Because this is a wasteland, the newly developed land is just a blank piece of paper on which to draw the most beautiful pictures.
For the convenience of design, the village is built in the center of every four one-square-kilometer plots. It happens to be the diagonal intersection of the four squares.
Each square is surrounded by a six-lane gravel road. The road surface is raised and curved to facilitate drainage. There are ditches on both sides. On the outside of the ditch are three rows of poplar trees. Because the poplar trees grow
Soon, he will grow very tall in a few years.
Outside the poplar trees are the main canals. The water released from the Yellow River flows from these main canals into the fields within the grid.
A circular pond is dug in the center. The road passes in the middle, and there are cement pipes underneath that connect the semicircular ponds on both sides. Farmers whose land is allocated within a four-square grid area use cement to harden the land on the edge of these ponds.
, build wooden houses to form a natural village.
This time, in order to prevent the clan from becoming too powerful and oppressing the small households, all the clans were divided into families and dispersed. Because the land was divided according to the number of households, there was no resistance.
Farmers are actually very cunning. They know that if the families are not divided, only a few dozen people will get fifty acres of land. If the families are divided, it will be hundreds of acres of land.
One square kilometer is 1,500 acres of land. The four grids combined are 6,000 acres of land.
However, roads, woods, main canals, homesteads, vegetable plots, ponds, bridges, etc. need to be removed here. In fact, only 5,000 acres of agricultural land are actually available.
This five thousand acres of land is a natural village with a total of one hundred households.
Each village is directly elected by villagers to form its own autonomous village committee. The election is held once a year. For the sake of fairness, all big families are split into small families and then scattered across the vast wilderness.
They have to walk ten miles to get to their nearest relatives. Only in this way can local fairness and long-term peace and stability be guaranteed. Because land cannot be transferred, bought, sold, or leased, land annexation is prevented. Large clans control grassroots administration.
If the population increases in the future, according to the laws of the Yang Mansion, only the eldest son can inherit all the real estate. For other sons, or sons of concubines, the Yang Mansion will allocate the same fifty acres of land in other places and provide loan support.
If you have no sons, you can choose a daughter to marry someone else. If you have no children, the Yang Mansion will eventually take back the land and distribute it to the landless people.
Only by ensuring that farmers always have enough land can their quality of life be guaranteed and they will not return to poverty due to population increase. Only when they have enough annual income can they purchase industrial products, thus promoting the development of industry.
In addition to protecting farmers in agriculture, in industry, Yang Fan also plans to adopt high wages instead of sweatshops to ensure that workers have a prosperous income.
Because only by allowing workers to earn a lot of money can they invest in the education of the next generation, forming a virtuous cycle of continuous upgrading of skilled workers. Only when they have the spending power can they stimulate domestic demand.
When Jefferson, the second president of the United States, came to power, he was faced with competitive pressure from Britain in textiles. At that time, two plans were put in front of him.
One is to continue to rely on low wages and cheap labor to enhance competitiveness. The other is to raise wages so that workers have more money to spend, thereby stimulating domestic demand and the economy. This will allow workers’ children to have the financial resources to receive education.
In the end, Da Meili chose the latter.
Jefferson believed that making people poor is not the way to a strong country. A country that relies on cheap labor as its core competitiveness has no future. Only by improving the quality of its citizens, continuously upgrading its industries, and allowing its citizens to enjoy the fruits of economic development can the country become more and more prosperous.
good.
Facts have proven that increasing people's income and hiding wealth among the people can help the country enter a virtuous cycle.
Shang Yang's approach was not only unpopular, but also had poor results. Over thousands of years, society has been dark and corrupt, and human nature has shown its ugly side. Most people's lives are not good.
The people are not happy either. The country's prosperous times are short and troubled times are long. Most of the time, it is unable to resist the invasion of foreigners. The finances are also stretched and embarrassed.
Shang Yang and his ilk believe that people will become disobedient when they have money and must be humiliated and humiliated. If they are given some benefits, they can be driven like oxen and horses. Management efficiency will be greatly improved and the cost of governance will be greatly reduced.
We can't let them have a leisurely time. We must keep doing things and tossing them. Let them open their eyes and be so busy that they can barely make ends meet. Lest they become disobedient because of their idle time.
The rogue approach of the heart will not have a good effect.
The problem of the Ming Dynasty is that the theory and practice of social governance are anti-human. The more people hate something, the more the government will do something about it.
In short, it makes you uncomfortable, unhappy and tortures you.
In those days of Confucianism, Neo-Confucianism made people particularly uncomfortable. Even the emperor felt uncomfortable. In this Ming Dynasty, there was no happy person from top to bottom, and they all scolded their mothers behind their backs.
Yang Fan felt that a country should make everyone feel happy, instead of turning it into a big prison like the Ming Dynasty. From the emperor, officials to the common people, no one felt happy. Everyone suffered physically and mentally, and suffered.
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Han Dezhu came back to his senses and looked at the salesman with saliva flying in front of him, trying hard to sell the wooden house.
"Brother Han, look at how uneconomical it is if you just choose the simplest bungalow in the package. Look, if you choose this three-story (including attic) wooden building, we will dig two basements for you for free.
.The full basement on the first floor is used as a warehouse and cellar. The first and a half basement (with windows exposed to the ground) is used as a kitchen, dining room, workshop and storage room. The three floors above and the attic have a total of 20 rooms. There is another one on the first floor.
The large living room of 30 square meters is so comfortable."
Han Dezhu looked at the colored pictures on the coated paper and felt a little dazed. Is this a house for him to live in? He remembered that houses were all made of adobe and thatch. Such a beautiful wooden house looked like a dream.
"You and your wife have five sons and three daughters. When your sons get married, they will definitely need a place to live. It happens that you and your wife live on the first floor, with the kitchen and dining room on the ground floor. The sons live on the second floor, and the daughter lives on the attic.
. Even if you recruit a son-in-law in the future, it will be able to accommodate you."
Han Dezhu was afraid of being poor, but he didn't dare to listen to his nonsense, so he owed a frightening debt.
Now, in addition to fifty acres of land, he was also given one acre of homestead, one acre of vegetable garden, and one acre of grain drying ground. In addition to building houses, the homestead also provided livestock sheds, pig pens, and poultry houses. After all, the village
In the pond as big as the center, in addition to the fish shared by the village, you can also raise some ducks and geese.
Grain drying ground is also indispensable. This needs to be hardened with cement. When exposed to the sun in summer, the grain can be dried quickly and stored in the warehouse. This kind of wooden house also needs cement to harden the ground. These are all money. Although they all provide loans, but
Loans also need to be repaid, right?
However, there is a basement under the wooden house that can be used as a cellar and warehouse, which is indeed very practical. After all, fifty acres of land can produce a lot of food, so you don’t have to worry about where to store it. There must be a place to shelter from the wind and rain.
It's arid here and the groundwater is very deep. The basement is dry and can store food without worrying about mold.
And that person who sells septic tanks and sanitary ware should also consider it himself. Because the government has issued an order strictly prohibiting open defecation. It is mandatory for new immigrants to install cement septic tanks in their homes. If this money is not wasted, it should be used to save farm manure, fertilizer and water.