Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 292 Conception of New Countryside Construction
The convoy stopped at a village that was poorer than Hejia Village. The villagers were lucky to have the emperor visit at the most difficult time.

Li Shimin still walked around the village first, gave clothes to the villagers who lacked clothes, asked the old people about their physical condition, and asked the soldiers to pick out rice noodles from everyone's homes. However, Sun Xiangfu, who was cooking, saw this. The village is different from other villages, because it is too similar to the happy village in the past. The people have no food in their homes, and they are all skinny, but the village head's family can make ends meet.

When Li Shimin held a big bowl and urged the villagers to eat more, Sun Xiangfu used the food as a bait to ask the two and a half boys in the village to tell all the basic conditions of the village.

The reason is not complicated, and the method is exactly the same as that of Hu Cai back then. Who said that in this period, the production and life of the people are all under the authority of officials!Village officials are also officials!Taking care of the cattle and some public property, with the head of the village and the county magistrate behind him, this is enough for the mud-legged people in the village to play to their death. Sun Xiangfu knew why the village was poor just after hearing the beginning.

"Hehe, the aristocratic family still hasn't stopped playing the land annexation routine!"

Sun Xiangfu smiled and added a bowl of mutton noodle soup to the two middle-aged men who answered, and then took a chance to tell Li Shimin what he knew.

After listening to Sun Xiangfu's explanation, Li Shimin was so angry that he said, "I could bear what happened back then, but now I can't bear it."

After all, Li Shimin wanted to recruit guards to arrest the village head of Shuanglu Village, as well as the county magistrate and head of Wugong County, but was stopped by Sun Xiangfu.

"Your Majesty, such things are common even under your noses. So, what about the whole country? We must deal with it, but the top priority is not to deal with one such thing, but to deal with it on a large scale. Fix things like this."

"You mean to tell me to continue to endure and secretly think of a way?"

Sun Xiangfu nodded, and replied, "Exactly, exposing the contradiction is nothing more than another scramble in the court. It can't solve the problem. If there are policies, there will be countermeasures below. You can even deal with the things under your nose. It's hard to detect, and they can always find loopholes to take advantage of such a large stall in the whole country. Therefore, I feel that we should use another method."

"what way?"

"Do you still remember that the house minister suggested that the people who were released from the family and pretended to be victims of the disaster should be re-registered and reorganized into the people?"

Li Shimin nodded and said, "Well, I remember this."

Sun Xiangfu continued, "Since that time, the tenants of those aristocratic families in Guanzhong have been lost in large numbers. There is no manpower to help them farm, so they need to replenish manpower. The way to make up is to use various means to trap ignorant people. The common people of the country, seize their lands, and make these people their serfs. Why don't we take all the people out of these impoverished villages directly, even if they can use their means, without people, their means will be useless gone."

Hearing this, Li Shimin squinted his eyes at Sun Xiangfu, thought for a moment before saying, "You mean, use the Weinan Industrial Zone, which is about to be built, to recruit all the people from these impoverished villages?"

Sun Xiangfu nodded with a smile and said, "That's right, but just a Weinan industrial zone can't digest everyone. I think that next year, Guanzhong should start the construction of a new countryside."

"New rural construction?"

This new vocabulary popped out of Sun Xiangfu's mouth, and Li Shimin was taken aback again.

"Your Majesty, you saw the shack-style houses where these villagers live, don't you have any ideas?"

"Thought? What kind of idea? Don't the dwellings of the common people in the Tang Dynasty look like this?" Li Shimin said casually before he could react for a moment.

However, after finishing speaking, his eyes narrowed, and there was one place that was different. He had been to Xingfu Village, not to mention the houses where the aborigines lived, it was around Xingfu Village, leading to Xiaoheji. On both sides of the cement road, some houses that were later relocated are also very different from the houses in this village.

Li Shimin still remembers the neat rows of brick and tile houses. They were neat, clean, firm, spacious, and fully furnished. All the people living in them had satisfied smiles on their faces.

Unlike this village, there is a muddy smell everywhere, and everyone is still using wood to make a fire for heating. When it is time to cook, there is smoke everywhere, because the villagers have no houses that can store firewood well. When the firewood is wet with water, there will be thick smoke when it burns.

"You mean to make all the villages in Guanzhong look like Xingfu Village?" Li Shimin said excitedly after recalling it.

"Well, this can almost be regarded as a five-year plan for the development of Guanzhong! It is also the first link in the development of people's livelihood that I mentioned."

Everything in Xingfu Village was actually created by Sun Xiangfu in a hurry, without a very scientific and modern plan. However, given the current social situation in the Tang Dynasty, the people could live in brick-and-tiled houses and burn kangs. , It is already very rare to use furniture such as iron pots and coal stoves.

However, this is only the living conditions. If people want to live happily in such a house, many problems must be solved. Those who work in agriculture must have their own fields, and those who do work must have a stable working income. Things to straighten out, work to do, not a star.

"This is good, this is good! Tell me again, how to make the entire village in Guanzhong look like a happy village!" Li Shimin heard the scene described by Sun Xiangfu, and his anger disappeared completely, with a look of anticipation on his face. He looked at Sun Xiangfu in disbelief.

"This has to be done step by step. The progress in the first year may be slower and the scope will be smaller, because the people in Guanzhong will fully enter the two-season planting next year and the reform of the new farming model. The things in the farmland are enough for them. I'm busy, so I can only choose to renovate some of the nearest villages with Chang'an as the center.

In the second year, when the farmland is planted on track, more labor can be freed to complete the transformation and expand the scope of the transformation.

For example, the former Hejia Village and the current Shuanglu Village can actually be relocated to build a new village near the main road, so that it is convenient for the villagers to go out and enter the city..."

"Money, where does the money to transform the village come from?" Li Shimin pointed out the key question.

Sun Xiangfu replied without thinking, "Of course it is the national treasury. The tax revenue of the national treasury is created by the people for the country. It is taken from the people and used for the people. This is the right way!"

"Is this the right way?"

Hearing this, Li Shimin fell into deep thought again.

Where did the tax revenue of the previous imperial court flow into?Most of the pockets of the royal family, dignitaries, and officials are filled, and very little is really used for the people's livelihood. The imperial court is the exploiting class from the common people, and it basically blindly asks for it.

However, using the tax revenue of the court to build houses for the people and improve the living environment is something that no emperor has ever done before. Although he feels a little distressed about money, Li Shimin is already thinking about how much money to spend. Let's do this.

There is no limit to "goodness". In the eyes of some ancient rulers, it is very good for the people to live in a hut and not starve to death. Even if this standard is not met by many emperors, but Sun Xiangfu refreshed Li Shimin's cognition and let him know what is better. After that, the situation was different.

Soon, Li Shimin lost the intention of continuing to chat and fart with the common people, and summoned Xiao Yu, Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji, Ma Zhou and others who came with him to the camp outside the village to discuss what Sun Xiangfu said. This new rural construction plan.

Xiao Yu felt that Li Shimin and Sun Xiangfu could not stay together anymore. This guy had too many thoughts all day long, and he always talked about ideas, and then let them go.

As everyone knows, each of Sun Xiangfu's ideas needs to be thought out by those who are really in charge of affairs, clarify each and every one, and analyze the feasibility before they can be implemented.

However, he has to admire these ideas of Sun Xiangfu, because all the starting points of these ideas are for the common people and for this country. Whenever they take into account all aspects that should be considered, the results they get are all positive. Yes, positive.

Therefore, the lights in the camp of Shuanglu Village will not be extinguished tonight.

In the early morning, several fast horses galloped out of the camp and headed straight for Chang'an. The document in the knight's arms recorded Li Shimin's orders to Yousi.

First of all, the first one is that the secret guards should not even think about resting during the New Year this year. They will all visit the villages in the counties of Guanzhong, and count all the impoverished villages that cannot be uncovered as soon as possible. Later, the people in these villages will be recruited by the imperial court. Weinan County, build a new city.

Secondly, the county magistrates of Chang'an, Wannian, and Lantian counties will report the details of the villages, households, and farmland within their jurisdiction. In addition, the chief officials of the three counties will be organized to visit Xingfu Village after the Spring Festival. , Learn about housing, road construction, etc.

Third, the Ministry of Household Affairs will set up a special auditing and budgeting department. If you are backward in arithmetic, you will go to Xingfu Village to learn. There is also a death order. Before the spring plowing ends next year, the operation of Datang Bank must be on track. The emperor must see money at that time.

Fourth, of course, it is an order issued to the local officials of all states and counties across the country to implement the construction of schools to all counties. However, it will be a month or two before this order is distributed to the whole country, and it will be fully implemented. It will be completed at the end of next year at the earliest, or even the year after next. At that time, citizen production can almost be implemented, and the court will have the money to hire a large number of teachers.

As for the fourth article, Fang Xuanling's suggestion can solve the problem very well, that is, the local finance should pay for the construction first, and the money used will be directly deducted from the tax of the year. Chang'an's allocation of funds made the whole process even slower.

In fact, through the appropriation of funds, Sun Xiangfu also thought of the issue of imperial taxation. Every year, various places send the central government to escort the taxation, and the central government allocates funds to various places. In fact, a lot of manpower and material resources are wasted, because the transportation is inconvenient during this period, and the long-distance round-trip transportation is very expensive.

And if Datang's banks are quickly opened all over the country, then this problem can be greatly avoided.

At that time, all taxes will be settled in money, and local officials only need a deposit slip to pay taxes to the central government. It is simple and convenient, and there is almost no loss.

Of course, this idea cannot be realized in a short period of time. There are too few scholars in the Tang Dynasty who can write and count, and the manpower for officials feels that there is not enough manpower, not to mention the people who run the bank. condition.

In addition, Sun Xiangfu, who has read many TV dramas and novels in the later generations, knows how many people were harmed by a single whip in the Ming Dynasty. It is already better than in the Ming Dynasty to ask the people of this era to sell their grain and pay taxes in cash. It is not feasible, because there is little cash in the market, and the common people have no spare money. To pay taxes, they have to sell their own agricultural products, and those powerful families who have money, because they have the common people in their hands. The cash that must be used to pay taxes must be used to suppress the prices of various agricultural products and entrap farmers. Therefore, this method is not feasible and can only be shelved temporarily.

Finally, there is the issue of the itinerary of the convoy. Since the magistrate of Wugong County has a plan to harm the people, it is not limited to this village. For other villages that are about to be unraveled, Li Shimin also plans to go to condolences in person and charge more At the same time, he can grasp more black materials of family officials and truly understand the local government and people's sentiments. This will allow Li Shimin to consider more comprehensively when formulating policies in the future.

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