Chapter 400 I am a human, not a god

Three days later, the provincial government transported a large number of Jiangdong plows, hoes, and oxen and distributed them to various towns and villages.

Officials from various departments went to the countryside and distributed farm tools to farmers as quickly as possible.

If you have no money, you can pay in full or partially, write an IOU, and repay it after six months or a year.

The officials were not only responsible for distributing farm tools, but also for supervising farmers to cultivate the land well and collecting debts on time.

We had to work with full concentration, and it fell on everyone, almost one person to take care of one or two villages.

The pressure was enormous and for the first time, they hated being an official. Of course, they were just clerks and could not be considered officials.

If you want a horse to run fast, you naturally have to feed it enough grass.

In order to drive these officials to work, not only was the workload increased, but their salaries were also adjusted.

The current salary is a basic salary, plus performance bonus, travel allowance, summer high temperature allowance (winter fire fee), etc.

These treatments were only enjoyed by officials in the imperial court and wealthy localities, but Su Ying also used them on these officials.

The prerequisite is that Rong County’s finances can support it, and everyone needs to work together, otherwise these are just castles in the air.

Currently, the only financial revenue Rong County can rely on comes from the sugar factory, which will not be paid out until a month later.

Su Ying even took a drastic approach, promising that each family of officials would send one child to study in Huanggou Village and take them out for study tours in August next year.

The previous ones were fine, as the motivation was limited, but this promise really stimulated the officials.

The village school in Huanggou Village is the only village school in the entire Wuzhou. There is no county school at all. At most, it is a private school run by wealthy families. When children grow up, they will take the entrance exam to the official school in the provincial capital.

Not only are students in Huanggou Village literate, but the knowledge they learn is also avant-garde, novel, and practical. The most desirable thing is that they can travel all the way to Chang'an!

Although their ancestors had never left Wuzhou, the children were able to travel all over the country and then go to Chang'an to see the city they had never been able to see in their entire lives.

This is more exciting than a salary increase.

The clerks who were originally driven were all full of motivation, their work enthusiasm increased greatly, and they all came to Su Ying to sign up.

Some begged for an extra place so that they could have another child.

Su Ying smiled and shook her head. The village school could only accept so many students, and they also needed accommodation, so there were not many rooms left.

The officials felt very sorry, but they were also very happy that one of their children could leave Lingnan.

Everyone was very busy at this moment. The officials calmed down and really worked hard, and their mental outlook improved greatly.

Acting County Magistrate Liu Zhang, County Magistrate Song Wansan, and a group of officials and clerks under Su Laosan went to different areas to inspect the farmers' tillage conditions.

Hu Changshi went to the provincial government to take over. The governor was not at home, and General Wang was going back to Chang'an. The provincial government could not be without a person in charge.

He happily took Fulu to take up his post, but the higher he went, the more uncertain he became. Fulu and Fuxi came from the Shaofu Supervisor, and knew the twists and turns inside out, so he felt more at ease having him around.

Because there was no county magistrate, Fuxi stayed in Wu County to continue managing the business.

In the Rong County government office, Su Ying was sitting in charge, but she was not idle either, she was busy writing something.

"My rock sugar!" Fuwang was bored.

Su Ying pulled him aside and told him not to leave, forcing him to buy a batch of brown sugar in Rong County to support its construction.

Everyone went down to the grassroots level to work, and the government office had nothing to do.

The prison case was clarified, and the yamen runners cleared out many rogues in the city. Niu Er brought the yamen runners from Wu County to help, and the public security was clear and there were no cases.

I don’t know what Su Ying was busy with, it seemed like she completely forgot about the rock sugar she promised me.

"You won't be left without anything. When are you leaving?" Su Ying didn't raise her head.

"I'll leave when you give me your rock sugar!" Fuwang said with a smile.

"Just wait a few more days, and I'll sort out everything in Rong County and then go back to Huanggou Village to make it for you." Su Ying said, shaking her wrist.

"Okay!" Fuwang was satisfied, as long as Su Ying didn't forget.

"What's written? Why so much?" Fuwang was curious and picked it up to have a look.

Wow, it’s all Rong County’s development plan!

Encouraging farmers to keep bees is almost a zero-cost, high-profit option.

It does not require much actual work or labor cost, and only requires regular harvesting. People can earn some money to supplement their family income.

Farmers are encouraged to plant more mung beans and soybeans on vacant dry land.

Soybeans can be used to make soybean oil and soy sauce in Tongxian County, mung beans can be used to make mung bean vermicelli, and mung bean dregs can be used to make mung bean cakes.

"Mung bean vermicelli?" Fuwang exclaimed, "Isn't that a specialty of your Huanggou Village?"

"Well! Rong County is too poor. Without any local products, the brown sugar is only enough to sustain the economy for three or four months.

There must be something to attract merchants all the time, so that the carriage and horse shops, inns, restaurants and hotels in Rong County can have a prosperous business.

Only when the people are well-off can the county government have sufficient financial resources and run an honest government.

Otherwise, corrupt officials will emerge in an endless stream, and government officials will become wolves, exploiting the people, and in the end, the people will suffer." Su Ying said.

"Do you mean to teach mung bean vermicelli to the people of Rong County?" Fuwang thought Su Ying was crazy.

The mung bean vermicelli from Huanggou Village is in very short supply outside. Scarcity makes things valuable, and it is not much cheaper than brown sugar.

Once it is released, mass-produced and hits the market, it will not be so valuable anymore.

“Well! Huanggou Village is too busy to handle it all, and even if we work overtime, we can’t do much. Why not pass it on to Rong County?

Only when Rong County has its own specialties and pillar industries can it achieve long-term development.

"We only focus on agriculture and don't properly develop side businesses. People have no money to spend, and ultimately they can't escape the word 'poverty'!" Su Ying sighed.

Only when wealth is shared among the people and they are prosperous can they live and work in peace and contentment, learn etiquette, and promote further education.

"You are so willing to spend so much!" Fuwang felt distressed. This is not mung bean vermicelli, it is money, money!

"Huanggou Village wouldn't be poor even without mung bean vermicelli. We are too busy producing soybean oil, soy sauce, cement, and colored silk.

Why not spit out some of it and help the people of Rong County?" Su Ying smiled.

"You are truly a living Bodhisattva!" Fuwang exclaimed, "The people of Rong County are so lucky to have met you!"

"What's that? It's something you can think of and do if you use your brain more!

"The most difficult thing nowadays is education. Lingnan is remote, generally poor and backward, with few people learning. It's extremely difficult to establish a government-run school!" Su Ying said.

There is only one official school in the provincial capital in the entire Wuzhou. This is not a good thing. For a place to develop sustainably, in addition to the pillar industries, education must keep up.

The knowledge and vision of future generations cannot keep up, and relying solely on local specialties, we cannot go too far. The follow-up efforts will be weak and we will not be able to change the current situation much!

Why have the aristocratic families in the Central Plains continued to exist for thousands of years? Their families attach great importance to talent cultivation, selecting outstanding children from each generation and focusing on training and supporting them.

"It turns out that there are things you are powerless to do. I thought you could do anything!" Fuwang laughed.

"I am a human, not a god!" Su Ying was speechless.

“It takes ten years to grow a tree, a hundred years to educate a person! If this problem is not solved, Lingnan will always be constrained.

Even if it becomes a food-preserving zone, it cannot deny its current state of poor education."

Su Ying's teaching is novel and practical, but it does not conform to the current mainstream of education and is not helpful for scientific examinations, which means that Lingnan cannot produce talents.