Kuang Yihe's rank is a rank of the third rank and one provincial governor. His annual salary is 1,200 shi and 500 taels of silver. As the left governor of Sichuan, he can receive a subsidy from Sichuan Province every year, which is about 300 taels of silver.

If you add this, it is quite objective.

Eight hundred taels of silver, one thousand two hundred stones of grain, two people in the family, seven wives and concubines, nine children, and Kuang Yi and himself were nineteen.

Can't support it?

Obviously not, but looking at the current prices in Sichuan, you can eat enough and eat well, but when it comes to quality of life, it is obviously impossible to be very high.

That's why Kuang Yihe just laughed at himself as "there is a loss of personal morality". When he was young, he married several concubines, which made him difficult now and live a poor life, but he couldn't say a good word.

"After returning farmland, a large number of relocated households were born in Sichuan. Among these relocated households, ordinary people accounted for more than 90%. They actually had little impact on the rising prices in Chengdu."

Kuang Yihe did not talk much about his own financial difficulties, but instead talked about the problem from another perspective: "But there is still about 10% of the number, which is a landlord with a large amount of land.

Most of these landlords are county and township levels, and serve as village chiefs of clan surnames, clan elders and other clans, or have served as first-level grain chiefs in various prefectures for many years. The few of them hold three to five hundred acres of land, and the most have thousands to ten thousand acres of acres.

This group of people used to rely on producing and selling grain to survive. With the decline in grain prices, their income has not been very objective. However, this time they returned to farmland, and they turned into wealthy people with hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars.

In Chengdu, I bought whatever I saw. I heard that there was a landlord named Jia who bought fruits and pastries from home in one day, and it took several trucks of them to fill them. There were so many that they could not finish eating and feed them to the kittens and dogs at home.

Other foods are also high, and edible supplies such as chicken, duck, fish, meat, eggs, and milk are eaten so high that they are rich by returning to farmland.

The tea used by this official at home today is 2 taels of silver per kilogram before returning to farmland. Now, 18 taels of silver!"

Everyone was shocked and was startled by the numbers in Kuang Yihe's mouth.

"Not to mention that children need to study when they grow up, I have to find a teacher for them and hire a private school."

Speaking of this, Kuang Yihe sighed.

"There are schools in Chengdu, but the court clearly decrees that children of officials above the fifth rank are prohibited from enrolling in school, and the quota must be given to ordinary people and children of grassroots officials who cannot obtain knowledge and have no way to learn. This official cannot take the lead in violating this rule, so this is also a considerable expense."

In this way, using Kuang Yihe's salary to support the whole family's food and drink, the children's schooling can barely drink such tea.

"The vassal state is honest and dedicated to the public, and is really a role model for us."

Everyone thought that Kuang Yihe was crying poor and miserable, in exchange for a good official voice, so they all spoke good words.

However, Kuang Yihe shook his head and said, "I am not putting gold and jade on my face, saying that I am listening to my colleagues, nor do I plan to use your mouth to promote how honest and poor my official is.

Instead, I use my own personal life to let you reflect on how to control and guide the current soaring price in Sichuan. I also hope that you can spend more time considering calming prices, rather than promoting the soaring price."

Everyone was speechless and knew in their hearts where Kuang Yi and the last sentence "promoting the soaring price" were pointing.

The rise in Chengdu's prices has nothing to do with their group of bureaucrats here.

Maybe their salary is not enough to make them spend money when prices are soaring, but how can they spend money on their own?

If you don’t spend money, what kind of official can you call me?

As long as you can find a suitable excuse to leave the money out of the public account, who will still feel sorry for spending the money?

If you can't eat at home, just go to the restaurant and go to the canteen of the provincial government office. If you want to eat and drink, there is no reason why you can't buy it or not.

The emperor is not too hungry for soldiers. It is an old saying that Jianwen cannot let the horse run away again, and he is unwilling to give the horse grass. The money for officials to eat during their office work is not the reason why officials pay for themselves.

"We should be glad that a few months ago, the central government allocated tens of millions of stones of grain into Sichuan, which ensured that the grain prices in Sichuan Province have not risen so far. Otherwise, if the grain prices soar, it would be that the province will be deteriorating."

When Kuang Yihe said this, everyone sighed in their hearts.

I thought it was the Chinese New Year, and a group of people sat together to drink, chat, and talk about the elegant things about snow, moon, and flowers. Who could have thought about it? Or talk about work and government affairs.

Can't officials have a little private life?

Kuang Yi and such a top leader are too illegitimate.

"I personally agree with Fantai's words."

At this time, Chengdu Prime Minister Qian Anping responded and expressed his views on the price issues mentioned by Kuang Yi and the just mentioned.

"I wonder if you have noticed the wine price in Chengdu recently."

Zuo Guanzheng mentioned: "I heard a little bit that the price of wine is high first and then low. In just a few months, many large and small wineries have emerged in Chengdu."

"I understand this more clearly. Let me tell you about it."

Qian Anping smiled and said, "There is a Lijia Village outside Chengdu City. After retiring farmland, this village did not say that the whole village entered the city to make a living. What did it do?

They raised funds in the whole village and set up a large winery at the site of their village. The Jiannanchun, which was the most popular one some time ago.

It happened to catch the price of wine soared and made a lot of money.

Now, when other returning farmers saw that brewing wine could make money, they rushed to the wine industry, which led to the price of wine in Chengdu being high first and then low."

The chief official in charge of business in Sichuan understood at this time and followed him and said.

"What Master Qian said is that the reason why prices in Chengdu are rising at the moment is because the people only consume but do not produce. As long as production is achieved, prices will naturally drop."

"That's right."

Qian Anping nodded and then said, "There is another point, that is, the people are originally farmers, they have no education and only know how to farm. Even if they retire and have money in their hands, they don't know how to use it.

Nowadays, all prices in Chengdu are rising, so why no one is going to do it?

It is because of the lack of leaders that the people like to follow blindly. When they see others making money by making wine, they go to make wine, but no one sees it. Now, it can make money by cultivating fruit trees, and raising chickens and ducks. Learning skills, building a pastry shop or a garment shop can make money.

In this way, will the prices soar?

Your Majesty has left a holy word and wrote that the ignorance of the people is not true ignorance, but because they lack the courage to accept failure and the ability to bear the risks to life after failure.

Therefore, the people often like to see others making money first before they can rush to do the same thing. A small number of those who are brave enough to do the first one. Your Majesty ordered this group or individual to be the "first one to eat the crab" and make money.

Chengdu Prefecture, Sichuan Provincial Administration and the General Office, is a political institution in Sichuan. You and the officials and the vassal states are the leaders of the people, not those businessmen.

Since we know that prices are rising because there is only consumption but no production, why don’t we guide the people to produce? Which materials are rising or in short supply, we will guide the people to produce what materials, look at the problems broadly and solve them targetedly."

A whole class of words is full of colors.

Qian Anping's highlights and opinions made everyone look at him with admiration. Even Kuang Yihe nodded frequently. He never thought that Qian Anping's current economic level is not low.

"But what if you don't make money?"

Some people timidly raised questions: "If the people are limited in their homes, if they engage in a certain production, but there are risks in the production process, resulting in unsatisfactory output and unsatisfactory market, which makes it impossible to sell. Wouldn't it be difficult to maintain life?"

"The government office will come forward to purchase or provide subsidy policies to encourage private self-operation development and promote rapid production conversion for returning farmland households."

Qian Anping threw out a bombshell: "Or, the yamen will provide special funds and we will engage in production. As long as we make money, the people will flock to it. Whether it is a family workshop or a cluster workshop like Lijia Village, the people must have a livelihood to do.

In addition, the Ministry of Industry sent a specialist to the Zigong Salt Well Supervision Department. In recent months, a large number of people have been recruiting people to clear out the external difficulties around Zigong Salt Well. It is progressing rapidly. I believe that the expansion of production this year will be put on the agenda. We don’t worry about the issue of salt. The remaining daily necessities, seasonings, ingredients, including onions, ginger, garlic, spicy and other items can be produced and planted.

In this way, within three years, Sichuan will achieve self-sufficiency, and some of the items that have no output can be supported by other provinces, but the more we produce can also be sold to other provinces, and the price will be reduced.

The people have their own livelihoods and the prices are low. Is it still difficult to achieve what Your Majesty wants to see, a prosperous scene of food and clothing, a good meal, a stable and comfortable life?"

Qian Anping's words about Zhu Yunwen were published in the newspaper before the end of the year. Regarding the development and construction of people's livelihood in various provinces, Zhu Yunwen and the cabinet formulated several hierarchical indicators.

The most basic thing is to eat and wear warmth.

Don't be hungry or frozen.

This is the easiest to achieve. There are people in India, Siam, Jiaozhi, and the Ming Dynasty, including the southwest and northwest, starve to death. It would be impossible to kill the mouth unless you beat it to death and don’t eat it.

The second layer is to eat with taste and wear with clothes.

The prices of seasonings such as salt, oil, sauce, vinegar, onion, ginger, garlic, and spicy are popular and cheaper.

Famous dishes produced by prominent characteristics such as big oil, big meat, and big spicy food are no longer luxurious dishes that are exclusively for the powerful, but are delicious dishes that the people can cook at home.

If you wear clothes, it means that the people can wear the clothes they want to wear different styles and materials according to different seasons, different weather, or even different occasions. There is no longer a few families in Yunnan, Shaanxi and Gansu, wearing one piece of clothing. Whoever goes out, the others will be bare at home.

At this level, only a few prefectures such as Quanzhou and Hangzhou have been realized.

The third floor is stable and comfortable.

A brief introduction to two words: "well-off".

Low cost of living, comfortable material living environment, people break away from the original farming system, obtain money through other production methods, and purchase all the materials needed for life, which can not only achieve the second point, but also have a balance every year.

This is called stability and comfort. At this level, the provincial government that has not yet been realized in the Ming Dynasty.

The fourth level is the rich spiritual life.

In Zhu Yunwen's view, this also belongs to the third level, because it belongs to the derivative field of the third level and is connected to the third level.

After the physiological quality of life has stabilized, the people have begun to have a cultural level, not to mention the level, but they are no longer satisfied with it, just eating well and dressing well. They also like to evaluate the national policy and scolding Emperor Zhu Yunwen for not being good or not.

Anyway, as long as the people are in the eyes of them, there is nothing better than them, even if the spiritual life is in the threshold.

Then, in your spare time, you listen to stories, opera lyrics and cards, and occasionally go shopping in brothels. Instead of just doing physical exercises, you start to seek psychological comfort, find a place that can tell you the unsatisfactory in your daily life, or the joke-like Internet suppression time, like to complain without any illness, say a few words like "I'm sorry for being born as a human being."

Then the anger ejaculation spurted the sky and the earth, even if it enriched the spiritual life.

Because spiritual life itself is not entirely positive energy.

Negative energy, hostility and other narrow-mindedness that cannot be seen directly are all inherent in the human spirit. These negative emotions and positive emotions are not distinguished from high or low.

After all, people are not set up programs.

When the people begin to pursue a rich spiritual life, even if they reach the top, there is no room for higher levels of progress in the social level.

What else can you pursue and make progress after physiology and psychology?

Perhaps only the so-called exploration of unknown starry sky is left. I look at the stars with an astronomical telescope, thinking about whether there are other living beings besides the earth.
To be continued...