Valley Emperor

Vol 2 Chapter 1980: What does no one grow and eat?

The income levels and living expenses in many parts of the empire are not the same, and it is difficult to have a unified standard.

At present, the Songjiang Prefecture area in the Tang Empire is taken as an example.

Basically, if the per capita annual income is less than ten yuan, then it belongs to a state of extreme poverty, and it is basically impossible to maintain a living, and people will starve to death.

If the per capita annual income reaches 20 yuan, this is a relatively ordinary life, and you can live, but the quality of life is not as good as that.

If the per capita income reaches 60 yuan, then it will be different, then you can barely live a decent life.

If the per capita income reaches more than 100 yuan, then you can live a very casual life.

In Songjiang Prefecture, generally speaking, an ordinary worker without special skills earns only about 50 yuan per year. If he is only a bachelor, his life is not bad.

But if he has a family and can only rely on his income, then the family life will be more miserable. If there are more family members, then there is basically no way to support the family. The kind of dead people.

Therefore, low-income families generally need other family members to go out to work or do other handicrafts to help the family.

For example, if the hostess also enters a textile factory as a female worker or works in a store, then she can also earn an annual salary of between 30 and 50 yuan per year.

Adding up the husband and wife, the annual income of the husband and wife can probably reach between 80 yuan and 100 yuan, and the average per capita family is about 20 yuan.

Roughly speaking, in Songjiang Prefecture, a family of five people with an annual income of 100 Tang Yuan would have to spend about 17 or 18 Yuan for rent, water, electricity, etc., about 50 Yuan for food and other related expenses, and more than 10 Yuan for clothes. Yuan, children's education costs are almost ten yuan.

And such low-income families with such annual income and expenses account for the majority of the population in the big cities of Datang, and at least 50% of the families in Songjiang House are such families.

Such a family must have two family members to work and earn money, and one less is equivalent to half the sky.

In an economically developed place like Songjiang Prefecture, if you want to live a decent life, a standard family of five must have an annual income of at least 300 Tang Yuan or more, that is, more than 60 Yuan per capita.

As long as the family has such an annual income, one can live in a single-family building in a suburban community or a better apartment in the city. The male owner wears a decent fine woolen business suit or silk Hanfu formal suit and rides a public carriage to work. Occasionally, he can It's a luxury to call a taxi.

Children can get primary and secondary education, and daily expenses are maintained at a relatively decent level. Occasionally, they can go to a restaurant to have a big meal, and they can take their family members to travel to the countryside during holidays.

This is more in line with people's definition of a decent life, and this group is also the middle class in the Tang society.

According to the standards of Songjiang Prefecture, if we want to achieve the oval structure of population income proposed by Li Xuan, we need to make most of the standard five-population families achieve an annual income of more than 300 yuan.

I have to say, this is very difficult.

But even if it is difficult, since Li Xuan, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, has proposed it, a group of cabinet ministers can only think hard to see how to achieve it.

After Li Xuan threw out this concept, he did not expect to meet this standard immediately. He just put forward such a goal, and he did not say that too many people would become middle-class families in a short period of time.

He just put forward a small goal. In the next five years, the proportion of middle-income families will account for more than 20% of all families.

Li Xuan proposed an oval structure, and after putting forward a small goal, he just ignored these ministers and left on his own.

As soon as the Son of Heaven left, the meeting room became lively in an instant. When the Son of Heaven was there before, everyone didn't say anything, but now, everyone has spoken.

"This is too difficult. The income of a family of five people reaches 300 yuan. Even if the husband and wife work at the same time, it also means that each of them has an income of 150 yuan, which is a monthly salary of 12 or 3 yuan. Now, even if this salary is placed on the side of many companies, it is the income of low-level technical personnel or middle management personnel!"

"People with such income, even in the relatively high-income steel industry, in a steel factory with a thousand employees, will never exceed a hundred people!"

"If it is in other industries, this number will be even lower!"

"In industries with many low-income groups, such as the catering industry and service industry, not to mention the salary of more than ten yuan, it is good to have the minimum wage. Many illegal businesses don't even pay the minimum salary!"

"Twenty percent of the target, this is not easy to do!"

When everyone said these words, Chen Lifu opened his mouth and said: "Everyone, the population of the city is not large, no matter how hard we try to improve, we will definitely not be able to achieve this goal. At present, 80% of the population of our empire belongs to agriculture. Except for a very small number of them, most of them belong to the low-income group, if we want to increase the proportion of the middle-income group, the only way is to appropriately increase the income of the agricultural population!"

However, someone else said: "Can we expand the scale of urbanization? We can guide more rural people to work in cities. At present, our industry and commerce are still developing continuously, and we can maintain more industrial and commercial population!"

Chen Lifu, however, glanced at the other party, and then said, "Everyone went to work to make money. Who is going to farm, and what does no one eat?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone shut up!

Although Chen Lifu has been in the imperial study for several years, although he still can't sit firmly in the top spot of the imperial study, who is Chen Lifu, and the fame he has created from his political career is not a false name~www.wuxiaspot.com~Nowadays In the cabinet, he has firmly established the posture of the first person in the cabinet.

The other three ministers on duty in the imperial study in the cabinet have already been obediently cleaned up by him.

However, there are not only the cabinet members in the imperial study room, but also other people. The secretariat's bachelor, the president of the inspectorate, and the president of the Grand Court belong to the civil service system, but they have nothing to do with the cabinet.

As for the military, not to mention, even Liu Bagou back then was dissatisfied, let alone Chen Lifu today.

So Chen Lifu is far from being too strong in the imperial study, but inside the cabinet, he has enough strength and prestige.

The meeting held by the Son of Heaven today is also a meeting of the imperial cabinet. All the ministers of the cabinet attended the meeting, but there were no other institutions or soldiers.

So at this time, when Chen Lifu spoke, it was to make others shut up obediently.

Don't shut up. Chen Lifu's question is not easy to answer.

In fact, there are many ways to deal with Chen Lifu's problem, but he can't talk nonsense, it will easily cast a shadow on his career.

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