Chapter 123 Population and Talent
Territory Development In addition to food production, the second thing Li Wei thought of was population reproduction and talent cultivation.
"Grandpa Pedro, I don't know how long this war will last, and I can't say when I will come back next time.
If there is a bumper harvest in our territory during the summer harvest in July and the food supply is sufficient, you can pass The Government Affairs Department issued an order.
First of all, the Monterey family encourages the people under its rule to have more children. Pregnant women who are obviously pregnant can register their information with the Government Affairs Department and receive three silver coins as maternity subsidies for twelve consecutive months.
Pregnant women can receive it in one lump sum after giving birth. Ten silver coins are used as a subsidy, and you can receive another ten silver coins after successfully giving birth to a baby.
Secondly, young children who have not yet started to lose their teeth can also register their information at the Government Affairs Department and receive one silver coin every month as a childcare subsidy.
In addition , "Grandpa Pedro, please recruit some doctors and midwives with delivery experience, train some assistants, and try to improve the success rate of maternal delivery in our territory."
Pedro couldn't help but said: "Baron, will we It will be too expensive, we don’t have that much money?”
Li Wei also calculated that if each family gave birth to a baby every year, if Li Wei did this, it would be equivalent to returning a quarter of the total fiscal revenue of the entire territory. To families giving birth to babies.
Of course, this fiscal revenue refers to the income method before the transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure in General Li Wei's territory.
Taking Montenegro as an example, if Levi had not set up any extraordinary equipment flow workshop or engaged in agricultural innovation, he would have followed the previous business model.
The financial revenue of the Monterey family in Montenegro is mainly agricultural taxes. After that, all industries involving the people's food, clothing, housing and transportation will be scratched by Master Li Wei.
For example, you can only grind wheat into wheat flour through Master Li Wei's mill; you can only buy fabrics purchased by Master Li Wei to make clothes; the wood and stone used to build a house need to pay an additional mining fee to Master Li Wei
and supplement it with some miscellaneous materials. of taxes.
Most of the surplus value created by Levi's subjects became the financial income of the Monterey family.
To use a layman's analogy, suppose that the gross product value created by all the citizens of Montenegro Territory in a year is 30,000 gold coins, but the citizens may only get less than 20,000 gold coins, most of which is used to maintain their survival. The most basic expenses required, the wealth at one's disposal is very limited.
Most of the remaining more than 10,000 gold coins were exploited by Master Li Wei in various ways.
Levi's idea is to make the cake under the Monterey family bigger so that he can get more profits.
The "Ma bandit" once said, "How much money does a poor man have?"
So increasing the intensity of exploitation was not at all in Levi's plan.
If the subjects are exploited like slaves, who will have the energy to practice? Where did Livy go to recruit troops? Will the citizens run away?
As for how to make the cake bigger?
One is to improve quantity, and the other is to improve quality.
To increase the quantity is to find ways to increase the population and encourage births.
Anyway, the greater the number of subjects under the Monterey family's rule, the more people working for Li Wei, and the more generous benefits Li Wei would receive.
Improving quality means finding ways to increase "GDP per capita".
From agricultural reforms and upgrading steel workshops to extraordinary equipment assembly line workshops, these efforts are all aimed at improving the production level of the territory under Monterey's rule.
How many coins can be dug out of the soil just by relying on primitive and backward farming techniques?
Levi believes that this year's total fiscal revenue will definitely make a qualitative leap compared to last year.
Maybe the fiscal expenditure is higher than the fiscal revenue, but as long as it can get on the fast track of development, Mr. Levi will not hesitate to borrow money to survive. "Grandpa Pedro, you don't need to worry about money. I will raise enough gold coins. If it doesn't work, I can also ask Marquis Ashan for a loan. In short, as long as the population increases, I will not be afraid of spending money.
In addition, I need you to recruit a few teachers to set up a small-scale cultural training class, which only needs to teach basic writing and arithmetic.
After all, our stall will get bigger and bigger in the future, and we will need some manpower to manage the territory.
At this stage, the cultural training class is recruiting The trainees are mainly loyal and reliable servants within the family and veterans of the private army who were injured in the last war but still have basic mobility." "
This is not difficult, Lord Baron. If the training scale is less than a hundred people, I think It only takes three months and 200 gold coins to get it done."
Li Wei nodded with satisfaction and asked tentatively:
"What if I want to hold a martial arts training class? Our Monterey family's private army has reached the third level. There are only fifty or sixty, which is too few!"
"Lord Baron, this is really not worth it!
There are only a few thousand cultivators in the territory, and fifty or sixty third-level regular soldiers are already considered good. , if people without talent want to forcefully advance to the third level, the cost is too high and it is completely uneconomical!
I think you should promulgate policies to encourage your subordinates to take the initiative to practice. Then give appropriate rewards to talented young people, like this The cost will be much smaller."
"Grandpa Pedro, can you tell us in detail?"
"I think you can appropriately increase the salary of our Monterey family private army, especially the third-level regular soldiers, and then make it the same as the recruitment threshold. And make it public.
In this way, not only will our private army of the Monterey family be more convinced of you, but it will also encourage those civilians to practice hard.
Secondly, a small amount of rewards can be given to those who have reached the second level and above in martial arts before the age of fifteen. , and recruit them into the private army as reserve soldiers.
Before the age of eighteen, their salary will be paid according to the standard of second-level senior auxiliary soldiers. If they can break through to the second-level senior auxiliary before the age of eighteen, they will be officially admitted.
I think In this way, those young people who are talented but cannot afford to practice because their families are too poor will not be delayed."
"Grandpa Pedro, then do as you say!"
In fact, Li Wei had originally thought about it. There is also a very radical plan, which is to open a martial arts school that can accommodate all school-age teenagers in the territory.
Humans cannot practice formally before they are twelve years old, and they can only do some simple basic exercises at most. Levi originally wanted to promote the most basic and simplest version of the foundation building tutorial in his own territory.
Then young people who are over 12 years old can enter the martial arts academy established by the Monterey family. Not only does it cost no money to enter the martial arts academy, but it also provides three meals a day. In this way, the enrollment rate of the people under the rule will be high.
The martial arts academy conducts an internal assessment every year. Those who do not meet the standards will be sent home after registration. This process will eliminate a large number of students.
Especially in the first-year assessment, those who are not suitable for cultivation will basically be singled out.
By eliminating them layer by layer like this, you can always find real gold in the sand, and even the students who are eliminated in the middle can still serve as the basic force of the family's private army.
But in this case, the spread of the business would be too big, and as old Pedro said, it would be uneconomical, and Monterey's finances could not afford it.
(End of chapter)