Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 482
"Your Highness, I'm full, I'm going to class first!"

In September, with the sound of Li Dingguo putting down his bowls and chopsticks, Zhu Youjian in the Changchun Palace of Prince Qi's Mansion also put down his bowls and chopsticks.

When he looked up, Li Dingguo had already run out of the door, and Yuan Xipin looked at Li Dingguo's back and couldn't help but worry:

"I have already stayed in school, but this kid is still stubborn to go to school, and I don't know if I can keep up..."

"It's okay, he hasn't missed his homework these past few months, and he's been studying by himself, so he doesn't think there's much difference." Zhu Youjian wiped his mouth and looked at Yuan Xipin next to him, saying:

"I haven't been back for a long time, is there any change in the mansion?"

"Not really..." Yuan Xibing thought that His Royal Highness was asking if anyone was pregnant, so she lowered her head in response.

Zhu Youjian thought that there was no change in the mansion, so he nodded slightly: "This time, I won't move lightly in three to five years after I come back this time. Tell the concubines in the harem, let's continue every three days."

"The concubine takes orders..." Yuan Xibing responded, then raised her head and asked, "Do you still want to go to Fangshan in winter?"

"Brother Huang should go. Let's see what you say. I guess I will stay in the mansion to preside over the affairs of the court." Zhu Youjian took a sip of tea, and Yuan Xipin also nodded and said:

"The younger sisters probably don't want to part with His Highness. If His Highness doesn't go, they probably won't either."

"Let's go for a few..." Hearing what Yuan Xibing said, Zhu Youjian frowned slightly, he was really overwhelmed.

He wanted to refuse, but because he had no heirs, he still had to pay the food that should be paid.

"Hehe... Then the concubine can arrange it." Seeing Zhu Youjian's appearance, Yuan Xibing responded with a smirk.

On the contrary, while they were chatting, Li Dingguo also ran to the side door of the palace, pushed a bicycle and rushed out of the side door. After getting on the bike and sitting down, he began to pedal the bicycle and drove towards the official school where he was studying.

The capital is very large. Although there is an official school in Baiwangfang, Zhu Youjian did not arrange for Li Dingguo to study in the official school in Baiwangfang. Instead, he arranged for Li Dingguo to study in Changlefang, which is far away from the Wangfu.

After several expansions in the capital, there are currently 120 six folk squares, each of which has a population ranging from 5000 to 2 people. Because Changle Square is located in a remote area, it belongs to the children of poor families.

The entire Changlefang has more than 1000 residents, and there are four official schools in the city, each with a population ranging from [-] to [-]. Li Dingguo studied at the first official school in Changlefang.

There are 1000 students in Changlefang No. [-] Official School, and it is already full. It can be said that there are a group of teachers from the first grade to the fifth grade.

Li Dingguo is currently a student in the second half of the third grade, and he will graduate in two and a half years.

After many students read here, their families began to prepare for their Enke, but for Li Dingguo, he was not worried about Enke, because he already knew that His Royal Highness was already planning the county school.

If there is no accident, he has to finish middle school and then enter university. After reading the whole process, he is almost 22 years old.

Of course, Li Dingguo was a year late in his studies. Normally, he would enter government school at the age of seven and graduate at the age of 20.

"Li Dingguo!"

Li Dingguo turned into Changlefang on his bicycle, still thinking about his future path, but he heard someone calling him, so he quickly squeezed the brakes.

"Chichi..."

The tires of the bicycle left long marks on the concrete road, but since Daming's rubber is made of natural rubber from the Euphorbiaceae family, it is light yellow in color and does not leave any dark marks.

Stopping the car, Li Dingguo looked along the place where the sound came from, and then saw six or seven young men of twelve or thirteen years old with bookcases on their backs.

They walked over quickly, and when they saw Li Dingguo's bicycle, they couldn't help but enviously said: "You actually snatched the bicycle from Huangdian!"

"I've been queuing at home for a long time and haven't gotten one yet."

"How does it ride? Is it comfortable? How does it compare to riding a horse?"

The three boys who were in the same class as Li Dingguo kept looking at the bicycle with envious eyes, and asked him how he felt.

"Would you like to give it a try?" Li Dingguo simply turned over and got out of the car to signal them to get on, but the six or seven young men immediately shook their heads:

"We don't know how to ride, it's not good to break your bike."

Obviously, they were very worried that they would damage Li Dingguo's bicycle. After all, this bicycle was very "expensive" in the eyes of these students with only three or four coins a day.

Compared with theirs, Li Dingguo's pocket money is relatively rich. Although Zhu Youjian also upholds the consumption concept of "raising a poor son", considering the existence of Zhu Ciran who pops up from time to time, he still let Wang Chengen He gave Li Dingguo fifteen cash every day as pocket money.

However, Li Dingguo basically can't spend much money. The money is basically saved, and then it is stolen by a guy who doesn't know where he will come out of nowhere.

"Ride, I'll help you handle it."

After all, Li Dingguo walked to the back of the car and pulled the back seat of the bicycle with his hand.

It's a pity that although these six or seven young men wanted to sit, they still shook their heads and refused.

Seeing this, Li Dingguo didn't force it, but pushed the cart and walked to school with them.

Six or seven people walked for a long time, chatting inside and outside, but no one talked about homework, because there were indeed too few homework assigned by the government school.

Although it was a whole summer vacation, the homework assigned by the government school was mainly an essay for the summer vacation, as well as manual practice, plus [-] copybooks and [-] math problems.

Manual practice is mainly to use some wood distributed by government schools, and use textbook knowledge to make wooden machines by yourself.

As the assistant minister of the Department of Civil Affairs, Cheng De assigned the same homework to all the students of the official school, and the basic homework could be completed in about [-] hours.

Compared with the long summer vacation, this homework time is only half a cup of tea a day.

"By the way, Li Dingguo, did you go to the construction site during the summer vacation? Many people from government schools have gone."

"Construction site?" Li Dingguo was a little puzzled, and the student who asked also nodded and said, "Yes, construction site!"

"Don't you know? This summer, if workers over the age of 11 are recruited at the construction site, they can earn a penny by carrying ten bags of cement."

"Many students from the government school have gone. Three of us carry one bag. We can carry one hundred and sixty seventy bags in a day. Each earns five or six Wen. I saved a lot in one summer vacation."

"I don't know. I went home to farm. I just returned to the capital after harvesting the millet yesterday." Li Dingguo explained, and the others nodded after hearing his words.

"Then you missed a lot." The young men felt sorry for him, and at this time they also came to the gate of the official school.

The entrance of the official school, which covers an area of ​​more than 200 mu, is also very wide, and soldiers and soldiers in armor are also guarding the school gate to guard against criminals abducting children.

In the Ming Dynasty, the punishment for abduction and trafficking was very heavy. According to the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", those who robbed and sold human beings were sentenced to [-] sticks and exiled for three thousand miles.

Of course, this is only a punishment for ordinary abduction. If it is a special abduction, once it is discovered, it will basically be executed immediately.

This special kind of trafficking is called "harvesting and cutting".

Ordinary human traffickers mainly abduct and traffic children and women, and sell them to other families as children and wives and concubines, but the methods of "harvesting and cutting" human traffickers are even more cruel. The charcoal fire burns its appearance.

There are countless children who have been mutilated in this way. They were cruelly tortured and treated inhumanely. Many children bled to death after their limbs were cut off by traffickers. Those who survived became traffickers for profit. Tool of.

They run around the streets during the day, relying on physical defects to win sympathy, and as long as they earn enough money, traffickers will take them back to their residences.

After returning home, these children could not rest normally. The traffickers treated these children as if they were livestock. They lived a miserable life. The children could not resist and could only endure everything silently.

After the children grow up, they can no longer be the profit-making tools of the traffickers. Many children were killed for this.

This phenomenon of harvesting and cutting has already appeared in the Yuan Dynasty. Therefore, in the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", the trafficker who "picks and cuts" often needs to face punishment such as Ling Chi after being arrested.

For Zhu Youjian, if he wants to open a free government school, he must ensure the safety of the students.

Therefore, the key inspection locations of soldiers, horses and yamen are around the government schools. In order to further restrict human traffickers, Zhu Youjian revised part of the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" and formulated penalties for the same crime of buying and selling and implicating the three ethnic groups.

If one of the three clans denounces the family, the family will be exempted from punishment and can obtain the property to buy children and women's families.

In addition, in order to prohibit false accusations, various nursing homes have also formulated adoption policies and issued adoption certificates.

With the promotion and implementation of various punishments and policies to deal with human traffickers, from the 11th year of Tianqi to the first month of the 6000th year of Tianqi, more than 320 human traffickers were arrested, and 600 gangs of "harvesting and cutting" were arrested. More than [-] people were involved.

These 6000 traffickers implicated more than 6 people from the three ethnic groups. The traffickers themselves were punished to death by lynching, car cracking, and beheading, while their three ethnic groups were exiled to places such as Nanzhou and Dongzhou.

Li Dingguo was not afraid of human traffickers, he followed Jin Yiwei all the time, but he heard that at the beginning of the year, some government school students were abducted and trafficked. Although they were rescued later, that family no longer dared to let their children study in government schools.

This kind of thing is unavoidable. With the Ming Dynasty's curfew, city gate inspection, and road guidance system, it is actually relatively easy for Ming's human traffickers to be arrested, but once the human traffickers leave the city, they will basically not be found.

Li Dingguo honestly put his bicycle next to the sentry box of the Bingma Division, and then followed his classmates into the government school to start the first day of the next semester.

Since Yuan Xibin suspended Li Dingguo from school because he was sick, after entering the school, many students came to care about his health.

Although Li Dingguo said nothing, but they still pay attention to Li Dingguo all the time.

As for the teaching of the official school, they actually knew that Li Dingguo was the child in Qi Wangfu, so they basically turned a blind eye to Li Dingguo's various behaviors.

"Clang clang clang..."

As the bell rang, the two-hour class in the morning ended, and Li Dingguo followed the students to the kitchen of the government school for dinner.

The chefs of official schools are actually almost the same as the canteens of later generations.

The concrete walls made of cast iron and cement, the wooden beams above the head, and the cement-fit tiles, the entire kitchen is enough to accommodate 1000 people eating at the same time.

Unlike the rural students who brought enough rice and wheat to the government schools, the government schools in market towns and cities charged for meals, while a meal for a big chef was three pennies.

For a rice meal of three Wen, you can choose three dishes and a bowl of rice, and there is a large vat full of vegetable soup next to it.

For more than half a year, Li Dingguo still misses the fact that he hadn't eaten the cooking meals of the official school.

Standing in line with his classmates, when he arrived, he glanced at the big pot of vegetables on the table.

There are eight cooking dishes today, namely fried diced chicken, fried cabbage, fried tofu skin, fried pork, shredded potatoes, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, scrambled eggs with leeks and fried fish.

"I want diced chicken, scrambled eggs with tomato, and shredded potatoes."

Li Dingguo said, and the cook behind the table also stood up.

One of his legs walked very abnormally, and it could be seen from the empty trousers that it was a prosthetic leg.

In this regard, Li Dingguo is no stranger to it, because he is not the only one in the kitchen of the official school, and many cooks are disabled.

Most of them are ordinary soldiers who have been retired from various battlefields. They work in this kitchen, and they also have a monthly salary of [-] Wen, which is quite good for a disabled person like them.

In the past dynasties, most of the disabled soldiers were given a sum of money to resettle them, and some even had no resettlement money.

It was not until the reform of Zhu Youjian's reform in the fourth year of Tianqi that disabled soldiers were resettled in large numbers.

People like them basically received 100 taels of pension silver, ten acres of pension land, and were assigned jobs.

Compared with those Lifu who worked hard on the pier to earn [-] Wen a day, they could earn [-] Wen a day by washing dishes and cooking here, and they also took paid vacations during the winter and summer vacations. This salary was considered an ordinary soldier arrangement Better work at work.

"What are you looking at, kid? Not enough to eat?"

The veteran cook looked at Li Dingguo standing in front of the table in a daze, and cursed with a smile, and Li Dingguo also smiled back, turned and left.

Kid was not a curse word in the Ming Dynasty, but a name for the younger generation, or what the younger generation called themselves, so there is no need for Li Dingguo to be angry.

As for his daze just now, it was because he remembered the disabled soldiers of the Northern Expedition.

Li Dingguo has been to the wounded barracks, and even saw some veterans in their 40s.

According to their words, when they served as soldiers on Nine Sides, everyone wanted to save their lives, because the imperial court's military salary was not enough, and if anyone was killed or injured, most of them would not get any compensation.

But in the reign of Tianqi, after King Qi came to power, they were no longer "afraid of death".

It's not that they're not really afraid of death, but they're not afraid of the problems they leave behind.

When a person dies, the family can get one hundred pension silver and ten acres of pension land. These things are enough for the family to live a normal life, so they have no reason to be afraid of death.

After he died, the imperial court helped to support the family, and he survived, and bought a new house for the family with the reward money from the beheading.

After all, they are all on the battlefield, and everyone has to fight desperately to win. If they lose, not only the whole army will be wiped out, but even the court will be in danger.

When the imperial court was in danger, the promised compensation became a problem.

Therefore, before going to the battlefield, everyone is prepared to die in battle, which is very different from the atmosphere in the Wanli and Taichang years.

"Aside from His Royal Highness King Qi, who cares about our gang of mud-legged..."

The words of the old soldier who lost his hand in the wounded barracks were still ringing in Li Dingguo's ears, and gradually he also understood why his Highness was able to win the love of so many people.

Unlike those officials who keep saying they are for the common people, His Highness has them in his heart and treats them as human beings...

After thinking about the meal, Li Dingguo and his classmates took the dinner plate to the sink area, turned on the tap water skillfully, and washed the wooden dishes with the saponins in the sink while the water was falling. They are in the pantry area.

The tap water system in the capital was designed by Zhu Youjian and Zhu Youxiao, and the first water supply facility in Ming Dynasty was built by the Ministry of Industry.

This water supply project started together with the construction of the east and west outer cities, and later joined the old capital cities such as the southern city, the inner city, the imperial city, and the palace city.

The project took five years, and ten pools were built, 32 miles of tunnels were built, and the water pipes were laid with ceramics and cast iron. The length was 79 miles, and it could supply water to 150 million people. It can be said that it is the largest water supply facility in the world.

Under the background of Zhu Youjian's new policy of "relief with work", more than 200 county towns and more than 4000 market towns in Ming Dynasty have been listed on the list of tap water supply projects, but they need to queue up.

According to the accounts given by Zhou Yanru, for this project alone, at least 860 million people were employed and 700 million taels of silver were used. The time span was about 25 years.

Of course, if Zhu Youjian is determined to do it, all counties and towns in Daming can be successfully supplied with water in about ten years, but at present Zhu Youjian's idea is still "relief with work".

To put it bluntly, the projects are listed first, and where the disaster is affected, the construction can be started.

Under this system, many officials naturally lied about the disaster, and all of them were exiled to Nanzhou.

The tap water supply project is just one of Zhu Youjian's projects under the background of "relief with work" in the next 13 years.

Railways, provincial roads, government roads, county roads, township roads, urban expansion, urban reconstruction, bridges, reservoirs, dams...

These various projects are waiting for the victims of Daming to complete. According to the estimates of the Ministry of Industry, the overall project needs to use more than 6 million people and 42 billion taels of silver, spanning 6000 years.

Of course, most of the 25 million people are double-counted. If you really look closely, you will use at most [-] million workers, and each worker will get at least [-] taels.

After the money is distributed, it will eventually flow back to the court through the market economy, so the economic expenditure caused is not much.

The real economic expenditure is the follow-up maintenance and repair issues after the construction of various projects.

However, for Zhu Youjian, this is not within his scope of consideration. After all, to what extent can Daming technology develop after 76 years, and does it still exist?This is a dubious question.

Li Dingguo has seen many memorials, and he also knows the memorials of the Ministry of Industry, but he did not expect that the Ministry of Industry would hire them, a group of eleven or twelve-year-old boys.

What he didn't expect was also Zhu Youjian's. If Zhu Youjian didn't expect it, he would naturally have to ask Zhou Yanru, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry.

Unsurprisingly, Zhou Yanru was summoned by Zhu Youjian in the afternoon, and when he came to the side hall of the Chengyun Palace in Prince Qi's Mansion, he bowed to Zhu Youjian who hadn't seen him for a long time.

"Your Majesty, Zhou Yanru, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, sees the King of Qi, and respectfully invites His Royal Highness..."

"Gu'an."

In the side hall, Zhu Youjian is sitting under the "General Map of Kun Yu in the Great Tomorrow", and the "General Map of Kun Yu in the Great Tomorrow" behind him is four feet wide and three feet long. With his appearance, it gives people a sense of consciousness small feeling.

Wang Chengen ordered someone to bring a chair to Zhou Yanru. Zhou Yanru sat down cautiously, and looked up at the "General Map of Kunyu in the Great Tomorrow".

The drawing on the map is very complete, especially the orientation of the state of Qi is marked.

Judging from the distance ratio in the corner of the picture, Qi State is not too far away from Daming. I am afraid that Zhu Youjian chose this place to avoid conflicts between Qi State and Daming in the future.

However, it can also be seen from the picture that if there is internal chaos in the Zhu family in the future, the chaotic place must be South Asia, and Toungoo Burma, which borders the feudal clans, is a direct conflict area. It is no wonder that Zhu Youjian wants to recover Three announcements and six comforts.

"I've heard people say that there is a case of employing eleven or twelve-year-old boys in the work-for-work program of the Ministry of Industry. Do you know about this?"

Zhu Youjian asked suddenly, and Zhou Yanru responded quickly:
"The lower officials know that this policy was issued by the lower officials. The purpose is to help poor families, so that teenagers can take part of the burden of supporting their families during winter and summer vacations."

"However, this policy is only implemented during the winter and summer vacations, and does not exist at other times."

Zhou Yanru knew what King Qi liked to hear, what he didn't like to hear, what he liked to watch, and what he didn't like to watch, because what he said was in the category that Zhu Youjian liked.

Sure enough, after Zhu Youjian listened, his tone was not so stiff, but he asked:
"What if there are people who use less to fill their old age? What if people force children to work?"

"The inspection is timely, and all punishments will be imposed!" Zhou Yanru responded quickly.

Zhu Youjian was worried that some short-sighted parents would force their children to work, but Zhou Yanru's answer was inspection, which made Zhu Youjian not very satisfied.

"Currently, this policy is only carried out in places with government schools, and government schools are compulsory, so there is no need to worry, Your Highness."

Zhou Yanru added, which made Zhu Youjian's attitude a little slower.

After slowing down, Zhu Youjian also became concerned about the affairs of the official school and asked:

"Next year in the 12th year of the Apocalypse, how many provinces will open government schools? How is the construction of government schools?"

　The second update around 05:30 pm

　　
　
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