Zhao Heng also clearly told Ba Qing that if this cooperation goes well, he will have in-depth cooperation with the other party.

As for how to cooperate in depth, he sold it first, and planned to wait for the initial completion of the college to discuss in detail with Ba Qing.

Next, Ba Qing took Zhao Heng to a large vacant mansion, and divided the homestead of 1,000 mansions to him on the spot.

This also means that Zhao Heng finally has the land to build Xianyang and even the first primary and secondary school in Daqin.

He did not delay, and when he returned to the Prime Minister's Palace, he immediately recruited all his subordinates, and ordered them to hire enough men to build schools and essential craftsmen in the shortest possible time.

Originally, he could have requisitioned convicts and artisans for free, but instead of doing so, he chose to try the mercenary system in Xianyang for the first time.

Although he could not immediately implement the various new systems of Baiyucheng directly in the whole Great Qin for the time being, he could first carry out a pilot in Xianyang and then gradually radiate to other regions.

Although the subordinate officials were extremely puzzled by Zhao Heng's decision to refuse to requisition the coconvicts and artisans and choose to spend money to hire the convicts and craftsmen, they did not dare to raise objections and left one after another.

"We must build the school as soon as possible and start cultivating all kinds of new talents."

Zhao Heng's heart was secretly thinking.

Although these subordinate officials are quite obedient, they are extremely difficult to use.

Especially in terms of accepting the new system, even it is inferior to those ordinary villagers in Baiyucheng.

If it weren't for the development of Baiyucheng, it would be inseparable from the new talents he had personally cultivated in the past three years, and he really wanted to bring them all to Xianyang.

There is no way, it is estimated that in a short period of time, he can only call these dozens of subordinate officers who are not very efficient.

Fortunately, a hundred guards such as Shuang Hexi can not only protect his safety, but also complete some tasks that the subordinate officials cannot do for the time being.

For example, he has already instructed Shuang Hexi to start preparations for the cement factory and steel plant in Xianyang.

The school he wants to build is naturally a modern reinforced concrete structure, and whether it is a teaching building, a dormitory building, or a canteen, library, laboratory and other infrastructure, it will not be less than three floors.

Therefore, cement and steel plants must be made in the shortest possible time.

Although Baiyucheng already has a cement factory and a steel plant, Baiyucheng is too far away from Xianyang City, and it will take at least three months to transport large quantities of cement and steel bars to Xianyang.

Only when the train was taken out could Zhao Heng be able to call all kinds of supplies directly from White Jade City.

At that time, whether he wanted to promote paper or distribute newspapers, he no longer needed to rely on Ba Qing's caravans.

Even, he can have a logistics team come out by himself.

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The work of employing men and craftsmen by the subordinate officials went exceptionally smoothly.

In just half a day, they had already signed employment contracts with nearly 10,000 people and 300 craftsmen.

These employment contracts were naturally made by Zhao Heng and other guards such as Shuang and Xi.

The contract stipulates the obligations and rights of the craftsmen, for example, they must complete the construction tasks on time and in accordance with the amount every day, and if they can keep the construction work without leaving early or arriving late for a month, they will not only receive basic wages, but also receive additional rewards.

It can be said that the reason why nearly 10,000 people and 300 craftsmen were hired so smoothly was because of this employment contract.

Of course, if it weren't for the fact that Party A on the employment contract was Zhao Heng, the prime minister of Daqinzhong, it is estimated that there would not be too many people who dared to sign.

You must know that now Zhao Heng's name has almost been heard by all the people.

The only Marquis of Wanhu in Great Qin who has a closed city, and the first prime minister of Great Qin.

The most important thing is that as soon as he opened the government, he issued three major decrees.

Whether it is the abolition of torture such as joint sitting, the razing of the three tribes, and the extermination of sects, or the construction of colleges and the implementation of universal education, the people of Xianyang are ecstatic.

From the promulgation of the three major decrees to the present, hundreds of people have stopped running to tell each other and cheered.

Especially those prisoners who were released and implicated in the sitting, they all cried with joy at this time, and their whole family even left tears of emotion, treating Zhao Heng as a living saint and wanting to establish an immortal position for him.

If the fireworks in Baiyucheng can be popularized in Xianyang, it is estimated that the streets and alleys will be like the New Year in later generations.

Because of this, when many people heard that the prime minister was waiting to hire people and craftsmen to build the academy, countless people enthusiastically signed up.

After they found out that they could still get paid for helping Henghou build the academy, they all had a feeling of "serfs turning over and singing".

Many people and craftsmen who had signed employment contracts spontaneously came to the Prime Minister's Mansion to be grateful in person.

It's a pity that they only saw Shuang Hexi, and they didn't thank Zhao Heng in person.

It's not that Zhao Heng is floating and unwilling to go to the people, but that he is really busy now.

In addition to building schools, he was also busy promoting agricultural products such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, hybrid rice, cocoons, and zigyuan plows, the latter of which was even more imminent.

After all, agriculture is the foundation of people's livelihood, and if the people don't have enough food and clothing, what else can they talk about?

In addition to these two tasks, Zhao Heng is also working to build Xianyang into the first civilized city in Daqin.

First of all, open defecation must be strictly prohibited.

To do this, in addition to the establishment of punishment regulations, there must also be a vigorous "public toilet campaign".

To put it simply, large public toilets similar to those built in the streets and alleys of the city are similar to those of later generations.

In fact, Daqin already has the prototype of a public toilet.

When Li Xin was attacking Chu, he ordered the artisan soldiers to dig and build squatting pit open-air toilets for each camp.

In doing so, not only will the camp be kept clean, but it will also prevent outbreaks of some diseases.

The public toilet that Zhao Heng wants to build is naturally not only an open-air toilet with squatting pits, but only the country next door will do this in later generations.

So, Shuang took some time, with fifty guards, posted announcements on the streets and alleys, if anyone defecates in the city, it is regarded as the crime of abandoning ashes in the right way, although it will not cut off his hand, but it should be a good one!

And those groomsmen and lieutenant supervisors, all wearing black armbands, began to strictly grasp open defecation in the streets and alleys, and once caught, they were fined on the spot.

Of course, people have three urgencies, in order to avoid the people encountering three urgencies, they can't find a public toilet for a while, and they don't want to be fined a huge amount of money, so they can only pull their pants, Zhao Heng has asked Xi to take the other fifty guards, as well as the hired people and craftsmen, to start building public toilets throughout the city.

Anyway, it takes time to produce cement and steel bars, and we can't let these nearly 10,000 people and 300 craftsmen be idle, so we can also let them build public toilets to practice their skills first.

After the public toilet was built, it was quickly accepted by the people in the vicinity.

Because they found that not only did the public toilets have walls to hide the smell, but they also looked even cleaner than their houses, and the key was that they were free, so why didn't they use them?