest, starve to death will not exist, unless the mouth is sewn and beaten to death and not eat.

The second layer is the taste of food and clothing.

The price of salt, oil, soy vinegar, green onion, ginger, garlic and other seasoning ingredients is affordable and cheap.

Famous dishes with outstanding characteristics, such as big oil, big meat, and big spicy, are no longer luxury dishes for the elite class, but delicacies that the people themselves can cook at home.

Wearing clothes means that people can wear what they want to wear according to different seasons, different weather, and even different occasions, with different styles and materials. There can no longer be a matter of a few families in Yunnan, Shaanxi and Gansu wearing one piece of clothing, and whoever goes out, others are bare-bottomed at home.

For the time being, only a few prefectures such as Quanzhou and Hangzhou have achieved this level.

On the third floor, life is stable and comfortable.

Briefly introduce the two words 'well-off'.

With a low cost of living and a comfortable material living environment, the people can get money from the primitive farming system and buy all the materials needed for life through other production methods, which can not only achieve the second point, but also save every year.

This is called stability and comfort, this level, the provincial capital that the whole Ming Dynasty has not yet realized.

The fourth layer is rich in spiritual life.

This point, in Zhu Yunwen's view, also belongs to the third level, because it belongs to the derivative field of the third layer, and it is connected to the third layer.

After the quality of life in physiology has stabilized, the people have begun to have a cultural level, not to mention the high and low, but they are no longer satisfied with just eating well and dressing well, and they like to evaluate the national policy when they have nothing to do, and scold Zhu Yunwen, the emperor, for this is not good, that is not good.

Anyway, as long as there is no higher level than them in the eyes of the people, even if the spiritual life has entered the threshold.

Then, in my spare time, I listened to listening to stories, opera word cards, and occasionally visited a green building, not just doing those physical exercises, but began to seek psychological comfort, looking for a place that can tell the unsatisfactory in ordinary life, or the joke-like net cloud suppression time, like to moan without illness, and say two sentences such as 'I was born to be human, I am sorry' and other frustrating self-doubt.

Then the anger will erupt from the sky, and it will be considered to realize the enrichment of spiritual life.

Because spiritual life itself is not entirely positive.

Negative energy, anger and other narrow-mindedness that cannot be directly seen belong to the inherent existence of the human spirit, and these negative emotions and positive emotions are not divided into high and low.

After all, people are not programmed to be programmed.

When the common people began to pursue the enrichment of spiritual life, even at the top, there was no room for a higher level of progress in the social hierarchy for the time being.

After physiology and psychology, what is there to pursue and progress?

Maybe that's all that's left to explore the unknown starry sky, holding an astronomical telescope to look at the stars, and wondering if there is any other life besides the earth.

Comrade Sun Liancheng, a well-known representative figure.

The cognition and evaluation of these four levels were not only entered into works such as "Jianwen Thought" by Xie Jin in a timely manner, but also published in the internal journal Di Bao to inform the provincial officials.

"At present, I Sichuan people, full of food and warmth, there is definitely no pressure, eat, food is cheap or even low, wear, we have our own Shu embroidery brand, but there is no mass production, this can be targeted to solve, the first layer we have reached, the goal is left with the second layer.

Returning farmland to farmland has brought hundreds of thousands of out-of-production households, and this is our advantage, and we are the new force to achieve the second-tier goal.

When prices settle down, or even fall back to a lower level than before Jianwen returned to farmland in 12 years, at that time, our second layer will be reached. ”

Qian Anping didn't speak much, and he didn't dare to put forward how to achieve the third layer ambitiously, but only in terms of the second layer, if it can be realized, Sichuan will be regarded as an excellent completion of Zhu Yunwen's instructions.

"Everyone is an official."

At this time, Kuang Yihe expressed his concluding views, saying: "Your Majesty's holy words are engraved in stone and left a book, which is a precept for the officials and the people of the country, and has repeatedly said that officials should uphold the heart of cherishing and loving the people.

It is necessary to regard how to improve the quality of life of the people as the only criterion for judging the performance of officials.

This official does not have any talent that has gone through the heavens and latitudes, and he does not dare to say that he has more than the level of everyone here, this official only has one thing in mind, Sichuan's return to farmland this time, hundreds of thousands of people have no way to make a living, we cannot sit idly by.

Sichuan not only must not be chaotic, but also take this opportunity to quickly lead the people to realize His Majesty's instructions on returning farmland to change production, so that the prices of all materials needed for the people's lives can quickly stabilize. ”

Seeing Kuang Yihe get up and give up his hand, everyone left their seats in shock and responded one after another.

"The feudal platform is serious, and the lower officials and others should do their best to help."

Living in poverty is not a shame for an official, at least Kwong Yihe is rich in spirit.

He is not a saint, at least he has a loss of personal morality, and he accepted six partial concubines, and the word lust is undeniable.

However, there is no monogamy in the Ming Dynasty, as long as you can afford it, and you don't use power to bully and occupy it, then how much you marry is not a political mistake.

"Without further ado, let's eat."

Kuang Yihe led a group of people to sit down at the table, raised his glass and said.

"I hope you will take this official as a warning, otherwise these three wives and four concubines seem to be full of flowers, and the taste is sweet and bitter, and they can't be treated with outsiders."

Everyone laughed and raised their glasses.