Chapter 080 Civil Livelihood
For Lu Peng's unobtrusive slogan, the hall was embarrassed, everyone is a self-proclaimed gentleman, how can this dark idea be shouted loudly to let the whole world know, this is very ungentlemanly, but, this is very good, very real.
Wu Tao hurriedly interrupted the lord's incomprehensible argument and continued to report his work: "According to the population of the men, among them, there are three hundred Ding Zhuang of various crafts, making necessary materials for our cottage. ”
"Craftsmen are very important to us, this is one of the foundations of our development, I think in the future we will send people out to recruit craftsmen from all over the world. This is one, and there is another, which is to organize children to set up a craftsman school, hire experienced and capable craftsmen to teach skills, and bring the old with the new, and we train our own craftsmen. ”
This method made the eyes of the people present light up, yes, wouldn't it be more convenient to run a school to teach children skills?
In fact, there are countless skilled craftsmen in China, and the current level of science and technology is also the best in the world, but China's craftsmen have a fatal problem, that is, they cherish themselves, and they are unwilling to pass on their skills to others.
What Lu Peng wants to do now is to popularize it, so that skills can be accepted by the public and become a wide range of things, and then everyone will compete among them, and the competition will lead to invention improvement, so that science and technology will endure and can be developed by leaps and bounds.
"As for the things that everyone is worried about the masters who are unwilling to teach the craft to the children, this is not necessary, as long as we promise to not only hire them with high salaries, but also as long as they have outstanding grades and teach solidly, we will give them a lifelong salary, so as to solve their worries about the church apprentices starving to death of the masters."
Wu Tao applauded at the time, thinking that the lord's method would definitely work. However, if you want to recruit and hire a master, you must have money and grain to pay your salary, so Wu Tao complained: "My lord, the most important thing now is that our base area is short of food. Wu Tao continued to report on his work.
"Is food hard? Hasn't cultivated land for two years? Lu Peng frowned and asked.
"After two years of hard work, we have reclaimed about 40,000 acres of land around our camp, but these lands are all raw land, and the production is insufficient, and it cannot meet the needs of the people at all.
At that time, agriculture was seriously backward, and people did not even have the habit of fertilizing, so the production was pitiful, which was also a reason for the change of dynasty, as long as the peace lasted for a long time, the population would increase sharply, and as a result, the land could not feed so many people, and there was a great famine, so the desperate people began to revolt and rebel, in fact, the purpose of the rebellion at that time was the same - to eat. This is the reason why in Chinese history, it was always the peasants who rebelled, not the workers (of course, there were no workers at that time, hehe).
And it is this disorderly war that once again reduces a large number of people, and then makes the land in the world able to afford the consumption of population again, so that the so-called prosperous era appears, which is a bad cycle, but there is no way to do it.
"So what do you do now?"
Wu Tao said: "My current practice is to take the reclaimed land into public ownership, and all the output will be credited, and then distributed uniformly according to the old and weak, Ding Zhuang, etc., for example, now the daily ration of men is half a catty (eight taels) for children and women, four taels, and three taels for the elderly. ”
This is public ownership, this is a big pot of rice, although such a method can not drive everyone's enthusiasm, but in this extraordinary period, it can only be so, there is no other way.
"I see that this valley is huge and vast, why don't you cultivate more land?" Lu Peng asked puzzled.
Wu Tao replied bitterly: "This valley is indeed vast and boundless, not to mention thirty or forty thousand people, even three or four hundred thousand can be enough to have enough food and clothing, but now this valley is in the era of wilderness, the forest is boundless, and there are too many tigers, leopards, dogs, bears and wolves, even our current camp, there are often tigers, leopards and wild wolves to patronize, the people's land is far away from this camp, there is a danger to life, just last month this year, we had 27 people die from the tiger's mouth." ”
This statement made Lu Peng suddenly realize, not to say that it is now, that is, in the fifties and sixties of the later generations, there were still tigers and leopards on the land of China, but at that time the government made the most wise but also endless troubles, that is, the militia set up a tiger fighting team, and went up the mountain to fight tigers.
Therefore, don't fight with anyone about anything, people will win the day, absolutely true.
So Lu Peng moved out of the experience of later generations, and said to Zhao Quan: "Tomorrow, you will be in our army, select smart and strong, people from Orion, and set up a special wolf-hunting team to fight tigers, which is specifically responsible for fighting tigers and wolves, and I ask you to completely exterminate the wolves, insects, tigers and leopards in this valley within a year." With our sword, we will make the way for the plough of the people, and now will we begin. ”
Zhao Quan happily accepted the order.
Wu Tao once again proposed: "Even if the problem of expanding the security of the pioneer is solved, there is also irrigation, the world has been in drought for many years, and it will continue to see the momentum, except for the low-lying areas along the river, even if other places are reclaimed, because of the drought, it cannot be cultivated, this is the key." ”
"Agriculture is the foundation of everything, food is the foundation of success, the world is in drought, building water conservancy, this is the top priority, I hope that in the near future, our valley can be self-sufficient." Lu Peng frowned and calmed his tone, and then asked suspiciously: "When Emperor Guangwu was in power, didn't a winch appear?" Isn't it possible to bring the river water to the highlands? ”
Wu Tao replied: "We have also installed a few winches, but that thing is too slow to winch water, and the manpower consumed is huge, a well-fed man, the water that can be wrenched in a day is not enough to irrigate an acre of land, in fact, the gain outweighs the loss." ”
Lu Peng suddenly realized that his feelings were still a problem of backward science and technology, and after thinking about it, his eyes suddenly lit up, but there was a way to open his mind, so he said to Wu Tao: "As for land production, we want to use the current rivers in several valleys to irrigate the land, I will think of this method." ”
Wu Tao obeyed.
Then Wu Tao introduced some other aspects, it is really a thousand things, you can't solve them one by one, to put it bluntly, these messes are still because of the incomplete manpower of his own camp now, and there is no good organization, so Lu Peng turned his head to look at Xu Jie: "Mr. Xu is well-informed, the organizational construction plan of our valley will be handed over to Mr. Xu to do, I hope you can come up with a practical method within five days." ”
Xu Jie happily accepted the order, this is his opportunity to show his talents, of course, he has to go all out to do it.
After briefly talking about this, civil things, next, Zhao Quan began to introduce his army issues.