With such a handicraft guild that obeyed the government, Marin could also easily control the craftsmen and workers in those related industries, saving the government's management costs.

You know, these craftsmen were the most unstable social factor in ancient times. Since a long time ago, these craftsmen, known as citizens, have been the main force of riots in Europe.

Serfs in Europe were generally very honest. If it weren't for their inability to survive, they would rarely take the initiative to rebel. But these craftsmen are different, they have a little knowledge, many of them can also read and write, and have a vision and ...... that serfs do not have. Pride......

Therefore, sometimes the official increases the oppression a little, and the craftsmen are easy to fry. In particular, the issue of taxation was very sensitive to the burgher class, which was dominated by artisans.

For example, the peasant revolt in Württemberg is said to be a peasant uprising, but its leader, Casbar, was a blacksmith who forged a knife. In southern Germany, the Shoe Club, a rebellious group similar to the Heaven and Earth Society, was actually initiated by a group of shoemakers.

Including the uprisings in China in later generations, they were also initiated by the working class as the backbone and led by the peasants. Even the name is a worker and peasant XX...... Even though the peasants were in fact the majority in China, it was the working class that was in the leading position.

Therefore, the burgher class is the biggest destabilizing factor in society. Almost all of the successive struggles in modern Europe were initiated by the working class. Especially in France, it was basically the workers in Paris who were making trouble......

Therefore, only when the burghers, who are mainly handicraftsmen, are well managed, can the society be stable. Otherwise, be mentally prepared to go to the guillotine......

However, the working class, as terrible as it is, is not so demanding. As long as they can be fed and clothed, in fact, they will not play with their lives casually.

It's just that in unfortunate Europe, agriculture has always been rubbish, and it was not until the 18th century that China began to make some progress. Until then, food production in Europe had been alarmingly low. Therefore, the workers could not even afford to eat bread, and it was inevitable that they would have resentment in their hearts.

But in the North Sea Country, it is impossible to afford to eat. Because, the grain production of the North Sea country is too high, and the food supply is extremely sufficient. Unlike other countries, the bread is mixed with a bunch of wild vegetables, wood chips, dirt and stones and other unpalatable things. In Beihai Country, black bread is only mixed with a little grass bran, although it tastes a little coarse, but it is much better than mixed with soil and stones.

And the textile industry that Ma Lin plans to engage in now can also fully solve the problem of clothing, so that the people of Beihai can dress warmly. At the same time, Marin is also planning to build hospitals in various places to solve the problem of people seeing a doctor......

As for housing, Marin didn't have much to do. He can't just give a house to a poor person, can he? He can't afford to send it that way. This question can only be left to the activities of local officials to send warmth. For example, during the cold winter months, local officials come to shanty towns and instruct masons to mend the seams of their shantytowns. It's really not good, you can pile up a classic adobe house!

The adobe house is warm enough to make a fire. If nothing else, at least it's much better than the kind of shanty towns in the city. Moreover, the cost is very low, only dirt and thatch, plus a little labor.

Although the construction of adobe houses in the city has a greater impact on the appearance of the city, in this era, it is not the time to pay attention to face, but to pay attention to cost. It is natural for rich people to build stone houses or brick houses, and if they don't have money, they will build adobe houses. As long as the adobe houses are not built along the avenues and in the downtown area, Marin will not care. Marin was originally from an ordinary person and understood the difficulties of the poor. It's not like some managers in later generations who have never seen the suffering of the world, who actually use nonsense excuses like the appearance of the city to not allow people to do this or that.

In fact, Marin had always felt that the squatter houses of the European cities of this era were extravagant. Why? Because it's all wood!

Maybe Ma Lin was used to staying in later generations, and the development of China in later generations was too high, and it was difficult to see the woods or something. Therefore, subconsciously feel that wood is expensive. You must know that in later generations, in order to build furniture, Huaxia had to import a large amount of wood from abroad every year.

In this era, the poor people in the cities of Europe were so extravagant that they made all-timber houses out of wood, which often made Marin feel that this guy was pretending to be poor......

Of course, people are really poor. Because, in this era, Europeans really don't know how to build lower-cost adobe houses!

Moreover, Europe was not too densely populated these days, with a lot of forests and not much timber at a high price. The cost of building an all-timber house is not too high. Of course, compared to adobe houses, it is indeed much higher. After all, in Europe these days, even if you cut down your own wood, you still have to pay taxes to the government.

But Marin doesn't like this kind of wooden house very much, because in the event of a fire, the shantytown, which is dominated by wooden houses, can easily burn a large area, which is very dangerous.

However, if you change to an adobe house, you will be able to catch fire if you use a thatched roof. Therefore, Marin plans to renovate the shantytowns in the cities of Beihai and replace them with adobe houses. However, the roof is tiled to reduce the risk of fire.

Moreover, if you paint a layer of white lime mortar on the outside of the adobe house, the tiled adobe house looks no different from the brick house, and it is still very beautiful.

Of course, because of gravity, the walls of this kind of adobe house with straw reinforcement cannot be stacked too high, so you can only make a relatively small house with three rooms. However, this is also enough. Because, for poor families, they don't dare to expect a big house.

In order to confirm his conjecture, Marin personally went to the shanty town of Aurich, commanded a large number of craftsmen, and urgently repaired a three-room adobe house in one day (in order to catch up with the schedule, the mud walls were quickly hardened by fire). In this case, the roof is made of timber removed from the wooden house as beams, and the beams are covered with tiles. Finally, the exterior walls of the adobe house were all painted with a layer of white lime mortar......

Then a very beautiful little house with oriental features was built. However, for such urban houses, Marin did away with the special earthen stoves and chimneys in the adobe houses where the serfs lived in the countryside. Because, his plan is to let city dwellers use honeycomb coal stoves. And the honeycomb coal stove can be placed outside the door to cook and boil water. Therefore, it is possible to save a room for storage or for people. If it rains, the honeycomb coal stove can also be placed inside the main door of the hall to cook.

After a trial of living in shantytowns, this small three-room adobe house was highly praised by the residents who originally lived in dilapidated wooden houses. Because, on this hot day, the residents feel that they are living in adobe houses, which is actually very cool and comfortable......

Moreover, its repair cost is very low. The biggest cost is probably the full roof tiles. As for dirt and thatch, it doesn't cost anything. The beams were also removed from the original wooden house, and most of the timber remains. The real place to spend money is to buy tiles and lime mortar for painting walls. But lime is cheaper and the cost is not high. Only the cost of tiles is slightly higher, but ordinary people grit their teeth and can afford it. Of course, there is also the mason's salary, but this piece is not too high. Because, the mason's salary for a day is only 3 puffines.

In other words, this kind of adobe house with a tiled roof and white walls can be built by poor families. Moreover, it is also relatively beautiful in appearance, a bit like a tiled house. At least, in this day and age, no one would think that a house with a tiled roof and white walls would affect the city's appearance......

Therefore, in order to win over the shantytown workers who seem to be unstable, and to reduce the risk of fire, Marin took the lead in carrying out large-scale shantytown renovation work in the capital Aurich.

While replacing the dilapidated wooden houses with tiled-roofed adobe houses, Marin also took the opportunity to replan the shantytowns with cluttered buildings. At the very least, neat streets and alleys are planned. At the same time, a public latrine was built in each small area to collect manure and transport it outside the city to dispose of the fertile fields. Of course, I didn't forget to promote the toilet with oriental characteristics.

After all, there are limited squatting spaces in public toilets. If you all go to the public toilet, you may not be able to get in line. If you pull your pants, you're in trouble. Therefore, Marin asked people to guide everyone to use the toilet at home and cover it after serving. Then, every morning, I go to the public toilet to empty the toilet. In this way, everyone does not have to rush to grab a public toilet seat every day.

As a result of this transformation, the problem of dirty and messy shantytowns in the city of Aurich has been greatly improved, and the possibility of disease breeding has been reduced. Moreover, it has greatly gained the hearts and minds of those citizens who have the potential to rebel. At the same time, it doesn't cost much......

Subsequently, the "shantytown renovation" of replacing the broken wooden houses with tiled roofs and white walls of adobe houses was successively promoted in various cities in Beihai Kingdom, making Ma Lin fiercely brush up on a wave of prestige among the citizens of Beihai Kingdom.

Moreover, the shrewd Marin also took the opportunity to promote a wave of honeycomb coal stoves. After all, the renovated tiled-roofed white-walled adobe houses have no earthen stoves, forcing citizens to use honeycomb coal stoves instead. In order to achieve this purpose, Marin also pretended to give a lot of honeycomb coal stoves to those citizens, and then instructed them where to buy honeycomb coal......

Without the earthen stove, even those citizens who are conservative will have to try to use honeycomb coal. Then, they soon find out that using honeycomb coal for cooking and boiling water is more cost-effective. Also, there is no need to pile up firewood and grass at home.

In the past, almost every urban household would have a firewood house (a poor family's firewood shed) stacked with firewood and grass, which took up a lot of space. Nowadays, with honeycomb coal stoves, every household only needs to pile a little honeycomb coal in the corner, and it can be used for many days, which is very convenient.

The poor in shantytowns are the most cost-sensitive group and the best customers of honeycomb coal. Because, those rich families don't care about the cost at all, and they don't worry about the problem of nowhere to pile up firewood and grass.

However, there were many people who were conservative and afraid of change. As a result, although Marin promoted honeycomb coal, which seems to be very popular, it cannot really be fully rolled out. Because, more people are waiting and seeing, or refusing to change. Marin's adoption of the opportunity of shantytown renovation to cancel the layout of earthen stoves is tantamount to forcing conservative citizens to switch to honeycomb coal. After all, the small three-room adobe house has no earthen stove and no firewood house.

By helping the shantytown build new houses, Marin not only took the opportunity to earn a wave of popularity, but also seized a large market for honeycomb coal. After all, the honeycomb coal is basically in the hands of Marin, and he takes the lion's share of the money. Once the honeycomb coal is fully rolled out, Marin will lie down and count the money every day......