The Red Mansions

Chapter 171 The Eighteenth Workshop in Beijing, Wang Xifeng Visits the City Patrol Office

Patrol Office.

The steward of the Xue family handed Jia Yun a piece of paper, cupped his hands and said, "My lord, according to your instructions, I will follow the example of the eighteen workshops in Jinling and plan to build eighteen large workshops in Xiaoshitan first to house refugees."

Jia Yun took the paper and looked at it, and saw the name of the workshop and the products to be made written on it.

Names include: Tofu Workshop, Xiliu Workshop, Carpentry Workshop, Copper Workshop, Iron Workshop, Silver Workshop, Leather Workshop, Felt Workshop, Qinhua Workshop, Paper Workshop, Brick and Tile Workshop, Printing and Dyeing Workshop, Brewing Workshop, Sugar Workshop , incense workshop, clothing workshop, oil press workshop, printing workshop.

Although the names are all named after products, a workshop does not only produce one product.

For example, tofu workshops not only produce tofu, but also produce food related to soy products, such as shredded tofu, dried tofu, soy milk, tofu brain, yuba, bean sprouts, tempeh, fermented bean curd, tempeh, etc.

Xiliufang not only produces wicker weaving products, but also produces bamboo weaving, rattan weaving, straw weaving, brown weaving, hemp weaving and so on.

Including floor mats, lying mats, cushions, cushions, various flower baskets, vegetable baskets, fruit baskets, pot covers, boxes, hammocks, fruit plates, door curtains, baskets, lampshades, hanging screens, screens, woven crafts in the shape of figures and animals, etc.

Jia Yun's thinking is very simple. It is better to teach people how to fish than to give them fish. If they want to stabilize the refugees, they must learn a craft.

Of course, because the workshops he asked the Xue family to open all use assembly line operations. If they really want to learn the craft, they need their own wit and willingness to specialize in it. Otherwise, it will not be easy to learn the craft.

With so many workshops, he is not afraid that the products will not be sold.

Now that the Queen Mother is on her birthday, there are a lot of supplies that need to be purchased. Even if Jia Yun works overtime to produce, the court can still afford it, provided the quality is good.

Therefore, Jia Yun planned to let the steward of Xue's family strictly control the quality from the beginning, so as to spread the reputation of Shibafang in the capital and form brand benefits. Naturally, there will be no worries about sales in the future.

After Jia Yun read it, she handed the paper back to Xue's housekeeper, and said: "Okay, just these workshops will start construction tomorrow, and all the people are needed to go to the refugee camp to recruit. First, recruit those who have clean household registrations and have crafts. .”

"One more thing to pay attention to. At the beginning, each family will only recruit one person at most. First solve their survival problems, and then talk about development."

After the steward saluted and retreated, Jia Yun turned around and asked Master Huang: "How many people need to be recruited in the guild halls, hotels, restaurants, teahouses, shops, wharves, workshops, mines, temples, monasteries, etc. in the capital?"

"My lord, there are more than 3000 people." Master Huang clasped his hands and replied.

Jia Yun nodded with a smile and said, "This can solve the employment of some refugees. Let us inform the Civil Affairs and Statistics Office of Wucheng to ask them to go to the refugee camps to recruit people according to the needs of each shop."

The imperial court has a set of measures to properly resettle the refugees who have been fleeing for a long time.

On the one hand, it is to use favorable conditions to attract refugees to return to their hometowns to buy properties.

Some places stipulate that after the refugees return to their hometowns, the government is responsible for regulating the return of the houses and land to the refugees, reducing the original debts owed, and exempting the fleeing households from two-year labor.

On the other hand, refugees who do not want to return to their hometowns should resettle them nearby, arrange land for them, and reduce or exempt taxes.

Refugees wandering and living without a fixed place often become the chief culprit of disturbing the law and order in various places.

Therefore, in order to deal with the refugee problem, the imperial court implemented a series of household registration management systems to legally regulate the management of refugees.

Formulate the household post system, implement lijia management, and use yellow books to clarify the number of people in various places.

Inspection departments have been set up in various places to monitor the flow of refugees by means of road guides and store calendar registration.

In addition to using administrative means, there are also economic means.

For example, in response to frequent natural disasters, in order to stabilize people's hearts and social order, the imperial court built a large number of permanent warehouses, reserve warehouses, and righteous warehouses.

In a famine year, sell at a fair price, stabilize prices, open warehouses for disaster relief, and ensure that some people who are unable to work will not starve to death in a famine year.

In addition, the method of work-for-relief is adopted. The government presides over the construction of many water conservancy facilities, and the government supervises the construction of the people. The victims are attached to the projects, so that they have things to do and food to eat, which can effectively stabilize the social order.

Of course, the main idea of ​​the government in managing refugees is to repatriate them to their original places.

However, as cruel officials ran rampant in the village and taxes were too heavy, the refugees did not want to return to the village, and there were irreconcilable conflicts with the government, and some conflicts even broke out.

In addition, the annexation of land under the leadership of the nobles has become more and more serious, causing many people to be homeless, and the population explosion has led to a large relative surplus population, which has increased the number of refugees.

After Jia Yun learned about the situation of the refugees, combined with the policies of the imperial court, she adopted various means to resettle the refugees.

One is to repatriate, repatriate those who can be repatriated as much as possible. Since this method is useful, it is natural to use it.

The second is to find ways to increase employment. The government can build rivers and other water conservancy projects to resettle some refugees.

At the same time, Jia Yun asked Xue's family to trade roads and build a large number of handicraft workshops on the outskirts of the capital to solve the employment problem of a considerable number of refugees.

In addition, the Bingmasi Wucheng Civil Affairs and Statistics Office acted as an intermediary to count the shops and halls in the capital that need to recruit workers, and give priority to resettling some refugees.

The third is to issue temporary residence permits to refugees who have household registration but cannot return to their hometowns to solve the household registration problem.

Registered households Qimin, through the Lijia household registration system, let them supervise each other, so as not to cause accidents, which will cause the government to have no way to track and investigate.

After the registration of household registration and Qimin, those who no longer have household registration or road guides will be reformed through labor.

The fourth is to adopt orphans, widows, old, weak, poor, sick, and dead refugees through nursing homes, and the shelters will also provide certain assistance, including sending medicines, funding, coordinating returning home, etc., and arranging burials on the grounds of death.

For the grass-roots management and control of refugees, a strategy of government-civilian coordination, control and assistance is adopted, and both kindness and strength are applied to deal with refugees in different situations in an all-round and multi-level manner.

Because of Jia Yun's multi-pronged approach, the number of refugees on the streets of the capital is decreasing at the speed of the naked eye.

With fewer refugees, the law and order has naturally improved a lot.

At the same time, after the reform of the military and horse department, various departments jointly enforced the law, which also made the capital clean much better.

Not to mention a new look, but the problems of garbage disposal and defecation have been fundamentally improved.

Don't underestimate these two problems, the capital city is notoriously dirty.

Whenever it rains, the streets are filled with the smell of sewage and feces, even outside the palace, you can still smell the smell of urine.

For this reason, some officials wrote poems to denounce it, but no one has really dealt with this issue.

Jia Yun's principle is to change as much as possible under the existing conditions. As for further changes in the environmental sanitation of the capital, we will have to look at it in the future.

While dealing with official business, the yamen servant came in to report that the Second Mistress Lian from Rongguo Mansion had come to visit.

Jia Yun was a little surprised, thinking, why did Wang Xifeng come to the yamen when he had nothing to do?
So he quickly ordered the yamen servant to take him to the tea room next door to talk.

Outside the imperial censor's office, Wang Xifeng took Ping'er to look at the majestic yamen of the official office and the officials coming in and out, feeling a little nervous unconsciously.

If you say that she is a woman from a Daoist family, although she used to act outrageously, relying on the power of the Wang family, and helped others to fight many lawsuits, but in fact she seldom came to the government.

Especially those patrolmen standing guard at the Yamen of the Public Office, all of them were tall and burly, with cold eyes, not only nervous, but also a little scared.

Ping'er next to her was even more timid than her. She pulled Wang Xifeng's clothes and whispered:
"Grandma, you shouldn't have come here. Look what kind of place this is, everyone is so vicious and scary!"

Wang Xifeng braced himself for discomfort, bit the bullet, and said duplicity:

"As long as you are timid, no matter how fierce these people are, they are all under Brother Yun's subordinates. How dare they disrespect us?"

When the yamen servant who went to report came out, he bowed his head and said that he would lead Wang Xifeng and the others in, the two secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

The two held their breath all the way, not daring to speak.

A place like the yamen is a very serious place, and once people enter, they are naturally affected.

After the two were brought to the tea room, the yamen servant asked them to wait for a while, and then withdrew.

"Huh..." Ping'er let out a long breath, his eyes sparkled, and he said excitedly: "I didn't expect Brother Yun to be an official here, it's incredible!"

Wang Xifeng smiled and said, "What is this? There are five censor offices in the southeast and northwest, that is to say, Brother Yun has five offices, isn't it amazing?"

"Awesome!" Ping'er nodded, her little face was flushed, and she said excitedly: "This is what a man can do. Brother Yun is much better than Second Master Lian!"

Wang Xifeng nodded and said: "Look, after Brother Yun becomes a Jinshi in the future, he will be so majestic!"

Ping'er hummed, and wanted to see Jia Yun as soon as possible, and what she wanted most at the moment was to hug him.

Just thinking about it, Jia Yun came in with a smile.

Seeing that he was wearing a unicorn suit, Wang Xifeng was as gentle as jade but still domineering and majestic, her heart felt hot, she bit her lips and went forward to salute: "The daughter of the people has seen the elder!"

Jia Yun laughed loudly. After closing the door, she turned around and hugged Wang Xifeng in her arms. Smelling her body fragrance, she whispered, "You are the only one who knows how to play. Why did you suddenly come to the Yamen to look for me today?"

As he spoke, he saw Ping'er staring at him with fiery eyes again, so he beckoned.

Ping'er smiled with a small mouth, and threw herself into his arms like a baby swallow returning to its nest, holding him tightly, extremely excited.

Jia Yun smiled, pecked her, and heard Wang Xifeng say: "You have sealed off my shop, I went to your house, but you are not here, that's why I came to the Yamen to look for you."

Jia Yun took the two of them to the tea table and sat down, glanced at Wang Xifeng and said, "Have you not received the notice from the military commander?"

"I received it, but I didn't pay attention to it. How can I know it's serious?" Wang Xifeng complained, "Also, I didn't know that you were in charge of the soldiers and horses. If I knew, I would buy a few tanks and put them at the door. "

Jia Yun nodded with a smile and said, "It's all a trivial matter, no matter what, you can take my license later and take it to the military and horse department to close the case, but you still have to pay some fines, you can't make people work for nothing, right? ?”

(End of this chapter)