As soon as he thought of this question, Zhao Junsheng sent someone to find Lu Xuanbo after some thought.

Lu Xuanbo had officially replaced Guo Yi as the commander of the Black Guards a year ago, and the Black Guards' ability to gather intelligence under his management had been greatly enhanced, and their penetration was simply pervasive.

"I've seen the king!" Lu Xuanbo walked into the main hall and saluted Zhao Junsheng with his fists.

Zhao Junsheng looked up, put down the brush and beckoned: "Old Lu, come on, come on, I just told them why you didn't come yet!" What's going on with the Blackguard? ”

Lu Xuanbo didn't know what he meant, and replied with his fists: "Back to the king, everything is normal with the black-clothed guard!" ”

The black-clothed guard would present some information to Zhao Junsheng every day, which was all considered necessary to be reported to Zhao Junsheng by Lu Xuanbo and the relevant senior officials of the black-clothed guard, and some other information that was not good enough to be known by Zhao Junsheng would be sealed.

"Good!" Zhao Junsheng nodded and ordered: "Now I give you a task for the black sweater, you must reply to me in the shortest possible time, and check whether the sanitary environment of the cities in various parts of my Qianguo has changed greatly since the promulgation of the imperial court's Ma Zheng, and whether it is as smoky and smelly as the Qianjing City, I want to know the situation in each county!" ”

Lu Xuanbo clenched his fists and agreed: "Yes, king!" In six days at most, the minister will report to the king the impact of Ma Zheng on the health conditions of various towns and cities! ”

Not only Lu Xuanbo, but even Zhao Junsheng knew that in order to investigate the sanitary conditions of the cities in various parts of Qianguo and feed back the news back to Qianjing in such a short period of time, it would take at least half of the intelligence forces and resources of the black-clothed guards.

Why do you say that? This is because half of the intelligence forces of the Black Guards are deployed inside the territory of Qianguo and the other half outside Qianguo, but this is only one aspect.

On the other hand, from issuing the order to the intelligence terminal, and then the intelligence terminal will feed the news back to Qianjing, there are only six days to go and come, and even if the message transmission is carried out by 800 miles of expedited fast horses, it can only be used to use the ultimate intelligence transmission channel of the black guard, that is, the carrier pigeon transmission.

As we all know, the pigeon transmission information is the use of the pigeon homing characteristics, to use the pigeon to transmit the message, must first artificially move the pigeon from A to another place B, when the need to transmit the message from the B place back to the place A at the fastest speed, the message is written on a piece of paper tied to the pigeon's feet, and the pigeon flies back to the A place.

The carrier pigeon flies very fast, and it can also bring the news back quickly, but it is also very labor-intensive to artificially send the carrier pigeon from A to B, so it is generally not particularly significant, 100,000 urgent news, and will not easily use the carrier pigeon to transmit the message, and would rather use a fast horse than the carrier pigeon to deliver the message consumes less resources.

Lu Xuanbo didn't know much about politics, and if Zhao Junsheng wanted to investigate this matter, he only needed to issue an edict to order the local government to report the health status of their respective cities, and he couldn't understand why Zhao Junsheng wanted to use his black-clothed guards to do this, but he still faithfully carried out the order.

Only five days later, the detailed information about the sanitary conditions of the cities in various places was written in a secret newspaper by Lu Xuanbo and placed on Zhao Junsheng's imperial case.

As Zhao Junsheng expected, the secret report submitted by Lu Xuanbo shows that since the promulgation of Ma Zheng, a large number of cattle, sheep and horses captured by Zhao Junsheng in the war in the north in recent years have been diverted to various places and lent to farmers to feed.

Why hasn't it been taken seriously? First of all, officials generally do not go out, and they do not smell the stench and harsh environment brought by the open defecation of cattle inside and outside the city.

Second, officials did not know that if the manure was not disposed of, in addition to creating a smoky and foul-smelling environment, it was also likely to bring epidemics, epidemic outbreaks, and once such an epidemic broke out and spread rapidly, the consequences would be unimaginable, and even cause a large number of livestock to infect and die.

Third, officials don't realize that the manure and urine of these animals can be used to turn waste into treasure, and as long as they are collected and disposed of, they can be turned into safe, highly fertilized organic fertilizers.

According to the intelligence collected by the Black Guards, more than ninety percent of the cities in Qianguo have not dealt with the impact of excessive livestock on urban sanitation, and only one percent of the urban officials have issued government orders to rectify the situation, but with little success.

"Hey, Qinghe County actually did this kind of treatment?" Zhao Junsheng saw that Lu Xuanbo specifically mentioned the handling method of Qinghe County in the report.

It turned out that the Taishou Mansion of Qinghe County ordered that every street in the city should build a public toilet for livestock to urinate, and people who ride horses, carriages, and ox carts must bring their own containers to receive livestock urine anytime and anywhere, and livestock are not allowed to urinate casually in the city. Animals naturally want to urinate.

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for several days after reading Lu Xuanbo's report, and he reported at a court meeting about the poor sanitary conditions in various cities.

"Lone just can't understand, why don't the local governments play this kind of thing?"

Cui Hao stood up and said: "King, officials from all over the country may feel that this matter is not worth mentioning, so they did not report it."

"Not worth mentioning?" Zhao Junsheng's face was a little unsightly, "If this matter is not worth mentioning, then what is worth mentioning?" Who wants to spend all day in a stinking environment? The inside of the city is not as open as the outside of the city, the streets of the city are crisscrossed and the houses are connected, and if the streets are full of feces and urine, who will stand it? ”

"Also, a large number of livestock manure is easy to transmit diseases if it is not treated, once there is infection between animals, it must be a large area, who is responsible for the loss? Livestock manure and urine are very useful materials for fertilizing the field, and it is a pity to waste them. ”

Recently, I heard that the Qinghe County government has already ordered to rectify the health problems caused by the large number of livestock, stipulating that the owners of the livestock must bring their own containers to pick up feces and urine for the animals anytime and anywhere, and the animals are not allowed to defecate anywhere. If you want to avoid this situation, you can only let the animals get into the habit of defecating regularly! ”

"In addition, Qinghe County has also built a public toilet on every street in the city, and the owners of livestock can dump the feces and urine collected on the way into the manure tank of the public toilet, and it is not allowed to dump it anywhere, otherwise they will be fined a huge amount of money, and if they do not change their ways, they will even be arrested and imprisoned by the government for ten days and half a month, and the people can also lead their animals to the public toilet to go to the toilet without collecting money!"

Zhao Junsheng said this, his eyes swept the ministers and said: "I think that the disposal method of Qinghe County is worthy of reference by the imperial court and promoted in various cities in Qianguo, I don't know what you think?" ”

Since Zhao Junsheng has affirmed this method of disposal, the ministers will naturally not be stupid enough to stand up and oppose it, and Zhao Junsheng will not easily express his views on an issue without going through the court discussion, and once he makes a decision directly without going through the court discussion, this shows that the matter has become settled.

However, some people still raised questions, and Li Yuande, the secretary of the household department, stood up and said: "If this kind of disposal plan is promoted to cities all over the country, will it be a complete copy of Qinghe County's plan, or will it be carried out by local governments according to the actual situation?" In the plan, will the imperial court allocate funds for the construction of public toilets and other buildings, and the cost of disposing of feces and urine? ”

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand: "Promote the disposal plan of Qinghe County to the local governments, let them adjust and implement it according to their own conditions, and the funds will also be borne by the local governments!" Lone's request is that the city must be kept clean, and there must be no more stench, smelling stench, and seeing feces everywhere! ”

"The Taishou Mansion of each county must evaluate the health status of each county under its rule, and select it once a quarter, and the county with the worst sanitary environment will be named and reprimanded, and the county order of the county will be called to the Taishou Mansion to severely reprimand, and if it is rated as the last place in the sanitary environment for three consecutive times, he will be demoted and transferred, and the promotion qualification of this person within five years will be cancelled!"

"There must be no outbreak of disease caused by the sanitation of livestock manure, and when this happens, the local government must take the right measures to isolate and kill the infected animals, and burn or bury the carcasses!" The imperial court should also investigate the responsibility of the relevant responsible officials, and if there is a problem and it is not dealt with in time, it must be dealt with severely! ”

After more than a year of rectification, the sanitary situation in various cities has been greatly improved, and during this period, many officials have been demoted, transferred, or dismissed because of ineffective rectification.

Zhao Junsheng is not worried at all that there are no officials to use, it is a big deal to promote some capable officials, and the first scientific examination is approaching, as long as it is another month, the first batch of officials who have passed the scientific examination can be sent to various places to take office.

At a recent court meeting, Gao Yun, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, stood up and said: "King, the day of the scientific examination is coming soon, and the students who have come from all over the country have arrived in Qianjing. ”

The chapter was sent to Zhao Junsheng, Zhao Junsheng took the chapter and read it in detail, took a cup of tea, and said after reading it: "The rest is fine, but the subjects and content of the scientific examination, I have to make some adjustments, reduce the content of the examination of poetry and songs, and increase arithmetic, history books, and current policy theory!" ”

"In addition, from the imperial court yamen, Hanlin Academy to draw officials to form a scientific examination question group, supported by the Ministry of Rites, the selected officials must be temporarily decided and notified, not informed in advance, officials are not allowed to explain to anyone alone after being notified, must not stop to report to the Ministry of Rites, during the period until the end of the scientific examination, do not leave, prohibit all possible leakage of examination questions, if it is found that deliberately leaking the examination questions or cooperate with the candidates to cheat, the light will be dismissed and investigated, never hired, or the heavy will be decided!"