There was a sound of drums and drums in the plains, and soon a group of uniformed knights rushed into the village like a whirlwind. The villagers stood on both sides of the road in shock, looking at these majestic knights and not daring to move rashly.
"Where are the neighbors here? Come and greet us quickly!"
The knights dismounted on the open ground in the village, and soon a leader held his knife and looked at the surrounding villagers and shouted loudly.
After hearing this, the tense expressions of the villagers relaxed a little, as long as they were not looking for them, that would be fine, and then some people enthusiastically ran away to inform the neighbor and village chief.
Not long after, the neighborhood chief and the village chief, who were always impressive in front of the villagers and villagers, came up tremblingly. From a distance, they crossed their arms and bowed their waists and said, "General, what do you need?"
The soldier commander, who was impatient with waiting, rolled his eyelids and immediately shouted: "A few months ago, the state government sent an order to the counties, counties and townships, ordering you and other civil officials to inspect the households in the villages and towns. The inspection is completed.
No?"
After hearing this, the village chief and others had expressions of embarrassment on their faces. They looked at Sakon who was still oblivious and stared at the lively villagers. Then he lowered his head and said helplessly: "Reporting to the general, farming has been busy since autumn, and it's still not working now."
There are many things that have not been completed. Every family member is away from home, so it’s hard to count clearly..."
"Since you can't count, someone can do it for you! Quickly summon the many young people in this household, don't miss anything!"
The soldier commander gave the order again with a straight face, and only then did the onlookers realize that they had come to the village to arrest the soldiers.
So they all turned around and ran to their homes. Some of them jumped directly into the fence with quick hands and feet, and locked the fence door from the inside. The scene was very lively for a while.
Seeing that the village chief and neighbor chiefs could not evade the matter, under the coercion of the soldiers who entered the village, they knocked on the door of each house with a grimace and shouted: "Zhang Sanlu, don't hide! Your second pill is already half a year old, hurry up and get rid of that
Hand it over, kid!"
"My son wants to work in the house, so he doesn't go to the school to run wild!"
The owner of the household held a wooden stick across his hand and stood behind the fence, shouting loudly in reply: "A good farm boy, if you don't learn how to plow the land, why should you go to that school to learn some acrobatics that are useless for production!"
"What nonsense are you talking about! What kind of good boy can you teach in your household? Can you also sing 'chirp, chirp, chirp'?"
The captain knocked on the door to persuade, and at the same time he became happy. He couldn't help but look back at the soldiers entering the village and asked with a smile: "The generals are practicing in the camp, do you want to chirp again? We, the governor of the state, sing this,
What kind of elegance is it that you have to go into the house to remind me?"
When they heard this, all the knights' faces darkened, and they said angrily: "The Governor is very wise, how can you ordinary people understand it? If you don't learn how to chirp, how can you chirp!"
As he spoke, the soldier commander looked at the head of the household who was blocking the door and said loudly: "The Grand Governor has issued an order to transfer 10% of the rent of Akita like you and other countrymen to provide food for the school children. Half of your family can't go to school.
The materials have been put in. If you are a big-bellied man, you can still make money after eating!"
When the head of the household heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he quickly considered whether it would be more cost-effective to leave his son at home to help with work or to send him to school to save food rations.
As the saying goes, a young man is a poor man. Thinking about the young man's ambition to have a grudge against food and the poor worker against money, the head of the household gradually softened his attitude. After thinking about it, he said: "I am over sixty-five years old."
, Yi Lu is also a Ban Ding, can we go together?"
Similar scenes occurred all over Jingzhou. The reason was that the state government issued an order to encourage students to go to school after the autumn, which ordered all households in the state to have children aged 12 to 14 years old and need to enter school to serve as slaves.
, there is a two-month semester every year, and if you do not enroll in school, you will be considered as a deserter.
Following the issuance of this government order, the young men and women from households with equal fields scattered throughout the state were transported by the county and county governments in carloads to Rangcheng, the prefecture, and sent to the newly completed state school in Rangcheng.
Li Tai entered the state last year and has been working hard to expand the number of households in the state. From war and plunder to interest exchange, and even attracting various policies, the results achieved are quite amazing.
Last year, there were only more than 8,000 registered households in Jingzhou, but after verification this autumn, the cumulative number of registered households in various counties and counties has soared to more than 23,000, an increase of nearly twice as much!
Such an achievement can definitely be regarded as outstanding anywhere. This is not the first time that Li Tai has served as a prefecture and county governor. However, the people's livelihood foundation in northern Shaanxi was really poor last year. In addition, he deliberately used
Military villages, private villages and other forms of concealment of cultivated land and population have never been outstanding, and the states and counties are ranked in the middle and lower reaches, and occasionally at the bottom.
But seeing the increase in the number of households in Jingzhou this year, he felt that he had hope of achieving the best performance this year. Since the number of household registrations has increased, other aspects cannot hold back.
Especially the school building in this state is so grandly built. If I don’t bring a group of schoolchildren to show off their achievements, it will feel a bit awkward. Although Jingzhou is mine, it is also yours. In the final analysis, it is still mine and you.
I must also study hard to make my power stronger!
He dared to popularize compulsory education such as literacy classes in Jingzhou, of course, because various sources of income increased his confidence. The cost of education seems to be large, but the workload is actually not large after careful calculation.
There are more than 20,000 registered residents, but not every family has a middle-aged male of the right age. It would be good to have half of them.
Literacy classes are held every two months, so there are six classes a year. They may be concentrated in late autumn and early spring due to the restrictions on farming. However, in the early days of the implementation of the decree, it is inevitable that all households will not be able to send their children to school.
Now, the penetration rate can reach 30% to 40%, which is already very good.
When we continue to improve in the future, the corresponding experience and scale will also increase, and we can also be diverted to lower-level governments such as counties and counties.
As for the main cost of food, these half-sized boys can really eat it. The consumption of one person is not even inferior to that of an adult soldier who maintains normal camp training.
After a literacy class course, a single person can consume nearly two dan of grain. Under the most ideal situation, if all the children of school age in the state participate in literacy education, the amount of food will be less than 30,000 dan in one year. According to the harvest of three dan per mu
Calculated in terms of grain, one hundred hectares of fertile land would be enough to educate school children in the state for a whole year.
One hundred hectares of cultivated land is certainly not a small amount, but in some areas where land resources are highly concentrated, a large manor owner may control dozens of hectares or even more land. Therefore, killing a local tycoon can bring countless losses to the state.
Thousands or even tens of thousands of school children receive literacy education.
These two months of literacy education may not change their lives, but it can give them more experiences than their grandparents and parents have never had before. And if they perform well enough in these two months of literacy education,
, the state capital will of course provide them with continuing education opportunities.
A literacy class can't be said to be a bright future, but it provides a possibility that only consumes one or a few wealthy people. In short, Li Tai feels that this transaction is not a loss.
Of course, in addition to Li Tai not caring about the consumables of the rich, it is also because he is really wealthy.
Not to mention the stable tax sources brought about by the expansion of domestic registered households, the Hanshui trade conducted with Yueyang Wang Xiaoqi and others, after the first few trials and explorations, the performance and profits in the next few months were all
Climbing new highs.
Ankang rich man Li Qianzhe didn't even bother to dig the gold mine at home. He sent his servants to go deep into the Ziwu Valley to build strongholds one after another. They were responsible for transporting goods full-time, which greatly increased the shipment rate. It can be seen that the business brought about
The profit returns are so rapid that not even gold mining can keep up.
The business was running smoothly, and it was getting bigger and bigger. After Li Tai sent Liang Shiyan and others to build a city in Caiyang to garrison troops, the friendship and tacit understanding between Li Tai and the king of Yueyang, Xiao Qi, reached a new level, so his dividends also continued.
Continuously exported from Xiangyang.
Of course you have to spend the money you make, especially the large amount of Nanliang iron money among the profits. These things still have a certain purchasing power, so it would be a pity to sell them all to melt down the armored soldiers. Before the chaos in Nanliang, Li Tai also
Let people search and buy supplies in the Handong area, and then transport them back to Jingzhou via Xiangyang.
It is a pity that due to the continuous bad relationship between the Xiao Qing brothers and Jiangling, their business development in the Yangtze River region is not fast enough and efficient enough, and they have to passively wait for buyers from Jiangling to come here.
He took the initiative to explore the market but was blocked.
But Xiangyang is not the only choice for Jiangling. After all, before the Han River Trade Road, the Shuzhong Trade Road was the mainstream of exchanges between Nanliang and the Western Regions. Shuzhong also has a leading industry such as Shu Brocade, so the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are still accustomed to
Yu went to Sichuan to purchase goods.
Even if Xiangyang has a better price advantage, it will be difficult to shake Shuzhong's position in this business ecology in a short time. After all, it is not only the buyers and sellers who benefit from this long-standing trade road, but anyone related to it.
All benefited a lot.
However, Li Tai also has an important means that he has not yet come up with, and that is white sugar, whose technology and production capacity are increasingly mature and rising. When this thing is come out, it will be a high-pressure water pump, and Shuzhong's market competitiveness is simply not enough.