"Isn't this your Majesty's warrant? She actually gave this to you, Zhao Kang, what are you going to do?"
As he was feeling annoyed, Zhao Kang said angrily: "Go and study quickly, it's none of your business."
Xiao Xuance: "If you don't tell me, Your Highness still insists on asking! Believe it or not, I told my sister that you were actually telling us stories in the study room all day long."
"Hey, you hapless thing, you even threatened me!" Zhao Kang laughed angrily.
Xiao Xuance said quickly: "As you said, we are brothers. We can't keep good things to ourselves."
"I'm going to pick out the shit, so you go too!"
Zhao Kang said angrily, in his opinion, managing the sanitation in the outer city is just like picking up shit.
"I've never tried this before, is it fun?" Xiao Xuance looked a little eager to try, leaving Zhao Kangqian completely speechless.
Then I thought about it, I just had a warrant, and the people from the Military and Horse Division might not be able to command them. Bringing these two hundred and fifty would also be a disguised backing, and it would be much easier to do things.
He immediately changed his mind and said with a smile: "Since His Highness wants to go, let's go together. If this thing is done beautifully, His Majesty may even praise you."
Xiao Xuance immediately became vigilant. Experience told him that whenever Zhao Kang showed such a smile, something bad would happen!
"You won't trick me, will you?"
Zhao Kang: "How is that possible? We are good brothers! These words are really hurtful."
"Then return the two thousand taels to me first."
"Brother, talking about money hurts your feelings. Come on, I will take you out of the palace to play."
Soldiers and Horses Division
The full name is the Wucheng Military and Horse Division, which patrols thieves, clears streets, ditches and prisoners, and bans fires. It is equivalent to the Beijing Public Security Bureau.
Zhao Kang brought Xiao Xuance to the Yamen, and after showing his warrant, he quickly met the commander-in-chief Liu Jian'an.
As soon as he heard about the purpose of the two people's visit, Liu Jian'an's eyes immediately seemed to be looking at two lunatics, and he confirmed again: "Your Highness, Mr. Zhao, you two said that you want to clean up all the filth in the outer city.
Ban people from excreting anywhere?"
"Not bad." Zhao Kang nodded.
Liu Jian'an suddenly smiled bitterly: "Do you know what you are talking about? If this matter could be done, I would have done it long ago, why do I need to wait for you?"
"Is this difficult?" Xiao Xuance was a little confused.
Liu Jian'an quickly sat the two of them down and explained: "Your Highness, you don't know. Just the year before last, I wanted to change the current situation in the outer city. I issued a decree prohibiting people from dumping filth at will. As a result, we almost didn't get into a fight."
"The common people have long been accustomed to this kind of thing. If you insist on changing their habits, they will fight you tooth and nail! Because they think this is a matter of course."
Xiao Xuance didn't believe it: "That's not true."
Zhao Kang nodded. He had experienced this kind of thing before and naturally knew the difficulties involved. But he had succeeded in Yuanjiang County back then. Now he would fail if he just changed places?
"Master Liu, don't worry, you are just responsible for dispatching people, I will handle the rest."
Zhao Kang snorted coldly: "Whoever dares not to listen, I will sew his buttocks shut!"
Xiao Xuance and Liu Jian'an shuddered and felt a chill in their chrysanthemums. They looked at Zhao Kang at the same time. This guy must be joking, right?
Soon, two thousand guards from the Bingma Division were dispatched to the outer city. Zhao Kang and Xiao Xuance did not follow them, but went to the Ministry of Household Affairs to collect money.
Mr. Li is out, and you can't be careless about something as principled as money.
Zhao Kang opened his mouth and asked for 20,000 taels, which immediately alerted the Minister of Household Affairs. Hearing that he wanted to use the money to build a toilet, he became very angry.
"Are you kidding me? Twenty thousand taels to repair the toilet?"
You’re not that corrupt after all!
"That's right, it's 20,000 taels. What I want to build is not one but hundreds of toilets!"
Xiao Xuance waved his hand, obviously not knowing what the concept of twenty thousand taels was. Under the guidance of Zhao Kang, His Highness the Prince believed that what he was doing was very meaningful.
"Oh, my highness, do you know how much twenty thousand taels is? If you exchange it for copper coins, you can fill up this room!" the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue said in a dignified way.
Xiao Xuance was too lazy to talk nonsense and just threw away His Majesty's warrant. You can do whatever you want!
There was no other way, so the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue had no choice but to allocate funds. After receiving the money, Xiao Xuance asked: "Where to go next?"
"Go to the Ministry of Works. Of course they have to do things like repair toilets."
With money, the Ministry of Works was naturally easy to talk to. Zhao Kang and Xiao Xuance spent an afternoon at the Ministry of Works to plan the public toilet area in the entire outer city. The next step was for the Ministry of Works to start construction.
Once the money is in place, the efficiency of the work will certainly not be compromised.
The progress was very fast in the first three days, and the public toilets had begun to take shape. But on the fourth day, something went wrong.
Liu Jian'an ran back in a hurry: "Your Highness, something happened."
"What's wrong?" Xiao Xuance asked.
Liu Jian'an hurriedly said: "The people gathered and said that our notice was unfair and demanded an explanation."
"Rebellion against them!"
Before Xiao Xuance could speak, Zhao Kang slapped the table: "Take someone with me!"
Liu Jian'an looked at Xiao Xuance and was a little stunned. Who is the boss?
A group of people rushed to the scene in a hurry.
The scene was very lively. Thousands of people from the outer city gathered and were confronting the soldiers and horses. The noise was very noisy.
"Why don't you let us poop and pee!"
"That's right, what the hell is this world like? Normally this tax and that tax are ignored! And they don't even let us poop!"
"What should I do if I don't have a toilet at home?"
"This is pushing us people into a dead end!"
"I just like to poop in the street, it's so fun!"
Xiao Xuance's face was pale. When had he seen such a battle? Seeing the common people picking up poles and wooden stools as if they were about to take action, he tugged on Zhao Kang's sleeves in a panic: "Why don't we retreat? There are so many
If someone fights, they will trample us to death?"
"A mob is afraid of what they will do!"
Zhao Kang hummed and pulled Xiao Xuance in, shouting: "Who said you like to poop in the street?"
"It's me!" A man walked out with a sinister face and exposed breasts. He looked like a rogue type.
"Very good, you are very brave."
Zhao Kang gave a thumbs up: "Here comes someone!"
Several guards behind him stood up: "Sir."
The man was a little frightened when he saw this, but when he saw that there were so many people behind him, he was no longer afraid: "Why, you officials are going to use your power to bully others?"
"What a joke. If I don't bully others, what am I going to do as an official?"
Zhao Kang smiled and pointed his finger: "Don't you like to poop in the street? Someone drag him down and sew him up for me. I want to see how you poop in the street!"
Xiao Xuance's eyes widened, Liu Jian'an also looked at Zhao Kang with a look of disbelief on his face, and everyone around him was startled.
The eyes of the two guards trembled: "Big. Big. Sir, is it really a seam?"
"Oh, I forgot that you are not wearing needlework. I have one here. Hold him down. I am good at this kind of needlework!" Zhao Kang said and took out a cotton-threaded silver needle from his arms.
