Chapter 507: Pioneering (please vote and subscribe)
Four elephants led the way, followed by more than a dozen ox carts full of supplies. Luo Chong and a team of people took two days to reach the border of Liuyang County.
When they arrived, it was already the afternoon of the next day. The fresh food market had already ended. Luo Chong did not see the lively scene of thousands of people queuing up to buy sweet corn as he wished, but he could see children chewing sweet corn on the streets of the city, or some older people squatting on the ground rubbing corn with half a bamboo tube and a winnowing basket.
"Chief, I bought you a bundle of sweet corn this morning and saved it. You can have it whenever you want." Dashu followed Luo Chong and said this when he saw Luo Chong staring at the sweet corn in the hands of the children on the street.
Luo Chong frowned and looked unhappy.
"Why are there no trash cans on the street? There are also street sweepers. Is there no one to take care of the sanitation in Liuyang County? Look at those children. They eat sweet stalks and spit out the remaining residue on the street."
"This was not like this before. This situation has only occurred after the sweet stalks appeared in the past few days." Dashu was stunned when he heard this and immediately explained.
"Then how did you solve it?" Luo Chong turned his head and looked at Dashu.
"This, the county has not taken care of this matter yet. The garbage is cleaned twice in the early morning and in the morning. What we are paying attention to now is how much money the Ling tribe has made from us. After our calculations over the past few days, they should have made tens of thousands of yuan just from selling sweet stalks. Chief, isn't this bad for our tribe? This is all our money." Dashu said with some concern.
The two Luo Chongs didn't care much about this matter. The Ling tribe made a lot of money from selling sweet stalks, but they couldn't spend the money elsewhere. In the end, they still had to come to the Han tribe to spend it. The Han tribe also made money by selling things to them. There was nothing wrong with letting the currency circulate.
On the contrary, Luo Chong paid great attention to the problem of urban garbage. You should know that the medical conditions in this era were poor, and the population living in the city was relatively concentrated. If the environmental sanitation problem was not properly handled, it would be no joke if a plague broke out.
"Don't worry about this for now. You should solve the garbage problem first and then talk about other things. Let the household clerks of Liuyang County recruit disabled or elderly people from each district and village to clean the streets every day. The necessary tools and vehicles will be coordinated by the household clerks.
By the way, there should be a trash can made of bamboo baskets every hundred meters on the street. In addition, the criminal clerks should be sent to patrol the streets and take turns to check. Those who are found littering will be fined one yuan.
The county governor's office should also send people to publicize the trash cans and fines to prevent the residents in the city from knowing the situation. Remember, fines are not the purpose, but the means. What I want is to see that no one litters on the street. Remember?" Luo Chong thought about it and blurted out a simple management method.
"Yes, Chief, I remember that." Dashu nodded and took Luo Chong to the newly built government office area. This government office area was newly built this year. At this time, there are only a few buildings. Most other places are still under construction.
The construction of government office areas is not just in Liuyang County. Because of the design errors of Hanyang City, the city was too small, and in the end, there was no independent government office area and school. This gave Luo Chong a headache. In the spirit of not making the same mistake twice, Luo Chong specifically required that each newly built county must have an independent government office.
Walking into the independent county governor's mansion, it seemed very empty. There were only a dozen clerks on duty here, and they were dealing with the sorting and statistics of some documents. After asking, I found out that most of the other officials went to various places in the city to do business.
Hanyang County was busy, and this side was no exception. The newly harvested grain had to be counted and stored, and a portion of the grain and seeds had to be allocated to support the construction of Sitong County. In addition, Liuyang County itself had not been built well.
Dashu led Luo Chong into the lobby, and soon, under Luo Chong's order, he fetched the urban planning map of Liuyang County. Now the entire Liuyang County has five independent but adjacent earthen cities, each of which is larger than Hanyang City. According to Luo Chong, this is called Fangshi.
The administrative level of Fangshi is set at the township level, which is one level smaller than the county town and one level larger than the village. At present, in addition to a government office area with few people, there is also a temporary resettlement area for workers with rammed earth huts. Only three Fangs are proper residential areas. Among them, those migrant workers who have not yet clearly joined the Han tribe are now living in huts in the temporary resettlement area. However, after more than 10,000 people were transferred away in early spring this year, the place has become deserted again.
However, since the beginning of spring, there have been foreign tribes coming from the south to Liuyang County. Although the number of people is much less than last year, perhaps not even one-tenth, Luo Chong is still very interested in the southern region. After all, there is nothing more exciting than population.
However, this is something that cannot be forced after all. Everything must be done step by step. With this time, it is better to think about how to make full use of the existing population.
Luo Chong leaned lazily on the chair, tapping the map with his fingers. After thinking for a while, he began to draw on the map with a pen.
Liuyang County is located in a small plain, facing the Liuyang River to the east and dense forests to the west, which is where Ruyang County is located. Between the two mountain ranges in the north and south, there is a piece of fertile land of about 800,000 mu, and this was calculated based on 666 square meters per mu in the past. If it is changed to the current 600 square meters per mu, the total should be over one million.
If such a large piece of land is fully developed, even if it is only used for farming, the harvested grain alone will not be a small number. However, it is obvious that the population of Liuyang County is too concentrated, and the cultivated fields are basically paddy fields near the river.
This is actually a helpless move. After all, the main food of the Han tribe was only rice before. The farther away from the river bank, the more difficult it is to use. Digging artificial rivers and ditches requires a lot of manpower. Even if there are a few elephants to help, it is necessary to use people to shovel and transport soil.
But now it is different. Now the Han tribe has wheat that can be planted on a large scale, as well as corn, soybeans, and even sorghum can be planted in a short time.
With these crops, the population of Liuyang County can spread out to the surrounding areas, allowing the people to go deep into the fields and cultivate land and plant crops in the form of villages. Although the defense is a little worse, the surrounding wild beasts have been almost eliminated by the Han tribe. If the construction of that kind of closed village can also play a certain degree of defense.
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