After gossiping for a while, Xu Ping asked Li Jing about the manpower needed to build the road. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Jing said: "The main thing is naturally done by the Xiang army. The road to be repaired in Ducao is a delicate job, and it is not safe to recruit people casually. Some odd jobs, such as digging soil and paving stones, and planting trees on the roadside, are used by the people along the road. ”

"Nanyang County is okay, there are not many households in Lushan County, but I am afraid that there are not many local people."

After listening to Xu Ping's words, Li Jing said: "Du Cao is right, what Xia Guan wants is to transfer people from neighboring counties, mainly Fangcheng and Ye County, which is really insufficient, so he will transfer people to Xuzhou and Caizhou." ”

Xu Ping thought for a while before he said: "People can naturally smoke, but let me ask you, the start of construction is at the turn of spring and summer, not the winter when the farm is slack, and there must be households who are unwilling to go to the levy and forced labor, so what?" ”

"Xia Guan has also thought about it, there are two ways that he can't make up his mind. First, whether you want to or not, you must levy it, let the county watch over it, and draw people according to households. Just doing so will inevitably cause resentment among the people, which is somewhat inappropriate. The other is that there are those who are not willing to serve on errands, and they can pay to hire people to do it, and the government only needs to count the heads. In this way, only the poor people will work, and I am afraid that the people will also criticize them. The two methods have their own advantages and disadvantages, and they cannot be determined. ”

Xu Ping smiled: "The second method is good, so I will use the latter one." ”

This is the prototype of the recruitment method in Wang Anshi's reform in history, which has been adopted in many places at this time. Of course, the content of Wang Anshi's reform was not imagined out of thin air, in fact, most of the measures have been put into practice. However, when the law was changed, there were too many intentions to collect money for the country, and they were in a hurry to achieve results, coupled with party strife, and in the actual implementation, they changed their appearance.

For example, the conscription law was originally just a supplement to ordinary errand service, a matter of public and private convenience. After being adopted by the reformers, they replaced the original errand service outright, and in order to get greater political achievements faster, they finally went to the extreme. For example, in the beginning, the lower-class households did not bear the burden of errand labor, but after the implementation of the conscription law, the exemption money was also distributed to the lower-class households. In the end, the burden on the common people was not reduced, but only enriched the official money bag.

In such an era and such an economic foundation, there are no conditions for the implementation of a complete conscription law, and the conscription and conscription are indispensable. As a supplement to conscription, it is possible to partially implement the law of exemption from conscription, which is convenient for the officials and the common people.

As for the errand service, such as Lizheng and Yaqian, who are talked about by the people, they can be replaced by recruitment, and it is better to directly become public officials and be included in the official establishment. In fact, Wang Anshi did the same to change the law, but after doing so, the money collected for exemption from military service was too much more than what the government paid, and it became a means of collecting money.

Not to mention this era, even after a thousand years, volunteers are directly converted into money and collected from the people, which has also become a huge burden on farmers and made the livelihood of rural people wither. Xu Ping had run a lot in the countryside in his previous life and understood the subtle changes in between.

Li Jing has not been in charge of the county for a long time, and he does not have a clear understanding of these things, and when he saw Xu Ping say this, he naturally agreed. In fact, in his heart, he also felt that the second method was simple.

Xu Ping said again: "Use the second method, but there are a few things I want to explain to you." The first point is that, in principle, all counties that levy and issue civil servants must serve this conscription. You first work with the bridge and road army to draw up a charter, calculate the amount of labor to build the road, and spread it evenly to each ding, how many jobs to do. The calculated quantity, with a 20% discount, is the number of jobs that each strong man needs to do. When the time comes to build the road, the public officials will work with the bridge and road army to convert the work to be done into the number of work, register all of them, and hand them over to you and the local government, and then they will be inspected by the transit envoy. Each of these workers is converted into money according to the amount of money required by the people every day, and those who do not obey the conscription pay according to this amount. And those who are willing to work, as long as they exceed the amount they need to do, you will pay them according to this amount, together with the local government. Remember, people who don't serve are not allowed to hire their own people, otherwise they will be fined twice as much if they find out. ”

Li Jing asked strangely: "Why don't you allow the households to hire their own people?" We just need to call the heads of the people, and someone will do the work, a matter of both public and private. If the government hires people, it will be a lot more troublesome. ”

Yang Xuan also said: "Du Cao, the lower officials also think that this is too much, there is no need for this, right?" ”

Xu Ping shook his head: "No, it's necessary." Don't be afraid of the trouble of the government, the public officials are not willing to work hard, just resign and go home, and recruit people again. If the government only counts the heads, do you know how this person was hired? To be clear, most of these people who came didn't get any money at all. For example, large families promised to let them rent good land in the coming year, or they hired their cattle cheaply when the farm was busy, and many farmers went happily. When it happened, it was another mess. You think you have saved your effort when you build the road, but you don't know that the seeds of countless incidents have been planted. ”

Most of the farmers in the countryside have lived in a few nearby villages all their lives, and their knowledge is limited, so they are naturally short-sighted, and they are easily deceived by large families. When I go to the house and say that my oxen will lend you for the coming year, or that the water in my ditch will allow you to water the land, or that I will rent you some good land, they will be happy to help the people. As a result, when the work is done, others turn their faces and deny it, who do you talk to to reason? The last thing that can be done is that this kind of scam can be repeated again and again, and there are always people who willingly fall for it.

It's not that the peasants are too stupid, but that their living environment is so monotonous, and the pressure of life is so great, that they are willing to exchange all their strength for a vague hope. If you don't want them to be fooled, then don't let them do business with big families.

The more indulgent the government is in the countryside, the more serious it will be for large households to pass on the burden to the bottom, and there is no solution to this problem.

Seeing that Li Jing and Yang Xue still didn't understand, Xu Ping said: "This time I will do what I say, Li Jing, you remember to do things this time, you must bow down to everything, and you must ask yourself how small things are." If you have any doubts, think about it and ask more questions, which will be of great benefit to your career in the future. When it's over, write me a brief. ”

Li Ji knew that this was Xu Ping teaching himself to do things, so he hurriedly agreed.

Xu Ping said again: "There is another sentence for you to hear, whenever you deal with the people who farm in the countryside, no matter what time it is, try not to collect money from them." The money of the upper class households can also be collected, and the middle and lower class households should not collect the money directly unless they have to do so. It is better to take things from their hands and sell them for money than to take their money. These people may have strength, or they may have some local products and the like, but there is no way to exchange them for money. It is difficult for the people in the countryside to change a penny, and this truth has remained unchanged through the ages. If you charge them a penny, they may have to exchange it for two or even ten pennies, and a few dollars may make people sell their children, so don't treat it as idle. On the other hand, even a penny we give them may be of great use, and they can do what they have been thinking about for a few years. Therefore, since those who are on errand duty are poor families, they should be given a chance to exchange their strength for money and go home. For the villagers, it is necessary to take less and give more. ”