Chapter 461 Can you catch fish in winter? (Please vote and subscribe)
It is impossible to expect this first batch of officials to be very smart. At most, they can do some simple arithmetic and read and write Chinese characters. But even so, they are considered the most high-end talents in the Han tribe.
If they are asked to come to the local government to execute government orders, they will definitely not be able to do it well. Luo Chong can only slowly train them. It doesn’t matter if they can’t do it. The leader tells you what to do, and you just have to do your best to complete it. There is nothing you can do about it. Everything is difficult at the beginning.
Fortunately, the total population of the Han tribe is not very large now. It has not exceeded 40,000 so far. This population is less than a county in the Ming Dynasty. Luo Chong can still manage it now. When the population surges in the future, I believe that his men will have trained a group of talents.
The first batch of county yamen set up a team, and then Luo Chong divided the remaining dozens of people into several internship groups. These internship groups have not been assigned administrative regions for the time being. They will first follow the Hanyang County Yamen to learn the working model. After being trained by Luo Chong for a period of time, they will be transferred to various places to govern next year.
In winter, everything is quiet and the tribesmen stay at home. However, they occasionally go out for a walk on sunny days after dinner. Now is a good time. Since the mountains are closed due to heavy snow, there is no work to do and most people are idle at home, so it is also a good time to do a census.
Therefore, Luo Chong's first order to the Hanyang County Government was to organize a manual census of the specific population, requiring that all the population must be registered and recorded, and that they should be checked one by one according to the family unit, with the name, number of spouses, number of children, whether there are elderly people above, age, number of disabilities, number of children and teenagers, and the clan of these people.
Not only that, the Han tribe also needs to issue household registration books. There is nothing high-tech about this household registration book. In fact, it is a bamboo slip. Paper things are too difficult to preserve, so Luo Chong decided to use bamboo slips.
Each person was registered, and then their household registration information was written on a bamboo slip. One person had one bamboo slip, and a household had several bamboo slips for each person. Finally, they were woven together with hemp ropes. Birth, aging, illness and death could also be deleted on this basis. However, this was the first generation of internal circulation, and it would definitely be replaced in the future. For now, we had to make do with it.
As the saying goes, trust your employees. Since they had been assigned tasks, they naturally had to let go and do it. So after arranging the tasks, Luo Chong immediately took the artifact that he had prepared for three months to Liuyang County. There were a lot of people there this year, and life was not easy, so Luo Chong decided to go and see them in person.
There were not many people accompanying this trip, only ten. In addition to Luo Chong and Rou Rou Hui Shan, there was also a carriage for transporting tools, as well as Da Li and Yu Mao and others. One of them stayed in the iron mine for a whole year, and the other stayed in Babaoshan for a whole year. They did not return to Hanyang City until winter. They were the closest and most trusted people around Luo Chong. After all, they were the original members of the Han tribe, but now they are rarely together. Now that there is an opportunity, it is natural to let them stay with him for a while.
The group rode on their mounts and soon arrived at the territory of Liuyang County. At the end of a white plain in the distance, there were three earthen cities standing in a row, echoing the river not far away.
Da Shu, who received the letter in advance, had led a group of clan leaders to wait at the city gate.
"Chief, you are finally here." Dashu and the other clan leaders were overjoyed to see Luo Chong riding an elephant. Their faces were full of sincere smiles, but their eyes were glowing green. They kept glancing at the carriage behind Luo Chong.
"Hehe, are you looking forward to my coming? Or do you want me to bring you food? It's not easy to have two bowls of porridge a day. Let me tell you, there is no food. If you want meat, get it yourself." Luo Chong said straight to the point.
"Hehe, what are you talking about, Chief? I didn't know that so many people would rush to come to seek refuge in late autumn. If they came earlier this year, maybe they could grow more food, so that everyone wouldn't have to save food now."
Dashu couldn't help but smile bitterly. He was also helpless about this matter. There were so many more people at once, but there was only so much food. What could he do? He couldn't just turn people away. In this era, population is strength. If you have the ability to feed them, who would push them away?
Luo Chong also knew that he couldn't blame the tree. Besides, it was Luo Chong who gave the order to recruit people. If he really wanted to blame someone, he could only say that those opportunistic guys were too bad. They came at the wrong time.
"Chief, actually two bowls of porridge a day is not bad. At least the newly joined tribesmen are very satisfied. When they were in their own tribe before, they often had one meal every two days in winter. Although they are eating porridge now, it is still two meals.
The only ones who are a little emotional are the old people who have joined the tribe for a year. They used to have dry rice to eat every day, but now a group of guys who have not made any contribution come to share food with them. The food they have grown with great difficulty has to be eaten porridge every day because of them. Naturally, they feel a little unbalanced." The patriarch of the Chai clan also said nearby.
Luo Chong rode on Huishan's back, narrowed his eyes, and asked expressionlessly: "Did they fight?"
"No, originally the tribesmen were determined not to let the newcomers into the city and share food with them, but the leader gave an order at the beginning, asking all the newcomers to cultivate ten acres of wasteland per household. Seeing that they had worked, the elders let them into the city. But now they still look down on these newcomers, but there has been no conflict. The newcomers are still very honest, because they know that if they are not honest, they will have no food to eat." Dashu reported immediately.
"Well, that's not bad. It doesn't matter if they look down on them. Next year, we will directly transfer some of the newcomers and let them go to work in other places. Ruyang County is still short of a lot of people."
As they talked, they began to walk towards the Shangtian Township Town, which was built the earliest and the environment is still good.
Shangtian Township is the southernmost of the three earthen towns. The town is full of brick houses and the streets are crisscrossed. The population is about 7,000. Linze Township to the north is different. Half of the houses are brick houses and the other half are earthen houses. Those who live in the earthen houses are naturally the newcomers that Luo Chong is worried about causing trouble.
When we arrived at the newly built Fengyi Township, it was like a can of sardines. As far as the eye could see, there were low adobe houses everywhere. Although the houses were not big, each house was crammed with a large family. This small town alone was crammed with more than 10,000 people.
Luo Chong's arrival caused quite a stir in the new town. Many people came out of their own earthen houses to see the leader. It was really rare. They had been here for so long, but this was the first time they saw the legendary leader, and he was still alive, so everyone was excited.
However, Luo Chong obviously didn't have time to be treated like a monkey here, and he couldn't charge them for admission. It would be a loss to let them see him for nothing.
Therefore, after inspecting the villages, Luo Chong left. After all, he came here not just for inspection, but mainly to seek benefits for tens of thousands of people in Liuyang County and make their lives better.
"How is it, is the river frozen?" Luo Chong said while sitting in the house where he used to live, holding a bowl of hot tea.
"It is frozen, but is there really a way to catch fish from this frozen river?" Da Shu asked doubtfully.
(End of this chapter)
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