Chapter 220: The People's Income Increases
At Ye Tong's insistence, the Qin Empire carried out several years of national literacy education and six years of free education, so that about seventy percent of the people in the Qin Empire's jurisdiction were literate and more than 3,000, could read books and newspapers, and could write letters, and the people's wisdom was opened.
The policy of forced school-age children to attend school allowed the children of the empire to enter schools and learn knowledge. For this reason, some officials who were unwilling to cooperate were directly dismissed from their classes.
There is no way, many officials in the Qin Empire and hundreds of bigwigs are against free education, and the children of the family serve as officials of counties and counties, not only do not cooperate, but even oppose and obstruct. If such officials are not pulled down, free education is empty talk.
In response to such officials, the Imperial Pavilion and Jinyiwei went out to search for evidence and prosecute for inaction. Officials who don't act can't cure any serious crimes, so it's okay to get out of class!
In ancient dynasties, people of insight all hoped to open up the people's wisdom and improve the cultural quality of the people, but they all ended in failure. It's not the incompetence of people of insight, it's the limitations of the environment.
The emperor doesn't want to see the people's wisdom open, the emperor needs stupid people, so easy to enslave. Officials don't need the people who are enlightened and wise, so they can be powerful and powerful, and the people don't understand anything, and let the officials mess around.
The big families, eunuchs, and scholar groups do not want the people to open up the wisdom of the people, and once the people open the wisdom of the people, they will compete for the position of officials, and they cannot let their children and grandchildren and scholars be high and high, and they are no longer superior people.
To put it bluntly, the whole country has formed a huge interest group from the emperor, officials, scholars, and big families, and they do not want the people to open up their wisdom.
In such a situation, it is really difficult to teach culture among the common people than to ascend to heaven.
During the Sui Dynasty, Yang Guang was exempted from being forced to break when he became emperor, and Yang Guang introduced the imperial examination system, and the appointment of new officials was not recommended by officials or big families, but by examination and merit-based admission.
The imperial examination system also had many drawbacks, and all the Confucian students and officials who were admitted became the examiners' students, once again forming a new interest group.
Ye Tong knew in his heart that many bigwigs, including the cabinet, also did not approve of free education and national literacy. Because it involves the interests of the hundreds of bigwigs, the official family, and the interests of the big family.
In charge of the empire, Ye Tong did not think about the big family, but only had one criterion in mind, that is, the interests of the people and the country came first, and promoted the civilization process of the Qin Empire.
If it weren't for Ye Tong's insistence, free education and national literacy would be empty talk, and it would not be possible to implement it at all, and the resistance would be too great.
For this reason, Ye Tong used the resources in his hands, Dingjunshan's technical advantages, and adopted the method of coercion and temptation to make the cabinet compromise.
Seeing that Dingjunshan continues to open up technology patents, it is all very profitable technology, whether it is a big family or an official, it can be seen. However, if you want to build such a company, you need a large number of skilled workers and technicians, otherwise it will not be able to develop.
In this case, the cabinet compromised. In addition, the rapid development of the village and township levels, the village and township levels have engaged in their own literacy eradication and trained their own skilled workers, which has made the cabinet and others discover that if they suppress free education and literacy for all, it is the families of officials who will suffer in the end.
The people of the empire were literate, enlightened, and learned new knowledge. Technical schools around the country trained a large number of skilled workers, thus bringing the development of the empire's industry and commerce into the fast lane.
Various enterprises have sprung up, coupled with the popularization of agricultural mechanization, the labor force has been released, providing a large number of human resources for the development of industry and commerce.
The Qin Empire did not lack technology and patents, and lacked the ability to transform patents and technologies into actual industries. These industries must be invested and built, and it is impossible for Dingjun Mountain to develop all industries.
Dingjunshan only developed high-tech industries, and all low-tech industries were open to everyone in the Qin Empire and were authorized to use.
In order to crack down on businessmen's monopoly on sales and increase sales prices, Ye Tong did not let the cabinet introduce relevant policies, but adopted market competition.
In order to suppress prices, Dingjunshan built a series of supermarket chains in the main towns of the Qin Empire, and the ultra-low prices made those merchants who made huge profits by raising prices lose all their money at once, so that the prices of products fell rapidly.
The supermarket in Dingjunshan has strict business hours, which are open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and are closed the rest of the time.
That's to take care of small businesses, small businessmen to be able to survive. If the supermarket is open until the evening, the small merchants on the street have no choice but to go out of business and go bankrupt. To this end, Ye Tong suggested that the cabinet should introduce a policy that large shops must have business hours restrictions.
At the same time, it is stipulated that a large shop can only be built within a certain radius, not that if you want to build there, you have to be approved by the management department. All policies are in the interests of local small businessmen, and the introduction of policies must be in line with the interests of the people.
The development of townships and villages has entered a super-high-speed period, and under the leadership of village chiefs and township heads, a large number of cooperatives and joint-stock companies have emerged, with a wide variety of products and everything. The common people no longer only sell primary products, but processed fine products.
Agricultural machinery was rapidly popularized, and the cabinet, at the suggestion of Ye Tong, established countless agricultural service companies and animal husbandry service companies in various counties and townships. These two types of service companies do not aim to make money, but mainly to provide services to solve the problems encountered by the people in production.
The service company has a large number of technical personnel, as long as the people need what kind of service can be basically satisfied. If the people encounter pests and diseases, as long as they contact the service company, the service company will immediately arrange for people to go to inspect and help the people to treat them in time.
The people planted too much area, and the harvest was illegal, and the service company immediately dispatched a harvester to help the people harvest. The service company charges very low, only needs to maintain personnel salaries, machinery depreciation, and belongs to the government subsidy company for agriculture and animal husbandry production.
To put it bluntly, people own land, they don't need to do anything, they only need to pay a low fee, and the service company can cover all aspects of planting, maintenance and harvesting.
This frees up a large amount of labor. A large number of laborers, organized by the township and village chiefs, built various joint-stock companies, or leased land in the newly taken over areas of the empire, and then carried out planting and breeding.
The profits of the people working alone are declining, and only by entering the cooperative or joint-stock company can they obtain higher returns. The people want to rent the land, but the problem is that the empire does not lack land, no one wants to rent it, and it cannot be wasted, as long as it is abandoned for a year, it will be forcibly repossessed by the government, and it must be held accountable.
Under such circumstances, the people are willing to join cooperatives and joint-stock agricultural companies to carry out intensive management, improve efficiency, and increase income.
With the leading role of village and township heads, those big families are simply unable to do the common people's union in agriculture and animal husbandry production.
The empire has too many land resources for the big families, and has adopted suppressive methods in various aspects, such as agriculture and animal husbandry service companies, when those big families ask for services, the price is two or three times that of the common people, in that case, what is the return of farming, and it is not a loss.
Unfair, you say?
Hehe!
There is a saying of fairness in the world, but it can only be said to be relatively fair. The government has set up service companies to serve the people, not to serve wealthy families. Charges are charged at market prices and do not violate any laws.
Why is it so low for the people?
The service to the people is good or not.
There is no way, the policy of the empire is to support ordinary people. Do those rich big families still need the support of the empire?
Coupled with tax adjustments, over the past few years, there have been large families who have given up their land and wanted to sell it to the government at a high price.
How could the cabinet be tight-handed and stingy, how could he spend a high price to buy back, give a little labor fee casually, and buy a symbolic ten yuan a hectare.
Low price, not selling?
If it is not sold and pulled down, the land cannot be abandoned anyway, otherwise it will not only be unconditionally repossessed by the government, but also be held accountable and fined.
The large amount of land owned by large families is not sold to the government, and no one will rent it. Because there is no shortage of land in the empire, there are a lot of land resources in the newly taken over areas, and no one rents them at a high price to large households, so they rent directly in the newly taken over areas of the empire, which is very cheap.
A large amount of land is on the hands, which is a headache for large households, and if they do not plant, they will lose money, and if they do not plant and waste it, they will be confiscated by the government and face fines.
In that case, the big ones can't hold up for a few seasons, and they can't afford to lose! In the end, you have to obediently ask the government to buy it back! The price is low, and you can still have a little tea money, and then you lose money every year.
Of course, there are some large households that buy their own agricultural machinery for farming, but the problem is that farming alone is not enough, crops will get sick, and they have to ask the government service company.
What's more, large households are not supported by the government's improved varieties, so they can only continue to plant old varieties, which have low yields and are prone to disease, not to mention making money, and thank God if they don't lose money.
The countryside has released a large number of laborers, and it stands to reason that there should be no shortage of labor in the development of industry and commerce. Hehe! With the advice of the village and township heads, the surplus labor force can be fully utilized to develop the processing industry and handicraft industry, and there is nothing to worry about doing at all.
If the towns want to develop industry and commerce, they must raise their salaries, otherwise the people will not want to. For this reason, the average salary of the empire is growing rapidly, which is what Ye Tong is happy to see.
Construction enterprises do not want to spend money, want to continue to implement low wages, no one to do it, and even current employees have changed jobs. It's paid according to the minimum salary guarantee of the empire, but the problem is that there is a shortage of labor, and you can't recruit workers without raising salaries!
The increase in the income of the common people led to an increase in consumption, better sales of products, and an increase in the tax revenue of the empire. The Cabinet would like to see the situation.
This is the current situation of the Qin Empire, thanks to the national literacy and free education, so that the people can read and understand, know what they can and can't do. I will no longer be fooled by a few words from rich people and officials. The people are also looking for greater returns, and are no longer afraid of officials and large families.
The people with money in their hands are not only reflected in the increase in consumption, but also in the increase in private enterprises. Some people with flexible minds began to build their own enterprises and industries. Technology is not a problem at all, as long as you go to the offices stationed in Dingjunshan and submit an application, it is easy to obtain technical authorization.
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