Chapter 11 Construction Projects

Spring farming is busy, not only in the farmland outside Xiyang City, but also in Xiyang City, although the orders of the official army have long ended, but the resulting labor demand has brought a series of repercussions. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Although it is difficult to say that there will be more such large orders, many owners have decided to continue their own industries, because the number of households in Huangzhou has exceeded 40,000, and the growing demand can maintain their profits.

Especially pork, in order to provide pork products for the official army, pig farms in Huangzhou territory, regardless of the size, can be slaughtered pigs have been slaughtered, the piglets that were hastily raised at the end of the previous year are now barely slaughtered, and they are all booked by various workshops.

Huangzhou's pork products have become famous, ham, sausage, meat floss and other meat products are resistant to storage, and there is a price advantage brought by large-scale pig breeding, which is marketed all over the country by virtue of water conservancy.

Pork can be made into meat products to make money, and pig skin can also be used as leather after tanning, and a variety of high-quality and inexpensive pig skin and pork products make merchants in all channels profitable.

There are many pig farms, and there is a high demand for forage for pigs, such as pigweed and duckweed, which alone feeds many vendors in neighboring states.

Everyone in the world knows the cloth woven by Huangzhou, the book of Huangzhou, and also knows that there is a lot of pork in Huangzhou, but they don't know how many people are fed by the pig industry in Huangzhou, and what is even more unexpected is that there is a use for the product of pigs.

At dawn, Xiyang City is bathed in the morning light, about to usher in a new day, the sky is still dark, but the state library is brightly lit, and the all-night reading rooms are full of people reading books, Liu Wenjing is one of them.

Except for the sound of turning books from time to time, there is no other sound in the reading room, and a big word "quiet" on the wall shows the library's requirements for readers.

The number of students in Huangzhou State School is increasing every year, and the library's collection of books is also increasing every year, and what is even more surprising is the overnight reading room with an ever-bright lamp, which is open to everyone.

When Liu Wenjing first came to Xiyang City, he heard that the State Studies Library had an open all-night reading room, and at first he thought it was an exaggeration, after all, the amount of lamp oil to be burned every day was not a small amount, but when he went once, he was convinced.

The all-night reading room is lit with a permanent lamp, some called a biogas lamp, this kind of lamp does not need lamp oil, nor is it a candle, it is by lighting the biogas to emit light, and this biogas comes from the biogas tank, that is, the septic tank.

The name sounds indecent, but the biogas produced by the septic tank is constantly flowing and bringing light to the all-night reading room of the state school library at night.

It's no secret that the lights in each reading room are supplied by four digesters, which is not easy, because the next question is: where to get a lot of manure to fill the septic tank?

It's not a secret: human manure, pig manure, chicken, duck and goose manure, the amount is enough.

Human feces, partly collected from the dormitory of the state school, and most of it is the excrement of urban residents that is centrally disposed of, but these are not enough, and it is the pig, chicken, duck, and goose manure collected in all the farms that support the septic tank of the state school.

In particular, pig manure is the mainstay, so to speak, it is the pig manure of the Huangzhou pig farm, which supports the septic tank of the state library and brings inextinguishable light to the all-night reading room.

At the same time, it also brings countless fertilizers to the farmland.

The manure in the septic tank cannot be directly used as fertilizer, because "according to ancient books", there may be Gu worms in the feces, so it is necessary to add an appropriate amount of chemicals such as quicklime for "treatment", which is a high-quality fertilizer after treatment.

The pig manure, which was originally useless, first went into the septic tank to generate biogas to bring light to the reading room, and then was treated and turned into fertilizer and applied to the farmland to increase production and income.

Raising pigs can derive so many benefits, and the idea of King Xiyang is really exquisite!

Liu Wenjing thought so, tiredness and couldn't help yawning, he was resting today, so he went to the library to "grab a place" after dinner last night, although he felt that he came early, but he almost went home because he had no place.

There was no surprise that he knew what a reading room that was open all night meant to a student from a poor family.

Liu Wenjing's background is not bad, he can study with peace of mind since he was a child, and he doesn't need to run around for a living, but he knows that there are still many people in this world who want to read but can't read because they can't afford to read.

Pen, ink, paper, and inkstone are expensive, and hand-copied books are even more expensive.

Entering the school to read every day, that means that there is less labor at home, reading at night, carefully pondering the knowledge taught by Mr. during the day, then lighting the lamp, this expense is not small, so where can ordinary people afford a child to study?

How many people are stumped by the high cost of books, how many people "chisel the wall to steal the light" because they can't light the lamp at night, Liu Wenjing even knows that some people catch fireflies and put them in paper paste boxes to "borrow light" to read books.

And now, there is a place where you can read books for free, and at night you can also "read at night" for free, how can this not make poor students flock to it? Not to mention, you can also audit the lectures of famous teachers for free!

Xindu Liu Shiyuan, a world-famous scholar of scriptures, opened and taught in Huangzhou Prefecture, and some courses allowed innocent people to audit, although they could not ask questions, but to have such an opportunity was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for many students.

It doesn't matter if they are shy in their pockets, working in the workshops and farms in Xiyang City and nearby is enough to support themselves, and the state library can read all night for free, which saves them a lot of money.

It is really a poor family, working during the day, carrying a few cooking cakes to the library to read books at night, many books that are only known by their names on weekdays can be borrowed in the library, and the huge collection of books can ensure that the same book can be borrowed dozens of books at the same time.

It doesn't matter if you don't understand something after reading the book, the state society regularly announces the class schedule for the next seven days in advance, and there are open classes open to the outside world, which are dedicated to explaining specific books, although it is impossible to go too deep, but it has reached the level of general ethnology.

If you encounter Liu Shiyuan's open class, it is almost difficult to find, of course there is a place for the students of the state school, but the bystanders can only rely on the queue, Liu Wenjing went to the line, and found that the line had been lined up outside the gate of the state school early in the morning.

Someone slept outside the gate of the state school the night before and lined up!

It can be seen that Huangzhou State School is like a long drought and manna for the majority of poor students, and Xiyang Wang Yuwenwen, who single-handedly created the state school and set up a library, makes everyone grateful.

When the King of Xiyang acted like this, there must be a deep meaning.

A slight sound of bells interrupted Liu Wenjing's train of thought, and he followed the sound, but saw a large clock hanging on the wall of the reading room, the hands indicated that it was now "seven o'clock", and turned his head to look out the window, the sky was getting brighter.

It's time to go back, Liu Wenjing packed up the bookcase, took the books and walked to the borrowing office, there was still fire jumping in the ever-bright lamp, and when the light outside the window was sufficient, it was about to be temporarily extinguished.

Along the way, there were students studying hard at their desks, and Liu Wenjing noticed that many people were dressed very shabby, and some even had yellow faces and thin muscles, and they knew that they were malnourished at a glance.

Some people are even so sleepy that they can't stop fighting, but they continue to read with their spirits.

Hunger and thirst are a vivid portrayal of them, and when these people have learned knowledge, what can they do?

Huangzhou bookstore prints and publishes books, and needs readers to proofread, errata and typesetting, although the demand is not small, and the salary is generous and the treatment is favorable, but it is not enough to absorb the students of Guangzhou, after all, most people do not study to work in the workshop.

If you can't get in, what is the use of studying?

After completing the formalities, Liu Wenjing walked out of the reading room, there were already craftsmen in the yard carrying wood, and the State Studies Library was about to build a large construction project to expand the all-night reading room, and after the expansion was completed, the number would be doubled.

At that time, it will be able to accommodate more readers to read all night, and the king of Xiyang will benefit more readers, Liu Wenjing looked at this situation, but had further ideas.

The children of the Shu people from all over Shannan have come to Huangzhou to study, and the same is true for those ordinary children, so many scholars, after years of hard study, there will inevitably be a strong demand.

What is this need?

It is a career monopolized by the scholars!

The Hulin Army is the king of Xiyang to give the illiterate people a chance to get ahead, and the state study is another opportunity for the king of Xiyang to give the literate Shu people and the children of the common people.

One martial arts, one article, what will be the final purpose?

Thinking of this, Liu Wenjing couldn't help but get excited: So this is the ambition of King Xiyang?

While walking, he returned to Dongfang, where the shogunate of the Xiyang palace was located, and the adjutants from other places had dormitories in it, and he could hear the noise next door, Liu Wenjing knew that the palace was now under construction, because the king of Xiyang accepted the suggestion of the governor of the palace to move the residence forward.

Amazing, this is the idea of Liu Wenjing and the adjutants, that is, the admiration of Li Gang, the long history, and the admiration of the lord Yu Wenwen, one dares to persuade, and the other is persuaded, so that these adjutants can finally do things with peace of mind.

Several colleagues were discussing in front of the room, Liu Wenjing stepped forward to say hello, and asked if there was any news by the way, and one of them replied: "The court has decided on it, and it is ready to move the capital!" ā€

"Could it be that you are still in Chang'an?" Liu Wenjing was a little surprised, according to the current situation, it is almost impossible for Prime Minister Wei Chi Yuan to return the Son of Heaven to Chang'an.

"It's not Chang'an, it's the Eastern Capital!"

The man laughed, proud of his well-informed, though he had just heard about it.

"The imperial court has basically decided to move the capital to Luoyang, but we still have to mobilize labor to build a palace in Luoyang, and the capital will be moved when it is completed!"