Part 4 Madness Against the Sky Chapter 4344 Fire
Zhao Xing glanced at Shuai Fan with a smile, and Shuai Fan muttered: "I said, how did he agree so happily...... That's it, my Nanyang Affairs Bureau also had a number of Song merchants robbed, so we couldn't bear it anymore, and planned to find fighters in the name of protecting Song merchants, and the Beiyang Affairs Bureau was willing to take this title, but the benefits of this battle should be clearly explained in advance......"
Shuai Fan pulled the official and discussed the post-war benefits, and Zhao Xing smiled and pulled Wan Qiyong onto the roof platform of the Blue House.
As soon as he walked outside, Zhao Xing couldn't help but shudder, and said to himself: "The ice room effect seems to be becoming more and more obvious. ”
Wan Qiyong shook his head: "Lord Taiwei always throws us a lot of trouble, the existence of the Beiyang Affairs Bureau is to check and balance the Nanyang Affairs Bureau, and now the Lord is fighting in the name of the Beiyang Affairs Bureau...... Alas, a bunch of trouble! ”
Zhao Xing took a few deep breaths of cold air and asked again: "Have the budget plans of various places been reported?" ”
Wan Qian replied: "The report has come up, there are about 110 million yuan, I don't plan to allocate all this money, I plan to allocate it quarterly, let them spend as much as they want, otherwise it will still be a lot of trouble like in previous years?" ”
Zhao Xing looked at the north and said thoughtfully: "Next year, we will support one person to take the position no matter what, I plan to let Huang Luzhi serve as the head of the Ministry of Rites, and Zhang Lei will serve as the head of the household department, and then get the officials and the household department first." ”
Wan Qianyong replied contemplatively: "I'm afraid Cai Jing won't let go of the household easily, but why should he support the last person?" ”
"Fan Chunli! Fan Lao's younger brother, Fan Zhongyan's son, I am going to let him take over the Privy Council, and then elect a party member to take over the Ministry of Works. As a result, the three provinces and six departments, the new party, the old party, and the Zhejiang party were separated. The new party took a prime minister, which is also balanced
Wan Qiyong also took a deep breath as Zhao Xing looked. Then he said: "Starting next year, we will review each township council under the jurisdiction of the Southeast Affairs Bureau one by one, and strive to let these township councils play a supervisory role." In addition, Fujian should also make great efforts to rectify ......"
Zhao Xing interrupted Wan Qianyong's words: "The big clan surnames in Fujian bully the small clan surnames, which is also the will of the majority of Fujian. Since it embodies the will of the majority, it is the decision of the majority of the people. We have no right to suppress them in any name, otherwise it is difficult to say that they will cause a backlash.
Before I wanted to come. The government and scholars rule the world together, reflecting the upper-class republic. The grassroots republic needs the guidance of the Lantian Township Covenant. Under the township covenant, the officials and the village elders govern the place together. This is a complete and complete republic. Only in a republic can we guarantee that we are not treated like monkeys.
With a bottom-up republic, no matter how chaotic the court is, we can at least ensure that the southeastern half of the country is stable. The rest of the land depends on the efforts of me and you
Speaking of which, since Zhao Xing returned from the expedition, the soldiers went home for the New Year's holiday, and the people's understanding of the world in the Great Song Dynasty has quietly changed. The people of the Great Song Dynasty gradually knew that there were other civilizations and powerful countries outside the Great Song Dynasty, and they also knew that with the help of cultural and military expansion, the Great Song Dynasty could rely on its own trade to loot all the wealth of the world.
With this understanding, it also brought about the self-confidence of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, they became more and more dissatisfied with the treatment of humiliation under the Liao State for hundreds of years, and they all wanted to make a change, and Zhao Xing stretched out his tentacles to the north, which was the place that the people of the Great Song Dynasty hoped to see, and they all hoped that this famous general could continue to weaken the strong enemy in the north, and this mentality was reflected to the Beiyang Affairs Bureau, that is, the reason why Han Zhongyan suddenly lowered the offer.
At the same time, Zhao Xing opened free trade territories everywhere overseas, and the governance methods of those free trade territories were also fed back to China. However, the Song government only sent a nominal governor to contract the administrative work of these overseas territories to merchants, and this fully commercial administrative agency not only did not allow the Great Song government to spend anything more, but easily earned a large amount of trade income and taxes. The influence of this model has gradually spread, and some people in China cannot help but wonder whether this administrative system can also be pushed under the influence of this trend of thought, and the status of the village council in the southeast coastal area under the jurisdiction of the Nanyang Affairs Bureau has become more and more important, and it has gradually transformed from a non-binding local civilian institution to a real power institution holding part of the administrative power. Therefore, this year, the promotion of the old township council on the southeast coast has been very smooth, and the rest is to make plans for the exhibition of the old council of the southeast township.
Wan Qiyong was silent for a moment, and replied weakly: "What the adults said is also right, the number of people, the people's wishes." Since the people of Fujian have accepted their system, we have nothing to do, but adults often say that everything is foreseen, and if it is not prepared, it will not be established. Now that the township councils have been established in various places, and the Lantian Township Covenant is just a general initiative, should we establish a series of rules to correct its exhibition? ”
"Of course!" Zhao Xing walked to the female wall on the top of the Blue House, looking into the distance, Wan Qiyong was awakened by Zhao Xing's movements, he also walked over to look, the direction they were looking at, a thick smoke went straight to the sky, Wan Qiyong looked at it for a while, took out a pocket telescope from his arms, and held it up in the direction of the smoke, while saying: "Strange, there is ......"
The place where the smoke is lit is the Hangzhou yarn field.
That place is near the river, originally used to use water spinning, and later the yarn mill became bigger and bigger, and the water spinning machine appeared to be insufficient power, just at this time, the steam-powered spinning machine presided over by Shen Kuo was born. The area near the river was changed to steam power, and continued to expand, forming a continuous period of time when the fire was at its strongest, and by the time he arrived at the textile district with his army and set out to extinguish the fire, the fire was out of control.
"How many casualties?" Zhao Xing anxiously asked the firefighting captain.
Accompanied by the clanging copper bells, water trucks are rushing to the fire area, this is the Song Dynasty city fire brigade described by Lu You and Fan Chengda in their notes, it is composed of a large wooden water wheel, relying on the bellows water bladder to blow air into the water tank, increase the amount of water, and then spray out water to extinguish the fire.
At the same time, the river is now closed to boats. Several of the sailors' fireboats are trying to get closer to the shore, using their powerful pumps to spray water around. According to the fire fighting drill of the navy, the fire boats sprayed water regardless of the target, and they sprinkled water on the houses that were not on fire. It is hoped that the houses will be cooled down in order to stop the fire from spreading. Under the powerful water column spewed out by the water army, the people who passed by were sprayed wet. Even Zhao Xing is like a chicken in soup.
The captain of the fire extinguishing team is a retired Xiang Jun, who was in charge of Hangzhou with Su Shi and Zhao Xing. Retired from the road construction box army and transferred to the government fire fighting team. He knew Zhao Xing. hurriedly stopped shaking and gave Zhao Xing a nondescript military salute. Then he replied: "Xianggong, it's too miserable." When the fire started, the women workers scrambled to flee. Many people were not killed by fire, but trampled to death, and we have found hundreds of corpses, and now there are three yarn factories where the fire is out of control and can only be allowed to burn.
However, Xianggong, the surrounding factories are safe, we are sprinkling water around, and the people in those fields have run away, so Xia Guan estimates that the situation is already like this, and it can't be worse......"
"In other words, now, the worst has happened, and all that remains is property damage, and there can be no more casualties in terms of personnel," Zhao Xing said bitterly.
The dialogue between Zhao Xing and the fire captain reflects the humanistic thinking, property loss is nothing, but personnel loss is the most sorrowful, things can be made up for if they are lost, and people can never come back if they are lost
This dialogue appeared in the Song Dynasty, which is not surprising, because in the commercial atmosphere of the Song Dynasty, the loss of factories and machinery is nothing, as long as there are skilled workers, production can be resumed immediately. It takes a long time to train a skilled worker. The recent exhibition in Hangzhou has caused a labor crisis, and the time lost is unaffordable to recruit labor from all over the world, transport it all the way to Hangzhou, and then train it to become skilled textile workers.
The firefighting captain nodded silently and recognized Zhao Xing's words, Zhao Xing shook his head and asked sadly: "How can this be, haven't all the yarn factories been changed to stone buildings, why can't the fire be controlled?" ”
Originally, Hangzhou was all wood buildings, as depicted in Liu Yongwanghaichao's poems, since the new style of cement, after Su Dongpo and Zhao Xing's vigorous advocacy, Hangzhou has basically changed to stone buildings, and this yarn factory was originally built by Zhao Xing, and after he went to Guangzhou, these yarn factories were sold to its current owner, Tang Di. After Zhao Xing returned to Hangzhou, Tang Di turned to Nanyang Maritime Trade with Zhao Xing, and then sold the yarn factory to its current owner, a wealthy businessman in Hangzhou.
Yang Chong was also drenched, in such a cold winter, he was still wiping his sweat, Zhao Xing's conversation with the fire captain made him nod frequently, and couldn't help nagging: "The loss is big, the loss is big now." The female workers of the yarn factory have a salary of ten times a month, and after this death, how can the pension be up to a hundred times, hundreds of people, oh my God! ”
Zhao Xing looked at Yang Chong with disdain: "I want to kill a person with a hundred small money, do you think this is a milk horse?" For every dead female worker, at least 10,000 yuan must be compensated, you wait, 10,000 yuan less, wait for me to clean you up. ”
The firefighting captain interjected at this time and replied to Zhao Xing's words: "Although the yarn factory is now a stone building, there are needles and threads everywhere in the yarn factory, and it is difficult to make a fire in winter.
Fortunately, there are all stone buildings here, that is, the fire in the three factories is very large, but it cannot spread, fortunately, fortunately. ”
When Zhao Xing heard this, he suddenly asked without a head: "Have you read it?" ”
The captain of the fire brigade puffed up his chest and said proudly: "Xianggong, you forgot, retirement must be assessed, and I, the captain, have passed the test!" ”
Zhao Xing nodded: "No wonder, no wonder you speak so elegantly." ”
The fire captain spoke elegantly, and he had read it, which was not uncommon in the Song Dynasty, a man selling incense, a hat, and a servant in the Song Dynasty could become a sect master, which also showed from one side that the Song Dynasty was a commercial society with equal opportunities, as long as you were willing to work hard, no matter what you were born in, no matter what your occupation is. can get ahead.
Yang Chong was still sweating there, and he muttered, "At least three million times." Oh, my God! ”
Zhao Xing smiled: "Three million guan, you are out." Remember, I have to visit the families of the victims one by one. If there is a disadvantage to the bereavement pension, I will settle accounts with you. ”
Yang Chong said with a sweaty face: "Three million guan, the money earned over the years will be poured out." Oh my God, I've lost all my money. The family is lost. ”
After Yang Chong said this, he stopped sweating. There was a look of despair in his eyes, and his eyes were rolling around. It seems to be looking for a life-saving straw. Zhao Xing looked at the panicked crowd around him, and suddenly remembered something. With a look of remorse, he said: "Emergency measures, we should train female workers to understand emergency measures." Oh my God, it was my mistake, how did I forget this. ”
Zhao Xing wants to say that it is "the duty of women". In ancient times, this kind of women's duty was also called "female virtue".
In the Song Dynasty Economic Exhibition, the competition in all aspects of culture became increasingly fierce. Correspondingly, the management responsibilities of the family are becoming more and more onerous, and the role of the main role in the management of affairs is becoming more and more prominent. The economic resources of the scholar family determine that the male is the core of the family. In real life, many male members of the family are either eunuchs or studying at home, and it is difficult for them to manage the industry and take care of the ethnic group.
In order to adapt to this change, the Song Dynasty inherited the Tang system, and the housewife thus became the actual presiding officer of a large number of affairs within the family. This is what the Song people said: "Women are in the inside, and men are outside." Based on this situation, the female virtues of the Song Dynasty required women to understand mathematics, manage accounts, run family businesses, and maintain the existing order in the family's interior, that is, the "Compendium and Discipline Portal".
Sima Guang said, "Women, the family is also prosperous and declining. The standard for taking wives praised by the scholars of the Song Dynasty was: "A woman can take care of her own housework because her husband is stupid and cowardly, calculate money and grain, and cannot be deceived when entering and leaving; has a husband who is not good, but can take care of the housework with his son, so as not to ruin the family property; There are husbands who are dead and young, but they can raise their sons, reconcile their in-laws inside and outside, take care of housework, and as for prosperity: all are virtuous women. ”
Such outstanding women abound in the Song Dynasty, such as Cheng Shi, the mother of Su Shi. Wang Anshi also praised his younger sister and Zhang Kui's wife Wang as "a wife for a wife, a wife for a wife, a mother for a mother, and an aunt for an aunt, all of which can be praised."
It is precisely because of the Song Dynasty's requirements for women's virtue that there was a special social phenomenon such as Mei Sanniang and others fighting at home to inherit the family business. There is also a special phenomenon similar to being a concubine as a part-time job, earning a family business, and then marrying a good housewife.
The "female virtue" outside of China is different from the Chinese-style "female virtue"; Non-Chinese female morality requires a housewife to be both a dedicated housekeeper and a nurse who knows simple nursing knowledge and various disaster relief and risk avoidance knowledge; At the same time, you should also be a psychotherapist who can treat some mental illnesses and so on.
As far back as the time of the Chinese oracle bones, Greece during the city-state period demanded that women "repay their husbands with gratitude, devotion and single-mindedness when they return from their labors; When her husband is sick, she should know how to take care of him; When disaster strikes, she knows how to lead her children out of danger......"
After the Song Dynasty, the requirement for women's morality was that a woman's lack of talent was virtue.
The female workers in the yarn factory were a group of poor women who met the "female morality" of the Song Dynasty, and they came out to earn money to work to support the men and raise their children. Therefore, Zhao Xing asked Yang Chong to be generous. However, after all, the yarn mill is a pillar industry in Hangzhou, and the spinning industry has been hit hard, and Hangzhou's taxes will be affected, so Zhao Xing turned to him to find a reason to find an opportunity for the government to intervene after forcing Yangchong.
This involves two kinds of "female virtue" requirements. As a woman, by non-Chinese standards, she should know how to avoid danger after a disaster, and the scenes that often occur in simple first aid knowledge pull out a group of housewives, all of whom are qualified nurses, who can immediately treat the wounded.
"Times are different, now, since we let the girls into the factory, they should learn something that men should know, this is a mistake of the government, our government did not teach the girls how to avoid risks before...... Zhao Xing said contemplatively.
Yang Chong seemed to be a drowning man who grabbed a piece of driftwood, he looked at Zhao Xing with blank eyes, and asked pitifully: "Lord Taiwei, what do you mean......"
Zhao Xing waved his hand and asked the fire captain to go busy first, and he said contemplatively: "We should set up a hedging agency, I am going to call this institution an insurance company, and the businessmen will each take out a share of money and deposit it into this company." In the event of a disaster, there is an opportunity to compensate for the damage. Isn't this what it means to watch and help each other? It should be the moral demeanor of the ancient gentleman, and the government will issue a proclamation to advocate that various industry chambers of commerce organize industry joint insurance......
Furthermore. This disaster also reminded me that I was going to set up girls' schools in various places to teach the virtues of Song Zhinu. It also includes emergency evacuation knowledge and emergency avoidance knowledge. and simple first aid knowledge ......"
Actually, Zhao Xing did this. It is also to lay the foundation for future wars, and he has always been holding that string in his heart. It is believed that the war between Song and Jing in the future is inevitable, and when the war is born. A lot of rescue is needed, and that's the reason for that. In the Song Dynasty's female virtue requirements, in this way, it will make the women of the Song Dynasty more plump and lovely.
Let future generations look up to the Song Dynasty's "female morality" standard and cry, it will be a Zhao Xing's version of the "Perfect Beauty Plan".
Thinking of the perfect Liniang, Zhao Xing thought of Mi Fu who fled to Japan, he beckoned to the shadows, Yuan Yeping came out, nodded and nodded. Zhao Xing immediately ordered: "You immediately send someone to the Wa Kingdom, on the one hand to recruit some wandering warriors who are proficient in the Yin and Yang Dao, on the other hand, inform Mi Fu, tell him that I am no longer angry with him, please return to China." ”
Yuan Yeping smiled: "Master Mi is now very admired in Nagato, and the palace is constantly entertained, and the daimyo of various countries are treated as guests, I'm afraid he doesn't want to come back." ”
Zhao Xing shook his head: "You don't know the hometown complex of the Chinese, as long as you tell him the news, I don't think he will stay for a day." ”
As he was talking, Hangzhou officials had come one after another, Zong Ze took the officials to try their best to dredge the flow of people, his face was gloomy, and after inspecting the scene, he felt sad: "Taiwei, three hundred and twenty-one female workers died, and it is said that there are dozens of corpses in the fire, which is too miserable."
Zhao Xing nodded, he pointed at Yangchong, and continued: "I have asked about the situation just now, and I have asked Yangchong to have a pension of at least 10,000 yuan per person, but our goal is not to bankrupt the owner, this is also the lack of supervision of the government. ”
Zong Ze nodded: "It should be like this, I have seen it, in the yard that Lord Taiwei originally built, there is an open space between each factory, and I heard the fire captain say that this is called a fire isolation zone."
However, the officials were negligent, and now in order to make money, the landlord has seen the stitches and built many new factories, and the other two factories that caught fire are too close to each other, so that the fire spreads.
Rest assured, I will make great efforts to clean up the situation and leave enough open space between each factory building to facilitate everyone to avoid the fire and prevent the fire from spreading......"
Zong Ze is serious, now that he is aware, Zhao Xing no longer talks much, he talked about his thoughts just now: "I am going to issue a disaster emergency evacuation order, requiring each factory to set aside one day a month for drills, and it will be supervised by the government. Zong Zhizhou will have to worry about it in the future. ”
Zong Ze nodded with satisfaction: "That's good, that's good." ”
Wan Qiyong watched the fire gradually subside, and he interjected worriedly: "Lord Taiwei wants to help with relief, I don't know how much it will cost?" Now the states are reaching out everywhere, by the way, Xie Lin, the Jinghu transit envoy, also wrote recently, asking for relief, lack of money. ”
Zhao Xing was surprised: "What is he Xie Lin doing here?" ”
Zong Ze replied with a gloomy face: "Taihu Lake is frozen, the day before yesterday I heard that Taihu Lake was completely frozen, and you can run carriages on the ice, and all the citrus in Dongting Mountain on the lake are frozen to death." Many large ships were frozen in ice, the planks had been deformed, and it was estimated that the ships would not be usable after thawing. Zong Ze sighed, following such a large area, next year's citrus harvest will be lost, and there is no hope for winter rice, and now the two lakes will be seriously injured. Xie Yinglao is asking for help everywhere, and I heard that he has even asked for help in Huainan and Huaibei. "To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in, more chapters,