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Looking through ancient books, there are many records of helping the poor to alleviate poverty, which is not only quite humane, but also pays attention to "precision poverty alleviation". Many celebrities and dignitaries who cherish the feelings of love for the people and their practices of poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation are also deeply inspired to read today.
Baiju is easy to engage in engineering poverty alleviation. Shi Zai, when Bai Juyi was in charge of Hangzhou, presided over the dredging of 9 wells in the urban area, the construction of farmland water conservancy and other projects, and the implementation of important projects such as opening up the West Lake and the Grand Canal. In order to solve the labor needs, he gave priority to recruiting 7,000 farmers from the registered poor households, and played a very good role in poverty alleviation.
Su Dongpo advertised poverty alleviation. Su Dongpo was relegated to Hainan, and once he saw the old woman selling steamed bread worried about the bad business, he wrote an advertising poem for her with a pen: rub the jade color with the hand, fry the tender yellow deep in the green oil, warm and heavy in the spring at night, and squash the beauty with gold. This poem describes the uniform, fresh, crisp characteristics of the bun and the image of the beauty ring, which makes people feel excited, the old woman posted the poem on the door as an advertisement, and the customers flocked to Su Dongpo's "likes", which doubled the woman's income.
The famous doctor Ye Gui donated tree seeds to alleviate poverty. During the Kangxi Dynasty, Ye Gui was good at curing difficult and complicated diseases, and when a poor person asked him to cure poverty, he gave the poor a olive and let him plant the core in the field after eating it, and next year he would get rid of poverty. The poor man felt strange, and when he heard him speak sincerely, he planted olive cores. In the second year, the olive trees were full of green leaves, and it was not long before the people who bought olive leaves came one after another, although each person only bought a few pieces, but the thick leaves of a tree were worth a lot, and the poor got rid of poverty. This is Ye Gui according to the practice of medicine, judging that there will be infectious diseases in the coming year, to cure the disease you have to use olive leaves as a medicinal primer, and the pharmacy does not have this thing, so the patient will go to the poor man's house to buy olive leaves according to Ye Gui.
The wealthy merchant Jiang Chengdong sent silver to the squatters for the New Year. During the Qianlong period, huishang Jiang Chengdong went to Wuhan to do business and became rich. At that time, many disaster victims who came to Wuhan had no money to build houses and rent houses, so they could only build sheds to settle down and become "shantytowns". In the Chinese New Year's Eve of the New Year, the rich families bought fish and meat, and happily bought New Year goods, but the poor families were hungry and cold, and had no money for the New Year. Jiang Chengdong knew that the villagers were unwilling to put down their self-esteem to receive alms from others, so he exchanged the silver ingots for broken silver, packed small cloth bags, and pasted them with words of blessing for the New Year, "Secretly send children and nephews, secretly give silver money to each shed in the Chinese New Year's Eve", and the silver in the bag is enough to let a shantytown family have a good year.
Many Hui merchants were touched by Jiang Chengdong's good deeds and followed suit. Cao Ruhong, a Xiucai of Shexian County, abandoned Confucianism to engage in business, and yu Chinese New Year's Eve hid broken silver in his sleeve, "passing through the door of the poor, secretly giving it to others, not making people aware." Salt merchant Min Shizhang, when he was young, went to Yangzhou to work hard, sold salt to earn two silver, except for the family's expenses to use all the money to help the poor, in the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve arranged for his cronies to take broken silver, into the slums, see the ice pot cold stove household, throw into a bag of broken silver, quickly leave, so that many poor people live the New Year.
Tea merchants often recruit refugees to work to alleviate poverty. In 1877, a major drought occurred in Jin, Qin, Yuji and other places, and the red field was thousands of miles, the grain was harvestless, and the refugees ate grass roots and nibbled on the bark. Chang Da, a tea merchant in Yuci Cheru Village, Shanxi, in order to let the villagers accept the funding with dignity, took out 30,000 taels of silver to build a theater building, stipulating that no matter who can move a brick, they can eat three meals at the construction site. The catastrophe lasted for three years, and the theater building was built for three years. This kind of implicit rescue method can undoubtedly make the hungry villagers swallow every bite of food exchanged for labor with dignity.
This kind of "precision poverty alleviation" that shows wisdom deserves our praise and emulation in today's "poverty alleviation".