While Zhu San was still dealing with the bandits, Ye Yuran had already led people to promote sweet potatoes.

She calculated the time and knew that she couldn't catch up with the spring potatoes and summer potatoes, but she could still catch up with the autumn potatoes. She didn't need them to free up the fields where food was grown. She just wanted each household to share some and plant them on wasteland.

Here, let them try the effect.

Once they know the super survival ability and harvest of sweet potatoes, they will spontaneously plant sweet potatoes the next spring.

Fortunately, when Zhu San came, he brought sweet potatoes and asked Xu Yujin to buy Zhuangzi to raise seedlings. Ye Yuran happened to have ready-made sweet potato vines to use.

With the benefit of her teaching people how to make food, she "coaxed" a group of people to follow her and try to grow sweet potatoes.

The family was given a handful, and they could plant it anywhere they wanted. Everyone watched her "teaching" how to eat for free, and they all happily planted it.

Seeing that the weather was getting colder, it was too late to do many things this year. Ye Yuran and Zhu San discussed it and decided to do what they could do this year first, and leave it to next year if it was too late.

She often hung out at the bottom and learned a lot about the sufferings of the people, so she suggested that Zhu San should focus on three things this year. One was transportation, that is, road construction.

He is the county magistrate, and he certainly cannot do this kind of work alone. He draws on the experience of Dai County Magistrate of Anjiu Town and "contracts" all these tasks.

"Anyway, you are the county magistrate now, and you don't need to think about making money. You just need to ensure that the Yamen does not lose money and that there are people to do the work. Whether you make money or not is what I consider." Ye Yuran meant.

It was very obvious that when the cement was heavy, it would be enough for her to come forward on behalf of the Yao family. He was the county magistrate, so she only needed to consider it from the county magistrate's perspective.

According to her idea, in addition to learning from the practices of the county magistrate of Anjiu Town, Ye Yuran also proposed the concept of "patent fees".

Not all people with prescriptions in their hands are good at business, so how to get them to hand over the prescriptions?

It's very simple. The imperial court collects the prescription, and anyone who wants to use the prescription has to pay a "royalty fee" to the person who gave the prescription.

In this way, even the person's prescription is not in vain. In addition to being rewarded by the court, he can also get a "living money" - as long as someone uses this patent, he will have money for his whole life.

"For the yamen, it seems that they have earned nothing, but those who paid the patent fees are definitely not in vain. They are doing it to make more money. When the time comes, you can just come forward to collect taxes."

Ye Yuran said, "How much tax can be collected from farming? There is only so much land in Qingyuan County. No matter how much you collect, the money will not increase, but it is different when you become a businessman..."

Ye Yuran calculated an account for Zhu San with the Zhu family and told Zhu San that if the tax was 1%, when the Zhu family's business income increased, the tax it needed to pay to the court would also increase.

Zhu San's eyes widened.

Isn't that right? At first, the Zhu family only had a small amount of money, so the taxes they paid were naturally small. But as the Zhu family's business gets better and better, even if it is a 1% tax, the taxes collected will increase.

Ye Yuran continued: "Furthermore, you can also formulate different tax policies based on the development needs of Qingyuan County. For example, if you want to focus on developing a certain area of ​​the economy, you can lower taxes and encourage businessmen to operate; but for certain areas you

If you feel you want to control the economy, you can increase taxes...Businessmen are all profit-seeking. As long as your tax ratio is properly controlled, they will pay attention to the tax ratio under your rule and make targeted adjustments."

It is related to people's livelihood, that is, people's daily life. Zhu San can consider lowering taxes, which will also benefit the people and make the people under his rule live comfortably.

For other products, such as tobacco and cement, we can consider raising taxes.

"I can understand tobacco, but why do taxes on cement also need to be increased?" Zhu San frowned, showing confusion.

Tobacco can't fill the stomach, and when burned, it's just a handful of ashes. It's said that smoking too much is bad for your health. It's normal for taxes to be high, but cement...

Isn’t cement also a livelihood project?

Ye Yuran showed a deep meaning: "But it depends on what the cement is used for. If it is used to build roads or bridges, something that benefits the country and the people, you can return the tax to them after passing the inspection; but

If it is used to build houses, especially to hoard houses in large quantities, you can regard it as a real estate speculator group. If you don't raise taxes and suppress them for this kind of thing, wait until they occupy all the good areas and build all the houses, and other ordinary people can live there.

where?"

Zhu San suddenly realized.

Well, building roads and bridges is definitely a government project, a good thing that benefits the country and the people, and allows businessmen to make some money; but if it is replaced by house speculation, then it will not work.

One person only lives in such a large space. If all the houses in the world are like land and are occupied by landlords, where will the common people live?

Ye Yuran proposed the concept of "rigorously needed housing", and Zhu San fully agreed.

"If you just need a house, you can indeed use the concept of building roads and bridges and provide tax rebates. But if you want to speculate on real estate, you have to raise taxes and suppress the gentry and local tycoons. For the rich, this tax is nothing.

"Since even his mother doesn't care about taxing more on his family, Zhu San can only follow the generosity.

He comes from a poor background and knows how much impact the cost of building houses will have on ordinary people's lives if they are high or low.

No matter how low the price of cement is, it cannot be lower than the houses they built with wood and rammed earth bricks, so at this time, the "cement rebate points" become particularly important.

In addition to road construction, the second point is to consider the problem of ordinary people surviving the winter.

Ye Yuran heard from the people in Qingyuan County that their place is very cold. Sometimes if it snows heavily, people may freeze to death.

Ye Yuran frowned when he heard this, and had the idea of ​​teaching the local people to build the earthen kang.

Fortunately, now that cement is available, it is much easier to use cement to build an earthen kang.

"But if we want to build a kang, we have to burn the bricks, so we don't have to worry about the kang collapsing..." Ye Yuran said, "The kang and the stove are connected together, and the people get up to light a fire and cook a meal.

, it’s also convenient to burn firewood, which is much cheaper than charcoal.”

Zhu Sanshen thought so.

Even their family slowly started using charcoal after their family became better.

Charcoal is also very particular, and it can be divided into smoked and smokeless.

At first, their family couldn't afford a smoke-free room, so they only used Zhu Qi's study room because they were afraid that the smoke would blind them and hurt his, Dabao, and Erbao's eyes.

Zhu San calculated the cost and felt that ordinary people really couldn't afford it, but firewood was much more convenient. As long as they worked harder before winter, they could always get it together.

"However, we must also prevent excessive logging. We must also make a plan for which mountains can be cut down and which mountains should be rested." Ye Yuran said, "If we don't want our descendants to grow up without trees,

It can be cut down. It is best to organize a tree planting activity every spring and take the lead in planting trees. It takes a hundred years to educate people and ten years to cultivate trees. It takes at least several years for a tree to grow. In fact, people cannot plant many trees in their lifetime.

, but he can cut down a lot of trees every year."

Zhu San: "..."

His mother is really thinking far ahead!
Chapter completed!