Chapter 531 The construction of Daning has reached the second stage!
"Except for the imperial officials, most of you present are industrial and mining owners. Logically speaking, it seems to have nothing to do with farming? But it would be a big mistake to think so. Your family business has been settled in Daning, and Daning will be stable in the future.
Whether it is or not is related to whether your family business will last for a long time. Agriculture is the foundation of the country and the basis for stable governance. If agriculture in Daning cannot develop, the imperial court's long-term policy of governing Daning will not be realized.
After all, your wealth is nothing. Nowadays, there are not a few workers making a living under you. You must mobilize well and let the workers use their leisure time and their families to open up wasteland and develop agriculture near the factories and mines. At the same time, the government will also introduce measures to
Encourage the common people to open fields and support themselves."
What Liu Xing said was the content put forward in the next development outline of Daning sent to him by the imperial court. After several years of development, Daning has gathered a lot of people with its reputation as a gold mine, with a total population of 150,000.
There are so many people who come to Daning, and many of them are even outside the jurisdiction of the imperial court. According to the standards of an emerging place, the development of Daning in terms of population has been in line with expectations.
As the population increases, Daning's economic output is also quite good. The mining and rough refining of precious metal deposits, the establishment of the steel industry, and the mining of some unique and scalable mineral deposits have begun to take shape. Don't look at it.
Daning is a small prefecture with a small population, but its annual fiscal and tax revenue is no less than that of big prefectures in the mainland. This place is now a hot spot for affluence.
However, there are also hidden worries in the current development. Agriculture has not kept up. There are more than 100,000 people plus tens of thousands of garrison troops and officials. The main rations depend on transportation from inside the pass. This means that there is a railway, otherwise the food supply is
Big problem.
Few of the people who come here are willing to open up wasteland for farming. Even if the government policy is to reclaim wasteland for free for the first five years, and the court will also provide farm tools and seeds for the first year. If such a policy were implemented in the customs,
I guess the land has been opened long ago, but it just doesn't work in this place.
People come here to make a fortune, but you let them farm? Isn’t this bullying? If you farm, why don’t you stay in your hometown and be a stable farmer? What are you doing here in the wilderness?
Local officials in Daning reported their inability to mobilize to the court, thinking that the court would organize a wave of people from the Civil Affairs Bureau to come to Daning to help promote agriculture! But the court's reply was to find a way on their own. You guys don't have to worry.
Wherever people come, the court must solve problems. What about other places where there is a greater shortage of people? In short, what the court means is that the local government in Daning must not only find ways to solve problems on their own, but also solve problems beautifully. Wait, no, no.
Being able to rely on being able to turn things over is a quality that local officials should possess.
Of course, the court is not doing nothing, and it still made some bad ideas in its reply! For example, they can use the method of extending mining rights to mobilize employee mine owners and workers to cultivate land and open up wasteland to solve their own food ration problems. This group of industrial and mine owners
We need money and people, and as long as we can mobilize effectively, we can achieve better results by starting agriculture than by opening up wasteland through homesteaders.
Ye Liqing is the owner of the mine that Liu Xing inspected. Almost two years ago, his dream of gold mining came to an end and he had to lead his fellow villagers to dig waxstone mines. Not to mention, this road is still on the right track. Since the railway was opened,
It has become possible to transport ore inland. The metal smelting industry in the mainland has a huge demand for insulation materials. Ye Liqing and his mine just happened to catch up. They have been making a lot of money after opening the mine for more than a year, and the scale of the mine has also changed day by day. From the beginning
A small mine dug by dozens of people quickly grew into a large mine with nearly a thousand people.
Laxite mines are not like gold and silver mines. This thing relies entirely on volume to make money. A hundred or so people working in a gold and silver mine is enough. But the more people there are in a waxite mine, the more profitable it will naturally be. After finding a way to start a business,
When Ye Liqing saw the sky, he sent people to his hometown to ask people to come to the mine to work for him as laborers. People from his hometown also liked to come because it was so easy to make money in the mine. It was no better than facing the loess in his hometown and turning his back to the sky!
After the scale increased, Ye Liqing found that his social status had also risen instantly. Although he was not the most profitable mine owner in Daning now, in terms of how he was treated by the government, he was considered to be in the front group.
.After all, no matter where it is, a company with nearly a thousand employees is enough to attract the attention of the local government. Even if your financial and tax contributions are average, your thousands of people cannot be underestimated. At best, it is because of you
To solve the problem of large employment households, at worst, if we don’t keep a close eye on you, what can we do if these thousands of people become a factor of instability?
"Master, what do you mean when the prefect came to our mine to talk about opening up fields to promote agriculture? Could it be that he wants us to take the lead and lead people to open up some fields?" After Liu Xing led the people away, Ye Liqing's most trusted follower ran away.
Went to him to discuss the purpose of the magistrate's visit.
"In addition to government-run industries, we have a large number of people working in mines in the government. It is also appropriate to mobilize us to promote agriculture."
"Does the head of the family really mean that we really want to open up fields? We don't make money from mining by farming the land. Isn't it a bit too much to spend that energy on doing things to make money for the government?"
"Bullshit! Who said that farming is just to give money to the government? We have thousands of people, don't we eat? Buying food is always unreliable. Plant some of your own fields and have your own food to eat, no matter what
Whether it is cost or safety, it is a matter of profit. The government should still provide good policies. If we don't grasp it, why push the good things out? We are not a bunch of cold-blooded people who dig out gold. Our mine is a long-term business and we do things naturally.
You also have to think long-term.”
The butt determines the head. Before becoming a mine owner, Ye Liqing would not have thought about farming. He took people to Daning to pursue their dreams because he hated farming. But after becoming a mine owner, his thinking actually happened.
After a major change, I started thinking about how to continue my career for a long time.
This is also related to the nature of the industry. If he had opened a gold mine, he would naturally not think like this. The gold mine is too profitable. Anyone who encounters it will become eager for quick success and will definitely want to dig more gold.
Once you get out, nothing else matters. But the stone mine is different. This thing is just there. If you have more people, you will dig more, and if you have fewer people, you will dig less. The money you make is proportional.
Therefore, from a business point of view, it is in the best interest of the miners to have a stable life, with all aspects of protection in place, and to be able to settle down here for a long time. How can we allow the miners to settle down and develop in the long term? Farming is a good place.
Direction. The miners make their own money in the mines, and then take over their families to farm some land. Those who earn cash in the family are the ones who earn cash, and those who grow food are those who grow food. The mind will naturally feel at ease, and only then can we truly do it.