Tang's dining table

The emperor was already under siege by local officials in Guanzhong and was preparing to expand cotton cultivation to many counties in Guanzhong.

As long as the total cotton output increases, prices will inevitably fall.

To keep the price of cotton from falling, this is not something that can be accomplished by the emperor's decree. Cotton production has increased, but cotton textile mills have not been built. In the end, the unlucky ones are still the cotton growers.

Therefore, Yunchu planned to build two more huge cotton textile workshops this year, and planned to arrange all the women from ordinary people's families who did not force him to ask for thirty coins to work as female textile workers.

As for the person who asked for money...hasn't he already given you the money?

The female workers in the textile workshops in Chang'an City are now very popular. In addition, the workshops are managed by a group of eunuchs, so even the most criticized rumors cannot be spread.

With a salary of three hundred cash a month, plus a lot of unexplained benefits that the eunuchs obtained from random places, these two thousand female textile workers have become synonymous with the new women in Chang'an City.

Especially when the female workers carried a ten-pound salted fish home on New Year's Eve, half the city even came out to watch.

With these ten pounds of salted fish, their family won’t have to buy salt for half a year.

Two large workshops require at least 3,000 workers, and more than 2,500 women are needed.

Chen Laoshi was an honest man. When he went on an expedition to Liaodong with the county magistrate, he didn't fight or grab anything, he just kept his head down and did his own thing well.

When the county leader led everyone to rush to kill, he rushed into battle to kill the enemy. When the county leader led everyone to rob and search for loot, he worked hard to rob and loot. When the county leader led everyone to grab the territory, he followed faithfully to grab the territory. The county leader led everyone to grab the territory. He led everyone to start doing business on the beach, and he followed suit and learned how to do business.

After the county magistrate took everyone back to the court and returned home, Chen Laoshi built a courtyard of green brick and large tile houses in one breath!

He has always been honest. In the eyes of others, he is the kind of honest person who can't beat a fart with a stick.

But it was this honest man who spent a year building a big house and married his two sons in succession, all of whom were well-known good girls from the previous family.

He eats wine and meat every day, and lets his wife, son, daughter-in-law, and daughter serve him like an emperor.

When I'm at home, I have wine and meat. When I go out, I wash off the oil on my mouth, wrap my rotten leather jacket around my body, tie it up with a rotten straw rope, and tie it to the base of the south wall like the poor ghosts in the village. Squatting in the sun.

Listening to the fools around him excitedly discussing how to get thirty cents per acre of land from the county magistrate, he went home wrapped in a rotten fur coat.

When I got home, I gathered the whole family together and gave a simple instruction: "Other people want money, but our family doesn't. Just go and plant cotton when you should, and don't say anything."

The eldest son said with some dissatisfaction when he heard this: "Master, our family has sixty acres of land, and our family has suddenly lost eighteen hundred dollars."

Chen Laoshi glanced at his eldest son. After all, he had been on the battlefield and killed men. Just one glance made the eldest son hang his head and dare not speak.

"I, Chen Laoshi, don't know anything else. I only know that the head of the most ferocious barbarian king in Liaodong was chopped off by the county magistrate himself. I only know that the most difficult city in Liaodong was captured by the county magistrate with us. .

I also know that the county magistrate likes to get rich, but he has never deducted a penny from us soldiers, and when good things happen, he has never deducted us people. "

At this point, he sneered and said, "Cotton is grown in other places, and the county has distributed all the subsidy money and grain from the beginning of spring. In recent years, you have seen stale millet and rotten grain in the money and grain distributed by the county. ?

The ground has not yet been planted, but the food is given first. Is there such a good thing since ancient times?

Now these people are starting to clamor for money. It should be that someone wants to deal with the general, but they can't come forward themselves, so let these fools do it.

I also want 1,800 yuan, but I know the general's character too well. If you don't fight for it, he won't miss you. If you fight for it, he will only give you what you deserve, every penny. None are in arrears.

However, the good things that will happen in the future will definitely have nothing to do with you. You all should stop talking, stop talking nonsense, and see what the general does first. "

The eldest son said quickly: "The county minister has promised to give thirty cents per acre of land in order to grow cotton."

Chen Laoshi looked at his eldest son and said, "Is it going to be given to everyone?"

"No, only give money to those who want it, and don't give it to those who don't."

Chen Laoshi snorted heavily and said, "In this case, you go to the village chief and report it, and tell us that our family doesn't want it."

Seeing his eldest son reluctantly going out, Chen Laoshi looked at his family and said slowly: "An extra 1,800 yuan will not make our family rich."

Since Yunchu's order was issued, the countryside has become quiet.

The head of the village, the head of the village, and the petty officials sent by the government, as long as you ask for money, they will give it to you immediately without any hesitation.

If you say you don't want money, you should still follow the previous procedures. Those people will not give you a good look, but will just record your name in a separate book.

No one knows whether being entered into another register is a good thing or a bad thing. However, the li chiefs and village chiefs of various places under Wannian County and Chang'an County do not need money, not even a penny. Some li chiefs and village chiefs My relatives basically chose not to pay.

As a result, those who had taken the money were panicked, especially after hearing that the county minister was not going to plant cotton in Wannian County and Chang'an County next year, even more people were panicked.

However, it is very, very difficult for farmers to pay back the money they receive.

When the peach blossoms have fallen, the cotton in Wannian County and Chang'an County has entered the fields. However, when planting cotton this year, people are no longer as happy as in previous years. Many, many people have gloomy faces, not knowing what they have done this time. Whether something is right or wrong.

The people do not argue with the officials. This is a concept that the people of Guanzhong have believed in for thousands of years. This year it was broken. After a little struggle, they won a big victory.

This casts a thick dark shadow on the hearts of the people of Wannian County... The government will never accept the threat of the mud-legged people... The mud-legged people want to fight with the government... You eat it today How much has been vomited, how much will be vomited out tomorrow...

Under various mysterious speculations, the common people who received thirty copper coins hung heavily on their waists, but the money hung in their hearts like a weight...

"The number of people willing to take thirty copper coins was far less than we expected. Of the six thousand copper coins in Wannian County, only less than three thousand coins were distributed.

Moreover, through this money distribution, we also discovered that this money has basically separated the good people and the unruly people in Wannian County.

Of course, some of the people who took the money took it out of desperation, and some took it because their families urgently needed the money. But basically, now, among the people who don’t take the money, there is a part of the people who look down on the people who take the money. .

Therefore, the lower official thought that it was just right to completely separate the good people from the unscrupulous people and reorganize them into new neighborhoods.

At the same time, county governments should direct a large number of good and profitable industries to areas where good people make up the majority.

Then, by raising taxes and subsidizing taxes, we will gradually marginalize those unruly people as much as possible, and eventually expel them from Wannian County.

Anyway, most of the population of our Wannian County is in Chang'an City, and there are less than 50,000 people in the countryside, so the unscrupulous people can't make any big trouble. "

This time, the person in charge of distributing money to the people was the Wanzhu Booker of Wannian County. He himself was very opposed to the government's submission to the people.

When it was time to distribute the money, he discovered that there were many sensible people in Wannian County, and he immediately felt that this was a good opportunity to purify the rural population of Wannian County.

If you can sort out the good and bad people in the rural areas of Wannian County by giving them a few thousand dollars, then the money will be well spent.

Yun Chu, who was eating beans, looked up at Master Wan and said, "Master Wan should know how much money Wannian County has made from the cotton business in the past few years. To be precise, the original intention of those people asking for money is There is nothing wrong with that.

It is true that we, the people, have made previously unimaginable profits by taking advantage of the blood and sweat of the people of Wannian County.

Although we still spent most of our money on building roads, building bridges, building canals, waterwheels, building mills, and sympathizing with the lonely.

However, the people of Wannian County do not feel this way. It can be said that if the money is not sent to them, it does not count as giving them money.

This point is because our education is not adequate. We will just strengthen education in the future. Nearly half of the people have taken money, and we will run away from this half of the people. How will they live in the future? This is not what education is about.

If we only want the good and not the bad, then where should the bad people go? "

After listening to Yun Chu's righteous words, Master Wan thought for a moment and said, "Xiaguan understands that he should educate them well instead of driving them with nowhere to go. This is the reason for Xiaguan. It’s official Meng Lang.”

Yun Chu smiled again and said: "Those who are kind should be rewarded, otherwise, who will be willing to be kind in the future?

The evildoers themselves should be punished, otherwise Wannian County will be full of evildoers in the future.

There is just a certain degree in the middle that should be controlled well, so that good people will be rewarded with good things and evil people will be punished with bad things. "

Master Wan finally had a smile on his face. He sat in front of Yun Chu, picked up a cup of tea and said with a smile: "I believe that one of the two cotton textile workshops to be built in Wannian County should be located in In Qujiangli, no one received thirty cents, and in Changleli, less than ten households received thirty cents.

I wonder what the county magistrate thinks? "

Yunchu picked up the can of tea, took a sip and said, "This is within your scope of authority, Lao Wan. Why do you ask me?"

Master Wan Youyou said: "This time, I am also planning to refer to the performance of the people in this incident for the identification of the upper, middle and lower households in this county. Is it possible?"

Yun Chu smiled and said: "Wannian County is the first county in the Tang Dynasty, so it should have the magnanimity of the first county in the Tang Dynasty. We should not deliberately target bad people. Even if you are a subordinate of Wannian County, I hope that after several years of hard work, After that, you can also become a registered household in other counties.

In this way, Wannian County can become more and more prosperous, and finally achieve a prosperous era when the official affixes gold foil to Chang'an. "

Master Wan shook his head and said: "The magnificence of the county magistrate is beyond the reach of the lower officials. Having the county magistrate here is a blessing to the people of my county for ten thousand years."

Chapter One