Chapter 402 The Overhaul and Construction Plan of Ganda Zhizhou
Back in Quanzhou City, Gan Qi personally "bet" Pu Zhigao to buy a house, of course, Gan Qi is also full of "kindness", in order to help the Pu family settle in Quanzhou, and even personally came forward to help Pu Zhigao negotiate the price and do ideological work.
The houses of the ancients, unless there are family changes, are generally not sold, especially the ancestral business handed down from the ancestors, which is even more difficult to buy.
So it is very necessary for Gan Qi to come forward, and the ideological work actually has some flavor of bullying, but Gan Qi is not the kind of black-hearted person, in the price of Pu Zhigao's house, it is willing, even if it is twice the market price, Gan Qi also makes his own decisions, and he should take a bite and wait for Pu Zhigao to pay for it.
The Pu family buys a house, and it is not enough to buy one place, they have to buy a row. However, things were settled quickly, and with Gan Qi "bullying others", naturally there was no big problem.
The rest of Gan Qi doesn't care, Gan Qi has also been busy recently, that is, recruiting soldiers, Qingxi soldiers have recruited the most, but in just a few days, there are as many as seven or eight hundred men in Qingxi as soldiers.
The reason why Qingxi can recruit so many soldiers is because Qingxi is mountainous, there are thousands of mountains above 1,000 meters, the average altitude is about 600 meters, there are countless mountain people, but there is little arable land, probably this is also the reason, so it can produce the famous Anxi Tieguanyin in the future.
There are also iron mines here, so there are a lot of people who make a living in the mines, and the miners of this era are really high-risk occupations, and the income is still small, and it is still a relatively good livelihood compared to being a soldier.
Now Gan Qi has greatly improved the treatment of military men, and becoming a soldier is a good way for these mountain miners. Anyway, in the land of Quanzhou, there is no war, and there will be no war for hundreds of years. Drill or something? Can there still be hard mining?
The army of the Song Dynasty almost did not have a discharge system. Of course, it is not really nothing, the imperial court also has regulations that military men over 60 years old and generals over 65 years old will become leftovers, no longer practicing or going into battle, and only do some miscellaneous things in the barracks. In fact, this is not called discharge, first of all, they will not leave the army, and secondly, how many people who are soldiers in this era can live to be sixty years old?
Sometimes there are some policies, such as the military over 50 years old can be repatriated to the farm, this policy is a bit nonsensical, there is land for farming, who will be a soldier? If these people are really sent back to the farm, they will either starve to death or beg on the streets, and they will not even be able to rob the road.
Therefore, the retirement system of the Song Dynasty is just a sentence in the regulations: "After the army has been trained and left the army, the disabled and sick people who cannot exist outside the beggars can be adopted by the army, and they will not be lost." ”
It means that the army is discharged, as long as they can't live, they are all raised in the original barracks, and they eat three meals a day with the firehead camp in the army. The above sentence actually illustrates some problems, that is, in reality, many of those veterans are actually "unable to exist outside", and they have become beggars. With this kind of reality, this kind of regulation will come out.
In Ganqi's Quanzhou camp, there are still hundreds of old, weak, sick and disabled, and there are no resettlement measures for discharge, and they cannot rush out. But it's not that there is no way to deal with it, think about it, raise it, every meal has more chopsticks, you can also do some chores, and from time to time Gan Qi can also send them some pension pocket money, but you have to go through a formalities and repatriate all of them to the farm.
There is an advantage of repatriation and returning to the peasants, that is, it does not occupy a quota, so Gan Qi can directly raise more than 1,000 young and strong soldiers under the forbidden compartment.
In fact, in ancient times, when the military function was changed to land, some old soldiers still had dozens of acres of land at home after they were discharged, and they would compete to send their sons and grandsons to serve in the army. When he fights, he is also extremely brave, and his military merits are earned, which is his family business. It's just that this kind of system, after the population explosion, will not be able to sustain it.
Recruitment, training, Gan Qi does not interfere at will, training the army This kind of thing should also be handed over to professional people, such as Shi Honglei and Zhi Kexing.
Gan Qi knows how to train the army, but that is the experience of later generations, and it is not necessarily applicable to this era, if Gan Qi blindly interferes, it is also underestimating the wisdom of the ancients.
The ancient Chinese army was extremely capable of fighting, and the training system from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Han and Tang Dynasties had long been extremely advanced, and it was also a match made in heaven to fight with cold weapons. To change it at will is to add to it.
Ganchi had to do logistical work, such as ordnance, armor, horses, and food.
These Ganqi are willing to pay, not to mention the public funds used, and now Quanzhou's finances are not a problem to raise some soldiers and horses.
The team of tax collectors is also constantly expanding, from the original dozens to seven or eight hundred, and it is still recruiting, and Gan Qi even arranged tax collectors to train together in the military camp, and even the skills and tactics are the same.
Gan Qi became the governor of the state, and even the yacha expanded a lot. Many of the regulations of the Great Song Dynasty are actually quite perfect, but most of them are abandoned, such as the need for yacha to patrol the streets, day and night, but in most places, this kind of regulation has long become a dead letter.
Gan Qi came, naturally these regulations could not be made a dead letter, the patrol had to be patrolled, not only to patrol the city, but also to go to the countryside to patrol, and there was also a permanent team of officials on the dock.
Any scoundrel, oppresses the good, and collects protection money, will be sent to prison, and they will be beaten again.
If there is a traitor and a criminal, it will be even more miserable, and the punishment in the hall will have to be eaten.
If you have money, what kind of bridge and paving road, that's all trivial, Gan Qi even glanced at the map, raised his pen, and said: "The galloping road from Qingxi City to Qingyang Iron Yard must be repaired, and it must be able to be wide for three cars in parallel." ”
The officials below could only nod their heads, not daring to say that the project was difficult to cross the mountains and mountains, and could only look at the line drawn by Gan Qi on the map, constantly frowning.
The so-called gallop road, since the beginning of the Qin Dynasty and the six countries, China began to build gallop roads everywhere, that is, ancient highways, roads that can allow horses and cars to gallop.
Don't underestimate the galloping road, in ancient times, when even metal tools were scarce, to build a highway through the country, the amount of work to build is unimaginable, even greater than the construction of the Great Wall. But Daqin really built the highway that crisscrossed the country, and the ruins can be seen in future generations.
Gan Qi wants to build the gallop road through the Qingyang Iron Field, just because iron is very important, high-quality tools, blades, armor and ordnance can be sent to the north through sea and waterways in the future, with very low cost and very short time. If there is really a war with the Liao State or something, the armaments, food, and other materials from Fujian, and even the formed army, will continue to come ashore from Cangzhou, Hebei, then this kind of ability will be powerful.
This is not even less significant than the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, perhaps even more significant, southern China, as well as Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, in the past, it was difficult to send heavy materials to the north, with a mature sea transport route, everything will change. This truly and completely unites the whole of China and greatly strengthens the country's strength.
Although Gan Qi has some thoughts and plans, he does not think too long-term, the immediate thing is to do one thing at a time, the gallop of the iron yard is repaired, and then large-scale production is increased, even if it is to dump iron tools in the north of the Great Song Dynasty, he can also make a lot of money.
No one is mining? Or is mining dangerous, with heavy casualties?
Gan Qi also had the idea that Western capitalism, which is evil, invented a good solution to the shortage of labor. Maybe you can use it for the time being.
It's just that this method is too unconscionable, but Gan Qi is acceptable in his heart. Even Ganchi didn't think about African slaves, Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesian archipelago, Indian subcontinent, close and easy to use.
But there has to be a group of ruthless people to do it.
There are three iron yards in Quanzhou, as well as copper mines, and there is sulfur on the island of Taiwan. It is even said that there are still coal mines in Fujian, and the reserves are not low. In addition to not producing oil, Fujian has almost everything. In comparison, the island of Taiwan across the strait is nothing.
These things were not planned by Gan Qi, these were all things that he slowly began to plan after he arrived in Quanzhou, and it was also after Gan Qi knew that Fujian could produce a large amount of iron, and there was such a good trade environment, Gan Qi began to think more.
It was also after arriving in Fujian that Gan Qi faintly had a big plan in his mind, and the plan was still unclear, but he had a vague idea.
If you want to get rich, you must first build roads, and Ganqi has remembered this sentence deeply in his head since he was a child.
Gan Qi repaired the road, it was very rude, a map, a group of officials, Gan Qi just painted on the map, and officials from all over the country scratched their ears and cheeks one by one to take orders.
It is also the first time that these officials have heard the word budget, and they also need a budget table, which is also embarrassing. Fortunately, Gan Qi will teach him everything.
But the teaching was also sketchy, and Gan Qi also knew that when the final accounts were settled, I was afraid that many officials would have to go home to farm.
Roads and bridges were repaired, ports and wharves were repaired, cities and pools were repaired, sewers were repaired, military barracks were repaired, schools were repaired in various places, and rivers and ditches were repaired for irrigation......
Anyway, with money, Gan Qi is a cultivator, and he has also drawn one map after another.
In the end, Gan Qi himself was frightened, a little embarrassed, spending money like this, when the time comes to pay taxes to Tokyo, I don't know if the old emperor will have an opinion.
Gan Qi just thought so, no matter how much he was, anyway, Quanzhou's taxes were frighteningly high, and it wouldn't cost too much to repair.
Ganchi was busy, working everywhere to repair, but the people who went out of the conscription were still paid, although very little, but there were some.
Therefore, Gan Qi's reputation as a big man in the sky is naturally getting bigger and bigger, and even the children on the street sing: "Since Gan Qingtian has been there, the people have been racing immortals since then......"
Everywhere and every household, what kind of wedding and funeral banquets are invited to Ganqi to eat, it is even more like a cow's hair, and Ganqi can't eat it.
Sometimes officials are really so good, the premise is that they have money. Gan Qi suddenly remembered the future generations, why did the local debt remain high? At this point, Gan Qi understood.
From time to time, he has to go to various places to inspect it, ask whether the workers have been paid, ask the officials how the progress of the project is, praise and praise, criticize and criticize, and do a mess, Gan Qi also has to ask again: "Do you know what official position this official has in the capital?" ”
"The lower officials know, the lower officials know, and the imperial history is served by the imperial history."
"Do you know that you dare to be so perfunctory?"
"The lower officials don't dare, they don't dare, it's really difficult to cross the mountains, the lower officials must speed up the progress, and they must take care of the people who are forced to work."
"Hmph......" Gan Dazhizhou sneered a few times and got up to leave.
At this time, the ironclad soldiers beside Gan Dazhizhou still pressed the handle of the knife one by one and glared angrily at the officials present. The crowd was terrified.
Gan Qi, who often takes a group of ironclad soldiers around, is really majestic to say. As long as Gan Qi goes, the people of ten miles and eight towns will come to see the excitement, looking at those ironclad soldiers who are covered in light and strong as oxen, all of them are amazed.
Inevitably, someone ran out of nowhere and knelt on the ground, and then it was: "Wronged...... Lord Qingtian, the villain is wronged! ”
Gan Qi stopped his steps, set aside the left and right people, moved the seats, and ascended to the hall on the spot.
The people of this era are extremely simple, most of them really have grievances, and there are really not many people who make trouble unreasonably, the key is that the people of this era do not dare to make trouble unreasonably, and they even have great courage to cry out in front of Zhizhou.
However, most of these wrongful things are also things that are difficult to investigate because of who seized whose ridges, who killed whose ploughing cattle, and what kind of bullying and forced buying and selling.
To say a crooked reasoning that has a certain truth, sometimes the more people who have never seen the world, the more simple and lovely they are.
There are also cases of a few officials being sent to prison.
Gan Qingtian's fame is a lot of money.
During this busy period of time in Ganqi, the Pu family was also very busy, and the matter of moving into the city was carried out in an orderly manner.
Pushir was one of the first people to move into the city, and has been in the city for more than a month, but he hasn't seen Ganchi once. Because Gan Qi is overhauling and building, inspecting the work everywhere, and he is busy avenging the people's grievances. There are almost no days in a month in Quanzhou City, and even if I come back, I will meet my family, and then I will start to go to the county and the countryside again.
Hopefully, when all the galloping roads are repaired, it will not be so troublesome for Gan Qi to go to the countryside or return to the city.
The little girl Pu Xier, the more she can't see Gan Qi, the more she looks forward to it inexplicably, and she may be able to say that she misses, but she is embarrassed to say, so she has to go to the door to take a few looks, or lean on the door frame at the door of her small courtyard and look out, just hoping that someone will suddenly come to report that Gan Dazhizhou has come to the door.
Pu Zhigao didn't know about his daughter's careful thoughts, but he happened to pass by his daughter's courtyard that day, and saw that she was leaning against the door frame in a daze, so he asked: "What is my daughter doing?" Why are you in a daze for no reason? ”