Let’s start from Lingpeng Village.
Li Zhen and Xun Shifei settled down. The government of Xiping County also began to send people to Lingpeng Village to help the villagers open up wasteland and cultivate land.
What should we do if there is no labor force in Lingpeng Village
Xun Shifei made a decision, that is, government officials and idle soldiers would help these poor old people farm. Help with farm work and housework.
This requirement will naturally cause dissatisfaction among many grassroots personnel.
But looking back, Xun Shifei wrote out a detailed plan and reported it to Du Taiping.
Du Taiping submitted it to the entire Jiuzhou Party for reading. Passed the review unexpectedly.
His suggestion was that the new Kyushu government should carry out a comprehensive reform and propose a policy of going to the countryside.
All prospective civil servants who pass the examination and interview must go to the countryside for at least one year of training. During this period, public servants must help poor people with work and gain a good reputation.
After completing the training in the countryside, the local village will issue a certificate stating whether the civil servant performed well during the training period. If you perform well, you have a great chance of being assigned to an important government office. If you don't perform well, you may go to a place where there are few prospects for promotion.
If you perform badly, you can be fired directly and no longer be recruited.
If this person is in the countryside, he can even lead the whole village to a new level and overfulfill the task. It is very likely to rise from the ground. It is possible to gain a position of authority upon completion of exercise.
Link the future of state civil servants with rural life. You help me and I help you. Doesn’t this completely solve the problem of the poor being too poor and the rich being too rich
Even if there is no way to solve it.
But it can allow poor mountain villages to be led by knowledgeable and knowledgeable quasi-public servants to spread new knowledge and new technologies. This is also beneficial without any harm.
Li Zhen was a little amazed at the idea proposed by Xun Shifei. He was vaguely aware of this idea, having heard it mentioned by Zhang Zhi before. But I didn't expect Xun Shifei to bring it up. He immediately looked at Xun Shifei with admiration.
This is not a person who only plays tricks and tricks. He has dreams, wants to achieve great ambitions, and wants to do something practical for the people.
Although Xun Shifei was very cold-blooded towards his family before, now that he is in this position, the most important thing is love. Obviously, Xun Shifei did it.
After discussions at three conferences of the Jiuzhou Party, Xun Shifei's idea was finalized, and was continuously discussed during the meetings, and was constantly improved and supplemented by the top leaders of the Jiuzhou Party.
A month later, the new Kyushu government issued comprehensive new policy details.
As soon as this detail came out, some people were happy and some were worried.
It is the disciples from poor families who are happy, because if those disciples from poor families want to enter the officialdom in the future, it will be difficult for them to stand out step by step without power in their families. It's hard to get into a leadership position.
But once the details come out, as long as you are really talented and have ideas. If the poor place you were placed in is brought into prosperity, then you can rise from the ground. At least it will save several years of struggle.
It is the powerful people in the family who are worried.
For example, for the children of some high-ranking officials, under normal procedures, the road for these second generations is paved. But now that more quasi-civil servants are required to go to the countryside for training, this is completely disrupted.
If it's a mule or a horse, it has to be pulled out and run around. Whether you are a talented person or not will become a touchstone when you are sent to the countryside. If you perform well, you can only be considered qualified and enter the position normally, but this will waste several years. Only if you perform extremely well can you go further after finishing the exercise. And this cannot be faked.
Someone must have conducted the inspection and assessment.
Since the country has introduced such a policy, it must have been based on fraud. No matter how powerful you are, as long as you are not a high-ranking official in Beijing, can you still bribe the examiners
Then again, there are only a few children of high-ranking officials in Beijing and they cannot affect the overall situation. So what if you open a back door for someone
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Li Zhen did not stay in Lingpeng Village for too long. He took the children entrusted to him by the two old people, and went to other villages for inspection with people from the Kyushu Academy of Sciences and some other officials.
I read a lot and thought a lot.
Li Zhen said: "The biggest problem in Xizhou is actually the lack of labor force."
Jia Liping sighed: "Yes. Everyone thinks that Xizhou is poor for various reasons. In fact, the fundamental reason is that there is a small labor force. The labor force has gone to other states to make a living, and those who remain are the elderly and children. If this continues for a long time, naturally, It's a vicious cycle, getting poorer and poorer. Without on-the-spot investigation, who would have thought of the reason? Maybe local parents and officials in Xizhou don't know why they are poor, right?"
"The labor force is small. If this problem is not solved. Just relying on those civil servants who will go to the countryside in the future will only be a drop in the bucket. No matter how talented a person is, he is only one person and cannot do the work of the whole village. ?You’ll be exhausted by then.”
"But Master Li, what else can we do? Are all the laborers who have left Xizhou forced to be summoned back? This is impossible, and it is the same in every state. Compulsory summons alone will not work. Even if corresponding measures are issued The policy to encourage people to return to their hometowns may not be effective.”
Li Zhen stood on the top of the mountain, overlooking the wasteland below and the scattered houses: "So, we must attack on both sides."
“How to do both?”
"While encouraging the labor force to return home, we must also solve the labor problem from another aspect."
"Then how to solve the labor problem?"
“Machines replace labor.”
Jia Liping's eyes lit up: "Master Li means to develop a farming machine with mechanical power?"
Li Zhen nodded: "Science is the primary productive force. It is wrong to always look to the higher and higher sky. Looking down, the earth under our feet also needs us. Science must not only be used at the national level, but also at the high end. It must be used in the daily life of civilians. It’s time to start research and development of agricultural machinery. Even Xun Shifei can come up with the policy of civil servants going to the countryside for training. How can the Kyushu Academy of Sciences, which has always been committed to serving mankind, lag behind others?"
Jia Liping thought for a long time: "When does Master Li think it will start?"
Li Zhen muttered: "Xizhou doesn't need us anymore. Xun Shifei has taken it seriously this time. He must care more about the promotion of hybrid rice than I do. Just act vigorously and resolutely."
Boss Peng stared at his little eyes and asked: "Uncle Li, are we leaving?"
Peng Laoer clenched his fists and asked with a stern look on his face: "We are going to Laoshan."
Li Zhen smiled and patted the heads of the two dolls: "Yes. Do you want to go?"
"think!"
"Why do you think so?"
"My grandfather said that Laoshan is a place where talents come from. My grandfather also said that I am a talent."
"Grandpa also said that I am also a talented person. Talented people must go to the Kyushu Academy of Sciences."
“…”
Li Zhen and Jia Liping looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.
(End of chapter)