jdhmnovel Chapter 890 The Nonsense Ningyang County Index
Chapter 890 The Nonsense Ningyang County Index
Yang Shaofeng and Hu Weiyong reached a deal happily.
Yang Shaofeng was given 80% of the female laborers' wages, while Hu Weiyong received the remaining 20%.
All male laborers belong to Hu Weiyong, and then Hu Weiyong will find a way to bring back double the number of male laborers for Yang Shaofeng, including but not limited to Korean laborers, short and ugly laborers, or Hu Weiyong can find them himself.
The medical school, pharmacy school, agricultural school, and other colleges of Dengzhou University will open a branch campus in Liaodong within a year, and strive to turn the branch campus into Liaodong University within two years.
Neither of them felt they had lost out.
Yang Shaofeng valued female laborers as well as twice the number of male laborers.
Hu Weiyong valued the male laborers and the future Liaodong University.
The main group consisted of male laborers.
So you call yourselves the bureaucratic gentry group?
Damn it, you almost sent my entire family to their deaths!
Now that you've fallen into my hands, you're in for a lot of trouble!
Hu Weiyong unconsciously raised the corners of his mouth, and the smile on his face gradually became somewhat sinister.
Mr. Shanchang and Liu Qingtian, you two open your eyes wide and watch how I deal with them!
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Although they had already been aware of Ningyang County's wealth on their way there, Li Shanchang, Hu Weiyong, and the others were still shocked when they actually stepped onto the streets of Ningyang County.
Who has ever seen a county town where there are more horse-drawn carriages than people on the road?
Who has ever seen a county town where the people are already wearing new clothes before the end of the year?
Who has ever seen a county town where restaurants and teahouses are everywhere, yet there are still a lot of customers eating and drinking inside?
Damn it, even the capital city isn't this rich!
Li Shanchang twitched the corners of his mouth and said with a forced smile, "I remember that the Prince Consort once wrote a memorial proposing the concept of a Ningyang County coefficient, right?"
Yang Shaofeng chuckled awkwardly and nodded.
The great chief architect once said, "It doesn't matter if it's a black cat or a white cat, as long as it catches mice."
Yang Shaofeng took this theory a step further.
Any coefficient that makes it easy for me to feign poverty is a good coefficient.
Engel may have never eaten anything good in his life, and he believed that the higher a family's expenditure on food, the lower their level of wealth and standard of living.
Then, Yang Shaofeng took the lead and proposed the famous Ningyang County coefficient.
The Ningyang County coefficient points out that by calculating the proportion of food consumption expenditure of an individual, a family, a county, a provincial administration, or even a country, the level of wealth and living standards of a specified target can be estimated.
Yang Shaofeng also specifically cited Dengzhou Prefecture and Ningyang County as examples: the people of Dengzhou and Ningyang County spent an astonishing 50 percent of their income on food, which meant that the people of Ningyang County were struggling to make ends meet.
Then, the cunning Emperor Zhu handed over the "Ningyang County coefficient" to Li Shanchang, Liu Bowen and others, saying that based on his observations in Dengzhou Prefecture and Ningyang County, the food expenditure of the people in Dengzhou Prefecture and Ningyang County did indeed account for half of their income.
Li Shanchang still remembers what he did after seeing the "Ningyang County Coefficient".
With the mindset that he had to carefully study "Yang the Madman's Memorial," he even calculated his family's income and the percentage of their expenses on food.
To be on the safe side, he even consulted with many colleagues to do the calculations together.
The final conclusion was that the family's expenditure on food was indeed less than 30%, even less than 10%, while the expenditure on food for officials of relatively lower rank gradually increased.
To be on the safe side, he specifically sent people to visit some residents of Nanjing and found that food expenses could account for up to 60% of their total income.
Later still, Li Shanchang simply had a survey conducted in the prefectures and counties near the capital.
The final statistical results did indeed match the "Ningyang County coefficient".
The higher the proportion of expenses spent on food and drink, the worse the family's financial situation.
The smaller the proportion of spending on food and drink, the better the family's financial situation.
This is a very accurate calculation model.
Li Shanchang still clearly remembers the shock he felt when he calculated this conclusion, and even recalls the utterly astonished look on Liu Bowen's face.
Now?
Li Shanchang stared at a tavern not far away, his face a picture of utter existential despair.
"The coefficient for Ningyang County can be used in any other prefecture or county, but not in Ningyang County, right?"
Li Shanchang stared intently at Yang Shaofeng, saying with a mix of doubt and self-deprecation, "I now have serious doubts. If the Ningyang County coefficient cannot be used in Ningyang County, then what about other indices such as the consumer price index, life expectancy index, average years of education, urban-rural income ratio, and per capita meat intake? Are they also unsuitable for Ningyang County?"
Yang Shaofeng chuckled twice more.
Just as the Engel coefficient is pure nonsense in Ningyang County, the per capita meat intake index is also pure nonsense.
The per capita meat intake index that Yang Shaofeng gave to Lao Zhu refers to the result obtained by adding up all meat products in a county and then dividing by the total population of the county.
However, the actual statistical process in Ningyang County follows a different set of "Ningyang County standards".
Internal organs are not included.
Fish are excluded.
Chicken heads, chicken feet, pig trotters, pig tails, and other offal are not counted.
Those eaten in taverns and teahouses don't count.
The dozens of households selected as regular samples were either single-parent families or families known for their frugality in the village.
Even those households selected for random sampling were chosen from remote villages and communities.
Because remote villages and communities often mean that it is inconvenient to buy meat.
What no one expected was that Li Shanchang, that old scoundrel, had such sharp eyes that he actually doubted these messy indices just by looking at the teahouses and taverns on the streets of Ningyang County.
If I had known this would happen, I should have notified these teahouses and restaurants to close for two days in advance.
Yang Shaofeng glanced at Yang Shaofeng sideways, finally couldn't help but sigh, and asked, "May I ask, Your Highness, when you calculate the per capita income of Ningyang County, do you include all those laborers?"
In the sixth year of the Hongwu reign, Ningyang County reported an average monthly income of 300 coins.
However, judging from the clothes of the people on the streets of Ningyang County and the way they ate and drank in restaurants and teahouses, Li Shanchang felt that the three hundred coins were largely overpriced.
The actual average monthly income per person may be more than one thousand yuan, or even more?
Just as Li Shanchang was pondering this to himself, Yang Shaofeng's eyes widened and he exclaimed, "How is that possible?"
"More than half of the laborers are not citizens of our Great Ming. No matter how reckless I am, I cannot include them in the count."
"Prime Minister Li, you can't slander someone's innocence out of thin air!"
Li Shanchang frowned, then sneered and said, "Then why doesn't the Prince Consort explain why the average income in your Ningyang County is only three hundred coins, yet there are still so many people in the restaurants and teahouses?"
Yang Shaofeng blurted out, "They just don't know how to manage a household!"
Seeing the ambiguous smile on Li Shanchang's face, Yang Shaofeng simply snorted coldly, going all out and angrily saying, "Newborn babies are considered people! They're included in the per capita statistics! So what!"