Volume 1 Born Out of Thin Air Chapter 77 Hidden in the City
"Kara~Bang!"
Huang Liren, Huang Dashan people are frantically smashing things in the living room. Huang Huali's feet were kicked to the wall by him, and the Junyao tea bowl was also smashed to pieces.
The housekeeper ran to inform Mrs. Huang, who stroked her back for a while, and Huang Liren quieted down. But he was still panting, his eyes were red, and his chest was heaving violently.
"Wang Jue, it must be Wang Jue's old horseman's idea. Otherwise, Liu Chengdong and Li Xiang are a young man, how could they have such a clever idea! After Huang Liren calmed down, he opened his mouth with this sentence.
Mingyue Village let the villagers scatter, which seems to be a loss, but it is actually a good move. Others can't see it, how can Huang Liren, who has been in officialdom for a long time, not know.
As soon as Liu Chengdong's "show weakness" came out, he first showed favor to the imperial court. You see that many of my villagers have dispersed, and the financial resources for raising soldiers cannot be saved, are you embarrassed to doubt me?
Then there was the co-optation of the local gentry. The greed of the gentry is unimaginable, it does not mean that Liu Chengdong does not touch the interests of the gentry, and everyone can live together with Hemei. The world of the great harmony of the world only exists in the book, and like the Peach Blossom Spring, it is a cover for righteous men and gentlemen to fool the people.
Mingyuezhai took the initiative to show weakness this time and released benefits to the gentry and bureaucrats, which was much more pleasing to the eyes of the gentry in Xunyang Mansion. Li Xiang is no longer interested in the gentry, and admits that Mingyuezhai and the gentry will only have more and more contacts. Comrades who don't eat alone are good comrades, and Mingyuezhai, which makes a fortune with everyone, is likely to be accepted by the gentry and wealthy businessmen.
Finally, the hidden dangers are reduced. The commission system of Mingyue Village is very heavy, and the tax of Da Zhou is very low, but this is all appearance. Mingyue Village has a convention and a village people's conference to ensure the villagers' labor income, and after the commission, the rest is their own. The Xu officials, Yaxing, gentry, government and Qiu Ba of the Great Zhou Dynasty started together, and there was no stable backer, and the merchants were able to keep Sancheng Li is blessed by the Buddha.
The people who left Mingyuezhai can't simply be classified as good people or bad people, they are just ordinary people, and they have their own considerations. However, it is true that some families have a fluke mentality and just want to take advantage, and staying will become an unstable factor.
Li Xiang, Liu Chengdong, Li Mengkong, and Carpenter Cao brainstormed and then implemented new safety regulations, with the fundamental purpose of choosing villagers with one heart and giving some people a step down. The grass on the wall is going more and more, Huang Liren is very annoyed, there is no eyeliner in Mingyue Village, and many things are not easy to do.
"Master, Craftsman He has arrived with his wife and children, look?" Steward Huang appeared in time to pull Huang Liren out of his contemplation.
"Throw it at home in the workshop. Wait, that kid from the He family sent it to the private school at home to say hello to Mr. "Huang Liren plans to treat the He family kid as an idle move, and as for He Lishi, he will squeeze it to his heart's content.
Since there is no good chance of getting off the road for the time being, it is also a little compensation to build your own iron-making furnace and garment factory first. "Liu Chengdong, Li Xiang, the old man will never let you go!" Huang Liren completely broke the years of qi cultivation kung fu and secretly swore in his heart.
"The master is really kind-hearted, and he is so generous to opportunists like He Mingjiang." Butler Huang's ass was a little explicit, and Mrs. Huang twisted her waist in disgust, and returned to the back house with a fragrant breeze.
"Well, remember to pay attention to your appearance, don't be too ugly." Huang Liren took a sip of the new tea, and remembered that the broken Junyao tea bowl was a burst of angina, and he didn't even look at Steward Huang. Steward Huang stepped back in disdain, and the fists in his cuffs squeezed and jumped.
May came unexpectedly, the weather was getting hotter, and the voices of acquaintance kept going all night. In the bright moon village during the day, it is a lively and busy scene of sweating like rain.
Xiong Chengwen and Li Mengkong took advantage of the implementation of the new household registration and contract to conduct the first thorough investigation of the household registration of Mingyuezhai. Today, there are a total of 2,332 people in 367 households in Mingyue Village, and a total of 419 people have left after the implementation of safety regulations. After the beginning of spring, because of the "traditional" gathering place of displaced people, more and more displaced people came to Mingyuezhai to work as tenants or workers, and a total of 1,341 people were registered in the white household register.
Xiong Chengwen creatively handed in a "Statistical Table of Villagers Leaving Mingyue Village", and made extensive use of tables and charts, which seemed to be clear at a glance, which set off a wave of enthusiasm in the public school. The four-eyed boy who was extremely murderous at the public memorial ceremony gave a beating to the report, and it is said that he made a great contribution.
In addition to having relatives and friends, there are three main reasons for the runaway. One is that the owner thinks that he can live better with his own ability, and he can't bear the weight of the public commission, and he resolutely leaves after seeing that there is no loophole to drill; Second, he is not optimistic about the future prospects of Mingyuezhai, and chooses to leave for the safety and future of himself and his descendants, after all, Mingyuezhai always gives people a feeling of falling grass; The third is that he was dissatisfied with many systems in Mingyuezhai, such as not being used to the teaching method of Mengxue and the evil ways of the medical and health department, and finally chose to leave.
The largest number of villagers left for the first reason, and among these villagers, the most had worked in the workshop. Li Xiang was amused, proud, and chilled when he saw this.
It's funny because those people don't think they can do their best, they really think that the Great Zhou Law will protect them from the oppression of the gentry and officials, do you really think that there is Mingyue Village everywhere?
Pride is because those people feel that they deserve more, which in itself is a great affirmation of the Mingyuezhai system.
The reason for the chill is that Li Xiang feels that the various systems of the public middle school are already relatively fair, at least much stronger than Da Zhou. But these people who rely on the system of Mingyue Village to get benefits actually want to leave the most.
Li Xiang felt a great threat from He Mingjiang's defection, and after careful consideration by combining Wang Qi's teachings and the knowledge of later generations, Li Xiang decided to clean the house.
After all, he was a young man with limited experience, and Li Xiang felt a little guilty at first, feeling that he had set the system too strictly. However, Li Xiang was shocked to find that after the implementation of the safety regulations requiring the consistency of interests and obligations, many people really left.
Uncle Zhao ignored his wife's persuasion these days, and worked tirelessly to inquire about the news, and really found a lot of spies and hidden piles buried in Mingyue Village. Some people left in a hurry, and the letters they communicated with outsiders were thrown to the ground so grandly, and Li Xiang couldn't cry or laugh when he saw it.
The letters are much the same, nothing more than threats and inducements, promising the future. The payment is more interesting, a lot of this lord and that general, all of them are asking to find out the details of the workshop. There were still people who instructed the spies to find an opportunity to poison Mengxue's children's meals, and Lei's sister-in-law, who was in charge of Mengxue's and the new barracks' meals, and several military survivors were afraid and broke out in a cold sweat.
Li Xiang read the letters one by one, asked Zhao Bo's subordinates to pick up the useful ones, and then burned the remaining letters in public. Uncle Zhao, Carpenter Cao, Liu Sheng and the others looked at each other in the firelight, they were all a little frightened, they didn't expect that there were so many moths under their noses!
After burning the evidence of some people's internal and external collusion, Gongzhong prepared for another three days, and Li Xiang officially set off the great reform of Mingyuezhai.
The first is the hukou system. The hukou system, which had been mixed up altogether, was completely abandoned, and the villagers were divided into yellow and white hukou, with very different rights and obligations between the two types of hukou.
Only villagers with old qualifications can hold the yellow household registration, and those who have made meritorious contributions, have special talents, and have children to serve as soldiers can be converted to yellow household registration, and the number of people is also strictly limited. Lei Cheng is very satisfied with this system, and the unfairness in the mouths of many exodus is actually because it was too fair and too confusing before.
None of the people with yellow household registration are registered with the government, which is the so-called hidden population. Li Xiang wanted to use this system to completely hide some people and completely cut off from the government, so as to prevent the outside world from infiltrating. Since it belongs to the hidden household, it naturally only needs to deal with the public middle school of Mingyue Village, and there are people in the government to deal with it. Zhen Laoshi welcomed this policy very much, and he was really afraid of the days outside.
People with yellow household registration have priority in key departments such as public high schools, village soldiers, workshops, Mongolian schools, and medical and health departments, and it is this "difference" that carpenters care about the most. The children of the yellow household registration are free of charge to go to Mongolia, and there is a subsidy for medical treatment at the medical and health department, and there is a preference for recruiting workers in public middle schools and workshops, and children can also be given priority in the selection of village soldiers. I'm afraid of comparison, and when I compare everything, the system that used to feel like that suddenly becomes very cute.
Yellow hukou is treated as one's own, so it has a lot of priority, and of course the management is very strict. The rights and obligations are equal, and since they have accepted such a high commission and very strict management regulations, then the public school will of course be responsible for these people.
The so-called white household registration is just a registration, and only the displaced people who have intersected with Mingyue Village have a white household registration. Families with white household registration can only find a place to build a house and live on their own, and make a living by working as tenants or working. It needs to be mentioned here that Mingyuezhai has registered a large amount of land in the government, and Lin Yangcheng heard that the prefect was a deserted mountain, so he directly waved his pen and drew several more mountains to Li Xiang.
If a person with a white household registration has no special contributions, he can only apply for a yellow household registration after a two-year inspection period, and then he must have a family member working in the public middle school, a village soldier or a core workshop, and no family member in the household registration of Xunyang Mansion. Those who think they have special skills or a skill can apply directly to the public high school.
The children of families with white household registration have to pay high tuition fees to enter Mongolia, and they are not allowed to enter the medical and health department unless their lives are at stake, so they can only go to the clinic opened by Liu Zhihe and his family to see a doctor. Don't think about knives and guns and ironmaking workshops, Li Xiang's laboratory is an old qualification that only recruits the core.
People with white household registration do not enjoy all kinds of treatment provided by the public high school, and according to the principle of matching Li Xiang's rights and obligations, they do not have to bear the commission of the public high school. To rent land, you only need to pay rent, and all the copper money earned in the workshop can be used to support the family. It's just that these people quickly found out that those of them who don't need to accept Mingyuezhai's commission, no matter how hard they work, they don't have a yellow household registration to live well, it's really hard to understand.
No one stopped the people with white household registration from setting up their own workshops, but the public middle school in Mingyue Village would not give them shelter from the wind and rain. Xu officials, gentry, Xiang army, prefect, such a way down, eighty percent of the workshops will fall. Even if they survive, what can they do to fight with the families of the yellow household registration? The people with yellow household registration gradually discovered a lot of wonders, so while keeping secrets, they strictly restrained their families and did not violate the system of Mingyue Village.
The best thing about reorganizing the household registration is that an invisible embankment has been set up, so that Mingyue Village maintains a fairly independent status and blocks those guys who are reaching out indiscriminately. At the same time, he inadvertently opened a big hole in Da Zhou's fishing net, and the rolling nutrients began to flow into Mingyue Village, and the life form conceived by Li Xiang accelerated its growth.
People with yellow household registration have to work hard for a higher position, and people with white household registration have to work hard for their own small lives, and the relationship between the two sides will remain peaceful for a long time if there is no interference from external forces. The psychology of the old villagers has been satisfied, and the newcomers will not suddenly get a huge benefit before they can see their position clearly.
In order to further hide the secrets of Mingyue Village, Li Xiang planned to establish a market at the exit of the largest mountain road in the south of Mingyue Village, which was called Mingyue Market. The workshops, which did not need to be kept too secretive, were all moved to the west of the new bazaar on the Han River, which not only solved the problem of labor shortage, but also saved the water source of the village, and helped to keep secrets. And a castle will rise in the original place of Mingyue Village, firmly guarding Li Xiang's hard work.
After Huang Liren learned about Mingyuezhai's next move, he almost didn't catch his breath, and it took three bowls of bird's nest in a row to come back to his senses. Huang Liren is also the first time to treat Li Xiang and Liu Chengdong as difficult opponents.
Huang Liren is a very practical person, since he has no chance to get rid of Mingyue Village in one fell swoop for the time being, then reconcile with Mingyue Village on the surface, after all, no one will get along with copper money. When Xiong Chengwen and Carpenter and others came to talk about cooperation, Huang Liren actually greeted him with a smile, so Li Xiang raised Huang Liren's danger level again.
Today is the day of the monthly public high school meeting in Mingyuezhai, first of all, the high-level summary of the progress of the matters since the reissuance of the household registration, and then the focus of the next month's work, the meeting process has been very mature.
Overall, the current situation in Mingyuezhai is not optimistic. Gongzhong has begun to use the old capital, the core financial source of Mingyue Village is dozens of workshops, with a large number of stewards and craftsmen leaving, production is in trouble.
Workshop production is always in trouble, and it is relatively easy to solve. But the decline in sales is about to die, and those cannibalistic gentry have obtained production technology, and have begun to use their huge connections and the support of the government to distribute goods in large quantities, and also use non-market means to grab market share in Mingyuezhai. There are many people who foresee this situation and think that Liu Chengdong, who has a shallow background, will not be able to compete with those gentry and wealthy businessmen, so they choose to leave.
Li Xiang and Liu Chengdong really fight, but those gentry? Facing the anxious workshop owner, Li Xiang snorted and said that the problem of sales would be solved soon. Li Xiang didn't lie, he and Liu Chengdong had expected this, and they were also angry with Sister-in-law Xiong, Li Mengkong and others. Liu Chengdong had a way to solve the problem of trade routes, and Li Xiangze, Wu Xiaoling, Lei Blacksmith and others prepared a big killing weapon, intending to improve the positioning and profits of the workshop in one fell swoop.
Some personnel adjustments were made at the public high school meeting, and Zhen Laoshi took He Lishi's position and became the winner in life, and he was so excited that he was crying. Xiong Chengwen, Zhang Zhanjun and Radar and other new generations of young people also officially appeared on the stage, more than a dozen young boys and girls were very ashamed, and the older generation of high-level executives who witnessed this scene sighed that they were old.
There was also a small episode where the improved reward for the straight bow was finally taken. Zhang Qingping boldly improved the roasting method of the straight bow tire, and added animal horn pieces and livestock tendons, pulling one top at a time, and increasing the pulling force of the straight bow to 100 catties. The energy conversion efficiency has also been improved, after all, more "advanced" materials are used.
In general, if the improved straight bow made by Zhang Qingping, a family of bows and arrows, uses the arrows standardized in the workshop, the actual killing is not much worse than that of the horn bow. But at the cost, the weight and length of the arrows had to be redesigned so that the straight bow would not suffer in actual combat. As a result, the material of the high-tension straight bow was basically determined, wood, bamboo, horn and tendon.
After Liu Sheng and Liu Chengliang inspected, they found that although Zhang Qingping's production method increased a lot of costs, it maintained the advantages of large-scale production of straight bows. Gongzhong adopted the Zhang family's plan, and Zhang Qingping received a large amount of bonuses and a large order.
At the end of the meeting, Li Xiang proposed a plan to enter Bianjing, and the high-level officials on the scene were silent, and after a long time, everyone expressed their support. The old village owner Zhao'an became the general of the imperial court, and the new village owner of course can't stay in the ravine, only by going out to get a higher status, Mingyue Village can get better development.