My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

Chapter 346: Two Years in a Hurry, Development Report

"So I decided to send people across the country to look for people who have studied the law. I would either pay them or promise them official positions to invite them to Guangdong, and let them combine the laws of the Qing Dynasty with public opinion to compile a suitable set of laws!"

"What do you think?"

The nine people at the scene all thought it was very reasonable, but they were a little unsure about amending the law based on public opinion, so someone started to ask.

"May I ask, Commander, when you say that you want to revise the law and settle the dispute in accordance with public opinion, do you mean to discuss it with the people?"

Jiang Li smiled and nodded when he heard this, "You are not wrong, although most people have no knowledge or experience!"

"But they all have a basic intuition about the law. The so-called legal intuition is the intuitive feeling of ordinary people about something."

"That is to say, they make a direct, unconsidered judgment or feeling about a legal issue or situation based on their own experience, common sense, values ​​and other factors without in-depth legal analysis and reasoning."

"This judgment may be wrong, but it is the most intuitive judgment of the law by most people because they rarely have the opportunity to understand the full picture of things."

"Basically, we only get some messy information to piece together the 'truth' of an event, but this 'truth' may be very different from the facts."

"But even so, we must take this into consideration. Otherwise, our judgments will inevitably be misunderstood by the people, and in the long run, it will inevitably deepen the rift between the upper and lower levels."

"And this is the legendary public opinion!"

When everyone heard Jiang Li's explanation, their eyes immediately lit up. They had already handled a lot of official business, and there were also many vicious cases reported from below.

Although local law enforcement officers have properly handled these cases in accordance with the law, there are still many rumors. This is probably the result of the current Qing Dynasty laws failing to take public opinion into consideration.

Now that this problem was easily pointed out and solved by Jiang Li, they suddenly felt enlightened and became more convinced of Jiang Li's talents, so they stood up and praised him.

Jiang Li interrupted them immediately upon seeing this, and then assigned them tasks respectively. Those who were to repair the university should do so, and those who were to ask for teachers should ask for teachers.

After he arranged these things, he focused his energy on the transformation of the Dongting Lake grain-producing area.

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This transformation took two years, and the time quietly came to 1932.

Since he has not used foreign troops in the past two years, the surrounding forces have relaxed their vigilance against him. They no longer deploy troops on the border like before, and they no longer act as if they are ready to fight to the death at any time.

However, after they withdrew their troops, they did not live in peace, but continued their strategy of annexing each other.

They all hope to occupy more territory and recruit and train more troops before Jiang Li launches the next attack in order to fight against the threat from Jiang Li.

During this period, they did achieve some results. Many warlords had integrated the surrounding forces and possessed a considerable number of troops.

However, their weapons are still varied and their logistics system is a mess. Even among six or seven provinces combined, there is not a single province that can independently produce heavy machine guns.

The most they can do is produce bullets and grenades, and a little more powerful is produce some rifles. Fujian has purchased some equipment and can independently produce Czech-style light machine guns.

However, due to technical and production line problems, not only is the output low, but the quality is also not satisfactory, and can only be considered to be just enough to be used.

As for Jiang Li, in addition to sending out twelve batches of 3,600 guerrilla squads in the past two years, his largest military activity was to gather the people to participate in military training during the slack season.

In order to train them into militia with a certain military foundation and to increase their enthusiasm, Jiang Li also proposed the conditions of providing food and accommodation and reducing some taxes.

This move directly allowed Jiang Li to obtain 1.2 million militiamen. Fortunately, they only trained for two months every year during the slack season. Otherwise, with his army's food standards, it would be quite difficult to support an army of two million.

In addition, he also made great progress in infrastructure, industrial and agricultural development.

At this moment, he was in the conference room, listening to the specific data reported by his subordinates.

"After two years of development, the grain production in Guangxi and Hunan provinces has been greatly increased with the help of chemical fertilizers and farmyard manure."

"Especially in the area around Dongting Lake in Hunan, 100,000 young and strong people were mobilized to work for two years. Although it cost tens of millions of dollars, it also opened up 3 million mu of irrigated land."

"In addition, 51 new dikes were built, 2 million mu of paddy fields and 240 ponds were built."

Jiang Li heard him say this, so he asked, "It's not easy to repair the dike, but it's also difficult to maintain it later. If there is a flood, is there a way to deal with it?"

The minister who reported the incident smiled and said to Jiang Li, "Don't worry, Commander. The dikes are very solid. Some places with higher risks have cement dams. Even the strongest winds and waves cannot break the dams. Commander, just rest assured!"

After hearing what he said, Jiang Li stopped worrying about it. After all, he was just a novice and should listen to them on such professional matters.

So he was asked to continue reading. The cabinet minister was not surprised and continued reading the report in his hand.

"According to our statistics, because of our tax reduction policy and the elimination of the landlord gentry class, the per capita disposable grain of the people under our rule has increased threefold, vegetables have doubled, fruits and vegetables have doubled, and meat has increased fivefold..."

The minister wanted to continue his report, but was interrupted by Jiang Li again. "You just said that the amount of meat that the people can eat has increased fivefold. Where did you get this data? How can it be so much?"

The minister who was reading the report heard Jiang Li's question and immediately explained: "Commander, you don't know that in the past, the people could not even get enough food, let alone meat."

"If you can catch a fish or a frog in the field, it is considered meat, so the average meat consumption per capita is extremely low!"

"Now, because our chicken and pig farms are fully rolled out, plus the quick-growing broiler chicken and pig breeds provided by Caopingshan, the amount of chicken and pork on the market is already quite large!"

"So people can often buy some meat to improve their meals."

Jiang Li naturally knew about the new breed of broiler chicken and pig. Because of the existence of blood mushrooms, breeding talents made a huge breakthrough last year.

They directly cultivated two fast-growing varieties, shortening their growth cycle by half.

In addition, the Academy of Agricultural Sciences has also made great progress in potato and corn production, increasing its yield by 120% with the help of chemical fertilizers.