Chapter 901 Prison Restructuring
Taocheng's coal mines are all staffed by their own people. Carts carry loads and baskets are transported to Qingyuan. More are directly pulled out by Gaochun's troops, and Gaochun's yamen go with a team of servants.
Pull media.
Regular troops have been dispatched, who would dare to take advantage of these coals?
Weiyuan Tower, the one who is powerful, is far away.
Although the Quanzhou Prefecture is very indulgent in business in Qingyuan, businessmen are the chickens that lay golden eggs for them, and generally they will not attack easily. The businessmen are also very sensible and know the principle of people not fighting with the officials, so they are very interested in Weiyuan Tower.
Extremely in awe.
All this is not a tacit understanding formed by nature, but a good atmosphere formed by the iron-blooded methods of local officials who have been in charge!
It's not that Taocheng is far away from Weiyuan Tower, so people here are not afraid of Weiyuan Tower. On the contrary, when the surrounding counties mention Quanzhou Prefecture, they never refer to government offices and the like, and they are collectively called Weiyuan Tower because this institution is so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Quanzhou Prefecture has the best security in the southeast. There is nothing you can do about it. If you, as an official, make the area under your jurisdiction full of banditry, who would dare to do business in Qingyuan Port? What about taxes?
Can’t even get any hair!
Officials with achievements and farsightedness will never focus on what is in front of them. Only those thieves will have trouble with the common people, squeezing their blood and sweat every day, wishing they could suck their blood and marrow.
The money in business is easy to make, it is reliable, and it can win the hearts of the people. This is the right way!
It is precisely because of these various factors that the credibility of Weiyuan Tower in Quanzhou Prefecture is not generally high. No one will get into trouble when they see the father-in-law in official uniform.
Most of the craftsmen in the prison camp are masters from Luocheng, that is, Zhao Xiaopin's group. However, this is a huge project, and hard work such as leveling the ground, breaking the ground, and so on requires a lot of labor to complete.
It turned out that Liang Chuan wanted to use some old men from society to carry the burden, but after thinking about it later, he did not dare to do so. There was a mixed crowd in society, and the binding force between Liang Chuan and Liang Chuan was not enough. If one or two were disobedient, he would be
If things go wrong, all the efforts of so many people will be in vain!
Su Wei proposed to use government servants.
The population of Quanzhou Prefecture is the largest among the surrounding counties, and most of the people are concentrated in Fengzhou Town and Qingyuan County. There are also people in Taocheng, Luocheng and Changkeng, but those places are rural areas and there is far no solution.
Compared to towns.
Because Quanzhou Prefecture still has a large immigrant population, people doing business here have brought countless wealth and labor. If nothing else, just talk about the war in the northwest, and countless refugees have poured into Quanzhou Prefecture.
Hundreds of years ago, Jiangsu and Zhejiang were the first choice for refugees. However, as these places gradually became saturated with population, the refugees realized that their journey would be in vain, so cities in the south became their first choice.
For people in the county, they are not afraid of the imperial court collecting taxes. What they fear most is being called into service! That is to be called into service as a servant of the imperial court!
This is an iron law that has not changed for hundreds of years. In the spring and autumn, you need to pay for food. At other times, you must use your labor force to work for the court, showing your loyalty to the imperial power!
After the peasants finished their farm work and paid the royal grain, it would be a slack time for the farmers, so it didn't matter if they went to work, but these businessmen would suffer!
They can buy it if they pay for it, but they can't escape if they join the army!
I have to spend a lot of time doing business and I don’t know how much money I can make, but the court doesn’t allow it and I have to do hard labor!
In the past, there were more wars in the Tang Dynasty, so more hard labor was needed. This was a vicious circle. No one was doing anything to make a living.
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I wonder how much food the imperial court can receive just from those few acres of thin fields. If taxes cannot be raised, the local area will rebel. The more rebellion there will be, the more servants will be needed, and the country will be finished!
The service system is a big mountain that weighs on the heads of ordinary people in this era!
What is the purpose of serving? You have to carry weapons to the border to guard the border. Just guard the border. You have food and clothing. You even have to provide the weapons on your shoulders! Damn it, how can there be such an unreasonable system in the world?
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Somewhere further away, if the city wall is damaged and needs to be repaired, or the river can be built, forget it. Some black officials recruit people as their own private servants to work for themselves, forcing the people to live in ruins.
The Tang Dynasty was the first to see the irrationality of this system, and launched the epoch-making renting and mediocre adjustment system. Just pay the money and get rid of it!
For a rent of two stones, two feet of silk, and three ounces of cotton, you can go home and play with your wife, and enjoy yourself as you please.
As a result, the rich people are happy, and this little money is not even a drop in the bucket for them!
But miserable people who have no money!
Just two feet of silk is enough for their family to work for half a year, and they still have to pay for other things. Where will they go to give birth? They can just go to work obediently.
The class divisions are so clear!
The government also knows about it. Anyway, if you come to serve, it means that you are extremely poor. You are the poor person who is being bullied. You will be beaten to death and buried. At worst, you will have to pay some money. Power is so unscrupulous!
In the Song Dynasty, this bad system is still followed even now!
In any era, wherever there is darkness, there is light. The seeds of capitalism quietly sprout in this era, and everything is developing towards a place with sunshine.
Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Quanzhou and Lingnan were the first places to engage in foreign trade. Even the people had money on hand, but they were unwilling to do these menial jobs. So what should we do? Even imperial service has become an industry!
The imperial court outsourced these tasks to people from other places!
Weiyuan Building collects the money and lets people from other places who can’t find work come to work! This is a good policy that kills two birds with one stone! Foreigners can not only make money, but also drive population inflow, revitalizing Qingyuan’s local economy.
The economy has benefited everyone again!
Of course, Weiyuan Tower charges twice as much as ordinary mediocrity!
Paying a little money to buy peace and comfort, people in Qingyuan think this is a damn good deal!
The reason why Su Wei wants to use outsiders is because these people are not local, they will not have too many voices, and they dare not cause trouble locally, so they are more reliable!
Liang Chuan was shocked by a series of coquettish operations. If officials in every place were as enlightened as these system designers in Qingyuan, the Song Dynasty would have entered a capitalist society long ago!
In this way, a secret production and transportation line was born!
Liang Chuan dug into the walls of the Song Dynasty and did such a treasonous thing! This matter is very serious, but it is also very ordinary. Which official in the frontier has not done anything with these state-owned assets, and just sell some to get rich.
, how many people become officials just for this kind of wealth, and can they let it go so easily?
But no one would have thought that coal could be dug out of a small ravine in the south!
Everything is running smoothly.
The prison camp in Taocheng is under construction. Si Fangxing plans to build this into a dark prison. Anyway, he is going to do shady things. No mouse or fly can be allowed to fly out here!
Liang Chuan immediately denied Si Fang
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This suggestion works!
Liang Chuan plans to use this place as a test field for judicial reform!
He has been in too many prisons, from county-level prisons to the central prisons of the Ministry of Punishments. These prisons are similar. Except for people of certain status who take care of them after entering, they are basically no more important than animals.
difference!
Liang Chuan wants to use them to mine, which means he wants to use them. In this case, he has to take them seriously!
Prisons should also be made sunny!
He imitated the practice of later prisons and built the prison in the shape of a tube building, with six prisoners placed in each cell. Serious prisoners and criminals who liked to commit crimes were dealt with separately and had separate solitary cells.
It would be ridiculous to put a canopy bed in the cell, and sleep on the floor. If these workers are exhausted or fall asleep, then who will do the mining? There is also a toilet inside so that these prisoners can relieve themselves.
There will also be a doctor in the prison, who can cure all diseases, big or small. If they cannot be cured, it depends on God's will. The yard can be ventilated every day, as long as it does not go out of the fence! A canteen will be built in the prison camp, and food will be distributed uniformly!
Liang Chuan has seen the food in the prison. People eat food that is not even eaten by pigs. It would be strange if they don't get sick!
Liang Chuan wants these prisoners to feel better than going home! This Taocheng Prison is their second home!
Finally, Liang Chuan also came up with a trump card: as long as those who serve their sentences in Taocheng Prison complete the media digging tasks every day, they will be paid 20 cents a day!
This news shocked these prisoners so much that their jaws almost dropped to their trousers. They thought they had come to the wrong place!
When they first came to Taocheng, all of them had only one thought: they were dead!
These are deep mountains and old forests, the sky is high, the emperor is far away, and the Weiyuan Tower cannot control it. They have the final say on how these dog officials want to deal with them! They even plot to rebel, otherwise they will die anyway!
There is still money in jail!
Yes, even Liang Chuan felt a little embarrassed to be squeezing these scumbags like this without getting any benefits from being jailed. Although he said they were scumbags, he couldn't go too far. A rabbit would bite someone when it got angry.
This money will be used to start a new life and restart the fund!
After work every day, the coal was exchanged for a certificate. The money was not given on the spot, but was given as a one-time payment when leaving Taocheng Prison. When they went back, these scum could start a new life and have some money to start the rest of their lives.
How many people have returned to the path of crime because they were desperate after being released from prison? Liang Chuan does not want this.
A prisoner can dig hundreds of kilograms of coal a day, and twenty cents is the same as giving to a beggar...after all, they earn the money themselves!
Everyone thought that Liang Chuan was crazy. What was he doing? Was he treating some kind of distinguished guests? He also asked them to eat well and live well, treating them like an uncle!
Si Fangxing ignored him, but Gao Chun understood Liang Chuan. This was a good trick!
In this way, all aspects of coal mining can be solved, and the risks are reduced to a minimum. I really admire it!
Liang Chuan was able to exploit these prisoners so well.
Zhao Xiaopin had been in a cell before, but he felt that Liang Chuan's idea was very reasonable. Criminals are human beings too. If they weren't forced to do anything, who would be willing to risk their lives?
Su Wei looked at Liang Chuan's thoughts and couldn't help but raise his finger and praise him, what a good idea!
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Chapter completed!