When he got out, Zhu Hongyi asked if he brought a guard. Zhu Hongsan thought about it and still didn't bring it, it should be no problem on his own turf. Today I mainly went to an unannounced visit, and I brought a bunch of guards to see a lot of things.

The two went out and rode on horseback to the county seat. Now just after the end of the Chinese New Year, Zhu Hongsan has set the factory to start work on the 16th, but the local tradition is not until February to start work.

Along the way, you can also see a lot of New Year's atmosphere, and children are running wildly. This month is probably the happiest time for them, and the parents and elders at home are in a good mood and will not beat them for no reason. You can still eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year, and some people can also eat meat. The elders can sometimes give a few pennies for the New Year's money.

Seeing the children playing happily, Zhu Hongsan thought of his daughter Zhu Luo, who is nine years old this year. She doesn't look like a girl at all, and every day it's either a fight or a brawl.

The children's camp she set up was full of children under her own hands, and Zhu Luo led the beating of dogs and scolding chickens every day. No one dared to take care of it in the farm because of his own relationship, and Ma Xiaofang was busy preparing for the New Year for more than a month, and Zhu Luo was even more crazy. It seems that I have time to discipline and discipline her, after all, she is nine years old, and she will get married in a few years in this era.

Zhujia Farm is fifteen miles away from the county seat, and there is a large area of farmland in the middle. Since Guangdong's population is not as dense as that of Huguang Nanzhili, and the crops are harvested twice a year, it can fully feed everyone. Therefore, large areas of land are planted with high value-added cash crops such as mulberry and tea trees.

Of Zhang Quanli's 5,000 acres of land, 4,000 acres are mulberry trees. Now it all belongs to Zhu Hongsan, and the silk produced by these mulberry trees has brought a lot of silver to Zhu Hongsan in the past six months.

Zhu Hongsan asked Feng Ziyong that there were more than 100,000 hectares of land planted with mulberry trees in Dongguan County. This is a big business, Zhu Hongsan has already asked Ma Ji to arrange the affairs of the Chamber of Commerce, I don't know what happened.

Now there are silkworm farmers on both sides of the road who have begun to clean up the mulberry trees, it is the first month, and the silkworm babies will go up the tree in March. Silkworm farmers are a group of people who are more tired than tenants.

Zhu Hongsan walked on the official road, and now it is a good weather in Guangdong. These days are cloudless, and the sun is hanging in the sky. The weather is neither hot nor cold, and the temperature can be eighteen or nineteen degrees. Because the cold air from the north goes south, driving away the moist air from the sea. The air is very dry these days, and there is no heat and humidity in May and June.

Zhu Hongsan saw that there were already people traveling on the official road, and it should be a businessman. In any era, merchants were profit-seeking, and every family had a little money during the New Year, so now all villages are merchants, selling some needles and threads, snacks and sugar pills for children.

Zhu Hongsan's own farm now has a permanent population of more than 10,000 people, and it is almost catching up with the county seat. A commercial street has already begun to develop inside. In addition, Zhu Hongsan has always been generous to his workers, and he has given enough red envelopes to pay wages, so every household can have a good year during the Chinese New Year this year, and even these merchants have made a lot of money.

Zhu Hongsan and the two walked for an hour and came to the gate of Dongguan County. Guangdong is located in southern China, and there has been basically no war in the past 200 years. In addition, when Lao Zhu was fighting, he was in Huguang and Nanzhili for a generation.

Therefore, the policy of building high walls in Guangdong was not implemented. Now Dongguan County is still the city wall built in the Southern Song Dynasty. After almost 400 years, most of the wall tiles have fallen off, revealing the rammed earth inside.

The city gate is also different from the tall city walls of Wuchang and Changsha that Zhu Hongsan has seen, three meters high, and there are no battlements on it, I don't know if it is weathered or it was not built back then.

The guards guarding the gate saw the two men riding tall horses with knives on their waists, and they didn't dare to ask them. Zhu Hongsan and the two swaggered into the county seat.

After entering the county seat, Zhu Hongyi asked, "Do you want to go to the county government to find Feng Ziyong first?" ”

Zhu Hongsan shook his head and said, "Let's take a look today, and don't look for anyone." ”

Zhu Hongyi nodded and stopped talking.

After entering the city, Zhu Hong dismounted three times, tied the horse to the door of an inn at the gate of the city, gave the man a tael of silver to let him watch the horse, and got some forage for the horse.

Next, Zhu Hongsan and the two began to wander along the street.

Dongguan is not as populous as Wuchang County, and the shops are not dense. After all, Wuchang County is close to the Yangtze River and the big city of Wuchang Mansion. Dongguan is 60 miles away from Guangzhou, plus it has to bypass the Pearl River estuary. So Dongguan is not a place where business is thriving.

Most of the shops in Dongguan are in the North Gate Generation, which is the entrance to the city of the northern official road, and the business is better. Zhu Hongsan came in through the West Gate. This place is all residential.

There is a street connecting the west gate and the east gate, and there are no shops on the street, but some residents. Since it has just been the Chinese New Year, everyone is at home, and the sound of firecrackers can still be heard inside. Probably the bear kid put it.

The streets are paved with stone slabs, but they are still old. One of them was a deep rut mark. In some places, the slate is missing, revealing the red soil underneath.

The main street is five meters wide. There are side ditches built on the sides of both sides. But no one has cleaned it all year round, and the side ditch has been blocked. Zhu Hongsan still went to lie on his stomach and looked at it before he was sure that there was a side ditch. It's stuffed with garbage, and it's almost petrified.

Because the west gate is a residential area, and the side ditch is blocked, the domestic water flows in all directions. Zhu Hongsan saw that the toilet was poured on the street when the door was opened, and the urine was left on the ground.

It's not hot right now, but if it's June, it tastes really fresh. Zhu Hongsan wondered if the people in the city had bad noses, and the toilet was poured directly at the door, so he couldn't smell it?

There is also open defecation, Zhu Hongsan didn't walk 300 meters before he encountered two people who defecated on the street. Zhu Hongsan really admires such a person, and people on the street can pee when they look at him? Zhu Hongsan knew that this was because there was no public toilet.

What about the woman? Is it straight into the pants? Zhu Hongsan thought maliciously. In fact, women in the Ming Dynasty did not go out much, only peasant women went out in order to farm, and there were toilets in the fields, and there was nothing to be ashamed of.

Zhu Hongsan felt a headache when he saw this, and originally thought that the health problem would be easy to solve, just strengthen management. But this time, it is not a management problem at all, but a human problem.

Since ancient times, the Chinese have not had the concept of public morality, and readers can be self-disciplined in order to save face. But these illiterate people, you told him to have public morality, and they don't understand it at all.

Zhu Hongsan remembered something and didn't know if it was true or not. The first thing the Japanese devils did after occupying Shenyang was to send military police to stand in front of the railway station, and anyone who did not follow the rules was directly whipped with a whip. It is said that the effect is very good, and the environment of Shenyang is clear.

But when we manage it ourselves, it will return to the old ways, and it seems that the Chinese are really deep-rooted.

Zhu Hongsan thought about it for a long time, when did it get better? Yes, even after the elimination of illiteracy, didn't Confucius say that learning etiquette, righteousness, and honesty is the fundamental solution, and it seems that education is the fundamental solution. If you have time, you should visit Mr. Daoist Ma Jiyuan and see what he can do.

Zhu Hongsan took out a small notebook and used a carbon strip to write down the ditch, toilet, and education on it. After finishing the memory, he led Zhu Hongyi into an alley, and he wanted to see how it was inside.

There are five families in this alley, all of whom appear to be middle-class. The door of their house is good, and one of them has a cushion with fine soil. Zhu Hongsan nodded and walked across the alley to a street opposite.

The street is not part of the main road, and the streets are full of storehouses, many of which are closed. Only a few are open. Zhu Hongsan stepped forward and saw that it was a shop selling paper horse incense candles.

Chinese people like to pay tribute to their ancestors during the New Year's Festival. After all, if you have money, you can't let your ancestors starve.

The guys standing at the door of those houses saw someone passing by, and hurriedly said, "Take a look inside the guest officer." ”

Zhu Hongsan didn't come to buy anything at all, so he didn't go in. He shook his head with a smile.

There are many fewer people on this street, and there are no stone slabs on the ground because it is not the main street. It's all rammed earth, and it's all gray when it's fine, and it's muddy when it's raining.

There are no ditches on either side of the road, but it is probably the relationship between the shops, and no one empties the toilet on the street. However, the situation of road occupation is really serious.

The street is three meters wide, and two meters are occupied by shops on both sides, and the merchants' banners and goods are placed in the middle of the road. There is only a width of less than one meter left in the middle for people to pass through.

Now because it's a holiday, there are not many people and it's not crowded. If there are more people, the two of them can only pass on their shoulders.

Zhu Hongsan took out a small book, wrote on it to occupy the road, thought about it and added another one, fire prevention.

After reading this street, Zhu Hongsan led Zhu Hongsan out of the street and came to the main street. This main street is Beicheng Street, the main commercial street in Dongguan County.