Oh, yes! This coal is a mountain of gold and silver, and it is a fat meat that many people covet.

For the sake of this piece of fat, how many people take risks and defy the law, and how many wives are separated and their families are ruined, this is the root cause of evil.

However, coal is the pillar industry of Fuyuan County, the main driving force for the economic development of Fuyuan, and an important source for improving the living standards of the people.

But you can't waste food because of choking, guarding the mountains of gold and silver, but let the people continue to live a hard life without clothes.

If you give up at the behest of the people, it will be a testament to the incompetence of those in power, and it will only continue to disappoint the people.

Therefore, the strategy of using coal to benefit the people must not be changed, and the key is to make a breakthrough in the form in order to achieve a balance of interests.

Thinking of this, Li Yi suddenly had an inspiration, isn't collective ownership the best prescription!

As long as the coal mine is on the land of the village, the ownership of it belongs to the village.

Whoever occupies more land in the coal mine will have more shares, and through the shareholding system transformation, the coal mine will become the common property of everyone.

The income from coal mining is distributed according to the number of shares held by each family. The government collects taxes on the output of coal, which is then used to subsidize the poorest households.

Although there are still problems in the implementation of such a plan, Li Yi believes that as long as it is tried for a period of time, the majority of the people will still accept it.

After thinking about the next step, Li Yi held the wine bowl handed over by the old man, and looked at the surrounding fathers and villagers with earnest eyes.

Said emotionally: "I understand the feelings of your fathers and fellow villagers very well, and I also know that because of this coal, the people's lives will not be stable. ”

"However, I don't know if you have thought that even if I issue an order to ban mining, there will still be many people who will secretly mine coal for the sake of profiteering, fight because of the competition of interests, and even kill people and sell goods will continue to happen. So I can't give this order. ”

Seeing that the crowd was a little sensational, Li Yi continued: "Although coal is the root of all evil, if it can be used effectively, it can make the people live a prosperous life. ”

"What I want to do is to let all my fathers and villagers profit from coal, and make a fortune because of coal, instead of conflicts and strife for coal."

"Therefore, I am ready to take some measures to change, promulgate some decrees that clarify the rights of coal mining and are conducive to the development of the coal industry, and the specific and detailed measures will be discussed in detail after I return to Ningzhou, please wait patiently."

Then Li Yi turned around and said to Lu Mian: "Now is the time when stability is overriding everything, before the new coal mine management measures come out, all coal mines in Fuyuan County must be unconditionally suspended, and no one is allowed to mine at will." ”

"If anyone is found to be disobeying orders, anyone who mines coal without permission will be arrested and severely punished."

After instructing Lu Mian in front of everyone, Li Yi shouted loudly to the people present: "Fathers and fellow villagers, the so-called 'relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water', we in Fuyuan County can't rely on coal and continue to live a poor life. ”

"We can't choke on food, so the coal mine will continue to be mined, but the benefits must be shared by the whole people, so that all the people can get benefits, which is our ultimate goal."

"Please believe me Li Yi, what I said will definitely be done, and the time will not drag on too long, please rest assured to go back."

After speaking, Li Yi raised the bowl, drank all the water and wine in the bowl, and then took He Shoujie and others through the enthusiastic crowd, waving goodbye to them.

Leaving Fuyuan County, he arrived at Shengjingguan in less than half an hour. The acting defense envoy of Shengjingguan here is Yin Quan.

Li Yi has only one side relationship with him, and he doesn't know much about his style and personality.

But after more than a day of understanding, Li Yi had a good impression of him.

Yin Quan, who is already in his fifties, has been following Sun Decheng for more than ten years, but he has good conduct, does not flatter, has considerable experience in combat and army management, and is old and respectful in terms of conduct.

Although he has been in the position of deputy defense envoy for more than ten years, he has been conscientious and has not complained at all.

Such a virtuous and talented general must be vigorously reused in the future, and at least such an honest person should not be allowed to suffer.

In the next few days, Li Yi successively inspected Xuan County, Baoshan Pass, Huize County, Dongchuan County, and Baiwu Pass.

It took more than ten days to go down in such a circle, which greatly exceeded my expectations.

And there are some places such as the inspection department that have not been patronized, it seems that this place in Yunnan is not big, and it is not small to say that it is not small.

On the way back to Ningzhou, He Shoujie lost no time in making a suggestion to Li Yi.

He felt that there was no need to garrison heavy troops in a place like Shengjingguan, which was not dangerous to prevent.

After the Pingyang Pass is built, it should be like the Baoshan Pass, leaving only 300 people stationed at Shengjing Pass, and most of the other people can be moved to Pingyang Pass.

In this way, we have not only made full use of the existing troop strength, but also saved a lot of costs, making military deployment more scientific and effective.

As soon as he put forward this suggestion, it was strongly approved by Li Yi.

In fact, as early as the beginning of the construction of Pingyang Pass, Li Yi had this idea, but he didn't say it.

The population of the whole of Yunnan, including the victims from southern Sichuan, is only 1780,000, while the number of troops is 9,000, which is a great burden on Yunnan's finances and the common people who pay taxes.

Moreover, what the army needs is to be strong and combative, and a large number of people is not necessarily an advantage, and the officers and men who are in the corpse position have no combat effectiveness, and they cannot effectively guarantee the security of Yunnan.

In the next step, Li Yi envisaged continuing to reduce the redundancy of the army, keeping the main number of combat personnel below 5,000, and strengthening the effectiveness and pertinence of military training, so as to build a mighty and civilized army.

In addition, Li Yi also deliberately instructed He Shoujie.

As the chief official who holds the power to examine and evaluate the performance of officials, he must grasp a principle when evaluating, appointing, and promoting officials.

That is, those who are officials must put morality first, and they must not give up this principle at any time.

If an official does not have excellent moral integrity, no matter how strong his ability is, he will not be able to serve as an official for a single term and benefit one party, and it is possible to do good things into bad things.

Those with poor moral integrity will not only seriously affect the relationship between the government and the people, but will even lose the credibility of the imperial court, and then shake the national foundation of the Han Dynasty.

In the selection of officials, the first priority is to be virtuous and talented, and secondly, those who are virtuous and untalented can also be used in a measured manner.

In this era dominated by agriculture, economic development does not need to be very fast, and talent is not a necessary condition for being an official.

As a local official who has been dealing with the people for a long time, as long as he does not engage in favoritism and irregularities, it is enough to be able to sincerely do things for the people.