Chapter 266 - Cash-for-Work
As for Mintun, it is precisely where these disaster victims come into play, Qingzhou since the Yellow Turban thieves entrenched, exploited in every way, the people have been displaced, and 10,000 acres of fertile land have also become ownerless wasteland, in this case, these ownerless wasteland can be taken under the ownership of the state, and then these disaster victims will be organized into groups according to the establishment of the army, and the state will provide land, seeds, ploughing cattle and farm tools, and they will cultivate and cultivate them, and the harvest obtained will be divided proportionally between the state and the farmers in Tuntian.
This kind of Mintuntian system was created by Zaodi of Cao Wei Group in history, and of course Han Hao participated in it, by the way, although Zaodi doesn't know where it is now, but Han Hao is under Wang Kuang's command, thinking of this, Liu Wei's eyes lit up, if this matter is handed over to Han Hao, wouldn't it be much better than handing it over to Wang Xiu.
Wang Xiu, who was on the side, saw that Liu Wei's eyes suddenly lit up, and when he was about to ask, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside the door, and a small official had already crossed the door and entered: "Your Royal Highness, Lord County Shou, Donglai Huang Shiren came to ask to see!" ”
"Who?" Liu Wei almost choked on his own saliva.
The little official looked at King Hongnong in front of him strangely, why he was so surprised, but he still said respectfully: "Huang Shiren, the head of the Huang family in Donglai, asks to see His Royal Highness. ”
"Okay, let him in." Liu Wei muttered to himself in his heart, this name is simply too level, so he can't help but think of the name Yang Bailao, but Huang Shiren is also the right time, if it is postponed for a few days, the food and money will be almost unable to cope with it.
After a while, Huang Shiren came to the hall under the guidance of the little official, and when he saw Liu Wei on the main seat, he knelt on his knees without hesitation, and kowtowed with the gift of a poor man: "The villain Huang Shiren knocks to see His Royal Highness King Hongnong!" ”
"The head of the Huang family is finally here, but Lone has been waiting for the master of the family here for a few days!" Liu Wei arched his hand, and helped Huang Shiren get up with a smile, but a pair of black eyes were secretly observing this person, just now Huang Shiren saw his young self and bowed without hesitation, and couldn't help but make him look the other way.
Don't forget, when in Hanoi County, the head of the Ma family, one of the three major families, was also slightly stunned when he saw that he was so young, but this person's face was unhesitating, he must have inquired clearly before coming, this is a thoughtful master.
"The villain deserves such a big gift from His Royal Highness." Huang Shiren, who stood up, bowed down and said: "The Yellow Turban thieves are raging in Qingzhou, and the people are not happy, and the villain Yu Donglai heard that His Royal Highness intends to sweep away the thieves in Qingzhou, and specially offered 100,000 stones of grain and grass to talk about the villain's intentions!" ”
A hint of surprise flashed in Liu Wei's eyes, but he didn't expect Huang Shiren to be able to bring 100,000 stones of grain and grass, which is not a small amount, I am afraid that all the treasury of Beihai County does not add up to 100,000 stones, and Huang Shiren actually offered 100,000 stones, which is enough to show the depth of the Huang family's heritage.
This is the benefit of a business family, although the businessman has no political status, but he can't stand the wealth of others, but according to the information collected by Wang Xiu, the Huang family is not a particularly rich lord, can offer 100,000 stone grain and grass, if it is not sold industry, it is intentional to hide assets.
But thinking about the latter, I'm afraid it's closer to reality, after all, there is no such thing as personal property rights in this era, in this troubled era, businessmen who are not strongly armed are a piece of fat in the eyes of thieves and princes, especially in Qingzhou, where thieves are entrenched~
"Since the head of the Huang family has a heart, Gu will take this batch of grain!" Liu Wei also excused himself and said straight to the point: "Lone never likes to let others suffer, the head of the Huang family has the courage to send 100,000 stone of grain, and Lone will never hide the formula privately!" ”
"Your Highness!"
Huang Shiren obviously breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, this era is greedy from top to bottom, even Emperor Han Ling began to sell official beards, not to mention others, it is well aware of this, he did not hesitate to double the grain on the original basis, what he was afraid of was that the other party took the opportunity to coerce, since he received the grain, it was not in vain that he spent a lot of effort to transport the grain, as for the fear on the road, it was worth it.
"Your Highness can come up with such a method for the benefit of the country and the people, it is really a technology for the benefit of the world, and the villain is originally from Donglai County, so he plans to run the salt industry in Donglai. However, the villain is not willing to monopolize the profits, and the villain is willing to use fifty percent of the profits to fund my Han official army! Huang Shiren said modestly, but all the costs are left, the profits are so big, unimaginable, because he doesn't want to and dare not swallow it alone, otherwise he understands that sooner or later he will be remembered, and then there will be no place to die.
Liu Wei smiled, the method of drying salt and the method of producing salt in this era must be said to be a million profits, and the rest of the salt merchants could not compete at all, because he didn't want Huang Shiren to become the monopoly of the Han salt industry, which was not good for him.
He shook his head and said: "Huang family master, the profit in this is huge, not to mention that you must know it, so don't think about eating it all." Otherwise, even if you don't have thoughts about you, there are so many princes in the world that sooner or later they will be worried about you, and you don't want to be all taken into slavery by others, and your family property will be copied. ”
"I don't want to, I don't want to!" After Liu Wei's on-demand broadcast, Huang Shiren's mouth was full of bitterness, and he suddenly recognized the reality, the businessman is rich and seems to be majestic, but who can know the suffering.
"But the Huang family master doesn't have to worry about this!" Liu Wei looked at Huang Shiren's face and said directly: "Lone intends to support the head of the family, didn't the head of the family think of taking refuge in Lone?" ”
"Huh!?" Huang Shiren was stunned for a moment, and then his face was full of disbelief, it was not that he didn't think about defecting to Liu Wei, but he thought of the huge difference between the identities of the two, so he didn't dare to bring it up rashly. It was immediately said aloud: "The villain is willing to lead the whole family to serve His Royal Highness!" ”
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Seeing off Huang Shiren, Liu Bian, accompanied by Cheng Yu, Chen Jun, and Wang Xiu, walked on the street, and as far as he could see, there were a pair of confused, numb and desperate eyes, and Liu Bian's heart was heavy.
From ancient times to the present, there have been disaster victims in all dynasties, but the appearance of large-scale disasters like this era is not common, especially since the second emperor Huan Ling, it often happens, until now it has reached its peak, and the victims of each city are at least hundreds of thousands, which is not considered to be the victims who have not had time to enter the city.
Fortunately, the 100,000 stone of grain sent by Huang Shiren is enough to support a period of time, coupled with the reclamation of barren land, the implementation of the tuntian system, and the windfall profits of salt, as long as it can survive this winter, it will be on the right track.
"Shuzhi, let's count the number of victims as soon as possible, and start renovating Beihai County in three days!" As he walked, Liu Wei turned back to Wang Xiu and said, "Although there is food, money, and the victims can also be put into production, there are new problems in it.
Since the first day he entered the city and saw the soup kitchen, he knew that sooner or later these people would become an obstacle to action, especially in the process of distributing grain and grass, it was very likely that there would be indescribable loss, so that in the end, half of what could really fall on the victims of the disaster could already be regarded as the rulers of Qingming.
This kind of method can be regarded as a perfect game in later generations, and Liu Wei must of course try his best to avoid this kind of thing from happening.
"In addition, in terms of household registration, it will be implemented as soon as possible, and those who are willing to participate in the work will be given a certificate of identity, and then start planning a new house, which can be used as a reward, and some people who are industrious and have made significant contributions to the work will be selected to join the owners for free!"
Liu Wei paused, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said in a deep voice: "Tell these victims that after three days, the government will stop opening warehouses to release grain, but as long as they participate in labor, everyone will have a salary and take care of food!" But if they are lazy or unwilling to work, the government will not give them the slightest subsidy! ”
"No!" Wang Xiu and Cheng Yu nodded in response, Wang Xiu couldn't be busy with these things, even if he could be busy, he wouldn't leave Cheng Yu behind, after all, Cheng Yu was His Highness's confidant.
In fact, in addition to building water conservancy and building city walls, Liu Bian's main purpose was to stimulate the circulation of commerce, plan the newly built houses, and in addition to the major contributors of the generals, let these people who received wages buy houses, of course, they will definitely not be able to take them out.
After all, in the future generations, aren't the people at the bottom also taking out loans to buy houses? So, let these victims pay the down payment with their wages, and then the government can lend to them, and then add a little interest, so that they can repay it slowly, although the personal interest is very small, but don't forget how huge the base is, if the entire Han Dynasty implements this system in the future, this is also an important source of funds for the imperial court.
In this era, most of the princes and county guards were reluctant to accept the victims, because they could only implement the method of opening warehouses and releasing grain, otherwise once the riots of the victims were triggered, it would have extremely bad consequences.
But Liu Wei is not afraid, the displaced people and the disaster victims are all populations, these are all resources, he can't wait for all the disaster victims in the world to come to him, and besides, money is not a problem, he has already thought of a way.
Although he told the victims to take care of the food as long as they worked, it was definitely some kind of delicious food, and it was only barely starving, and it was impossible to eat enough, but they could buy it with money, and Liu Wei would order people to sell delicious food, and only charge the cost, so that the government would give the disaster victims to work, and the disaster victims would use the money to buy food, and the final money would go back to the hands of the government.
In this way, as long as the money is still running in Beihai County, no matter how many people come, Beihai County can eat.
Three days later, Wang Xiu has completely counted the victims, a total of 470,000 victims, the craftsman is making every effort to produce the household registration certificate of each victim, now the entire Beihai County is in full swing, at first the victims were still skeptical, after all, forcing the victims to repair the city wall, building water conservancy These things, basically all dynasties will do.
However, there is absolutely no wage payment, and the wage standard set by Liu Wei is that it is settled every day, there is no arrears, and there is a heavily armed Bai Bo soldier at each construction site, which is not to supervise their work, but to be ready to accept complaints from the victims.
This is a supervision method that Liu Wei thought of according to later generations, any disaster victim who has any doubts about wages, or whose daily wages are not enough, can immediately report to the supervising soldiers, and no matter what hardships the officials who pay the wages have, as long as they do not report in advance, they will all be punished on the spot.
And this move also completely dispelled the worries of the victims, just like Shang Ying Lixin back then, the victims completely began to believe in the government from the beginning.
I have to say that since the period of the Second Emperor Huan Ling, especially after the Yellow Turban Rebellion and Dong Zhuo's power, the credibility of the Han family has become lower and lower in the hearts of the people.
In fact, Wang Xiu is not to blame, the most important thing is that in addition to the strong victims, most of the old and young women and children of the victims can not eat food at all, and the strong people are still in the minority after all, so it has also led to the distrust of the victims, but this kind of cash-for-work move, especially all the people who participate in the labor, have been paid, and I heard that they have done a good job, and they are also rewarded with houses, such a generous treatment, so that they call the sky has eyes.
Whether the sky has eyes or not, Liu Wei doesn't know, but he has eyes, looking at the hot construction site, a pair of sword eyebrows slowly frowned, planning the place to rebuild the house, each victim spent a lot of time clumsily grinding the logs, and then clumsily or building walls or beams.
This is especially true of the place where the city wall is repaired, from the initial raw materials to transportation, to the final construction of the city wall, it is a one-person labor from beginning to end, and this efficiency is simply too slow.
"Zhongde, Shuzhi, the two of you are thinking about a set of division of labor." Liu Wei looked at Cheng Yu and Wang Xiu, who looked puzzled, and patiently explained: "Building houses and repairing city walls, this kind of material can be customized to the specifications of the work, you can order someone to do it full-time, and then order someone to receive the material, and finally there is a special person to carry out the repair, so the efficiency will be greatly improved!" ”
Wang Xiu's expression suddenly changed slightly, and then he regained his composure, but Cheng Yu's deep eyes caught the slight change.
Liu Wei didn't notice the strange color on Wang Xiu's face, but he saw a personal soldier galloping over, quickly came to his side, turned over and dismounted, and bowed to him.
"What's wrong? What happened? Liu Wei frowned and looked at the pro-soldier, looking at the anxious look on the pro-soldier's face, could it be that something big happened? Now that Beihai County is just about to get on the right track, he really doesn't want to hear any bad news.
The soldiers respectfully handed over a parchment scroll to Liu Wei, who hurriedly read it, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes, and said to Wang Xiu: "I will hand it over to Shuzhi here!" ”
"Your Highness, rest assured, Your Highness will not disappoint Your Highness!" Wang Xiu bowed and said.
"Hmm!" Liu Wei bowed his head slightly, turned around and walked towards the conference hall, while Cheng Yu and Chen Jun followed behind!