Chapter 543: The People Have Stability and Resources are Scarce (Part 1)
'Bang~~Bang~~'"Hahahaha~~"
Accompanied by the laughter of the herdsmen's children, small straw whips were ignited and thrown into the snow with wooden sticks that were burned with charcoal at the end, blowing the snow into small pits.
However, it is not allowed to throw it on the haystack, and it is not allowed to throw it into the manure pit, even if the manure pit is now frozen.
Firecrackers and fireworks have always been there, starting with the Song Dynasty and inherited by the Yuan Dynasty.
Children were born in the war years, they didn't have the money to buy firecrackers, and they didn't know how to make them themselves.
Since I was a child, I had a small straw whip to play with for the first time, and many precious things have been added to the house recently, as well as the cloth given by His Royal Highness the Prince, and the children are so happy every day.
"A little straw whip is so much fun." Zhu Fan stood on the city wall, holding a telescope to watch the children play with firecrackers.
"What really pleases the children is that the pressure to survive has been reduced, and the new addition of household goods is the basis for an improved standard of living.
Thanks to the stove, it was warmer in the tent and there was less smell of burning cow dung.
I knew that in the future, I would build a series of earthen forts, and there would be more shelter places for grazing.
All of this ultimately comes down to a sense of security, and the sense of security comes from a group of people doing things in an organized way.
This is the most basic thing in a social system, where officials are responsible for organizing and others are at the mercy of the arrangement.
The organization can be specific to who does something, or it can be a broad group of people who can join and leave freely. ”
The chief talked to Zhu Zhang, and said to Zhu Biao next to him, which belongs to the category of social relations.
"I'm in a fiefdom, I want to be an organizer, mobilize personnel, prefect or something, give me a sideline."
Zhu Fan wants to be a leader, change the fate of others, and lead people to live a good life, which is a very fulfilling thing in his opinion.
Under normal circumstances, in the fiefdom, for the sake of the people's livelihood, the officials appointed by the imperial court do things normally.
The prince who was crowned could only enjoy the benefits of land endowment, taxation, and forced labor, and did not directly interfere in local affairs.
Zhu Fan didn't agree, he had a reason! The previous prefect made a mistake, and it was he who corrected the mistake and proved that he was better than the prefect.
Zhu Biao thought for a moment: "As an emperor, what you have to consider is to organize a grading system?" ”
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is right, it is a matter of organizational sociology and management, starting with human relations.
For example, today's Your Majesty, the aspect of interpersonal relations is reflected, why can Your Majesty be the emperor, and a group of people support Your Majesty?
Why are all the soldiers able to obey His Majesty's transfer? This knowledge is very profound, such as marriage. ”
Li Chang himself doesn't really understand very well, but he can teach Zhu Biao.
Zhu Biao and Zhu Fan fell into deep thought, yes! Why? Everyone is human, and at the beginning, my father was someone else's subordinate.
Then more and more people joined the team of the father, what means did the father use?
Seeing that everyone was silent, Li Chang had to change the subject: "Now due to the special situation, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the King of Qin have arrived, so they are giving things to the herdsmen."
After that, whether it is Helin City or a soil fort, it will have its own trade function, that is, the market.
As long as there are social relations, there must be buying and selling, which can be barter or mutually agreed currency.
There are many definitions of money, the most basic of which is that money can be exchanged for real goods, that is, the means of production. ”
"I know this, someone is proposing to issue treasure banknotes, and Xiaqiu Village seems to be unwilling." Zhu Fan said he understood.
"His Royal Highness King Qin, Xiaqiu Village is not unwilling, Xiaqiu Village needs to improve some things before it can replace physical currency with credit currency.
It must be regulated, so that people, especially decision-makers, understand the reasoning, and when the social foundation is stable enough, there will be no major problems.
The monetary system is complex, and even physical money can be unstable.
For example, during the Song Dynasty, Sichuan used iron money to mint currency, because there was little copper.
In the early days of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, if an iron coin could buy half a catty of grain, how much grain could that iron coin buy now?
Iron ore mining increased, and iron depreciated. If it is still mandatory that one iron coin can buy half a catty of grain, it is a credit currency issued with iron as a material.
If you don't learn these things and issue treasure money, the final evil consequences will have to be swallowed by the whole Ming Dynasty. ”
The lieutenant resolutely refused to admit that Xiaqiu Village was not allowed to issue treasure banknotes, and the conditions for issuance could not be met for the time being.
"Let's eat! I'll go home for dinner! "A child with a small whip lit a whip, heard a shout, shouted and ran away.
"I'm back, too!"
"It's cold outside, it's warm at home."
The children quickly disappeared into tent after tent, leaving behind the smell of gunpowder that slowly drifted through the air.
"It's really different, the paper-making workshop consumes a lot of grass, is it enough for livestock?"
Zhu Biao found that the herdsmen's lives were better, and remembered the paper of the small straw whip.
There was wood in the city of Helin, and the bark was peeled off and some broken wood, and the grass was added, and the craftsmen made it into paper, which took more than a month.
It's cold, it's fast, the quality of the paper is not very good, you can barely write, and it's no problem to fill gunpowder to make firecrackers.
As for going to the toilet, the herdsmen and sergeants do not use paper, but grass, which is plentiful.
"You can't use all the grass, the process is more complicated, so the amount of grass is relatively small.
In the future, the first task of each place will be to repair the vegetable cellar and grow vegetables around the earthen fort.
Growing wheat locally is no problem, and the water demand is lower than that of rice, which is a good staple food.
After the beginning of spring, we will bring bees over, and there will be many flowers, and then we will exchange honey as an exchange commodity for everyone. ”
The governor couldn't see the children playing, so he turned around and went down the city wall, and by the way, he talked about the arrangements for the future.
Zhu Fan expressed his support: "Yes, we want to raise bees and send them to the greenhouse in winter, our flowering things have to be dipped in flowers artificially, troublesome!" ”
"Captain, can a herdsman graze with a beehive?" Zhu Biao had a whim.
"Can't!" The chief shook his head: "You can only herd bees, and in order to provide some nutrition for herdsmen, herdsmen have turned beekeepers, which is not suitable for the current situation."
Honey cannot be sold, the transportation conditions are poor, it cannot be sold, and it cannot be a commodity that is necessary for survival, and its value is low.
There are rivers around, raising crabs, fish, and lotuses, but no, even if you dig ponds to divert water, except for increasing the burden on the people, there is no use at all.
Local decision-makers should not come up with blind ideas, otherwise their actions that benefit the people will become traps and harm the people. ”
"Is it because the road is not easy to walk?" Zhu Fan considered putting various modules into the local area, and found that none of them were suitable.
"With the means of transportation, if the road is flat, the car with a steam engine is the best match, don't think about it in ten years."
The governor agreed that the roads were not good, only camels and horses were used, and the transportation time was too long.
If you can really build a car with a steam engine, it will not be used in sparsely populated places first, but in bustling cities.
So sometimes the poor places can't get rich, and the good resources are given to the rich places.
It's late again today, so I went to sign the lease contract.
(End of chapter)