Dominate the Country

"Read the newspaper, read the newspaper..., the emperor inspected the Zhongyuan Agricultural College, everyone praised the work of the agricultural college, and took out a reward of 1 million yuan from the treasury..."

"Read the newspaper, read the newspaper, the emperor visited the Zhongyuan military village and visited the disabled veterans..."

"The emperor inspected Zhongyuan University and held a symposium with teachers and students..."

"The emperor held a Zhongyuan meeting in Luoyang. He pointed out that those who have the same desire from top to bottom will win. The government should proceed from reality, effectively combine improving work efficiency with strengthening integrity, effectively combine doing practical things with improving government governance, and win the trust of the people with tangible results...."

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Chen Ming chose to go out. He had long wanted to go out for a walk, not to escape the heat and cold, but to really go deep into the people and the local areas. So after the dust settled on Malay and Timor Island, he took a group of confidants, set up a ceremonial guard, entered the Zhongyuan, went straight to Shanxi Province, and then went from Shanxi Province to Guanzhong. He spent the New Year in Xi'an.

It has been a while since I visited the local areas, especially the north.

Chen Ming visited the soil and water conservation project in Shanxi Province, which has been going on for several years.

Four years have passed since a series of regulations were issued in Shanxi Province.

Is there a layer of green on the loess plateau in Shanxi Province?

Has the soil erosion situation improved? What is the real effect of the silt dam?

There is also the population migration work in Shanxi Province. In recent years, Shanxi Province has always been a key province for population migration, just like Shandong and Hebei.

The population migration in the latter two provinces is due to the large population, but in Shanxi Province, it is for the "soil and water conservation" that many people think is ridiculous. It will take many years to see the effect of large-scale mountain closure and afforestation. But the effect of four consecutive years of population migration can be seen immediately.

The number of migrants in the first year was relatively limited, and there was a surge in the second year.

By the third year, not only was the immigration system more complete and proficient, but the old surnames that had migrated before had a definite place to stay. The Immigration Bureau mobilized some immigrants to return to their hometowns to mobilize relatives, friends and neighbors, and told their stories, which moved many people.

In recent years, the population of Shanxi Province has dropped from 8 or 9 million when Chen Han founded the country to less than 8 million now. It seems that the decrease is not much, but if the newborns are counted, it is definitely amazing.

These immigrants either entered Mongolia or entered the desolate Northeast, and only a small part went to Xinjiang.

Starting from the third year of Chengtian, people from Shanxi Province no longer moved to Xinjiang. The latter were mainly people from Guanzhong, Sichuan, and some people from Henan.

Chen Ming did not have time to visit every place in Shanxi Province, so he could only focus on visiting a few prefectures and counties.

The situation in Shanxi Province made him satisfied overall.

There were small trees on many mountains, and the thickness of the trunks was obviously not something that could be faked in a short time. The planting area of ​​alfalfa is also increasing in Shanxi Province, and the scale of traditional free-range farming is shrinking rapidly in Shanxi Province. There are many stories about the latter. Fights are common, and resistance to law enforcement has also occurred, even including bloody conflicts.

Honeycomb coal has entered thousands of households in Shanxi Province, and the silt dam has also been well received by the people. This kind of arable land is easy to cultivate, has strong drought resistance, fertile soil, and high agricultural output. Taking a town in Jizhou, the westernmost part of Pingyang Prefecture, as an example, the highest yield per mu of 353 mu of dam land is more than 400 kilograms, and the average yield per mu is 260 kilograms. This number is not to mention the fertile fields in Jiangnan, even the paddy fields in Henan can be easily achieved with better care. But this per mu yield is completely a miracle in Jin Province!

When the people see the benefits, they will take the initiative to jump on it. The enthusiasm for building silt dams has greatly increased.

But there are always some people who want to get something for nothing.

After Chen Ming entered Jin Province, his continuous good mood was almost ruined.

"It's really unreasonable!"

Throwing the report in his hand to the ground heavily, Chen Ming's eyes were filled with murderous intent. There will never be a lack of these dog-skin things, and there will always be some bastards who want to take advantage of it.

The people who should not be relocated were relocated just to covet the silt dam land left by those people after they left; those who should be relocated were left behind, and they were poor and became tenants.

In order to successfully relocate those who should not be relocated, they often had to take the best A-class quota for them, which squeezed the interests of those who should have enjoyed the A-class migration quota, causing chaos in Jizhou two years ago. This matter was also covered up by Pingyang Prefecture, and the prefectural court directly killed the killer. The incident was settled as soon as it started. So much so that Chen Ming didn't even know.

"Your Majesty, calm down. Although this matter is annoying, looking at the actions of those gentry officials, no one dares to take away people's land openly. Those people who were included in the immigration list were deceived in ignorance and their silt dam land was taken away, but they were also included in the A-class list." The only miserable people were those who should have been included in the A-class but fell to the B-class or even the C-class.

But overall, there is a reward and a compensation. Compared with the Ming and Qing dynasties when the gentry officials treated the people as fish and meat, slaughtered them at will, the world is much better now.

While persuading Chen Ming, Wang Huizu secretly sighed in his heart that the world has really changed. For example, if it happened twenty years ago, those officials and gentry colluded with each other, there would be no need to include them in the best "A-class" list, and they would directly take away the silt dam in the signing room of the government office. In other words, after these silt dams showed their effects, the right to block water and build dams was no longer the ordinary people's, but could only be controlled by these gentry.

Moreover, fields such as dam land will be cut down from three to four. It would be good if only fifty acres of one hundred acres of land can be included in the list. The dam fields listed in the field register will also be recorded as the poorest fields. But this is already an achievement for an official, because this is a new field.

But what about now? The gentry and the officials also had a tacit understanding, but in order to ensure that their plan could be implemented smoothly, they had to try their best to put the shell of a first-class immigrant on their target. Even if the matter was accomplished to this extent, it still aroused dissatisfaction among the people. In addition, there were township officials jumping around, so that they were overturned. The Pingyang Prefecture Court did not tolerate adultery and punished the officials and gentry involved in the case in Jizhou neatly. In the end, the only unlucky person was Ge Er, the stupid Qingxiang official. The newly arrived Jizhou officials found an excuse and sent him to the Northeast Branch.

"Your Majesty, check dams have obvious effects, low investment, and low technical content, and are generally welcomed by the people of Shanxi Province. However, for a long time, the construction of check dams has been plagued by unmatched policies, imperfect construction and management systems, insufficient investment, and unclear property rights. "This incident that broke out in Jizhou is to a certain extent a reflection of the above problems. Unmatched policies, imperfect construction management systems, and unclear property rights will seriously affect the healthy development of engineering construction in the long run. of."

"Now that the problem has emerged, we must solve it."

To use a cliché, around the policies, mechanisms, systems and other contents of check dam construction and management, by understanding the current situation, analyzing problems, discussing countermeasures, and making suggestions, we can further improve or formulate relevant policies on check dam construction and management, and continuously promote Reform the check dam construction and management system focusing on the property rights system, establish a sound operating mechanism for check dam construction and management, fully mobilize social forces and the general public to build and protect dams, accelerate the enthusiasm of soil erosion control, and promote the development of the Loess Plateau region Soil and water conservation ecological construction.

These are all clichés, and they are all great ideals from a very high perspective, hoping that everything will develop in a good direction. In fact, it is not easy to achieve this.

But Chen Ming is such a person with a high position.

His order was passed on, and officials of all sizes in Jin Province rushed into it even if they felt it was a huge trouble.

Chen Ming's chariot stayed in Puzhou Mansion, and one step further south was Fenglingdu. He quietly waited here for the answer from Jin Province.

As a graduate of a third-rate university in his previous life, Chen Ming was really a useless person. He knew what the silt dam was like, but he had no idea what the specific situation was.

In the past four years, Jin Province has built a total of 5,500 check dams of various sizes, and 1,500 of them were destroyed by floods. The damage rate was very high, and the rate was even higher in the first two years.

However, the good return on benefits of the check dam has inspired enthusiasm throughout Shanxi Province, and floods cannot stop it.

Of the 1,500 damaged check dams, most were funded by private citizens. However, the rate of large and medium-sized check dams built with state funding was far lower than the overall rate, less than 10 %.

This matter involves some technical issues. Although the technical content of the check dam is originally very low, it still requires technology.

As for the destroyed check dams, not all the investment was destroyed. In fact, more than 90% of the destroyed check dams can be easily repaired, and the actual losses are very small.

Because the way a check dam is destroyed by floods is to open a gap in the dam body or spillway, the sediment surface behind the dam is washed back to a certain extent, and the wash rate is very slow, which does not cause too serious losses to the downstream. Because the check dam is not built near residential areas or fields, the dam body will not be seriously damaged. The main body of the dam upstream can continue to be used, and the amount of repair work on the dam body or spillway is not large.

Therefore, with so many check dams destroyed by floods, the actual losses are far less shocking than the figures indicate.

As for why the check dam was washed away, in this era when statistics has just been implemented in the work of the Chinese government and all kinds of mathematics and engineering sprouts are still growing, that is more due to design and technical reasons than to Directional issues.

The people's vision is really sharp.

From the beginning, the state promoted it, and a year or two later they started raising funds spontaneously. This is a transformation process.

When the people see the benefits and the state encourages them to strive for these benefits, they naturally jump on it quickly.

However, due to lack of experience at the beginning of construction of many check dams, the dams were built too large and the flood discharge holes were opened high, so that the accumulated water could not be discharged. Behind the dams there was a pool full of silt, which often could not be put into planting for two or three years. Some of them were spring crops planted in the dam fields, but they were washed away by the flood just as they were about to be harvested. This means that we still don’t understand the behavior of check dams and cannot effectively grasp the rules of check dams.

Generally, small check dams are built in the spring, and the mud is blocked in the autumn, so that barley can be grown in the second year; for large and medium-sized check dams, the water and mud accounts must be clearly calculated and arranged appropriately. After about two years of siltation, , it can be planted in large areas and officially put into production.

This knowledge is something that Chen Ming himself does not know. It is the result of the Shanxi Province Check Dam Management Office's own exploration in the past few years.

While the meeting of Jin Province was being held, a man who had left Jin Province for two years was riding a Mongolian horse towards Pingyang Mansion.

He wore a dog-skin hat on his head, a leather coat with yellow wool on his body, a long gun hanging behind his horse, and a double-barreled short gun on his waist. This kind of bandit-like outfit is very common in the winter in the Northeast.

This outfit is not eye-catching when entering Hebei from the Northeast, because there are many people dressed like this in Hebei, except that they are not equipped with guns. But when he entered Shanxi Province, Ge Er's outfit was eye-catching.

He was stopped by the police many times along the way, and finally he wrapped the long gun in a pocket.

Going south from Taiyuan, passing Huozhou, and about to reach Pingyang Prefecture, Ge Er thought that the tears he had shed were filled with tears again.

When he made trouble, he was prepared in his heart, knowing that he would offend the entire officialdom. Even if he overturned the person, he would inevitably be banished to the cold palace. At that time, Ge Er thought about how he would live after losing his official position. Unexpectedly, the new guys were even worse and sent him to the Northeast directly.

Being a town mayor in the north of Jilin, I got promoted, but life was really hard.

Not only were there banner bandits in the mountains, but the local people were also more arrogant than each other. Almost every household had a gun license, long guns, short guns, and even grenades.

There were also some Koreans in the local area who refused to go back to Korea and became serfs under farmers, but they refused to go.

If you bring people to force them to go, the owner will dare to shoot at you with a gun.

Because of the special environment in the Northeast, local villages have to organize militias, and some border villages even have small cannons. Although these militias have to follow the command of the town and county in general, they become the village in daily life.

They are so arrogant.

To be honest, Ge Er feels that the lives of the locals are better than those of the small landlords in his hometown.

The land in the Northeast is so fertile that it can produce oil. Although only one crop can be planted a year, the harvest is absolutely high. The winter in Northeast China is extremely cold, and there are few pests that can adapt to this harsh environment. The summer sunlight is sufficient, and as long as you are willing to work hard, you will definitely have enough to eat.

There are many mountains and forests around, and the wild animals in them are yours.

Although the immigrants here are in debt as soon as they arrive, the country does not allow them to pay land taxes in the first three years, and the grain collected belongs to them.

In the town where Ge Er is located, every household has a large amount of grain stored at home. Therefore, the grain price in Northeast China is 30% to 40% cheaper than that in Shanxi, and the rice in Northeast China is also delicious. Especially in the two years when Ge Er went there, a large number of Mongolian horses entered Northeast China. Korchin and Gorlos were defeated by the court, and many horses were seized. They were not qualified to be military horses, but they were also good livestock for civilian use.

The court promoted horse plowing in Northeast China, and with the continued promotion of small and medium-sized family farms, the cultivated land area in the town expanded three times in the year when Ge Er went there. Horse plowing is much faster than ox plowing and human plowing.

If grain is not valuable, then grow soybeans. Sign a contract directly with the purchasing department of the military-civilian company and the agricultural product company, and they will send a car to pick up the goods when they are ready for harvest.

If it were the Qing Dynasty, many families in Geer Town would have earned more than ordinary landlords.

Although the old immigrants here still have a lot of debts that have not been paid off, they eat white flour buns as much as they want, and they can eat meat every now and then, and the food in their homes is still full. If this life were put ten years ago, it would really be like a fairy life.