Chapter 85: The Road to Prosperity for the People
Qian Xiaoyue's father Qian Rong was supposed to go to Yuncheng to take up the county order, but the current Yuncheng county commander still had more than half a year to return to his hometown, so Su Taiwei arranged for him to be the master book under Song An first, and gave Song An a deputy, which is equivalent to a deputy county order.
Under the leadership of Wang Ling'er, Song An, Zhao Gou, Hua Fengchun, Yan Qing, and Qian Rong used three days to turn around the entire Lanling County.
Song An found that the people of Lanling County are currently facing a very serious problem.
Poor.
Seventy-one Weng is poor.
The reason for the poverty is that 95 percent of the clothed people make a living from farming, and the crops are mainly sorghum, millet, and wheat, and the year-round harvest can barely sustain food and clothing.
In fact, this is also a true portrayal of the entire society for thousands of years.
Ninety-five percent of the population struggles to make ends meet, owning only five percent of the wealth in society; And the 5 percent elite controls 95 percent of the wealth in society. As Confucius said: Do not suffer from widowhood but suffer from unevenness.
This is also the case in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Although this dynasty is known as the richest dynasty in history, and the annual income of the national treasury is as high as nearly 200 million yuan, it is indeed the rich country and the poor people, and 95 percent of the people of the Great Song Dynasty are struggling to survive and wear themselves.
Song An thought back to Lanling in the 21st century in his mind.
In the 21st century, this place belonged to a certain fourth-tier city in the Lunan region.
This city is known as the "coal city", the most glorious time, its coal output has remained in the top three in the country for decades, here also created the first national capital enterprise in modern history "Zhongxing Coal Mining Company", Hongzhang Li Zhongtang was the first chairman of the company, Li Yuanhong, Xu Shichang, Zhang Shaoshuai and others have been shareholders of this company, and later this company also gave birth to the first stock in the history of China.
Digging coal.
This was the first way to get rich that Song An thought of.
But this is not realistic in the Northern Song Dynasty where he is now. Although the people of this era had mastered the techniques of digging and burning coal, they were limited to surface coal and shallow coal at most 10 meters and 20 meters underground.
Although the coal resources in Lanling County are very rich, they are all deep coal hundreds of meters underground, and there is no way to pull them out of the ground with the current existing resources.
After dispelling this idea, Song An thought of copying Liangshanbo's industrial model.
At present, Liangshanbo has several industries such as glass greenhouses, glass factories, coke factories, new medical halls, Shuibo Liangshan Hotel, Ping'an Temple of Shengguan Facai, and martial arts halls.
Song An sorted it out and ruled out the idea of opening a branch of Shuibo Liangshan Hotel and a branch of Shengguan Facai Temple.
Because Lanling County is not located on the transportation fortress that extends in all directions, there are few merchants who usually come and go, and it is difficult to make a profit by relying on the consumption of the people in the county alone. Second, Lanling County is relatively poor, and the temples generally earn rich people's money, and when building temples in poor places, I am afraid that there is not much money in the merit box all year round.
The annual precipitation in Lanling County is more than 800 mm, and the groundwater resources on the ground are quite abundant. The glass factory and the coke plant are even more unrestricted by the natural environment.
The martial arts hall must also be done. It doesn't matter if he makes money or not, Song An's main purpose is to train a group of armed forces as a reserve for Liang Shanbo.
As for the new style of medical centers, whether they have money or no money, as long as they eat whole grains, they will always get sick. If you are sick, you have to see a doctor, and if you are sick, you have to spend money to see a doctor.
However, 95 percent of the people in Lanling County have no money, and it is very likely that they will not make money when they open a medical center.
But Song An still decided to open a big medical hall here.
People call the county magistrate a parent official, although he Song An can't love the people like a son, but he still has a conscience and bottom line. Don't seek to make money, just peace of mind.
If you think about it, you can open it up?
Not yet.
There's another tricky thing.
At present, several industries in Liangshanbo can add up to more than 100,000 yuan a month, the reason is that he is a monopoly industry, and no matter who the citizens of the entire Great Song Dynasty are, as long as they want to eat fresh vegetables in winter, or want to replace the paper windows that are easy to break and dirty with glass, or want to burn clean, odorless, green and smokeless coke, they can only buy it from Liangshanbo or from the next wholesale and retail store in Liangshanbo. If you are sick, you can only go to the new medical center in Liangshanbo to see it!
If these industries are copied to Lanling County and handed over to the people of Lanling County, at most one year, all the people involved in them will get rid of poverty and become rich.
But Liang Shanbo's income is afraid that it will be affected.
At present, in addition to most of Shandong, the sales coverage of several industries in Liangshanbo also includes seven or eight state capitals at the junction of Sulu, Henan, and Anhui provinces, and Bianjing also has a small inflow. Due to the inconvenient transportation and slow information circulation in ancient times, although all kinds of products in Liangshanbo are gradually expanding outward, the speed is extremely slow, and the monthly income growth is only two or three thousand.
Lanling County is only 400 miles away from Liangshanbo, which is completely within the current coverage of Liangshanbo products.
The cake is so big, but if the one who eats the cake changes from one party to two parties, then the cake that Liang Shanbo gets will definitely be smaller.
Liangshanbo's armament forces are currently expanding rapidly. More than a month after Song An left Liangshanbo, Liangshanbo had already recruited nearly 10,000 recruits, and this number was still increasing every day.
Wang Qing of Huaixi and Fang La of Jiangnan are peaceful, and the soldiers and horses of their two families alone add up to no less than one million, how can Liangshanbo expand by seven or eight hundred thousand?
However, at present, the income from the various industries of Liangshanbo engaged in by Song An can only support 200,000 people, including the families of more than 100,000 brothers, because most of the brothers who came to Liangshanbo were dragged with their families.
In this way, if the cake is distributed to the people of Lanling, then Liang Shanbo will really not be able to live.
Song An is just an ordinary person, he can't be selfless without self-interest, and the premise of distributing food to others is that he has enough food and surplus food.
On the premise of ensuring that Liangshanbo does not bring losses, he should lead the people of Lanling to make a fortune.
He thought of a proper term in a certain country in later generations: state-owned enterprises.
That is, the enterprise is founded by the government, and the people work in the enterprise and receive wages. At this time, this official is Liang Shanbo.
In this way, not only the common people will make money, but Liangshanbo will also make a lot of money.
Let's get started!
"It's a meeting, it's a meeting!"
Song An called Qian Rong, Hua Fengchun, Yan Qing, Zhao Gou, and Wang Linger to his study.
"Let's copy these industrial projects in Liangshanbo, I plan to radiate outward with our county as the center, and I have also surveyed the land outside the city, which is not only flat and very fertile, suitable for growing vegetables, combined with the labor force of our county, I plan to build 3,000 acres of greenhouse glass greenhouse this year. There are also two or three hundred acres of wasteland in the northwest corner of the county, which can be used to build glass factories, coke factories, medical halls, and martial arts halls. Five projects are going on at the same time! ”
"Very good, very good!" Qian Rong stroked his slightly pale mustache and said with a smile.
Wang Ling'er was a little worried: "The wasteland is ownerless, which is easy to say, but those fertile fields are all reclaimed by the common people with a hoe and a spade, and the land is their lifeblood, how can they be willing to take it out to us!" ”