Chapter 1 Several Policies
Jiajing's twenty-four years of spring ploughing, under the strict supervision of Yuan Hao, the supervisor of the White Horse Academy, and Lei Shan, the chef, were successfully completed before the season. More than 28,000 mu were sown in this spring ploughing, 12,000 mu more than last year, and the growth momentum is gratifying.
At the same time, the amount of pasture allocated to the market reached 82 mu, an increase of more than 200,000 mu over last year.
This good situation is due to the continuous influx of people. Especially on the 23rd day of the first lunar month, a major earthquake occurred in the area of the capital of Weizhou, and even the Taoist priests of the White Horse Temple in Hongyuan City felt the earthquake.
The earthquake affected 14 counties in three prefectures, collapsing and damaging tens of thousands of houses and displacing more than 100,000 people.
For this reason, the entire northern Sichuan region moved, under the auspices of Xuanyuanguan, the resettlement of displaced people, the transportation of grain and disaster relief, Du Tenghui on behalf of the Songfan region recognized the migration and resettlement of 30,000 displaced people in one breath.
With a population of nearly 2 million, the prefecture was overpopulated and difficult to maintain, but after receiving the promise of the Du Teng Society, the prefecture and the government headed by Lu Tengen were immediately overjoyed and mobilized the victims to move to Songfan, and by the end of March, more than 26,000 people had actually been in place, and 12,000 of them had been swallowed by Hakubain.
In addition, Bai Geng, who was in Xingqing, had been buying Han Min slaves, and now the actual population under his control has exceeded 45,000.
In order to raise enough rations for the newly relocated people, the White Horse Academy borrowed 20,000 silver from the charity fund, so that its own debt reached 40,000 taels, and the total debt of the entire Hongyuan exceeded 100,000 taels.
However, in Zhao Ran's view, these new populations will all be a stable source of credibility in the future, and only need to increase everyone's annual credibility contribution value to five gui, and the credibility value of the White Horse Academy in the twenty-fourth year of Jiajing will properly exceed 200,000 gui.
In addition to contributing the credit value, these people are also contributing merit value to Zhao Ran, the credit value is passively received, and the people need to pray sincerely, but the merit value is actively absorbed, as long as they do good deeds, they can be collected from the people, and there is no contradiction and exclusion between the two, and they can be obtained at the same time.
Therefore, after Zhao Ran waited for the spring ploughing, he immediately began the construction of roads and canals.
Last year, in order to attract party members to replace the fields, the White Horse Temple drew a road map for the construction of official roads, and posted it on the white wall outside the gate of the temple. In fact, this plan was not taken out by Zhao Ran to intimidate and threaten the party members, but was really to be carried out.
When the arable land and pasture were allocated, the White Horse Courtyard deliberately left all the land near the official road line in the plan, and did not place it, the purpose was to avoid disputes when building the road.
There are three official roads, one from the west gate, connecting with the moon crossing the Hongyuan Imperial Palace, with a total length of 30 li; one from the north gate, connecting with the camp of the Song Fan Wei in the Chewa River Valley, with a total length of 52 li; and one from the south gate, connecting Zhebo Mountain, Yanggong Mountain, Haizi Mountain and Dajun Mountain, with a total length of 120 li.
The terrain of the Song Domain was relatively flat, so the difficulty of building the road was much easier than that of Long'an Mansion, and Zhao Ran planned to complete the construction of the western and northern roads before the autumn harvest, and of course, for this reason, he asked Hakubain to borrow another 2,000 silver from the charity fund.
In addition to encouraging the shops to send grain to Hongyuan, Zhao Ran urgently mobilized the people of Nanguidao, relying on the large-scale storage tips given by Rong Niang, and ran three times in a row to Huguang, where there was abundant grain, and transported back 2,400 stones of grain and rice, which initially alleviated the food crisis in Hongyuan.
The first to start construction was the thirty-mile official road on the western front, for which 1,500 people were recruited in the White Horse Temple, which was still the old way, in exchange for food by building roads. On the day of the start of construction, Zhao Ran deliberately made a field and soil research ceremony, he did not use magic talismans and spirit fruits, he used ordinary talisman paper and ordinary fruits, as well as ordinary wine, and the cost before and after did not exceed ten taels of silver.
If it really costs a few thousand taels of silver, it is not impossible to invite the land and the mountain god out, but do the land and the mountain god have that kind of professionalism and professional skills? Can they directly repair the road? Zhao Ran was seriously skeptical about this. If it is just to move bricks and stones and level the land, Zhao Ran said that the cost of using them is too high - in this regard, there are a group of free professionals in the cave of Dajun Cave.
So, the people were busy during the day, digging soil, regulating the route, filling the stones, and after a good night's sleep, they found that the road section that had been initially cleared during the day yesterday had been compacted, and the next section of the road had been done with the largest amount of work, such as gravel and loose soil, and the efficiency had been increased several times!
According to the Taoist priests of the White Horse Academy, this is the effect of Abbot Zhao inviting God with scientific ceremonies. There are also many people who show up to corroborate, saying that when they got up at night, they saw the gods invited by Abbot Zhao, including the Nine Heavens Phoenix, the Dragon King of the East China Sea, the Kunlun Qilin, etc., and some people even swore that they saw the lower realm of the green ox that Lao Jun rode and helped build the road together.
This caused a sensation, and the people simply didn't sleep at night, and everyone stayed up all night with big eyes, just waiting to see all kinds of gods. Of course, the result was nothing, but just when people were puzzled, they found that five miles ahead, there was a newly repaired section of the road!
Many people left the construction site directly, didn't even bother to eat, ran back to Hongyuan, and went straight to the White Horse Courtyard to offer incense and pray, and the White Horse Courtyard once again set off a craze for believers to offer incense.
At the same time as the official road was in full swing, in early May, the White Horse Academy issued an announcement announcing that in order to encourage childbirth, from that month, all families with children under the age of three would be rewarded with ten acres of pasture per household according to the number of young children, and this decree was implemented from that month and lasted for three years!
The whole Hongyuan was lively, people rushed to tell each other, and came to the White Horse Courtyard to watch the bulletin wall, and when the news was confirmed, they immediately rushed home and began to prepare.
There are those who are not married, and they are busy looking for someone to marry, and those who are married, they are working hard day and night, hoping to go to high school in one fell swoop. Within three months, 890 families had completed their marriages, and 390 women had received good news. At the same time, in front of the statue of Cihang Dao in the White Horse Courtyard, it was crowded with men and women, praying that Cihang would open his eyes and send a child to reincarnate quickly.
The accumulation of one thing after another has made the people, especially the party people, gradually resist the Daomen from the beginning to dispensable, and then from dispensable, to the current gradual acceptance. They found that in fact, the belief in Sanqing seems to be quite effective.
Of course, everything can't be too extreme, otherwise it's too much, the White Horse Courtyard Hall was reported three times during this period, and three families did white things in June, and the deceased were all old men, all over 60 years old, which is really sighing.