Chapter 458: City Management
Yin Liangnan, the new Longdu Mansion, was once attached to the big tree of Zhang Dang, like many officials, although he did not say that he was making steady progress, but it was also good to enjoy the shade under the big tree. But his sudden promotion suddenly broke the promotion balance within the Zhang Party, and people suddenly realized that Zhang Kuan was no longer the Zhang Cheng Prime Minister who covered the sky in the officialdom.
After all, Zhang Kuan is old.
Zhang Kuan is indeed old, Zhang Kuan is sixty-nine years old this year, in the Shenghan officialdom for more than forty years, Zhang Kuan has experienced too many ups and downs, and when Emperor Dade drove the King of Jin to the Ping'an County Royal Hunting Ground to guard the hunting ground, Zhang Kuan suddenly realized what his grandson wanted, what he wanted was to monopolize power, not a puppet emperor.
As a civil official, Zhang Kuan has absolutely no intention of rebellion, all he wants in his life is to be a powerful minister, one person under ten thousand people. Now that he has been in power for more than ten years, his eyes have become old, and he must be read to him by the students themselves when he sees the recital of the Sixth Academy, because he can't read the words in the recital.
The rise of Emperor Dade is Zhang Kuan's gradual retreat, but also Zhang Kuan's gradual cultivation, from beginning to end, Emperor Dade is Zhang Kuan's only favorite grandson, but also his only recognized emperor. As long as Emperor Dade is there, the Zhang family will be safe, but if the king of Chu or the king of Jin is called emperor, I am afraid that these two grandsons will not only stir up the court, but also put the Zhang family in crisis.
King Jin is just an alternative, but this alternative has been disposed of by Emperor Dade in a thunderous way, Zhang Kuan believes that Emperor Dade is definitely a vigorous and resolute emperor, far from being gentle and elegant as people see. And Emperor Dade's reuse of Zhang Xiaowu is also Zhang Kuan's secret help, and now Emperor Dade needs a knife, and what he needs to do is that when Emperor Dade needs to cut off this knife, he hides the bow for his grandson.
After Lord Liang Nanliang stayed in the yamen of Longdu Mansion, he immediately disbanded the yamen, and he gave them two choices, each of them with a severance pay of five taels of silver, or join the Xuanwu Legion of the forbidden army. Although the headquarters of the Xuanwu Legion is in Wuguan County, and the county commander of Wuguan County is Shao Xue, the advocate of the government service and leisure, entering the forbidden army means that he rarely sees his family from now on, and they need to practice day and night, how can these idle people be willing to commit to the forbidden army.
Everyone had no choice but to take the dismissal money and find something to do.
After the disbandment of the Ya Gong Gang, Yinyiwei quickly took over the day and night inspection work of Fangyi and Fangcheng, and ordered the cancellation of the tea fee for the practice stalls in Fangyi, but required the stall owners and Fangcheng merchants to pay a cleaning management fee of 50 yuan to Yinyiwei every month.
For this purpose, Yinyi Wei has set up a special urban management office of the Suzhou Health Bureau, which is responsible for the cleaning and sanitation of Longdu City. The urban management office hired a group of temporary workers, old men and old ladies at a price of 300 yuan a month, and cleaned the streets with bamboo and brooms all day long, cleaning the city streets and fangcheng cleanly and beautifully.
In any country or anywhere, the elderly are often seen as a burden because they have lost their labour force and are not able to generate wealth for their families, but instead consume their food. Whether in a society with a backward labor force or in modern society, the elderly are often disliked.
But in China, the culture of filial piety allows the elderly to rely on each other, but in Western countries, even the presidents of various countries have tried to eliminate the country's elderly, especially in Western countries, who hope to reduce the burden on the country through diseases and epidemics, and deliberately make new crown and other diseases pandemic.
The Shenghan Empire advocated the culture of filial piety, but in the face of the loss of the ability of the elderly to work, some people still felt guilty, so the elderly were often abandoned. After the silver guards recruited the elderly to clean the streets, the old people had income and security, and even got refined salt and fine grain during the New Year's holidays, and suddenly these old people became the treasures of the family, and the old people cherished their work and took care of the city cleanly.
At the same time, Yinyiwei also ordered the hunting and killing of stray dogs and cats, organized the city's rodent, insecticide, mosquito and cockroach eradication actions, and also wrote on the city wall "Longdu health depends on everyone, safe and comfortable you, me and him" and other fierce propaganda slogans.
Zhang Xiaowu did not have any innovation, completely copied a series of management models of modern cities in later generations, but in the eyes of others, he "invented" many new experiences and new methods of urban management for the first time in history.
Originally, Zhang Dang also wanted to pick and choose to impeach Zhang Xiaowu, but unexpectedly, after a winter of "surveillance", they found that Longdu City not only became chaotic because of the arrival of Zhang Xiaowu, a military general, but the entire city was clean and safe, and even Lord Yin Liang Nanliang, the governor of Longdu Prefecture, also said to Emperor Dade: "Lord Zhang is a capable official, I am not as good as him, since Lord Zhang served as the commander of the silver guard for three months, the case of Longdu City has been declining every month, it cannot be said that the road is not left behind, and the night is not closed, but the silver guard patrols day and night does make the city safer." Your Majesty, the silver-clothed guards patrol day and night, which is much more reassuring to the people than the forbidden army's day and night patrols. ”
Indeed, no citizen of that country wants to see soldiers patrolling the streets with guns all day long, but rather peace of mind when they see police patrolling. One of the functions played by the silver guards is to stabilize people's hearts, especially the uniforms of this group of people are uniform and neat, and they look dignified, and then inquire carefully about their salaries, ordinary silver guards are two taels of silver per month, and there is a winter subsidy of one or two taels of silver per month.
The Holy Han stipulated that one tael of silver was 600 wen, and three taels of silver was 1,800 wen, and on weekdays, they ate three meals in the household in the morning, noon and evening, and did not need to spend a penny, so they could save at least two taels of silver in a month, and twenty-four taels of silver in a year. At this time, how much can ordinary people in Longdu City earn in a year, compared to the ordinary people in Longdu City, the work of the silver guard can be regarded as a decent, high-tech, safe, and formal iron rice bowl.
Immediately, an enthusiastic old lady and aunt of Longdu asked the silver-clothed guards about their personal marriage matching, and after learning that the silver-clothed guards were basically unmarried guys, they suddenly became more enthusiastic and gave them media and fiber.
Ruan Qingwen reported the matter to Zhang Xiaowu, who needed them to help the ghost guards marry in Saibei, and in Longdu, people came to the door to marry this group of iron rice bowls. Zhang Xiaowu laughed and said: "If they are married, our silver-clothed guard yamen will give each person two hundred taels of silver as a congratulatory gift, so as not to let our brothers become relatives and live in the father-in-law's house, and our brothers are not sons-in-law." The Ding Health Bureau issued a notice to the guards that if there are relatives, they can receive this benefit. However, this is a marriage and a wife, and concubinage or a second marriage is not counted among them. ”
In Zhang Xiaowu's view, if Yinyiwei can guarantee his status for a long time, he should completely integrate into Longdu, take root, get married and have children, and move to the same place in Saibei. A man who is not married, a man who is not tied by his family, is uncertain and unstable.