Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 352 Xishan County, Samo Prefecture
Xishan County of Satsuma State, which is now Xishan County of Satsuma Prefecture.

Ma Yongpeng, the county magistrate, was sitting outside the newly completed canteen of the county government, looking at the Dongying civilians who were holding bowls and stuffing food into their mouths like a hungry tiger, and could not help but look sad.

This group of people can eat better than the hungry people in the northwest!
Is this food so delicious?
He ate a mouthful of rice cooked from sweet potato mixed with rice, and ate a piece of potato stewed from bone soup, savoring it carefully.

Well, the taste of this meal is indeed not bad.

Question, do you need to gobble it up like this?
This group of Dongpu civilians, it was as if they hadn't eaten for a few days and nights. It was a bit slow to say that they stuffed it into their mouths, they just poured it into their stomachs!

In fact, it's not that these Dongying civilians haven't eaten for a few days and nights.

They ate it every day, every meal.

Because at this moment, the imperial court pays for the food and organizes the civilians here to build the county.

If you ask people to work, you have to feed them, right? After all, these are civilians, not captives. It’s fine if they don’t get paid, but they still have to feed them.

Alas, the common people here are really too poor. Just two meals a day has attracted almost all the common people in the whole Xishan.

Because they have nothing to do!
The rivers and mountains are almost all mountains, there is not much arable land, and the population is not large, with a total of just over 1 people.

And now almost all of these 1 people came to build the county seat.

This is what Ma Yongpeng worries about.

The emperor has said, to control these people and create benefits!

It is easy to control these people at this moment, because Tang Wang specially assigned a hundred guards to each county magistrate, which is enough to face these unarmed civilians.

The question is how to create benefits!

If he can't create benefits during the three-year tenure, it may be difficult for him to be promoted in the future.

There's no way, he's just a famous person, if he can't even be a county magistrate, this official will basically be able to do it.

Right now, he is really worried. There is not much arable land in Xishan County. It is difficult to feed tens of thousands of civilians. How can he let these people create benefits.

Just as he was frowning and sighing, a Spike warship suddenly came from the north at high speed, and soon docked beside the newly built wharf in Xishan County.

A gentle and personable young man walked off the Spike warship at a leisurely pace, stood on the pier, looked around with his hands behind his back.

Is this young man here for a spring outing?

of course not!

Ma Pengfei recognized him at a glance. He was Xu Erjue, the director of Daming Western Company.

This is the god he begged his grandpa to tell his grandma to invite!

When they first went to Dongying to take office, Tang Wang specially introduced them to the major directors of the Daming Western Firm one by one.

Tang Wang also said that if there is something you don't understand about making money, you can send a letter to ask the directors of the Western Firm to come and guide you.

He didn't know how many official documents he sent to town Wocheng, and the Daming Western Company finally sent directors over!

At this moment, Xishan County has not even dug the foundation of the city wall, so he organized people to build the pier and canteen, so as to solve the problem of eating.

When Director Xu got off the boat, he naturally saw it at a glance.

This is the great savior!

Seeing this, Ma Pengfei immediately left his job, ran over, and said respectfully, "Ma Pengfei, magistrate of Xiaguanxi Mountain, has a meeting with Mr. Xu."

Why does he, a county magistrate, call a director of a company an adult?
It turned out that in order to make the Daming Western Company more professional and more powerful in colonial function than the Dutch East India Company, Taichang specially provided each director with a fifth-rank merchant doctor to facilitate their actions.

This fifth-rank doctor of the Ministry of Commerce is many times bigger than a small county magistrate, so Ma Pengfei naturally called Xu Erjue respectfully and respectfully.

Xu Erjue didn't put on airs either.

He smiled and cupped his hands in return and said, "Master Ma, what's wrong with you, you keep sending messages begging our firm to send directors here, what's your problem?"

Big problem.

Ma Pengfei explained with a bitter face: "Master Xu, you don't know how poor this Xishan County is. The total cultivated land here is only more than 1 mu, and the population is also more than 1. The officials estimate that each person is divided into one mu." It’s a bit too much, one person, one mu of land, and a maximum of two grains of grain a year, it’s not bad if they don’t starve to death, how can they create benefits? Master Xu, please think of a way.”

Oh, that's what happened.

The directors of these Daming Western Firms are not for nothing. When Taichang ordered people to pass the word of mouth, they asked their families to send the most capable people who are in charge or have official positions.

Xu Erjue is the most capable member of the Xu family besides Xu Guangqi and Xu Ji.

At this moment, he already knows how to colonize and how to create benefits.

It seems that Ma Pengfei doesn't know much about this set, so he needs to teach him a lot!
Thinking of this, he smiled slightly and said, "Lord Ma, this is a good thing."

Ah!
Is this still a good thing?
Hearing this, Ma Pengfei couldn't help being dumbfounded.

He was stunned for a while, and then he came to his senses, bowed his hands again and again and said: "This official is stupid, please teach Master Xu more."

Well, this attitude is not bad.

This officer will teach you well.

Xu Erjue recalled what the emperor taught them, pondered it carefully, and then said slowly: "Do you know, if this colonization wants to succeed, it must first make people willing to create benefits for you. People have to concentrate on only thinking If you resist, you will not be able to create benefits.”

What this says makes sense. The question is, how to create benefits?

What I want to know is this!
Ma Pengfei nodded half understanding, his face still full of doubts.

Xu Erjue continued to explain: "Look at these civilians, they can gobble up sweet potato rice with potatoes so much. This proves that they didn't eat as good as this before. Isn't this a good thing? People should be dismissive of sweet potato rice with potatoes Gu, that would be more troublesome."

This makes sense, the question, what I want to know is how to create benefits!

Don't keep talking about this!
Ma Pengfei still nodded his head half-understood, with a look of anxiety already appearing on his face.

Xu Erjue continued unhurriedly: "If you want people to listen to you and help you create benefits, then first of all, let them pursue, or let them have what they want.

In fact, this sweet potato rice with potatoes is to let them taste the sweetness.

We have done a special study, and the civilians here are worse than the hungry people in the Northwest.

These sweet potatoes and potatoes were actually grown by the hungry people in the Northwest. You can see how delicious they are.

In this way, do they just think that they will be so delicious and full after every meal? "

Well, these words finally have something to do with interests.

Hurry up and continue!

Ma Pengfei was so anxious that he rubbed his hands together.

Xu Erjue still calmly said: "So, less land is a good thing, and not enough to eat is even better, so they are willing to do a lot of things in pursuit of food.

For example, to mine coal.

You know coal mines, you should also know what the coal comes out of, right? Who can bear the black and ash all over the body?

Unless the poor have no choice, otherwise, who would like to dig?

Of course, if you pay a high price, some people will go, but the cost will be high. "

Whoops, finally got to the point.

Ma Pengfei couldn't help but excitedly said: "My lord, do you mean to let these people dig coal?"

How can light mining be enough?
How much profit can mining coal create?
I'm just making an analogy here.

When Xu Erjue heard this, he couldn't help but secretly sighed.

Alas, this is another one who doesn't understand anything. It seems that it will take a lot of work.

(End of this chapter)