Speaking of diseases, Xu Shiyang stood in the perspective of a traverser and issued an extermination order to some pests and pests that can cause diseases.

The target is the "five pests" of flies, mosquitoes, fleas, rats and schistosomes.

In fact, this is also learned from Taizu, mobilizing the people and concentrating on doing great things.

In this regard, the Qi State had the experience of exterminating locusts at the beginning, although it was not as good as the Red Dynasty, but the achievements were also unique in this era.

Qi first mobilized all the students to go out collectively to dig weeds, level all kinds of stagnant puddles, and use various tools to kill pests and beasts during recess, breaks, and special labor classes.

The school uses a class as a squad, the grade as a squadron, and the school as a brigade to carry out a pest elimination competition, which can not only eliminate the five pests, but also strengthen the discipline of students.

At the same time, the government will also provide affordable rewards to the winning teams: usually new snacks that are very popular with children, such as sugar cubes and milk tablets; and honorary praise: little red flowers, little red flags, and so on.

In addition to training, Xu Shiyang proposed that each field army company should devote 10 hours every 10 days to participate in the operation to eliminate the five evils.

With the children and the soldiers of the army who are most revered by the Qi people, combined with the propaganda team's efforts to publicize the dangers of the five evils, and the government's partial financial support for those involved in the extermination campaign (although it is meager, it is true), the number of cases of diseases caused by various pests is indeed declining rapidly.

In conjunction with the eradication campaign, there is a clean-up campaign.

It is only natural that the public's high-profile propaganda teams will promote the benefits of cleanliness and cleanliness in preventing diseases, especially for children and pregnant women, and that clean environment and bedding are good for health.

Seeing the role of students in the extermination campaign, Gu Hengbo, the head of the propaganda team, also directly demanded that health education be strengthened in schools, and subtly influenced parents with children.

Xu Shiyang naturally supported this, so the primary school opened a health section every five days to promote the advantages of hygiene from the children.

In order to get a clean and tidy environment, the government advocates that people expose their bedding to sterilization as much as possible.

In addition, due to the development of soybean cultivation in the whaling industry, the amount of oil obtained in Qi is gradually increasing, so the Ministry of Industry has spare capacity to provide soap products for the domestic market.

In this way, this novel cleaning product can be used, at least in places such as schools, the military, state-run factories and hospitals.

Another important hygiene habit is to bathe as much as possible and drink plenty of boiled water.

However, this requires a large supply of fuel – the Han Chinese are actually a very clean people, but in this era, they had to rely on hay, scavenging dead branches or chopping wood to obtain vegetable fuel, which was not readily available and did not provide enough energy.

Therefore, boiling water in large quantities is a very heavy burden for ordinary people.

However, there are a large number of coal resources in the existing territory of Qi (although it is not as good as the coal sea in Jin Province, but Ji Province, Qi Province and Liao Province are indeed large coal producers), so Xu Shiyang began to promote coal furnaces and use cheaper coal as an energy acquisition point.

To this end, Xu Shiyang commissioned Quancheng University to "invent" a coal stove for burning coal, and began to promote the fire kang in civilian households.

In order to promote coal furnaces as soon as possible, the Ministry of Industry controlled by Xu Shiyang did not hesitate to sell coal stoves to households above the common people of Qiguo at a loss.

Officials at the Ministry of Industry estimate that this year alone, the promotion of coal stoves will cause a loss of about 5 million catties.

If it continues next year, the loss will increase by at least two times, and it should be around 30 million catties in the third year.

However, Xu Shiyang was completely unmoved and continued to increase the promotion of new products such as coal furnaces.

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Throughout the four years of Longdao, Xu Shiyang led several campaigns that consumed more money and food than expected at the beginning of the year – including the expansion of schools, nutritional subsidies for pregnant women and children, the movement of barefoot doctors to the countryside, the campaign to eradicate the five evils, and the severely loss-making milk powder factory and coal stove production plant.

At the end of the year, when the summary was made, the household department counted that the loss or reduction of income of these projects reached as much as 80 million catties.

And looking at Xu Shiyang's layout, these activities will continue for a long time - some projects may last for ten or twenty years.

In that case, the future investment would be a staggeringly large number.

Including the King of Qi, many Qi officials expressed considerable puzzlement about this, but none of them could resist Xu Shiyang, the latter must insist, and everyone can only accompany him to continue to invest a lot of money in these bottomless pits.

Of course, Xu Shiyang will not go his own way.

Xu Shiyang briefly expounded his views and a package for the future at the four-year national summary meeting of Longdao.

He said that qualified officials can't just think about money, because money is useless in the warehouse, just scrap iron and waste paper.

Qualified officials also need to learn how to spend money reasonably and effectively.

For example, large-scale investment in education and investment in people's health programs are long-term plans that do not have any economic benefits in the short term, but are extremely beneficial to the future development of the country.

If Qi wants to survive for a long time, these investments are very necessary - the vision should be as long-term as possible.

Those who do not seek eternity are not enough to seek a moment.

As for milk powder and coal stoves, in fact, these two can bring economic benefits.

For example, the former, as long as the public can adapt to this new product, it can be sold on a large scale for profit, and the various products that are now distributed for free are just pre-publicity.

As for the latter, although the coal furnace itself is loss-making, the demand for private coal is increasing, and Qi, which has many high-grade coal mines, can make a lot of profits by selling coal, and these profits will be more than 100 times the loss figure of the coal furnace!

Xu Shiyang eventually persuaded the Qi court, especially the king of Qi himself.

He didn't have much resistance to the loss, anyway, he could earn it back elsewhere, and Qi was still a financially healthy and somewhat excessive regime.

Moreover, some of Xu Shiyang's words, in his sound, sounded like a hint that he should consider the future inheritance of his own dynasty, and he appreciated this very much, so naturally he would not object.

It's just that politics is not something you bring up simply, and I think it's beneficial, so I support you.

King Qi hoped to take advantage of Xu Shiyang's need for support to gain some of his own benefits.

For example: the palace that belongs to the king of Qi.

Xu Muhe was crowned king in early March of the fourth year of Longdao, and it had been nine months by the end of December of this year, but he still lived in the original Dadu Governor's Mansion, just changed his house number.

As a feudal king, Xu Muhe naturally hoped to have a better and more comfortable life, and the huge and gorgeous palace was one of the goals pursued for personal pleasure.

If the state is insufficient, he is willing to endure it for a while, but since the country's finances are so healthy, the country still allows himself, the king of Qi, to be wronged, which does not seem to be the reason to be a courtier.