Infrastructure masters in the red building

Zhang Youshi seems to be a person with strong execution ability. Jia Fang let out the words, and he immediately started to assign tasks with Lao Shao and Jiang Fuzi, and immediately started to promote the work of population statistics.

The statistics are mainly based on the household, and the information of the head of household and members of each household is registered.Those who are alone and have no parents, wives, or children are also regarded as a single household, named "single household" by Jia Fang, and registered separately.

During the registration process, Jia Fang brought many blank small books made of high-quality Goryeo paper from Xianliang Temple. The three characters of "household register" were uniformly printed on the cover of the books, and a serial number was stamped in the upper right corner of the cover.Each booklet has a unique number.

Every time Zhang Youshi and others register a household, they use a household registration book, write down the surname of the head of the household on the title page of the book, and then fill in the name, place of origin, date of birth, and marriage of each member of the household on each subsequent page. and other basic information.

At the same time, Zhang Youshi and others are also registering a "population register", but the information on it is more than that in this household registration book. The extra content mainly includes education level, special skills, physical health status, No illnesses or anything like that.

After all the information was filled in, the register was kept by Zhang Youshi and others, but the household register was sent to the head of the household.

"What is this for us?" A new immigrant from Yujiang asked suspiciously.

"This is your household registration certificate. With this thing, Taoyuan Village will recognize you as villagers here." Zhang Youshi explained gently.

"Oh..." The immigrants understood, but they still didn't understand where the authority of this thing was reflected. "We were not like this before, Lizheng admits that we are us."

"The rules here are different. You only count if you hold the booklet yourself, and the booklet has a reserve with us. Besides, it doesn't matter who says it."

Hearing Zhang Youshi's strict words, the villagers were not only speechless: "It's so strict!"

"If there is a population change in the family, birth, old age, illness or death, you need to register in the village." Zhang Youshi continued to explain, "The same is true for marrying a daughter-in-law and marrying a daughter. Just register."

"Then if the daughter of the Zhang family marries into the Li family and has not left the village, do you still have to register?"

"It's the same. The Zhang family registers one household registration to move out, and the Li family registers one to move in." Zhang Youshi replied casually, feeling a little proud in his heart.

As soon as Jia Fang told him about the "household register", he immediately figured out how it should work.As long as there is this household registration book and population register, this Taoyuan Village has a population of nearly 5000, and everything is under Jia Fang's control.

Thinking of this, Zhang Youshi not only felt admiration for Jia Fang, but also thought that this is indeed a son of Rongguo Duke's mansion, who can clearly understand the situation of all the population with just one move.

But why did Jia Fang manage the population in this way? —Is it a poll tax?

Zhang Youshi looked at the contents of his registration in the population register, not only the number of people, but also whether these villagers can forge iron, whether they can do carpentry, and even whether women can weave and embroider. up.

It shouldn't be as simple as just drawing a poll tax.

Zhang Youshi, Lao Shao and Jiang Fuzi took the task of "population registration" together.But Lao Shao and Jiang Fuzi both had other errands, so Zhang Youshi had the heaviest task alone.

But among the three, he is probably the fastest and the brightest. When registering the population, he found a few new immigrants who had attended school for a few days, could write and count, and immediately selected them all. When I came out, I taught them all the procedures of population registration, and asked them to help them do it together, and the speed was doubled immediately.

Originally, Jia Fang expected to complete the population registration work in about ten days, but it was completed in less than five days.

During these five days, Jia Fang did not go out for an "outing", but was discussing the future plan of "Taoyuan Village" with Village Chief Tao and Qin Lizheng.

In Jia Fang's view, there is a difference between "Taoyuan Village" and "Taoyuan Village". "Zhai" is the local abbreviation for "Zhaibao".The gentry class, after owning the land and the people, often established an independent sphere of influence and promoted self-government in the area—that is, they became the emperor of the land.

Under one stockade, several natural villages can be divided.Originally, when there were only Taoyuan Village villagers in Taoyuan Village, the village and the village were one.But now that the outside world has moved three or four times the population of Taoyuan Village, it is obviously a bit unrealistic to ask Taoyuan Village to "absorb" immigrants.

"My plan is to divide the villagers who moved into Yujiang into four administrative villages. Each administrative village is an administrative unit on the same level as Taoyuan Village." Jia Fang said to Qin Lizheng.

Although Qin Lizheng didn't quite understand what Jia Fang meant by "administration", he could roughly understand Jia Fang's plan.

He nodded his head and said, "What the third master said is right. The people from Yujiang were originally villagers from Sili."

Divide the immigrants into four villages, that is, divide them into villages that are about the same size as Taoyuan Village, so that everyone is about the same size, and the aborigines in Taoyuan Village do not feel much difference in their hearts when facing the new immigrants.

Unexpectedly, Jia Fang shook his head and said: "The villages will not be divided according to the four miles of Yujiang. Instead, they will be completely disrupted and reorganized. Four villages will be reorganized."

Qin Lizheng opened his mouth with an "ah", thinking that the young man in front of him looked young but acted quite sophisticated.I don't know if it was taught by the Village Chief Tao next to me.

There are nearly [-] immigrants from Yujiang, and to be honest, not all of them know each other, and some families are far away from each other.Jia Fang disrupted and divided the households in this way. Some neighbors would hold each other together, but now they can't hold each other.And some people already have old grudges, and they are far away from each other.As the saying goes, "the fragrance is far away and the smell is near", so a lot of contradictions are reduced all of a sudden.

Village head Tao sat beside Jia Fang and listened with a smile. The news seemed to reassure him.

Jia Fang saw that the two people in front of him had no objections, and continued to talk about his arrangement: "As for the new four administrative villages, the candidates for the village chiefs are currently appointed by me. After three months, each village will decide on its own. push."

Qin Lizheng said "ah" again.Originally, he thought that he could be the head of at least one of the villages, but who knew that Jia Fang would let the villagers elect him-if he was assigned to a new village that no one knew, who would elect him?

As soon as Jia Fang saw Qin Lizheng's expression, he started to laugh: "Master Qin, you must have confidence in yourself!"

"You must be among the candidates for the interim village chief. You are highly respected. With the three-month acting period, even people in the village who are not familiar with you will definitely admire you. I will continue to do various village affairs in the future I need to trouble you." Jia Fang said and cupped his hands at Qin Lizheng.

Qin Lizheng immediately felt more stable in his heart, and hurriedly cupped his hands at Jia Fang: "Don't dare, the third master is polite."

Who knew that just after the story was over, Jia Fang made another earth-shattering decision: "I will redistribute the land in the village. Taoyuan Village will give up one-third of the land."

Qin Lizheng said again: "Ah——"

Many people are guessing that Jia Fang will redistribute the land in Taoyuan Village, including the natives of Taoyuan Village, who are also wondering anxiously: there are so many familiar lands, how much Jia Fang will distribute to the immigrants.

But in the final analysis, these fields belonged to Jia Fang, and they did not have the right to make irresponsible remarks on how Jia Fang divided them.

But no one expected that Jia Fang only gave the new immigrants one-third of the land, and their population was four times that of the natives of Taoyuan Village!

The rice-growing land in Taoyuan Village is relatively affluent now. There are two rice crops a year, and the food produced can easily supply 5000 people, and some fields can be rested in rotation.

But Jia Fang only asked Taoyuan Village to give up one-third of the land, but the new immigrants from Yujiang had absolutely no way to use these fields to support themselves.

As soon as Qin Lizheng thought of this, he immediately "plopped", knelt down to Jia Fang, and said sincerely: "Master Jia, you have to give us outsiders a way to survive!"

"Third Master," Qin Lizheng knelt on his knees without any ambiguity, and assured Jia Fang while begging, "Although some of us are sick, we are not poor. Many of them came from rich households in Yujiang. .”

"We have money, as long as the third master asks, we will pay, and we can buy land... We, buy land from the brothers in Taoyuan Village!" Qin Lizheng turned to Village Chief Tao, "Old Tao, you Let's see how we can survive!"

Village head Tao has always been like a child who picked up a bargain, sitting obediently behind Jia Fang. At this time, he smiled at the anxious and desperate Qin Lizheng, and said, "Old Qin, don't worry. Since the third master Jia mentioned Come out, I must have figured out a way out for you."

Jia Fang finally couldn't help laughing: "Old Master Tao also knows me."

He said: "There is another important thing to tell Mr. Qin. In the past ten days, the food, chicken, fish, meat and eggs that the villagers of Yujiang ate and drank... were all supplied by Taoyuan Village. But starting tomorrow, the villagers All these things that the villagers need must be paid to Taoyuan Village."

When Village Chief Tao heard Jia Fang say this, he almost burst into tears: "Third Master, you are still like this... you always think about us so much."

And Qin Lizheng took a deep breath and almost fainted: "Third Master... We didn't get any land, and now we need to buy food..." Who said just now that Jia San has already figured out a way out for them?

And these changes were already planned by Jia Fang in his heart.

Originally, the relationship between the population and the land in Taoyuan Village had almost no problem in supporting the Jingtian-style "co-ownership".However, after two or three generations of population reproduction and the people's thirst for other necessities of life, Taoyuan Village has moved from an almost completely "selfless" common ownership economy to a "selfish" small-scale peasant economy.

Now because of such an opportunity, the population has skyrocketed to five times its original size.The economic model of shared ownership is no longer sustainable and must be privatized.Jia Fang simply took this opportunity to turn Taoyuan Village into "private ownership".

Previously, the villagers of Taoyuan Village also experienced a lot of frustration in the matter of new immigrants. Most of them felt that they had worked hard to help the new immigrants resettle here, but in the end they got nothing. Maybe they have to give up the land they are planting to the new immigrants.

But now Jia Fang only ordered them to sell one-third of the land and provide compensation for their labor.The villagers of Taoyuan Village will definitely express their gratitude to Jia Fang like Village Chief Tao.

As for Qin Lizheng and the new immigrants——

Jia Fang raised the corners of his lips and smiled: "I will send a sum of money to the villagers from Yujiang as settlement expenses. The money will be distributed to each household according to the head. This money is enough for you Have money to eat and drink until the end of this year."

Qin Lizheng was dumbfounded immediately, while Village Chief Tao had tears in his eyes: Jia Fang is... this is subsidizing Taoyuan Village out of his own pocket. How can there be such a good landlord in this world?

Qin Lizheng has never encountered such a thing. The official does not collect taxes, but pays money?Although Jia Fang is not an official, in fact he is almost the same as an official.

"As for the one-third of the land that Taoyuan Village gave up, I will divide it equally into one or two hundred shares. From next year, it will be leased to your villagers for cultivation. Mr. Qin, please explain later that these lands can be planted two to two times a year. For three seasons, the yield per mu should be at least [-] catties. If you can’t plant this yield, or if your family doesn’t have enough labor to work in the fields, don’t come to lease the land, you will lose money.”

When Jia Fang said this, Qin Lizheng also understood.The reason why Jia Fang only gave Yujiang a small part of the land was that among the people who moved from Yujiang, many strong laborers got sick and couldn't go to the fields. They couldn't meet the production requirements of these fields, so they might as well leave it to Taoyuan villagers of the village.

"One or two hundred households..." Although Qin Lizheng understood the truth, he was still stuck in his heart. He brought more than 800 households, but only one or two hundred households could grow the fields. Then the others...

"I will provide an interest-free loan for each of the other households, that is, the money that does not charge you any interest."

"Those who know how to raise chickens and pigs can use the money to buy chickens and pigs. Someone in the family can weave, so they can use the money to buy looms and yarn, and the woven cloth will be sold in this village. Seeing that the demand is huge." Jia Fang said, and Village Chief Tao, who was on the side, nodded along.

"If you are willing to open up wasteland, you can use this money to come to me to buy a wasteland development certificate. I will tell you which land can be opened up and which land cannot be opened up. The wasteland opened up and the products on the ground belong to you. Of course, you It should also be necessary to exchange these things with other people in the village, in exchange for food and other things..."

Qin Lizheng opened his mouth wide, and this time he understood in a daze: this third master Jia, the sum of money he gave everyone is actually to let everyone have money in their hands. Buying things, buying things will make others rich... It seems that farming is not the only way to support oneself-this is actually a good thing for those families whose main labor force has to take a rest due to illness.

"In addition, I will hire some villagers to participate in the work, and these people will have 'salaries'. For example, Zhao Wuguang and Wang Erlang, who lead the inspection team to check the implementation of health regulations, he is paid, and his team members will Receive subsidies based on attendance."

Judging from the example given by Jia Fang, this part of the workers should be selected from Taoyuan Village and new immigrants at the same time, regardless of whether they are equal.

"By the way, there is still a house." Jia Fang patted his head and said, "Almost forgot about this."

"A lot of temporary prefab houses were built in Taoyuan Village before. But that's not a long-term solution, especially in the rainy season. From now on, I will give a low-interest construction fee to each household of the villagers from Yujiang. Mortgage loans have very little interest, and can be repaid slowly within ten years."

"With this money, you can hire people to build a house, and the people you hire will definitely not be able to leave our Taoyuan Village. In this way, anyone with a little strength can do odd jobs on the construction site. Those who used to be masons and carpenters, What kind of land do you want to plant in the past two years, the business in front of you can't be done at all."

Qin Li was thinking about it too.Thinking about it this way, there are so many ways for villagers from afar to support themselves, why should they bother with farming?

"By the way, with this calculation, I have to spend too much money and loans recently. Mr. Tao, Mr. Qin, is there any reliable accountant that you can recommend to me?"

Before the two could answer, Jia Fang had already thought of a solution by himself: "No need, this information is registered in Zhang Youshi's population register. I just checked it out and found out!"

After this long talk, Village Chief Tao and Qin Lizheng fully understood Jia Fang's arrangement, and after they returned, they each "conveyed" Jia Fang's meaning to the people around them.

However, any rumors may go wrong. After the news was released, the villagers of Taoyuan Village and the villagers of Yujiang were dubious and half-believing.

So Jia Fang decided to hold a plenary meeting in Taoyuan Village.He gathered everyone in the open space at the entrance of Taoyuan Village. 5000 people said it was a lot less, and the entire open space was crowded with crowds.

Jia Fang specially placed a high platform in the middle of the open space. He squeezed through the crowd, climbed up the high platform, and immediately stood out from the crowd like a chicken.

Then he took out something like a brass horn, held it up to his mouth, and asked, "Can you hear me clearly?"

"Yes!" As soon as the villagers below responded, the sound far overwhelmed Jia Fang's voice.

"Very good!" Jia Fang gestured quickly, indicating that he had received a response.

Afterwards, Jia Fang explained his plans and arrangements for Taoyuan Village one by one.The villagers had heard the rumors before, and now they are not particularly surprised.But what Jia Fang said was more accurate and authoritative than what the villagers passed on by word of mouth.

Seeing that most of the villagers in Taoyuan Village were emotionally stable, Jia Fang secretly breathed a sigh of relief.Many of his measures cannot be seen in the short term, and these villagers may not be able to fully understand them immediately.But just be willing to try.

At this moment, in a corner of the open space at the entrance of the village, a person suddenly jumped up high, waved at Jia Fang, and quickly fell down and disappeared into the crowd.

Jia Fang saw it and saw that it was Zhang Youshi.

He hurriedly said: "Fellows over there, please make way for Mr. Zhang to come over."

Without waiting for him to speak, Zhang Youshi immediately squeezed over. Before he got close to Jia Fang, he shouted to Jia Fang: "Third Master, I found it, I found it—"

"I've found an anthelmintic for bloating."

As soon as Zhang Youshi finished speaking, the villagers who were calmly accepting Jia Fang's instilling information into them immediately became excited.