blueteamnovel Chapter 620: The Method Of Borrowing Pigs And Borrowing Cattle Is Essentially The Same As The Method
Chapter 620: The Method Of Borrowing Pigs And Borrowing Cattle Is Essentially The Same As The Method
After a while, after everyone calmed down again, Yan Changqing continued:
"In addition, there are ways to solve the cost problem of cattle and pig breeds that His Highness King Jin mentioned before."
"For example, when it comes to pig breeding, first of all we need to know that from birth to piglets, if everything goes well, it usually takes one year for a sow to give birth to her first litter."
"And a sow, with adequate nutrition and proper care, can give birth to about five to fifteen piglets at a time."
"Among the first litters, sows account for approximately -20 percent of the pig population."
"Among the second litter piglets, the proportion of sows in the pig herd is approximately 18 percent."
"Among the third litter piglets, the proportion of sows in the herd is approximately 16 percent."
"Among the piglets in the fourth litter, the proportion of sows in the herd is approximately 12 percent."
"Among the piglets in the fifth litter, the proportion of sows in the pig herd is approximately 10 percent."
"For piglets in the sixth litter, sows account for about nine percent of the pig population."
"This means that in a litter born by a sow, there will basically be one or two sow piglets, and the rest are boar piglets."
"The imperial court can provide free sow piglets to the common people until the common people raise the sow piglets and give birth to their first litter.'
"At that time, the common people will return two piglets, one male and one female, to the court."
"In this way, ordinary people do not need to spend money in advance. They only need to take care of it carefully for a year, and then they can get an adult sow and several other piglets."
"The imperial court does not need to take good care of the piglets. It only needs to provide sow piglets to the people at the beginning of the year, and then it can take back the original sow piglets at the end of the year, and get an extra boar piglet."
"The sow piglets recovered later can continue to be lent to the common people for breeding, while the boar piglets can also be sold directly to the common people, or to butchers, and directly receive a certain amount of money as one of the sources of financial subsidies for the local county government."
"Of course, my suggestion is that local county governments also set up official pig farms, and then put these recovered boar piglets into the official pig farms for breeding."
"In this way, more money can be made from the sales, which will ease the financial pressure on local county governments."
"Secondly, it can also serve as an official reserve of meat and grain and stabilize meat prices."
"For example, once the price of meat in local counties rises abnormally due to natural disasters or merchants hoarding, the price of meat will rise abnormally."
"The local county government can sell the boars raised in the official pig farms at a fair price, thereby suppressing the price of meat raised by unscrupulous merchants and restoring the normal business of Nan's meat and grain business."
"Although the number of births of cows is not as high as that of sows, the method is still the same. Just adjust one or two of the details appropriately."
“And this method is actually the same as Wang Jinggong’s ‘Green Crops Method’. It is good and correct in terms of theory, policy, and method.
"But later on, why did Wang Jinggong's 'Green Crop Law' fail to be implemented and even turned into a harsh rule? I think you also know the reason."
"So if the imperial court is going to adopt this method, then you should think carefully in advance about how to prevent this policy from turning into a harsh government that oppresses the people when it reaches the local level!"
After hearing Yan Changqing's last few words, all the princes including Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, and Zhu Di fell into deep thought.
Naturally, they also knew Wang Jinggong's "Green Miao Method", also known as Wang Anshi, and Yan Changqing had explained it to them before.
When the people were in dire straits, loans and grain loans were provided to the people who took the initiative to borrow money to help the people tide over the difficulties.
After the people got through the lean days and had enough money, they could repay the loans, grain loans, and part of the interest to the court.
In the end, a win-win situation was achieved for both the court and the people.
However, this is the role that Wang Anshi expected the "Green Seed Law" to play in theory, but in the actual implementation process, this is not the case.
When it was actually implemented, it was originally up to the people to decide whether to borrow money from the court based on their own needs. However, in order to claim credit, local officials forced the people to borrow money from the government!
Moreover, local officials also arbitrarily raised interest rates to make money by taking the opportunity to increase interest rates, and even resorted to various forms of extortion, causing the people to suffer unspeakably!!
In the end, the "Young Seedlings Law", which was originally just to help the people tide over the difficulties of the recession, turned into a harsh government policy that involved usury loans and high interest rates!!!
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In addition, "Qing Miao Law" also has some other scattered problems.
For example, for the sake of their own political achievements, local officials suppressed allocations and pressed for payment; and Qingmiaoqian's unreasonable timing of lending and collecting loans.
There are also some officials who are more inclined to lend money and grain out of Changping, thereby neglecting rice relief, so that there is no money and grain relief in famine years.
These are all problems that occurred when Wang Anshi implemented the "Green Crops Method".
In other words, during the implementation process, local officials had different results, good or bad, due to different enforcement efforts and methods.
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Therefore, if the Ming court wanted to adopt the method Yan Changqing just mentioned, then they would have to learn from the lessons learned from the "Green Miao Method" and further improve the Ming Dynasty's version of the "Borrowing Pigs and Borrowing Cattle Method."
Only in this way can the "Lending Pigs and Cattle Law" become a law that benefits both the people and the court, rather than a harsh government that oppresses and exploits the people!!!
Looking at the contemplative princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, Yan Changqing said gently:
"There is no need to worry about improving this method now. You can think about it and improve it later."
"After all, if the people of the Ming Dynasty want to have extra grain in their hands to raise pigs and cattle, it is estimated that it will take about five years.
"And if the imperial court wants to have so many sow piglets that can be lent to the people for breeding, it will take at least five or ten years to prepare."
"And if you want to enable every household in Daming's rural areas to build a biogas digester, it will take at least ten or twenty years to achieve it."
"So for you and the imperial court, there is still plenty of time, and there is enough time for you to slowly think about and improve the Ming Dynasty's version of the 'Lending Pigs and Borrowing Cows' method."
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