"That's true." Liu Bei pondered for a while and nodded slowly. As an intelligence system that has gone deep into the people and has a good understanding of various types of intelligence, Liu Bei had to admit that what Li You said was true.
Is it a thing for the people of this county to sacrifice six hundred stones in exchange for a member of the Wang family in Kuaiji who can come to this county to repair the Lei Jing Terrace? If the magistrate of this county is willing to sacrifice, that's the best thing. If he is not willing to sacrifice, this is the best thing.
The county also has tens of thousands of righteous people who can make the county magistrate look good.
Is this a matter of the six hundred stone official position? This is not!
"And some things are easier to communicate between bureaucrats. Take Jiaozhou as an example. Why don't the bureaucrats in Jiaozhou counties pursue the idea of the local coconut processing factory? You must know that the local clans there are very powerful.
Isn't it because the director of the coconut processing factory also has a rank?" Chen Xi said with a bit of sadness.
No matter how defiant the local clans are, they cannot defeat the bureaucrats. Since ancient times, the clans that can run rampant in the countryside need the backing of bureaucrats. Even if they are aristocratic families, the core of their influence is the bureaucratic system. Without this thing, what?
The right to interpret scriptures and laws, and the right to interpret universal morals, will all be destroyed in a short time.
So at that time, the clan in Jiaozhou watched the coconut processing factory making money every day, just like turning on a money printing press, making crazy money, but they resisted not taking action because the opposite side was also an official.
"It is difficult for an individual to promote many things. In addition, sometimes the process traps of the bureaucracy can really trick people to death. Therefore, large factories, mines and workshops must have ranks, otherwise they will encounter deceptive bureaucrats.
If you are not careful, you will be buried." Chen Xi said helplessly. This is not to say that all bureaucrats are like this, but in the process of development, if you encounter one, it will be enough to drag you to death.
Liu Bei thought about how when he was the captain of Anxi County, he almost got angry when he met the postal supervisor.
"As for bureaucracies, as long as they are not in charge of each other, they will give some face when discussing things. At least they can follow the normal process instead of getting into trouble one step at a time. Nowadays, there are many technocrats in the Han Dynasty basically for efficiency.
It was supplemented." Chen Xi thought for a while and said, this is also the reason why Chen Xi keeps splitting up the young government and road transportation. There are too many technocrats involved in these two.
"That's right, but it feels like there are indeed too many bureaucrats." Liu Bei understood after hearing Chen Xi's explanation, but according to his experience, there are indeed too many officials.
"Concerning this, when Xuande went to patrol the sky, he could carefully investigate and confirm. If this situation is really true, it can only be said that times have changed." Chen Xi thought for a while and said, "It's just like the Han Dynasty in the past.
There are no more than twenty county lieutenants among the 103 counties. Now, at least more than 60 counties have clearly arranged for county lieutenants."
Liu Bei was noncommittal when he heard this and nodded, saying that he would verify it later and continue to push forward according to this. After all, there have been no problems for so many years and the Han Dynasty as a whole is prospering. According to Liu Bei's experience, don't move if you can.
, just continue.
In short, Liu Bei is somewhat conservative. Regarding policies that have always been good for the country, even if there is enough evidence to prove that this policy will have problems in the future, Liu Bei will maintain a proactive attitude. As for his own subconscious doubts about the policy,
The problem is, let’s get rid of it. As long as the people live and work in peace and contentment and the country is prosperous, then go against common sense, as long as it works.
To a certain extent, Liu Bei is a standard pragmatist. He does think that it is not good to increase the ratio of officials to civilians, and there are enough reasons to support this concept. However, after Chen Xi increased the ratio of officials to civilians, he further improved the living standards of the people.
, then Liu Bei would never criticize this thing as bad.
Liu Bei will only think that he really knows nothing!
"The main thing is to get a one-hundred-stone rank, which will really make some people work hard for their lives." Chen Xi looked up at the beams and said with a somewhat complicated look, "They really take this, even if
Technocrats actually don't have many opportunities to show off. When they are not engaged in technology and production, they only have a few days a year, but having such a layer of skin is really very effective."
Nonsense, of course I risk my life, this is an official, okay, even if it's one hundred stones, it's the lowest official. The county magistrate usually only has two hundred stones. Although one hundred stones is low, sometimes the pavilion chief doesn't have this level. After all,
The director of the pavilion is now the director of the police station and also serves as the post office. There are very few people who have more than 100 shi.
If a county itself has a small population, then maybe the entire county will only have the county magistrate, county lieutenant, and county magistrate with more than 100 dan. To be precise, it should be 300 to 500 dan for the county magistrate, 300 to 500 dan for the county magistrate, and the county magistrate.
Two hundred to four hundred stones is generally the same configuration.
In the Han Dynasty, the population of most counties did not reach 10,000 households, so the county magistrate was usually less than 500 shi, and the unlucky point was directly 300 shi. In this case, the county captain and county magistrate only had 200 shi. In this way
, the officials below the county level such as pavilion chiefs, stalwarts, and youjiao who are formally at the county level cannot exceed a hundred stones. In other words, a position of a hundred stones is enough to be among the top five positions in an ordinary county.
.
So most of the time, an official position worth a hundred tons is enough for those senior technical talents to rack their brains to study technology. After all, most people who take the technical route these days do not expect to become bureaucrats and have the opportunity to enjoy themselves in counties and villages.
, just acting like a dog is enough for many people.
This is also the reason why the number of Han Dynasty bureaucrats has increased from 7,567 to nearly 20,000 in recent years. There has been basically no change in the administrative bureaucrats in counties and counties. There were only as many as before, and they are still the same now. There may be an increase in the number of officials, but overall they are different.
There are no obvious changes in administrative positions in counties. What is really increasing are the positions for technical personnel.
In Chen Xi's words, with such a small salary expenditure, it would be too much money for these people to rack their brains for research!
Therefore, Chen Xi has been issued this kind of official position in recent years, and there is no need to report for ranks below 600 shi. Anyway, the salary is also paid by Chen Xi, so it has increased so much in ten years...
"Anyway, you are the one who pays the salary. If there are more officials, you will need to calculate more of the salary." Liu Bei had no intention of getting entangled in this. Most of them were bureaucrats with less than 600 dan, and those with more than 600 dan were technocrats.
He has seen every one of them
, and they all agree that these people really need to be given such a rank. To say it is too much, take the Beidi Ranch as an example, managing 1.7 million large livestock. If Jiang Qi, as the director of the ranch, does not give him two thousand dan, Liu Bei
They are all afraid of something happening.
That's 1.7 million big animals. Give Jiang Qi a rank of Qianshi. Liu Bei is even afraid of the Beidi County Sheriff going to attack Qiu Feng. Not to mention how bad it is. I'll charge you 10%. It won't be a problem to pass it by. I'll give you two thousand Shi for the high-ranking official.
Passing by here, your ranch is also on my Northern Territory land. It's no problem considering my political achievements. If it doesn't work, there's no problem in paying taxes to our Northern Territory!
Therefore, Liu Bei had conducted on-site inspections of the thousands of stone technocrats in every eastern prefecture and county, and basically agreed with Chen Xi's arrangement. Although he did not realize at the time that these people were so-called technocrats, not administrative bureaucrats, but considering these
Professionals indeed run the state-owned factories, mines and workshops very well, and the scale and output of their subordinates are excellent, so Liu Bei also thinks it is reasonable to give him this rank.
I just didn't expect that nearly 10,000 technical personnel would be given official titles.
"There is no need to calculate this. If I give a rank of 100 shi, the other party has at least created a profit of 10,000 shi for the country. If I can give someone 300 shi, the other party has basically improved certain technologies, which can be used for a long time in the future.
Sustained output profits, even those in the next few decades, can give you six hundred shi, and those are the guys who give a percentage point to the overall output." Chen Xi said with some admiration, it all depends on
The enthusiasm of the technical staff!
Although Chen Xi is powerful, Chen Xi has no time to get entangled in these details. Therefore, these links mainly rely on these technical talents. The Han Dynasty is currently prosperous, but it is all due to the tireless work and hard work of these technical talents. Without these talents, Han Dynasty
The current total output value of the Han Dynasty has dropped by at least several points. For the current Han Dynasty, how many points of total output can you talk about salary?
"I think, in terms of blackness, it has to be Zichuan." Guo Jia sighed and said, this is a character with a few points in overall output!
"So I very much agree with their contribution." Chen Xi did not refute, "And they are also very satisfied with this plan of directly joining the official position with no prerequisites and no threshold. The bronze seal and yellow ribbon also have a seal.
Everyone is very satisfied.”
"That's fine, whatever you think is appropriate, and it's really beneficial to the country." Liu Bei didn't want to get entangled in this matter, because in terms of government affairs, Liu Bei had already decided that everyone present combined was inferior to Chen Xi, so he let Chen Xi go.
Doing it will benefit everyone.
"In general, these are the things that are going to be reviewed by the Great Council. Although the other things are important, they are generally directional or directive. Only these two things are prone to resistance." Chen Xi smiled after hearing this.
He is also seeking stability as much as possible. At this stage of development, for Chen Xi, radical plans are no longer advisable. Stability is Chen Xi's basic requirement at this stage.
"Speaking of which, I didn't see Gao Gu and Ji Yu today." Liu Bei looked around. He had noticed this before. It was a bit strange. After all, this was the 100-day banquet of Fazheng's son. With Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang
As long as you are in Chang'an, you will basically come here, but you haven't seen the result. Does this mean you are not in Chang'an?
"The two housekeepers said they were going to investigate the southwest for a new round of research." Fazheng explained casually, "The two of them have done quite a lot of business recently, and the wine is really good."
Lijiu has many shortcomings in this era when rice wine is rampant, but the price-performance ratio of lijiu is incredible. It has been on the fast track since Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang made the first jar of lijiu. Coupled with the Zhen family's sales network
Thanks to channels and personal connections, the volume of Lijiu increased rapidly after it was launched. If Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang had not misjudged the demand even with Chen Xi's guidance, Lijiu would have occupied one-third of the Dahan Liquor Industry's market by now.
In addition to Lijiu and Rice wine, Baijiu is basically two tracks. Even after Lijiu came on the scene, it directly opened up a new track. Now it is said to occupy one-third of the market of Dahan Liquor Industry, which is equivalent to just half a year.
Lijiu has built a new track outside the original wine industry that is half as wide as the previous wine industry. The question is, is this the limit of Lijiu?
This is not, this is the limit of Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang!
If Lijiu continues to develop, it will no longer be a question of occupying one-third of the market, but a question of how many liters per capita of the entire Han Dynasty!
Is this a rival that rice wine and white wine can compete against? Even Chen Xi, no matter how large-scale he is, cannot lower the price of rice wine and white wine to a level lower than that of lijiu. Even so-called fine wines are basically inferior to rice wine and white wine.
If you can’t reach the so-called entry price, this is the gap!
Therefore, Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang, who underestimated how powerful this card they had were now carrying out transplanting and planting of hops in northern Sichuan, as well as security work.
To put it simply, after the Central Asian family came back, they were very unhappy when they saw Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang picking up money in sacks. They felt that they wanted to do this business. There was no threshold anyway, so they just had to rush. They might lose in other industries. This one
It looks like a blue ocean, just invest in it!
Ordinary families can't afford this kind of industry that requires large-scale investment at the beginning, and they don't have the channels. In addition, ordinary families can't afford to offend Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang. But do the aristocratic families in Central Asia lack money? Do they lack channels? They are afraid of offending Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang.
Liu Zhang?
When this group of people came back and discovered this, they gathered their friends as soon as possible, and then started following the path of Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang. Various brands of Lijiu were quickly put online. However, Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang had the hegemony advantage in Chang'an.
So it has the absolute upper hand, but in various places...
Do you still need to learn something like local protectionism? Just teach yourself without a teacher!
The area with Taiyuan as the core in Bingzhou can only sell Lao Wang's wine, an ancient wine passed down to the Yin Shang Dynasty, a specialty of Lao Wang's family. The technology was stolen from Yuan Shu, and the personnel were also poached from Liu Zhang. The sales channel? Lao Wang's local area
The people, the reputation, the reputation, the locals can trust it!
As for the taste and flavor, Lao Wang’s family found a master who didn’t know where to make the blend. It was quite good. It was different from Yuan Shu’s first-generation liqueur, but each had its own advantages. Then they sold it in Bingzhou, which was exactly the same as Yuan Shu’s liqueur.
price.
Needless to say, Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang only made money in Bingzhou for half a year before they were kicked out by the old Wang family. The Zhen family’s sales channels in Bingzhou were also borrowed by the old Wang family. The local people strongly support the local industry and have inherited it for thousands of years.
The Lao Wang family is trustworthy!
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Yuan Shu felt outrageous that the Wang family had taken out a master to make wine on the spot. Although his technology had been stolen and his key personnel had been poached, wine could not be made just because he wanted to. It is said that everyone does not have much skills in this thing.
Reserve, your old Wang family said so, so go ahead.
As a result, before Yuan Shu could ask, Yuan Sui quickly informed Yuan Shu to protect his winemaking technology. Among the outstanding university students that the old Wang family snatched were professional winemakers, and there was a whole team of them!
Although Yuan Shu was puzzled by the fact that some university students studied wine making, those who could enter this school were all very outstanding students. It was not outrageous to be able to produce the head-to-head flavor of their own. Yuan Shu turned around and asked
Yuan Sui, where is the brewing staff our family recruited from the university? Lend me yours first!
Then Yuan Shu found out that his family, as a prosperous and wealthy family and a fighter among the aristocratic families, had been stolen by the old Wang family and the Yang family.
Before Yuan Shu could bring all his men to raid the Wang family's lair and rescue the hostages, he heard that Er Cui and Yang had led a group of people to raid their base in northern Yizhou, preparing to treat their hop plantation as a miraculous work of nature.
, transplanted to your own base.
This rumor may sound outrageous, but in fact this group of people actually did it. Yuan Shu seemed to have no good solution, so Yuan Shu took Liu Zhang and quickly went to northern Sichuan. After going there, he found that his base was fine.
But those bastards, Er Cui and Yang, have already started to mobilize the local people to dig wild hops all over the mountains and fields, and then find professionals to transplant them to their own plots.
In short, Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang's plan to make a lot of money has collapsed by 70%. Large aristocratic families are now following suit. They are probably too good at this kind of capital and labor-intensive industry, and they can't make money from things like drinks.
It doesn't matter. Earning happiness is victory. What's more, after a wave of locust plagues, a large family has heard that this thing can survive hunger even if it's full. Why don't you reserve some?
So now Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang don't even have time to come to Fazheng's son's 100-day banquet.
"Your news is all out of date. There are now more than a dozen new kinds of Lijiu, and they are selling well in various places. The aristocratic families from all over the world are very grateful to Yuan Gong and Liu Gong for opening up the market for them, and then they have nothing to do with it.
I kicked them both out without hesitation." Chen Xi briefly explained the background and what happened, and everyone looked at each other in shock.
"Is the market for wine so big?" Li You asked with a hint of surprise.
"If you just develop it, there will be no problem with hundreds of millions of liters." Chen Xi said calmly, "The market prospect is very huge. Unlike the current rice wine and white wine, the advantages of Lijiu are very obvious, and its positioning is completely different from the previous two.
Different, so consumption explosion is inevitable.”
"This is very strange. Shouldn't you be involved in this kind of industry?" Zhuge Liang looked at Chen Xi and asked, "You don't look down on ordinary industries, but you shouldn't look down on this kind of business."
"Because I didn't realize that we had raw materials here at first. Yuan Gulu and the others found the raw materials and made them. I thought about it and thought that I would let them take a look first. Who knew that all the major aristocratic families were so active?" Chen Xi
He said calmly, "But it is indeed a bit too much. Local protectionism is really a bit nonsense, and it is too justified."
Increase the income of local people! Our Wang family/Yang family/Zhang family/Cui family and other families do this not to make money, but for our local people!
Chen Xi really believed this this time. This group of families really just recruited people, and then went with the attitude of just balancing the income and expenditure. After selling more wine, the money they could earn was invested in the construction of the winery.
Continue to attract local people into the winery, and even give a little money to drive the Yuan family out.
Therefore, Chen Xi still chose to turn a blind eye to such outrageous local protectionism. There was no way, the people really benefited, and it was not that Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang could not make money, they just made less, and the Wang family was not everywhere.
, there are crazy people like Yang and Cui who are willing to cooperate with the Yuan family for a win-win situation. This can be considered a healthy competition. Anyway, the people have benefited, happy!
"No wonder I didn't see those two guys when I walked around the gambling houses in Chang'an twice before. He's not in Chang'an." Liu Bei couldn't help but sigh with emotion when he heard about the many things that happened recently around Lijiu.
This means he has changed his ways.
"The gambling house in Chang'an is actually quite formal. I've been there myself." Man Chong said quietly. Since he dared to sign, he must have done so undercover and undercover, and he must be responsible anyway.
"I went too, but does this kind of blatant spending of money count as gambling?" Liu Bei asked with some confusion, "And I think some veterans are quite addicted."
"How should I put it? There are some veterans who are addicted to this kind of thing, but they are addicted to their skills, not the gains and losses of gambling. People who really care about the gains and losses of gambling basically don't enter this place, because they can't win. People who go to gamble can always see it.
Some unbelievable ways to make a fortune." Chen Xi held his forehead and said a little tiredly. He also went to see it. How can I put it, it's amazing. The six-sided dice rolled out blackjack. Is it reasonable?
"In a pot-throwing game, twenty people throw. In order to win, someone throws a solid will arrow into it. It still maintains the color of gold and iron without changing after leaving the body. With this arrow, the will will be defeated.
The arrows thrown in from the front were all crushed, and then the spout of the pot was blocked. In the end, there was no win." Guo Jia saw Chen Xi's expression and remembered the scene where he disguised himself to participate in gambling.
"How did you lose? This is normal. The limit of will has been broken, and the bottle has been reinforced." Hua Xiong looked like he had seen a ghost. Guo Jia was just a military advisor and didn't understand much about this. He just thought it was outrageous. Hua Xiong understood this.
, just want to ask how to lose?
"Because some people saw that they could not win, the arrow in their hand did not throw at the bottle, but at Tian Wen himself, blowing Tian Wen away, and the bottle was blown up by the aftermath." Fazheng said with a depressed look,
It was really a disaster. He saw with his own eyes that the bottle was completely covered by the talent of will, and it was covered with glory. As a result, Tian Wen capsized, and the bottle was exploded by the aftermath, and then the banker licked the bag with tears.
It was also that time that Fazheng felt that Yuan Shu's business would definitely make money, because there were some bad guys who didn't want to win at all, but just went to cause trouble.
"Actually, the most extreme thing is the cockfighting. So far, I can't understand how far the cockfighting ends. The chicken heads are fired as weapons..." Liu Yan said with a smile. He had also experienced it, but how did it feel?
Speaking of which, after going there once, Liu Yan just went to be an audience and was not worthy of being on stage!
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