After getting the promise from Li Jie, and it was a written promise, the officials and merchants of Qi State immediately began to investigate. As for Li Jie's personal credit, businessmen of Qi State quite trusted it. After many years of contact, the local officials and businessmen groups of Qi State
, all believe that the territories under Li Jie's rule have a good political and business environment, especially the most important point, stability.
Although social turmoil can also make a fortune for government and business groups, this kind of wealth is meaningless. If you buy and sell in one fell swoop, even if you squeeze the bottom to the extreme, can you get three ounces of oil out of two ounces of bones?
It's just that if you encounter "national crisis wealth", it will be distributed when it is time to do so. If you don't take advantage of it, others will.
This also makes the new generation of Qi State extremely unscrupulous. For the sake of profit, they dare to fight against the monarch who has been with them for decades. And it is not a question of whether they dare or not, because they have such strength.
The purpose of inspecting Huaizhong City is not to pick and choose, but to find ways to integrate into it and adapt to the life, market and even the rhythm of officialdom in Huaizhong City.
For the elites of the Qi State in this era, when they inspected a place, they never observed the local social ecology by "going into the hall", but by "seeing the big from the small" and starting from the subtle.
Education is an important criterion for local officials and business groups in Qi State.
If you want to be a qualified businessman, you don't have to know anything, but you can't learn without learning.
Valuable experience is also an important part of knowledge.
In addition to this, individual education is also learning.
The well-known wealthy businessmen throughout the Qi Kingdom, without exception, are all strategic experts who can be heard among the princes.
The kings of some small and medium-sized countries often hire some "advisors" when they govern, among which the proportion of Qi businessmen is quite high.
The heritage of the veteran overlord is definitely down to the smallest detail.
"What do you think, Master?"
The roads in Huaizhong City are very smooth. On a new-style carriage, an old father and son are looking around. After two blocks, there will be a "primary school" with about fifty people.
Among the cities of Qi State, the basic education institution "Xiang" run by the township officials is of this scale.
But after all, Qi is a big, old country with a profound foundation. It took more than a hundred years of accumulation to have abundant teaching resources and teachers, as well as small wealthy families who can receive education.
The people of Qi know very well what the predecessor of Huaizhong City was. More than a hundred years ago, this place was still a state, a run-down place, a place that the emperor would send people to despise at every turn.
Later, it returned to the Chu State, but it was not well managed. It was only used as a military bridgehead to deter the rookies on both sides of the Huai River.
Later, when Wu and Chu fought for hegemony, the local area became a battlefield. Only on top of the ruins was the state of Chu re-governed.
The actual reign under Li Jie was pitifully short.
But because it was so short, the officials and merchants of Qi were even more shocked.
Order was restored very quickly, production was restored very quickly, and private economic activities were also restored very quickly.
Outside of the rationing system, barter transactions at the bottom level are very frequent, mainly between the high, middle and low classes in Huaizhong City, and the surrounding countries, barbarians, barbarians, and Jingman.
There are all kinds of materials, there is a trading market and logistics transfer center with a sound system, and there is also a fair market referee that all parties are quite satisfied with.
The "fair scale" passed down from Yinxiang made the people of Qi feel that Huaizhong City was determined to run the local area for a long time.
Otherwise, if you just want to get a vote and leave, there is no need to pay attention to the troubles of these low-level people.
"The local alleys are not wealthy, and the cost of education is extremely high. How can the villagers of Huaizhong afford to go to school?"
The old master brushed his beard in confusion and asked. According to the scale of Huaizhong City, this is a huge expense. It can be said to be a quite "heavy" burden for both the local government and local families.
“Why not choose a primary school and ask?”
"good."
The old man nodded and asked his son to drive to a nearby primary school.
Two blocks, one elementary school, a very delicate arrangement.
Each primary school is small in size, with about fifty students.
But the old man seemed to have remembered something, which was a little strange: "There seem to be more than 200 people in Xiangxu, Dongcheng. What's the difference among them...what's the explanation?"
"Is Dongcheng rich?"
“Is there any saying that the rich are crowded and the poor are spacious?”
Pointing to the primary school, in terms of the utilization rate of the building area, it is obvious that the poorer the place, the more crowded it is. Putting a large number of children from poor families together for teaching not only saves land, but also saves teaching resources.
Only places with money should open small stoves.
"this……"
The father and son didn't understand either. When they came to Huaizhong City, they needed a month or two to adapt because of the language barrier. When they first came, it was okay to bring a translator with them. After a while, they were able to get rid of the translator.
If you go and see the flowers yourself, what you see will be more real.
Arriving at the gate of a primary school, the father and son looked up and saw that the name of the primary school was "Xicheng Primary School No. 4 Branch".
It is more like a house than a school, but this house has a courtyard in front and a courtyard in the back, and the area is relatively large.
The base of the school wall is made of rammed earth, but the wall is a fence, not plastered with mud. Instead, it is made of bamboo sticks and wooden poles wrapped with a large number of dead vines.
There is a guard box at the door, and the door is languid in it. Outside the guard box, a coal stove is burning, with a kettle on it, smoking and hot, and the smoke is white.
Seeing a carriage approaching, Menzi, who was a little disabled, immediately stood up, opened the door of the sentry box, limped to the door with an eyebrow-leveling stick in his hand, and rushed towards him and saluted: "I don't know why you two dear men, why?"
Come?"
"Don't worry, old man. I have thousands of people in Qi."
The arrival of the crocodiles, who spoke weird words and local dialects, were all distorted. In the past, the "Tongzhuan" translators from various countries were confused when they arrived at Huaizhong City, completely doubting life.
"It turns out he is a gentleman of Qi State."
Although Menzi looked slightly relieved, he did not relax the eyebrow-leveling stick in his hand.
The old father and son looked at each other, and they were both a little surprised, especially the son. He whispered to his father in the dialect of Qi State: "Master, although this man has leg problems, he is very human. He has a long pole in his hand, and the white sand brave man said 'whistle'
The stick' is specially made in Jiangyin."
After saying this, the old master immediately understood that the disabled janitor in front of him, who was neither humble nor arrogant, was probably once one of the brave men in Baisha under Li Jie's command.
"I came here because I want to clear up the confusion in my heart."
The old master didn't make any more twists and turns, and asked straightforwardly, "May I ask the local people how they can have enough money to help their children and grandchildren receive education?"
"Subsidy."
"..."
"The first Li paid the subsidy."
"..."
"For each of the four branches, there will be a food subsidy of 70,000 shi per year."
Menzi looked at Qi Guo and his son and didn't hide anything. He stared at the two of them and pointed back with his hand, "The school land is my private property. I signed a ten-year lease contract with the shogunate."
"..."
When they heard that the school land actually belonged to the disabled disciple in front of them, Qi Guo and his son were stunned. They stood there for a long time, speechless.
I don't even know what to say, I don't even know what to say.
"Each four branches...70,000 shi of food subsidy, one year?"
"One year."
Menzi nodded, "Every ten days, go to the shogunate to sign and sign, and get the voucher. The converted amount is about four to five hundred dan. If you don't need rice, you can convert it into dried meat, salted fish, silk cloth, etc. Tables, chairs, and benches can also be used."
"..."
Qi Guo and his son looked like they had seen a ghost. They thought it was because the locals in Huaizhong City were particularly wealthy and attached great importance to education.
The result is Wu Guomao’s personal sexy operation?!
Each four branch campuses are given a food subsidy of 70,000 shi, and that’s still one year?
How many branch schools are there in the entire Huaizhong City?!
How many acres of farmland are there in the entire Huaizhong area?!
No wonder there is a strange rationing system, no wonder land is being reclaimed everywhere, no wonder there are ditch irrigation projects near Huai Zhong City, no wonder Wu Zhou in the Huai River Basin transports most food.
These piles of things are connected in series one by one, which gives the old father and son of Qi a sense of fantasy.
Does Qi have any subsidies for education? Yes.
But if you stop at the level of country scholar or country doctor, you will never go deep into the countryside and alleys.
For rulers, there is no need to require the common people to have complete etiquette. The cost of in-depth education is so high that if you think about it, it will be as difficult as climbing to the sky.
But here, a savage-born king of Wu ordered a strong man to play so big?
"Uncle Huai Shui, all the heroes in the world go out to fight, and it costs a lot of money. How can they abandon the good and fight for the weak?!"
The old master was very curious, bowed to the door, and asked sincerely.
“Sacrifice the fundamentals and pursue the inferiors?”
The disciple couldn't help but hold the eyebrow-raising stick in his arms, put his hands in his sleeves, then thought for a while, looked at the old father and son of Qi State: "Shang Jun, Xia Liu Jun also persuaded Guo Shou Li like this earlier, saying that it was
Military and political affairs come first, and education comes later. But later, Prime Minister Li held a general meeting and said that 'it takes ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to cultivate people', and we should look at things from a development perspective..."
"..."
"..."
After saying goodbye to the guard and de facto principal of the "Fourth Branch of Xicheng Primary School", the old father and son from Qi State both looked excited in the carriage.
Even the old master, who was very indifferent at the beginning, is now shaking his head and laughing: "You can buy property in Huaizhong."
"good."
The son who was driving was also smiling and nodding.