In fact, there are not many soldiers patrolling in Zhongjing, mainly patrolling the palace area, and there are more policemen patrolling in Zhongjing, including policemen on foot, policemen on horseback, and policemen in horse-drawn carriages.

In the past, the Xia State had two standing armies, namely the field/war army and the city defense army, the field/war army became the main body of the current army, consisting of the army and navy respectively, and the city defense army was reorganized into the police (including the fire brigade).

After passing through the streets, the carriage entered the East Market, and finally stopped at a teahouse called Feng's Teahouse, where Su Yan and Su Zi got out of the car and walked into the teahouse, while the coachman took care of the carriage in the exclusive parking space of the teahouse.

Located in the prosperous area of the Feng's teahouse in the east of the city of Zhongjing City, there are three floors, the first floor is the lobby, neatly placed nearly 100 tables, there are small tables can only accommodate two people, there are medium-sized tables can accommodate four people, there are also large tables can accommodate six to eight people, most of the ordinary people and a small number of rich people often sit in the lobby.

The second floor is a private seat, you can hear the sound of discussion on the first floor, but the price is higher than the first floor, ordinary people usually do not go up to the second floor, here belongs to the rich people who like to be lively but do not want to mix with ordinary people to lower their status.

The third floor is a private room, which has a better soundproofing effect and is specially prepared for those rich people who don't like to be lively.

Su Yan and Su Zi went to the second floor, chose a place by the window, asked for a pot of good tea, and asked for melon seeds, peanuts, broad beans and other food.

Su Yan's expression was relatively flat, taking a sip of tea gently, eating a little peanuts and broad beans processed by Su Zi from time to time, or watching the scenery outside, or listening to the voices of people on the first floor.

The teahouse is a place where many people like to discuss various things, and everyone often gathers three or five to sit down in the teahouse and ask for a pot of tea, and then ask for some snacks, while drinking tea and eating, while chatting, it is regarded as passing the time.

The current Xia Kingdom is not like the former Xia Kingdom, all adult citizens have to be busy from morning to night every day, and there is almost no time to rest, and today's Xia Kingdom, even ordinary workers, have one day off every ten years, and even some officials have proposed to the Xia King to increase the holiday from one day to two days, and extend some holiday holidays.

Normally, it's okay, but on holidays, some low-end teahouses are simply full.

Like most other teahouses, the Fung Tea House has a dedicated storyteller on the first floor.

Storytelling was a profession in the Xia Dynasty, full-time storytellers were able to tell stories in a colorful way, and by the way, some famous storytellers were even more popular with tea customers, so they were poached by the owners of teahouses and teahouses at a high price, attracting some teahouses to drink tea in the new teahouses.

However, when the first newspaper for the public appeared, most storytellers changed their way of working, from telling stories to reading newspapers, and after reading the news in the newspaper, they would make their own evaluations, and then they would discuss with the tea customers.

In fact, at the beginning, there were relatively few people in the storytelling profession, after all, the history of the Xia Kingdom from the snake tribe was relatively short, and there were fewer stories and things that could be used to comment on books, because of the emergence of newspapers, the number of storytellers has increased greatly, and if there is no storyteller who reads newspapers in the teahouse and teahouse now, there are few guests.

It is also interesting to say that all countries in the Xia Dynasty have universal basic education, although it is not a free transaction, but as long as you spend a small amount of money to complete primary education (primary school), secondary education (middle school), if you are really short of money, you can also go to the money bank to apply for an "education loan", and then repay the education loan after graduation and work.

That is to say, there were almost no illiterate people in the Xia Dynasty, and the price of newspapers was very low, everyone could afford to buy newspapers and read newspapers, but many people liked to go to teahouses and teahouses to listen to reviewers read newspapers and comment on current affairs.

In addition, I would like to talk about the education of the Xia Dynasty.

In the past, the Xia State had a primary school and a senior school, and now the primary schools in various countries of the Xia Dynasty are the former primary schools, and the current middle schools are the former senior schools (partially).

Why do you say partially, there are actually a lot of separations in middle schools nowadays, middle schools where you want to learn more knowledge normally and want to go to university, various life professional and technical schools, and semi-military schools where you want to join the army and become an ordinary soldier.

There are three main types of universities above middle school, one is a university that studies all kinds of knowledge, one is a university that learns to manage enterprises (including government departments), and the last is a military university, students who graduate from military universities are directly into the army as officers, rather than semi-militarized middle school graduates can only be an ordinary soldier when they enter the army, and only a very small number of students with particularly excellent performance have the opportunity to become low-level officers after graduation.

Su Yan sat by the window on the second floor, if other people were sitting here, it was very likely that they would not be able to hear the sound of discussion on the first floor, but if Su Yan was replaced, even if he sat in the soundproof private room on the third floor, he could hear the sound of quiet discussion on the first floor.

"I heard that there is another civil unrest in the west."

"Yes, I know that this civil unrest, the lord of the country is not capable enough, the officials deceived and concealed it, and the people were ruthlessly oppressed, and the civil unrest broke out under the instigation of a few people, the scale continued to increase, and even the army could not suppress it, and in the end, it was the surrounding counties that sent troops together to suppress the civil unrest, and the mastermind and accomplices were either executed or put in prison, and those rebellious people were at most forced for several years."

"Alas, there are also such mediocre people among the descendants of Emperor Xia, and it is really not a good thing for the common people of those countries to let such mediocre people become the lords of the country."

"There is no way, Emperor Xia is a god to us, everything in the Xia Dynasty appeared on the basis of Emperor Xia, but the descendants of Emperor Xia are not gods, and it is not strange that there are mediocre people."

"If Emperor Xia is still here, he can take care of his descendants."

"Don't talk nonsense, Emperor Xia must still be alive, Emperor Xia, his old man is a god, and he can live forever."

"Maybe Emperor Xia and his old man are already thinking about how to teach his unsuccessful descendants."

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Hearing these contents, the corners of Su Yan's mouth curled slightly, these people really guessed correctly, he, the Xia Emperor, had already started to deal with those children of the Long Clan who were not successful.

The Xia Dynasty is not convicted by speech, and speech is relatively free, but it is not possible to say anything casually, such as insulting the Xia Emperor and the Xia King, spreading rebellious speech, making up nonsense, and so on.

Su Yan prefers to come to the teahouse to sit in the teahouse, where he can hear the voices of the people, and he can make some changes to the Xia Dynasty according to what he has discovered, so that the Xia Dynasty can be stable for a long time, instead of being overthrown by the people.

On the contrary, King Xia, who spent most of his time in the palace, did not have much time to go out, and sometimes he could not understand the suffering of the people.

Not everyone in the teahouse was talking about civil unrest and the children of the Long family, and some people were talking about other things, such as prices.

"Haha, several large textile factories have been established in the south, and the amount of cloth produced in our Xia country will skyrocket again."

"It's good to produce more fabrics, and the price of fabrics will come down again, and for the same money, we can buy more clothes."

"There are more textile mills, the price of cloth is lower, and the profits of textile mills are also less.

"Whatever, what does it have to do with us when they make money and lose money, people with vision can directly sell the textile factory in their hands for money."

"I'm afraid that the textile industry will be monopolized by a few giants, but the price of fabrics will increase."

"Isn't there a country here, even if the fabric will rise a little, but it will definitely not rise too high, and the Price Bureau and the Anti-Monopoly Bureau will educate them on how to be a businessman."

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"The southern grain-producing states are experiencing drought, and it is expected that the grain output will be reduced by two to three percent, and the price of grain is already rising, and I don't know how high it will be."

"It seems that a huge silver mine has been discovered in Qi country, and the price of silver products is now falling wildly."

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From people's discussions, Su Yan knows that people are more concerned about things that can affect them, that is, their own interests, and then the interests of the country, which is the reality.

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King Xia's movements were very fast, after carefully studying and understanding the two documents given to him by his grandfather, he immediately summoned the elders of the Long clan who lived in Zhongjing City, among them, there were many people who were older than him, after all, King Xia was only one hundred and nine years old this year, and many of the children of the Long clan could live to be more than one hundred and thirty years old, and it was not surprising that there were people older than King Xia's generation alive.

The only strange thing is why there are so many elders of the Long clan living in Zhongjing City, you must know that they are all the lords of a country, and after abdicating, they do not stay in their own country, but come to Zhongjing City to settle down.

This is mainly because of Su Yan, Su Yan, as the founder of the Long family, has been living in Zhongjing City now, so the children of the Long family who know this situation will gather like Zhongjing City, they dare not take the initiative to ask to see the old ancestor, they can only hope and meet by chance, and being able to say two words to the old ancestor can make them happy for a long time.

Many elders of the Long clan have settled in Zhongjing City, which is also convenient for King Xia, Su Yan handed over two things to King Xia, that is, to hand them over to King Xia to deal with, King Xia naturally has to do something beautiful, for the system of the children of the Long family, it is best for the elders in the Long family to go out.

On the third day, after receiving the invitation letter from King Xia, the elders of the Long family who lived in Zhongjing City came to the palace one after another, and King Xia personally presided over a meeting about the children of the Long family held within the Long family.

At the beginning of the meeting, King Xia directly told the two things that the ancestor had given him, and clearly pointed out that this was what the ancestor ordered.

When the elders of the Long clan heard that the two things were ordered by the old ancestor, the elders of the Long clan became excited one by one, because when the old ancestor explained the matter, it would have a very big impact on the Xia Dynasty, especially the two things that were specifically aimed at the children of the Long clan this time.

First of all, there was a discussion about the fiefdom of the children of the Long Clan, and everyone who had ideas spoke freely.

"The method of the ancestors is good, and now there is no surplus land on the earth to be divided into our descendants, but we can't continue to divide the land of the country, this 'semi-fiefdom' method is the most appropriate."

"Yes, although the fief is obtained, this land still belongs to the state, and the country will not be divided into multiple countries, and if there are more countries, there will be chaos."

After that, everyone discussed from the fiefdom to the "Long Clan's Children Assessment System", as a member of the Long Clan, everyone was very concerned about the affairs of the Xia Dynasty, especially the civil unrest, which can be said to be caused by the children of the Long Clan, either directly or indirectly, anyway, it is related to the children of the Long Clan.

If the children of the Long family are talented, it is difficult for civil unrest to occur, but some of the children of the Long family do not have the talent to manage the country indiscriminately, or they are deceived by officials, resulting in civil unrest.

Some of the elders of the Long Clan were eager to teach those incompetent Long Clan disciples, but they didn't know what way to teach those incompetent Long Clan disciples, after all, the blood connection was slowly far away, and everyone's kinship was also far away.

In the "Long Clan Children Assessment System", the establishment of the Zongren Mansion is to manage the children of the Long Clan, and to assess the children of the Long Clan.

The Xia Dynasty is the Xia Dynasty of the Long Clan, and it can't be destroyed by those incompetent Long Clan's disciples.

In fact, the establishment of the Zongren Mansion was not only to manage and evaluate the children of the Long family, but also to provide assistance to the children of the Long family who were in difficulty.

With the passage of time, the remote branches of the Long clan are about to be similar to ordinary people, at most there is a child of the Long clan hanging on their heads, there are more children of the Long clan, and the children of the Long clan in the remote branches are not so important, there is no status, there is no money, only those who have talent can stand out, if they become officials, or become rich, but ordinary people will be more.

Ordinary people have to live a careful life, once someone in the family is seriously ill and even has no money for treatment, at this time, they need the help of the Zongren Mansion to directly give them money or provide loans, and the children of the Long family who do not have a job can also help find a job.

The Zongren Mansion needs a lot of money to help the children of the Long family in difficulty, and this requires the donation of the rich children of the Long family, the Long Chamber of Commerce and the Su Chamber of Commerce will take the lead in donating money to the Zongren Mansion, and the ancestors have all contributed money, and the other rich Long children will donate generously.

The internal meeting of the Long clan in the Xia Wang's palace lasted for three days before all the things were discussed, and the Zongren Mansion began to be built, and the first Zongzheng was tentatively appointed by the third Zhao Wang Long Ye, who was the same generation as the Xia Wang's father, and the healthy Long clan elders had their own positions in the Zongren Mansion, and at the same time, there were many younger Long Clan children who entered the Zongren Mansion to do chores.

Five days later, four teams led by the children of the Long clan left Zhongjing City, and the destinations of the four teams were Huaguo, Yan State, Qi State, and Zhao State.

Of course, if Su Yan personally stood up, the Zongren Mansion could be established faster, but it would also make Su Yan violent/exposed in front of the world, which was not what Su Yan wanted. ()

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