Fujiwara Shuxiong said with some complacency: "Establish education, liberalize industry and commerce, reduce constraints, open up the benefits of mountains, forests and lakes, encourage farming, rectify the rule of officials, as long as no one is a traitor, the less the government does, the better, this is called not disturbing the people, and finally achieving the ...... the people do not add money and the country is rich." ”

Kibi Shinbei nodded frequently, and what Fujiwara said was similar to what was written on paper, which was regarded as condensing the changes that had occurred in Hizen Province in the past few months in concise language on the other hand, and had the effect of putting the finishing touch.

At this moment, Kibi Zhenbei understood why Fujiwara Shuo answered himself with unbearable money, he couldn't do anything without money, he built bridges and paved roads, dredged rivers, built water, and set up workshops, which can leave money.

"I remember that Hizen didn't seem to have much money, and the Fujiwara clan didn't seem to support you with any money, how did you do so many things?"

Seeing that Kibi Zhenbei asked about his itch, Fujiwara Shuo's face smiled, like a little fox who had just stolen a hen, and said in his heart: "In the final analysis, these things are thanks to the storm we encountered, if this storm hadn't blown me and the maritime merchants to Hizen Province, I'm afraid things wouldn't have gone so smoothly?" ”

Fujiwara Brush Male did not hide his clumsiness, but one by one told the story of the incident to Kibi Zhenbei, when Kibi Zhenbei heard that the transaction volume of the buying meeting reached more than one million, the whole person trembled like an electric shock, if it weren't for Fujiwara Brush Male knew that Kibi Zhenbei did not have a madness such as sheep epilepsy, he was completely stimulated by the matter like this, and he was really ready to call a doctor.

"It's incredible, a buying meeting has reached one million, the tax revenue has exceeded 100,000, and the profits of the businessmen are really rich!"

Kibi Zhenbei hadn't woken up from the shock yet, and he didn't know if Fujiwara had done it on purpose, and said: "After that, the merchants of Silla and Balhae held two more buying meetings in a row, and the transaction volume reached 650,000 and 370,000 respectively ...... the treasury of Hizen Kingdom. ”

As soon as Fujiwara said this, he found that Kibi Zhenbei was looking at him directly, and he was shocked, so he wanted to smack his big mouth and talk about money! I actually forgot about ...... incident.

It's hard to collect the water, and no matter how much you want to regret it, Fujiwara Shuxiong immediately cried with a sad face, and immediately began to cry poorly: "Although there is a lot of money, there are also a lot of places to use money, just to build Matsuura Castle with work for relief It took 100,000 yuan, plus the Hizen national road is in disrepair, the water conservancy is deserted and the school is built, etc., the money that has just arrived has been spent like water!" ”

As soon as Kibi Zhenbei's words came to his mouth, he was blocked back by Fujiwara Shuxiong, opened his mouth, and smiled bitterly, he just wanted to ask Fujiwara Shuxiong, according to the custom, one-third of the tax tax of the law country must be handed over to the imperial court, although it is said that many of the laws have not paid this money to the court over the years, of course, they have found a lot of excuses, such as local disasters, etc., anyway, there is no money for a word, which is also one of the manifestations of the weakening of the control of the imperial court of the Japanese kingdom.

"Cash-for-work!"

This term Kibi Shinbei is not unfamiliar, but the information in it makes him think about it.

In many cases, the knowledge learned and the knowledge applied are completely two concepts, and the cash-for-work is simply a support policy in which the government invests in the construction of infrastructure projects, and the recipients participate in the construction of the project to receive remuneration for labor services, so as to replace direct relief.

Cash-for-work is easy to say, but it is difficult to do, which is equivalent to bringing the problem of the two back to the starting point, or a word for money, if the government has no money, naturally there is no talk of cash-for-work, if the people have money in their hands, the ability to resist disasters has improved, and cash-for-work is naturally useless.

There are many benefits to cash-for-work, but there are few who can really do it, which is of course not because officials don't want to do it, but mainly because they don't have money!

If the cash-for-work scheme can be done well, it will first enable the recipients of relief to receive the necessary income and the most basic living guarantees, so as to achieve the purpose of relief. Second, the construction of a number of projects and infrastructure facilities at the fastest speed is beneficial to local economic development. Finally, it can alleviate the problem of local surplus labor, which is conducive to the people having nothing to do and causing trouble, killing three birds with one stone, and at the same time can also stimulate the people's habit of self-reliance and idleness, and erect the idea of getting rich through labor.

In the final analysis, it is not to let people go hungry, not to let people rebel because of hunger, this is a kind of good governance, and of course it is also a means of domination.

Kibi Shinbei squinted his eyes and rushed from Kyoto to Saikaido, seeing too many victims along the way, and in many places far from water sources, a drought caused many people's crops in their fields to completely wither, and seeing that there was no harvest in the land, the victims could only wander around on the Saikaido.

The topography of the Saikaido is more like a larger island, and the victims who have lost their livelihoods can only wander on the Saikaido and cannot leave the Saikaido at all, which is also a unique sight to island countries such as Wakoku.

However, when Kibi Shinbei arrived in Hizen Province, he found that there were not many victims here, and of course Hizen Province also suffered from drought, and he still wondered how Fujiwara managed to do it.

"Cash-for-work! All right! Let the people of Hizen Country not have to worry about hunger", Kibi Zhenbei patted his thigh.

Fujiwara Shuxiong is also happy in his heart, if this kind of thing is put in the past, there are also ways, one is to sell all of them as slaves, and the other is to wait until these victims are killed, and then send people to exterminate them all, and some more people will die, and the rest of the people will survive, this method has become a subconscious idea of the official, and there can be a large amount of money and food into the account, why not?

However, this is also risky, once the strength of the victims is grown, it will shake the prestige of the imperial court, and it will also affect the promotion of officials, but knowing that it is not appropriate, there is no other better way.

It's not that no one thinks of cash-for-work, the key is money?

Fujiwara Shuxiong had a smug look on his face, and he wished that the drought in Xikaido would be a few points bigger, and when the surrounding Linglu countries could not hold on, he would be able to occupy a few Linglu countries without bloodshed, and plot a few more bases for the Fujiwara clan.

"Dazai Daiji, his subordinates are in trouble now, and please ask Dazai Daiji to help one or two?"

"Say...... What can I do, I will never refuse? Kibi replied without thinking.

"That's the ......," Fujiwara said, "The land of Saikaido is barren, and this year there is a great drought, and I am afraid that the grain harvest will fail by more than three or four percent, and many victims are now pouring into Hizen Province, I can't bear to see hungry people all over the wilderness, and I am ready to buy 100,000 koku of grain from Kyoto to alleviate the current food shortage crisis in Hizen Province, I don't know what Dazai Daiji thinks?" ”

(End of chapter)