Chapter 844 Stand-in Polder Plan

After figuring out the stand-in, he felt that he might not live long, so he wanted to do something good for the people.

Although today's Qin State is much better than the previous Qin Shi Huang Ying Dynasty, there are still many drawbacks. If these shortcomings are not resolved, the people's lives will still be very miserable.

What are the drawbacks?

Naturally, it is the officials who do not act, or act excessively, or do not push and do not move.

Obviously, the decision above was right, but when it came to the officials below, everything changed for the worse.

Obviously, all projects to benefit the people are to serve the people, but when they reach the bottom, they become shackles and burdens that drag down the people.

There are many projects that benefit the people, and they can only be completed by uniting everyone. Everyone worked together, and everything was easy.

But! Local officials just don't cooperate with each other, and they go their own way. Even! What doesn't do them much good, they resolutely don't do it!

For example! Hydraulic engineering.

Water conservancy projects must be considered as a whole and planned as a whole. Otherwise! It can't be done.

In fact! Projects benefiting the people in various places, such as water conservancy construction projects, are no different from the construction of the Great Wall, and require overall planning.

For example! A water conservancy project for a river. If you build the embankment on one side, it will only benefit the people on your side. Quite possibly: it will cause the people on the other side to suffer.

And also! The construction of river embankments upstream, which is likely to cause damage to people downstream.

If you don't build an embankment upstream? Floods flow everywhere and are only fully affected rather than downstream.

What is the use of building embankments downstream if the embankments are built downstream and the embankments are not built upstream?

So! Water conservancy projects are also major national projects, and only when the upstream and downstream and the people on both sides of the strait work together can the major rivers be brought under good control.

And also! The small local rivers should also be a game of chess as a whole.

And also! The rivers around the mountains are also a game of chess.

Even if a reservoir or dam is built in a certain place, the people around it must be unified in order to get things done.

And at this time! There is an important problem: a river or a mountain often involves officials in several places. At this time! As long as one official does not agree, the project will not be done.

Some officials feel that this project will not benefit them much, so they are reluctant to do it. In order to maintain their attitude, they were very active at this time and mobilized the masses of the people to oppose the ......

This kind of official, local maintainism. On the surface! He is serving the people, but in fact they are not serving the people as a whole, and under the guise of serving the people, they are protecting the people of their small place.

Opposite! Some local officials! In order to cater to the leaders above, they reversed, under the guise of a game of chess across the country, increasing the burden on the local people.

One is under the banner of a national game of chess, and the other is under the banner of local protectionism. In fact! None of them really serve the people!

After so many years of secret visits to the people, the stand-in has long been seen.

And also! The stand-in is from a poor background, grew up at the grassroots level, what has he not seen?

Right now! The stand-in who figured it out decided that before he died, he would do a good and great thing for the people! Fix this problem.

Draw inferences! If we do a good job in water conservancy projects, we can actually follow suit.

What questions are there about the Qin society of this period? Isn't it just to control water conservancy and engage in agricultural production on a large scale?

If water conservancy is done well, there will be countless more fertile land.

In the territory of Qin, there are only a few rivers. Isn't it?

First, the embankments of the great rivers were built, and then the tributaries were diverted into the great rivers. every day

It's big work! And then there's the little project!

Small-scale projects can be carried out under the overall arrangement of local officials, and the people can carry out them themselves.

Isn't it a small project? Dig a flood channel at the foot of the mountain?

Local officials can consult the local people through surveys.

Who will benefit the most from building flood channels? Whoever benefits the most should contribute more. Those who benefit less contribute less, or do not contribute at all. And then! Divert labor from the less beneficiary side to build large projects.

In short! Everyone has to contribute to the project of benefiting the people, and no one can be an exception.

But! We can't let those who benefit from it always suffer.

It is necessary to take into account the feelings of the people and to consider them holistically.

All these years! The stand-in has been thinking about this question: how can the people feel fair?

In the past, many people were not convinced by the one-size-fits-all approach.

The stand-in asked people to notify the civil and military officials in Xianyang City and let them rush to Jiangnan.

And he! Directly disclose your identity and live in the local palace.

When local officials learned that Qin Shi Huang was coming, they all came to pay their respects.

The stand-in posed as Qin Shi Huang and asked the local officials.

Hard and soft! Grace and power! Let's get off the horse first, and then let's discuss serious things.

Today's stand-in has long been imitated vividly, and no one can tell that he is a stand-in. Furthermore! Officials everywhere have never seen Qin Shi Huang at all, how can they know whether it is true or false?

There aren't many stand-ins, but these guards are very good.

Furthermore! After his identity was revealed, no one dared to touch him.

If something happens to him, Qin Shi Huang, where something happens, the local officials will not be able to eat and walk around!

So! Local officials had to send guards to protect them.

The stand-in already had a game of chess in mind, so everything went well.

Call all the local officials over, first tell him what he means, and then let these local officials consult with each other and come up with a concrete plan for him.

"What I want is a project to benefit the people, not a project to burden the people! What I want is: to do practical things for the people, not to engage in formalities! On the issue of harnessing rivers, it is first necessary to solve the problems that need to be solved urgently from a long-term perspective. And then! and then take a long-term view to govern ......"

Water conservancy is a big project, and we can take it in several steps.

Solve the immediate matter first, ensure that the people can live a normal life, and ensure the annual harvest. And then! Then consider how to govern the big rivers.

Starting at the source, a flood channel was built at the foot of the mountain to divert the flood water into the tributary river. Such! You can cultivate the fertile fields under the mountain. Then dig the water diversion channel and divide the fields out.

And then! By marching into the shoals and building embankments on the shallows, a polder can be developed.

In the old days! Because of the small population, there are no or few polders in the Qin State and the world.

What is a polder?

The previous rivers were all natural channels with no embankments. So! When the rainy season comes, it will "flood Jinshan Temple" and flood the low-lying places. The water receded, and the low-lying areas were revealed.

Right now! Stand-in requirements: first build an embankment at a certain water level. Such! When the rainy season comes, it can't be flooded. The fields above the embankment can be used to grow crops.

Often the fields in this place are particularly fertile. Because! There is very little cultivation here, and the soil is kept pristine.

"What's the difficulty? Can you give them preferential policies? Whoever produces the most labor, divides their land. In terms of taxes, give them relief ......"