Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 885

[Chapter 885]

“Have all the boys and girls who reached the school age in the village go to the public?” Standing in front of a thatched house, Zhao Xu asked Li Zheng.

Li Zheng sighed, “Returning to Your Highness, this is not true. There are still eight families in the village who did not send their children to the public, or only sent boys, and the girls stayed at home to help with farm work.”

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

In addition to developing industries, increasing jobs, and building family farms in the future.

The third way to improve people’s lives is to study.

This is also the meaning of the official examination.

Before the official examination, Da Song’s upward path was in the hands of the rich and powerful.

It is almost impossible for an ordinary person to make a fortune.

But it’s 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 to compete for the few official positions.

In the future, they can engage in many occupations.

“The young ones also persuaded them in the same way, but they were really in trouble. Some parents couldn’t do physical work, and they couldn’t do farm work when they went to the public. Some had too many children. Although the public was free, they all went. There is a lot less labor at home, and with the old saying that women’s studies are useless, it’s…” Before Lizheng finished speaking, he saw an eight-year-old girl coming out of the thatched house, with two children in a basket on her back. year old doll.

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

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

The phenomenon Lizheng described really stumped him.

After all, this situation is common even in modern poverty-stricken areas.

He did distribute the fields to the people, but each family has a different situation.

It’s not that having a field can solve everything.

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

He can’t just starve to death so that boys and girls go to school and they don’t have labor.

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

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

Otherwise, it will be a reincarnation in a short time, and poor people will sell their land due to living difficulties.

Land property has been continuously collected into the hands of a few people.

“After all, only 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 at present Dasong is unable to carry out this kind of welfare policy.

Only when electricity is popularized can Dasong’s products be sold worldwide.

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

Possibly one person can support the whole family by working alone, and own a country house, complete with a car.

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

He will be able to officially implement the family farm.

Therefore, both the people who migrated to the cities and the people who stayed in the countryside can become rich.

The matter of universal education will be easily solved.

Thinking of this, his eyes became firm.

Now, the civil strife in Dasong has subsided, and everything is waiting to be done, and the second industrial revolution is also on the way.

This paved the way for Dae Song to become rich.

However, this road is not smooth.

Right now, although the interior of Dasong is stable, the external environment has become worse than ever.

In order to maintain their hegemony, the Western natives who have colonized the world want to strangle him and the newborn Da Song in the cradle.

And the mortal enemy in the north, the people of Beidi were not reconciled to failure, and they also nestled with the snakes and rats of the western natives, wanting to destroy Dasong and then hurry up.

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

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

In the next month or so, Zhao Xu took the train to visit Fanyang, Pingcheng, Shanggu and other cities.

In these cities, he saw the Yancheng-style workshop area.

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

Of course, most of them are still sold to Dasong.

Moreover, due to the increase in workshops, he could clearly feel that Dasong’s materials are much more abundant than before, and the products produced by the workshops are much cheaper.

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

During the visit, he also learned some practical problems.

The existence of workshops caused a large number of people to pour into the city.

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

One of the most important issues is the issue of draft.

In the past large-scale infrastructure construction, the problems of roads and sewage discharge in the city have been solved.

There is nothing the government can do about this problem.

As the saying goes, there are more monks and less porridge.

But for Zhao Xu, there is no solution to this problem right now, but it will be no longer a problem in just one or two years.

As long as there is electricity, he can introduce tap water to each city, solving this last problem.

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

Back in Yancheng that day, Zhao Xu was about to call Liu Fu and report to him the problems he found.

Suddenly a cavalry came to report, and Chang Wei came back.

Upon hearing the news, he immediately asked Chang Wei to come to his study.

“Congratulations, Your Highness, the Nanping Kingdom was destroyed, Fan Xinglun was captured, and the civil strife in Da Song was completely settled.”

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

After completely controlling Nanping, he returned to Yancheng by steamboat to announce the good news.

“Not bad, this king thought that Fan Xinglun could escape.” Zhao Xu said.

“I almost ran away.” Chang Wei raised his voice an octave, “Fan Xinglun and the Fan family disciples have already entered Jiaozhi, and it was the last general who led the troops directly into Jiaozhi. For this reason, he fought a battle with the Franks. He was taken away in front of them, and a lot of gold, silver and jewels that they tried to take away were seized.”

After a pause, he continued, “The last general has ordered Fan Xinglun to be escorted to Yancheng, and come with Fan Xinglun Yes, as well as the captured children of other powerful families and the heinous wealthy families, they didn’t have time to escape.”

Zhao Xu nodded slowly when he heard this, “These bastards borrowed the hands of outsiders to cause trouble, and owed a lot of blood debts, we must Asking them to pay back, killing Liang Kai, Dou Wei and the others at that time, it was too cheap for them, just to prevent them from fleeing to Tianzhu, or even Britain to continue to live freely, this king can only do so.”

After a pause, he continued. “After these people arrived, they were judged in front of the people, and a list was drawn up for the children of powerful and powerful families who were still hiding. No matter if they fled to Beidi and Tianzhu in Dasong, they would not let them go even if they went to the ends of the earth. them.”

(End of chapter)