Chapter 358 No officials will be awarded in the imperial examination this year
When the volume and weight of the fish reach a certain level, the proportion of feed consumed by feeding it and its meat yield will continue to decrease, what is the specific value, Sun Xiangfu has not seen the relevant statistics, but he knows that in later generations, few people raise fish for three years before starting the pond, one year together pond, two years together pond the most.
As an authentic Hubei native who grew up by the Yangtze River, Sun Xiangfu knows too much about how to eat freshwater fish, salted and dried preserved fish with a little salt, which is a dish that every family will eat, whether it is fried with some side dishes, or grilled with some spices, it is chewy comparable to beef jerky, and the nutritional calories even surpass beef jerky.
When Sun Xiangfu was a child, he liked to eat the preserved fish pieces from the dry kang in the pot, even if he didn't add any seasoning, it was also a delicious snack, which was kept for a long time, and was an auxiliary military food that was very convenient for the sergeants to eat.
Now, Sun Xiangfu, who is full of military preparations, thought of it for the first time, since the royal fishery has such resources, then this requisition order in Sun Xiangfu's hand will start from the royal family! It is just right to clear the ponds for major fishing grounds, and it is good to feed fresh fish fry next year.
Not only that, Sun Xiangfu also wants to make a big optimization for all the farms in Guanzhong, that is, in addition to preserving the latest high-yielding varieties, all the rest will be eliminated.
With this order, there may be more than 10 million chickens and ducks will be slaughtered, because more than three years have passed, and there are nearly 30 farms with a scale of hundreds of thousands of farms in the royal farms alone, and the introduction of seedlings from these farms, the self-employed who have raised more than 1,000 chickens, at least hundreds, and the village collectives that have raised more than 10,000 birds, there are also dozens.
The reason for this phenomenon is mainly because the people are afraid of poverty, and after they suddenly became rich this year, they have not changed their previous thrifty habits, and they are reluctant to eat chickens and ducks, which can continue to produce poultry for the family.
Everyone is desperately raising and not eating, which has led to more and more poultry and eggs in the market, and the price has fallen again and again.
After all, rich people are only a small handful, and they don't eat these things for meals.
Then, Sun Xiangfu just took this opportunity to help the people of Guanzhong to go to inventory, which can not only optimize the breeding efficiency in the future, but also allow the families with better conditions to develop the habit of eating chickens and ducks.
Therefore, after a period of time, the people of Guanzhong will not only dry fish, but also dry preserved chicken, preserved duck, and even, easy to maintain, can be eaten directly pork jerky, Sun Xiangfu also plans to get some, in terms of food to meet the government soldiers, I believe that on the battlefield, their strength will definitely not lose to the Goguryeo soldiers.
"Have all the industries in our village been established in the big workshops of Weinan New Town? Will it be put into use this year? ”
When he came back, he caught up with a mess, and Sun Xiangfu hadn't met with Ma Zhou for a specific discussion, so he took advantage of the free time to eat and asked Sun Dali.
"They have all started to be built, but at present, the main building of the smelting workshop that began to be built at the earliest time has been completed, and the other workshops may take several months to be built one after another, and it will be good to be able to start production after the Spring Festival."
Although Li Shimin has made hundreds of thousands of laborers for Weinan New Town, but the stalls in the new city are too big, and there are too many places that need to be used for manpower, and it is not just a few months to see results, and now in mid-September, according to Sun Dali's statement, that is, three or four months later, the large workshop invested and built by Happy Village can be initially put into use, and it is estimated that it will take more than a year to really recruit full staff and operate efficiently.
Because, in many workshops, simple production workshops may be easy to build, but the skilled craftsmen who can produce in them need time to be trained.
"Our workshops in our village can't be stopped, you can recruit workers and train in advance, produce a small amount, and later, I will give you some things that you can produce, make a list, and you will maintain full production as much as possible before next summer in order."
"Okay, it just so happens that after the autumn harvest, a lot of people are idle, and after I go back, I will immediately arrange for recruitment, but there is another problem, there is not enough space in our village. The cotton filled most of our village. ”
Due to the implementation of the new household registration system, the people in Guanzhong are more willing to go out, and there are often people in the happy village with a relatively large amount of labor.
The venue is indeed a problem, especially cotton, this thing occupies an area, Sun Xiangfu listened to Sun Dali's words, turned his head to Shi Bao and asked, "Da Lang, is your mother here today?" ”
"Come, visit Madame upstairs!"
"Tell her for me later! Starting from tomorrow, let all the skilled craftsmen in the garment workshop receive a production task, distribute the raw materials to them, let them take them home to make, if a skilled person can make two sets of cotton armor a day, you will send him twenty sets of cotton armor every day, can not finish, let them find their own neighbors to help, as long as they deliver in accordance with the required quality, they can get the full amount of wages, if they can be overfulfilled, give rewards, do more awards, existing garment workshops, In the future, it will only be used as a training place and a place for receiving and shipping. ”
In fact, in an agrarian society, weaving, making clothes, most women will do, now there are almost more than 2,000 skilled female workers in the garment workshop, these female workers do summer clothes shorts, each person can make more than a dozen pieces a day, do long sleeves, long pants or autumn clothes, simple cotton jackets, can also make three or five pieces a day, as for thick, more functional cotton armor, a day can only be one or two.
However, Sun Xiangfu knows that there is not much difficulty in making these things, normal people, or children, can complete most of these processes, as long as the garment workshop masters the size of the piece, coordinates some key parts, and a skilled craftsman leads a few new hands, the number of clothes made in a day can be doubled.
He is to let every skilled garment worker go back to recruit a group of people, form their own production team, the neighborhood, or the same village neighbors, are mobilized to make clothes, just like the garment industry in the southern coastal cities in the later generations, large orders are coming, the garment factory only needs to cut the pieces according to the specifications, hang the tag to ship to the outside world, there are hundreds of self-employed processing teams to come to receive the production, after completion, pay for the delivery of finished products.
I believe that with this means, there is no need to wait for the success of the large workshop in Weinan, and the production capacity of the garment industry will be raised first.
And the cotton produced in dozens of warehouses and millions of acres of fields can be quickly turned into clothes worn by ordinary people, or cotton armor worn by soldiers, which is Sun Xiangfu's purpose, but don't think that Sun Xiangfu will post wages or something in this matter, in fact, they will make a lot of money.
Because once the family workshop led by these skilled craftsmen is formed, it will be able to quickly spread cotton clothes to the market and occupy the market, and when the time comes, the profit will be enough to subsidize the wages of making hundreds of thousands of sets of military uniforms.
For such a major national event, Shi Bao didn't dare to slack off at all, for fear that he would miss something, so he went upstairs to find Nie Sanniang to explain the situation.
Then, Sun Xiangfu also took advantage of this time to eat, and pointed out a few more words to Nie Sanniang, similar to the plan to stimulate everyone's enthusiasm, the first can set the unit price a little higher, the style of hair is simpler, and the workshop also makes some needles and threads that can help workers produce efficiently, cutting knives, etc., in short, it is to expand the scale of garment production without limit, and clean up the cotton inventory as soon as possible.
I believe that with this strategy, it will be difficult to see idlers on the streets of Guanzhong this winter.
This is only the work that Sun Xiangfu has done within the resources at his disposal, and it is only a small amount compared to all the things that the imperial court has to prepare this time.
After eating, he only glanced at his wife and children briefly, and then hurried to the political affairs hall, Xiao Yu and Ma Zhou, it is estimated that they have been waiting for him here all morning.
"Everything is busy, so you two have been waiting for a long time, sorry, sorry." Sun Xiangfu apologized to the two busy people who were waiting and kept flipping through the manuscripts and dealing with official business.
"Sun Dudu has many functions, I'm afraid it's the same as me, busy feet don't touch the ground, polite words don't say much, we have already listed the things that must be solved as soon as possible into a document, Sun Dudu has suggestions or special arrangements in the convenience, please mention them one by one, time waits for no one, after we agree, we will implement it immediately."
Xiao Yu is really a doer, he is a lot older, and he is still vigorous in doing things, but when Sun Xiangfu saw the first suggestion he listed, he frowned and shook his head.
"Xiao Xiang, since many ministers of the imperial court are not in Beijing, what kind of file system do you think is necessary to keep it? The lower officials thought that it would be detrimental to the country to let these scholars throw themselves into the wall and form factions before they entered the office. ”
The scientific examination of the Sui Dynasty had a very fucked system, that is, the person who referred to it had to submit papers to the ministers in the court, and only those who had been recommended by the ministers could take the exam.
The advantage of this system at that time was that it could ensure that the reference had a certain level of literature, after all, the imperial examination during the Sui Dynasty was not like the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, which were admitted one by one, but more like adding a literary examination to the system of filial piety and honesty in the Han Dynasty.
The minister of the imperial court accepts the candidate's paper and gives the candidate a recommendation, which is equivalent to being a guarantor for the candidate, and in terms of behavior and morality, the guarantor can have certain constraints on the candidate, even if the candidate passes the examination and becomes an official, there is a relationship between the guarantor and the guarantor.
In Sun Xiangfu's view, this is a breeding ground for officialdom factions, but there is such a big loophole in the system, which was formed at that time, which is also one of the reasons why the five surnames and seven families can control the court of the Sui Dynasty.
The family valve with more scholars has a high probability of winning the lottery, and the children of the poor family who have no backers in the imperial court, even if they are referenced, they are also talented, and they are better than the children of the family, and you are not a big official to do, and you are even excluded from the officialdom, because the minority group cannot fight the majority group.
If the children of the poor family want to be an official, there is another way, to serve in the family, they don't say that you will be prosperous and prosperous, at least, so that you can mix in the officialdom, but at that time, you can take the interests of the family as the highest criterion.
This model soon allowed the family gate valve to monopolize knowledge and culture, forming a power to influence the court, and in the early Tang Dynasty, even if there were many rebels who started the martial arts into the court, it failed to change the situation.
For Sun Xiangfu's question, Xiao Yu is not without consideration, but if you let him conceive a new imperial examination system out of thin air, it will be a little embarrassing, if the ancients had such a strong ability to innovate, future generations would not know what it would look like!
"The old man also thinks it's inappropriate, Zhengming thinks, how can we ensure that the references are talented, and how to identify these talented candidates, and the moral cultivation is enough to be officials?"
Regarding Xiao Yu's question, Sun Xiangfu replied without much thought, "Whether the reference person has talent or not, we can take the exam on the exam questions!" As for whether their moral cultivation can be officials, let's let the people evaluate it! The lower officials have already discussed with His Majesty before, and the people who are taken by this department will not be awarded officials. ”
"No awards?"
Sun Xiangfu said these three words, and even Ma Zhou, who was waiting in line to discuss things with him, also looked at him, don't give an official, what are you doing in the imperial examination?