Compulsory education in ancient times

The next day, at the gate of Yizhou city, a notice was posted: Starting in May, every caravan entering the city must bring five catties of grain in one car, and register and exchange at the gate of the city.The government will purchase the grain at a price [-]% higher than the market price of the grain.After May [-]st, foreign caravans without food will be fined one or two taels of silver per car!

Tao Jianran also specially wrote to Wang Wanning, asking Minsheng Daily to publish the news every other week.

It is the beginning of April now, and there is a one-month buffer period. If the caravan does not get the news during this period, I am really sorry.After all, the food in Yizhou City can only last until May at most. If some compulsory measures are not taken, the entire Wubao plan will collapse!

After the businessmen knew about this decree, it was hard to say anything.

Five catties of grain, it's not too much, and it won't affect the original cargo of the caravan.Moreover, they can still get back their capital and earn some petty profits when they bring them over. So it means that the Yizhou government suffers a bit?

But some people figured out that the government bought it at a price of [-]% of the high market price, which is clearly a robbery!The grain transported to Yizhou from other places must be doubled at least before they are willing to sell it!

In this regard, Tao Jianran also wrote a commentary on current affairs, which was published by Minsheng Daily.

Tao Jianran's article is not long, adding up to only five or six hundred words. It has only one central idea: it is well known that Yizhou produces little food, and the local people do not have enough to eat. Now they have to entertain these foreign businessmen. Isn't it true that the local people in Yizhou only have Starving? !What's wrong with collecting some food from you when you enter the city!Don't come here if you are so moaning, Yizhou has saved food!

Tao Jianran's articles are as straightforward as ever, and he doesn't use dirty words when swearing, but his sentences make sense.Those who used malicious speculation about the new policy of Yizhou before could not help but flush with embarrassment.

After Tao Jianran sent the letter, he didn't have time to care about the reaction of his article when it was published, because the design of Wubao was finally finalized after numerous revisions under Zhang Dajun and He Taojianran's careful polishing!

The [-]-acre site is expected to be surrounded by a city wall, only half of the area in the northwest direction, and the half in the southeast direction is directly used as a daily training ground for the army.Anyway, the drill field doesn't need any special facilities, or even special repairs, it just has the same terrain as the battlefield, so that the soldiers can get familiar with the battlefield in advance, how good it is!And this can save stone and man-hours.

The city wall naturally formed a square, and a beacon tower was built at the four corners.

In the northwest and southeast of Wubao, there are two city gates, and there are two small squares inside the gates. There are armories on both sides of the squares. When the war starts, you can go to the small squares to assemble directly from the armory. , Go out to fight against the enemy.

After passing the square, a little further in is the soldiers' dormitory.In the middle of the entire Wubao, there are canteens and military warehouses.

The soldiers' dormitory is a row of small two-story buildings, and each small building has a public classroom on the first floor.There are blackboards and tables and chairs inside, even if there is no teacher to teach, it can be used as a small meeting room at ordinary times.

Besides that, there are several public restrooms.This public toilet made Tao Yanran feel very scared.

Since Yizhou lacks water resources, building flush toilets is obviously a waste of water resources.So Zhang Dajun directly designed a dry toilet for him, but his dry toilet is also different.He designed a two-story structure. The squatting toilet is on the second floor. After going up, there will be rows of potholes. When the time comes, the excrement will directly fall to the first floor, and the first floor will directly be a cesspool...

No need to flush at all, perfect!

Tao Jianran mourned for the soldiers for two seconds in his heart, and asked Zhang Dajun to change the design to be safer, at least not to let the soldiers accidentally fall to the first floor.

After the design drawing was clarified, Tao Yanran asked Qiu Yu to start recruiting part-time workers.

The next day, new notices were pasted up outside the county government offices in various places in Yizhou.

Yizhou is going to build a Wubao. The magistrate government is recruiting a lot of middle-aged and short-term workers. The daily wages are half a catty of grain, and the types are variable, and the wages are settled daily.And it also includes food and housing. Each person is given six flatbreads before the start of work every day, and he allocates how much he eats for a meal. Drinking water is provided unlimitedly.

The place where I live is naturally a temporary greenhouse near the construction site. Now that summer is coming, I am not afraid of the cold.

Hearing that the wages are directly distributed to the grain, all the middle-aged laborers in the entire Yizhou city signed up without saying a word.In the two counties that are relatively close to Yizhou City, many people also ran over, and more than 500 people signed up within five days!

Tao Jianran was taken aback by this number, and Qiu Yu looked even more complicated.They simply can't afford the salary of so many people!

"My lord, why don't you let them go home first and come back next month?" Qiu Yu held the roster of registrations and was already struggling with how to reject these people.

Tao Jianran refused to let go of this opportunity.Wubao is so big, 500 people may not be enough.As for food...

"Let's collect all the food first. I can ask someone to transport a batch from the capital. When the time comes, the tax will be collected and the money will be returned to me slowly. The more workers, the better." Tao Yanran said to Yizhou I am still very confident in the development of the company, and I am not worried that the Yizhou government will not pay the money.Now time is waiting for no one, how can we wait for Yizhou to have money before slowly building this Wubao.

When Qiu Yu heard this, he was still a little hesitant. He, a relatively traditional ancient person, was still not used to this kind of loan model.But Tao Jianran was an older official than him, so he made a decision directly.He also asked Qiu Yu to recruit some more women to be responsible for making pancakes and boiling water.

In mid-April, the government recruited a total of [-] middle-aged and short-term workers!

At the groundbreaking ceremony, both Tao Jianran and Qiu Yu personally participated in the mobilization.

Tao Jianran stood on the temporary high platform, not saying anything false, but only talked about the most concerned issue of all day laborers: "Now each of you is paid half a catty of grain, but I want to tell you that half a catty is just a start. !If someone works hard, he can be promoted to team leader, with a daily salary of one catty of grain. If the team leader does a particularly good job, he can be promoted to foreman, with five catties of grain per day! After the construction of Wubao , and will select one hundred people who do the best work, and reward ten catties of grain. As long as everyone works hard, the government will not treat you badly."

Hearing that more food can be added, all the workers' eyes lit up!Nothing can move people more than this real benefit. Now they just want to work hard so that they can earn more food and go home!

Tao Jian didn't talk nonsense, and directly returned the home field to Master Qiu, and he was responsible for all the scheduling of this project.

Master Qiu divided the thousand and five people into 150 groups, with ten groups forming a team.Then ten teams were ordered to go to the mountain twenty miles south of Yizhou City to mine stones, while the remaining five teams stayed at the construction site to dig the foundation.

In addition to those strong men, the engineering team also recruited fifteen young and strong women, each of whom was responsible for food and drinking water for the team.The workload is not less than those men, so it is half a catty of food every day.

Zhang Dajun was in charge of supervising the construction site, and Chief Qiu followed to supervise the mining of stone materials, and the project began to proceed in an orderly manner.

Tao Yanran couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, three days later coincided with the exchange market, Tao Jianran decided to take Bao'er and Bei'er out to join in the fun.

The two little guys have special identities, and they basically never went out when they were in the capital.Now that they are in Yizhou, Tao Yanran intends to let them go out more to play like ordinary children.

But Bao'er and Bei'er have grown a lot now, and Tao Yanran can no longer hug the two at once.

"Hey, young master, why don't I hug Bei'er." Ziqi stepped forward and opened his arms to Bei'er, and as expected, Bei'er staggered and threw herself into Ziqi's arms.

"She likes you, and Bohan and I don't get that kind of treatment." Tao Yanran was a bit apprehensive.

"Oh, she just likes to pinch my face." As soon as Ziqi finished speaking, Belle pinched his soft baby fat.

The nanny on the side was also laughed, and teased: "Miss also likes to pinch my brother's face, the young master has been pinched and cried several times."

Bao'er seemed to understand what the nanny said, and lying in Tao Yanran's arms, she began to accuse her sister of the atrocities.

Tao Yanran rubbed Bao'er's fat little face: "Bao'er is good, let's go to the exchange market, shall we?"

With that said, Tao Jianran didn't wait for Bao'er's reply, and after dressing the two dolls in small clothes for going out, he took two shadow guards with him and went out to visit the market.

As soon as she got off the carriage, Bao'er opened her big eyes and surveyed the surrounding scene.Although Belle had a straight face, she could still see the curiosity in her eyes.

After entering the exchange market, seeing so many Huns who were dressed and looked so different from those of the Rui Dynasty, the two siblings screamed in surprise and wanted to touch everything.

Tao Jianran looked around while protecting Bao'er.The originally stretched brows gradually wrinkled.

At the stalls of those Ruichao merchants, almost all of them traded with fur and silver. After watching for so long, I didn't see a single one who traded with iron and horses!

Could it be that the Huns have changed?Thinking about it, Tao Jian turned around and came to the stall of a Hun merchant in the southwest corner.

This Xiongnu businessman had the appearance of a Ruichao man, and the stalls displayed special products such as fur and dried meat that were common to the Xiongnu, which seemed ordinary at first glance.

Tao Jianran handed Bao'er to the shadow guard, squatted down and pretended to carefully select the goods, but asked in a voice that only two people could hear: "Open Sesame?"

The businessman looked up at Tao Jianran, and said in a low voice, "Peking duck?"

With such an embarrassing password, this person is naturally a spy who came out of the spy training class.

After the two confirmed their identities, Tao Jianran asked out his doubts.Although this spy can only wander around the border of the Huns, he has collected a lot of information.

Tao Jianran learned from him that mirrors had been in the Xiongnu for so long, the craze had cooled down at first, and recently the amount of iron, horses and salt that could be received in the exchange market began to fall.In the long run, I am afraid that the Huns merchants will not take the risk of exchanging these three forbidden items that are too strictly guarded.