After talking for a while, Xu Ping asked Li again the manpower needed to build the road.

Li Xu said: "The main thing is naturally done by the Xiangjun. The road that Ducao needs to be built is a meticulous job, and it is not safe to recruit people at will. Some fragmentary tasks, such as digging soil and laying stones, and planting trees on the roadside, are used by the civilians along the road."

"Nanyang County is not bad, but there are not many households in Lushan County, I'm afraid there are not many local residents."

After hearing Xu Ping's words, Li Wei said: "Du Cao is right. Xiaguan is thinking of transferring people from nearby counties, mainly Fangcheng and Ye County. It was really insufficient, so he went to Xuzhou and Caizhou to transfer people."

Xu Ping thought about it and said, "Of course, people can be eaten. But I ask you, the start of construction is the turn of spring and summer, not the slack season in winter. If there are households who are unwilling to go to the levy season, what should I do?"

"The officials also thought that there were two ways to make up their minds. One was to collect and ask the county to take care of the local government and pick up people according to households. Just doing so would inevitably cause resentment from the people, which was inappropriate. Another was that if there were those who were unwilling to serve, they could pay to hire people to do it, and the government would just focus on the heads. In this way, only poor families would be in trouble. I am afraid that the people would criticize each other. The two methods had their own advantages and disadvantages, and they could not be settled."

Xu Ping smiled and said, "The second method is good, so use the latter one."

This is the prototype of the recruitment law in Wang Anshi's reform in history. At this time, many places have adopted it. Of course, the content of Wang Anshi's reform was not thought out out of thin air. In fact, most of the measures have been practiced. However, during the reform, there were too many intentions to make money for the country, and they were eager to achieve success. In addition, the party struggles have changed in actual implementation.

For example, the recruitment law was originally just a supplement to ordinary servants and a matter of public and private affairs. After being adopted by the reformists, it replaced the original servants with one-size-fits-all approach. In order to obtain greater political achievements faster, it finally went to extremes. For example, the lower-class households did not bear the service, and after the recruitment law was implemented, the exemption money was also distributed to the lower-class households. As a result, the burden on the people of the people was not reduced in the end, but the official wallet was only enriched.

In such an era, such an economic foundation does not have the conditions for implementing a complete recruitment law, and it is necessary to collect corvee labor. As a supplement to corvee labor, it is possible to implement a partial exemption law, which is convenient for the official and the people.

As for the servants, such as the public talks, Li Zheng and Yaqian, who are terrified of the public, they can be replaced by recruitment, and it is best to become public officials and include them in the official establishment. In fact, Wang Anshi also did this in the reform, but after doing this, he collected too much more money for exemption than the government paid, and it became a means of making money.

Not to mention this era, even if volunteer work is directly paid to the public after a thousand years, it has become a huge burden for farmers, causing the people's livelihood to wither. Xu Ping ran a lot in the countryside in his previous life and understood the subtle changes in this.

Li Wei had not been a county magistrate for a long time and had no clear understanding of these things. Seeing Xu Ping say this, he naturally agreed immediately. In fact, in his heart, he also felt that the second method was simple.

Xu Ping also said: "Use the second method, but there are a few things I want to explain to you. The first point is that in principle, all the county that recruits civil servants must be subject to this corvee service. You first work with the Bridge Road and Xiangjun Army to draw up a charter to calculate the amount of work to build the road, and spread it to each commissioner, and how many labors to do. The calculated number is 20% off, which means the number of work that each commissioner needs to do. When it comes to road construction, the public officials will work with the Bridge Road and Xiangjun Army to do it.

The work is converted into a number of work, and all the work is registered and handed over to you. The local government will be held here. The Transportation Commission will conduct an inspection. Each worker will be converted into the amount of money required by the private employed person every day. Those who do not perform corvee work will pay the money according to this number. If you are willing to work, as long as it exceeds the amount you need to do, you will pay the wages with the local government. Remember, people who do not serve are not allowed to hire people themselves, otherwise they will be fined twice as soon as they find out."

Li Xu asked strangely: "Why aren't you allowed to hire people by yourself? We just need to just click on the heads and some people are working, and it's a matter of public and private affairs. If the official hires people, there will be more trouble."

Yang Gao also said: "Ducao, the officials also think that such a waste of money is unnecessary, right?"

Xu Ping shook his head: "No, it's very necessary. Don't be afraid of trouble for the government. The public officials are not willing to work hard and just resign and go home, and recruit people again. If the government just needs the heads, do you know how this person was hired? To make it clear, most of the people who come here will not get any money at all. For example, the wealthy families promised to let them rent good land next year, or hire cattle at home cheaply during the busy farming period, and many farmers went there happily. When things happened, they were a mess. You thought you had saved your efforts when building roads, but you didn't know that countless seeds of trouble had been planted."

Most farmers who farm in rural areas live in nearby villages all their lives. They have limited knowledge and naturally have short-sighted eyes, and are easily deceived by wealthy families. When they go to their homes, they will lend you my cows to you for use in the next year, or the water from my canal can be used by you, or they will be able to help you work happily. As a result, when the work is finished, others will turn against each other, who will you ask for? The most unstoppable is that this kind of scam can be repeated again and again, and there are always people who are willing to be deceived.

It’s not that the farmers are too stupid, but that their living environment is so monotonous and the pressure of life is so great. They are willing to use all their strength to exchange for a vague and vague hope. If they don’t want them to be fooled, then don’t let them trade with wealthy families.

The more indulgent the government is to the countryside, the more serious the burden the wealthy families pass on to the bottom, and this problem is unsolvable.

Seeing that Li Wei and Yang Gao still didn't understand, Xu Ping said: "This time, I will do what I said. Li Wei, remember that you must do everything yourself and ask yourself about the smallest things. If you have any questions, think more and ask more, it will be of great benefit to your future career. When it comes, write me a letter."

Li Wei knew that it was Xu Ping who was teaching him how to do things, so he hurriedly agreed.

Xu Ping said again: "I have another saying to you. When dealing with the people who farm in the countryside, try not to collect money from them no matter when the time comes. The money from the upper-class households can be collected, but the middle-class households must not be collected directly. They would rather collect things from them and sell them to exchange money for money than to collect money from them. These families may have the strength or have some local products, but they cannot exchange it for money. The people who farm in the countryside want to exchange it.
Chapter completed!