Chapter 660: Lessons Learned
Li Chengqian brought his own team, and of course, his own treasury, so he decided to do a big job. If you don't have any utensils, you can build an iron furnace on the spot and buy materials to fight; When there is no one, every household goes to recruit them; If there is no food, they go to the county government to buy it; He also discussed with the landlords about land requisition and asked them to go to the county yamen, and Li Chengqian personally told them.
It's completely different from dealing with work in the court, but there are many similarities.
The biggest difference is that the east wall can be demolished to make up the west wall in the court. But at the grassroots level, it is very difficult, because there is no wall for him to tear down, everyone is not allowed to give an inch of land, not a hair, no one is a rabbit or an eagle, don't want them to see the long term. But if they say that they will be fine in the future, they will endure some hardships first, and they will not agree to anything.
Moreover, comparisons have become a trend, not suffering from widowhood but unevenness, and there are countless quarrels for petty profits. Village to village, home to home, people and people, everyone is like they have eaten gunpowder, and the slightest touch will explode.
There is no mildness, only care.
Li Chengqian has a headache, but this is the grassroots, because he is surrounded by monkeys in the twilight, and what he pursues is not a grand blueprint, but a safe bag.
"There's no trust at all." Li Chengqian sighed, he was keenly aware of the problem, that is, the people did not trust each other, the officials and the people did not trust each other, and naturally they would not trust him, the prince who was not a prince.
Li Chengqian had to look through Yun Yao's small manual. Yun Yao had encountered these problems when she was developing Zhucheng, so she gave solutions in detail.
Quarrels are normal, and as an ordinary person, it is normal to be at odds. It's not that they don't have vision, it's that they can't have vision, and if they have vision, they can starve to death.
So build a relationship of trust and let them know that even if their family has nothing to eat, someone will take care of them.
"In dealing with problems, we cannot blindly curry favor with the people for the sake of our own reputation, but we must adhere to principles. To unite the people around us is not to promise them benefits, but to take the lead in doing the right thing. So the easiest way to build trust is to eat and live with workers. Li Chengqian read the contents of the handbook and said how did his sister learn so much knowledge? It's as if she's experienced it herself.
I have indeed experienced it, and I have suffered a lot of losses, which are the lessons of Yunyao's construction of the city. said that she had done such a thing as buying the people, and in the end she suffered a big loss.
At first, Yun Yao felt that as long as she gave money, the people would naturally follow her. But later she found out that this was not the case, blindly pleasing the people, and the people gradually began to close themselves off and protect themselves, unwilling to fulfill their obligations. Yun Yao is high, and the people can't rely on Yun Yao, they rely on the money in their hands. Therefore, it is naturally no problem to give them money, but once they encounter a development bottleneck and have no money to give, the people will grab their wallets and not think about the long-term at all. Because they don't trust Yun Yao, they feel that Yun Yao can fly up at any time and don't care about them at all, but Yun Yao has soared, and they have to live, so naturally they can't pay money to break through any bottlenecks.
Yun Yao realized that he thought that he would just give money, and in the end, the people believed in money, not the person who gave money. This is the first time Yun Yao has encountered this situation, there was indeed a bottleneck in development at that time, Yun Yao wanted to mobilize everyone to work together, but no one responded at all. Later, Yun Yao chatted with them and found out that the reason why they didn't respond was that Yun Yao thought that Yun Yao was trying to cheat them out of their money, that Yun Yao was a means to recover money, and that Yun Yao had set up a name.
Without money, they can't survive, so they can't trust Yunyao.
This made Yun Yao realize that buying people can indeed succeed in a certain period of time, but once it encounters a bottleneck, it can't be crossed. That's why she realized that she had broken away from the masses in Zhucheng, so she spent several years returning to the masses and re-establishing the trust relationship between everyone, letting them know that even if they didn't have money, everyone could still help each other in the same boat.
In fact, the reason is also very simple, the alliance of interests is naturally strongest when there are interests, and when there are no interests, there is no relationship of trust, and the alliance will naturally be dissolved, and contradictions will erupt, and there will be no unity at all. Therefore, Yun Yao once again went deep into the masses, built a moral alliance, established a relationship of trust, and made everyone believe in her again, so as to bring people's hearts together again. Let them know that even if Yun Yao is a Heavenly Court Formation Immortal, he still cares about everyone's future, and he will still share weal and woe with them, and will not leave them and run away by himself.
With this trust, everyone generously helped Yunyao overcome the bottleneck of Zhucheng's development.
To put it simply, the alliance of interests is only effective when there are interests, so buying the people can only last for a short time, even Yunyao will encounter a bottleneck of insufficient interests, not to mention Datang. Moreover, interests do not come out of thin air, and in backward areas where there is nothing, the alliance of interests is not reliable at all, so she taught Li Chengqian to endure hardships with everyone at one time, and he will eat whatever everyone eats, in short, it is necessary to gain everyone's trust, so that everyone will contribute their own strength.
Li Chengqian took the lead in repairing water conservancy and sorting out transportation, and he had to take the lead in setting an example, so that everyone would believe that Li Chengqian really wanted to do practical things for them, instead of trying to trick them into contributing money and efforts in a legal way.
In fact, it is also possible to forcibly conscript people, after all, forced labor is legal. But relying on conscription is not able to mobilize enthusiasm, before Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty requisitioned all kinds of conscription, and it was a war and a canal, so the people of the Tang Dynasty had a psychological shadow on conscription. If Li Chengqian really uses forced labor, he will definitely end up with a reputation of being overjoyed and greedy for merit, and even if he does a practical thing, he will be scolded bloody. Just like Emperor Yang of Sui, everyone knows the usefulness of the Grand Canal, but he was scolded very badly, because he did not mobilize the subjective initiative of the masses of conscripts, and the conscripts are all passive labor, not afraid of who Emperor Yang of Sui will scold?
But if Emperor Yang of Sui personally worked on the construction site, even if he was pretending, the conscripts would definitely be full of energy.
Therefore, it is necessary to make the people believe in themselves, so that Li Chengqian can exert his strength and gain fame while doing practical things. So he practiced himself, rolled up his trouser legs and worked with everyone, him for three years, him in full swing.
Not only did he work, but he also ate and lived together, and after persevering in this way, Li Chengqian also deeply realized the hardships of the laborers. Because he brought money, the local people had better blacksmithing skills, and they also began to promote the quyuan plough and raise more cattle and horses. At the same time, many businessmen also came to invest in order to curry favor with Li Chengqian, and this small county suddenly became lively.
This is the effect that Yunyao needs, let the funds flow to the local area, of course, if the prince leaves, how to keep the funds depends on the local people. This was also written in the booklet to prevent Li Chengqian from leaving, and the funds would flow away immediately, and Yun Yao also gave the imperial brother a lot of methods, hoping to maintain the sustainable development of the county as much as possible. Although it is very difficult, no matter how difficult it is, you must work hard, otherwise there will be a problem of the Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty, and then "Water Margin" will become a story of the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, we must not only concentrate the funds in the city, but also find a way to send the funds back to the county or even the village, so that the entire Datang can compete and exude vitality.