In addition to the plague, smallpox is the number one malignant infectious disease in this time and space. It can even affect whether the Manchus enter the country and plunder, so it is the focus of the Senate's prevention. As early as when the Fubo Army attacked the city, the work teams were in various places in the countryside.
A "vaccination bureau" has been set up in the big market to persuade villagers to vaccinate against smallpox through local folk arts and social dramas in the countryside. Generally speaking, the vaccination situation is quite optimistic, mainly because Jiujiang is located on a transportation thoroughfare and has many merchants coming and going.
, smallpox occurred frequently in the local area, and the villagers suffered greatly from it. One-third of the adults had smallpox scars on their faces. Therefore, as the saying goes, "A child is only half born, and only after smallpox is released is the whole child". Recently,
With the development of vaccination work in the past two years, the number of infants and young children dying from smallpox infection has been greatly reduced. Many banners have been hung in the vaccination bureau, indicating that the health work of the Senate has been recognized by some villagers.
But the education industry is not so optimistic. In addition to the scholars who participated in the imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to studying in official schools, various clans in various places have private schools and clan schools, with Confucian classics as relatively unified teaching materials, and there are many teachers of traditional education.
A sizable education industry has formed.
The Senate abolished the imperial examination and implemented new education, but it was seriously hampered by the lack of educational resources. There was a lack of teachers for new education and a serious shortage of new schools. As one of the largest counties in the Pearl River Delta, Nanhai County has a population of hundreds of thousands.
There is only one national model school built in Dali, and there is no new school in a prosperous cultural and educational area like Jiujiang. This is equivalent to cutting off the future of most scholars, and something will happen sooner or later.
The opinion of the Ministry of Education is that in addition to providing teachers and financial support for adapting to junior primary schools, the large number of private schools and social studies that exist in Hainan should be recognized as legitimate and not banned. However, the promotion of culture
The proficiency test, as long as one can obtain the Grade B cultural certificate, is equivalent to the ability of junior primary school students. At the same time, comprehensively sell fiscally subsidized junior primary school textbooks and strive for social studies to use these textbooks. At the same time, short-term simple teacher training will be provided for free.
Provide new education training to private school teachers and scholars who are willing to become teachers, and issue "simple teacher training certificates".
However, these policies are still a bit complicated for local wealthy families. After the abolition of the imperial examination system, they were confused. Without the imperial examination, how can scholars make progress?
Therefore, many nearby wealthy clans wanted to invite Zhang Xiao to live with them for a short period of time, in order to plan for the family's future. After being declined by Zhang Xiao, the clan leaders saw that they could not invite the county magistrate, so they all came to Jiujiang Ruins to make suggestions.
In the marching tent, Zhang Xiao sat on a marching chair with his legs crossed, holding the ear of a large glass cup. The brown-yellow tea stains on the wall of the cup indicated that the cup had been used for a long time. On the outer wall of the cup,
The words "For the Senate and the People" were printed on it. He blew on the tea in the cup, took a sip to test the temperature, then closed his upper and lower teeth to block the tea leaves in the cup, and drank all the tea.
By chance, two tea leaves stuck to his front teeth, so Zhang Xiao picked them up with his hands and threw them back into the teacup.
The squires in the tent saw this, and no one dared to complain, but they all felt that it was really an insult to gentlemen.
The Mingqian Longjing served at Hangzhou Station is Zhang Xiao's favorite, and the natives sitting on both sides also placed a cup in front of them. The squires who came were all elderly people, and they kept talking for a long time without giving a drink.
It really doesn't make sense.
Guan Boyi also took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and said in slightly hoarse Cantonese Mandarin: "My parents in the county have good taste. This tea is fragrant and sweet, and goes into the throat mellowly. After drinking it, I feel a sense of peace."
The Qi, lingering between the teeth and cheeks, must be the best West Lake Longjing." The other squires also followed up with a few compliments.
Guan Boyi is the current patriarch of Guan Shimeitang, and his younger brother Guan Jiyi was a Jinshi in the same year as Chen Zizhuang. Now he has resigned and returned to his hometown, staying in seclusion. But for the future of the clan, Guan Boyi still holds on to his old bones.
Came to Zhang Xiao's tent.
Guan Boyi added: "Students are bold enough to petition the county parents on behalf of young talents. They also hope that the county parents will write to the court to resume the imperial examination and select talents to serve the country. The efforts of tens of thousands of scholars from Lingnan over ten years will be in vain."
"We, the Senate of the Great Song Dynasty, have returned to China in order to rebuild China and save the people. Don't worry, the door of the Senate is always open. We will not reject any collaborators, but -" Zhang Xiao prolonged his voice and said
: "You have to follow our rules."
After the Senate occupied Guangdong and Guangxi, many people still took chances and thought that the imperial examination would be resumed soon. However, more than two years passed in the blink of an eye, and there was no sign of recovery.
Song Guowei, the patriarch of the Song family, said cautiously: "The county parents have worked tirelessly since they took office and went to the countryside to observe the people's sentiments, which is really a blessing to the place. The government has established new schools, implemented new laws, and the atmosphere has changed. We are all happy and excited.
Unfortunately, our hometown is located in a remote area, and our children do not have the chance to attend the Nanhai National Demonstration School and cannot serve the country. I hope the parents in the county will tell the court about our martial arts aspirations."
"I understand your intentions. I did intend to inspect the location of the new school during this trip," Zhang Xiao put down the glass tea cup and said, "But now there is a lot of waste to be done, and everything has to be spent. The training of tens of thousands of troops costs thousands of gold every day.
, the plague in Guangzhou closed the city for several months. The Senate sympathized with the people's sufferings and not only confiscated a lot of taxes, but also exempted many small traders from taxes. Last year, there was a severe drought in the spring and summer, and there was a heavy snowfall at the end of the year, so the Senate opened warehouses to provide disaster relief. Just say
This kind of pox vaccination is now free of charge, and no money is collected. Although the Senate is rich in the world, it cannot make money out of thin air. Whether this school can be built depends on the sincerity of everyone here."
Since ancient times, wealth has never been revealed. When it comes to money, the gentry will naturally cry about poverty. Zeng Xingxiang, the head of the Zeng family, said tremblingly: "The parents of the county know it clearly. As far as the students know, the land in our hometown is about 700 hectares, and the land tax is three liters per mu.
Two liters, both pond and monk summer were five liters. In the 10th year of Wanli, the county magistrate Zhou Wenqing went to the countryside to clean up the land of his father-in-law. The archer saw that the embroidery on the pond in the village was wrong and it was difficult to analyze. He reported it to Wenqing and implemented the method of "mixing the father-in-law". Later
Tong County has a shortfall of 1,828 hectares, and an additional tax of one cent, six cents and four cents per acre is called Dinggong. Jiujiang asked to be exempted from the increase because of the "hunger", and soon the discussion became heated and competition was inevitable.
I don’t want my hometown to suffer the burden of two liters being mixed into five liters.”
Wei Bifu had already told Zhang Xiao about the "fixed bow and false tax", but he didn't expect that Jiujiang had another story about a "husband-in-law". Zhang Xiao waved to Huang Xiyin and asked in a low voice: "What is the method of "husband-in-law" they are talking about?
what happened?"
Huang Xiyin leaned over and whispered in Zhang Xiao's ear and explained: "During the Wanli period, Zhou Wenqing felt that it was difficult to distinguish the ponds from the land in Jiujiang, so he simply treated them all as ponds for taxation. Those fields that were not originally ponds were recorded in the fish scale book.
It is also a pond, and the tax quota for ponds is much higher than that for fields."
"Oh -" Zhang Xiao nodded and said to the squires: "It is indeed unreasonable to set false taxes. This is a long-standing shortcoming of the previous dynasty. You should cooperate with the Senate to clear the land again and pay taxes based on the actual land. But it's a mess.
It has been fifty years since this happened. During the Wanli period, the ponds and land here were still beautiful and difficult to distinguish. Now I see that Jiujiang is already eight out of ten fish ponds and two out of ten fields, which can be said to be worthy of its name."
This change from the Wanli period to the late Ming Dynasty shows that the fish ponds in Jiujiang expanded at an extremely rapid rate. Of course, this was also stimulated by Zhou Wenqing’s Qingzhang policy. If the fields were not converted into mulberry fish ponds with higher profits,
, people who own land will face serious burdens or even losses.
During his inspection, Zhang Xiao also discovered that there was no trend of replacing fruit-based fish ponds with mulberry-based fish ponds in the Jiujiang area in the late Ming Dynasty. At this time, the core issues facing pond-based agriculture were the development of low-lying areas and the development of pond fish farming. Mulberry-based fish ponds
, fruit, rice and other crop cultivation are in a trend of expansion rather than mutual substitution. When it comes to raw land development, the efficiency of small farmers is far less than that of organized groups such as clans and farming brigades.
Seeing that all the squires were silent, Zhang Xiao said again: "Don't worry, our Senate does not like to engage in zero-sum games. Making the cake bigger is our style. As long as you follow the Senate with peace of mind, the Senate will not let you suffer.
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This string of new words made the old men confused. Huang Xiyin happened to have discussed related topics with Zhang Jiayu before, so he stood up and explained: "What Zhang County Zun means is that the Senate of the Song Dynasty has various advanced technologies. As long as you are familiar with the Great Song Dynasty,
Song has a sincere heart, and the Senate can ask you to grow more food, raise more fish, and build better cocoons. Your efforts now will be your harvest tomorrow."
Guan Boyi said: "The student is not talented, but I am willing to listen attentively."
"Mr. Guan, most of the fish and flower industry in this town are run by your tribe?" Zhang Xiao opened the folding fan with one hand and fanned it in front of him a few times. There were no ink poems or paintings on the white fan, only a few words written on it.
Ordinary big words - air conditioning is better.
Guan Boyi didn't know what Zhang Xiao meant, so he replied cautiously: "It is true. After Huang Xiaoyang's rebellion in the previous dynasty, all the Dan households escaped, and there was no where to find fish in the West Sea, so it fell on the villagers, and all the money and wages came from
Xihaiyuhua. Our family has a serious family tradition. In all dynasties, payment of food after classes has been a priority. Even after the revolution of the country, we have never been in arrears."
Zhang Xiao asked again: "In that case, do you know how many fish flowers are caught in Jiujiang every year?"
Guan Boyi said: "It's like the stars in the sky, innumerable."
"Wrong," Zhang Xiao put away his fan and patted his hands, raised the corners of his mouth, and said: "The pond in Nanhai County is 150,000 acres, and based on the stocking of more than 1,200 fry per acre, it will cost about 180 million fish flowers.
Ten million fish. Although not all of the 150,000 acres of ponds are mulberry fish ponds, there are still many Wangtian ponds and wild ponds. The amount of stocking is less than that of mulberry fish ponds. However, Jiujiang fish flowers are exported to Fujian, Guangdong and even Huguang.
As a result, the township should produce no less than 200 million fish flakes every year. Taking into account the losses in fishing, transportation, and breeding, the annual catch should be no less than 300 million fish. Is there anything wrong with what the county says?
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