Compulsory education in ancient times

Hearing Wang Lingjun's frivolous tone, someone finally came to his senses and knew that Qi Bohan had left, but he didn't dare to refute Wang Lingjun's words.They provoked the emperor's fury just now, and they are still in the Zichen Palace, their every move is under the control of Qi Bohan, it's better not to do any more annoying things.

No one replied, Wang Lingjun pouted angrily, and said to himself: "Oh, there are still too many idlers in the court, it seems that I have to investigate carefully, who is negligent in their duties and quitting all day long?" Business."

Wang Lingjun was completely disgusted and left happily physically and mentally, while Tao Jianran quietly came to the imperial study.

Qi Bohan, who had lost his temper just now, is writing big characters leisurely at this moment.

Tao Jianran leaned over to take a look, and found the four flamboyant characters of "Xingzhi Middle School" in the letter, and the owner's wanton posture surged out of these four characters, which was much more than the four characters "Xian Prince's Mansion" Very heavy.

"Your Majesty is going to write an inscription for Xingzhi Middle School in person?" Tao Jianran moved to Qi Bohan's side, and put one arm around Qi Bohan's waist.

Qi Bohan's waist is very thin, and it doesn't show in the wide dragon robe, but Tao Jianran can hug more than half a circle with one arm.Thinking of the thin and powerful waist under the dragon robe, Tao Yanran couldn't hold it back, and reached into it to touch it twice, but was caught by Qi Bohan.

"What? Is Tao Aiqing here to vent my anger?" Qi Bohan had a smile on his face, he was not as furious as the courtiers thought, he picked up Tao Jianran and walked into the side hall.

"Hey, hey, stop making trouble." Tao Yanran struggled to jump off, but how could Qi Bohan let go of the little sheep delivered to his door, and resisted until the side hall was cleaned up before starting to deal with state affairs for the day.

Tao Jianran was tortured severely, and he lay on the bed until noon before recovering.After condemning the vivaciously dressed beast with his eyes, he left the palace angrily.Now Niu Chenghong is still struggling in the north, and he has to personally supervise the road construction.Moreover, the use of cement and road standards also require uniform training for contractors.

Tao Jianran spent five days, referring to the width of the national road in his previous life and the road guidelines provided by the Ministry of Industry, to create a new acceptance standard for the national road, including road width, flatness, and greenery on both sides.distributed to various contractors.At that time, if the road inspection fails, the promise will not be given. I believe that no businessman will be stupid enough to cut corners in this regard.

Then, according to the number of mileage contracted by everyone, the road sections were divided.Tao Jianran also represented the cement factory in Lingzhou and signed an order contract with the merchants.The price of cement is not high, and it is a bit cheaper than the materials usually used for road construction.But if you add the shipping cost, it is actually about the same.Now that Tao Jianran has made a clear request, and the price is not expensive, no one will oppose him because of this.

The construction of the official road quickly started in full swing. It happened that it was the slack season, and the merchants began to recruit short-term laborers from nearby villages to build the road.

Back then, the Huns' army invaded along the official road, and most of the surrounding villages were destroyed.Coupled with the severe drought and locust plague last year, the lives of the people near the official road were not easy. In order to save some food for their families, many old people quietly went to the desolate mountains to wait to die.Last year, when the severe drought started, no newborn was born in the nearby villages for a whole year, and the shadow of death hung over everyone.

Although the crops planted in the fields are full now, the farmers have long since run out of grain in their homes, and can only eat some weeds to survive every day. I don’t know how many people survive until the day of autumn harvest.

Suddenly, a noisy sound came from the silent village, breaking the dead silence in the village.

The door of a dilapidated thatched hut was slowly opened, and a skinny woman with a big belly walked in holding a basin of washed clothes, blushing with excitement on her face, and said to her husband : "Brother Nian, someone is here to recruit short-term workers."

"What? I'll go and have a look!" The man stood up abruptly, and immediately ran out of the house.

Sure enough, there were three or four floors of people around the entrance of the village, and someone could be heard shouting indistinctly inside: "Don't rush to line up one by one, everyone has it. Our boss wants to recruit a hundred part-time workers, and everyone has a share. Don't squeeze!"

When the man heard this, he was so excited that he also surrounded him.After waiting for a long time, I finally signed up successfully and received my advance ration: two steamed buns to take home.

As soon as the man entered the door, he saw his wife lying on the bed early in order to save energy.The man excitedly held two steamed buns to the bedside, and said cautiously: "Cuihua, I have found a part-time job, and I will start working tomorrow. There are ten steamed buns a day, and five yuan for a month's work. Our children are not I’m going to starve to death. Cuihua, come on, eat it.” Then she stuffed two steamed buns into the woman’s arms.

The woman looked at the long-lost food, two lines of dirty tears flowed down her thin face, she wolfed down a steamed bun and stuffed it into her mouth, saying, "Brother Nian, you eat too, you have to go to work tomorrow."

The two of them ate the two steamed buns without knowing whether they were crying or laughing. At this time, the sky outside was completely dark, but they knew that the darkest days were over.

Tao Jianran was extremely busy with this official matter, while Weng Yuanji had already re-planned the land in the three northern states, so he immediately returned to the court to prepare for the next move.Now there is only less than half a year left before the one-year deadline, but with more than 5000 people alone, it is absolutely impossible to recover to the level before the severe drought, and more people will need to move in.

When it was morning, Weng Yuanji followed Qi Bohan to the imperial study, and when he saw the extra small desk in the imperial study, Weng Yuanji's gaze paused.There are still a few memorials on the small desk, but it doesn't look like Qi Bohan used it himself...

Qi Bohan noticed Weng Yuanji's gaze, but he didn't open his mouth to explain, but directly said: "Weng Aiqing has worked hard for you in the past six months."

"To serve His Majesty, I will do my best to serve you." Weng Yuanji responded quickly.

Qi Bohan looked at Weng Yuanji as if he was still an old god, there was no change from before.But both of them knew that since Qi Bohan took the throne, some things were different from before.

There was an eerie silence in the imperial study room. Suddenly, Tao Jianran pushed the door open and entered.

Tao Jianran didn't notice the unusual atmosphere between the two, and said with a smile, "Weng Yuanji is here too."

When Qi Bohan saw Tao Jianran, a sincere smile appeared on his face.No matter what happens in the future, at least there is this person by my side.

When Weng Yuanji saw Tao Jianran appearing here so naturally, he immediately realized who the owner of that small desk belonged to. He thought about it a few times, but he didn't show it on his face. He greeted Tao Jianran, "Lord Tao."

"It's kind of weird to hear you call me my lord." Tao Yanran scratched his head, sat down in his seat, and asked, "What were you talking about just now?"

Qi Bohan looked at Weng Yuanji, Weng Yuanji understood, and replied: "Now the land in the north has been leveled, but a large number of people are still needed to cultivate it. I request Your Majesty to issue an immigration order."

The so-called immigration order has existed since ancient times.Generally, when the emperor builds a mausoleum, he will build a settlement around the mausoleum, and then issue an immigration order to let the people move here to guard the mausoleum for the emperor.However, this move is too laborious and costly, because the people are relocating to their homeland, and many people are not willing to relocate the people from their homeland, so some conflicts will inevitably occur. Some emperors whose national strength was weak during their reign were not even able to move The people migrated here.

Qi Bohan frowned slightly, but did not answer.After Tao Jianran learned about the immigration order with Weng Yuanji, he disapproved all over his face: "This is too much trouble, and it may arouse public resentment. The gain outweighs the loss."

"This is the only way to restore the vitality of the north as soon as possible. And now that the army is well-equipped, even if the mob revolts, they can directly suppress them." Weng Yuanji naturally knew these disadvantages, but for the north, the advantages of this move clearly outweighed the disadvantages.

Tao Jianran heard the words and shook his head like a rattle: "No, no, no, people don't want to leave, what are you forcing them to do? Ruichao is so big, there are so many beggars and homeless people without land, you let the county government of all places take these Gather people and send them to the north, and then give them some land, and they will definitely do it for you honestly!"

Before Tao Jianran finished speaking, Weng Yuanji's eyes lit up immediately.He only cares about weighing the pros and cons, completely forgetting that there is another way to get the best of both worlds!Thinking of this, Weng Yuanji looked at Tao Jianran differently again.He prides himself on being a man with the world in mind, but it is obvious that the status of the people in the world in his heart is far inferior to that of the people in Tao Jianran's heart.Otherwise, such a simple method should have been figured out by myself.

"Let's do it this way." Qi Bohan ignored Weng Yuanji's internal entanglements, and directly made a final decision, "Now that Niu Aiqing is still in the north, let the Ministry of Industry send some people there to teach them to cultivate the land."

"I obey the order!" Weng Yuanji led the order and retreated.

However, within a few days, this decree was sent to the 24 state capitals of Ruichao, and the county governments at all levels began to get busy.

The beggars' nests in various counties and towns seemed to have been ransacked. After a period of chaos, these ragged beggars, like the piglets being sold, got on a simple bullock cart and went frightenedly to the place that was about to change their lives. distance.