Become a feudal king from today - #889 - Chapter 903: Peace

“Have all the boys and girls in the village reached school age gone to work?” Zhao Xu asked Li Zheng standing in front of a thatched house. ReadМ

Li Zheng sighed, “Back to Your Highness, that’s not the case. There are still eight families in the village who have not sent their children to the father-in-law, or they have only given away boys, while the girls stayed at home to help with farm work.”

“What are the reasons? Don’t you want to go to the free public service? This is an opportunity to change the fate of their family.” Zhao Xu said.

In addition to developing industry, adding jobs, and building family farms in the future.

The third way to improve people’s lives is to go to school.

This is also the meaning of the official examination.

Before the official examination, Dasong’s upward path was in the hands of wealthy and powerful families.

It is almost impossible for an ordinary person to achieve great success.

But things are different now. Everyone in Dasong has a fair chance to compete.

It would be a pity not to catch it.

What’s more, going to school now is not just about competing for the few official positions.

In the future, they can engage in many careers.

“The younger ones also advised them this way, but they are indeed in difficulty. Some of their parents cannot do manual labor, so if they go to the public school, they cannot do farm work. There are also some families with too many children. Although the public school is free, they all went to the public school. The family will have less labor, and coupled with the old argument that women’s studies are useless,…” Before Li Zheng could finish speaking, he saw an eight-year-old girl walking out of the thatched house, carrying two baskets. Year-old doll.

The girl also held a sickle in her hand, as if she was going to cut the pigweed.

Zhao Xu opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but suddenly couldn’t.

The phenomenon described by Li Zheng really stumped him.

After all, this situation is common even in modern poor areas.

He did allocate fields to the people, but each family had a different situation.

It does not mean that having a field will solve everything.

Furthermore, going to school can only be called upon, not forced.

He could not let boys and girls go to school and let them starve to death for lack of labor.

However, if these people are allowed to continue like this, it will be even more difficult for them to stand up.

At the beginning, it was precisely with these considerations in mind that he prohibited people from selling their land.

Otherwise, it will be a cycle again soon, and poor people will sell their land due to difficulties in living.

Land continued to be concentrated into the hands of a few people.

“After all, development can solve all problems.” Zhao Xu sighed.

If Da Song is rich enough, he can use part of his finances to subsidize these needy households.

But Dasong is currently unable to implement this kind of welfare policy.

Only with the popularization of electricity can Dasong’s products be sold around the world.

And by then, the wages of Dasong workers will also rise to a higher level.

Maybe just one person working can support the whole family and still own a country house and a car.

At that time, because many people migrated to cities, they no longer engaged in farming.

He can then officially implement family farming.

As a result, both people who migrate to cities and those who stay in the countryside can become rich.

The matter of universal education will be easily solved.

Thinking of this, his eyes became firm.

Nowadays, the civil strife in Dasong has subsided, everything is ready to be revitalized, and the second industrial revolution is on its way.

This paved the way for Dasong to become wealthy.

However, this road is not an easy one.

At present, although Dasong is stable internally, the external environment has become unprecedentedly bad.

In order to maintain their hegemony, the Western Turks who had colonized the whole world wanted to strangle him and the new Dasong in the cradle.

As for the sworn enemies in the north, the Beidi people were not willing to fail. They also joined the Western natives in a den of snakes and rats, hoping to destroy Da Song and then hurry up.

Therefore, if he wants to achieve his goal, he must break through the enemy’s siege, and then he can talk about other things.

After visiting some families in the village, Zhao Xu returned to Yancheng.

More than a month later, Zhao Xu took a train to visit Fanyang, Pingcheng, Shanggu and other cities.

In these cities, he saw the Yancheng model workshop area.

The workshop area was very busy. Carloads of goods were transported to the train station, and then transported by train to various ports, or sold to Korea and Japan.

Of course, the most sales are to Dasong domestically.

And due to the increase in workshops, he could clearly feel that Dasong’s materials were much richer than before, and the goods produced by the workshops were much cheaper.

The exquisite furnishings he saw at Zhou Xiaoer’s house in Yancheng can be seen in most of the houses he visited, so it is not unusual.

During the visit, he also learned about some practical problems.

The existence of the workshop caused a large number of people to flock to the city.

This promoted the prosperity of the city, but also brought some problems.

The most important issue is the issue of draft.

In previous major infrastructure projects, the problems of roads and sewage discharge in the city were solved.

The government has nothing to do about this problem.

As the saying goes, there are too many monks and too little porridge.

However, for Zhao Xu, this problem has no solution at the moment, but it will no longer be a problem in a year or two.

As long as there is electricity, he can introduce running water into various cities and solve this last problem.

The visit came to an end, and Zhao Xu had a general understanding of the situation in Yanzhou.

When he returned to Yancheng that day, Zhao Xu was about to call Liu Fu and report to him the problems he had discovered.

Suddenly the cavalry came to report that Chang Wei was back.

After learning the news, he immediately asked Chang Wei to come to his study.

“Congratulations to Your Highness, the Nanping Kingdom has been destroyed, Fan Xinglun has been captured, and the civil strife in Dasong has been completely suppressed.”

As soon as he entered the study, Chang Wei happily reported back to Zhao Xu.

After completely controlling the Nanping Kingdom, he took a steamship back to Yancheng to announce the good news.

“Not bad, I thought Fan Xinglun could run away.” Zhao Xu said.

“I almost ran away.” Chang Wei raised his voice an octave, “Fan Xinglun and the Fan family’s children have already entered Jiaozhi. It was the last general who directly led his troops into Jiaozhi to capture them. For this reason, they also fought a battle with the Franks. The people were arrested in front of them, and a lot of gold and silver jewelry they tried to take away were also seized.”

After a pause, he continued, “The general has already ordered Fan Xinglun to be escorted to Yancheng. Along with Fan Xinglun, there are also other captured children of powerful families and wealthy families with heinous crimes. They all did not have time to escape.”

Hearing this, Zhao Xu nodded slowly, “These bastards used the hands of outsiders to cause trouble in Dasong. They owe a lot of blood debts and must be repaid. They blew up Liang Kai and Dou Wei to death. It was a little too easy for them, just to prevent them from letting go.” They fled to Tianzhu or even Britain to continue living freely, this is all I can do.”

After a pause, he continued, “After these people arrived, they judged them in front of the people and drew up a list of the powerful and wealthy children who were still hiding, whether they were in Dasong or fled to Beidi and Tianzhu, that is. Even to the end of the world, we can’t let them go.”