Chapter 557: How Much Does It Take?
The development of the Northeast region has allowed Datang to develop because of its vigorous maritime industry, and the environment that Datang has suffered greatly damage has been alleviated. Those mountain rats www.biquge.info are hard to catch, on the one hand, the Tang people have no concept of environmental conservation.
It is known from the burning of mountains and cultivated fields that it is extremely damaging to the environment. However, in many mountainous areas, it is the way for the local people to make a living. Before the terraces appeared, they only knew how to use this method. And cutting down trees? That's what it is. After all, the mountains are burning, what is there to cut down some trees.
And with the burning of mountains and the installation of terraces, the timber that was easy to obtain was cut down, so some people moved their bad ideas to the high mountains.
It's not easy to transport in the mountains, what to do? Very simple. Originally, it was the use of water power. Cut down trees near the river and throw them into the river, so that the wood will float down the river.
And later, simply cut it down and leave it alone. Because it is too conspicuous to float down the river, it will be intercepted by the government and then auctioned publicly.
As a result, this was used, and those mountain rats simply cut down an entire mountain, and when the government spent nearly a thousand pains to transport it down, the forces behind it surfaced and obtained these timber in an open and legal way.
In order to protect the hillside land and let future generations have a good mountain and good water, Li Chen set up a protection clause, which is useless. The local government reasoned that there was a shortage of manpower and could not make up for it. God knows if it's all collusion behind it.
Even if Li Chen repeatedly ordered a reprimand and ordered the local government to ban it, it had no effect. Until one time, because the trees on a certain hill were cut down, the heavy rain came. The entire mountain was directly washed away by the heavy rain, forming a landslide, so that hundreds of people were buried in the small mountain village overnight, which attracted attention.
Li Chen has long advocated environmental protection and included it in the textbooks for primary school students, but it has never been taken seriously, and it was not until this incident occurred that it was reported in the newspapers that people took it seriously.
According to survivors, the entire mountain seemed to come to life, with mud flowing down the unsheltered slope until the entire mountain was sliding. Before the residents could react, they were buried.
100 lives to make the magistrate pay attention. Li Chen was very angry, the Tang people actually tasted the harm caused by the development of the economy hundreds of years in advance.
He had thought that air pollution would not be felt until decades later, when the steam engine became widespread. He would have had a countermeasure to this.
Electric motors have to be used, which can replace the steam engine a lot. The electric motor was the beginning of the second industrial revolution. With the electric motor, this miniaturization was a source of power, and the use of the steam engine was gradually reduced. The electric motor can be large or small, and the power it can provide is not low.
Like textile machines, there is no need to set up a steam engine in each factory, there is an electric motor, and many textile machines can be driven. There is also the power of the motor can also be adjusted, such as machine tools, such as the machine, without a steam engine, with an electric motor, more convenient.
As for the source of electricity, in addition to thermal power generation, Li Chen intends to vigorously promote hydropower generation. Thermal power plants have to be set up, and they can also be relatively far away. Alternating current, coupled with wires, provides power transmission, allowing thermal power plants to stay away from crowds.
Li Chen originally thought that maybe with such a two-pronged approach, he would not see any major pollution in Datang in his lifetime. As a result, I didn't expect that this kind of thing would happen in just a few years.
Once upon a time, industrial pollution was a symbol of a country's national strength. When the British people suffered greatly, people from many countries went to London to absorb and abandon it, believing it to be a symbol of strength. It's funny that when a country is strong, even all kinds of public hazards are emulated.
Of course, Li Chen is not so stupid, this kind of thing is not worth being happy about at all, he does not intend to pay for the lives of the people and let the people suffer before someone comes forward to call for the prevention and control of pollution. He didn't want to see that countless people, because of the lack of awareness in this area, saved money, and as a result, a lot of strange diseases occurred.
It was already weak enough, and it had to endure those bosses, save the money they should have spent, and pass it on to the common people. As a result, these ordinary people, this disease, that disease. In order to cure the disease, they are already vulnerable, and their situation is even more miserable. And those bosses are all full of fat. "Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road".
He just thought, before he died, he would withdraw from the public pollution prevention and control law, and never allow the land of Datang to suffer, and the profiteers to make enough money. How long have you been in Datang? He can't remember clearly, he is very used to being an emperor, and it is difficult to say what his grades are. The only thing he is proud of, and he has not embarrassed the traversal, is that he has never forgotten the people.
As a result, he was slapped in the face now. In a fit of rage, he asked Jinyi to take action, and after secretly investigating, he caught a lot of mountain mice. Except for a group of mountain rats who were killed for the crime of public danger by cutting down the hill, the others were exiled to exile.
The crime of public danger, which was specially established by Li Chen at the Criminal Department, is a crime that is harmful enough to cause many casualties, and the crime is sentenced to three years and death according to the severity of the crime.
And Liuqiu is not the small island where the US military was stationed in later generations, but refers to the islands along the southeast coast. According to records, Emperor Yang of Sui, who was keen on expanding his territory, once sent a large army to the local area, but because the local area was really poor and there were few people, he was killed by the Sui army and abducted thousands of people, and was directly abandoned.
Li Chen reclaimed the local area, but there was no major development, mainly to exile some prisoners. Let the local area gradually multiply. It just so happens that the local timber resources are abundant, and these mountain rats can exert their strengths and work hard to cut down wood to supply the increasingly scarce timber of Datang.
Development is only secondary, and the main source of timber supply for Datang is the Bohai State, which has been newly protected by Datang.
In the Northeast, there are too many big trees. These big trees were not touched by anyone before, and at that time, Datang was actually not so short of wood. The main use of wood is to split it as firewood, although there are many high-quality trees in the Bohai Sea, but it is too far, thousands of miles to transport to the Tang Dynasty, it is not cost-effective. The Bohai people themselves don't need much. They are sparsely populated, and they don't have that strong motivation to develop, until now.
Ten large ships were built for him, which saved a lot of money. If it hadn't happened to be the return of the expedition fleet, maybe the ten ships would have already set off.
Now he has put together four of these fleets and given them to the second fleet to the New World. It was in six ships, and the five ships that had been repaired were brought into the Philippines.
Some of those people, sailors, scholars, and other figures went to the New World to continue their investigations, while others went to the Philippines together. In the future, he may become the first Australian to set foot on the southern continent. However, of course, what this group of people have gained is not as good as those who could risk their lives to go.
It's just that this fleet was urgently stopped before it set off for the Philippines. After an incident, the fleet first went to the South Seas, but not to the Philippines. The entire Philippine strategy was called suspended. The fleet was also temporarily diverted for other purposes.
"In the end..." , Li Chen leaned on the leather sofa and nodded his forehead with his hand, as if he couldn't understand, "How much money is enough?"
This is a very profound question, how much does it cost for a person? Some people are never enough, some people are enough, there is no standard.
Li Chen's words, no one took over the group of prime ministers in front of him, and a group of prime ministers became dumb in an instant. Li Deyu raised his eyes to look at the sky, the weather has been getting cooler recently, remember to ask his grandson to wear more clothes. Cui Xuan didn't speak, and carefully looked at Li Chen's various Tang Dynasty sketches hanging in the Ayaqi Palace, and seemed to be very interested in this recently emerging style of painting.
Ling Fox and Wei Cong, looking at the nose and the nose, and competing with themselves. Wei Mo and Zhou Qi looked at the teacup carefully, and seemed to be very interested in this kind of tea from West Lake, which is claimed to be a hundred years old tea trees, and the tea is picked. Only Du Mu wanted to say something, but he was so hit by this heavy atmosphere that he couldn't say anything.
Because, Li Chen was very angry, very angry. He hadn't been angry for a long time. He hadn't been angry for a few years since he was last angry about the poaching. It seems to be quiet, but in fact, all the prime ministers feel the atmosphere oppressive, like the calm before the storm, which makes people breathless.
The reason for the incident was that Li Chen rectified the local government system. This matter has lasted for many years, including the imperial examination, all officials fully adopt the examination rate, and distribute it in other places. And improve liquidity, so that one place is not controlled for a long time.
There is also an improvement of the supervision system, and by persuading the agricultural judge to be killed, the supervision of the Datang Dynasty and the system of making up for theft will be carried out. The top-to-bottom inspection system was established, and the security system of the Tang Dynasty was reformed, simulating the modern police system of the 20th century.
The effect is slowly getting a little bit. The matter of the imperial examination is not so fast. Li Chen gave priority to filling the vacancies in the frontier, and he wanted to let the frontier develop, so that those young people would be distributed to the frontier first, and then gradually promoted back to the interior. The frontier will no longer be a place for exiled officials, but a way for young officials to step into the prime minister of the empire and become a member of the pinnacle of imperial power.
Therefore, this wave of replacement is not so fast, and many young officials are still in office. The reform of the supervision system has been more effective. In this investigation, many fraud cases have gradually surfaced.
Li Chen wasn't angry about this matter, of course he knew that there were a lot of things in it. Although it is a little greasy, it looks shocking, "Breaking the county order, destroying the door order Yin", it is not a lie.
Under the new supervision system, many drawbacks, which were previously well concealed, have gradually emerged. Those newly appointed don't drive hard, and they have to overturn the case as their own merits. The magistrate had no way to intervene. Let a lot of accumulated disadvantages appear one by one.
It is not a big deal for local laws or county orders to use their power to extort local people. It is not new to occupy other people's fields and property, insult other people's wives and daughters, and even have serious incidents of destroying people's homes.
The case is also very simple, that is, the son of the county commander forcibly married a child of a good family as a concubine, and the woman was abused and beaten to death by her husband's family not long after she passed the door. The family was angry, and they came to the door to talk about it, but the father was beaten half to death, and the son was beaten to death in order to protect the old father. There was only one lonely old woman left, who committed suicide. It's a family of four, but it's a happy family, and that's it.
Although Li Chen was very angry about such a thing, he could already look at it with a normal heart. After all, it has already happened, and anger will not help. What he can do, for people who may be in suffering, is to make it happen again. This is not the reason for his anger, his anger is something else.
"What, no one is talking?" The scene was silent, Li Chen saw that no one answered, and said to himself, "I'm a Datang official, isn't the treatment good?" Aren't the benefits enough? Tell me about it.'"
"When people live, they sleep in such a big place, eat, and eat as much as they can every day, wear and use, are there fewer of my big officials? How much does it cost to be enough? Did I really abuse them? So that they are not well fed and clothed? Live like all the inferior?'
"The saint is angry." , Du Mu stubbornly said, "As long as the supervision of local officials is strengthened, this kind of incident will not happen again in the future."
"Oh, really? The human heart is always endless.'" , Du Mu's comforting words did not work at all.
Li Chen would be so angry and get money, naturally it was the officials who were corrupt. Speaking of which, the income of officials in the Tang Dynasty was actually very high, but they could not stop their greed.
How much did officials earn in the Tang Dynasty? Broadly speaking, it can be divided into moon and rice, and job field. Monthly salary is a fixed monthly salary. In the case of a seven-rank official, the seven-rank Beijing official is probably two times a month. That's about twice as much as the average person's income.
For ordinary people, the monthly income is probably about the same. The high point has to be consistent five. This is about the same as the lowest rank of the ninth rank official.
However, the monthly salary of officials is only a part, and the people collect so much to provide for the expenses of a family of four. And what about the officials? They also have Lumi income, this time in addition to the monthly income. Basically, they don't have to worry about starving to death, seven rank officials, eighty stones. From seven pins, seventy stones.
In the case of a seven-grade official, seventy stone of Delu rice a year can probably feed ten people. And that's not all, there's also a job field subsidy.
The so-called vocational land means that this field belongs to the government, but it is rented to the people for planting. The income is considered to be an official's gain. As for this subsidy, Beijing officials are less than foreign officials. Because there are more Jingguan Lumi than foreign officials.
For officials of the same rank, the Beijing official rank is one level lower than that of foreign officials. The second-class foreign official is the same as the first-class Beijing official. A few more acres of vocational land, firstly, there is not so much land in Beijing, and secondly, it is also a subsidy for foreign officials.
However, even if you subsidize officials, you can't collect as much as you want. According to the regulations, one acre of land cannot exceed six buckets.
Seven-grade foreign officials, 2,400 buckets a year, 240 stone income, based on the price set by the Tang Dynasty officials to hire people, can support more than 30 people.
Such a high income, as well as corruption, made Li Chen angry. This is not ordinary corruption, which makes Li Chen extremely angry.