Chapter 387: It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish

"Father, you let Mr. finish speaking." Meng Yi opened his mouth and said, "The village chief is still here." ”

Meng Wu reacted, then saw Ying Zheng, and found Ying Zheng staring at him angrily, so he immediately lowered his head and said: "Village chief, the villain deserves to die, and please forgive the village chief." ”

Ying Zheng said in a deep voice: "From now on, you don't speak, if you want to ask questions, just wait for Qin An to finish speaking." ”

"No." Meng Wu sat down, no matter how dissatisfied he was, he didn't dare to disobey Yingzheng.

Qin An shook his head and said, "General Meng, you are right, it is indeed very excessive to give ordinary people mixed sand.

So if you want to eat good food, then go to work, and the place where you work is not only good food, but also payable.

For the kind of people who are lazy to eat, they can eat a porridge mixed with sand, which is already the mercy of this county order.

If it were me, I would give them wheat husks directly, and I don't know how to eat with my hands and feet, what is the difference between such people and animals.

In addition, if the county order is provided with good food and drink, does he have so much money? In addition, people are inert, once the people are all fed and drunk and do not work, will they still have to support them for a lifetime?

This reminds me of another story. ”

"Oh, what's the story?" Li Si asked curiously.

Qin An shook his head and said: "This story is called that there is no good reward for being a good person, the thing is this, there is a village, and there is a very rich family in the village. This large family had enough money to buy the entire village.

The owner of this large family is very kind-hearted and likes to do good deeds.

Some villagers will invite him for weddings and funerals, and he will also take out money to make congratulatory gifts or something, as long as the villagers have something to ask him, he will help, and does not want anything in return.

Even if the gambler asked him for silver, he would give it, just such a big family, a good man, because he helped the villagers without a bottom line, so he developed the character of the villagers who are lazy and lazy.

Until one day, the big family's family was used up by him, and he could no longer help the villagers, which made the villagers angry, why not continue to help them?

So the angry villagers robbed the big family of all their money and killed all the big family's owners.

I'm very curious, obviously it's a good deed, why did this big family suffer a catastrophe?

Is it that the villagers are too bad to know the Thanksgiving Pictorial? Or is it because the owner of a big family has a rotten good person? Could such an outcome have been avoided? ”

Regarding Qin An's question, everyone frowned slightly, they had never realized this problem.

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Qin An continued: "There is nothing wrong with helping people, you have to know who can help and who can't."

Beggars can help, disaster victims can help, gamblers can't, ruffians can't.

There is still a degree of helping people, as the so-called things are only three, like a big household who has no bottom line to help the villagers, in the end will only develop a group of lazy and lazy people. ”

The crowd nodded.

Meng Yi said: "I finally understand why the county order gives porridge mixed with sand, because only in this way can the people be prevented from being lazy and lazy."

The only people who can really eat porridge mixed with sand are those who are really hungry.

But when they want to eat it a second time, they feel that they can't eat such porridge at all, so they go to find work. ”

Qin An bowed his head and said: "It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish, and it is temporary to send porridge and help, and it is impossible to do this for a long time."

But let the other party work directly, and you will not have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of your life.

The first step of the county order is to attract investment, and to get a certain amount of silver with 30 years of right of way, and the second step is to buy grain to help the people.

The third step is to let the well-fed people work. ”

"For a while, will the people have work to do?" Lees asked.

"How could it not be?" Qin An said, "Old man, you forgot, the county needs people to build roads, this needs people, cement needs to build roads, and this cement workshop needs people."

All of a sudden, some of the prefectural residents had work to do.

The fourth step is to continue to attract investment, and businessmen from all walks of life will appear, restaurants, inns, restaurants, etc.

As long as there are people, there is business, so there are more and more merchants, and the next thing is to feed the officials.

When there is no money, the officials have no way to make money, and now that they have money, they must try their best to make money. ”

"Officials who dare to do this are looking for death." Qin An said in a deep voice.

Qin An sighed and said, "Although my father-in-law said that it was inappropriate for the officials to do this, but if the imperial court gave them enough money, how would they dare to do it?"

So sometimes you can't blame the officials, you can only blame the court.

The county magistrate understood this and formulated a series of measures to improve the treatment of officials, and officials were never allowed to make money on their own.

Once officials make money at will, this will cause the interests of businessmen to suffer, and it will also affect the credibility of the government.

Therefore, the county decree directly issued a decree that any official who dared to solicit money from merchants and ordinary people without permission would be punished for the crime of treason.

Rebellion is the punishment of the nine clans. So the officials were very scared and angry.

In order to appease the feelings of the officials, the county decree issued a decree, but all officials can be reimbursed, and I don't know the amount of reimbursement, anyway, the officials are very satisfied.

Not only that, but officials also have other subsidies, including a high temperature allowance in the summer. In winter, there are cold subsidies, and there are a series of subsidies such as housing subsidies and car subsidies every month, so that officials no longer worry about money, but also to attract businessmen to come to their own county to do business.

There are more and more industries in the county, the people are getting richer and richer, and the tax revenue in the county is also increasing.

In one year, the entire county has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Because there was no one, the county town summoned all the displaced people and disaster victims next door to work in the county seat.

What was originally a county seat of less than 10,000 people has become a county seat of hundreds of thousands.

Ladies and gentlemen, do you understand what I am telling this story? ”

Li Yanran took the lead and said: "Xianggong, I said a total of three points. The first point is to attract investment, and the second point is to teach people to fish, so that the people can survive if they have work to do.

The third point is to feed the officials, so that the officials no longer worry about money and can better serve the county. ”

"Yes." Qin An said with a smile, "If you want to serve anyone, you can't do it, and the most indispensable thing is businessmen."

In ancient times, everyone believed that restricting the development of merchants and developing agriculture could solve the problem of food and clothing for the common people, and finally let their dynasty survive for thousands of generations.

But otherwise, it was basically overthrown in a few hundred years.

The biggest reason for this is land annexation, whether it is the family, the prince, the officials, or the landlords, they all buy a large amount of land in the hands of the people, resulting in no land in the hands of the people.

In this way, hundreds of years later, a large number of people have no land in their hands, and when they encounter famine and a mediocre emperor, will the people still have a way to live? ”

Some people died, but not completely......