As for the dispatch of convection officers, E Ertai's final performance must be sent to those who are capable, willing to endure hardships and honest. He carefully selected state and county governors, and the first batch of flow officials he sent were very competent, which played a positive role in stabilizing and changing the flow area. In order to let the people in the occupied areas recuperate, E Ertai implemented Xiaoding money and grain system; Where there are many difficulties and few harvests, it is necessary to reduce or exempt taxes and let these places resume production as soon as possible. E Ertai has also redistributed land in the water diversion area and implemented the policy of encouraging reclamation. The peasant land occupied by the toast shall be claimed by the original owner according to the land list; Abandon the land without owners and recruit farmers to farm; For uncultivated land, farmers are called upon to reclaim it, and the government issues farm tools and seeds. The newly reclaimed land will be taxed after 6 years in paddy fields and after 0/0/0 years in dry land. E Ertai also called on officials and wealthy families to donate 3,000 taels of silver, more than 65,438,000 cows and 600 houses to help poor people live and work in peace and contentment. At the same time of infrastructure construction, E Ertai vigorously builds water conservancy projects in the water diversion area. Zhaotong alone built a water conservancy project 10, which can irrigate more than 20,000 mu of land. After water transfer in Yunnan Province, more than 70 water conservancy projects have been built. In order to protect these water conservancy projects, E Ertai also set up water conservancy officials to take charge of these water conservancy projects, thus ensuring the long-term development of water conservancy.
The traffic development in the diversion area is also a prominent reason. E Ertai has dredged Qingjiang 1200 Li and Du Jiang's 300 Li successively. After dredging, it has been "sent back and forth by mail" and has the reputation of "smooth navigation channel". He also built a river channel with a total length of more than 700 miles from Khaki to Baise, Guangxi, so that "Guangdong and Chuxiang are interconnected".
E Ertai ordered the mainland's farming, textile, iron smelting, kiln burning, mining and other production technologies to spread in the distributary areas, so that these remote valleys of slash and burn can be developed.
Before the reform, ethnic minorities did not have the opportunity to study, let alone the right to participate in the imperial examination. After the reform, schools and instructors were generally set up in E Ertai, allowing children to attend school free of charge. There are 463 voluntary schools in Yunnan Province and 24 voluntary schools in Guizhou. Get rid of bad habits E Ertai is also carrying out activities to get rid of bad habits in distributary areas, where vendettas and fights are serious, slavery has expanded into a common practice, and consanguineous marriages are common. After the diversion, he banned vendetta and found the hell to pay the soldiers. E Ertai carried out Yongzheng's policy of "cutting the base for good" and liberated slaves. The "bone habit" in Guizhou, Yunnan, that is, an aunt's daughter must marry an uncle's son, is a typical consanguineous marriage. E Ertai realized the disadvantages of this bad habit and changed it. Yunnan is the hometown of tea, but for a long time before the Qing Dynasty, Yunnan Pu 'er tea was mainly exported to Tibet and border trade, which was mainly one of the main trade products of nomadic people in the border areas and neighboring countries controlled by the Ming Dynasty, and was not known to the inland.
During E Ertai's transfer to Governor Yungui, he set up a tea bureau in Yunnan to take charge of tea trade in Yunnan. E Ertai ordered the top Pu 'er tea in Yunnan tea garden to be purchased by the state, and personally supervised it, printed the word "E Ertai" on the tea cake and presented it to the court with caravan camel tea. Yunnan used caravan camel tea to go to Tibet and sell it in border areas. The mode of camel tea to Beijing is called tea-horse exchange, and the road that caravan once traveled is called today's ancient tea-horse road. Pu 'er tea was officially listed in the tribute book of Qing Dynasty in the tenth year of Yongzheng (1732). E Ertai's seal was found on the Yunnan tea stored in the underground palace of the Forbidden City, which proved that E Ertai personally supervised the capital of Shanggong, thus highlighting E Ertai's loyalty to Yong Zhengdi. The remaining grades of tea are allowed to be labeled with trade names and enter the mass consumer market.
The Tea Bureau established by E Ertai is still playing an active role in promoting the development of Yunnan tea trade after E Ertai was transferred to another post. In the following decades, the tea trade in Yunnan gradually flourished, and a large number of foreigners moved into Chashan, forming a prosperous scene in which every family had tea trees and every family had Chashan. Every year, the grand occasion of caravan camel tea coming to Beijing has driven people's interest in Yunnan along the way from Yunnan to Beijing. Prosperous until the end of Qing Dynasty. E Ertai has experience in water control. Before taking charge of Yunnan, he paid attention to water conservancy for a long time. In the first year of Yongzheng (1723), E Ertai was appointed as Jiangsu deployment ambassador. At that time, he "inspected Taihu Lake and planned to dredge downstream Wusong and bleed". In the second year of Yongzheng (1724), E Ertai built "Liuhe, Zhenjiang and Danyang" water conservancy projects in Jiangnan (Jiangsu). Less than two years later, because I left my job and went to the southwest, I left a lot of regrets about water control in Jiangnan. However, I still don't forget the people in Jiangnan. Before I left, I donated the remaining money from my house to buy more than 33,400 stones in the valley and deposited them in Suzhou, Songsong and Changshan for relief. "This reflects his concern and love for water conservancy in the south of the Yangtze River-water conservancy is the guarantee of agriculture. Once the water conservancy is poorly managed, there will be floods or droughts, and people will have no livelihood. Until the fifth year of Yongzheng (1727), E Ertai, who was far away in Yunnan, was still thinking about water conservancy in the south of the Yangtze River. At that time, E Ertai, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, was in the ascendant in the southwest minority areas. When the war was still urgent, he did not forget to play Chen Jiangnan's water conservancy to the court. This shows that it fully realizes the importance of water conservancy to the country, especially to a big agricultural country like China.
In the ninth year of Yongzheng (173 1), E Ertai, governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, set up a special fund for water conservancy, saying that "all kinds of water conservancy projects can be built forever and must be repaired every year." People who take it from the land that needs water control generally collect taxes and salt taxes on land price increase transactions, which generally does not increase the burden on ordinary people. And the funds are handed over to the honest officials for management, and the accounts are reimbursed every year, "records are kept for permanent construction". In this way, water conservancy funds can be budgeted every year and integrated with local finance.
In order to make Yunnan's water conservancy more efficient and safe, the court agreed to the setting played by E Ertai, saying that "all officials who have water conservancy places in the province, such as Zhi, Tongguan, Zhou Tong, state officials, calendar, officials, county officials and classical history, are given water conservancy titles". Although there is no special water conservancy official position, the system construction with local deputy officials as the highest water conservancy official has greatly improved the importance of local officials to water conservancy, thus enhancing their sense of responsibility and mission in water conservancy. In terms of personnel, it has laid a good foundation for local water control and effectively developed the water control capacity and agricultural productivity in Yunnan minority areas.
The above two systems all reflect E Ertai's rational thinking on developing water conservancy through systems. In the middle and early Qing Dynasty, such officials who attached great importance to water conservancy and used scientific methods to control water conservancy were really rare. Especially in the remote areas of southwest ethnic minorities, the economic resources and human resources for water control are far less than those in the Central Plains and Jiangnan. E Ertai, a politician and trusted minister of Yongzheng, often talked with Yongzheng about the way of employing people, emphasizing the importance of talents rather than mediocrity, preferring to use talented people without talents. In the 4th year of Yongzheng (1726), E Ertai emphasized the importance of proper employment. As the saying goes, "politics has priorities, people have strengths and weaknesses, and people have strengths and weaknesses and short lives." If they are used against their talents, it will be difficult for them to be self-effective. Even if they are wise, they may make mistakes. " Use what you can, that is, China people can do something, that is, small people can help each other. Because of talents, places, events and times, officials will not abandon people and politics will not waste things.
E Ertai added, "Don't be confused about big things, and don't be confused about small things. Small things are not confused, and big things are confused. " "Honest but slightly less talented, credible and not available, smart and out of range, available and not credible. However, everything can help, although the villain should cherish and teach. But if you can't help, it's useless, even good people have to move it. "
He stressed that we must choose the right people and what kind of people to use in order to bring talents into full play and do what we should do well. He believes that the ultimate goal of appointing officials is to do things well-"not wasting the government", which is the starting point for him to consider employing people. He promoted and reused Sheng Yuan, Zhang Guangsi and others, making them important figures in the political reform. Based on his understanding of his subordinates, E Ertai promoted a group of people and joined others, thus basically knowing people and doing their duty well.